Understanding what he meant, the village chief put a smile on his face again.
"I'm overthinking it. I'm going to gather everyone together. You guys just wait here for a while."
"It's okay, you go ahead."
The village chief called his son over and asked him to accompany him to call the villagers over.
Within ten minutes, the village chief's door was surrounded by villagers.
Hearing that the village chief had summoned all the villagers, Zhang Dabiao followed the mute father and the others.
The man in black robe was watching from above and recognized Zhang Dabiao in the crowd at a glance.
Oh, his guess was indeed correct, the person is right here.
"Everyone is almost here, are you going out now?" the village chief said respectfully.
Without much hesitation, the man in black robe got up and came to the yard.
When he came out, many villagers noticed his strange dress and started whispering.
"Wear a piece of black cloth on your body, are you so shameless?"
"Don't talk nonsense here. I heard that he was specially found by the village chief, saying that he can solve the strange things that happened in the village recently."
"If you ask me, those Taoist priests are all fools, they don't know how to pretend."
"You should say less, otherwise the village chief will punish you if he hears it."
Zhang Dabiao stood aside and listened to their conversation clearly, but his eyes were always fixed on those people, with a gloomy expression on his face.
Gerry was the leader of the three, standing at the front, looking over the villagers critically.
Sangouzi looked at him in the crowd and felt that he was different from the Taoist priest he knew.
"Village chief, who is this man? He is not the Taoist chief of the next village at all." Sangouzi revealed their identities mercilessly.
The village chief must have been deceived, but luckily he was there.
"It is true that I am not a Taoist priest, but I can help you solve the strange things in the village. I just need your cooperation with me."
The villagers were already suspicious of him, but after saying this, they became even more suspicious.
Do people with real abilities still use people like them to help?
I had known for a long time that they needed people to cooperate, but I didn't expect that the villagers' reaction would be so big.
"Ahem, cough, cough, how do those people need us to cooperate with you?" the village chief said awkwardly.
Gerry pointed accurately at Zhang Dabiao in the crowd, "If we want to solve the strange things in the village, we need the cooperation of this foreigner."
"Are you talking about Zhang Dabiao?"
"That's right." Gerry nodded.
Zhang Dabiao smiled, he didn't expect this man to be so bold.
It was interesting to let myself cooperate with him in front of so many people.
The villagers followed the direction of his finger and looked at Zhang Dabiao.
Now, the villagers believed in Gerry's power.
They had long said that these outsiders had problems, but the village chief refused to listen. This was a slap in the face.
With the Taoist priest's words, the villagers accused Zhang Dabiao even more brazenly.
"The Taoist Master has said so, so there must be something wrong with this person."
"I have long seen that there is something wrong with him, and the village chief wants to protect him."
"If you had to listen to us and drive people out, we wouldn't have so many things happening in our village."
The mute father couldn't hear what others were saying about Zhang Dabiao, so he immediately shouted back, "Don't talk nonsense here. Brother Zhang healed my son's throat. He is a good man!"
"Dad, mute, stop defending him here. Even if you don't believe it, it's something that even a whole village believes. Is it because he gave you some ecstasy soup to make you defend him like this?"
"I told you, Brother Zhang is a good person!"
The mute father wanted to argue with them, but Zhang Dabiao stopped him.
"Brother Zhang, how can they say that to you? It's too much!"
"It's okay. I can walk and sit upright, so I'm not afraid of what they say."
Turning his head, Zhang Dabiao looked at Gerry, who was smiling but not smiling.
"Gerry, tell me, how do you want me to cooperate with you?"
Hearing his familiar tone, the village chief panicked.
Do these two people still know each other, or are they simply in the same group?
"Zhang Dabiao, so many things happened during the time you came to the village, and you didn't want to investigate clearly?"
Except for the mute father and the others, Zhang Dabiao didn't have any good impressions of the villagers. He snorted coldly, "It has nothing to do with me. I don't care what it does."
"Then have you ever thought that if you had never been here, so many things would not happen in the village."
"Gerry, the reason why you said this is because you want the villagers to turn their attention to me. If you really want to help them, stop talking nonsense. If you can't help, just get out!"
Zhang Dabiao was extremely rude to what Gerry said.
Gerry's expression changed, and he noticed a slight change in the way the villagers looked at him.
"To be honest, before I came, I had already calculated that something like this would happen in the village."
"As for the reason why I came here this time, I am here to help everyone."
"But I just came here and I don't know the situation yet. Please give me some time."
"The reason why I called everyone here is because I don't know the situation of Lanling Mountain. If you go up the mountain without authorization, I don't know what will happen. Please don't go up the mountain until I solve this matter."
Gerry's words restored his image in the hearts of the villagers and made them feel at ease.
Sangouzi thought about his words carefully and felt that something was not right.
"We believe you, but you have to give us an accurate time. Otherwise, how long will it take for us to wait like this?"
"I don't know the specific situation yet. I have to wait until I go up the mountain before I can give you an accurate answer."
"Okay, then you said you knew something was going on here, and you should know what exactly happened, right?"
"Little brother, I know you are anxious, but there is nothing you can do about it. As the saying goes, secrets cannot be leaked, so I advise you not to know too much."
San Gouzi frowned slightly. He had a vague feeling that there was something wrong with this man, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
After asking so many questions and getting a warning look from the village chief, I had no choice but to give up.
The village chief spoke at the right time and said: "Okay, everyone just remembers that you are not allowed to go up the mountain without my permission. When we resolve the matter, we will notify everyone, so go back!"
The villagers were unwilling to go back like this and had no other choice but to leave.
Nothing matters to their lives.
After a while, there were only a few people left in front of the village chief's house.
The mute father looked at Zhang Dabiao worriedly, "Brother Zhang, you go back with us first. It won't be too late to come back when we need you."
"Dad, mute, please go back with the little mute first. Don't worry, I will be fine."
"But..." At first glance, they are not good people.
"If you don't believe them, don't you believe me? I will go back later, so don't worry."
After finally persuading people to leave, Zhang Dabiao looked at Gerry who was standing aside.