Mushroom Man

Chapter 40: Finding evidence, Yan Family Military Advisor

"As the saying goes, you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing your child."

"And Patriarch Wang is even more ruthless than the others. He was willing to trade his own wife for a bald monk."

Wu Liang shook his head and secretly took note of this patriarch Wang.

This person does things by any means necessary, and his tricks are endless.

If you have any contact with him in the future, you must be careful.

"The secret revealed by Jian Shouqing seems to be of great use to me."

Wu Liang tapped the table lightly with his fingers, and his thoughts gradually became clear.

If he could make clever use of this secret, perhaps it would produce unexpected results.

However, if you want to take advantage of this secret, it is best to know what the martial artist is worried about.

Wu Liang narrowed his eyes and couldn't help feeling a little confused.

Although martial artists value their reputation, they would never risk offending the abbot and secretly embezzle resources to support the Wang family just because of a shadow mushroom.

There must be some other reason that he is unaware of.

"Well, no matter what Wu Xingzhe is worried about, he definitely doesn't want this matter to be exposed."

"And this is what I need to take advantage of..."

"If I can emulate Patriarch Wang and use this as a threat, I might even be able to make Wu Xing and I 'become brothers'."

Thinking of this, Wu Liang began to wonder how to use this secret to threaten Wu Xingzhe.

Of course, he couldn't be so foolish as to run to Wu Xingzhe and threaten him with this matter.

If he did that, he would probably die without knowing how he died.

"Without substantial evidence, Wu Xingzhe won't take me seriously at all."

"If I want to blackmail him, I must find something strong enough to hold against him."

Wu Liang pondered for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

Now he really has no evidence to prove that Wu Xingzhe slept with Madam Wang, but he can completely find another way and start from another angle.

"Wu Xingzhe deceived the abbot and embezzled the resources of the Songzi Temple. He is suspected of secretly supporting the Wang family."

"If I can use Sekong, the abbot's son, to secretly find the problematic account books."

"Perhaps we can use this as a lever to achieve the same effect as the Shadow Mushroom."

"I think Wu Xingzhe definitely doesn't want Abbot Shanren to know about this."

"Otherwise, given Abbot Shanren's personality, he would definitely not let it go if he knew he had betrayed the Temple and secretly colluded with the three families."

When Wu Liang thought of this, he had already made up his mind.

It was not difficult for him, the son of the abbot, to investigate the account books of the Songzi Temple.

But to hide it from the abbot and Wu Xingzhe, it was not something he could do alone.

In this case, we have to investigate the matter without anyone noticing.

It seems that there is only one choice left for Wu Liang...

"It seems that it is time to give Master Wen an answer."

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at the same time.

As the day passed, the test of the Wuxiang inheritance gradually fermented.

Without exception, the three family heads summoned their own mushroom masters who were good at refining mushrooms and sent them into the nine-story bronze tower.

All of these mushroom masters are masters of refining Taoism, and some have even refined fourth-level mushrooms.

Logically speaking, with their combined wisdom, it should be easy for them to distinguish the authenticity of mushroom materials and decipher mushroom recipes.

However, reality goes against common sense.

In the Yan family's land.

A mushroom refiner grabbed his hair, looked devastated, and complained bitterly.

"I've been refining mushrooms for decades, and I've never seen such a ridiculous recipe!" "I dare say that even if the mushroom fairies from heaven came, they would never be able to refine any mushrooms of various shapes and sizes based on these recipes."

"And these mushroom ingredients are all fake, fake!"

"Chief, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that I'm powerless!"

Such scenes are common in the three families' land.

The mushroom materials provided by the evil beast and the mushroom recipes given by Wu Liang were all ridiculously fake.

These Taoist mushroom refiners have been exhausted these days and are obviously on the verge of going crazy.

Chief Yan frowned and waved his hand to send the mushroom master away.

He held a stack of mushroom recipes in his hand and couldn't stop looking at them back and forth, as if he wanted to see how outrageous they were.

However, it doesn’t matter if you don’t watch it, the more you watch it, the colder you feel.

"Is this really the mushroom recipe given by the Wuxiang Will?"

"The writing is fresh, but the whole thing is nonsense. It's like something a kid who doesn't know how to make mushrooms made up."

Clan leader Yan looked suspicious and couldn't understand why.

"Father, these are indeed the mushroom recipes given by Wuxiang Will." Yan Wuxin stood aside and spoke in a low voice.

"But Wuxiang Yizhi also said that some of these mushroom recipes are real and some are fake."

"Maybe the kid was unlucky and all the items he got were fake."

Patriarch Yan frowned, and the wrinkles on his face deepened.

"My spies in the Wang and Wu families reported back that they also found nothing."

"So, the real mushroom recipe is likely to have fallen into the hands of the monks at the Songzi Temple."

"That old bald donkey cooperated with us just to open the bronze tower."

"Now the three families have no use to him. It would be extremely difficult to get the mushroom recipe from him."

"This is going to be difficult..."

Chief Yan sighed and was very anxious about this.

He lost his elegant and easy-going demeanor and began to pace back and forth in the hall.

Yan Wuxin thought for a moment and said, "Father, I think there might be a way out of this situation."

"That old bald donkey may have mastered the true mushroom recipe and can refine the two mushrooms in various forms, but at best he can only pass the first level of the test."

Yan Wuxin paused and continued, "The Nine-Storied Bronze Tower has nine levels of tests. The first level is already so difficult, and the subsequent tests will only be more difficult."

"That old bald donkey is so anxious to open the bronze pagoda, simply because he's worried about the Buddhists coming."

"Under these circumstances, he might not be unwilling to cooperate with the three of us and share the mushroom recipe."

A shrewd look flashed in Yan Wuxin's eyes, and he bowed.

"In my opinion, we should unite the Wang and Wu families and send someone to the Songzi Temple to test the waters and see what that old bald donkey thinks."

Upon hearing this, Patriarch Yan stopped in his tracks.

He stroked his beard, with a hint of approval in his eyes.

"Good, good, good! Xin'er is indeed worthy of being my military advisor."

"Before, in front of the Bronze Tower, I used your strategy to deceive the Wu family in front of that old bald donkey, pretending that the Wu and Wu families were not getting along."

"Now you have figured out the old bald donkey's situation in a short time."

"This intelligence and talent is truly beyond the master's reach."

"I will be relieved when the Yan family is handed over to you in the future."

Patriarch Yan felt relieved and had already made up his mind, so he immediately gave orders.

"In that case, Xin'er, why don't you go to the Temple of Childbirth yourself?"

"It's a good opportunity to use the excuse of visiting that useless little Sekong to test the old bald donkey's intentions..."

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