Chapter 3: I'm Too Hard
There is more or less invisible resentment in the body of the person who died in vain, and when the flesh decays, this resentment dissipates. If the body is not rotten, there are other sources of resentment around it, and they will merge with each other. When the resentment reaches a certain level, ghosts will be born.
The green ghost that swallowed Di Nian'er is a fierce ghost turned into a resentful spirit, this ghost is afraid of the sun, feeds on living things, whether it is a mountain spirit, a spirit, a human, a beast, a bird or a beast, it only swallows but does not diarrhea, and its body will gradually grow larger with swallowing.
After the fierce ghost swallowed Di Nian'er, a pair of big green eyes looked in the direction of Lijia Village.
"Whew~"
With a long roar, the fierce ghost went in the direction of Lijia Village, and when it came to the edge of the village, a loud rooster crow sounded from somewhere in the village.
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When the rooster crows in the village, Zhou Qing, who had woken up, came to the window in the dark and pushed it open.
"It's finally going to be light. Zhou Qing sat by the window until the morning sun rose in the sky, and then put on a long robe and walked out of the room.
"Wang~"
Pushing open the door, Erha greeted him with a soft bark.
Reaching out and caressing the hairy dog's head, he tossed around the house again, and after breakfast, he went out with the fishing nets made yesterday out of coarse sheets and dried bamboo.
From Li Dawa's memory, he knew that there was a small river behind the village, so he led Erha to the small river behind the village.
The river is not wide, three or four meters, Zhou Qing walked along the river for a long time, and a small arch bridge appeared in front of him, under the small bridge is a pile of solid stones, and there is a bridge hole about one meter wide in the middle.
"Plop~"
Zhou Qing jumped into the water with a fishing net, put the net around the hole in the bridge, and inserted the bamboo support into the silt at the bottom of the river.
Then he returned to the shore, led Erha back along the river, and jumped into the river.
Zhou Qing in the small river waved his hands and feet and swam towards the bridge where the fishing net was located, and on the way he stirred the river as much as possible, trying to make the fish flee in panic under his intimidation and swim into the net.
Soon he swam to the bottom of the bridge, and then picked up the bamboo stand of the net fish and returned to shore.
Dragging a long net sewn from a coarse cloth to the shore, Zhou Qing, who was panting, had a smile on his face, because he found that there were seven fish in the net.
Three of the seven fish were more than a foot long, and four were smaller, and Zhou Qing left the largest one, throwing the other six into the river, and then returning to the village with the harvest.
"It seems that surviving here is not as difficult as it seems. Zhou Qing, who tried his hand at the knife, was quite happy at the moment.
After returning to the village, Zhou Qing went straight to the door, changed out of his wet clothes, rested for a while, pinned the slingshot he made yesterday to his waist, and led Erha to the mountains and forests at the edge of the village with an iron fork.
"Wang~Wangwang~"
As he approached an earthen house at the foot of the mountain, Erha suddenly stopped and barked at the earthen house.
Seeing Erha's abnormal behavior, Zhou Qing walked to the earthen house with the door open in confusion and looked at it, and entered the house with a single footstep.
After a casual look in the front room, he stood on the threshold leading to the backyard and glanced at the backyard roughly.
The kitchen, firewood room, and utility room connected to the courtyard are all covered with tiles, and there is only a half-zhang high wall separating them, and there are no doors and windows.
"Call a hammer. Zhou Qing, who didn't notice anything abnormal, walked out of the house, ignored the barking of the dog, and continued to walk towards the mountain forest.
Seeing the owner leaving, the dog barked at the earthen house a few more times before catching up with Zhou Qing.
In Li Dawa's memory, Zhou Qing knew that there were no fierce beasts on this mountain, and there were many pheasants and hares, but after he entered the mountain, he didn't even see a single chicken feather, let alone a hare.
But in the meantime he saw a few large birds perched on the branches.
After demonstrating the skill of shooting big birds with a slingshot a few times, Zhou Qing, who was originally a little confident, had no fighting spirit.
"I'm so hard!"
Sitting on a big rock on the mountainside, Zhou Qing looked bitter.
Just when he was disheartened about going into the mountains to hunt, an old man in a black robe with gray hair and a long beard quietly appeared in the mountains and forests ten feet away from him.
"Doll, what are you doing here?" the old man flicked his long beard and shouted at Zhou Qing.
Hearing the sudden shout, Zhou Qing was unconsciously shocked, he jumped up from the stone, clutched the iron fork to look for prestige, and saw the black-robed old man, who was also the first living person he met when he came to this world.
The sudden appearance of this old man was strange, which made Zhou Qing feel uneasy in his heart, because he was followed by Erha, it stands to reason that the sensitivity of dogs far exceeds that of humans, but from the appearance of this old man to the opening of his mouth, Erha did not open his mouth and bark.
"Old man, people are scared to death. Zhou Qing looked at the old man carefully, saw that his eyes were kind and kind, and he smiled heaps on his face, and through his memory, he knew that the old man was not from Lijia Village, and immediately replied, "I'm here to hunt, is there anything wrong with the old man?"
"The old Taoist surname is Wu, you can call me Daoist Wu. ”
The old man surnamed Wu introduced himself, got closer to Zhou Qing, and asked, "Doll, are you from the village under the mountain?"
After listening to Wu Laodao's introduction, Zhou Qing, who was a little vigilant in his heart, relaxed a little.
Now he is just a nine-year-old child, this old Taoist can be so kind to himself, it means that the old Taoist priest should have no ill will towards him.
"Yes!" Zhou Qing answered, and asked rhetorically, "Is Daochang Wu passing by here?"
"The old way is a special trip here, not a pass-by. Wu Lao Dao's footsteps moved, and he came to Zhou Qing and sat on the stone, "Lao Dao met people fleeing from your village in Dingyuan County, so he came here to confirm the matter." ”
"Oh~" Zhou Qing nodded in a long voice before he said, "Daoist Wu, I still have something to do, so I'll leave here!"
"This doll is old-fashioned, but it's also funny. With a thought, Wu Laodao smiled and waved his hand, and then watched Zhou Qing's figure disappear into the mountains and forests.
Zhou Qing, who was descending the mountain, walked in a hurry, and when he returned to the foot of the mountain, his forehead was already sweating.
Raising his sleeves to wipe the sweat from his forehead, Zhou Qing glanced back at the mountains and forests, but did not find Wu Laodao's figure, so he slowed down and returned to the village.
When he and Erha passed by the previous earthen house, the dog barked at the earthen house.
"Are you barking at the mud code?" Zhou Qing yelled irritably at the dog and returned home with the iron fork.
As the sun set, Zhou Qing, who had returned home, washed his face, leaned on a wooden chair in the hall and sat down, because he was in a hurry to go down the mountain just now, and his breath had not completely calmed down at this time.
I woke up before dawn this morning, and after sitting for a while, Zhou Qing unconsciously yawned, and then a wave of sleepiness hit.
Dragging his tired body back to the room, he lay down directly, and after a while, a slight snoring sounded in the room.
I don't know how long I slept this night, and Zhou Qing was woken up by a frightened dog barking outside the house.
After waking up, his first reaction was that something was going on outside the house, because Erha's barking was very rapid, and he could hear that the dog was barking while moving.