The tea-serving maid's kneeling attracted the brown pheasant's attention. It walked over curiously and found that the tea had wet the front half of Fang Chaozhou's boots, with a few tea leaves still stuck on it. It couldn't help but look up at Fang Chaozhou.

It has lived with Fang Chaozhou for so long that it has long known that Fang Chaozhou is very clean and even folds his clothes neatly every time he takes them off.

When Fang Chaozhou saw the person kneeling down, he paused for a moment and wanted to get up and avoid the direction where the other person was kneeling. But as soon as he moved, the kneeling maid took two steps forward on her knees, not only blocking Fang Chaozhou's way, but also seemed to be about to hug Fang Chaozhou's calf.

"Young Master!"

Fang Chaozhou had never seen such a scene before and was shocked. I just accidentally got my shoes wet, how did it get so serious?

etc.

His roommate told him that there seemed to be four rounds of tests, and he was in the third round now. He had passed the first two rounds and had already obtained 1,100 spirit stones in total. If the money from the brown pheasant was included, the total would be 2,200.

He originally only wanted to take 100 spirit stones, but now he has taken a lot.

I still can’t make any money from the third round.

From the time he came in until now, he still doesn’t know what the third round of assessment is, but the third round is definitely not as simple as the previous two rounds. Could it be that it has already begun?

Thinking of this, Fang Chaozhou looked at the maid kneeling on the ground suspiciously and began to have wild thoughts.

In the first round, he just stood there for a while and had no idea what the other party was measuring. In the second round, his feet were measured. This round... were they testing his cooperation?

The Fengyue Temple partners with outsiders and they all wait for a girl of their life and then divorce their partner. To be frank, they just want to find a man to have children with and then throw away the man who is no longer useful to them after the children are born. With this kind of behavior, when they look for a partner, they should choose a man who is willing to cooperate with them, and who has a good temper and does not get angry easily.

So this third round is to test his temper?

Deliberately pour tea on his feet and want to know his reaction?

So if he doesn't want to make it through the third round, then is it better for him to be more petty, more calculative, and more unreasonable?

Fang Chaozhou thought about it and felt that what he was thinking made sense, so he slightly turned his body and said sarcastically: "Do you know how expensive my boots are?"

When he said this, he was observing the reaction of the waitress who was pouring tea. When he noticed that her expression changed slightly, he felt that he had guessed correctly.

"You can't afford to pay for it, you know?"

The maid next to her immediately said, "How about this, Sir, please go sit in the inner room for a while. I will ask her to wash and dry your shoes, and then bring them back to you to apologize."

Fang Chaozhou felt that he had not been fussy enough, so he immediately said, "You made my shoes dirty, do you think you can get rid of me like that? Don't even think about it, unless... unless you give me an extra bag of food as compensation."

The inner room of the main house.

"How is it? Is there anyone who still meets the criteria?"

A woman in red sat at the table, and the sound of bells kept coming from her palms.

The maid who came in bowed and said, "Master, from yesterday to today, only three people have entered the third round, but the first two had their second toes longer than their big toes, so they were excluded."

The woman in red was Song Lianyi, the new nunnery abbess of Fengyue Nunnery. He only looked at the golden bell in his hand, "What about the third one?"

The maid hesitated for a moment before saying, "The third one... the third one still refuses to take off his boots and insists that we are trying to swindle his boots away." At this point, the maid said angrily, "Why would we in Fengyue Temple covet that stinky man's boots? We are really mentally ill."

"If you have a problem with your brain, just kick him out. Why waste so much time talking to him?" Song Lianyi said impatiently, "I just want to find him as soon as possible."

"Okay, then I'll take a bag of food to send him away." The maid was about to leave, but was soon stopped.

"Wait, what are you going to do to get rid of him?" Song Lianyi raised her eyes.

The maid turned around and said, "Food. The man said that since his shoes were wet, I must compensate him with food."

Song Lianyi's eyes changed slightly, and he stood up all of a sudden. He even didn't care that the bell in his hand fell on the table. "Food? He actually wants to eat?"

The maid was a little puzzled, "Yes, Master, what's wrong?"

Song Lianyi suddenly laughed, "Nothing, you should trick him into going to the inner room of the side hall. Whether it's to get the magic weapon or food, just let him go. I'll change my clothes and come back."

Although the maid didn't understand why her abbess suddenly changed her mind, she hurriedly did as she was told. Song Lianyi, who stayed in the inner room, picked up the golden bell on the table again.

This thing had not been sent to the auction house yet, but it had been seized by his subordinates. Fengyue Temple's original business was very big, and under his management in the past few years, it had not only expanded three times. Any treasure that was to flow into the auction house would first be counted by him.

It will only be auctioned if he is not interested.

This time, the owner of the auction house prepared the auction list and sent it over. His subordinates noticed the golden bell on it and immediately reported it to him, and asked the owner of the auction house not to auction the item for the time being.

He had personally put this bell on Fang Chaozhou's ankle five years ago. There were rumors outside that Fang Chaozhou was dead, but Lingling appeared five years later?

The place where he appeared was even in a pawnshop near Tianshui Sect.

So Song Lianyi spent three million spirit stones to buy the golden bell again, and immediately rushed to Tianshui Sect. She also had someone kidnap the pawnshop owner and forced him to tell everything.

"I dare not lie. The man does not look like the one in the painting. He has a very ordinary appearance. I saw him pawning things, but I didn't know the market price, so I..."

Song Lianyi smiled softly, "So I only gave him 300,000 spirit stones, and he left happily?"

The pawnshop owner turned pale and quickly wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Yes... yes."

"Then can you draw what he looks like?" Song Lianyi continued to ask in a soft voice.

The pawnshop owner shook his head. "He has a very ordinary appearance. I see dozens of such people every day. It has been a long time. I really can't remember. At that time, he signed a pawn agreement. I... I only know that he is a disciple of the Tianshui Sect. I saw the Tianshui Sect badge hanging on his waist."

Song Lianyi's eyes suddenly turned cold and gloomy. He stood up from his seat. The maid next to him immediately said, "Abbess, do you want it?" She made a gesture of scratching her neck.

"No rush, lock him up first. Have someone disguise himself as the boss and see if anyone comes back to ask about the bell. If so, lock him up immediately." Song Lianyi paused, "Don't tie him up, but don't let him leave."

After leaving the pawnshop and returning to the inn where they were staying, Song Lianyi's most trusted maid saw that Song Lianyi had been sitting there without saying a word, so she couldn't help asking, "Master, do you think that person has come back?"

Song Lianyi looked at the golden bell in her hand and said, "I think it's him. Something must have happened to him, so he's hiding his real name."

The maid said, "Why do you think so, abbot?"

"Tianshui Sect has no news of Fang Chaozhou's return, and he also sold the bell I gave him, which is enough to prove that he was in trouble and was desperate for money. Otherwise, he wouldn't take such a big risk to sell the bell, knowing that I would most likely come to find him." Song Lianyi laughed when she said this, "Of course, a not-so-smart person like him never thought about the risks at all, and didn't think I would know."

The maid thought for a moment, "Is the nunnery master sure that it was him? If someone found Fang Chaozhou's body and took away the gift given by the nunnery master, then..." Before she finished her words, she knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, "It was my fault for speaking out of turn. I spoke nonsense. I hope the nunnery master will forgive me."

Song Lianyi looked at the man kneeling on the ground, "You are as stupid as him. Back then, Zhongli Yueshui almost turned the underground demon realm upside down, but he still couldn't find Fang Chaozhou's body. How could anyone else find it? Besides, Xue Danrong has been going to the underground demon realm every now and then in the past five years. The time he has spent in Tianshui Sect can be counted on one's fingers, but he hasn't left Tianshui Sect for a long time recently."

When he said this, he chuckled, "Xue Danrong will not leave Tianshui Sect, and someone just happened to sell the bell. How can there be such a coincidence in this world?"

"But even if it is him, how can the nun find him? Didn't he hide his identity?" asked the maid.

Song Lianyi pulled her lip and said, "I'm going to tell those old men of Tianshui Sect that I want to form a Taoist couple with their disciples. It's an open election, and anyone who participates will receive spirit stones."

The maid suddenly realized, "The abbot wants to use the spirit stone to lure him out?"

"Almost, but not completely. Have you ever thought about why he would hide his identity and not ask for help from the sect even though he was obviously short of money? I have not forgotten how he was abandoned back then, and he himself is even less likely to forget. Do you think he would want to come back for revenge? Xue Danrong did not leave Tianshui Sect, so maybe he has already found him. I openly recruited a son-in-law to tell him that I can help him, and even if he doesn't come to me, with my status, and everyone who comes will receive spirit stones, there must be a lot of people coming, and he might mix in with the crowd and take the risk to come and receive spirit stones. Even if he is cautious and does not come, but excluding those who come, and then excluding those old guys who already have Taoist partners, wouldn't it be easy to check those who didn't come? We just need to focus on those new disciples."

Song Lianyi lowered her eyes again and looked at the golden bell in her hand.

“It’s a little troublesome, but I have to give it a try.”

The maid was very smart and quickly said, "Congratulations, Master. Congratulations, Master."

"Shh." Song Lianyi stretched out her hand and placed it on her red lips, making a hushing gesture. "I haven't found him yet. Congratulate me when you do. By the way, how are you doing with the recent fan fiction about Fang Chaozhou?"

"Master, rest assured. Except for some fools, no one in this world dares to offend Fengyue Temple by writing that ghost story book. Recently, our spies in the Dark Soul Gate reported that Li Zhu only received one story book in the past six months. I am already investigating the source. We can catch the fool who values ​​money over his life in half a month at the shortest."

Song Lianyi hummed, "Pack up, we'll go to Tianshui Sect tomorrow." At this point, he looked at his fingers with a smile in his eyes, "I haven't applied nail polish for a long time, let's apply some today."

Song Lianyi changed several sets of clothes before he barely chose one. He stood in front of the floor-length bronze mirror, looking at himself in the mirror. He smiled, but after just a smile, he immediately put away his smile and smiled again.

Song Lianyi was not satisfied with the way she smiled, so she got angry and smashed the mirror in front of her with a palm.

After smashing the mirror, he turned around coldly, strode out of the inner room, and went all the way to the inner room of the side hall.