There are six people sitting in the Tieguzhai meeting hall.

Lin Panhu looked around. The ninth child was not there, the fourth child was injured and did not wake up, and the third child was killed by his benefactor. He was seriously ill and slumped backwards on the chair. For a moment, he didn't know how to speak.

He simply closed his eyes and remained silent. He had just listened to the brothers chatting for a while, and now he just wanted to take a closer look at what happened during his coma.

"Brother."

Lin Wen was the first to break the silence, but Lin Pan waved his hand to stop him from continuing.

He placed his palm lightly on the table in front of him and kept tapping his index finger on the table. Everyone sat quietly for a moment before they heard him ask in a slightly thin voice: "Has the poisoner been caught?"

Lin Pan opened his eyes and looked at everyone present, only to see them all lower their heads.

He continued: "Ninth brother went out to rob the caravan, who agreed?"

Lao Balinzhen sat at the end and replied: "Brother, Lao Jiu asked him to do this."

Lin Wen, the second child, followed up and said: "Brother, I promised you. You were poisoned and you needed the Nine-turn Netherflame Grass. You must obey the authority when the matter is urgent. If you want to blame, just blame me."

"Why……"

Lin Pan patted his forehead and said: "This matter was indeed caused by the brothers trying to save me. I am the most responsible. I don't blame the second brother."

He continued: "Then why is the ninth brother not back yet? How many people has he brought with him?"

"Brother, this is exactly what I am suspicious of. Ninth Brother has brought thirty or forty people with him. Logically speaking, he should have returned to the village long ago."

Lin Wen hesitated and said, "Unless..."

"Unless what?" Lin Pan asked.

Lin Wen looked at his eldest brother Lin Pan seriously and said slowly word by word: "Either he ran away because he was the one who poisoned you, or he is already dead."

"If you walk along the trade road, you will encounter today's caravan..."

The meaning hidden in Lin Wen's words was clearly understood by everyone present despite the fear in their hearts. However, no matter what the outcome was, it was difficult for them to speak, so they were all looking at their eldest brother, waiting for him to do it. decision.

Lin Pan's brows furrowed into two small hills. He shook his head and said, "Although Ninth Brother has a perverse and naughty temper, he is definitely not that kind of person. As for your claim that it was done by my benefactor's caravan, that doesn't matter." evidence."

The matter was actually very close to the truth, but Lin Pan had always been a man of rules and loyalty. Without evidence, you couldn't say that someone else had done something, let alone the other party who had just saved him.

"Brother, I think it's not the caravan outside."

Lao Balin Town said: "My second brother and I have more contact with them. With Mu Qing's strength, if he wanted to leave, our dozens of people couldn't stop him this morning, let alone escort them back." Village, so it’s probably not their attack on Lao Jiu.”

After all, these days, everyone who is not an enemy is extremely jealous when they see each other. Either you die or I die. If you want to act, it would be too cheap.

"Well, what Eighth Brother said makes sense."

Lin Pan shook his head and ignored the ninth brother's confusion. He continued to ask everyone present: "Who can explain to me clearly what happened to the fourth brother?"

When he asked this question, his voice was obviously angry.

Although the third child Lin Zhun was killed, this incident made it clear that the village was unreasonable. If he could eradicate the weeds in one go, then he would pretend that he didn't ask. The key is that he had the strength, so he couldn't ignore it.

The scene was quiet again. Seeing that no one answered, Lin Pan turned his attention to Lin Wen.

Lin Wen said with a bitter look on his face: "Brother, I know very little about the fourth brother. What I know has just been revealed to the outside world, and I have not hidden it."

"How did the fourth brother know that I have been put to death?"

Lin Pan scratched his chin and said as if talking to himself.

"Well, brother, I think we can arrest the deputy fourth brother and question him carefully."

Lin Wen came up with an idea. Just after everyone returned to the village, the deputy didn't know where he was hiding.

"Well, go and catch that person for me."

Lin Pan stood up while holding on to the table and said, "Treat the injured brother first. I will take care of other things after I recover from my injuries."

"Uh... uh... you..."

Cao Mo looked at the two people who had collapsed on the ground in front of him with an indifferent expression. One was the man he had just sent to ask Lin Tian to come to him, and the other was Lin Tian's deputy. He had not died immediately and was still holding on. He hesitated to say something.

"Damn it, grandpa finally knows why that boy Lin Xing died without a trace. It turns out there is such a big variable hidden in the caravan."

After half a moment, Cao Mo sprinkled corrosive powder on the two dead corpses while frowning and thinking about what to do next.

He hid in the dark and watched the battle just outside the village.

Originally, the appearance of Xiaochan, a girl with fifth-grade strength, was enough for him to pay attention to, and he regarded it as a big variable in his plan. However, the real variable turned out to be the girl with whom he had met once in the village. people.

"Mu Qing!!!"

Cao Mo gritted his teeth and screamed the man's name in his heart.

He has been in the fourth rank for many years. From his vicious perspective, Mu Qing's strength revealed when he was rescuing people outside the village was indeed several times better than his. He was not someone he could confront head-on.

But his plan was blocked by this person two or three times. As the ninth most popular assassin, he really couldn't swallow this sigh of relief.

"Damn it, when this mission is completed, I have to ask that Liu family boy to increase my price!"

Cao Mo felt cruel and decided to take the gamble himself.

He already knew about the fact that Lin Pan was rescued by Mu Qing, but he didn't think Mu Qing's pharmacological skills were very advanced. In order to win the trust of everyone in the village, he had already told the truth about the detoxification prescription. Mu Qing must have The little kid also knew it, but he was just picking up people's wisdom, and he happened to have the Nine-turn Nether Flame Grass!

There was a method of poisoning in the Poison Chapter of "The Classic of Ten Thousand Poisons". He had never used it before. He made up his mind to give this precious first time to Mu Qing and the others. He didn't believe that the other party was still like this. Good luck can cure this poison.

In an open space outside Iron Bone Village, Liu Weirui pulled up her sleeves and took the initiative to wipe the sweat that was about to fall off Mu Qing's forehead.

Mu Qing's eyes were wide open at this time, and he was concentrating on suturing Li Si's wounds, while Liu Weirui could only scratch his hands.

Fortunately, Li Si was very lucky. When Lin Tian's arrow came, he turned sideways and was not shot directly through the heart. It only penetrated his shoulder blade, so his life was not in danger.

The caravan almost fell into the hands of the bandits in Iron Bone Village in the past two days. As of now, only thirteen of the twenty-four guards have survived, and only the one who is still standing is still alive. The six people who protected Liu Weirui.

Fortunately among the misfortunes, because it was the guards who bore the fire from the beginning, the grooms in the caravan were only slightly injured at most, and no one was injured.

Liu Weirui tried her best to suppress her bad mood while arranging the grooms to help the wounded.

The dead guards have followed her around for several years. She is approachable and the relationship between them is more like that of brothers and sisters than superiors and subordinates.

Their successive deaths, the sadness brought by it, and the anger accumulated in her chest were about to overwhelm her sanity, but the cold and cruel reality told her that she was not qualified to fight with the other party now. If she wanted the caravan to survive through the Iron Bone Stronghold, At this critical moment, we have to continue to be patient.

Even though she has Mu Qing, she can't protect everyone.

"Brother Mu Qing, please rest first."

Liu Weirui wiped the sweat from Mu Qing's cheek again and said apologetically.

Mu Qing first brought Xiao Chan close to him and applied medicine and bandage to the torn wound on her back, and then immediately went to fetch an arrow from Li Si and sew the wound. Many of the tasks performed by his hands had to be meticulous and careful. This was more difficult than practicing martial arts. Still tired.

"Hoo~"

Mu Qing took a long breath, stood up, twisted his neck, and said apologetically to Liu Weirui: "Speaking of which, I thought too simply before. There is no problem with acting, but bandits never talk about loyalty. On the contrary, the caravan suffered another disaster."

Liu Weirui's eyes were misty and she said softly: "Brother Mu Qing, you can't say that. I was the one who asked you to do this, but we have dragged you down."

When she was in the cave halfway up the mountain, Mu Qing once asked her if she needed to kill the people she found. Liu Weirui felt that killing a group of people was not an option, so she and Mu Qing made a plan to save people. The plan turned out to be too idealistic and overestimated the character of the bandits.

"It is no longer useful to do more analysis."

Mu Qing sighed and looked around at the injured guards: "Rescue them first, but we seem to be lacking some medicine."

"I'm going to get the list of goods purchased this time and see if there's anything I need."

Liu Weirui ably took out this purchase list from the mezzanine of a carriage. Although there were dozens of medicinal materials this time, there are tens of millions of medicines in the world, and the ones that can cure diseases may not be the ones this time. It is not impossible to purchase.

"It's mainly used to treat trauma, replenish blood and qi, and remove toxins. You can find all the medicinal materials and show them to me."

Mu Qing didn't waste any time and turned around to save the others.

However, a few quarters of an hour later, while Mu Qing was busy, the gate of Iron Bone Village opened again, which forced him to be more vigilant.

Looking back, there were more than a dozen people coming to Tieguzhai this time. The leader was Lin Wen, the second head of Tieguzhai, an old acquaintance. After he walked closer and stood still, he cupped his hands and said to Mu Qing: "Mu Qing Brother, let me apologize to you first. My eldest brother has not recovered from his old illness, so I have no choice but to disturb you. I think your caravan’s daily needs are not very sufficient, so I brought two cars over."

After hearing this, Mu Qing looked behind Lin Wen. There were indeed two people pushing a wooden cart loaded with dry food and water bags on the road. Mu Qing knew a large part of the reason why the caravan was rushing to go to Stone City through Tieguzhai. It was because daily supplies were in short supply and needed to be replenished. He nodded without delay. He held his left hand over his hand and said in return, "Thank you!"

Seeing that Mu Qing accepted the gift, Lin Wen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Mu Qing was powerful. Since the eldest brother didn't bother to find out whether the ninth brother was related to them, he was happy to form a good relationship.

"Brother Mu Qing, you're welcome. We don't know each other since we didn't fight each other. I know that you are very skilled in medicine, but I am afraid that we don't have enough manpower to treat these wounded people, so I brought the old doctors from the village to help, hoping to repay our apology. .”

"Mr. Mu Qing, your medical skills are superb at such a young age. I can only help the leader of the village survive these days."

Cao Mo spoke up first and showed his identity as a doctor.

Mu Qing had seen this man in the village when he went to treat Lin Pan. Cao Mo was standing outside a pharmacy at that time, and his identity matched that of an old doctor.

He thought for a moment and felt that the remaining injuries that needed treatment were all external injuries. It would be great to have one more person to help. He did not delay and said directly: "The old gentleman is very complimentary. Thank you very much for your help."