Allure of a Country Maiden-Chapter 1216 - 1213_1

The four of them wandered on the mountain, allowing many people to see them in the morning still gathering poisonous creatures, before they returned to the platform they were at yesterday and turned in the venomous creatures they had found. freewёbnoνel.com

At that moment, two men dressed in blue and black stopped them, "Brothers, may we have a word with you?"

The quartet exchanged glances and followed them.

Let’s see what these two, who had stopped them, had to say!

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The hour of Si.

The platform was crowded with people who had successively returned from their search for poisonous creatures.

Collecting three kinds of venomous creatures on the mountain within 24 hours is neither difficult nor easy.

Because the venomous creatures listed on the scrolls everyone held did exist on this mountain.

As long as one understands the habits of these three venomous creatures, a day is just enough to find them.

All of these factors were taken into consideration by the people of Li Valley.

The four of them, including Xiao’er, handed in the poisonous creatures all at once.

Xiao’er held a trembling cloth bag with her heart following suit.

Because the golden python was hiding in Xiao’er’s sleeve, exerting pressure on the two other snakes, causing them to shiver in fear!

Xiao’er was terrified because she could feel the snakes trembling. Though it didn’t show on her face, she was still inwardly afraid.

The golden python couldn’t understand why Xiao’er was scared!

With it present, those two snakes wouldn’t dare to move at all!

Though Xiao’er was inwardly afraid, it didn’t show on her face, and aside from Shangguan Xuanyi who could discern her nervousness, no one else noticed anything unusual about her.

Xiao’er handed over the cloth bag to the elderly man with a Daoist demeanor and heaved a sigh of relief.

The elder accepted the bag, casually opening it as if he were untying a money bag.

He reached in, grabbed one of the snakes as if he were clawing for silver, and pulled it out.

Xiao’er froze momentarily.

"Good, this snake was actually caught by you! Well done! Well done! Haha... But why does this snake seem to be trembling? What did you do to it? How did you catch it?" Curiosity dripped from the elder’s voice as he held the snake at the jaw and caressed his beard with the other hand.

This action, in an instant, made him lose all semblance of being a Daoist.

The tail of the snake drooped long and the body of the snake trembled. As the elder stroked his beard, Xiao’er almost thought he was stroking the snake!

A twitch passed over Xiao’er’s face, revealing a stiff smile, "It’s a secret ancestral method. It’s not meant to be publicly known."

Besides, where would she even dare to do anything to the snake! She generally kept a respectful distance from them!

"An ancestral method for catching snakes?" Surprised, the elder made a remark after hearing this.

Xiao’er only smiled without answering.

In her heart, Xi’er added: the ancestral method is simply to marry a good husband, and then there would be nothing to worry about!

The elder tossed the Red-footed snake back into the bag and grabbed the trembling rattlesnake.

Xiao’er: Enough already!

The not-so-Daoist elder saw that they had caught the two correct snakes and said, "You passed this trial!"

Xiao’er calmed herself down as she pretended to be nonchalant and walked away.

Those who knew her saw that her pace was faster than usual!

Next, Shangguan Xuanyi and the other two also turned in the venomous creatures they had collected.

The not-so-Daoist elder looked over Xi’er’s scroll, glanced up at her, and nodded, "Good, good, you’ve found all of them. You passed!"

He looked at Shangguan Xuanyi, "Very good! All of them are correct. You passed!"

He looked over at Shangguan Xuanyao, "Excellent! You managed to find everything! Lucky you! Haha... You passed!" The Daoist-appearing elder was quite happy today.

Finding several individuals with exceptional potential, how could he not be pleased?

As for the others waiting behind the four, who had been searching for poisonous creatures the entire day and night in the mountain, their happiness could not compare to the four shining figures before them!

They were fatigued and in a sorry state, while the four of them were clean and refreshed! It didn’t look at all like they had spent a full day and night searching for venomous creatures!

Not far behind them, a middle-aged man in blue and a man in black looked at the four with complex gazes.

Given their impressive abilities, the position of elder was certainly going to be theirs! These were the people their master had ordered them to recruit!

Because the position of Li Clan elder was necessary for them!

Earlier, they had tried to recruit the four, but unexpectedly, all four had turned them down!

Their master did say: if they couldn’t recruit them, then they would have to destroy them!

Keeping someone around who was of no use to oneself, no matter how talented, was pointless!

The position of elder of the Li Clan absolutely could not be acquired by others!

Especially not by someone from the Minze Country!

Since these people declined their invitation, they didn’t know if they were people dispatched by Minze Country!

"Wait! Sir! I suspect they have cheated!" the blue-clad, square-faced man spoke at this moment.

Cheated?

The entire audience was shaken upon hearing these words.

Then, all gazes fell upon Xiao’er and her companions.

Xiao’er turned her head and looked at the blue-clothed man who had spoken, sneering in her heart: Hmm, they failed to recruit us, so now they want to discredit us?

They had talked about joining them and becoming their master’s subordinates, and there would be endless glory and wealth. They even hinted at the possibility of high-ranking posts!

When they said these words, Xiao’er had guessed that they might be people sent by the Nangong Court.

The position of the elder of the Li Clan, Gong Qinghua definitely wanted to acquire it.

Because they had also come for the position of the elder of the Li Clan!

If they could think of relying on this competition to get the position of an elder of the Li Clan and then gain the support of the Li Clan,

Then Gong Qinghua would naturally have thought of this method as well.

The Daoist-appearing elder appeared surprised upon hearing this, "Oh? Cheated? Why do you say so?"

"Because except for the beginning of the search yesterday, we didn’t see them at all on the mountain!"

Hearing these words, Xiao’er couldn’t help but laugh, "You didn’t see us, so that means we cheated? The mountain is so big, do you have eyes that can see every corner of the mountain?"

"There’s no need for you to quibble. Look at the others who have been on the mountain for a whole day and night. Everyone is in disarray! Look at yourselves, your clothes haven’t even got a speck of dirt or dew, not even a single wrinkle. If you were on the mountain for a whole day and night searching for poisonous creatures, how could you look so clean and tidy?"

The words of the man in blue led everyone to look at Xiao’er and her companions’ clothes! Indeed, they were extraordinarily clean and neat!

"When did I say that we were on the mountain for a whole day and night looking for poisonous creatures?" Xiao’er retorted upon hearing this.

"You admit it! These poisonous creatures were purchased by you after you descended the mountain! You did not find them on the mountain yourselves!" The man in blue confidently retorted.

Last night, when he couldn’t find them anywhere, he suspected that they might have secretly descended the mountain to buy the creatures!

As expected! He guessed it right!

Dared to cheat! That could lead to direct disqualification!

The man in blue looked smugly at Xiao’er and her companions.

He was waiting for them to be driven away from the mountain by the Daoist-appearing elder!