Mushroom Man

Chapter 41 Compromise with the Nun and Investigate the Account Books

On the other side, the Songzi Temple.

Wu Liang walked out of Master Wen's meditation room slowly with a serious expression.

Just now, he finally "compromised" and agreed to Master Wen's request, willing to lend a hand in investigating Abbot Shanren.

The first task that Master Wen gave him was to find a way to sneak into the abbot's meditation room and find out if there were any secrets hidden there.

The abbot's meditation room is located deep in the temple and is surrounded by tranquility.

On normal days, no monk is allowed to approach, so as not to disturb the abbot's meditation.

Even Master Wen and Master Wu Xingzhe could only enter the meditation room and stay for a short time when reporting important matters.

The reason why Master Wen chose Wu Liang was because she suspected that there might be evil villains hiding in the abbot's meditation room.

Many years ago, Master Wen had witnessed with her own eyes a person who looked like a magic mushroom master entering and leaving the abbot's meditation room, and she had become suspicious ever since.

However, after so many years, she still hasn't found the right opportunity to find out.

Now, Wu Liang's appearance has undoubtedly become the best person for her to investigate this matter.

"Let me sneak into the abbot's meditation room..."

Wu Liang pondered inwardly and couldn't help but sneer.

"Master Wen, you really don't care about my life."

He shook his head, knowing that the abbot had gone to such great lengths to seal the meditation room, and that there must be some unspeakable secret hidden inside.

If it is true as Master Wen guessed, that there is a demon hiding in the Zen room, then if he sneaks in, he may encounter an accident if he is not careful.

Even if there were no evil villains in the meditation room, he could not guarantee that he would not be noticed by the abbot.

Once discovered, the consequences would be disastrous.

"Master Wen has really given me a difficult problem..."

Wu Liang's eyes moved slightly, and he understood.

Master Wen had two purposes in letting him sneak into the abbot's meditation room.

First, to test whether he and the imaginary force behind him were capable of cooperating with her.

Second, by using him to investigate the matter, she can stay out of trouble no matter what the outcome is.

If it succeeds, she can reap the benefits without any risk.

If the matter is exposed, she can also push him to the front to avoid suspicion.

Because Wu Liang was the abbot's son, his life would not be in danger even if he was discovered by the abbot.

In this situation, Master Wen concluded that even if the truth were revealed, he would not go all out and drag her into it, completely cutting off his retreat.

It can be said that no matter which of the two goals Master Wen has, the results will be a sure win for her and will be of great benefit to her.

"Whatever, there's no way to avoid it anyway."

"If I delay any longer, I'm afraid Master Wen will put further pressure on me."

"Besides, whether I will make a profit or a loss this time is still unknown..."

Wu Liang is not someone who is willing to suffer losses.

The reason why he did not delay any further and chose to give a reply to Master Wen at this time was because he needed her.

Right now, if he wanted to investigate without anyone noticing, regarding Wu Xingzhe's misappropriation of resources and secret dealings with the Wang family, he could only rely on the help of Master Wen.

After all, if he were to investigate the matter openly, it would inevitably attract too much attention.

It was possible that he had just started investigating when the abbot and Wu Xingzhe received the news and learned about it.

In this situation, Wu Liang could only rely on the power of Master Wen to hide it from the abbot and Wu Xingzhe.

Nun Wen has been in Songzi Temple for many years, secretly investigating the abbot without being discovered. Naturally, she has her own unique skills.

The previous elder Fobao could explain that Master Wen had already developed many unknown secret connections in the Songzi Temple. And what he needed was these secret connections of Master Wen to cover up for himself and conceal his whereabouts.

Only in this way could Wu Liang let go and move freely in the Songzi Temple without being restricted and worried about this and that.

"arrive……"

While thinking, Wu Liang came to the accounting office of Songzi Temple.

He had already told Master Wen in advance that he would come to the accounting office to look for clues about the evil thief.

As soon as he arrived at the accounting office, someone from Master Wen presented him with the account book.

In order to prevent Master Wen from discovering that he was investigating Wu Xingzhe.

So he did not look through it on the spot, but took the account book and returned to his Zen temple.

Wu Liang knew very well that it would be difficult for him to hide the truth from Master Wen.

However, even if she discovered that there was something strange about my checking the account books, and that it was probably not for investigating the evil villain, it would not be a big problem.

After all, if they didn't know about the matter between Wu Xingzhe and the Wang family in advance, they would not associate it with Wu Xingzhe even if they got the problematic account book.

This is also why Wu Liang was so bold as to use Master Wen's people to investigate Wu Xingzhe.

In a short while, Wu Liang returned to his meditation room and began to carefully look through the account book.

The account book is very detailed, recording all the income and expenditure of Songzi Temple.

Wu Liang looked at it for a long time but couldn't find any problems.

However, he did not give up. After all, if it was really that easy to find the problem, the abbot would have discovered Wu Xingzhe's trick long ago.

As someone who knew about this matter in advance, Wu Liang used the results to find the problem, but for a while he could not find anything wrong with the account book.

From this we can see how deeply the martial artist hides.

Just as he was checking it word by word, the monk's voice happened to be heard outside the door.

"Brother Sekong, the abbot wants you to come over."

"Hmm?" Wu Liang's eyes moved slightly, and he hid the account book with his backhand.

Abbot Shanren is not concerned with the mushroom refining test, so why ask him to do it for no reason?
Wu Liang frowned and had to go out again and follow the monk to the Buddhist temple.

Along the way, he met many mushroom masters who were in a hurry.

Without exception, these mushroom masters are all Taoist mushroom refiners who are responsible for refining mushrooms of various shapes and sizes.

They all had sad faces and walked around the Buddhist temple, as if they were thinking about some recipe for mushrooms.

"Heh..." Wu Liang glanced at it with interest, but quickly looked away.

"It seems that the things I wrote gave these Taoist masters a headache..."

The reason why he wrote the mushroom recipe was to give this group of people a vague hope.

If they knew that the Thousand and Various Mushrooms had no mushroom method at all, they would probably be desperate and try to break through by force.

Wu Liang shook his head, then followed the monk and slowly walked into the Buddhist hall.

As soon as he entered the Buddhist hall, he saw Abbot Shanren with a kind face, chatting happily with a young man.

And that young man was none other than the young patriarch of the Yan family... Yan Wuxin, whom he had met when he was pretending to be Wuxiang Will.

Abbot Shanren noticed him, stroked his beard, and said, "Sekong, why don't you come over here quickly?"

"This is Yan Wuxin, the young patriarch of the Yan family. He has come to visit you on his father's orders."

Yan Wuxin, who was dressed as a scholar, bowed to Wu Liang when he heard this.

"I've heard of Master Sekong's great name for a long time, and seeing him today is indeed a very handsome man."

"This is a gift my father asked me to bring to the young master. Please accept it..."

(End of this chapter)