Therefore, when Lao Shibi knew about this situation, he would classify the red-haired monkey and the monster as the same party; When he told us about the things inside the burial mound, he would also mention the red-haired monkey.

As for why he told us with such certainty that the monster was a deer beast? This was found by Lao Shibi after he escaped from the ancient tomb and consulted some ancient books.

And when we met the monkeys before, the reason why Lao Shibi told us not to provoke those monkeys; In fact, the root cause is also here! They suffered at the hands of the red-haired monkey more than ten years ago, and they knew that the monkey was particularly vindictive, so they kindly reminded us. It's a pity that we were retaliated against by the monkeys afterwards.

"Damn, why are there monkeys everywhere?"

After listening to Lao Shibi talk about what happened more than ten years ago, Lin Zi said speechlessly.

"Didn't you hear what Lao Shibi said, this monkey has a red nose, which is different from the monkey I saw before!"

Because the things in the stone house were emptied when the villagers moved out of their homes more than ten years ago, there was no place to stay in the house, so Hu Yifei had to sit on half a stone in the corner and respond to the forest.

"Red-nosed monkeys? It's rare! ”

In the area of the forest, the topic has been taken away.

"No, red-nosed monkey? Could it be the mandrill ghost? ”

I also thought that red-nosed monkeys were a bit rare, so I searched for them in my mind; But this search really led me to find a similar species, the mandrill ghost!

There are many legends about mandrill ghosts! It is said to have a ghostly face, a long face, and a bright red nose bridge, which makes this bright color stand out compared to the dark color around it. There are deep longitudinal stripes on the sides of the nose, a goatee under the chin, the head is hidden in long hair, and the hair on the body is brown, fluffy and dense; The ventral surface is pale yellowish-brown, the hair is long and dense, and the back is red!

Moreover, although the mandrill is like a villain, it is extremely fast, mischievous and naughty, and likes to imitate human behavior.

The people in the mountains go into the mountains to chop wood, don't put the firewood knife on their waists, cut the firewood between the rest, and put the knife on the ground casually, and the knife is gone after a while, so the people in the village will shout at the mountain and scold the mandrill and its mother.

Mandrill is the most filial, understands people's scolding, can't let his mother be wronged, hurry up and return the knife to you. So when you accidentally saw the knife again, you knew that it was the mandrill that returned you.

It is also said that mandrills often wear a hat, which can hide their bodies, but it is strange that it cannot hide its figure, and it often walks around on gloomy days, and when the weather is good, people can see the shadow jumping on the ground, so they will avoid it.

If the mandrill sees a child frolicking on the side of the road, it will dance with it, but the hat slips off, and the whole body is exposed, and the child scatters in a hurry, and there are also bold people to grab its hat that falls on the ground, and all night long, the mandrill will take the mandrill to the child's house to ask for a hat, and if they are not given them, they will not leave, and they will come back later, and they will lose things in the house from now on.

There are also people who once wore mandrills' hats to steal in the city, but the human body hid the hat but could not hide, only to see the people on the street in a daze to see the strange hat flying and jumping in the air, this person stole something, the stolen things could not be hidden, and also flew in the air, this person was pulled by someone.

Of course, having said all that, Mandrill's favorite thing is to play pranks; If someone from the farmer was working in the fields, the mandrills would steal the whole jar of rice they had brought with them hanging on the edge of the tree, and not only would they eat it, but they would also stuff it with earthworms.

It can also take children to play in the mountains, and after the children follow them, they will be stuffed with mud by the mandrill's mouth, nose and eyes**, and then thrown on the side of the road.

Mandrill is also divided into male and female, the female is called the mountain aunt, and the male is called the mountain master.

Mandrill has a changeable temperament, naughty with cleverness, and the maternal mandrill aunt even knows how to be kind to others.

Legend has it that there is an old man who burns charcoal in the old forest in the deep mountains, burns charcoal on the mountain all the year round, once goes back to the village and picks up an old hen to the mountain, temporarily raised in the grass liao, the old man goes out to burn charcoal during the day, the old hen clucks, so that the mandrill aunt heard, the mandrill has long heard that the old hen can make up for the body, it goes to the earthworm and insects to feed the old hen, and the old hen is obese day by day.

It turns out that the old hen is raised in a cage, and a chicken that will be killed is kept in a cage, and it is not possible to get fat with a handful of sweet potato shreds a day. But now that the chicken is fat, the old man knows it in his heart, and on the day of killing the chicken and cooking, he deliberately left a lot in the bowl, and when he came back in the evening, the chicken in the bowl was gone, and it was really eaten by the mandrill.

Later, when it rained heavily, the old man was injured and fell into a deep ditch, and he couldn't find a way out for a while, and he was in a daze, when he suddenly saw a large group of animals like children frolicking in the dense forest, he followed his heels, and the child went away again, and he continued to follow, and the child continued to go away, and the old man continued to follow, and then walked out of the ditch and returned to safety.

There is also a story about mandrills that goes like this:

One year there was a lot of snow in the winter, and there was no second color for the white sky & flowers & flowers, and the children in the village all went out to build snowmen, but they didn't expect the mandrill ghosts to come. As soon as the mandrill had fun with the children, he threw his hat aside.

The children forgot to play, built one snowman after another, and then built a small mandrill ghost as a snowman, this mandrill found it interesting to stay and let people pile it, but it was poor that it froze later.

An adult saw it and took it to the house to roast it. Later, one day a mandrill put his hat on the side of the stove when he was roasting the fire, and the wind blew it into the fire and burned, and after losing the hat, the mandrill did not come to roast the fire again, but cursed outside the house for three days. And after scolding, he came to scold again the next winter, and came back in the third winter, but the family who was scolded couldn't stay in the local area anymore and moved out of the village.

Although there are a lot of rumors about mandrill ghosts, most of them are nonsense, and I don't believe it!

However, I have heard such a strange thing about the mandrill's statement:

It is said that there is a village in the south, and there is a couple in the village who have only been married for a few days; One day, the man went out to plow the field, and the woman went up the mountain to pick wild chrysanthemums. Wild chrysanthemum is a kind of wild delicacy in autumn, and the mountain people use it to make round and flat cakes with glutinous rice, which is extremely fragrant and fragrant.

The woman gathered chrysanthemums, and before she knew it, she walked a little longer, and entered the mandrill's den, and bewildered a group of mandrills, and when the woman came home it was three days later.

The family saw that she was disheveled, and there was a lump of things in the basket, but it was made of chrysanthemum and clay, and she grabbed a lump to stuff it into the man's mouth, and it turned out that the woman was crazy.

Later, her man went to the mountains to seek revenge, and never returned, and the villagers at that time said that the man was actually eaten by mandrills; Then, there was no follow-up to the matter.

(End of chapter)