"What's weird?"

"Let me tell you, this is a strange thing here lately, originally, we were relatively peaceful here, but since recently, our crops here have been stolen。。。。。。 ”

"Stolen?" Xiao Kong's eyes lit up.

"yes, it's strange to say, it's not theft if it's theft。。。。。。 ”

"What's going on then?" asked Sora. Xiao Yi also pricked up his ears and listened carefully, he wanted to interject and ask a few words, but he was secretly stopped by Xiao Kong.

"That's right, the crops in our field, sometimes they look like they're about to ripen, they're about to be harvested, but they often happen when they're stolen suddenly, and it's strange that the crops are lost, for example, this corn, when it's lost, some of the corn stalks are broken, and some of them are simply stolen with half of the corn stalks, and the way of stealing the corn is also strange, and he doesn't break it with his hands, nor does he cut it with a sickle, but from the lost corn stalks, it looks like he was gnawed off with his mouth. ”

"Huh, and such strange things?" said Sora.

"Yes, and! I was talking about when the crops are almost ripe, and if it's in the spring, not at harvest time, it's even stranger。。。。。。 ”

"What's strange?" Xiao Yi finally couldn't help but interject. Xiao Kong hurriedly turned his head and gave him a look.

"When the harvest is not in the harvest, the seedlings will be lost in the field。。。。。。 ”

"Lost seedlings?"

Take my family as an example, this spring, the wheat seedlings in our family's two acres of land were growing quite well, but when the wheat seedlings were just growing to knee height, one morning, when I went down to the field to remove the grass, I found that the wheat seedlings were almost gone。。。。。。 ”

"Why is it gone?"

"Listen to me, and when you see the wheat seedlings, most of the seedlings are gone, some of them still have their roots, and some of them have half of the seedlings left, and if you look closely, they look like they have been gnawed by something. My family's two acres of wheat seedlings were almost completely destroyed. ”

"Oh, that's weird. Sora said.

"Well, besides, if it's winter and there are no seedlings in this crop, it's even worse。。。。。。 ”

"What's wrong again?" Xiao Yi couldn't help but interject.

The old man glanced up at Xiao Yi, although he saw that he had a beard, but since he got his copper coin, he felt much better about him, and he was not so afraid of him. The old man continued:

"In the winter, when there are no crops in the fields, the family loses things. But all the food is lost, like our family, one day last winter, I went to bed early that day, in the middle of the night I heard a faint sound of cooing, winter is cold, people are reluctant to get up in the middle of the night, so I didn't care too much, I thought it was the sheep I raised in the circle, but when I got up in the morning to see, I found that several bags of grain at home were gone. ”

"Oh, I see!"

"Yes, but the thief stole the crops, but he never hurt anyone. We've lost almost every crop here, but we've never heard of anyone hurting anyone. ”

"Haha, that thief still has some conscience!" Xiao Yi said with a smile.

"After losing so many things, didn't you find any clues?" asked Sora.

One day, it had just rained that day, and it happened that another family's grain was stolen that night, and it was raining that when the owner got up and found it the next morning, he found a clear line of footprints on the ground, well, footprints. I'll tell you, I've never seen such a big footprint when I've grown so big. ”

"What footprints are so big?" asked Sora.

"Well, that's not a human footprint, it's a line of beast's hoof prints, and those hoof prints, there's 。。。。。。 This bowl is so big" The old man looked around, and just saw the big man of Xiaokong and the two drinking water, so he compared the mouth of this bowl and said. The two of them couldn't help but glance at this bowl, which was a large sea bowl in the north, and the mouth of the bowl was the size of a clay pot.

"What kind of beast's hoof prints?" Xiao Yi asked.

"Later, after careful identification, it turned out to be a cow's hoof print. So the people of our village followed the hoof prints and searched for them。。。。。。 ”

"What's the matter, where is the beast hiding?" "Sora was emotional, anxious to know where the cow was.

"We followed the hoof prints, until we found a hill, and in the hill there was a big stone cave, and the hoof prints went all the way to the door of the cave of this stone, and then we lost their traces, and we judged that the beast was hiding in this cave。。。。。。 There were many of us, and we were not afraid, so we all picked up some stones, and prepared to rush into the cave to find the beast and kill it, but before we could take the stones and approach the entrance of the cave, we heard a loud roar in the cave, and the sound was like thunder, and one of the oldest of us, because he was standing too far forward, was shocked to death on the spot by the roar. ”

"And then, did you catch the brute?"

"Where can we catch it? We were scared to death, and we were afraid that we would provoke the brute, and that he would hurt us by throwing a bull temper, so we hurried back, and did not dare to look for it in that place again. You think, the mark of a hoof is the size of a bowl, how big must this beast be, and how can we fight it?"

After the old man finished speaking, he picked up the bowl and drank a few sips of water, looking particularly afraid.

Xiao Kong thought about it, and wondered if this beast had anything to do with his golden hammer, so he said:

"Old man, where is the cave, can you show us the way, I will help you get rid of that thing and avenge you!"

"Oh, oh, oh, I don't dare to take you there, I am an old bone, I am still inconvenient to walk, how can I have the courage to meet that beast!" the old man shook his head again and again as if he had been electrocuted. Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he stared at the two mung bean eyes, looked at Xiaokong and the two, and said:

"What? You're saying you can kill that monster?"

"Hmm," Sora nodded firmly.

"You two have such great ability, just because you two are such young boys?" said the old man, rolling his eyes in disbelief.

"In this case, if you dare not go, you may tell me the route in the mountains, and we will go to the beast. ”

"Well, I'll tell you, but I advise you not to mess with that brute in case something goes wrong。。。。。。 The old man said no more.

"Don't be afraid, don't worry, I promise to help you get rid of this thief beast. ”

"Okay, okay, that's it。。。。。。 So the old man told them the two of them the route into the mountain and the location of the cave. Xiao Kong memorized it firmly.

Xiaokong pulled Xiao Yi to sit up from the bench, and said to the old man: "Thank you for your old tea hospitality, we won't bother you, and we will leave." With that, he picked up Xiao Yi, turned around and walked out of the thatched hut, and according to the route provided by the old man, he was about to go into the mountain to find the monster.

When the two of them went out, they saw a dark hillside not far away, so they followed that direction. Seeing that the distance was not too far, Xiaokong did not use the clouds and fog again, but walked along the field, admiring the crops that were about to be harvested, while following the route pointed out by the old man.

At this time, it is the autumn harvest season, not far from the farmland occasionally has the harvest of farmers, this field or yellow clear rice ears, or golden corn, but also some yellow soybeans, or red peppers, the field of vision is wide, the sky is clear, the air is filled with the fragrance of grains, the harvesters are either buried in the sickle to harvest rice, or stand up and beat the back, the posture of the body in the west slanting sun cast a long silhouette.

What a wonderful picture of the autumn harvest, the two of them admired the fields here, and the sun basked their dark faces, making them feel extremely refreshed and intoxicated by this beautiful nature.

Not long after, the two of them had gradually come to the foot of the mountain, and Xiaokong looked up to see that it was a not too high hillside, and the distant mountains were coming from a distance, and the delay was here, and a relatively high hill was arched here, and then continued to wander towards the distance. The mountains in this area are not too high, at a glance it is only thirty or forty zhang high, this hill is a relatively high one in this area, it is estimated that it is about fifty or sixty zhang high. Xiao Kong carefully looked at the hill, looking for the location of the cave that the old man had said.

Suddenly, a terrible voice sounded overhead, and the two of them were taken aback, and when they looked up, they saw a large black shadow quickly passing over their heads, which turned out to be a mountain eagle. The two of them had a false alarm and began to cautiously touch the mountain.