At 3:45 AM, Zhou Laoda was woken up by the guards of the Song family. "Get up quickly and have breakfast. We need to head back to the village soon."
The others were also awakened by the loud voice. The officers looked at the group of guards from the Song residence with displeasure, but the latter were not afraid of the officers and even glared back at them with sharp eyes. The officers awkwardly looked away.
After finishing their meal, they set off. Although the guards from the Song family had done a great job in hunting the tiger yesterday, they didn't care who got the tiger in the end. They just wanted to escort Boss Zhou back as quickly as possible.
Forget about the villagers; the guards will definitely be the government officials, since they also did a lot of work.
As dusk fell, the group returned to Yegou Village. Zhou Laoda was in a hurry to get home, so he handed over the herbs for treating the epidemic in his basket to the officials and headed home.
"Let's go to the Song residence first." The head guard grabbed him, forcefully trying to drag him to the Song residence first.
The village chief and Zhou Fagen and others were worried about Zhou Laoda, so they followed behind him. When they saw the guards of the Song family taking action, they were about to rush forward to help, but they were stopped by the other guards.
"Don't push your luck. Our villagers aren't people you can bully as you please," the village chief said angrily.
The head guard was eager to get the medicinal ingredient. When he saw the village chief and others blocking him, he became furious and was about to explode. The doctor who had been silent all along shook his head at him.
"Don't cause trouble. Have you forgotten what the master instructed?" The doctor who spoke was the same one who had spoken in the woods earlier. He was the physician of the Iron Manor and held some status there. The head guard didn't dare to act recklessly in front of him.
"We only want the 'Golden Serpent Scales,' and we have no interest in anything else. You can rest assured. If you are still worried, you are all welcome to come back to the Song residence with us. The medicinal ingredient is very important to us, and we cannot delay any longer. Otherwise, we would not be in such a hurry."
The sooner the poison in Tie Qingfeng's body is removed, the better, in order to prevent the toxins from further damaging his body.
After thinking for a moment, the village chief and the others decided to accompany Boss Zhou to the Song residence. However, since they were all carrying Ganoderma lucidum, the village chief decided to tell the truth out of caution.
"Let's leave the things at the Zhou family's place first, and then we'll go to the Song residence together. It'll take at most the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. What do you think?"
The head guard and the doctor both frowned subconsciously, but in the end they agreed to their request. These poor bastards were not worth looking at, and who would care about the little stuff they dug up from the mountains?
If Boss Zhou knew what they were thinking, he would definitely say, "You just covet the 'golden snake scales' I dug up, and you even want to force him to go to the Song residence. Bah, none of you are any good."
After putting the things away, the village chief and others accompanied Zhou Laoda to the Song residence. Master Song was not in the mood to say much, and only asked Zhou Laoda to take out the medicinal ingredients. After confirming that everything was correct, he immediately had his servants give Zhou Laoda two thousand taels of silver. After paying the fee, he gave Zhou Laoda the order to leave.
Zhou Laoda and the village chief didn't want to linger, so they carried a box of silver back to the next house in a daze.
"Those snake scales are so valuable? They sold for two thousand taels?" Zhao Guihua was so shocked her jaw almost dropped to the ground.
Everyone was shocked for a while, but the village chief was the first to calm down and express his opinion.
"This thing isn't necessarily worth that much money. Ordinary people don't need it. It's just that the Song family happens to need this herb as a medicinal ingredient, which makes it seem precious. Moreover, this herb is hard to find. When the boss found it, they gave him the silver without saying a word."
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