Although Lin Xixue could not explore the Sanyuan Temple at the moment, nor could she rush to look for the blessings of the City God's Temple, there was still one thing that she could solve right now.
She had previously asked the Ziren Pavilion in the city to repair the Wuzeng Temple in Linghu Village, but she didn't know what the progress was after two months.
She left the room, told the maids in the house to take care of Xu Zhiyi, then put on her veil and walked to the Zi Ren Pavilion in the city.
Perhaps because it was already getting late, the door of the Zi Ren Pavilion was already closed, and only a flickering oil lamp could be seen through the window paper on the counter.
She knocked softly on the door, but no one responded, but she could clearly see a figure sitting next to the oil lamp. She frowned and knocked hard again. This time someone finally answered the door.
"It's unfortunate that you're here. Our restaurant has stopped taking orders these days. It's a waste of time for you to make this trip. Please come back."
When Lin Xixue heard this tone through the door, she knew that this was the shopkeeper who had received her before.
"Thank you, shopkeeper, I asked you to repair the temple in Linghu Village before. I wonder if the progress is going well now?" she called from the other door.
The shopkeeper opened the door a small crack, and after confirming that the visitor was correct, he welcomed her into the hall.
"Girl, to tell you the truth, the repair of this temple is going to be difficult."
For some reason, Lin Xixue felt that the shopkeeper's tone when he spoke to her suddenly became much colder.
It would be fine if it was just a bad attitude, but the shopkeeper had clearly promised it would be fine when he collected the money, so why did he say it couldn't be repaired now?
Her expression also turned cold and she said, "What does the shopkeeper mean by this? I paid all the money at once. Could it be that I am a woman who is easy to bully?"
"Hmph! If it weren't for the girl, how could the young master's family have fallen into such a dangerous place as Linghu Village?" The shopkeeper snorted coldly, with deep resentment in his tone.
"The shopkeeper might as well say it clearly if he has something to say."
Lin Xixue was not interested in accepting such nonsensical accusations, so she simply asked the shopkeeper to explain clearly.
"Okay!" The shopkeeper became even more angry after hearing this. His breath blew his beard flying around, and his back molars made a crunching sound.
"I don't know how you managed to seduce the young master's family. The young master's family has always been dissolute, but after taking this order from you, it was as if they were possessed by evil spirits. They insisted on going to Linghu Village to supervise the construction in person."
Lin Xixue was speechless in her heart. This dude was interested in me unilaterally and wanted to do his best to fulfill my instructions. What does it have to do with me? I didn't know he was going beforehand?
Besides, why was he in danger again when he went to supervise the construction?
"He went voluntarily. What does it have to do with me? I didn't assign him to go. Besides, why is Linghu Village in danger?"
"Not long ago, the young master's family set off a life-saving flare. The master immediately sent his family's servants and warriors to rescue him, but none of these servants came back."
"Not long after, Xinliang City declared martial law, strictly prohibiting any outsiders from entering or exiting. The master spent a lot of money to recruit a group of brave men, but they were unable to leave the city."
"Master, she was already angry because the second young lady of the Xu family ran away and the engagement was cancelled. Now there is no news from the young master's family, and her life and death are unknown. It's all because of the order you assigned me, girl!"
The shopkeeper pointed at Lin Xixue, his eyes widened, and he was spitting.
"You know what?" Lin Xixue took a step forward and appeared behind the shopkeeper like a ghost, with the sword already on his neck, "I don't like being pointed at."
"I don't like to suffer such unwarranted accountability." She leaned close to the shopkeeper's ear, and her seemingly gentle voice was filled with murderous intent.
"You took the order, assigned the manpower, and set the price. Now you have to blame me for the unexpected situation."
"I generally call this behavior, expressing anger."
The shopkeeper was so frightened by Lin Xixue's tone that he could not even think of words to beg for mercy.
The next moment, the horizontal sword was unsheathed, and a cold light suddenly appeared, but the hand wielding the sword suddenly stopped in mid-air.
Lin Xixue held the knife behind her back, held the hand holding the scabbard in front of her forehead, struggled to push the door open and ran, disappearing into the night in the blink of an eye.
She didn't know how far she ran, picked up a large bucket of water from in front of a house, and splashed it on her face.
She raised her head, closed her eyes, and remained motionless. The crystal water drops slid down the white neck, soaking the collar, like a lonely jade doll under the moonlight.
She didn't know how long she stood there, but she finally calmed down again.
The shopkeeper's indiscriminate behavior of expressing his anger is naturally extremely abominable.
However, sin does not lead to death.
On the contrary, it was the Wuzeng Temple incident that gave Lin Xixue a headache. She thought there would be no more changes in this matter, but she didn't expect that another incident would arise.
However, there was something that Lin Xixue couldn't figure out.
The last time I caused trouble in Xinliang City, the Taoist priest from Sanyuan Temple arrived instantly.
Now something rather bad seems to be happening in Xinliang City and Linghu Village not far away. Why are these Taoist priests missing?
Since it is a Taoist temple in the lineage of Shenxiao, the state religion of Yunzhou, and is usually worshiped by the people, shouldn't it be time to step forward to solve the problem now?
The Zhu of the City God's Temple might know something, but it's just not easy for me to go find him now.
What happened in Linghu Village, and why did the dandy Gu Yu send a flare to ask for help?
She didn't care at all about the life and death of this dude, but she promised her master that she would renovate the temple for him. Now something happened during the renovation, and she couldn't ignore it.
It would be better for her to go and investigate this matter in person.
She came to the edge of the city wall, lifted up her skirt, jumped up, stepped on the wall one after another to use her strength, and found the blind spot where the archers at the top of the city were blinking. She crossed the top of the city in a flash and landed steadily outside the city.
Since she obtained the Five Evils Yin Thunder Map, her physical strength has been greatly improved, and things she couldn't do before are now effortless.
She found the direction of Linghu Village, tapped her toes, and jumped dozens of feet. Rather than running on the ground, she seemed to be flying fast on the ground.
Not long after, the familiar sea of bamboo appeared in her field of vision, but outside the sea of bamboo, she saw a circle of familiar orange-yellow powder.
She stopped, leaned down, and fanned the powder near her nose. Sure enough, there was a smell of rotten eggs, which was undoubtedly realgar powder.
There are a large number of densely packed insect corpses huddled together inside the realgar powder.
Lin Xixue was a little surprised. He thought that the martial law in Liang City was related to the walking dead, but he didn't expect that the source was actually in Linghu Village?
She frowned, stepped over the realgar powder, and continued walking deeper into the bamboo forest.
The bamboo forest seemed to be winding and winding, making it difficult to run fast, but the elastic bamboo became a foothold for her to use force to launch herself, and her forward speed increased instead of falling.
But as she ran, she suddenly heard a "click, click, click" sound of carapace colliding.
Inexplicably, she felt that the voice was somewhat familiar, but before she had time to think about it, she saw a long yellow and black object shooting toward her ear.
But her attack was so swift and violent at the moment, how could such a thing be able to plot against her.
She stepped on the bamboo under her feet and flew out in the opposite direction. With her left hand, she took out the Splitting Light Breaking Night from the void. With her right hand, she drew the sword and used the inertia to turn it over, slashing out a full moon-like sword light in the air.
The yellow and black thing let out a scream, then was chopped into two pieces and fell to the ground.
The body that was broken into two parts kept curling and relaxing, like a fish being fished ashore, constantly beating the ground, and yellow-brown mucus oozed from the cut surface.
Lin Xixue saw the thing that fell on the ground clearly, and her pupils shrank suddenly...