Chapter 161 Big Net

Two tenant farmers who joined the cult were reprimanded by Ergouzi. They were not even beaten and were put back as if nothing happened.

The two returned to the village and continued to watch sunrise and sunset every day, no different from usual.

Another month passed like this, and one night, the night owl outside the village barked three times in a row.

When the two heard the noise, they quietly got out of bed and walked out of the village.

Under a small tree outside the village, there was a man in black waiting there.

"Greetings to the envoy."

When the two saw the man in black, they quickly knelt down and kowtowed.

"Ma Lao Er, Ma Lao Wu, do you have any news from Shekou Mountain recently?"

"Yes, yes..."

"I have it too..."

After hearing the envoy's question, the two people rushed to answer.

"One by one, as long as the information is valuable, each person will be rewarded with a bucket of rice."

The messenger looked at the two men with disdain. From the bottom of his heart, he despised this kind of begging for mercy for a bucket of rice.

"Ma Lao Er, you say it first."

"Well, okay, the sheep at the foot of Shekou Mountain have given birth again. The flower-footed ewe gave birth to four babies, two of which died. Now there are two hundred...three hundred..."

Ma Laoer clapped his fingers and recalled the calculations carefully. For a moment, he couldn't figure out how many sheep there were.

"Okay, I understand, do you have any other information?"

The messenger impatiently interrupted Ma Laoer's calculations, wasting two buckets of rice, and did this all day long.

Ma Laoer shook his head in confusion.

"there is none left."

"I still have information!"

At this time, Ma Laowu said impatiently.

"There are a lot of big snakes on Shekou Mountain. I saw them letting big snakes pull carts a few days ago."

"That snake is so big and so long..."

As Ma Laowu spoke, he used his hands to vigorously indicate the size of the snake.

"A snake can pull two bullock carts at the same time, and it can also run very fast. It is better than any other animal."

The messenger nodded slightly when he heard this. They had already grasped this situation, but it was still much better than the information about sheep giving birth and cows eating grass.

These stupid villagers simply can't tell what information is useful and what information is useless.

"The information provided by Ma Laowu is useful. I can reward you with a bucket of rice."

The messenger left after saying a few words, and soon disappeared into the night.

At the same time, not far from the small tree, Sun Wangcai poked his head out from behind a large rock.

He looked at the direction in which the man in black was leaving, took out two talismans, patted himself, and his figure and breath disappeared completely.

Sun Wangcai used the invisibility charm and quietly followed the cult messenger all the way.

After walking through several more mountain roads, the cult messenger finally entered a village and got into a courtyard.

Sun Wangcai followed the courtyard to take a look and found that it was not a cult den.

It's just a cultist's home, and the whole family lives here.

He walked around inside and checked. There were five people inside, two cultists and three children.

Sun Wangcai did not scare the snake, not even a needle or a thread in the yard was touched, and he went back empty-handed.

Early the next morning, as soon as Ergouzi got up, Sun Wangcai came to report to him.

"Boss, the cultist's residence has been found. It's in Heitianpu Village. I didn't alert him."

"Very good, continue to investigate, don't alert the enemy."

"Report to me immediately if you discover the situation."

Ergouzi nodded. Sun Wangcai was steady and steady, which made him feel relieved.

"I still have some talismans and elixirs here. You can use them."

Ergouzi said, took out a stack of talismans and a bottle of Peiyuan Pill, and handed them to Sun Wangcai.

During the last rebellion, the cultists and rebel leaders disappeared overnight.

He searched for it for a long time and almost searched the entire Anchang County, but he couldn't find it.

This incident has always bothered him, and now the cult has resurfaced.

Ergouzi planned to take his time, first follow the clues, find out the details of the cult, and find out all their strongholds and hidden lines.

Give them a thunderous blow at the end.

Although all of them, including Daoxuanzong, were called evil cults by the government.

However, a cult that practices "Blood Refining Art", uses people to refine blood pills, and treats people as training materials is fundamentally different from other cults.

According to Brother Ji, these evil cults are the remnants of ancient evil cultivators or demonic cultivators.

It is a cancer within the human race.

From then on, Sun Wangcai dressed up as a beggar and begged outside Heitianpu Village every day.

He had been a refugee and a beggar before, and he was almost made into a blood elixir by a cult.

Now it was no difficulty for Joe to dress up as a beggar.

During this period, the cult messenger occasionally went out at night to meet with undercover agents in various villages.

Sun Wangcai always followed behind with an invisibility charm attached, and he had a clear feel for the undercover agents he met.

"My boss, after investigation, we found that the cultist was in charge of a total of 20 undercover agents, located in Xigou Village, Bazi Village, Wanli Village..."

A few months later, Sun Wangcai organized the information he had discovered during this period, wrote it on several pieces of yellow paper, and handed it all to Er Gouzi.

Ergouzi felt a little relieved when he looked at the crooked handwriting on the paper, which looked like dog scratches and was even uglier than his own handwriting.

All his subordinates were uneducated, and at first they didn't even know the words.

It was thanks to Huang Fugui, who worked as a blacksmith and a teacher every day, that he taught these people to read.

Now anyone can write crooked words.

Er Gouzi took out a map and marked all the villages.

He found that the cult had a large plan and had infiltrated every nearby village.

These villages were connected together to form a big network.

He believed that what he saw now was just the tip of the iceberg, and there should be more cultists and undercovers.

In just a few years, this cult has spread rapidly again.

"Continue to investigate secretly and don't alert the snake."

Er Gouzi gave Sun Wangcai another bottle of elixir and a stack of talismans.

"One person can't handle it, you can transfer a few more people to help."

"We need to find the superiors of the cultists and their hidden dens."

"Okay!"

Sun Wangcai picked a few capable people this time to help him investigate.

It was really tiring to investigate without sleep. He had hardly closed his eyes during this period.

Looking at Sun Wangcai's departing back, Er Gouzi thought of another thing.

It had been more than half a year since he asked Sun Wangcai to send a letter at the post station, but there was still no news and no reply.

I wonder what happened to Sima Yi and the others? Under normal circumstances, it is impossible not to reply.

He thought that if he still didn't reply after waiting for another month, he would go to the capital to find out.

But just after he had this idea, only ten days had passed.

He finally received the letter from Sima Yi.

In his reply, Sima Yi said that he had been in prison for two years and had just been released from prison.

As for why he was in prison and how he spent his time in prison, he just mentioned it in passing without going into details.

After he came out of prison, he was promoted a little bit and got a foundation-building pill.

Sima Yi also talked about the Qi Wang's master, who was imprisoned for his words a few years ago, and now he is out and reinstated.

The letter also mentioned that the King of Qi was going to help Er Gouzi get a small official position, and there would be results after a while.

Er Gouzi was a little confused after reading the letter. Brother Ji knew that he didn't like being an official.

Why did he have to get himself an official position?

Did Brother Ji plan to be an emperor?

Being an official was boring, and Er Gouzi was psychologically very resistant.

This violated his principle of not being an official and not joining a cult.

But if Brother Ji wanted to be an emperor and had to be a high-ranking official himself, he could only do it reluctantly, get a nominal position, and get a little salary.

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