Chapter 54: General White Horse
Not long after the four of them left Green Snake Town, they saw a general in armor galloping on a white horse with a spear, and a tiger-headed monster was fleeing for his life in front of the general.
"Little demon, dare to harm people. Today, the general has been chasing you for thirty miles, and he will definitely kill you!" shouted the general who rode the horse.
The tiger-headed monster ran desperately and roared: "How can there be a reckless man like you in the world, chasing me for so long, even if you are not tired, your horse will be tired to death, and when your horse is tired to death, I will see how you chase me!"
Seeing that the corner of the tiger's mouth was still stained with blood, the night quicksand must have eaten someone, otherwise the brave general would not have chased him all the way here. So, Night Quicksand ran over, snorted with his shoulders straight, and collided with the tiger monster that was running desperately, but Night Quicksand was still standing in place, and the tiger monster was knocked to the ground and fell to the ground.
The general, who had come on horseback, spoke of such a good opportunity, quickly caught up, picked up his spear and stabbed it directly into the chest of the tiger-headed monster, and the tiger-headed monster screamed in pain, turned into its own spotted tiger, and died on the ground.
"Thank you for your help, I can't thank you enough!" the general jumped off his horse and thanked the night quicksand.
Night quicksand also hugged his fists and said: "When Lu sees injustice, he draws his sword to help, this man-eating monster is punished by everyone, and the general doesn't have to be polite." ”
At this time, monkeys, Liu Xingyan and Tang Xuansong also came over. The monkey stared at the general and said, "You have a strong demonic aura on your body, so you must have dealt with monsters a lot, right?"
When the general saw the monkey talking, he was not surprised, and said with a smile: "Down there is the White Horse General of White Horse City thirty miles away, and several of them are extraordinary, and they are not ordinary people at first glance. I don't hide it.,The reason why I've been dealing with youkai is because of an experience in my childhood.。 After that incident, not only was I not afraid of youkai, but I became more and more bold, and eventually became the White Horse Shogun of White Horse City. If you are interested, please follow me back to White Horse City, and I will tell you about my experience when I was a child on the way. ”
"Okay, it's just boring, you can talk about it, we'll listen. Tang Xuansong said.
"Fifteen years ago, there was an old man who was doing business in a foreign country, and his wife was the only one left at home. Once, his wife dreamed of sleeping with someone else, and when she woke up, she touched it, and it was a short, small man who didn't look like a human, and she knew that he was a fox. After a while, the fox got out of bed, and before the door opened, it disappeared......" General Hakuba led the horse and told as he walked.
On the second night, the woman called for the companionship of the servant woman who had cooked for her. The woman, who had a son who was only ten years old, and who usually slept in another bed, called him to her. In the middle of the night, when the servant woman and the child were asleep, the fox came again. The woman murmured in her dream, and the servant woman woke up and cried out loudly, and the fox was gone.
From then on, the woman was in a trance, and all day long she felt like she had lost something. At night, she didn't dare to turn off the lights and go to bed, telling her son not to sleep too hard. In the middle of the night, the children and the servants were napping against the wall. When I woke up, I didn't see the woman, and I thought she had gone to the toilet. I waited a long time and didn't come back before I began to become suspicious.
The servant woman was too frightened to go out and look for it, so the child alone went out with a lamp and shone it everywhere in the courtyard. When I came to another room, I saw my mother lying naked inside. The child stepped forward to lift her up, but the woman did not know how shy she withdrew.
From then on the woman went mad, crying and singing all day long, shouting and scolding. At night, she hated living with others, and let her son sleep in another bed, and she drove the servant away.
Every night when the child heard his mother babbling nonsense, he got up and looked at it with the lamp, but the mother scolded him angrily, and the child did not mind.
After that, the child suddenly became unrestrained, imitating the mason every day, blocking the windows with bricks and stones, and he would not be dissuaded by others.
If anyone took a stone from the window, he would roll on the ground and weep coquettishly, and no one would dare to provoke him. A few days later, both windows were blocked by him, and there was no light. Then and mud plugged the holes in the walls. It's a busy day, and it's not too tiring. After the hole in the wall was blocked, there was nothing to do, so he brought the kitchen knife to grind it non-stop. Everyone who saw him was disgusted that he was too naughty, and no one wanted to pay attention to him.
In the middle of the night, the child carried the kitchen knife in his arms and held the lamp with a scoop.
When his mother began to talk in his dreams again, he hurriedly took the scoop away, shone it with a lamp, blocked the doorway, and cried out loudly.
After a long time, there was no movement. So he left the door, and threatened to search it, and made it look like he wanted to do so.
Suddenly, something like a wild cat scurried towards the door, and the child hurriedly slashed it with his knife, cutting off only its tail. It was about two inches long, and it was dripping with blood.
At first, as soon as the child turned on the lamp, his mother scolded non-stop, and the child turned a deaf ear. Since the fox was not killed, the child was so angry that he had to go to sleep. The child thought to himself that although he hadn't slaughtered the thing, he was glad it wouldn't come again.
After dawn, the child saw the blood stains dripping from the fox going over the wall, so he followed them all the way to see that the bloodstains led all the way to the garden of the family surnamed He.
When the night came, the fox did not come, and the child secretly rejoiced.
But the mother still lay in a daze, as if she was dead.
Soon after, the old man returned. Go to bed and ask about your wife's condition. The woman hurled insults at him as if she were an enemy.
When the son told him what had happened, the old man was shocked and asked the doctor to treat him with medicine.
The woman threw the medicine and still cursed. The old man mixed the medicine into the soup and let her drink it, and after a few days, he gradually settled down. Both father and son were delighted.
One night, when the father and son woke up, the woman was gone, and they found her again in another room. From then on the woman went mad again, and did not want to live with her husband, and when it was dark she ran to another house. Trying to hold her, she scolded even more. The old man had nothing to do, so he locked all the doors of the other houses. But as soon as the woman ran away, the door opened by itself. The old man was worried. Inviting a mage to drive away the fox has no effect at all.
One day, when it was almost dark, the child secretly entered He's house and hid in the bushes to find out the fox's tracks.
The moon had just risen when I suddenly heard someone talking. The boy lifted the branch and looked out, and saw two men sitting on the ground drinking, and a bearded servant holding a jug of wine waiting on the side.
They were dressed in dark brown clothes, and their conversation was very low and thin, faint and inaudible.
After a while, I suddenly heard someone say, "I can go and get a bottle of liquor tomorrow!"
Then, both of them left. Only the long-bearded slave remained, took off his clothes, and slept on the courtyard stones.
The child looked closely, and saw that the slave's limbs were like those of a man, except that a tail hung down behind him.
The boy wanted to go back, but fearing that the servants would find out, so he squatted all night in the bushes.
Before dawn, I heard the two men coming one after another, muttering, and then went into the bamboo bushes and walked away.
When the boy went home secretly, the old man asked him where he had been at night, and he replied, "I went to Abo's house." ”
Once, the boy followed his father to the market. When he saw a fox tail for sale in the hat shop, he begged his father to buy one. The old man disagreed, and the child pulled his father's clothes and coquettishly, noisily insisting on buying. Weng couldn't help the child's soft grinding and hard bubbles, so he bought one.
The father was trading in the market, and the child was playing on the side, and when the father didn't see it, he stole the money and ran away.
He first went to buy a bottle of liquor and stored it under the corridor of the hotel. He had an uncle who lived in the city and lived by hunting. The child ran to his uncle's house, but the uncle was not there. When his aunt asked him about his mother's condition, the child replied, "It's a little better these days." But because the rats had torn her clothes, she cried in anger, so she asked me to beg for the medicine. ”
When my aunt heard this, she opened the box, took a penny of hunting medicine, wrapped it up and handed it to him.
The child pretended to leave, and the aunt said that she wanted to make dumplings for him to eat, and the child took her out, and when she saw that there was no one in the house, she opened the medicine bag and stole a handful full of them and hid them in her arms. Then he hurriedly ran to tell his aunt that she should stop cooking, and said, "My father is waiting for me in the market, and it is too late to eat." With that, he left.
The child went to the hotel and secretly mixed all the stolen hunting medicine into the wine he bought. I wandered around the streets for a while, and I didn't go home until it was late. When his father asked him where he was going, he lied and said he was at his uncle's house.
From then on, the child walked around the street and shops every day.
One day, he saw the bearded servant also mingling in the crowd. The child recognized that it was him, followed quietly, and gradually talked to him.
When the child asked him where he lived, the servant replied, "Kitamura," and asked the child again, and the child falsely said, "He lives in a cave." ”
The servant wondered that he lived in the cave, and the boy smiled and said, "My ancestors have lived in the cave for generations, haven't you?"
The man was further surprised and asked for the child's name. The child said, "I am the son of the Hu family. It seems that I have seen you with two young men somewhere, have you forgotten?"
The servant looked at the child carefully, and was skeptical. The child pulled open his shirt slightly, slightly revealing a fake tail, and said, "We are mixed in the crowd, but this thing can't be removed, it's really hateful!"
The servant was astonished and asked, "What are you doing in the city?"
The child replied, "Father asked me to buy wine." ”
The servant told him that he had also come out to buy wine.
The child asked, "Did you buy it?"
The servant replied, "Most of us are poor, so we steal a lot." ”
The child said sympathetically, "This messenger is too bitter, and he is frightened." ”
The servant also complained, "I have to do it because of my master." ”
The boy took the opportunity to ask him who his master was, and the servant replied, "The two young brothers you have seen in the past." One is obsessed with the daughter-in-law of the Wang family in Beicheng, and the other sleeps in an old man's house in East Village. The old man's child was so hateful that my master had his tail cut off, and it took ten days for the injury to heal. Now the master has gone to his house again. After saying that, he was about to leave, and said to the child impatiently: "Don't delay my business!"
The child grinned and said, "It's hard to steal wine, it's not as easy as buying wine." I've already bought a bottle and left it in the porch of the hotel, so I'll give it to you. I still have some money in my pocket, so I don't have to worry about buying another bottle. ”
The servant was ashamed that he had nothing to repay, and the child said solemnly: "We are the same kind, why are we stingy with such a small thing?
So the servant followed the boy to the hotel, and the boy took out the bottle of wine and gave it to him, and he himself returned.
At night, the child's mother slept soundly and stopped running out. The boy knew that there must be a reason, and told his father that they would go to the house to inspect the house, and saw two foxes dead in the pavilion, and the other dead in the grass, with blood still dripping from their mouths. The bottle was still on the side, and I picked it up and shook it, and there was still wine left in it.
The father was surprised and asked, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
The child said, "The fox is the most spiritual, and once it is revealed, it will know." ”
The old man said happily: "My son is really a general who crusades against foxes!"
So the father and son carried the fox home, and saw that one of the tails was bald, and the knife marks were still obvious.
Since then, the old man's family has finally been peaceful. The woman was very sick and thin, and gradually understood in her heart, and was no longer confused.
But then he coughed again, and he vomited a few liters of phlegm, and soon died.
The daughter-in-law of the Wang family in Beicheng has always been fascinated by foxes in the past, but now she has asked again, the fox is extinct, and her illness is gradually getting better.
The old man cherished his son and taught him to ride a horse and shoot arrows. Later, the child grew up to become an official, and later became a general.