Although this town is a relatively prosperous place around Wuzhaoshan, its vegetable market does not sell many vegetables, only ordinary seasonal vegetables.
In fact, in normal times, there will be hunters and woodcutters from the mountains in this market, selling hunted game, picked wild vegetables, and wild mushrooms.
But today, along the way, soldiers from the guard station set up cards to collect fees. Orion and woodcutter would probably have to pay extra for a trip, so why would they be willing to come?
And this makes the dishes sold in the market in the town become increasingly scarce, making it look deserted and deserted.
Qin Shaoyou walked around and only bought an earthen jar and a few side dishes and condiments.
Even though I can barely cook five new dishes with just these items, the taste and effect will be much different.
Nowadays, the mouths of Qin Shaoyou, Patriarch and others have long been cultivated.
Naturally, they would not force themselves to have better dishes to eat, let alone waste the rare ingredients they had finally obtained.
So Qin Shaoyou could only think of other ways to see if he could get the required side dishes and condiments elsewhere.
Qin Shaoyou was about to leave the vegetable market to look for Zhu Xiucai and Cai Guizhong, but Zhu Xiucai was one step ahead of him and hurried over.
As soon as he saw Zhu Xiucai's appearance, Qin Shaoyou judged the situation and asked in a low voice: "Is there someone watching the pharmacy?"
Zhu Xiucai nodded and said "yes" and talked about his discovery:
“I arrived at the pharmacy in the town and observed outside, and found that there were several vendors on the street who were not focused on buying and selling at all.
These traders are always looking at the pharmacy. As long as someone enters the pharmacy, they will immediately assign people to follow them when they leave...
There are two pharmacies and one medical clinic in the town, all of which are like this. "
After saying that, Zhu Xiucai shook his head and complained: "Those people who are following me don't know which yamen they are from. They are simply unprofessional.
He just kept his eyes fixed on the pharmacy, and he didn't even do his homework of pretending to be a merchant.
When I was observing one of the pharmacies, I specially found a sentry who was selling cakes, and wanted to use the opportunity of buying cakes to talk to him.
It turned out that the guy didn’t know how to make cakes at all, so he gave up after trying it for a few times, and even got so angry that he took his anger out on me, cursing me and telling me to get out, which made me unable to even express my words. "
Qin Shaoyou was not in the mood to wonder whether the sentinels in this town were professional. He quickly thought about countermeasures in his mind.
With their strength, they are naturally not afraid of these sentries. They can even sneak into pharmacies and medical clinics to take away the needed medicinal materials without alerting these sentries at all.
However, if the medicinal materials disappear inexplicably, they will definitely be discovered by people from medical clinics and pharmacies, which will lead to more searches.
Although Qin Shaoyou and the others had stacked a lot of buffs on Wuzhao Mountain, even if Emperor Jianwu really sent out an army to search the mountain, they would still be sure not to be discovered.
But if this situation can be avoided, it is obviously better not to happen.
Therefore, when Zhu Xiucai finished complaining about the unprofessionalism of the town's sentry and asked what to do next, Qin Shaoyou said decisively: "Since there is a sentinel watching here, we will buy medicine elsewhere and go to a new place." Go somewhere west."
Zhu Xiucai had no objection to this, and the two planned to set off when Cai Guizhong came back.
This time they no longer took the main road, but planned to use the Earth Escape Talisman to save time.
The situation around Wuzhao Mountain has been investigated by them, so there is no need to continue sending money to the guards.
However, Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai were waiting for Cai Guizhong at the vegetable market before they got an unexpected visitor.
Lu Bing, the commander of the Demon Suppression Division, appeared alone in the vegetable market after dressing up in disguise.
Although his disguise skills were very good, Qin Shaoyou still relied on his [Miao Nose] to recognize him at once and made a gesture.
This gesture is a code, used to indicate identity.
When Lu Bing saw it, his eyes suddenly lit up and he quickly came to Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai.
Before the two of them could speak, he said first, "It's me, Lu Bing. No need to salute. There are spies from other yamen nearby. Don't attract them."
After a pause, Lu Bing continued to lower his voice and said: "You guys did a great job last night! But you did it very well and smartly. Knowing that Wang Jinzhong and the Black Lotus Sect will take the blame, you asked me to prepare some for you. All the backhands are of no use."
Long before taking action, Qin Shaoyou and Qin Qiaoer reported to Lu Bing the abnormal situations they discovered in the capital.
He also roughly stated the plan to rescue the officials and monks, but did not mention when it would be used.
The reason why Lu Bing has been patrolling the Gyeonggi area and has not returned to the capital is also for this reason.
If he were in the capital, Emperor Jianwu would definitely order him to eradicate the 'thieves' and recover the 'immortal book' as soon as possible.
At that time, it will not be good for Lu Bing whether he copes passively or actively runs errands.
So he simply used the excuse of patrolling Yaoqing to hide outside the city, secretly staring in the direction of the capital, so as to provide timely support to Qin Shaoyou and others when their actions were unfavorable.
Before the operation started last night, Qin Qiaoer sent him a secret letter.
After receiving it, Lu Bing immediately disguised himself and returned to the surrounding areas of the capital alone, ready to help at any time.
As a result, Qin Shaoyou and the others' mobility far exceeded Lu Bing's prediction, and the entire operation was completed so beautifully that he didn't even have a chance to help.
Although Qin Shaoyou knew that Lu Bing had returned to the vicinity of the capital, he did not expect to see him here. He was a little surprised and immediately asked in a low voice: "Your Excellency, you already knew that we would come here?"
"I'm not the supervisor of Qin Tian Prison, how can I have such an ability to predict the unknown?"
Lu Bing smiled and explained: "I just thought that your boy's usual style is to find ingredients for cooking after the war, so he tried his luck in the vegetable markets in several nearby towns, and the result was really Let me meet you."
After a few simple greetings, Lu Bing went straight to the topic and asked about last night's situation.
Qin Shaoyou did not hide anything and told Lu Bing everything they did last night and what they saw.
After all, Lu Bing’s strong support will be needed next.
After listening, Lu Bing looked solemn.
"When I left Beijing, I heard about the fairy books, but I didn't expect that the so-called fairy books were such evil things that they had to be sacrificed to obtain some chaotic words.
This is not a fairy book, it is clearly a monster evil book! "
After sighing, Lu Bing said again: "You just said that the situation of President Yang and Minister Zhang is very bad?"
Qin Shaoyou nodded: "Yes, they have been in close contact with the so-called fairy books for a long time, and they have all been confused and lost themselves. If they continue like this, they will soon go crazy and become possessed."
Lu Bing's expression became more solemn: "Can it be cured?"
Qin Shaoyou said: "It can be cured, but I need medicinal materials, so I went down the mountain to look for it. But you should have seen that the pharmacies and medical clinics here are all being watched. I believe the situation in other nearby towns is the same." .”
"Even if no one is watching, it's probably not easy to collect medicines to treat hundreds of officials in these places." Lu Bing shook his head and then said: "You don't have to worry about the medicines. Make a list. Me, I'll get it. I'll also list the ingredients, condiments, etc. you need for cooking, as my filial piety to the ancestor."
Qin Shaoyou was overjoyed when he heard this: "Sir, you are really timely."
"I think you are complimenting me." Lu Bing smiled, then his expression became solemn and he said, "It's you who have to leave quickly."
"Start? Where to go?" Qin Shaoyou was stunned.
(End of chapter)
