This is the first time I have heard of the Shadow Demon mentioned by Meng Yuan. The fat man had heard of it before, and interrupted beside him: "Shadow demon, it's because of the thoughts that haven't disappeared after the death of a very young child."
Those who turned into shadow demon were children who were less than one year old for a few months. After their death, Nian did not have astigmatism, and eventually became a kind of demon in folklore.
In fact, the shadow demon is not a demon at all, but the folks just don't know what they are, and when they see some strange things, they directly denote the demon's name.
The child's eyes are very clean, and this kind of shadow demon is completely harmless and poses no threat to people. The shadow demon often haunts water, mirrors, and places where light will be refracted. Through the shadow demon, you can see things that others can't see.
Because of this, some people specialize in capturing shadow monsters and use them to observe things that are difficult for ordinary people to see. There were already few shadow monsters, and they were caught up and down, but now they are very rare.
"There are so few shadow monsters, is it easy to catch?" I only feel a headache. This matter of Dad is full of disturbances. I have a hunch that even if I really have good luck in the end, it is difficult to know what he has experienced in the past. Cooking.
However, there are many difficulties. As soon as I see the way my father is now, I have no other thoughts. No matter how difficult it is, this matter must always be found out, hatred, and always reported. Otherwise, what is the purpose of studying for so long with Lao Shi
"It's not easy to catch, but as long as you meet it, you can definitely catch it." Meng Yuan and his family often capture shadow monsters and have accumulated a lot of experience. However, the Meng family would only catch it when needed, and would not catch the Shadow Demon for no reason at all.
The shadow demon is very fragile in itself. If it is allowed to move on its own, it can remain for a period of time. If it is caught, it will disappear for at most a month.
"Fatty, I have to leave it to you again." I said to Fatty, "I remember this love in my heart."
"Don't keep it in your mind." The fat man smirked and said, "Don't always bully me in the future."
I left Dad here again with Fatty, and then went down the mountain again with Meng Yuan and came to the outside world. Meng Yuan said that the shadow demon usually appears on the water's edge, but not by the river. The river is muddy, and the shadow demon will not stay in such waters. They probably live near wells or relatively clear rivers. Occasionally, there may be some very slow water flow near the river, where the river water is relatively clean.
This is a search without any objective, only a well or a small river ditch can be seen, so just stop and try your luck to find it.
After Meng Yuan and I went down the mountain, we immediately started searching. There were not too many small rivers on the beach, most of which were wells. There are roughly two types of wells on the river beach, one is the bitter well and the other is the sweet well. The bitter well does not mean that the water in the well is bitter, but the well is drilled from the saline-alkali soil. The water in the well is a bit salty and has a strange smell.
Meng Yuan told me that the Shadow Demon is very picky and generally does not move around the Kushui Well. Most of the sweet water wells on the river beach are in the homes of rich and powerful squires and landlords.
In this way, Meng Yuan and I had no other choice. We had to climb over the wall every time in the middle of the night, and ran to the well in the courtyard of their house and searched for it.
I looked for it like this for about seven days and found nothing. I was a little impatient, but I couldn't be anxious.
"Don't worry." Meng Yuan now knows that I am running like this to save his father. His heart is not bad and he sympathizes with me. Search hard, the harder it is, if you really put your heart down, you might find it."
"I know, look for it slowly." I have made up my mind anyway. If this matter is not done, I will never give up.
Stopping and walking, Meng Yuan and I arrived at a place we had never been to before. I heard the locals say that this place is called Laohuling.
Laohuling is on the west side of the river beach. There are many mountains on the west side of the river beach, and the land is barren, so the people here are generally relatively poor. Laohuling is an exception, because there is a river flowing through it, and the land is more fertile, so it can grow some food that other beaches can't grow.
As soon as I heard that there was a river in Laohuling, Meng Yuan and I made a special trip and ran to Laohuling. Laohuling is narrow and densely populated. There are several villages nearby. The largest village is called Tiger Village, and the river flows past Tiger Village.
Meng Yuan and I made a special trip to find the river, the water was clear, but after walking around the river for two full days, we still did not find the Shadow Demon. Meng Yuan told me that based on the water of this river, he could probably tell that the well in Tiger Village should be a sweet well.
No way, the two of us can only act as a gentleman of Liang Shang once again, turning to the other's yard in the middle of the night. Before I started, I met an old man who kept sheep. The old man was a local, and he raised a few sheep for a living.
I talked with the old man for a while, and specifically asked if the well in the village was a sweet well.
"Yes, on the big river beach, this is our precious land." The old man said with a smile: "The water and soil are good, the people live a little easier."
There are not too many wells in Tiger Village. Some companies share one well, but they are all sweet wells. The largest well was in the home of a local squire. The squire’s surname is Bao. Because of his bad eyes, he usually wears thick glasses to see things, so he was called Bao’s blind since he was a child.
The yard of Bao Xiazi's house is very large, three times in the front, middle and back, each has a well, and the well is also the largest in their house. After listening to the old man, I wondered, I must go to Bao Xiazi's house.
After chatting with the old man for a long time, the other party drove the sheep home as it was getting dark. Meng Yuan and I ate some dry food on the spot by the river and closed our eyes to rest our minds. Meng Yuan seemed to have something to say, he hesitated for a while, and I noticed it.
"Lao Meng, what's the matter?" Through the contact over the past few days, I know that Meng Yuan is actually a more honest person and a good person, so I don't have any prejudices against him, and the chat is still speculative.
"It's okay, just thinking about chattering." Meng Yuan babbled, and after a while, he asked: "You and Meng Wen, have you known each other for a long time?"
"Yes, time is not short."
"She has a bad life and a stubborn temper. She looks a little unpleasant, but when I was a child, I watched her grow up, and her heart was not bad."
When Meng Yuan talked about it, he was hesitant to say it clearly. He and Meng Wen's father are of the same generation and have been in a good relationship since childhood. At that time, Meng Wen’s father died, and Meng Wen was lonely and lonely. Meng Yuan saw it, but Meng Yuan was honest and stupid. Others were right.
He was dissatisfied with Meng Wen, but he did not dare to say.
"Lao Meng, what's the matter, can you just say it?"
"Hi." Meng Yuan patted his thigh and said, "You don't know many things about the Meng family. If Meng Wen is really found this time and stayed at home again, life will probably not be easy."
Before Meng Wen escaped from the Meng family, the Meng family sent someone to arrest him because he was afraid that Meng Wen would leak out the secrets of the Meng family. But Meng Wen was sensitive and hated the people of the Meng family, so she showed no mercy to the pursuers. More than one Meng family was injured by her design, and one of them was disabled.
Such a big enmity will definitely not be forgotten by each other. After Meng Wenruo was picked up this time, people might still find a chance to retaliate.
I immediately understood what Meng Yuan meant. Meng Yuan knew that it was useful for me to talk to Po Yun. Maybe he wanted me to talk to Po Yun and save Meng Wen.
"When I meet Po Yun, I will naturally tell her that you are also kind."
"Thank you very much, then." Meng Yuan hurriedly thanked him, with a sad expression on his expression: "Thank you also for her dead father."
After talking to Meng Yuan like this, I didn't feel sleepy anymore, so I just got up and said something else. When the night darkened, the two of us quietly entered Tiger Village.
The village is very quiet. People usually turn off the lights to sleep at night. I took Meng Yuan and found four or five wells in the village, but there was still no trace of the shadow demon.
Before we knew it, we walked around the periphery of the village and looked around, and then we searched, and it was time to go deep into the village. Tiger Village is a very large village. After quietly entering the Tiger Village, I saw a continuous courtyard.
This yard is the home of the squire Bao Blind that the old sheep-herding man said. Bao Blind’s ancestor had done business in the South before. After returning to his hometown, he bought many nearby fields and was the largest landlord in Laohuling. However, Blind Bao is a good-natured man with a long temperament. He does not bully his tenants at ordinary times, and is very much loved by the villagers.
There are three wells in his house, all of which are very large. Anyway, I have already walked here, so I took Meng Yuan and carefully walked around to the back of the courtyard.
In my opinion, there are generally fewer people in the backyard, and it is not easy to be discovered. Although we are not thieves, running into the yard in the middle of the night is troublesome once we are discovered.
I climbed up the wall first, and then pulled Meng Yuan up. It happened that there was a ladder lying horizontally under the root of the wall in the backyard. I straightened the ladder and let Meng Yuan step on the ladder down.
After I got to the backyard, I immediately saw a well in the middle of the yard. The well was really big. It was covered with a manhole cover and looked around again. There was a dark area in the backyard, and only one house was still lit.
I made a silent gesture to Meng Yuan and signaled him to be careful and don't disturb the master.
We two walked one after the other towards the well. As we walked, I looked towards the room with the lights on. When the two of us walked up to two feet away from the well, suddenly Suddenly, a cry of a baby faintly broke the silence of the night.
I was a little surprised. Although the cry was a bit vague, I could tell it for the first time. The cry came from the well.
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