Zhou Laoda and the village chief peeked out and saw that several guards had been sent flying by the tiger's paw, crashing heavily into trees and then falling to the ground. Two officers were also injured.
The other villagers only stayed nearby to protect themselves and dared not come forward to help. Later, a few hunters saw that the situation was not good and came forward to help. Another half hour passed, and the group finally managed to bring down the tiger.
Although it takes less than half an hour to eliminate the giant insect, when faced with a life-or-death crisis, even a quarter of an hour feels like an eternity.
The accompanying doctors rushed forward to treat the injured. The injuries were quite severe, but thankfully no one lost their lives.
"We won't go anywhere else today. We'll rest here for one night and then head back as soon as possible. Everyone, gather some more herbs nearby, but don't go too far." Because several people were seriously injured, they couldn't continue gathering herbs and had to return early. However, it was clearly too late for today, so they would have to wait until tomorrow.
The guards of the Song family exchanged glances, all seeing disappointment in each other's eyes. Their mission was to find the medicinal ingredient for their young master, and they had to find it no matter the cost.
By this time, four of the thirty men were seriously injured and had to return with the officials and villagers, but the rest had to stay behind to continue searching for the medicinal ingredients.
The guards didn't want all the villagers to return, but the villagers obeyed the officials and not them, leaving the guards helpless.
These people are actually guards of the Song family, but in reality, they are guards of the Tie family. They were raised by Lord Tie on his estate since childhood and are absolutely loyal to him, no different from death squads.
The guard leader paid the villagers to help carry the four seriously injured men back first, while the uninjured men were left behind.
"Are you really not coming together? The forest is so dangerous; there are only a few of you, and you could easily get into trouble." The fierce-looking constable looked at them disapprovingly.
"We still have a mission and cannot leave for the time being," the head guard said curtly.
Seeing that the other party was unyielding, the fierce-looking constable gave up trying to persuade them. The servants of these wealthy families only obeyed their masters' orders, and it was best for outsiders to stay out of it.
Behind a towering tree, Old Zhou winked at the village chief. Seeing that the village chief didn't understand, he whispered in his ear, "We've been searching high and low, but here we are. The treasure we've been longing for is under the vines under the big tree two hundred meters ahead."
The village chief looked in the direction Zhou Laoda pointed and indeed saw that the trees were dense, and each tree was covered with vines as thick as a child's arm.
So the two pretended to be looking for herbs, digging with hoes as they moved towards their destination without making a sound. They moved slowly and carefully, and finally arrived at the vine tree after about two incense sticks' worth of time.
Without saying a word, the two picked up hoes and started digging. Actually, it would have been easier to cut the vines first, but they were afraid of being discovered, so they painstakingly crawled under the vines and squatted down to dig.
With his back to the village chief, Zhou Laoda soon dug up a wild ginseng. Suppressing his excitement, he put the wild ginseng in his pocket and then continued digging as if nothing had happened.
The village chief was so focused on digging up the Ganoderma lucidum that he didn't notice anything unusual.
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