Chapter 40

"What business?" Bearded Feng Jinchen said.

"This should be asked of you, Magistrate Wang. Do you know your crime for privately abducting young girls?"

The Huangliang County Magistrate sank his face and scolded.

"This official doesn't understand what you are talking about.

You and I are not subordinate to each other. This official calling you General Feng is giving you face. Don't think that just because you are a Cloud Cavalry Lieutenant, you can show off your power in front of this official and frame others randomly. This official doesn't buy your act!"

He glanced at Su Yuanshan and said to Feng Jinchen with irony.

"I advise you to do your own business properly, don't be deceived by some small-minded people with ulterior motives, and don't even know you've been played."

Before Su Yuanshan and Feng Jinchen could counterattack, they heard a voice.

"What a glib-tongued Huangliang County Magistrate. Is this how you make decisions for the people? You are at death's door and still have a stiff mouth, refusing to admit it. Why don't you see who they are?"

Wang Youcheng couldn't help but widen his eyes. When he saw who it was, he was shocked, his voice trembling.

"You are... Ji Yun... Prefect... Lord...?"

The person who came was the old man surnamed Ji, and behind him was a group of young girls who had been abducted by Wang Youcheng.

The moment they saw those young girls, almost everyone boiled over.

"Ah! Xiu'er? Isn't that my Xiu'er?"

"Xiu'er, your mother has suffered so much looking for you!"

The white-haired old woman cried with joy, ignoring the obstruction of the yamen runners, and ran desperately toward her daughter.

"Sister, Father, look quickly, Sister has been found, found!"

"Oh my god, isn't that my daughter Xiaoyu?

Heaven has opened its eyes."

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As family after family reunited, Wang Youcheng's face grew darker and darker.

He began to panic a little. He couldn't figure out why these people had found these missing girls. While secretly cursing those yamen runners for their incompetence, he thought about how to escape, still refusing to admit it.

"I didn't expect Prefect Ji to find these poor girls. Truly gratifying. This humble official feels deeply relieved. I thank you on behalf of their parents and relatives..."

Ridiculous, simply ridiculous to the extreme. Ji Yun had been an official for half his life and considered himself to have seen many shameless people, but he had never seen such a shameless person, so he couldn't help but laugh from anger and waved his hand.

"Don't thank me. If you want to thank someone, thank Young Master Su. If it weren't for him leading the way, we wouldn't have found these poor people!"

"Young Master Su? You mean... it's him?"

He stared at Su Yuanshan, gritting his teeth, so angry he almost vomited blood.

But Su Yuanshan said calmly.

"That's right! It was I who exposed your crimes! What else do you have to say?"

Wang Youcheng's face turned red and white, and finally, he exploded in unbearable anger.

"Rascal, you rascal actually dare to frame me? Do you know who I am? Do you know who my backer is?

Bastard, you dare to challenge me without knowing anything! Hmph hmph, I'll make sure you don't even know how you died later."

He saw him wave his hand with a hideous face.

"Men, execute this villain on the spot. He is the murderer who abducted the young girls. This official wants to eliminate harm for the people today!" He ignored Prefect Ji, after all, Ji Yun was not his superior but from a neighboring prefecture.

He staged his final madness, intending to strike first and eliminate Su Yuanshan to create a fait accompli, and then rely on his backer to settle the matter.

However, when those yamen runners drew their bright waist knives and rushed toward Su Yuanshan, a fat old man finally walked out reluctantly, stood beside Su Yuanshan, and glared at Huangliang County Magistrate Wang Youcheng with a look of hatred for his failure to meet expectations, cursing.

"You disgraceful thing, do you still recognize this old man?"

Seeing the old man, Wang Youcheng almost dropped his chin. He no longer dared to pretend, "thumped" and knelt in front of the fat old man, panicked and lost, like a mourning dog.

"Teacher... why are you here? You... listen to my explanation... listen to my... explanation."

However, the fat old man didn't pay attention to him at all, but instead looked at Su Yuanshan and cupped his hands with shame. "This official has failed to teach him well. Please leave this rebellious student to the young master to deal with!"

Not expecting that he would be abandoned by his backer without hesitation, Wang Youcheng was completely dumbfounded. He shouted with a crying voice.

"Teacher, you can't..."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Su Yuanshan wave his hand.

"Come, take this corrupt official down."

Everyone present thought he was calling those soldiers, but they didn't expect that the statues of the civil and military judges, underworld officials, and ghost servants originally worshipped in the Chenghuang Temple would move upon hearing the sound, come to life, walk down from the altar one by one, bow down in front of Su Yuanshan, and say in unison.

"Obey the City God's decree."

At that moment, everyone was dumbfounded, and the Huangliang County Magistrate was directly scared into paralysis. They had never seen such a miraculous scene; this was simply an unprecedented wonder!

City God?

He was actually the City God?

The fat old man surnamed Pan was shocked, thinking to himself, I really have eyes but don't recognize Mount Tai.

The thin old man Ji Yun was also shocked, stroking his beard and muttering.

"No wonder, no wonder, he is actually a god."

This shrewd Prefect was the first to react, kneeling down gracefully. Pan Daosong followed closely behind, then Feng Jinchen pulled Huang Daozuo, who was stunned, and knelt down. The people who came to worship the gods and the rescued young girls all kowtowed like pounding garlic.

For a time, a dark mass knelt in front of Su Yuanshan.

At this moment, they were immersed in shock, joy, and excitement. Except for Wang Youcheng, who was taken down by the underworld ghost servants, everyone else was kowtowing devoutly.

At the same time, characters constantly appeared on the spirit bead at Su Yuanshan's cuff.

【Wish Power +1】

【Wish Power +1】

【Wish Power +1】

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The City God has manifested! The City God has manifested!

Everyone shouted silently in their hearts.

Suddenly, the drums sounded, the immortal music drifted, and even heaven descended with auspicious signs. Seven-colored clouds appeared in the sky, dragons and phoenixes circled, white cranes flew, golden flower rain scattered all over the sky, and hundreds of ghosts and gods all came to pay their respects.

There were civil and military judges holding brushes in one hand and scrolls in the other, with red robes and dragon eyes; there were day patrol divine envoys in green armor holding whips in one hand and supporting the sun in the other, and night patrol divine envoys holding the moon in one hand.

There was the Chicken God with a chicken head and human body holding a soul-hooking chain, the Dog God with a dog head and human body, and the Mountain God, Land Deity, Shegong, Kitchen God, Well God, River God, and Bedhead God of Huangliang County.

As well as the executive divine officials and a group of ghost servants and underworld officials of the six divisions including the Longevity Division, Speed Report Division, Inspection Division, Reward Good Division, Punish Evil Division, and Increase Salary Division, all bowed down together, saying in unison, "Respectfully welcome the Prefecture Lord to return to his position!"

The scene of thousands of ghosts and gods, and thousands of officials and people kneeling and worshipping one person was simply unprecedented.

At that moment, strange phenomena occurred in the sky, the sun and moon shone together, and yin and yang intersected, shocking many cultivation experts, strange people, and ghost and fox demons in the human world!

Amidst the immortal music, Su Yuanshan's divine voice resounded through the land of Huangliang, the rivers, marshes, and mountains!

"Huangliang County Magistrate Wang Youcheng, colluding with demonic people, forcibly abducting young girls, and breaking the law, is sentenced by the Punish Evil Division to have forty years of life reduced!"