I wish you all a happy Chinese New Year's Eve, another year, and I feel so fast. Today's chapter, it's a draft, to be honest, it's the New Year, I really can't bear to stop updating, even if it's a draft, to update a chapter, I think you will be happier, happier.

Chen Hui pondered for a moment and asked me, "What do you want to do if you ask where they come from?" ”

I smiled and said, "What can I do, after asking them what they like, let's see if we can get them some and let them let us go." ”

Chen Hui nodded slightly, I licked my lips, and smiled secretly in my heart: Didn't you notice that I was duplicitous?

The four of them turned around and returned to the village, however, after inquiring about a few families in the village, it was not smooth, basically we only had to ask about the small temple with one mouth, and the people drove us out, and finally asked back and forth, and asked a family in the south of the village, this family, when I asked for food with Qiang Shun before, we all bypassed their doors, because this house looked too shabby and too poor, and I couldn't tell who would give whom to eat after entering.

There is really no way at the moment, four people stood in front of the dilapidated bamboo strip door, I shouted twice into the courtyard, stopped for a while, groped out from the inside and came out of an old woman, the old woman was still holding a long bamboo pole in her hand, a few of us looked, it turned out to be a blind mother-in-law.

The blind mother-in-law groped her way to the courtyard and asked, I and Qiang Shun Silly Niu couldn't understand what she said, Chen Hui immediately responded: "We are Taoists who travel all over the world, yesterday I passed by the small temple in the north of your village, and saw that there were three immortals inside, and I wanted to pay a visit, but I don't know where the three immortals came from, can the eldest sister tell me one or two." ”

When the blind mother-in-law heard this, she didn't say a word, turned around and walked back, I hurriedly said: "Grandma, we have no malice, we are Taoists, we don't enter the door of the Buddhist temple, and the three immortals in the small temple don't know whether they are Buddhists or Taoists, I'm afraid to worship the wrong immortals, can you tell us, can we worship the immortals there?" ”

When the blind mother-in-law heard this, her body paused for a moment, and she muttered a word, listening to her tone a little unhappy, but I didn't understand what she said, she turned her head and glanced at Chen Hui, Chen Hui frowned slightly, and asked the blind mother-in-law, "Why can't you worship?" ”

The blind mother-in-law replied one after another, and Chen Hui glanced at me, "This eldest sister said that there are three evil murderers in the temple!" ”

I didn't understand and asked, "What's the culprit?" ”

Chen Hui said: "It should be the evil people who are making trouble. Chen Hui then asked the blind mother-in-law, "If they are evil murderers, why do the people in your village worship them?" ”

The blind mother-in-law snorted coldly and said in Mandarin that was not fluent: "If you don't worship them, the family will be unlucky, you go, they won't hurt outsiders." ”

I understood what the blind woman said, and I hurriedly said, "We can't go out either, yesterday we ate their offerings, and injured all three of them, and now they are taking revenge on us, grandma, you are a local, is there anything you can do to make them let us go?" ”

When the blind mother-in-law heard what we said, her hand holding the bamboo pole trembled, "You, you, what are you talking about?" ”

Chen Hui said: "We don't want to make a feud with those three immortal families, see if there is a way to resolve this grievance, what are the preferences of those three immortal families?" ”

The blind mother-in-law said excitedly: "I didn't ask you this, what the young man said just now, you injured them, is it true?" ”

I hurriedly replied: "Yes, I don't know what their original bodies are, they look like dogs and cats, and then we ......" I glanced at Chen Hui with a weak heart, Chen Hui pretended not to see it, and I continued: "Later, we injured all three things, one was cut off by us, one was cut off by us, one was cut off by us, and the other was injured by us with a hind leg. ”

When the blind mother-in-law heard this, she became more and more excited, "Really? The bamboo pole in his hand fell to the ground, and he didn't bother to pick it up, so he trembled and came to the courtyard.

Opening the courtyard door, the blind mother-in-law greeted us excitedly, "Please come in, please ......come in, please come in."

The four of us glanced at each other, what does this mean, when others heard us ask about the small temple, they all coaxed us outside, why did this old woman still invite home.

After entering the house, I found that the blind mother-in-law was alone at home, and the house was quite clean, mainly empty inside, with few furniture.

After sitting down, the blind mother-in-law kept asking us how to beat the three brutes, and we told us about the process, and the blind mother-in-law had a smile on her face, but Chen Hui frowned tightly, probably because the blind mother-in-law was present, and did not directly reprimand us.

After I finished speaking, I asked the blind mother-in-law suspiciously, "Grandma, those people in the village are all bombarding us, why do you still invite us into the house?" ”

The blind mother-in-law's face darkened, and she said, "Since you have the ability to injure them, there must be a way to catch them, and all the people in our family have been killed by them, and I want to beg you to kill them." ”

The few of us immediately glanced at each other, and the blind woman continued: "These three beasts are three full-grown civet cats, and more than forty years ago, they often came to the village to steal newborn children. ”

"More than forty years ago? It won't be the time of the Sino-Japanese War, right? ”

The blind mother-in-law paused, "It seems...... Anyway, there were wars every day at that time, and I didn't know who was fighting with whom. ”

I asked, "So what are they doing stealing children?" ”

"Steal it."

"What?" I almost didn't get up from the stool, and I made a pair of eyes with Chen Hui, and several people looked at each other.

Wild beasts burrow into the house to steal children, but I heard my grandmother say, but the earliest only happened in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and later muskets prevailed among the people, and this kind of thing never happened again, because whether it is a fine beast or a demon who has turned into a demon, they are afraid of the cracking sound of the musket, but I didn't expect that during the War of Resistance Against Japan, there was still this kind of thing in the deep mountains and old forests.

By the way, the cultivation of animals to take away children, not just to eat meat, mainly to "swallow the soul", children's souls are unstable, the soul is easy to lose, and it is easy to be "sucked" out of the body by these beasts, and the soul sucked out will be eaten by these things, many children who have lost their souls, after losing their souls, they have to shout quickly, otherwise they will not be able to come back, why, there are several reasons, in fact, one is that they are met by some cultivating beasts and eaten.

After these beasts swallow their souls, they can greatly increase their skills, what is going on, I can't say clearly, if you want to say whether there is retribution for their soul swallowing, there must be, but sooner or later.

Among the cultivated animals, especially those of the cat genus, the "soul devouring" is the most powerful, because cats are naturally cold-blooded, cruel and ruthless, once they become essences, they are basically chickens and dogs, and very few cat spirits accumulate virtue and do good deeds for the benefit of mankind, basically they are all for the disaster.

A typical example, some girls who like to raise cats, before they got married, they had cats, and after she got married, the couple were healthy and normal, but they have not seen childbirth, not that they have no fertility, nine times out of ten, it is the cat she raised swallowed the soul, resulting in a woman who has been unable to give birth, this kind of cat, one may be for practice, one may be, one may be, afraid that the couple will have children, it will fall out of favor. Of course, this kind of thing is unique in a thousand miles, and the premise must be that the cat has spirituality.

The blind mother-in-law told us that their family used to be from Orion, and they were not originally their locals, and then they made a mess in the village about the raccoon cat and the child, and the people in the village didn't understand the ghosts and gods at first, thinking that this army was in chaos, and even the animals came out to harm people, and there were a few hunters in the village, but the hunting skills were not perfect, and the traps and bait things were not able to catch the raccoon, and then one of the hunters said that there was a hunting master outside the mountain, and every hunt did not fail, and the set was also very ingenious, and there were those who wanted to die. To live there is to live.

They were talking about the blind mother-in-law's man, who was in his early forties at the time, and the blind mother-in-law's two sons, one in his early twenties and the other in his eighteen, and the villagers invited the father and son into the village.

The father and son set up overnight, the eldest son of the blind mother-in-law was still a good gunman, and it happened that a woman in the village gave birth to a daughter at that time, and the father and son hid in the dark of the yard after they laid a good trap outside their home, carrying a gun and waiting.

In the second half of the night, an animal the size of a dog came in from the outside, it was a big civet cat that they had never seen before, but, don't look at the big thing, the body is very agile, and quickly bypassed the trap jacket in the yard, the father and son looked at it, this thing is very clever, this is not good, it is about to enter the house through the window, the father and the eldest son two shotguns, at the same time, "bang" a loud sound, the civet cat fell in response, the father immediately beckoned the two sons, rushed over together, at this time, The civet cat rolled over, jumped over the courtyard wall, and fled outward.

The father and son chased out of the courtyard wall and saw a string of blood stains on the ground, it seemed that this thing was concentrated by a shotgun and was not lightly injured. At that time, the shotguns were loaded with gunpowder and iron sand in the front, and after the guns were shot, they were all scattered bullets, and in that case, the two shotguns fired at the same time, and the civet cat should have been beaten into a sieve, and they escaped over the wall, which surprised the father and son.

The father and son lit a torch and chased the blood trail out, and finally, the blood disappeared on a dirt slope five miles north of their village, and the father and son looked for it on the soil slope and found a soil hole, a civet cat the size of a dog, lying in front of the soil hole, and the father and son stepped forward to take a look, and saw that the beast was covered with bullet holes, but it failed to hurt the vital point, and at this time because of excessive blood loss, he had died of exhaustion.

The father looked at the soil hole, this should be the old den of the civet cat, such a big civet cat, I have never seen it, maybe it is good in the soil cave, and its descendants, so he instructed the eldest son to go back to the village and call people, take the guy who pits the pit, and run away from the soil hole, he and the younger son guard the entrance of the cave again to prevent the things inside from escaping, and at the same time look around the soil slope to see if there are other holes.

The eldest son returned to the village and greeted the people of their village, who were all anxious about the scourge of the civet cats, and when they heard that the civet cats had been killed, they found their nests, and they took the guys and followed the eldest son.

At this time, the father and his youngest son found another hole, and the father and son each guarded one.

When the villagers arrived, everyone started to dig the two holes at the same time, and when they dug the cave, everyone immediately cried and laughed......

(Because of the Chinese New Year, there are too many friends who send me red envelopes and blessings, so I will no longer name them one by one, no matter how much, I sincerely thank you for your heart.) ）