The fox demon walked to the door, looked up, saw the charm pasted on the door frame, pouted, and didn't care. Visually measuring the distance between the cracks in the door, making seals with both hands, and reciting a mantra, I saw that her body shook and became as thin as a piece of paper, and she got into the crack of the door.

Lin Yiming hid in the toilet and saw the scene in front of him clearly. Running to the door with his pants in his hand, he peeked through the gap into the room. I saw the fox demon kneeling in front of the statue of Zhong Kui and prayed silently for a while, and then got up and entered the chamber. After that, a desolate cry came from within.

"Husband, where are you, come back soon!" Zhou cried out in fear from the bedroom.

"Don't be afraid, lady, I'm here. Lin Yiming stood outside the door and shouted: "Come on, people, this place is haunted." ”

After Lin Yiming shouted a few times, a house slave from the courtyard rushed over from the side yard. He asked, "Childe, why are you shouting?"

Lin Yiming took a few steps back, pointed to the side room and said to the house slave: "There are ghosts, there are ghosts in the house." ”

The fox demon heard the sound outside the house, poked his head out, and saw three or five strong men standing at the door, and in his heart he was afraid, he took out a human skin mask from his waist, put it on his head, and turned into a hideous-looking evil ghost with huge teeth and fangs, and rushed out with his teeth and claws. The crowd was so frightened that they retreated to make way for them.

The fox demon took this opportunity to trot, rushed to the courtyard wall, jumped up to the wall, and disappeared into the night.

In the early morning of the second day, the Lin couple were disheveled and sad, knelt in front of Lin's mother, and recounted the terrible experience of the previous night. After hearing this, Mother Lin thought for a moment, called the housekeeper Lin Fu, and said: "Go to the account room to get two taels of silver, go to the Lanruo Temple in the west of the city, and invite a monk who has attained the Tao to come to the house to do a ritual." ”

Lin Fuying said, "Obey, madam." ”

Mother Lin instructed: "This matter must be hidden from your master, he doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, and when he hears that he asks a monk to do something, he will inevitably lose his temper again." ”

Lin Fuying said, "Obey, madam." ”

Lin Yiming said: "Mother, I'll go with Lin Fu, these days have been frightened, half of the child's three souls and six spirits have been lost, go to Lanruo Temple together, and let the monks in the temple call the soul for me." ”

Mother Lin nodded in agreement.

Lin Fu went to the account office to receive the silver, accompanied Lin Yiming out of the county government's back house, and went straight to the Lanruo Temple in the west of the city.

The master and servant rode horses, passing by a forest, Lin Fu said with a smile: "The young master walks slowly, the villain is in a hurry, it is convenient to go to the woods." ”

Lin Yiming rode his horse slowly, walked forward for a while, there was a burst of meat fragrance in the air, looking for the fragrance, I saw a small river on the east side of the woods, under the willow tree on the bank, there was a middle-aged Taoist priest, forty years old, his face was as white as jade, and he set up a pile of firewood by the river, and a casserole was hanging on the fire. The white soup in the pot is boiling. Holding a three-foot short rod in his hand, the rod head hangs a five-foot fishing line, and the fish floats and lifts it up. The old man's fingernails were repeatedly pushed on the fish's body to remove the scales. Pinch a wound under the head of the fish, squeeze out the internal organs, throw it into the pot casually, after a while, the fish meat is cooked, pick it up and eat, the Taoist priest spits out the fish bones, praised: "Fresh, really fresh." ”

Lin Yiming looked interesting, jumped off the horse, walked to the front of the old Tao, and teased: "What a monk, he often thinks of compassion in his mouth, but he does things to kill and break his vows behind his back, aren't you afraid that Dao Ancestor will blame you?"

When the Taoist priest heard this, he glanced up at Lin Yiming and said with a smile: "Childe's words are so unreasonable. Is eating meat killing?"

Lin Yiming said: "Of course, you see the monks in the monastery, when did they ever eat meat. Killing is the first great precept for monasticism. ”

The Taoist priest smiled and said, "The Buddha said, all living beings are equal, all things have spirituality, small fish and shrimp are living beings, flowers and trees are not living beings? Is wheat considered living beings? Is rice considered living beings? Monks eating steamed buns, does eating rice count as killing?"

"This ......" Lin Yiming was speechless for a while, and said: "What an old man, he can really argue." ”

The Taoist priest said with a smile: "Taoism pays attention to going with the flow, what is nature, is the law of reincarnation of the Heavenly Dao." Everything in the world has prosperity and decline, decline and growth, the anode and the yin, the yin and the yang. For example, if this fish has just come to this world and is full of vitality, and you eat it, it is killing, or if you have a child in its belly, it is about to lay eggs, and if you eat it, it is killing, and the Taoist life refers to life. Farmers raise seedlings and farm for a living, and hunters hunt and fish for a living. This is the way of heaven. “

When Lin Yiming heard this, he tidied up his clothes, bowed down and said: "I heard the words of the Taoist chief in my later life, and I benefited a lot. ”

The Taoist priest smiled: "Childe, you have been entangled by the fox demon for the past few days?"

Lin Yiming was shocked and asked, "How can the Daoist know?"

The Taoist priest replied: "I am always accompanied by women, and my body is inevitably contaminated with fat powder, and I have three glasses of wine a day, and the wine on my body will not dissipate for a long time." There is a faint demon fox aura on Childe's body, and the poor road is all too familiar. ”

Lin Yiming was overjoyed and asked, "The Taoist may save me?"