"Ah? How can those villagers be so vicious?" Zhang Tianqin and the others were angry when they heard this.
The head of the suit burped: "Little brother, think about it, if you didn't ask me, brother, and went all the way to Jiangyuan Town without knowing it, angering the Gray God, wouldn't you have ruined your good fortune in vain?
life?"
He looked at Wu Qiudao's face with admiration and said with a smile: "It's a pity that you have such a good skin!"
After talking about the outfit, I was already very drunk and fell asleep directly on the table.
After Zhang Tianqin heard what he said about the Gray God, he turned to look at Wu Qiudao and asked: "Little Sword Immortal, do you think this matter?"
Wu Qiudao thought for a while and asked, "Don't ask me yet, how would you handle this matter if it were you yourself?"
Zhang Tianqin smiled: "If the little sword fairy asks, of course we will directly eliminate the rat problem."
Wu Qiudao was curious: "Aren't you afraid?"
Zhang Tianqin explained that the requirements mentioned in the yellow list were just to eliminate the rat infestation in Changping Mountain. They did not say that they had to eliminate the source of the rat infestation. They only needed to kill all the rats near the village. There was no need to provoke them.
Gray God.
Do we have to kill all the local mountain people after accepting the bid to get rid of bandits? After all, in those poor mountains and rivers, there are many poor people who are part-farmers and part-bandits. When they pick up a knife, they are bandits, and when they pick up a hoe, they are farmers.
Can't they all be killed by riding horses?
Zhang Tianqin vowed: "If I were to choose, I would dig up three feet of Changping Mountain and kill all those giant rats!"
"But we must not cross the border to go to Jiangyuan Town! Not to mention anything else, it is not cost-effective from the perspective of bounty alone! Keep Gray God here, maybe in two months, the villagers will have to issue a yellow list. By then
After uncovering the list, a few more taels of silver came into my account! What a pure profit!"
"Yeah." Wu Qiudao said noncommittally, "Let's take a look first."
Three days later, the four of them walked while asking for directions, and finally arrived at Changping Mountain, where the rat eradication list was issued. There was only one village on this hill, but the houses were a little far away from each other.
When the villagers saw Lumao Toutuo, who had six arms and a vicious appearance, they all screamed in fright. However, the captain Zhang Tianqin took out the nameplate and yellow list of Yaxingfa, and finally made the villagers believe them.
Not a monster.
In other words, it's just that people are no longer called monsters in person. There is no official village in Changping Mountain, so there is no village chief. Here are poor families who have been forced by evil spirits and police to seek life in the mountains and forests.
The oldest old woman in the village said she was willing to provide them with food and lodging for the next few days, but she still took the opportunity to whisper next to the team leader Zhang Tianqin: "Hero, the six-armed monster you subdued won't cause trouble, will it?"
Zhang Tianqin didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing this, so he could only explain: "Please don't misunderstand me. This senior brother Lu Mao is a disciple of Buddhism. Do you see that the Buddha statues in the temple have three heads, six arms, and images of bull heads and horse faces?"
"Senior Brother Lu Mao practices the Buddhism method of ascetic cultivation, so he has this six-armed body! This is an appearance with great power!"
"Not only that, we also have Taoist Wu here. Although he looks young, he has actually lived for hundreds of years." Zhang Tianqin explained softly to Wu Qiudao, "This is to appease the villagers. Please forgive me, little sword fairy!"
He shouted loudly: "Taoist Master Wu is a swordsman who has been rumored for a long time in Shu. He spits flying swords and takes heads from thousands of miles away! You guys can hire a swordsman like Taoist Master Wu with just two taels of silver, but he does good deeds on weekdays."
The blessings of accumulating virtue!"
However, what Zhang Tianqin didn't expect was that after hearing his praise, these country fools not only did not praise him, but instead looked at them with some worry.
It was the old woman who stood up and said: "This strong man does not have two taels of silver written on the yellow list!"
Zhang Tianqin looked at the yellow list: "That's right, two copper coins is two thousand coins, and two thousand coins is two taels of silver!"
The old woman's face was full of sorrow, and the years and hard work had carved deep grooves on her face. The grooves on her face twisted: "We mountain people have been saving for two years before we saved 2,100 coins! One hundred coins are paid.
A yellow list was issued to the tooth shop, and the remaining two thousand yuan was a reward."
"If we go to the foot of the mountain to exchange two taels of silver, the bank will deduct 200 coins from us! So we clearly stated on the yellow list that it is two taels of copper coins!" The old woman took out a small wooden box with copper plates inside, "That's it.
I'm afraid you might find two thousand copper coins inconvenient."
There was obvious embarrassment on the old woman's face: "You are a six-armed Tutuo and a Taoist Master of Sword Immortal. The reward should remain the same as two copper coins, right? If we want to increase the price, we won't be able to pay it this year!"
Zhang Tianqin looked at the small wooden box and frowned, obviously feeling that it was a bit troublesome.
Wu Qiudao walked up to the old woman, took the wooden box, and replied warmly: "Old lady, don't worry, since the yellow list says two thousand Wen, then it is two thousand Wen. We have already accepted the money.
Just wait for the good news that we will get rid of the rat infestation!”
Zhang Tianqin took the wooden box that Wu Qiudao put into his arms and sighed. He had no choice. The swordsman who had just come down from the mountain was so angry that he turned his face and asked seriously: "Villages, please tell me about this rat infestation."
What exactly is going on?"
After introductions from the villagers, they learned that these evil rats were originally small and swam across the river to scavenge for food. But later they grew larger and larger, and there were many giant rats living in caves near Changping Mountain.
reproduce.
It is actually not difficult to find these giant rats. A few young villagers teamed up and killed a lot of them, but it is really difficult to clear out all the rat holes in the mountains!
Wu Qiudao smiled and asked, "That's not difficult. Do you have the living bodies of those evil rats here?"
The villagers looked at each other. They hated these giant rats before it was too late. How could they leave any living bodies behind?
At this time, a little girl suddenly stood up and said, "Brother Sword Immortal, I know where you can find it!"
Wu Qiudao complimented the little girl casually, and the little girl was so excited that she seemed to jump up. So a large number of people followed the little girl deep into the village, until they reached a cemetery, and the little girl shouted happily: "
Right here!"
The little girl's father was so angry that he wanted to slap his daughter, but Wu Qiudao stopped him with his eyes closed. He opened his eyes and sighed: "The little girl is right, these graves are full of giant rats."
, these are doves occupying a magpie's nest!"
Zhang Tianqin frowned and asked: "Little Sword Immortal, do you want us to open the tomb and catch a few evil rats?"
Wu Qiudao looked at the ugly faces of the villagers around him and said with a smile, "That's not necessary."
The ground in front of everyone suddenly rolled like a surge, but they stood so close, but they did not feel the earthquake at all. Soon, dozens of giant rats as big as puppies were restrained by the sand and sent out of the ground.