Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn
Chapter 92 - 70: The Monk Was Captured, but the Temple Escaped

Chapter 92: Chapter 70: The Monk Was Captured, but the Temple Escaped

Skunk was thinking about the tens of thousands he would get soon, and his heart blossomed with joy. Yesterday, after Great Wizard meddled, he didn’t snatch anything.

"What is this crap," complained the slick-backed translator who opened the door first. He hadn’t walked far when he jumped back out, cursing. Jumping out with him were dozens of frogs.

"Those damn kids, how could they place frogs here without securely tying the bag? Just wait until I deal with them." Apparently, the hundreds of frogs caught from Xiao Xian’s land last night were big with meaty heads. Using just over a dozen, they were ready to fill up a whole pot. The rest, fearing they might escape, were put together with the capturing bags into the small room for birds by Skunk’s underlings.

Skunk took the lead and grabbed a big fat frog, "Miss Aisha, if you don’t mind, take a few frogs with you. I’ll help you clean them up. These are wild ones, good for your health when eaten."

Disgust flashed across Aisha’s big eyes, "These are toads, not frogs, and frogs carry a lot of parasites in their bodies. If you don’t want to end up with terrible diarrhea, you’d better eat less." But upon closer inspection of the frog in Skunk’s hand, she frowned. How could a wild frog be this big, especially in autumn?

"Go inside and look," Aisha listened, but besides the croaking of frogs, there was no other sound from inside the room. If there were living birds inside, it would not be so quiet.

The room designated for the birds had several hundred iron cages of various sizes. To maintain the beauty of the birds, each one caught by Skunk was raised in its own cage with good rice and water. Only a few, like the ones in Black Mountain, were confined with wire nets. After all, Black Mountain was a dangerous place rife with venomous snakes and vermin, and caution was necessary even when capturing a single bird.

"This is the bird you told me about?" Aisha angrily pointed at the nearly hundred empty cages in the room. There was nothing inside the room. Her high heel stomped down hard, bursting the belly of a toad underfoot.

If only one or two birds had escaped, that could be excused as perhaps a worker had forgotten to lock the cages after feeding. But now, over a hundred birds had escaped, small or large, it was clear someone deliberately released them. The room for the birds had no extra doors or windows, only the single entrance. The other exit was an air vent situated over two meters high from the ground, which was now open.

"What are you waiting for, you don’t want your money anymore? Chase them!" said the translator, seeing that Aisha’s pretty face had turned angry. He wiped sweat from his forehead. The room was filled with the stench of bird droppings, and toads were incessantly hopping around.

"I’ll do that now. If I find out who released my birds, I’ll destroy them," Skunk’s heart was already bleeding. Not to mention the loss of tens of thousands, even the other birds had disappeared—how was he going to explain this to his other clients?

"Don’t chase wildly. Where is the nearest forest around here?" Aisha went into the house and didn’t speak. After looking around, she walked over to one of the bird cages and looked at the few wet footprints on the ground. There were two sets of footprints, both not from adults.

A flock of wild birds that had been caged for several days would instinctively attack humans upon contact. When they were next door, there was no sound of birds or humans fighting, which indicated that the person who released the birds either knew birds’ habits very well, or... Aisha raised an eyebrow, somehow the trip had yielded something different from what she had expected.

An hour earlier, while everyone was watching Aisha prepare a specimen, two sneaky figures slipped into the room where the birds were kept.

"Are you sure it’s this room?" Xiao Xian wanted to be at the forefront, but Yezi wouldn’t allow it, insisting that it wasn’t proper for a girl to be at the front. He suggested he should lead since he was older and taller. If they encountered trouble, Xiao Xian could turn and run.

The warehouse was large, and it didn’t make sense for the two children to just wander aimlessly. If Yezi hadn’t heard some bird calls, they might not have found their way.

"Wow, so many birds and chickens," Xiao Xian still pushed the door open first. If she ran into something frightening, she could immediately hide in her space—far safer than relying on Yezi.

"Don’t get close," Yezi grabbed Xiao Xian. At the entrance were several hawks from the Southwest, rarely seen. The male hawks caged for several days had lost their vibrant feather color. Seeing a human, their eyes emitted a sharp and unfriendly gleam.