Sheng Nanxi immediately thought that it might be the personal guards of Prince Kang and the Xianyuan Sect who destroyed the evidence with fire, so she teleported to the vicinity of the two courtyards, and with a change of mind, she made the flames gradually dissipate and slowly disappear.
"Humph! Using so much silver bone charcoal at once just to set a fire, it must be intentional!"
Sheng Nanxi saw at a glance that one of the mansions covering tens of thousands of acres should be the headquarters of the Xianyuan Sect. She teleported in and found the high-quality charcoal piled in the corner of the wall, and snorted coldly.
Gu Yuancheng held her in his arms to prevent the black ash and sawdust on the floor from dirtying her beautiful shoes and skirt. Seeing this, he raised his lips:
"Before leaving, he forgot to go to the trouble of burning down the house. It must be to hide some truth. Fortunately, we arrived in time. The fire was put out by Xiao Xier not long after it started."
The person who set the fire probably never thought that his intentional fire would provide a signal for them to rush here in the first place.
I thought everything would be fine after burning everything into black ashes, but Xiao Xier just waved her hand and the fire was extinguished so easily.
Both of them felt that there was no trace of life nearby, and there were still noisy sounds made by slaves in some remote courtyards.
Gu Yuancheng originally wanted to ask 그 to quickly chase the unknown Xianyuan followers, but after searching around, he found no suspicious traces. He had to ask 그 to block the exits of the two burning houses first, while he accompanied Xiao Xier to check each courtyard one by one.
For unknown reasons, the other party had already transported away the most important documents and valuable assets in advance, leaving behind only some daily necessities and ornaments.
The Xianyuan Sect had been prosperous for more than ten years, and the things that the other party liked could be sold for a few hundred taels.
Sheng Nanxi was also not a money-shy person, so she rolled all the valuable things into the space as she walked.
The mice, sparrows, cockroaches trapped in the holes and smoked to death, the blackened leftovers and various ingredients... were all rolled into the space farm as feed!
All kinds of high-quality bricks, tiles, and wood materials...even if they are slightly blackened, they are still worth using again, so move them all into the space!
All of them are in vain. Every brick is worth your sister's job opportunity!
There were also a large number of rare medicinal materials in the medicine garden that had not been burned in time, along with the medicine shovel, medicine scythe, medicine basket, pestle and mortar, and a pair of cats and dogs fighting on the snow, all of which were taken away!
After coming out of the medicine storehouse, the two little ones went around to the medicine garden behind the woods. They didn't expect that what they saw was a piece of extremely rare and beautiful medicinal herbs!
Even though half of the herbs had been uprooted, apparently they had been taken away in a hurry by the other party when they were packing up, many medicinal seedlings near the residence were burned beyond recognition by the fire, leaving only a lush and green medicinal garden stretching for hundreds of feet!
One can imagine what a spectacular sight it must have been before it was destroyed!
Sheng Nancy squatted down and picked up a herb to examine it, taking a deep breath:
"This is the legendary purple grass! It is said that this medicinal herb is extremely difficult to grow. How could it grow in the arid land of the northwest? And it hasn't been frozen to death in such a cold weather?!"
Sheng Nanxi was surprised, and immediately thought that it might be a problem with the soil, or that the other party had used some unknown method to change the habits of the seeds.
He casually pulled up a few nearby medicinal herbs and sent the soil he brought out to the space laboratory for testing.
She explored the whole circle one after another, and couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.
"Tsk tsk... Purple grass, spiritual grass root, yellow jade ginseng, moonflower vine... These are rare medicinal herbs that are hard to come by in the world. Many people may not even have heard of their names, but they are planted here on such a large scale! And they have survived the winter contrary to normal!"
Previously, a large amount of Moonflower was found in the underwater medicine bag in Jinchuan County. She thought that the Xianyuan Sect used so many rare herbs because it valued Jinchuan County enough.
It's not because we value it, but because our family lacks this kind of thing!
Sheng Nanxi suddenly thought of the purple night orchids that her grandmother and brother had, which were also extremely rare medicinal herbs, but two of them appeared at once. She frowned and fell into deep thought.
Gu Yuancheng took advantage of the time when the two of them were checking nearby herbal gardens to send someone to check out several other destroyed herbal gardens. Seeing that she looked troubled, Gu rubbed her head gently.
"Xi'er, you think that the Xianyuan Sect is so good at cultivating rare medicinal plants, maybe it has something to do with secretly poisoning grandma and brother?"
"Well... After all, my father and my brothers are all stupid. It is impossible for the two He Huaiyuan brothers to design such a sophisticated scheme and take over all the Sheng family..."
The little girl crossed her arms and bit her lips lightly while thinking.
Gu Yuancheng saw that she was in some pain, so he reached out and rubbed her little fat, freeing her tender lips.
"Although medicinal herbs such as Moonflower and Purple Grass are precious, they are also considered lower-grade among the legendary medicinal herbs. I just asked you to go there to investigate. Although the medicinal plants grown in the other medicine gardens are of many varieties, they are in a similar situation."
"But the Purple Night Orchid is a top-grade medicine. I'm afraid even the Immortal Fate Sect can't grow it."
Gu Yuancheng remembered seeing a book on medicinal materials in the imperial teacher's study before, which mentioned some hidden wealthy families who were good at growing medicinal materials, such as purple grass and yellow jade ginseng, which were unheard of in the outside world and were considered relatively valuable to them.
However, poisons like Purple Night Orchid, which are said to have long been extinct, are rarely seen even by the hidden wealthy families.
Sheng Nanxi thought about it and nodded.
"The Xianyuan Sect has been prosperous for more than ten years, and has always lived in the northwest. It is very likely that they will reach out to the capital. In other words, if they really have that much power, they would have used illusions and so many rare poisons to control the entire Southern Qi Kingdom. How could they maintain superficial peace when they clearly hate the two brothers He Huaiyuan?"
"And..." Sheng Nanxi was even more confused when she recalled that when she came here just now, she saw a lot of corpses on the roadside.
"The people killed outside look like the personal guards of King Kang, and the weapons they were hit with seem to be the work of the Xianyuan Sect. This Xianyuan Sect is really strange. It was King Kang who supported the leader, but before retreating, they forgot to shoot at their companions."
"It's powerful, but the other party is so scared that they will run away as soon as they find it. In order to leave no trace, they might as well burn down a whole farm and hundreds of acres of rare medicinal herbs."
"It's weak, but it's so strong that it can directly change the habits of plants and grow so many rare medicinal herbs in the desolate northwest land. It also discovered that they would pass by here a few days in advance, and directly took away all the heavy things and ran away, perfectly avoiding the fate of being emptied."
"Yeah... How could there be such a contradiction in this world, strong and weak at the same time..." Gu Yuancheng suddenly thought of something and raised the corners of his lips slightly.
"So is there a possibility that the Xianyuan Sect looks like an independent sect, but is actually just a branch of a stronger organization. The purpose of their existence is to grow certain types of rare medicinal herbs under the protection of King Kang."
"The reason why we were able to predict your whereabouts is because the powerful force behind you found out some clues and told you to retreat quickly!"