Chapter 3163: Innocent People
An assassin subconsciously retorted, "Our Jiangnan buns are much more delicious than yours. The skin is thin and the filling is thick. The ones you eat have thick skin and small fillings, which are inedible."
Zhou Man looked incredulous. "I haven't been to Jiangnan, but my brother has. How come I didn't know it was so good? The buns I'm eating now are made by my sister-in-law. They're the best. Which bun stall did you eat them from?"
The assassin said, "Mr. Chen! Go ask around in Yangzhou City. Besides steamed buns, his other breakfast dishes are also excellent."
"Besides steamed buns, what else is delicious in Yangzhou?"
When Mr. Fu woke up and finally opened his eyes to see the dim figure in front of him, they had already talked about Yangzhou's steamed buns and then the famous scenery of Yangzhou.
It was precisely because of the discussions that rushed into his ears that he was unable to sort out his current situation for a long time. It was not until he found that he was tied up and unable to move that he felt something was wrong.
He tried hard to turn his head and saw that his companions were also tied up. Their hands were not tied at their sides like his, but were tied behind their backs. Their legs were also tied. They were sitting and chatting happily with their target.
He tried to turn his head and look upwards, and saw that his companion was lying there, trying hard to sit up.
Perhaps seeing that he was trying too hard, one of the guards reached out and pulled him, allowing him to sit up successfully, look at their adults, and join in the conversation.
Mr. Fu was distracted, and when he came back to his senses, they were already talking about Xuzhou noodles. One of the assassins said with disdain, "Xuzhou noodles are too disgusting."
"Where did you eat? Didn't you eat anything good?"
The assassins were hungry at this time. They swallowed their saliva and said, "We ate at a roadside teahouse. Now that I think about it, it doesn't seem so bad."
Mr. Fu couldn't imagine what had happened during the time he was comatose. How could the two sides get along so well?
Seeing that they were still interested in continuing, his hair stood on end and he interrupted them in a hoarse voice, "Shut up."
The assassins all turned their heads to look, very surprised, "Mr. Fu, are you awake?"
"Master Zhou's medicine is really effective. You fainted before and your face turned blue. I thought you were going to die."
"As expected of an imperial physician."
"Yes, you are indeed the imperial physician."
Zhou Man bowed repeatedly and said with a smile, "Thank you very much, thank you very much."
Mr. Fu: ...
Could this drug actually lower one's intelligence? They were once assassin and target, and now they were captor and captive. Why were they able to get along so well?
The assassins also felt that they were getting along quite well, so one of them asked cautiously, "Sir, can we have a drink of water?"
Zhou Man tilted her head and thought. Everyone looked at her nervously. She glanced at Mr. Fu, who looked confused, and smiled slightly, "Okay."
She turned to a guard and said, "Go get a pot of water."
The guard glanced at them, turned around to pick up the teapot, and took four or five bowls in his hand. He handed them to the guards next to him, poured water into the bowls, and asked the guards to feed them water.
Two sips per person, drink one and pass it on to the other.
The assassin behind him saw that if he raised his head he would run out of water, so he was reluctant to look up and drank the water in gulps while biting the bowl.
But the guards were not the kind of people who would let them drink as they pleased. Seeing that they were going too far, they reached out and pushed their heads away, took the bowl and gave it to the next person to drink.
"We don't have much water, drink less." He complained to them, "It's your fault too. You didn't even know where to ambush. If you had found a place near a water source, there wouldn't be so much trouble now."
The assassins looked at Mr. Fu quietly. The location and strategy were set by Mr. Fu, and they just followed his orders.
Zhou Man also looked at Mr. Fu, supporting her chin and looking at him. The assassins were all drinking water or waiting for water. Now that no one paid attention to her, she stared at Mr. Fu.
Mr. Fu's back stiffened slightly. He felt that Zhou Man's gaze was very meaningful, which made him very uncomfortable.
Zhou Man smiled at him, beckoned the guards over, pointed at him and said, "He's been poisoned deeply and needs additional medicine. Take him to the other side for treatment and prepare some food and water for him."
Upon hearing this, the assassins looked at Mr. Fu with envy. Just as Mr. Fu was about to speak, the guards stepped forward, blocking everyone's view on the left and right. They quickly stuffed a piece of cloth into his mouth and carried him away.
Daji turned aside and asked them to carry the man down, then turned to Zhou Man and said, "My lady, it's late, you should rest."
Zhou Man nodded to the assassins and turned to rest.
Zheng Gu hurried to catch up, and only asked after they were far away, "Master, what should we do with these people?"
"What to do?"
"I mean, what should we do? Should we send him back to Qingzhou City, or take him to Shouguang County?"
"Of course, I'll send them back to Beihai County," Zhou Man said. "I live in Beihai County. They are assassins and want to kill me, so they naturally fall under the jurisdiction of Beihai County. I'll have them taken back and handed over to County Magistrate Bai for processing."
Daji was worried. "My dear, why don't we go back to Beihai County first and go to Shouguang County another day? What if there are ambushes ahead?"
Zhou Man: "You think too highly of them. Jiangnan is so far away from here, I was surprised that they could send so many people to kill me."
She didn't think there was an ambush ahead, but even if there was, she would just turn around and run away.
Zhou Man said to Keke in his heart: "Isn't that right, Keke?"
"If you need advance scanning and warning, please pay points."
Zhou Man: "When you scan for things that can be included, you can also scan for any suspicious people."
Koko said nothing.
Zhou Man said this, but he had already deducted points from Keke. He then said to Daji, "Let's send them back to Beihai County tomorrow. We will continue to Shouguang County. Oh, and escort Mr. Fu separately from them. Don't let them see each other or talk to each other."
Daji agreed.
Zhou Man got in the car to write a letter to Bai Shan, and Zheng Gu held the lamp for her. She was still a little dazed, "Master, who wants to kill you? Why? Is it just because the local medical bureau is opening?"
He found this horrible, and he couldn't understand why.
Zhou Man looked up at him between writing letters, shook his head and said, "If you can't figure it out, forget it. It's really hard for you to imagine that someone would kill me because of the Medical Department."
Zhou Man comforted him, "Don't worry, they didn't kill me because of the Medical Bureau, but because of County Magistrate Bai."
"Master Bai...?" Zheng Gu devoted all his energy to the medical department and had just arrived in Beihai County a few months ago, so he was still a little confused for a moment.
Zhou Man nodded and said, "Because of the salt fields and the salt administration, huh, our medical department is nothing compared to them, how can it be worth all the trouble?"
"Besides, the medical office is newly opened. Most of this pie is new, and a small part is old. Although we took some of the old pie, we also distributed a lot of the new pie. So even if there are people who oppose me, they won't kill me." Zhou Man said: "The salt field and the salt administration are different. County Magistrate Bai is trying to snatch food from the tiger's mouth, so I am affected."
(End of this chapter)
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