Chapter 57: Betting
is not quite the same as what Gui or Not Return, the cottage of the Gui brothers is not on the top of the mountain. Only half a day later, the Gui brothers took him and Wu Mian to a cave. Gui Lai pointed to the inside of the mouth of the black cave and said, "When we arrive, this is where our brothers and sisters can stay." You and ...... This one rested in it first, and our brothers arranged for someone to go hunting game. It's a pity that there is nothing to produce on this mountain, and I really can't come up with any good things to honor your old man."
Although there is a black hole inside, it looks a little oozing. But people with physiques like Gui Bugui and Wu Mian naturally saw the scene inside clearly. There's a lot of space in there, and looking at the mess of things like crockpots and hay mats on the ground, you know that it's just a place where minions live.
There is an entrance to the cave in the depths of the cave, and it seems that there is one or more other such spaces in the passage.
Looking at Wu Mian and Gui Gui's appearance, the brothers in Guilai Gui District would be mistaken, thinking that their master and this white-haired man couldn't see the scene inside, so they didn't dare to venture in. Gui Lai shouted at his minions, "Why don't you go get the torch yet? I've told you a long time ago that I'm hiding a few torches at the entrance of the cave. How many times have I said it, but I haven't been prepared. Look, this time it has affected my master, right? ”
While Guilai was talking, there were already minions who had gone in and rummaged in for a long time, and then came out with two torches dipped in the fat of the beast. Gui Lai used some pretentious fire initiation techniques, and after lighting both torches, he and his younger brother Gui District held one torch and let Gui Bugui and Wu Mian into the cave.
The Gui brothers let Wu Mian and Gui Bugui go to the entrance of the passage, and Gui Lai stood at the entrance of the passage and said: "I regarded this cave as a cottage at the beginning, because there are big holes and small holes in it. Don't look at the outside is such a piece, but there are more than 30 inner holes inside, large and small, and counting the entrances we entered, there are a total of thirteen entrances and exits in the light, five and dark, if you don't know the details, there is no one to take it. In the past few years, from time to time, officers and soldiers from the two counties of eastern and western Liaodong have come to encircle and suppress, and on several occasions they have even penetrated into the hole, but each time ten come in, and at most three or five can go out. Later, several times, the officers and soldiers of the encirclement and suppression did not dare to come in when they reached the outside of the cave."
After finishing speaking, the Gui brothers took Gui Bugui and Wu Mian to walk around the large and small inner holes inside. If you look at the hole outside, you would never have imagined that it would be like a beehive, with dozens of inner holes, large and small, running through each other. Walking all the way, Wu Mian is okay to say, but it is rare to return or not, usually he talks the same person, I don't know why, since he entered the cave, he didn't even say a word, but a few times in the dark, and Wu Mian looked at each other.
After looking through the inner cavern, they exited through one of the exits, and after a large turn, they returned to the entrance of the cave. At this time, Wu Mian and Gui Bugui did not shy away from the Gui brothers, Gui Bugui glanced at Wu Mian first, and said, "See? ”
Wu Mian nodded and said, "I really don't know if the fate of your two precious disciples is good or not. This hole isn't supposed to be for people, is it? ”
When Wu Mian said this, the faces of the Gui brothers had already changed. His brothers had long felt that there seemed to be something unclean in the cave, and they thought it was the spirit that surrounded them before and was trapped in the cave. These two brothers don't know the way to settle their souls, and they are reluctant to give up this cave. I can only grit my teeth and stiffen myself in this. Fortunately, nothing particularly strange happened, and I didn't expect to be discovered by Wu Mian and his master today. The two of them did not dare to make a sound, and they could prick up their ears and listen to their conversation.
I didn't want to go back and looked at it in the cave, and said, "Let's talk about demon beasts, but there is no anger at all." Let's say it's not a demon beast, this feeling is too strong, and it's even much stronger than the Mastiff Swallower and Yin Bai."
Speaking of this, the old guy turned his head, looked at his two own disciples, and said, "After you moved here, have you encountered any strange things?" ”
The two brothers looked at each other and said almost in unison: "Yes!" But there was an immediate disagreement in the following words: "Someone often sees a child scurrying around the cave in the cave....." I saw with my own eyes, there was an old man with a white beard who was gone in a flash."
After hearing two different answers, the eyes of the returnee immediately narrowed, and he said to the two brothers: "Is it a child or a white-bearded old man?" ”
"Children, many people have seen it" "The white-bearded old man, not only I have seen it with my own eyes, but also a few others"
At this time, Wu Mian suddenly said, "Under what circumstances did you two see that little child and the old man with a white beard?" ”
The Gui brothers were stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while, Gui Lai first said: "Not long ago, before the death of the previous owner of the village, the child appeared when he was dying, not only those brothers have seen it, but even the previous owner of the village has seen it with his own eyes, he seems to have said something to the child, but unfortunately the owner of the village at that time has been terminally ill, and no one can understand what he said, and after speaking, the previous owner of the village also died."
After Gui Lai finished speaking, Wu Mian didn't react, but Gui Gui couldn't return his eyes narrowed. Brushing the twenty or thirty white beards on his chin, although his eyes were looking at the brothers in Guilai Guiqu, the old guy's eyes were a little straight, obviously thinking about other things.
The Gui brothers didn't dare to say much on the side, but Wu Mian didn't care about that, squinted at Gui Bugui and said, "Aren't you going to say something?" This sentence kind of pulled the old guy back. After blinking and smiling at Wu Mian, he looked at his two disciples and said, "Didn't you say that there is still game?" Isn't drinking wind a game too? ”
The two brothers came home with a smile, and they also saw that their old father had something to say, and the two of them were very interested in seeing how the game was prepared. After seeing the two brothers leaving, he smiled and said to Wu Mian: "The breath we perceived in the inner cave just now is not a demon beast, if my old man didn't look away, it should be a spirit like ginseng, Poria cocos, and He Shou Wu."
Wu Mian frowned after hearing this, the spiritual grass such as ginseng absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon, and the Taoist can transform into a human form. But Wu Mian never believed that there would be such a thing, except for the stories of gods and ghosts, almost all the classics about Fang Shi Fangshu did not have a record of this kind of flowers and plants becoming monsters. Living creatures like Swallowing Mastiff and Yin Bai have become demons and said that they are in the past, but no matter how you look at it, they are talking nonsense. How to say that Wu Mian is also an orthodox monk, and he is disdainful of such rumors that flowers and plants have become demons and spirits.
The theory of non-return is vivid, and according to past experience, this old guy is talking nonsense again. Wu Mian snorted, if it weren't for the fact that this was the territory of his two apprentices, he would have to save some face for the old guy, he would have already split an electric arc by now.
Seeing Wu Mian's disapproval, he immediately understood where the problem was. After laughing for a while, the old guy looked at Wu Mian and suddenly said, "Let's make a bet, there should be elves like ginseng, Poria cocos, and He Shou Wu hidden in this cave." This is the kind of elf that the brothers and sisters saw in Guilai Gui District before."
Looking at the smiling appearance of returning or not, Wu Mian's heart suddenly moved, it seemed that this old guy seemed to know a lot of things he didn't know...... Wu Mian looked at it silently and said, "What are you betting on?" ”
Gui Wu grinned and said, "Just bet on the bottles of Dan liquid on you, if you lose, those bottles of Dan liquid will be divided into half of me." If I lose—" The old guy touched his body, took out the ring he had just acquired, and said to Wu Mian: "Although I know that you don't like this gadget, I don't have anything more valuable in my hands."
Wu Mian glanced at the ring in his hand, which he regarded as a treasure just now, and now he actually took it out. The corners of Wu Mian's mouth curled slightly, revealing a few white teeth in his mouth, smiled at the return, and said, "Okay, I'll bet with you, but I bet that there are elves like ginseng, Poria cocos, and He Shou Wu in the gambling hole."