Chapter 78: Taoist Family (9th update!)
At the foot of Wolong Hill, at the entrance of Baihe Village, the lush green bamboo forest rustled in the wind.
Three meters in front of the bamboo forest.
Grayish-white smoke was rising from the chimney of a thatched-roof house at the entrance of the village.
In the courtyard surrounded by a low yellow mud wall, two little children, one big and one small, were chasing each other and laughing across the fence.
Dusk is falling.
The gilded afterglow shines through the gaps in the bamboo and onto the little girl's cute pink face.
There was a sound of "clang".
The older boy was playing with his younger sister and accidentally knocked over the bamboo basket of mulberries next to the millstone.
I heard some unusual movements in the courtyard.
The door creaked open and an old farmer leaned out of the house.
"Just messing around, pick it up!"
Lu Degui pretended to be angry and scolded.
The two grandsons went to pick mulberries, then turned back to look at him, shrinking their necks and sticking out their tongues. The old man finally couldn't hold back his smile.
He walked over, leaned over and rubbed their heads, and patiently taught:
"Wipe off the mud on it and pick it up one by one, carefully."
"Yes, Grandpa."
The setting sun passed over the fence, leaving the silhouettes of the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren in the courtyard.
This moment is full of tranquility and beauty.
The aroma of rice in the kitchen grew stronger. Seeing that not many mulberries had fallen, Lu Degui turned around and added some firewood to the stove.
Less than half a cup of tea after he returned to the house, he heard a "cracking" sound coming from outside.
At first I thought it was just the wind blowing through the bamboo forest and ignored it.
But unexpectedly, a child crying was heard outside the courtyard.
"Grandpa! There's a bad guy!"
"There are evil people!"
The little girl didn't know what she saw and kept crying.
The older boys started shouting.
He shouted several times, and not only Lu Degui in the house, but also the neighbors next door and the people living not far away all heard it.
The noisy sound is getting louder and louder!
Lu Degui was startled and threw the water ladle in his hand aside. As he hurried out, he did not forget to pull out the hatchet next to the firewood pile on the stove.
I saw the water bamboo three meters away being broken like waves, and a gray shadow rushed over from the river bank.
Looking closely, I saw that it was a monk with a dusty robe.
His face was as black as ink, the Buddhist beads around his neck were scattered, and his bare feet were bleeding from stepping on the stones, but he seemed to feel no pain.
The most terrifying thing is those eyes.
Bloodshot covered his pupils like spider webs, staring at the crying girl. The girl was frightened by the monk's appearance and dared not move for a moment.
"Guowa, come to grandpa quickly!!"
Lu Degui shouted, and the boy hurried to pull his sister, but in his haste, he lost his balance and both of them fell to the ground.
The monk has rushed out of the bamboo forest.
He moved strangely, with a hoarse sound in his throat, and stretched out his dry claws to grab the doll that had fallen to the ground.
Lü Degui couldn't run as fast as the demon monk: "Stop!"
He shouted and threw the hatchet in his hand.
The evil monk didn't even dodge, and the knife cut directly on his thigh, and blood gushed out.
But he seemed to be insensitive to the pain, and the sight of blood made him even more ferocious.
Lu Degui didn't care and went forward to pull his grandson and dragged them into the house.
The evil monk pulled the hatchet out from his leg, roared, and chased after them, aiming the blade at the grandfather and grandson!
At this time, several dark-skinned farmers rushed out from the side.
It turned out to be a few neighbors nearby. They were holding a thick piece of wood and rushing straight towards the evil monk!
"Kill this evil bald thief!"
"Die, you son of a bitch!"
Several people roared, and the thick wood was about to hit the evil monk's chest.
Unexpectedly, the crazy monk turned his wrist from bottom to top, grabbed the thick wood, and lifted it up suddenly.
At this moment, the two men in the front actually broke free, and the four men behind them struggled with them.
The monk held a breath of anger, and a ball of strength surged in his hands. He raised his arm and pushed, knocking all the men over.
The huge tree crashed to the ground with a bang!
If the person below hadn't rolled on the ground, he would have been crushed to death.
Now all the onlookers were terrified.
Seeing those bloodshot eyes again, everyone felt chilled to the bone.
The evil monk ignored the men and raised his knife again, intending to kill the old man and two children who had hurt him with the hatchet.
"Uncle Laogui!"
There were people shouting nearby, and some were trying to rush over with knives to help, but none of them were as fast as the evil monk.
A bloody and cruel tragedy is about to unfold.
Lu Degui looked at the evil monk rushing towards him, and vaguely felt that there was a dark shadow behind the evil monk blocking the light.
But he had no time to pay attention at the moment.
“Run!”
He pushed the older boy toward the direction where the neighbors were rushing, then picked up his little granddaughter and laid on the ground protecting her.
The evil monk's knife seemed to be about to hit his back.
Dead
I'm going to die.
At the last moment of his life, Lu Degui thought of Yang Zhen, the big dragon head in Nanyang, and the Taoist Crow on the hill.
It doesn't matter whether it's close or far.
This time they all died.
He used up his last bit of strength to hug his granddaughter tightly.
However.
Lu Degui did not feel any pain in his back, but instead heard a burst of exclamations from the surrounding neighbors.
“Bang~!”
This is the sound of a hatchet falling to the ground.
He rested his forehead on the ground and looked back.
His sight was very low, and he saw the evil monk's right hand holding the hatchet drop down, and there was a "crack" sound as if a bone was broken.
At this time, a black shadow fell from the broken arm of the evil monk.
"Bang~!"
The shadowy figure didn't even land on the ground, but took a powerful step backwards in the air!
The evil monk, who couldn't be pushed away by several men, flew backwards with blood spurting out!
The black shadow fell to the ground, but the evil monk was still in the air.
Lu Degui saw that after the man landed, he knocked the hatchet with his heel, and the hatchet shot out as if it had eyes!
The hatchet flashed with the afterglow of the setting sun, intercepting the evil monk in mid-air and piercing him from the back to the vital part of his chest!
The surrounding villagers were completely stunned.
At this time, Lu Degui turned around and saw the whole picture of the black shadow.
This moment.
The image of the young Taoist priest standing with his hands behind his back in front of the Wuzhuang Temple in Wolonggang appeared in his mind.
"Remember this, old man. If you encounter bullies or bandits in the future, you can come up the mountain to find me."
"I and that Taoist Priest Wu Crow are indeed of the same generation."
'……'
The clear voice became fainter and fainter in my mind, and the footsteps in my ears became louder and louder.
Lu Degui came back to his senses.
I finally saw the face of the person coming, it was right!
"Master Yi Yi!"
He shouted excitedly!
Zhou Yi let out a long sigh, reached out to pull the old man up, picked up the little girl on the ground, and comforted her.
The girl's eyes were filled with tears, she looked so pitiful.
But when she looked at Zhou Yi and saw him smiling at her, she miraculously stopped crying.
Perhaps, it was because she was the first little baby to feel the embrace of the Heavenly Master.
"Master Yi Yi!" Lu Degui shouted again, trembling.
"Father, your mulberry wine is good."
Zhou Yi smiled faintly with the afterglow of the setting sun:
"I drank your wine, which made me so drunk that I walked incredibly fast. That's why I arrived in time and didn't have any regrets."
"The Taoist priest is so kind and virtuous~!"
Lu Degui was about to kneel down, but Zhou Yi grabbed him.
"Don't kneel, it's too vulgar. If you want to express your gratitude, please treat me to mulberry wine again next year."
"how?"
"Hey, hey! That's right, that's right!"
The old man responded repeatedly.
People from Baihe Village gradually gathered around, more and more. Everyone's eyes passed over the corpse of the evil monk and looked at the young man holding Laogui's "Little Fruit Baby".
The people who just witnessed the scene have not yet calmed down.
At this moment
There was a commotion in the distance, and the sound of carriages rumbling could be heard continuously.
“Hahaha, we’re here!”
"This is Wollongong! It's such a beautiful place! What a great place!"
The sound was surprisingly loud and surprisingly rough.
At this time
After the voice was heard, a large group of people appeared in front of everyone in Baihe Village.
The man in the lead was tall, with a face as red as a date, thick eyebrows slanting into his temples, and a pair of leopard-like eyes that flashed everywhere.
There was another person lying on his horse.
The man was wearing monk's robes, exactly the same as those worn by the evil monk in Baihe Village.
but
But the big man pressed him down on the horse's back and he couldn't move.
He was riding a strong horse that could withstand such force.
Immediately afterwards, big men appeared one after another.
Looking at them, each of them has strong muscles, broad shoulders and waists, and is wearing weapons. At first glance, they are really breathtaking.
I'm curious about the origins of these people.
suddenly
The leopard-eyed man on the horse seemed to have noticed something and looked towards Baihe Village.
"Hahaha!"
The big man's laughter shook the whole area.
He half-jokingly shouted towards the carriage behind him, "Qingfeng Mingyue, look, who is that?!"
Zhou Yi originally had a smile on his face.
Suddenly hearing the four words "clear wind and bright moon", it was like being struck by thunder.
Xia Shu and Yan Qiu popped their heads out.
When the two kids saw Zhou Yi, they wanted to cry, but they immediately held it back.
At this time, I wanted to shout "Senior Brother", but I had to hide my identity on this trip, and there were many people around me who were watching me.
So I held back again.
These two kids are Qingfeng Mingyue?
Zhou Yizhen felt a little dizzy and thought of Wuzhuang Temple again.
Two lines of words suddenly popped up in my mind
The immortal palace of immortality, the Taoist family with the same longevity as the sky
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(End of this chapter)
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