He immediately went to the collapsed temple and addressed the fleeing people:
"Quickly put out the fire! The gods are punishing us!"
...
"Fire! Everyone, please help!"
...
They shouted several times, but no one came to help. Only Qu Dapeng walked up to them and said, "Come on, let's go put out the fire."
Yao Qianshu turned his head, looked at the houses behind him that were burning and filled with smoke, and then looked in the direction of Lin Wanwan.
Seeing that the little guy was still curled up in a ball, he gritted his teeth.
"Never mind, let's just do it."
Then, he took his money pouch out of his sleeve, poured it into his hand, and shouted as he looked at the gold and silver ingots:
"There's silver to be found! Hurry up and find some silver! There are lots of gold melon seeds in the temple of the goddess!"
As soon as Yao Qianshu finished speaking, he threw the golden melon seeds in his hand into the fire.
The fleeing people stopped in their tracks and called out in unison:
"What? There's gold in the temple of the goddess?"
"Quick, old woman, let's go put out the fire!"
"Yes, yes, yes, isn't all that hard work in life just so that life can be a little easier?"
"Quickly, how can the opportunity to accumulate merit and do good deeds fall on someone else's shoulders?"
"Let's go quickly..."
“We heard it first, let’s go…”
"Let's go too..."
In an instant, the people who had been fleeing in panic all rushed back to put out the fire.
Seeing how effortlessly the villagers of Yunxi Village had swayed the local populace, they were filled with admiration for Yao Qianshu.
That's amazing.
Such a young age, yet so accomplished!
The fire behind him was quickly extinguished, leaving Xiao Chengyun with an incredulous expression.
"Little Qian Shu, did you throw all the money you were going to use to get married into this business?"
Yao Qianshu was taken aback upon hearing this, and quickly took out the money bag from his arms again, reaching inside to rummage through it.
Then he poured it on the ground, and there was nothing there.
"Brother Chengyun, oh no! My father is probably going to break my bones this time..."
Xiao Chengyun patted his shoulder pitifully, "I'm sorry, I'm powerless to help you."
"However, if your dad beats you so badly that your bones are about to break, you can tell him that even broken bones are still connected by tendons, and he'll probably go easy on you."
"Really?" Yao Qianshu looked at Xiao Chengyun expectantly.
"Of course, I just learned this phrase in school, and it's perfect for this situation. I'm only telling you this because I consider you a brother. I didn't even help the Seventh Prince."
Sure enough, brothers are more reliable than sisters.
"Come here quickly."
Lin Chang'an's shouts came from afar, and the two stopped talking and hurriedly ran back.
"What's wrong? Wanwan, little sister..."
"She climbed up the Buddha statue." Lin Chang'an's voice trembled with tears as he pointed to Lin Wanwan not far away. "What should we do?"
Xiao Chengyun shouted, "What do we do? Quickly, pick her up!"
After they finished speaking, they immediately ran to the Buddha statue. As soon as they stopped, they saw that the Buddha statue seemed to be infused with a layer of golden light, radiating a dazzling brilliance.
"The goddess... the goddess has appeared in the world."
Someone shouted, and everyone slowly looked over.
On the once serene Buddha statue sat a child, and the statue seemed to have been infused with life, its eyes wide open.
But her eyes were full of grievance.
"You destroyed my temple?!"
Qu Dapeng immediately knelt down on the ground, "The goddess is a villager from Wangjia Village. They set fire to the goddess temple. I have advised them countless times, but they insisted on breaking in."
The villagers prostrated themselves on the ground, pleading, "Goddess, it was...it was the people from Wangjia Village who did it. We saw it with our own eyes."
"We're just unarmed civilians; we dare not confront them..."
Wangjiacun crawled over from a distance, pointing at Elder Wang lying on the ground:
“Sage, Elder Wang made us do it. If we didn’t, he would forbid us from doing business in the village. We had no choice…”
"Yes, Shaman, we're still waiting for the village to distribute the crops. If we don't get any, we'll starve to death..."
The villagers of Wangjia Village recounted their hardships.
Elder Wang knelt on the ground, unable to utter a sound, only able to point at them and sob.
“Wang Changsheng of Wangjia Village was kind to me ten thousand years ago. Now that you have burned my statue, my kindness is considered repaid. From now on, Wangjia Village will no longer be under my protection.”
As the ethereal voice of the shaman faded, the villagers of Wangjia Village kowtowed repeatedly.
"No, Goddess, we had no intention of offending you. Elder Wang forced us to do this."
"Elder Wang saw that the village chief of Yunxi Village was living a more and more comfortable life, and the villagers were all doing very well, while Wang Family Village was becoming increasingly prosperous under his son's rule. He became jealous and wanted to destroy the Temple of the Goddess."
"Yes, yes, I overheard his conversation with the village chief. The crops in the village were not good, and the government's subsidies were not much. We had no choice but to obey him."
The woman knelt on the ground, crying and shouting, "Goddess, we never intended to harm you, and we didn't start this fire."
“We didn’t intend to burn it down. Elder Wang told us that we came here today to seize the Shen Gu Temple, and from now on, it will be our Wang Family Village’s turn to protect it.”
"That's why we came with him, who knew he would actually set fire."
“Yes, yes…” the other villagers chimed in.
The light emanating from the Buddha statue slowly faded, and then a golden light floated above Wangjia Village. Suddenly, cries of despair echoed through the village.
"You'd better watch yourselves..."
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