Text: Chapter 54, Eight Kings
As the man walked, he thought in his heart that the tiger meat left on the road would be cheaper, but Feng Chuan didn't care about it and hurried away wholeheartedly.
Fields of crops began to appear on the side of the road, and then houses began to multiply, and then the shouts of venison and bone-setting medicine were heard. Looking at the tiger skins on the man's cart, several people came to ask if they wanted to sell them, and the man saw that several people wanted to buy their tiger skins, so he bought the tiger skins to the one with the highest bid.
After receiving the money, the man handed a tael of silver to Feng Chuan and said, "You killed the tiger, and this tael of silver is for you." Feng Chuan didn't take the money but said, "You should be preparing to find a place to live around here, and I still have to hurry, so let's separate." ”
After leaving the three of them, Kazekawa continued to move forward, and from time to time there would be a village at the foot of the continuous mountain, and Kazekawa did not know how many villages he had passed, and the road was getting wider and wider, and there were more and more people.
The sun was about to set, and Kazekawa kicked up a puff of dust on the road. A lonely thatched hut appeared in Fengchuan's eyes, Fengchuan was a little strange, there are always fierce beasts and robbers in this world, and it is difficult to survive alone, why did the owner of this thatched hut build a house here.
Strange is strange, Kazekawa was not prepared to understand, and after a few glances, Kazekawa no longer paid attention to the lonely hut. When Kazekawa passed by the hut, he suddenly saw a man in the hut waving to him, and vaguely saw that the man was the same age as himself, and Kazekawa turned around and walked towards the hut.
Seeing Kazekawa coming, the man in the hut opened the door and said, "Come in, don't let anyone else see it." Kazekawa listened to the man's words and did not enter the hut, because Kazekawa did not believe this man at all in his heart. Seeing that Feng Chuan didn't come in, the man continued: "I only want to help you because I see that you are the same age as me, otherwise I don't want to call you." Hearing this, seeing the man's emaciated body and defenseless, Kazekawa stepped into the hut thinking that he could ensure his safety.
As soon as Kazekawa entered the hut, the man closed the door, and seeing this, Kazekawa said, "What are you going to do?" When Feng Chuan heard this, he whispered: "What is the matter?" Seeing Feng Chuan whispering, the man said: "My name is Gu Fang, and if you go further on, it will be our village, there is an inn in our village, and I see that it is getting dark, and I am afraid that you will go to the inn to stay." Feng Chuan: "It's normal to go to the inn to stay, why are you afraid that I will go to the inn?" Gu Fang: "It's normal to go to the inn to stay, but the inn in our village is very dangerous." Kazekawa: "How dangerous, let's hear it." "Ancient recipe:" The inn was opened by the leopard king of our village, and the leopard king would make a strong medicinal incense, and at night the leopard king would use the incense to charm the guests staying at the hotel, and then steal all the guests' valuables. The leopard king not only charms people and steals things with incense at night, but also during the day, if someone goes to the inn to eat, after the guests finish eating, the leopard king will say that the chicken soup is ginseng chicken soup, and the boiling water is said to be Ganoderma lucidum water, and then the guests will have to pay a lot more for the meal, and the leopard king will often cheat the guests who go to eat cleanly. If you don't want to give money to the Leopard King, the guests who eat will be beaten half to death by the Leopard King, and sometimes they will be killed. Feng Chuan: "The leopard king is so cruel, no one cares?" Gu Fang: "Someone cares, there are a lot of stolen guests and deceived guests went to the mayor, and then alerted the soldiers to investigate." The soldiers had been to the inn many times, but the stolen dirt had never been found, and there was no dirt, and the guests who stayed at the hotel were enchanted by drugs, and they did not know who stole the things, and could not identify the thief, so the thief was never caught. And those who were defrauded by the leopard king when they ate, the first soldier also came to investigate, and the first soldier found that there were indeed a few thin ginseng whiskers in the chicken soup, and there were also ganoderma fragments in the boiling water, so those guests who ate became the ones who did not pay the money, and those guests saw this situation, so they had to swallow the bitterness into their stomachs, and they had nothing to say. Feng Chuan: "That's too hasty, what about those who were killed?" Gu Fang: "The soldiers said that those killed guests were in arrears, and if someone came to claim the body, he would pay some money to the person who came to claim the body." However, as I have lived in the village for more than ten years, I think that the Leopard King is in the same group as those armor soldiers, and I also know that the bodies of the guests who were killed were claimed by the Leopard King. Feng Chuan: "There is such a person in the world who hurts the heavens and reason! I want to get rid of the leopard king." Gu Fang: "Don't go, the leopard king is not something you can mess with." Feng Chuan: "Could it be that the Leopard King is very powerful?" Gu Fang: "Of course, the Leopard King is the second most powerful person in our village. Feng Chuan: "What's a powerful method?" Gu Fang: "That leopard king wears a pair of fine steel claws, as long as he is caught, a big blood hole is guaranteed to appear on his body." Feng Chuan heard what Gu Fang said, and he didn't know how the Leopard King's martial arts were, so he said, "I'll go to the inn to see the Leopard King." Gu Fang: "I advise you not to go, even if you kill the Leopard King, it will be useless." Feng Chuan: "Why?" Gu Fang: "You don't know what the situation is in our village, you may not believe it." ”
When Feng Chuan heard this, he asked, "What is the situation?" Gu Fang: "There are eight kings in our village, twenty-six little kings, and many generals and junior generals, and these people together account for a large part of the village. Feng Chuan: "What are the eight kings, what are the twenty-six little kings, I don't understand at all." Gu Fang: "The Eight Kings are the eight most powerful people in our village, namely the Tiger King, the Leopard King, the Wolf King, the Ox King, the Pig King, the Eagle King, the Rat King, and the Rooster King. Every five days, the people of the village have to assemble, this kind of gathering is required by the eight kings, after the gathering of the villagers must show respect and obedience to the eight kings, if some villagers have a trace of dissatisfaction, they will be punished after being found by the eight kings. Now that the people in our village are obeying the Eight Kings, it is impossible for you to kill the Leopard King, even if you kill the Leopard King, it is useless, because our village will still elect a Leopard King to continue to run the inn, unless you kill most of the people in our village. ”
Hearing this, Feng Chuan's killing intent towards the Leopard King was undiminished, and seeing that Gu Fang no longer spoke, Feng Chuan asked: "Why do you live here alone?" Gu Fang: "Because the Eight Great Kings said that I was disobedient?" Feng Chuan: "Disobedient, who do you listen to?" Gu Fang: "The daughter of the Pig King fell in love with me and asked me to marry her, but the daughter of the Pig King was fat and black, and often beat and scolded me, I didn't dare to resist her, because to resist her was to rebel against the Pig King, and if I resisted the Pig King, I would be punished very severely." Later, I never paid attention to the matter of marrying the daughter of the Pig King, and I have always endured the beating and scolding of the Pig King's daughter. Seeing me like this, the pig king once said that I did not obey the arrangement of the eight kings when the villagers gathered, and asked me to leave the village, and then he said that he saw that I was young and gave me a chance to reform myself, so I left the village and built a thatched hut here to live. However, I was not ready to go back to the village to obey the arrangements of the Eight Kings, and when I saw you, I was ready to leave here like you. Feng Chuan: "What about your parents?" Gu Fang: "My father is a general, and in the face of the arrangement of the Eight Kings, my father can only obey. Feng Chuan: "Then where are you going?" Gu Fang: "I'm going to go in the direction you went, I don't want to see the Eight Kings again in the future, I'm going to leave tonight, I'm afraid that I will be discovered by them during the day and then arrested back to the village." Feng Chuan: "Are you going to leave now?" Gu Fang: "Why don't we rest until the middle of the night, and then walk together, so that we can take care of it." Feng Chuan: "Okay, I think you're a little weak, I'll protect you on the way." Hearing Feng Chuan say this, Gu Fang didn't speak again, and fell asleep while lying on the straw bunk.