In fact, Old Man Jiang knows the child's secret, but he is tight-lipped and has never said it to others, just so that the child can live a normal life and not be treated as a monster, which is also what the child himself is most worried about.

He didn't expect that the child told Zheng Yushi all these secrets, and the old man sighed and said, "Alas, this child is very pitiful and miserable, please don't be embarrassed by him."

Then, Old Man Jiang paused, sighed again, and then said: "That old goddess is indeed not an ordinary person, when we went, she immediately said that the child's father's hand had been bitten by a fox, and even the ins and outs of the fox were so clear, how could an ordinary person know?"

I really think she can pinch and calculate, as for that monster python, what the hell is going on, I think, that old goddess should also know, but unfortunately, she is no longer alive."

When Zheng Yushi heard that the old goddess was dead, as if he had been splashed with cold water on his head, he shook his head helplessly: "It seems that God doesn't help me, I think that the old goddess, since she has such a cultivation, should live a long life, but I didn't expect that she still can't escape the cycle of life and death." ”

Old man Jiang also nodded approvingly: "My lord is right, this old goddess is indeed a strange person, and she is also a strange person, and people also think that she will live a very long life, but in the second year we have been there, she died, and her death is very strange."

How did I know about the death of the old goddess? It's a long story. Let's talk about what I've heard and seen about the old goddess.

The old goddess can eat and pull, almost non-stop eating and pulling every day, but she is still skinny and skinny. This alone makes people feel really weird.

At that time, when we went, I specially asked the people in the village about the life of this old goddess.

I remember that the people in their village said that most of the people in the village thought that this old goddess was crazy, and, for some reason, the old goddess never looked at the people in the village and told fortunes.

I heard the elderly people in their village say that this old goddess is at least eighty years old, and no one knows her specific background, only vaguely knowing that she was picked up by a rogue man in the village who asked for food.

And when she was brought back to the village by Liuhan, she was already three or four years old, dry, dark and thin, and she didn't look like a child, but like a little old lady.

And that rogue man died the next year.

Because this old goddess was very annoying when she was a child, so after the death of Liulang Han, almost no one wanted to care about her, and what made the villagers feel a little puzzled was that this little girl who was three or four years old and left to fend for herself was not starved to death, but slowly survived and grew up.

But she was still dark and thin, and crazy, dirty, full of smell, running around, sometimes out for months, and no one knew where she went, and no one cared about it.

I don't know when the villagers were surprised to find that people began to come to her for fortune telling, looking at faces, and even looking for her for treatment, and more and more.

There was no inn in the village, but because there were a lot of people from outside, many people came from other places, and they couldn't go back that day.

Not only is this old goddess's background very strange, but her death is even more bizarre.

After meeting the goddess with the child's father, I felt that this old goddess was worthy of her name, and she was really divine, and it just so happened that in the second year, there was an old lady in the village who was seriously ill and found a lot of Langzhong, but she was not cured. His son was a dutiful son, and he had heard me say how godly the old goddess was, so he begged me to go with him to see the old goddess again, so that he could ask for some medicine for his mother.

I thought that the villagers in the big hometown should help if they could, so I took him there, but when we arrived at the village of the old goddess, we learned that the old goddess had just died for two days.

I heard from the villagers that two days ago, the old goddess, as usual, told fortunes and looked at the faces of the people in line early in the morning, and as usual, she was eating white flour and steamed buns while seeing a doctor, and she was still going to the thatched house after a while. It's all the same as she usually is.

But it was close to noon that the old goddess went to the hut again, but this time it seemed to be very different from usual—every time she went to the hut, it took a short time, and she could come back with a few words.

But this time, the old goddess went for a long time, and people couldn't wait left or right, and they still didn't come, and for more than an hour, they still didn't see the old goddess out of the thatched house.

So, everyone felt that something was wrong, so a few people endured the unpleasant fishy smell and went to the hut to take a look, and found that the old goddess had fallen to the ground and died.

What's even more surprising is that in her last bubble of, people actually found a black mass.

It was discovered that the mass was not, but like an unformed fox fetus, and it was still wriggling and moving, and people screamed and ran out in fright.

In the end, the seventy-year-old patriarch of the village, who was bold and knowledgeable, drank a few sips of wine, took a shovel, and went into the hut to shoot the black, moving monster to death. He also dragged out the corpse of the old goddess covered with feces and urine, and asked people to wash it with water, and found a straw mat to wrap it, pulled it in a carriage, and buried it in a mass grave three or four miles away from the village. This old goddess died like this, and it hurt us to run away in vain. ”

Zheng Yushi listened attentively to Old Man Jiang's speech, and then pondered for a long time without speaking. It seems that it is impossible to learn about the python from the old goddess.

What's next? Zheng Yushi was at a loss for a while.

"My lord, I know that in our area, in addition to the old goddess, there is another person who may know the origin of the python."

Suddenly, Old Man Jiang came up with such a sentence, which shocked Zheng Yushi's spirit.

He hurriedly asked the old man Jiang: "Your old man quickly say, who else can understand the python, now the python has begun to break into the nearby village to eat people, the situation is urgent, you must kill the python as much as possible, otherwise, it will live one more day, and the people may die a few more." ”

Old man Jiang nodded with deep sympathy, stroked the beard under his chin, squinted his eyes, and groaned slightly, before he said leisurely: "The child's father once told me that in our county, there is a shop that specializes in buying herbs and prey picked from the mountains. The owner of this shop, surnamed Lu, is called the shopkeeper Lu.

This Lu shopkeeper was about sixty years old at the time, kind eyebrows, fair trading, very different from ordinary profiteers, the child's father is also this kind of honest temper, the two began to deal with each other, they felt that the conversation was very speculative, after a long time, the friendship between the two became deeper and deeper, and it became a year-old friend.

Every time the child's father came to the city, he had to drink and chat with Boss Lu, sometimes until late at night. Gradually, the child's father felt that this Lu shopkeeper was very unusual.

What an unusual method?

This white and pure boss Lu has never been on the mountain, but for some reason, he knows everything about the prey in this mountain, for example, he can accurately say which kind of prey and which part of the mountain is the most. He and his father have been hunting all year round, and the situation is not bad at all.

The shopkeeper will also tell the child his father that in which part of the mountain, there will be very valuable rare birds and beasts. The child's father went hunting according to what Boss Lu said, and sure enough, he could hunt those rare birds and beasts lightly, which made the child's father earn a lot of money when he was young, but the shopkeeper Lu once told the child his father, these secrets, you must not tell others.

The child's father also kept his oath, but because the relationship with me was so good, I watched the child and his father grow up, and between me and him, although they were not father and son, they were closer than father and son, so the child's father didn't hide anything from me, including this incident, but he really never told the third person again.

Others think that the child's father is young and young, and he can fight so many rare birds and beasts, all because he is smart and capable. In fact, in the final analysis, it mainly depends on the guidance of the shopkeeper Lu.

The child's father is naturally very grateful to this Lu shopkeeper. But what puzzled him was, why did this Lu shopkeeper know so much about the prey on this mountain? Could it be that the shopkeeper Lu can pinch it?

The child's father sometimes wanted to try to ask, but when it came to the critical moment, the shopkeeper Lu smiled and didn't answer. Since the shopkeeper Lu didn't want to say it, he was embarrassed to ask.

When the two of us drank together, we often talked about this Lu shopkeeper, I guess, is this Lu shopkeeper also like a child, can understand the words of beasts? The child's father thinks that this is also possible. But what the hell is going on, we still don't figure it out in the end.

Later, as you know, adult, the child's family had a big disaster, and the child's father and mother were killed overnight, and the child and I also discussed this matter repeatedly, and through guò analysis and various situations, we both felt that it should be the python that did it, and the big python was the murderer.

When you say this today, my lord, I suddenly think of such a person, I always feel that this person is unfathomable, maybe he can know some secrets about that python. ”

Old man Jiang's words really made Zheng Yushi feel that "the mountains and rivers are exhausted and there is no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village", but he asked worriedly first: "Then do you know that the old man knows whether the shopkeeper Lu is still alive, according to what you said, his current age is estimated to be about eighty years old, not a few years younger than you."

"Don't worry, my lord, he is still alive and strong, when I came this time, I happened to pass by in front of his shop, as if I saw him still in the shop, our village, there are often people who come to the county to buy and sell things, every time it is a set of cars, I often ask these people about the situation of the Lu shopkeeper, they also know the Lu shopkeeper, they all say that although the Lu shopkeeper is old, but also full of children and grandchildren, but he will also come to the store in person every day."

When Zheng Yushi heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief this time.

Time was pressing, he was not willing to wait for a moment, at this time, it was time for dinner, and it was not too late, so he hurriedly called two officials and told them to hurry up and invite the shopkeeper Lu.

When these two officials just arrived at the door, Zheng Yushi seemed to think of something again, and said: "Slow, don't invite him, let's visit the door." ”

The officials prepared two sedan chairs, one for Zheng Yushi and one for Old Man Jiang, and then went straight to Lu's shopkeeper's shop.