Hearing the begging of the village chief, the beggar first laughed a few times, and then turned into the appearance of a locust, grabbing the village chief and about to bite it. The village chief was not only not afraid, but had a sense of relief that was about to be relieved.

The locust did not bite down, but after scaring the village chief, it reverted back to its beggar appearance.

He grabbed the village chief's neck and said to him in a mocking tone: "I know you want to die, but I won't let you die, I won't let you die so easily." What you owe me is not so easy to repay. ”

Then the beggar turned into a locust and flew away.

The village chief sat on the ground, looking powerless, but depressed.

As the image of the village chief disappeared, Nan Jinyi and the others heard the sound of crutches and Buddhist beads colliding.

When I turned around, I saw the old monk in the monastery standing in front of the door.

The old monk recited Amitabha Buddha and said to Nan Jinyi, "Are the three of you okay?" ”

"It's fine!" Nan Jinyi walked up to the old monk: "The master came to see us on purpose." ”

"The old monk came to ask for a benefactor." The old monk bowed his head: "This whole village is the sin of the old monk, and the old monk hopes that the girl can help the old monk to be freed." He has been practicing Buddha for decades, but he is still a person in the red dust. The old monk couldn't face the sins of the past, so he only wanted the dust to return to dust and the earth to the earth, and asked the girl to help the old monk with this wish. ”

"I am not a kind-hearted person, and if the master asks me, I should always tell me about the cause and effect." Nan Jinyi glanced at the village: "The people in this village—"

"They're all dead." The old monk said: "It was my kid who did it, but the fault is not him, it's me." ”

The old monk staggered to the ground.

His back was hunched, and when he sat cross-legged, he almost collapsed to the ground.

"When I was eighteen years old, I was entrusted by the village chief at that time to bring all the mountain goods in the village into the city. The earth boy is a boy who doesn't understand anything, and is bullied by those ruffians in the city. Not only did they rob me of my things, but they also beat me and beat me to the point where my nose was bruised and my face was swollen and I was covered in wounds. ”

The old monk recalled.

"Hui Niang appeared at that time, and she stopped in front of me carrying a basket full of turnips. When he saw that I was lying on the ground and could not get up, he reached out and took me by the hand. There is no surprise in the book, she is just an ordinary woman with an ordinary appearance, but it is very heartwarming, just like a person who has been in the haze for a long time sees the sun hidden behind the dark clouds. ”

There was a glimmer of light in the old monk's eyes.

"Coincidentally, a few days later, the family found someone to tell me about it, and the person I said happened to be Hui Niang. On the day we met, she looked at me and smiled, not squirming at all. I rejoiced in my heart, and immediately complied with this family business. We quickly became married, had children the following year, and lived happily ever after. ”

The old monk looked up at the location of the kitchen.

"When my child was five years old, I met another woman. The first time I saw her, I had a heart-warming feeling, her eyebrows and eyes, her smile and a smile, all touched my heart. Her appearance made me forget Hui Niang, forget the children at home, I ignored Hui Niang's bitter pleading, ignored the children's crying, and even ignored the scolding of my parents, I left them and left with the woman. ”

The old monk said, slapping himself in the face.

He exerted all his strength, but there was no crisp sound. The dying man has no strength to beat himself.

The old monk went for three years, and he didn't hurry back until he heard that his home had been damaged.

Dad, Niang and Hui Niang were all starved to death, and he searched around the house but couldn't find the child.

In order to inquire about the whereabouts of the child, he took the woman to live in the village.

But strange things happened, and every midnight they could hear the sound of wings flapping, and when they opened the door, the courtyard was empty. When I woke up the next day, the doors and windows were full of marks of something tearing off.

For a few days, every day.

In order to catch that thing, he deliberately guarded behind the door.

In the middle of the night, the thing came again, and he got up in the dark, quietly pulled the bolt of the door, and crept out with his waist bent. A child, lying on the window, made a "squeaking" sound from his mouth. He shouted, and the child turned his head to meet his eyes, and his hand holding the stick stopped in mid-air.

Even if he hadn't seen him for three years, he still recognized it at a glance, the one lying on the window was none other than him and Hui Niang's child.

But he couldn't name the child, because the child had something in his mouth that made him tremble.

The boy recognized him, and stretched his neck tentatively, then a pair of locust-like wings came out of his back, grabbed the eaves and flew away.

He was paralyzed with fright, but he couldn't figure out what had just happened. When the woman heard the voice and went out to ask, he came to his senses, pushed the woman away, and ran to the neighbor's house to ask.

Neighbors told him that many people had died in the village because of the drought and famine, but the worst was their family.

Soon after he left home, his mother fell ill because she missed him. On the way up the mountain to hunt, his father accidentally strayed into a trap set by other hunters and injured one of his legs. Since there were no other men in the family, others were reluctant to help Hui Niang in order to avoid suspicion, and Hui Niang went up the mountain to find his father alone.

Because he missed the best time to heal his injury, his father's leg was useless, and he could only lie on the kang all day long like his mother.

There is no other livelihood in the village, Hui Niang can only be like a man, carrying a bow and arrows to hunt in the mountains, but she is a woman, where can she catch prey. When life is good, the big guy can still help her, but when life is sad, don't say a bite of meat, even a hair is reluctant.

There are old people and children in the family, even if Hui Niang finds a bite to eat, she will follow the old man and the child first. Before those locusts flew into the village, Hui Niang had already lost weight to a handful of bones, and she was supported by one breath.

When the locusts come, if there are men in the house, they will try to block the doors and windows, but there is only one skinny Huiniang in their house. Those locusts are also deceiving the good and fearing the evil, and when they saw that Hui Niang's family was thin, they flew in one go.

Poor Hui Niang, who didn't even have the ability to resist, was mothed into a skeleton by those locusts, and his father and mother were also eaten clean like Hui Niang. By the time the locusts flew away and the people of the village came to check, the bones of Hui Niang and his father had been dried, and his only child survived by eating the corpses of the locusts in the village.

When he asked about the child, the neighbor sighed and said that the child was missing.

Although the child was watched by the villagers to grow up, his father was gone, his mother and grandparents died again, and he survived by eating the corpses of locusts, and the villagers were afraid of him, treating him as a little monster, guarding him everywhere. Later, the villagers got together to discuss and drive out the poor child, who had survived with great difficulty.