dream of you

Two years later, a queer life emerged.

Since being recognized by Pan Ling, Li Zhi's interest in practicing swordsmanship has always been at the highest point, day and night, forgetting to eat and sleep, practicing moves whenever she has energy, reading sword manuals when she has no energy, and busy learning when she meets idlers.

At first, Jian Shengxuan was worried that he was too eager for success, but he was too obsessed, and eventually became a demon. Fortunately, Li Zhi was still sensible, and knew to spend an hour every night before going to bed reciting the "Heart Refining Sutra", cultivating the mind and sword Both are correct.He was also happy to see it come to fruition, and he was very concerned about Li Zhi's practice.

All in all, Li Zhi's talent is so high and so hardworking, if he folded it in his own hands, not to mention it would be ridiculous, Jian Xiujin alone would strangle him to death.

On this day, Li Zhiyujian was flying in circles in the forest outside Fusheng Yique. Yujian only learned this skill a month ago, and he has been practicing it in an unobstructed open space. Jian Shengxuancai these days Let him come out to train in the forest, so that he can fly freely with the sword on various occasions in the future.

"This immortal cultivator!" Hearing someone calling him, Li Zhi subconsciously lowered her head and looked down, not noticing a big tree in front of her. With a bang, Li Zhi fell onto the tree trunk , and slid down the tree trunk to the ground.

"Xianxiu, are you alright?" The visitor hurried forward upon seeing this scene.

Li Zhi stood up from the ground, grabbed Pan Ling with one hand, and took out a white handkerchief with the other. The visitor thought he was going to wipe his nosebleed, but he just looked at it, then retracted it into his arms, and groped around , took out a blue handkerchief and began to wipe the nosebleed.

Li Zhi wiped her nosebleeds and looked at the person who came. It was a white-haired old woman, and beside her stood a seven or eight-year-old girl who was supporting the old woman, looking at herself timidly.

"Old man, what do you want me to do?" Li Zhi said with a gentle smile.

Without saying a word, the old woman pulled the little girl and knelt down: "I beg Xianxiu to save me from the mouth of the cat demon in Baitang Village!"

Li Zhi was shocked, and quickly helped the two of them up: "No, no! If you have something to say, I will do my best!"

Being bowed down by the old man is probably not about shortening his lifespan. Anyway, let's agree first and see what's going on.

At the same time, Fusheng Yique sneezed collectively. Jian Xingheng looked up at the sky. The sun was shining brightly, so it was impossible to catch a cold. He shrugged his shoulders and turned the pages of the book in his hand.

After half a stick of incense, Li Zhi brought the old woman and the little girl to the East Courtyard.

Jian Xiujin is playing chess with Jian Shengxuan. It is obvious that it is you and me, a noble and harmonious scene, but secretly the two of you are taking advantage of my inattention to move my black stones. I saw you stealing your white stones in a panic, and they know each other well. But they still have to look like they compliment each other.

As soon as Li Zhi stepped into the door, completely ignoring the open and secret fight between the two, she cut straight to the point and said: "Master, Master, I have something to report."

Jian Xiujin and Jian Shengxuan raised their eyes and glanced at Li Zhi tacitly. They wanted to ignore them, but they saw two strangers standing not far away. They looked at each other, and Jian Xiujin said: "Junior brother, today you and I have not yet decided the winner. , why not choose another day to fight again?"

Jian Shengxuan went down the pole: "Senior brother said so."

The two got up and left the chessboard, walked to the main hall, and invited several people to sit down and discuss in detail.

Before Li Zhi had time to sit down, she saw the old woman holding the little girl and knelt down again. The three of them were horrified, and Jian Xiujin hurried forward to help the old woman up: "Get up quickly, the old man doesn't need to do this great gift!"

This time the old woman stubbornly refused to get up, and cried out, wiping her tears, "I beg Xianxiu to save my Baitang Village! I beg Xianxiu to save my Baitang Village!"

When the little girl saw her grandma crying, she also wept along with her.

Seeing this, Jian Xiujin had no choice but to agree: "You get up first, if you can help, I, Fusheng Jianshi, will do my best!"

The old woman got Jian Xiujin's consent, and slowly stood up with his support, and sat on the chair. The little girl also stood up, lowered her head, and stood next to the old woman to wipe her tears.

Li Zhi immediately poured hot tea for the two of them, and motioned for them to drink slowly before talking.

The old woman thanked her gratefully, patted her granddaughter's head comfortingly, handed the tea to her hand, watched her take a sip, then raised her own cup of tea, took a big sip, and took a rest. After taking a deep breath, he opened his mouth and told everyone what he was asking for: "The old woman begged Xianxiu to kill the cat demon and save the villagers of our Baitang Village."

Jian Shengxuan asked suspiciously: "Cat demon?"

The old woman nodded and told the story...

Baitang Village, 300 miles away from Fusheng City, is a small village under the jurisdiction of Jian's family. There are more than [-] people in the village. Although they are not rich, they are self-sufficient.

After all, it is a place where people live. The Jian family has set up a barrier around the village. Generally speaking, ordinary monsters cannot break in and cause harm.

However, this cat demon did not come from outside the village, but appeared in the village.

In Baitang Village, there used to be a young couple, husband Zhang Qi and wife Li Shi, who were very affectionate and treated the villagers kindly and generously. They often helped the villagers regardless of pay, so the whole village liked them very much.

Knowing that Zhang Qi had little time at home, Mrs. Li was bored and lonely, so there was a family who sent the five kittens that the mother cat had just given birth to, hoping to thank them for their care and to relieve Mrs. Li's boredom.

The couple liked the five cute and unusual kittens very much and accepted them all.

After that, Zhang Qi still went out to work every day, and Li Shi played with the cat in his spare time. Life was no longer boring, and it became more interesting.The kittens are also lively and clever, and the collective act of coquettishness makes Li very happy.Seeing that his wife had a smile on her face every day, Zhang Qi didn't care about the five extra mouths at all.

However, the good times didn't last long. Li Shi passed away due to dystocia, and the child could not be kept. Zhang Qi was heartbroken, decadent for a long time, and then disappeared.

Three months later, Zhang Qi suddenly reappeared in the village, dressed in a lot of glamorous clothes. Some curious villagers approached him and asked, only to find out that Zhang Qi had gone to work in the city and found a job. He was strong and young in the work of moving goods at the wharf. He moved the goods steadily and quickly. He worked hard and made a lot of money.

When he returned to the village this time, he planned to go home to pack his things, take his wife's memorial tablet with him, and live in the city from now on.

The villagers saw that he was still infatuated, but at least he came out, and they all laughed and joked, hoping that he would not forget the villagers when he became prosperous in the future, Zhang Qi said with a smile that he would definitely.

After Zhang Qi entered the house, no one saw him again for seven days, and it seemed that he never stepped out of the house.

Several of his friends were worried, discussed it, and decided to visit his home.

After knocking on the door for a long time, not only did no one answer, there was not even a sound in the room, and several people thought something bad happened. Zhang Qi probably saw his wife's tablet being hit and followed him.Kicked open the door and entered the house.

Several people went into the house and searched for the bedroom and kitchen. They saw Li's memorial tablet, but they didn't see Zhang Qi's figure at all.

I searched around the yard again, and found a small firewood room with the door half-closed behind the kitchen, and there were several noises.

Several people guessed that Zhang Qi should be inside, and walked towards the woodshed.

The person walking in the front stretched out his hand and gently opened the door, calling softly, "Zhang..."

Before the word "Qi" could be uttered, several people covered their mouths and noses and ran back to the yard, taking deep breaths several times, because of the strong rancid and sour smell that rushed towards them.

One person asked the person who pushed the door: "Brother Ming, have you seen Zhang Qi?"

Brother Ming shook his head, and said: "The smell is too sudden, I couldn't stand it before I saw it, so I followed you to the yard?"

The man said, "Then don't we have to go back and have a look?"

Brother Ming sighed, and said, "The smell is a bit weird, let's go back and have a look."

Although the others had bitter faces, they did not object.

The first time was raw, the second time was acquainted, this time they were ready to face the stench and opened the door.

As soon as they walked in, they held their breath and didn't smell the stench, but they were so disgusted by the scene before them that they couldn't help vomiting violently.

However, the firewood room that was only a few steps away was covered with dried blood, and the deeply rotten cat corpse was covered with wriggling corpse maggots. Some of the cat corpses were covered with white bones, with cat fur and skin here and there. hanging.

Brother Ming was the first to pull himself together, endured his nausea and looked around the firewood room carefully, thinking that Zhang Qi could not be hiding here, he just wanted everyone to go out together, and suddenly stopped.

Several people vomited until their stomach acid came out, and they calmed down a little. Seeing Brother Ming squatting down, touching the blood on the ground, and then looking back at the cat's corpse, one of them asked strangely, "Brother Ming, what's wrong?"

Brother Ming stood up, pushed all of them out of the woodshed in a panic, and quickly closed the door.

Brother Ming gasped and said, "What a bad thing!" Then, he stretched out his hand in front of them, and everyone saw that Brother Ming's hand was stained with fresh blood, and their eyes widened.

"Just now when I walked there, I found the blood-red footprints left by me, so I felt that the blood there might be new. I tried to touch it, and it was indeed new, and there was a lot of blood. I remember that Zhang Qi’s family had five cats. I looked back at the dead cats. There were only four of them, and one was missing, which meant that the cat was still alive. Zhang Qi left the five cats for three months. I have been starving here for three months, and they probably started killing each other when they were so hungry. So some of the cat corpses are still rotting, while others have turned into blood-stained bones. I am afraid they were all killed by the last cat. The cat nibbled."

Brother Ming's face turned ugly, and he continued, "I think the fresh blood should belong to Zhang Qi. The cat was forced to kill and devour his compatriots. He must hate Zhang Qi to the bone. Seeing him come back, he must have revenge Zhang Qi is nowhere to be found, then the cat may have succeeded, and it was able to kill a grown man, and I am afraid that it has deep resentment and has become a demon."

After hearing Brother Ming's words, everyone's faces changed drastically. Not knowing what to do, Brother Ming sighed: "Now that things have come to an end, I can only send someone to Fusheng Yique to invite Jian's family to destroy the demon."

This made everyone feel relieved, and after finding something to block the chai gate, they went home worried.

Things are not that simple.

Brother Ming was found hanging from the big tree in the yard of Zhang Qi’s house, but he didn’t die of suffocation. His body was covered with bloody scratch marks, and there was a bite wound on his neck. A deep imprint, so deep that blood flowed all over his body and all over the ground.

The whole village was terrified, so they hurriedly buried Brother Ming that day.

But that day was just the beginning of the nightmare in Baitang Village.

Every day, someone was found hanging from a big tree in the yard of Zhang Qi’s house, in the same place, in the same way of death, all of them were adult men who were about the same age as Zhang Qi. Behind them are other men from the village.

Baitang Village fell into a crisis of death, and people were in panic all day long.

It was suggested that the tree be cut down, and the man died the next day, much worse, with his limbs separated and his body hanging from the tree.

Someone proposed to run, but the adult man who escaped still failed to avoid death, and was killed quietly on the way, and the body was still hanging from the tree the next day.

The village chief had no choice but to send someone out to ask for help. He wanted to let a few women run this trip, but the old woman stepped forward. She is Brother Ming's mother, and Brother Ming is the little girl's father. , and vowed that he would use the fastest time to bring people back to eradicate the cat demon and avenge Xue for the village.

Seeing her determination, the village agreed.

After understanding what happened, Li Zhi felt very sad. Looking at the little girl and the old woman, she felt deeply sorry for them, for Baitang Village, and for the dozens of lives that passed away.

Jian Xiujin took a deep breath, and told Li Zhi, "Xiao Lizi, go and call Yanzhi."