Out of the city of Qiyang, everyone went up to an earthen bridge north of the city, and when they reached the foot of the mountain, they could see two rows of simple wooden houses, and the people who hurried there walked to one of the wooden houses.

There was only one young man standing outside the house, and the five or six people behind him were far away.

Seeing that many people had come, the young man guarding in front of the wooden house became more bold, and he pointed to the wooden house and said, "It's inside!" ”

Hearing this, a middle-aged man dressed as a Taoist priest walked out of the group from the city, he was wearing a blue cloth robe and holding a yellow mahogany sword in his hand.

"You and other monsters dare to make trouble under Qiyang Mountain, and they don't come out and die quickly!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of rustling in the wooden house, and everyone held their breath and waited for a while, but there was no more movement in the room.

"Humph!" A rough breath came out of the middle-aged man's nostrils, raised his peachwood sword, and aimed at the door of the wooden house: "Don't blame Ben Dao for being rude!" ”

He was about to rush in when he was reminded:

"Be careful, that monster looks scary, and if you look at it, you'll lose half your life!"

"Don't look into its eyes!"

"Dao Chief, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years." A gray-haired old man walked out of the crowd, and after he finished speaking, he asked a few big men to surround the wooden house.

The middle-aged man stood in front of the wooden house, and the big man surrounded the wooden house in half a circle, and several people looked at each other, and then they all beat the hut with wooden sticks, trying to scare the monster out.

"Knock knock—"

The noise grew louder and louder, and the onlookers tightened their hearts.

And the monster in the house was also frightened, and let out a howl like killing a pig, so startled that everyone hurriedly ran away.

Unfortunately, as soon as the middle-aged man rushed to the door, a horizontal log fell down and smashed on the man's head impartially, and he rolled his eyes and kicked his legs down!

Several big men hurriedly turned back, dragged the fainted middle-aged man away, and carried him aside.

When the room was quiet again, the white-haired old man glanced at the big man:

"Wang Mazi, you rush in!"

"I, I'm going in first?"

"Then count one, two, three, let's rush in together, one, two, ......"

Before it was three, the monster rushed out first!

In the panic, no one saw what the monster was, only to see a black shadow rushing out, and the big man at the head pounced on the net in his hand, and immediately put the monster's head on it, and the other men were overjoyed when they saw this, and they all went to help pull the net.

The monster was caught in a fishing net, but it was still struggling.

After a while, the monster was bored, it didn't move, and everyone saw how terrifying this monster really looked!

"It's so insane!"

The timid retreated, and the bolder onlookers watched and talked about the monster they had caught: "Isn't this a wild boar?" ”

It was dark, with small ears, a long nose, a handful of white manes on its back, stubby limbs, and a pair of fangs hanging on both sides of its mouth.

At first glance, it is indeed a wild boar.

However, its four legs are not pig's feet, but chicken feet!

Ye Qing at the end of the crowd saw this and said, "This is a beast in the cabinet mountain, called Tanuki Li." ”

According to legend, where the raccoon force appears, there will be a lot of soil and water works, which is an ominous sign.

Ye Qing looked at the raccoon force and saw that she already had spiritual sense, but her level was too low to transform into a human form.

In ancient times, there were some beasts that were different from the basic understanding of the "modern world", although they were different, but most of them were mortal, no different from the ordinary creatures that people knew, and people had never seen such beasts that were only rare and could eventually absorb the aura of heaven and earth and become monsters, but they were only a very few.

For example, this raccoon dog trapped in a fishing net, she has lived for more than seventy years, earlier than the normal lifespan of a beast, but the aura in her body is too low, equivalent to a child a few years old in humans, and her understanding of the outside world is not so clear.

When the tanuki was caught, she tried her best to escape, and she went on a rampage, knocking a big man into a ditch, and as soon as the other hands were loosened, she fell back and ran into the back of the hut.

But there are no living roads there, only bare mountain walls.

The big man followed, a machete in his hand.

Everyone surrounded a raccoon dog that had no way out, and was about to enter the white knife and go out with the red knife, and slaughtered the monster, but the hand of the big man with the knife suddenly crooked.

The big man stabbed crookedly, and the raccoon dog knocked one person away, taking the opportunity to run back to the dilapidated wooden house from the same road.

Ye Qing couldn't help but sigh when he saw her so flustered.

"Wait for me."

After handing over Rong Sheng to Hu Yingfeng, she walked quickly in another direction.

Just before Tanuki was about to run back to the wooden house, Ye Qing called her around the corner: "Come here, this way." ”

Tanuki glanced at Ye Qing and ran to the wooden house.

However, an invisible force forced Tanuki to enter another hut, and as soon as she entered, Ye at the door closed the door lightly: "Don't make a sound." ”

Tanuki was in ecstasy: "Can you hear me? ”

Among the same kind, you can hear the inner monologue.

"Of course." Ye Qing is not the same kind as her, and she can read her words because she is much higher than the raccoon power level: "How did you run away to mortals?" ”

"Pigs are so hungry."

This raccoon dog didn't know where it came from, and he actually said a Taiwanese dialect: "People just want to eat in a big pot of rice, who knows if they found out, I admit that I look ...... It's ugly, but these people don't have to treat me like a man-eating monster! ”

Tanuki knelt at Ye Qing's feet, rubbing her calf with his head, Tanuki seemed to have seen a long-lost relative, and couldn't help crying and complaining to her.

If you just listen to this civet force, she looks like a seven or eight-year-old girl, and she feels cute, but her appearance is really ...... Hard to describe.

Tanuki told Ye Qing that seeing that it was winter, the hunters had hunted all the birds and animals on the nearby mountains, and there was no food on the mountain, so she could only come down the mountain. When she heard that a large canal was to be built outside the city, and that if the ground was to be started, there would be migrant workers, and there would be more people to eat, so she thought about eating some big pot rice.

"Sister, you help me, I don't want to be caught."

Knowing what happened, Ye Qing helped her turn into a dog: "Be careful yourself, the mana on your body will disappear in two hours." ”

The raccoon dog that turned into a little earth dog finally hooked up with the cute image, and she said in a soft daddy's tone: "Thank you sister, Piggy will definitely repay my sister's kindness in the future." ”

After the matter was easily resolved, they entered Qiyang Mountain according to the guidance of the Buddha beads.

Soon after entering the mountain, they saw a group of people again.

In front, I took the initiative to watch, but this time I was forced to stay and watch the excitement.

Behind the crowd were also people who stopped them, among them were four young men, and when they saw Ye Qing and the three of them, they sneered.

"If this is also going into the mountains?"

"Bringing women and children into the mountains?"

A man laughed, pointed at Ye Qing and the others, and said to his companions: "They can catch Lu Shu like this, I will use your head as a chair to sit on." ”

"Shhhhhhhhhhh ”

The people living at the foot of the mountain are carrying out a ritual to worship the mountain god, and anyone who wants to enter the mountain at this time must wait for the ceremony to end.

More than a dozen nearby mountains all belong to the South Mountain System, according to legend, the mountain god is a divine beast with a dragon's head and a bird body, the ritual of sacrificing to the mountain god is a tradition left many years ago, once a year, this year's sacrifice has actually passed, and this time the mountain god is only because the lord of Qiyang City has made people dig a new canal to introduce farmland irrigation outside the city.

The old man who presided over the sacrifice buried the animal and the zhang in the ground, filled it with soil, and the woman sprinkled a layer of rice, and two six-year-old boys spread the white grass behind the rice and used it as a seat for the gods.