Chapter 275: We Have a Traitor! (Ask for subscription)
"Senior Brother Lin, Senior Nephew Zhang Jing, please leave this matter to me! Coffin fungus, please help me pick it back. β
"Uncle Master, if I do something, you can put ten thousand hearts!
"Okay, then I'm leaving. β
"Okay, master, go slowly!"
"Don't send it, please go back......"
"I always come when I have time. β
"Well, it would......"
If you don't know the inside story, listening to this conversation, you will definitely sigh at the touching scene of deep love for the same family and the filial piety of the teacher.
But those who know the inside story will know how strange this situation is.
After Shi Jian left, Zhang Jing still looked smiling.
But Uncle Jiu, Aunt Sue, Wencai, and Qiusheng couldn't bear it anymore, and surrounded them one after another, staring at Zhang Jing with unkind eyes.
"Senior Brother Zhang Jing, what are you doing here!"
"Why are you so naΓ―ve, you still believe the words of Shi Jian, an old fox? Do you think he may be sincere in his painful way of changing his ways? This clearly wants to use us and act for us!"
"Yes, he has no choice now, he can only save his son by begging us for help!
Wencai and Qiu were not very reliable in their lives, but today they have become much smarter, and they are not confused by Shi Jian's appearance, so they all scolded Zhang Jing bitterly.
Uncle Jiu was still calm, waved his hand, signaled his two apprentices to shut up, looked at Zhang Jing and said in a deep voice: "Tell me, what bad ideas do you have to hold back this time, what do you want to do?"
Uncle Nine's heart is like a mirror.
Although Shi Jian's acting skills are good, he doesn't believe in these two apprentices who don't fight and don't learn, and they never suffer losses in normal times, can the nephew of the monkey spirit and monkey spirit be fooled?
Apparently impossible!
Zhang Jing touched the two silver tickets in his pocket, seven hundred taels of silver, quite satisfied, and wanted to be modest.
As a result, before he could speak, Uncle Nine snorted coldly: "Don't tell me what you have or don't, tell the truth." What kind of virtue do you kid have, I don't know yet! Shi Shaojian's body was ruined last night, did you do it?"
"Uh......" Zhang Jing was very helpless.
It seems that in the future, he still wants to fool Uncle Nine like he did at the beginning, but it won't work.
I think when we met for the first time, Uncle Nine was easily moved by him.
Right now...... There's no way to get the trick anymore.
"I did it. This kid cultivates crooked ways and wants to spoil the daughter of a good family, so I let the wild dog spoil him. Zhang Jing said truthfully.
Wencai and Qiusheng were also very righteous, and when they heard the words, they all stood up, took responsibility with Zhang Jing, and said, "Yes." Master, Shi Shaojian, this little rabbit cub is innocent!"
"Humph!"
Uncle Nine just snorted coldly at this, and really didn't blame Zhang Jing.
After a moment of conversation, he continued to ask: "Since Shi Shaojian's matter was done by you, then why do you now agree to your master's condition to help pick coffin fungi?" Could it be that you really believe his words?"
Zhang Jing shook his head with a smile and said: "Shi Jian's words, of course I won't believe half a word! I believe that he can regret it sadly, and I prefer to believe that the sow will go up to the tree! Even, I suspect that he asked us to help pick the coffin fungus, not to save his son Shi Shaojian at all, but simply to take advantage of this opportunity to eradicate us!"
Uncle Jiu's eyes widened, and he said angrily: "Since you all know that you still agreed, although I don't know what's going on with this newly emerging coffin forest, but since your master said that there are coffin fungi there, it means that there must be a fierce place there, with a swarm of zombies, and there is an extremely powerful flying zombie brewing! Otherwise, it would be impossible to give birth to such a thing as a coffin fungus!"
Even if Uncle Nine has now stepped into the mage realm by cultivating, he doesn't dare to say how sure he is.
Aunt Sue also nodded, and said with a serious expression: "Picking coffin fungi is not a joke. More than ten years ago, Miao Jiang was also found to have a coffin fungus, and many people wanted to pick it at that time, but it turned out that several masters were lost in it. β
Of course.
They all know Zhang Jing's strength, and they may be sure to get out of the way.
But since Zhang Jingdu said it, this may be a conspiracy by Shi Jian, the purpose of which is to frame and eradicate them, and no one knows if there will be other dangers besides zombies.
In this case, they can completely avoid this matter, and it is best not to agree to Shi Jian's request.
If you don't agree, there will be no danger.
Why bother?
Anyway, Shi Shaojian is to blame, and they are unwilling to save Shi Shaojian.
Suddenly, Uncle Nine seemed to think of something, frowned at Zhang Jing and asked, "Is it fake that you kid went to pick coffin fungi, in fact, the main purpose is to destroy these zombies, right?"
Zhang Jing has a special physique, which is the legendary body of merit.
The more merit one accumulates, the faster your cultivation will be.
Uncle Nine had already known this, so he suddenly guessed it.
"Uncle Shi, you know me. β
Zhang Jing smiled freely, generously admitted, and nodded: "Indeed, my biggest goal is these zombies themselves! There are many zombies in the zombie forest, if I can destroy them all, it will be a great merit! Of course, I also want the coffin fungus itself." After all, this thing is a rare treasure. β
The growth conditions of coffin fungi are extremely harsh, and the right time and place are indispensable.
Every time it appears, even if it is accompanied by great danger, there will be people who want to steal it one after another.
Because this is a priceless treasure, it is much rarer and more useful than any century-old Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng, and it is an absolute great tonic.
After ordinary people take it, they can prolong their life and delay aging.
Even if it is taken by a cultivator, it is infinitely useful!
Uncle Nine ignored how rare the coffin fungus was, and persuaded him: "Cultivation is not in a hurry. Zhang Jing, your cultivation speed is already very fast, even if you cultivate step by step, I believe it won't take long to catch up with me and step into the mage realm. Why do you want to do such a risky thing?"
"But ......" Zhang Jing had persistence in his eyes, and said softly: "The mage realm is not enough." What I want is to step into the Heavenly Master realm within three years!"
If you usually heard Zhang Jing say such arrogant and shocking words.
Uncle Nine Aunt Sue is estimated to be angry and scold a stinky boy.
The mage realm is not enough, and you will enter the heavenly master realm within three years?
When you talk like this, aren't you afraid of thunder and thunder?
Do you let others live?
But now, Uncle Nine and Aunt Sue are not in the mood to scold Zhang Jing.
Because they know what the reason why Zhang Jing is so desperate and so anxious.
"Hey......"
Uncle Nine sighed, didn't refuse again, and said, "Since you have decided, let's go to the coffin forest for a while!"
If it was for Shi Jian, taking this risk, Uncle Nine would not be willing to do so, and felt that it was not worth it.
But now Zhang Jing has an idea, and if he wants to use this to increase his cultivation speed, Uncle Nine has to go. He can't let Zhang Jing go alone, he will definitely not be relieved.
Zhang Jing did not insist and said that he would go alone.
He was sure to eradicate the zombies in the zombie forest, but to pick the coffin fungus, Zhang Jing remembered that it was not easy to get it.
Well, you have to bring Wencai and Qiusheng with you......
After all the people had taken a deliberative turn, they went to make preparations and brought all the people who were eating.
Zhang Jing was about to turn around and go back to the house, but Uncle Nine stopped him: "Wait." β
"Uncle Shi, is there anything else?"
Zhang Jing thought that Uncle Nine had something else to tell him.
As a result, Uncle Nine didn't say anything, just stretched out a hand.
Seeing this, Zhang Jing was confused and asked, "Uncle Shi, what are you doing here?"
Uncle Nine glared and said, "What did you say?"
Zhang Jing said blankly: "I really don't know......"
Uncle Jiu's cheeks were a little red, and he said angrily: "Give me a clear pretense of confusion, right? Of course it's a silver ticket!"
In the past, if there was a business to do, Wencai and Qiusheng were habitually unqualified to be in charge of money, and all the money they had was handed over to Uncle Nine as soon as possible, and then if Uncle Nine was in a good mood, he could give the two apprentices a little pocket money.
Uncle Nine is also at ease, he doesn't feel ashamed at all, he is used to it.
Facing Zhang Jing, Uncle Nine was really a little embarrassed.
But now Uncle Jiu is really short of money, and this time Zhang Jing extorted such a large sum of money from Shi Jian, even if he was embarrassed, he had to be cheeky and open-mouthed.
"Forehead ......"
Zhang Jing was embarrassed for a while, but he didn't expect Uncle Nine to talk about it!
Also.
According to the excellent tradition of the Maoshan faction, Uncle Nine, as one of the representative figures, extorted a full seven hundred taels of silver from Shi Jian just now, how could Uncle Nine let himself swallow it alone?
As the so-called brothers have to settle accounts.
The friendship between uncles and nephews is friendship, but money still can't be ambiguous!
Zhang Jing thought about it, took out the two hundred taels of silver tickets in his pocket, tried to hand them to Uncle Jiu, and said with a smile: "Uncle Shi, do you think this is okay?"
Zhang Jing meant that he would give Uncle Nine two hundred taels of silver and leave five hundred taels for himself.
How do you know that Uncle Nine didn't answer at all after reading it, and said with a smile: "It seems that you are still very filial, I know that Uncle Shi has been very short of money recently, and I am ready to give Uncle Shi seven hundred taels of silver......"
Come on!
Zhang Jing understood what he meant.
It is impossible for him to go out with only two hundred taels of silver.
With such an illusion, then simply hand over all seven hundred taels of silver!
Put the two hundred taels of silver tickets back, take out the five hundred taels of silver tickets, and stuff them into the hands of the ninth uncle, Zhang Jing said with a smile: "Senior nephew has been relatively tight recently, senior uncle, you take the big head, and the small head is still left to the junior nephew!"
Only then did the ninth uncle glance at Zhang Jing with satisfaction, smiled at the five hundred taels of silver tickets, snorted and turned to leave.
That seems to mean that you kid is interesting!
Wen Cai and Qiusheng next to him looked at Zhang Jing's depressed expression and couldn't help but be secretly happy.
Now Senior Brother Zhang Jing can finally understand their pain.
No!
I haven't experienced it yet.
What did the master say, and left a full two hundred taels of silver for Zhang Jing's junior brother.
If it were them, they would not have been able to get twenty taels of silver.
At most, it's only two taels of silver per person!
The master who picks the door!
......
......
decided to go to the zombie forest for a walk, and everyone didn't have to wait.
After making preparations, after having a hurried breakfast, we set off towards Qingshan Ridge.
Qingshanling is only a few dozen miles away from Renjia Town, which is not too far, and it was still early when everyone arrived near Qingshanling.
So I went to a nearby town first.
This is a small town, much smaller than Renjia Town, so the peers who live here are not deep, and it has not been long since the cultivation has just reached the first-class warlock.
Sharpen the knife and do not mistake the woodcutter.
After Zhang Jing and Uncle Jiu arrived at Qingshanling, they naturally did not go directly to the zombie forest to pick coffin fungi recklessly, but prepared to understand the situation of the zombie forest first.
So I found the town's Tang Daochang.
Renjia Town is not far from here, this Tang Dao Chang didn't come to Renjia Town to help a few days ago because of his lack of cultivation, but he obviously also knew Uncle Jiu.
So when I saw Uncle Jiu, I immediately looked overjoyed, and said in surprise: "Uncle Jiu, why are you here? I have something, and I want to go to Renjia Town to find you for help!"
Uncle Nine smiled and asked, "What Tang Daoyou said, but the zombie forest that recently appeared in Qingshan Ridge?"
"Hey, has the matter of the zombie forest been spread to Renjia Town?" said Tang Daochang in surprise.
Uncle Nine nodded, and didn't elaborate, but said, "Actually, we are here today to eradicate the zombies in this zombie forest. Please also ask Tang Daoyou to tell us what is going on in this zombie forest. β
"It's a long story...... Tang Daochang sighed and began to tell everyone.
It turned out that there were no zombies on this Qingshan Ridge, and some were just a nest of bandits.
These bandits are well-known bandits in the vicinity, they are very cunning, and there seem to be some evil cultivators with extraordinary means among the bandits, so it is difficult for the government to send troops to exterminate them many times.
But some time ago, I don't know what happened, the provincial capital of Guangzhou suddenly sent a team of regular troops to Qingshanling to exterminate this group of bandits.
However, with years of experience, with the advantage of controlling the terrain, and the fact that there are capable people among them, even if it is a regular army from the provincial capital, it is impossible to exterminate them.
But what this group of bandits didn't expect, there was a traitor among them!
This traitor has already surrendered to the government, and with the cooperation of the inside and outside, with the regular army of the provincial capital, he will kill all the zombies and kill them all!
So these bandits died without turning a blind eye and were full of resentment, so they all became zombies after death.
Since the zombie forest is not far from here, many people in the town have already died in the mouths of zombies.
But Tang Dao's cultivation is ordinary, his strength is mediocre, and with his ability, he naturally would never dare to single-handedly enter the zombie forest to kill zombies.
So he's having a headache, who should he turn to for help?
Unexpectedly, Uncle Nine and others arrived.
After hearing what Tang Daochang said, Uncle Nine frowned and said, "Even if these bandits die with resentment, they can't turn into zombies so quickly, right? Moreover, if you can see that they have signs of corpse mutation, why doesn't the army talk about their corpses being cremated after killing these bandits?"
Tang Daochang shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I am also very puzzled about this, and I have not been able to figure it out. However, the government and the army do things, and we people are not qualified to meddle. β
Also.
That's true.
Although cultivators have unpredictable abilities, in this world, it is impossible to compete with the official after all.
The security forces in the town are not so easy to deal with, let alone the regular army from the provincial capital.
But Tang Daochang didn't know why.
Uncle Nine and Zhang Jing couldn't help but think of the group of bandits they had exterminated in Heilong Mountain, Renjia Town, from the zombies in this zombie forest!
Among that group of bandits, there were also three evil cultivators with good strength.
Moreover, this group of bandits was also forced to flee from the provincial capital to Renjia Town.
Later, Shi Jian also went to Renjia Town to ask for an explanation because of this incident, and wanted Uncle Jiu to hand over the body of the bandit cultivator.
At that time, Uncle Nine cremated the corpses of the bandits and couldn't hand them over, and Shi Jian was furious.
Right now...... This group of zombies in the zombie forest happened to be locked up and exterminated by the regular army in the provincial capital, and Shi Jian asked them to pick the coffin fungus.
If there is no trace of it, no one will believe it!
It seems that Shi Jian is indeed ill-intentioned, on the surface he asked them to help pick the coffin fungi, but in fact, he secretly wanted to harm their lives!
Bandits, cultists, zombies......
In this extreme month of Shi Jian's retreat, I'm afraid he still has some big moves, right?
Zhang Jing thought silently in his heart.
However, Zhang Jing is not afraid of this at all, but has expectations!
Shi Jian's ultimate move, most of the time, will only turn into a stepping stone on his cultivation path in the end, helping him make a wedding dress!
Uncle Nine also had a faint guess in his heart.
However, of course, they didn't need to talk about these things to Tang Daochang.
After thanking Daoist Tang, they took advantage of the fact that it was not yet dark and asked the specific location of the zombie forest, and then headed towards their destination, preparing to try to pick the coffin fungus tonight!
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