Qin Shaoyou and Su Tingyu walked straight towards the Earth Temple.
When bidding farewell to the village chief, Qin Shaoyou deliberately mentioned that he was going to say goodbye to the caravan and asked the caravan to help send a suicide note to the families on both sides to explain his death.
If possible, they should also ask their families to help them build a tomb and bury their clothes in the same tomb. In this way, even if they cannot live in the same quilt, they can die in the same cave, and they can still be husband and wife in the underworld.
This was Qin Shaoyou's excuse in advance to meet Zhu Xiucai and others.
Sure enough, the villagers didn't have any problems or doubts about their visit to the Tutu Temple. After sighing and talking for a while, they went home.
After the village chief returned to the house, he took out the copper coins from his sleeve, counted them, separated out half and hid it, and kept the other half to distribute to the villagers later.
After all, the villagers had heard about the accommodation fee given by the caravan. Just now, someone asked him how much accommodation fee he had received and asked him to divide it up. However, he prevaricated it by saying, "The caravan hasn't left yet, we'll talk about it tomorrow."
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After collecting the money, the village chief shook his head and said to himself: "These city people are just hypocritical. If they got into the tiger's belly together, wouldn't they be in the same tomb after death? If they were pulled out by the tiger together again, wouldn't they?
They become the same people after death? What kind of burial tomb is it? It's a waste of money."
At the same time, on the other side.
Qin Shaoyou and Su Tingyu were walking when suddenly a translucent head popped out of Su Tingyu's chest.
Qin Shaoyou glanced at it, his head was round and white...
It was Su Jianqing.
She stuck her head out and said, "After you left, some villagers suggested sending people into the mountain to report your affairs to the tiger..."
After Su Jianqing finished speaking, she saw Qin Shaoyou's calm face and couldn't help but wonder: "Why are you not nervous at all?"
"What is there to be nervous about?" Qin Shaoyou smiled, "When the scholar led the team to the Earth Temple, he had quietly sent people to hide around the village. If there is anyone in the village who really wants to report to the tiger, as soon as he leaves the village
They will be targeted by our people and we will definitely not let them succeed."
"It turns out you were already prepared. Why are you not worried at all?"
The failure to scare Qin Shaoyou made Su Jianqing a little boring.
"The proposal to report the news was rejected by the village chief here. I really didn't expect that the people here would believe your nonsense story. Your skills in talking are really amazing.
It would be a shame to become a storyteller."
Qin Shaoyou smiled and said: "Thank you for the compliment. If I can't survive in the Demon Suppression Department in the future, I will listen to you and become a storyteller. Maybe I will become famous."
Then he asked seriously: "Besides the rejection of the report, did you hear anything else?"
"The rest is just gossip and of little value."
Of course, Su Jianqing would not tell Qin Shaoyou. She also heard the villagers saying that he and Su Tingyulang were a good match, and that their love story was very sad and beautiful.
Qin Shaoyou nodded, cupped his hands towards Su Jianqing and said, "Thank you so much, Taoist Su will continue to secretly keep an eye on the villagers here. If they have any suspicious behavior or words, please come over and inform me immediately."
"give it to me."
Su Jianqing did not refuse.
From the previous proposal from some villagers to report to the tiger, it is not difficult to see that the villagers here are skeptical and opposed to anyone coming to help them get rid of the monster.
After all, in the two previous attempts to eliminate the demon, they failed to eliminate the demon, but it cost them a lot.
Therefore, it is necessary to be on guard against them, lest they spoil the demon elimination plan.
Su Jianqing's translucent head disappeared from Su Tingyu's chest, and she continued to listen and monitor the movements of the villagers.
Qin Shaoyou and Su Tingyu quickly arrived at the Earth Temple.
The temple is not big, just a courtyard and a main hall.
The courtyard is so small that all the carriages cannot be driven in, so they can only park outside the temple gate.
After the horses were removed from their carriages, they were taken into the yard and fed and watered.
The night watchmen carried the iron cages covered with linen into the main hall of the temple.
Several villagers gathered around the Tutu Temple to watch the excitement, curiously guessing what kind of goods these were.
The iron cage was covered with linen, and the situation inside could not be seen. In order to prevent the children from being turned into dogs from screaming in panic and causing unnecessary trouble, the Su sisters cast a spell on them, making them unable to
Barking.
Therefore, it is naturally impossible for the villagers watching the excitement to know what kind of "goods" are being transported in the convoy.
Although they were curious, they had no evil intentions.
It's not that the folk customs are so simple, but that there are many guards with swords in the caravan, so they don't dare to have evil intentions.
Qin Shaoyou and Su Tingyu entered the main hall of the temple and saw a clay sculpture of a painted earth god.
This earth god is a popular figure - an old man with a cane, white hair and white beard, and a smile on his face.
On the table in front of the statue, there is an incense burner, which is full of incense ashes and there are several burning incense sticks.
It can be seen that this earth temple is not abandoned, and villagers often come to offer incense.
However, this temple must be quite old. Many of the paintings on the statue of the Earth God have faded, making it look less majestic and more strange and eerie.
Especially on its face, there are several places where plastic clay has fallen off, like big sores. It makes people feel uncomfortable just looking at it. It also makes the smile of this earth god statue less amiable and more amiable.
A bit ferocious and terrifying.
There is also a couplet hanging on the pillars on both sides of the earth god statue, which reads: "The temple is small and the supernatural power is great, the sky is high and the sun and the moon are long."
"A small temple has great supernatural powers?"
Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but snorted, glanced at the land statue, shook his head and said: "If you really have supernatural powers, the villagers here worship you every day, but they haven't seen you appear. Can you bless them?"
In this world, gods are more unreliable than humans.
In the main hall, the night watchmen were busy feeding and watering the children who were turned into dogs in iron cages.
Zhu Xiucai came up to him, and first reported on the dispatch of sentinels around the village, and then asked Qin Shaoyou: "Sir, have you convinced the village chief here?"
Qin Shaoyou lifted up his sleeves, revealing the grass ring on his wrist.
"I've been convinced. Tonight, Taoist priest Xiao Su and I will wait as boys and girls in the village ancestral hall for the ghost messengers to pick us up. This grass ring is a token of sacrifice."
"Your Excellency is indeed eloquent." Zhu Xiucai complimented him, and then got down to business: "Then please make preparations... take off your armor now."
Qin Shaoyou was shocked: "What? Take off your armor? Why?!"
Zhu Xiucai knew that he would react like this and patiently persuaded him: "Sir, think about it, how can there be any sacrifice wearing armor? When the ghost messenger comes at night and sees the armor under your robe, shouldn't he reveal it immediately?"
Qin Shaoyou opened his mouth, wanting to find a reason to refuse, but he couldn't find one.
You can't say that you are born in the year of the tortoise and you are born to wear armor, right?
Sighing, Qin Shaoyou could only accept the reality helplessly, and with the help of several strong men under his command, he took off his armor.
What people didn't expect was that after taking off the heavy armor on the outside, Qin Shaoyou also wore a soft armor on the inside and placed a thick breast shield on his chest.
Several Xiaoqi and their night watchmen were stunned.
It's not enough to wear thick armor, but you also put on soft armor and such a thick goggles? Haven't you already entered the realm of muscles and bones? Do you still need to wear so much armor?
That is to say, Qin Shaoyou doesn't know what they are thinking, otherwise he would definitely tell them that no matter how much defense he piles up, it will never be too much, only not enough.
Zhu Xiucai also noticed the soft armor and breast goggles Qin Shaoyou was wearing, shook his head and said: "These must be taken off too."
Qin Shaoyou made his last effort: "You can take off the soft armor, but keep this one. This is my longevity lock."
Zhu Xiucai had an expression on his face that said, "You think I'm blind." He shook his head and said, "Sir, it's better to take it off. Whose life lock looks like a mirror? It's so big and thick."
After taking off his armor, soft armor and breast shield, Qin Shaoyou put on his robe again and was about to get the knife.
"You cannot bring knives." Zhu Xiucai said, "Aside from the few weapons that fell out when you just took off your armor and softened it, do you have other weapons hidden on your body, sir? Please take them out too."
Qin Shaoyou accepted his fate and took out several hidden weapons from his body, putting them together with the long knives from before, as well as the sleeve arrows, darts, etc. that fell out when he took off his armor or softened his armor.
Suddenly a long row was released.
Zhu Xiucai and others had long been accustomed to this, but the other night watchmen in the team were dumbfounded and amazed.
Everyone sighed in their hearts: "This Qin Xiaoqi is simply a humanoid arsenal."
Zhu Xiucai glanced at the weapons on the ground and felt a little worried: "Sir, have you taken out all the weapons on you?"
Qin Shaoyou said: "There are a few more. You have to leave me a few for self-defense, so that I don't have to fight with my bare hands, right?"
Zhu Xiucai thought for a while and realized that this was also the case, so he compromised and said, "Then you have to hide it well so that the tigers and ghosts don't find you."
"Don't worry, I'll definitely hide it." Qin Shaoyou breathed a sigh of relief.
He would feel very uncomfortable without a weapon by his side.
But the night watchmen around were shocked again: Qin Xiaoqi still had weapons hidden on his body? Damn it, where was he...he was hiding?
Everyone's curious eyes kept glancing back and forth at Qin Shaoyou.
After a simple meal of dry food, the sky turned dark.
Dark night falls.
There are no stars tonight, and a gray moon hangs alone in the night sky, as if it will be swallowed by darkness at any time.
Qin Shaoyou and Su Tingyu walked through the night and arrived at the village ancestral hall.