It was night, the moonlight was dim, and there was a faint cry of the waiter outside the house, mixed with the whispering of insects.

I heard that the last husband seemed to have encountered something strange before, like a terrible ghost, and was so frightened that he was seriously ill and never dared to come out at night, and even spoke tremblingly, and the new husband who took over was a little more casual, but he was helpless.

Under the candlelight, Zhou Shize was still sitting at the table at the moment, carefully reading the clues of the classics he had sorted out recently, and gradually had a rough guess in his mind.

"The so-called temple blessing, I'm afraid it's very suspicious!"

He used pen and ink to connect several suspicious points in time with a line, and found that after the previous temple zhu disappeared for some reason, the current temple zhu took office, and in addition to encouraging money offerings, he also advocated various rituals and sacrifices, which was quite evil and weird.

And the "mountain god eats people" thing is the first to be said by this person.

Although this small county town was already barbaric, it was the appearance of this person that caused the people in the city to become more and more ignorant and willing to fall.

If such a vicious circle continues, I am afraid that this county will be completely destroyed because of this!

Zhou Shize's heart sank slightly, and he felt more and more that the matter was tricky and needed to be solved urgently.

As the parent official here, his sense of responsibility makes him have to exterminate such sinners, but now he is unarmed, and there are no elite soldiers under his rule, and he doesn't even have a quick catch, so it is not easy to catch or even behead the temple that has been a powerful blessing and harming people here for a long time!

Thinking of the ignorance of those people, as well as the ruthlessness and viciousness of the "mountain god eating people", Zhou Shize's heart became more and more urgent.

"If I want to solve the affairs of the people here, I must not be known by the temple, and if I want to find help, I am afraid that I can't find it locally. That man has been entrenched in this place for a long time, and I, as an outsider, can't tell who his cronies are, so I might as well ask for help from outside......"

He quickly made up his mind, took out the letterhead, and after considering the words, he began to slowly pick up the pen and write.

He planned to ask his boss for help and help from the prefect, tell the truth about the situation here, inform him that the danger was deep, and let him secretly send soldiers and horses over to help him capture the temple Zhu!

After a long time, the letter was written.

He put down his pen, picked up the written letter and read it carefully, and after making sure that it was correct, he set it aside for the time being and waited for the pen and ink to dry, and then turned and walked towards the bookcase, intending to look through some of the previous books before resting.

It's just that he hasn't taken two steps, but he suddenly feels a little dizzy in his mind, and a strong tiredness begins to come to his heart.

"Strange ......"

He staggered two steps, holding his forehead, feeling a little strange in his heart.

He stayed up late on weekdays, but how could he ...... today?

Before he could think about it, his steps softened, and his whole body fell to the ground limply, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, and the last thought left in his heart was "It's not good......

I don't know how long it took for him to regain some consciousness, except for the pain and weakness that seemed to be tied up by someone, there was a familiar man's voice that seemed to be yelling in his ears.

“…… This dog official is disrespectful to the mountain god, and he actually wants to collude with the mediocre court outside to destroy our mountain temple! ……‘

“…… It's really an unforgivable sin, and I've been doing temple prayers in the mountain temple for more than ten years...... He knows the temper of the mountain god. I'm afraid that before this letter leaves our city, the mountain god will be angry and send calamity, and then I am afraid that our entire town will be destroyed! ……”

“…… Now that you all understand the seriousness of this matter, I don't need to say more! ……”

"Say more? What's going on? ”

Zhou Shize heard such vague words in a daze, and his heart was full of doubts.

Suddenly, a bowl of bone-chilling cold water was poured on his face, and he was full of excitement, and the whole person suddenly woke up!

It's just that when he opened his eyes, the scene in front of him shocked him.

I saw that this place was about the depths of a dense forest, and the night was empty and silent. At this moment, he was tied to a pillar, unable to move, and there was a pile of dry firewood under his feet, looking like he was about to ignite.

In front, standing was the temple that was looking at him with a sneer, holding a burning torch and an empty water bowl in his hand, and the stationery that Zhou Shize didn't have time to send under his feet was already wet with water.

Beside him stood an old woman with unkempt black hair covering her face, dressed in the clothes of the town's ancient customs, red and white, tattooed with strange patterns symbolizing evil spirits and gods, slightly shabby and a little weird, and her eyes were equally fierce and vicious. At this moment, she held a strange-looking straw man and several slender iron needles in her hands, like a vicious curse, wanting to kill people.

It's the goddess.

Around the platform, there are about dozens of men and women, old and young, looking at this side from afar with a timid and frightened look, as if they are afraid of causing disaster to themselves, but vaguely, you can also see a bit of admiration and madness in their eyes.

These are completely deluded fanatics!

"You ...... Don't mess around! ”

Zhou Shize is not a fool, he can see the situation clearly at a glance, and he understands his extremely dangerous situation!

He couldn't help but shrink his pupils, and his hoarse voice tried to dissuade these people who were already crazy, "I am an official of the imperial court!" If I die here, you won't end well! ”

He never expected that this temple would discover in advance what he was investigating and trying to ask for help, which would directly lead to such a disaster!

"Hmph, Imperial Court Officer! There are four or five dog officials who have died in my hands, and you are not missing one! ”

Na Miaozhu sneered, waved his big hand and said, "Could it be that you, a dog official, can still be bigger than our great mountain god?" With the mountain gods protecting us, even thousands of troops can't hurt us at all! ”

"You talk nonsense!" Zhou Shize laughed angrily and retorted, "From beginning to end, there is no such thing as a mountain god eating people, it is just an illusion deliberately forged by you and the robbers!" To make all the people submit to your coercion, what a shameless man! ”

"You dog official still want to demagogue?!"

A trace of panic flashed on the face of the temple zhu, and even though it was replaced by ferocity and cunning, he said sharply, "The mountain god is here, looking at each of us in this mountain, no one can escape its eyes!" Every word you quibble about now is in his ears! In a few moments, the mountain god will watch you, the villain who tried to slander the mountain god, turn to ashes and die! ”

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