Chapter 214: Priceless Address
They waited outside the door for a while, then knocked on the door, and when there was no movement in the room, they took out their daggers, plunged them through the crack in the door, lifted them up, and opened the latch. They weren't going to go into my house, they were going into the room of the guards Jia and Tao Abao.
After entering the house, they walked straight to the bed, reaching out to take Tao Abao away from the guard Jia.
The guards Jia and Tao Abao were stunned and did not react to this at all.
Tao Abao was taken away by the visitors, and they evacuated as soon as they succeeded.
I didn't know that Tao Abao had my qi filaments on his body, and when they took him away, my qi filaments had already penetrated into his body.
I kept a safe distance from them, and they used light power to escape, running back to the city without stopping.
But the gates were closed, and they had to wait at the makeshift shelter outside the gates.
Every day, there are vendors who wait before dawn to open the city gates and enter the city to do business, and there are people who have nowhere to go when they return late, these people spontaneously set up sheds and simple huts outside the city, shelter from the rain in summer and warm in winter, and over time it becomes a small market.
There are 'inns' that provide temporary rest, but they are actually greenhouses surrounded by wooden planks and straw mats, and the beds are made of stones and wooden planks.
The man who stole Tao Abao went to rest in such an inn, although the inn did not explicitly stipulate that 'ladies stop', but the owner and guests all acquiesced that it was a men's inn.
Because it is a large shop and there is no shelter in the middle, the vendors who temporarily rest often rest shirtless, and it is inconvenient for women to be caught in it.
I stood by the big tree in the distance, not in a hurry to arrest people, I wanted them to take me to the mastermind behind the scenes.
This is the county seat of Pinglan County, and the city gate opens at half past four in the morning every day, the vegetable market begins to set up stalls at five o'clock, and the shops are almost open at six or seven o'clock.
The child thief blended in with the crowd and made it into the city.
I put some distance between them, and when they disappeared into the city, I walked to the gates.
They made sure that there were no tails to follow, and they were relieved to enter a house.
I locked down the location of the house and walked over unhurriedly.
Tao Abao has my healing qi in his body, and no one can hurt him, so I don't rush and walk slowly.
The man who stole the child handed him over to a woman, and the woman's first action when she took Tao Abao was to remove the longevity lock from the silver collar.
She didn't care about Tao Abao, and casually put him in the chaise longue and concentrated on studying the lock.
I controlled the qi silk and let Tao Abao continue to sleep.
At the moment when the woman touched Tao Abao, the gas silk had already taken the opportunity to get on her.
I found the octopus brand of the Seabrakes on her.
This coastal gang is more ruthless, and those who join must be branded on their chests.
The imprint is very deep, and if you don't raise it well, you'll die.
The woman is a member of the Haisha Gang, but I haven't heard of any connection between the Haisha Gang and Tao Wuye of the Wan Bodyguard Bureau.
There were guards inside and outside the house, and I let out the air wires, controlled them, and then went through the main entrance.
The guards and guards who stared at me but lost consciousness turned a blind eye to me.
I walked through the cloister, through the garden, to the woman's room.
She couldn't move now, and the lock had been opened.
She was temporarily blind in her eyes, and she couldn't scream when she wanted to.
I pushed the door open and walked into the house, and she was even more frightened, and she wanted to call for someone, but she couldn't.
The Longevity Lock was in her hand, and its contents fell to the ground.
It was a small wax pill, and the shattered shell could no longer contain the strip of cloth inside.
The strip of cloth is not unfolded, and the woman should not have seen it.
I picked it up and put it in my arms, picked up Tao Abao and left.
I waited until I was out of the city to release the control of the Qi Silk from them, and I left a note for the guard Jia, telling him to wait for us at the tea shed at the crossroads.
That intersection is a must-see on the way to Flower City.
It seems that if I don't personally escort them back to the island, there will be trouble on the way.
Because it is the only way to go to the flower city, the tea shed business at the intersection has been very good.
The guard Jia didn't even have a seat, and he stood under the tree next to the tea shed and looked around from time to time.
"Here! I'm here! The ownerβ" He abruptly changed his name, causing the guests in the tea shed to look in my direction.
Tao Abao woke up on the road, and the moment he woke up, his eyes were full of horror, and when he saw my face, he calmed down.
I've seen the words on that small piece of cloth, it's not a shocking secret, it's an address, Tao Baye's residence.
Tao Baye made a mistake and became crippled, he withdrew from the magic world, and people quickly forgot about him.
His place of residence is not some secret to hide and unearth.
"Owner, am I being stunned? Alas, when I go back, Childe will definitely punish me heavily. Guard Jia looked sad.
"They are above you, it's normal for you not to notice it, I deliberately made you dizzy, they won't show me the way when you wake up."
"The owner is wise!"
"Okay, let's not go back to the island, let's go somewhere first."
"Okay, is Tao Qi'er okay?"
"It's fine."
The guard Jia took Tao Abao and tied it with a cloth strap behind his back, and his movements were skillful.
The guard Jia didn't ask me where I was going, just followed me.
The address on the strip of cloth is a thousand kilometers away from us.
I went into town and bought a carriage, and we drove away.
I left a secret message for Yunzhou's subordinates in the city, and asked him to tell him that I and the guard Jia needed to go on a business trip, and the return was to be determined.
In the section of the road in Huacheng, we walked very slowly, and it was the right thing for the child to go to his relatives, and so was our market research work.
Do two things together, neither of which is delayed.
Huacheng is rich in agricultural products, and there is no market gap.
Only a few spices come from overseas, but ordinary people have weak purchasing power and the price of the products is expensive, so they would rather not eat that flavor than spend a lot of money on the seasoning.
We went all the way and inquired all the way, focusing on the medicinal materials market.
There are no medicinal fields in Huacheng and surrounding cities, and medicinal materials are still mainly collected.
I came into contact with a few herb pickers, and their income was not very high, and they could even be described as meager.
The precious medicinal materials that are often exchanged for their lives are worth the price of a pig in the hands of pharmacists.
The drug dealer sold it, and the price increased more than tenfold.
When I asked them why they sold directly without looking for middlemen, the herb picker smiled wryly and asked, "Are you outsiders?" β
Pharmaceutical dealers are protected by drug stores, and drug stores are not allowed to sell medicinal materials without permission to pharmacies or individuals.
Farmers can pick vegetables from their homes and sell them at the market, or children can go to the well to fetch two buckets of water and sell them on the street.
However, if the herbs picked by themselves are sold at a stall without the permission of the medicine store, they will be arrested and imprisoned by the government.
"I'm going to pay a fine!" The old man who collected the medicine shook his head and sighed.
"Because taking medicine indiscriminately will kill people." Guard Jia said he understood the government's rules.
"Dead people? You will only die if you eat the medicine from the pharmacy. The herb picker lowered his voice.
"Why?" Guard Jia's curiosity was aroused again.
"Forget it, forget it, don't talk about it, so as not to get into trouble." The old man who was collecting medicine originally sat under the tree to rest, but when he said this, he packed up the medicine basket and prepared to get up and leave.
"Huh? Old man, don't be in a hurry to go, I can't hide it, my young lady plans to open a pharmacy, looking for a suitable source of goods, you give an introduction, talk about the doorway here, it's noon soon, let's go to the restaurant to eat and say. β
The old man refused again and again, unable to resist the enthusiasm of the guard Jia, and had great strength.
The old man has a wine gourd tied around his waist, and at first glance he is a good wine person.
The guard Jia Zhuan grasped the weakness of the old man, saying that he invited him to dinner, but he might not go, and said that he invited him to drink, and his will was not so firm.
When he went to the restaurant in the town, the guard Jia first ordered a few dishes and snacks for Tao Abao, and then asked Xiao Er to serve a few signature dishes casually, and finally asked for the most expensive wine.
The level of consumption in the town is not high, and the prices of the most expensive things are not outrageous.
The guard Jia pulled the old man who picked medicine to drink, Tao Abao ate silently, he knew that his grandfather was dead, we saved him, he was very emotionally stable, calm and rational to the point that I suspected that something was wrong with his psychology.
But there was no change, no distortion, no transformation of dark energy, everything was normal.
He is quiet, polite, and disciplined.
When he goes to bed at night and gets up in the morning, he never needs the guard Jia to call him, he goes to bed at a fixed time and wakes up at a fixed time.
After breakfast, I started to memorize, took a nap after lunch, and got up to continue practicing calligraphy.
The guard Jia noticed that he was holding a small wooden stick and drawing on the ground, thinking that he was playing, but when he got closer, he realized that he was practicing calligraphy.
His actions are completely inconsistent with his name.
The guard Jia bought him books, paper and pencils, and he didn't need to be accompanied or coaxed.
When he finished eating at the dinner table, he sat quietly and listened to the adults.
He is very restrained in his snacking and tastes it lightly.
I'm kind of believing in the 'getting smarter' legend.
Although the smart medicine is not in the longevity lock, the effect is particularly obvious.
Tao Abao doesn't look like a four-year-old child at all, and I believe that he has a forty-year-old heart.
Fortunately, he didn't recognize any words, and occasionally asked the guard Jia how to pronounce a certain word and what it meant.
Prove that he is just a smart kid and not a dispossession.
"Uncle Shan Mao, what do you mean when you just said that the medicine in the medicine store can eat the dead? Tell me about it, I should pay attention to it when I buy medicine in the future, don't look back and don't eat well, and then eat something wrong. β
We were in the private dining room of the restaurant, the door was closed, and the diners in the lobby could not hear clearly.
"What else can there be, shoddy, fake medicines, sold to the poor people, life-saving money, hard-earned money is all spent in vain, it is the credit of medicine to get better, and it is not good for him to die when he dies."
"No one sued?"
"Sue? What to sue? How many times have I sued, and the yamen has said that the medicinal materials are true! If you want to win, you have to take this~" Liu Maoshan made a move to pay for it.
Escort Jia is not a novice who has just entered the society, so he naturally understands the entanglement of interests behind all this.
"Don't worry, our young lady will never sell fakes when she opens a shop, and the price of medicine from you will definitely be higher than others."
I raised my eyebrows slightly, and my heart said when did I say that?
The character of this good man and good businessman was set up for me by them.
(End of chapter)