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Chapter 11: Grass Fetus
"Madam, let me handle this matter!" Fu Lu saw what Zhu Yu wanted to do and spoke quickly.

He just squatted down, clenched his fist and hit the place where the rat hole was being repaired. The mud that was originally tightly blocked there was obviously loosened under this heavy hammer.

Then he used the talisman a few times to open the original rat hole.

"Well done, well done!" Zhu Yu praised and reached out to touch the ground under the rat hole. Sure enough, he felt a small bump.

She squatted on the ground, using the light coming in from the rat hole to look towards the altar bit by bit.

From the rat hole to the altar, at first glance the ground seems flat and normal, but a closer look reveals that the compaction of the soil is exactly the same as that of the rat hole.

"Madam, do you want me to find someone skilled enough to dig it out?" Fu Lu asked attentively from the side.

Zhu Yu waved his hand and said, "No need. Go out from the front, go around to the back of this dilapidated temple, and look along the outside of this wall to see if you can find a bamboo tube or something like that buried in the ground."

As she spoke, she gestured in the direction of the talisman.

The talisman responded promptly and ran out in a hurry. Zhu Yu also walked around the statue, got closer and looked at it carefully. He seemed to smell a faint fragrance in his nose.

As she walked around the altar, she sniffed carefully and felt that the scent gradually became stronger. The closer she got to the statue, the clearer it became.

Walking back to the front of the statue, Zhu Yu looked up and took a closer look at the statue that he had not paid much attention to the night before.

The night before, I thought it was a stone statue, but now when I looked at it again under the light, I found that it was actually a straw-based clay sculpture. From the broken face of the statue, I could vaguely see the straw texture inside.

Zhu Yu narrowed his eyes, and his guess became more certain. He looked up at the statue, thinking in his heart, and his hands were already on the altar, wanting to support his body and climb up to see what was going on.

"Wait a minute, ma'am."

Lu Qing's voice came from behind, and Zhu Yu turned to look at him.

"Fu Wen, you go up." Lu Qing first instructed Fu Wen, and then said to Zhu Yu, "Although those who are capable should do more work, it doesn't mean that you have to do everything yourself.

There are some things that Madam only needs to talk about.”

Fu Wen had regained his spirits by now. After receiving Lu Qing's instructions, he swiftly climbed up and flipped onto the altar with one hand: "Madam, what do you want me to do?"

"Smell the damaged part of the statue's face. Is there the same strange fragrance you smelled last night?" Zhu Yu pointed at the damaged part of the statue's face.

Fu Wen approached the statue and sniffed it, his expression immediately changed, and he quickly jumped down from the altar, fearing that he would be knocked unconscious again.

He turned to Zhu Yu and Lu Qing with some concern and said, "Yes! Exactly the same! It's just this strange fragrance!"
"Master, Madam, please step back quickly! Stay away from this statue!"

"Don't worry." Seeing how nervous he was, Zhu Yu comforted him, "The scent of the incense has dissipated quickly. It's been so long now, it's all gone. All that's left is the scent of the incense itself."

Fu Wen calmed himself down and found that he was indeed not feeling dizzy at all. He realized that his reaction just now was a bit like being bitten by a snake, and he felt a little embarrassed, so he jumped down from the altar awkwardly.

"Madam, you know so much. You can tell the medicinal properties of this incense just by the smell!" His tone was full of admiration.

Zhu Yu felt a little embarrassed by his praise: "I don't know what the properties of that aphrodisiac incense are. But the villain knocked you out last night after midnight. It will be dawn in an hour or so, so there won't be enough time to move the body.

If the effect of the incense is long-lasting and takes time to dissipate, then wouldn't they also be knocked unconscious if they came in themselves?

In order to avoid causing trouble for yourself, you must use an incense that takes effect quickly and dissipates quickly."

Fu Wen nodded his head, feeling that what his wife said was very reasonable. Thinking about the incident when he was robbed the night before, he had another doubt: "But I was very alert last night. No one approached the temple door, let alone the courtyard. There was no one on the roof, not to mention people, not even a wild cat.

Why did I suddenly feel knocked out by the incense, and why did the fragrance linger on the grass base of the statue?

"It's too early for you to ask this question." Zhu Yu shook his head and pointed outside the dilapidated temple, "When the talisman comes back later, he will have to give us the answer.

But... do you need to change your clothes? Don't catch a cold."

Fu Wen's clothes had just been thrown into a puddle and were soaked through. Now they were half dry and stuck to his body. He looked very uncomfortable and cold.

Fu Wen shook his head. "Thank you for your concern, Madam. I'm fine! I always feel groggy after waking up from the incense, so this is just the right thing to refresh myself."

As he was speaking, the talisman rushed in from outside: "Found it! Found it!

Madam, I've found what you asked me to find! About ten feet behind the dilapidated temple, I found a piece of bamboo tube in a crack in the rocks. It's about as thick as a bowl!

The mouth of the bamboo tube was stuffed with a piece of cloth. I lay on the ground and took a look. It was hollow inside, and it was open!"

Fu Wen looked at his brother blankly, then at Zhu Yu, as if he still didn't understand what was going on.

"No wonder you didn't notice anyone approaching you last night before you were intoxicated by the incense." This time his speculation was completely confirmed. Zhu Yu breathed a sigh of relief and pointed at the statue. "The statue is a clay sculpture with a grass base. The outside was originally thick clay, but the grass base inside is breathable.

Some people took advantage of the fact that the mud shell on the statue's head could fall off and breathe through the straw frame. They buried hollow bamboo tubes underground and led them to the outside through rat holes at the foot of the wall.

Before the bad guys came in to move the corpses, they first lit some incense and threw it into a bamboo tube to seal the mouth. The bamboo tube was hollow, so the incense spread along the bamboo tube to the breathable end, and just came out from the straw frame of the statue. When the people in the temple were knocked unconscious, they would come back to the temple to kill people or move corpses.

If I'm not mistaken, they must have hollowed out the inside of the altar and the bottom of the statue."

When Fu Lu heard this, he immediately ran over, jumped onto the altar, and pushed the statue with both hands, pushing it back a foot.

Sure enough, a hollow round hole was revealed on the altar below.

"Master! Madam! Look, it's real!" Fu Lu's eyes lit up, and his expression became more and more admiring as he looked at Zhu Yu.

Lu Qing walked over and took a look. There was indeed a bamboo tube in the middle of the round hole.

"Go, get some mud from the puddle outside, use the mud to stick the bamboo tube firmly together, and then push the statue back to its original place without any mistakes." He withdrew his gaze and instructed the two brothers Fu Wen and Talisman.

　The content of the previous fifth chapter has been slightly adjusted, not much, and it will not affect the subsequent reading if you do not go back to read it.

　　
　
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