Yuning County was surrounded by a half-circle of mountains, and after they left the city, they creaked forward with the mule cart, and they reached the foot of the mountain in a short time.

When he arrived here, Wang Qilin knew that it was the right choice to partner with Deng Xiaofei, and there were many roads at the foot of the mountain, winding and extending into the mountains and forests, like a group of giant pythons gathered here.

But everyone knows that these mountain roads gather at this time, but when they extend into the mountains, they will gradually fuse and farther apart, and the difference is a millimeter, and finally they will be thousands of miles away.

Deng Xiaofei was familiar with this Feicheng City, he didn't need to look at it much, he only identified the direction and then flicked the leather whip in his hand and drove the mule cart into the mountains and forests.

In late autumn, when the leaves are falling, Wang Qilin looks up, and the mountains are full of beautiful orange and inconspicuous withered yellow.

A feeling of gloom came to mind.

The big green mule had the strength to drag the car away quickly, and Deng Xiaofei asked with a smile: "Good man, is there anyone willing to come to a mountain song?"

Ma Ming was not humble, he opened his mouth and sang: "I once dreamed of going to the end of the world with a sword......"

Wang Qilin took the opportunity to ask Deng Xiaofei: "When you went out of the city just now, you said that the cat didn't jump and there was a wild pheasant spirit?"

Deng Xiaofei nodded and said: "Yes, the cat does not jump is a mountain beam, located between the mountain streams, its name is cat, you can understand how dangerous it is if you don't jump, wild cats can only walk in a regular manner, and dare not jump on it." ”

Eight Meow came out to listen to his story, and when he heard this, he pursed his beard disdainfully: I'm going to jump later!

"Cats don't jump dangerously, and they have to be careful when they walk, otherwise they will fall down the mountain and die if they are not careful. However, the good man must know that the more precipitous the place, the less likely it is to die, because the more the big guy goes to such a place, the more careful he is. ”

"But in the last ten days, more than a dozen people have died without jumping cats! At least one person dies every day, and there are rumors that there is a wild pheasant spirit there, and it wants to take people's lives to cultivate, so whenever someone passes by, it will use illusions to trick you into going the wrong way, and then fall into the mountain stream and fall to death, and it will take away the soul for cultivation. ”

Wang Qilin asked: "So many people have died? Then no one has reported to the official? Whether it is in the township or in the county, there are post stations that listen to the heavenly prisons, why don't you just go to the post house and find the adults to solve the problem?"

Hearing this, Deng Xiaofei sneered disdainfully, and then abruptly changed the topic: "What are you good men going to Jiangshan Township for? I heard that you also inquire about Dading Village? I am familiar with Dading Village, and the chief of the village is my best friend who drinks with me every time I go!"

Xu Da was surprised: "Ah?

The chief of the chief is an official title, which originated from the armor protection system of the Song Dynasty, which is a household registration system for township soldiers that has disappeared from the official face, with fifty households as a large security, and a large security chief.

Deng Xiaofei said with a smile: "Yes, the people in the mountains, Tao Gongyuan said that the people in "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" avoided the chaos of the Qin Dynasty since the ancestors of Yun, and led their wives and people to come to this desperate situation, and they did not come back, so they separated themselves from outsiders. Ask what the world is today, but I don't know if there is a Han, regardless of Wei and Jin. ”

"Dading Village is similar to this, the village is deep in the old mountains, poor, people are not prosperous, no matter which dynasty is not interested in them, the previous dynasty did not even care about these villages for 80 years, so they still do the things of the previous dynasty, and there is a chief in the village. ”

After a brief introduction, he looked at Wang Qilin again.

Wang Qilin didn't hide it from him, and said frankly: "It is said that someone in Dading Village encountered a strange matter, and then invited a Zhou Immortal Master to see the matter, and I also have something to find Zhou Immortal Master, so I want to take the opportunity to see his methods." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Deng Xiao slapped him violently: "Oh, good man, it's really fate for us to walk together, I happen to know whose family is making trouble in Dading Village, and there is no one in the outside world who knows this matter better than me, because it is the family of Yin Ding, the chief of the big security, who is making trouble!"

Wang Qilin smiled: "This is really a coincidence, the mountain road is long, can you tell me about it?"

Deng Xiaofei perked up and said: "The sage said, sit quietly and ponder your own mistakes, and talk about people's wrongs." It stands to reason that I shouldn't chew my tongue behind people's backs and talk about other people's family affairs, but this matter is not secret, so I don't mean to chew the root of my tongue to tell you. ”

"Yin Ding is a hunter in the mountains, he is a good hunter! There are more than 70 families in Dading Village, there is no better hunter than him, the reason why I have a good relationship with him is because of business, I go to him every time I collect skins and mountain goods, give him a fair price, and never cheat him, so I have become friends. ”

Speaking of this, he puffed up his chest and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, you will never brag about it, and you will not be bullied when you do business in the next place, which is not the same thing as many businessmen who enter the mountains, they bully the people in the mountains who are illiterate and do not know arithmetic, and often play some tricks to bully them. ”

"Hehe, of course, this can make some money in a short time, but after a long time, people will see you clearly, how can they do business with you?"

Wang Qilin nodded in agreement, but he was impatient in his heart, this old iron is too good at talking nonsense.

Deng Xiaofei saw that he was impatient, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, good man, we have a lot of time along the way, and I have enough time to tell you about it." And the reason why I want to say what I just said is to tell you why Yin Ding said more with him, because the two of us have a good relationship. ”

"Yes, Brother Deng, please continue. ”

Deng Xiaofei said: "You don't know, there is a big cave called the earth ruins around this Dading Village, it opens at the entrance of the cave on the mountain, and I don't know how deep it is, it is said that a long time ago, there was a flying Taoist priest who came here, saying that this cave leads to the nine shadows, and the depth is bottomless. ”

"Speaking of which, this ruin is indeed mysterious, it is surrounded by the most herbs, the most wild fruits, the most wild things, every time it rains, there will be many mushrooms growing here. In the summer and autumn of Dading Village, I can make a lot of money just by picking mushrooms, and I will also collect dried mushrooms this time. ”

These people are not from Dading Village, and they don't know where they came from, anyway, people often go to the ruins to pick medicine and pick fruits, and then suddenly see a hanged person. ”

"After a long time, the big guy will inevitably be afraid, so he will no longer go to hunt and collect medicine around the ruins. However, Yin Ding once chased a deer the year before last, and accidentally entered the old forest around the ruins, but said that the trees in the old forest were tall and leafy, and there was no sunlight in the daytime, and the wind was gusting, which made people timid. ”

"Yin Dingyi was bold, he was about to vomit the deer at that time, and he was unwilling to let go, so he broke into the old forest of the ruins!"

"There are many trees and thorns in the old forest, and when he was chasing the fawn, he was suddenly hooked by something!"

Yin Ding looked back and saw an embroidered shoe sticking out of a thorn patch, a bright red embroidered shoe, and then thorn strips wrapped around the shoe, and it was these strips that entwined him......

"Amitabha Buddha is so scary. Shen Yi hugged Xu Da as he spoke, he knew that this could disgust Xu Da.

Sure enough, Xu Da gave him a kick: "Get out, what are you afraid of as a great monk? You are covered by the Buddha, what demons and monsters dare to attack you?"

"Don't make trouble!" Wang Qilin glared at the two of them.

Seeing this, Xu Da hugged Shen Yi stupidly, and muttered: "What kind of world?

Wang Qilin ignored the two rammers and asked, "Is it a female corpse that entangles Yin Ding?"

Deng Xiaofei nodded heavily: "That's right! Yin Ding went to tear the thorns, it is strange to say, the more he tore the thorns, the more he wrapped around him, and he was sweating profusely!"

"When he saw this, he knew that he had met an evil man, so he puffed up his breath and said, 'Let go, girl, I know your mind very well, but you don't want to expose the corpse in the wilderness, so you stop me?' ”

Strange to say, his voice fell, and the thorns fell without his hands. So Yin Ding kept his promise, put her down from the tree, and carried her back to the village. ”

Xie Toad was surprised: "Immeasurable Tianzun, Dabao is so bold, he dares to carry the corpse?

Deng Xiaofei nodded and said: "Yin Ding dares, he is bold and careful, but unfortunately he was born in the mountains, if he was born in the family of soldiers, he would definitely be a battlefield tiger general!"

"continued, but said that Yin Ding carried the female corpse back to the village, and when she arrived at the entrance of the village, the female corpse coughed!"

"This scared Yin Ding, he hurriedly threw away the female corpse and asked her what was going on, the female corpse opened her eyes at this time, saying that her name was Wu Yuan, she was a girl in the county, and she had a conflict with her family and ran away from home and wanted to go into the mountains to find relatives to hide, but she was caught by a big monster beast full of long hair halfway, and the beast carried her into the mountains, but when they passed through an old forest, they were entangled by a vine!"

The vines were tightly wound, and the beast struggled to cause them to wrap tighter and tighter, and at last she fainted. Yin Ding recalled carefully that the girl was indeed not hanged just now, but that vines wrapped around her body and neck, strangled her. ”

So Yin Ding thought, it turned out that he had misunderstood, this girl was just entangled and didn't die before, and then he carried it all the way and bumped all the way, I was afraid that the breath he was holding back was turned upside down, and it got better. ”

Sure enough, Wu Yuan looked up to show him, there were no strangulation marks under her neck! But her clothes were opened, and there were red marks on her creamy skin! Yin Ding touched her chest again, there was a heartbeat and a shadow, she was indeed a big living person!"

Xu Da shook his head and said, "You can't tell if she's alive, right?"

Shen Yi was stunned and asked, "I understand if you want to try whether it is hot or not, touch her forehead, but what does it mean to be wet or not?"

Xu Da said: "Let her spit, ghosts can't spit!"

Shen Yi suddenly said: "Amitabha, and this exquisiteness, my master's bald donkey lied to me again!"

"What did he lie to you?"

"He told me that if you can't tell if you encounter something in the wilderness and can't tell if it's a human or a ghost, then draw a knife and wipe it on his neck, and it's a human being who is dead, and a ghost who can't die!"

Deng Xiaofei swallowed a mouthful of saliva and quickly touched his neck.

Wang Qilin said: "Then Yin Ding's house is haunted, it is because of the Wu Yuan he brought back, right? No, it was two years ago that he brought back Wu Yuan, how could it be haunted now?"

Deng Xiaofei said with a smile: "The good man is delicate, yes, the matter is not over here, but just beginning!"

Xie Toad sighed and said, "Please keep it short." ”

Deng Xiaofei said: "Okay, anyway, Wu Yuan thanked Yin Ding for saving his life, and decided to follow the example of the ancients. What about this Yin Ding? He originally had a mother-in-law, but his mother-in-law couldn't give birth to a baby, so he had already had the idea of taking a concubine. ”

"It just so happened that Wu Yuan was as beautiful as a fairy and could read and write, Yin Ding was very happy, so he married her despite his wife's objections......"

At this moment, even Xie Toad was stunned: "Wu Cao-Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, this big security chief is too violent, right?

Wang Qilin thought silently, could it be that there is another undead knight?

Deng Xiaofei was not happy, and said: "I have dealt with the second lady, she is indeed a girl from a good family, shrewd, capable, and kind-hearted. The most important thing is that she is very prosperous, after Yin Ding married her, not only did she gain more than before, but the originally infertile lady was also pregnant!"

Xu Dadao: "Wait, the eldest lady was originally infertile, but she became pregnant after the second lady went?"

Deng Xiaofei said: "Naturally, it is Yin Ding's, I have also seen it after the child was born, and it is similar to Yin Ding's eyebrows." ”

Xu Da shook his head and said, "Then you go on, I think something is wrong!"

Wang Qilin said in a deep voice: "I also think something is wrong, Brother Deng, you said that you have seen the second lady and the child, then you must have also seen the eldest lady, the question is, have you seen the appearance of the eldest lady when she is pregnant? Have you seen the appearance of the second lady when the eldest lady is pregnant?"

Deng Xiaofei said with a smile: "The good man asked well, I have indeed seen it, the second lady is weak and can't do rough work, but she is shrewd and capable, literate and hyphenated." So she was in charge of the internal affairs of the family, and the eldest lady was responsible for external affairs, so not only I have seen the eldest lady pregnant, but everyone in Dading Village has seen it, and even watched her belly grow day by day. ”

Wang Qilin thought for a while and said, "Okay, what happened later? Why is this haunted again?"

Deng Xiaofei's face darkened, and said: "Yin Ding is satisfied with the second lady everywhere, but she is a little dissatisfied, the second lady can't listen to the 'ruins', as long as someone guards her and mentions the things around the ruins, she will go crazy." I know that all of you are wondering, is this two ladies a ghost?"

"Actually, the eldest lady is even more suspicious!"

"When it was almost time to give birth, the eldest lady decided to have a showdown, she didn't care about herself, but she didn't want the child to be in the same room with someone who didn't know whether it was a person or a ghost. So she asked Yin Ding to take the second lady to the ruins to see what she was afraid of!"

Yin Ding didn't want to go, his family had been safe and stable for the past year, and he didn't believe that the second lady was a ghost. The eldest lady finally took advantage of him to go out and found an elder in the village to help coax the second lady to the ruins!"

"Soon after, the eldest lady came back in horror with the support of the elders, but the second lady was nowhere to be seen! As for what happened, the eldest lady and the elder didn't say that the people in the village didn't know, but the elders once drank too much and said that the second lady is not a person!"

"Yin Ding was naturally angry when this happened, but he couldn't punish the eldest lady, because she was frightened and the eldest lady had a miscarriage, her already bad body was even weaker, if it weren't for the Yin family to keep the century-old ginseng picked in the mountains to give her life, she was afraid that everyone would be gone!"

"The eldest lady was born prematurely and gave birth to a son the size of a palm. Fortunately, the life in the mountains was hard, and the child finally survived. A year went smoothly, just a few days ago, when I was there, and then something terrible happened!"

Speaking of this, Deng Xiaofei's face gradually changed, revealing a frightened expression:

"It was the first time I went to collect mountain goods after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather was good that day, and it was already a little cold in the mountains after the autumn, so in the afternoon the village girls took their children to bask in the sun, and the eldest lady also brought her son in the crowd, when the big guy told the child a story and amused him, and suddenly everything changed!"

"There was no warning! The eldest lady picked up her son violently and ran out of the village to the ruins!

This turn came too violently, and Wang Qilin subconsciously asked, "The eldest lady is possessed by a ghost?"

Deng Xiaofei clenched his fists and said sadly: "No, the child is possessed by a ghost! Or this child is a ghost, it is Wu Yuan's ghost! Or rather, it is Wu Yuan's ghost reincarnation!"

Xie Toad said categorically: "Impossible, how can it be so simple for a ghost to be reincarnated? The eldest lady killed the second lady and gave birth to a child on the same day, and then this child was reincarnated by the second lady?"

Deng Xiaofei said in a low mood: "Anyway, the eldest lady said yes, and since the child was thrown into the ruins that day, Yin Ding's house has indeed begun to haunt, and there are always little ghosts pestering the eldest lady, this is really happening!"

Wang Qilin tapped the armrest of the car with his fingers and said, "Originally, I suspected that the second lady was a ghost, but in the end, I felt that the eldest lady had a ghost in her heart." ”

Deng Xiaofei shook his head and argued with him, Wang Qilin said: "Forget it, anyway, we are going to Dading Village, let's talk about it, it's a ghost or not a person, it's a person and not a ghost, it can't be fake, and he can't be fake!"

The mountain road is difficult to walk, they set off too late, and they can't reach Dading Village today.

Eventually, they walked all the way to enjoy the autumn scenery in the mountains, and when it was evening, they arrived in front of a mountain beam.

Cats don't jump!

Deng Xiaofei pointed ahead and said: "Let's start early, after the cat does not jump and then turn over a hill is Jiangshan Township, Dading Village is not far from Jiangshan Township, but it is also a mountain road of more than half an hour." ”

Wang Qilin said: "Then let's speed up and rush over, can't we?"

Deng Xiaofei shook his head regretfully and said: "No, it's getting dark, it's too dangerous to walk the mountain road at night, we have to be stationed here tonight, there is a camp here, if you cross here, you can only sleep in the wilderness." ”

In front of the ridge was a clearing, and all the trees around it had been cut down, and it had been made into a fence and a horse, and a hut had been built in the middle of the fence, and outside the house there was a stone stove, and below it was full of ashes, and it seemed that someone had stopped here during the day.

Wang Qilin looked at it and said, "Okay, let's live here." Xu Ye, you and the great monk went to pick up some dry firewood, his brain is not good, you look at it. ”

"Master Ma, you clean up with Shopkeeper Deng, and I will walk around with the Taoist chief to see the situation. ”

Ma Ming quietly put on the knife and walked quickly towards Deng Xiaofei.

Wang Qilin and Xie Toad went to the front of the mountain beam, this mountain beam is indeed very steep, one place is even broken, a bridge was built with iron cables, the bridge is laid with wooden planks, on both sides is a guardrail made of hemp rope and vines, the mountain wind is fierce, the small bridge is blown and shaken, as if there are strange hands playing with it.

Standing on the mountain and looking around, they were surrounded by cliffs and cliffs, and at their feet was a wide and deep canyon.

At sunset, there were white clouds rising faintly, Wang Qilin looked at their distorted appearance, and thought of a group of white monster pythons.

The largest white python is the river of the canyon, the river is turbulent and flowing, tumbling between the rough and jagged rocks, and the mighty and mighty do not know where to go.

Wang Qilin took a deep breath and said: "It's really a place where all the men and women can't open it, no wonder the previous dynasties and dynasties didn't come to fight, how can this kind of local soldiers spend it? As long as the archers are sent on the other side, how many people come will be in vain!"

Xie Toad smiled and said nothing.

Wang Qilin asked, "Daoist, have you found anything?"

Xie Toad said: "Immeasurable Tianzun, the story of Shopkeeper Deng is very interesting, but I think he is more interesting. ”

"Why?"

Xie Toad said: "I can't see too much, but Shopkeeper Deng is by no means an ordinary mountain businessman, and he doesn't seem to be a person who is afraid of a wild pheasant." ”

The two of them were chatting, and Xu Da suddenly ran out happily, holding a colorful pheasant in his hand: "Look what I hit?"

Deng Xiaofei, who was feeding the mules, changed his face greatly, and he cried out in a lost voice: "Who told you to shoot pheasants? Hey! I made a mistake, I forgot to say it! Cats can't shoot pheasants if they don't jump, and the pheasants here have become sperm, and whoever shoots pheasants will come to harm whoever they want!"

Xu Da asked, "Do you know what this wild pheasant spirit looks like? I mean, can it become a human? Especially will it become a beauty? How can it harm people? Does it become a beautiful woman and absorb people's yang energy?"

Shen Yi clasped his hands together: "Amitabha, tonight the old man must surrender this demon!"

Deng Xiaofei saw that the two of them were not serious, and said: "Alas, I hope you two have great powers, otherwise the other heroes have to be careful, it is better to watch them, otherwise we will ...... tomorrow"

"Whoa!"

A fierce mountain wind blew, and many yellow-white dead leaves fluttered out.

Oddly enough, these dead leaves don't come from the forest, but fly upside down from the cliff!

Wang Qilin fixed his eyes and looked at it: It's not a dead leaf, this is a flying paper money!