Chapter 10: Serving the Tiger
After a night of silence, after sleeping on the roof for a night, feeling that he was already an ordinary person in his body and cultivating his true qi in an ordinary way for about twenty days, Fang Zheng and Ye Qiu, who were woken up by the mayor, got a message.
Of the people who went out to fight the tiger demon yesterday, seventeen people went out, and now there are only ten people who have returned, and each of them is wounded and looks terrified.
"Let's go, let's go!" The people who threatened Fang Zheng and Ye Qiu yesterday were the last two left, and after they packed up their things, they left the town directly on fast horses, and the other people's performances were not the same, although some people glanced at Ye Qiu who came over, but thinking of the tiger demon they saw yesterday, they didn't have the slightest idea of taking advantage of the fisherman, and some just left here quickly.
The people around saw the appearance of this group of bounty hunters, they looked strange, since they put up a notice to the surrounding towns to eliminate demons, people have to come here almost every few days, but at the beginning some people went and did not come back, and when these people were smart, since the other days, so many people gathered and carried out a big operation last night.
Looking at it like this, I'm afraid that this big operation must have failed, and after these people spread the news of Baishi Town, I'm afraid that no one will come to this place to eliminate demons in the future. This news is nothing less than bad news for the people in the town.
When the mayor looked at Ye Qiu, who he had high hopes for, he had a pitiful expression on his face, this was really no choice, Ye Qiu's spell he had already seen yesterday, so in the mayor's heart, Ye Qiu alone could be on top of those people, but the problem was that after seeing so many people leaving like hiding from locusts, the mayor felt that he was afraid that Ye Qiu would also leave because of this.
So the mayor couldn't help but say: "The young man is young and promising, since he is a famous and decent family, he should naturally help us ordinary people......
"You don't need to say it, I know all these things, so how many taels of silver are you going to give?" Ye Qiu rubbed his fingers, this action shocked Fang Zheng at that time, said that a good famous and decent disciple should support justice?
"The people in our town contributed money together and made up four hundred taels." The mayor gritted his teeth and increased the number of three hundred and fifty taels to four hundred.
But Ye Qiu shook his head and said: "No two prices, five hundred taels, your fox demon here should not be a simple goods, can be smart enough to kill so many masters, I am afraid that it has been many years since he became a master, or someone from somewhere wants to harm the people of your town, or ......" Speaking of this, Ye Qiu's eyes seemed to be lightning, directly hitting the mayor's heart.
"Or rather, who in your town did something bad that led this tiger demon to wander around the town?" Looking at the mayor's eyes and guessing, when he saw that the other party's expression was abnormal, but what he said was not what the other party was talking about, Ye Qiu immediately took a step towards the mayor, adding a bit of oppression to the other party's heart, and then continued to guess.
"Or did you create this tiger demon? No, you people don't have such great ability, although the tiger demon has a certain amount of wisdom, but it is impossible for him to be smart enough to force the people of your town to such a point, and it is impossible for those treacherous bounty hunters to be forced to such a point. ”
Speaking of this, seeing that the mayor's face became more and more ugly, and after the people around him were forced to look at Ye Qiu's gaze, they all turned away as if they were afraid of seeing something, Ye Qiu had already guessed the most likely of them, and said word by word in a firm tone: "Hmph, is it really you people who did it, to be able to make the tiger demon do this, it is not how smart the tiger demon is at all, but you people who caused it!" ”
"Let me guess, if I think about it correctly, this tiger demon is not a simple tiger demon, but was forced out by you people, the body of a tiger!"
Ye Qiu's words made the gang shake, and the mayor of the town was like an electric rush for a moment, taking three steps backwards in a row, and exclaimed: "No, it's impossible, how would you know!" ”
"How do I know? Because I'm a mage, there's nothing in the world about these goblins that I don't know! Saying this, Ye Qiu smiled proudly, and then arched his hand towards the admiring Fangzheng, feeling extremely honored in his heart. Being praised by Zhuge Wolong's predecessors shows that he also has a lot of merits.
I have to say that Ye Qiu's words made these people finally start to treat them calmly, this time people did not shirk, but directly took out more than five hundred taels of silver, and handed it all over to Ye Qiu, as if there was a bottomless bag Ye Qiu, and packed all the silver.
And after seeing Ye Qiu's ability, the mayor settled down in his heart, and the whole person sighed because he was broken by Ye Qiudao before, and after hesitating, he said helplessly: "I don't know if the two of you are interested, listen to me tell the story of this tiger?" ”
"Listen up." After being invited by Ye Qiu, Fang Zheng replied, and then after the three benches were brought by the people around him, the three of them sat in front of the public, and after the old mayor coughed twice, he began to tell his story.
"Actually, the story started fifty years ago......"
Fifty years ago, the previous emperor knew that the country was declining, so in order to retain the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, he worked hard, and gave many poor children the opportunity to become famous, and in this village, the family was supported by the old mother and his own wretched wife Chen Jialang, who was supported by hard work, firmly grasped this opportunity, studied hard in the cold window, and finally won the first place in the township examination.
After coming back, those people around him who still looked down on him before came over one after another, Chen Jieyuan on the left and Chen Jieyuan on the right shouted very cordially, this is only the second year, Chen Jieyuan will become a tribute or even a huiyuan, and then participate in the palace examination to seek fame.
But at this moment, the change finally came.
The mayor was only eight or nine years old at the time, and he didn't remember many things very clearly, but he also knew what happened when he listened to the stories of the old people who were about to die. It turned out that after Chen Jialang was in high school, many people were jealous of Chen Jialang's knowledge, and no matter how much hardship they had endured, how many years they had studied hard, several people in the town who were jealous began to cheat Chen Jialang's family.
First of all, someone told Chen Jialang's mother, saying that some precious herbs and herbs in the mountains are very valuable, since Chen Jialang is already in high school, how can he continue to live in poverty, so Chen Jialang's mother is a lot old, and she has not been able to enjoy the blessings, so she went into the mountains to collect medicine alone.
After that, Chen Jialang's wife who came home from laundry wondered, why the mother was gone, and at this time someone told Chen Jialang's daughter-in-law, saying that Chen's mother died in the wilderness in order to collect herbs for her son and sell them for money, and they ancient people cherished loyalty, filial piety, etiquette and righteousness more than life.
At this time, the people who saw this scene were suddenly stunned, they were just jealous, and wanted to stimulate the Chen family, who would have thought that the daughter-in-law of the Chen family would hang herself, so when people were in a hurry and didn't know what to do, Chen Jialang came back, and after witnessing his wife hanging, Chen Jialang couldn't cry on the spot.
And just when he was flustered, other innocent people really couldn't stand it, so they told Chen Jialang that his mother had entered the mountains and forests, and that there was a big white-fronted insect around here recently, which was really not dangerous, so he should hurry up and get his own mother back.
As a result, what people didn't expect was that Chen Jialang's mother came back first after Chen Jialang went out, and after holding the herbs that were described as very valuable, but the happy Chen family's mother saw the hanging daughter-in-law, and thought that it was because she was gone, so her daughter-in-law made this kind of behavior, so she felt guilty that she did not notify her daughter-in-law of Chen's mother, and died on the stone mill outside the house.
After people saw this scene, everyone was silently accusing those who were jealous of Chen Jialang with their own eyes, and the luck of the Chen family seemed to have come to an end.
Although this matter has passed for fifty years, but at this time, thinking of this matter after the meeting, the mayor's heart still feels shocked and afraid, but after all, this matter is a thing of the past, although the people of the government came to investigate, but because there is no evidence of death, nothing has been investigated, this matter can be regarded as over, and the people in the town have paid for it, and the family has also been buried.
But just some time ago, a tiger demon suddenly appeared in this field, and the people who attacked them in Baishi Town, and overnight, the tiger demon ate several families who had killed Chen Jialang, which had to make the older generation in the village think of what had happened.
Coincidental? There can't be so many coincidences in the world, this tiger demon specifically attacked the people who came and went in Baishi Town, it was simply saying that he was taking revenge on you, and the people in the town couldn't get any other results whether they asked the Taoist priest to do it or something else, so in desperation, only everyone paid and asked for help to get rid of this tiger demon.
After learning the original story of the matter, Ye Qiu already had a guess when he felt that things were a little unbelievable.
Tiger demon, the spirit after the tiger becomes a spirit, it is recorded in the book that the soul of a person who is bitten to death by a tiger that gradually becomes a spirit will stay by the tiger's side to help the tiger continue to hurt people and harm people, called a ghost, I am afraid that this Chen Jialang is likely to be a ghost, according to the other party's smart character, this possibility has become eighty percent possible.