18. Ask someone
Not far from Maxian County, snow began to fall again.
The snow is not strong, but the wind is very strong.
Liu Chang and others had no choice but to go to the Maxian station and prepare to stay overnight.
The inn is run by the government, and generally only accepts officials who are not in charge and their families. Liu Chang can live in a good house at this level. If you are lucky, it may be the main house.
After all, there will be no major officials in this small place, so there is no need to leave the largest and best main house in the inn.
There is a warm kang and a charcoal at the inn. I sent the inn to make some wine. After hot, I thought it was beautiful in this weather. As a result, when I arrived at the inn, I saw the ground was depressed and several houses were airtight.
Liu Chang was stunned. He was about to get angry, but his chest suddenly felt stuffy.
However, his soldiers did not have this concern. They shouted at the entrance of the station and went in and circled around. In the end, they had to admit that the station in Maxian had been abandoned for a long time.
"The officers were angry. I guess it was because the place was poor and the station was unattended for a long time."
"It's too presumptuous!" Liu Chang's face turned pale with anger.
Since entering Ma County, he, a sixth-rank official from the court, was actually angry everywhere.
"It's really a poor mountain and a bad water that makes people come out of trouble! The post station is an affiliated country, and the small Ma County actually let go of it. This is a crime of dereliction of duty!" Liu Chang said a few words and felt a little breathless.
The soldiers quickly helped Liu Chang into the sedan chair and rushed to the road in the snow.
On this day, they first went to Xiaohe Town and then to Maxian County. When they returned to Xiaohe Town, it was already late. There was an inn in Xiaohe Town, but Liu Chang said that he would not want to live here. The soldiers were also scared when they thought of Mrs. Xue. So they got into the carriage and horses and horses, and without saying a word, they harshly recruited a mule cart and several mules.
The shopkeeper was in a carriage and was crying without tears. He looked at the shadow of the mule carriage and sat down on the snow.
“Huh?”
The shopkeeper felt something seemed to be under his butt. He got up and reached out to touch it. It turned out to be a purse.
I opened it and counted it. It was not only enough money for cars and horses, but also more.
The shopkeeper suddenly remembered that the man in the official uniform just now slipped when he went out. When the two soldiers helped him, the three of them almost fell down together, as if they were in this position.
——It must have dropped it at that time!
The shopkeeper immediately took out all the money in the purse, and the whole ingot of the official silver was crushed with silver cuts, and hid it deeply. Then he threw the purse into the stove with charcoal. He thought that God was opening his eyes, and if the other party found it back, he would definitely not recognize it.
In fact, this has nothing to do with God. Liu Chang's wallet was lost because of the stone thrown out by Dr. Mo.
He followed Liu Chang and others all the way until he left Xiaohe Town about a mile before Liu Chang suddenly felt a hole in his sleeve. After touching again, the purse in the hidden bag of the sleeve disappeared, and there was no one in the car.
"Stop! Stop!" Liu Chang shouted quickly.
The mule cart slid out a long distance on the mountain road and almost hit the mountain wall.
The soldiers were shocked and felt indescribable fear. They couldn't help but complain that Liu Chang was too angry and made him sick. Now he had to take a mule cart. This mountain road was not easy to walk, but now the ice and snow are not melting, which adds a bit of danger.
But what can I do? The senior official is to crush someone to death. Before, Liu Chang was lying in the sedan chair, but they were carrying him deep and shallow.
"Liu Qianshi, what's wrong?" The leader of the soldier jumped off the mule and asked in a rough voice, "The road is not easy to walk on, it's dark, and the three miles ahead is where we stayed yesterday. If the servant is sick again, he should bear it first."
"No, mine..."
Liu Chang touched the hole in his sleeve and finally remembered that he had fallen before the carriage. Maybe he had scratched something and tore the hidden bag in his sleeve. Liu Chang was in the car all the way. Since there wasn't one in the car, he must have landed in Xiaohe Town.
But they had already walked so far, it was dark and the north wind was howling. Who would have wanted to go back now? Liu Chang gritted his teeth and sat back, but his heart felt like blood was dripping in his heart.
The money in the wallet is not much, but he, a sixth-rank military officer, has no permanent property in his family, and money is hard-earned. He can use less money as much as possible. How can he not feel heartbroken?
Coincidentally, Doctor Mo behind him is also calculating money.
The howling wind automatically weakened within three feet of his body, and finally it was just some fine snowflakes blowing on his body.
His outer robe was very wide, but his cuffs and collar were tightly tied, not at all.
The fabric of this kind of clothes is very thick and is stuffed with cotton to keep warm. Mo Li is not afraid of the cold, but people here dress like this when they go far away in winter, even more so in Ma County. When Mo Li left, Dr. He said that he had to put on his body before leaving.
Mo Li thought about it and said that wearing too little clothes would make people pay attention, so she accepted this kindness.
In such a wind and snow, it is difficult for ordinary people to walk, but Doctor Mo is counting money.
——When he went out, the teacher gave him some money, and Xue Lingjun gave him some, saying that it was a reward for bringing a letter. Even Tang Xiaotang secretly stuffed the twenty copper plates that had been accumulated for a long time.
Then in Xiaohe Town, Mrs. Xue gave some silver, but Moli had already given the money to Dr. He without any money, because Liu Chang's group of people treated and received medicine, but they didn't give a penny. The prescription Moli prescribed was several medicines that were not cheap, and Liu Chang and others took several medicines, among which the salvia miltiorrhiza was robbed by the soldiers.
Doctor He refused to ask for it at first, but refused, but finally accepted it. After all, he still had several apprentices to raise.
While counting the money, Mo Li was counting the journey from here to Silang Mountain in her mind.
——I thought a little dazzled and almost overcame my head.
Liu Chang and his group stopped. The place where they stayed was a big house with no plaque at the door, but it looked like the residence of a squire.
Mo Li randomly found a tree and climbed into the wall.
Although the house is large, there are not many places to light up. In the countryside, lamp oil is not cheap. The servants are not allowed to light the lamp at will without any trouble.
When Mo Li touched the window of the main courtyard, she happened to hear the servant coming to report to the owner of the mansion.
"Chief Liu is here again."
The owner of the mansion was in his forties, with a national face and a robe with a 10,000-character pattern. He waved his hand unhappily and repelled the servant.
There was another person in the room, thin and thin. His eyes rolled and he asked, "Where did the assistant minister come from?"
"The man under Liu Dan, the general who was granted by the imperial court, was originally ordered to encircle and suppress the bandits in Pingzhou. Later, the gold mine in Silang Mountain broke out and went there to investigate the case. Liu Jianshi didn't know what was going on, so he led a few people all the way north. Yesterday he stayed with me and asked me about the way to Xiaohe Town, Maxian County, and said about visiting relatives... I saw his expression, it was almost the same to seek revenge!"
The thin man frowned and said, "He is also surnamed Liu, what is his relationship with Liu Dan?"
"I don't know, it seems to be a distant relative of the same clan." The official said disapprovingly, "He was just passing by and had nothing to do with us. By the way, did you really see the dragon in Zhushan County?"
Mo Li was about to leave, but when he heard this, he suddenly stopped.
The action was very slight, but the thin man in the room shouted: "Who is it?"
The thin man rushed out of the door, jumped up to the roof, looked around, but saw nothing. He returned to the yard in disappointment, and said as he walked, "I did hear strange sounds just now."
The official thought he was fussing. Maybe the snow on the branches was too heavy, and one or two pieces fell on the ground.
"Be careful, nothing wrong, now there are outsiders here."
The thin man checked the eaves and branches again, and found that there was indeed no footprints, so he went back to the house.
"That dragon... I'm not sure. At that time, I had already entered the Yangyan Groove and was far away. I could only vaguely see the clouds in the sky, as if they were a dragon's tail." The thin man pondered for a while and said, "No matter what, this matter must be reported to the Lord as soon as possible! Unexpectedly, a few people came to us, but we were the first to obtain conclusive information."
The official asked suddenly: "Did you say Qin Lu hide there because he knew that there was a dragon vein in Zhushan County? Otherwise, why would he, such a top master and a talented prime minister, live in seclusion in the mountains? If you don't say it today, we don't know that Qin Lu is actually in Zhushan County, which is really incredible! A small Zhushan County not only has the ghost poisonous vulture that destroyed the entire Futu Temple, but also the former world's number one master, Qin Lu. If we weren't afraid of Xue Ting's invisible poisoning technique, we wouldn't have set up our stronghold in Ma County. It's far away. It's really inconvenient. Even Qin Lu doesn't know that Qin Lu is in Zhushan County."
The thin man whispered: "Maybe it's because of that little kid..."
His voice was very soft, and the official did not hear it clearly. When he asked again, the thin man said impatiently: "It's nothing, when will your news be spread?"
The official was very unhappy, and his tone was filled with a hint of sarcasm: "The wind and snow are so strong that the pigeons are frozen to death, and the fast horses can't run away from the mountain road. How can you spread the news? If you are anxious, run this trip yourself!"
As I spoke, my eyes suddenly became dark and the candle fire went out.
The official was about to exclaim when he heard a thud in the dark room, mixed with the angrily shout of a thin man. The official was hurriedly approaching the corner of the wall. When he wanted to sneak out, there was suddenly no sound in the room.
He dared not move or breathe.
Just as I was listening to the movement, the back of my neck suddenly became cold, as if something cold was pressed against it.
——It's a knife.
"Good man, I'm in the warehouse."
"Where is the dragon vein?"
A strange sound came from behind the official, which was very high and low, making it difficult to distinguish between men and women.
"You, what did you say? I don't know, what dragon veins... I know the mine veins, there is one in Silang Mountain..."
Before the official said anything, the knife was closer. He didn't dare to move again, but he was very anxious. He knew that the thin man's martial arts were very good at being in the hands of the master. Now he was actually knocked down. Who is this person?
Mo Li didn't give the official to think clearly, so he didn't speak, but continued to ask in his ventral language: "Don't think about it and go by, the dragon vein of Silang Mountain is no longer there, right? Where is the new dragon vein you discovered?"
Mo Li guessed that the thin man was the visitor who came to the door inexplicably that day. He heard that this group of people were looking for the dragon vein, but they didn't know their way, so he just took a gamble. Seeing that they knew the situation in Silang Mountain very well, but they didn't care much, so naturally there was nothing they were looking for.
"The dragon vein of Silang Mountain is still there, still there!"
"nonsense!"
Mo Li felt that the pulse of the official's neck was beating very fast, and his body was tense, as if he wanted to take the opportunity to escape, and it was not as if he was scared at all. He moved his heart and his other hand directly pinched the other party's neck, which seemed to be in anger and angry to kill people. In fact—
Spiritual medicine! It’s another spiritual medicine. This person has taken it. When will the spiritual herbs be worthless?
The mo carp was shocked and angry. A white ginseng plant only grew within 300 miles of Qimao Mountain. It was so precious, but these people used it as sweet potatoes?
"If there were no dragon veins here, would you build such a large house in this remote countryside and live for a long time?" Mo Li turned into an old voice again and said sinisterly, "If you dare to deceive me, no one here can live until dawn."
"No, you have always misunderstood." The official's body trembled uncontrollably. He felt that his meridians were numb and itchy, as if a small insect was crawling. He suddenly remembered Xue Ting, and his body suddenly became half weak.
He is afraid of death, and even more afraid that life is worse than death.
"We are here because we are ordered to find the whereabouts of the treasures of the previous dynasty."
Doctor Mo was stunned. Why did another treasure of the previous dynasty appear? He just followed Liu Chang, but first heard that there were dragon veins elsewhere, and then accidentally dug out a group of people with ulterior motives. Now even the treasure is out.
Since he had a clumsy, he could only hold on to the end. Mo Li said sternly: "I'm still talking nonsense. The treasures of the previous dynasty are just rumors and are not trustworthy."
"No, no, it's true." In order to survive, the official said sarcastically, "The jade seals used by the emperor today are all fake. The real jade seals are with the treasures. They are said to have been taken away many years ago."
"Then why do you come to Zhushan County?"
"this……"
The official decided that the person who came was Xue Ting, and thought to himself that the other party really didn't know about the treasure. He said tentatively, "Because after investigation, I found that there were only three or four people who could take away the treasure without knowing it. Although the others were powerful, they could not erase all traces. The most mysterious person here is Meng Qi, who is recognized as the master of the treasure, but the national master has long disappeared... Our Lord digging from another direction, and it took several years to finally find that someone was suspicious."
A small official sent to Zhushan County.
Not only did he take the initiative to ask for the outsourcing, but he also used money, saying that the faster the better, and it doesn't matter if he is far away. Although he can find out that the other party seemed to be trying to avoid disaster and did not want to be implicated by classmates, the person who has the problem is this person.
There is no problem with academic record exams, but household registration is fake!
If you didn't dig deeper like this, you wouldn't be able to see any problems with ordinary reviews.
"Xue Lingjun was also one of the elegant men in the capital back then. He got married early and had a small official position. He was just the head of the Ministry of Justice. He had no great reputation, but he was Shulan's beautiful wise man in his heart, so he..."
The official kept saying good things, but the person behind him was not grateful and said coldly: "Don't care about him, just say the key points!"
Chapter completed!