"Master, Master!" The crayfish broke into the room in a panic, "There's a tiger in the yard!" ”

"What!?" Mu Yuan was startled, glanced around the room, picked up a chair and ran out the door, "Tell everyone not to come out, I'll go tell Sister Ran about them!" ”

"Brother Muyuan, let's do it with me, I can release the poison!" Long Ling'er also followed.

"Where did you see that?" Luo Xuanren asked.

"Right in the yard, the little tiger is lying on a tree outside the fence!"

Mu Yuan braked suddenly, and Long Ling'er behind Rao is footwork was flexible and did not dodge, and with a "bang", Mu Yuan's head hit the door directly, and the movement was so loud that the three elders' bodies trembled.

"You...... Are you sleepy? Still sleepwalking! Makihara asked angrily, "How can a tiger climb a tree!" ”

The smallest tree outside the fence wall is three or four meters high, listen to the meaning of the crayfish, it is still a little tiger, how did it climb up?

"That's it!" Long Ling'er rubbed Mu Yuan's forehead distressedly, "It's a tiger who can go up the tree, that's a cat!" ”

"It's a tiger!" The crayfish said unconvinced, "I went to the toilet just now, and when I came back, I heard movement in the tree, so I shone it with a flashlight, and there was a little white thing on the tree, and when I stared at it, it barked at me!" ”

"What do you call it?" Long Ling'er asked.

"Roar-roar-roar——, that's it, the tiger's voice!"

"Are you sure it's not meow-meow-meow——?" Long Ling'er asked playfully.

"Of course not, you're stupid!" The crayfish said angrily, "When I was a child, I liked to go to the zoo the most, and the cat and the tiger couldn't tell the difference, but roar-roar-roar——, like a tiger!" ”

"You're not stupid, but you're not very good!" Mu Yuan rubbed his forehead, and his anger did not subside, "Go, go back to sleep!" ”

"No, you have to go out with me!" The crayfish dragged Mu Yuan to the yard, "Otherwise, I will be wronged, the cat and the tiger can't tell the difference, and others will laugh at me!" ”

The three elders also followed, and a few people wandered around the courtyard for a long time, looking at the trees and the ground, and they were more careful than finding the monkey in the summer, but not to mention the tiger, not even a tiger hair was found.

"What about the tigers you are talking about?" Long Ling'er asked with a grin.

"It was on this tree just now!" The crayfish pointed to a small tree in the middle and said, "It's lying on the branch, it's so big, it's less than 20 centimeters, why is it gone?" It must have been us coming out late and letting it run! ”

"Good, good!" Mu Yuan nodded, "Tomorrow I will call the Exploration and Discovery column team and tell them about this latest discovery!" ”

"Master, you have to believe me, I didn't lie, I really saw it!"

"Yes, I believe it!" Makihara nodded.

"Master—Father!" The crayfish used a coquettish killer again, holding Mu Yuan's arm and dangling it, "I really didn't lie to you, I really saw it, and it roared at me!" ”

"Alright, alright, I believe, I believe!" Mu Yuan nodded helplessly, putting on an extremely sincere demeanor.

"Humph!" The crayfish shook off Mu Yuan's arm and walked away in a huff, and there was a burst of laughter from everyone behind him.

At breakfast the next day, the crayfish had just walked into the restaurant, and everyone snickered.

"Xiaohexian, I heard that you found a tiger last night, why didn't you catch it!" Jiang Bixue asked, "What species, is it a South China tiger?" ”

"Hah-" Everyone in the restaurant laughed.

"Master!" The crayfish looked angrily at Makihara.

"I didn't say anything!" Makihara shrugged innocently.

"Little witch!" The crayfish turned to Long Ling'er, "Did you say that?" ”

"yes!" Long Ling'er nodded and comforted: "But don't be embarrassed, the difference between a tiger and a cat is not big, and it's normal to be wrong, I can't blame you!" ”

"Hah-" The people in the restaurant laughed again.

"Humph!" The crayfish was so angry that he stomped his feet, raised his feet and walked out, but when he was halfway there, he turned back again, grabbed two fritters with his left hand, picked up two eggs with his right hand, and "hummed" at Long Ling'er again, and then raised his head and left.

"Aren't you going too far!" Makihara said, "She's embarrassed enough, you still tell the news!" ”

"Don't worry, she still knows that she is hungry, and nothing will happen!" Long Ling'er said nonchalantly, "If you don't teach you a lesson, maybe there will be another 'wolf coming' tonight!" ”

The funeral began at two o'clock in the afternoon, although there were not many people attending the old lady's funeral, that is, fifty or sixty people, and the rest were helping, but judging from those complicated ceremonies, this funeral was still very grand.

"Sister Ran, aren't all in this village the same surname? Even if it's not the same team, there should be some blood! Luo Xuanren said, "But why are there so few people who wear filial piety?" ”

"You're talking about before the founding of the country!" Gu Xinran explained, "After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was not much left in the village, and during the land reform, the state implemented a collective responsibility system, and many side surnames moved from other villages, and many young people in the village did not come back after they went out, so there are not many children of the Zhao family here!" ”

"Oh, I see!" Luo Qiren suddenly realized, no wonder his grandfather was able to break in, presumably there were not many aborigines left in Zhaojia Village at that time.

"It's not just demographic changes!" Gu Xinran continued, "After the founding of the People's Republic of China, after ideological and cultural education, the residents here have gradually abandoned the backward customs of the past, such as water burial, wind burial, and sky burial have been replaced, even the cliff burial, tower burial, tree burial, etc. have also undergone great changes!" Today, Mrs. Zhao is a tree burial, you can compare it with the previous situation, I believe you will see a lot of changes! ”

After a series of rituals, at about 4 p.m., the funeral procession finally arrived at the west side of Zhaojia Village, which was about five miles away from the village, and a dense forest stretched to the mountains to the west. Makihara took a closer look, and there were almost no pines and cypresses here, and most of them were willow locusts. Starting from the edge of the woods, the further you go inside, the more cloth flags are wrapped around the branches, red, white, black, flowers, different colors, very spectacular, but also terrifying, the wind blows, fluttering, making people feel only chills down their spines.

Walking all the way in, you can often see some small rotten coffins on the branches, and some baggage tied to the branches, but they are all rotten. There is even a dozen small coffins more than half a meter long hanging on a tree, which are so dense that people's scalps are fried. Under the trees, there are large white bones, but most of them are livestock and poultry, which seem to have been left behind after the sacrifice.

Less than two hundred meters into it, Zheng Bu and these people were all huddled together, supporting each other, and the sound of stepping on broken branches could make them jump up and down a few times, if they hadn't taken into account the funeral procession in front, it was estimated that they would have screamed again and again. Only Long Ling'er and Jiang Bixue had the same stupid faces as before, the former sometimes stopped to collect medicinal herbs and plants from trees or grass, and the latter was even more excessive, and had already begun to secretly pick open some broken coffins with wooden sticks, peeking inside curiously.

However, this move was quickly ostracized, and everyone not only hid far away, but also cast a burst of white eyes and angry eyes from time to time.

"Unreasonable senior brother, you have taken this apprentice!" Tan Xiaosheng said with a smile, "I also visited all the doors back then, and I have never found one so bold!" ”

"Well, I'm having a headache!" Xuan said helplessly, "I can't teach anything except being bold, I can only do it brutally, and I'm angry!" ”

"Be content!" Yi Youdao said, "My one is smart, Zhou Tian gossip and numerology stars can be calculated as follows, but he is too timid." I borrowed a little ghost from you last time to set up a game, and before she could arrange her formation, she was already scared of the six gods! ”

"Hahaha!" Tan Xiaosheng laughed loudly, and hurriedly stopped halfway through the laughter, after all, there was still a funeral in front of him, and his laughter was really out of place.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Jiang Bixue ran over with a wooden stick, "Uncle Tan, did you see something funny, why did you suddenly stop laughing in the middle of your laughter!" ”

"It's none of your business, go ahead and find your baby!" Xuan Wuli waved his hand.

"Oh!" Jiang Bixue took a few steps and turned around again, "Master, if you encounter a little ghost or something, don't rush to make a move, leave it to me to play with you and then do it!" ”

"Got it!"

Tan Xiaosheng endured it for a long time before he stopped the urge to laugh again, and asked, "I heard those little guys say, the first ghost that this little apprentice of yours caught in his life was scared back to the altar by her?" ”

"Well, that's the case!" Xuan Wuxian thought about it, and couldn't help laughing, "If it hadn't happened in my house at this time, I wouldn't have believed it when I said it!" ”

"Actually, you two don't have to worry, with that scary little guy from Muhara, everything will be fine! Let them follow the experience for a few years, and it will be good slowly! Tan Xiaosheng said, "We are all so old, and we don't need to think about anything about the inheritance of Taoism, wouldn't it be better to have them with us and enjoy the joy of family?" ”

"That's right!" Yi Youdao nodded, "Xiaosheng, it seems that you still understand it, you are a step higher than the dirt!" ”

While speaking, the funeral procession finally arrived at the location of the tomb.