[Comprehensive Martial Arts] Daoist Mo's Whisk

Huang Xiong's words made everyone feel a sense of sympathy. This kind of sadness will rise in the hearts of every person who values ​​​​love when he sees the end of a hero.

Only Gong Jiu has a heart of stone.There was probably no such word as "sympathy" in his rhetoric in his life, and he still asked in a cold voice: "What do you know about the demented people in Songxi Town?"

Huang Xiong glared at the unmoved Gong Jiu angrily, but because of the sharp knife still hanging across his neck, he dared not call him heartless and heartless.Under the threat of his life, Huang Xiong could only continue to answer reluctantly: "Those who are stupid will gradually lose the ability to take care of themselves. Everyday, every move, or the content and way of speaking, are all the same. It may even cause drooling, but after careful inspection, it is not because of ulceration in the mouth or other reasons."

"Theoretically speaking, a four-year-old child shouldn't be drooling." Li Anran thought, "A Xing once treated a four-year-old kid before, and that kid never drooled."

Xiao Longnv said: "It may be due to poisoning, drooling is also one of the symptoms after poisoning."

Yang Guo nodded immediately: "Auntie is right. The same situation can happen to so many people on such a large scale, either the disease or poisoning. The disease must be wrong, and poisoning is the most likely answer."

Mo Qi looked at Huang Xiong who hesitated to speak: "What do you want to say?"

Huang Xiong squeezed her fingers, and then said: "Actually... it shouldn't be poisoned."

"What is that? How do you know it's not poisoning?" Yang Guo looked at Huang Xiong suspiciously.

Huang Xiong hesitated for a moment: "I...you may not believe me when I tell you. I think they may have been eaten by Tianmu."

Xiao Longnv gently pulled Yang Guo's sleeve: "What is Tianmu?"

"It's not Tianmu, it's Tianmu." Li Anran frowned and explained, "There was a poem in the previous dynasty that said, 'Hai Ke talks about Yingzhou, Yantao is faint and hard to find. The more people say Tianmu, the clouds can be seen or faded. Tianmu stretches toward the sky, pulling out the five peaks to cover Chicheng.' This Tianmu is actually the name of a mountain."

"Mountain? How can a mountain eat people's brains?" Xiao Longnv tilted her head.

Huang Xiong shook her head again and again: "It's not a mountain, it's not a mountain. The Tianmu I'm talking about is a temple! Tianmu Temple! This temple is dedicated to Tianmu."

In the minds of Gong Jiu and Mo Qi, this sentence could not help but flash across at the same time: Here we come again.

In the Yumenguan case, the storyteller rumored that it was the revenge of wild geese; in the Hexi period, the common people gave the case another name and said it was the case of Songzi Guanyin; The rumors of the case were miraculous; when they arrived in Gusu, another bone girl with blood like rouge and bones like jade appeared.

Now it's Tianmu again.

Does it mean that every time there is an unsolved case, the common people can pull out a legend of ghosts and gods?How idle is this!

Huang Xiong looked at Gong Jiu and Mo Qi with indifference, as if he didn't believe it, and said urgently: "Really! Some people have dementia in Songxi Town, it started half a year ago, and that's Tian Mu When the temple is being cleaned and repaired!"

"Half a year ago, I went to Tianmu Temple to burn incense because of the white-eyed wolves of the Huang family. I wanted Tianmu to punish those bastards for General Huang. Within three days, the youngest son of the Huang family committed the same crime." Dementia!"

Mo Qi frowned.

Li Anran also said: "What kind of punishment is this? It was the son of the Huang family who drove General Huang out, not the grandson of General Huang. How can there be a reason to punish the child instead of the person?"

Gong Jiu glanced at Li Anran, and asked Huang Xiong, "Does the Huang family dote on this child the most?"

Huang Xiong nodded vigorously: "I'm very fond of you! There are three sons in the Huang family, all of whom have married wives, but none of them has any children. Only the youngest daughter of the Huang family, who went home as a widow after losing her husband, brought this child with her. Although the child is a grandson, he is really the last blood of the Huang family."

"And it just so happens that there is no one in the younger daughter's husband's family, and she is the only husband. After the death of the husband, no one will compete with her for the child, so this grandson directly changed back to Huang's surname. The three sons of the Huang family and their wives all took He treats him like the son of a direct relative, it hurts like an eyeball!"

Yang Guo understood Gong Jiu's meaning: "To punish a person is to punish one's heart. Tian Mu did not attack the son of the Huang family, but the little grandson, just to punish the whole family of the Huang family. Cruel, this punishment is indeed cruel. "

Huang Xiong said angrily: "When Old General Huang was suffering from dementia, the Huang family avoided him every day and thought about how to drive him away every night. But everyone is in a hurry. The three sons of the Huang family, all three of them have gone out to search for medicine, and the whole family will do their best to cure the young grandson of the Huang family."

Yang Guo said to Huang Xiong: "What you said is wrong, he is also General Huang's grandson after all. The idea of ​​driving away General Huang should have nothing to do with that child, right?"

Huang Xiong grabbed her fingers and lowered her head: "...No."

Yang Guo patted Huang Xiong on the shoulder: "I know that since you can choose to go out of the house to take care of him alone for the sake of General Huang, then you must be a person who values ​​love and righteousness. You must be sure that the young grandson of the Huang family has been robbed this time." I'm sorry too, don't think too much about it, the matter about Tianmu is pure nonsense, the child's sudden insanity must not have been eaten by Tianmu, you don't have to blame yourself for it."

Xiao Longnv nodded her head: "Guo'er is right. The ghost thing is just the result of human mind, so don't believe it."

"But it's so good, why do you think it's Tianmu's punishment—is it just because you went to Tianmu Temple to offer incense before the young grandson of the Huang family became crazy?" Li Anran wondered.

Huang Xiong raised her head: "No, it's not just for this reason, the Tianlao Temple is really very spiritual. Haven't you been there? If you have been, you will know why I said that."

Gong Jiu and Mo Qi looked at each other, and then put away the long sword lying on Huang Xiong's neck: "Since that's the case, lead the way, take us to see."

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General Huang's thatched hut, and Tianmu Temple, one is at the southernmost part of the town, and the other is at the northernmost part of the town.

After Dongfang Xing arrived at the cottage, she didn't respond.The pestle was stuck in the room, and I didn't see him make any movements after waiting.Everyone could only guess that General Huang's condition might be the thing he was most concerned about before he was stupid, so after he was stupid, he instinctively came to the thatched cottage by relying on the habits he had developed over the past year.

Li Anran pulled Dongfang Xing's sleeping point distressedly when he went out, carried Dongfang Xing on his back, followed Huang Xiong with the others, and went to Tianmu Temple to find out.

In Dongfang Xing's situation, he really couldn't put him alone in the Taoist temple.Otherwise, who knows if Dongfang Xing will sneak out by herself like before.The Taoist temple is on the top of Taihang Mountain, not to mention the strange way of escape, just a fall on the mountain, it is not something that Dongfang Xing's thin body can bear.

Since there was no need to take Dongfang Xing's pace into consideration, the crowd naturally moved much faster.Yang Guo carried Huang Xiong and asked Huang Xiong to guide the way, and everyone rushed to Tianmu Temple as quickly as possible.

"Really bad." Li Anran pouted.

Yang Guo put down Huang Xiong, smiled at Li Anran, "Brother Li is not good to say that. Anyway, this temple is big."

Li Anran poked his neck: "What do you mean? Are we too small? A square inch of land can accommodate three mountains and four seas. As long as it is well organized, it will be a flower, a grass, and a world!"

Yang Guo laughed and took Xiao Longnv to push open the closed gate of Tianmu Temple.

Mo Qi said to his senior brother: "Be careful if you bring an oriental doctor. Ordinary temples don't close their doors during the day. This temple is weird."

Yang Guo, who stepped in first, turned around with a weird expression on his face, as if he saw something disgusting on his face: "It's weird, but it's really weird. Come in and have a look."

Mo Qi opened all the closed temple doors to let sunlight into the temple.

The temple was empty, with only statues, utensils for offering incense, and a few futons.

The entire temple is as big as three Taihang temples, but there is only one sculpture in such an empty temple.The sculpture seems to be a female god, with the ceiling on her head and a stone platform on her feet, as high as three people, with a kind and kind face, holding a round object in her hand.

In the dim light, the facial features hidden in the shadow by the clay sculpture of Tiantian God revealed a strange feeling that made people's hearts tremble with chills.

"There is not even a single candle in such a big temple?" Li Anran looked around.

"Brother Li, you only pay attention to this?" Yang Guo pointed helplessly at the four walls of Tianmu Temple, "You should take a look at these murals."

Although the Tianmu Temple is dilapidated, the space is indeed spacious, and the murals occupy the walls. Looking at it together, there are ten stories.

"What is this talking about? Evil ministers rebelling? Uh... this person's fate is not very good, is he being eaten out of his mind?" Li Anran leaned over to look, "The painting here is disrespectful... oh, it's disrespectful. ..."

Mo Qi looked at the contents of the murals, frowned and said, "These murals should depict the unforgivable ten evils in the law. From left to right, the paintings are rebellion, great rebellion, rebellion, surrender, evil rebellion, Immorality, disrespect, unfilial piety, unrighteousness, civil strife."

Yang Guo tsk-tsk: "These people will end up getting their brains eaten by a woman-like god..." He looked up at the huge Tianmu statue placed at the front of Tianmu Temple, "It looks like the one in the portrait This goddess who hates evil like hatred is Tianmu."

Li Anran looked at the murals, then at Tianmu's clay sculpture, and suddenly gasped: "Hiss! It turns out that the round object she held in her hand is a human head. This god, the taste is not bad." It's really different!"

Gong Jiu sneered: "Those who eat human brains are still gods?"

Just as he was talking, there was a crunching sound of stepping on the snow outside the temple.Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, then flew up at the same time, and landed behind the clay statue of Tianmu in the middle of Tianmu Temple.

Below Tianmu's clay sculpture is a long stone platform, on which Tianmu stepped on as a base.Because the statue of Tianmu is already tall, the stone platform at the base is naturally wide and long, just enough for everyone to squat down and hide.

The people who came were two women, arguing about something.Everyone held their breath and listened carefully, the sound came to their ears from far and near, and the sound of footsteps was getting closer and closer.

One of them, who sounded aggressive, was scolding another woman: "You timid, no wonder those brothers in your family are not afraid of you at all."

The woman who was scolded timidly said: "San Niang, but I am a woman, brothers don't need to be afraid of me..."

Sanniang said angrily: "If you just want to be so worthless, then don't feel uncomfortable watching your brother bullying your grandmother! Okay, can you stand up and raise your head once, what's the matter with women? There are so many heroes, even in Songxi Town, there are also mistresses who run the house, so don't use the excuse that you are a woman every day."

Sanniang put away her umbrella, shook the snow, and dragged the cowardly woman to the front of the futon: "Here, this is the Tianmu Temple I told you about. Xiaomei, don't you want your elder brothers to be punished badly?" Do you? Worship in front of Tianmu, and Tianmu will teach them a lesson for you!"

Xiaomei looked around the empty temple with only a huge statue of a female god in fear: "I, I, Sanniang, how will Tianmu teach them?"

Sanniang snorted: "How can I teach you a lesson, didn't you read the murals? Of course they ate their brains!"

Xiaomei shivered all over: "Eat, eat brains?"

Sanniang scolded: "What are you afraid of? It's not about eating your brains. This grandma will only bring disasters and punishments to the wicked, and won't hurt us kind and honest people. You just worship, and you don't need it." You spend copper coins, and even the incense is prepared for you there, you go get it yourself, and burn it in front of Grandma Tian. Remember to say the name of the person you want to revenge when you kowtow, so that you can call God Grandma heard."

Li Anran crouched behind the stone platform, clenched his fists angrily.

Will it only bring disaster and punishment to the wicked?Then why was Dongfang Xing innocently involved in this? !Could it be that those people who Dongfang Xingxuanhu helped the world, and even didn't charge a penny to save, were all saved in vain!

Xiaomei was even more afraid: "Sanniang! There are so many stupid people in Songxi Town, could it be that Grandma Tian has eaten their brains?"

Sanniang scolded: "Why do you have so many questions?! How do I know! I also heard from others that the Tianmao Temple is very spiritual. If the worship is sincere enough, those who want revenge will indeed Damn it, Tianmu will personally punish you that night. Do you still want to pay your respects to those wicked brothers of yours? Think about your old grandmother, and be beaten by them for a few more years—no, a few days , do you think she can hold it?"

"Think about it again, the reason why your brothers haven't attacked you until now, what is it for? Brother and sister? It's ridiculous! It's because you haven't talked about marriage until now, and they want to sell you for a good price What! Don’t be sold and count the money for others!”

"At that time, hum, if your old grandmother goes, maybe no one will make arrangements for her funeral!"

"Think about it carefully, do you want to burn these three sticks of incense? Remember, the louder you kowtow, the more likely you are to impress Tianmu! But don't try too hard...it's quite far from your home, I can't carry you back."

Xiaomei whimpered a few times, and lingered on the spot for a long time, holding on to the hem of her skirt, until Li Anran's posture of squatting with Dongfang Xing on her back was almost stiff, so she walked to the incense platform quickly and took incense, and took Sanniang I lit the torches I prepared for her.

Although Sanniang spoke viciously, but Xiaomei had been in conflict for so long, she did not urge her anymore, nor did she leave impatiently, she just stood beside Xiaomei and waited, with a bit of hatred in her eyes, and distressed Worried, but he is also a person with a sharp mouth and a tofu heart.

Holding the incense with tears in her eyes, Xiaomei bowed three times in front of the Tianmu statue, then inserted the incense straight into the incense burner, turned over and knelt down on the futon, closed her eyes, put her hands together, and after a while, began to kowtow .

"Boom!"

"Please ask Tianmu to punish my elder brother for his crime of unfilial piety!"

"Boom!"

"Please ask Tianmu to punish my elder brother for his crime of unfilial piety!"

"Boom!"

Xiaomei knocked her head to the ground three times, louder than the first, and by the third knock, the flesh on her forehead was broken and bleeding came out.She fainted for a while, then shouted out her words loudly with tears streaming down her face: "Please punish my elder brother for his crime of unfilial piety!"

Sanniang quickly stepped forward to help Xiaomei up, and scolded: "Didn't I tell you to be gentle!"

Xiaomei bit her lips: "If you knock softly, Grandma Tian will not be able to hear you."

Sanniang: "Damn it, you went straight to heaven to accompany Grandma Tian after being knocked down so hard!"

Sanniang supported Xiaomei and held up the umbrella, and the two slowly left the Tianmu Temple.

Only then did everyone come out from behind the stone platform.

Yang Guo asked doubtfully, "Is Tianmao really so wicked?"

Huang Xiong nodded again and again: "It's true, it's true! Many people in the town tried it, and it worked! Otherwise, how could there be so many demented people in Songxi Town? It's not a punishment from Tianmu What else could it be?"

Li Anran said unhappily: "It's poison, someone cast poison."

Huang Xiong glared: "Then why those poisons don't poison others, but they poison those wicked people!"

Li Anran was about to blurt out a swear word, but held back a little longer, showing a slightly ferocious smile, and pointed behind him: "Isn't the Eastern genius doctor also crazy? Is he also a wicked person?"

Huang Xiong didn't speak, but the expression on his face was obvious: Who knows about this kind of thing.

Mo Qi walked around the temple, went out again, looked up at the place where the plaque should have been hung, it was empty.

Mo Qi walked back to the temple: "This temple is very strange. In an ordinary temple, there should be only one god enshrined, and the identity of this god cannot be seen."

Huang Xiong scratched her neck: "Why don't you know your identity? Didn't you keep telling you that you are Tianmu?!"

Gong Jiu also walked out the door like Mo Qi, patted the snow on his shoulders and stepped back into the temple: "There is no plaque, how do you know this is Tianmu?"

Huang Xiong got stuck for a moment, and a little bewildered expression gradually appeared on his face: "I... this..."

Yang Guo looked around and found nothing but clay sculptures and futons: "Besides, just by looking at it, I can't tell whether Tian Lao is from Buddhism or Taoism. There is no monk or Taoist standing in this hall. I can’t tell which hanging it belongs to. How do you know this is Tianmu Temple, not Tianmu Temple?”

Huang Xiong was tongue-tied.From the look on his face, he didn't think about these problems at all.

Gong Jiu turned her head impatiently, not wanting to see Huang Xiong's stupid face: "Forget it, let's meet with the mayor first. Maybe the local chronicles of Songxi Town will say something about Tianmao or not? There is a record."

Everyone thought so, and went out one after another.Xiao Longnv and Yang Guo walked last and closed the door together.

When the temple door closed with a "creak", Xiao Longnu's movements suddenly froze invisibly.

Yang Guo asked casually in confusion, "What's the matter, Auntie?"

Xiao Longnv shook her head: "No problem."

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Songxi Town is not big, and the mayor is not a big official, but at least he is an official, and he still has his own mansion.

They released Huang Xiong and told him to go back on his own, and rushed to the mayor's usual office without stopping.

Hearing the arrival of the national teacher and Prince Taiping, the master ran out of the study in great horror, and rushed out of the mansion to greet him: "Master Guoguo Guoshi, wife, Prince Taiping, when will the two noblemen set foot here in Songxi?" Waiting for a tiny place, why don't you say anything to our ward, I'll make preparations early, and give you two-"

Gong Jiu's cold eyes caught the master's remaining words in his throat: "We came to Songxi to visit the Taihang Mountain. But I didn't expect that the mountain has not been seen yet, but the town is full of people. Fool."

The master wiped his sweat again and again: "Both, you are so kind..."

"Rong Bao? Where is your mayor? Why, the prince of Taiping and the national teacher are not qualified to let him move when he comes to the mansion in person?" Gong Jiu asked coldly.

The master had a bitter face: "No, no, yes...it is our mayor, he, he is also stupid!"

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The house where the mayor lives is in the back yard of the mansion.From the room with the door closed, there was an abnormal "woo hoo" sound, like a child trying to speak with a lisp, but the child's voice was really rough.

After pushing open the door, everyone saw a middle-aged man in his 40s and [-]s, yelling and tearing rice paper wholeheartedly while playing.

"What's going on? How was he stupid? When was he stupid?" Gong Jiulian asked three times.

The master's face became even more bitter: "I don't know either... Hey-hey-don't be angry, my son, I mean it! The mayor was only crazy yesterday! Yesterday morning, he said, I stayed to deal with government affairs, so I left first, and when I came back to work in the afternoon, I found him like this... No one knows what happened!"

The master was frowning: "So many stupid people suddenly appeared in Songxi Town, and it was already very troublesome. I didn't expect that even the mayor himself... Sigh."

Mo Qi asked: "Has this matter been reported?"

The master nodded again and again: "Reported, reported! After I found out that the mayor was wrong, I had already submitted the paper. It's just that this matter was only published yesterday, and it took less than a day to report it. If you want to wait for the reply from above, I'm afraid you will have to wait for a while."

"That's all." Gong Jiu said, "You first sort out a list of people in Songxi Town who have become crazy for no reason, and list them for me in chronological order. There is no need to wait any longer? If you are really paying attention to this matter , there should already be a list."

Master: "I have this, I have this, I'll get it for you!"

Mo Qi called to stop Master: "Wait. Give it to us in no hurry. You check with the people on the list to see if they have all committed ten heinous crimes." Mo Qi looked at the man who was still sitting at the table tearing rice paper The mayor who played, "...including the mayor."

The master only had time to be stunned for a moment, but Gong Jiu's icy gaze gave him chills all over his body, and hurriedly took his orders and left.

Leaving everyone in the mayor's bedroom, watching the stupid and bearded middle-aged man tearing up the paper, everyone's heart is full of sorrow.

Yang Guo sighed, "How do we check this?"

If it's a general Jianghu matter, he and Xiao Longnv have never been afraid, the worst thing is to fight.But like this kind of fine work of handling cases, they are a bit clumsy.

Li Anran scratched his face, he was even more at a loss than Yang Guo, this man has stayed on the top of Taihang Mountain for ten years, not to mention handling cases, even if he had fought, he probably never fought: "Is it really a cult? I didn’t see anyone, if it’s a cult, shouldn’t it be very mysterious and have a large group of believers, so that it’s easier to spread the word.”

Mo Qi shook his head: "Whether it is a cult or not, this matter must not be done by Tianmu, but someone with a heart. As long as it is a human being, if he wants to hear the prayers of the people in Tianmu Temple, he must Someone is lurking in Tianmu Temple."

Gong Jiu agreed: "This is also the reason why you have to speak out loudly about the person you hate, even though you are praying to a god who can see through people's hearts."

Yang Guo is not a stupid person, he understands everything: "So that's it! No wonder Tianmu built such a big stone platform under the statue. At that time, I thought, our luck is so good... So this stone platform is a building. For hiding."

Xiao Longnu said slowly: "Is that so we can catch the 'wishful people' who come to Tianmu Temple to eavesdrop as long as we guard at Tianmu Temple?"

However, Mo Qi felt that he was not very optimistic. After all, if the cult really had an eyeliner in Tianmu Temple, then their large crowd pouring into Tianmu Temple would definitely arouse their vigilance.They didn't think much about it before, and the decision to ask Huang Xiong to take them directly to Tianmu Temple was indeed too hasty.

Gong Jiu nodded: "This time we are trying to scare the snake. If the people behind are aware of it, it may take a long time before they relax their vigilance. The waiting time may be very long, and we should take turns guarding it."

Hearing this, Yang Guo turned his head to Mo Qi and said, "Earlier, my aunt and I accidentally smashed up your restaurant Daoxian, this time, let me and my aunt guard the temple first."

Mo Qi was still waiting to say "no need" to Yang Guo, Dongfang Xing, who had been sleeping quietly behind Li Anran, slowly woke up, grunted, and opened her eyes.

"Too bad, I'm going to cry again." Yang Guo caught sight of Dongfang Xing's puckered mouth, and hurriedly grabbed Xiao Longnu's hand, "Dongfang's genius doctor, please take care of me, my aunt and I will go to Tianmu Temple first!"

Mo Qi took out something from his waist, raised his hand and threw it over: "If there is any abnormality, please take this as a letter."

Yang Guo looked at the signal flare in his hand and smiled, "I hope I don't have the chance to use it."

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That night.

In the pitch-black area of ​​Tianmu Temple, Yang Guo and Xiaolongnv each took a futon, sat cross-legged behind the stone platform of the statue, cuddled together and whispered.

The snow fell heavily outside the temple, and through the window of Tianmu Temple, you can see the snow-covered snow scene outside the temple.

The cool moonlight reflected by the snow made it even colder, and fell into the temple through the window hole of Tianmu Temple. Instead of dispersing the gloom in the temple, it illuminated the empty room with a blue glint.The broken futons and incense stands scattered on the ground are even more treacherous.

Xiao Longnv whispered: "Guoer, are you cold?"

Yang Guo was hugging Xiao Longnv softly and warmly, feeling so cold, his heart was on fire.It's a pity that they were in Tianmu Temple to guard the black hands behind the scenes, not to talk about love, so they could only sigh and whisper: "It's not cold. Is it cold, aunt?"

Xiao Longnu smiled lightly, the bright blue moonlight on her face instantly melted all the coldness, and she was so beautiful and pure: "It's not cold."

Yang Guo tightened his arms, and said to Xiao Longnv: "I used to hide behind Buddha statues before, but at that time...heh." Xiao Longnu's beautiful hair, "Forget it, don't mention those old things."

Yang Guo looked at the moonlight on the ground of Tianmu Temple in a daze, thinking about it carefully, no matter where in his life he had memories, there were few good ones, only the memories with his aunt were mostly sweet.

Yang Guo couldn't help laughing.

Xiao Longnv looked up at him: "Guer?"

Yang Guo said in a low voice: "I was just thinking, think about it carefully, the years we have lived have been quite bitter. Now that we can be together like this, maybe some god is protecting us and making up for the past ten years ..."

Xiao Longnu frowned: "Anyway, it can't be this Tianmu."

The scene of eating human brains on the mural still remained in Xiao Longnu's mind, just thinking about it made her stomach feel uncomfortable and she almost felt sick.

Yang Guo said with a smile: "Gu Gu, don't think about it." He stretched out his hand to cover Xiao Longnu's eyes, as if by doing this he could cover up the images she hates in Xiao Longnu's mind.

Xiao Longnv put her hand on the back of Yang Guo's.

Winter nights are quiet.It was so quiet that every sound of falling snow could be heard clearly.Even the croaking of frogs by the pond can be faintly heard.

Maybe it's because the temperature in my arms is too warm, maybe the feeling of being immersed in memories is not as piercing and painful as I thought before.

Yang Guo was a little disappointed, and said slowly, "This frog cry reminds me of my adoptive father. He...he treated me very well, but...he died too. Although the name of Xidu Ouyang Feng To others, the number is extremely frightening and disgusting, but he really treats me very well, and he even taught me Ha Toad Kung Fu—”

Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu grabbed each other's hand together.

Xiao Longnu: "How can there be frogs in winter?"

Yang Guo: "That's the voice of Toad Gong!"

The two got up in an instant, rushed out from the Tianmu Temple, and followed the clamoring sound of the toad all the way, almost crossing the entire town, but they couldn't find the person who made the sound.

The clamor had died away.

Xiao Longnu took Yang Guo's hand: "We have to go back to Tianmu Temple."

Yang Guo looked hard at the direction of the voice, wanting to chase after him again: "But——"

Xiao Longnu repeated: "We have to go back to Tianmu Temple." She hesitated, "Today, when we first came to Tianmu Temple, there is one thing that I didn't tell you."

Yang Guo was drawn back, turned around and asked, "What?"

Xiao Longnu: "When we left Tianmu Temple, I felt a line of sight. Someone... was watching us in the dark."

Yang Guo shook Xiao Longnu's hand, "But, I didn't feel it. If other people felt it, they would definitely say it."

——Unless, that gaze was not looking at them in the dark at all, but looking at Xiao Longnu in the dark.

"Later, we have to go back. There must be something weird in the grandma's temple that day." Xiao Longnu said seriously.

Yang Guo hesitated, he grabbed Xiao Longnv who was about to start: "Gu Gu..."

Xiao Longnu was pulled back, and asked in confusion, "What?"

Yang Guo held Xiaolongnv's hand tightly: "I... that person came for you, I didn't feel that anyone was watching us secretly. Not only me, Brother Li, Young Master Jiu, even Mo Daoxian didn't notice The existence of that person. His kung fu is far above ours."

"I... I'm afraid you're in danger, but I can't protect you." Yang Guo's feet were locked to the ground by the heavy fear.

Ever since the name of the Condor Hero spread throughout the world, Yang Guo hadn't felt the fear of losing Xiaolongnv for a long time, and he rarely saw an opponent that he could not even realize existed.

The little dragon girl looked at Yang Guo fixedly: "But we are not afraid. We have experienced so many things in the past years, and we have not separated us. This time is the same." It was cold, but it made Yang Guo feel very warm and reliable, "Let's go back to Tianmu Temple, and then burn the signal flare given to us by Mo Daoxian. This time, we are not only ourselves, we also have companions."

In front of Tianmu Temple, a cluster of fireworks broke through the sky suddenly, and shattered when it was burning brightest, igniting a fiery tree and silver flowers in the night sky.

Mo Qi and others came very quickly.Because they didn't go back to the Taoist temple on the mountain at all, they were all worried about the affairs of Songxi Town, and they stayed in the master's study all the time, watching the master nervously check the list of people's resumes, and look through the local chronicles kept in the library.

When everyone broke in, they only saw Xiao Longnu and Yang Guo.

Gong Jiu didn't see the imaginary enemy: "What's going on?"

Xiao Longnu told everyone about the sight she felt during the day, and also about the clamoring voice of the toad that the two of them heard just now.

Yang Guo's hand didn't let go after Xiaolongnv told the day's events. His face was stiff, and his speech was a little too fast because of nervous tension: "That's the voice of Ha. Toad Gong. At first, I still Because I haven’t practiced this kung fu for a long time, I couldn’t remember it, and then I realized that it’s winter, and it’s snowing heavily outside, how could there be frogs.”

"Ha. Toad skill? Isn't that the famous skill of Xidu Ouyang Feng?" Gong Jiu raised his eyebrows.

Mo Qi whispered: "But he has been dead for a long time. Could it be that other people learned this kung fu—"

Yang Guo interrupted: "No! Only my adoptive father knows this kind of kung fu. And because this kung fu is so difficult to learn and easy to make mistakes, he didn't even teach it to his own nephew! In this world, Other than me, anyone who knows Ha. Toad Kung Fu is my adoptive father!"

Gong Jiu confirmed: "But he is indeed dead, right?"

Yang Guo: "...Yes."

Gong Jiu and Mo Qi fell silent together.

Yang Guo was a little uneasy and said: "Could it be... the ghost of foster father..."

Gong Jiu twitched the corners of her mouth: "Don't say such words that only a three-year-old would believe."

Mo Qi hesitated for a moment: "Condor Hero, I have something to tell you and your wife. This is when the ninth son talked about the case in the past few months, but he didn't say that you knew about it, so it has a lot to do with it. But Since the two of you are involved in this matter, we can't hide it anymore."

Mo Qi told Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv the things about the shadow man that Gong Jiu had deleted when "telling the story" earlier.

Yang Guo opened his mouth, and it took him a while to recover his voice, but the focus of his attention was obviously a bit slanted due to shock: "So——my adoptive father——my adoptive father is not dead, right?! He Alive!"

Xiao Longnv reached out and touched Yang Guo's neck, the cool temperature instantly calmed Yang Guo down.

Yang Guo coughed: "Sorry, I got a little impulsive." He held back for a while, but couldn't help but confirm, "Is this true?"

He was hesitant and cowering, but at this moment, he completely turned into joy.

Mo Qi silently nodded.

His mood was not as uplifting as Yang Lailai's.

If the person who made the clamoring noise was really Ouyang Feng, it meant that Ouyang Feng was probably the shadow man.And every time the shadow people are dispatched, it is mostly for treasure or miracle medicine.

Naturally, there is no treasure in Songxi Town, that is to say, there may be a miracle medicine in Songxi Town.

Gong Jiu turned her head slightly, and said to Mo Qi: "It seems that what made the people in the town suddenly stupid is really poisonous. I just don't know, the original owner of the poison used to develop the stupidity of the people in the town. The cult...is still the shadow people who use the name of the cult to test the medicine with people."

Mo Qi also thought so, and was about to tell Yang Guo that the shadow man who came back from the dead might not have his own reason and memory, and could only execute orders, and his internal strength would also skyrocket several times compared to before. It would be very difficult if he was hostile To deal with it, a Buddha's call suddenly came from outside the Tianmu Temple.

The sound was like a Sanskrit morning bell, vibrating back and forth in the snow, with a sense of righteousness, which shocked people's minds.

"Amitabha……"