Laibin is a city with more plain areas than other cities.

Except for Kim so.

Jinxiu is the area where the local Yao people live, located in the northeast of Laibin, nearly eighty percent of the territory is mountainous and hilly, it can be said that it is a city built in the mountains.

The center of the city is located in the valley river zone.

It is said to be a city, but in fact it is a small town, with a population of less than 150,000, and it is only six kilometers from beginning to end along the main line.

It's actually a very interesting place.

The inhabitants here are composed of Yao, Gu, Miao, Dong, etc., among which the Yao nationality has the largest number, more than one-third.

The worship of the Yao folk gods is even more serious than that of other young tribes, and there are as many as seven or eight hundred gods sacrificed.

There are three main categories:

One is the ancestral god, such as the ancestor of the Yao people, Panwang;

the second is the local guardian gods, such as Shegong, Land, Linggong, Sanjie Gong, Gan Wang, and Kaishan Ancestor;

The third is the guardian god of the family, such as the Stove King, the Door God, the God of Wealth, and the Thunder King.

With the exception of the Ancestral Deities, there is no strict boundary between the patron deities of the place and the patron deities of the family.

However, the choice of the family god is not random.

Take Shanzi Yao in the Yao nationality as an example, you have to go through the divination of the master, and respect which one you think is suitable. During the New Year's festival or in case of family unrest, incense paper is burned to worship the gods, asking for the blessing of its manifestations, eliminating disasters and blessings.

Since it is said that the gods are tricky, then in addition to the gods, there are naturally tricks.

However, these weirdness are not the same as ordinary weirdness.

You must know that in many cases, the so-called gods do not refer to immortals in a narrow sense.

All gods, immortals, weird, strange, witches, illusions, etc., with "divinity", can all be called gods.

Being able to be worshiped as a god of worship for a long time, being worshiped for a long time, and being contaminated with the smell of incense, there is a little more divinity.

Of course, this kind of god is only a false god, and it is far from the right god. It can be understood as another group of cultivators of a race different from the human race.

……

As many mountains as there are, there are many strange things.

On Jinxiu's Dayao Mountain, there are things including but not limited to mountain spirits, fox monsters, and so on.

Some for good, some for evil.

Those who do evil are naturally crusaded against, while those who do good are usually incarnated as earth-bound spirits, living in other people's homes and keeping them safe.

This type is also called Baojiaxian in the northeast, and family protectors in the south.

Such as the more common Hu Huang Chang Python, Qingfeng Trickster, willow white gray and so on.

All mean the same thing.

Fox tricks are one of the most common.

The so-called fox trick is the fox, weasel, raccoon cat and other animals, after death turned into trickery, many places call this kind of thing "great immortal".

This kind of trick has a characteristic, it can be attached to dishes, bowls, pens and other things that are often used by humans, and incarnate as "pen fairy" and "dish fairy".

It is more common for foxes to turn into foxes after death, they often have successful cultivation during their lifetime, and do not go to reincarnation after death, but protect their families in exchange for heaven and earth merits.

After all, foxes are relatively intelligent, and they belong to the canine family, and their appearance is a little more pleasing than other animals, and they know how to choose a cultivation method that is beneficial to them.

Ancient books such as "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" and "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" have similar records.

Even the Civil Bureau, when it encounters such a situation, will choose to open the net.

It's similar to the difference between stray dogs and pet dogs, the latter has a license, has been vaccinated, has a different identity, and has different treatment.

Of course, if the family protector does something bad, he will also be contained.

……

The blessings of the government's house,

In recent years, Dayao Mountain has been developed a lot of tourism resources, foreign tourists come to play on holidays, and the people in the mountains take the opportunity to peddle their own local products, and their lives are much better than before.

Shen An's parents are among the beneficiaries.

During the day, he set up a stall in the market to sell all kinds of small handicrafts, and at night he signed up to participate in ethnic cultural performances and earn two money.

As for the two brothers and sisters, when they came home from school at night, after eating and writing their homework, they obediently took a bath and watched TV, and went to bed at the end of the day.

Because they live in the mountains, they rarely go out at night, and they close their doors and windows after dark.

In recent years, tourists from outside have come in, and the government has developed night ethnic cultural performance projects in order to drive the local economy.

On this day, Shen An and Shen Ning, two elementary school students, as usual, finished their homework, took a shower, watched TV for a while, and got ready to sleep.

Shen Ning was young, and it was when he was sleepy, so he fell asleep when he lay down.

As the eldest brother, Shen An will only go to sleep after closing the doors and windows. Parents they brought the keys and would open the door themselves when they came back.

Just as Shen An was lying down, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.

"Who?"

Shen An was puzzled and walked to the living room to ask.

No one should be.

He thought he had misheard, and was ready to go back and lie down and continue sleeping.

Then I heard a tuk-tuk knock on the door.

"Who's out there?!"

Shen An's voice raised a few points.

Still no one responded.

He was a little nervous and didn't dare open the door.

Although he is only ten years old, he is still smart and vigilant.

Curious, he looked out through the cat's eye on the door, and met the eye that was lying on the door.

"Ahh

Shen An was so frightened that he stepped back, fell to the ground, the whole person was not good, he was shocked and angry, and he wanted to open the door with a stick to drive away the guy who scared him outside.

"Just don't go out, it won't get in!"

At this moment, an old voice suddenly sounded in my ears.

Shen An's hair stood on end, and when he turned his head to look, he saw a fat old fox sitting on his shrine.

Why fat?

Because he had never seen such a round fox, the size of a piglet.

Why do you say old?

Its demeanor and expression made it look like an old man, especially the beards and eyebrows, half of which were white.

Shen An's eyes widened and subconsciously shrank back.

What is this?!

……

The fat fox was very unhappy with his frightened expression: "I've been in your house for so many years, and you still don't know me?" ”

"Are you ......?"

Shen An hesitated.

The fat fox was angry and scolded: "Don't you know how to read? You don't know the surname of the family god you worship? ”

Shen An saw the god card next to it, and was stunned for a moment before he suddenly realized: "You are Mrs. Hu?" It turns out that Hu means fox. ”

He said, why does his surname Lu enshrine a tablet surnamed Hu.

I asked my parents before, but they would only say that this was a family god and should not be rude, but they never told him other information.

Dare to love this Mrs. Hu is a fox.

The fat fox snorted lightly: "If it weren't for the fact that you are a child, someone else would have pointed at me instead, I would have slapped him in the face." ”

After knowing that it was the family god that he worshipped, Shen An was relieved.

The children of the Yao nationality have been exposed to the concepts of family gods, land protection gods, and ancestral gods since they were young, and they are not afraid, but more curious.

So he asked, "Master Hu, what's outside the door?" ”

"Wanderer."

"What is a wanderer?"

Although the fat fox looked arrogant, he patiently explained: "It is the master who led the soldiers and horses, and after his death, there was no one to inherit his mantle, so he wandered around to see if he could find a successor." Looks like it's taking a fancy to you. ”

Fancy me?

Shen An didn't understand anything else, but he understood the last sentence.

The thought of that terrifying eye made me tremble with fright.

What kind of wanderer, shouldn't he want to capture and eat him?

The fat fox was about to laugh at him, when suddenly his face changed slightly, and his figure disappeared from the shrine, and then appeared at the doorway, and with a stretch of his paws, he kicked the foot that had stepped in.

The fur on the fox's tail exploded directly.

Shen An was stunned for a moment, unaware of it.

The fat fox had a serious expression at this time.

The strength of this wanderer is stronger than it imagined. If it was in its heyday, it wouldn't care, but now it's just a fox ghost.

Mana is limited.

And at home, there is no altar of soldiers and horses, and this traveling master must be driven away, otherwise it will try its best to attach itself to the two children.

The child is weak and cannot afford it, and it can be a serious illness at least or a death at worst.

The time has come to fulfill the duties of the family gods.

How to fight!

Win and stay!

For the old fox, it must not lose, and after losing it, it will be in vain for so many years. It does not enter reincarnation after death, and has to come to be the home god of mortals?

One is incense, and the other is merit.

It is equivalent to signing an agreement, and only by protecting the safety of the house can it get these things, and it is better to break the contract and pay the price.

So, even for your own sake, you have to keep these two little ones today!

……

Shen An's eyes widened.

Watching the fat fox stubbornly block the things outside the door and not let them in, he felt a little more calm in his heart for no reason.

He never thought that there really was a god in the world.

Although I have been worshipping gods since I was a child, I have heard all kinds of stories about Panwang and other gods, but I have no concept of real gods.

With his knowledge, he naturally couldn't understand what the situation was now.

However, this does not prevent him from having the idea and emotion that he is being protected.

It's the bitter fat fox Mrs. Hu.

In order to protect this family and keep his job, he can only go all out and block the tour master from the door.

Thankfully, You may have been strong in his life, but after his death, he was limited in his ability to exert his instinctive consciousness alone, which gave it a slight upper hand.

After some wrestling, the tour master retreated.

The fat fox sat on the ground like a human, panting heavily, looking a little sluggish, and gurgling something inexplicable.

Shen An looked at this scene in amazement.

This is, the end?

"What are you doing? Go get me three sticks of incense! ”

The fat fox, who was relieved, was suddenly unhappy when he saw this kid staring at him stupidly.

"Oh oh oh!"

Shen An hurriedly went to get incense.

"Light it and stick it in the incense burner!"

The fat fox reminded impatiently, feeling that this kid was stupid, and he didn't know what the wanderer liked about him.

Three sticks of incense are inserted in front of the god card.

The smoke that ignited, as if it was being pulled by some mysterious force, floated in front of the fat fox, and was sucked into its body, and it barely looked as languishing as it had just been.

Shen An looked at it and became more and more surprised.

"It shouldn't come again, go sleep."

The fat fox wagged its paws.

"So where did it go? Will it hurt others? ”

Shen An asked.

The fat fox glanced at him: "Who knows? My mission is to protect this home, and no one else is under my protection. ”

Shen An was suddenly worried: "Then, can the land god and the Pan King get rid of it?" ”

The fat fox rolled his eyes angrily: "Your Pan King is long gone, and the same is true of the land god, if it is still there, it will not let this kind of thing run around!" ”

"Huh?"

Shen An was surprised.

The Pan King and the Land God are gone?

"Alright, alright, go to bed, I'm going to sleep too."

The fat fox waved his hand impatiently, stopped answering, jumped back on the shrine, and got into the god card.

Shen An looked at all this in a daze, and finally returned to his room.

What happened tonight had a huge impact on him.

But as he walked back to his room, the fat fox reappeared, crouching on the shrine, his brow furrowed.

The little one's question just now awakened some bad memories for him.

If the gods of heaven and earth are still there, and the order is still there, then things like Youshi can be allowed to go around and harm mortals.

At that moment, its face suddenly changed and it appeared outside the door of the house.

……

I saw a tall figure standing outside the door.

Although he can't see the other side clearly, he feels very young, and he exudes an air of supreme majesty.

Just by looking at it, the fat fox closed his eyes in fright and fell to his knees.

"Fox?"

Chen Jingle frowned.

The fat fox trembled with fright, and hurriedly kowtowed: "The little one is the family protector god who is allowed by the master and worshiped by the family, not a lonely soul in the mountains." ”

I'm afraid that if I say it slowly, my soul will fly away in the next second.

Although I don't know what the origin of the person in front of me is, the momentum will not deceive people, and intuition will not deceive people.

It has a feeling that if he is disrespectful at all, the other party's thought can make him live and not die.

It's a top powerhouse!

It's even more powerful than the big demons it has seen in its lifetime, or the land god mountain god!

Hiss~

Just now I said that the gods of heaven and earth have disappeared, when will such a powerful existence come out of this heaven and earth?

Ha people!

"Family Patron Saint?"

I see.

Chen Jingle groaned slightly, and nodded slightly: "You were fighting with this tour master just now?" ”

He pinched a figure between his five fingers, which was a miniature version of the tour master.

The fat fox, who was originally prostrate on the ground, looked up slightly, Tong Kong was shocked, and hurriedly lowered his head: "Yes." Just now, the wanderer suddenly appeared at the door, and I was afraid that it would hurt the two children in the house, so I drove it away...... Please be punished by the immortals. ”

At this moment, it was simply turbulent in its heart, although the tour master relied on instinct afterwards, but it was so easy to grasp, and the means were beyond its imagination.

I can't guess the origin of the person in front of me.

"You are conscientious in your duties, how can you punish it."

Chen Jingle's tone was calm: "How long have you been a protector in this family?" ”

"It's been forty-three years."

"Why don't you go to reincarnation, but stay in the world and become a family god?"

The fat fox hesitated for a second: "The immortal doesn't know, the great ancestor of this family, once had a kindness to me, and I agreed with him that if he can't become enlightened, when the time comes, he will be the god of his family and protect his descendants for fifty years." Now that forty-three years have passed, there are still seven years left to complete my task, and it is not too late to go to reincarnation by then. ”

Chen Jingle was surprised: "I see. ”

I didn't expect this fox to be so promised.

"By the way, what year did you become a sperm?"

"Gengxu year."

1910, that was 100 years ago.

A trace of trance flashed in Chen Jingle's eyes, fleeting, another existence of the old era.

After a little hesitation, he asked, "How familiar are you with Dayao Mountain?" ”

The fat fox hurriedly said: "It's quite familiar, before the little one turned into a fox, he was also an elder of the fox clan, but after serving as the family god, he hasn't been on the mountain for a long time, and I don't know if it has changed much." ”

"Do you have any juniors in the mountains?"

"Yes, yes."

"Okay, then you can accompany me on a trip to Dayao Mountain!"

"Yes!"

The fat fox didn't dare to refuse, but he wondered in his heart, what is this old man going to do in the mountains?

With the strength of the other party, no one would dare to say anything even if the entire mountain range was flattened, so why bring it?

Could it be ......