The crescent moon is like a hook, the sky is full of stars, and a Milky Way stretches across the sky. On a cloudless summer night, with no lights around, the scenery by the lake is beautiful. No matter how carefully manpower carves and whitewashes, it can't come to the strange magnificence of heaven and earth itself.

Huzi and Huang Yatou just sat by the lake, looking at the starry sky and the shadow of the water, but they didn't speak. If there is no mosquito infestation, it is a good thing.

The two came here late at night, not because of the elegance of appreciating the wind and watching the moon, but because they went to the house where they lost the children during the day and looked at them one by one, took the children's clothes and things to play on weekdays and handed them to Zhao Yueyue.

It's already the fifth incense, and there is still no immortal family who has turned around to pass it on, Zhao Yueyue was idle and bored, so she still opened her mouth first: "Little Tiger, are you Mr. Peng's son?" Huzi was sitting on the grass, dozing off, but Zhao Yueyue asked a little more energetically: "No, he is my master." Don't you know? ”

Zhao Yueyue nodded: "I know, but I'm curious why your surname is Peng." ”

Huzi played with his braids: "My master's surname is Peng, and my surname is Peng." I don't know who my father and mother are, I was brought up by my master since I was a child, and it is natural that I will follow his surname. ”

"Then aren't you curious about who your father and mother are?" Zhao Yueyue asked.

"I wanted to, but it didn't work." Huzi replied, "My master never told me about my father's mother, but I thought that whether my father and mother suffered misfortune, or couldn't support me and threw me away, or I was also stolen by human traffickers, it is now this day, maybe they have forgotten me a long time ago." It's good to have food to eat these days, and there are a lot of people in Changtu Mansion who are as big as me called Hanako, and I still have a place to sleep, content. ”

That Zhao Yueyue listened to Huzi's words and giggled. Huzi was very surprised and asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”

Zhao Yueyue shook her head: "I laugh at you for being a year younger than me, but you are so old-fashioned when you speak." I was not satisfied, my grandmother told me many wonderful things in the world, and I had to go and see them to be willing. If you say that you just find someone to marry your husband and godson, I won't do it. ”

Huzi snorted and didn't reply. Zhao Yueyue found the conversation again: "Little tiger, do you say those stars in the sky are good-looking." ”

"It's good-looking," Huzi also replied perfunctorily, "How good-looking." ”

"But no one is looking!" Zhao Yueyue said, "It is said that you should not go out at night, but you can't see such a big sky through the window." You say, if the stars in the sky only appear once in a hundred years, will people rush to the outside of the house to see this wonder, to see the Milky Way drawn out by the Queen Mother's hairpin? ”

Listening to Zhao Yueyue's words, Huzi was stunned, he was very curious about what Zhao Yueyue was usually thinking. Huzi feels that he is very different from his peers, he doesn't have to worry about his livelihood, and he doesn't have to go to the school to learn the Four Books and Five Classics, and his thoughts are very different from ordinary children. But in front of Zhao Yueyue, it is nothing. This girl, who has never read a book and now writes her name crookedly, grew up in a peasant family since she was a child, and has been pondered by the fairy family for so many years, but she thinks differently from ordinary people everywhere in her heart, and many adults may not have such a broad mind as Zhao Yueyue.

It was when Huzi was thinking about it, and Yueyue was ready to change the sixth pillar of incense. But the incense inserted in the soil was directly broken when Yueyue didn't stretch out her hand.

"It's back!" Zhao Yueyue called Huzi here, and Huzi was excited, and he was completely sober.

In front of Zhao Yueyue stood an immortal family with a "calm Quartet" on his head, with sharp-beaked monkey gills and a pair of bean eyes, seeing that it was a yellow immortal who had not completely transformed into a shape. This Huang Xian saluted Huzi and Zhao Yueyue respectively, and then said to Yueyue: "Brother Ma, several children have been found, but they are not saved." ”

"Did you find only the body?" Zhao Yueyue was also shocked and took a step back slightly. In the end, it's not like Huzi has been dealing with these things since he was a child, and when he heard about human life, he was still afraid in his heart.

"Hui Brother, yes." The yellow fairy replied, there were six children in total, the eldest was six years old, and the youngest was no more than eight months old. ”

"This ...... How can this be explained to those who have lost their children? Zhao Yueyue was also panicked, "They are all such young children!" This...... This ......"

Huzi patted Yueyue's back: "Huang girl, you can explain how you want." When a person dies, he is dead, there is no other way to say it, what we can do is to kill this chaotic monster, so that it does not harm people again, which is the right reason. ”

After Huzi mentioned this, Zhao Yueyue figured it out: "Yes! Right! Avenge those children! Little Tiger, what should we do now? ”

Huzi thought for a while and said, "Whether it's a monster or a ghost, they're actually afraid of people. The scorching yang energy on people's bodies is the best means to exorcise ghosts and evil spirits. Let's go back and report it, and lead a group of squires and sturdy men to pick up the bodies of those children, not afraid of monsters making trouble, so we can be buried. ”

Zhao Yueyue naturally acted according to the plan. Returning to the squire's hall, the old man of the porter sounded the gong, and in less than two quarters of an hour, a hundred and ten people gathered.

"Did you find the kids?" The eighth master split his head with such a sentence, which shows that he is anxious. I think most of the lost children are related to him.

Zhao Yueyue was asked by the eighth master, and she didn't dare to speak for a while, and she didn't know how to speak. Huzi patted her back lightly again, and Yueyue said softly: "Eighth master, the child has been found...... But...... But they're all out of breath. ”

As soon as Zhao Yueyue said this, the crowd immediately boiled. There was also a man who fell straight back to the ground, and many people were busy for a while, pinching people and stabbing the tiger's mouth with hairpins, and it took a long time to come back to life.

led the crowd to be quieter, and they all looked at Zhao Yueyue. Zhao Yueyue puffed up her breath, and her voice became louder: "I called everyone here to find the corpses of those children with you, after all, whose children should also be buried in their own tombs." There are a lot of us, and when we get to the nest of monsters and ghosts, we can naturally deter it, and when the time comes, the big guy can feel at ease. ”

This is true, and no one has come out to oppose it. The eighth master blushed and gritted his teeth: "It's the master who follows the little god, so many of us can't compare to a little girl, let's go and pick up the children home together!" Pick up...... Pick up my little nephew and take it home......"

This eighth master seemed to be very prestigious in the heron, he raised his arms and shouted, and many people in the crowd responded. So a group of 100 people, carrying torches and lanterns, went on the road in a mighty way.

The place where the child was found was not far from the lake, in the woods—under the woods, to be exact.

The entrance is a small hole, and it is no problem for Yueyue's figure to go straight down, but Huzi has to bow his head slightly, and those adults have to bow their waists. When I entered the cave, I first smelled a foul smell, which is very familiar to Huzi, which is the smell of meat.

After walking four or five steps further, the elevation of the hole was high, and I was able to walk with my waist straight. Coming here, the leading Huang Xian transformed into a weasel, and then turned into a cloud of green smoke and disappeared into Yueyue's body. Ordinary people can't see anything, but Huzi can see it really. Knowing that he was in the right place, he waved his hand to signal the people behind him to stop, took a torch, and shone it into the cave.

It doesn't matter if there is light, but it makes Zhao Yueyue, who saw the scene in front of her, vomit out today's food and bile!

In the depths of this cave, there are about two people who are tall and short, and they can't stand a few people. The walls of the cave are full of tree roots branching out, and one branch after another is staggered.

At the root of the tree, there are children hanging one after another! Some of them seem to be closer to time, and some of them look like people, and some of them seem to be earlier, and they have already changed into the appearance of the giant view in this summer! The limbs, torso, and skull were swollen and unsightly, as if they were blowing enough to bubble pig urine, and the color became darker.

Looking at the corpses of the six stenching children in front of him, Huzi felt uncomfortable in his heart. He had seen a lot of dead people—many of them had to come to Mr. Peng when they were buried to ask Mr. Peng how to bury them properly—but he had never seen them hanging neatly on the cave walls, the bodies of young children. For a while, I only felt angry in my heart, but I had nowhere to vent.

"This ...... What should I do? Immediately following behind Huzi and Yueyue, the eighth master, who came in with his head, saw the scene in front of him, forcibly resisted the feeling of reversing something from his stomach, and asked.

Huzi shook his head: "Let's get out, you call some people to come and gently remove these corpses and carry them back." When the time comes, with the clothes on the body, the men and women, and the age, let each family recognize the person. ”

For a while, the eighth master couldn't think of a better way, so he could only act according to Huzi's words. And Huzi pulled Yueyue out of fact, it was also selfish - this little girl saw such a scene for the first time, and the contents of her stomach were vomiting empty and still retching, presumably she was not greatly stimulated.

The skin of the bulging corpse is very thin, and if it is really broken, it must be a belly flow. Zhao Yueyue's scene like this is already unbearable, and if she sees such a scene again, she may not be able to see what will happen.

The two of them retreated, and a few more people went in to carry the body. Huzi gently patted Yueyue's back on the side to help her breathe.

When the people outside listened to the things inside, they were all dressed and talked, and occasionally sighed.

Suddenly, a shout came from the crowd: "What's that?" ”

Huzi looked in the direction the crowd was looking, and saw a big-bellied monster bird with a human face squatting on the branch. The strange bird was tall alone, covered with white feathers, but with a human face and a lock of red top feathers.

Huzi saw it clearly, was shocked, and blurted out: "Nocturnal wandering girl!" ”