Liaozhai Great Sage

"It must have been left by Widow Du. She is quick-witted and knows to leave some clues."

Li Xiuyuan was overjoyed, and immediately followed this clue to continue tracing.

Sure enough, he saw another small piece of red cloth tens of meters ahead.

After Widow Du was taken into captivity, she secretly left signs on the road, which was very convenient for him.

Following the signs, Li Xiuyuan gradually went deep into the forest, and after several twists and turns, he came to a very hidden foot of the mountain. At the foot of this mountain were several huge rocks, and a cave could be vaguely seen in the middle of the rocks. Inside, there was a woman weeping. The voice gradually floated over, and came from the mountain forest. People who didn't know it thought it was a ghost in the mountain, but Li Xiuyuan believed that the voice was definitely Widow Du from Xiahe Village.

"found it."

Li Xiuyuan was overjoyed, he finally found the mandrill's hiding place.

The hiding is really tight enough, so concealed, no wonder this place has not been discovered all these years. Although this mountain forest is not big, if you want to find such a cave, unless you search the mountain, it is absolutely impossible to find it.

"Where did the mandrill go?"

He didn't approach the cave in a hurry, but looked around carefully and vigilantly, trying to find out the location of the mandrill.

To be honest, Li Xiuyuan has never seen a ghost in the years since he came to this world.

After carefully observing the surroundings, let alone a mandrill, I didn't even see a shadow of a bird.

"It's strange, why did the mandrill kidnap people and run away?"

Li Xiuyuan thought to himself, approaching the cave cautiously.

If the mandrill is not nearby, the only possibility is to hide in the cave, and it is unlikely to leave here. This is its lair, and the captive Du Widow may still be here.

Chapter 4 The Widow

"Wow, woohoo..."

A woman's weeping came from the cave.

When Li Xiuyuan walked into the cave, he saw a woman with ragged clothes, disheveled hair, and a terrified expression curled up in a corner of the cave, crying continuously. I thought it was a ghost in the mountains.

"Is it Widow Du?" He asked in a low voice.

Widow Du stopped crying when she heard the voice, and suddenly raised her head, seeing a tall, handsome young man walking in, she was very pleasantly surprised: "Big, young master, it's me, it's me."

"It's fine, I'll take you back right away." Li Xiuyuan said.

Widow Du nodded excitedly, trying to struggle to stand up, but found that her hands and feet were trapped by the old vines in the mountain, tightly entangled, and she staggered and fell to the ground as soon as she got up.

Li Xiuyuan just wanted to help, but he felt a strange cry from behind, like a human or a beast.

"Mandrill?"

He turned around abruptly, only to see an extremely ugly monkey with black fluff all over its body, about the height of a seven or eight-year-old child, looking at him with its teeth bared and a strange smile.

Although the mandrill is not big in size, it has amazing strength. It actually lifted a huge stone the size of a millstone, and made a gesture to throw it at Li Xiuyuan.

The cave is not big, and it would be dangerous if the stone fell down.

"Good bastard, look at the gun." Li Xiuyuan shouted, and threw the golden gun in his hand without hesitation.

He has practiced martial arts for many years, and his strength is astonishing. This big gun weighing 72 jins is enough to shoot a tiger when it flies out. Old man, how can this mandrill be able to resist it? .

"Squeak~!" Mandrill saw Li Xiuyuan raising his gun to shoot, with a humanized look of surprise on his face, and slowly dropped the boulder he lifted in his hand, and hurriedly dodged to the side.

The big gun came whistling, passed by the mandrill, and stopped after sinking nearly half a foot into the ground.

"What a thief, Widow Du, wait here for a while, I'll kill this beast." Li Xiuyuan strode out of the cave.

"Young master, be careful." Although Widow Du was afraid, she was also worried about Li Xiuyuan's safety.

Can you not worry, the young master is the son of the richest man in Guobei County, and all the villagers in Xiahe Village are farm laborers of the Li family. If there is something wrong with the young master, dozens of families in Xiahe Village will not be able to live in Guobei County. After going down, the villagers of Xiahe Village all understood this, and over time they took special care of Li Xiuyuan.

After Li Xiuyuan rushed out of the cave, he immediately pulled out the golden gun that was on the ground, and his gaze was fixed, scanning the surrounding mountains and forests.

"The bastard escaped?"

If the mandrill had escaped, it would be difficult to find it again. Although the forest here is not big, there are also vaguely nearby ones. Even if hundreds of people search for a fertile beast trying to hide, it will be difficult to find it.

After waiting for a while, Li Xiuyuan still did not find the mandrill.

But he didn't dare to go far, Widow Du was still tied up in the cave, if he left, the beast came back after a circle and took Widow Du away again, wouldn't it be a waste of attention.

"Lucky you bastard, I'll send my family servants to search the mountains later, and you won't stop unless you kill me." Li Xiuyuan thought to himself.

This beast has already killed a human being, if I don't come today, Widow Du will also be killed by it, how can such an evil spirit stay.

But just as he turned around and was about to return to the cave, there was a movement in the nearby forest.

Li Xiuyuan stopped immediately and looked in the direction of the movement.

The grass and trees were pushed aside, and the mandrill came out again, but this mandrill was very strange, with two wooden sticks tied to its feet, which made itself half as tall as a normal person, and wore a cloth that it stole from somewhere. The woman who came was dressed in gorgeous clothes, walking like a woman, scratching her head, twisting her ugly buttocks and walking towards him.

"What is it doing?" At this moment, Li Xiuyuan was somewhat puzzled.

There was a smile on the ferocious face of the mandrill, and a pair of green eyes were like a woman's, winking at Li Xiuyuan, and kept coming closer.

Although Li Xiuyuan didn't understand the strange behavior of the mandrill, he saw that the mandrill had one hand behind its back, as if it was holding a hard rock.

"Let it get closer." Li Xiuyuan didn't move, watching the mandrill approaching, not wanting to startle the beast away again like before.

The mandrill came gradually, its ugly face showed a trace of excitement, but when it approached Li Xiuyuan within three steps, he who had been motionless suddenly raised the golden gun in his hand.

The gun pierced out instantly like lightning.

The simple moves have been honed by Li Xiuyuan over the years, and they have long been perfected.

"Squeak~!" The mandrill suddenly screamed in horror and was directly pierced through the chest, and blood spattered all over the ground.

"How dare you come out to seek death, you bastard." Li Xiuyuan snorted coldly, and threw away the heavy gun, nailing it to the ground together with the pierced mandrill.

The mandrill vomited blood, struggled twice, then convulsed and died on the ground.

However, out of caution against this monster, Li Xiuyuan drew out his spear and stabbed the mandrill's body several times, and he was relieved when he saw that it really didn't respond.

With a flick of the gun, the mandrill's body flew out, and he turned back to the cave.

"I've slaughtered that beast, and it's fine now." Li Xiuyuan said.

Widow Du breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the words, and then said a little embarrassedly: "Master, my hands and feet are tied up by the mandrill from the old vines, can you help me untie them?"

"No problem." Li Xiuyuan helped her untie the old vine, then stood up and said, "Go back to the village now, there are still many wild beasts in this mountain forest, it's not safe to stay here."