Chapter Thirty-Six: The Demon Beast Makes a Mistake
Zhang Wuregret followed the voice to a place halfway up the mountain, which looked like it should be a grave, dozens of small earthen bags without tombstones were neatly arranged, and in one of them, the crowd was crowded, and it was a slightly old woman who wailed, she knelt in front of a brand-new grave bag, the grave bag was covered with new paper, and now it seems that she may be a person who has just been buried.
"Village Chief!" "Uncle Village, we can't go on like this!" Zhang Wuregret looked at the crowd, several men in coarse linen clothes inside all showed obvious grief and anger on their faces, and several women of different ages looked sadly at an old man with a cane standing next to the crying woman, and for a moment no one realized that Zhang Wuregret was standing in the distance.
"But, we can't afford it!" the old village chief knocked the crutch in his hand, and when everyone was a little quieter, he also said with some sadness.
“。。。。 Hearing the village chief say this, the villagers also fell silent, in this small village of only 30 families, surrounded by mud-walled houses, it really looks poor.
"Are you?" or the old village chief was the first to discover Zhang Wuregret, and when he saw a well-dressed foreigner, the old village chief was also a little surprised.
"I'm a passing foreigner. Dare to ask, what's going on in the village?" Zhang Wuregret watched the old village chief come over with a few middle-aged men, and also made a slight junior salute, and said to the village chief.
"This strong man, I don't know why you came to our small village?" The old village chief looked Zhang Wuregret up and down, confirming that he really hadn't seen the young man in front of him, and seeing that he was in good health, he felt that the other party was not a good stubble.
"I got lost walking in the mountains, and occasionally there were too many disturbances on the road. Zhang Wuregret also said politely: "Originally, because my female companion accidentally scratched her clothes while walking in the mountains, I wanted to buy two pieces with the people in the village for a change, but now seeing the chaos in the village, it also aroused my curiosity, I don't know what happened?"
"Dare to ask where the strong man came from?" The old village chief looked at Zhang Wuregret and asked a little curiously, listening to his talking accent, it didn't seem to be a person from the surrounding area.
"We are from Yecheng from afar. Zhang Wuregret casually talked nonsense about a place, he also heard that his accent was a little different from the village chief's accent, not to mention that he was from Lingcheng, in case the village could contact the four families in Lingcheng, wouldn't he sell himself?
"Big brother, big brother!" Just when Zhang Wuregret was talking to the village chief, a childish voice suddenly sounded, Zhang Wuregret lowered his head and saw a little girl wearing clothes with a few patches, looking at herself with a small flower face, "Big brother, are you powerful?"
"It's okay. Although Zhang Wuregret has not lived so hard since he was a child, he was also raised by Zhang Shaoshan as a child of a poor family, so he didn't have any mustard for the little girl who was dressed a little shabby, and he looked down and touched the little girl's head and said.
"Then ,,, can you help the third uncle avenge?" The little girl wiped the corners of her eyes vigorously, and said in a childish voice: "There are also Uncle Er Niu and Sister Liuhua, they were all killed!"
"Xiaochun!" the village chief snorted coldly, and the little girl was also so frightened that she hid behind Zhang Wuregret.
"I don't know what the village chief is difficult to say?" Zhang Wuregret looked at the old village chief with a complicated expression and asked again.
"Alas!" the old village chief struggled for a while, and finally sighed before he said slowly: "Strong man, this is not the place to talk, please come with me." ”
Zhang Wuregret followed the old village chief, and also gestured to Huo Mingzhu who was hiding in the shadows halfway, and when Huo Mingzhu came out, the men in the village who were young and in the prime of life all looked straight, mother! Wearing a slightly larger linen coat, the neckline showed a large piece of snow-white skin because it was men's, but it was much whiter than the village girl in the village, and he had never seen such a good-looking person with this appearance!
"Ahem. The old village chief coughed a little embarrassed, and the men came back to their senses, followed by a bunch of women's voices and scolding, which made the old village chief and Zhang Wuregret freeze for a while.
"Let's get down to business. Zhang Wuregret followed the old village chief all the way to one of the earthen houses, although he was the village chief, but there was no difference from the people around him.
"Strong man, please drink tea first. The old village chief poured Zhang Wuregret a cup of herbal tea, and then called his wife and ordered him to take Huo Mingzhu to change clothes, leaving only Zhang Wuregret and the old village chief.
"Xiao'er dared to ask, what kind of realm is a monk in the realm of a strong man?" The old man was silent for a while, as if he had finally made up his mind, and looked at Zhang Wuregret and asked.
"Is there a demon beast in the village?" Zhang Wuregret did not answer this question directly, it can be seen that the old man's realm is not high, a normal foundation building realm monk, even if he is old, he should not be so vain when he walks, according to Zhang Wuregret, the old man is at most a monk who practices qi realm, and if he has not reached the foundation building realm, it is difficult to see what realm even other monks have, so Zhang Wuregret is not worried that the old man can see his own realm and feet.
"Immortal Master!" Hearing Zhang Wuregret's question, the old man thought that Zhang Wuregret had already noticed it, and in a hurry, he was about to kneel, but Zhang Wuregret gently lifted his shoulder, so he didn't kneel.
"Please also ask the immortal master to get rid of the demon in our village!!" the old man said this, and he was also sad, tears slipped down his wrinkled face, "It's all my fault, it's all my fault that the village chief is incompetent, it's all my fault!
"Old man, don't get excited, get up and speak. Zhang Wuregret calmed the old man for a while, and waited until the old man's mood stabilized before continuing to ask.
"The harmful demon beast is a black-haired leopard with three golden hairs on both sides, and at first it just stole two sheep from the village, so we didn't care, after all, the strongest people in the village are only in the middle of the Qi Cultivation Realm, and many other people are even more unbearable. As a result, since the last few days, the beast has become more and more violent, and it is no longer satisfied to just eat livestock, and by now four or five people have died in its mouth!!" Saying this, the old village chief cried again, and for a while Zhang Wuregret didn't know how to persuade him, so he could only wait for him to calm down.
"Black skin and golden hair, ring golden leopard?" Zhang Wuregret thought about it in his heart, and although he couldn't reach it, Zhang Wuregret still had an impression of most of the things he had seen, so he thought of the ring golden leopard at the first time, if there was only golden miscellaneous hair on his body, and he hadn't formed a golden ring, he would definitely not be in the Qi Realm, if it was a demon beast in the Qi Realm, this village would probably not exist.
"Isn't there anyone in charge?" asked Zhang Wuregret with a frown.
"Who's in charge?" the old man stopped crying and said hoarsely: "The people in the city say that this is a demon beast in the Qi Realm, and if you want to get rid of the demon, you have to pay two thousand taels of silver as a reward." ”