13 Staring

Huo Yan: Dead, dead!

Not long after Huo Yan turned the situation around, Huo Qubing had already started leading people to search.

The streets were surrounded, and he led everyone to find traces along Huo Yan's intermittent copper coins.

Fortunately, God protected Huo Yan. Although some of his copper coins were picked up by others, Huo Qubing was able to piece together a basic route based on his understanding of him.

But the copper coin was completely broken at one point, and in its place was a bloodstain.

Everyone panicked.

The Chang'an County Magistrate's legs went weak and he almost fell down.

It's over. Under the emperor's feet, during his term of office, not only did he allow human traffickers to come and go freely, but now that young Master Huo has met with an accident, he has also offended the Wei family, the emperor's favorite minister. It doesn't matter whether he can keep his official hat or not, the key is his three clans.

He has reached the end of his term as an official.

Huo Qubing was particularly disgusted by their bereaved appearance, "Don't be so shameless, my brother is not dead yet."

He naturally picked up the handkerchief and a silver needle from the grass, and then strode along following the scattered bloodstains.

If all those beasts were dead, nothing would happen to me, Ah Yan.

He has this confidence, and so does Ayan.

Although everyone had doubts in their hearts, they did not dare to disobey him and had to follow him.

Everyone followed the trail of blood all the way to a very remote alley.

Finally it stopped in front of a house.

Huo Qubing saw the bloodstains on the threshold of the house. They were small but obvious enough.

The yamen runner behind him tried to kick the door, but Huo Qubing stopped him with a hand. He turned into a dark alley before saying, "My uncle said that without knowing the enemy's strength, alerting them is a bad idea. What we need to do now is to know ourselves and the enemy, and then we can fortify our defenses and clear the fields."

He leaned against the wall and whispered to the county magistrate, "Send someone to knock on the doors of the neighbors around here to see if they are accomplices. If so, kill them."

To put the enemy in a situation where they have no reinforcements is the best strategy.

At this moment, in the courtyard, Huo Yan was writing a prescription with a smile on his face, and he glanced at the man who had his wrists cut and fell on the beam.

"Drain his blood, cut open his intestines, and salt them. That will be the first ingredient in the elixir of immortality: cicada flesh." He said to the group of people lying on the ground, his smile so creepy that it made his pale face look inhumanly ferocious. "The next ingredient is Hundred Herb Frost, as you all know."

[Oh my god.]

[On the contrary, Tian Gang, I feel like my Ah Yan is preaching.]

[This guy is really a good guy.]

[It's a very normal thing. Yan is just a child now, and people are always afraid of the unknown.]

[The unknown breeds fear, and fear breeds submission.]

[They're all trafficking children, doing something really wicked and wicked, and they have a strong faith in these ghosts and gods. And my Ah Yan showed them his skills directly, which frightened them.]

[Evildoers will always be punished by their own evildoers.]

[Yanyan, what was your previous occupation?]

Huo Yan thought about it, and finally couldn't help but mouthed silently.

"Before I met my teacher, I was so poor that I started looking for part-time jobs. I finally decided to work as a wee weeper for a while. It wasn't a big deal, just because there weren't many people doing it and it paid a hundred dollars a day. Later, I spent two packs of cigarettes to learn to play the suona from an old man. Having the skills made a difference. I was making five hundred dollars a day at the time, but because I was young and good at playing, I couldn't keep up with other jobs." He paused, touched his chin, and looked a little proud. "Oh, back then, my room and board were provided."

Comments from the audience: Okay, okay, you have to admit defeat, you have figured out this narrow track, the speed of this version iteration is comparable to a dragon going into the sea.

In the alley.

The two yamen runners came back soon.

They said, "Mr. Huo, we've checked and found that the neighbors are ordinary people and they don't know anything about it."

Huo Qubing leaned against the wall, his posture relaxed. He glanced at the county magistrate and said, "Go and tell them that we want to borrow their house. You go in person. If you don't want to go, you, the county magistrate, will have to guarantee it."

The county magistrate was sweating under his stare. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and nodded repeatedly.

The county magistrate personally visited those families and repeatedly urged them to stay in the inn for one night, saying that the government would requisition their houses that night. He gave each of them a few hundred yuan, and that those people would have to work for several days to earn that much money. Without hesitation, the magistrate thanked them profusely and left.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing.

Huo Qubing signaled a group of yamen runners to climb over the wall first to investigate the situation.

Then the yamen runners saw a scene that they would never forget. They saw the kidnappers kneeling around a child who was about five years old, and there was a person hanging next to him with blood dripping from his wrist.

And the more I look at this kid, the more he looks like Mr. Huo!

Oh my god.

Mr. Huo, if it’s any later, your brother will become a great master!

After they found out that there was only the kidnapper in that room and there were only a dozen people in total, they quickly retreated and reported the news about Huo Yan to Huo Qubing.

After listening to their description, Huo Qubing did not comment, but the smile in his eyes revealed his good mood.

"Block the big and small corner gates and go straight in. If anyone resists, kill them without mercy."

The bailiffs nodded, kicked open the door, and quickly went into the room to surround the group of kidnappers.

When everyone was shocked, Huo Yan sneered decisively, stood up and took charge of the situation for the kidnappers.

"They are just a bunch of little brats! What are they making such a fuss about?"

Huo Yan walked slowly and unhurriedly up to Huo Qubing, with a disregard for his relatives. Several big men thought he was going to kill everyone, and couldn't help but cheer him on in their hearts.

In the end, their Daxianer decisively hid behind the child who looked like him, pulled a pretty boy, pointed his finger at them, and cried loudly in his chubby voice, "Brother, they killed people, and they bullied me, and they wanted to sell me to Jiangnan to sing folk songs! Brother, beat him!"

Huo Qubing wiped his face to cover up the dry corners of his eyes, then took out a comb and prepared to comb his hair. After all, Ayan was very concerned about his reputation.

"Ayan has been wronged." Huo Qubing high-fived him and patted his shoulder. "Ayan, don't be afraid. Brother is late."

Huo Yan stopped howling, then silently took away Huo Qubing's hand which was combing his hair, which was becoming increasingly messy, and tied up Huo Qubing's half-loose hair into a bun.

"Nonsense, I'm not afraid!" He pursed his lips, his tone stubborn as hell. "This group of people is no match for you and me. Don't worry!"

How could he not be afraid? When these people cut the man's wrist without hesitation for the elixir of immortality, he could hardly control his fear.

These people are no longer human.

But he trusted his brother and believed that he would come.

He would not give up because he had to lead the way for Huo Qubing, because there were many children inside waiting to be rescued, and because human traffickers deserved to die.

Huo Qubing touched his hair and laughed.

"Ayan, you're too short. I pierced it crookedly. Hahaha."

Huo Yan's face was cold.

Huo Qubing's eyes were coated with honey in the sunlight, like a golden boy. He continued, "Mother said that if you keep doing this, you won't grow taller."

Huo Yan pouted and began to hum in dissatisfaction, "I'm tall! I'm tall! Only Bingbing can't grow tall!"

Huo Qubing and the comments section all listened to his excuses with great joy.

[With the amount of worry Ah Yan is doing, it's really easy for him to not grow taller!]

[The king of heaven covers the earth like a tiger, Ah Yan is 1.5 meters tall.]

[Ah Yan: Call me Huo Yan. Who allowed you to call me Ah Yan?]

[You traitor, how dare you call His Majesty Huo Yan by his nickname? Drag him away!]

[Sell, everything is on sale!]

…

[Baby, you are all good babies.]

[You are heroes. You saved so many people today.]

[Good boy, you are so brave!]

…

When he realized that everyone was looking at them, Huo Yan immediately put on his usual smile and pushed Huo Qubing's smiling head aside. Huo Qubing also stopped smiling and returned to his nonchalant look.

Huo Yan nodded slightly to the county magistrate to show his respect, and immediately led the county magistrate and others to find the child.

"This is one of their bases. They've set up a secret room and put the children there." He said to the people behind him as he pushed open the mechanism, "I've found out everything. No need to bother questioning these beasts."

Everyone looked at the group of kidnappers who were being dragged away like dead dogs, and silently gave Huo Yan a thumbs up.

Young Master Huo, awesome!

But their smiles didn't last long, because the secret room of the kidnapped children was opened.

Everyone cursed these kidnappers in their hearts for not doing their job.

The secret room was dank and cold, lacking even a brazier. Some children, still clad in thin summer clothing, had their faces frozen purple. Others, numb and vacant, stared at the door with vacant eyes, quietly awaiting death.

Huo Qubing walked straight towards those crutches who were not dragged away and kicked them.

Huo Yan turned his head and followed Huo Qubing, poking the silver needles in his hand into the vital points of the beggars.

"You son of a bitch, you bastard born evil!" He stabbed them quickly and fiercely, leaving one half paralyzed with each poke. "You ungrateful dog, crawl away even if you don't die."

Huo Qubing kicked him again, "Crawl down from now on!"

The county magistrate arranged for the children to be taken to a neighboring house and asked for a doctor to come. His subordinates and soldiers also worked to identify the children one by one and help them find their families.

After a long while, Huo Yan clenched his fists and forced himself to control his temper. He tugged at Huo Qubing's sleeve, signaling him to calm down.

The two of them went to the next room to help calm the child's emotions. Huo Yan took their pulses one by one. Although he was a novice, he had learned for more than a year and was able to read the pulse clearly.

After feeling it, he checked the tongue coating and breathed a sigh of relief. Today, he showed a rare genuine smile and said to Huo Qubing, "I think everything is fine. It's just a shock and cold. It will be fine after taking a few doses of medicine."

Huo Qubing had no doubts and said, "Doctor, your pace is slow. Please prescribe the medicine first. I will ask them to go get it and then send it back quickly. I think it will come faster."

Huo Yan didn't take it personally and immediately wrote two prescriptions on the front and back of the handkerchief he gave him, one for calming the nerves and the other for treating typhoid fever.

Huo Qubing handed the two prescriptions to the yamen runner and asked him to go get the medicine. After the yamen runner knew that the two prescriptions were from Huo Yan's hand, he was unwilling to go over.

This little boy is too young, how can he recognize the properties of the medicine? Don't let the medicine kill the child.

"The doctor is coming soon, please wait for a moment, young gentlemen."

Huo Qubing frowned, looked directly at the yamen runner, and said coldly, "If you don't believe my brother, you can go find a doctor to check it out. Why are you making excuses and making people think we're just fooling around?"

Huo Yan said nothing, but just sat with Huo Qubing, silently expressing his position.

Although they were young, they had extraordinary bearings, and were magnanimous and stern. When they both had cold faces, the yamen runners broke out in cold sweats and had no choice but to keep apologizing.

Huo Yan was annoyed, so he put away his handkerchief and told him to stop talking.

Huo Qubing took the handkerchief from his hand and said, "I'll go home soon and find a doctor. I'll have them see you again."

How could anything go wrong with A Yan?

Huo Yan, who was comforting a crying child, was stunned, then chuckled unconsciously.

[Yanbao, this is how medicine works.]

[My dear, I think your writing is quite good. It shows that you have learned some real things.]

If you're not famous, people will often look at your age. This is common, and if you lose your heart to treat others because of it, it's more harm than good.

[Yes, Yanbao, everything takes time to settle.]

[Ahem, the chicken soup part is over.]

[The medical students are already furious. "Yesterday, how could I not be able to watch this when I'm young?"]

[TM, who are you looking down on?]

[This unruly son always makes me angry, and I want to give him a hammer. But he is my direct disciple, there is no doubt about that.]

[I was already a doctoral supervisor at 30, so why couldn't this rebellious son write prescriptions at 5? Ambition transcends age!]

"Why don't you check it yourself? If you insist on telling me, what if my traitor's faith is ruined?"

[You know what? You're denying me the little seedlings I've been nurturing with you all, staying up all night every night!]

[Show him to the doctor! If he can find any faults, I lose! I taught him myself, how could there be any problems?]

[Bingbing is right. If our prescription is correct, we should show it to others.]

We study medicine with integrity, to help the people, regardless of age.

…

The doctor arrived quickly, and soon the room was filled with the scent of herbs.

The tranquilizing decoction and the typhoid medicine were not cooked properly.

Huo Yan's diagnosis was accurate to the last detail.

He didn't say much, just helped coax the child who was afraid of the bitterness and didn't want to take the medicine to take it.

Huo Qubing took out the preserved fruits that Huo Yan had bought for him from his purse and distributed them to the children to sweeten their mouths while taking their medicine.

The little boy in the dark robe had fallen asleep in his arms. He looked like a favored son of a wealthy family, with a fair and tender face.

Huo Yan was obviously only slightly older than the other child, and he even helped to pat the child gently to coax him to sleep.

"Good boy, go to sleep."

Huo Qubing stared at the setting Golden Crow in shock for a moment. He had not expected the sky to darken so quickly. He sighed, "Ayan, I asked the county magistrate to send someone to escort Awu back from the dog hole. But what should we do today?"

Huo Yan was also stunned for a moment, looking outside, and clasped his hands together with a dead heart.

"Of course he's dead, his butt is about to bloom like a giant flower."

Huo Qubing was choked by him and was speechless.

"Fortunately, it's just the two of us." Huo Qubing paused, and with a look of selfless dedication, he said sadly, "At least Ah Wu is still alive."

This time it was Huo Yan's turn to be speechless.

The two of them were silent together, and finally decided to go home before sunset.

It’s a pity that they didn’t run away.

Because Wei Qing was glaring at them in front of the door.

【Author’s words】