In Jiancang County, a family surnamed Wei has been feeling quite uneasy at home recently.
First, a grandson of the family disappeared for no apparent reason. Then, every night, a hairy monster would come under the moonlight and attack the Wei family.
The Wei family has many descendants, and the brothers all live together. Now that they have encountered this strange thing, everyone's face is haggard and terrified. The women huddled together with their children, not daring to leave the others. The men stood aside, never leaving their swords and axes.
Before inviting Ku Sheng into their home, they had already asked two fortune-tellers and Taoist priests to take a look, but it was of no use. The two of them talked a lot, but when they saw the monster appear at night, it was useless. They fell to the ground in fear, which was even worse than the Wei family.
"Master, are you sure you can catch that monster?" said the eldest son of the Wei family. "To be honest, we have already invited several Taoists to help us, and they all said that the monster is very powerful and that ordinary people may not be able to subdue it."
"I'll make sure you're safe." That was all Kusheng said.
He came to their house on his own initiative, stood at the door, glanced at their door lintel, then knocked on the door and came in, saying that he could solve their problem.
Although the Wei family did not quite believe it, seeing that his appearance was different from that of ordinary people, they were afraid that he was a remarkable person with some abilities. Therefore, they did not dare to look down on him or offend him. They just invited him to the hall and prepared wine and food to entertain him.
Kusheng naturally couldn't eat it, so he put Luo Yujing on the table as usual and let her eat by herself. When they were on the road, Kusheng occasionally helped people get rid of disasters, and the host would prepare meals. Kusheng let Luo Yujing eat while he squatted on the side and watched, urging her to eat more from time to time, just like a pig farmer.
Luo Yujing had not yet recovered from an illness a few days ago and had lost two inches of weight. She coughed from time to time. She had a poor appetite to begin with, and now the pungent smell of this large table of specially prepared meat dishes made her feel even more nauseous.
Seeing her like this, the woman from the Wei family asked timidly, "This..."
I couldn't figure out what her relationship with the strange Taoist was, nor did I know what to call her, so I just said vaguely: "But the food is not to your liking? There are some rice porridge and side dishes in the kitchen. Why don't you bring some over?"
After eating a lot of random things with Kusheng, she finally had some soothing rice porridge. Luo Yujing drank two bowls of porridge and she was fine. However, Kusheng felt an inexplicable sense of relief in his heart just watching her.
"Just stay here tonight and don't run around." Kusheng asked her to stay with the women of the Wei family.
Luo Yujing at least gave him face and nodded. She was quiet and Kusheng was used to it. He took off the sword and threw it into her arms, saying, "I'll use it for self-defense."
Seeing this, several women from the Wei family quickly agreed and said, "Don't worry, Taoist priest, we will take good care of her."
She was pulled to sit at the table, and several women from the Wei family brought her some tangerine cakes, peanuts and melon seeds as treats, and invited her to eat.
Although the women sitting beside them tried to show enthusiasm, as the sky darkened, fear could not be controlled and they held their children tightly to their sides.
The children were not as nervous as the adults. There were two girls, one big and one small, with two small buns on their heads. They were held in their mother's arms, staring at the food on the table with their round eyes.
These foods are usually kept in the cupboard and taken out and put on the table when there are guests. The adults do not allow them to take the food themselves in front of the guests, but now they see the snacks and are greedy for them and cannot take their eyes away.
Luo Yujing, who had been sitting quietly, suddenly reached out and took a piece of crispy candy and handed it to the older girl. The girl took it with a happy smile after her mother nodded. She was not in a hurry to eat it, but broke the small piece of crispy candy into pieces and gave half to her sister next to her.
The younger sister was still young, and after eating half a piece of crispy candy, she felt that it was not enough. Seeing that her elder sister wanted to eat the other half of the crispy candy, she reached out for it. The elder sister hesitated for a moment, but still gave the other half of the crispy candy to her younger sister.
Luo Yujing was lost in thought as she watched this scene. She took another piece of crispy candy and handed it to the elder sister, saying, "Don't think of giving everything to your younger sister. Eat it yourself too... Be nicer to yourself."
Ku Sheng, who was squatting by the door with his arms folded, heard her actually speak. He turned around in surprise and saw her gently touching the older girl's head. Her usually indifferent expression was actually filled with a smile that he had never seen before.
Kusheng knew that she must have thought of that "sister" again. When she was so sick and confused and grabbed his neck and refused to let go, the only thing she called was sister.
The moon climbed up from the courtyard wall, and Kusheng said, "Here it comes."
Everyone inside and outside the house was tense, and the men of the Wei family stood up one after another with knives in hand. Kusheng followed suit, but he casually twisted his neck and arms, which was in stark contrast to the tenseness of the others.
A hairy black shadow climbed up the high wall of the Wei family's courtyard and scratched the gray wall with both hands, making a harsh sound.
"It's it! It's coming again!" The Wei family man shouted, and the thing ran onto the roof, making a loud noise as it stepped on it. Kusheng raised his hand and grabbed the trembling hatchet from a man next to him, and swung it at the thing running on the roof.
There was only a sound of clashing swords, and the hatchet hit the thing, knocking it into the yard with great force and noise.
The other men of the Wei family saw it clearly and were stunned. They had come face to face with this thing in the past few days, and each time they had to use torches and black dog blood to fight it, barely making it to dawn.
Only once did the second son of the Wei family use a knife to chop the creature's arm, but he couldn't chop it off. The recoil caused his arm's tendons to become dislocated. The creature was not only made of iron and steel, but also extremely strong. Several grown men couldn't do anything to it. Who would have thought that this strange Taoist could actually knock it down with one blow
The long-haired black shadow was agile and rolled around in the yard. When it realized something was wrong, it wanted to escape, but Kusheng was faster than it. The men only saw a gust of wind before their eyes, and the black shadow was kicked away by Kusheng and rolled several times away from the house.
Several men were holding knives, but they were useless. They watched in confusion as Kusheng caught up with the hairy monster, grabbed it, broke its long-nailed fingers with a few sharp strokes, and then clenched his iron-knuckled hands into fists to smash its sharp fangs.
It was that simple, and they dealt with the monster that they had been afraid of for so long.
Everyone was so happy that they were about to relax when they heard tiles breaking above their heads. Kusheng paused, turned around, grabbed the hairy monster's neck, and ran back.
Luo Yujing and the women and children of the Wei family stayed in the room, listening to the noise outside. Suddenly, the tiles above their heads shattered and a dark shadow fell down.
Under the moonlight, the small black shadow revealed two fangs, facing the two girls, one big and one small, beside Luo Yujing.
The two girls and their mother were so frightened that they were unable to react for a moment. Luo Yujing's pupils constricted, and she subconsciously swung the sword in her arms, using all her strength to swing it hard at the black shadow, knocking it to the door.
"Ah!" At this time, the women and children in the room realized something and screamed.
Kusheng had already rushed in dragging a long-haired monster, and just in time he saw the little long-haired monster getting up from the ground and about to pounce on someone again, so he stepped forward and thrust his hand into its wide-open mouth. His fingers were terribly hard, more powerful than swords, and he actually broke the monster's fangs.
The monster raised its head and screamed.
"Ah! It's my child!" A woman from the Wei family who had been silent suddenly rushed over and shouted.
Kusheng strangled the two hairy monsters and made them retreat. He frowned and said, "He is dead and has turned into a zombie. He wants to suck human blood. He is not your son."
The woman was stopped while crying. Everyone lit the lights and carefully cleared the hair off the faces of the two hairy monsters. They saw some familiar looks in their hideous features.
This time, not only the women, but also the men of the Wei family were horrified and shouted, "Father!"
These two long-haired zombies, one big and one small, one is the old grandfather of the Wei family who had died ten years ago, and the other is the eldest grandson who disappeared a few days ago.
They went to the old man's grave again and found a hole in the bushes behind the grave, which led directly to the coffin underneath.
It turned out that the eldest grandson of this family was lazy and had evil intentions. Some time ago, he wanted to dig up his great-grandfather's tomb and secretly take out some burial objects to sell. However, he didn't know that the old man Wei in the coffin had turned into a zombie. He sucked the blood of this direct relative and turned into a flying zombie. He also turned the eldest grandson into a zombie, and they also harmed the family together.
Zombies are obsessed with human energy and are bloodthirsty, especially the blood of their relatives. But when a zombie is born, the first thing it looks for is its blood relatives.
The two long-haired zombies were finally burned to ashes by Kusheng's two talismans. How the Wei family members performed a Taoist ritual to save their souls was no longer related to Kusheng Luo Yujing. They took the thank-you money and left the Wei family, ready to continue on their journey.
Because of the illness a few days ago, Kusheng found a small rattan chair for Luo Yujing to sit on. Under the rattan chair was a small box containing cups, bowls, plates, kettles, salt and other items.
Although he walked among the human world before, he hardly interacted with people except to look for evil spirits, and he didn't pay attention to what ordinary mortals needed. But now he has to understand these things, so he carries more and more tools with him.
With the thank-you money from the Wei family, Kusheng went to the store and bought a quilt. After measuring the size, he thought he could roll it up and tie it under the rattan chair.
If there was no one to stay with at night and they had to stay in the wilderness, he would be fine, but Luo Yujing had something to worry about. The weather was getting colder, and if he didn't buy an extra quilt for Luo Yujing to wrap herself in to sleep, Kusheng had no doubt that she would get sick again and leave him alone.
While he was buying the quilt, Luo Yujing sat outside the door, looking at the orange tree sticking out of the wall, with yellow oranges hanging from the branches. The women nearby were talking about the Wei family. There were many families with the surname Wei nearby, and on the way over, they saw a Wei family ancestral hall.
"If it was a few hundred years ago, we also had clan gods here, and this kind of thing would never have happened."
"That's right. If there were a clan god guarding, these ghosts wouldn't appear so many times. I have a relative's neighbor who used to live in Jinchuan. They still have a clan god there, but I've never heard of such zombies..."
Kusheng came out of the store with a rolled-up quilt, carrying Luo Yujing on his back and about to leave. Seeing her looking at the oranges, he casually broke off a heavy orange and gave it to her.
The woman who was chatting over there saw this and shouted, "Hey! How dare you take my oranges so easily!"
Kusheng held the sword at his waist and ran away.
He ran too fast and passed by the Wei family again. There were scraps of paper flying at the door and yellow papers floating around. Luo Yujing raised her hand to catch one.
After leaving the town, Kusheng slowed down his pace, and Luo Yujing held the yellow paper and looked at it for a while, then began to fiddle with it. She folded the paper over and over, trying to fold a flower.
Her sister is very good at origami and the paper flowers she makes are very beautiful, but she just can't learn it.
Kusheng watched her concentrating on folding the paper. She had been folding for two days but still couldn't figure out what she was folding.
While walking on the road, there was a sudden gust of wind and Luo Yujing didn't hold the paper firmly, so it was blown away by the wind.
Luo Yujing exclaimed.
Kusheng, who was busy walking, looked up and saw that the piece of paper that Luo Yujing had been struggling with for two days had flown away. Without thinking, he jumped up and clamped the paper between his fingers.
He did pick up the paper, but the person he was carrying on his back was thrown into the grass by the roadside by a handsome flip.
Luo Yujing got up and removed the grass clippings from her hair.
Silence is the sword that slays evil at this moment.
Kusheng avoided her sight, squatted down, and let her limp back to the small chair.
"Come on again, you can just throw me to death."
“… I didn’t mean to do that.”
"If you did it on purpose, the Sword of Evil Slaying would have moved. You just have a short circuit in your brain. The Sword of Evil Slaying and I both understand."
"… "
As they walked, Kusheng handed the tattered piece of paper back to her.