I was forced to cultivate immortality when I just wanted to lie down

Chapter 132: People? Biao!
Not far from Linhe, there is a mountain with a name called Laotai Mountain, also known as Laochong Mountain.

What is Old Bug Mountain? The bugs here don’t refer to the little bugs crawling around on leaves, but rather the big, striped bugs with white foreheads and hanging eyes!
Sometimes, when some scholars talk about generals who are good at fighting, they like to use the term "Lao Da Chong" to describe that the other party is as brave and fearless as a tiger.

At the moment, the place where Xu Qing was going to perform a ritual was in a village not far from Laotai Mountain.

As the old saying goes, when you go out, ask for directions; when you enter a place, ask about the customs.

It was already getting dark. According to the local saying, it was not convenient to go out and travel at this time, because there were really tigers in Laotai Mountain!

At night, when there are few people around, the tiger's power overwhelms the human presence. A tiger that dares not eat people during the day may jump out and pick on people at this time.

Xu Qing is not afraid of this. He is a silver-armored zombie, and his body is harder than a solid weight. If a tiger really comes, he will have to bite it!

Here, Xu Qing rode a spotted horse and did not go to the main road. He crossed mountains and rivers, and soon arrived at Guanmen Village.

Guanmen Village, as the name suggests, when Xu Qing dismounted and approached, he saw that the doors of every household in the village were tightly closed, and even the walls were two feet higher than those of ordinary villages.

Xu Qing came to a house with faint candlelight and knocked on the door.

There was a creaking sound in the yard, and it seemed that the door to the upper hall was opening.

The sound of footsteps was heard, and the voice of an old man was heard in the yard.

"Who?"

"Old man, I am a traveler passing through, and I want to ask you something."

Xu Qing stood sideways at the door, his sleeves gathered together, and said in a gentle tone, "Excuse me, old man, do you know where Sun Erzhuang's home is?"

"Sun Erzhuang?"

The old man in the yard muttered something and then stopped talking.

Outside the door, Xu Qing heard the sound of the main room door closing, followed by a burst of urgent urging voices.

"Old woman, quick! Turn off the lights!"

"What the hell are you doing? I haven't even finished sewing the quilt yet, why are you turning off the lights?"

"Hey, stop asking and turn off the lights!"

After a brief conversation, the courtyard, which was initially lit by candlelight, fell into complete darkness.

Xu Qing was confused. They were talking fine just now, why did they suddenly turn against each other?

At this time, only the chirping of crickets could be heard outside the yard. Xu Qing was thinking about something. When he first asked the farmer questions, the other party showed no sign of avoiding him, but when he asked about Sun Erzhuang, the farmer acted as if he had seen soldiers or bandits, and tried to avoid him as much as possible.

Could it be that this seemingly honest fat man is actually a scoundrel who runs rampant in the village and does all kinds of evil?

Xu Qing left the old farmer's house and went to another courtyard with lights on.

It was still the familiar opening, but when he mentioned Sun Erzhuang's name, the lights in the courtyard in front of him went out.

"I really don't believe this!"

Xu Qing immediately rolled up his sleeves and snapped his fingers.

The lighting technique instantly lights up the house.

"Did you light this oil lamp?"

"How dare I! Damn it, are you trying to scare me on purpose again?"

“It’s really weird!”

The light in the room was blown out again, but the next moment it lit up again.

The farmer was frightened, but the more frightened he was, the more he dared not leave the light on.

So Xu Qing kept snapping his fingers outside the yard, and the farmers in the house also kept blowing the flute in a hurry.

"Ouch, I'm dizzy. It must be that dirty thing that blinded me. Come and help me, you who are in the room!"

He used so much strength and blew so hard that even if someone else came, he would feel dizzy, not to mention the farmer.

"Stop blowing it! I'll pick out the wick with a pair of scissors and see what else it can do!"

Outside the yard, Xu Qing snapped his fingers a few more times, but no candles were lit in the house before him.

Well, the other party actually found a way to crack his lamp lighting technique!
Seeing that no one paid attention to him when he asked seriously, Xu Qing simply stopped hiding it.

If you say I'm a dirty person, then I really won't act anymore!
Xu Qing took a few steps back and jumped into the yard. Through the window, he could vaguely hear voices from inside.

"Finally, there's no more noise. Guan Huapo just died, and the debt collectors are here."

"That's right! That witch is always talking nonsense. Who knows who she must have offended. When she was alive, people were afraid of her. Now that she's dead, those filthy creatures are going to take revenge and avenge their grievances."

Xu Qing paused as he was about to push the door open.

It turned out that it was not because Sun Erzhuang himself was so bad, but because of Sun Erzhuang's mother.

After learning the reason why the villagers excluded and isolated Sun Erzhuang, Xu Qing reached out and knocked on the window politely.

"Who?!"

"I'm here to ask for directions. Don't be afraid. I'm a good demon. If you tell me where Sun Erzhuang's home is, I won't eat you."

After a moment, after getting the information he wanted to know, Xu Qing said with a smile: "Thank you both for your frankness. We hope to meet again."

"Da, Daxian?"

Silence returned outside the house, and the farmer couldn't help but speak tentatively.

"I'm here, do you have anything else to do?"

Xu Qing, who was about to leave, stopped.

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There was silence in the room for a moment, and then the farmer's trembling voice sounded again.

"Well, we are a small family with a small business, and we can't afford to be tormented by the immortal. Can the immortal not come to visit us in the future?"

Xu Qing raised his eyebrows.

"Look."

If there is one word in the world that is the most inhuman, it is "see"!

Borrow two hundred yuan, see.

When do you plan to pay it back?

Will it succeed or not? We'll see.

"." The couple in the room almost choked to death.

If they weren't afraid that they couldn't beat the dirty guys outside, the couple might have already started fighting!

After leaving the yard, Xu Qing walked two miles south of Guanmen Village until he saw a lonely house with its own door and yard. He stopped then.

I knocked on the door, but no one answered.

When the Qi-gazing technique was activated, there was dead silence.

Xu Qing looked suspicious. Could it be that the fat guy hasn't returned home yet?

He took out the corpse-finding compass, and the needle on it spun around for a while before finally pointing to a certain direction.

Late at night, when everyone was asleep, Xu Qing looked at the compass and felt puzzled. How come even Guan Huapo's body was not at home?

Xu Qing walked towards the direction indicated by the compass. At this time, the sky was changing rapidly. The bright moon was hidden in thick dark clouds. A whimpering mountain wind blew out from Laotai Mountain, rattling the doors and windows of every household in Guanmen Village.

The clouds follow the dragon and the wind follows the tiger.

The current situation is changing rapidly, just like a tiger emerging from the mountains or a dragon descending from the sky!

Just as the storm was about to come, Fatty Sun was driving his donkey cart, exactly twenty miles away from Guanmen Village, to the charity cemetery to collect his mother's body.

The charity cemetery is called a charity cemetery, but in fact it is just a dilapidated little temple.

Looking closer, there are faint and mottled words on the temple gate, which seem to say something like "Jun Temple".

The word before "Jun" has become unclear due to the exposure to wind and rain over time.

This temple is quite old, but it is not popular enough, so it is used as a charity cemetery for storing corpses.

Fatty Sun's mother, Guan Huapo, was killed by a tiger outside, which was quite close to the temple. That was why Fatty Sun left his mother's body in the temple while he drove a donkey cart to the city to buy a coffin.

After tying up the donkey, Fatty Sun went to the temple. In the courtyard of the dilapidated temple, there was a dry well and a crooked tree. On the tree was a rope that looked quite familiar to him, with a loop underneath.

Fatty Sun took a quick look and thought that he had not seen anyone hanging himself when he came back, so how come there was a rope like this on this crooked tree?
Although he was suspicious, he didn't take it seriously.

After all, the rope was empty and there was no corpse hanging on it. It was just a little creepy at most, but not scary at all.

Besides, his mother's body was placed in the temple, so how could he be afraid?

This is the strange thing about human beings. If a stranger dies, no matter what kind of person he was in his lifetime, people will feel unlucky and afraid.

But if your loved ones are gone, let alone being afraid, you won’t feel any fear even if you lie on a bed or stay in a room all night.

When Fatty Sun thought about how good his mother had been to him when she was alive, he no longer felt any fear. Instead, he felt sad and lonely.

He only has his mother as a relative. Now that his mother is gone, he will be alone from now on.

"Mom, I'm back. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. Don't be afraid."

Sun Erzhuang came into the incense hall. He first said this to the inside, then blew out the fire stick, lit the candle in his hand, and placed it in front of the altar for offering to the gods.

When the temple was lit up, Sun Erzhuang used the firelight to walk to the straw mat where his mother's body was wrapped.

After kowtowed three times and said a few words in a soothing tone, "Your son is here to take you home," Sun Erzhuang carried Guan Huapo's body out of the incense hall.

At this time, the wind in the dilapidated courtyard was getting stronger and stronger, and the rope hanging on the crooked tree was swinging back and forth.

Sun Erzhuang was somewhat frightened, but when he thought of his mother on his back, he felt at ease again.

Sun Erzhuang walked out of the temple gate steadily and came to the place where the donkey was tied.

It was a tree. Sun Erzhuang came to the tree where the donkey was tied, but his brows furrowed.

There was no trace of the donkey on the tree in front of him. Not only was the donkey's shadow, but even the rope that tied the donkey was gone.

Sun Erzhuang walked around the tree half a circle, wondering if the donkey had untied the rope and ran away, so he called out to his donkey.

"You heartless person, run away if you want, but at least leave the coffin I bought for my mother. My mother is still waiting to be buried. How could you be so ignorant?"

After calling the donkey for a while and seeing no effect, Sun Erzhuang began to complain.

He was complaining here when suddenly a cold wind came from behind him, mixed with a fishy smell, as if some ferocious beast was approaching his body.

Sun Erzhuang's fat trembled and he turned around tremblingly.

There was nothing behind him, nothing like what he had imagined.

Sun Erzhuang breathed a sigh of relief, but at this moment, a voice suddenly rang out beside him!
"Hey, Fatty! What are you doing here so late at night?"

Sun Erzhuang's legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground.

He was carrying his mother on his back, and when he turned around, he saw a tall and mighty man who had appeared beside him out of nowhere.

The man was wearing a short shirt, and the two pieces of flesh on his chest looked like freshly cast iron plates, and his whole body exuded a tough aura.

Seeing Sun Erzhuang standing there in a daze without saying a word, the strong man reminded him: "This place is not far from Laotai Mountain. It is not safe at night. A few days ago, an old lady was killed by a demon. I advise you to leave as soon as possible and don't stay here."

"Oh oh!" Sun Erzhuang came back to his senses after hearing this and quickly responded twice.

"Thank you for the reminder, brave man, but I am here to handle important matters." Sun Erzhuang is a fat man who usually feels tired after standing for a while. Now he is carrying a heavy corpse on his back and has been standing for such a long time, so he is already very tired.

He carefully put down his mother's body and bowed to the big man in front of him: "Brother, I believe you just came from outside the temple. I wonder if you have seen my donkey?"

"Donkey?" The big man smacked his lips, as if savoring the taste: "Donkey meat is delicious. I haven't eaten it in a long time."

Sun Erzhuang's eyelids jumped, and he quickly said, "I'm asking about the donkey pulling the cart. Have you seen it? There's also a coffin on the cart."

"Oh! You mean the donkey pulling the cart!" The big man clapped his hands and acted as if he realized something.

"Brother, have you seen it?"

"never seen it!"

Sun Erzhuang's breathing stagnated, and he thought to himself, since you have never seen it, then why are you making such a fuss?
The big man seemed to be unable to see Sun Erzhuang's depressed expression. He raised his head to look at the sky and reminded him, "Hurry up and leave. There is a goblin in this mountain. Your donkey might have been eaten by it. If you leave too late, you might be eaten by the goblin too!"

Sun Erzhuang frowned and said, "Fairy? What fairy? I've lived around here for almost twenty years, and I've never seen a fairy before."

The big man glanced at Sun Erzhuang and said calmly, "You don't know because you haven't seen it. And those who have seen it have already become the goblin's food, so naturally it won't be known to outsiders."

"When you say that, I want to ask what kind of demon it is?"

The big man seemed a little apprehensive: "I told you, don't be afraid!"

"You speak first, and I'll listen."

"Then what did I say? Are you really not afraid?"

"What's so scary about this? You and I are two grown men, and the yang energy in our bodies is stronger than a stove. Not to mention that there are no goblins, even if there are three or two little goblins, you never know who is afraid of who!" Sun Erzhuang's mother used to be a fortune teller, so this fat man obviously knows some tricks.

The big man was delighted when he heard this and said with a smile: "Aren't you worried about me?"

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Hearing this, the second layer of flesh under Sun Erzhuang's neck trembled.

"Brother, don't tease me. Don't look at me as fat, but I'm actually not very brave. Can we talk nicely?"

The big man put away his smile and said quietly:

"The demon I'm talking about isn't me, but a monster that recently arrived at Mount Laotai. Its name is just one word: Biao!"

"Biao?" Sun Erzhuang was completely confused.

What is a leopard? As the old saying goes, if a tiger gives birth to three cubs, one of them will be a leopard!
There is also a saying that the character "Biao" has three strokes, which represent wings, and a tiger with wings is a "Biao".

Regardless of which statement is true, in short, this biao actually originated from a tiger, but this biao is different from an ordinary tiger.

Shuowenjiezi says that when a tiger gives birth to multiple cubs, the third cub is called "Biao".

Generally, a tigress only gives birth to one or two cubs per litter. If she gives birth to three, she will not be able to feed them all.

What to do at this time? The mother tiger will take the initiative to abandon the youngest one and let it grow up freely.

As the saying goes, life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are in heaven.

Biao has been deprived of maternal love since childhood, so he has deep resentment in his heart. As long as he can survive, as time goes by, with the accumulation of resentment, he will become more and more ferocious.

In addition, this tiger looks a little different from ordinary tigers.

Because most of the tigresses are abandoned by their mothers. Even if they are not abandoned, the tigress will keep it for last when feeding and let it eat some leftovers.

Therefore, Biao generally does not look powerful enough and looks much thinner than ordinary tigers.

In addition, the leopard does not have the stripes that are unique to tigers, but only has solid-colored fur.

From a distance, it looks like a big cat.

Despite this, this skinny tiger is quite ferocious and will kill even its own kind.

If the tiger could survive and grow up, the first thing it would think about would be to go back and find the tigress who gave birth to it and bite her to death.

The second thing is to find his eldest brother and second brother. These two older brothers must also die at its hands.

Seeing that Sun Erzhuang was confused, the big man told him how cruel and powerful Biao was.

When Sun Erzhuang heard this, he laughed out loud.

"According to what you said, Biao hates his mother and his two brothers. I am not his brother. Even if there really is such a demon here, he shouldn't come here to harm me."

"Why should I be afraid of it?"

The big man smiled coldly when he heard this. He was about to speak when he suddenly turned his head to look at the woods behind him.

In the dark forest where leaves were rustling, something seemed to be approaching.

The big man's eyelids twitched, and he turned around and said, "Fatty, go back to the temple and stay there. No matter what noise you hear outside, don't come out. Remember this!"

"There's no village or shop nearby. It's easy for me to go back to the temple, but where are you going?" At this point, Sun Erzhuang suddenly came to his senses: "By the way, it's late at night and there's no one around. What are you doing here alone in this remote temple?"

The big man blinked his eyes upon hearing this and said meaningfully, "You're so stupid, no wonder she wanted to keep you by her side and raise you. Well, I'll come find you later!"

After saying that, the big man lowered his body and a strange wind blew up. Sun Erzhuang was blinded by the wind. When he came to his senses, he opened his eyes.

There is no trace of the big man in front of me!

(End of this chapter)