Chapter 94 Red Face and White Face

Chapter 94 Red Face and White Face

"Captain Zhaowu?!"

Old Zhao looked at the sign in Lan Ling's hand with a look of disbelief.

"Mr. Zhao is so bold that he refuses to pay his respects to me when he sees me!" Lan Ling raised her chin and looked at the confused Zhao Yushu with a smile in her eyes.

"Ha, don't you know that I am a student of a prestigious academy and have the privilege of not bowing to officials?" Zhao Yushu also showed the wooden sign of the academy with his nose in the air.

The two men laughed for a while, and Zhao Yushu put away the wooden sign: "That day at the post station, I thought you were an official's wife, but it turns out you are a sixth-rank lieutenant. I really didn't recognize you."

"Sir, you are too kind. It is not wrong to say that I am an official's wife. My father is indeed an official in Nanyang, and this time I am accompanying him to take up his post."

Oh wow, the second generation, so awesome.

"Why did Miss Lan get involved here?"

"Something went wrong during the sacrifice to the mountain god, and the villagers reported it to the county magistrate, who rode straight to find me. I didn't have time to wait for my father, so I brought an elder with me first. You also met him at the post station."

Zhao Yushu thought of the plain-looking middle-aged monk and nodded: "I remember him. Where is he?"

Lan Ling sighed and recounted what happened in the mountain temple. Zhao Yushu also briefly recounted what happened to him.

"So, it is this mountain god who is manipulating the pollen to confuse these people's minds and at the same time giving them temporary spiritual power?" Lan Ling found it a little unbelievable.

"At the moment, this possibility is the greatest. But I don't understand, if the mountain god has this ability, who is he targeting? Me? If He really wants to kill me, why doesn't he just kill me with a bolt of lightning?" The information Lao Zhao has obtained so far is too little to draw any useful conclusions.

"According to what you said, Master Zhao, this is the earliest temple of the mountain god. Do you think the mountain god is hiding in this temple?"

Zhao Yushu shook his head: "Just now you asked me if I had any thoughts on the current situation. I do have a little idea. Do you know where this place is?"

Lan Ling shook her head.

"The Mountain God Temple, an earlier Mountain God Temple. I went to the place where you were before and saw it. It was too new, no more than a hundred years old, and the Mountain God was conferred four hundred years ago. Then I found this place."

Lan Ling's eyes lit up: "So this is the real mountain temple!"

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yushu shook his head and said, "I'm not sure. Jiufeng Mountain is very big. When I came here, a villager said that the surrounding villages have built mountain god temples close to their homes, and some have four or five. So, is the place we are in now the only one? Or is it the one that Emperor Taizu conferred upon it? I don't know much about gods. I wonder if Miss Lan knows that when conferring a mountain god, will it be conferred upon multiple places at the same time?"

Lan Ling suddenly realized: "Impossible, the emperor conferred the patron saint, there would only be one temple, and, and..." Lan Ling looked around: "This is too small."

Yes, this may be an earlier mountain temple, but it is still not the earliest place to be conferred. But why did the witch come here? Where were the children taken?

Zhao Yushu's eyes fell on the unconscious fortune-teller. He had to look for clues from her.

After fighting and escaping all night, both of them were physically and mentally exhausted, so Lao Zhao looked for some vines and tied the old witch to the altar, and then he and Lan Ling leaned against a broken stone pillar and closed their eyes to rest.

All night long, there were no more accidents, which made Zhao Yushu feel a little surprised. It seemed that it was not in line with his current personality to not provoke something.

The scent that caused people to mutate seemed to have worked only that one time. I don't know if the mountain god could only do it this once or if he found out that the two were on guard and didn't try again.

But this is good news after all. It's dawn, the rain has stopped and the sky is clear. The vision is much clearer and many things can be done, such as interrogating the old witch.

Although Zhao Yushu had been severely beaten a few days after he traveled through time, he was still not up to the task of interrogating others. But now he had Lan Ling here. Although Lan Ling was not a professional and was just a military commander, it was always better for two people to work together than for one person to just stand there and do nothing.

So Lan Ling placed her hand on the old witch's forehead, and spiritual light emerged from her palm. After a moment, the old witch cried out and slowly opened her eyes.

"Ah! Mountain God, please spare my life!" The old witch opened her eyes and without even looking at the person in front of her, she cried out and begged for mercy.

Okay, I'm back to normal. Well, if being stupid is considered normal.

It's broad daylight and I'm retrialing the case. You can't give me another bolt from the blue.

So Lao Zhao coughed and started to use his old trick again: "Shut up, God!"

Lan Ling was stunned and widened her eyes. Who are you? Why do you think you are a god?

Before Lan Ling could say anything, Zhao Yushu's eyes widened with anger: "River God, please don't interrupt me."

River God? Lan Ling was puzzled.

The old witch shuddered when she heard this, subconsciously glanced at Lan Ling, and quickly lowered her head: "Mountain God, please spare my life, River Goddess, please spare my life, I have done everything I should do!"

Lan Ling was not a fool. After hearing what the old witch said, she immediately understood Zhao Yushu's intention. Her face tightened and she said, "Don't panic. Tell the mountain god what you said. If you are innocent, I will speak well of you."

Lan Ling finished her words seriously, but she kept praying to the river god in her heart, "Don't blame me, river god." This was also to save people, although she herself didn't know which river god she was praying to.

"Well, I ask, you answer! If you are really not wrong, not only will I not blame you, but I will also reward you for the sake of the River God!" After saying that, Zhao Yushu secretly gave Lan Ling a thumbs up. Lan Ling secretly stuck out her tongue and rolled her eyes at him.

"The Mountain God asked me this question, and I dare not lie!"

Well, it seems that he has regained some of his sanity and is no longer completely crazy.

Zhao Yushu was silent for a moment, putting enough pressure on the witch, and suddenly said: "Do you still remember what I asked you to do?"

"Remember, remember. The mountain god asked me in my dream to prepare a boy and a girl for you. I have prepared them!"

"How much did the God ask you to prepare?"

"You said the more the better, but there are only four suitable ones in Muping Village, and we have already found them all!"

It turned out that the village was called Muping Village. Lao Zhao nodded and said, "There are only four in Muping Village. Don't other villages have any?"

The old witch paused and bowed her head: "People from other villages, haven't asked me to go over yet..."

“Humph, if you weren’t invited, you wouldn’t be able to go there on your own. Do you need me to teach you such a small thing?!”

The old witch lay on the ground, not daring to refute.

"Forget it. Time is running out. I can't blame her. But you are also incompetent. Tell me, where did the mountain god ask you to send the boy and girl?"

After Zhao Yushu played the villain, it was naturally Lan Ling's turn to play the villain.

"Mountain, mountain temple." The witch was a little confused.

"Yes, this god asks you, is the place you sent it to the mountain god temple?" Lan Ling finally pointed out the key point. The purpose of their interrogation this time was to find out where the real, oldest mountain god temple was.

In order to cooperate with Lan Ling, Zhao Yushu snorted coldly at the right time: "It seems that this god has not shown his power for many years. You mortals have even forgotten where this god lives. Humph, it's good!"