Chapter Seventy-Five: Into the Urn
When Su Hui woke up, he felt like he could sleep for the whole day. It was still a bumpy space, and she had been pretending to be asleep with her eyes closed, when a familiar voice suddenly sounded faintly in her ears:
"Does Dr. Su think that fainting yourself is the best solution?"
She opened her eyes and looked at him stunned for a moment, then tried to roll her eyes and found herself lying on a cramped soft couch. The curtains hung low, the curtains were airtight, her medicine box was at her feet, and her money bag magically flew back.
"How did Childe come here?"
"It just so happened. β
"Where's Dr. Lin?"
"There's no time to look for him. β
Yan Xugui looked at her quietly, her fingertips dotted the water bladder hanging on the wall of the car, her throat was extremely thirsty, but she was uncomfortable under his eyes, as if it was becoming extremely difficult to even drink water, so she didn't care.
"Was Dr. Su too scared at the time, or did he not want to pay attention to these troublesome things, thinking that someone would come to deal with the aftermath for you?"
His face was as calm as water, as if he was seriously thinking about what she had done.
"That bottle of powder worked so well that it brought down a person, and you didn't even do the simplest breath-holding. Doctor Su must think that the knife will cut down, and no one can save you, but in such a situation, can Doctor Su still be so calm and fearless?"
Su Huihui thought for a moment, and said in a dumb voice: "I now know why I am tired every time I talk to my son." Don't blame Childe, I just can't help but say what is in my heart. Why do you feel that others are wrong everywhere when you look at people, just because they are different from you, they don't have your mind, your talents, and your means? Childe is really targeting me all the time in front of me, how can I make Childe look unpleasant?"
Yan Xigui's dense long eyelashes covered the eyelids, casting a soft shadow, "If Yan says that Doctor Su is too careful, you won't listen to it." Go on?"
She said with a calm face: "I am grateful to Childe for saving me." When Childe wanted to ask, I replied frankly, and whether Childe believed it or not was not within the scope of my consideration. The carjacker looked like a mountain bandit, but he didn't pay much attention to money, and even asked me to remind him to pick up the money bag, and at first he tried to kill the driver who drove the car with an arrow. I sat in the carriage and did not see a single arrow shot into the carriage, and the bandits could be arranged with such fanfare? How many people can sit in a carriage, do we have guards or masters, and we can use a large group of people with arrows and knives?"
Yan Xigui hooked the corners of his lips, and heard her say again: "At that time, the leader of the mountain bandits had already become murderous, I prescribed a bottle of medicine, it is best to make them all pour themselves, but they are all people from the rivers and lakes, how easy is it to be all hit! No matter how you do it, the knife will be swung down, I said before that I am the imperial judge of Qi State, he hesitated, if I faint first, maybe I can let him slow down a little and think clearly before starting." β
"But you stunned his men, he doesn't plan to let you go, if there is no movement behind him to divert his attention, I'm afraid I will have to be careful with your head. Yan Xugui smiled.
"So I can't stay awake anymore. She said solemnly, "I'm afraid of pain." β
Yan Xugui nodded, "So, I made a note of it." Doctor Su moved to look at his left hand?"
Su Huihui found that her troubled left arm was wrapped around a belt, she glanced at him suspiciously, moved very slowly for half a minute, and almost screamed out in pain.
Is it a fracture or something!
Yan Xugui said with satisfaction: "There are no doctors in the wilderness, Yan's methods in the military middle school are very effective, I wanted to deal with Dr. Su temporarily, but I was reminded that soldiers are different from ordinary people......"
Su Huihui reached the water bladder with his other hand, uncovered the plug and moistened his lips, "Don't bother the son." β
But Yan thought that Dr. Su was not an ordinary person, so he tried his best to do it for him, and he didn't dare to be annoyed. β
Su Huihui swallowed the saliva very calmly.
She is not very familiar with surgical orthopedics, and she hates less when she uses books, but she only cares about hating him at this time. But it's still word by word:
"Thank you. β
Yan Xugui sighed, "Su Huihui, I'm not targeting you, but your actions are really worrying." β
He paused for a moment and said softly, "What an enviable characteristic." β
So the others couldn't help but be more concerned, those people brought a group of people over, it was the main messenger who knew her identity, and they were worried that there were people around her to protect her.
Su Huihui didn't want to see him, and tried to make his voice sound calm: "Where are we now?"
The powder was made by herself, and she ate a lot of messy and strange things when she was a child, so the effect of the medicine did not last more than two hours from beginning to end. Two hours is enough to get to the city, what is the matter with the car now, how long has Yan Xigui stayed outside the city, or have they not returned to the city at all?
Yan Xugui picked up a book and flipped through a few pages, and said leisurely: "In two moments, we will be in the lair of those rabble, Doctor Su doesn't want to see who they are?"
The car shook more and more, her stomach barked at an inopportune time, turned her head to the left, and said silently:
"Childe is so interested. β
He smiled very well: "Doctor Su asked Yan not to embarrass you, but why did you lower your posture towards me? There are two kinds of people in this world, one is duplicitous, yang and yin, and the other is upright, upright, and upright, and Doctor Su is about the latter. β
Su warmed the fire from his heart, and poured most of it with a water bladder as if he were pouring wine, his neckline rose and fell deeply a few times, and said:
"Thank you for your love. Childe, this is to catch the culprit, and now force out their dormant place, and want to help the government soldiers go over to clean it up?"
Yan Xugui's slender fingers brushed over the soft fluff of the fox fur, and his eyebrows and eyes, which were smiling, were full of wind and bright moon, and the light was rising.
"Yes. β
It was not early, because it was twenty-nine, and the white moon could not be seen on the bright sky, and the sunset in the west had already dyed the rolling hills.
When Su Huihui stood in front of several dilapidated grass houses, he was already speechless in shock. The house was built deep in the old forest of the mountains, but it was by no means difficult to find, and the location did not even reach the mountainside, like a place where hunters lived in the mountains. The house of the sick she had visited a few hours had been the same, but newer than this oneβnot only was it small, but it was also dilapidated beyond repair, and it was very deserted among the bushes.
She held her arm and poked her head out behind Yan Xugui: "Can this place be inhabited? or is it the lair of bandits?...... No, they're really mountain bandits?"
Yan Xugui resisted the urge to press her head back, "Even if people are poor, don't discriminate against them." Then he ordered the chief retinue to pull out the two men who were tied up with five flowers from the cart.
Only then did Su Huihui know that there were only two cars, one for the two of them, one for the prisoners, and less than twenty people brought by Yan Xugui, all of whom were guards of the firm.
She looked left and right, and the meaty boss was gagged with rags, and there were arrow holes in his legs and arms, and his clothes were stained red with blood, but there was still a trace of breath. Behind is the mountain bandit who spoke in tongues to the boss, and she was stunned...... Why are there only two?
"Hey......" she blinked, "what about those people?"
Yan Xugui stretched out a finger to poke her calamitous left arm, and she immediately jumped back, "It's not okay if you don't ask." β
At least six or seven people were firing arrows at the time, wouldn't they all be solved on the spot?
Chang Sui kicked open a wooden door, and the dust came to his face, and he could see clearly through the furnishings in the light, because there were really no other big objects except a table and two beds.
A few people stepped into the room, and Su Huihui caught a glimpse of a few bows on the table, a row of hooks hanging on the wall, some with rusty daggers tied to the hooks, some with short knives, and some with hemp ropes. The bedding on the bed was messy, showing signs of someone having slept not long ago, and there was a brazier under the bed, and a few pieces of black charcoal were burned.
She paced around the empty house, not so much as to build a palatial and decent den of thieves without money, but in a temporary hut of abandoned thatched huts.
A group of bandits who hurriedly lit a fire here to keep warm and place a guy are so weird to do a roadblock robbery, Yan Xugui probably already knows a lot, so he will take care of this idle matter.
"Light the brazier and light the lamp. Doctor Su, you don't mind if I take something from your medicine box, do you?"
Su Huihui twitched the corners of his mouth and squeezed out two words from between his teeth: "Please." β
There was no clean place to sit, so she dragged her tired and aching body behind the table, and unexpectedly saw that Yan Xugui was not sitting on the bed either.
The leader was thrown to the ground, and a retinue with a vial waved under his nose, and he woke up with a muffled grunt, his eyes splitting and his mouth whining.
Chang Sui took the strip of cloth from his mouth, put a dagger against the back of his heart, and said sharply:
"Childe's question answered truthfully, did you hear clearly!"
The leader bared his teeth in pain and nodded like garlic, seeing Su Huihui's heart extremely happy.
Yan Xugui had an extra pair of pliers in his hand at some point, dipped it in lamp oil, and put it on the outside of the flame at the tip of the wick to burn, and Su Huihui recognized it as what he called "something he took from her".
Is he going to torture him himself?
Yan Xugui burned the tools for a while, walked to the right hand side of the leader's hanging ground, gestured, and suddenly scalded on his tiger's mouth, the leader screamed like a pig, Su Huihui took the initiative to turn around, Yan Xugui stopped moving, and said idly:
"Dr. Su doesn't have to be afraid, he doesn't bleed a lot, he just covers his ears. β
It turned out that before the pincers could reach the flesh, the mountain bandits were frightened and shouted, "I don't know anything! Don't don't don't ...... Ahh
Yan Xugui withdrew the pliers and said with a smile: "No one here asks for a confession, just accept it." β
"Ahh
Su Huihui obediently covered his ears, and indeed did not shed a lot of blood, but the wound was a little terrifying...... She still turned her eyes away, the doors and windows were closed, but the roof was leaking, and the brazier was useless.
It burned three times in a row, until the pliers came to the wound where the arrow had been pulled out of his leg, and he trembled so much that he couldn't even finish a few words:
ββ¦β¦ Father, son, yes, someone made us ......"
Chang Sui took the pliers very cooperatively and continued to work, Yan Xugui took out a silk handkerchief and wiped his hands carefully, and sighed: "The step is wrong, this girl is the medical officer of our Daqi Tai Hospital, and she is only ordered to act to ensure her safety and punish the sinner, and has not received any instructions outside of her own duties." β
"It's a man with a lot of silver tickets! He told the little one to bring a dozen or so people here to do a ticket business...... Wearing a hat and covering his face, I don't know what he looks like! Childe! I really said it all!"
Yan Xugui unfastened the jasper buckle on the fox collar, "Doctor Su can ask whatever he wants, horizontal and vertical have nothing to do with below." β
The leader was dying, and said with tears in his eyes: "Girl...... The adults spare their lives! The little ones who don't know Mount Tai deserve to die, so I beg the adults to be merciful! The villains have eighty old mothers in their families and a bunch of children to raise!"
Su Huihui didn't bother to ask him how old he was when Guigeng Lingci was born this year, and said straight to the point: "You have been staring at our car, waiting for an ambush halfway down the mountain?
"That person gave the money, we can only do what he said, you also see that there is nothing here, it is close to the city, we are from a neighboring county, who wants to live here for the New Year and blow the cold wind!"
"What did he say?"
The leader's facial features twisted into a ball, and he muttered: "Say, say that if you kill the people in the carriage, we will have food money for the winter...... Now that the guards in various places have increased their manpower, we who are desperate to be bandits have a hard time, and we will grab it as soon as we have business, and we are simply blind...... Ahem......"
Blood foam spilled from the corners of his mouth, and Su Hui asked with a gloomy face: "You colluded with the family who collected medicine in Qianshan, otherwise how could they be so clever and ask me to go out of the city and go up the mountain when the pharmacy is not there?"
"I didn't ...... No, we got the news that the car would pass by that road, and we didn't know anything else! The younger one brought a total of twelve people, all folded in the hands of the son, and now only the younger one and the third brother are left......
The leader burst into tears, and Yan Xugui frowned, raising his hand to let Chang Sui knock him unconscious.
After a while, another guard in leather boots walked in, and reported that he had figured out the background of this nest of mountain bandits, and the unlucky boss on the ground was named Land Rover, who was the king of the mountains in the neighboring county for many years. Fainting next to him was his third brother Daben, in addition to the ten people whose heads were cut off, there was also an injured Ni Sang who was killed by the guards on the road because he tried to escape for his life.
If it was really a rabble, Yan Xugui made a round in the room and said, "What month, day, and time did that person come to them?"
"Hui Gongzi, according to the living β‘β‘ generation, ten days ago on the night, Land Rover and Ni Sang talked with the man in the room for half an hour, and then agreed to come to Jiaying to do work. β
Yan Xugui bowed, "Escort the people who stayed behind to the neighboring county, and by the way, let the guard send troops to suppress the group of bandits, so as not to leave behind trouble." As for the herb picker...... he looked at Su Huihui, "what does Doctor Su think?"
Su Hui's face was expressionless, "Since Childe is responsible for my safety, then it is up to Childe to decideβif the couple has not been cleared." β
She rubbed her swollen temples and whispered, "When are we going back to the city?"
Yan Xugui walked to the door, his voice was calm: "I can't go back tonight, Doctor Su can pray that tomorrow's Chinese New Year's Eve can be spent in the inn." β
What do you mean?
Su warmed up and came to his senses: "You mean that our way back to the city has been blocked?"
He didn't respond, he opened the door, and the howling wind rushed into the room in an instant, and the charcoal fire was extinguished.
The mountain bandits were instructed to kill her and cut off their way, but they went back after she had been diagnosed and learned something, so why was this? It could not be a coincidence that Yan Xigui was able to arrive in time, and who told him that something was going to happen to her? Several mountain bandits were regarded as innocent targets, and the most likely thing was that someone wanted to give them a warning. It's best to kill her, and if you can't kill her, you will also be involved in Yan Xugui.
She didn't know what this warning was, but Yan Xugui, he β‘β‘ understood.