"It's night time now!" The village chief didn't want to go.

"Ghosts usually appear at night. If you don't want to solve the problem, then it's up to you. Junqing, let's go back to the hotel."

"Wait!" The village chief led the way with a flashlight, Nan Xuanwei and Zhao Junqing walked in the middle, and there was a cameraman and lighting staff behind them.

Seeing the land temple from afar and feeling the resentment gathering in the sky, Nan Xuanwei took out her hairpin and drew a circle, then gave Zhao Junqing a few amulets: "I'll go check ahead, you guys wait here."

The closer they got to the land temple, the more resentful they became. Standing at the door of the land temple, Nan Xuanwei asked in a deep voice, "Do you want to come out on your own, or do you want me to catch you out?"

"You are aiding and abetting evil. I have protected the villagers for many years, but they have become more and more disrespectful to the land temple and me. Even the offerings have stopped in the past two years. They didn't help to repair the land temple when it collapsed. A hundred years ago, I made an agreement with their ancestors that I would protect their descendants. The villagers of these two villages cannot let the land temple be cut off from offerings, but what are they doing?" An old man in tattered clothes and with messy hair appeared in front of Nan Xuanwei, leaning on a stick.

"Even if they are wrong, you shouldn't use that method to take things from the village. Fortunately, you haven't killed anyone. You want to leave here and say you want to continue to work on the land."

"I want to be a mountain god. Even if no one worships me, I won't be hungry because there are everything in the mountains. I know many landowners are unemployed now, but I'm used to this kind of life and don't want to be reincarnated as a human."

"I see you have a restraint on you, which should be left behind when you made a promise with the villagers' ancestors a hundred years ago. I will go to the mountain to see if there is a mountain god. If not, I will help you. But you must remember not to use improper means to get things from the people in the future, and you must not harm others, otherwise I will come and take you away."

"Okay, I promise you!"

A talisman released the restraints on the land, and Nan Xuanwei watched it go up the mountain before leaving.

On the way back, the village chief asked Nan Xuanwei what she had discovered. Nan Xuanwei did not hide it and told him the whole story of letting the land go.

"How can you let it go? You have to keep it here to protect the safety of the adults and children in the village!"

Nan Xuanwei glanced at the village chief and said, "If you want it to protect the villagers, why did you stop offering sacrifices to it and even ignored the collapse of the land temple! It had no choice but to take advantage of the greed of some villagers and take some local specialties from you. Even though the method it used was inappropriate, you shouldn't just ignore it!"

"I will gather people to rebuild the land temple tomorrow, so that it will not be cut off from offerings. Can you not let the land god pass away?"

The villagers in both villages knew about the agreement between the land and their ancestors. At first, they followed the instructions of their elders to add incense and offer sacrifices. By chance, they learned that the land was bound to the two villages and could not leave even without offerings. Moreover, people of their status were very trustworthy. As the elders passed away one after another, the younger generation grew up and their ideas and moods changed, so they became negligent towards the land. Until today, let alone offering sacrifices, even the land temple has collapsed and no one cares.

The method used by the land god is similar to the method used by other ghosts and gods to borrow lifespan and luck. He will choose some crossroads to place some valuables, and then make a wish that whoever takes them is equivalent to agreeing to borrow some offerings from him. To be frank, he has to come up with such a method out of necessity.

"It has already left. Since you don't want to worship it, why do you want to keep it here? There are no land temples in many places now. Aren't they living well?"

It's different. Other places are suffering from floods or droughts, but these two villages are the only ones nearby that have good weather for at least eight out of ten years. Some villagers who encounter danger when going up the mountain can always resolve it easily. The villagers know that it is the land that is blessing them.

Over the years, they have become accustomed to this unequal relationship and thought it would always be like this, but they did not expect that this relationship would be broken by Nan Xuanwei.

The village chief found Mo Lianxiu and asked him to order Nan Xuanwei to get the land back: "The village invited you to help everyone. What she did is clearly a scam."

"People have to keep their word. You were the first to breach the contract. It doesn't want to stay. What right do you have to force it to stay?"

The villagers were at fault in the first place. It’s too late now that they are reluctant to let them leave!

The village chief ignored all that and went to Mo Lianxiu to complain and demand Nan Xuanwei to get the land back. After learning the whole story, Mo Lianxiu stood on Nan Xuanwei's side: "We promised to help you find out why you lost your things, and we also dealt with the other party. We have completed the task."

"But she let go of our village's land. Will you be responsible if anything happens to our village in the future?"

“Walk the right path and have good intentions. Even if you are unlucky, it is only temporary. What kind of life you can live ultimately depends on yourself, not on others.” Nan Xuanwei did not think she had done anything wrong.

Upon hearing that the land had been given away by Nan Xuanwei, more villagers gathered and blocked the program crew's car to prevent them from leaving.

Qu Ming and Qiao Xi advised Mo Lianxiu to discuss with Nan Xuanwei to get the land back. The villagers have already agreed to rebuild the land temple, so wouldn't it be enough to continue worshipping it in the future?

"Your sense of right and wrong is really eye-opening. In this matter, it is obviously the villagers who are wrong. They made the mistake first. Now that they have changed their minds, should the land be returned to them? If you were in their shoes, would you still be willing to stay with such a group of people?" Zhao Junqing firmly supported Nan Xuanwei.

Nan Yi and Bai Jie also sided with Nan Xuanwei.

"Director Mo, please turn off the live broadcast. I will summon the person involved and let him settle the matter with the villagers on his own."

[What does the fairy mean? Can she call the land? I want to see it too]

[Don't turn it off. Just turn off the live broadcast at the critical moment. Fans also have the right to know.]

[I have never seen a real land god in my life, let me see it]

Of course, this could not be watched. Nan Xuanwei took out a small incense burner, lit three special incense sticks, and burned a talisman. In order to make the villagers give up, Nan Xuanwei waved her hand and opened the third eye of everyone present.

A moment later, a half-meter-tall, skinny old man leaning on a cane emerged from the ground near the incense burner and asked, "Who called me here?"

"I asked you to come and explain it to them face to face. The villagers here want you to stay and continue to work on the land. They promised to help you build a land temple and offer sacrifices. Now it depends on your choice."

The land god ran to Nan Xuanwei with his short legs, threw away his crutches, sat on the ground, hugged her legs and cried: "I have been hungry for decades. Later, the land god temple collapsed. I don't even have a place to shelter from the wind and rain. I have to live with rats and snakes every day. I don't want to be a land god anymore. Master, you can't go back on your word!"

Seeing the old man sitting on the ground and acting like a spoiled brat, Zhao Junqing squatted down and said, "Old man, be careful and don't rub your snot on my Weiwei."

"I don't have any snot. Hey, how can you see me? Ghost!" The land screamed and burrowed into the soil.

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