Chapter 73: The Feast of the Horns

"Do you remember that I ...... you at the beginning" suddenly stopped in the middle of the night, and smiled to himself: "I forgot that you don't remember, then I'll talk to you again." ”

"Listen up." Tang Sha does not deny that his favorite thing to listen to is stories.

Midnight has lived in this place called Fox Village since childhood.

Speaking of fox village, we have to talk about the origin of this name.

There has always been a legend of a fox fairy in this area, but no one has ever seen it, and they all have a half-believing attitude.

Until seventy years ago......

It is said that a few decades ago, this village was not called Fox Village, but Hewan Village.

At that time, the state of Chen was not as stable and prosperous as it is now, and mountain bandits and robbers were in chaos everywhere, killing innocents indiscriminately, and the government could not control it.

One day 70 years ago, the village was attacked by mountain bandits.

The people of the village closed the village gate, but they couldn't resist for a moment. Everyone gathered in the courtyard of the village chief, not knowing what to do.

"Village Chief! They're in! A man hurried in through the door, staggering and frightened.

When the villagers heard this, they instantly blew up the pot.

"The mountain bandits are inhumane, we are all going to die here!"

"Run! Chief! ”

"Village Chief! My baby has only just been born! I don't want to die! ”

All kinds of helpless voices filled the ears of the old village chief, the old village chief's eyes were full of despair, and he didn't know what to do at the moment!

The old village chief looked at the sky and sighed: "The sky is going to die, and my village is going to die!" He slowly lowered his head and said softly: "Everyone, run for your life......

As soon as they heard that they were respectful, the village chief who supported the whole village had no idea, and everyone began to hide, hide, and escape.

The village chief looked at the group of villagers who were fleeing for their lives in a panic, and his eyes showed a deep sadness.

The foundation of the village for so many years was about to be destroyed in his own hands, and the old village chief suddenly knelt on the ground and shed cloudy tears.

In normal times, everyone would have stepped forward to help them up, but at this time, their lives are at stake, who can take care of these?

The village chief's family members are standing quietly behind the village chief, they are his family, and they will die together.

The bandits were quickly killed, and the villagers who didn't have time to reach were brutally killed.

The laughter and shouting of the mountain bandits, the neighing of the horses, and the screams and wails of the villagers resounded throughout the village.

The flames were everywhere, and it became a living purgatory.

The mountain bandits were robbing and killing, and they were about to rush into the old village chief's house.

"Boom!" Suddenly, there was a thunderbolt on a sunny day, black clouds gathered overhead, the sky darkened, and the wind blew fiercely.

The bandits stopped their movements and looked at the changing sky, and the horses were also restless, whining, as if they were afraid of something.

A mountain bandit looked at the sky, and suddenly he seemed to see a pair of eyes appear in the clouds.

He was so frightened that his body trembled, and he fell off the horse directly, he stared at the sky with his eyes, as if he was about to tear his eye sockets, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, his lips trembled, and he moved his hands and feet behind him and said in a trembling voice: "It's it!" It's it! It's coming for us for revenge! ”

When the other mountain bandits heard his words, their eyes showed uneasiness: "Who? ”

"It's the escaped fox who has come to us for revenge! He's a demon...... He has turned into a demon and has come to us for revenge! Yes! ”

As soon as the words fell, the man's eyes exploded with a bang, and the sauce splashed on the faces of the surrounding bandits.

That's when they realized what was happening!

"Hmph, it's just an obstacle that only slips through the net! Repair is here to make trouble! A violent roar suddenly came from among the mountain bandits, and I saw an old man flying out and hitting the clouds directly.

"You kill my people, and this enmity is not shared. However, your life should not have been extinguished at the beginning, and the way of heaven stopped me. After waiting for so many years, I finally waited for today, and today next year will be your death day! A strange female voice descended from the clouds and echoed in everyone's ears.

After that, the old way also disappeared into the clouds, and thunder began to roar in the clouds.

In a moment, a figure fell straight from the clouds, and a boom fell to the ground, and everyone fixed their eyes to see it, isn't it the old way or who?

The bandits saw that even the old way couldn't fight this demon, and they had the heart to retreat.

"Let's go!" Seeing that the situation was not good, the leading mountain bandit immediately gave an order.

"Where to go!" A female voice rang out here.

I saw that the dark clouds dispersed, and a huge shadow slowly revealed, and it was a fox.

The fox is snow-white, with red moire between its eyebrows, blue pupils, and six tails.

It descended from the sky, volleying into the air, as if stepping on the surface of the water, swinging in circles of ripples.

The mountain bandits saw the true body of the fox demon and fled in all directions, and the fox demon naturally would not let them go.

The next scene stunned the old village chief and all the villagers.

On weekdays, those unscrupulous mountain bandits, some of them knelt on the ground and begged for mercy in the slaughter of the fox demon, and some were so afraid that they were incontinent, but the fox demon was not soft-hearted.

In the end, the fox demon left, leaving only corpses all over the ground.

The villagers who were hiding came out one after another, and the village chief's eyes were bright, looking at the direction where the fox demon had left, and kneeling down and shouting: "Thank you for the fox fairy's life-saving grace!" ”

The villagers also knelt down and chanted.

Since then, this Hewan Village has been renamed Fox Village, and there is a sacrificial festival every year to worship the fox fairy.

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"Brother Night, do you believe that there is a fox fairy?" In ancient times, there were countless legends of demons that circulated among the people.

Tang Sha can naturally understand the thoughts at this time, and Tang Sha feels that this kind of thing is not some so-called cultural dross, but these legends have left a strong mark on the culture that has been inherited for thousands of years, and licked a lot of colors.

Although she herself had been in the monastery for six years, she was a complete materialist, so naturally she only listened to them as stories.

"That's what my grandfather told me, and he said he saw it with his own eyes. There are very few people of the older generation in the village who are still alive, and these are all passed down from them. I don't know, maybe...... There really is. "In the middle of the night, I looked at the shadow of the mountain in the distance, which was the highest mountain in the area, and the top of the mountain was covered with snow all year round, and legend has it that the fox fairy lived there.

Tang Sha also followed his gaze, and could only see a little outline.

"They said that the fox fairy was on that mountain, and I used to go up there when I was a child. It's just that I'm blind. ”

"You weren't born?" Tang Sha was surprised.

"No, I was blind when I was twelve, and now I think about it...... It's also ridiculous. Night laughed at himself.

……

There is a childhood sweetheart in the middle of the night who lives next door to their house, but their family is the richest in the village, and the family in the middle of the night is the poorest in the village.

Young people don't know what it's like to be sad, they naturally don't know what to be rich and what is poor, their world is only pure.

That girl's name is Ouyang Cuihua.

Sitting by the river in the middle of the night, he always didn't understand why his father and mother liked to let him play with Cuihua, and Cuihua's father and mother always didn't have a good face when they saw them playing together.

In the evening, the sun reflects the water, and the water is wrinkled by the wind, reflecting a little sparkle on the face in the middle of the night.

It's summer, and the grass by the river grows long, and I don't feel sick when I lie down in the middle of the night, and it's even softer than sleeping in my own bed.

It's quiet, only the sound of fish spitting in the river.

"Rustling~" Suddenly, there was a strange sound from behind, and the night that was asleep in a daze opened his eyes.

Those eyes were extremely beautiful, Cuihua said, and the eyes in the middle of the night were the most beautiful she had ever seen, and they couldn't even compare to those eldest ladies in the city.

In the middle of the night, he sat up and looked behind him, only to see two little pigtails of four or five years old walking towards him, as if she was afraid of being discovered.

However, this little girl still woke up in the middle of the night.

The little girl's eyes are very round, and her face is fleshy, which is extremely cute. She saw that she was found in the middle of the night, and pouted: "Why is it always discovered by Elder Brother." ”

In the middle of the night, when I saw this little girl, a trace of joy flashed in her eyes, and she said happily: "Cuihua!" ”

Cuihua cautiously walked to the middle of the night and sat down, frowned at her little eyebrows, and complained, "Why doesn't Brother sit here and come to play with me?" ”

Xiao Yeban reached out and touched Cuihua's head: "Your father won't let me play with you." There was also some grievance in his voice.

"Why doesn't Daddy want us to play together? I hate them! Cuihua saw the aggrieved appearance of the night shift, and had a trace of resentment against her father and mother in her heart.

They said...... You will marry someone from the city. ”

"Don't! I don't want to marry a city man! Brother, I want to marry you. ”

"But your father won't let me."

"I don't care, brother, I like you so much, I want to marry you when I grow up." Xiao Cuihua said that her eyes were full of admiration.

"Okay, then I'll marry you later." In the middle of the night, he looked at Xiao Cuihua for a while, and replied in the same sincere tone.

"I see that the sisters in the village have to worship heaven and earth when they get married, brother, let's worship heaven and earth!" Little Cuihua seemed to think of something and said to the middle of the night.

In the middle of the night, he was naturally happy in his heart, and nodded: "En! ”

That year, Xiao Cuihua was four years old and six years old in the middle of the night.

The grass by the green river is thinking about the distance. Everything here has witnessed their beautiful and innocent wedding.

They thought that after worshipping heaven and earth, no one would separate them.

Cuihua is the only daughter in the family, so she is naturally very favored. Children who grow up in pampering are also much simpler than others of the same age.

However, in the middle of the night, as I grew older, I finally slowly understood why Cuihua's father and mother were reluctant to let them play together.

In the middle of the night, she was just two years older than Cuihua, no more than a day, no less than a day. So their birthdays are on the same day.

Night.

"Son, come and eat, today is your birthday, my mother cooked you a bowl of egg noodles." In the middle of the night, the mother happily brought the egg noodles to the wooden table in front of the middle of the night.

This wooden table has been there since it was born in the middle of the night, and it is said that it was left by the grandfather's grandfather, and one of the legs of the table was broken, so a brick was put on it.

I picked up my chopsticks in the middle of the night and ate silently. It is very difficult to eat an egg on weekdays, and if you raise chickens and lay eggs at home, you will take them to the grass market to sell them and sell them to buy rice.

It can only be eaten every year during the New Year's festival or birthday.

Cuihua next door is six years old today, and her family invited the big people in the village for her.

I don't know why I ate it and ate it for some reason, and I burst into tears in the middle of the night, one drop on the wooden table, and one drop in the noodle soup.

Seeing him eating noodles, the midnight lady thought something was wrong, and hurriedly touched the middle of the night and asked, "Son, what's wrong?" Who bullied you? Tell my mother! The old lady killed him! ”

With tears in his eyes in the middle of the night, he shook his head and continued to stuff this side into his mouth, tears came out of his eyes, but he refused to speak.

The night lady asked for a long time, but she didn't say anything in the middle of the night.

finally said angrily: "Why don't you say anything, this baby!" This kind of character must not be bullied by others in the future! After saying that, I also hated iron a little bit.

In the middle of the night, he stuffed two mouthfuls into his mouth, then picked up the bowl and drank the tearful soup until there was no drop left.

Then he put down the bowl with a snap and ran out.

In the middle of the night, I kept running, and I ran all the way to the river.

He finally couldn't stop crying.

He remembered what had happened this morning.

"Why are you here at my house again?" A sharp shout came from behind him.

In the middle of the night, he hurriedly turned his head and looked at it, it turned out to be his brother who was five years older than Cuihua, Ouyang Fugui.

The expression on Ouyang Fugui's face was ugly, as if he had seen something disgusting.

In the middle of the night, Cuihua's family was very afraid, and when they saw that they were caught playing with Cuihua, they hurriedly said, "I...... I am...... Come and give Cuihua a birthday gift. ”

Cuihua behind the middle of the night immediately stood up, blocked in front of the middle of the night, and said angrily: "What are you yelling at Brother for!" ”

Ouyang Fugui saw that his sister stood up, and instead of helping himself, he turned his elbow outward, and he was also angry: "I am your brother!" He's just a pauper! He doesn't even have a door! ”

There is indeed no door in the middle of the night, and even if there is no door, he never loses anything, because the thief knows that his family is poor.

This is Ouyang Fugui, who noticed what Cuihua was holding in his hand, pointed and asked, "What is this?" ”

Cuihua raised her little chin and said angrily: "This is a birthday gift from my brother!" ”

"What a gift for me!" With that, he stepped forward and snatched the thing from Cuihua's hand.

"Hahaha, just a piece of wood, just this thing will also be sent to my sister as a birthday gift?" Ouyang Fugui smiled, and then snapped the wooden board and threw it at his feet in the middle of the night.

In the middle of the night, I looked at the hairpin on the ground that I had spent a day making, and I felt an unprecedented grievance.

"It's not wood, it's hairpin." Midnight explained in a whisper.

Cuihua saw that the gift given to her by her brother was damaged, and she rushed over and wanted to hit Ouyang Fugui.

Ouyang Fugui pushed Cuihua to the ground: "Daddy said it!" Don't play with him! You're going to marry someone from the city!" ”

After yelling, Cuihua turned to look at the middle of the night: "And you, don't come to my house Cuihua!" Your family is so poor, it's disgusting to see you! I haven't changed my clothes for hundreds of years, and I'm dirty to death! You're a toad and want to eat swan meat! Get out of my house! As he spoke, he pushed the door out of the middle of the night and closed the door with a bang.

The heart of crying in the middle of the night by the river is about to break, why doesn't my father and mother buy new clothes for themselves? Why can I only eat egg noodles on my birthday? Why don't the whole village look down on themselves?

In the middle of the night, I realized for the first time that I was different from Cuihua.

In the middle of the night, I slept on the riverside until midnight, and was woken up by the cold.

He secretly said that it was bad, and immediately got up and rushed home.

But when I got up, I was so frightened that I fell again, and the other side of the river ...... There were two glowing things, like a pair of eyes, turquoise blue.

The two dots of light stared at the middle of the night, full of disdain, and walked away.

In the middle of the night, there was a faint light in the sky, and I saw that I was holding things all over my body white, like ...... A fox.

Later, he hurriedly ran back home in the middle of the night and was beaten by his father.

The young man had no sorrows, and he couldn't forget them after sleeping, and he still secretly played happily with Cuihua in the middle of the night the next day.

Midnight is eight years old, Midnight Daddy wants to send Midnight to the township to study, in the middle of the night mother's stubborn ability, Midnight successfully entered the township school for free.

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