When he returned to Yizhuang, he introduced Zuo Tianming to the people in Yizhuang, and Zhong Bo told Xiao Lie about the affairs of Yizhuang during this time, which were all trivial things, and he arranged a place for Zuo Tianming to rest after arranging a place to live.

In the days that followed, he took Zuo Tianming to get acquainted with Yizhuang's business, and divided his practice room into two rooms, one for himself and the other for Zuo Tianming.

When there is nothing to do, pick medicine, practice exercises, wander around the city, and be content, this kind of quiet life has been lived for a year.

Nothing major happened in this year, but not an inch of rain and snow fell throughout the year, but no one paid attention to it. Until one day, the two of them just came out of the practice room and sat in the hall to drink tea and rest. Zhong Bo took an old man to find Xiao Lie: "Owner, this is the village elder Chen of Snake Cave Mountain Forest Village, if I want to ask you for help, I will bring him." ”

"Just say anything, as long as we can do it, there will be no problem. Xiao Lie said after asking Village Chief Chen to sit down.

"I didn't expect the owner of this Yizhuang to be so young, he is really a young hero, so I have nothing to say. A few days ago, I was grazing cattle on the mountain, and it was supposed to be fine, but when I walked in front of a cave, my cow actually knelt down in the direction of the cave, and tears flowed from my eyes. At first, I thought it was because the cow was tired, so I let it rest for a while, and when I wanted to continue driving, I didn't want to drag the cow away or still knelt like that, with tears in my eyes. I didn't think much of it at the time, so I desperately pulled the reins of the ox and pulled it up with great effort to go home with me. After returning to the village, I heard from other villagers that their cows and horses were also guilty of this problem, and some villagers said that the reason why it had not rained for more than a year was because there were monsters living in this cave, and they were all caused by this monster. I heard from other villages that the owner of the Yizhuang in the city was a great master who could handle this matter. Isn't this right, today I am here on behalf of all the villagers of Lin Village to ask you to help us get rid of this goblin. Great kindness, we will definitely be unforgettable. Village Chief Chen briefly explained the situation, and got up to salute Xiao Lie.

Xiao Lie immediately stood up and helped Lao Chen to sit down and said, "No, no, please sit down." You say it's a goblin, has anyone seen it?"

"No one has seen it, it's just that the people in the village are spreading it. If anyone had ever seen a goblin, they would have blown up their nest long ago, and they would never have come to you today. ”

"In this case, if I don't take a look at the cave of Snake Cave Mountain, I can't make up my mind whether there are really goblins or not. Xiao Lie thought for a while.

Lao Chen said with a little excitement: "You just agreed, great, really good, on behalf of the old and young masters of the village, thank you in advance!" After speaking, he wanted to salute Xiao Lie again. Xiao Lie hurriedly grabbed Lao Chen: "It's all said, I can't help it, I'm a junior, how can I afford your old man's big gift, isn't this a discount for my yang longevity, I can't do this in the future, my name is Xiao Lie, you can call me whatever you like, but you can't be so polite, I promise you." ”

Xiao Lie asked Lao Chen to rest in the hall for a while, and he went back to the house with Zuo Tianming to pack up the things that were applied. After packing up, the three of them went to Lin Village.

When the villagers of Lin Village learned that the village chief had invited the archmage from the city, they all ran to the village chief's house to see what the archmage in the city was like. Seeing that Xiao Lie and Zuo Tianming were just young men in their early twenties, some villagers muttered: "This archmage is too young, and the other one seems to be a little younger, don't you let your apprentice come to the archmage, can you catch the goblin at such a young age." ”

Lao Chen waved his hand at the man and said sternly: "Don't talk nonsense, this is the owner of our Hecheng Yizhuang, and if you can do it at such a young age, the master of the Yizhuang must be outstanding." Do what you have to do, don't make any more trouble. Lao Chen blasted away all the people who were watching the excitement, turned around and said to Xiao Lie with a smile on his face: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, they are all tenants in mountain villages, they have never seen any world, they have no culture, and their words are a little ugly, but there is no malice, but don't be angry." ”

Lao Chen's politeness made Xiao Lie look particularly restrained: "It's okay, it's okay, they should think so, if it were me, it would be difficult not to think so." ”

"These people are all scared, as long as it gets dark, no one dares to go out, and even and pee have to be solved in the house. ”

The two said this at the village chief's house, and arranged for Zuo Tianming to go around the village to see if he could find any clues. After a while, Zuo Tianming came back, with four or five more bamboo baskets in his hand, which were filled with various dishes.

Putting down the bamboo basket, Zuo Tianming said to Xiao Lie: "This trip down, I didn't find any clues, but I harvested so much delicious food." These are all prepared for us by the people in the village, saying that they are filial to the archmage. ”

Xiao Lie smiled bitterly: "If we can't solve this problem, I'm really sorry for these people." Eat people with short mouths, stay at the village chief's house tonight, and let the village chief take us to Snake Cave Mountain early tomorrow morning. ”

The village chief immediately agreed, and then took out the good wine he had treasured for many years, and wanted to have a good drink with the two of them.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Zuo Tianming went to the thatched house to facilitate it, and accidentally found that on the mountain in the southeast of the village, there was an extremely light purple gas wafting, if you didn't pay attention, it would be difficult to detect it. Returning to the house and whispering to Xiao Lie what he had just seen, Xiao Lie asked Lao Chen tentatively: "Village Chief, where is the location of Snake Cave Mountain?"

The village chief was in a slightly drunken state, his face was flushed, and he stretched out his hand in one direction: "It is the mouth at the east end of the village, and when you turn south, you will see a road, and along the road you will see Shepan Mountain, and the cave is in the middle of this road." What's going on?"

In order not to burden Lao Chen, Xiao Lie casually found a reason to prevaricate. After drinking for a while, they didn't drink much, but Lao Chen was drunk, and the two helped Lao Chen to bed and sat down on a rattan chair in the courtyard.

Xiao Lie looked at the direction of the faint purple gas and said to Zuo Tianming: "That's right, that place is the cave that the village chief said, there is not a goblin in it, but a zombie that has changed into a corpse, only the corpse qi is purple, looking at the intensity of this purple qi, it should not be a powerful thing, but it is also necessary to take precautions." ”

After living in Yizhuang for a year, Zuo Tianming has grown a lot, and there is not so much nonsense in his mouth, some of them are just calm, and he rummaged through his treasure bag and said to Xiao Lie: "Can we deal with the things we brought?"

"It's okay, no matter what kind of zombie it is, it's afraid of the sun, and if this thing hasn't come down the mountain to harass this village, it means that it hasn't become a climate yet. As long as we get him out of the cave and bask him in the sun for a day, in the evening, we burn it with fire. Xiao Lie said calmly.

Seeing that Xiao Lie is so calm, there must be no problem, Zuo Tianming's trust in Xiao Lie is getting deeper and deeper, as long as Xiao Lie says it, he will not refute it. The two sat in the courtyard for a while, and they were not sleepy, but they were infected by the snoring of Lao Chen in the house. I got up and went back to my room and went to sleep.

felt that not long after falling asleep, Lao Chen woke them up, and when he opened his eyes, he found that the sky was so bright. After eating casually, the three of them went to Snake Cave Mountain.

Lao Chen was right, in the middle of that road, there was really a cave. When there is still some distance from the cave, the horse under the crotch will not go, the cave is in front of you, and there is no need to ride a horse. Turn over and dismount, let Lao Chen watch the horses here, and don't go over no matter what happens, so as not to distract the two of them. Lao Chen agreed, grabbed the reins of the horse, and sat on a big rock to bask in the sun.

Outside the cave, the two made all preparations and slowly walked into the cave. As soon as they stepped into the cave, they felt a cold breath rushing to their faces, and the two of them looked at everything in the cave with a twelve-point spirit. In a corner of the cave, Xiao Lie found a red sarcophagus and called Zuo Tianming to walk to the sarcophagus. This sarcophagus is extremely thick, and it is estimated that it can fit two people. I walked around the sarcophagus and saw the appearance of the sarcophagus. There are five big ghosts carved on the periphery of this sarcophagus, each with its own fierce gods, all holding up their hands to support the bottom of the sarcophagus, except that these are some auspicious clouds and blessing characters and other things.

Zuo Tianming had never seen such a coffin, so he asked Xiao Lie what it was.

Xiao Lie pondered for a moment, looked at the five big ghosts again, and gasped: "This is the coffin of the five ghosts, this thing shouldn't appear here, there is plenty of yang energy here, how can there be such a coffin." ”

"Is this thing awesome?"

"This is a coffin for raising corpses, it is for nourishing zombies, and the zombies raised by this coffin are much more powerful than ordinary zombies, this kind of zombie is called a drought and can speak human language, as long as the drought fish comes out, there must be a big drought where it is. Speaking of this, Xiao Lie came to his senses: "It seems that our lack of rain and snow this year has something to do with this." ”

Zuo Tianming nodded, and seemed to understand and circled around the sarcophagus several times, "Just the two of us, how can you get out of such a big sarcophagus?"

Xiao Lie pushed the lid of the sarcophagus with his hand and said to Zuo Tianming: "We can't get the coffin out, we can only get the things inside outside." Come, let's open the lid of the coffin first. After that, the two of them are about to open.

Before he could do it, the coffin lid of the sarcophagus opened by itself.