Although Yuan Rui is wooden, he is not stupid.

The streets and alleys of Yunyang County are all engraved in his mind.

Fang Zheng commanded the group of people, holding Xi'er, and walked out of the city from the path.

Yuan Rui recognized these people, they were all neighbors who lived next to his uncle's house, and although they didn't move around much on weekdays, they still knew each other well.

They have changed, they have become like strangers.

These people had been prepared for a long time, and they prepared a broken sack and put Xi'er in it. The little girl, who was already thin, piled the sacks in a cart full of thatch, which was completely invisible from the outside.

The carriage was driven by the groom, and the rest of the men followed, following at a brisk pace.

There was fanaticism in the eyes of these people, and they didn't even plan to look back, so Yuan Rui followed them all the time, but he was never discovered.

The wheels of the carriage turned, rising and falling on the potholed ground, and soon reached the gates of the city.

The county has always been difficult to enter and easy to get out.

But it's weird that so many people are crowding around the carriage. A few guards wanted to come over for questioning, but Fang Zheng walked over and whispered a few words, and the guards waved their hands and let them go.

Yuan Rui wanted to tell the guards that there was a child hiding in the carriage. He had just left the carriage a short distance away, and he ran to the guards, and was about to speak, when he heard the guards who were lazily leaning against the city wall muttering, "How many are these?" ”

"The third one, who died before, is said to be the daughter of a teacher. The teacher went crazy and wanted to commit murder on the street, and now he is still in prison. ”

"Pathetic, pathetic."

"Poor what, it has nothing to do with you and me anyway, we are all poor singles, haha!"

Yuan Rui listened with a chill all over his body and passed by the guards.

"Stop, what are you going to do?" One of the guards snapped.

Yuan Rui turned around and squeezed out a stupid expression: "I ...... I want to go back to the village to see my relatives. ”

"It's just a stupid baby, don't bother." The guard waved his hand impatiently.

A trace of fear flashed in Yuan Rui's eyes, and this fear was very satisfying in the eyes of the guards, who were often looked down upon when they stood in front of the city gate. It's rare to be able to deter a person, even if it's a child, enough to comfort them.

Yuan Rui left the city gate, and he saw no trace of the carriage. He panicked, and hurriedly ran to a hill, and the more he passed, there was a small black shadow moving slowly on the winding road.

Yuan Rui hurriedly chased after him.

……

In Yunyang County, there are a lot fewer people.

Mr. Teaching is gone, and the children have regained their playful nature.

Their pleasure lies in the torture of wild cats and wild dogs that roam the streets. Fighting crickets and catching small fish is, in their opinion, too naïve.

Once upon a time, there was a puppy that had just been born for a short time, and it ran to the private school, and its young and immature barking attracted their attention.

Someone, who found the dog's barking annoying, threw a stone at it.

The puppy barked miserably, piquing everyone's interest.

The blurred mass of flesh pleaded at his feet, satisfying all the children.

The saints taught to be courteous to others, but people have a condescending attitude towards other beings in the world.

They love to watch skinned dogs tremble in front of them until they die.

Man is inherently evil.

People live in a world of rituals, so they can get rid of that wildness through cultivation.

For these children, Mr. Teaching is their constraint, their constraint. Daddy and Mom have always doted on their children, and before they get home, they wash their bloody hands with water, so Daddy and Mom will think they are good children.

So when the child cried and told his father and mother that Yuan Rui hit him with a stone, the child's father took the child to Yuan Rui's uncle's house without asking any questions, ready to question.

Pushing open the door, a thick bloody breath rushed to his face.

Yuan Rui's uncle and aunt were lying on the ground, stabbed in the heart, and those who were already dead could no longer die.

The child sat on the ground, and his father seemed to remember something, and quickly grabbed the child.

"Let's hurry up and pack our bags and go back to our hometown!" His father finally grabbed the child directly on his back and left in a hurry.

……

A gust of wind that blew through the treetops and carried away a leaf or two.

The cat's plain white fur is blown by the wind and looks a little messy.

The tree was near the river, and as the wind blew, the sky grew gloomy, and a drop or two of rain fell from the sky and dripped on the cat's belly.

When a drop of rain fell from the nine heavens and dripped on the cat's eyebrows, the cat suddenly opened its eyes.

The wound on its stomach, the shocking skeleton stopped bleeding, and it fell straight from the tree.

After a while, a graceful woman emerged from the bushes under the trees.

A woman's eyes are very charming, and when people see it, they will have a feeling of pity.

She's a demon, a cat demon.

The cat has nine lives, and she just died once, but instead gave birth to a demon pill in her body.

The cat demon broke into a house, stole a woman's clothes, and hid her delicate body in the tulle.

She lifted her head, sniffed the air with her nose, and then leaped forward, her dexterous body shuttling through the streets.

Heavy rain soon fell.

In the midst of the rain, the guards guarding the city gate felt a white shadow passing by, he rubbed his eyes, and asked his companion next to him, "Have you seen anything passing by?" ”

"Nope." The guard replied directly.

The guard rubbed his eyes, and stopped thinking about it.

……

The heavy rain outside did not affect the atmosphere in the temple in the slightest.

The locust temple is very large, originally there was a temple here, and since the Taoist priests came, the locust temple here has doubled in size.

"Worship the locust god, and the locusts will be scattered!" This is what the Taoist priests said.

These words did not get everyone's attention at first, and even many people scoffed.

But the plague of locusts was too great.

In early summer, the wheat planted in the fields of every household had just sprouted, and unexpectedly encountered a plague of locusts.

The plague of locusts is devastating, and they kill everything you see badly.

Without crops, farmers have no food, no income, and no ability to pay taxes. Without food, people will starve to death.

When the locusts appeared in Yunyang County, the desperate people came to the locust temple and burned incense to worship, hoping that the locusts would disperse. They already didn't have any hope in their hearts, but when the county ordered worship and the Taoist priest practiced, a miracle still appeared.

The boundless locusts actually bypassed Yunyang County directly and disappeared!

The Taoist priests said that this was the credit of the locust god, so the incense of the locust temple was more vigorous.

The locust temple seems to be covered with incense every day, and a large number of people come here every day to burn incense and worship.

"If you don't sacrifice to the locust god, your family will be ruined!"

Finally, one day, the Taoist priest said the second half of the proverb.

At this moment, the people who had already worshiped the Taoist priest as if they were gods finally panicked.

The Taoist priest said that the locust god could not receive ordinary incense worship.

The locust god is not a Daluo immortal above the nine heavens, it is a wild immortal.

What the wild fairy wants is very pure, and that is the life of a child.

"Only the youngest and most delicious children are the favorite food of the locust god." The Taoist priest reminded.

The people didn't believe it, but the next day someone found locusts near the county seat. In addition, there are locust demons in the villages around the county, and the people are even more panicked.

Those monsters that are three feet tall and murderous like numbness feel fear when you think about it.

People have a fear of the unknown.

So after countless days and nights, the people finally found a child and sent him to the locust temple. The boy was a little beggar on the street.

The locusts disappeared from Yunyang County on the same day.

The little beggar never came out of the temple of the locust again, and some say that the locust god had eaten him.

After a few more days, the Taoist priest said that the locust god was hungry again.

So the neighbors arrested Mr. Teach's daughter, because Mr. Teach's was a foreigner.

On the third day, the Taoist priest said that he wanted the most tender and delicious little girl, the girl from the last time, and the locust god was very satisfied.

The desperate neighbors found the daughter of Uncle Yuanrui.

"As long as you get through it, when the locust plague passes, you will be the hero of our county!" Fang Zheng swears by the curse.

It wasn't his children who died anyway.

The Taoist priest waited in front of the door as usual, and a few Taoist children behind him carried the sack inside.

"Do you want the locust god to eat?" Fang Zheng asked in a trembling voice.

The Taoist priest smiled and said, "Don't worry, when the locust god wants to eat next time, I will tell you." ”

The locust god has a great appetite, but at least there are no locusts in the whole county.

If the county has food, it will have capital, no one will be damaged, and they can continue to live without dying of hunger.

This is a great merit, and it doesn't matter if you die a child or two.

At this moment, all those involved in this matter smiled with relief, as if the person who had sinned had met with forgiveness.

……

Yes!

Uh-uh-uh-ah!

From the deepest part of the Locust Temple, there was a suppressed scream.

Yuan Rui climbed in from the dog hole of the Locust Temple, lay down in the grass, and watched carefully.

Xi'er was chained and placed on the iron platform in a large position.

She was roaring frantically, and from under her fair skin, thick black veins could be seen faintly emerging.

The Taoist priests stood around her, pacing back and forth, cumbersome scriptures chanting aloud, mingled with the shrill screams of girls.

The scream fell on the ears of the people outside the locust temple, but it was heavenly.

"The locust god is eating, and it has accepted our sacrifice."

"May the locust god bless you and have a good year!" The people laughed.

Yuan Rui's eyes widened.

Xi'er's belly was high and bulging, as if she had been pregnant for several months.

She was already petite, but now her belly bulged even bigger than her body.

Yes!

Xi'er suddenly spasmed violently, her eyes rolled white, and she could already see something stirring up and down in her stomach.

Burst!

A burst of blood rushed out.

From Xi'er's belly, from the inside out, a huge poke was cut.

There was an insect's foot, sticking out of it, two antennae, jumping up and down.

That's a giant locust demon!

No one thought that those locust demons would be produced in this way.

After Xi'er trembled greatly, the whole person suddenly lost her intuition and fell to the ground weakly.

Her eyes were wide open, just enough to reflect Yuan Rui's figure.

"May the locust god bless my Yunyang County." People knelt down in front of the statue of the locust god and lit incense and candles.