Chapter 480: Ruthlessly Shearing Sheep

The wind blew the oily green jujube trees, rustling.

Tatta Kai stretched its arms like a bow, pulled its waist, and set up an ape fist stance.

Scarface put its claws together, and the yellow robe on its shoulders fluttered in the wind.

The murderous aura had frozen time, waiting only for a flying leaf to cut through the silence, and the claw light to explode.

"Crack!"

The door pushed open.

The sound of the door hinge was like a bell, snapping the taut long string, the balanced confrontation collapsed, and two black shadows kicked the ground together, rolling up evil winds, and fought into a ball.

Swish, swish, swish, swish!

Claw light flickered, broken hair flew.

Liang Qu passed through the veranda and ran past the two otters.

The east wing door was open.

Stepped in.

The old monk and Uncle Su were both there, sitting opposite each other at the desk, boiling tea and tasting tea.

"Master! Uncle!" Liang Qu shouted, sitting cross-legged at the table, "What should we do now?"

Looking at this tea-drinking posture, needless to say, they knew everything clearly.

"Don't panic, just a few snake demons." Uncle Su picked up the teapot and poured a cup for Liang Qu, "What about you? What are your thoughts? Can you guess what they came for?"

Liang Qu nodded silently.

Roundhead had been to Xiangyi County before, and there were four snake demons appearing locally; this was information he had known early on.

Xiangyi County had four snake demons, and today's gift offering was also four snakes.

The other party's identity was self-evident.

It was just that the behavior shown by the snakes was truly surprising, making Liang Qu unable to figure out their logic for a while.

On the way back from the pier, he understood some of the keys.

"The red-scaled big snake said 'carrying gifts to return, to give to the main sacrificer'; the gift offering today must be aimed at me.

But I haven't had much contact with the Eastern Snake, the only time was going to Xiangyi County to kill the snake demon causing trouble, but this matter should be a feud with the Eastern Snake, not a gift..."

Uncle Su nodded.

The River God matter could fool the commoners outside, but among the three people present, who would take it seriously?

A group of snake demons suddenly appeared, by no means aimless.

"Anything else?" Uncle Su tasted the tea.

"Xiangyi snake killing, except for myself, there was another participant, the white ape; since the snake demons aren't looking for me, they should be looking for it."

"They want to bribe you to get the white ape's whereabouts?"

Liang Qu pondered: "Mostly likely."

The old monk opened his mouth: "They are not here to avenge their clansmen."

Uncle Su echoed: "If they were really here to avenge their clansmen, they shouldn't just look for the white ape.

The white ape eliminating harm is ultimately under your direction.

Even if you are a court official and have the Emperor's oral decree, the snake demons shouldn't act rashly; choosing to look for the white ape to seek revenge, they shouldn't be giving you gifts.

So does the white ape itself have something strange? Or did it have a deep feud with the snake clan early on?

That day you dispatched the white ape, it just happened to expose its whereabouts, attracting the snake demons to come?"

The two of them were not far off.

Liang Qu grunted, not denying it.

Uncle Su looked up, his eyes flashing.

"Understood, you knew the inside story early on, but the white ape couldn't beat the four snake demons, and you didn't want to expose the white ape's whereabouts, but you wanted to eat more benefits, but you couldn't grasp the proportion, worrying that the snake demons would jump over the wall in a hurry; what you want to ask is actually this, right?"

"Uncle has a sharp eye." Liang Qu flattered.

Uncle Su didn't feel it was inappropriate; humans eating demons and demons eating humans was natural.

"They haven't revealed their purpose this time; no matter what, they will inevitably have plans to look for you later.

They won't let three treasure plants go down the drain, and there is no such thing as giving things first and then asking for information.

Now the three treasure plants are mostly a greeting gift, since that's the case..."

After a long while.

"Just accept it." Uncle Su rested his arms on his knees and leaned back, "Why don't you accept it if it's given for free? Are you enemies with treasure fish and treasure plants? Your white ape can't beat them, but can't you escape after being prepared? Can't you cooperate with it to perform a play? Split it fifty-fifty afterward?"

Liang Qu was hesitant.

His original idea was exactly this.

With the water travel talent, leaping dozens of miles, he could completely deceive the snake demons, tell them the whereabouts first, then escape, and maybe use this trick to shear sheep repeatedly.

But the node was wrong!

He had just held the River God Festival and gained favorability!

The Flood Dragon knew that he had lost the Jianghuai favorability again, and would inevitably send snakes to urge the snake demons to find the white ape.

When the time came to find the snake demons to check the accounts, the Flood Dragon would find that the node of losing favorability happened to be Liang Qu holding the River God Festival.

The white ape wasn't hiding in the water, nor was it on the shore, and it wasn't on the scene at all!

The Flood Dragon would likely notice the trick and change from looking for the white ape to looking for him!

Liang Qu's real idea was to do it in one wave, directly cross the river and tear down the bridge, leaving all the snake demons behind, so that before the Flood Dragon sent snakes to inquire, there would be no one left to check the accounts!

The problem was relying on himself alone.

He couldn't do it.

Borrowing a knife to kill, letting the frog clan eradicate the snakes was unrealistic.

The demon clan's forces, unlike the human race's clear borders, the snake demons didn't touch the frog clan's territory, and no frog would care if they swayed a thousand miles away.

The only hope left was Uncle Su and the old monk.

Hearing Liang Qu's request, Uncle Su was puzzled.

"Must kill them?"

A great good thing delivered to the door, long-term development is the right way!

Killing them all at once, isn't that draining the pond to catch fish?

Liang Qu was helpless: "It's not easy to say, anyway, there are hidden difficulties."

Uncle Su filled in the blanks himself, imagining the white ape and the snake demons having an irreconcilable feud, to the point that he wouldn't even do the sheep-shearing thing.

"It's not convenient for me to make a move; compared to snake demons who haven't committed crimes, the Grandmaster of the Ghost Mother Sect is the top priority. However, you don't have to trouble the Master to make a killing without reason; I have a move."

Liang Qu listened attentively: "Uncle, please speak."

"Marquis Weining, do you have an impression?"

"Remember, remember, at the end of April, the imperial court sealed the Ningjiang Prefecture in the south to Marquis Weining, inviting sages."

"I got news here that in a few days, the Marquis Weining fleet from south to north will patrol the Great Marsh and pass through Pingyang Prefecture."

"This..." Liang Qu understood, looking straight, "Uncle, what virtue and ability do I have to let a Martial Saint help..."

"Who said it was helping?"

Liang Qu was stunned.

Returning to the pier, the distribution was in full swing.

Xiang Fang Su stood on the high platform, scanning, like a falcon.

A full six long lines, meat cutters cutting meat, weighers weighing, people mountain people sea, couldn't be finished in an hour.

On the side, someone used a brush to dip in dye and draw a line on the inside of the wrist of the person receiving the meat.

Lin Songbao's face recognition was no longer useful.

Before, there were few people, and most of them were locals, so it wasn't that hard to remember.

Now, not just Yixing Town, the surrounding towns, cities, and towns contributed at least half of the heads!

Tens of thousands of strange faces, some deliberately made dirty, hair messy, thinking of fishing in troubled waters to get more meat, simply not easy to identify.

Fortunately, Chen Zhaoan was well prepared.

He sent people to buy a special blue dye from the Tianbo Chamber of Commerce a few days in advance, which stuck to the skin, couldn't be washed off, couldn't be wiped off, and could only wait for it to fade slowly, at least not disappearing for several days.

Those who participated in the sacrifice today, draw a stroke, and use this to receive meat.

Those who received the meat, draw another stroke, to prevent fishing in troubled waters.

Liang Qu passed through the crowd and called the meat-cutting young men.

"How is the meat distributed?"

The young man said respectfully: "According to the old rules you set last year, Master Liang, three jin per local person, an extra six taels for the elderly, regardless of adult or child, and half for outsiders."

Xiang Fang Su saw Liang Qu coming and jumped off the high platform.

"Quick, what's the matter, any response?" ===== CHAPTER 481 =====