Chapter 188: Cleverly Luring the Green Seedling God

The road ahead gradually reached a cliff-side ancient road, one side was vast farmland, replanted with some seasonal vegetables, or winter wheat just planted, and the other side was a stone mountain cliff.

A few stone caves were chiseled on the cliff as a temple, and there were beams, pillars, and tile eaves for decoration, which was quite imposing.

Lin Jue and the Little Xiao Shimei took off their Daoist robes and changed into ordinary clothes, standing far away.

"Did Xiao Shimei remember clearly?"

"Remembered clearly, Shixiong! Oh no!" The Little Xiao Shimei's voice was serious, and she quickly changed her words, "Elder brother!"

"What if the people find us?"

"We are very miserable! We want an explanation!"

"Remember to act like it, don't expose that we are not easy to provoke, so as not to scare that Green Seedling God." Lin Jue said, "I don't know if it will come, or when it will come. We must be vigilant during this period, but we don't need to be too nervous. According to my guess, that Green Seedling God must have some ability, but it won't be good at fighting."

"Shixiong, I'm afraid I won't act well." The Little Xiao Shimei said worriedly, "I can't speak."

"I'll speak, you just cooperate."

"But Shixiong, you are not good at lying either."

"What other way is there?"

"Remembered!"

"Take it—"

Lin Jue reached out and spread his hand, with a bean in his hand: "You can't take your sword, so use my sword pill. The spell to summon it is the same as the bean soldiers."

"Sword bean!"

The Little Xiao Shimei picked up the bean from his hand.

"Sword pill." Lin Jue said, and told her, "Beans fall and wind rises, soldiers and horses appear."

"Beans fall and wind rises, soldiers and horses appear!"

Swish! The bean grew bigger and longer rapidly!

In an instant, there was an extra long sword in her hand, but because she didn't hold it in the right direction, the scabbard first poked her stomach, and then because her hand wasn't long enough to hold the hilt, the long sword fell out of her hand.

Fortunately, she practiced sword more than Lin Jue, and her reaction was very fast, so she grabbed the long sword before it fell to the ground.

"Remember, this sword pill of mine is not perfectly round. When it naturally falls into the palm of your hand, it will definitely grow horizontally. And it has two small round tips, which are the directions of the sword head and sword tail. Don't point it at yourself. After you are proficient, you will be able to control it freely." Lin Jue exhorted the Little Xiao Shimei, "Remember it first."

"Remembered."

The Little Xiao Shimei rubbed her stomach and chanted the spell again: "Body returns to spirit bean, soldiers return to the long wall."

The long sword turned back into a bean instantly.

"Go!"

The two walked toward the temple under the cliff.

One person picked up a stone on the way.

It was indeed a chiseled cave temple, not only chiseled a temple in the mountain body, but also decorated with many niches and murals, built eaves to cover the rain, vermilion big doors, quite imposing.

Lin Jue couldn't help but look around and then followed the Little Xiao Shimei across the threshold. It was dark in front of him, and he entered the temple.

A rich smell of incense rushed to his nose, a little fire flickered on the god platform, reflecting an evil god statue in the center that was bloated and wearing a long robe without seeing its face.

The people around were all suffering from famine, but the incense here was very prosperous, and they even used incense oil to light the eternal lamp.

Lin Jue hadn't moved yet, but the Little Xiao Shimei aimed at the head of the god statue, raised the stone in her hand high, and smashed it at it.

"Bang!"

Hit it in one go!

And the Little Xiao Shimei's strength was very great, and with this smash, not only was the head of the god statue smashed, but the hard stone also shattered into several pieces.

The eternal lamp was affected by the splashed stones, and it went out instantly.

"Got it!"

Lin Jue smiled as soon as he saw it.

No need for him to do it himself.

He threw the stone and sat against the wall in the stone cave temple.

At the same time, he began to control his expression.

It was already a bit late, and no one came to offer sacrifices, so the two sat here, and it slowly got dark.

This Green Seedling God was cleaned up once by a Junior Uncle in Mingxia County, and it was not easy to run away, so it must have learned a lesson, and it was timid and cautious. Lin Jue and others wanted to eliminate it, so they needed to be more careful.

Therefore, Lin Jue didn't even bring Fuyao.

The night watch lamp was not lit.

The Second Shixiong and the Third Shixiong were not nearby either.

This was not entirely for caution, but because there were too many people suffering from famine here. The Second Shixiong distributed the famine-relief pills soon after walking along the road, so he had to find a place to continue refining, and the Third Shixiong was responsible for searching for him and going to the city to buy materials for refining famine-relief pills.

Even the spiritual dew Lin Jue collected on the road was asked for by him, so that he could extract the spiritual rhyme of mountains and water inside.

Therefore, if that Green Seedling God came, it would probably only be them.

Lin Jue was not afraid.

At this time, he closed his eyes, thinking of the suffering people he saw along the way, his heart was naturally complicated, thinking that Fuyao, who had never left him for several years, didn't know which place in the mountains outside he was digging a hole to sleep in, and his heart naturally had a few thoughts, and he slowly fell asleep like this.

The Little Xiao Shimei sat beside him, separated by a foot, her hand in her sleeve tightly holding the sword pill, and she also closed her eyes, practicing the dialogue for tomorrow in her heart—although Shixiong said he would speak, but Daoist practitioners are not good at lying, and Shixiong is also a person who doesn't like to lie, so how can she let him speak everything?

Slowly, she also fell asleep.

Unknowingly, it was the next morning.

I don't know when the Little Xiao Shimei woke up, anyway, Lin Jue woke up when the sky was just getting light, and then sat on the ground in a daze. It was impossible to practice meditation here, it was really boring.

Until the noise outside disturbed them.

A few farmers walked along the official road, with complicated expressions, a bit of doubt, a bit of helplessness, and a bit of fear, walking toward this temple.

This Green Seedling God had a total of three temples in Langfeng County, one in the county city, and the remaining two on the roadside in the wilderness, and only the one in the city had a temple keeper, and the other two were also managed by that temple keeper.

The few people were not temple keepers, just farmers living near another temple.

Last night, they were in their dreams when the Green Seedling God came to their door, which gave them a big fright.

In the dream, the Green Seedling God told them that its temple here had some problems and ordered them to come and check. Several people woke up in their dreams, and after getting up, they were very afraid. After comparing with each other in the morning, they confirmed that it was true and not false, so they came here trembling.

Pushing the door in, the first thing they saw was the Green Seedling God statue in the middle smashed by someone.

Several people were shocked.

Looking at the temple again, two people in cloth clothes were shrinking in the corner.

A man and a woman, both very young.

"This..."

An old farmer with furrows on his face looked at the two, at a loss, stammered a few times, and then asked: "Why are you here? Who smashed this god statue?"

"We smashed it."

Lin Jue said while supporting the wall and standing up.

Several people were shocked again.

They still knew what the end of offending the Green Seedling God last time was, and they were still suffering from it, so how could someone dare to smash the Green Seedling God statue?

It's just that they were just a group of farmers and were not good at speaking, so they had to open their mouths stumbling:

"You... such big guts..."

"Do you know this is a god with spirit!"

"You... why do you want to smash the god statue?"

The Little Xiao Shimei listened to them, wanting to share some worries for the Shixiong who was also not good at lying, but she opened her mouth several times but closed it.

Last night's practice seemed to have been forgotten clean.

For a while, she couldn't help but feel a bit anxious.

Shixiong is also not good at lying.

However, looking back—

Only to see Shixiong supporting the wall and standing, full of indignation:

"Dog fart god!"

Just one sentence shocked the few people in the room.

Several farmers stared at him blankly.

Xiao Shimei also looked up at him blankly.

"This dog fart god! How much sin did it do? You are still worshiping it! It should have been smashed long ago! If it weren't for the fact that this temple was chiseled in the mountain, I would have burned its temple!"

Lin Jue was filled with indignation and scolded.

The Little Xiao Shimei was even more stunned.

Seeing this, several farmers were also very panicked and asked hurriedly:

"What's wrong?"

"What else can it be?"

Lin Jue gritted his teeth and said:

"My brother and sister are from Langfeng County, and our family is poor. Because our second uncle was doing business in Cuiwei County, we were fostered in our second uncle's house, leaving our old father and mother at home to farm, taking care of our grandfather and grandmother! Originally, relying on those few thin fields, the family could also live, but I didn't expect that this year's crops were all killed by this Green Seedling God! Missing a season of grain, my father and mother, and the elderly, actually, actually... our brother and sister received a letter and came back to visit relatives, only to find out, find out..."

Lin Jue said it several times, but couldn't say it.

Even his voice was a bit choked.

The farmers at the scene looked at each other and finally fell silent.

How many families' crops did this Green Seedling God destroy? How many people starved to death?

Didn't they also suffer from it in their own homes?

Didn't what this little brother said also happen to their own families?

Looking at this little brother again, his face was filled with indignation, and looking at the woman shrinking in the corner beside him, seeing that the woman didn't speak, her expression was dull, but her eyes were red and she was shedding tears.

How could this not make people empathize and feel sad?

"Sigh... little brother..."

A farmer's eyes turned red, he wiped the tears on his face, and finally advised them: "What other way is there? That is an immortal, we who farm are born to be bullied by others, we have never been able to fight anyone, let alone this is an immortal who knows magic!"

"That's right, little brother, it's useless for you to smash the Green Seedling God statue, after you go back, won't we have to raise money to repair it for it?"

"If it gets angry, and breaks another season of green seedlings next year, I'm afraid more people will starve to death!"

"Little brother, go quickly, we were entrusted by that Green Seedling God to come and see this temple, after we go back, we have to go to another temple to tell it, I think you should go back to that county quickly."

"You go, we will say we didn't see anything."

"Right, right, right!"

Several farmers were very kind.

"No!" Lin Jue was decisive, "My brother and sister have made up our minds, we will not leave. I don't believe that Green Seedling God has any ability to beat us two living people to death here!"

"That's right!" The Little Xiao Shimei also opened her mouth, "The hatred of parents who starved to death is irreconcilable. You are afraid of it, we are not afraid of it. If it has the ability, let it come over in person, we want to see what ability it has!"

"Little brother..."

"Several fellow villagers, don't say any more!" Lin Jue said, "Since it was that Green Seedling God who asked you to come and see, then you go back and tell it, if it wants us to leave, it must come and give us an explanation! Anyway, it is also an immortal, I want to argue with it about whether what it did is right or wrong!"

"Little brother, you have read too many books and don't know things, it won't argue with you!"

"I don't care about those!" Lin Jue was very stubborn, "If it doesn't come, I will report it to Lord Tianweng, report it to the Emperor! Or I will find its temples here one by one and smash them one by one!"

"Sigh..."

Several farmers sighed one after another.

Then they advised and circled for a few sentences, they had no way, so they had to leave, preparing to go back and burn incense, inform the Green Seedling God truthfully, and let it decide.

Not long after they left, the temple keeper of the Green Seedling God also brought two people.

The relationship between the temple keeper and the Green Seedling God is closer, and he relies on the Green Seedling God to eat, so it is more difficult to deal with.

Lin Jue and the Little Xiao Shimei still replied with the same reason, making the appearance that they were not powerful but were not afraid of the Green Seedling God at this time, wanting to fight to the death with the Green Seedling God, and even pushed the temple keeper and the three people a few times.

It's just that human hearts are made of flesh after all, the temple keeper still felt guilty in his heart, and the two people he brought would not help this Green Seedling God deal with two people whose parents were starved to death by the Green Seedling God, so after pushing a few times and seeing that they couldn't help the two, they also left.

Only the two were left in the temple.

The Little Xiao Shimei turned her head and stared at the Shixiong, with a bit of incredulity in her expression.

Lin Jue also looked at her unexpectedly.

This Xiao Shimei's eyes were still red, and the tear stains had not dried.

Didn't say anything, and both withdrew their gazes.

Another day passed, and the government bailiffs came.

When the bailiffs came, the two retreated, and at the same time argued on the grounds that this Green Seedling God was not ordained by the imperial court and was an evil god, so the bailiffs could do nothing about them.

As soon as the bailiffs left, they smashed the upper half of the god statue.

Circling like this, until the fourth day at midnight.

An eternal lamp was lit in the temple, and the lamp light spilled over the stone cave.

Lin Jue was still sitting in the corner, shrinking his body, sleeping in a daze, as usual, sleeping very uneasily, and would wake up habitually every once in a while.

But this time when he woke up, after opening his eyes, he felt a cool breeze blowing from the door crack, blowing the eternal lamp for a while.

There was a flapping sound outside.

Lin Jue immediately raised some vigilance.

"Flap, flap..."

The sound was very light, and you couldn't hear it at all if you didn't listen carefully.

Lin Jue sat against the wall, waiting quietly.

Only heard the sound approaching, and then gradually moving away.

"Huh?"

Lin Jue was a bit puzzled.

Could it just be a night bird?

Frowning and pondering, waiting for a while, he got up and walked to the door.

Opening the door to look out, it was bright stars, and under the starry sky, the fields were boundless, but he scanned a circle, even went out to look, but there was nothing.

... ===== CHAPTER 189 =====