The book continues from the above, Zhao Laosi encountered a strange snake when he was catching a field chicken in the wilderness, and after cutting the strange snake seven times with a machete, the strange snake did not die, and the severed body was reset again. Zhao Laosi was annoyed, so he slashed six more times, but who knew that the strange snake had changed its original appearance again. When he was wondering, his sister-in-law Xifeng came over with a call, Zhao Laosi realized that something was wrong at home, and ran home to take a look, if he didn't look at it, after seeing it, he rolled his eyes and passed out.

What are you doing? I saw two corpses on the kang with blurred flesh and blood, which were Zhao Laosi's daughter-in-law and son. Xiaonantaizi has never had such a thing since the establishment of the village, this is a major case of human life, and it cannot be delayed, You Sanye hurriedly sent someone to Tianjin County to report the case. (Note: During the Qing Dynasty, Tianjin had a yamen, called Tianjin County)

Zhao Laosi woke up, woke up, tossed several times, and now he can't even cry, his eyes are hooked, and he is already stupid. When Hu Dingren, the magistrate of Tianjin County, arrived with a group of followers, it was dark. After the inspection, Hu County Commander was informed that the deceased was killed by a sharp knife, with a total of seven knives from head to toe for adults and six knives from head to toe for children. The knife edge is neat, obviously a knife has passed, and the murder weapon is by no means a guillotine and a long saw, but more like a machete. But there is a problem that is really incomprehensible, it is not easy to cut off a person, in addition to this person has natural divine power, the knife used must also be a rare weapon in the world, the two are missing, it is impossible to do this, not to mention that there are seven knives for adults and six knives for children.

Who is so vicious, and who has such divine power?

Hu Xianling asked Xifeng, who was taking care of Zhao's fourth daughter-in-law at that time, Xifeng had relieved her soul at this time, she said that she had taken care of the fourth daughter-in-law for most of the day, and after seeing the mother and son asleep, she was worried about Xu Laobald at home, so she went home to cook for Xu Laobald. When she turned back after cooking the meal, she saw the tragic situation on the kang as soon as she entered the door, but she didn't see who the murderer was.

Hu County ordered three shifts of errand officers to go door-to-door to inquire about the case, but it turned out that everyone had alibi evidence, and no one saw outsiders enter the village. The officer reviewed the scene, and there was no trace of a fight, no sign of struggle, and no property in the family was missing. According to the villagers' relatives, Zhao Laosi and his wife are honest and have no enmity with others, so it seems that it is not a vendetta. This case is difficult, there is no human and material evidence, even if Bao Qingtian and Hai Qingtian are alive, it must be difficult to judge this case.

But the dead man couldn't hang here all day, so Hu County ordered the master, and the county government paid for it, and hired two master craftsmen from the tailor shop to sew the deceased's body parts together with thick needles and threads. The person was mourned first, and it was not too late to leave the details of the case to be verified slowly.

In this way, Zhao Laosi's wife and children were re-stitched, and then You Sanye and Xu Laobald paid for Zhang Luo, and the village chose a cemetery, bought a big coffin, put the mother and son in a coffin, and buried them. I didn't mention how everyone did it, but I just said that Zhao Laosi, his soul was gone, he opened his mouth all day long, staring at the iron gossip hanging on the door frame with his eyes, and occasionally muttered a few words in his mouth, but he couldn't hear what he was saying.

If this continues, within a few days, this man will follow the mother and son into the ground. Xu Laobald couldn't bear to see his brother like this, and kept enlightening Xifeng. You Sanye was afraid that he would find a short-sightedness, so he asked people to take away all kinds of iron tools and ropes in his house and hide them, and even put away the fire sickle used for cooking and cooking, for fear that he would set the house on fire. Then send the strong man in the village to live in his house, and keep watch over him day and night to prevent him from doing stupid things. The matter of eating is easy to do, You Sanye instructed every family in the village to serve for a day, no need to eat well, just take care of the full.

But when the rice was delivered to his mouth, Zhao Laosi was still looking at the iron gossip as if he couldn't see it. Fill the rice into his mouth, he can't even chew it, you say it's sad, you don't drink water, you don't eat oil and salt, this person is still alive.

Just when everyone was at a loss, a man came to the village. This person has been to the village before, and even to Zhao Laosi's house. He is not someone else, he is the Taoist master of the traveling party. As soon as they saw Dao Ye coming, everyone seemed to have a backbone. Although this person looked a little shabby and sloppy, there was a fairy aura on his face. There are immortals here, are you afraid that you won't be able to save people?

As soon as he saw Lao Dao, Xu Laobald hurriedly greeted him: "Immortal Chief, you are finally here, my brother is ......."

Before he finished speaking, Dao Ye waved his hand, meaning that he knew it, and there was no need to describe it. I saw that he ignored anyone, walked straight to Zhao Laosi, shook his head and "coughed", and then stared at Zhao Laosi's two eyes with his two eyes, the four eyes were in one place, but Zhao Laosi was still like a mud tire, straight and motionless.

After staring for a while, Dao Ye looked away, put his right hand on Zhao Laosi's forehead, grabbed Zhao Laosi's shoulder with his left hand, and muttered in his mouth: "Zhao Laosi, Zhao Fusheng, you should have a disaster to resolve, who let the past not be a person?" Wake up, ah! After speaking, he raised his right hand from his forehead, and then slapped him the head. Looking at Zhao Laosi again, his eyes rolled upward, his body leaned back, and he lay straight on the kang, as if he was dead.

Hey, didn't the old man kill someone? No, you can't kill people without resentment or hatred, you must have used some kind of immortal magic.

Everyone present speculated, but no one dared to say it. Old Xu was upright, and hurriedly stepped forward, and said in a panic: "Immortal Chief, what does this mean?" ”

Looking at this Dao Ye again, he smiled and said: "It's okay, he's sleepy, just sleeping, and when he wakes up, there's nothing to do, you can relax." ”

As he spoke, Dao Ye walked to the door frame, stared at the iron gossip hanging on the door frame, and read in his mouth: "Wrongs, wrongs, evil is difficult to prevent under the gossip, and the ancestors will pay for the sins of the descendants." What do you want? As he spoke, Dao Ye picked up the top door bar from behind the door and smashed it towards the iron gossip, only touching it lightly, and the iron gossip "snapped" and fell to the ground and fell into eight petals. Iron can be broken, and it looks like this thing doesn't work.

Breaking the iron gossip, Dao Ye turned around, looked at Zhao Laosi who was lying on the kang like a dead corpse, sighed, flicked his sleeves, and walked away. He's gone, and no one can tell what will happen in the future. The destiny of heaven is determined, let's look at the creation.

After Dao Ye left, everyone stared at each other, the scene just now was too mysterious, what did Lao Dao mean? Everyone speculated about the mystery.

About an hour later, I saw Zhao Laosi, who was lying on the kang, first moved his hands and feet, and then he did it all the time, his eyes were not stupid, and the complexion on his face had recovered a lot. When he saw Zhao Laosi wake up, everyone was startled. Zhao Laosi's eyes were not hooked, but their eyes were hooked, and they all stared at Zhao Laosi.

Zhao Laosi spoke: "Why are you staring at me?" I'm not good, okay. ”

As soon as he finished saying this, he heard someone shout: "Old brother, you can scare my brother to death, you have finally come back to your soul." ”

It was not someone else who spoke, it was Zhao Laosi's irreversible friend Xu Laobald, Xu Laobald took three steps and made two steps to get to the kang, and looked Zhao Laosi up and down for a while.

"Dude, are you really okay?"

"Brother, what are you talking about? What's wrong with me, isn't this good? It's just that my stomach is a little hungry, my mouth is thirsty, and I bother my brother to scoop me with cold water, and my throat is smoking. ”

Yes, knowing how to drink water means that this person is fine. Dao Ye has some mana, so he didn't lie. Xu Laobald hurriedly brought him a scoop of warm boiling water, Zhao Laosi poured it down, and then said "Hi yo", helped the kang to turn over and go to the ground, trembling and shaking outward.

"Fellow villagers, grandfathers and uncles, three aunts and six aunts, brothers and friends, thank you for worrying about these days. I don't have anything to do now, I want to open it, my life is like this, I can't hide. Ladies and gentlemen, now that everything has stopped, and you have all worked hard, hurry home and rest, and when I am done with my family affairs, I will go door to door to thank you. ”

As soon as everyone saw that he was fine, they were relieved, and told him not to be too sad and sad, to recuperate, and not to hide and hide if there is a narrow place to recruit, and tell everyone that everyone will find a way together.

Zhao Laosi thanked everyone again, leaving only Xu Laobald here, and the rest of them left. There are ready-made porridge and salted radishes at home, Xu Laobald asked his brother to sit on the kang quilt, and he took out the fire sickle that he used to smoke dry tobacco to cook for the fire. After the rice is hot, move the kang table and place it on the kang, and put porridge and pickles on it. Zhao Laosi was indeed hungry, so he picked up the dumplings and ate them, poured the porridge, and only spoke after eating and drinking.

"Brother, you don't believe it, I had a dream before I woke up, do you guess I dreamed?"

"Oh, dream, dream? Tell me about it. ”

"I, ah, dreamed of a snake. I've seen that snake, and I've slashed him with a knife, and if it hadn't been for him, my wife and child wouldn't have died. The snake was first in its original form, with a round head and a long body, a blue body, and a red tail, and all of a sudden, it became a little old man. This little old man was thin and thin, short and small, almost like a Lilliputian country. He asked me, 'Are you called Zhao Fusheng, and everyone else calls you Zhao Laosi?' I said yes. And he said, 'Oh, that's right.' You know no, we have a grudge. I said I don't know. He said again, 'In my previous life, your family harmed my family a lot, and now that I have taken revenge, you should be unlucky, your family is dying, I can't find them, so I can only look for you.' The death of your wife and children is not to blame me, they died miserably, and my family died even worse. The feud between our two families is not over, you wait, the matter is later. And when he had said that, he was gone, and I awoke. ”

......Tsk, when Xu Laobald heard this, he gasped, and said in his heart that my old brother didn't seem to be lying, this must have happened to an evil thing. But where is the source? It still needs to be reasoned, why did the snake say these words, and what kind of grievances were there in it? That Taoist master also said that "the ancestors will pay for their sins", presumably this is what he said. This thing has to find the head, and if you find the head, you may be able to crack it.

So I asked Zhao Laosi, have you heard what your father, mother and brother have said about any evil deeds? Zhao Laosi pondered for a long time and gave a two-word conclusion "no". He only told the story of the serpent that day when he cut down the snake in the wilderness, and the serpent was reconnected and restored to its original appearance. The first time he slashed the snake seven times, and after it turned back to its original form, it slashed six more times. The number of knives is not more, not less, just like the number of knives on the corpses of his wife and children, obviously killing snakes, but in fact killing his wife and children.

After finishing speaking, Zhao Laosi covered his face and sobbed. Xu Laobald persuaded him, Zhao Laosi stopped crying, and said that he couldn't just finish it, since he should be in trouble, he had to face it, he had a rotten life, and he died a stinky piece of land, he wanted to use this rotten life to fight with the strange snake, and see who died and who lived in the end!

The two brothers continued to talk, looking for clues. At this moment, there was the sound of footsteps outside, and the two turned their heads to look out.

"Ah, who is this?"