The Disciple’s Diligence Makes the Master Seem Lazy - Chapter 109

[Chapter 109 Enoki mushrooms are poisonous and cannot be eaten]

“Oh no.” After Li Xu found that the second-grade rookie turned into ashes, he remembered an extremely important thing. He forgot to loot the bag.

Daxu asked, “What’s wrong?”

Ban Ruozhu and An Zhiyu also looked at Li Xu. Seeing him frown, did he kill someone he shouldn’t have killed?

If so, just run away.

“They are still too weak and can’t stand the beating. We should have snatched the storage bag before we took action. They are still too young.”

“Is that what you mean?” The three women looked at him strangely.

Li Xu nodded and said, “This is all money. You actually look down on money? Hurry up and check these practitioners who have been broken into ice cubes. Maybe their storage bag space has not been broken, and they can still get some money.”

Daxu was unmoved and too lazy to check.

An Zhiyu and Ban Ruozhu started to check quickly. As a result, they were really lucky. There were several intact storage bags with money in them.

So they inherited their mantle in a reasonable way.

“Let’s go.”

Li Xu looked up at the sky and continued to fly on his sword until about four o’clock in the afternoon. Li Xu landed straight from the clouds. There was a small town in front of him.

This was the town closest to the burial ground. He planned to rest here for a night and set off for the burial ground tomorrow.

“Something feels wrong here?” Ban Ruozhu stared at the town.

The town looked a little ordinary, but there was always a bad premonition.

Not sure if it was an illusion, she flew to Li Xu’s side and said, “You should untie my imprisonment first.”

She was still a first-grade cultivator. If she met a stronger practitioner, she would be beaten and cried.

Li Xu patted her shoulder and removed the spiritual power that imprisoned her. He said, “Let’s go down first, stay here for a night and rest well, and we will set off for our destination tomorrow.”

They landed on the ground.

All the way to the bottom of the town, there were three words written on it.

“Lanruo Town.”

This was the name of the town, a strange name. This

was not the first time Li Xu came to Lanruo Town. He had been here once before, wandered around for half an hour, and left in a hurry because there was nothing to see.

Lanruo Town is not as prosperous as Funong Town and Yuyang Town, and there are not many people on the streets.

The branches of Shannalou are all over Daozhou, but there is none here, which is enough to show that the economic development level of Lanruo Town is not good.

“Master, I’m a little scared.” Daju stepped forward and grabbed the corner of Li Xu’s clothes. Although it was broad daylight, why did it feel a little gloomy? “Are we afraid that we have come to Guiqi?”

“No.” Li Xu shook his head.

It may be because this place is close to the burial ground. The atmosphere seems a little weird and ominous. Even the pedestrians on the road look at them with a little strange eyes.

One of the passers-by had white eyes and always felt like a dead person.

Daju was so scared that she grabbed the corner of Li Xu’s clothes tightly and leaned towards his side, with sweat on her palms. An Zhiyu

also shrank her neck, a little scared.

Ban Ruozhu didn’t feel anything, because she had the peak strength of the fourth rank, close to the fifth rank. Generally speaking, even if she met a strong person with her strength, she could run away even if she couldn’t beat him.

Li Xu walked forward while looking around.

There were slightly yellowed papers on the ground. They were notices issued by the Imperial Censorate and the Imperial Academy, which were about the thieves.

Li Xu had seen this information in Fu Nong Town before, specifically the problems of the thieves.

On the way, he occasionally met a few monks talking about the thieves, saying that the thieves should be cut into pieces.

“Master.” Da’er suddenly grabbed Li Xu’s hand.

Li Xu felt her hand trembling slightly, so he held her hand tightly and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Master, look, there are snakes, there are snakes on the street.” Da’er pointed to the front, and she smelled the smell of the snake, a slight smell of decay.

“This…” Li Xu looked over, and there really was one. He saw a snake with its triangular head raised, spitting out its tongue.

An Zhiyu and Ban Ruozhu were also a little scared. What kind of town is this? Why are snakes wandering on the street?

It’s a bit scary.

This snake didn’t bite anyone, it just wandered on the street, and no one on the street noticed the existence of this snake.

It was as if it couldn’t see it.

This snake had a triangular head, and its eyes glowed green. It crawled everywhere, crawled into the cracks of the street, and disappeared.

Suddenly, a panic sound came from an inn, as if someone was fighting.

Bang…

bang bang bang…

The waiter and the boss of that inn were beaten out, kneeling on the ground begging for mercy.

Li Xu pulled Daxu and walked forward quickly. He saw the bloody boss and the waiter kneeling on the ground, kowtowing continuously.

“My brother was eating at your place, and someone died. How are you going to compensate?” The one who made the move just now was a strong man carrying a big knife. The strong man was tall and bare-chested, and you could see that his fat was shaking.

“Don’t wrongly accuse me.” The boss knelt on the ground.

“Five of my brothers died, all of them died from eating here. I checked and tested them, and finally found the source of the matter. They died from eating the small fire mushrooms in your inn.”

Small fire mushrooms, also known as enoki mushrooms.

The strong man carried a big knife and looked behind him. The younger brother behind him handed over a basket of enoki mushrooms, all of which were searched from this inn.

Their brother had eaten here last night, vomited blood when he came back, and then died. It was not easy to invite a pharmacist to perform an autopsy, and finally found that there was something wrong with the enoki mushrooms, so he brought his brothers here and smashed the place.

“How could the small fire mushroom be poisonous? This kind of mushroom cannot be poisonous. Other inns and restaurants also have this dish of fried meat with small fire mushrooms. This is not the first time we have made this dish. We have been making this dish for at least five years. During these five years, there have been no murders. You must be slandering us. Please bear witness to me. I must report to the Censorate and say that someone has slandered us out of thin air and damaged our reputation.”

“Still talking stubbornly, beat him to death. I don’t think he will confess.”

The strong man waved his hand and ordered his younger brother to punch him hard.

Suddenly,

panicked voices came out again.

Because someone died again.

In the inn next door, a table of people foamed at the mouth, fell to the ground, convulsed all over, and then closed their eyes and didn’t open them, and this life was over.

“Ahhh…” Before they stopped, screams came from the restaurant not far away.

Because someone died again.

One death means a whole table.

They all fell to the ground, and the time of death was very short. There was no time to rescue them before they died.

The strong man also felt a little scared. It was too weird. His fat body was shaking. He said,

“Go and invite the pharmacist!”

In less than a cup of tea, the pharmacist invited by the strong man yesterday appeared here. He was hunched over and leaned on a crutch in his right hand. He

began to examine the dead and soon concluded that all of them died of small fire mushrooms.

There were no exceptions.

If there was a problem with one restaurant, it could be investigated. Now several restaurants and inns have had problems, causing the entire Lanruo Town to fall into panic.

At this time, someone from the Lanruo Town Censorate finally came. The visitor was a middle-aged man named Zhang Ruomu, who had survived the fourth-grade one-time heavenly tribulation.

Behind Zhang Ruomu were two second-grade censors and four first-grade censors.

The power of the Censorate spread throughout the entire Zhuanxu Kingdom. It was responsible for formulating and managing order. The level division was from the first grade to the ninth grade, which was corresponding to the cultivation realm.

The boss of the Censorate branch here was only the fourth-grade one-time heavenly tribulation, which was enough to show that the configuration of Lanruo Town was very low.

He came here to understand the situation clearly. The reason is that the enoki mushrooms are poisonous, but these restaurants and inns don’t know why the enoki mushrooms are poisonous. It does not fall into the category of deliberate poisoning, so it is difficult to convict. A thorough investigation is needed.

Li Xu, who had been watching, suddenly found that Daxu was like a dog, sniffing the air with her nose wrinkled.

“What are you doing?” Li Xu knocked on her little head.

Little Daxu pulled Li Xu’s corner and said, “Master, squat down.”

Li Xu looked at her with confusion, but still squatted in front of her obediently and asked, “Then what?”

Daxu reached out and touched the master’s head, and smiled with two shallow dimples.

Li Xu was speechless. Just when he was about to complain, Daxu’s mouth came close to his ear and whispered:

“Master, although the pharmacist is trying hard to cover it up, the smell still comes out, just like the snake, emitting a slight rotten smell.”

The pharmacist suddenly shuddered, trembled all over, and had a bad premonition.

(End of this chapter)