Chapter 132: The Scorpion Catcher
The sunset is infinitely good, just near dusk.
Qin Yu took Yumu out of the inn and went straight to the material shop, passing by many shops along the way, and the wide variety of things in them made Yumu a little dazzled.
After leaving his hometown, Yumu has never stayed in the city, but only practiced in the sect, or experienced in the secret realm, and now in this Tianqian City, he has seen a lot of things, and has a feeling of a mortal shopping in the market.
Passing by a jewelry store, Yumu planned to pass by directly, but inadvertently saw the straw hat hanging in the store. Wear one for yourself, put that little straw hat on Tu Shan Moyan's little head.
Tu Shan Moyan was a little reluctant at first, and kept fiddling with his paws with his straw hat, wanting to take it off, but Elm told it to wear it for shade with his heart, and Tu Shan Moyan quieted down and stopped moving the little straw hat.
Qin Yu looked at the elm wearing a straw hat, a little funny, this elm brother is indeed different from others.
Yumu gave Qin Yu a straw hat, Qin Yu directly reached out and took it, and he was also familiar with wearing it, and he was not embarrassed at all.
Yumu glanced at Qin Yu and said, "Brother Qin, have you ever worn this thing before?" I followed my teacher to serve some fields when I was a child, when I was young, I always felt that the sun was too big and too hot, and when the teacher took me to farm later, he bought me a straw hat, and now that I think about it, I miss it a little more. ”
Qin Yu gently fiddled with the straw hat with one hand, and after putting the straw hat on properly, he said: "I am actually similar to you, I was originally an ordinary peasant child, and I often do it when I go to the field to farm, and this straw hat is also often worn." ”
Elm was a little incredulous.
Qin Yu glanced at the elm wood, and continued to say as he walked: "I am a native of this country, but my hometown is in a village in the south, backed by the mountains, and I also farm and earn a living on weekdays. ”
"There is a bug in the mountain that has a venomous tail called a scorpion, which is very valuable. In the summer, I like to go up the mountain with my childhood friends, lift up the stones, often catch scorpions, and then keep them in clay pots, and when I have free time, we go to the market together to sell them in exchange for some copper plates, and as usual, I have to buy a sugar gourd to eat. ”
Qin Yu recalled the time when he was a child and hunted scorpions with his companions, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.
Elm listened quietly and did not make a sound.
Qin Yu seemed to be interested, picked a teahouse at random, walked in with elm, and asked for a private room, where three Lingyuan coins could sit for an afternoon.
Qin Yu beckoned Yumu to sit down, and after making tea, he poured a cup for Yumu, and drank the tea before he whispered: "Actually, when I didn't step into cultivation, I also drank tea, and I planted some tea trees at home, but the best leaves were taken out and sold, and the ones I kept at home to drink by myself were just some coarse tea, which was really not very delicious." Ever since I started practicing, the only thing that has accompanied me is my drinks. ”
Elm gently blew the floating leaves on the top of the tea bowl and asked, "Brother Qin, why is this?"
Qin Yu didn't answer, quietly drank the tea in his hand, and then spoke slowly: "Because after I started practicing, I was alone, and I have no relatives in this world." ”
Yumu regretted a little, he had nothing to do to buy a straw hat, as if he had aroused Qin Yu's sadness, and he felt a little guilty in his heart.
Qin Yu looked out the window, looking at the south, as if he was looking at his hometown again, and only after a while did he retract his gaze, and he was a little embarrassed to speak: "I'm sorry, Brother Yu, I'm a little distracted." ”
Elm shook his head: "It's me who is wrong." ”
Qin Yu poured himself another cup of tea, and then continued: "Speaking of catching scorpions just now, it is very common in our place, it is too hot during the day, and it is tiring to move stones, in fact, it is best to catch it at night, the mountain is windy and cool. ”
Elm hesitated and said: "At night, how can you see clearly, holding a torch?"
Qin Yu's eyes were gloomy, and he said slowly: "Of course not. ”
Without waiting for Yu Mu to ask, Qin Yu took out a talisman seal from the ring and put it on the table, and said to Yu Mu: "Brother Yu, do you recognize this talisman seal?"
Yumu looked at the talisman on the table, this talisman is only made of ordinary yellow paper, using the worst material, and the function will definitely not be too great. This talisman also has one in elm.
Yumu also took out a talisman seal and put it together with Qin Yu's, this talisman was given to him by Zhang Yang when he first went to the Hundred Beasts Collar. There is no other function, but after use, it can have night vision, and it is also effective for mortals.
Yu Mu understood a little: "Brother Qin, did you use this night vision talisman to catch scorpions at that time? Could it be that the monks in the village made it? If so, then the monks are really good." ”
Qin Yu looked at the night vision talisman on the table, a trace of memory flashed in his eyes, and he was even more sad.
Qin Yu said quietly: "We are just a small mortal village there, and I should be the only monk in the village." ”
Yumu looked at Qin Yu and waited for the following.
Qin Yu took the talisman seal in his hand, rubbed it gently, and said softly: "My mother left early, I was raised by my father, my father is also well-known for his ability in our village, he also planted some fruit trees in the fields, and he will also go to hunt scorpions in his free time, so his livelihood is actually not bad." ”
"But one day a stranger came to the village, and with him came the scorpion collector in the bazaar. The scorpion collector came to us and said that the man he had brought over would collect a scorpion, an ordinary scorpion, a copper plate, at a high price. ”
Yumu spoke softly: "Brother Qin, how many scorpions could you catch every day when you were a child?"
Qin Yu didn't want to speak directly: "A dozen, if you go to the market to sell it, there will only be three or two copper plates." So, this stranger had a scorpion and a copper plate, and the village was boiling. ”
Elm agreed: "Indeed, for the croppers, a child can catch a dozen a day, and now one by one, they don't have to catch scorpions." ”
Qin Yu smiled lightly: "That's right, that stranger just built a wooden house in the village and lived there, waiting for people to go to him every day to sell scorpions." ”
"At first, everyone was a little unconvinced, and no one went to him. Later, one day I brought five scorpions over, and the man gave me five copper plates, which was very refreshing. After the word spread, people all went to him, and he did not refuse to come, and he collected as much as he could, so during that time, many people in the village stopped fiddling with the fields and went to the mountains to catch scorpions. ”
Yu Mu glanced at Qin Yu and saw that his face was as usual, so he spoke, "That person is a monk?"
Qin Yu nodded slightly, and then continued to tell his story: "Then one day, that person came to me and said that I was his first guest, and gave me a few talismans, which were the night vision talismans on this table. ”
"I didn't know what this was at the time, and I thought he was a Taoist priest who made some talismans to deceive people, but I thought that he was the god of wealth in the village, so I asked a few more words, this question," Qin Yu's voice stopped.
Yumu glanced up at Qin Yu, only to find that at some point, Qin Yu already had two lines of tears on his face.
Tu Shan Moyan also stopped eating the spirit fruit and looked at Qin Yu quietly.
Sensing the elm sight, Qin Yu smiled reluctantly, did not wipe the tears on his face, and continued: "That person told me that this is a night vision talisman, and when it gets dark at night, it will be attached to his forehead, and he will be able to see it." ”
The memory in the depths of Qin Yu's mind surfaced, a small wooden house, in which sat a young man in black clothes, holding a few talismans in his hand, saying something to a child in front of him.
"Come, take these talismans, and stick them on your forehead at night, and you can see them at night as well as during the day. The young man in black said to the child in front of him with a little gentleness on his face.
"Really, you're not lying to me, are you?" said the child's face.
The young man in black had a smile on his face, "Don't you believe it? ”
The child held the talisman tightly, ran a few steps, and looked back, the young man in black was still standing in place, and the smile on his face was still gentle.
At night, the curious child quietly opened his eyes, took the talisman to look left and right through the moonlight in the sky, and finally, gently pressed it on his forehead.
The next day, the boy and his father went to the hut of the young man in black, who was buying and selling scorpions with the others, and ignored the two of them.
When those people sold all the scorpions in the clay pot to the young man in black, they took the copper plates they had exchanged, and shouted to each other that they wanted to eat something for the night. The child's eyes were sharp, and he saw that among the people who sold scorpions just now, someone caught a lot of scorpions, and the young man in black finally gave a piece of silver to settle the settlement, and the bright silver, the child saw it for the first time.
When the young man in black saw the child and the child's father, he greeted softly: "It's here, but is there a scorpion to sell?"
The child hid behind his father, showing only one head, and looked at the youth.
The child's father was a little restrained, a farmer, he really couldn't speak, and finally held back a sentence: "I also tried the talisman that the child took back yesterday, you, are you an immortal?"
The young man in black smiled dumbly, shook his head slightly, and nodded again. Looking at the big and small in front of him, he said: "I am a monk, and to you mortals, I can be regarded as an immortal. ”
The child's father stretched out his hand and wiped the sweat on his head, feeling a little frightened, an immortal came to the village to collect scorpions, and he was usually kind, who would have thought of it!
The young man in black glanced at the child and whispered, "What's the matter, I didn't lie to you, right?"
The child nodded vigorously.
The young man smiled even more, stretched out his right hand, and a flame appeared out of thin air in his hand, burning in the palm of his hand.
The child was terrified and hugged his father's thigh.
The young man looked at the flame in his palm, and finally threw the flame on the ground casually, and the flame slowly extinguished.
The boy and his father both believed that the young man in front of him was an immortal.
The young man said softly: "I see that your child is clever, so I gave him a few talismans and seals, just as a gadget, and I can't bear to see that he goes to the mountains to catch scorpions during the day, and tans like this." With this talisman, you can catch scorpions at night, which is definitely much more comfortable than the sun. ”
The father of the child took the child and bowed to the young man and thanked him again and again.
In the next two days, the boy and his father went into the mountains together in the hot and humid evening, and indeed caught many scorpions, and obtained several silver ingots from the young man, and the boy was taken by his father to the bazaar every day to buy chicken legs to eat.
There are many people who catch scorpions in the village, and there is only one child who sends talismans to young people, so the child is very grateful to this immortal, and he is rich and kind.
In two days, the talisman had been used up, and when the child came to the wooden house again, the young man in black smiled happily.
The child was a little frightened and took out a few talismans that had no spiritual power, and timidly said that he wanted the immortals to make the talismans useful again, but the young man still smiled and agreed, and gave the child a few more talismans.
A few days later, this time the child came with his father, and the young man in black sent out the talisman again, and kindly pointed out, the tallest black mountain in the mountains, there are more scorpions.
The child's father knew about the black mountain, and there had always been rumors that there were monsters in the black mountain that would eat people, but in the end he couldn't resist the temptation and went up the mountain along the route pointed out by the young man in black "kindly".
The route was really fine, and for two days in a row, the child and his father's harvest had been exchanged for two pieces of gold from the young man in black, and both the child and his father treated the young man in black with respect and regarded him as a god.
On the evening of the third day, the boy and his father walked out of the village in good spirits, pasted the talisman, and continued into the Black Mountain.
The young man in black was also fully armed, holding a spiritual weapon and a long sword, carrying a bunch of talismans, and followed the two figures from afar, one large and one small.
The child and his father followed the route given by the youth, with the father in front and the child in the back, climbing all the way up, with the help of the talisman seal, walking without danger.
Unexpected, suddenly.
When the child's father is in the front, after jumping over the mountain stream that has been walked twice, he stands opposite and looks at his child with a smile, making a hugging gesture with both hands, waiting for his child to jump over and go directly to his arms.
The child looked at his father's smiling face, took a few steps back, and was just about to run to jump, when he suddenly saw a hideous monster quietly appear behind his father.
The child was so frightened that he couldn't speak, so he could only point behind his father with his finger, and finally shouted out in a trembling voice: "Dad." ”
The child's father is still encouraging his child: "My son is not afraid, come here, there is a father to pick you up, he will definitely not fall you, come." ”
The child shouted hoarsely, "There's a monster!"
The simple farmer turned around, and the claws of the monster behind him directly pierced the man's body, tearing the man in half.
The child burst into tears and cried out.
The young man in black suddenly appeared beside the child, without looking at the child next to him, with a fanatical look on his face: "Okay! Finally come out! Next, let's prepare to be my spirit beast!"
The monster threw the man's body in half down the mountain stream, a pair of small eyes stared at the black-clothed youth, the two long claws kept rubbing, making a tooth-souring "creaking" sound, and a long tail behind him, like a steel whip, there was a whistling wind when shaking.
The child recognized the young man in black, and now he also recognized the hideous monster, which was a scorpion, but it was different from what he caught, this monster scorpion was almost a human height, and its whole body was black, like steel.
The child fainted.
When he woke up, it was already dawn, the child was still lying on the mountain, the monster scorpion and the young man in black were nowhere to be seen, but the many fallen trees on the opposite side showed that the battle did not take place with the child.
The child ran down the hill crying, carefully touched the bottom of the mountain stream, and saw three corpses.
His father also had the young man in black and the monster scorpion.
The young man in black was stuck in the heart by a poisonous tail of the monster scorpion, and his whole dark face was full of unwillingness, and there was a little incredulity.
The steel-like monster scorpion, with a broken claw and a few legs, was entangled with the black-clothed youth, and several large holes appeared in the whole body, only one breath was left, and one calf on the right side was still moving slightly.
Qin Yu came back to his senses and told Yumu and Tu Shan Moyan all the memories he had just made.
The little fox listened with grief, and finally took out a few spirit fruits, gave one to Yumu, and pushed two spirit fruits to Qin Yu's side.
Yumu has been silent, not knowing how to speak, the child Qin Yu said is undoubtedly Qin Yu himself.
Qin Yu thanked the little fox, gently picked up a spirit fruit and put it in his mouth, chewing it slowly.
Then he arranged a soundproof magic array, looked at the elm, and said softly: "Brother Yu, do you still want to listen to the story behind?"
Elm nodded heavily.
Qin Yu smiled softly: "It's nothing, later that child, packed up his father's bones, took the two claws of the monster scorpion, took the ring of the young man in black, learned the tricks, became a fairy in the eyes of that child, and left his hometown." Later, when the child was cultivating on the road, he met a monk who was dressed like the young man in black, and finally knew that the method he had learned came from the Ascending Heaven Sect. ”
Later, the child went back to the village once, and the village was destroyed, and the child searched for many years to find out that it was a primitive monk of the Ascending Heaven Sect, because his disciple died in a mountain stream not far from a small village, so he took action with hatred and wiped out the entire village. ”
"Later, that kid began to sneak up on the lone disciple of the Ascending Heaven Sect, and finally a year ago, that kid had a realm card to complete his cultivation, and finally set a trap and killed the original monk, which can be regarded as avenging everyone in the village. ”
Qin Yu took a sip of tea, and then continued: "By the way, that kid has killed a lot of disciples of the Ascending Heaven Sect over the years, and every time he will write the word "Scorpion Catcher" on the ground next to him, after the original monk was killed, that kid has reached the third place on the hunting list of the Ascending Heaven Sect. ”
The name is "Scorpion Catcher". Qin Yu smiled and put down the teacup in his hand to see how Yumu reacted.
Elm's face was calm, and his heart began to be secretly vigilant, but his mouth said, "Scorpion catcher, it is indeed a good name. ”
Qin Yu looked at the elm wood and said, "Brother Yu, why aren't you surprised to know that I am this scorpion catcher?"
"Surprised?" Yu Mu asked rhetorically, "What is there to be surprised about, you are the big brother Qin I know, and you are a scorpion catcher, so what? It's just that Brother Qin, you actually told me this secret in your heart, which made me a little panicked." ”
Qin Yu smiled and filled the elm teacup with tea, and raised the teacup to the elm: "Drink." ”
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