"Oh? Dao Leader wants to subdue demons and eliminate demons? ”

Everyone looked at this Taoist, some of their eyes were novel, some were surprised, they had heard a lot of stories about subduing demons and eliminating demons, but there were few people around them.

"Let's go see it first......"

"Niu Village is not far away, thirty miles ahead, there is a big slope, up the slope and then down the slope. Someone set up a tea stall in Niu Village, and after the tea stall, a moat was the family. The family had built a pigsty outside, and there was a pond next to it. It took about half a day to walk through. The dart master paused as he spoke, "As for the mountain demon that Brother Wang said before, the one that asked people to carry it across the bridge will have to go twenty miles ahead and encounter a low bridge with tattered and turbulent water." ”

After speaking, he turned his head to look at the Taoist: "Daoist is you going?" ”

"I am a wandering Taoist in the next place, and I am going to go in that direction, and when I encounter such a strange thing, I naturally want to see it." Song You said and saluted, "Thank you for your guidance." ”

The crowd looked at him, each thinking in their hearts.

However, the Taoist only said that he wanted to take a look, and did not collect money from them, so at most, everyone only doubted whether he had the intention to eliminate demons, but they did not suspect that he was a charlatan.

It really doesn't look like it.

"Sir, where is this from?" The idle man in the rivers and lakes who had just opened his mouth to talk about the mountain demon asked.

"Come back from your travels."

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to Yunzhou."

"Sir, why doesn't this horse hold the reins?"

"Horses are smart and don't need reins."

"I think Mr. is also a capable master, the man-eating monsters in the cow village are too hateful, and I prefer good people and honest people to start, my Wang has also passed by that family, begged for a few sips of water to drink, if it is not for asking himself that he has not learned martial arts, and has no ability, he must also follow the guidance of Wang Shangong, pick a good weather and call his brother to go to the mountains to find it." The idle people in the rivers and lakes frowned, "I heard that many years ago it was still on this road, and the ghosts of the cold water and fog were rampant, and it was a passing immortal master who removed it casually, and later people also made a statue for him on the side of the road. It's also a good thing, and I can leave a good talk! ”

"Emulate the former immortal master......"

Song You muttered, but smiled.

It's a wonderful thing.

So he was gentle and polite, and said to the people of the rivers and lakes: "I should follow the example of that immortal master." ”

A slight pause –

"It's just that there is still something important in the next ten miles, you have to turn left into the path ten miles ahead, just a mountain demon, there is nothing to worry about, there is a Yanxian friend below, it is enough to ask him for help."

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the swallow that heard his words flew down from the sky, through the dense Gübelin, and landed on a nearby branch.

When everyone saw this, their eyes widened.

"Is the Daoist really sure?"

"There are demons and ghosts harming people nearby, but they have not been solved for a long time, and there is no light on the face." The Taoist looked calm, "Everyone, please take care of it." ”

I saw that the Taoist gave a few words to the swallow, and told the swallow the appearance and general location of the two demons, and the swallow nodded again and again, as if he understood human words, and then turned his head and flew into the distance, his body was light and swift, and he disappeared all of a sudden.

At the same time, in the quilt bag on the horse's back, a short sword was faintly seen to be unsheathed in an instant, and it went with him, and with a brush, it passed through the gap between the branches and leaves of the ancient cypress, and disappeared into the sky.

When everyone saw this, they were all amazed.

"That being the case, I've rested enough below, and I'm leaving." The Taoist held the brocade bag of Sanhua Niangniang, the sweat on his face had dissipated, and his body had cooled down, so he got up, "It is also fate to meet here, so I will leave." ”

"Immortals walk slowly......"

The Taoist put a bamboo cane on the pillar and walked away.

The horses, with their jingling bells and the sound of their hooves, followed him honestly.

Sometimes the cat raised his head and looked at the sky in the distance, sometimes turned his head to look at the people who were resting behind him, and also followed the Taoist with small steps.

There was a lot of discussion behind him.

"Now Niu Village is saved, and we will be less frightened when we walk on this road."

"This person is so powerful, why don't you ask him to get rid of all the demons along the way?"

"Oh, I should ask him for two talismans."

"It's not a lie to say before, it is said that there was really a Taoist temple on the Yin and Yang Mountain in Lingquan County, and the Taoist chief in the Taoist temple is really boundless, and he is the best at subduing demons and eliminating demons, if they are still there, the demons on this road will not be rampant to the point that there are so many of them, but they are gone, I don't know why they ......."

The sound drifted into the ears of the Taoist, but as the Taoist walked away, he gradually became inaudible.

"Why ......"

The Taoist repeated the last sentence he heard.

I feel all kinds of feelings in my heart.

He quickly put it aside, turned his head as he walked, and looked at the mountains and forests on both sides.

It's time to clean it up.

……

It only takes half an hour to go ten miles ahead.

As the group turned to the side, left Jinyang Road, and walked into a branch line, Sanhua Niangniang never walked behind Song You again, but kept walking in front with small steps, without saying a word, but often stopped to look at a certain landscape next to him, a mountain village, a certain household, or turned his head, looked at the Taoist, and waited for him to go faster.

Seeing this, the Taoist also walked a little faster.

At that time, Sanhua Niangniang's incense was prosperous, and the villagers of ten miles and eight towns came to her to get rid of rats, and she got rid of rats night and night, and the nearby mountain villages wanted to have been there, maybe this road has also been walked many times.

Now that I am here, I am naturally familiar.

Not long after, the cats stopped again, walked to the side of the road, raised their heads and stretched their necks, and looked through the weeds on the side of the road to look at a hill in the distance.

There is a small temple on the mountainside.

Even though it can be seen, it takes two miles to walk through.

The cat stood still, looking at the little temple, until there was a sound of footsteps behind her, and the Taoist approached, and she turned her head and looked at the Taoist with those amber eyes.

"Let's go."

The Taoist said calmly.

Descending the road, following the field path, and then up the hill, it did not take long for two miles to reach the temple.

The temple is not large, only the size of a house, modeled after the palace style, and is a proportionally smaller version.

I haven't seen it for many years, and it's getting more and more dilapidated.

There was no door before, and now there is still no door, but there was a bamboo fence blocking the door, which is considered the respect of the locals for the very effective Sanhua Niangniang, and now the fence is gone, and the red paint on the wall has almost fallen off, and even the whole wall can not find a few pieces of red.

Naturally, there is no incense.

The three-flowered cat sat at the door, separated by a distance, looking up at the temple where he had lived for a long time, but he did not move.

It was difficult to read the expression on the cat's face, and no one knew what she was thinking at this time.

On the contrary, it was the Taoist who stepped in first.

Naturally, there is no statue of the god inside, and the god platform is not known to be smashed by whom, there are some wood in it, and there are traces of burning, most of which are after the Sanhua Niangniang left and the statue was broken, the villagers found that the cat god had never worked again, and had not eaten the sacrifice, so it was slowly abandoned, and it completely became a place for passers-by and people to shelter from the wind and rain, and to rest overnight.

The cat followed him in, turning her head from side to side, with a solemn expression, still not knowing what she was thinking.

After brushing it, the cat went to the altar.

Still walking around, looking here and there, sniffing around.

After a long time, she stood on the altar and said the first sentence to the Taoist priest below: "In the past, Sanhua Niangniang used to hide behind this and sleep, and someone worshipped me in front, but they couldn't find me." ”

"Sanhua Niangniang is good at hiding."

"But sometimes there are a lot of people, and there are some very fierce people from the rivers and lakes who come to live in the temple, and the smell of their bodies makes the cats afraid, and Sanhua Niangniang does not dare to live with them. When they were in the temple, Sanhua Niangniang had no choice but to go out and hide behind the temple to sleep. ”

"Isn't that winter?"

"Sanhua Niangniang's hair is very long." The cat said solemnly, but after a pause, he muttered, "It's still going to be cold." ”

"What about the rain?" Song You stood in the temple and asked, "There should be more people who come to the temple to take shelter from the rain on rainy days, right?" ”

"It's raining and sleeping under the trees!"

"Sanhua Niangniang is really generous."

"Sanhua Niangniang was timid at that time."

The cat doesn't care if she says it now.

But after thinking about it, with her character, I'm afraid it didn't matter at that time - anyway, cats are like this, they have to hide from people, and they have to get drenched in the rain.

It's just that I hear it in the ears of the Taoist, but I don't feel it.

Sanhua Niangniang is the god of cats, enshrined here by the villagers, this place was her temple, night and night for the villagers to work hard to catch rats in exchange for the villagers' repair, sometimes come back to rest, or to the cold and rainy night, should hide in the temple shelter to sleep well, but because of the vigorous blood and heavy atmosphere of the rivers and lakes to sleep, had to hide, and even leave the temple, to the outside to blow the cold wind, cold rain.

"Alas......"

The Taoist sighed, and then said, "But Sanhua Niangniang still likes it very much." ”

"This is the temple of Sanhua Niangniang!"

The three-flowered cat stood on the altar, but did not sit in the middle of the altar as it did back then, did not even sit down, but only stood on the edge and talked to the Taoist - pointing to a place and telling him that the villagers had put incense on a lump of mud here to give her a salute, and she was lying on this side and sucking. Another place told him that the villagers would put loaches and small fish here, and she would be happy to see them when she came back. Sometimes there will be some hungry Jianghu people or people who haven't eaten for a long time, they will steal and rob her, roast them and eat them, or even eat them raw, she is very angry, but there is no way.

"Sometimes Sanhua Niangniang goes to a nearby place to catch mice, and after catching them, she will take one back and keep it to eat. At first, Sanhua Niangniang hid in the temple, but when the people who came in to stay overnight smelled the smell of rats, some people would come to find them and throw them away for Sanhua Niangniang. Later, Sanhua Niangniang learned to be smart, so she buried the mouse under the tree at the door, and when she was hungry, she dug it out and ate it.

"But Sanhua Niangniang is very good at catching mice, and the villagers bring tribute, Sanhua Niangniang is rarely hungry, only in cold weather will not be enough to eat, and when I am often buried in it, I forget to dig it out, and when I think of it, I run to dig it out, and it has been eaten by insects."

Sanhua Niangniang chattered to him.

……

Ask for a commuter pass!

(End of chapter)