Chapter 5: Going down the mountain and returning to the village
Li Xiuyuan picked her up and was about to leave, but suddenly he thought of something, and found an old vine nearby, tied up the mandrill's body, and dragged it behind him.
Widow Du was a little puzzled when she saw his move like this: "Why did the young master bring this mandrill's body?"
"If the mandrill remains alive, the villagers will not be able to feel at ease. Some people who rely on the mountains for food will not dare to go into the mountains to get food. Their livelihoods will definitely be affected," Li Xiuyuan said.
Widow Du was stunned for a moment, then said softly: "They say that the eldest young master has a heart of a Buddha, and it seems true."
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said nothing, and continued to carry her on his way.
The road down the mountain is a bit bumpy.
Carrying a person on his back, Li Xiuyuan is not very fast. Fortunately, he has practiced martial arts for many years and has strong physical strength. He can hold a tiger's mouth and swallow a golden gun. He can still walk quickly while carrying a person on his back. An ordinary person would have been lying on the ground tiredly, but even
Even so, the pace is still much slower.
Widow Du was holding Li Xiuyuan's shoulders and supporting her body. She deliberately kept a little distance between them so as not to press her whole body against the man's back.
However, she was still a little embarrassed when she thought about the scene where her clothes slipped down.
The mountain road was bumpy. Although Widow Du deliberately kept her distance, her waist was sore and tired, making it difficult to support her. Then as Li Xiuyuan strode across a mountain stream, she could no longer support her arms.
So soft, the entire upper body was pressed heavily on the broad tiger's back, and the fullness in the chest felt like being squeezed.
"Humph." She hummed softly, and her body felt a little numb.
She quickly suppressed her shame and tried to stand up, but her waist was sore and tired that she couldn't use her strength, and her whole body fell limply on the man's back.
"Huh?" Li Xiuyuan felt the soft squeeze on his back and looked back in surprise.
When she turned around, she saw Widow Du's pretty face flushed, her beautiful eyes watery, and her shy look.
"I, I didn't mean it." Widow Du defended with a red face.
Li Xiuyuan smiled and couldn't help teasing: "It's quite big."
"Um."
Widow Du was stunned for a moment, but didn't react. She just lowered her head and responded carefully, her face getting even redder, even reaching her neck.
However, Li Xiuyuan had no other thoughts. He had gained some concentration through his cultivation over the years.
After being teased by this, Widow Du seemed to become more honest, and she lay completely motionless behind him. She only occasionally looked up at Li Xiuyuan's handsome side face, with a hint of shyness in her eyes.
"Young Master must be tired."
After almost walking down the mountain, Widow Du saw a strand of sweat remaining on Li Xiuyuan's temples, but she stretched out her hand and gently wiped it away.
"Well, I'm a little tired, but we'll be arriving at the village soon." Li Xiuyuan continued walking forward without looking back.
Seeing that Li Xiuyuan did not refuse, Widow Du's face immediately turned shy and happy, and then she obediently lay down behind the man.
After walking for a while, we saw Xiahe Village.
At this time, all the adult men and women in Xiahe Village gathered at the entrance of the village. The men prepared torches, hoes, shovels, and other agricultural equipment. The women accompanied them. Under the leadership of an old Taoist wearing a Taoist robe, they were about to form a group.
They headed towards the mountain in groups.
"Back, back to Ali, the young master is back."
"That's great, the young master is fine."
"Widow Du was also rescued."
When the villagers saw Li Xiuyuan carrying Widow Du down the mountain path, they immediately greeted her enthusiastically and happily.
When the blind Taoist saw that his precious disciple had returned safely, he immediately stood there and smiled. However, when he saw Widow Du behind him, he immediately counted his fingers and shook his head with a wry smile.
"Two women came to help Widow Du back. Her leg was injured by the mandrill. Remember to find someone to treat her." Li Xiuyuan said.
Immediately, Aunt Wang and a woman from the same village hurried over and took Widow Du down.
"Mrs. Du, your clothes..." A woman couldn't help but ask when she saw that Widow Du's clothes were in tatters, as if they had been torn to pieces by brute force, and she was still wrapped in the young master's coat.
arrive.
Aunt Wang hurriedly winked at the woman, who was also a shrewd person and reacted immediately and shut her mouth.
"Haha, Mrs. Du, it will be good if you come back. We are all worried about you." Aunt Wang said with a smile on her face; "Don't worry, Mr. Du, you can rest assured that we will take care of you."
"Yeah." Li Xiuyuan nodded.
Widow Du blushed slightly, lowered her head and was very shy as they helped her back.
"Master, this is the mandrill that caused harm in the nearby forest. I killed it. But strangely enough, this mandrill was frightened away by my shot, but then it came back again. It even made some poses and stepped on trees to increase its height. Okay.
It’s weird.”
Li Xiuyuan swung the old vine behind him, and immediately threw the corpse of the mandrill behind him in front of him, and recounted what happened in the forest before.
The blind Taoist stroked his beard and smiled, pointing to the woman's clothes on the mandrill's corpse and said: "This mandrill is trying to confuse you. It stepped on wood to get taller and wore a woman's clothes. This is an illusion. When outsiders see it, they will definitely think
It is a beauty of the mountains, it cannot bear to be harmed, and it will never be thought of as a spirit. But this mandrill is confused. It is simply a joke to cast illusions in front of you. With your eyes, no spirit in the world can confuse you.
Even if the thousand-year-old demon has cultivated into a human body, he can't hide it from you."
"So that's it." Li Xiuyuan touched his nose, feeling that the mandrill was not here to die, but was using illusions to confuse himself.
But this cheap master like me has long said that he has a delicate heart and is not afraid of all the Taoism and spells in the world. It is easy to see through illusions.
"The young master is so brave, he actually killed the mandrill."
"This is a mandrill, so ugly."
"Look, this mandrill is still a male. He has a lot of work on his crotch."
An idle man took a wooden stick and fiddled with it between the mandrill's legs, causing the woman nearby to spit.
But the blind Taoist shook his head and said with some show off: "What's this? Pindao is even better than him. Even Pindao is the same..."
"How is that?"
The nearby villagers all looked at the blind Taoist, and even the nearby woman pricked up her ears, wanting to listen.
The blind Taoist laughed and saw Li Xiuyuan's face darken, and immediately changed his words: "Don't say it, don't say it, the secret must not be leaked. Since the mandrill is dead, the poor Taoist can rest assured. In addition, the mandrill's body cannot be left for a long time. It needs to be set on fire."
Burn it to prevent any trouble from happening again."
"What the Taoist said is absolutely correct."
Several villagers were also cheerful and immediately cut down dead trees nearby, placed them on the mandrill's body, and lit them on fire.
After burning the mandrill's body, Li Xiuyuan asked the villagers to disperse and return to their homes.
"Do you remember that Master said before that it is impossible for spirits to appear near Guobei County? This mandrill is also old, and it became a spirit at least more than ten years ago." Li Xiuyuan asked curiously while walking on the road.
"My teacher said this. On the day you were born, the purple energy came from the east for thirty thousand miles. It was so vast that when it was swept away by your purple energy, all the small and large spirits and ghosts around Guobei County were killed. The heaven and the earth were filled with chaos.
When I saw the purification, my teacher felt very unhappy."
The blind Taoist said, but then he shook his head slightly and said: "But the world is so big, and there are so many monsters and monsters. This mandrill may have become a spirit after you were born, or it may have wandered from other places."
"As the saying goes, when a country is about to perish, there must be monsters, and the world will be in chaos."
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, his heart trembled. He thought of all the scenes in the Liao Zhai movies, where monsters were causing chaos, corrupt officials were wreaking havoc, there were wars and natural disasters, and people's lives were like grass. It was indeed a time of great chaos.
The blind Taoist immediately laughed again: "When you went up the mountain today, you not only killed a mandrill and gained a lot of experience, but you also earned a marriage."
"Marriage?" Li Xiuyuan thought for a moment and said in surprise: "Widow Du?"