Mrs. Fox is too serious!

Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou didn't go far, they temporarily stayed in a village not far from the town.This village is remote and impoverished by mountains and rivers. There are not many people but none of them have left.The common people know that the recent days are not peaceful, and many people have disappeared for no reason. They are naturally afraid, but they can't let go of their homeland where they have lived for generations, let alone the grain that has been planted in the ground for a year.

The only way they could figure out a way to deal with it was not to go out when it was dark, and to go together during the day and never leave alone.

When Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou entered the village, they frightened many people.After all, two women with extraordinary clothes and beautiful appearance appeared in the blue sky and white day, no matter how you looked at them, they looked like monsters.

Soon everyone in the village knew that two unidentified women had entered the village, and all the young and strong men surrounded Lan Yiyou and Jiang Xundao at the entrance of the village with sickles and sticks.

However, the people in these poor villages are the most ignorant and ignorant, and they are also pure and kind, and they are the best to deceive.Jiang Xundao just cast a spell in public to make the dead wood grow green leaves, and explained that he is a Taoist cultivating immortals, and he sensed that there are demons here, and he came here to subdue the demons, and the people believed it.

The people in the village treated them as honored guests, and the nearly hundred-year-old village chief came to welcome them in person. He was not only grateful, but also almost knelt down in front of Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou, complaining to them that the village had been infested by demons in recent years, and asked them to show their magical powers Take those man-eating monsters.

Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou stayed in the village for a while, living in the home of a village woman whose husband died of illness and took care of her two children alone.The village woman looked not much older than Jiang Xundao, but she had a pair of children under her knees, her face was already covered with wrinkles, she looked as if she was over fifty years old.

The village woman was flattered to see that she was entrusted by the village head to serve the two immortals. She tidied up the only room in the house for Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou to live in, while she took the child to the woodshed to rest.

It is said that the house is actually just a thatched house covered with wood and some straw. If it is raining, the house will always leak.Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou stood on the potholed ground and looked around the dark and damp room. Except for a wooden bed with two torn quilts and a rickety table, the only thing in the room was It looks good is a carved wooden cabinet.

The two looked at each other with complicated expressions.

The obsequious village woman behind them stood by the door, holding a child in one arm, and said with some hesitation, "I hope the two immortals don't dislike it. The family is really poor, and only this room can entertain the two immortals."

Lan Yiyou turned around, looked at the two emaciated and shy ones hiding in her mother's arms, only showing two pairs of dark eyes looking at her children, and said softly: "Sister, we two are used to hard work, and we are so tired at night. It's just meditation, resting in the firewood room is good. There is a cool breeze at night, so let's sleep in the house with the children."

After talking, Jiang Xundao finally pretended to be angry, and the village woman agreed to take the child to sleep in the house.Then I was busy cleaning up the firewood house and laying fresh and dry straw.

When dinner came, many people from the village brought eggs and sweet potatoes.For these poor villagers, eggs are regarded as meat, and only children can eat two for their birthdays or Chinese New Year all year round.

The village woman boiled a few eggs, cleaned the stored old rice, cooked some sweet potatoes and stir-fried some light wild vegetables, and then invited Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou to the table for dinner.

There was always some embarrassment at the dinner table, Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou didn't move their chopsticks, and the two children didn't dare to move, they just stared blankly at the eggs in the bowl on the table and swallowed their saliva.

The boy looked about seven or eight years old with dirty mud on his face and hands. He secretly reached out to touch an egg, but was slapped on the back of his hand by the village woman and scolded: "Shouren, don't be so rude. According to the rules, this is for the two immortals."

Seeing this, Jiang Xundao took out two eggs from the bowl and stuffed them into the hands of the two children, then said with a light smile, "Sister, we are practicing bigu, so let the children eat these meals."

The peasant woman couldn't understand what bigu was, so she asked in a daze, "What... what is bigu?"

Lan Yiyou explained: "It means not eating five grains, but absorbing the essence of heaven and earth."

The peasant woman put her hands together in reverence and said, "An immortal is an immortal, and you won't be afraid of starvation if you eat this kind of heaven and earth energy."

Jiang Xundao looked at a rough bow and arrow hanging on the wall behind him, his eyes lit up and he asked, "Sister, is the Orion at home?"

"My husband is a hunter." The peasant woman's expression darkened, and tears glistened in her eyes: "The family was not so poor. My husband often went to the mountains to hunt some wild game, and sold his furs to rich people in the town for some. Food. But two years ago a tiger demon appeared in the nearby mountains, and anyone who went to the mountains was injured by it. The children wanted to eat meat during the Chinese New Year the year before last, and my husband gritted his teeth and planned to poach a rabbit in the mountains. But he didn't want to be pawed on his chest by the tiger monster, so he ran back home with one breath. The family really didn't have the money to hire a doctor, and my husband was in pain for three days and three nights before he went."

After these words, both Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou were stunned, not knowing how to comfort the poor woman.The two children on the side were wolfing down their food, seemingly unaware of their mother's pain and helplessness.

At night, Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou sat on the straw in the firewood house, and through the hole above their heads, they could see the starry night sky.The two cuddled together, and just barely meditated and rested all night.

On the second day, the village chief brought people over and asked them to go to the mountain to kill the tiger demon that harmed one party.The two of them entered the mountain together in the direction pointed by the villagers.

As soon as they entered the mountain, the two found a strong demonic aura. Following the demonic aura, they found a tiger demon in front of a hillside.A huge colorful tiger is sleeping on the hillside, with two colorful butterflies flying above its head, and beside it are two chubby tiger cubs playing and playing.

The tiger is not weak in cultivation and has small animals in the forest as eyes and ears. It knew that the group of villagers had invited two ascetics to surrender, but it was not afraid at all.Under the watchful eyes of Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou, it yawned lazily, showing its sharp canine teeth, and then opened its eyelids to look at Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou.

It is difficult to change the saying that the tiger is the king of beasts, those sharp black eyes are full of killing spirit, the huge figure and the colorful tiger stripes on the body all show the king's demeanor.It slowly stood up and shook the grass clippings on its body, then looked down at Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou, opened its mouth and said contemptuously: "You are the Taoist priests invited by those people to subdue the demons. "

This is a tigress, and her voice is naturally that of a woman, but instead of being feminine, it is hoarse and deep.There was no trace of fear in the words, but rather provocative.

Lan Yiyou looked at it silently for a while, then opened his lips and said, "Exactly."

The tiger sneered, took a deep breath and raised its head and roared. The roar of the tiger was deafening, as if the whole forest trembled.After a roar, it smiled and said: "This seat is right here, aren't you descending demons? Then come."

Jiang Xundao and Lan Yiyou didn't do anything, Lan Yiyou pondered for a moment and said, "Tiger King, we have no hostility here."

The ground under his feet trembled, and there were strange noises from all directions, as if a group of troops were approaching, and the stones on the ground jumped up.After a while, countless beasts sprang out from the forest, they surrounded Lan Yiyou and Jiang Xundao, and stared at them without blinking.

Naturally, the Tiger King didn't believe Lan Yiyou's words. It snorted coldly and said, "No hostility? My eyes and ears heard from people in the village last night that today is my death day. It is said that two immortals came to rescue me. They are going to peel off the bones of this seat."

Jiang Xundao listened to the Tiger King's words, shrugged his shoulders lightly, and turned his head to see a white rabbit holding a carrot in its hand. The rabbit squinted its eyes and stared at her, bared its teeth and let out a loud growl. .

Lan Yiyou pondered for a while, and felt that the tiger monster in front of him seemed reasonable, so he told the truth about the purpose of coming here: "We came here to find out the whereabouts of the people who disappeared and were taken into captivity nearby recently. The villagers said that there is a tiger demon that harms the world, so they came here."

Like the emperor of the mortal world, the tiger slowly opened his mouth under the watchful eyes of all beasts: "Harm the world? The mountains and forests of nearly a hundred miles here are under the protection of this seat, and this seat has never actively hurt anyone. Only you humans Enter the territory of this seat from time to time, hunting and killing the people of this seat. If you did not commit the crime first, this seat would not bother to do anything to you."

Jiang Xundao raised his lips and smiled, stretched out his hand to lightly hook the rabbit not far away, and said with a smile, "Protecting all the beasts in the mountains and forests, what the Tiger King did is admirable."

The rabbit was stunned for a moment, staring at Jiang Xundao with its red eyes, then dropped the carrot in its hand in a daze, and jumped towards Jiang Xundao until it jumped in front of her, with its nose twitching He shrugged and sniffed her scent, then froze.

Jiang Xundao knelt down and picked up the rabbit at his feet under the watchful eyes of the Tiger King. He stroked its furry head behind him. The rabbit squinted its eyes and lost the hostility just now.

Seeing this, the Tiger King squinted his eyes and let out a low growl of dissatisfaction. The ears of the rabbit in Jiang Xundao's arms froze. Then he kicked off Jiang Xundao's hand and jumped on the ground. Jumped and jumped away.

Lan Yiyou already knew the ins and outs, and the villagers only heard that the tiger demon in the mountain had hurt Orion, but never killed anyone.Naturally, he didn't want to make things difficult, so he said softly, "The Tiger King should be able to see whether we are hostile. If the Tiger King hadn't intentionally hurt someone's life, we wouldn't do it for no reason. I just hope that in the future, the Tiger King will be merciful and the villagers will enter the mountain It’s just poaching and intimidation, don’t want to hurt their lives, they are only offending living beings to fill their stomachs.”

Tiger King stared at Lan Yiyou for a long time, finally took a deep breath and sat down slowly, and said in a deep voice: "The two Taoist priests who came back here to subdue the demon couldn't help but want to arrest my child and threaten me to catch him without a fight. Although I hate you stinky Taoist priests, it's not unreasonable. Since you are still sensible and don't make things difficult, then I don't want to hurt people. Leave quickly, even if you don't speak, I will not provoke you A group of fools."

Lan Yiyou nodded. If there is no hostility between the two sides, then this matter will be easy to handle. She wanted to inquire about some news from the Tiger King: "We will leave, but there is something that I hope the Tiger King will help."

The Tiger King quickly guessed Lan Yiyou's purpose, and it asked, "You want to ask me, do you know where are the people who kidnapped those foolish people?"