Out of the backyard door, I came to the front yard hall, only to see a bonfire lit in the dilapidated hall, and four or five men were sitting around the fire eating dry food and laughing, not with a local accent.

These men suddenly saw the uneven old Dao and Feng Sanyan, and immediately stood up, looking at the old and the young vigilantly. A bearded man who seemed to be the leader of the gang stepped forward and clasped his fists and said in the official dialect of Changsha, which was not very fluent: "It turns out that there are still people living in this temple, disturb and disturb!" As he spoke, he pointed to a few oxen tied to the stone steps outside the hall, and said: "A few of us were traders who came here from other places to do cattle and horse business, and we couldn't stay because we couldn't stay with our livestock. No offense, please make it convenient for the Taoist master! Let us stay overnight, and we'll leave tomorrow as soon as it gets dark. ”

The old man said with a smile: "It's not easy to go out, and this Taoist temple is not my old Taoist private property, so a few people can do it themselves." After a few polite words, he and Feng Sanyan went back to the backyard.

Lao Dao and Feng Sanyan returned to the backyard and continued to drink and eat, but Lao Dao frowned, and the wine was greatly reduced. Feng Sanyan was curious: "Dao Master, what's wrong with you?"

The uneven old man took a sip of wine, glanced outside the door again, and then said in a low voice: "Little Brother Luo, there is something wrong with these people who came to Guanli to spend the night tonight, but I'm afraid they are not good!"

Feng Sanyan was stunned and wondered, "How did you say this?" I look at their appearance, the appearance of real croppers, what's so strange? ”

The old man said: "Although these people are dressed as croppers, they have a fierce light in their eyes when they look at people, and ordinary croppers do not have this fierce Jianghu atmosphere."

Feng Sanyan smiled and said: "Why should Dao Ye be careful, most of the people who do cattle and horse sales business run around all year round, and they will inevitably be contaminated with some habits in the rivers and lakes, and they are not necessarily villains."

Lao Dao smashed his mouth, thought for a while, and seemed to be unable to grasp the point, so he said: "Maybe Lao Dao is too careful."

After the two of them finished eating and drinking, they were a little overwhelmed, so they went back to the room and fell asleep on the bed board in a daze. I don't know how long it took, Feng San's eyes were hazy and he was awakened by a urge to urinate, and there was no night pot urinal in the house, so he had to get up and go to the courtyard to release water outside the yard in the dark.

The night was like water, Feng Sanyan took advantage of the moonlight to find a corner in the backyard casually, opened the crotch of his pants and urinated comfortably, and suddenly heard a scolding sound from the front yard hall. Feng Sanyan rubbed his eyes, stood on tiptoe, and looked over the backyard wall towards the main hall. The main hall is in disrepair, the tiles and walls are collapsed, and there are holes everywhere, Feng Sanyan's position is very close to the main hall, and he can just see the situation in the hall through the broken walls of the main hall.

I saw that the bonfire in the main hall was not extinguished, several cattle dealers were lying or sitting around the fire, and only a short and strong man stood at the gate of the main hall with his head down, and was being reprimanded by the bearded leader by the fire. Feng Sanyan listened carefully, only to hear the cheeks scolding: "Wang Xiaozi, you listen to Lao Tzu, control the things in your crotch, if you really can't control it, Lao Tzu will help you cut it off with a knife, and try to clean it!"

All the cattle dealers snickered when they heard this, and the trained Wang Shorty couldn't hold his face, and he didn't dare to stiffen his beard, so he had to point to the big cow in the herd tied to the stone steps outside the hall, and said angrily: "Boss Hou, this little girl's skin is going to be sold, it's better to let the brothers be happy first, what's the matter?"

"Fuck you!" The bearded Hou boss glared and scolded: "Is it worth the if you play with it?" With such a beautiful look like this little girl, even if it is sold to a kiln in Guangzhou, it can be worth more than three hundred taels! Let you get in trouble, and the price will be at least half of it! What are the brothers trying to do when they are eating out and sleeping out? Aren't you just trying to earn more money? ”

Wang Xiaozi snorted his lips and stopped talking, and Boss Hou also extinguished his anger, sighed and said softly: "What kind of woman can't play if we make money in the future?" For now, let's bear with it and don't make any mistakes. It's not early, the big guys go to bed early, and they have to hurry early tomorrow morning. ”

The king let out an "oh", reluctantly glanced at the big cow in the herd, and went back to the fire to lie down and rest.

Besides, Feng Sanyan heard a conversation in the hall here, it seemed that the king dwarf wanted to spoil a girl, although the bearded Hou boss said something to stop it, but it was not out of justice and conscience, but in order to sell the girl for a good price! How can it be done by a good person to abduct and defile a woman from a good family at will! It seems that the unfair old way is good, these people are really not good.

But there are only a few men and a few beasts inside and outside the hall, where are the women? When Wang Xiaozi talked about women, he pointed to the ox next to the stone steps, could it be that these people are all guilty of hysteria, and they can't even tell the difference between a cow and a woman? Feng Sanyan was still drunk, and the more he thought about it, the more messy his head became, so he had to frown and return to the room lightly.

Feng Sanyan sat on the edge of the bed, still thinking about the conversation between the cattle dealers, and he didn't understand the essentials at all. The uneven old road turned over, or was woken up by Feng Sanyan's movement at night, and muttered and teased: "Brother Feng, if you don't sleep in the middle of the night, do you miss women?"

Feng Sanyan came back to his senses, this unfair old man traveled the rivers and lakes in his early years, and his knowledge was very extensive, so he might as well ask what he had just seen, maybe his old man could see through the strangeness. Thinking of this, Feng Sanyan lit the oil lamp, came to the bed side of the uneven old road, evoked the old way, and whispered to the old man in detail what he saw and heard when he got up at night.

After hearing this, Lao Dao stroked the sparse goatee on his chin, and said in a deep voice: "I'll just say that these people are weird, I'm afraid they are villains who make animals!"

Feng Sanyan had never heard of the word "animal", so he hurriedly asked, and the old Tao asked Feng Sanyan to pour him a bowl of water, and drank two sips, and then said slowly.

The art of animal creation is a secret technique that uses animal hair, blood, medicine, and spells to turn humans into animals. The art of creating animals has existed since ancient times, but because this technique is too vicious and intolerable to the laws of various dynasties and generations, it gradually became unknown to the world. Until the Jiaqing period of this dynasty, the White Lotus Sect made a rebellion, and some evil people brought out this animal creation evil art to harm people.

Later, although the White Lotus Sect was exterminated by the imperial court, there were still many fish that escaped by luck and hid in the rivers and lakes. In recent years, the world is not peaceful, and the people's livelihood is hard, so some people have abducted and sold children and women in this evil trick, taking the opportunity to make huge profits.

As soon as the old man said this, Feng Sanyan suddenly realized, so that the conversation between the cattle dealers made sense, and the group of cattle brought by the cattle dealers were only human children and women who had been subjected to animal creation magic! It's infuriating that these cattle dealers are so evil! Although Feng Sanyan was poor, he was jealous and hateful by nature, and immediately gritted his teeth and said: "Master Dao, these gangsters have done such a hurtful thing, we can't stand idly by!"

The old man nodded and said, "Yes, since this matter has been bumped into by us, naturally we can't ignore it." It's just that these people dare to use evil magic to make profits in vain against the law, they must be ruthless, and besides, there are many people, we can't be the enemy, and we have to think about it in the long run. ”

Feng Sanyan was young and knowledgeable, and he had no enthusiasm but couldn't think of any thoughtful way, so he rubbed his hands in a hurry. The old man paced back and forth in the room with his back on his back, and after a while, he came to Feng Sanyan's ear and explained like and this and this. Feng Sanyan listened to the old way's plan, and his heart was overjoyed. Immediately quietly touched out the stone cow view and rushed towards the town.