The gate of Zhaoji Temple was closed, Li Congyan pushed hard, and with a "bang", the door latch was broken in response. What catches your eye is that the courtyard, which has not been cleaned for a long time, is covered with fallen leaves and sundries, and wild grasses are overgrown in the cracks of stone bricks, so it is not desolate.

The scale of the temple is small, but it has all kinds of organs, a large hall in the middle is dedicated to the Buddha statue, and the bell tower, drum tower, scripture building, dining hall, and the squatter room where the monks live on both sides are all available. It's just in disrepair and dilapidated.

Li Congyan stepped into it, and Old Man Jia followed closely with an oil-paper umbrella containing the hanged ghost.

"No one?"

The old man looked around cautiously and whispered.

Li Congyan shook his head, didn't say a word, and walked into the main hall, where the original statue of the Buddha was knocked down against the wall and instead offered to an unknown female Buddha. The female Buddha wears a phoenix crown, wears a xia veil, and walks on a Qiong shoe, dignified and generous, graceful and luxurious, without the simplicity of Buddhism, but is like the mythical queen mother.

The female Buddha was painted with gold lacquer and pasted with gold leaf, which was bright and bright, and seemed to be newly established.

Li Congyan took a closer look, but couldn't tell which way it was, turned his head and asked the old man on the side, "Know?"

"Haven't heard of it. ”

The old man pursed his lips, "Isn't it the demon Buddha that those traffickers believe?"

The two walked around the main hall, but they did not find the traffickers or the abducted children, so they planned to look elsewhere.

As soon as it came out,

Suddenly, I heard the sound of hooping, and I saw two men in strong suits, one on the left and one on the right, holding steel knives, slashing head-on.

Li Congyan was in danger, pulled out the knife from the sheath, and with the blessing of "vigorously", his knife was no longer comparable to ordinary people in terms of strength and speed.

"Boom"

Two cold lights flashed, and the thief had fallen to the ground screaming, and he lost his breath in the blink of an eye.

The sword fight is like this, without the slightest drag, life and death in an instant.

Li Congyan's right hand trembled slightly, shook off the blood beads on the knife, inserted it back into the scabbard, and said lightly:

"The trafficker accomplice is dead, let's go find the child. ”

Old man Jia got out from behind him, after all, he was an old executioner who was used to seeing blood, and he didn't change his face when he looked at the two dead corpses, but instead spit out a mouthful of phlegm fiercely, and scolded: "Scum!"

Not much.

In an empty room, the two found the abducted children, both male and female, all under the age of 10, who were standing in the room, lying down, or squatting, all of them looking sluggish and in a trance, and did not react when they saw the living.

Li Congyan untied the water bladder around his waist and fed each child with mouth water.

Not for a while.

The children regained their consciousness and cried one by one, clamoring to go home to their parents.

"Twenty-four babies, I don't know if there are few. ”

The little old man was very happy, and his old face was slightly red with excitement.

"Which is your nephew?"

Li Congyan asked.

"Ugh. ”

The old man was stunned and scratched his head, "I haven't seen an old man either." ”

After saying that, he will open the oil-paper umbrella and let the hanged man come out, so that Mu can recognize his son.

Li Congyan was quick to move, and quickly stopped him and said, "Don't scare the child." ”

After speaking, he turned his head and said loudly: "Which of you is surnamed Jia?"

A group of children only knew how to cry, but one boy stretched out his little hand and choked up: "Me!"

"That's it. ”

Li Congyan raised his eyebrows. Take a closer look, not to mention, the old and the young are really a little similar.

Old man Jia hugged the boy, touched it up and down, and when it was confirmed that the child was fine, the old man breathed a sigh of relief.

Subsequently, the two discussed and decided to send these children to the yamen first, so that the parents could claim them themselves. The traffickers have been punished, and they will not deliberately embarrass the yamen.

Then.

A seven or eight-year-old girl suddenly grabbed Li Congyan's big hand, only to see that her eyes were red, and her clothes were already wet with tears, and she sobbed: "I can't walk......

Li Congyan smiled and hugged her.

The little girl burst into tears and laughed, lying on his shoulder, her head rubbing against his neck.

"Go home. ”

The old man took his nephew and grandson and took the lead out of the temple.

The next 20 or so children followed suit.

Li Congyan hung at the end, and the little girl was very obedient, pillowed on his shoulder and did not move.

Suddenly.

"You're the extra one, aren't you?"

Li Congyan stroked the little girl's back and said quietly.

The little girl's body stiffened, but she quickly relaxed again, wiped her snot on Li Congyan's clothes, and whispered, "I don't understand." ”

The woman said that she had twenty-three children, but now she had one. ”

Li Congyan chuckled, "You can get out of the children honestly." Why do you want to harm me? Isn't it boring to be self-deprecating? ”

"I don't understand. ”

The little girl repeated.

After speaking, his head arched Li Congyan's neck, as if he was coquettish.

At this time.

Behind the darkness that no one could see, the little girl suddenly cracked her mouth, revealing a mouthful of fine fangs, which were covered with thick saliva.

Subsequently.

With a cruel smile on the corner of the little girl's mouth, she bit Li Congyan's neck.

Her smile didn't last long, though.

"Uh-"

A large hand suddenly pinched the back of her neck.

The palm of his hand was like a plier, clamping the little girl's neck, no matter how she struggled, but she could not break free.

Li Congyan carried her to his side, looked at her carefully, and felt that her face was hideous and not human, so he asked:

"Ghosts?"

But the little girl did not answer, her limbs danced wildly, and she kept struggling.

"Goblins?"

All that answered him was a few beastly howls.

Li Congyan saw that it didn't speak, and he wasn't interested in asking again, and the strength in his hand gradually increased.

The neck bone was pinched and clicked, and the "little girl" couldn't help but roll her eyes, and when her life was on the verge of death, she could no longer maintain the appearance of a human being, only to see that black hairs suddenly grew on its body, its face changed dramatically, and the left trouser leg became empty, with only one foot left.

Li Congyan looked at the monster that looked like a big horse monkey in his hand, and a trace of clarity appeared in his heart.

This is a mandrill, one of the spirits of the mountains. Resembling a monkey, he is as short as a child, and is born with only one leg, and his heels are in front and the soles of his feet are behind, which is quite strange.

"It's not good to stay in the mountains, but to become a human trafficker. ”

Li Congyan's eyes were like torches, and he said coldly, "I can't leave you!"

Knowing that his life was in danger, the mandrill struggled even harder.

"Click-"

Li Congyan exerted his strength and crushed the neck bone of the spirit.

Suddenly.

Chest slightly hot.

A sense of déjà vu.

......

From leaving the temple gate to the death of the mandrill, it was only half a cup of tea.

Everyone walked in front, burying their heads in the road, and no one paid attention to the movement behind them.

It wasn't until Old Man Jia turned back by chance that he found that Li Congyan was carrying a "baby" with black hair.

"What kind of youkai is that?"

The old man exclaimed.

"Mandrills. ”

Li Congyan was calm and calm, "I'll show it to the county master in a while, I don't know how he will feel." ”

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