The crooked way can also lead to heaven

Following the old man to his home, there is a wide dam at the door. The house looks a bit old, and there are chickens everywhere.

"My dear, my dear!"

"Go and boil a pot of hot water to make some tea. There are guests at home!"

The old man shouted as he walked, and his voice was filled with uncontrollable joy.

There is no yin and yang master in this area. If something like this happens, I don't know where to find one.

I thought it must be the city god who showed up, so I called a yin and yang master.

But this kid looks a bit young, and I don't know how capable he is.

But he can't be picky at the moment, it's better to have it than not.

"Come on, come on, sit inside, I'll go call the third kid!"

Walking into the main room, Ye Ran looked up and looked around.

Old-fashioned home appliances are placed everywhere. Compared with modern ones, this place is really a bit retro.

The black and white TV from the last century is placed on the cabinet, and I don't know if it can be used.

"Sir, my third child is here. Please take a look."

Ye Ran turned around and saw a child about ten years old staring at him with timid eyes.

"Sir, please have a cigarette first. Stay here tonight. The room is already being cleaned."

The old man took out a pack of flattened cigarette boxes from his pocket, took out a wrinkled cigarette and handed it over.

It can be seen that he was a little embarrassed. Of course, it is okay to smoke such cheap cigarettes by yourself, but it is indeed a bit shabby to share them with others.

"Don't be polite. Whether it can be solved is another matter. Let me ask about the situation first."

Ye Ran took the cigarette, took out a lighter and lit it.

Sitting on the chair, he said straight to the point.

"Give me the detailed information at that time, what the monkey looked like, and what did it do to you."

Perhaps because of the voice, the shy child was even more reluctant to talk.

Until the old man patted his back, he stammered and answered.

"I was playing in the field with Shanwazi and the others, and I didn't notice the time until it got dark."

"Because my home is far away, no one is going home. I just walked to the door of my house and heard someone calling me from behind."

"It was pitch black in the field, and it waved to me, saying that it had something to ask me, and also said my grandfather's name."

"When I went over, I saw that the man looked very strange. He was obviously smiling, but his face didn't move, as if the skin was put on."

When Shanwazi thought of the scene he saw last night, he subconsciously grabbed the old man's hand. The fear on his face was obvious. He lowered his head and didn't want to say more.

We are all children who grew up in the countryside. We all know each other in the surrounding villages, and we don't have so many thoughts.

It's just that I went home a little late, which is a common thing in the countryside.

But no one expected to encounter such a thing!

Now it's good, the shadow is firmly engraved in my mind and it will be difficult to forget in a short time.

"Young sir, this is roughly what happened."

"The horse monkey is a very strange thing. When I was a child, I often heard my family say that the horse monkey looked very strange, like a monkey."

"This thing likes to eat children the most. In order to seduce children, it will deliberately get a human skin to cover itself. What's more strange is that it can imitate other people's voices. At that time, many children were deceived."

As the old man explained, his eyes seemed to be lost in memories.

He had seen a horse monkey when he was a child, but he was taken back home by his parents after just a glance from a distance.

I don't know what it looks like.

In the pitch-black sky, you can't see anything except the figure.

"Is there any particularly mysterious mountain near you? Usually, few people go up, but you can hear strange sounds."

"Or, there are some legends."

Fearing that the old man didn't understand, Ye Ran added another sentence.

From their words, we can roughly guess one or two.

The description sounds like a mandrill, which can imitate human voices and likes to cover human skin to seduce the people.

The habits of the mandrills are somewhat similar to those of the horse monkeys. They both like to eat children. Maybe it is true.

Mandrills are a group of spirits. They usually don't take the initiative to go down the mountain to look for people. They only attack people in the mountains and forests.

Before the city god had an accident, there was no trace of the horse monkey. Once the accident happened, it ran out.

It is difficult for Ye Ran to convince himself that there is no connection between the two.

Of course, if you want to confirm the existence of mandrills, you have to listen to what the old man says.

"Strange legend..."

"It really exists!"

"There is a mountain behind the temple on the mountainside. You can see it when you go to the top of the mountain."

"That mountain is different from other places. It is shaded by green trees and dense vegetation."

"It is rumored that there is a mountain god inside. Occasionally, people go up to chop wood. Those who come back say that they heard strange sounds, like monkeys calling, but after listening carefully, they say it is not very similar."

The old man tried to recall the news he knew.

But the specific truth is unknown. He usually doesn't go to that mountain. He always collects firewood on his own land.

He cast his eyes on Ye Ran.

This Yin-Yang master would ask this question. Does he already know how to deal with the horse monkey?

Looking at his confident look, it is probably true.

Ye Ran did not speak. After smoking a cigarette, he asked about the location of the mountain and prepared to get up and go to take a look.

Zhou Wuyuan gave him a task that he had no clue about.

It is estimated that even he himself does not know the answer.

The trouble with the City God is far more complicated than imagined. One hundred copper coins are not enough.

More money must be paid!

Before he walked out of the door, Old Wu, who was far away in Tianhai City, called him.

He said that a very strange ghost messenger came last night. He spoke in a very elegant manner and didn't seem to be from the lower class.

He wore a shroud and a small round hat, and his aura was very strong.

Suddenly, the appearance of the ghost master appeared in Ye Ran's mind.

Then he asked if he came to borrow money?

Old Wu said affirmatively, yes!

But he didn't agree, and asked the ghost master to come again tonight. After all, the amount was too large to make a decision casually.

Ye Ran thought it was funny, so he asked how much he wanted to borrow.

Three thousand!

The ghost master wanted to borrow three thousand copper coins!

This amount is not small, but for Ye Ran at present, it is not a painful number.

The interest collected during this period is more than this amount.

"When it comes to borrow money tonight, you will calculate it according to the highest standard interest."

"If it doesn't lend it, forget it, anyway, I won't lose anything."

He hung up the phone and walked out.

Originally, he was going to ask Zhou Wuyuan to add money, but now there is no need.

It is true that he is a messenger, strictly speaking, he is still a minor official working under the judge.

But let’s be honest.

It is really new for a leader to ask his subordinates for money.

Can I not rip you off?

Of course not!

I must rip you off, and I must rip you off severely, like stabbing a knife into the aorta!

“Young sir, what should I do with my third child?”

The old man hurriedly stopped the man.

It was not easy to meet a yin and yang master, but he was leaving before the matter was resolved.

This is not okay!

“Do you have money?”

Ye Ran turned around, with a calm face.

The old man touched his body and ran upstairs.

When he came down, he had a passbook in his hand.

“Young sir, my son and his family will send money back every month, and there are still about 2,000 in the passbook…”

“You keep it for yourself.”

Ye Ran interrupted him without any mercy.

Then again, he and this family had no relationship to talk about.

It was just a casual encounter and he asked a few questions.

"This..."

The old man stood there in a daze, and when he saw the figure going away, he felt mixed emotions.

He looked down at Sanwazi, whose face, already full of frost, looked even more sad.

In the end, he could only sigh.

...

On the top of the temple mountain, Ye Ran stood on the edge of the cliff and looked into the distance, and a lush green mountain came into view.

It was only about a hundred steps away, and the two mountains were close to each other.

It was dark at this time, and it would be troublesome to rush into the dense forest.

In such a sparsely populated place, mountain spirits and wild monsters breed seriously.

Although he was not afraid, he did not need to cause trouble for himself immediately.

Besides, since the horse monkey had set his sights on Sanwazi, it was possible that he would take action tonight.

Before entering the mountain, he still had to confirm again and again what species the horse monkey was.

After all, the mandrill was just guessing, and Ye Ran did not want to draw water with a bamboo basket.

It was completely dark, and there was an extra figure next to an old house at the foot of the mountain.

Ye Ran stood on the slope, with a wide view and a clear view of the fields ahead.

The lights were on in the house, and the doors and windows were closed.

Dogs barked from time to time in the village, and the bamboo forest beside the house creaked in the wind.

Ye Ran lit a cigarette and waited quietly.

After a while, he noticed something was wrong.

If he had seen it correctly before, there should be only three scarecrow silhouettes in the field.

But there was one more scarecrow in the field farther away from the house.

It looked like it was approaching.

Ye Ran perked up, cast his eyes on the silhouette, and soon confirmed what he was thinking.

That figure was a horse monkey!

According to the old man's description, once a horse monkey is staring at you, it will not stop unless it succeeds.

Now you just need to stay put, and you can see its true appearance when it gets closer.

The horse monkey's pace is neither fast nor slow, and when it walks to the dam, it carefully shakes its head left and right.

There was a street lamp hanging on the wooden corridor on the second floor of the house. The light was not strong, but it was enough to see the face of the monkey.

Ye Ran narrowed his eyes and looked carefully.

The monkey's body was similar to that of a human, and his walking posture was very strange, one knee high and one low, with his knees bent instead of straight.

The face looked loose and asymmetrical, like an ill-fitting piece of clothing.

A pair of eyes emitted a faint green light, and ordinary people would be terrified when they saw it.

Ye Ran thought to himself that the monkey was really wearing human skin. When it got dark, as long as it stood in the distance, it looked no different from a real person.

"Sanwazi, Sanwazi."

The hoarse and rough voice came out of the monkey's mouth, like a dead body that had just crawled out of a grave, which made people's scalps numb.

After calling for a long time, no one in the house answered.

The monkey stepped forward and began to knock on the door, repeating Sanwazi in his mouth.

Because he was too scared, the old man in the house was trembling with a shovel, his Adam's apple was rolling, and he dared not look away from the door.

His wife was also frightened, and somehow, she yelled.

"Sanwazi is not here, you go!"

The horse monkey stopped moving immediately, and a smile appeared on his weird face.

"It's bad!"

The old man's face completely collapsed, and his hands holding the shovel tightened unconsciously. He took two steps back and almost fell down.

The native villagers knew that you must not answer when the horse monkey called you.

Why did my wife make a mistake at this critical moment!