The next day, my uncle recovered a lot of energy, and the wounds on his body gradually improved, and he told me this story.

This incident may have happened during the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, and the specific time is unknown.

The northeast region of that meeting, desolate and remote, primitive and unchiseled, there is a place, called Shangyang Fort, which is now located in Liaoning, and people who know a little bit about the history of the Qing Dynasty know that this place is a gathering place for people.

An exile is an exile. Among this group of people, there are the remnants of the former dynasties who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty, the conspirators of the rebellion of the three feudatories, the courtiers who fell out of favor in the officialdom, and the literati who were convicted for **. In the Qing Dynasty, there were three major places for people to gather in the northeast, one was Ningguta, the second was Bu Kui, and the third was Shangyang Fort, which was much better than the first two, and the natural conditions were much better.

In Shangyang Fort, there is a large family surnamed Zhang, the specific name of this lord has long been impossible to verify, it is said that it was originally a capital imperial history in the Supervision Academy, and the official residence is a product, but because of the outspokenness, there is no less offending people, and finally became a victim of the political struggle, and his family was exiled here.

Although this old man Zhang is down, but in the years when he was an official, he was not less greedy, and the family's money and silver were enough for several generations of a family to be rich and noble.

On a cold morning, when the little maid of the Zhang family was cleaning the yard, she found an abandoned baby next to the old well. It stands to reason that there are many domestic slaves in the mansion who take care of the house, and there are no less than ** husbands who work at night, how could someone break in unknowingly and throw the baby next to the old well, no one can figure it out. What's even more bizarre is that this baby survived for so long in this cold world where the white hair was blowing.

Master Zhang saw that the child was pitiful, so he adopted him, thought of him as a righteous son, and named him Zhang Fengyang. Master Zhang is already old, this Zhang Fengyang and his biological son are of the same age, the two of them are together, they have become very good playmates, shuttling in the courtyard of the deep house every day, playing in this carved fence and jade building, and playing among the arches of the Zhumen, Master Zhang looks at it is all kinds of satisfaction, although he was exiled here, but Saiong lost his horse, he knew whether it was a blessing or not, and he lived a good life.

More than ten years have passed, these two children have grown up, and the old man's own son has grown up like a jade tree, a handsome and beautiful man, and he is quite kind-hearted, and gradually controls the affairs of the Zhang family. And this Zhang Fengyang, with an obscene appearance, always has such a sour look, he saw that the playmates who grew up together were becoming more and more powerful, so he became jealous, although he did not worry about food and clothing in this deep mansion compound, and the Zhang family did not treat him as an outsider, but Zhang Fengyang's revenge became more and more intense.

Slowly, he spent less and less time at home, spending time in the gambling hall on weekdays, and occasionally going home a few times, also to see the cats, dogs, birds, fish, etc. he raised, and he never saw anyone else.

One day, Zhang Fengyang was having a good time in the gambling hall, and his luck was so good that he didn't intend to return home until his pocket was full of money. It was already a day outside, and the sky was drizzling, and the air was getting more and more humid. Zhang Fengyang walked on the road alone, happened to pass by a wild slope, there was no grass on it, he was suddenly afraid, although this road has been walked countless times, but this time I always feel that there is a gloomy smell all around. Suddenly, there was a fierce thunder in the sky, which shook his scalp numb, and his hairs stood on end, and the braids on the back of his head almost curled. He saw a big ball of meat rolling down the wild slope and stopping directly at his feet, which frightened him, and he took three or five steps back, and looked at it, a cat, curled up and shivering, its hair had been burned black, and it could still be recognized as a cat on that face.

Zhang Fengyang is very fond of cats, dogs, birds and fish, so he picked up this wild cat home, he didn't know, this wild cat is a cat spirit that has been cultivated for hundreds of years, and he was crossing the Nine Thunder Tribulation that night, but he didn't know enough to almost die on this wild slope, thanks to his help, he picked up an old life.

The cat knew about the kindness, so he told Zhang Fengyang that he could help him get his wish, and when the kid saw such a good thing, he made a wish to be rich and prosperous for life.

The cat spirit agreed to him, but the number of rich and noble people on the Yin and Yang Road is limited, and some people must be down, so the cat spirit asked him, who do you want to exchange for wealth and nobility, Zhang Fengyang has long been resentful of the Zhang family, so he responded to the cat spirit, and wanted to make Master Zhang's family decay.

Within a few days, Zhang Fengyang got his wish, Mr. Zhang was given the death penalty by Emperor Kangxi's edict, and all the money and silver were copied, and the Zhang family never had to turn over.

And this Zhang Fengyang gained momentum, won a good mountain of gold and silver in the gambling house, and since then he has become a big local family, bullying Master Zhang's own son everywhere, only to kill him, it is really called a grudge to repay virtue.

That's it, this Fengyang enjoys all the glory and wealth, and in a blink of an eye, he has passed the year of knowing his fate, because of these years of debauchery, and indulged in the decadence in the big smoke, he caught a cold and almost sent his dry flesh into the coffin. One morning, an old Taoist came from outside, and pushed a pair of medicine to Zhang Fengyang, saying that it was in the Xishan Land Temple thirty miles away, there was a big cat, eating the cat's heart, liver and lungs, you can live forever, Zhang Fengyang seemed to have found a life-saving straw, and went to the land temple with his family, and really found a big cat, full of half-headed elephant physique, the cat saw Zhang Fengyang not only did not go, but licked Zhang Fengyang enthusiastically, as if he was very familiar, who knew that Zhang Fengyang stabbed the big cat into the chest with a sharp knife, The cat's blood immediately surged like a pillar, and it whimpered for its life.

Since eating the heart and lungs of the big cat, Zhang Fengyang as the Taoist priest said, the white hair has never had an extra one, and he is even more powerful, in a snowy night, he took people to kill Master Zhang's own son, in the small boundary of Shangyang Fort, Zhang Fengyang eats both black and white, and becomes more and more ferocious.

The big cat who was stabbed to death by him was the cat spirit he saved back then, because he gave Zhang Fengyang a wish, the cat spirit violated the way of heaven, changed the lives of mortals without permission, and was trapped in the land temple by heaven, and couldn't get out for a long time.

Although the cat spirit is dead in the flesh, but the illusion is still left in the yang world, every day when he has to come out to find that Zhang Fengyang, Zhang Fengyang can't bear such torture, day by day, and begins to age again, he will look for the Taoist priest again, the Taoist priest gives him a side, every year when the valley rains, the white dew stops, each solar term must eat the heart and lungs of eighteen boys, you can get immortality, the Tao is all over the sky.

Zhang Fengyang didn't say a word and followed the Taoist priest, and at the same time, in order to avoid the harassment of this cat spirit day and night, he fled all the way north with money to the depths of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, got this dirty deed, and practiced Taoism day and night, this work is hundreds of years, and now he has already become an old goblin in the forest, and mortals can't help it.

Uncle told me that this Zhang Fengyang is the old ghost in the forest.

When I heard this, I suddenly realized, and asked,

"The cat spirit that was killed by the old ghost is the cat master I saw in the bottle hole?"

Uncle lowered his head and was speechless for a while, and then I asked,

"Uncle, who are you?"