Chapter 3: Mandrill Captivity.
"What, mandrill?"
Liu Laogen and Aunt Wang were suddenly shocked, and their faces instantly leaked with fear. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Li Xiuyuan, who happened to hear the news, frowned, revealing a solemnity.
He has lived in Guobei County for more than ten years, although he often listens to the cheap master talk about all kinds of ghosts, but he has never encountered any ghosts, which makes him a little doubtful that he has come to the Taoist world, the world of demons and demons, but he didn't expect to be lucky today and heard the existence of mandrills.
Mandrill, Li Xiuyuan learned from the cheap master that it was an ape that had become fine in the mountains.
Because apes are active by nature and full of wildness, once this beast becomes a sperm and opens its wisdom, most of them will do a lot of evil and harm one party, and the people will become a mandrill with the spirit that harms one side, and its status is equivalent to that of a ghost in the grave.
It is no wonder that the villagers' faces changed dramatically when they heard the news of the mandrill, and their eyes were terrified.
The village woman ran back to the village as if she was fleeing for her life, and she didn't even care about the clothes she was washing by the river, but at this moment, Li Xiuyuan strode up to stop her.
"What the hell is going on, mandrill, tell me more about it. Li Xiuyuan asked calmly.
Maybe Li Xiuyuan's composure infected this village woman, she evened her breath, and said with some palpitations: "Big, big young master, I was washing clothes by the river with other women in the village, and suddenly a monster with a face like a ghost rushed out of the mountains and forests by the river, and took Widow Du away in one hand......
Speaking of this, the village woman looked at Aunt Wang next to her.
Aunt Wang's face became more and more frightened, because the daughter-in-law of the Wang family who was kidnapped more than ten years ago was his husband's first wife, and it was only because of this incident that she later married into the Wang family.
"That's ......"
Li Xiuyuan's brows furrowed, it seemed that these villagers were also frightened by the situation at that time, and what they knew was also very one-sided.
I don't even know if it's a mandrill.
"I can't ignore such a serious matter as the mandrill kidnapping, I'll go to the river to see the situation, Liu Laogen, you go up the mountain to inform my master of this matter, Aunt Wang, you go and inform the village chief of this matter, let the village chief call all the people near the village back, try not to go out, maybe the mandrill is still wandering around here and has not gone far." ”
Li Xiuyuan commanded, and at the same time, he was carrying the tiger swallowing the golden gun and preparing to go to the river to see the situation.
Liu Laogen hurriedly said: "Young Master, that's a mandrill, if you encounter it, I'm afraid that someone will die, so don't go." ”
"It's all right, do as I tell you, it's just a beast that captivates women, and if you meet and slaughter it. ”
Li Xiuyuan didn't say a word and immediately strode away.
He has practiced martial arts with his cheap master for so many years, and he is also very disgusted with those gods and ghosts who harm one side, how can he stop if he encounters it today.
Even if it is a little dangerous, what is it, the master said that his martial arts lack experience, if he has experienced it, he can definitely become a martial arts master, and it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, and the experience is today.
Li Xiuyuan is the eldest young master of the Li family, and the villagers of Xiahe Village are all hired farmers of the Li family, as soon as his words come out, they are like orders, and these honest villagers have to abide by them honestly, but Liu Laogen is also worried that he, the eldest young master, was killed by the mandrill, and immediately rushed towards the Taoist temple on the mountain after he left.
"Isn't that the eldest young master? eldest young master, go quickly, a mandrill has emerged by the river, and the widow Du has been kidnapped, don't go to the river at this moment. ”
On the way, another villager who fled back was stunned for a moment after seeing Li Xiuyuan, and then hurriedly shouted.
Li Xiuyuan really ignored it, and still strode towards the river.
After the villager kindly shouted, he stopped persuading and left.
"Young Master, don't go over there, I heard that a mandrill will be bad for people's lives, so get away from there and leave quickly." ”
Another villager who was farming seemed to have heard the news of the mandrill, and he also ran towards the village as if fleeing at this moment, and hurriedly shouted when he saw Li Xiuyuan.
Li Xiuyuan said with a smile, "If the mandrill is so powerful, it would have rushed into the village a long time ago, so why sneak up on kidnapping people." ”
The three of them became tigers, and the villagers were scared away by the river, and those who were not by the river were also scared away, but the more he so, the more interested he became in the mandrill.
His pace quickened, and in a short time he came to the river, which was not big, only more than three feet wide, and there were large pebbles on the river, and on these stones were scattered a lot of unwashed clothes, which I think had fallen by the village women who had been scared away.
On the other side of the river, in the shade near the woods, among a few cobblestones, there was a basin of clothes that were about to be washed, the clothes were brightly colored, all brocade was completely different from the burlap clothes of other villagers, needless to say, these clothes were the dirty clothes that Li Xiuyuan asked the villagers of Xiahe Village to wash.
"I don't even dare to cross the riverbank, this mandrill is really careful enough, the more this is the case, the more it proves that even if the beast becomes a spirit, the Tao will definitely not be too high. Li Xiuyuan said secretly.
If it is really a profound spirit, I am afraid that it has already turned into a human body and hibernated into the county seat, isn't the thousand-year-old centipede spirit in the Liaozhai movie transformed into a national teacher and teased the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty?
"Come along and have a look. ”
Li Xiuyuan looked at the scattered footprints that did not look like people by the river, and disappeared into the forest along the river.
He was also not afraid, and strode into the forest with a tiger swallowing a golden gun.
Xiahe Village leans on this mountain forest is not a deep mountain old forest, usually there are villagers go up the mountain to hunt, cut wood, and the mountain forest is not big, it stands to reason that such a place will not give birth to spirits, who would have thought that more than ten years ago there was a mandrill here, I have never heard of it.
Li Xiuyuan thought secretly in his heart.
In fact, what he didn't know was that the villagers here were not as good as the people of the 21st century, and they liked to make everyone know about the big things, and even if they knew about something like a mandrill, the villagers would keep their mouths shut and never spread it.
Just like the people in Guobei County in the movie, they knew that the female ghosts of Lanruo Temple were killed, but they all hid it from Ning Caichen, if it weren't for Ning Caichen's life, he would have been killed by those villagers early in the morning.
"The footprints are lost, so the mandrill can't go up the tree?"
Suddenly, after tracking for a while, Li Xiuyuan immediately lost the footprints of the mandrill.
Although this is not a deep mountain ancient forest, the ancient environment is too natural, and a small mountain forest is also a large tree, dense grass and trees, and it is not easy to track.
"Look around and see if you can find any clues. ”
Li Xiuyuan didn't give up, he wasn't worried about encountering any ghosts in the forest, because the cheap master said that he had a seven-trick exquisite heart, although the ghosts wanted to eat themselves, but they were also afraid of themselves, as long as they were careful of the beasts in the mountains and forests, the poisonous snakes would not be in danger.
After some searching, he suddenly saw a small piece of red cloth hanging on a small tree, and when he took it off, the red cloth was very new, as if it had been torn off not long ago.
"It must have been left by this widow, she was a little anxious and knew that she had left some clues. ”
Li Xiuyuan was overjoyed, and immediately followed this clue to continue tracking.
Sure enough, a few dozen meters ahead, he saw a small red cloth again.
After Widow Du was taken captive, she secretly left signs on the road, which was convenient for him.
Following the mark, Li Xiuyuan gradually went deeper into this mountain forest, and came to a very hidden foot of the mountain several times, at the foot of this mountain there are several huge rocks, and a cave can be vaguely seen in the middle of the rock, in which a woman's sobbing voice gradually floats slowly, coming from this mountain forest, people who don't know still think it is a ghost in the mountains, but Li Xiuyuan thinks that the voice is definitely the widow Du of Xiahe Village.
"Found it. ”
Li Xiuyuan was overjoyed, and finally found the hiding place of this mandrill.
It's really tight enough to hide, so hidden, no wonder this place hasn't been discovered over the years, although this mountain forest is not big, but if you want to find such a cave, unless it's a mountain search, it's impossible to find it.
"Where's the mandrill?"
He did not rush to approach the cave, but looked around with serious vigilance, trying to find out where the mandrill was.
To be honest, Li Xiuyuan has really not seen a god or ghost in all these years since he came to this world.
After carefully observing the surroundings, not to mention the mandrills, I didn't even see the shadow of a bird.
"It's strange, why did the mandrill kidnap people and run away by himself?"
Li Xiuyuan said secretly in his heart, and cautiously approached the cave.
If the mandrill is not nearby, then the only possibility is to hide in the cave, it is unlikely to leave here, this is its lair, and the captive widow Du may still be here.