"May I ask if the old layman's son is sick or has encountered something unclean?"
Jiang Chen asked.
Remote mountain villages, sparsely populated and not popular, are most likely to cause disasters.
Bandits, robbers, mandrills and ghosts, any one you encounter is a murderous disaster.
Jiang Chen guessed that the old man's son must have experienced the same thing.
"Master Taoist, please listen to me and explain slowly."
"My name is Ding Dazhi, and I live in Dingjiazhuang, thirty miles away from here. This matter started half a month ago."
"Half a month ago, my son Ding Rentai rescued a woman who had fled here when she went into the mountains to collect firewood."
"The woman's name is A Zhen. She is twenty-eight years old. She has a beautiful face and a very good appearance."
"After my son rescued her, she quickly recovered to health under the careful care of my wife."
"Later, she helped my wife cook and wash clothes at home. She was proficient in all housework. My wife and I were very satisfied with her."
"She fled the famine and became homeless. My son is over three years old, but he is alone."
"So we wanted to bring them together. After getting the woman's consent, we made arrangements that day, and the two of them entered the bridal chamber in the evening!"
"Who would have thought that after a few days, my son's health would become worse and worse, and the goddess on Zhuangzi said that my son's yang energy had been sucked away by evil spirits!"
"That night, I secretly observed my son's room outside the window, and saw... I saw my daughter-in-law, Ah Zhen, turning into a fox demon, rubbing and smelling my son's face!"
"I suddenly realized that it was Ah Zhen who made my son look like this!"
"Please also ask the Taoist priest to subdue the demons and save my son's life!"
When Ding Dazhi got excited, he knelt down and kowtowed heavily to Jiang Chen several times.
"May I ask, my father-in-law, how did you know I was here?"
"Dingjiazhuang is thirty miles away from here. Why did my father-in-law find it here?"
Jiang Chen's eyes rolled slightly, and then he asked.
He had just used the skill of seeing through a wall to carefully observe the old man, and discovered that he was not some spirit that had transformed into a human being.
However, Jiang Chen didn't believe that the old man had any clairvoyance skills and could predict his path in advance, so he walked there early from Dingjiazhuang, which was thirty miles away!
"The Taoist Master misunderstood!"
"The goddess in Zhuangzi treated my son, but he still didn't get better, so I thought of going to Tianren Mountain to ask for the mountain god's blessing!"
"If the mountain god shows up, maybe he can save my son's life!"
"But there is a price to pay for the appearance of the mountain god, even one life for another, so I hesitated again and again before coming."
"It wasn't until I heard the Taoist priest singing that I suddenly woke up and knew I had met a real outsider, so I followed the singing and found the Taoist priest!"
Ding Dazhi explained.
Hearing what Ding Dazhi said, Jiang Chen lowered his guard a little.
"Since the old layman trusts me, I will let you go to Dingjiazhuang for a visit!"
"But first of all, we have agreed that the medicine will not cure the disease, but I will save the destined person. There is a limit to the so-called saving the dying and reviving the dead!"
"If this is what my master ordered me to do, please don't blame me, old layman, for not being good at my studies!"
Jiang Chen said with emotion.
"The Taoist priest is serious!"
"I'm not that ignorant!"
Ding Dazhi forced out a smile and said.
Ding Dazhi walked in front and led the way, while Jiang Chen followed him slowly and leisurely on a donkey.
Jiang Chen rolled his eyes and asked curiously
"Does my father know where Tianren Mountain is? What is the origin of the mountain god on the mountain?"
In a rural mountain village, a place where the poor have a refuge, even if there are mountain gods, they are probably evil spirits or grass-headed gods with shady origins.
However, the Tianren Mountain mentioned by the father-in-law made Jiang Chen inexplicably think of the strange-shaped mountain range painted on the picture, which is very close to Yueling Valley!
"Tianren Mountain is about a hundred miles away from Dingjiazhuang. Sometimes you can see this mountain, sometimes you can't. It's very mysterious."
"Because some people in the village have seen this mountain, and some people have gone into the mountain and seen the mountain temple, so I wanted to try my luck."
"The mountain god in the temple is a black fox. We call him Master Fox from all over the country!"
"As long as the people who can see Tianren Mountain and find the mountain temple are destined, he can make a deal with them."
"But he is evil and terrifying. Unless they are desperate, few people will take the initiative to look for Tianren Mountain!"
"Because those who come out of Tianren Mountain are either themselves unlucky or their relatives and friends around them are unlucky. In short, they have to pay a heavy price."
Ding Dazhi said to Jiang Chen as he walked.
If his son hadn't been ill in bed and dying soon, he would have never come to look for this terrifying and evil master fox!
"My father-in-law, can you describe the appearance of Tianren Mountain to me again?"
Jiang Chen continued to ask.
He felt like he had found the right idea!
"I have never seen Tianren Mountain, but people who have visited Tianren Mountain said that the mountain goes straight up and down, and looks like a broken blade. It is easy to distinguish."
"And the mountain temple is sometimes at the foot of the mountain, sometimes on the cliff halfway up the mountain, and sometimes on the top of the mountain!"
"If you're lucky and happen to encounter the Mountain Temple at the foot of the mountain, that's okay. If you encounter the Mountain Temple at the top of the mountain, you won't be able to enter the Mountain Temple even if you find Tianren Mountain!"
Ding Dazhi said with emotion.
Then Jiang Chen asked Ding Dazhi about some rumors about Tianren Mountain, Mountain Temple and Black Fox. After Jiang Chen had a general understanding, he asked about his son.
Jiang Chen decided to go to the Tianren Mountain he mentioned after settling the matter at Ding Dazhi’s family!
With Tianren Mountain as a landmark, the hope of finding Yueling Valley is much greater.
The two of them walked leisurely, and it was already dark when they reached Dingjiazhuang.
"Taoist Master, my home is just ahead!"
Ding Dazhi pointed to a house in front and said.
This house is well built, with mountains and water as its backing.
Dingjiazhuang is a mountain village, and the most indispensable things on the mountain are stone and wood. Ding Dazhi's house uses stone as the foundation and wood as the skeleton. It is surrounded by a fence wall with some branches, and the gate is very strong.
"Bang bang bang!"
Jiang Chen knocked on the door, and soon an old woman opened the door and stuck her head out.
"What's the matter with Taoist Priest?"
"The trail comes from Chunyang Taoist Temple in Huacheng, Jialing County. It's getting late when we pass by here. I want to stay here for one night. I hope it's convenient for a female layperson!"
Jiang Chen said loudly.
"Old lady, it's me!"
"I'm Dazhi, why don't you look at me?"
"I invited the master back home. Our son is saved!"
"Did you hear what I said?"
Ding Dazhi's face became increasingly ugly, and a bad thought suddenly came to his mind.
"Old man, wake up, you are dead!"
"Your wife is separated from you by Yin and Yang, so she is destined not to hear what you say."
Jiang Chen sighed with emotion and spoke.
With a random wave of his sleeve and a flash of inspiration, Ding Dazhi finally remembered everything.
It turned out that he screamed in surprise when he discovered Ah Zhen's true identity that day, and was discovered by Ah Zhen, so Ah Zhen brutally killed him and abandoned his body in the wilderness.
But his wife was deceived by the fox demon, thinking that he had died in a foreign country long ago, and continued to lurk at home, absorbing the yang energy of his son Ding Rentai!
After Ding Dazhi's death, he was still filled with anger, and his desire to find a Taoist master and save his son's life turned into his obsession, turning him into a ghost.