On the way back to the inn, Shi Cheng kept looking out the window and was silent. Wu Neng could probably guess some of Shi Cheng's thoughts in his heart, but because Hou Yu was still beside him, he didn't know how to speak for a while.

Just as the carriage was about to drive out of the market in the east of the city, Shi Cheng suddenly said: "There seem to be some clothing shops and small medicine shops here, Lord Hou, can you allow Shi to get off the car to buy some items?" The action two days later was not trivial, and Shi wanted to make more preparations.

Hou Yu also looked out the window and said, "What good things can you buy in this small pharmacy?" Why don't you go to the big pharmacies in the city and buy it? ”

"Did Master Hou forget? A few days ago, Shi had already been to those big pharmacies before holding a free clinic in the city, and they all said that they had no inventory. Shi Cheng smiled slightly, "But the medicinal materials that Shi wants to buy this time are just some things that can be found everywhere, and they can be bought anywhere, and now that the time is pressing, I can only refine some simple medicines first." ”

After thinking for a while, Hou Yu nodded and granted Shi Cheng's request.

After getting out of the car, Shi Cheng first entered a tailor's shop, bought a cloak against wind and sand for himself, Wu Neng, and Tie Mian, and then bought himself a leather robe.

"Lao Shi, I, Wu Neng, officially declare that you will be my brother in the future!" Wu Neng took the cloak that Shi Cheng had just bought for him in his hand, and couldn't stop admiring: "Yunqiu City is still the first-class city of the Western Desert Country, the material and texture of this cloak are much better than what I have seen in other cities, and I don't have to worry about winter clothes this year." ”

Shi Cheng smiled and said: "If you buy you a piece of clothing, you will be called brother, then I will throw a piece of gold to you, will you have to lie down and call your ancestors?" Let's go to the small pharmacy next to us. ”

Compared with the tailor shop where Shi Cheng and the three of them bought clothes, the small pharmacy next door seemed too deserted, even when Shi Cheng bought medicinal materials everywhere in the city last time, he didn't even notice this inconspicuous pharmacy.

In the cramped and humble pharmacy, only an elderly thin old man sat at the counter and yawned. After hearing the footsteps of Shi Cheng and the others, the old man hurriedly opened his eyes, patted the patched clothes, got up and walked out of the counter, and asked with a smile: "A few guest officers, but you want to buy medicinal herbs?" ”

Wu Neng looked at the cobwebs hanging in the corner not far away, and the medicine cabinet that looked thin and leaky, and couldn't help but whisper: "Good girl, the utility room in the Yunqiu City prison feels a lot neater than here." ”

"Uncle, I want to buy three medicinal herbs, red juice grass, ambergris and stone chips, you should have them here." Shi Cheng asked.

The old man nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, if there are no of these things, Xiao Lao'er's pharmacy will not need to be opened anymore." Childe is going to go far away? I bought these herbs to make bone-setting medicine, I don't know how much of each one is needed? ”

Shi Cheng glanced at the medicine cabinet behind the old man and said, "Take out as many as you want, besides, do you have a medicine room for boiling medicine here, I want to prepare the medicine directly with you." ”

"Although Xiao Lao'er's store is cold, there are still private rooms for boiling medicine and dispensing, is Childe planning to grind these three medicinal materials, or to refine them into paste?"

"I'll just dispense the medicine myself, boss, you just need to give me a single room."

"I didn't expect Childe to be a pharmacist!" The old man complimented Shi Cheng while going to the medicine cabinet to pick up the medicinal materials, and when the medicinal materials were ready, Shi Cheng entered the private room alone, and did not ask others to do anything for himself.

Iron Mask stood quietly by the door, not speaking. Wu Neng turned around the main hall of the pharmacy and asked the old man standing at the counter: "Old man, the kid takes the liberty to ask, I see that your shop is also built next to the market, why can you only take out so many medicinal materials such as red juice grass, which I know." ”

The old man replied bitterly: "Childe, little old man is also helpless, in fact, although the small shop was small and profitable before, it can still support it." However, since the haunting of the Xieyang Road began, the small merchants in the city who were engaged in the medicinal herb business either went bankrupt or changed their careers. Cheap purchase channels are in the hands of those big businessmen with strong family backgrounds, like Xiao Lao'er, who still want to make a living by selling medicine, can only take refuge in the door of those big businessmen, although the hard-working family is gone, but at least can find a way to live. ”

"It's just that this pharmacy was left by Xiao Lao'er's father's generation, and I've been with me for so many years, and I'm really reluctant to hand over the shop to others."

The old man seemed to have opened the chatterbox, and complained to Wu Neng for a while.

After nearly an hour, Shi Cheng came out of the pharmacy, and after the three of them met the money, they went out of the pharmacy together. Before getting into the car, Wu Neng looked back at the pharmacy, sighed in his heart, and silently hoped that the Xieyang Road case would be completed as soon as possible.

"Lao Shi, did you make any bone-setting cream in the medicine room, why didn't you take it out?" Wu Neng asked, Shi Cheng didn't seem to have anything in his hand when he came out of the medicine room.

"Don't forget I have a storage bag." Shi Cheng replied, and then fell into deep thought.

Wu Neng pursed his lips, Shi Cheng had been thinking about it since he left the Camel Bell Inn, but Wu Neng didn't bother him at this juncture.

Everyone quickly returned to the inn, but Shi Cheng and the three did not enter immediately, because Zhao Ping was standing outside the door of the inn with some anxiety on his face.

"Ah Ping, what's wrong?" Hou Yu hurriedly greeted him, and as soon as he looked at Zhao Ping's face, he knew that something seemed to be wrong.

"Old Hou, you're finally back." Zhao Ping looked around and pulled Hou Yu to a secluded place, and Shi Cheng and the three of them hurriedly followed when they saw this.

"A few brothers who were watching outside Linqu Village suddenly lost contact, and the new spies from the past just came with the news, and the villagers of the entire Linqu Village suddenly disappeared."

"What!" Everyone's faces changed color, Rao is Hou Yuping was calm and calm, and he couldn't help but be taken aback at this time, "What did the adults say?" ”

"According to the news from the spies, the adults believe that the villagers are likely to have infiltrated the abandoned ditch and entered the sand mountain under the cover of the water in the canal. Now that the situation has changed, the adults have decided to start a plan tonight and raid Zhisha Mountain! ”

"Wouldn't that be too risky?" Hou Yu asked.

Zhao Ping sighed: "There is no way now, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger." The Lord had already used the messenger to send an urgent message to Wang Cheng, requesting that the nearby forbidden army and the box army be mobilized to come to support. At present, the investigation of the city guards has only just begun, and the adults dare not trust them, let them act with us. However, the lord has already sent a letter to Zhang Dianshi, who is temporarily acting as the city lord, and Li Weiguan, who is in charge of the city guards, asking them to keep an eye on the city guards under them. ”

"I'm afraid that's the only way to go." Hou Yu sighed, "But also, since the conspiracy of Green Pond Village has been revealed, it is impossible for the other uninhabited villages to have no movement at all, and they must take action." ”

"There is no movement in another uninhabited village for the time being, but the adults have already sent additional people there." Zhao Ping said.

"Adults have always been thoughtful." Hou Yu nodded.

Zhao Ping looked at Shi Cheng and them, "Shi Cheng, the three of you should also go back to the Qincha Mansion with us, you can take a good rest, and you can move with us at night." ”

……

The time soon came to night, after the curfew, all the guards in the compound of the Qincha Guards were nervously checking their equipment and mounts, and many people also had a premonition in their hearts that tonight would be a very unpeaceful night.

"Lao Shi, what do you say we will encounter when we go to Zhisha Mountain this time?" Wu Neng talked to Shi Cheng through a wooden door while helping Tie Mian arrange the saddle. Although he was not acting alone this time, Wu Neng's heart was still extremely nervous, "I now have four usable machine people left in my body, and none of them have been completely repaired, and the energy of the Heavenly Machine Battle Armor is almost exhausted." ”

"Don't worry, there are so many of us, me and Iron Mask are also by your side, what is there to be afraid of." Shi Cheng pushed open the wooden door and walked out of the thatched hut, wearing a cloak bought in the tailor's shop, and the whole person looked a lot bloated, "It's been quite windy these days, don't you and Tie Mian add clothes to block the wind and sand?" ”

Wu Neng nodded, and hurriedly took the cloak to the side to change clothes. Tie Mian replied briefly: "Wearing it, it is inconvenient to ride a horse with a sword." ”

At this moment, a crisp whistle sounded outside the courtyard, and the guards hurriedly turned over and rode out of the courtyard in an orderly manner.

Sun Jinyong changed into a wartime light armor military attache uniform, and after a few brief words of training to the guards, he took the lead and led all the guards out of the side door, and quietly walked out of the city under the cover of night. Shi Cheng and the three of them, accompanied by Lu Qian, followed closely behind the team.

The weather was getting colder and colder, and the cold wind whistled up waves of sand and dust on the galloping path, whistling and slapping on the horses and people in the gallop. In the dim moonlight, only the sound of horses' hooves could be heard on the silent slanting sun.

The guards soon came to Linqu Village, and with the assistance of spies from outside the village, everyone quietly entered the village and searched everywhere, but they did not find a single villager.

Sun Jinyong came to the edge of the waste ditch and lowered his body to carefully inspect the soil by the river. Then he stood up and said to Zhao Ping and Shi Cheng beside him: "There are a large number of new footprints, all of which are heading towards the river. ”

Shi Cheng said: "Lord Sun, we will send people into the water to check first, if we don't find any trace of those villagers, then it is very likely that they have gone to Zhisha Mountain." ”

"This official thinks the same way, Ah Ping, find a few good water-based dives to explore. The underwater situation is complicated, so you must pay full attention to prevent thieves from sneaking up. ”

Zhao Ping took the order, and the guards soon began a large search of the water along the riverbank.

After some searching, the entire waste ditch was calm and nothing was found. Sun Jinyong looked at the faintly exposed Zhisha Mountain in the distance, and said calmly: "It seems that it is there." ”

"The order goes down, everyone, put out the torches, and strictly prohibit the sound. After entering the mountain, everyone dismounted and marched on foot, leaving the horses outside the sand mountain! ”