"Squelch!"
The instant the Station Chief cut open the peach, everyone's eyes went wide.
Then...
They all covered their mouths and noses!
Those standing close, like Shang Xueli, even turned away and vomited on the spot!
Of course...
The others didn't look much better.
The only people present who showed little reaction were the frowning Station Chief, Ye Qianfan, who had no sense of smell and so remained expressionless, and the Pavilion Chief, who seemed accustomed to the stench.
"What's going on?"
Li Pu looked surprised. "This peach looks perfectly fine on the outside, and the inside looks fine too. Why does it stink worse than a corpse that's been rotting for three days once it's cut open? If I hadn't spent years stitching up corpses, that smell might've sent me straight to the grave."
"It smells awful." The handsome, fine-featured Actor Qi Zhu kept dry-heaving. "What exactly is this thing? Is it really a peach? How could a peach smell like this?!"
"So..."
By now, the Station Chief had more or less figured out the problem. "This is why Riverside Town has had no harvest?"
"Because all the ripe fruit and grain smell strange, you've just left them to rot in the fields?"
"Then what have you been eating all this time? And when exactly did this start?"
"Tell us everything you know about what happened!"
"Yes, yes."
The Pavilion Chief nodded repeatedly. "This all began a year ago..."
Then...
The Pavilion Chief told everyone a long story.
In essence, a year ago, a severe drought had nearly killed all the plants growing in their fields.
Nothing anyone tried had worked!
Just then, a Daoist happened to pass through. He told them that since Riverside Town stood beside a river, the deity they ought to worship was naturally the