It is more than three hours from Beijing to Guiyang Town, Zhangjiakou, and it is already noon, and it is much colder than Beijing, with a thick layer of ice on the ground, and the sky is even more gloomy, and it is about to snow.

After being stuffy in the car for a few hours, being blown by the cold water outside made Chu Ye feel a lot more refreshed. Because of the cold weather, there were not many people in the town at noon, and everyone divided the luggage from the side, and at this time, the ghost three took out a gray pet box in the innermost part of the carriage, and as soon as he opened it, a black shadow came out of the box.

It turned out to be a sturdy black cat, and there was not a single stray hair in the fur of the whole body, which was very smooth and shiny. The cat crouched in the arms of the ghost, looking at the person next to him curiously, a pair of eyes like glass balls, oval eyeballs fixed their gaze on Chu Ye, stared at by the cat, Chu Ye couldn't help but have a strange feeling, as if the cat was thinking about something.

Lan Yucheng hugged the cat from Ghost San, and the black cat looked away, except for Lan Yucheng and Ghost San, everyone else looked at the cat with a stunned expression.

Didn't you go to the serpent? What to do with a cat? Chu Ye guessed in his heart that in front of the big white snake, this cat was afraid that it was not even a snack. And the reactions of other people obviously didn't know about the existence of this cat, including Lan Yucheng's niece Xiao Jing.

This couldn't help but make Chu Ye have a strong interest in the relationship between Lan Yucheng, Xiao Jing and Ghost San, thinking of this, Chu Ye couldn't help but stare at Xiao Jing secretly, this girl was frowning at this time as if she was thinking about something, and glanced at Lan Yucheng from time to time.

Lan Yucheng stroked the black cat in his arms lovingly, and did not intend to explain why he took it, but said: "Let's eat something in the town first, and then we will walk 3 kilometers to a place called Shiquan Village, where someone will meet us, and then go into the mountain, and try to get to the killing tank where we are going before dark." ”

"Killing slots? It's an unlucky name. Teng Lao Wu suddenly answered.

The man's voice was unusually sharp, as if the mouth of the voice had been blocked, leaving only a slit through which all the voices had been squeezed out. Lan Yucheng glanced at him and said, "Old Five, are you still afraid of bad luck?" ”

"Hey, hey. I have seen a lot of dirty things, so I like auspicious things. After Teng Lao Wu finished speaking, he stopped talking.

The group ate at a restaurant called Four Seasons Building, and then began to walk from the gravel road next to the Zhentou River towards Shiquan Village in Lan Yucheng's mouth, with Ghost San leading the way in front, and walking at the end was Hu Lao invited by Lan Yucheng, and Chu Ye was next to Hu Lao's apprentice Jiang Yun.

The two of them are the same age, and they are both boys, so slowly there are more words. Only then did Chu Ye know that this Hu Lao and Jiang Yun were both people who had learned the Tao, which surprised Chu Ye a lot. Especially Jiang Yun, who was actually a Taoist priest at such a young age, Chu Ye asked him, "In that sect?" ”

In Chu Ye's impression, the Taoist priest is either a true Taoist priest like Jin Yong's novel, or a Maoshan ghost hunting Taoist priest like Lin Zhengying in the movie, with the support of famous families behind him.

Jiang Yun shook his head and said: "It's not a sect, there used to be a Taoist temple, but I left with Master when I was very young, and later Master and I opened a shop selling paper in Guangzhou, and I usually go to see some feng shui." ”

Chatting with Chu Ye, Jiang Yun slowly opened the conversation. It turned out that Jiang Yun was a native of Heze, Shandong, and when he was two years old, he didn't know how to commit trembling (committing evil things), crying every night at 12 o'clock, and then had a high fever, and his family took him to many hospitals, from the county hospital to the provincial hospital, but he didn't find out the reason, and he couldn't live happily.

Unexpectedly, he met Hu Lao on the train back, and Jiang Yun's fate should not be extinguished, Hu Lao calculated a hexagram for Jiang Yun, and immediately said in surprise: "Good guy, it turned out to be this evil animal." ”

Jiang Yun's parents were already desperate after they came out of the hospital, and when they heard Hu Lao say this, although they were skeptical, they could only be a dead horse doctor.

"Master, what's the matter with my son? Can you save him? Jiang Yun's mother asked cautiously.

Hu Lao frowned and was silent for a while, and only when Jiang Yun's parents were already impatient did he slowly speak: "It's not impossible to keep this guy, but I can't stay by your side in the future, at least you can't see each other until you are 18 years old, I will take him as an apprentice and take him away." ”

At first, Jiang Yun's parents didn't agree at all and even regarded Hu Lao as a human trafficker, Hu Lao didn't force it, and said before leaving: "This child was entangled by a dead person in your family, that person is very angry, and the little guy is afraid that he will not live for seven days, if you think about it before this, use this phone number to contact me." ”

Therefore, Jiang Yun also has a nickname called Ah Qi.

Only two days after returning home, Jiang Yun's parents contacted Hu Lao, and after returning home this time, Jiang Yun no longer cried, nor did he have a fever, but seemed to be a different person, staring at his mother with his eyes open all day long, and the expression on his face was sometimes fierce and sometimes proud. Jiang Yun's parents believed Hu Lao's words at this time. Since then, Jiang Yun has followed Hu Lao and become his disciple.

"You're over 18 by now, have you ever seen your parents again?" Chu Ye asked.

"I went back, but I didn't see them, I heard from the village that they divorced very early, my dad moved to Li County, and my mom seems to have gone to the northeast, and they all remarried, so I didn't go to them again."

Hearing this, Chu Ye was a little embarrassed, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Who is that pestering you?" Since your master said that he was from your family, why did he pester you? ”

"It's my uncle, who was killed by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution for stealing food from the team."

"Since it was killed by the Red Guards, how could it entangle you? Still after so many years. ”

Jiang Yun spread his hands and said, "Because my uncle stole the food in the team, it was reported by my mother." ”

"Huh?"

Chu Ye exclaimed in a low voice, and without waiting for him to ask, he said to himself in seven days, "After my uncle died, my mother's life was very hard, and he couldn't do anything about my mother, but I didn't expect that I was soft, and I was entangled as soon as I was born." ”

Jiang Yun's expression has been very calm when he talks about these things, as if he is telling someone else's story, Chu Ye didn't know how to talk for a while, and Hu Lao didn't know if he heard their voices at the end, just like Jiang Yun, Hu Lao's expression was also very indifferent.

Compared with Jiang Yun's experience, Chu Ye suddenly felt that he was actually quite lucky, although he became like this, his family was still complete, he had parents who loved him, and there were women who liked him.

Just as he was thinking about it, Oni-san shouted in front, "We've arrived." ”

Chu Ye looked at it in a blink of an eye, and on the mountainside less than 50 meters in front, there were some houses made of stone standing sparsely, only one or two houses were made of red bricks, and the outside was painted with a layer of white paint. At the intersection of the village stood a dark-skinned young man, and next to him was a statue of a white snake more than two meters high, carved lifelikely, with some red silk hanging on it, and the statue was surrounded by incense, and some of it was still floating with white smoke. Seeing this statue of the white snake, Chu Ye didn't expect that this white snake was really regarded as a god by the surrounding villages.

Although it was less than three o'clock at this time, the sky was already very dark, indicating that there was a heavy snow today, Chu Ye glanced at the towering mountains and primeval jungles around him, and couldn't help but feel faintly worried.

At this time, the person next to the statue came to Chu Ye and them, and as soon as he came over, he shouted, "Who is Mr. Lan?" ”

"You're a student of Beard?" Lan Yucheng stepped forward and asked.

"Yes, yes, Lin Anguo, just call me Xiaolin, the teacher asked me to wait for you here."

"Then you lead the way."

So the group set off towards the killing tank that Lan Yucheng said non-stop, and the others frowned a little when they looked at the weather, Lin Anguo urged: "We have to hurry, if we encounter a blizzard, it will not be easy to walk in this forest." ”

After speaking, he muttered softly, "Hell too, why do you run to the killing tank in the winter?" ”

"Let you lead the way, lead the way, where are so many words?" Friends said dissatisfiedly beside him.

Lin Anguo was immediately silenced, but soon spoke again, "It's not that I said, it's okay when the weather is good in the killing tank, the past of this winter is a crime, if you get lost in the forest, you may freeze to death inside, and no one in the surrounding villages dares to take anyone there." ”

Lin Anguo paused when he said this, and suddenly asked, "You can't be preparing to catch the snake god, right?" ”

Seeing that no one paid attention to him, he smacked his lips in embarrassment, and continued unconcernedly: "There were a lot of people who came last year, and they all ran to the killing tank, but you are the ones who came in winter." ”