Master Hong followed the light and came to a house, but saw that the door was closed, and the kitchen door was hidden, and there was the sound of bellows pulling and pots and pans hitting inside. There is a bucket on the eaves with a basket on top of the bucket with washed greens. Hongdaoshi came to the kitchen door, knocked on the door, and shouted, "Is there anyone at home?" ”

"Grandpa, there's a knock on the door outside!" A five-year-old girl opened the kitchen door and poked her head out to look at the stranger outside the door, with a look of fear in her eyes.

"Little sister, don't be afraid, do you have any adults in your family?" As soon as Hong Daoshi finished speaking, a man in his sixties came out of the kitchen, stared at Hong Daoshi, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"I'm a Hongdao Master from Calamus Township, tracking a demon today, and when I came here, it's getting late......" Before Hongdao Master finished speaking, the old man said excitedly: "You are Hongdao Master?" You are so famous in ten miles and eight towns, people say that you are honest and kind, and you are profound, especially for the villagers to catch ghosts and eliminate harm, amazing! Come in. ”

Hong Daoshi didn't expect his reputation to be so loud, just like Song Jiang and Song Gongming in "Water Margin", he is very popular wherever he goes, and all the cows, ghosts, snakes and gods on the rivers and lakes have to bow down when they meet him. The old man warmly invited Master Hong into the hall, turned on the electric light, and the room was full of light. "You may be seated! There are only two people in my family, one old and one young, and I have to go to the kitchen to get busy! ”

The old man had planned to eat noodles in the evening, and settled the leftover vegetable soup at noon. Now that the distinguished guest came, the old man couldn't eat so coldly, so he went to take out the frozen pork from the refrigerator and wanted to fry two side dishes for Hong Daoshi. When the old man was cutting meat on the board, Master Hong came into the kitchen and said that he was a vegetarian and did not eat meat.

When the old man heard this, he wanted to put the pork away and eat it later, but the little girl said, "Grandpa, I want to eat quack (dialect, meaning meat)." The old man felt very embarrassed, if he cooked meat for his granddaughter, the pots and pans would be polluted by meat, and Master Hong Dao would not be able to eat it.

"Tonight we don't eat meat and eat more vegetables, which is good for health." The old man said to his granddaughter.

The water in the pot was already boiling, and there was a thin film of oil floating on the surface, and the old man poured all the water, brushed and brushed the pot, washed and washed, and made sure that it was not stained with oil. The old man boiled salted duck eggs and made a few vegetarian dishes, such as green vegetables, radish, tomato scrambled eggs, etc., to entertain Master Hong.

"You're just such a granddaughter? Are your sons and daughters-in-law still alive? "Hong Daoshi and their grandparents and grandchildren started a family meal during dinner.

"My son and daughter-in-law are working outside, and it is not easy to earn money, so I can't afford to support them after giving birth. I'm old, it's not easy to bring such a one, pick her up every day to go to school in the township, my old bones can't stand the toss! The old man said.

"Didn't go to the village school?" Hong Daoshi asked.

"The school in the village has long been out of students, and the school has died." The old man said.

"You don't want a grandson to continue the incense?" Daoist Hong asked again. In the countryside, people like to talk about these things.

"The countryside has also entered a new era, and grandchildren are the same! It doesn't matter what kind of incense, who can guarantee that someone's offspring will always have a son! The old man said.

The old man said that the people left behind in the village were old men, old women, and children. The sloping land in the village has long been abandoned, and it is only used as flat land in the ditch. A few days ago, people were busy working in the vegetable field, and a black wind blew in the village, and everyone panicked, only to say that the sky had changed. After the wind passed, a monster devoured the chickens and geese in the field, leaving only a pile of chicken feathers and goose feathers.

"See what kind of youkai it is?" Master Hong asked.

"I only saw the black gas on the ground and the screams of animals, and I didn't know what kind of monster it was." The old man said.

While they were talking, they could only hear the whirring wind at the door, and the little girl was so frightened that she hid in the old man. The old man said, "Speaking of goblins, goblins are coming." The old man hurriedly closed the door, turned off the light, and shivered. Master Hong Dao carried the treasure knife and came to the window. After the black wind, two lights faintly lit in mid-air, emitting a terrifying cold light.

The old man tiptoed to the window, saw two lamps and waited, and said, "Those are the two eyes of the goblin, Master Hong, you must be careful!" ”

"I have a treasure knife in my hand, and I just split this monster into two pieces!" Hong Daoshi said.

Master Hong sent the grandfather and grandson into the ear room to hide, closed the door, jumped into the dam, and shouted with a treasure knife: "Which monster are you? Where are the elves? Listen to me, hurry back and hide in the cave honestly, don't come out to make trouble, otherwise my treasure knife will kill demons and kill monsters! No mercy! ”

The monster was silent, holding its body and dancing with a soft whip. Hong Daoshi wielded a treasure knife and entangled with this monster. The monster's soft whip is so flexible that the Hongdao Master's sword can't touch him. The soft whip swam everywhere and touched the face of the Hongdao Master, which was cool and leisurely, exuding a strong fishy smell. The fight lasted for half an hour, and there was no winner or loser.

This monster is not the Yin Devouring King, he can't speak yet, the Yin Qi is very heavy, he has not cultivated into a human form, and he is a human-like monster. When the people in the courtyard heard the sound of fighting here, they began to be very frightened, and hid in their homes and did not dare to come out. Later, when they found out that the monsters could not defeat the Hongdao Master, they became emboldened, so they came to cheer with hoes, torches, torches, pots, and some firecrackers.

Seeing that there were many people, this monster didn't dare to fight, so he turned around and left. The Hung Daoist chased after it and slashed at its feet, and the monster screamed, revealing its true form, a large python with horns on its head and red scales on its body. Two cold rays of light shot out of his eyes, his mouth spit out black gas, and his dense teeth were like steel swords. The soft whip of the youkai when fighting with the Hongdao Master is its tongue.

It turned out that this red-scaled python was the monster adopted by the Yin Devouring King. After Hu Kehao killed the zombie with a treasure knife, the Yin Devourer King was unable to use the Star Absorbing Dafa to absorb energy from the zombies, so he tamed the red-scaled python and hunted all kinds of small animals everywhere - there were mice, hares, chickens, ducks and geese, frogs, toads, geckos, etc., to collect energy for him. The red-scaled python demon came to the village that night to look for food, and unfortunately met Hong Daoshi, which was really unlucky.

The red-scaled python quickly swam on the ground and fled towards the mountain, and the Hongdao Master gave hot pursuit. The Flood Master turned the hill and came to the edge of a cliff. This cliff is more than ten meters high and very dangerous. Looking up, there are only scattered grass and trees on the cliff, there is a crooked neck tree halfway up the mountain, there is a bird's nest on the tree, there is a clump of grass under the tree, and there is a cave faintly in the grass, this place is where Hu Kehao found the fire spirit grass and General Zhao's ancient knife.

The red-scaled python got into the cave, and the Hongdao Master couldn't go up. He saw kudzu vines on the slope, which he could cut and make into ropes, tie them to the trees on the cliffs, and follow them into the cave. Gusts of wind blew out of the cave, mixed with a strong fishy smell, which was the smell of the red-scaled python, and the Hongdao Master judged that there was a vicious fight going on inside the cave.