Chapter 22: Cat and Mouse Play, Suicide Maze
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Bang bang, bang, bang.
Everyone secretly said in their hearts: What is coming?
Shisheng hid under the table and looked outside from the gap in the tablecloth, only to see the sound was in the corner of the storehouse, and as the sound became louder and louder, it seemed that the clods of soil in the corner of the wall also began to fall.
With a snap, a piece of wall soil was pushed out, and several wildcats entered.
The cat Shisheng was stunned for a moment, only to see that the wild cats had entered the house and looked around first, and the four of them all felt that this was strange and held their breath and did not speak.
Then something even stranger happened. When the wild cats saw that there seemed to be no one in the house, they lined up on both sides of the hole in the wall, and one of them meowed, and then a large group of rats came into the hole in the wall!
The rats lined up as if they were well trained, and collapsed into the house at the command of the big cats, and then scattered, some burrowing into the rice bags, others crawling into the counter.
In the world, the big cats had a few small bags tied to their bodies, and they were lying on the ground, and all the food and silver money brought by the mice were put into the bags.
Shisheng looked at these cats and mice like humans, and felt very novel in his heart, but Liu Bolun had already seen the clues in his heart. Because he has been wandering the rivers and lakes for many years and has seen a lot, he understands that this should be a kind of cat and mouse handling play, and there must be someone behind these mice and cats.
It can be said that this kind of trick of manipulating animals to do things has existed since ancient times, but with the changes of the years, there are very few that can be handed down. And this time, they met an expert who was obviously able to use cats and mice, two animals that could not be put together, to carry finances, and look at the looks of those cats, as if they were overseers supervising the work of those mice.
Although this scene seems to be very interesting, everyone also understands that they can't continue to carry it, and they must find out the person behind the operation of these cat and mouse thieves.
Thinking of this, I saw Chen Tunan nodding, and the three of them understood, so they rushed out.
The cats and mice were frightened when they saw four people suddenly appear in the house, but the cats were obviously well-trained, and when they saw them, the three cats blew up and pounced, and the remaining two were so fast that they got out of the holes in the wall.
The four disciples of Doumiguan actually had no way to take these cats, and they couldn't kill them, so they had to pick up the cats with their teeth and claws one by one, and when they saw that the two cats had escaped, Chen Tuan nodded to Shisheng.
Among the four people, Shisheng is the most suitable for tracking, because his light skills are the best, and now seeing that the loss of money in this house is just someone manipulating cats and mice, so it shouldn't be a big deal, so they are at ease.
And the child of Shisheng thought it was funny, so he answered and jumped out of the window, and ran to the back of the house in two steps, at this time the cats and mice had escaped without a trace under the cover of night, but Shisheng had a way, only to see him lying on the hole in the wall and sniffing hard, and then stood up and sniffed around, and then knew where the cat had run.
His nose was unusually sensitive, so after determining the direction, he used the method of wind and body to chase after him, over the high wall, through the alleys, the town was quiet and terrifying in the middle of the night, the cat took him to turn left and right in the streets and alleys, and it took a while to chase him into a very hidden alley.
Shisheng saw that there was a little light in the alley in the distance, so he hid behind the wall on tiptoe and stretched out his head to look at it at the same time.
At the end of the alley, dozens of cats and hundreds of mice were gathered, and they all formed a circle, and in this circle sat a slender man, who was dressed in a black robe, and whose face was covered by a cloak so that he could not see his face, and there was a worn-out oil lamp beside him, and the flames in the lamp flickered, and under the faint light, I saw those cats and mice come to him in turn, and he took off his cloth bag.
And the man also began to check the money that the cat and mouse had brought back, only to see that he put the small cloth bags together, and then picked up a pair of chopsticks and pointed at the cats and mice: "Okay, now the station that has stolen food is here, and the station that has not stolen food is over there." ”
The voice was soft and soft, and it was a girl's voice.
As soon as the girl's voice fell, I saw that the cats and mice were very obedient in two groups, and the girl stretched out a white lotus-like arm from the black robe, and she pointed to the mice and cats that had been eaten secretly, and then said angrily: "Why are you so disobedient? Everyone is hungry, how can you ...... Forget it, I'll punish you for not having anything to eat for a while. ”
The cats and mice meowed, and the girl took out some dry wheat cakes from the cloth bag and broke them for the cats and mice before she held a small piece of cake and nibbled on it.
I was born to see this novelty in the dark, and I thought that there were really many wonders in the world, and this person could actually hold a meeting with cats and mice, and it was really the first time I had seen such a thing.
"Meow!"
And at this moment, suddenly two sharp cat meows came from behind him, and Shisheng looked back and saw that two cats had already appeared to him.
"Who?" the girl heard the cat's meow, and stood up and cried out, "Come out!"
Since there was no way to be revealed, Shisheng had to walk out a little embarrassed, and the girl looked at the strange young man in front of her, and said vigilantly: "Who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing here?"
The girl raised her head, and under the light, a pretty little face was reflected, although the little face was dirty, but it still could not hide the snow white of the skin under the dust, and the two big eyes seemed to be able to speak, but at this time her eyes were full of anger.
Shisheng was a little embarrassed to be asked by this girl at that time, so he said: "I, my name is Shisheng, and I came out of the Xiao family." ”
"Xiao family?" The girl suddenly frowned, then retreated a few times, and shouted: "Then you are invited by the Xiao family to arrest me?!"
Before he could speak, the girl suddenly whistled with her hand on her lips, and the cats and mice on the ground had already bared their fangs to him, and then rushed towards him overwhelmingly.
Seeing so many cats and mice pounce on him, the number of rats made his scalp tingle, and just as the cats and mice were about to pounce, a black shadow suddenly jumped down from the roof.
It was a black cat, and the black cat jumped in front of Shisheng and yelled at the cats and mice.
The cats and mice all stood still, and the girl in black was very surprised and said, "'Hero'?! What are you protecting him for? He is here to arrest our wicked man!"
But the black cat didn't shake his head at her, and then turned around and rubbed Shisheng's trouser leg with his head very affectionately, Shisheng had recognized the cat at this time, this black cat was the one who snatched his bun a year ago.
"Aha. I saw Shisheng pick up the cat, and then smiled: "I really didn't expect to meet you, a little thief cat, who ate my buns a year ago and made me hungry, how are your children doing?"
So saying, he stroked the cat's chin with his fingers, and the cat closed its eyes very helpfully.
And the girl was surprised to see that the black cat was so intimate with the world, knowing that this black cat was the cat boss of the whole town, named 'Hero', and he usually didn't get close to anyone but her.
The girl thought about it and suddenly thought of something, only to see her say to Shisheng: "You said that a year ago, you gave it buns?
"yes. Shisheng nodded, and then told the story of that night, and when the girl heard this, she sighed and said, "It turned out that you saved it that day, and without you, it and its children would not have survived." Since you can be liked by it, it means that you are not a bad person. ”
It turns out that life in the town was very hard at that time last year, and the world knows this. The black cat couldn't find anything to eat, but it gave birth to a litter of kittens, so the body was very weak, and the girl was not there because something was not there, so if it wasn't for the world, the cat would have starved to death.
With that, she waved her hand, and the cat and mouse on the ground dispersed, and Shisheng came up with the black cat in his arms, and said to the girl, "What is the matter, what is your name, where did you come from?"
"My name is Xiaobai. Then the maiden lifted off her cloak and said, "I am from my hometown." ”
Shisheng looked at this girl, she was about the same age as himself, but she gave him the feeling that she was really weathered, her pretty face was stained with some dust, and her eyes were full of anxiety and helplessness.
This feels very familiar to the world, this is the eyes of hunger and loneliness, and once upon a time, the world was like this.
"Little white...... It's like the name of a kitten. He said, "Then why did you steal?"
"I am an orphan with no name but surname. I saw that Xiaobai sighed to the world: "Since you are not a bad person, it is okay to sue you." You ask me why I steal, maybe just to survive, or ...... I want to save some people. ”
After that, Xiaobai told Shisheng the reason why he wanted to steal.
As she said, she was an orphan living in a small mountain village far south of the town of Xiaojia, and because of the troubled times, her father was captured by a gang of horse thieves when he went out to earn a living, and her mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to her.
She was raised by Tian Abo, a neighbor in the village, and she has no name, and everyone calls her Xiaobai.
Their village ancestral art of taming beasts, when there were no troubled times before, many villagers would wander around the cities to perform arts, but the arrival of troubled times twenty years ago made them all lose their jobs, you think, where is the spare money to see their tricks and jugglers?
And the world outside is chaotic, it is better to stay in the village and rely on a few acres of thin fields to survive.
In recent years, the drought and harvest have not been good, and the people in the village are not going on, and at this moment, the village came to a master of the traveling party, this monk has strong spells, can call the wind and ask for rain, the villagers treat him as a living immortal, and also built a temple for him.
When Shisheng heard this, he thought to himself, "Isn't this a good thing?" At least everyone is starving to the Buddha.
And I saw that after Xiaobai talked about this, her eyes turned red, and she said: "But the good times don't last long...... Later, everyone in the village believed in Buddhism, but gradually everyone became weird. ”
It turned out that after the monk came to the village, he relied on his own skills to make the villagers believe in the Buddha, and he said to the villagers: If you worship the Buddha with all your heart, you can get rid of the sea of suffering, and when the time comes, you will become a Buddha and other blissful worlds, where will there be many troubles?
The villagers all believed, so they went to the temple all day long to worship the Buddha, and believed in the monk's words, and after a while, the monk actually claimed that he had the ability to send a group of destined believers to go to Elysium, at that time the villagers had already believed that the monk was the Buddha, so they rushed to sign up.
Faith is truly terrible, and blind faith is simply terrible.
For the first time, the monk chose twenty people to go to 'Bliss', and the twenty people listened to the monk's words and went to the temple in the middle of the night, and sure enough, the next day the villagers saw the portraits of these people on the walls of the temple, and they were like gods on the mural, and they were like gods on the clouds, and the form was vivid, and from then on they did not even do farm work, but bowed to the monk all day long and begged him to take them to Elysium.
Later, the monk 6 continued to take several groups of people to 'Bliss', and the chosen people were undoubtedly not happy, and Xiaobai was also very excited at that time, but she was never selected, until one time she couldn't help it, so she ran outside the temple to peek at how these people went to 'Bliss' while it was dark.
But what kind of Elysium is in her eyes? It is not an exaggeration to say that it is an endless hell!
At that time, she only saw those people walking into the temple, and the monk took the sutra with it, and then the monk took a handful of incense ash from the offering table and mixed it with water in the bowl, and sprayed it on those people.
After that, those people all showed extremely happy expressions, and then they got up one by one, and the monk commanded them to pick up knives and cut their necks one by one. The sharp knife was fast, and the meat cut on the neck was turned out, and the blood sprayed all over the ground, and the kind-looking old monk put them in place with a smile, sat on the ground and cut their flesh, cut a piece and ate a piece, and finally even sucked the bones clean.
He ate quickly, and when he had finished eating, he took out a large mop from under the table, mopped the blood off the floor, and began to draw on the wall!
And it wasn't until this time that Xiaobai knew that those people didn't go to Elysium at all, but were all eaten by this old monk!
But none of the villagers believed her.
Perhaps because of faith, or because of the fear of starvation and poverty again, the villagers did not believe the words of this little girl, and when they saw her speak ill of the teacher, they even beat her.
And the monk later learned about it, and the monk invited her to the temple, and she only said that she was going to die, so she knelt on the ground and begged the monk to spare the villagers.
Because she has no relatives, in her eyes, these villagers are her relatives. Even if they didn't believe her, she didn't want to see them killed and eaten by the old monk.
And the old monk was only revealed at this time, only to see him show his fangs and say to Xiaobai: You girl is not small, you don't want me to eat them? That's easy, you can redeem them with money.
It turned out that this monk ate people, not to mention, but also extremely greedy for money, at this time the valuable things in the village were taken as tribute and included in his pocket, but he felt that it was still not enough, so he said to Xiaobai, if you don't want me to eat Uncle Tian who raised you, go and steal things for me. If not...................
Xiaobai couldn't cry when she said this, but she wiped her tears and said, "That's why I came out of the village to steal things, I ...... I don't want to watch my relatives get eaten by that great monk...... I also know it's not good to steal, but, but ............"
"Nothing but that. Shisheng suddenly said, "You did the right thing. ”
Shisheng himself can fully understand what happened to Xiaobai, and even when he closes his eyes, he can imagine the helplessness when Xiaobai cries and begs those villagers not to believe in the demon monks.
For the world is also an orphan. So after listening to what happened to Xiaobai, he had already decided one thing in his heart.
"But you ......" Xiaobai looked at Shisheng, she was very grateful that Shisheng didn't scold her. And Shisheng waved his hand at her, and then said, "I'm just here to see, where is your hometown?"
After saying this, Shisheng stood up, and then said in a firm tone: "I'm sure this is not a monk, a monk won't be like this, go, I'll help you get rid of this harmful essence." ”
(One shift is over, and everyone forgives me for being late.) )