Madam, please respect my profession.

Chapter 344 Xiao Chu: Are you used to touching me? Why do you always do it?

The old man stared at the medicine garden with his eyes wide open and bloodshot, a crazy smile appeared at the corners of his mouth. He roared in a hoarse voice, as screaming as a devil crawling out of hell.

Lu Zhan and Chu Wantang exchanged glances and looked at it intently in tacit understanding.

The village chief glared and winked at the side.

In a short while, Shuanzi came over with a group of people and chased the madman away: "Where did you come from, madman? Don't disturb our distinguished guests!"

"Hehehe... God is angry... I'm getting my retribution..." The old madman was kicked several times, but he seemed to feel no pain. He was still shouting crazily and running and crawling towards the mountains.

Lu Zhan looked unhappy: "What does he mean by Lady Medicine is angry, and what does he mean by retribution?"

The village chief looked unhappy, but worried about affecting business, so he hurriedly explained with a smile: "He is a lunatic. He has been mad for who knows how many years. You can't believe his crazy words."

Chu Wantang looked in the direction where the madman disappeared, a little angry: "We pay attention to luck when doing business. That madman just said that whoever buys medicinal materials will be unlucky. This is a curse."

"..."

The village chief knew that merchants valued luck and feng shui when doing business, so he sighed and said, "Madam, you are a person who does great things, why bother with a madman?"

Chu Wantang and Lu Zhan looked at each other before asking, "You said there are magical medicines in Lao Meishan? These are good things."

"We speculated that there might be mandrills in this mountain that were harming people, and we have reported the case, but Laomei Mountain is so large and deep that the government investigation was inconclusive."

The clan elder spoke earnestly, but at the end, he looked terrified and his eyes were full of fear, which showed that he was afraid of the mandrill inside.

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Seeing that Chu Wantang seemed very interested, the elder of the clan hurriedly advised: "Don't take it lightly. This mountain is very dangerous and you can't go in!"

"Now that the old madman has entered the mountain, I don't think he'll be able to come out. Why bother with him?"

Chu Wantang took Lu Zhan's hand off his waist and looked at the deep mountains and dense forests in the distance. He said in a low voice: "What do you think?"

Chu Wantang became more interested: "Why?"

"..." The village chief said in embarrassment: "Master Lu, it's not that we don't want to help. It's just that the madman ran into the mountains, and we dare not go in!"

"..."

Lu Zhan restrained his temper and squinted his eyes and said, "If you don't give an explanation for what happened today, it won't matter even if you are the clan elder's father."

"After the patrol team was formed, nothing happened in the village, but villagers who went into the mountains to cut firewood started to disappear one after another... The old madman's daughter, Ayun, went into the mountains to cut firewood and never came out again, so he went crazy..."

"..."

The jungle at the foot of the mountain was dense, with bare vines tangled and intertwined, but now it was buried by the heavy snow and in a mess.

He lowered his voice very low, as if he was talking about something very secretive.

Lu Zhan smiled and said, "Don't worry, the two of us won't go into the mountains... No matter what kind of magical medicine it is, it's not as important as life!"

"They want to lure us into the mountains." Lu Zhan stood under a big tree, chewing a piece of cake. The cake was overly sweet, but was very popular in Yaoxiang Village.

Chu Wantang took Lu Zhan's hand away and snorted, "Take your hand away, you are angry."

Lu Zhan and Chu Wantang left the medicine garden and walked to the foot of Laomei Mountain.

"In the past, when villagers went into the mountains to chop firewood, they encountered glowing medicinal herbs. After picking them, they took them outside to exchange for money. People said they were magical medicines."

Lu Zhan smiled and moved his hand away, pointing at the burned medicine garden, and said to the village chief: "We just came to the village to discuss business, and the medicine garden caught fire. It might not be a warning from God. Now that lunatic is talking nonsense again and makes my wife unhappy. Find that lunatic and I will give him two big slaps to make my wife feel better."

The warm palm gently stroked her chest. Chu Wantang's body tensed up a little and she glared at Lu Zhan resentfully.

"..."

The village chief breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Mr. Lu is right. Why don't you take a walk around the village? I'll check out the herbs for you after we've cleaned up this place."

Lu Zhan patted her chest caringly and said soothingly, "Madam, don't be angry. Your husband will negotiate with them."

The elder of the clan suppressed his unhappiness and said in a voice like an old bellows: "Mr. Lu, you don't know that this mountain is called Laomei Mountain. Although we have a mountain as our backer, we never dare to enter Laomei Mountain easily..."

"After knowing that there was a magical medicine inside, the villagers went into the mountain every now and then, hoping to find it. At first, everything was fine. Even if they couldn't find the magical medicine, they couldn't return safely, but..."

The elder of the clan looked around and confirmed that there were no outsiders before continuing, "The forests of Laomei Mountain are very deep, and there are many strange things hidden in them..."

Well... Last night I heard the village chief say that Mr. Lu has a bad temper. I didn’t think much about it at the time, but now it seems that he does have a bad temper.

Chu Wantang pursed her lips, looking obviously unhappy.

Lu Zhan's shout was so loud that it shocked the elders not far away.

He actually yelled at his partners, clearly taking advantage of his power to bully them!

The elders were unhappy and looked over here frequently. Their cloudy eyes contained a shrewdness as sharp as a knife.

"Yes, some villagers collected it in the early years, and it was worth a fortune..." The elder of the tribe sighed, "But now the mandrills are harming people, so no one dares to go in and look for it."

It makes them look like a real couple.

Finally, the elder of the clan came up to him and sighed, "Don't be angry, Master Lu. I am the elder of the village. Please listen to me..."

Chu Wantang frowned: "How could there be any mandrills? If there were any mandrills in there, they would have been caught by the government long ago."

Looking at the two men's backs, the village chief and the elders smiled at each other, their smiles were strange and gloomy, and then they turned around calmly and directed the villagers to build the medicine shed.

At this point, the elder sighed, and tears welled up in his eyes:

"But later, people in the village started to disappear one after another. We initially thought that wild animals had come down the mountain to take people away, so we formed a patrol team to protect them."

Lu Zhan did not continue to make a fuss. He put his arm around Chu Wantang's waist and walked away, showing a sense of impatience.

This guy is getting more and more used to it.

Lu Zhan was furious: "Yaoxiang Village relies on the mountains for its livelihood, why shouldn't we dare to enter? I think you are deliberately trying to disgust us. If you don't give me an explanation, we won't do this business, just give me the deposit!"

If he's not wrong.

It was too coincidental. Whether it was the old madman or the so-called elixir, they might have been baits of Yaoxiang Village, with the purpose of luring them into the mountains.

Once you enter the mountains, you may disappear without a trace just like the villagers in the story.

But what Lu Zhan couldn't understand was that if the people of Yaoxiang Village really wanted to attack them, they could just hold them down and offer them to the Medicine Immortal. Why would they go through so much trouble?

Why did we go to so much trouble to lead them into the mountains?

"Ha ha ha - retribution - it's all retribution!"

While I was thinking, suddenly there was a rustling noise coming from a distance, mixed with crazy words.

Lu Zhan and Chu Wantang looked over there and saw the old madman coming out from the snow pile.

The old madman was covered in snow, standing in the haystack, staring at them intently, then suddenly opened his mouth and smiled weirdly: "Hehehehe...you are going to be in trouble!"

Chu Wantang picked up the stick beside him and hit him: "What nonsense are you saying, you lunatic? I'm going to beat you to death!"

The old madman did not run away. He waited until Chu Wantang ran up to him with a stick. He grabbed the stick and looked like a madman. He almost trembled and said, "Don't stay here, run!"

After saying that, the old madman snatched the stick, laughed strangely twice, and ran towards the mountains again.

Chu Wantang frowned, but saw a figure walking not far away. It was the villagers who disturbed the old madman.

Lu Zhan's eyes were sharp and his expression was somewhat indifferent: "I'll go after him."

"No." Chu Wantang grabbed Lu Zhan's arm and said dissatisfiedly: "Zhu Youchen said that the sacrifices offered by the village are all women. If it is really bait, what's the point of you going there? At the critical moment, you still have to rely on me. This is an innate gender advantage."

"Besides, this matter is strange, and we can't both go in. If it is really a trap, I will play along with it. You can tell others that the two of us wanted to beat up the old lunatic, but got separated."

"..."

Lu Zhan's face darkened, and he felt helpless.

Chu Wantang's eyes were sparkling. Since her debut, she had killed countless people, but she had rarely experienced solving cases involving real intrigue.

Not to mention being used as a "sacrifice".

This opportunity finally came, how could she let Lu Zhan get there first?

Lu Zhan passed through her cloak, put his hand on her waist, and said with concern: "Then Madam, be careful. I will walk around the periphery twice. If it is really a trap, remember to signal me."

Chu Wantang pushed him and blushed, "Why do you start to touch me when we have a disagreement? Are you used to touching me?"

This push did not push her away, but instead caused Lu Zhan's palm to move down, just covering the round buttocks.

A soft and elastic feeling came, and Lu Zhan pinched it instinctively.

"You!" Chu Wantang was immediately ashamed and angry, but he did not dare to dodge, for fear of revealing a flaw.

Lu Zhan quickly removed his hand and coughed, "You have to act the whole part. It's all your fault for pushing me away, otherwise how could I have touched that side?"

“Tsk…” Chu Wantang sneered. She didn’t believe Lu Zhan’s nonsense. She took a half step back and said, “I won’t talk to you about this. Let’s proceed according to the plan.”

The warmth of Lu Zhan's palm seemed to still remain on her waist and buttocks. It was obviously very faint, but it was like a ball of fire, burning wildly in her heart, making her mouth dry.

Chu Wantang turned around and left. Not only did Lu Zhan touch her, he also put his hand inside her clothes.

Shameless.

Chu Wantang patted his face to calm his restless mood, and ran towards the mountains impatiently.

"..."

There was still a faint fragrance lingering between Lu Zhan's palms, which smelled very nice.

He looked at Chu Wantang's back and sighed helplessly. It was the first time he saw someone so happy being a "sacrifice".

But it makes sense. Chu Wantang was born in a wealthy family. Even though she suffered in her childhood due to her parents' affairs, overall, her life was smooth sailing.

She has lived in Bian Jing for these years and has to keep up appearances all the time, fearing that she would lose face as the Grand Master, and even more afraid of bringing disgrace to the Qin family.

It was rare to encounter a case like the one in Yaoxiang Village, so she was naturally very excited and wanted to experience the life of "Mrs. Lu from Jiangnan".

But no matter what, Chu Wantang's goal was to solve the case. She just took the opportunity to experience the thrill during the monster case.

As for Chu Wantang's safety, Lu Zhan was not worried at all.

The opponent is very powerful and has many life-saving talismans.

For example... you can summon a great master at the peak of the Creation Realm, and you can also summon a group of protectors from the Qin family.

"Compared to Xiao Chu, I am the most dangerous..."

Lu Zhan touched the jade pendant on his waist. If he really encountered something, he could only summon a great master, not as impressive as Xiao Chu.

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at that time.

Laomei Mountain and Canglang Zuokong Mountain are adjacent to each other. Once you go in, you will see mountains stretching for thousands of miles.

Normally, when villagers chop firewood, they do so on the outskirts and dare not go deep inside.

Chu Wantang lifted her skirt and chased after the old madman. The old madman laughed as he ran, and he didn't stop until he ran to a stream in the mountains.

He looked at Chu Wantang from afar, a look of pain appearing in his cloudy eyes.

"Why are you running?" Chu Wantang slowed down his pace, put his hands on his hips and asked, "What did you just say?"