Longzhou is located in the southeast, half of it is connected by hundreds of thousands of mountains, and half of it is a coastal plain with a long coastline.
The Shiwanda Mountains in the northwest part have always been an indisputable place for military strategists.
In this place, the roads are dangerous, the pits are deep, the miasma is heavy, poisonous insects, ferocious beasts, demons and ghosts often appear.
In addition, there are almost no strategic locations. No matter in troubled times or prosperous times, almost no one wants to pay attention to this place.
For example, right now, the world is full of turmoil and wars, but even in the hundreds of thousands of mountains in the northwest of Longzhou, there is still peace and there is no war at all.
In fact, even the bandits would not choose to dominate the mountain here.
Without him, if you dominate the mountain and become the king here, you will just wait to starve to death!
Among the mountains here, there are bustling mountain villages, and there is only one county that manages it.
It's funny to say that the area managed by a county here is larger than a prefecture in other places, but the annual tax revenue is not even comparable to that of some wealthy market towns.
The mountain people here also name the mountains very casually. Those that look like cats from a distance are named Maoer Mountain, those that look like dogs are named Canine Mountains, and there are also vulgar names such as Goufuzi Mountain and Naigubao Mountain. The name of the mountain.
At the foot of a mountain called Blackfoot Mountain, there is a village called Blackfoot Village.
This village is built on the mountain. It is the largest village in the surrounding area. It has a population of more than 200 people and is quite prosperous!
People here are dependent on the mountains. In addition to farming, they also hunt and collect ginseng to survive.
Especially ginseng, which is a favorite of rich families.
If you can pick some good ginseng and sell it in a county two hundred miles away, you can get a lot of food and clothing.
If people in the mountains want to improve their lives, they rely on these wild ginseng.
There is a family named Zhou in the village, and one of the bachelors is named Wednesday.
The family was so poor that they couldn't afford a wife. As soon as Wednesday's mother figured it out, she asked her son to marry a female lunatic named Shi from the village to continue the family line.
Although the crazy woman was crazy, she gave birth to a normal child, a boy, which made the Zhou family extremely happy.
As soon as Zhou was happy, he named his son Zhou Shisheng.
It means born from Zhou and Shi.
This week Shi Sheng has been stronger than other children of the same age since he was a child. When he was a little over five years old, he could help pull weeds and pick up stones.
This makes me so happy on Wednesday. If there is anything good to eat or drink, Zhou Shisheng is always there.
This week Shi Sheng lived up to his expectations. When he was eleven years old, he dared to catch a venomous snake, and he actually caught it.
Although Zhou San was frightened at that time, he also found that this child was a good prospect who went to the mountains to find a living.
After that, he often took Zhou Shisheng into the mountains to hunt and collect ginseng.
In the beginning, I taught my son.
Within a few months, he became a son teaching me.
On Wednesday, he felt more and more that it was the smoke coming out of his ancestral graves, and he even loved his crazy wife even more.
But the good times did not last long. Soon, an epidemic appeared in the village and many people died.
Zhou Shisheng’s crazy old lady is also dead.
Before she died, the crazy old woman took a necklace made of a stone she picked up from nowhere and put it on Zhou Shisheng's neck.
This became the only thing left by his crazy old mother.
Even though it was just a stone, Zhou Shisheng always hung it around his neck and never threw it away.
Not long after the death of his crazy old woman, his elderly grandmother also died.
His father also became depressed on Wednesday. When he went hunting alone in the mountains, he accidentally fell off a cliff and broke a leg. He could no longer enter the mountains.
From then on, the fourteen-year-old Zhou Shisheng had to support the family alone.
It has to be said that Zhou Shisheng is still very capable. Over the past few years, he not only took good care of my broken leg, but also built two wooden houses and three thatched houses.
This can make many people in the village jealous.
There are several people who have girls of the same age at home, and they all want to marry their daughters to him so that they can enjoy happiness.
But for some unknown reason, Zhou Shisheng rejected all the good intentions of the villagers and did not marry any girl.
Many people in the village said behind his back that he was conceited and looked down on the local girls in the village.
In this regard, Zhou Shisheng did not respond and allowed the villagers to discuss it.
By this year, Zhou Shisheng was nineteen years old.
Well, although judging from his strong physique and beard, some people would believe that he is forty years old...
This afternoon, as the sun was about to set, Zhou Shisheng came back with a bow on his back, a knife on his shoulder, and a fat and strong deer on his shoulder.
On the road, some villagers who were farming on the edge of the field saw this, with eager expressions in their eyes, and asked.
Zhou Shisheng was a down-to-earth man, spoke in a strong voice, and answered whatever was asked.
Frankly speaking, I was lucky enough to catch it today.
While chatting with the villagers, someone else came out of the village. When they saw Zhou Shisheng from a distance, they shouted as if they were seeing a savior:
"Shi Sheng, Shi Sheng. You are finally back, hurry up, help save people!"
The visitor was very familiar to Zhou Shisheng. He was the thin monkey Zhang in the village.
He got his name because his surname is Zhang and he is as thin as a monkey.
Seeing him so panicked, Zhou Shisheng immediately asked what was going on.
Shouhou Zhang quickly explained:
"Possessed, someone in the village has been possessed. Several people can't hold it down together. Go and help!"
"Who is possessed?"
"Uncle Wang!"
After hearing this, Zhou Shisheng handed the deer to the thin monkey Zhang and hurried to the village.
It's okay for others to be possessed by evil spirits, but it's not easy for Uncle Wang.
This hunter is also a well-known hunter in the village. He is very capable and very strong. Even if three or five people come together, they can't hold him down!
Zhou Shisheng ran and soon saw a few people on the roadside in the village surrounding a somewhat crazy man against the wall.
The man was drooling, his hands and feet were waving wildly, and he was talking nonsense.
Sometimes it was the fearful voice of a man, and sometimes it was the shouting voice of a strange man.
The people around him tried to hold the man down several times, but the man was really strong, so the people around him could only surround him and couldn't hold him down.
Someone saw Zhou Shisheng coming and shouted quickly.
With Zhou Shisheng's help, it was indeed much easier.
The man who was possessed by the evil spirit and went crazy, which is what Zhou Shisheng called Uncle Wang, was forcibly held down by him and tied up with the help of a group of villagers.
"Get out of the way, the shit is coming, fill him with shit!"
Someone came over with a bucket of dung, scooped up a ladle of dung, and with the help of others, poured it into Uncle Wang's mouth.
This trick really worked. As the stool was poured down, Uncle Wang immediately vomited and a wisp of black smoke came out of his mouth.
The black smoke was also trembling, as if it was nauseated.
When other people saw the black smoke, they were afraid and did not dare to get close.
Zhou Shisheng was completely unafraid and picked up a broom and started beating him.
Hitting the black smoke with a broom worked, and the black smoke twisted and screamed after being beaten.
Seeing this, Zhou Shisheng shouted again and asked the villagers to bring a fire stick.
Take the fire stick and use the fire stick to penetrate the black smoke directly.
Black Smoke screamed, and was actually pierced by a fire stick and skewered on Black Smoke.
Zhou Shisheng nailed the fire stick to the wall. In this way, the black smoke was restrained, making it difficult to move.
After nailing the black smoke, Uncle Wang over there also returned to normal.
Everyone immediately asked Uncle Wang why he was possessed by evil spirits.
They, the people who rely on the mountains and eat the mountains, still know a lot about evil spirits.
I know that someone as strong and strong as Uncle Wang should not be easily possessed by evil spirits.
When Uncle Wang heard this, he was a little embarrassed to explain the reason.
It's simple to say, but actually Uncle Wang came back from hunting and met a beautiful woman not far from the entrance of the village.
Seeing this, Uncle Wang wanted to try to challenge his weakness.
Obviously, his challenge failed.
If you fail, just fail. I never expected that this woman was actually a ghost pretending to be a man. Uncle Wang's heart was broken at that time...
As a result, Uncle Wang, who had lost his mind, was possessed by evil spirits.
Zhou Shisheng was very angry after hearing the cause and effect. Knowing that this ghost was a liar, he wanted to get rid of him.
He took out the knife from his waist and slashed at the black shadow on the fire stick.
But the knife passes directly through it and cannot hurt the shadow.
Seeing this, the black shadow smiled and said: "Hahaha, how can you, an ordinary person, understand that ordinary weapons cannot hurt me?
Unless I use peach wood, I have nothing to fear..."
The black shadow was talking when he suddenly paused and seemed to realize that he shouldn't have said this, and immediately fell silent.
When Zhou Shisheng heard this, his thoughts changed. He watched from here and asked the villagers to find Taomu.
Soon someone found a peach wood stick.
Zhou Shisheng took it, stepped forward and pulled out the fire stick on the wall, intending to stab the black shadow to death with the peach wood stick.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the fire stick was pulled out from the wall, black smoke escaped from the top and flew several feet away. He laughed endlessly:
"Hahaha, what an out-and-out idiot, grandpa deliberately lied to you, but I didn't expect you to believe it!
Hahaha~~~You idiot, you just took advantage of grandpa's weakness to sneak attack on grandpa.
Now, grandpa is going to pester your whole family and kill you all! "
The black shadow said and disappeared from the sky.
Although it disappeared, the eerie feeling around it was always there.
When Zhou Shisheng heard that this ghost was going to harm his family, he immediately realized that his father might be in danger and hurried home.
When I got home, I found that the skinny monkey Zhang was putting the deer in his yard and still talking to his father.
Everything looks fine.
Seeing this, Zhou Shisheng breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that the thing doesn't move that fast.
When thin monkey Zhang saw him coming back, he immediately pulled him forward and asked about Uncle Wang.
After hearing that the ghost was not dead and was coming to seek revenge, Shouhou Zhang's face changed drastically and he fled their home in despair.
Hearing this, Wednesday, who had a broken leg, stood up on crutches and said:
"What bullshit ghosts? It's not like I didn't kill anyone when I was young. What's so great about it!"
With that said, he said to Zhou Shisheng:
"Go and take out the arrow from my room."
Zhou Shisheng naturally knew what his father was talking about.
He went into the house and took out an arrow that had always looked like an ordinary arrow.
This arrow, only the arrowhead is a little different, it is something that looks like iron but is not iron.
“I picked this up in the mountains when I was young, and I only had arrowheads at that time.
This arrow is so sharp that after I make it into an arrow, it can even penetrate stones.
When I met an evil monster in the mountains, I just shot it with an arrow. The tree monster was shot through by me, and the tree monster gushed out with blood, and died soon after.
If you take this, if that ghost dares to come, send him to the west directly! "
Speaking of this arrow, Wednesday was very proud.
Zhou Shisheng had heard his father say this so many times that his ears were ringing, but he had always been skeptical about the effectiveness of the arrow, but at this time it seemed that this was the only method available.
Zhou Shisheng drew his bow and arrow and waited silently.
Not long after, I suddenly felt a cold wind blowing, and a biting cold feeling came over me.
The father and son felt the sinister wind and became nervous.
Wednesday was holding a cane in one hand and a broom in the other.
Zhou Shisheng opened his eyes wide, looking for the ghost figure.
It's a pity that they couldn't see the ghost after he deliberately made it invisible.
At this moment, I suddenly heard the ghost laughing wildly:
"Now I'll let you know the consequences of offending grandpa!"
As he spoke, the dark wind blew stronger and stronger, and there was a feeling that it was about to penetrate into the bone marrow.
At this moment, Zhou Shisheng accurately sensed the strongest direction of the evil wind, which was completely opposite to the direction of the ghost's voice.
If he had just fired an arrow in the direction of his voice, it would have been empty.
Zhou Shisheng seized this momentary opportunity and shot out an arrow without any hesitation.
The arrow passed through the air, and suddenly a scream was heard.
A puff of green smoke burst into the air, and the dark wind immediately dissipated.
Zhou Shisheng stepped forward to pick up the arrow and found that the arrow was stained with black blood.
On the contrary, the iron-like arrow was as clean as new, without any trace of blood.
When his father saw this on Wednesday, he said with certainty:
"This ghost must have been shot to death!"
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