The Tale Never Ends
/ The Tale Never Ends Chapter 200 A Pseudo Demon Killer Met a Real One
"Whoosh!" His Taoist crown was turned into a trail of ash flying in the air by the flame, and in an instant, this old Taoist priest became an old monk without eyebrows. Dumbfounded, the old priest touched his head. The burning pain gave him a chill and his consciousness at the same time. He flushed first. Then his face became ghastly pale. And then lots of colors vied with each other to appear on his face. This scene was incredibly funny such that I nearly laughed my ass off! This moment I was eager to play more tricks on him. But to my surprise, in this critical situation, wit suddenly came to his rescue. Quickly, he grabbed his traveling bag and the Taiji Sword on the table and then ran away fast. While he was running for his life, he still remembered to shout, "You evil thing, where are you going? I am coming to you!" In the blink of an eye, he disappeared.
I intended to catch up with him, a plaything of me at this time. But when I was about to move, a woman's voice emerged in the direction where the old priest escaped. "Trust me. I will never run away from you, and you are also not allowed to run away from me!" "Gee?" Then in the moonlight, the old priest fainted after uttering the sound. I was greatly surprised because the woman's voice sounded so familiar to me! The voice belonged to no one but my mom!
Narrowing my eyes, I looked toward the voice. A bundle of shadows swayed in the light of the moon, and then they became one. The light was dim, but I still managed to see that those were shadows of many swinging tails. When I was making my secret guesses, the ball of white shadow slowly moved from there to me. It was a white fox! I was overjoyed. "It is definitely my mom!" I originally intended to say hello to her, but soon I remembered that my mom couldn't see me because we were now in the Ming dynasty.
In the darkness, another sound rose. "Villagers, you can come out now." Needless to say, this voice was my father's. Then, I saw my father strolling toward here with the fainted old priest on his back, not in a hurry. While walking, he was pouring wine into his mouth from his iconic flask.
Though it was midnight, overwhelmed by such a huge outstanding problem, people in this village would never fall asleep tonight. Upon hearing my father's words, someone bold pushed the door open and walked out. It was a young man who was the grandson of the previous old man. Not as I had imagined, he didn't timidly pop his head out to check. Instead, he directly opened the door and strode toward my father and mother with no fear on his face.
"I like him," I exclaimed in my heart. He also won a little approval from my dad. Smiling, my father asked him, "So, aren't you afraid that I am the devil thing?" The young man also smiled and replied, "You are not, but she might be." With this, he raised his hand and pointed to my mother. My mother was instantly stunned, but then she giggled, saying, "You are telling me!" As she said this, she darted to my father's feet like a gust of wind. Then, going around my father, she went all the way up to my father's shoulder and squatted there.
When the young man saw this scene, he clicked his tongue in wonder. But then, he turned to my father with a puzzle and asked, "You don't look like the devil that ran amuck in our village. Then, who are you?" My father laughed and said, "We are passers-by who came across a pseudo demon killer doing his dirty business, so we wanted to lend you a helping hand in passing." While saying, my dad raised the old priest's hands and placed the priest's face next to his to display to him and said, "All of you are indeed stupid. How could you believe in a man who is obviously a cheater?" Smiling shamefacedly, the young man stopped talking.
At this time, the other people in the village had heard the conversation between the young man and my father. They knew that my father meant no harm. Therefore, one after another, they also pushed the door open and walked out.
"Boy, you seemed to be quite a young man. Why did you come to this remote village?" A middle-aged woman asked with an anxious look. My dad replied her with a smile. He took out the cloth bag containing the whole village's property from the old priest's traveling bag and put it on the table. Then, he said, "Thank you for your compliment. But in fact, I am very old. Hehe." This was what dad often said to others. After all, he still had a youthful appearance at his age. Sometimes, he felt a little unpleasant to be taken as a boy by others. The middle-aged woman was apparently choked by my dad's words and stopped talking. The other village also didn't believe that my father was old, but they also remained silent. After all, they had already known that the fox on the boy's shoulder was a real demon, so naturally, everyone understood that my father could never be someone ordinary.
Dad opened the cloth bag and said, "Check those things to see who they belonged to and give them back. Oh, right. I have some spare money, and you might as well take it." Then, he raised his hand, and a large package popped up on his hand. When he opened it, ingots of silver appeared in front of everyone!
The scene startled all the villagers here, and they didn't know whether or not they should take the silver. All of them were standing there in shock. Suddenly, an old man's voice rang outside the crowd, "What on earth is going on?" Then, the light of the fire appeared behind the crowd. Holding a torch, a middle-aged man supported the old man with a hand, and they walked inside the coward. Someone explained the situation to the old man. Then, after a brief thought, he went up to dad and said, "On behalf of people from the whole village, I thank you for exposing the priest's fraud! But we can't take the silver. You have helped us a lot by exposing the priest's tricks and recovering our stolen money. How can we also accept your silver?" The old man said in a way neither servile nor overbearing. He knew that my father was absolutely not a normal man, but he showed no fear. He wasn't like the others who showed more or less some fear on their faces after they knew this guy might also be a demon.
The old man expressed thanks to my father. But by refusing my father's gift, he was actually telling my dad that he should leave as soon as possible because he feared he would harm them. But the old man had never expected that my dad didn't want to leave at all. Instead, he plumped himself down on the table and landed his smiling eyes on the old man, not saying a word.
His action puzzled all the people here. No one knew what my dad meant by doing so. After gazing at my father for a long while, perhaps due to the dim light, the old man drew nearer to him and looked at him very carefully. My dad also put his face nearer to his as if he wanted the old man to take a good look at his face. Everyone that presented here, including me, didn't know what was happening. We could only see that the old man looked at my dad, doubtfully.
Just when everyone's head was floating in the clouds. the old man suddenly took two steps back. His eyes widened as if he had seen something extremely horrible. Pointing at my father's face, he stammered, "You! You! You..." Dad lifted his eyebrows and asked, "Do you remember me?" Hearing my dad's question, the old man became even more frightened. If he were not at such an old age, he would have already cried out in terror! The crutch in his hand kept trembling, and he was now speechless with his mouth wide open. Before he could say anything, dad asked with a smile, "Didn't I tell you that no one was allowed to go to the northern foot of the mountain?" With this, my dad pointed to the barren mountain not far away.
After my dad's words came out, not only the old man but all the villagers at the scene were surprised! In surprise, they all looked at the old man. Obviously, they didn't know what the thing was they were talking about or why my dad would mention this.
After a long while, the old man finally recovered from his surprise. "Plop!" The old man suddenly knelt before my father with a gloomy face. "Sir, you are right. I failed to manage the people in the village well! But sir, please save us!" His words and act greatly shocked the others on the spot. Gazing at each other, they wandered what had hit the old man's nerve.
However, my dad didn't reply to him immediately. Instead, lowering his head and narrowing his eyes, he continued looking at the old man with a smile. Now the old man was on his knees before my dad. He looked like a primary school student who was admitting his mistake and asking for forgiveness. Seeing that my dad said nothing, he was at a loss. After a long pause, he said, "In the past, you have told us to stay away from the northern foot of the mountain because we might get into trouble. When my father was alive, he forbade the people in our village to go there. I have abided by his command and never allowed anyone to set foot at the northern foot. But none of us had ever thought that we would then live in a precarious life because of the chaos of the war. Some young people didn't know how serious the thing was and disobeyed the command..."
Before the old man could finish his words, my father gave a wry smile and said, "Well, let it pass! Now things have already happened, so it is useless to talk more about that. Initially, you fled to this place. I forbade you to go near the northern foot of the mountain because I was afraid that some of you would get evil thoughts and make a big mistake. Since some villagers had already made a mistake, you guys should not spend time in regret. Instead, you should think about how to solve the issue."
Upon hearing this, I finally understood. No wonder there was a village in those deserted mountains. It turned out that all the people in the village had fled to this place. I supposed that this village had been here for quite a long time. From the old man's words, I knew he arrived here with his father when he was a child. So it must have been more than fifty years from that time. When the elder generation of the villagers escaped to this place, they should have met my dad. That was why the old man said my father gave them a command at that very year.
"Ow!" A loud sound came from somewhere when everyone was in a fog. The howl gave everyone here a shiver.
Chapter end
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