Chapter 2: The Fox Demon
"Why haven't you come yet?" Zhou Yang'er couldn't help but glance in the direction of Zhao Zhuang again. On the avenue at the entrance of the village, there is still no figure. I made an appointment with Zhao Zhe yesterday, and waited for him under the old willow tree on the side of the road outside the village early this morning.
The three pockmarks on the tip of his nose were squeezed together in a dark and heavy manner, and the young man's heart was a little angry, he had already guessed that he was shaken by that Zhao Da Fat Dun again, and the "early this morning" in this guy's mouth was not the early morning he imagined.
As a good friend who grew up together, Zhou Yanger doesn't know how many times he has been shaken by this lazy and gluttonous fat dun. Looking up at the sky, the red corona sun had just risen, and I was afraid that this kid would not get up until the sun rose and the corona was in the middle of the sky.
I remember that the old way said that you don't have to be rich to make friends, but you must make friends with capable people. For example, the old shepherd, although he is only a sheep herder, has no one else who can hunt.
In Zhou Yang'er's opinion, although this kid Zhao Zhe has a lot of problems, his skills in making slingshots are a must. Even the old carpenter in town did not work as well as he did. Anyway, this is also a skill, so although he is often sold by this fat dun who has nothing to do and is stupid, he insists that he should treat Zhao Da Chubundun as his good friend.
Knowing that he had come early, Zhou Yang'er sat helplessly under the old willow tree, took out the things in the cloth bag and checked and wiped them one by one. These things were given to him by the old shepherd on his deathbed.
More than a dozen animal clips are used for guarding at night, sleeping in the mountains is the most afraid of fierce beasts, the old shepherd made animal clips are quite powerful, put a few next to them when sleeping at night, even if the tiger comes, he is not afraid.
Two sets of sets are enough, it should be no problem to deal with small beasts, go into the mountain to set a rabbit or something, and eat dry food after roasting on the fire.
The last thing I pulled out was a slingshot, one of flower kernel wood. As the saying goes: Copper heart bamboo, the bear jumps and the jackal cries. Tie Limu, the rabbit dies, the fox is sad, and the eagle has no way. Flower kernel wood, a flock of sparrows scurrying up the tree. The kernel wood is hard and brittle, and the slingshot made is the most useless, at most it beats the sparrow.
Zhou Yang'er is best at playing slingshots, and he used to be a master of slingshots, so he just had a slingshot. It's just that this time I'm going to Maoerling, and I didn't make a good slingshot. A few days ago, I made a section of copper heart bamboo in the nearby mountains. Find Zhao Zhe, who has the best skills, to help make a slingshot.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yang'er raised his head and glanced at the entrance of the village again, why didn't Zhao Zhe come yet. I don't know how long it will be delayed. Just thinking about it, I saw a round figure appear on the avenue at the entrance of the village.
Zhou Yang'er looked fixedly, couldn't it be Zhao Da Fatund, blue silk shirt, red clogs. A big burden behind him, and a cat in his arms. "What is this fat man going to do?" Zhou Yang'er was surprised.
"Give!" Zhao Zhe, the fat man who ran in front of him, panted while handing a brand-new slingshot to Zhou Yang'er. Zhou Yang'er's eyes were immediately attracted.
The whole body is pale yellow, crystal clear, and every bamboo node is polished and shiny. Two tendons were tied to the forks of the slingshot, and a copper hoop was attached to each of them. A leopard skin pocket in the middle connects the two tendons.
I touched it with my hand, and the two animal tendons were full of toughness, and I knew that the elasticity was excellent at a glance. "Can you try to pull it open first?" said the fat man with a smile, and Zhou Yang'er looked up at the fat man's ill-intentioned expression. It is known that this beast tendon is extraordinary. He grabbed the slingshot and tried it first. Then he pulled hard, and the tendons of the beast became longer and longer, and even the slingshot handle of the copper heart bamboo slowly bent over.
Zhao Da Fatdun's eyes, which were originally narrowed into a slit, suddenly widened, and he and the two little guys worked together last night to pull the slingshot away. Looking at Zhou Yang'er's effortless appearance, he sighed in his heart: "This sheep is the second child...... What a freak!"
After trying, Zhou Yang'er stuffed the slingshot into the cloth bag, smiled at him and said, "I'll give you two tanuki skins when I go back." "My own brother, it's hard to say thank you, but you shouldn't let people work in vain.
Zhao Zhe rolled his eyes and said angrily: "I want to do something!" Seeing that Zhou Yang'er was still about to speak, he rushed to say: "Don't talk nonsense, let's go quickly." The young man next to him who was looking at the slingshot was puzzled, "I didn't say I wanted to take you with me?"
But I heard this fat dun say: "Brother, everyone says that good brothers share difficulties and share blessings." Looking for such a good thing as an immortal, do you want to eat alone?" But when he saw the sheep on the other side, he said: "I am looking for immortals to treat Lao Dao, what are you going to do?" Zhao Zhe smiled and said: "Apprentice." ”
Zhou Yang'er shook his head and said, "If you go to Maoerling to pass the monk's grave, do you dare to go over the mass grave?" smiled: "This is my second sister's tiger cat, specializing in eating all kinds of evil ghosts and souls." Hey hey ......"
The original tricks of a hundred trials were useless, and the young man who was looking for immortals was depressed for a while. It seems that this little fat man has been prepared. In fact, he was a little weak on the road alone, and at this time someone was willing to go along, although he felt that something was wrong, but he no longer said anything to stop it.
Seeing that it was not early, Zhou Yang'er said, "Then let's go." The fat man was overjoyed and said, "He deserves to be a good brother." After that, he held the cat with one hand, pulled out a small leather bag from the burden behind his back with the other, handed it over, and said, "It's not a loss to you to be a younger brother, and then." ”
Zhou Yang'er took the leather bag, felt a sinking in his hand, opened it and looked at it, and immediately smiled, it was full of pig iron projectiles the size of a dragon's eye. The fat man replied triumphantly: "Ten taels of silver were made by the king blacksmith in the town, a total of ten bags." ”
"Ten taels of silver!" Zhou Yang'er was startled, poured out the projectile in the bag, and counted them one by one. "Don't count, blacksmith Wang said a bag of twenty-five pills. Zhao Zhe said on the side, who knew that Zhou Yang'er turned a deaf ear.
Zhao Zhe was depressed for a while, this second brother is good at everything, just this little problem is annoying, just a few taels of silver, can you use it like this. However, I remember that my father once said to himself that if you want to do great things, you must make more friends, and you must find more strengths of friends, and let these strengths be used to have any hope of success.
Zhou Yang'er, this kid looks skinny, but he has a lot of strength, and the slingshot is accurate, and he wants to go to Maoerling to apprentice, just let this kid be his bodyguard. Thinking of this, Zhao Zhe suddenly felt that he had taken a big advantage, and he smiled and stopped talking.
Zhou Yang'er finished counting the iron projectiles, and couldn't stop smacking his lips, good guy, one or two silver bags, one bag of twenty-five, and one projectile is four big dollars. It's expensive!
He smiled and said to the fat man, "Let's go." He hung the sack around his waist and strode eastward, where it was divided into two ...... Wrong three, two teenagers plus a cat The immortal search team officially set off......
After walking for less than half an hour, the fat man was a little overwhelmed.
The mountain trail is already difficult to walk, and it is naturally even more difficult to walk in clogs. Plus with a cat in his arms......
The fat man sat on the stone on the side of the road, gasping and said, "I really can't walk!"
Zhou Yang'er glanced back at the fat man and sneered: "Wearing clogs to climb the mountain, it's strange to walk!" The fat man found out that Zhou Yang'er's linen clothes and pants and leggings and bast shoes were obviously prepared for entering the mountain. Look at the clogs on your feet...... The fat man was frustrated.
Suddenly, the fat man said fiercely: "It's all this damn cat, it's too heavy, so I can't walk." Otherwise, even if the master is wearing clogs, he still climbs the mountain and treads the water like flat ground. Looking at the fat man's self-improvement, Zhou Yang'er was dumbfounded.
But after thinking about it, what the fat man said also made sense. It is really inconvenient to walk with a cat in her arms. Zhou Yang'er thought for a while, found a hemp rope from his pocket, made a loophole, and wanted to put it on the cat's neck.
When the fat man saw it, he said repeatedly: "No, no, this guy's claws are very sharp, and the hemp rope will be broken with one claw." Zhou Yang'er heard him say this, but he had no idea, scratched the back of his neck with his hand, but touched something, and said with a smile: "Yes." ”
So saying, he took off the collar around his neck, which he had worn around his neck since he was a child, and the knife was constantly chopping, the fire did not burn, and there were three bells strung on it. It is just right for a cat to be leashed. Immediately removed from the neck and put it on the cat's neck.
Sure enough, the cat grabbed a few handfuls and caught him still, so he had to give up. Tie the collar with hemp rope and let Zhao Zhe lead it, and the two of them went on the road again. After walking for more than an hour, the monk's tomb arrived.
It is said that this was originally a mountain cliff, but one year a landslide buried a monk alive who was sheltering from the rain under the cliff, and the cliff became a slope. Since then, it has been a mass grave. In this kind of eerie place, the two boys naturally hide as far as they can on weekdays.
But today it didn't work, the two glanced at each other, Zhou Yang'er mustered up the courage to walk forward, but Zhao Zhe shook the hemp rope in his hand, and shouted: "Little Yang'er, hurry up!" Zhou Yang'er said angrily on the side: "Are you looking for death?
The fat man smiled and said, "My sister got up, it's none of my business." As soon as he heard that it was the name of the rouge tiger, Zhou Yang'er was suddenly deflated, and walked towards the slope with a curse in his mouth. The fat man gloated behind him. According to the old rules, when passing by the cemetery, you must not look around, let alone look back. So although Zhou Yang'er was angry, it was not easy to turn around and scold Zhao Zhe.
Before reaching the top of the slope, the fat cat suddenly screamed and lay on the ground. No matter how Zhao Zhe rushed, he just didn't move. Zhou Yang'er, who was walking in front, was helpless, turned around and wanted to help, but when he turned around, he saw a strange scene on the grave on the left.
On the small mound, a fox sits upright with a skull on its head, holding a roll of bamboo slips in its two front paws, shaking its head and reading in a daze. It's really a bit like a scholar who is studying diligently.
Zhou Yang'er only felt that the hairs on his whole body were exploding, and he had heard the legend of the skeleton on the fox's head he had heard from the old Tao. It is said that when the fox opens its wisdom, it will find a skull that has been dead for more than 100 years, and put the skeleton of different genders on the top of the head for 7749 days, and then it will turn into a handsome man and a beautiful woman.
However, Lao Dao never said that there was a fox who read before he turned into a human form, Zhou Yang'er's heart moved, remembered the story told by the old shepherd, and thought secretly: "Could it be that this fox also stole the old fairy's heavenly book?"
Zhou Yang'er hurriedly made a silent gesture at Zhao Zhe, and then pointed to the grave, Zhao Zhe turned his head to see the scene on the small mound, and almost screamed. Fortunately, Zhou Yang'er had warned him before, and finally there was no sound.
The fox was fascinated by the book, but did not notice that the two of them were a cat, Zhou Yang'er reached out and took out the copper-hearted bamboo slingshot from his pocket. Looking at this situation, I am afraid that I will encounter the same thing as the old shepherd, this fox must have stolen the heavenly book of the gods and ran to this cemetery to practice.
Now I was about to ask the old fairy to treat the old way, and I took the book of heaven as a gift. He pulled out an iron projectile and aimed it at the fox. I was secretly happy in my heart, and the old man's illness could be saved.
"Woo......" There was a scream, and the skeleton on the fox's head was shattered by an iron bullet, and it jumped up in shock, threw the bamboo slip to the ground, and pulled it up with its two front paws. "Good opportunity!" Zhou Yang'er said in his heart, but unfortunately he only took a projectile in his hand to the target of the negative slingshot.
The slingshot of the copper heart bamboo is very different from the target of the slingshot used before, and the result is higher. At this time, seeing that the fox was busy cleaning up the bamboo slips, it was a good target, and Zhou Yang'er had no projectiles in his hand. Hurriedly took out the iron projectile in the bag, who knew that the more anxious the more chaotic, he buckled a large handful of iron projectiles in his hand but was stuck in the mouth of the leather bag, but he couldn't pull it out, and he wanted to scold his mother in a hurry.
Over there, Zhao Zhe is a very lively master, and today's second brother of the sheep vs. the fox spirit is much better than the drama. He originally made up his mind to watch the excitement, but when he saw that Zhou Yang'er couldn't take out the projectiles for a long time, he was afraid that the fox would take the opportunity to run away, so he pulled out a bag of iron projectiles from his baggage, grabbed a handful and threw them like the fox.
Of the three projectiles, only one hit the fox, who looked up at the little fat man with disdain and ignored it. In an instant, he packed up the bamboo slips, and was about to flee with his mouth.
Zhou Yang'er struggled to pull, with a bang, the leather bag was completely torn in half, and the iron projectile fell to the ground, and he didn't care about being distressed, just staring at the fox. Estimating the distance in his mind, aiming at the position in front of its head, it was another slingshot. He had calculated that as soon as the fox ran forward, the slingshot would hit it right in the stomach. At this time, he had already estimated the accuracy of the slingshot, and he was confident that he would not miss. However, he still detained a handful of iron projectiles in his hand.
When the fox heard the sound of a slingshot, he glanced at Zhou Yang'er, stopped running forward, shrank back, and easily dodged Zhou Yang'er's iron projectile. This fox who has become a spirit is really extraordinary, and he actually knows how to dodge slingshots......
Over there, Zhao Zhe didn't know whether he was angry with the fox or threw the projectile and became addicted. After a while, a bag of iron projectiles was thrown away by him. Zhou Yang'er, who watched it, was extremely distressed, and finally shouted: "Zhao Fatun, you loser, you don't have a slingshot, throw a bird blindly!"
Zhao Zhe threw a few in a row and didn't hit the fox, and he was holding his breath in his heart. At this time, he was scolded by Zhou Yang'er, and he was even more angry in his heart, and said with a strange laugh: "Lao Tzu throws foxes, not birds." He grabbed a large handful of iron projectiles and threw them into the sky.
In less than a few moments, a tael of silver was gone. Zhou Yang'er scolded in her heart, counting the only three iron bullets left in her hand, Zhou Yang'er gritted her teeth fiercely, and secretly thought: "I can only try that trick." ”
The fox seemed to have seen the depth of the two opposite, and it didn't care about Zhao Zhe's flying projectiles at all, but let out a strange scream at Zhou Yang'er. Zhou Yang'er raised his hand and threw two iron lotus seeds towards the fox. The fox was startled at first, but when he saw the force of the throw, he raised his head with disdain.
Although the hidden weapon is not a profound skill, it can only be effective after long-term training. As far as Zhou Yang'er is concerned, if the thrown thing wants to kill a fox, I'm afraid the only thing to do is a flying knife. The fox saw this obviously, and let two iron projectiles hit it.
With a scream, Zhou Yang'er's last iron projectile flew out. This one is obviously not thrown by hand. The fox didn't expect him to do this, and the panic in his eyes flashed. Rolling on the ground, the iron ball grazed its belly and flew over.
"It's a pity!" Seeing that the bullet that was bound to hit was dodged by the fox, Zhou Yang'er felt sorry for a while, watched the fox scream twice like a mocker, and then jumped up to a nearby big tree.
Obviously, the fox was too proud, and he must not have known that there is an idiom called "happiness begets sorrow". When it jumped high and was about to jump up the tree, a fat man who was ignored by it was boringly throwing an iron projectile into the sky......
So, an iron marble that was passing by in the sky at random collided intimately with the fox's left eye. The poor fox let out an unwilling scream, fell from mid-air, and tossed on the ground. The bamboo slip in his mouth also fell to the ground.
Zhao Zhe rushed forward with a strange scream, raised his right foot and stepped on the fox, and then grabbed the bamboo slip and looked at it. also ignored Zhou Yang'er, who was picking up the iron projectile with a distressed face in the back.
Waiting for Zhou Yang'er to put all the projectiles into the cloth bag, he came over and heard Zhao Da Fat Man praise the book of heaven: "It is worthy of the book of heaven, you look at the strange words in this song, Lao Tzu doesn't know any of them." It's really a hair now. ”
Zhou Yang'er took a look, and saw that the words on the bamboo slip were a little familiar, as if it was the old Taoist Yun Shu who drew his own talismans, he didn't dare to look at it, and snatched the bamboo slip with his hand, and said: "This is a fairy thing, mortals can only cause disaster when they hold it in their hands." ”
Back then, that's what the old fairy said to the old shepherd, Zhao Zhe pursed his lips and was about to speak, but he felt a sharp pain in the back of his right foot, and hurriedly shouted and raised his right foot, but saw that the fox was biting the back of his foot fiercely.
As soon as he lifted his feet, the fox got up and ran away without a trace. Zhou Yang'er couldn't catch up, and it was a pity to scream. Seeing that Zhao Zhe was bitten very lightly, he hurriedly looked for medicine from the cloth bag to treat him.
Although Zhao Zhe was born in a large family, it is common for him to get into fights and injuries with others in the school. The wound was bleeding profusely, but he didn't care much. also urged Zhou Yang'er to leave quickly, Zhou Yang'er asked him to sit on the side first, and wait for the bleeding from the wound to stop.
After sitting for less than half an hour, Zhao Zhe shouted again to hurry, he was afraid that Zhou Yang'er would think he was injured and send him back to Zhaozhuang. So the urgency is very urgent. Zhou Yang'er saw that the blood from the wound had coagulated, so he helped him limp and prepared to leave. As soon as he reached the top of the slope, he saw a middle-aged woman in her forties and fifties, carrying a branch in her hand, walking towards the two of them from the side of the monk's tomb.
When they were near, the woman hurried forward and blessed herself. Zhou Zhao and the others hurriedly returned the salute. But I heard the woman ask: "Two little brothers, have you ever seen a fox reading a book?" Zhou Zhao and the two looked at each other, their hearts were all in the same place, and the two pairs of eyes looked straight at the woman.
When the woman saw this, she hurriedly smiled and said, "Don't hide it from the two little brothers, my family has an ancestral "Zhu Youji", which was lost a few days ago. It wasn't until yesterday that I found out that I had been bitten by a wild fox from nowhere, and I chased it all the way here, but I didn't know if you could see it. ”
Zhou Yang'er felt faintly strange in her heart, and was about to answer, but she heard Zhao Zhe say over there: "The fox you saw, is it full of fiery fur and very bright?" The woman replied with a smile. Zhou Yang'er listened to his idiot-like question, and couldn't help scolding her mother in her heart. But Zhao Zhe then asked, "Is the Zhu Youji you said a roll of bamboo slips?" The woman replied with a smile: "Yes, isn't it." ”
Zhao Zhe scratched his head when he heard this, turned his head and said to Zhou Yang'er behind him: "Second brother, ...... just now" Who knew that he hadn't finished his sentence, and his head had been slapped in the face, although it hurt to be beaten, he still said the following words: "The bamboo slip we hit just now turned out to be from this aunt's family." Zhou Yang'er was so stunned when she saw him. Another blow on his head before he asked, "How do you know?"
Zhao Zhe was stunned, looked up and said, "What did the aunt say just now?" but saw him The second brother smiled and said: "What did the aunt say?
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