I raised monsters in the Song Dynasty

On a full moon night, light comes in through the small clean window on the wall and the skylight above the head, filling the entire room.

Although there are few furniture in this room, they are well arranged, and the most eye-catching are the two wooden beds in the center of the room.I saw that one wooden bed was empty, and another wooden bed was lying on a young man.

The boy tossed and turned, unable to sleep, his eyes were clear.

"When will Lian Shuo come back?" Li Banxi lay there imitating Lian Shuo's usual way of crossing his legs, muttering in his mouth, "It's been two days. He said that day he would come back in a few days, but he didn't specify Let’s talk about a few days, it’s too boring to go away like this, and I still miss him.”

Li Banxi put down his newly raised legs and changed his position. He was lying on his side on the bed at this moment. He had already given the porcelain pillow to Lian Shuo because he was not used to sleeping on it. He made a soft pillow out of a few old clothes.

Facing the full moon, he murmured: "The moon is so round... Is it fifteen today? I don't know how Huanhuan and Xixi are doing. Will the time in modern times be spent with this side?" What? If so, are they still in the hospital now? Or were they adopted because they couldn't be contacted?"

Li Banxi heard the giant's dense and regular breathing, and couldn't laugh or cry: "Why does a monster sleep more than humans? Well, I really want to... I really want to be a monster..."

The middle of the night is a good time to express your feelings when you are bored.

Li Banxi sighed: "Hey, Lian Shuo probably went to catch monsters with his master, and he will come back! You can't leave a WeChat or something here, and you can't get in touch..."

When he found that the name Lian Shuo accounted for 80.00% of his mind in the middle of the night, he panicked, and then showed a self-deprecating smile: "What kind of hypocrisy is it in the middle of the night! Didn't I be alone in the past few years?" Did someone come here? You have only known him for a few days, and you treat him as a life-and-death friend? He has a master and a school, and he has serious things to do, so he is not like himself. "

Then he directly pulled the quilt to cover his head, and decided that he couldn't stay at home like this tomorrow, and had to find something to do.

By the way, the food is almost running out right now, so he should take out something to express his gratitude to Aunt Lan. He has been taken care of by their family all the time, so he can't just be a rice bug who eats and drinks.

But the ancients couldn't appreciate his paintings, and no one cared about them in the market for a day. It seems that it is better for him to chop firewood.

Covered in the quilt, Li Banxi slowly fell asleep under the quiet moonlight.

But the village on the other side of Zhongshan is not so peaceful.

The village on the left side of Zhongshan is called "Sunjia Village", which was named because most of the people were surnamed Sun, which is the village where Li Banxi is now; However, after several years of migration and natural living, this "six-person village" has become a "ten-thousand-person village", and it has become the most populous and prosperous village in the vicinity.

The government that governs this area is located on the "Liurenzhuang", and the current county magistrate is Wang Qing, the former magistrate who has just been relegated from Tokyo. Inside.And the consequence of fear of guilt is that Wang Yang, the only child in the family, is raised by the wife to be unruly and self-willed, defiant to no one.Because Wang Qing was busy with political affairs when he was the magistrate, and neglected to discipline him, over the past ten years or so, Wang Yang has grown from a bully to a rascal.

This Wang Yang has always been lecherous and not jealous of men and women. Some time ago, he led a group of house slaves wandering in the streets of Tokyo. He passed by a rouge shop and happened to see a young lady. , There are two dimples when I smile.

All of a sudden, Wang Yang became lustful, and seeing that she was dressed plainly without any decorations on her head, he decided that she was not the daughter of a wealthy family, so he rushed up to the woman and said that she wanted that girl. She is a concubine.

The woman refused, so Wang Yang followed his usual practice and went up to snatch it directly, just in time to meet the Ninth Prince.It turned out that the woman was Xiaohong, the maidservant next to the Ninth Prince's mother, Concubine Ming. In recent years, Concubine Ming has been eating vegetarian food and praying to Buddha.

This time the incident became a big deal, and there was an uproar in the streets of Tokyo.

And the emperor is not easy to do, if the sentence is light, the Nine Kings usually value filial piety, which is equivalent to a slap in the face of the Nine Kings;

Wang Qing also understood all of this, pleaded guilty, was downgraded from fifth rank to Zhima official, and came to this remote and remote place.

I thought that this old father was demoted to protect his son, and that Wang Yang would calm down a bit, but he didn't think about his mistakes behind closed doors and studied poetry and books hard, but instead became more serious.

Wang Yang thought that there was no more official than his father in this "Liu Ren Zhuang", so he decided that he was Wang Fa, and one day he fell in love with another person when he was wandering in the market.

This time is different from the last time, this time the person I fell in love with is a scholar who sells calligraphy for a living.

The scholar's name was Lu Zhuqing, he was a child from a poor family, he was supposed to go to Beijing this year to take the exam, but his old mother suddenly died of illness at home, so he had to use Beijing money to bury his old mother first, and kept mourning for three years.

But Lu Zhuqing was thin and delicate, and Wu couldn't resist, so he had to sell calligraphy to make ends meet. Unfortunately, he happened to meet Wang Yang again.

What scholars value most is integrity. Lu Zhuqing was molested by Wang Yang in the street, and after blushing, she mocked Wang Yang. As a result, Wang Yang was so angry that he asked people to inquire at will, and arrested him on the grounds of "collude with monsters". In prison.

It turns out that there is another unknown hill near Zhongshan Mountain. Because of the convenient transportation, there are often cars and horses passing by. Years ago, people who entered the mountain began to disappear, and the government did not find their whereabouts when they searched. There were no people alive, no dead bodies. Gradually, there was a saying in the "Liu Ren Zhuang" that there was a big snake in the mountain. He is the patron saint of this mountain. Anyone who wants to enter the mountain is doomed to be eaten.

This kind of saying has been circulating for several years, until when Lu Zhuqing's old mother was dying of illness, he went to the mountains to gather a kind of medicinal herb as a medicine primer.

But to his surprise, this time Lu Zhuqing returned to the town safely.

For a while, there were various theories. Some people said that the snake happened to be absent, and some said that there was no snake at all, but more sayings were that Lu Zhuqing and the monster knew each other.

This kind of argument became more and more serious, and finally it turned out that Lu Zhuqing himself was a monster, otherwise how could a man from a poor family be so good-looking?

Since he was born, Lu Zhuqing was determined to obtain fame, so he seldom communicated with others, and he couldn't hear those gossips behind his back. It's just that few people came to buy his paintings, and his life was extremely miserable.

And Lu Zhuqing was imprisoned for no reason at all, Wang Qing knew his son's nature, he was furious on the spot, and wanted to punish Wang Yang severely, but he was stopped by his wife who was always afraid, I had no choice but to throw off my sleeves and prepare to release the helpless poor scholar in the prison.

I thought that after Lu Zhuqing was acquitted and released, he would get some condolences, but when the county magistrate was about to release the innocent scholar himself, a giant python rushed into the prison.

The giant python was about [-] inches long, and its body was covered with a layer of scales as hard as iron. It shone coldly under the firelight, and the snake letter spit out by the snake's head was about the size of a small snake you usually see.

The snake letter stretched and retracted in its mouth, making a loud "hissing" sound, and there was already a puddle of saliva on the ground.

For a moment, all the night watchmen in the yamen were startled, they fled in all directions first, and then bit the bullet because of Wang Qing's order, they set fire to fire again, and it took a lot of effort to get the giant The python caught him and locked him in the backyard.

In the end, the most unlucky one was Lu Zhuqing, whose unfounded charges turned out to be true, and he is still detained in that big prison to suffer, his body is weak, and after this torment, he contracted a cold.

It was night, and the servant in the government's backyard was holding a torch to deliver food to the giant python locked in the big iron cage. This was originally ordered by Wang Qing, after all, it is still unclear where the giant python came from , Tomorrow, public opinion will be called to see how to deal with this monster.

Tonight happened to be one of the middle-aged servants in the backyard to see him off. That middle-aged man is usually timid, and whenever there is a disturbance, his heart beats like thunder and he makes a fuss.I saw him holding a torch and carrying a large copper basin for washing his face, which was filled with food.

"How unlucky!" The middle-aged man cursed and walked towards the big iron cage, "Why is it my turn when I first come up? What if this beast swallows me up in one go?" Goosebumps formed on the back.

It was the fifteenth day of the night, and the moonlight made the entire backyard extremely bright, and he could see the iron cage from a long distance away, but what shocked him was——the iron cage was empty.

The python was gone.

"The giant python is gone!" He was so frightened that he threw away the torch and ran out of the backyard, shouting non-stop, "The giant python is gone! The giant python is gone!"

His heart-piercing cries startled all the servants in the backyard, and then the entire county magistrate's mansion was turned on. People were panicked for a while, and even chickens, ducks, cats and dogs barked everywhere.

These few sentences were heard by the watchman again, and he went from door to door to remind him, so the lights in the whole town of "Liurenzhuang" were lit.

Some families have children, and the children are frightened and cry late at night by this legend, which has been passed down ten times and one hundred times with embellishments. The tranquility and harmony are in stark contrast.

Day two.

Li Banxi got up early and was going to Zhongshan to chop more firewood. The money he got was enough to buy some gadgets for the giant, and he could also make a pot of good wine for the slut.

"Banxi!"

Hearing someone calling him, Li Banxi turned around and saw that it was Aunt Lan and her old man, who immediately greeted him with a smile.

When Aunt Lan saw that he was carrying a bamboo basket, she knew he was going out, and immediately asked him, "Are you going out? Where are you going? Are you going to Zhongshan to collect firewood and then sell it in the town?"

Li Banxi nodded, and Aunt Lan suddenly said in a low voice, "I heard there was a disturbance in that town last night."

"Oh? What's the matter?" Li Banxi slept soundly after sleeping with his head covered last night, and never heard any noise.

"I also got up in the morning and heard what Amei next door said. I heard that a big snake suddenly rushed out of the town official's house. Good guy, that head...is thicker than this tree trunk." Aunt Lan pointed to the tree in Li Banxi's courtyard. , continued, "I was caught by a group of officers and soldiers and placed in that big iron cage. But when I saw it last night, the big snake had long since disappeared."

Amei and Aunt Lan are about the same age, and they usually do housework and chat together.But women of this age always like to exaggerate, Li Banxi smiled, it's just a python, didn't he see it in the zoo before?

Aunt Lan saw that he just smiled and didn't take it seriously, so she told him again and again: "Now the government says that the giant python was transformed by a monster, and they are ordering to capture it! I heard that the reward is very high."

Li Banxi frowned, Lian Shuo hadn't come for so long, he probably went to catch the big snake!