In fact, Old Man Jiang knew all the secrets about the child, but he kept it secret and never told others, just so that the child could live a normal life and not be regarded as a monster. This was also the child's biggest worry.

He did not expect that the child would tell all these secrets to Zheng Yushi. The old man sighed and said, "Oh, this child is very pitiful and has a hard life. Please don't make things difficult for him."

Then, Old Man Jiang paused, sighed again, and continued: "That old goddess is indeed not an ordinary person. When we went there, she immediately told the child that his father's hand had been bitten by a fox, and that he had been bitten by a fox. The whole story of that fox was told so clearly, how could an ordinary person know about it?

I really think she is good at pinching and calculating. As for that monster python, I think the old goddess should also know what happened. Unfortunately, she is no longer alive."

When Zheng Yushi heard that the old goddess was dead, he felt as if he had been poured cold water on his head. He shook his head helplessly: "It seems that God is not helping me. I think that since the old goddess has such cultivation, He should have a particularly long life, but I didn’t expect that I still can’t escape the cycle of life and death.”

Old Man Jiang also nodded in agreement: "Your Excellency, you are right. This old goddess is indeed a weirdo and a strange person. People also thought that she would live a particularly long life. However, she died in the second year after we went there. And his death was very strange.

How did I know about the death of the old goddess? It’s a long story, so let’s first talk about what I heard and saw about the old goddess.

That old goddess can eat and poop. She eats and poops almost non-stop every day, but she is still skinny and skinny. This alone makes people feel really weird.

When we went there, I specifically asked people in the village about the life experience of this old goddess.

I remember that people in their village said that most of the people in the village thought that the old goddess was crazy, and for some reason, the old goddess never read fortunes or told fortunes to the people in the village.

I heard from the elderly people in their village that this old goddess was at least over eighty years old. No one knew her specific life experience. They only vaguely knew that she was picked up by a homeless man in the village who was begging for food.

And when she was brought back to the village by the tramp, she was already three or four years old. She was dry, dark and thin. She didn't look like a child, but like a little old lady.

The homeless man died the next year.

Because this old goddess had been very annoying since she was a child, so after the tramp died, almost no one wanted to take care of her. What made the villagers a little puzzled was that this three- or four-year-old, fending for herself The little girl didn't starve to death. She slowly survived and grew up.

But she was still black, thin, crazy, dirty, smelly, and ran around everywhere. Sometimes she would be out for several months, and no one knew where she went, and no one cared about it.

I don't know when, the villagers were surprised to find that people began to come to her for fortune telling, fortune telling, and even medical treatment, and more and more people came to her.

There was no inn in the village originally, but because there were so many people coming from outside, many of them came from other places and could not go back that day, some villagers with empty houses opened inns, and the business was pretty good.

Not only was this old goddess's life experience strange, but her death was even stranger.

After meeting the goddess with my child's father, I felt that this old goddess was well-deserved and really magical. It just so happened that in the second year, an old lady from a family in the village became seriously ill. She went to many doctors but could not be cured. , his son is a filial son, and he often heard me say how powerful the old goddess was, so he begged me to go see the old goddess again so that he could ask for some medicine for his mother.

I felt that the fellows in my hometown should help if they could, so I took him there. But when we arrived at the old goddess's village, we found out that the old goddess had died just two days ago.

I heard from the villagers that two days ago, as usual, the old goddess was telling fortunes and reading fortunes to the people who were waiting in line early in the morning. She was also eating big white-flour steamed buns while seeing a doctor as usual, and she was still She will have to go to the hut after a while, just like she usually does.

But just before noon, the old goddess went to the hut again. However, this time it seemed to be very different from usual. Usually, every time she went to the hut, the time spent was very short, and she could come back after saying a few words.

But this time, it took a long time for the old goddess to leave. People kept waiting and waiting, but they still didn't come. For more than an hour, they still didn't see the old goddess leaving her hut.

So everyone felt something was wrong, so several people endured the unpleasant smell and went to the latrine to take a look and found that the old goddess had fallen to the ground dead.

What's even more surprising is that in her last poop, people actually found a dark mass.

People discovered that the mass was not feces, but looked like an unformed fox fetus, and it was still squirming. People screamed and ran out in fright.

Finally, the village patriarch, who was over seventy years old, was brave and knowledgeable. He drank a few sips of wine, took a shovel, entered the hut, and beat the dark, moving monster to death. , he also dragged out the corpse of the old goddess, which was stained with feces and urine, and had it washed with water. Then he found a straw mat to wrap it up, pulled it with a horse-drawn carriage, and buried it in a mass grave three or four miles away from the village. , this old goddess died like this, and our trip was in vain."

Zheng Yushi listened attentively to what Old Man Jiang had said, and then pondered for a long time without saying anything. It seemed that it was impossible to learn about the python from the old goddess.

What to do next? Zheng Yushi had no idea for a while.

"Sir, I know that besides the old goddess, there is another person in our area who may also know the origin of the python."

Suddenly, Old Man Jiang said something like this, which shocked Zheng Yushi.

He quickly asked Old Man Jiang: "Tell me, old man, who else can understand that python? Now that python has begun to break into the nearby village and eat people. The situation is urgent. We must kill the python as soon as possible, otherwise If it lives one more day, a few more people may die,"

Old Man Jiang nodded with deep sympathy, stroking the beard under his chin, squinting his eyes, and pondered for a moment before he said leisurely: "The child's father once told me that in our county, there is a shop. It specializes in buying herbs and game collected from the mountains. The owner of this shop is named Lu, and everyone calls him Shopkeeper Lu.

Shopkeeper Lu was about sixty years old at the time. He was kind-hearted and fair in his dealings. He was very different from ordinary profiteers. His father also had the same honest temper. As soon as they started to interact, they felt that their conversation was very speculative. As time went by, the two of them became more and more interested in each other. The friendship between people is getting deeper and deeper, and it has become a friendship that lasts forever.

Every time the child's father came to the city, he would drink and chat with Boss Lu, sometimes until late at night. Gradually, the child's father felt that this shopkeeper Lu was very unusual.

What an unusual method.

This fair-skinned Boss Lu has never been to the mountains, but for some reason, he knows the prey in this mountain very well. For example, he can accurately tell which kind of prey is most abundant in which part of the mountain. , I have been hunting with my child’s father all year round, and what I have learned is that the situation is not bad at all.

Shopkeeper Lu would also tell the child's father that in which part of the mountain there would be valuable rare birds and exotic animals. The child's father went hunting as Boss Lu said, and sure enough, he could easily hunt those rare birds and exotic animals, which made the child His father was young and had earned a lot of money, but Shopkeeper Lu once told the child that his father should never tell others these secrets.

The child's father also abides by his oath, but because of the good relationship with me, I watched the child's father grow up. Although we are not father and son, we are closer than father and son. Therefore, the child's father Dad never hid anything from me, including this matter, but he certainly never told the third person again.

Others think that the child's father was able to hunt so many rare birds and animals at such a young age because he was smart and capable. In fact, in the final analysis, he mainly relied on shopkeeper Lu's guidance.

The child's father was naturally very grateful to Shopkeeper Lu, but what puzzled him was why Shopkeeper Lu knew so much about the prey on this mountain. Could Shopkeeper Lu be so good at pinching and calculating?

The child's father sometimes wanted to ask, but when the critical moment came, Shopkeeper Lu smiled and refused to answer. Since Shopkeeper Lu didn't want to talk, he was too embarrassed to ask.

When we and I were drinking together, we often talked about Shopkeeper Lu. I wondered if Shopkeeper Lu could understand the words of animals like a child. The child's father also thought it was possible. But in the end we still didn't understand what was going on.

Later, as you also know, my lord, the child's family was in great trouble. The child's father and mother were murdered overnight. The child and I also discussed this matter repeatedly. Through analysis, we learned various things. In this case, both of us felt that it was the python that did it, and that the big python was the murderer.

When you said this today, my lord, I suddenly thought of such a person. I always feel that this person is unfathomable. Maybe he can know some secrets about the python."

Old Man Jiang's words really made Zheng Yushi feel like "there is no way out but there is no way out, but there is a bright future in another village." However, he first asked worriedly: "Does the old man know whether that shopkeeper Lu is still there?" He is still alive. According to what you said, his current age is estimated to be about eighty years old, which is not much younger than you."

"Don't worry, sir. He is still alive and well. When I came here this time, I happened to pass by his shop, and I seemed to see him still working in the shop. In our village, people often come to the county town to buy and sell things. Every day I always come here by car. I often ask these people about Shopkeeper Lu. They all know Shopkeeper Lu. They all say that although Shopkeeper Lu is old and has many descendants, he still goes to the shop in person every day. Come".

When Zheng Yushi heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Time was pressing and he was unwilling to wait any longer. At this time, it was dinner time and it was not too late, so he quickly called two government servants and told them to go and invite shopkeeper Lu.

When the two government servants arrived at the door, Zheng Yushi seemed to have thought of something again and said: "Wait, don't invite him. Let's go visit him."
Chapter completed!