Long, long ago, there was a poor scholar. In order to take the exam in Beijing, the family had to scrape together all the money to pay for him.
However, even so, when the scholar was halfway on his way, he met a group of thieves who took away the only money left on him. The scholar was tired and hungry, and finally passed out on the side of a mountain road.
Unexpectedly, when the scholar woke up, there was a beauty as beautiful as a flower kneeling beside him, feeding him water. The beauty not only saved his life, but also said that she fell in love with him at first sight and wanted to make a promise with her body.
The scholar was overjoyed, and seeing that beautiful woman wearing gold and silver, she must be the daughter of a wealthy family, so he agreed without thinking.
Just when the scholar was following the beautiful woman home, he met a Taoist priest on the road. The Taoist took one look at the woman and shouted loudly: "Hey, where did the evildoer come from?"
The scholar was startled, and saw the Taoist throw out a talisman and stick it on the woman's face. The beauty wailed, and then the scholar saw her face start to melt away, revealing the face of a long-haired fox.
The scholar screamed strangely in fright, and jumped far away. The Taoist sneered, pointed at the fox and said to the scholar, "If you really leave with this evildoer, she will take you to her cave, skin you, and eat your flesh!"
With a "snap", I closed the booklet in Shi Yitong's hand. Shi Yitong was taken aback by me, and complained, "Gu Yu! What are you doing, you scared me to death."
"You are, what are you doing?"
It is the class break of Introduction to Marxism, and Shi Yitong is sitting behind me, flipping through a yellowed and old pamphlet during class, which makes me curious.
"Oh, you said this." Shi Yitong handed me the booklet in his hand, and I took it to read. The words "Folk Ghost Legend" were written on the yellowed and wrinkled booklet.
"Ghost legend? You are very interested in this kind of story?" I was a little surprised.
"Well, I didn't have much interest at first." Shi Yitong shook his head, "But haven't we encountered a lot of strange things with you recently? Besides, this is a relic of grandpa. I suddenly found it when I was packing yesterday, so I took it back to have a look. gone."
"So that's it, it's your grandfather's relic." I immediately paid a little more respect to the thing in my hand.
Shi Yitong's grandfather is in the funeral business, and he should be quite a well-cultivated old man. This old man drove west of Hexi at the beginning of this semester, but thanks to Shi Yitong's grandfather, I met Wen Jiubai and stepped into this grotesque world of monsters.
"There are a lot of weird things in my grandfather's relics." Shi Yitong said, scratching his head, "Although I don't really understand the metaphysics of my grandfather. It's like some ancient coins, divination boards, and some Gossip cards, talisman papers, etc. You may not believe it, but there used to be a sacrificial table in my grandfather's room, and a whole big pig's head was placed on it."
I couldn't help laughing when I heard the words, picked up the booklet again and opened it, "But this thing looks like an ordinary booklet."
"That's right." Shi Yitong said with his chin resting on his palm, "My grandfather and the others had many such pamphlets in those days, just like the literature on street stalls now."
I said a little funny, "Have you read it? What's written in it?"
"Yeah, most of the stories written in it are stories about shemale, similar to Liao Zhai, but far worse than Liaozhai." Shi Yitong muttered, "What kind of scholar meets a fox monster on the way to the exam, what evil spirit wants to seduce the upright The human beings... are all stories that write monsters very badly."
"Isn't that normal?" I laughed, "Because they're monsters."
"But, are all monsters bad?" Shi Yitong seemed to be lost in incomprehensible thinking, "Are monsters approaching humans only to harm people?"
"You can't say that." I rubbed my chin and thought of some monsters I met with Wen Jiubai, especially the ferret named Bai. The same, there are good and bad, right?"
"But a monster is a monster." Shi Yitong said with a little fear, "Have you forgotten the huge monster we met during the school trip the day before yesterday? Although what we saw was only a phantom... But that also shows that there was indeed a monster. Have you ever seen that horrible monster wandering in Yanjin Mountain?"
Undeniable, I could only nod my head.
Since Yan Jinshan came back, I have been looking up various legend materials, trying to find out the real body of the black-haired and green-eyed monster. But after all, it was something that even Wen Jiubai had never seen before. Of course, I didn't find any results.
Moreover, after returning from Yanjin Mountain, Wen Jiubai also became a little strange. No, it should be said that there were some clues before Yanjin Mountain, but I didn't notice it.
Although he has a somewhat cold and eccentric personality, if he used to be, he wouldn't be so interested in everything. But recently, Wen Jiubai seemed to always avoid me intentionally or unintentionally, whenever I asked about the black-haired monster, he would find a way to fool him, or he would simply ignore it and tell me to go back early.
As soon as I think about it, I get angry, Wen Jiubai, that bastard, really thinks of himself as his uncle and me as his little follower
"I told Wen Jiubai about what we encountered in Yanjin Mountain after I got back." I said helplessly, "But he doesn't know what that monster is, nor does he know what the news is about."
Shi Yitong didn't take it seriously, "Isn't that normal? He's not a god, so how could he know everything?"
Coincidentally, Wen Jiubai himself said something similar. But I disagree.
"You don't know him. Although he is not a god, he is a powerful monster exorcist. Moreover, he is not only powerful, but also well-informed. To be honest, I can hardly imagine any monsters that he has not seen. passed."
After hearing my words, Shi Yitong not only didn't agree, but frowned, "I said Gu Yu, you won't fall in love with him, will you?"
I laughed dryly, "What are you talking about?"
"Otherwise, why do you trust this man so blindly?" Shi Yitong frowned and said, "I haven't even asked you why you got together with him again."
"This... It's hard to explain in one word." It's really impossible to make it clear in a few words. But a series of things that happened at home really changed my attitude towards Wen Jiubai a lot.