When Grandpa Hu was young, he went out to practice, and met a tree demon who entered the late stage of the human soul in the deep mountains, and the tree demon fed on the essence and blood, and turned several nearby villages into barren mounds.

In the process of searching for the dryad, the villages you pass by are already deserted. Grandpa Hu was notoriously bold when he was young, although he didn't have four or six like Lao Zhi, but he didn't believe in evil, relying on his mid-stage cultivation and a few ancestral magic weapons, he went into the mountains alone to find the tree demon.

Grandpa Hu searched for a day and half a night on the nearby dirt mountain, and found no trace of the dryad, Grandpa Hu began to wonder if he had found the wrong place, but after thinking about it, it shouldn't be, several nearby villages have been abandoned for a long time, and the dryad must be making trouble nearby.

Just when Grandpa Hu wanted to take a rest, he found a fire in the distance, walked along the firelight, and saw a very large tree hole, this tree hole is bigger than a dozen houses, it is very open and spacious, and there are many people around the tree hole, singing and dancing with a bonfire, some people are chatting and drinking, some people are cooking and barbecue, and a small group of children are shouting and laughing around the crowd of people who are singing and dancing.

At that time, it was the period of the Republic of China, and some of the people were still hungry, so how could they be so rich that they didn't sleep in the middle of the night and held a bonfire party on the barren mountain? Could it be that there were dead people in the village, and they were doing sacrificial rituals?

But I've never seen anyone who can drink wine and eat meat during a sacrificial ceremony.

The more Grandpa Hu looked, the more he felt that something was wrong, but strange was strange, but he didn't find anything wrong.

At this time, Grandpa Hu had already walked the mountain road for a day and half a night, his stomach was already hungry, and when he smelled the aroma of barbecue, his saliva was flowing down one pot after another.

So Grandpa Hu walked into the crowd, came to the side of several middle-aged people and said, "A few big brothers, I am on a night trip, thirsty and hungry, can you give me something to eat?"

The peasant in the coarse cloth shirt had a dry cigarette in his mouth, and grinned and said: "But isn't it, we don't have a store in front of the village or behind the store, it's rare to meet people, you wait here for a while, I'll go and talk to Huaizu!"

After speaking, he patted Grandpa Hu's shoulder heartily and walked into the tree hole, and after a while, an old man walked out of the tree hole, with brown robe and green hair, holding a tree root cane in his hand, and there were some green branches and leaves on it.

The old man called Huaizu came to Grandpa Hu's side, stroked a large handful of green beards on his chest and said with a smile: "Young man is passing by, if you are hungry, eat and drink something at our place, you don't have to be polite!"

When Grandpa Hu saw this Huai ancestor who came out of the hole in the tree, he was stunned.

Brown robe and green hair, hand crutches, this is the appearance of a person, if you guess correctly, this may be the dryad you are looking for!

But there is no demonic aura around him, and there are so many ordinary people, if it is really like the legend that the tree demon eats people, then what is the matter with these living villagers? For a while, Grandpa Hu was a little confused about what was going on, but he just mentioned the caution of twelve points and tried it first.

Huaizu asked the villagers to bring some food for Grandpa Hu, and then sat down as well.

Huaizu's status among many villagers is not half high, it is simply a fairy-like existence, the middle-aged people who were sitting in a circle just now saw Huaizu sit down, they stood up one after another, and stood aside with respect on their faces, listening to Grandpa Hu and Huaizu talking.

After Huaizu sat down, he stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Where did the young man come from?

Grandpa Hu couldn't figure out what this Huaizu was for a while, and he didn't dare to tell the truth easily, so he replied with a smile: "I'm here to visit relatives nearby." ”

"Oh, go relatives, which village are your relatives from?"

"Uh..."Grandpa Hu was stopped by Huaizu's words, leaving relatives is a lie made up by himself, where does he know what the name of the nearby village is, but he can't show his feet, scratched the back of his head and said: "I am an orphan, I grew up in the Taoist temple, and then I heard the master say that I still have a relative alive, tell me a general direction and I found it, and it was the first time I came, I don't know what the name is, and I don't know where I live, it all depends on luck, I can find the best, and if I can't find it, I should come out to play." Oh, by the way, I forgot to ask who you are?"

Huaizu stroked the beard on his chest, his expression was a little regretful, but in Grandpa Hu's eyes, it was a strange feeling.

"It seems that you are also a hard-working person! I am the guardian spirit of my own side-Huaizu!"

In the dead of night, there are bonfires in barren mountains, and people in several villages below the mountain are dead, and a strangely dressed guardian saint leads a group of people to open a bonfire party here!

Is this Nima normal?

It's a panic to think about!

Grandpa Hu is like a mirror in his heart, this Huaizu is not a good thing at all, but suspicion is suspicion, but since he saw Huaizu until now, he has been using his mind to explore the surrounding situation, and has never been able to find anything wrong, if this Huaizu in front of him is the tree demon he is looking for, why is there no demonic spirit at all? Is it really like what he said, is it the land god of his side?

But I saw a similar thing in "Miscellaneous Conversations of the Horse Immortals", the land god who guards one side lives with the people, but the people on the water and soil of the side he guards are dead, and he can still chat like a nobody on the bonfire in this big bowl of wine and big pieces of meat?

In order to further test whether this Huai Zu, who claims to be the guardian saint of the party, is a goblin, Grandpa Hu asked: "I heard that this goblin has been causing trouble recently, and it has killed a lot of people, is it really fake?"

"Trouble goblins, with our Huaizu here, you can still make goblins, which bastard is listening to nonsense behind your back!" As soon as the voice of the person who gave up his seat to Grandpa Hu just now fell, it caused the surrounding villagers to laugh...

"Yes, with our Huaizu here, which goblin dares to come, hahaha..."

"Who is this nonsense? Our feng shui is good, I think he is a goblin, you tell me who that person is, I will go to him and ask!"

"We have the blessing of Huaizu, and people are prosperous without worrying about food and clothing, where are the goblins harming people?"

"That's right, Lao Zhang is right, everyone in the place blessed by Huaizu can live a long life, our family has lived under the mountain for generations, and we have never seen goblins?

As soon as this person's voice fell, the surrounding villagers talked about Huaizu's goodness as if they were boiling a pot, how to bless them, how to help them, as big as handing out money and things, and as small as delivering sows.

Let's put it this way, in their mouths, in addition to Huaizu, in addition to not being able to have children, what is the sky to catch birds and turtles in the sea, everything can be omnipotent, even if the almighty God sees Huaizu, he can get angry nosebleeds, because Huaizu is here, God should be unemployed and go home to care for the elderly.

The corners of Huaizu's mouth rose slightly, and he waved his hand and said, "One land blesses one side of peace, and the priesthood is reasonable." As long as the people can live and work in peace and contentment, they will not be in vain to protect one party! But when this goblin says it, I'm afraid it's not true, right?"