MTL - I Was an Abbot in Ancient Times-Chapter 49

The cold tip of the knife slashed in front of his eyes, and Lin Zhao's forehead was covered with sweat. He is a monk who can only chant scriptures, and his spell damage does not target ordinary humans.

Dao Scar was obviously unwilling to search only once, Qian Lao Liu's appearance was too coincidental.

The two monks he mentioned were enemies, not friends. If the government found out that their heads would not be guaranteed, no matter how careful they were, their lives were at stake.

Lying in the grass, Lin Zhao, who was close to the ground, felt that he could hardly hold on.

The drooping blades of grass brushed against the tip of his nose time and time again with the breeze. If there was any movement, Scar, with his ears pricked up and his face full of vigilance, would immediately come over and stab him a few times.

Not to mention that the ecological environment of this grass is so good, who can understand the feeling of being bitten by some ants and insects?

I don't know how many months snakes usually wake up from hibernation. If they encounter some poisonous snakes, they will be finished.

Lin Zhao had all kinds of thoughts floating around, he suffered too much, he hadn't suffered like this for a long time, and he really went all out to save Youtong. When he goes back, he will add Zhike's performance task indicators to him.

Suddenly, the grass around him moved.

! not good!

Before he had time to get up and dodge, the cold blade had already pierced into his body. The pain made Lin Zhao's face distorted and ferocious, and he still clenched his teeth and did not make a sound.

Scar has been keeping an eye on his surroundings, and when he finds movement, he stabs the knife without hesitation. He is very familiar with the feeling of the blade sinking into the gun, and immediately calls for people to surround him.

"Here! Come here!"

The four guards at the entrance, the two people who came with Scar, and the patrol team who heard the movement, a group of people surrounded the small grassland.

Scar pushed aside the dense weeds, and the surrounding green grass blades were splashed with red blood, but the person disappeared.

What about people? Where did people go? Can it disappear out of thin air? !

"Brother Scar, could it be that some other small animal happened to pass by and was stabbed by you." A guard said.

Scar wiped a drop of blood from the blade of grass with his fingertips and sucked it in his mouth, "It can't be wrong, it's human blood."

He suddenly thought of something, and he didn't bother to explore how the person disappeared out of thin air, so he walked away quickly with a few young people.

"I have to tell the boss immediately, the stronghold has been exposed, we have to move immediately!"

In a deep dark brown cave.

Lin Zhao curled up, endured the pain and looked at the little thing in front of him who was looking at him.

With black bean-like eyes, two incisors, a small beard around the mouth, and two sharp claws on the chest, there is no doubt that this rodent is a good hand at making underground burrows—a mole.

"You were the one who got me stabbed just now, little mole."

Hearing that Mole Black Dou's eyes flashed with guilt, he squeaked twice, as if apologizing to him.

"Are we in your cave?"

The mole nodded. Lin Zhao didn't understand how such a big man could fit into the mole's cave, and he didn't have time to think about the strange endowment contained in this strange space.

He didn't think that Scar would let it go if he didn't catch someone. He had undoubtedly alarmed the enemy, and they were definitely preparing to move their base.

In fact, asking Qian Laoliu to explore the way before would definitely arouse their vigilance, but he didn't care so much in order to save Youtong.

What needs to be considered now is how to delay Zhizhou before bringing them over.

It takes one morning from Yangzhou to Fengxian, about four hours. Qingtou has already set off for an hour, and it will take four hours for Zhizhou to bring people here, which means that Lin Zhao has to find a way to trap them for seven hours.

It's around two o'clock in the afternoon, what can be done to trap these people until nine o'clock in the evening?

"Hurry up, hurry up." Lin Zhao put his palms on the smooth and cool cave floor, letting the little mole bring himself back to the ground.

After the little mole understood it, he squeaked and waved his paw anxiously, which meant that it was too dangerous up there, and there were vicious humans everywhere.

"If we let them get out of here and successfully transfer the place, then our hard work these days will be in vain! Aloe tung tree will die too!"

The little mole in front of him jumped up and down on the ground very anxiously when he heard the words. It suddenly stopped as if it was hit by something.

"Squeak!" It yelled so loudly that Lin Zhao's head grew dizzy, and he couldn't understand it at all. After a while, he realized that the little mole didn't seem to be calling for himself.

Feeling a strong vibration below him, Lin Zhao saw an army of moles and several pangolins!

The little mole yelled at the army, but didn't know what to convey. It didn't take long for the mole and the pangolin army to retreat.

Lin Zhao stared blankly at the little mole's paw patting the back of his hand, as if to comfort him not to worry. This... the little mole looks quite stylish, could it be the king of the mountain here?

After half a stick of incense was estimated, the pangolin came back first, holding a strange-looking flower in its mouth, exuding an inexplicable smell that made people feel dizzy.

A pangolin and a mole approached and exchanged something. The little mole called the army back again, waved the flowers and plants in his hand and ordered something, and the army once again retreated from the underground passages like a tide.

Afterwards, the little mole brought Lin Zhao back to the ground.

Looking at the surrounding terrain, which seems to be a shady slope, Lin Zhao secretly sized it up.

Then I saw moles, pangolins, and other small animals in front of me. I don’t know where to pick up the flowers and plants that exude a dizzy smell, and they piled up a small grave in front of me.

The little mole took out another jujube-like fruit and brought it to Lin Zhao's mouth, beckoning him to eat it, and Lin Zhao obediently swallowed it.

On the other side, after listening to Scar's report, the leader immediately ordered everyone to pack up and move their base.

This packing, of course, is the prepared salt.

Just as everyone was sweating profusely, they suddenly smelled a strange and strange fragrance coming from nowhere, which made people feel a little dizzy, but soon the feeling disappeared.

After a while, suddenly the guard at the entrance rushed in in panic.

"Big head! It's not good! The river suddenly rose up, and it has already reached the entrance!"

Everyone couldn't believe it, thinking that the guards were probably crazy, and the water in the river bed was not high, how could it overflow to the entrance, and it wasn't a flood.

However, he really didn't look like he was lying and tricking people. Everyone rushed to the door, and when they saw the rumbling, unstoppable, monstrous waves, they all rolled back inside with hands and feet in fear.

The head of the family was also horrified, but he still forced himself to calm down and asked everyone to block the entrance with salt bags.

When Zhizhou came over with his troops, what he saw was a group of people carrying salt bags and piled up on the city wall. Although he didn't know what these desperadoes were doing, it didn't affect Zhizhou to surround them, and then tied them up and detained them. Walk.

Lin Zhao, who saw everything in the dark, happily wanted to lift the little mole up, but found that his wound was in excruciating pain, so he could only hold its paw to express his gratitude.

It burned the strange flowers and plants, so that the hallucinogenic smell of the flowers and plants caused the group of private salt dealers to hallucinate, and it also gave itself the anti-illusion fruit in advance.

What a clever good mole.

After saying goodbye to the little mole, Lin Zhao appeared in front of Zhizhou, boarded his boat, and was sent to the hospital to bandage the wound.

After two days and two nights of interrogation, the gang of smuggling salt confessed, and Tung was released after being cleared of suspicion.

Zhizhou had other things to do, so after greeting Lin Zhao, he went into the study after caring about his body.

After cross-examination, he found that the private salt mine was not limited to the one in Fengxian County! And behind this there seems to be a connection with some court officials! This is a very serious case.

He wrote the notes overnight, first stating the dangers of private salt, the high price and the harm to the people, and the non-standard manufacturing process of private salt, containing many impurities that are not good for health, and then stating the results of the interrogation one by one, without the cover-up of local officials , which led to the blooming of private salt everywhere.

After the paper was delivered, the emperor immediately appointed an imperial envoy to investigate and returned it to a team of guards.

Not long after, I got the news in a certain luxury mansion in Kyoto.

There was a sound of throwing teacups.

"Liu Wenbi, you actually cut off my way to make money! Go and find out who the magistrate of Yangzhou is, and let me find out the cause and effect of the matter carefully!"

Zuo Xiang, who was sitting behind the copybook, had a gloomy tone, his face was covered with gloom.

The people kneeling down in the hall broke out in a cold sweat when he called the emperor's name directly, and retreated immediately upon hearing this.

Here, Lin Zhao returned to the temple with Youtong and Qingtou.

Shantong brought out a pot of water soaked in grapefruit leaves and asked them to clean their hands and face, saying that it was to get rid of bad luck, and brought three bowls of cross-bridge rice noodles, saying that they had eaten the disaster.

Why does it feel like Shantong is getting more and more like a mother. Lin Zhao muttered silently in his heart.

"Abbot, you're finally back!" Buerbuti cried and hugged him.

"What's wrong? Do you miss me so much?"

"No, abbot. Recently, there are always food missing from the temple."

Lin Zhao choked, feeling that he was asking him to investigate the case. The older the two younger ones became, the more straightforward and inconsiderate they became.

Having said that, his trampled seedlings haven't been dealt with yet, and he doesn't know which plagued ones have ruined other people's food crops.

Take one bite at a time, and you have to solve things one by one. It is not easy to investigate the matter of the rice seedlings. There is no surveillance here at all, and no witnesses can be found for a while. It is better to catch the thieves first.

For this reason, Lin Zhao deployed a pie bait plan.

As a result, the thief was caught that night.

This is a creature with round ears, reddish-brown hair, round and short limbs, and a fluffy and round tail.

little panda! Lin Zhao's eyes lit up. When did such a cute creature slip into my temple. When it was chased and intercepted, it ran towards the lotus pond. Could it be that there is an entrance in the lotus pond that he didn't notice?

Lin Zhao hugged the little panda in front of his chest with both hands and locked it tightly. He inspected the lotus pond carefully, only to find that the Taihu stone inside seemed a little different.

Relying on his good skills, Huitong jumped onto the Taihu Stone and found out the truth.

It turns out that there is a small nest in the middle of this huge Taihu stone, which is comparable to a rockery, which is warm in winter and cool in summer.

This little panda is a bit stupid, so many people are staring at it, and even ran to its lair.

When the little panda saw that his quilt was taken away, he finally couldn't hold back the tears. He clenched his fists and kowtowed to Lin Zhao, as if he was repenting for his mistakes.

Seeing that Lin Zhao was expressionless and silent, the little panda was so frightened that he couldn't help but say, "Don't kill me, I know who damaged your seedlings."

In fact, Lin Zhao was overwhelmed by the cuteness and couldn't express it in words, he was overjoyed. What's the good thing about catching the red panda?

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