After Bai Lao finished speaking, his face turned pale, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, then he got up and waved his hand, and went back to the house, and instructed Zi Shi not to open the door.

Xiang Yuan was uneasy in his heart, and he had been waiting outside the old white house for a while, he gently pushed the door open, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw a pure white hedgehog sitting cross-legged on the bed, and it was silent.

Xiang Yuan recalled Bai Lao's great kindness, and couldn't help but kneel on the ground and cry bitterly.

The next day, Xiang Yuan and the government came to catch turtles in an urn, and as a result, more than ten thieves were captured, and the leader was the family member who was driven out of Xiang's mansion by him that year.

Huang Shi was upright in his life, with a bold personality, especially with his courage and conceit. When he was young, he was poor and destitute, and he ran around for a living.

Once, he happened to go to the local Sanqing Hall to play, met a Taoist priest surnamed Qi, and felt that he was extraordinary, so the two often corresponded, and their friendship became stronger, and they actually became friends outside the party.

Huangshi often has times when he can't turn around, and he also relies on this Qi Taoist priest to help him get through the difficulties.

He felt embarrassed in private, and was often ashamed and unable to reciprocate.

One day he went to the Taoist temple to chat with the Taoist priest, and when he went, he saw the Taoist priest with a sad face, sitting on the ground without saying a word, and Huang Shi asked: "What is the difficulty of the Taoist chief to be so depressed? If you can use my place, you will definitely go to the soup and die." ”

When Daoist Qi heard this, he immediately stood up, took Huang Shi's hand and said: "After listening to what the monk said, I feel that this is not the luck of the poor Dao alone, but the blessing of the common people. ”

Huang Shi said: "Dao Chief, what are you talking about, I usually promise you to help, but I have no way to reciprocate, today you have difficulties, it is the time for me to repay you, why be verbose like a woman, please tell me what is the matter, let me share my worries with you." ”

Daoist Qi thanked him and said, "If that's the case, please come with me, if you see anything, don't panic, there is a poor way to ensure that you are safe and sound." ”

Huang Shi was very curious, and asked what was going on, but the Taoist priest didn't say, Huang Shi asked again, but the Taoist priest still didn't answer, and Huang Shi had to follow the Taoist priest first to see what was going on.

At this time, it was already dark, and the two of them went out of the north gate one after the other, walked more than five miles, and came to the tomb of a sage, about a hundred steps away from the tomb.

Daoist Qi made the grass into an altar, let Huangshi stand in the altar, from the top of his head to his chest to his feet, and covered it with charms, and then took out a cage made of wheat straw, about a foot wide, took off the cage cover and handed it to him, and said to him: "When you hear the sound of my chime, quickly close the cage cover, and remember not to forget." If you see something, don't be afraid, let alone move, I'm here to make sure you're safe and sound. ”

Huang Shi felt inexplicable, and he didn't know what was going on, so he had to agree.

So Daoist Qi scattered his hair, walked with Yu steps, held a sword in his left hand, and held a chime in his right hand, muttered in his mouth, and began to chant mantras.

It was the middle of February, the moon was clear, the clouds were light and the wind was light.

At the time of the third watch, the fishy wind was big and the moonlight was bleak, and suddenly I heard the sound like a tide, and a giant snake crawled over from somewhere, with its head as big as a dustpan, thick as a giant urn, more than ten zhang long, covered with golden scale armor, eyes like electricity, lying under the altar, just like the head of the Qi Taoist.

Huang Shi was terrified, but seeing that Daoist Qi was unmoved, and he was admonished in front of him, he stood still, and suddenly heard Daoist Qi shouting "Go", pointing with Jian Chen, so the snake crawled away.

After a while, another snake came to the altar, just like just now, but the whole body was transparent, and the internal organs were clearly visible.

Later, a lot of snakes came one after another, all of them were strange shapes, strange and strange, there were long antlers, there were yellow hairs, there were dragon heads and phoenix tails, there were front and back four-legged, a snake head was like a round ball, the two ribs had wings, a snake scale armor was brightly colored, the mouth spit out five-colored gas, the rest of the green and yellow, black and white, its color was different, the size and length were not the same, all in order to lie down under the altar, no less than 100 kinds, all let the Taoist priest point away with a sword.

It wasn't until the rooster crowed three times and the dawn broke in the east that Daoist Qi stopped his practice, removed the charm, and let Huangshi go home to rest first, and then come here to wait for him on the second watch in the evening.

After Huangshi slept for a while, he had eaten and drunk enough to nourish his spirits, and at dusk in the evening, he came here again as promised.

Daoist Qi had been waiting here for a long time, and he did the same thing as the night before, and by the time of the third watch, the snakes were winding again, and there was an endless stream.

This time the shape is even more strange, there are like lizards, some like lobsters, and there are bull head snake body, horse head snake body, the head of the cockscomb, some body like a square seal, some body like a flat belt, and so on, there are hundreds of them, Qi Taoist priest all pointed with the tip of the sword, until the rooster crows three times before stopping, and then the two of them stopped work, and made an appointment to come again tonight.

On the third night, Daoist Qi said to Huang Shi: "The day of completion is tonight, you must remember my previous advice to you, you must not forget, let alone be negligent." ”

Huang Shi nodded and replied, "I will accept your instructions, I dare not forget." ”

So the Qi Taoist priest opened the altar practice, to get three watches, this night came to the snake and the previous two nights are very different, the head or like a yaksha, or like an arhat, or like a warrior, or like a beauty, there are screams like a baby crying, there are also screams like a bamboo cracking, all are human heads and snake body there are dozens of kinds. There were also two heads and two heads, two heads, three heads to nine heads, and he pointed them with the tip of his sword.

At the fourth watch, the sky suddenly blew a strong wind, and I saw that the flying sand and rocks even the surrounding valleys roared, and the sky was bleak for a while, and the stars and moon were not shining.

At this time, another snake arrived in front of the altar, only more than a zhang long, the body was full of colorful scale armor, the head was like a bird's egg, the mouth was open and the tongue was sticking out, the eyes were protruding, and the eyes were blazing like a torch glaring at the Qi Daoist.

Daoist Qi opened his eyes violently and shouted: "Evil beasts dare to be rude!"

Hurriedly pointed the head of the sword at the snake's body, only to see the snake tumbling and falling down in the air, hovering around the ground, and then jumping up quickly and rushing towards the Taoist priest.

This time the Taoist priest still pointed at it with a sword, it seemed to be very afraid of this sword, but did not dare to approach, stalemate for several rounds, the Taoist priest suddenly bit the tip of his tongue, a mouthful of blood mist sprayed on the sword, and instantly the sword burst out, pressing the snake to the ground, and the body suddenly shrank to less than five inches, wanting to escape.

Daoist Qi pressed tightly with his sword, and the snake saw that there was nowhere to go for a while, and there happened to be a cage next to it, so he jumped into the grass cage.

Daoist Qi was waiting for the moment when he invited you into the urn, and when he saw it jump in, he immediately struck the chime, Huang Shizheng watched intently, and when he heard the sound, he quickly closed the cage lid in his hand.

When Daoist Qi saw it, he put away his sword, took out four red talismans from his sleeve and pasted them on the four corners of the cage body, and said to Huang Shi with a happy face: "Poor Dao has been searching for this goblin here for five years on the orders of the master, and today it is finally done without dishonoring the master's order." Otherwise, in ten years, all the creatures on the southeast coast will be poisoned by it, and I am afraid that few will survive. ”

Huang Shi asked, "What is the Daoist going to do with it?"

Daoist Qi replied: "I am going to take it to my master, and this time I subdued it with the help of your strength, so there will be a great reward for you, and you will definitely live a long and prosperous life in the future, so you must work hard now and don't give up." Today, let's say goodbye for the time being, and Penglai Immortal Island may not have a time to meet in the future. After saying that, he took the cage and said goodbye.

A few years later, Huang Shi became a high-ranking official, with a harmonious family, loving husband and wife, and finally lived to be more than 90 years old, five generations in the same house, and his sons and grandchildren are all nobles, and he has been endless.

In Changsheng Village, there is a widow named Xiuhua.

Xiuhua married her neighbor Lu Jiu at the age of sixteen, with a childhood plum, a talented woman, and many others who were envious of her for a while.

It's a pity that the heavens are not beautiful, Xiuhua gave birth to a boy when she was seventeen years old, and after Lu Jiu, who was working abroad, heard the good news, he rushed home with the stars and the moon, but he encountered thieves on the way, and died as a result.

The Lu Jiu brothers are all people with different intentions, and in order to annex him and the family property, they united, accused Xiuhua of being a broom star, and finally swept Xiuhua's mother and son out of the house.