Chapter 22: Finding Someone

The tiger is large and has yellow fur.

Lowered his body, half-lying on the yellow mud road that passed through the inn lobby, there were still people with shoulder height.

It's just that the yellow fur is a little gray and rough, and there are faint traces of blood in many places under the fur.

At this moment, he was slowly turning his head back and forth, looking at the scene in the inn.

And before Xu Feng and Ah Meng went out, they called the old cow Chen Da who came to see the store,

At this time, he was standing at the dining table, holding the soul chain tightly in his hand, his whole body was tense, vigilant, and he kept looking at the tiger.

For Lao Niu, a domestic green cow, this tiger can be regarded as a beast that naturally senses danger.

“…… My lord. ”

Xu Feng paused outside the inn door and stepped into the inn with Ah Meng.

The old cow raised his head and saw that his eyes were a little bright, and he followed closely, looking vigilantly at the tiger held on the ground,

retreated little by little, retreated to Xu Feng and Ah Meng's side vigilantly, facing the tiger, and clenched the soul hook rope in his hand.

"Guests?"

Xu Feng nodded in response, and turned his head to look at the tiger lying on the ground.

"Hmm...... It's not like a guest. He just barged in without saying hello all of a sudden. ”

The old cow responded, still standing vigilantly at Xu Feng's side towards the tiger, as if he was worried that the tiger would suddenly burst out.

"It's fine."

Although the tiger looked tall, Xu Feng didn't feel any danger.

Xu Feng looked at the tiger on the ground again.

The tiger, which was lying on the ground, also got up from the ground at this time.

On all fours, the tiger is already taller than ordinary people when he stands,

On the huge head, two equally huge and stunning eyes had also turned to the side at this time, looking at Xu Feng.

The old cow next to him was even more nervous, and he had already raised his hand, as if the tiger was going to make the slightest move towards Xu Feng, and he was going to throw out the soul chain in his hand.

"It's alright...... Can you speak? ”

After putting on Lao Niu's shoulder, Xu Feng turned his head, looked at the tiger who got up, and said something out loud.

“…… Yes. ”

The tiger opened its mouth, and a fishy wind came out of its mouth.

As if he was roaring in a low voice, he gave a somewhat vague answer.

"Hmm. Have a seat. ”

Xu Feng looked at the rough and gray body of this fierce beast tiger again, with some bloody fur in many places,

Turning around, he walked over to the table and sat down.

This beast, which was obviously much taller than an ordinary tiger, followed Xu Feng, turned around, and also came to the dining table.

He squeezed the stool opposite Xu Feng and prostrated himself at the dining table.

It's just that even when prostrate, the tiger's head is still higher than the dining table.

"How did you get here? How can we help? ”

Xu Feng looked at this beast and asked directly.

Ah Meng followed Xu Feng and stood beside Xu Feng.

"I ...... I'm lost. ”

The tiger hesitated and replied.

"Where were you going? Maybe I can show you the way. ”

Lao Niu also followed Xu Feng back to the dining table, standing next to him, still looking at the tiger with some nervousness and suspicion.

“…… I don't know. ”

The tiger shook its massive head, hesitated, and then replied.

Xu Feng looked at this fierce beast tiger, a little curious, and a little headache.

This should be the inn from here after receiving the third inhuman customer,

But the previous girl in the red dress and the land lord were also manifested with portraits. This tiger must have been the first to come here in the form of a beast.

However, this tiger seems to be a little difficult to communicate.

"Don't know? So where did you come from, and do you still have an impression? ”

Xu Feng looked at the tiger and followed the tiger's words and asked again.

Listening to Xu Feng's question, the tiger's huge head paused, then hesitated, and then shook his head,

"I forgot."

"And where did you live before?"

"A forest. Leafy mountain forests. ”

“……”

It's as if you didn't say it.

But it doesn't seem very reliable to ask a tiger to name a place.

"Are there any relatives at home?"

“……”

The tiger was silent, then shook his head.

"Nope."

"Do you remember what you wanted to do? Before you get lost. ”

“……”

The tiger was also silent, and on the huge tiger's head, he just rolled his eyes and looked at Xu Feng as before.

Looking at this beast, in addition to silence is silence, Xu Feng had a headache even more.

It seems that there is no more information from this tiger, so I can only go to the world to see.

Xu Feng turned his head, looked at Ah Meng, and was about to get up.

But at this time,

The beast, the tiger spoke again.

“…… I am hungry. I saw that there was a table here, and I should have something to eat, so I came over. Want to eat. ”

The tiger spat out some fishy wind again, and spat out this somewhat muffled voice.

"Hungry?"

"Ah Meng, go cook a bowl of noodles for this guest...... Well, cook a large bowl. ”

Xu Feng looked back at the tiger and stopped getting up.

"Hmm."

Ah Meng just responded and went to the back kitchen.

The tiger turned his head and looked at Ah Meng, who had left to cook noodles, for a while,

He turned his head again.

Xu Feng looked at the tiger and didn't ask any more questions for the time being.

The tiger turned his head and looked around the inn from time to time, and then looked at Xu Feng and the old cow who had been a little nervous next to him.

The hair on the skull was also stained with some dried blood.

“…… Eat it. ”

After a while, Ah Meng came out with a large bowl of noodles and put it on the dining table.

Xu Feng stretched out his hand, pushed the big bowl of noodles on the table to the tiger, and said out loud.

The tiger smelled the smell, straightened up, lowered its head a little,

The head removed the chopsticks from the noodle bowl and dropped them on the table.

The tiger poked his head into the bowl, sniffed again, and lay back down.

lowered his eyebrows, his voice was like a low roar, and he said again vaguely,

"I don't eat these, I want to eat meat."

As he spoke, he spit out another burst of fishy breath in his mouth.

"Then you should have said it earlier, and told me before you cooked the noodles. Plus, there's no meat for this. ”

"I want to eat meat...... I want to eat meat! ”

The tiger, which has always been calm, seems to have burst out of wildness,

He raised his head again, and the two tiger's eyes were stained with some blood, and he opened his mouth wide, revealing the sharp teeth in his mouth.

"What do you want to do?"

Xu Feng stood up and asked calmly in the face of this beast with a bloody mouth wide open and a little hideous.

“…… I...... I...... Just want to eat meat. ”

The beast tiger seemed to be frightened by Xu Feng's calm words,

The whole leaning forward shrank back, the sharp teeth exposed in his mouth were retracted, and he closed his mouth, and the blood in his eyes faded.

Just said with some cringe.

"I don't have any meat here."

Xu Feng said again.

"I see."

"You wait here. I'll see where you want to go. ”

Looking at this 'evil guest' here, Xu Feng also lost a smile on his face,

Without saying a word more politely, he turned around.

"Okay."

The tiger fell back on his stomach, lowered his head, and buried himself in the noodle bowl.

"Old Niu, please take a closer look here, and we'll be back later."

"The old cow obeys the orders of the lord."

Xu Feng turned his head again and said something to the old cow.

The old cow bowed his head in response, and then looked at the beast vigilantly.

Xu Feng turned his head again and asked Ah Meng more,

"Leave the old cow here, it's okay."

"It's alright, in the inn."

Hear Among's reply.

Xu Feng nodded again.

"Then let's go, go to the world and see what's going on."

"Hmm."

Ah Meng and Xu Feng walked side by side towards the door of the inn.

The beast buried in the noodle bowl, when Xu Feng and Ah Meng walked outside the inn,

He raised his head again, looked at the backs of the two of them, and looked around the inn again.

Xu Feng stepped out of the inn door, and then looked back at the evil guests in the inn.

The tiger lowered its head again.

Turning around, let Ah Meng take the hand.

Xu Feng and Ah Meng were outside the back door of the inn, took one more step forward, and left the underworld.

……

"Chirp...... Tweet ......"

In the mountain village at the foot of the mountain, there are twenty or thirty families built on the mountain.

In the early years, he lived on hunting and harvesting in the fields at the foot of the mountain.

In recent years, the nearby tourist scenery has been developed, and this mountain village next to the foot of the mountain has also started a homestay business.

However, the residents of the village do not have much money to build any special homestays.

At most, I will repair a few more of my own houses, and more, I will clean up one or two of my own houses for people who come to travel, and provide some farmhouse meals and home-cooked dishes by the way.

In the peak season, with the original farmhouse flavor, it also attracts many people from the city to travel.

It is also difficult for people in the mountain village to understand what life in this mountain village is so good.

They are already tired of seeing the mountain and forest scenes outside this mountain village, they are the mountains and forests, and they don't know what to see.

The deep foot and the shallow foot, the rugged mountain road is nothing to walk.

But none of that matters, the important thing is that someone is willing to come.

But at this time, it is the off-season for tourism,

At the end of the day, there are not two self-driving tourists, and there are only these twenty or thirty families living in the village.

"Giggle......

It was noon, and the birds in the mountains and forests were still chirping,

The mountain fog was still in the forest, and it did not dissipate even at noon, when the sun was high.

However, it did not spread to the villages at the foot of the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, in the village, in the pen where the farmer raised livestock, the hens holding the nest still crowed.

On the not very wide village road,

The tourists who went to the entrance of the village to wait for them, and returned in vain, the villagers who ran the homestay were walking back empty-handed, talking to the people in the courtyard of the people next to them.

“…… Old money, no guests coming? ”

"No, hey, I haven't had any vacation recently, so those who should go to work are working, and those who should earn money are earning money, and it's rare for a few people to come. I waited all morning, but no one came. I think I'm going to harvest the buds in the field in the afternoon. ”

"It's almost time to take it, I passed by your field today, and I see that the beard is gone."

"Really? If you want to eat corn, you can pull it yourself, I can't eat it myself in the house anyway. ”

"Hey, I have a yard of corn still drying here, what do you want...... Go, go, don't peck at my food. ”

Xu Feng and Ah Meng appeared in this mountain village, and they appeared in the courtyard of this family.

In the yard of this family, dry corn cobs to be threshed are being sunburned, and next to the yard, there is already a pile of threshing corn.

The woman of this family was turning over the corn that was drying in the sun.

And Xu Feng and Ah Meng were incarnated into two sparrows that had just landed in the yard.

"That's not it, I'm still fresh there, eat something delicious, you're all dried here."

"That's okay, then I'll pull two of them another day, don't think I'll take too much."

"You can take ten or eight of them, as long as you can eat them...... Go, go, go...... Where are the sparrows here, really, don't peck at the corn here, go, go and ......"

Passers-by also helped shout at the sparrows by the yard.

Xu Feng, who had just incarnated, turned his head and looked at Ah Meng,

In the midst of this shouting and driving away, it also took off into the air.

The two of them flew farther away from the sky.

In the courtyard, the two of them were still talking,

“…… Eh, the fog in this mountain is also strange, and it is still not dispersed at noon. ”

"What's so strange about this, the miasma in the mountains and forests, in the old forests, has not been seen and dispersed all year round."

"Then you can't stay here all the time, the fog is still wide, listen, Lao Yu went up the mountain yesterday and almost got lost? Say it's wide. ”

"I heard the news about what the weather was abnormal, and I didn't know what was going on."

"Hey...... I also said that I would go up the mountain to pick some mushrooms another day and try them, it only rained last night, so I can't start mushrooms for these two days......"

“…… Old money, old Zhang...... Hurry up and get to the entrance of the village...... Grab the flashlight tool and get ready to head up the mountain. ”

At this time, someone suddenly came in a hurry, shouting from house to house as they walked.

"What's the matter, this is."

"Lao Hu is lost. His daughter-in-law said that this morning, she went to the mountains to pick mushrooms, and said that she would come back at noon, but she didn't come back at noon, and the mobile phone she brought couldn't get through...... Hurry up the mountain and look for it.

Now the fog is big, and our mountain is also deep, don't get lost and go into the old forest, then where to find it, hurry up and help......"

"Let's go up the mountain together, don't get lost after being separated for a while."

"Huh...... Okay, I'll go back and get something, and I'll ......"

At the shouting, the residents of this mountain village were busy.

Xu Feng and Ah Meng, the incarnated sparrows, hovered over this mountain forest,

Looking at these village men, they organized, took their tools and sharp weapons, and went up the mountain to find people.

Circling in the air again, there was no other situation to be seen.

"Ameng, let's go."

Xu Feng said to Ah Meng.

The sparrows that the two of them incarnated flew out a little further,

Immediately after, it was like crossing a long distance and changing places.

……

"Squeak...... Squeak......"

The birds in the mountains and forests were replaced by insects, and the sky went from noon to night.

Xu Feng and Ah Meng appeared in the bedroom room.

In the bedroom, it is simply furnished.

There is a double bed with a clean and tidy quilt.

Next to the bed was a desk, a stool, two kettles, and an upside-down teacup on the table.

On the other side, against the wall, there is a small wardrobe, and in the closet is empty, there are two sets of pajamas and bath towels.

At this moment, Xu Feng and Ah Meng were standing by the window of this bedroom, side by side, facing the night outside the window.

Outside the window, you can see that it is still this small mountain village.

In the village, in every house, in the yard, there are bright lights,

Dispel the darkness of the night that spreads from the surrounding mountains and forests.

"Knock Knock ......"

"Dao Chief...... Taoist ...... Did you sleep? ”

At this time, there was a knock on the bedroom door by someone outside the house, and someone outside the door shouted quietly.

Xu Feng listened to the shout, and then lowered his head and looked at the clothes on his body.

Sure enough, he changed into a Taoist robe, probably incarnated into a Taoist priest again.

Raising his head again, Xu Feng looked out the window at the mountain village at night.

This is probably a reflection of what has happened here.

It's like the lively scene in front of the previous guest, the Land Lord Temple.

However, I didn't see the tiger this time.

Turning around, he looked at Amon again,

Ah Meng also looked at Xu Feng.

Turning around, Xu Feng and Ah Meng walked towards the door that was still knocking gently.

"The Taoist ......"

The knock on the door went on again, and they all fell silent, as if they thought they were asleep, so they didn't shout again.

But at this time, Xu Feng had already reached out and opened the door.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?"

"I'm sorry, Chief. It's late at night, and it wakes you up. ”

Outside the door, there stood an old man who was about to turn away.

The old man, dressed in a dark, long-sleeved shirt, heard the door open, and quickly turned back again.

First apologized to Xu Feng and Ah Meng, and waited for Xu Feng to shake his head,

The old man continued,

"Dao Chief, I didn't want to wake you up. It's just that someone died in our village. Our village is small, and there are no gentlemen here. If you want to ask Mr. Michigan, you have to go to a far place. ”

"It just so happens that the Taoist is here today. When they bring it up, let me ask. I don't know if the Taoist chief will accept the presiding over this funeral ceremony. If the Taoist chief doesn't do this, I'll tell them. ”

"Presiding over the funeral. But I didn't bring anything with me. ”

The funeral ceremony, Xu Feng really knows how to learn it when he incarnated as a Taoist priest on the mountain.

"It's okay, it's okay. If the Taoist chief needs to say something, he will call someone to buy it. ”

"That's fine. Where is the deceased? ”

"Thank you for your help, thank you for your help...... Daoist, I'll give you free of your two-day accommodation fee here. Of course, the funeral ceremony fee that you should charge, Dao Chief, you still collect it, just discuss it with the owner, we all understand this. ”

"I'll charge the fee, and don't get rid of the accommodation fee."

"It's different, it's just that Daoist Xie has saved us from trouble, otherwise we have to go to a distant place outside the village to ask for someone. There are only twenty or thirty families in our village, and they are all related to each other. ”

"Dao Chief, it was the old Hu family who died, just in front of the village, I will lead you there, and I will lead the way for you."

Seeing that Xu Feng agreed, the old man thanked him and led the way in front.

And the three of them went out of the house.

When I walked to the road in the village, I could already see the family of the person who had died.

In that courtyard, several incandescent lamps hung high, illuminating brightly.

Under the lights, basically the whole village was there.

“…… Dao Chief, this old Hu didn't die so ...... He didn't die of sickness and old age. He went to the mountains this morning and died in the mountains. Daoist, do you see if there is anything special to pay attention to? ”

"Hmm...... How exactly he died. ”

“…… I asked them to follow the people who went to the mountains to find someone, and I didn't go with them...... Eh, the boss of the Hu family, come over and tell the Taoist chief about the situation......"