Let's talk about Wu Zhong San Jue and Qiao Zhixian's group returning to the city. Before they even entered the hospital, they encountered a police officer leading a little girl to kneel down in front of the four of them and shout for help. The young man carrying the sword stepped forward and picked up the child. She was a **-year-old little girl, fat and very strong. The round face was very cute. The young man with the sword behind him asked her: "What's wrong? Whose life are you saving? Who wants to harm you?" The child was very attached to the young man with the sword behind him. He hugged the young man with the sword behind his neck and said: " Uncle, save my daddy!"
The officer who led her said: "This is the child of a relative of mine. She ran thirty miles to the city to find me and said that her father had been missing for three days. He could not be found in the village. I think the three masters can find it." If you can figure it out, figure out what happened to my relative!"
The short young man shook his head like a rattle and said, "How can a child tell the birth date of her father? Without the birth date, I can't even calculate it."
The young man with the sword behind said: "For a child so young, it is incredible that he dares to travel more than thirty miles to come out of the mountains and find relatives. It is as good as when I was a child." After that, the three of them laughed. Afterwards, the young man carrying the sword said to Magistrate Qiao: "Brother Qiao can go back to the county office to handle official business and give the officer a horse. The three of us will send the child home and look for the traces of the child's father."
At that moment, the young man carrying the sword got on the horse with the child in his arms, and the yamen servant also got on the horse. The four horses galloped towards the mountains. When we arrived at the mountain village where the child lived, the village was in chaos. Within three days, both men were missing from the village, and the child's mother was sitting on the ground crying. Seeing four horses coming, the man on the horse came with his child in his arms. He suddenly stood up with joy in his heart. The villagers also gathered around and asked questions.
The young man carrying the sword said to the mother of the child: "You are a girl who can run thirty miles to the city alone to find relatives for help. You are a promising child! Tell me about the past and the past. How did you lose your husband?"
The woman put the child down and said: "Three days ago, there was no firewood at home. The child's father went into the mountains to cut firewood, but he didn't come back until it was late. I hurriedly asked the villagers to look around. Everyone held torches to search in the middle of the night. The mountains were too big. I couldn't find it at all. During the next day, someone helped me search again, but there was still no trace. The child's father grew up in this mountain and was familiar with every plant and tree here. He would never get lost. I didn't want to open the door this morning. , I found one of the child's father's shoes outside the door, and there was no knock on the door at night. The villagers said anything. Some said that the child's father was killed, and the spirit sent the shoe back to inform the family, while others said The bandits kidnapped me. I am a woman, so what should I do?"
Everyone said that it was the child's fault that he actually ran dozens of miles to the city to find relatives to find a solution. The young man holding the sword took out the gourd, took the child's father's shoe and took it for a closer look. A burst of black energy floated out from the gourd, and with a "meow" sound, a big black cat appeared in front of him. After looking at the young man with the sword behind him, he ran away. The young man carrying the sword called to the officer and several young adults in the village, "Follow me!"
The black cat led everyone to run towards the mountains. About half an hour later, the black cat stopped in front of a pile of stones, barking menacingly and scratching a hole in front of the pile of stones. The young man with the sword behind told everyone to step back, walked to the entrance of the cave, took a look, took out the gourd and took back the black cat, then faced the entrance of the cave and drank in a deep voice: "Come out, otherwise it will be smoky!" I saw a big one coming out of the entrance of the cave. The weasel put its two front paws together as if saluting the young man carrying the sword. I saw the young man carrying the sword saying something to the weasel, and then the weasel ran forward!
The young man carrying the sword waved for everyone to follow. The weasel led him to a forest, and there was a trap not far ahead. In the trap, a man sat close to the wall, his eye sockets sunken and weak. The young man carrying the sword poured out a pill of elixir from the gourd and threw it to the weasel. The weasel picked it up and swallowed it. Then the young man with the sword behind said to the weasel: "You can go back." The weasel turned and ran away.
Several villagers twisted their clothes into ropes and went down to rescue the man. The last villager discovered that there were a few sour pears and apples in the trap. The villager jokingly said: "Second brother, your life is not difficult! You bring so many fruits when you go into the mountains to collect firewood!"
After the trapped man was rescued, he drank some water and ate some dry food. After recovering a little, he said: "I am so poor that I can't afford to buy fruit. That was dropped by a weasel for the rescue." my life!"
It turned out that the mountain man who collected firewood was named Liang Zhong, and his family raised two large reed chickens. On weekdays, the family relied on the two reed chickens to lay eggs in exchange for oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. One night a few months ago, I heard the strange cry of this reed chicken. Liang Zhongxin couldn’t tell, there must be a weasel stealing the chicken! If this chicken is gone, the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at home will be gone. So I hurriedly put on my clothes and got off the kang and came to the yard, but it was a step too late. One of the reed chickens was missing.
A hole was drilled behind the chicken coop, and Liang Zhong cursed and found a "gate" (a tool for catching weasels) disguised at the entrance of the hole. Just wait for the weasel to take the bait.
One night a few days later, there was a noise outside. I ran out with a lantern to check. Under the light, I saw a big weasel with its leg clamped by the "gate". Still struggling, trying to escape, screaming! Liang Zhong's wife stepped forward, picked up the gate, looked at it, and said, "Peel the skin and sell it at the market. Maybe you can exchange it for a half-sized chicken!"
Liang Zhong said: "No! Let it go!"
Liang's wife said, "Did you take the wrong medicine? It ate our chicken. If we keep it, even if our chicken will not be eaten again, there is no guarantee that it will catch other people's chickens!"
Liang Zhong shook his head: "This is a female weasel, and its size is similar to that of a suckling cub. If we kill it, all the little weasels in the nest will starve to death. If it eats one of our chickens, it won't destroy the whole nest."
So Liang Zhong found a strip of cloth, put a bandage on the weasel's leg with wound medicine, and then said to the weasel: "For the sake of breastfeeding the children, I will let you go. Don't steal from us poor people again. We It's even harder to live!" He said and let the weasel go.
The weasel ran a few steps, turned around, put its two front paws together like a man making a bow, bowed three times to Liang Zhong and then ran away.
This time I went into the mountains to cut firewood. But there is also something very particular about chopping firewood. It is not about chopping wet wood. You have to look for dead branches to chop them down, and then you can burn them directly. Liang Zhong only looked at where there were dry branches on the tree and accidentally slipped into the trap set by the hunter. Fortunately, he was not injured by the wooden thorn set by the hunter. But he was not prepared, he fell hard and couldn't stand up, so he sat in the trap and shouted for help. But my voice was hoarse and no one heard me.
Just when Liang Zhong was desperate, a small head emerged from the hole above the trap. Liang Zhong took a look and saw that it was a weasel. He understood that this was the weasel he had let go. But the weasel is not that big, so it can't pull itself up! I saw the weasel circling the trap, probably very anxious.
In desperation, Liang Zhong suddenly took off one of his shoes. He threw it out of the trap with a wave of his hand, shouted for the weasel to come to my house, and told his wife to find someone to rescue him.
When the weasel was caught last time, Liang Zhong's wife advocated skinning it for chickens, so the weasel was somewhat afraid of her. After all, the beast didn't have a high IQ. He didn't know how to make Liang Zhong's wife understand, so he took Liang Zhong's shoes to the door of Liang's house and watched from a distance. The original intention was to wait for Liang Zhong's wife to see the shoes when she opened the door in the morning, then look around, and then lead the way to Liang Zhong from a distance after she saw him. I don’t want Liang Zhong’s wife to see the shoes and not understand what the weasel means! He didn't even look around, he just shouted loudly, which attracted the neighbors to watch, and the weasel didn't dare to show up.
After Wu Zhi San Jue arrived, he found the weasel's nest based on the weasel scent left on his shoes. The young man with the sword behind asked, and the weasel tried his best to defend himself before he knew the specific situation.
The young man carrying the sword read it and rewarded it with a pill of elixir to repay his kindness and save others. Although this elixir can only restore physical strength to ordinary people, it is of great help to such practicing beasts.
Now everyone knows that the weasel played an important role in Liangzhong's escape. In order for Liang Zhong to survive, he sent many fruits, and everyone sighed and said that they would no longer hunt this kind of animal.
After Wu Zhong San Jue took care of the matters in the mountains, he rode back to the county government office with the four officers. When they arrived at the county government office, Mr. Qiao entered the back hall and said, "You are back, hurry up and follow me!"