Doctor Hao in the carriage changed from his honest and sincere demeanor just now, rolled his eyes and said: "They are just a few petty thieves, why don't you just ask someone to arrest them? There is no need to force me to act."
"The driver of the car has not been found yet. Who knows whether he was killed or captured by them. We can't alert the snake yet. We will wait until the prince replies." Xie Liu leaned lazily in the car and said, "I have already called someone. I'm looking for clues along the way. If they get rid of the medicinal materials soon and take the money to go out and have fun, I will have several groups of people to keep an eye on them. Are you tired?"
"You don't want to get hurt so you're going to mess with me?" Doctor Hao couldn't help but rolled his eyes again, and then bargained, "The quality of the medicinal materials on the carriage is really good. Can you give me half of it afterwards?"
Xie Liu sneered and said: "Dream! If you want to find the prince yourself, go!"
Dr. Hao had nothing to say when he heard this, and said distressedly: "Oh, it's such a pity that such good medicinal materials are available. We still encounter the same two kinds occasionally. So many varieties and such good quality are really rare."
"These are supposed to be medicinal materials used to treat the prince's illness. Of course, they must be of good quality..."
"Come on, stop talking if you don't understand anything." Dr. Hao interrupted him, "There are many medicinal materials that the prince has no use for."
"The prince can always use people from the palace if he doesn't need them. It's not your turn anyway." Xie Liu said unceremoniously.
Doctor Hao was so angry that he turned his head and ignored him.
At this time, the people sent by Xie Liu to inquire about information along the way had quickly arrived outside the teahouse.
"Would you like to have tea or dinner?" The waiter hurriedly came out and greeted with a smile.
It was still early at this time, almost between breakfast and lunch, and the teahouse was very deserted, with not a single customer yet.
Several people got off their horses. The leader looked around, nodded with great satisfaction and said: "Bring me a pot of herbal tea!"
"Okay!" The waiter shook the handkerchief on his shoulder and left, quickly bringing a large pot of herbal tea over.
The leader put two taels of silver ingots directly on the table.
The waiter was startled and said hurriedly: "Sir, the tea stall is a small business. It hasn't opened yet today. It's hard to find such a small amount of money!"
"No need to look for it, the extra ones will be given to you." The leader said cheerfully.
"This..." The guy is not blinded by money. Although he often receives some rewards for working here, it is only a few or a dozen copper coins at most.
It's not necessarily a good thing to spend two taels of silver as soon as you make a move.
"Don't be afraid, we just want to inquire about something from you. Changsha Mansion captured a group of gangsters and robbed a carriage. The carriage was full of valuable medicinal materials, and the driver was nowhere to be found. We were ordered to investigate..."
"Ah! I know!" The boy immediately knew what they were talking about and interrupted him excitedly, "The driver was a very alert person. When he saw something was wrong, he abandoned the vehicle and ran into the mountains. That group The villain waited until evening..."
The waiter still remembered the previous incident, and while there were no other customers, he told them the events of the day in detail.
"I originally wanted to help the guest officer guard the carriage and wait for him to come back before driving away. Who knew there were so many of them, I really had no choice...
"After that, I kept wanting to wait for the guest officer to come out of the mountains, but I never saw him. Maybe he left by another way..."
The leader saw the woods behind him. Now that summer is approaching, the vegetation in the mountains is extremely lush. Even old hunters who know the mountains very well can easily get lost, let alone the coachman who enters here for the first time.
Thinking of this, he sent people back quickly to report the news to Xie Liu, and at the same time took the remaining few men and started to search into the mountains.
"He's just a coachman, and he abandoned his carriage and medicinal materials and ran away. Why does he need to spend so much time searching the mountains?" His subordinates asked with some confusion.
"If we don't need to find anyone, why would Mr. Six send us out to investigate?"
The leader straightened his face and lectured.
"Whatever the superiors ask you to do will naturally have its own reasons. What you have to do is to carry out the orders, rather than asking questions and questioning this and that.
"We are short of manpower now. I'll let you go for now. I'll go and collect the punishment myself when I get back."
After the leader finished speaking, he turned around and walked into the woods. As he walked, he said: "The newcomers nowadays are really getting worse every year. I remember when I first started working as an apprentice, I just immersed myself in work every day and didn't say a word of nonsense." Dare you say it!"
His men turned pale after being scolded by him. They lowered their heads and kept admitting their mistakes and apologizing. Then they rushed into the forest, trying to find all kinds of traces, hoping to find the coachman and atone for his sins.
Qiu Jun was still wandering in the mountains at this time. He no longer knew how many days he had been lost in the woods.
There were thick bushes in the mountains and there were no roads at all. He could only crawl through the sparse areas. His clothes had been torn to pieces by the branches. He simply pulled a few strips of cloth and wrapped the oilcloth tightly. Wrap the ground around your chest and protect it carefully.
In the past few days, he drank water from the stream when he was thirsty, and ate leaves and roots when he was hungry, but he did not dare to stop because no one knew he was here, and no one would come looking for him. He had to find his own way out, otherwise he would really die. I have to explain it here.
But as time went by, he felt that his steps were getting heavier and heavier, and he gradually became a little lethargic, and he kept sweating.
He dragged his legs like lead and slowly climbed up a hillside, wanting to take a look at the surroundings from a high position. But as soon as he climbed up, he felt a sharp pain in his ankle, and then he felt a burst of pain in front of his eyes. Black, the whole person fell to the ground, and he seemed to see a snake sliding past his eyes...
Qiu Jun fell into a coma quickly, so he had no idea that although he had walked a lot in the past few days, he had actually been walking in circles most of the time and had not gone very far at all.
So in less than half a day, the people sent by Xie Liu followed the various traces he left and found him.
"Boss, we found the person, but he has fainted." The first one to rush forward was the novice who had made a mistake before. Fortunately, he was not carried away yet. He carefully checked Qiu Jun's situation and immediately said nervously. , "The person is still alive, but he must have been bitten by a snake. I don't know if he was unconscious due to the poisonous snake or due to excessive fatigue."
The wound on Qiu Jun's ankle was quickly treated, and a few pills were stuffed into his mouth, but if he wanted to completely detoxify, he still had to go back to Changsha Mansion first and then find a way.
After dark, Xie Liu finally saw Qiu Jun, who was in a state of embarrassment and still in a coma.
"Is this the person?"
"Yes, I have confirmed it with the guy at the teahouse. He is right." The subordinate said, handing an oilcloth bag to Xie Liudao, "This is something he has been hiding close to him. It seems to be better than that one in the car." I still want valuable medicinal materials, so maybe it was because I wanted to keep these things that I chose to abandon the car and run away.”
"Oh?" Xie Liu took the oilcloth bag after hearing this and planned to go back to the room to check it carefully.
