Chapter 19: The Pill Thief

In fact, Yuanwei has a lot of doubts, such as why Mu Wei knew about his cultivation of immortals, such as why he had such a strong resistance to cultivating immortals, and so on.

However, it can be seen that Mu Wei is in a bad mood, and even though Yuan Wei has been calling outside the door for a long time, he has not responded.

Motowei had no choice but to hide his doubts and limped to the ossuary hall to treat the patient.

Different from usual, in addition to the bustling queue up to see a doctor and the disciples of the Orthodosus Hall wearing gray clothes to maintain order, there were also a few disciples of the Hundred Grass Hall wearing dark green clothes standing at the entrance of the Bone Hall.

These people knew each other, and it was they who went to the ancient mansion to beat themselves up. Thinking of the past, Yuanwei was still a little annoyed, but fortunately, time passed, and Yuanwei changed from a young master named Hanako to the young master of the Li family. Yuanwei held his head high, swaggered past them, and went straight to Li Jiao's clinic.

There were no patients in the consultation hall, and Li Jiao and Li Nong sat upright, looking like they were talking about something.

"Sixth brother, Senior Brother Li Nong!" said hello to Yuanwei, and wanted to withdraw and go to another clinic.

"Senior brother, don't go, I'm here to find you this time. Li Nong said and stood up.

"Looking for me?what's the matter?" Yuan Wei stopped, he didn't have much of a good impression of Li Nong, not only because Li Nong had almost forced him and Mu Wei away from the country before, but also because Li Nong always gave people a gloomy feeling.

Looking at Yuanwei's lukewarm expression, Li Nong was extremely unhappy. In fact, since Yuanwei was accepted as a righteous son by Li Wu, Li Nong was reluctant to contact him. He looked down on this little Hanako who took advantage of the situation to ascend to the sky, after all, because of Li Wu's face, even he had to pretend to be respectful and affectionate. However, he had to come today, because the medicine warehouse under the jurisdiction of Baicaotang had recently lost a lot of valuable medicinal materials, which was a amount that he could not afford, and he suspected that the person who took the medicinal materials was Motoo's brother Mu Yue.

After listening to Li Nong's explanation, Yuanwei was surprised and ashamed: "Senior brother, you can't say that, Mu Wei is still a child, how could he do such a stolen thing!"

"However, he is the only outsider who has been in and out of the medicine depot recently, which makes me have to be suspicious!" In fact, Li Nong did not lie, since Yuanwei was accepted by Li Wu as a righteous son, Mu Wei has also risen to the top, and often goes in and out of various branches of the Rejuvenation Hall, and even under the pretense of Yuanwei, he has visited the Baicaotang Medicine Depot many times. It's just that there was no loss of medicinal materials in the medicine warehouse before, so it didn't attract the attention of others. But just yesterday, Li Nong went to the medicine warehouse to take a century-old blood ginseng for medicine, only to find that the treasure of the town treasury that had been stored for many years had disappeared, and what was lying in the brocade box was only a dead branch.

What's worse is that the missing precious medicinal herbs are not just the blood ginseng, but also contain dozens of rare and precious medicinal herbs, all of which have been mixed with a dead branch without exception. If you calculate the value of this, it should be a huge amount of tens of thousands of taels of silver. Li Nong naturally didn't dare to slack off, he personally carefully visited all the details, and determined that Mu Wei was the most suspicious, but after waiting for a long time to see the shadow of Mu Wei, he came to find Yuanwei.

Knowing what happened, Yuan Wei had already calmed down: "Senior Brother Li Nong, the theft of the medicine depot is too important, don't hastily confirm who the suspect is, after all, the thief must be caught." Mu Wei is by my side every day, and I have never seen him carry any medicinal herbs..."

"What the junior brother said makes sense, this matter is too important, it is better for you and me to go to see my father, junior brother, you go to find Mu Wei and go to your father's clinic, so that we can explain it face to face, maybe we can sort out some clues..."

Li Nong sighed secretly, after all, the incident happened in his own branch, it was his own mistake, and if he went to see Li Wu, he would inevitably be punished, but now, I am afraid that he will not be able to hide it.

Yuan Wei returned to his small courtyard angrily and found Mu Wei sitting in the shade of the tree, but he looked tired, and he didn't even hear Yuan Wei's footsteps.

"Mu Wei, what are you thinking?"

"Hmm, why did you come back? I was just going to talk to you..."

"Don't talk about it yet, today Li Nong went to me and framed you for stealing the medicinal materials from the Baicaotang Medicine Storehouse. Let's go, you follow me to my father-in-law's side, I'll fight for justice for you, this Li Nong is too bullying..."Yuan Wei said and grabbed Mu Wei's hand and wanted to leave.

"He didn't frame me, I took the herbs..."

"What?" Yuan Wei was shocked, he covered Mu Wei's mouth, dragged him back to his room, and closed the doors and windows with a bang, and then asked tremblingly: "Good brother, you can't talk nonsense." How can you say that you stole the herbs?"

Mu Wei didn't care much: "I didn't talk nonsense, I took it." Well... Since last year, we've taken a few thousand plants. You must know that I am weak now, and I need some medicinal materials to nourish me, but these medicinal materials are really bad, just take the blood ginseng plant I took recently, it will take at least a thousand years to have some effect, but that one is only a hundred years old! Besides, the way they keep it is not right, how can it be put in a brocade box? It must be placed in a box made of ebony wood..."

Yuan Wei suddenly thought of the scene where he accidentally discovered the scene of Mu Fenn devouring medicinal herbs last night, and his heart was even more uneasy, and he circled around the house: "What can I do here? What can I do here? This is tens of thousands of taels of silver?...

Mu Wei smiled and watched him spin around, but he was not in a hurry.

Yuan Wei looked at Mu Wei lovingly, in his eyes, this is just a child who loves to pretend to be old and is not sensible, and he has the responsibility to protect him: "Mu Wei, don't talk to your father-in-law for a while, I will say that I took it, and I will use my medical fee to repay..."

"Come on, just your fee. Besides, I'm not going to admit that I've stolen something from someone else in front of them..."Mu Wei didn't appreciate it.

"But... But..."

"But what is it? Let's go, let's go see Li Nong. I have long wanted to fix him, and I will definitely frame him, saying that he stole the medicinal herbs. You know, my ability to lie is top-notch..."

Yuan Wei wanted to say something, but was pulled by Mu Wei to Li Wu's clinic.

In the clinic, after listening to Li Nong's account, Li Wu was furious, and he knew that tens of thousands of taels of silver were not decimals.

"Ridiculous, so many medicinal materials have been stolen, just let me know today, Li Nong, do you want to rebel?"

Li Nong was originally bowing his head to be trained, and when he saw Mu Wei's arrival, he seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw: "Master, I suspect that Mu Wei stole the medicinal materials, during this time, he was the only outsider who had been in and out of the medicine store..."

"Joke! I went to the medicine depot to familiarize myself with all kinds of different medicinal herbs, how can you suspect that I am stealing? Stealing things is immoral, how can this happen to me? I am just eleven years old this year, don't you think it is cruel to pour dirty water on a child?..." Mu Wei was not afraid, and that look was completely a victim who had been framed.

"Mu Wei, this medicinal material is a big deal, many medicinal materials are bought back by me with great effort, if you take it, give it back to me, my uncle won't blame you..."

Of course, Mu Wei would not admit it, his eyes were shining with tears: "Uncle, don't you believe me either?" I am only eleven years old, how could I steal your medicinal herbs, I heard that I lost a blood ginseng, this peerless medicine is useless to me." I don't have to worry about food and clothing now, and I am full of gratitude to the Li family. Besides, you can't eat that blood ginseng, and if you eat it, you will definitely bleed to death..."

Yuan Wei stood there dumbfounded, Mu Wei's performance was too realistic, if he hadn't understood the truth in advance, he would definitely be deceived by him.

Li Nong was also skeptical, but he wouldn't believe it easily: "Mu Wei, you said you didn't steal, do you dare me to search your room?"

"Search the room? Yes, yes. With so many medicinal herbs, it must be a big package. "Mu Wei is not afraid.

Seeing that Mu Wei did not refuse, Li Nong hesitated a little, he thought for a moment and said, "Maybe you sold the medicinal herbs to someone else..."

"Senior Brother Li Nong, have you already decided that I stole the medicinal herbs? Even if you sell them, someone has to collect them! This Yuwang Port is just one of our medical halls, who am I selling it to?" Mu Wei was already beating his chest and sobbing suddenly.

"Okay, okay, Mu Wei, don't cry, I have to investigate this matter myself, this must be an internal thief..."

"The thief... Oh, it seems that we have Senior Brother Li Nong who has been out of town a lot in Huichun Hall recently! It is definitely not safe for so many medicinal materials to be hidden in Yuwangbu, and if they are transported to other places, they will not be able to be transported all at once..."Mu Wei seemed to be whispering to himself, but the voice had been clearly heard by Li Wu and the others.

"Mu Wei, you dare to talk nonsense!" Li Nongqi's face changed color.

"I didn't talk nonsense, several times I went to Baicaotang to ask you for medicinal herb knowledge, and the senior brothers all said that you were not in Yuwangbu, could it be that the senior brothers lied to me?"

Listening to Mu Wei's words, Li Wu also became suspicious: "Li Nong, have you really been out of town recently?"

"Out... It's just a few times..."Li Nong was a little stunned.

"Then what are you going to do?" Li Wu asked.

"This... This one... I'm actually going to collect medicinal herbs..."

Li Nong did not tell the truth, and he could not tell the truth because it was a huge secret.