Five years is neither long nor short. It is also a long test for Xiao Yu.
Before Xiao Yu left, he wrote down the phone numbers of some people he knew, and called them to tell them, saying that he would ask them to help when they encountered difficulties, and he would definitely remember this kindness.
There is a saying in China that when people leave, the tea will cool down. When Xiao Yu was around, some people would give him some thin noodles.
But if Xiao Yu is not here, it's hard to say.
"In that case, I'll take my leave now. I'll do the budgeting and drawings, and I'll ask Designer Wu to think carefully about it."
This meeting lasted for more than five hours, and Lao Bai was already thirsty for words. In the end, he had no choice but to go back and wait for the other party's plan.
"Brother, you run very fast. This hard work is much harder than catching ghosts."
Standing outside Designer Wu's door, Lao Bai looked up to the sky and sighed.
Although he sighed, Lao Bai did not feel tired at all, but felt excited.
If he and Xiao Yu can rebuild Maoshan, they will be able to smile even if they die in the future.
Just as Lao Bai sighed, his phone suddenly rang.
The caller was none other than Xiao Jie.
"Uncle Bai, something bad has happened. The villages we were planning to start construction on last night were all haunted. The local people have rushed to our place, saying that they have angered the mountain god and want to drive us out."
Xiao Jie quickly stated the matter, and only then did Lao Bai understand.
"A collective ghost incident?
It seems that it is another trick played by the Guiyinmen. They did not benefit from Xiao Yu's hands last time, and now they are harming mortals again.
Xiao Jie, don't worry anymore, find a safe place to hide first, I will come over right away, I want to see what kind of waves Guiyinmen can handle."
At this time, in a village ten kilometers away from the Great Witch's Tomb, Xiao Jie and a dozen foremen were stopped by some villagers.
The leader of the villagers is an old man with gray hair.
They were all wearing ethnic minority clothes, holding poles and hoes in their hands, and looked at Xiao Jie and the others angrily.
"Young man, you'd better go. You want to build a temple here and dig roads in the mountains, which has disturbed the mountain god, so the mountain god came to punish us.
If you don't leave, a greater disaster will befall our village, either a plague, a flood, or a locust plague."
The white-haired old man is the mayor of this village, because when he spoke, everyone else became quiet.
"The village chief is right, you all should get out of here. If you don't, we will beat you to death."
"Get out of here quickly..."
Xiao Jie and others were surrounded by some villagers, and they were too frightened to say anything.
Of course he knew that the haunting last night was definitely not the fault of the mountain god.
When Xiao Yu was eight years old, he invited the local landowner from Shimo Village, who was a mouse at that time. How could the mountain god here be so capable and send so many ghosts out to cause trouble?
"You people are so unreasonable. I already gave you money when we dug the road. You said well at that time that you would not stop us. What does the haunting last night have to do with us?"
Behind Xiao Jie, a foreman asked loudly and somewhat displeasedly.
"Money, when did you give the money? We didn't even see it."
Some of the village names were a bit embarrassing at first, but in the end they started fighting haha.
After hearing this, Xiao Jie was a little angry. When he gave the villagers money, he asked the villagers to give him a note, but Lao Bai said that the villagers were simple and would not do that kind of thing.
But now it seems that it is not that the villagers are honest, but that Lao Bai is too kind.
"Let's go, but please remember that we will come back again. I want you to spit out the money I gave you last time intact.
You must know that rebuilding Maoshan is something allowed by China. To drive us out is to become an enemy of the Chinese government, and the police will let you arrest us when the time comes."
A good tiger cannot defeat a pack of wolves. No matter how tough the dozen foremen led by Xiao Jie are, they are no match for the local villagers.
Moreover, Xiao Jie's mouth is usually full of sweet words, so it's okay to deceive those little girls who have just gone to school. But if they really want to meet these tough rural aunts, none of the five Xiao Jies will be their opponent.
Xiao Jie left with a dozen of his foreman brothers, and the villagers' yells and curses could be heard in sequence behind him.
After Xiao Jie and the others left, the village chief led his villagers and walked quickly to a large locust tree at the entrance of the village.
The big locust tree is tied with red ropes, and underneath there is a small house like a land temple, in which two gods are enshrined, one is the earth god and the other is the mountain god.
The white-haired village chief and the villagers knelt under the big locust tree and prayed devoutly.
The breeze blew, and the big locust tree swayed its branches, as if responding to the villagers.
In the trees behind the villagers, two men in black clothes were standing there.
Both men are relatively young, probably in their thirties. They are dressed in black robes and have long hair. They look like knights in TV dramas.
The two looked at the villagers with sarcastic smiles on their faces.
"You see, these villagers are so stupid, as long as we use some small tricks, they will go to the mountain god and the earth god.
I'm afraid they don't know at this moment that the kid we released is even the mountain god and the land master don't dare to come out to take care of things, haha.
As long as we live here, those construction teams will not dare to carry out construction. When the time comes, they will find two snake demons and release them into the mountains to kill some hunters.
The anger of those villagers will all be released on those construction teams, and our mission will be completed.
Xiao Yu is still too young, he thinks that since he is canonized as a real person, he can do whatever he wants?"
The two men stood there and talked quietly for a while, and then walked towards the woods behind.
After the two men left, where they were standing, a vine only as thick as a thumb slowly began to move.
The two men who were waiting gradually moved away, and the vines as thick as a thumb suddenly twisted, and then slowly condensed together, turning into a woman in green.
The woman is wearing green clothes and has a wreath on her head. She is obviously the spirit of vegetation.
As soon as the woman appeared, the soil next to her started rolling, and then an old man walked out.
"Hey...little girl, do you also know about this?"
The old man was holding a cane. As soon as he came out, he sighed and looked at the villagers in the distance.
"Lord Lord, long time no see. I never thought we would meet in this way."
The woman in green looked at the Earth God, bowed slightly and saluted.
"I am from a land where spirits appear. Of course I know, but the origins of these people are a bit big. I'm afraid you and I won't be able to compete with them."
Tu Tu said with a wry smile.
"Hey, yes, I am just a Polygonum multiflorum that has been cultivated for five hundred years. I have finally cultivated it into an essence and can condense the human body.
Last time, Lord Cheng Huang passed by here and saw that my cultivation was not easy, so he gave me this mountain top and asked me to be the mountain god of this mountain.
We have been living in peace and harmony for these decades, but I didn’t expect that Xuanmen would send ghosts out to disturb the people. If we don’t deal with this matter and the city god blames us, we can’t afford it.”
The woman in green clothes is worried, with a worried look on her face.