Chapter 252 Adult
Li Zhijun, Changshan, once went to Qingzhou. On the way, he met six or seven merchants with an accent like Yandi people. These merchants had copper money-sized scars on both sides of their cheeks. Li Zhijun was surprised, so he asked the reason. The merchants said: Last year, I went to Yunnan to do business. I got lost at dusk and unconsciously broke into the mountain. There is no way out of the dangerous rock cliff.
There is a big tree in the valley, with thick shade covering more than an acre of land, and branches several feet long, drooping. The night was long, and we had nowhere to sleep, so we tied the horses to the big tree and rested beside the tree. In the middle of the night, the tiger roared and the wolf roared, which was gloomy and horrible. Everyone hugged each other and dared not close their eyes.
Suddenly, a giant came from afar, more than ten feet tall, and came to the big tree. His giant hand reached out, killed the horses one by one, tore the horse's meat with his arms, and swallowed it raw. In an instant, none of the six or seven horses were spared and ate cleanly.
After eating the horse, the giant reached out and broke the branches, captured everyone, pierced their cheeks with branches, stringed six or seven merchants together, then tied the branches with a dead knot, suppressed them with a boulder, and left.
After the giant disappeared, everyone pulled out their knives, cut off the branches, and fled for their lives in pain. Before he escaped a few steps, the giant went and returned, and this time he took a companion. Everyone was so frightened that they hid in the grass one after another and didn't dare to make a sound.
The giant companion is four or five meters tall. The two came to the tree and traveled back and forth, obviously looking for everyone. The companion searched for a while, but there was no sign of everyone. He was furious, shouted like a bird, and asked harshly, "Where's the prey?" The giant trembled and didn't know how to answer. His companions were furious, bowed left and right with both hands, and slapped the giant seven or eight times in the face. The giant nodded and bowed. He was respectful and did not dare to resist at all.
Suddenly, the two left angrily. Everyone quickly stood up from the grass and fled in a hurry. They didn't know how long they had been escaping. They saw fire on the mountains and came to a stone house nearby. The male host came out to greet him, and everyone swarmed into the house and talked about their experiences. The male host asked us to sit down and said, "These two monsters are very hateful, but I can't deal with them. When my sister-in-law comes back, ask her to come out. It's a big deal.
A few days later, a woman came back from hunting, carrying two giant tigers on her shoulders. Everyone asked her to defeat the demon. The woman said, "Since these two monsters are so fierce, they must be eradicated." He picked up a hammer from the stone house, weighed three or four hundred catties, and went out.
The male owner cooked tiger meat to entertain everyone. The tiger meat was not cooked yet. The woman had already returned and said, "I just fought with the monster, chased for dozens of miles and cut off a finger." While talking, he took out a broken finger and threw it on the ground. The broken finger was very huge, as thick as a leg bone. Everyone looked terrled and asked for the woman's name, but the woman smiled and didn't answer. The tiger meat was ripe and fragrant. Everyone was hungry, but their cheeks were injured, the pain was unbearable, and it was difficult to eat at all. The woman took out a bag of powder from her arms and asked everyone to smear the wound, and the pain stopped.
The next day, at dawn, the woman sent everyone away and came to the tree. The salute was still there and was not lost. Everyone carried their salutes, set out to return home, walked more than ten miles, and the woman saw them off all the way. Passing through a barren mountain halfway, the woman said, "This is where I fought with the monster last night." I saw blood stains on the stones, converging into piles, or at least a large basin.