"Little girl, do you think I look like a mouse or a human? Or like a fairy? ”

The big gray mouse stood up above the person's knees, walked like a human, his body swayed slightly, approached the Sanhua Niangniang, and asked with a smile.

"I think you look like a mouse!"

The girl stared at it with a serious face.

"What did you say?"

When the big gray mouse heard this, he was furious and grinned.

"Say it again, what am I like!"

The girl, dressed in tricolored clothes and with a white face, was still staring straight at him, not frightened by its anger, but asked, "Do you think I look like a man or a cat?" ”

At the same time, the smell is no longer hidden.

"What?"

The big gray mouse was stunned for a moment and sniffed.

It was only then that I smelled the smell of cats from the little girl.

“！”

The mouse was suddenly startled and raised his eyes to look.

The girl stared at it straight, too.

In an instant, it seemed that its eyes were no longer a girl with a slightly serious expression, but a cat concentrating on hunting. The cat is attentive, and naturally there is not much expression.

The rat was instantly frightened, and his legs were weak for a while.

"Brush!"

Without other hesitation, he turned around and lay down, and his four feet moved quickly, trying to escape.

And then one foot has already stepped on its tail.

The mouse was hurried and frightened, and when he looked back, he saw that it was the little girl who stepped on his tail.

In a trance, the image that came to its mind was that of an ordinary cat holding down the tail of an ordinary mouse that was about to run away—nothing else, this picture was too much too familiar, and it was exactly the most fearful and impressive appearance in its memory.

"Canopy!"

The rat exploded and turned into a puff of gray smoke.

It was like a handful of incense ashes sprinkled in the air.

But the incense ash condensed but did not disperse, as if it was supported by the wind, and drifted upwards into the distance.

"Hiss......"

The little girl also took a deep breath and exhaled the smoke.

What came out was a puff of yellow smoke.

Although the yellow smoke was spitting back, it was faster, and it flew into the sky quickly, catching up with the slow-drifting gray smoke, and as soon as the two touched, they became entangled and merged with each other.

"Gollum ......"

For a moment, the smoke in the air seemed to be boiling, and it suddenly surged, suddenly bulging out in the air, and suddenly shrinking violently, constantly twisting and changing.

A high-pitched, frightened cry came from the twist.

"Squeak!!"

It's like there's something struggling inside.

Until there was another "canopy" sound.

The smoke dissipated out of thin air, and a large gray mouse fell from the sky, fell to the ground, and became dizzy, but shouted repeatedly:

"Spare your life! Daxian spares his life! ”

It is said that it is a long time, but in fact, it is only a few breaths.

The short and thin young man who walked in front naturally heard these movements, but he didn't dare to look back, for fear that these movements were all fake, or that this gentleman would not be able to defeat the monster in the fight, and he would rashly turn around and be seen by the monster, but he would be hated, and then he would fall ill in his dream. However, after only a dozen steps, the movement behind him was completely different from what he imagined, and even the excessive difference gave him a very unreal feeling, until he heard the sharp and piercing squeak of the monster, and even screamed for mercy, he had some doubts about whether it was true or false.

Finally couldn't help it and looked back.

I saw that the girl next to the Taoist was holding a big gray mouse about the size of a cat in her hand, and her face was calm and calm, and even the action of mentioning the mouse was very unusual-

She held the tail of the mouse with her hand and carried it upside down, no matter how the mouse struggled, she did not move at all, was not afraid, and there was no fluctuation in her expression.

It's as natural as a person carrying a bundle of vegetables.

Then she bent down slightly, lowered her head, and with her other hand unwrapped her own blanket, and shoved the huge mouse into it.

Suddenly it was full.

At the same time, someone in the mansion next to him also heard the movement, opened the door a crack, and a servant poked his head out and looked this side in fear, and happened to see this scene.

The two of them took in the girl's movements one after the other, and they both saw the shock in their respective eyes.

……

A moment later, the Zhu family was in the house.

After the servants of the Zhu family saw the girl carrying the rat essence into the blanket, they went back to report to the head of the house, and then invited the Taoist and the short and thin young man who led the way into the house.

In a hurry, there was nothing to entertain Song You in the Zhu family's house, but fortunately, there was a pot of chicken soup in the back kitchen, using an old hen for several years, so he hurriedly asked the back kitchen to scald three bowls of rice cables, and put them in a big pottery bowl, and then scooped a pot of chicken soup, sprinkled with green onions, and even didn't need to put salt, it was a bowl of fragrant chicken soup rice cable.

With the blessing of the Taoist, the young man also got a bowl.

The bucket bowl is bigger than the head, the rice cable is snow-white, and the chicken soup is also boiled to make the soup base white, but the oil beads are golden and shiny, decorated with some emerald green onions, and there are a lot of chicken, simple but delicious.

"Suck ......"

Taoists and girls are holding bowls and eating, even Sanhua Niangniang, who used to not like to eat rice noodles, is also eating very deliciously at this time.

Young people are even more gobbling.

In these years, it is not easy for ordinary people to eat such a meal.

After eating the rice cable, the soup was also drunk.

Song You was satisfied, raised his head, and there was an old man sitting in front of him, and several middle-aged people were staring at them.

"Thank you Gong Zhu for your hospitality."

"Sir, are you used to eating?"

"I'm used to eating, and it's delicious."

"I can't buy food today, there is no other hospitality gentleman, please forgive me." The old man glanced at the blanket on the girl's body, which was swollen and bulging, and it was said that it was the mouse, "I don't know what kind of evil our Zhu family has created, and there is such a monster in the residence, which scared the women and children in the family and did not dare to go out, and thought of many ways to get rid of it, but I didn't expect that as soon as Mr. came, he easily subdued it, which is really a fairy method." ”

"It's all the work of the children."

"Nature, nature." The old man bowed his hand to the girl who also put down the bucket bowl next to Song You, and asked his subordinates to bring two pieces of honeycomb silver, "Previously, because the monsters were too rampant and worrisome, the old man once offered a reward of ten taels of silver to get rid of this demon, and later increased to twenty taels, since Mr. helped my Zhu family get rid of the monsters, it should naturally be supplied to Mr." ”

This Zhu family is also a big family, obviously it is a monster nearby, wandering in a few alleys of Chicken and Duck Fang, but it is said that it is for his Zhu family to get rid of monsters.

"Thank you very much."

Song You was also not polite, and saluted and thanked him.

The girl immediately took the money.

Only then did the old man ask, "I don't know where the two cultivators are, where did they come from, and where are they going?" ”

"We are from Lingquan County, Yizhou, and we are going to Yunzhou Nu County."

"Numa-gun?"

"Nusa County Finesse, went to spend the winter."

"Xianning County? That's still 900 miles away. The old man calculated a little, and then sent an invitation to the Taoist, "Mr. wants to go to the fiddendron and don't have to rush for a while, although it is autumn now, but the cold and heat of Yundu and fidulin are not much different, and secondly, the weather in Yundu is different from Yizhou, at least after three more months, the day will slowly become colder, if Mr. is not in a hurry, you may wish to live in the cold house for a while, let us show the friendship of the landlord, entertain Mr. well, and then go not too late." ”

"It's too much trouble."

"No trouble, no trouble! Please sir, please be sure to stay! ”

"I'm waiting to travel the world, stay in Yundu temporarily, and it's indispensable to go out to subdue demons and eliminate demons, first, going in and out may disturb the rest of Zhu Gong's family, which is inconvenient, and second, I'm afraid that Zhu Guild will worry."

The old man really hesitated when he heard this.

Several middle-aged people also looked at each other.

After thinking about it for a while, they still insisted and wanted to keep the Taoist in the mansion.

The Taoist smiled and didn't insist much.

The Zhumen families of Dayan have always had the tradition of offering to monks and Taoists, and even some large families will set aside a room for monks or Taoists to live in when they build mansions, and then regularly invite well-known or familiar monks and Taoists from the neighborhood to their homes for good food and drink, and monks and Taoists are responsible for chanting mantras and blessings, or answering questions and praying for peace.

In this year, this trend should be more prosperous than before.

This is in line with Sanhua Niangniang's intention again-

I saved a lot of money for the house, and a lot of money for the meal.

"Although this rat spirit is causing chaos in the local area, but it has not killed anyone, if there is no City God Temple, it will be enough, now the City God Temple has been built in the city, and this mouse has been caught, it should be sent to the City God Temple to be convicted and punished according to the law." Song You wiped his mouth and stood up, "It's getting dark, let's go to the City God Temple first." ”

"The old man asked someone to take Mr. there!"

"No need, this friend is good at leading the way." Song You refused with a smile, "Just ask Gong Zhu to take care of my horses for me." ”

"Definitely, definitely!"

Song You saluted him and walked out of the Zhu Mansion.

The short, thin young man followed him.

"How does the rice cable taste?"

Song You turned his head and looked at him with a smile.

"Delicious! It's so delicious! The short and thin young man said, "The last time the villain ate meat was in the first half of the year, not to mention this bowl full of chicken soup, it's really delicious in the world!" ”

"I haven't asked for advice yet."

"Wang Xiaoman, ranked fourth in the family, everyone else calls me Wang Si."

"Wang Xiaoman......"

Song You wrote down the name, and then took out a handful of copper coins from his arms, a total of fifteen coins, and handed him ten first: "This is the salary for us to lead the way to the Chicken and Duck Workshop and indicate the Zhu Mansion." ”

Then put the remaining five coins in his hand: "This is the money to take us to the Yundu City God Temple." ”

"The villain didn't bring Mr. to Zhu's Mansion, it was the subordinates of Zhu's Mansion who invited Mr. in, but he had a good meal with Mr., and taking Mr. to the City God's Temple was supposed to do, how could he collect money again?"

"This money should also be taken at the foot of the step."

Song You shook his head and smiled, talking as he walked.

The sun has completely set the mountain, only the gradient of the glow is left in the sky, the clouds overhead are intoxicatingly red, the weather that is difficult to see in other places seems to be just ordinary here, the Taoist walked slowly in the deep and long alley, while saying: "This kind of work to lead the way, how many orders can you take in a day?" ”

"Four or five at most."

"Is the road outside the city ripe?"

"It's too familiar!"

"Then count it as five."

"Sir, this is ......"

"After leaving today, please come to Zhu Mansion tomorrow to find us, and then please lead the way, and count the money by day."

“……”

The young man was stunned, not knowing why.

(End of chapter)