However, when the child began to hunt, his feelings were very different from those of other hunters - because he could understand the language of animals, especially with foxes, and there were almost no obstacles - so that the birds and animals in the mountains were almost no different from people to him, so the child really could not bear to hurt them. So, he returned empty-handed almost every day.

It seems that it is impossible for the son to inherit the father's business, and the child can only think of other ways to make a living.

After thinking about it, the child felt that it was more suitable for him to go up the mountain to collect medicines, and he was also more interested, but he didn't know anything about all kinds of herbs.

So, he first went to the pharmacy in the town and worked as an apprentice for a few months.

In this short period of a few months, the child, with his wisdom and diligence, will soon be able to identify many herbs, even including the medicinal properties of herbs, the price, the appearance of the plants, etc., he is very clear, which for the average apprentice, it takes several years to master the knowledge, he has mastered all in a few months.

A few months later, he began to go into the mountains to collect medicine.

Although he is a novice, with the help of the fox, the child can always find precious medicinal materials, and what is even more unexpected is that it just so happens that the python eating incident suddenly broke out in the mountains, and there are fewer people who collect medicine, and the drugs produced will naturally decrease sharply, so the price of herbal medicine will also rise, and the child will make a lot of money by collecting medicine.

As for the python, the child knows a lot more than the average person, and inadvertently, he also unlocks the secret of his parents' disappearance.

When the child actually entered the mountain, he was surprised to find that the mountain was ruled by neither a tiger nor a monkey, but a fox, and it was a very special fox.

To say that this fox is special, first of all, it looks very different from ordinary foxes -- the hair on its whole body is much darker than that of ordinary foxes, close to reddish-brown, and the color of the pupils in its eyes is redder and darker than that of ordinary foxes, and there is a pinch of "goatee" under the jaw of this fox, which is very much like a wise elder.

This special-looking fox is not only the "leader" of foxes, but also the leader of all animals in the mountains. Regarding this secret, it is the fox named "Xiaobai", who is the best with the child, to tell the child, and Xiaobai also said to the child: "The smell of our chief leader is very similar to the smell of yours, and I discovered this when I came into contact with you, because we foxes, when we are usually looking for it, we often smell it through our noses, so our noses are very sensitive."

This also surprised the children very much.

Because the child knows that his sense of smell is much more sensitive than that of ordinary people, he can always smell smells that ordinary people can't smell. For example, the child finds that a few days before the average person has a cold, there will be a special fishy smell in the mouth and nose, which is very strong for the child, but the average person cannot smell it.

Once a person has this smell in his mouth and nose, he will definitely catch a cold after two or three days.

What's even more extraordinary is that the child also found that the elderly who are generally about to die emit a special smell on their bodies, a kind of smell that ordinary people can never smell, but the child can.

Because of this keen sense of smell, the child can also smell a very special smell in his body - a faint fishy smell, similar to the smell of a fox, but not exactly the same.

This kind of smell on his body is absolutely inaudible to ordinary people, so when he was naked in the summer and wanted to swim in the river, he also asked many friends if they could smell anything on his body, but no one could smell it.

Therefore, when the child heard the fox Xiaobai say that the smell of the "king of beasts" in this mountain was similar to that on his own body, he was very surprised and surprised.

Soon after the child went up the mountain to collect medicine, he was under the leadership of Xiaobai, and saw the fox that was only the "king of beasts" in the mountain, what the child did not expect was that even the fox was already the "king of beasts" in the mountain, but after seeing the child, it was still respectful, it seemed that as long as it was a beast, no matter how high its level, there was a kind of awe for people.

And, to the child's shock, he really smelled a similar smell on this fox with a "goatee" as he did.

It is also this similar smell that makes the relationship between the child and the leader fox a lot closer at once, perhaps for this reason, the leader fox said a lot of things in the mountains when he met the child for the first time.

The language of the fox is not as complicated as that of people, they tell the most basic facts, this fox told the child that when collecting medicine in the mountains, the most important thing to be careful about is a python, because this python is not under its control.

Moreover, this python is very strange, unlike ordinary snakes, it is not only big and scary, but also has a layer of white hair on its body. In addition, ordinary snakes do not come out after winter, but this python will still come out to forage even in the middle of winter, even in the cold and snow.

Not only did it eat people, but it even ate five or six tiger cubs. And in the past two years, this python has become more and more fond of eating people, and many medicine farmers who come to the mountains to collect medicine are eaten by it.

But for some reason, this python never attacks the fox.

According to the analysis of the leader fox, because the python mainly relies on the sense of smell to find food, so, for some reason, this python should be particularly afraid of the smell of the fox.

This judgment was verified.

Once, when the leader fox came into close contact with this huge python, the python immediately turned around and burrowed into the hole as soon as it smelled something wrong.

The leader of the fox also told the child that there had never been such a large python in the mountains before, let alone such a long-haired snake. I don't know why, this kind of "strange snake" suddenly appeared in the mountains. Moreover, this python seems to have lived for many years, and four or five years ago, it was far less big than it is now, but at that time it began to eat people, but it ate relatively little.

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart, and after listening to these words of the leader fox, the child immediately thinks of the mysterious death of his parents.

From these signs, it can be inferred that his poor parents were most likely eaten by this python. And that night, the reason why he was not eaten was because of the smell on his body that saved his life?

And when he realized that this python was most likely the murderer of his parents, the child had no fear of this python, and only hatred, he really wanted to one day break the python into pieces.

In the process of the child's collection of medicine, he also encountered the python several times, the closest one, less than a zhang away, so close to observe the python, and has not been eaten, I am afraid the child is the only one.

After seeing the python carefully, the child was shocked that this python was really terrible - it was not only big and scary, but also covered with a thick layer of white hair, and what was even more terrifying was that the head of this python was very different from ordinary snakes, the shape was a bit like a fox head, but there were almost no eyes on the head, and it looked so weird that people would shudder to see it.

However, every time he encountered the python, it was like the leader fox said, probably afraid of the smell of the child, and the python would quickly flee.

And in the face of such a huge python, the child couldn't think of any way to kill it for a while.

In addition, in order to prevent his red pupils from appearing, the child still asked the foxes to regularly send him the rhizomes of the plant.

Originally, for the child, the rhizome of that plant should have been sent and eaten yesterday, but because he suddenly came to the official mansion dozens of miles away, the child was not able to take this rhizome on time as usual, and these few days, it happened to be the day of the full moon night, and it was also the time when the red pupils were the most obvious, so this secret was discovered by Zheng Yushi.

This makes the child feel very uneasy.

However, fortunately it was also close to the mountains, and there were many foxes, so the child managed to get in touch with the foxes, so that the foxes who regularly sent him rhizomes would know where he was, and let the foxes send them to him. So, this is the scene of last night.

Zheng Yushi and the two officials next to him, after listening to the child's story, couldn't help but be both emotional and surprised. They didn't expect that such a fourteen or fifteen-year-old child would have so many twists and turns, bumpy and strange experiences.

However, Zheng Yushi also vaguely felt that if he wanted to kill that python, he might have to rely on this unusual child. He comforted the child with kind words, watched the child's affection, and slowly stabilized, and then retired with the two officials.

When Zheng Yushi returned to his room, it was already early in the morning, and after a night of tossing, he felt very tired, so he didn't even take off his clothes, and fell asleep on the bed.

I don't know how long he slept, he felt someone call him in a daze, and when he opened his eyes, it turned out to be a servant, and the official was a little panicked and reported that someone was eaten by a python again, and this time it was not a medicine farmer, but a village near the mountain, in this night, a family of three, all of them were eaten by pythons, and even a pig raised by this family was bitten off most of it, leaving only bloody stumps, scattered in the pigsty.

The villagers speculated that this may be because the number of medicine farmers entering the mountains is getting fewer and fewer, and the python is becoming more and more difficult to eat people in the mountains, so this time they took the initiative to attack and ran to the village to eat people.

These circumstances made Zheng Yushi even more anxious.

It seems that the shape shì is getting more and more severe. It's time to get rid of that python, but what is the way to get rid of this monster? Zheng Yushi was thinking hard.

Suddenly, Zheng Yushi thought of the old goddess - from the child's story, it can be known that the old goddess should have some skills, and since she knows the red fox so well, will she also know the secret of this python?

The child told Zheng Yushi that he had heard about all kinds of experiences with his parents from Old Man Jiang, and Old Man Jiang was also a person who had seen the old goddess with his own eyes.

Thinking of this, Zheng Yushi immediately sent someone to invite Old Man Jiang. I wanted to ask him about the details of the old goddess.

Because there was a distance of dozens of miles, when I invited Old Man Jiang here, although I hurried and hurried, I didn't come back until the evening.

When the old man Jiang entered the house to visit, Zheng Yushi found that although the old man Jiang was over eighty years old, his body was still very strong, and she was not dazzled, deaf, and energetic, and at first glance he was a straightforward and enthusiastic old man.

Zheng Yushi was very polite to the old man, and immediately asked someone to bring him a comfortable Taishi chair, let the old man Jiang sit on it, and prepared a delicious meal for the old man Jiang.

After the old man Jiang had eaten and drunk enough, Zheng Yushi also told the old man Jiang what the child said and what happened last night, and went straight to the point and asked about the old goddess.