"What are you?!" Mo Yan said with a stick on his neck.
"You...listen to my explanation!" The Black-horned Dragon King stuttered.
"Mo Yan!" Hongkun shouted quickly. Mo Yan then closed his mouth.
"So, we practiced all the way and traveled back. Unexpectedly, according to Master's teachings, we could already transform into human forms as soon as we returned here!" When the Black-horned Dragon King said this, his eyes were filled with gratitude. Hongkun couldn't help but be shocked. He was able to transform into human forms in such a short time. No wonder the master would take the initiative to transform them!
"After that, we built a palace here. In addition to practicing every day, we also patrolled the river, and lived a comfortable life. But every time we think of Master, we feel brooding and feel uneasy. Therefore, whenever a carp returns from Longmen, We all came here to inquire about Master's whereabouts, but there was no news." The Black-horned Dragon King glanced at Hongkun.
"The old man didn't say where he lived, so we couldn't go to find out. In desperation, we had no choice but to hope that the old man could escape and come here to find us one day. He knew that we were from Hejin. . So every day we float to the surface and observe the passing ships, hoping to see his old man on any ship! "The Black-horned Dragon King was sincere.
"On this day, as soon as we came out of the water, we saw a small boat parked in the middle of the river, with a pot-bellied old man fishing in the river. We wanted to ignore him, but we didn't know there was no bait on his hook! We were all curious. We were so overwhelmed that we couldn't help but want to get closer to take a closer look, but we already felt something was wrong before we even got there. Although there was no bait on the hook, it gave us a strong sense of devouring. In desperation, for everyone's sake, Brother, I had no choice but to bite the fishhook first!" The Black-horned Dragon King said without any hesitation.
"Oh?!" Everyone was even more shocked. This old man with a big belly is definitely not an ordinary person!
"I thought it was going to be over, but I didn't expect that the old man laughed when he saw my five strands of long beard, and said: "Fate will come and go, just let it go! "As he said that, he threw an incense burner into the river, and then whispered to me, saying that as long as every full moon night, he would grab some people and put them in the incense burner, and they would be able to gather up the number of eighteen. The golden elixir was refined to help us greatly increase our moral practice and escape the confinement of this river! So, we..."
"Have you gathered enough?" Hongkun asked hurriedly. The black-horned dragon king shook his head and said with a hint of annoyance: "If I hadn't met you, I would have had enough tonight!"
"Oh! Are you still blaming us? Even if Master enlightens you, if you do such evil and harm innocent people, I will do justice for God today!" Hongkun raised his sword in anger.
"Senior brother, don't! It's an injury, but it's not harmful!" The black-horned dragon king shook his head desperately in fear.
"What's the meaning?"
"Those people, they are all still alive, not dead! We need to gather eighteen of them before we can practice, so..." the Black-horned Dragon King explained hurriedly.
"Really?!" Seeing the Black-horned Dragon King nodding his head repeatedly, Hongkun's expression softened slightly. Fortunately, otherwise it would be really difficult for him. Especially those three fishermen, if you kill them, their wives, children, and children will become orphans and widowed mothers; if you don't kill them, it's really unjustifiable that they are working as a scheming agent, but they are fine now, as long as they are punished a little!
After that, the Black-horned Dragon King told how they threatened the old fisherman and then committed evil acts. What it said was pretty much the same as what the old fisherman told. It seemed that the old fisherman was not telling lies.
"Senior Brother Hong, how should we deal with them?" Biyi asked impatiently. Hongkun frowned and said nothing.
"Senior brother, we were deceived by that old man and tried to practice evil ways. We have indeed done evil in this river. If senior brother hadn't stopped us, we would have made a big mistake. No matter how we deal with it, I have no complaints! But, these brothers, They are all following my orders, and I hope that my senior brother can take Master's sake and give them a chance to change their ways!" After the Black-horned Dragon King finished speaking, he fell to the ground.
"Oh! You guys..." Before Hongkun could say anything, the other carp spirits all fell to the ground, eagerly vying to be punished for others.
"Senior Brother Hong, the prodigal son will never be replaced by gold! Just give them a chance!" Fat Girl couldn't help but say.
"Yes, yes, haven't I also changed my past?" Mei Niang quickly helped.
Hongkun glanced at Hanyu, then turned to Jin Guishan, and said warmly: "Brother Jin, what do you think?"
"Lingchi, please collect that whisk!" Jin Guishan quickly ordered.
Before he finished speaking, He Lingchi took back the fly whisk, and the carp spirits immediately regained their freedom. They looked at each other and then fell to the ground again: "Thank you, senior brother!"
"I'm not your senior brother!" Hongkun's nose was crooked.
"Although the master has not accepted us, to us, he will always be our master! You are his apprentice, so we should all call you senior brother!" The Black-horned Dragon King said with a stick in his neck.
"Alas...there's no fish to eat now!" Yibi couldn't help but sigh.
"Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat!" Unexpectedly, Han Yu became anxious first. The fat girl hurriedly pulled a handful of cakes. Knowing that she had made a mistake, she quickly lowered her head and looked around for Brother Turtle.
"This..." Black-horned Dragon King pointed at a piece of cake.
"My surname is Hong Kun! This fat guy is my junior brother, let's call him Yibing!..." Although he was reluctant, Hong Kun introduced them one by one. After all, the master would not place them in a bad way without any reason.
After Hongkun finished the introduction, the Black-horned Dragon King also quickly introduced these carp spirits. It turns out that the master also named them one by one. The black-horned dragon king was called Long One, and the rest were called Long Two and Long Three according to the age and size of the fish, until Long Eighteen. No wonder the pot-bellied old man insisted on letting them make up the number of eighteen.
"Senior brother, can you let us go back to the water for a while?" Long Yi asked impatiently after the introduction. Hongkun naturally understood that they were about to reveal their true colors, so he nodded quickly. However, Long Yi took a few steps and suddenly stopped again. He looked back at Jin Guishan and said, "Brother Jin, can you give us those fish scales back?"
"What fish scales?" Jin Guishan was stunned.
"Oh, those are the silver darts! They were made by our Taoist practice. Your pagoda sucked them away. If we can't take them back, our Taoism will be greatly reduced. I hope you can return them to us!" Long Yi was embarrassed. said.
"Oh, I asked you why you couldn't ejaculate later! It turns out you became bald! Hehe!" Yibing who returned holding the turtle in his arms immediately laughed out loud. Behind him, Mo Yan also came over with the three fishermen, and the old fisherman was still carrying the bucket of river fresh food.
Jin Guishan shook his head and said: "Maybe I can return the living things! But I can't return the lifeless things!"
"Oh, okay! This is also the punishment we deserve." The dragon said no more, took the bucket from the old fisherman's hand, turned around and jumped into the river with the fish spirits.
"You won't run away!" Biyi shrugged her nose. No one spoke.
A full hour passed without any movement on the water surface. Just when everyone thought it was all over, the water suddenly began to roll. Immediately, Long Yi came out with all the monsters, each of them carrying a commoner in their hands.
"Brother, these are the people we captured. This is the incense burner that the old man threw down!" Long Yi said and handed over an incense burner.
This is a small gilt incense burner, standing on three legs, with two dragons erect ears, and the mouth of the dragon is upward, as if it is swallowing smoke and exhaling mist. Hongkun looked at it carefully and then returned it to Long Yi.
"Just put it away! As long as you don't use it for evil, there may be other uses for it!"
"Other uses?" Long Yi was stunned.
"Hehe, if the old man doesn't give you this incense burner, you won't kidnap people. If you don't kidnap people, we won't find your five-beard, and we won't know the whereabouts of Master! Fate comes and goes! Just let it happen! Hongkun said with a smile.
"That's it!" Long Yi just woke up like a dream.
When releasing the people, Long Yi took some gold sand and distributed it to them, saying it was an apology to them. After surviving the catastrophe and getting gold sand again, all the people were beaming and came forward to thank Hongkun and others for their life-saving grace. The old fisherman was determined not to fish anymore, and planned to go ashore with his family to farm, eat vegetarian food and do good deeds to atone for his sins.
"You should take care of yourself! When I find the master, I will report the truth! As for what he will do with you, that's not up to me!" When everyone had dispersed, Hongkun also prepared to leave with everyone.
"I understand! Senior brother, what are your plans next?" Long Yi asked hurriedly.
"We plan to go to Longmen first! See if we can find some clues about the master!" Hongkun glanced at Jin Guishan, who nodded quickly.
"That's great! Take us with you! We were incapable of saving Master at that time, so let us help you now!" Before Long Yi finished speaking, the other carp spirits also requested in unison.
"I know what you are thinking, but if you can't go ashore for a long time, how can you follow us?" Hongkun was shocked. He was already a fox, a rabbit and a tortoise, and he brought a group of carp with him? !
"Senior brother, please don't worry! Although we can't go ashore for a long time, we can follow along the river! If there is an emergency, we can also come out of the water to help!" It seems that Long Yi and the others have already planned it.
Seeing how persistent they were and how filial they were to their master, Hongkun couldn't refuse anymore and had no choice but to agree.
Although the water route was faster, after a long discussion, everyone decided to travel by land. First, the enemy is probably a monster in the water, in case the water is really not advantageous; second, according to Long Yi, the master has been captured from the water by the monster, and it is very likely that he was imprisoned in a nearby cave. It is just right to advance by land. You can explore it.
So, Long Yi and the others took the water route, while Hong Kun and the others took the land route, advancing at the same time, heading straight for Longmen in a mighty way.
Long Yi and the others know the way to Longmen best. Under their guidance, Hongkun and his party walked along the Yellow River to search, and soon arrived at the Yiluo River. Although traveling by land was very hard and not as comfortable as riding a turtle, everyone was chatting and laughing and looking at the flowers and scenery along the way, so they didn't think much of it.
On this day, seeing that it was getting late, Hongkun planned to find a place to rest. But there was no village, no store, no shelter from the wind and rain. He quickly walked to the river and asked Long Yi and others in the water. Long Yi said that Heifengdu was a few miles away. There should be an inn.
Sure enough, not long after moving forward, Black Wind Crossing appeared in front of them. Although this place is not as good as Mengjin, there are still two or three inns. The biggest hotel in town was the Fulai Inn, so they moved in, asked for two rooms on the second floor, and gave them more money to ask the innkeeper to bring some food.
Just as they were going downstairs to eat, the shop owner suddenly ran out. This was a thin, middle-aged man with a small black beard. He came to the table mysteriously.
"Everyone, go to bed early tonight. If nothing happens, don't come out!" He said cautiously.
"Oh? What's going on?" Hongkun asked hurriedly. Unexpectedly, the shop owner ignored him at all, turned to look at Yibing and Fat Girl, and said, "Especially you two, please don't come out!"
"Store?!" Hongkun was so angry that he reached out and grabbed his arm.
"Okay, I'll tell you!" The shop owner looked at the door and window nervously and said, "It's been a few months! A monster has appeared here. Every now and then, he comes out in the middle of the night to kidnap people, especially those who are fat. ! None of the fat men who were captured came back, I’m afraid they were all eaten by it! That’s why I specially remind everyone! "
"Hehe, just catch the fat man, we will be fine for sure!" Mo Yan couldn't help laughing.
"Probably!" The shop owner looked at Mo Yan's small figure.
"Thank you! Thank you!" Hongkun quickly stood up and saluted. The shop owner didn't say anything. He glanced at Yibing and Fat Girl sympathetically, swallowed his foam, turned around and left.
"What! Does this monster have a grudge against the fat man?!" Yibing looked back at the window. He originally planned to eat another bowl of rice, but now he no longer has this intention.
"Never mind it! As long as Senior Brother's pagoda is here, no monster can escape!" The fat girl didn't care at all and continued to stuff the steamed buns into her mouth. Jin Guishan couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"It may not come tonight! Anyway, we will leave tomorrow morning!" Qi Yuanxiao said.
"Senior Brother Hong?" Bi Yi glanced at Qi Yuanxiao.
"The monster may come when. We can't wait endlessly. If it doesn't come tonight, we will rush to Longmen to investigate the master's whereabouts. When we have the results, it won't be too late for us to come back to slay the monster. !" Hongkun certainly understood Biyi's thoughts.
"Okay..." Although Biyi was reluctant, she knew that Hongkun was right.
So, everyone hurriedly finished their meal and returned to the room. In the men's room, Hongkun is the leader, and in the women's room, Biyi is the leader. Everyone lies down in their clothes, waiting for the monster to arrive.
Until midnight, I didn't hear any sound. I thought the monster wouldn't come tonight. Tired from the journey, everyone quickly fell asleep. There was only one piece of cake, and he was tossing and turning and couldn't fall asleep. It was probably because he missed one bowl. He was so hungry that he felt panicked. After much hesitation, Yibi decided to go down to find something to eat.
As soon as Yibing tiptoed to the outside corridor, he heard someone talking downstairs. He hurriedly looked over and saw that it was the fat girl talking to the waiter in the shop.
"Please think of something and get me some food!" the fat girl said as she stuffed money into her little hands. Yibing couldn't help but feel ecstatic, and hurriedly walked to the stairs, which saved him a lot of trouble.
"Hey, let me get myself some food first!" The waiter suddenly sneered.
