"Ma'am, don't worry. We're giving up halfway now. How will we get a house in the inner city after we go back?"
Xu Yang shook his head as he spoke: "Once the outer areas of Xujiafang City are abandoned, our safety will not be guaranteed! So we must get the houses in the inner city!"
"But husband, this is not the way to go." Shen Manyun felt sorry for her husband, and it felt uncomfortable to be gossiped about behind his back.
Xu Yang said with a smile: "I have already thought of a way."
At noon that day, Xu Yang announced that he would ambush in the east area and arranged several disciples there to listen to his orders at the back.
Because he bought a kind of spirit animal meat in the east area and planned to lure the demon rat over.
Upon hearing this plan, some disciples immediately retorted: "We have tried this method before and it didn't work."
"Yes, and we are all guarding the east area. The other areas are empty. If something happens..."
"Okay, just follow my orders."
Xu Yang's eyes swept across everyone present.
"No, Xu Yang, you are messing around."
"Yes, this method has been proven."
"I want to tell Elder Anwu that you are messing around. In my opinion, you have no ability at all."
Someone wants to leave immediately.
"stop!"
Gu Panjiang, who had a kind look on his face, stopped the people who were about to leave and reassured everyone: "Since Elder Zuo Anwu has entrusted the important task to Fellow Daoist Xu, everyone must fully trust him. Now, you are not listening to Elder Zuo Anwu." ?"
"But……"
Someone wanted to speak, but Gu Panjiang stopped him and said, "Stop talking nonsense and listen to Xu Yang."
"Thank you, Master Gu, for speaking for me."
Xu Yang breathed a sigh of relief. This Gu Panjiang was indeed a good person, otherwise he wouldn't know whether the plan would work.
"Fellow Daoist Xu, I know you are anxious too, don't be discouraged, I believe in your ability."
Gu Panjiang sighed and said with relief: "Let's do this. I will be with you when the time comes and wish you a helping hand."
"Thank you, Master Gu."
"You're welcome. Everyone wants to catch that water rat as soon as possible."
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At night, everything is silent.
In a hidden grassy area to the west of Country Lake, suddenly, the soil was turned up.
A gray-faced mouse poked its head out furtively.
The mouse was about the size of a cat. When it noticed that no one was around, it left the entrance of the hole. Then it turned back and backfilled the hole with soil, making people unaware that there had been a hole here.
"brush!!"
The water rat ran towards Country Lake not far away and quickly jumped into the water. It noticed a school of fish in front of it and pursued it excitedly.
"Zhizhizhi..."
The water spirit rat moved very fast. As soon as it passed by, a spirit fish was bitten on the head by the water spirit rat and dragged toward the bottom of the water. Immediately, the water surface was stained red with blood.
The other spirit fish were not stupid and fled for their lives in a hurry, but soon, the water spirit rat who killed a spirit fish caught up again.
Just as a group of spirit fish were desperately trying to escape, suddenly, a group of spirit fish in front of them suddenly bumped into something and got entangled.
The water spirit rat was overjoyed. It didn't know what was happening over there, so it kept rushing forward, but it soon regretted it.
Because after getting closer, it discovered that there was actually a layer of net here. It was not an ordinary fishing net, but a dark golden spiritual net made of golden cicada silk.
"Gululu..."
It struggled violently in the water, foaming in its mouth, trying to escape from the spiritual net.
But the more he struggled, the tighter the spiritual net on his body tightened, and the net on his body seemed to have a layer of strange power, beginning to absorb its spiritual power. Soon, the water spirit rat fell down weakly and was completely entangled to death.
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On the other side, Xu Yang was leading people to ambush in the east area.
"It's already midnight, and there's still no movement. Fellow Taoist Xu, it seems that my work tonight has been in vain."
Gu Panjiang shook his head and sighed, comforting him.
The children of the Xu family around him were also quite resentful.
Thinking that they had been staring here for so long but found nothing, of course they were a little angry.
Unexpectedly, Xu Yang smiled and said nothing, sitting leisurely under a pavilion, chatting and joking with his two wives.
"Master Gu Alchemy, let's drink tea together. Don't be in a hurry. It's only midnight." Xu Yang said.
"Hey, I'm worried that others will slander you again. I'm too old to see this."
"Master Gu Alchemy is highly respected and kind-hearted. Xu admires him."
"Where there."
Gu Panjiang laughed dumbly, shook his head and said: "That's all, I, an old man, will also drink tea with you."
"welcome."
In the blink of an eye, an hour passed.
Still found nothing.
Someone was already yelling.
Suddenly, the messenger talisman around Xu Yang's waist trembled, and he felt happy that there was news.
The news has come, which means that the network has been closed over there!
The plan finally succeeded!
It was the message from Elder Anwu: "Xu Yang, the spiritual net has been collected, and the water spirit rat has been captured by me."
"Hahaha…………"
Xu Yang laughed.
This laughter startled Gu Panjiang and his two wives, who thought he had been stimulated in some way.
The sound also disturbed the sleepy people waiting elsewhere.
Someone directly scolded: "Xu Yang, you said you wanted us to stay here. If you are laughing like this now, how can you wait for the water spirit rat to come by himself?"
"Yeah, I'm taking my good time away from practicing to accompany you here to catch rats. It's better for you to start causing trouble on your own."
"I quit, I want to tell the elders."
"Yes, tell the elders that you must be treated."
"Please be patient, I feel that Fellow Daoist Xu must have discovered something happy."
Gu Panjiang quickly helped Xu Yang speak.
Xu Yang chuckled and said, "Everyone, the Water Spirit Rat has been captured."
"What?"
Everyone was shocked.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
At this moment, Zu Anwu held a dark golden net in his hand, floated over and landed in front of everyone.
In the net, I saw a gray, struggling water spirit rat that kept squeaking. It opened its mouth and wanted to bite through the spirit net, but unfortunately it couldn't bite it at all. It jumped around in anxiety.
"Elder, this..."
"Xu Yang, look, the elder himself has been caught."
"Yeah, thank you for letting us stay here most of the night."
Three young people spoke up.
Zu Anwu scolded: "Thanks to Xu Yang this time, I was able to catch the mouse. Please apologize to me."
"Um??"
Several people were stunned for a moment and did not react.
It's obvious that Xu Yang has done nothing here.
At this time, Zu Anwu started to explain.
It turned out that Xu Yang discovered through his recent patrols that the water spirit rat seemed to know his location. Every time he appeared on patrol somewhere, the water spirit rat would walk around him and attack the spirit fish.
This gave him a guess, there is a ghost here! The mole!
This inner ghost knew his whereabouts and secretly controlled the Water Spirit Rat, which prevented him from encountering the Water Spirit Rat every time.
In this case, he secretly discussed with Zu Anwu, and he openly asked everyone to guard the east area, so the water spirit rat would most likely appear in the west.
So he asked Tu Anwu to set up a spiritual net in the west and squat there specially.
Sure enough, the plan succeeded.
"So that's it."
Xu Wenpeng fell into deep thought.
Not only him, but others were also lost in thought.
Because this means that someone around them is a mole!
Zuo Anwu said in a deep voice: "Tomorrow, I will report it to the family to find this mole. No one is allowed to go out these days, pending investigation!"
"yes!"
After Zu Anwu finished speaking, he squeezed the magic formula. The next moment, with Country Lake as the center of the circle, the defensive formation was activated, which meant that no one inside could go out.
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Early the next morning.
Xu Yang was happy.
Because he found that the rewards he received from his two wives increased, and there were other rewards too!
