"Who is the owner of the house? Why invite us? Zhou Tao didn't follow in immediately, but stood outside the gate and asked.

The girl turned around and said with a faint smile: "You will know who my master is, and the master said that if you don't go to see her, you may have to worry about your life." ”

A hint of coldness flashed in Tang Ming's eyes, and he said in a somewhat cold tone: "If we don't go in, do you still want to kill us?" ”

The girl covered her mouth and chuckled: "The guest misunderstood, it's not that I want to kill you, it's that you will be in danger in the future." ”

Hearing the girl say this, Tang Ming knew that he had misunderstood the other party's meaning, and he was very embarrassed, so he didn't speak again.

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Zhou Tao gave Tang Ming and Tang Can all the careful looks, and then walked into the courtyard with the girl.

Entering the courtyard, Zhou Tao and the three of them stepped on the path paved with bluestone bricks, looking left and right at the layout in the courtyard.

I saw that there were countless lanterns hanging in the courtyard, illuminating the courtyard as if it were day, and the pavilions and pavilions in the courtyard, rockery and flowing water, everything.

What's even more eye-catching is that there are many exotic flowers and plants planted on both sides of the path, and all kinds of beautiful flowers are blooming one after another, and the fragrance of flowers is even more lingering on the tip of the nose, which makes people intoxicated.

Seeing this vibrant scene, Zhou Tao at this time not only did not appreciate the beautiful scenery, but the vigilance in his heart increased.

It was a very strange thing that there was such a large courtyard in the cave, and now there were so many strange flowers and plants, and the vibrant scene was in stark contrast to the lifeless desolation of the cave outside.

It's like a paradise

Tang Ming and Tang Can also had the same idea as Zhou Tao, no one was in the mood to enjoy the beautiful scenery, and they were secretly on guard.

Passing through a corridor, Zhou Tao and the three of them followed the girl to the backyard.

After bringing the three of them to the main hall of the front hall, the girl said, "Please wait a while, my master will be there soon." With that, the girl turned and left.

In this vestibule are two rows of antique solid wood tables and chairs.

Tang Can walked to one of the chairs and sat down, and said with some complaints: "They said that they invited us here, and now they are asking us to wait, the master of this courtyard has a really big shelf." ”

At this time, a tactful and crisp voice like a pechoin came from outside the door, with a hint of resentment in the voice: "This little brother has wronged the little woman, and the little woman knows that the distinguished guest is coming, so she naturally has to freshen up and dress up before she can come to see you." ”

Before anyone arrived, the fragrant wind arrived first, and with this sound, Zhou Tao and the three of them all smelled a refreshing fragrance of flowers, and then a woman wearing a white ancient Hanfu came.

Seeing this woman's appearance, Zhou Tao couldn't help but chant a poem: "There is no beauty in a thousand autumns, and it is a beautiful woman to the eye; Alluring the country and the city, shocking the world"

"It's really a good poem, but is the little woman's appearance really that beautiful?" The woman in white walked in slowly and sat down on the main seat in the front hall.

"Beautiful, really beautiful." Tang Can's eyes were about to look straight.

"Then this little brother, do you still want to complain that the little girl is late?" The woman in white covered her mouth and chuckled.

"Naturally not, it's an honor for me to wait for such a stunning beauty." Tang Can's little fart was loud.

"Eh, stop, it's just your pleasure, don't bring me with you." Tang Ming looked like an old monk sitting in meditation, unmoved.

Zhou Tao coughed lightly, suppressed the initial amazement, and said calmly: "I don't know what happened to the beauties?" The three of us brothers and the girl never knew each other, so why did the girl warn us of the dangers ahead? ”

Speaking of business, the woman in white had a more serious expression, but her voice was still gentle: "The little woman's name is Tang Wan, and she was born during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Daming Jiajing year? It's been more than 400 years, are you a human or a ghost? Tang Can's eyes glared at the boss, and he no longer had the mood to look at the beauty at the beginning, what kind of beauty is this, this is the living ancestor.

Tang Wan smiled coquettishly and said: "This little brother said that the little brother is laughing, the little woman is naturally not a human, but she is not a ghost, the little woman is a demon." ”

Hearing this, Zhou Tao's luck was adjusted, and a trace of chaotic qi turned to the pupils of his eyes, looking at Tang Wan, and suddenly, the woman in white disappeared, and sitting on the chair was a black cat, the black cat's hair was black and shiny, like brocade, and behind the black cat, there were nine tails swaying.

Zhou Tao's heart was shocked, and he blurted out: "You are the Nine Lives Xuan Cat?"

Tang Wan was taken aback at first, she didn't expect Zhou Tao to be able to see her body, but in an instant, Tang Wan's expression fell lonely, and she sighed lightly and said:

"This son has good eyesight, the little woman is indeed a cat demon, but she is not a nine-life cat, the little woman only has eight tails, and she is not a cat."

Zhou Tao was a little puzzled, he had just seen that the black cat had nine tails behind him, so he asked this question.

After Tang Wan heard Zhou Tao's question, her expression became even more lonely: "I am indeed eight-tailed, but I have reached the limit of the eight-tails, and I am about to be promoted to the nine-tails, so there will be a phantom of the ninth tail, and the phantom of the ninth tail has appeared more than two hundred years ago, but now two hundred years have passed, and my nine-tails still have not grown." ”

"Didn't you just say that you were about to break through to the Nine-Tails? Why has it been more than 200 years and still failed to break through? Tang Ming felt that what Tang Wan said was a bit contradictory.

Tang Wan smiled sadly: "Our civet clan has had ancestral teachings since ancient times, and we must accumulate virtue and do good, so we have a very special requirement when we are promoted to the Nine-Tails, and these Nine-Tails are not obtained by our cultivation, but rely on you humans." ”

"Dependent on us humans? What do you mean by that? Zhou Tao was a little curious, this cultivation is cultivation, and they all cultivate their own cultivation, and I haven't heard that cultivation has to rely on others.

"Childe doesn't know, if we want to grow a tail, we need to find a destined person, and then let this destined person make a wish to us, so that we will grow a ninth tail."

"Make a wish to you?? What kind of strange condition is this? Tang Can was amazed at such a cultivation.

"Yes, it's a wish." Speaking of this, Tang Wan showed a look of reminiscence: "Over the years, I have met a total of five destined people, the first one is the destined person I found after a long time when I just condensed the ninth tail phantom.

This destined person, named Meng Hao, is a scholar who entered Beijing to take the exam.

Meng Hao's family is poor, he is a child of a poor family, he can study steadily, and he can have the opportunity to enter Beijing to take the exam, all because his wife has been working hard to earn money for him, and the entanglement of entering Beijing to take the exam is also his wife's work day and night.

So this time he went to Beijing to take the exam with the confidence that he would be on the list, but when he went to Beijing to report, he was told that his name had been registered.

How could Meng Hao accept this impostor, he worked hard to come to the capital, not to mention that he had read all these years in vain, even his wife's efforts over the years were in vain.

Meng Hao, who was full of anger, came to the yamen to sue the impostor and regain his qualification to take the exam.

However, the impostor was the son of a wealthy businessman in the capital, and he had already settled the relationship between the top and bottom of the capital, and finally Meng Hao was convicted of false accusations, and after being beaten with ten boards, he was driven out of the capital, and he couldn't step into the capital for half a step in his life.

When I met him, he was in a ruined temple not far from the city, he was seriously injured after being beaten ten boards, and he had spent all his money to go to Beijing to take the exam.

So when I saw him, he was lying on a pile of broken thatch, already dying.

I brought him food and water and healed his wounds, and he was grateful to me and said he would repay me.

I told Meng Hao at the time that if you want to repay me, make a wish to me, and I can help him realize his wish.

At that time, Meng Hao hesitated for a while and said that his wish was to be able to take this exam and be able to go to high school.

I nodded yes, and at the cost of one tail, I gave him his wish, and on the day he was in high school, his wish came true, and I grew one tail again, but I still only had eight tails. “

After listening to this story, Tang Can was a little embarrassed, and he said, "I said Tang Wan, are you mistaken?" Is there really the only way to promote the Nine-Tails?

But this is completely impossible, if someone makes a wish to you, you can get a tail, but if you help others realize their wishes, you will lose a tail.

If you only have eight tails, you will never have nine tails. “

Tang Wan's mood became obviously depressed, and she said softer in her voice than just now: "I've also thought about this, but our spirit cat clan all cultivates like this, so I'm not reconciled, so I went to find a second destined person, this destined person is a hunter."

That winter, the snow was so heavy that it was difficult to find the animals in the mountains, and the hunter had not eaten for several days, so he violated the hunter's agreement at that time and put a trap in the mountains without permission.

The next day, when he went up the mountain again, he found a hairy broken claw in the trap, which looked like a fox's claw, and Orion thought to himself that no matter how small the mosquito was, it was still meat, and although this broken claw did not have much meat, it was better than nothing, so he threw it in the bamboo basket behind him.

After starving for many days, Orion finally decided to venture into the mountains to try his luck.

It is said that there are many rabbits in the deep mountains, and maybe you can hit a rabbit, thinking of the delicacy of rabbit meat, Orion can't help but swallow his saliva, and he is even hungrier.

After walking for another half day, in the deep mountains, he finally caught a rabbit, so he was full of joy and prepared to go back, but after walking back for a while, he saw an old woman in the mountains.

Orion had a good heart, so he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Auntie, how did you run into this mountain alone, how dangerous it is, I'll send you back." ”