Getting old and not dying is a demon

Li Xiaoling dragged Jiang Li all the way to the vegetable garden behind the house.The place here is relatively small, and some green vegetables, green onions, ginger and garlic are planted, and they are carefully surrounded by bamboo fences to prevent free-range chickens and ducks from running in to eat or trampling on them.

Jiang Li saw that the master chef who was in charge of the wedding banquet was standing outside the fence alone, with a spoon in his mouth, his expression was very puzzled.

Li Xiaoling rubbed Jiang Li's hand, pointed to the small ditch on the west side of the vegetable garden and said crisply: "Brother Jiang, that's right there."

Jiang Li looked in the direction she pointed.In order to facilitate the watering of the vegetable garden, Mrs. Li dug a small ditch next to it, directly bringing the water for irrigation from the farmland.The ditch is covered with several boards, so that you can walk on it. Walking past is a large bamboo forest. The bamboo forest relies on the mountain, and you can go up the mountain through the bamboo forest.

The strange thing Li Xiaoling was talking about was not the ditch, but the traces on the boards—crawling traces wider and more twisted than ruts, composed of muddy water and sporadic bloody water, winding all the way into the bamboo forest.

Li Xiaoling looked a little scared, hid behind Jiang Li, and said in a low voice: "I didn't have it when I watered the vegetable garden yesterday, but I suddenly saw it when I woke up today. I want to tell my mother and brother, but they are very old. I haven't seen anyone for a long time..." Sister-in-law Li and Li Erzhu were so busy arranging the wedding banquet these days that they ignored Li Xiaoling.

Jiang Li patted her on the back and said, "It's probably an eel, a snake or something long. It's okay, it's gone back to the mountain."

"That's such a pity!" The master slapped his thigh suddenly, "My hard work last night was all in vain."

In order to save time today, the cooks who help with weddings and weddings usually come the previous night and live in Li's house with two young apprentices who handle the ingredients.His house is just near the back, next door is the woodshed.

"When I was in a daze until midnight yesterday, I suddenly heard movement in the rabbit nest behind me. My apprentice just grabbed a few rabbits from there and killed them. I remember clearly that the rabbit nest is there. You said chicken nest It might be a weasel, what is in the rabbit's nest? I opened the window and took a careful look, but I didn't see anyone, so it must not be a thief." The master talked about his experience last night.

It turns out that this big chef is also greedy. He thought that this is the foot of the mountain, and there will often be some wild beasts running down the mountain. Those are genuine wild products, which are so nourishing and delicious. Roe deer, wild chicks, wild boar, etc., not only add some color to tomorrow's wedding banquet, but also satisfy themselves.

Thinking about it this way, the chef became very excited. He went to the unlocked firewood room next door and took a series of tools used by Uncle Li for hunting during his lifetime, including net bags, bows and arrows, bamboo knives, iron clips, etc., and stooped quietly. Noise to the rabbit's nest.

Lust... Bah, bah, even though he has a big appetite, the chef still cherishes his life. It would be ridiculous if he didn't eat the game and got hurt instead, so he didn't rush over rashly. A clip, as long as the legs are clamped, they are not afraid of running away.

Nesting in the corner while listening to the movement, I thought about how to cook this guy and the seasoning in my mind, but I waited and waited, and the expected sound of the clip starting and the wailing sound just didn't come.The big chef wondered, could it be that the bear was so big that it crushed the clip?Not so!After thinking about it, he went back to the room and brought the lamp, but when he came back, there was nothing in the rabbit nest except two little rabbits whose eyes hadn't opened.

"It's so dark at night that I can't see anything clearly, and I didn't dare to go to the mountain, but now I can see the traces clearly. Fortunately, the little girl watered the vegetable garden yesterday, and that guy was covered in mud." The chef continued. Said, "I'm afraid it's a boa constrictor, what a pity." After speaking, he licked his lips, looking like he was about to drool.

When Li Xiaoling heard that the boa constrictor ate his own rabbit, he quit. He jumped up from Jiang Li's back, ran and jumped to the side of the rabbit's nest, took a closer look, and blinked. She shed two tears: "My bunny..."

When Mrs. Li said she wanted to kill the rabbits, Li Xiaoling would not do it. These rabbits were fed by her since she was a child, and they are also her only playmates. They look at the moon together when they are unhappy, and bask in the sun together when they are happy. .Especially the first two big rabbits were hunted by Uncle Li when he was alive. Every time Li Xiaoling missed his father, he would talk to them.

But rabbits are raised to be eaten, and her small arms can't hold back the thighs of her mother and elder brother, and in the end only a litter of little rabbits survived. I didn't expect there to be more maddened beasts than humans, even little rabbits!

Jiang Li didn't know how to comfort Li Xiaoling, maybe when she grows up, she will understand, cannibalism, cannibalism, human nature.Humans are like this, let alone animals?

The big chef said carelessly: "Eat it if you eat it, you two bastards just cry and cry!"

Jiang Li was about to go back with Li Xiaoling in his arms, but when he heard this, Li Xiaoling immediately quit, crying and clamoring to climb off Jiang Li's body: "What do you know! They are my treasures!"

Jiang Li was stunned, and a blurry picture suddenly flashed in his mind. A pitifully thin little boy stood in front of him, trembling with anger, and shouted at a group of maids and guards opposite: "What do you know! Jun is not my darling!"

In this world, it is normal not to get what you want, but it is really helpless that the things you cherish are regarded as worthless by others.

In this dazed few seconds, Li Xiaoling had already let go of his feet and ran into the bamboo forest following the horrific blood trail. Jiang Li saw her run away and yelled inwardly.The terrain on the mountain is complicated, and there are many poisonous plants and beasts, adults must be careful when entering alone, let alone a little girl!

"Tsk tsk, silly girl," the chef frowned, "is she still trying to avenge the bastard? I didn't even catch it."

Jiang Li turned his head and glanced at him, Ru Mo's eyes were dark with a bit of majesty, the chef froze suddenly, and after a while he took down the spoon he was biting in his mouth in a daze, the chef saw Jiang Li picked up the bow and arrow leaning against the wall and chased Li Xiaoling into the mountain.

To be honest, the chef has given banquets for many wealthy families, and he has met quite a few people, but this is the first time he has seen Jiang Li's.From a distance, he was just an ordinary scholar full of scholarly spirit, but just at his glance, his aura was not comparable to that of ordinary poor scholars.

After a while of daze, the chef shook his head and went back to continue cooking, muttering: "I heard the fish in the pond, but I don't know the depth of the sea. I heard the girl under the mulberry, but I don't know the shade of Huatang... the water in the countryside... It's also deep."

Li Xiaoling's legs are not fast in sprinting, but she is also small, and she can't be seen if she just burrows into the bushes, and the mountains and forests are full of branches and leaves, covering the sky and the sun, so her sight is severely blocked, so Jiang Li had no choice but to shout while walking. Li Xiaoling's cry was heard from afar.

Seeing Jiang Li chasing him so quickly, Li Xiaoling felt ashamed of her willful escape and wished she could hide in a hole in the ground, but her feet were stuck by something and she couldn't move.

"Brother Jiang..."

Seeing the little guy's pitiful look, his ball-like face was wrinkled, and Jiang Li couldn't scold her, so he sighed and carefully pulled her out of the hole.Li Xiaoling's feet were cut by sharp stones and tree roots, and she bled a lot. The pain made her gasp, and she obediently lay on Jiang Li's back, not daring to make a fuss.

Jiang Li carried Li Xiaoling on his back and walked down the way he came here. Li Xiaoling's childish nature, now he's calmed down, and he started humming when he was in a good mood. While humming, he looked around until suddenly he saw the grass behind him Naturally shaking violently, she quickly put her arms around Jiang Li's neck: "Brother Jiang! There are ghosts!"

The moment her words fell, the rustling voices in the dead branches and leaves suddenly increased, and Jiang Li suddenly turned his head, and saw a big shadow that was not clear and rushed towards the two of them under the cover of the grass. Gravel and grass are flying everywhere.

"Ah—" Li Xiaoling screamed and closed his eyes.

But nothing happened.

When Li Xiaoling opened his eyes again, the surrounding bushes were very calm, as if the shadow just now was just an illusion.

Jiang Li frowned, gently put Li Xiaoling down, and then looked around quietly.There was no sound of birds chirping, no sound of falling leaves, only the faint breathing of him and Li Xiaoling, it was eerily quiet.

Just as Li Xiaoling was about to call Brother Jiang, he saw Jiang Li suddenly moved. He raised the bow with his right hand and stood it upright in front of him. At the same time, he stretched his left hand behind his back and drew an arrow. His fingertips lightly swept across the string, and his right hand suddenly exerted force.

Li Xiaoling's mouth was wide open when he saw it, and the arrow had already flown out without realizing it.

I don't know how long it took, but Li Xiaoling found that his saliva was dripping down, so he mechanically put his chin up, and asked excitedly, "Did you hit it?" How did Li determine the location of the beast?

Jiang Li slowly put down the bow and arrow, made a "shh" gesture to Li Xiaoling, and gently pushed aside the bushes and walked in.

He was sure that he had definitely hit the target, but he was just not sure what it was. The wolf, dog, tiger and leopard were all expected, but the result was so unexpected, without any precaution——

people!

real people!Really couldn't be more true!

The man was lying on his side on the ground, his long hair was disheveled to his waist, his face was completely blocked, a huge blood hole on his shoulder was bubbling blood, and the blood-red arrow was thrown aside and broke in two.

Jiang Li's footsteps paused, a trace of surprise flashed across his eyes but he was not panicked. He stretched out his hand to see how the man was hurt, but the latter suddenly raised his head, which caught him off guard and bumped into a pair of eyes that seemed to be condensed with wind, frost and snow. middle.

Cold and vicious.