"Fortunately, we are out for a spring outing now. If it had been a few days later, summer would have started."

The grassland by the river is green, like a blanket, with all kinds of wild flowers blooming. It has the feeling of Yanzhou grassland, but it is not as deep as the grass on the grassland. There is an irregular cloth spread on the ground behind you, with a few thick disks on it.

It contains sliced ​​sauced meat, steamed buns, snacks and some wild fruits picked on the road.

The Taoist stood nearby and talked to his cat.

"Yes."

The girl sat on a stone by the river, wearing a bamboo hat and holding a fishing rod. She looked like an old monk in meditation, staring at the water without looking back.

"..."

Song You shook his head, turned around and walked back.

While walking, take a deep breath and feel the world.

There is a vague feeling of strangeness.

If you look carefully, you will find nothing.

This feeling is really mysterious and elusive.

Since I arrived in Yangdu at the end of last year, it was freezing cold for the first half of the year, and there was the God of Paradise, so I naturally didn't leave Yangdu. Then the spring weather got stronger, but Yangdu was prosperous. Yangdu alone was enough for Song You to take a leisurely stroll

He had been there for a long time, not to mention that he still had to sleep and practice at home, cook, read, and coax Empress Sanhua, so of course he did not leave Yangdu.

Yangdu is prosperous, peaceful and stable, and very popular, but I haven't noticed anything while being there.

Now that I have stepped out, something is wrong.

"..."

Behind you, the reeds in Ba Mao are new. There is a small road parallel to the river. There is a big yellow kudzu tree on the roadside. Not far under the tree, there is a pit.

Song You walked to the pit and looked down.

It's just an ordinary earthen pit, without the imaginary stone slabs engraved with runes, rotten wood, broken seals, etc. There is only a strong yin and evil atmosphere.

This is where the evil spirit breaks out of the ground.

This is also the place where the second uncle of a man named Li accidentally kicked him out while walking at night with his old father.

From this point of view, the evil spirit was not sealed here by anyone before. Now the seal has been loosened over time and it has been awakened. It just fell asleep on its own back then, either sleeping naturally, or hiding from something, or temporarily avoiding it due to the fear of the prosperous world.

, Now that the earth is changing, nature will wake up.

Dead things become spirits and evil spirits appear in the world.

This is not a good sign.

This kind of thing may happen more and more in the future.

"The prosperous age..."

Song You shook his head and looked back at the riverside. He saw that his children had turned back and were looking at him. Seeing that he had not gone far, he felt relieved, so he looked back and continued fishing.

Song You walked back, sat down on the cloth, picked up a piece of sauce meat and put it into his mouth, then picked up a steamed bun and gnawed it.

"Miss Sanhua, do you want to eat?"

"Miss Sanhua, we'll eat it later."

"Am I bringing it to Empress Sanhua?"

"Miss Sanhua wants to eat."

"..."

Song You brought the sauced meat to her, and then sat back down. While thinking about it, he continued to eat steamed buns and snacks, and occasionally grabbed a few berries and put them in his mouth.

The horses were also grazing nearby, specializing in wild flowers.

Song You thought about it and was too lazy to think about it anymore, so he fell back and lay on the cloth.

The eyes are filled with blue sky and white clouds, and the tip of the nose is filled with the fragrance of green grass.

From time to time there was the sound of slurping water, and then the sound of fish falling into the barrel, struggling in the barrel and hitting the wooden barrel.

This place is really good for fishing.

…

When she woke up, Sanhua Empress had already put down her fishing rod and sat motionless by the river with her knees in her arms. She looked like she was thinking about Cat Life.

When I went over and took a look, I realized that the bucket was full of fish.

"Let's go back."

Song You said this and started to pack his things.

The little girl also quickly stood up with the bucket.

Two figures, one large and one small, plus a bay-red horse, slowly returned to the city.

On the road, I met a crowd of Jianghu people, and two of them looked familiar. They seemed to have met them last night. Song You wanted to go over and ask, but before they got closer, the two people saw Song You and hurriedly greeted him respectfully.

He saluted and said hello, and Song You asked them about Huo Erniu.

These two people were also familiar with Huo Erniu. When talking about his life experience, they all said that he was a fool. From time to time, they scolded him for being stupid for daring to steal the magic weapon of the immortal master.

Song You smiled and said goodbye to them.

However, she did not return home immediately. Instead, she accompanied Sanhua Empress to several restaurants to sell fish. Some took them, some did not, some took more, and some took less. However, she still kept two fish and ate them herself.

.

When I walked to the door of my house, I saw several figures surrounding the door.

Just like the group of people yesterday, they were looking around and pacing in circles, feeling anxious but not daring to knock on the door.

When Song You saw them, they also saw Song You and were immediately overjoyed.

"Back! Back!"

Several people walked towards Song You with excited expressions on their faces.

"..."

Song You first turned around and looked at Empress Sanhua, then stepped forward and asked, "What's going on, everyone?"

"I heard that the immortal master has great magic power and great supernatural powers. I beg the immortal master to help eliminate the demon!"

Several people bowed their hands and shouted.

There was a lot of anxiety in his tone.

When the little girl heard this, her expression suddenly froze, and her hands that were holding the bucket and fishing rod couldn't help but tighten, and became a little whiter because of the exertion.

"Don't be in a hurry, tell me slowly."

"Is such that--"

A middle-aged man stood up and handed over:

"My surname is Liao, and my family runs a bookstore in the east of the city. The business has not been good before, and there are often twists and turns. After the new year opened this year, for some reason, my father had a dream about the old crooked tree in the courtyard.

The neck tree talked to him at night and said it could bring us wealth, but we never expected that it was actually an evil spirit."

"What's going on?" Song You asked.

"What's going on?" the girl followed.

"..." The man surnamed Liao looked at the girl, then at Song You, and said, "My father didn't believe it at first, but he had a similar dream for several days in a row. Every night, a picture of the old crooked neck tree would appear.

The same fat face, and my father said different things, like chatting. After a few days, my father became suspicious and ordered us to dig up the tree and check it out."

"continue."

"continue!"

"I dug two feet into the ground and found square bricks. After digging out the square bricks, I dug another foot and found tree roots. Under the tree roots, I found a box that had not decayed for many years. When I opened the box, I found a golden toad statue.

." The man surnamed Liao paused as he spoke, licking his mouth, "It is said that the golden toad brings wealth, and then I remembered the dream. My father invited it into the house that day, and it was a good thing. I had another dream that night,

In the dream, a fat man with a big belly thanked my father and told him the techniques for worshiping it. Our whole family followed the instructions. Sure enough, starting from the first month, business became very prosperous, as if we were getting rich."

"Actually?"

"Actually?" The little girl was still learning, but she was very concerned about this topic, so she added another question, her voice was clear and thin, "Do you really have wealth?"

"At that time, I thought I had obtained a treasure and brought good fortune, but later I found out that there was something wrong with another bookstore." The man surnamed Liao said with shame, "I only found out about this later. Anyway, we were all immersed in the joy of a prosperous business at that time.

It almost always responds to its requests. We will give it whatever offerings it wants, and we will provide them with whatever it wants. It was not until some time ago that people in our family became weaker and weaker, and then we realized that something was wrong, that thing was there

Suck our essence."

"Evil thing."

"Evil thing!"

"Most likely." The man surnamed Liao said with a wry smile, "After we realized that we saw through it, it simply stopped pretending. Now it cannot be invited away, and it cannot be removed. It is useless even if we hide out of the city.

"
To be continued...