Reborn into this life before the age of two, my Father vanished on his way to the provincial exam in the capital—alive, he was never found; dead, his body never returned. That very month, Grandfa...
251 Let's do it
Ping An did bring some medicine and bandages with him, but he couldn't bring alcohol with him to disinfect the child.
"Listen, I'll apply some medicine on you first, and then I'll treat you again when I get back. I'm afraid your wound will rot if we wait too long because it's too hot.
We will figure out other things when Uncle Ming comes back. He has taken people to the village to investigate."
The child nodded: "Brother, I will listen to you. You must help me rescue my eldest brother and those more than a hundred people."
In the moonlight, the child's wounds looked bloody. Ping An carefully applied medicine on him and then bandaged him with a clean bandage.
Soon, Uncle Ming's voice came from the outskirts of the forest: "Safe, safe, we are back."
Ming Wanli and Ruyi returned to the edge of the woods, but they turned around and around and couldn't get in, so they had to call out softly.
Ping'an took a few steps left and right, moved some things away, and opened a gap, then let Uncle Ming and the other man in. Now he could use the trap to its fullest extent without the need for the array plate.
"Who is this child? Why is he here?" Ming Wanli saw the child leaning on the slope at a glance.
Ping An told the whole story.
“No wonder, Ruyi and I used some sleeping pills on all the families, and I think they will wake up in two hours at most.
But we didn't find anything wrong in their house, so we searched everywhere in the village, and we actually found 15 or 16 horse and mule carts at the back of the village, but we didn't find the person. It turned out that the person had been sent to another place."
"Uncle Ming, this kid said that according to these people, someone will come to pick them up in the next day or two. It could be tomorrow, or it could be tonight. We can't wait. It will be too late to go back and call for help. We have to quickly tie up all those people, trap them in a house, and then rush to rescue them."
Ming Wanli smiled slightly: "Yes, as long as the people are rescued and the vehicles are there, we can return to the inn immediately."
Ping An looked at the child and said, "Just lie here and don't make any noise. We will go rescue them now and then come to pick you up. We will also tie up the bad guys."
The child nodded: "I know, brother, my name is Wang Xiaoming, and my brother's name is Wang Xiaochen."
"Got it." Ping An covered the child with some branches and leaves. Even though there was moonlight, it was dim from a distance and would definitely not be discovered.
The four people quickly got out of the forest and soon arrived at the first house at the entrance of the village. The house was shabby and there were six or seven people in the house, young and old. They didn't look like the evil people who had an affair with the smaller tribes.
Ming Wanli quickly found a rope in the house, and took Ruyi and Xiaowu to tie up the man. Ping'an looked here and knocked there, and after a while, he actually found the secret cave.
There was a package hidden in the dark cave. When he opened it, he found silver, gold, and jewelry. He found a backpack to put them in.
Wanli was speechless, and Mr. Sun said that Young Master Ping'an liked these shiny things, and it turned out to be true.
Ping An was not embarrassed: "I'll keep it first. It might belong to those people. I'll return it to them later. Uncle Ming, leave the people here. The rest of the families can all be pushed here with a car. I'll set up a formation later."
"Ping An, didn't the eldest master tell you not to let others know that you can form a formation?"
"I know. It will take a long time for us to go back and call for help. I will make the formation lose its effect in a few hours."
One family, two families,...nine families, a total of nine families.
By the time Wanli and his men carried everyone to a house, Ping'an's backpack was full.
Finally, Ping An found a basket of miscellaneous things where the vehicles were parked. It seemed that they were from these people, but they had not had time to sort them out, so they were temporarily left here.
Ping An just put these things in the car and let them get their own things later.
He doesn't want these things, including this backpack.
In a short time, Ping An set up a trap in the house and gave these people some sleeping pills, so they couldn't wake up for a whole day and night, not to mention that they were all tied up.
"Uncle Ming, let's go. Saving people is the most important thing."
All sixteen vehicles were driven to the edge of the woods and tied up, and then they went directly to the cave that Xiao Ming mentioned.
It was called a cave, but it was actually a large earthen kiln. The people inside were crowded together, all of them looked drowsy and it seemed that they had been drugged.
Ping An lit a stick of antidote incense, and soon these people woke up one after another.
Ming Wanli said, "Listen to me, everyone. We are the people of the eldest son of Baicaotang. We found that the road was blocked, so we came here at night to explore the way. Fortunately, we saved you. The bad guys have been controlled by us. Now the most important thing is for everyone to leave here. I heard that someone will take you away in one or two days."
A young boy stood up shakily: "Uncle, my brother is missing"
"Is your brother Xiao Ming? We have rescued him. Let's go now. There is no time to lose."
"Yes, yes, thank you for saving us." The boy was overjoyed.
One hundred and twenty-six people, fortunately no one died. There were a few people with fever, but that was nothing.
When these people stumbled to the front of the vehicle, Ming Wanli had to pick out twelve other clear-headed people to drive the vehicle. Ping An took this opportunity to dismantle the trap in the woods and carried Xiao Ming over.
"Xiaoming."
"elder brother."
Ming Wanli said, "You all have little strength now, let's leave quickly, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous if someone comes."
Everyone nodded repeatedly. They were drugged while sleeping and had no idea how they got to the kiln.
An hour later, Ming Wanli brought these people and the car to the entrance of the inn.
The guy who opened the door was startled and hurriedly woke up the shopkeeper on the first floor.
"Boss, these are the people who left yesterday. Something happened. Let them come to the hall first. You can make them some food. Just make them full."
Sun Sicheng had already heard the sound and went downstairs. He had been waiting for them and did not dare to close his eyes for a moment.
Wait until Wanli told him the general idea.
"Wanli, you should bring people with these cars to pull those people here. These are witnesses. What if they are killed by the people who come? My carrier pigeon has never been to Qingzhou Baicaotang. At dawn, let He Jin take people back to the city to find the adults."
He Jin said, "Master, let me take a few people and leave overnight. The moonlight is perfect. Just ride slowly."
"Well, be careful, I'll write the letter."
A quarter of an hour later, He Jin, Da Zhuang, Daniu and others disappeared into the hazy moonlight.
Ming Wanli obtained the shopkeeper's consent and simply moved all these people to the mule and horse shed in the backyard. There were forty or fifty people in the nine families.
Ping An gave him a lot of medicine, but they were all like dead pigs.
Sun Sicheng looked at the shopkeeper who was getting a little anxious and angry: "Shopkeeper, don't worry, move all the vehicles to the backyard immediately, we will still live here.
If someone else comes to live here, you can say that the place is full, the road is blocked, and the previous person can't leave. My people are all good at fighting, so it doesn't matter if they come with bad intentions. I will ask the government to compensate you later. If they don't, I will compensate you myself."
Having said that, what else can the shopkeeper say?
Come to think of it, it's a good thing that the eldest son's men caught these beasts, otherwise they would have come and arrested us shop owners at any time, leaving us penniless.