Old man Mo has a son, he named him Dongdu, first of all, this name is not very auspicious, there was a tyrant in history who was also called this at that time, but Old Man Mo's surname is good, Mo Dongdu, you see that there is not only a warning effect but also a name with the emperor, you must know that Old Man Mo's family has been doing business for generations, rich is rich, but the social status is really not very good, no, although the son used the name of a tyrant, but he is also on an equal footing with the emperor, is not, Old Man Mo is proud of this name, since the birth of his son, he has been proud for 20 years。

Besides, this Mo Dongdu, he has behaved quite extraordinary since birth, when people just learned to walk, he was already able to babble and carry the "Three Character Classic" to the old man Mo long face, and then a little older, into the school, although not seven steps into a poem, but walking around the school can still come up with a Wing Chun, that is, Mo Gongzi is also affectionately called 'other people's children' by the neighbors, such as Aunt Li when educating her grandson to say: "Look at Mr. Mo's children, the family has money, not to mention that reading is so serious." Then he looked at his grandson with a disgusted face.

It is for this reason that Mo Dongdu's interpersonal relationship has not been very good when he was a child, and thanks to this reason, Mo Dong's blind face has not been exposed.

Later, when Mo Dong was ten years old, Old Man Mo invited his son to teach him a stick technique in order to strengthen his body, and in just three years, Mo Gongzi was already able to skillfully overturn the teaching to the ground.

Later, Mo Dong was seventeen years old, which was the age of the imperial examination, but Mo Gongzi was a child of a merchant family, where did such a ninth-rate qualification exam come from, so Old Man Mo racked his brains to build a relationship, and made countless silver to let his son get rid of his business status and participate in the scientific examination as a civilian.

If you hit the list, you want to be an official, but the old man Mo didn't dare, for fear that his son's business status would be exposed, which was a life-threatening matter, so our Tanhualang walked around the son-in-law dinner in Kyoto, and returned to the small city where he was born without a leaf, followed his father, and learned to do business.

You say that the identity of Tanhualang, doing business, a little condescending, it turns out that Tanhualang's brain is really better than ordinary people, in just two years, the Mo family has contracted half of the market in Yancheng, and the Mo family's trademark is a must-have in Yancheng. Old man Mo is in his fifties, watching his son take care of his own business thriving, happy to shake his hands and lie on the rocking chair to enjoy happiness, he often proudly said, in the end, I am still smart, even giving birth to a son is so worry-free.

This year has been worrying for 20 years, and there should be some troublesome things, Old Man Mo received a message today, a message from the city guard, after listening to this message, he was a little anxious, and he was so unhappy that he couldn't even eat the oranges that his beloved third lady dialed.

There's something strange going on in the eastern suburbs? My son is determined to go? What if it's dangerous? Is it reliable to go with that Taoist priest? Don't be a cheater again? Don't let your son go?

Old man Mo said in his heart, my son is so brave, how can I interrupt his enthusiasm! Or ...... If there is really any danger, with my son's skills, it should be no problem to withdraw, thinking of this, Old Man Mo can't help but be a little proud, whose son has such a complete material as my son, hum!

Thinking of this, he raised his pen and replied to the city guard in big characters: "My son is brave and martial, and I am willing to contribute a little strength to the people!"

The words were divided into two ends, this Li Jingliu was pulled to the market by Mo Dongduan very gently, and he was dumbfounded, there are all kinds of people in this market, but what should be bought to exorcise evil spirits? Besides, if there is really something evil in the eastern suburbs, it is not necessarily a ghost, and the thing that exorcises evil is not necessarily effective against the demon clan.

Mo Dongdun looked at Li Jingliu looking at the market thoughtfully, and suddenly doubts arose in his heart, and asked, "Xiaodao Chief, you are not cheating money, are you?"

Li Jingliu pushed his arm away, and said with a straight face: "Housheng, silence! Poor Dao is calculating the amount of yellow rice and cinnabar, and the willow branches that have not been stained with morning dew will find me three!"

Mo Dong saw Li Jingliu's serious face, and how many doubts in his heart were temporarily dispelled, but he didn't know that Li Jingliu was just fooling people at will according to the legendary novels he had read before.

That night, Li Jingliu returned to the inn, the proprietress stood in front of the counter with her long hair draped, and when she saw Li Jingliu, she said: "Your little beast, what about the kitchen, he has already bought three three yellow chickens on credit." ”

Li Jingliu took out a grain of silver in his arms and threw it on the table very generously: "Don't look for it!"

The proprietress looked at the silver and said with a smile: "The price of our three yellow chickens has increased." Twenty taels of silver each. ”

"Boss, you can't be so dark......" Li Jingliu said solemnly: "I haven't paid my living expenses yet, and I still have a rice bucket......

The proprietress thought about it and said, "Then it's five taels." ”

Li Jingliu was silent, just glaring at Mu Mu.

"Okay, three taels, it can't be less, you also know that it's the rice bucket that eats a lot of my family's food for nothing. ”

Li Jingliu gritted his teeth, took out the big ingot from his arms, and before he could speak, he was robbed by the proprietress and said, "Guest officer, you don't need to look for it, do you?"

"The hostess...... Your cook said you looked like a fairy and had a kind heart......"

The proprietress pouted unhappily, her appearance was really cute and lovely, but it was a pity that Li Jingliu was shy and couldn't do anything to laugh at a beauty, so she had to look at her resolutely.

"Okay, I'll just find you......"

Li Jingliu took the hard-won ten taels of silver, and walked to the kitchen very disillusioned, sure enough, the cook was stewing three yellow chickens, and was chatting with the little beast about the delicious birds and beasts in the mountains, he walked over slowly, grabbed the cook's sleeve and said: "Brother Huang, didn't you say that the proprietress is kind at heart......

"Hehe...... the cook touched her bald head and said, "She was very kind when she was rich." He looked at Li Jingliu's miserable hairstyle again and said, "Brother, it's not that Brother Huang said you, the parents of this body, even if you shave it, it's better than ruining it into this virtue!"

Li Jingliu was really in no mood to see what his hair looked like, he had been baptized by a madman for many years, and he had already learned to completely ignore everything around him, he didn't pay attention to the cook's proposal, but changed the topic and said: "Brother Huang, do you know that there is something strange in that place in the eastern suburbs of the city?"

The cook looked at him strangely and said, "How do you know?"

Li Jingliu told in detail what he saw and heard in the afternoon, but he hid the paragraph of being a cheap father, and Li Jingliu also felt that this paragraph was too embarrassing to talk about.

The cook thought for a while: "Anyway, it's not a demon clan, there is no master on our demon clan to protect us, everything is with a tail between our legs, how dare you be so arrogant." ”

"Demon Clan?"

The cook looked at the little beast and reproached, "Why didn't you tell him anything, he is not your benefactor?"

The little beast hurriedly shouted: "Servant, servant!", but after shouting this sentence, it disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Li Jingliu looked at the cook puzzled, and the cook said helplessly: "Our demon clan has a rule, this one is favored by others, you must follow this person to repay the kindness, you are the benefactor of the beast, and he follows you to repay the favor." ”

Li Jingliu's eyes darkened slightly, and a method of tossing the little beast instantly flashed in his mind, such as pulling his tail, not giving him food or something, thinking about it, his heart became happy, and then asked: "Just said the demon clan?

This will be the cook's turn to be puzzled, see that you also have some aura, and you are the benefactor of the demon clan, why don't you know anything? But the cook still answered: "What about the demon clan, it is our animals, plants, mountains and rivers and the like, of course, some of them have become the spirit clan for some reason, and some have also been sealed gods, how to divide this, it's not for a little demon like me to know." The six worlds in this world, gods, Buddhas, ghosts, humans, demons, and spirits, only our demon clan does not have a demon emperor in charge, and the demon world has long been lost, just like that, our demon clan has a very difficult life, and it has turned into a human mixed day, as for cultivating into a big demon...... As far as I know, there are no more than five demons alive in the world......"

"Is the Demon Emperor dead?"

"Then who knows, anyway, I was born and heard the old man say that my demon clan does not have a demon emperor, and the demon world is also lost. ”

"If there is no Demon Emperor, why don't you choose another one?"

The cook looked at him with some amusement: "The demon clan who is not in the retrospective realm is not qualified to be a demon emperor, my demon clan is now the highest cultivator, so the Dapeng bird is only in the feather realm, and the demon realm is lost, even if there is a demon emperor, what can I do?"

The cook said with some sadness, waved his hand, and slowly moved back to his room.

Li Jingliu was inexplicably infected by this emotion, and his heart was also a little congested, in order to make up for it, he filled a pot full of three yellow chickens, and ate the still steaming meal, full of gratitude.

Yancheng, a suburb of Dongcheng.

The sky is dark, the night is dark, there is no moon, there is no light, everything is silent, everything is dead silence.

Where are you? Where are you!? Where are you!?

The dark woods are roaring, they are incredibly hungry, and the indescribable feeling of empty hunger echoes through the trees, bonus. Their voices grew louder and louder, and their voices were so terrible that they could not be heard, and even their screams were worse than those evil spirits that were boiling oil day and night under the eighteen layers of hell, and they were so hungry that they wanted to devour everything, even to themselves!

At this time, like thunder, a plain white arm came out of the dark soil, it was so white, so translucent, like a lightning bolt in the night, piercing the silent night sky, but the arm was so soft, so tactful, and like a newborn shoot, with the hope and life of resurrection.

So, the woods were quiet, and they were still hungry, but they understood that what appeared at this time was not food, but they, the creatures that the whole forest had carefully nurtured. They endured thirst, endured hunger, tried hard, extremely hard to give the arm in front of them, the owner of this arm, a little bit of gentleness belonging to their parents.

The arms swayed from side to side in the air, and gradually, gradually, disappeared.

Then the woods began to rage again, until the warm sunlight broke through the darkness, and the woods were finally quiet.

It's a pity that Li Jingliu in his sleep didn't know about this, and if he knew, he wouldn't have stepped into this forest anyway.

Today is a good weather, in a good mood, in good spirits, looking at Mo Dongdu, who is full of tiredness and holding three willow branches that have not been stained with morning dew, Li Jingliu is in a better mood.

He ordered something that Mo Dong fainted, yellow rice, evil spirits, cinnabar, evil spirits, salt, evil spirits, hey, almost, either evil spirits or evil spirits, when the time comes, there are really some ghost things that don't have long eyes, and the poor road will sprinkle it with his head and face, no matter what the effect is, it is always useful!

"Xiaodao Chief, look, do you need to change into a formal costume?" Mo Dongdu's entourage held a set of Tai Chi Bagua robes, made of silk cotton, and trimmed with pearl and jade, hmm...... It must be worth a lot of money.

But I, Li Jingliu, am the kind of person who cares about form!? No! Li Jingliu said to himself in his heart, so he finally had a reason to have a clear conscience and pretended to be profound: "The way does not need to be limited to form, although this dress is good, it can be used to exorcise evil spirits, but it is not as comfortable as my cloth!"

Li Jingliu noticed that Mo Dongdu's expression was more convincing, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud.

"Xiaodao chief, this yellow rice cinnabar and the like is still used to ward off evil spirits, but this willow branch?"

"Young man, the willow branches are yin, and the undyed morning dew is to isolate the yang energy, which is a sharp weapon for fighting ghosts, of course, the poor road has its own magic weapon, but this is for you ordinary people to defend themselves. ”

As he spoke, the sergeant sent by the city guard arrived.

Su Tie felt that his father-in-law must have wanted his daughter to remarry, and for some reason he always sent himself some infiltrating tasks. I complained to my daughter-in-law, but my daughter-in-law said happily: "This is because my father can afford you, which means that you are reliable!"

So Su Tie had questions, finished eating a bowl of braised pork specially cooked by his daughter-in-law, hung the yellow charm that his daughter-in-law specially went to the temple to beg, and brought three or five reliable colleagues. I was right, this young man with a strange haircut was indeed an alien. Think of the black forest on the eastern outskirts of the city, hey...... Do your best, let it be the fate of heaven......

At noon, the dazzling sunlight shines on the black forest on the outskirts of the city, and the warmth gradually rises to heat, and also slightly drives away some of the chill that falls on people's hearts. Since the inexplicable disappearance of people in the black forest, there have been few people in this strange forest, even at noon, and few people dare to cross the road.

Li Jingliu looked around, there was nothing unusual...... There is no ghost, there is no demonic energy, the gods, Buddhas, and spirits do not live by living souls, what is there here?

He thought about it, even if he couldn't investigate anything, he had to make it look good!

So, he asked the people in the suburbs for a bowl of water, some cow tears, to open the eyes of the five people, although I heard that cow tears can open the eyes, but the actual operation is the first time, after all, Li Jingliu's own eyes have always been clear and unhindered.

After opening his eyes, Li Jingliu sent the four sergeants to visit nearby houses and inquire about the situation, while he approached Mo Dongduan with ill intentions and said, "Young Master Mo, can you go into the woods with Poor Dao to investigate?"

Mo Dongduan is a person who doesn't believe in ghosts and gods at all, as long as he looks like a person, he can't recognize who is who, even if some demons and ghosts are hateful, for him...... Anyway, I can't see clearly, what do you like to look like, come, Tanhualang is extremely receptive, even some strange demon clans, they are only some novel animals, so he didn't want to think about it: "Xiaodao chief, please!"

After only two steps, the little beast got out of Li Jingliu's clothes, sat on Li Jingliu's shoulder generously in front of Mo Dongdu, and looked at Mo Dongdi's strange eyes, the little beast decided to say a few words for his unlucky benefactor: "What to see! Is this divine beast what you want to see?"

Unfortunately, the little beast and the human structure are not the same, so he successfully found a way to recognize Li Jingliu, there is an orange-haired little beast that can only talk somewhere on his body, in the spirit of people do not care about the beast's livelihood, our Tanhualang chose to ignore the obvious provocation of the little beast.

Maybe the black forest felt dangerous to the arrival of Li Jingliu and his party, or maybe there were no ghosts in the black forest at all, Li Jingliu and Mo Dongduan walked around, and even looked under the fallen leaves, but they didn't find any suspicious objects, this black forest is not big, but it takes two hours to walk around, the sun is gradually lowering, Mo Dongdui took the tired and panting Li Jingliu and walked outside the forest, and several sergeants were looking for a shady place, waiting for the two to come back.

Li Jingliu didn't bother to say anything when he came back, he took the water bladder from the cycad's waist, and poured it down.

After a moment of relief, Li Jingliu finally had the strength to speak: "According to the observation of this Daoist, there are nothing strange in the black forest now. Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, he received: "It's hard to say whether anything strange will appear after nightfall." ”

When a few sergeants heard that they were going to keep vigil at night, they were a little frightened, and they subconsciously asked for leave.

"Brother Su, brother, I must go home at night...... My family's Hedong Lion ...... You know......"

When the two people on the side heard this, they were a little shaken, and when Su Tie saw this situation, he had to say: "We are also local officers, and we have to do something for the people, tonight may indeed be dangerous again, if there is really something wrong with the family, you Brother Su will not force it to stay." ”

In the end, the four sergeants left two of them, and Li Jingliu leaned against the tree and teased the cycad: "Master, I don't see that I still have courage~"

Su Tie smiled bitterly: "Who let the city guard be my father-in-law, everyone has married their daughters to me, so it's not good to let me do something small and disappoint people, isn't it......"

Another sergeant named Wang Liubao, brave is not much brave, but he does have a righteous heart, listening to the old people in Yancheng missing, he is really anxious, although he is also scared today, but the gas in his heart supports, looking at the lower and lower sun, he had to accompany the cycad and smiled bitterly.