Then everyone saw Jian Yang walk to her chestnut pony and take down a satchel.
She patted her satchel, confidently saying, "There's some poison powder I made in here; it could take down a hundred tigers!"
In fact, Jian Yang didn't have much confidence when she said that.
It's true that her poison powder can incapacitate tigers, but there's only a small packet, enough to incapacitate two or three at most.
If the bandits outnumbered her, she would be completely helpless.
At this moment, she could only silently pray that the bandits Uncle Ge had mentioned did not exist, and that what had been howling in the mountains was just a wolf.
However, no sooner had this thought crossed his mind than a rustling sound suddenly arose from the surrounding mountains and forests, followed by a deafening battle cry that suddenly came from the forest.
"Grab your weapons!" Uncle Ge pulled Jian Yang and Ge Dong behind him, his eyes fixed warily on the forest. "The bandits are here!"
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately ran to fetch their weapons for self-defense. The horses seemed to sense the danger as well, kicking the ground restlessly with their hooves.
In the blink of an eye, a horde of robbers rushed down from the mountains and forests. Jian Yang glanced at their numbers and her heart sank to the bottom.
The enemy outnumbered them by at least three times, and each of them was fat and strong, their iron knives gleaming ominously in the darkness.
Soon, the large number of bandits completely surrounded Jian Yang and the caravan.
Ge Long sighed and said, "Dr. Jian, I'm sorry to have troubled you this time."
Jian Yang looked at the menacing robbers around her and gripped her satchel tightly, saying, "Uncle Ge, what are you saying? I haven't even had a chance to thank you for protecting and accompanying me all this way."
"Shut up!" The leader of the robbers looked at the caravan's overflowing goods, his eyes gleaming with greed. "You can talk about it when you're dead in the underworld. Don't get in my way while I'm robbing you!"
Just as he was about to order his men to kill and plunder, his henchman suddenly spoke up: "Boss, that old man just called that kid behind him a doctor. Our stronghold is short of a doctor to treat our brothers' injuries. Why don't we keep him here?"
After a moment's thought, the bandit leader ordered, "Alright, kill everyone except that doctor!"
Upon hearing this, the caravan members immediately gripped their swords tightly.
They were determined that even if they died, they would take a few bandits down with them.
"Wait a minute!" Jian Yang suddenly called out, "Brother, how about we do business together?"
The robbers were taken aback, then suddenly burst into laughter.
"We've been robbing people for so many years, and this is the first time we've encountered someone who wants to do business with us. How novel!" the bandit leader laughed. "So, what kind of business do you want to do with us?"
Jian Yang slowly walked up to Ge Long, and just as he was about to pull her away, she gestured to him to calm down.
“I can make the elixir of immortality,” Jian Yang said, standing still and protecting the caravan behind him. “If you are willing to let them go, I can make the elixir and give it to you.”
The robbers were stunned again.
Then a louder laugh erupted.
After laughing, the bandit leader sneered, "You little punk, are you trying to fool us? If there really were an elixir of immortality, the emperor would have taken it long ago. Why would it be our turn?"
Jian Yang calmly said, "How do you know the emperor didn't take it? To be honest, last year I went to the capital and personally presented the medicine to the emperor. Apart from the emperor, all the high-ranking officials in the capital have taken my elixir of immortality."
The robbers were certainly not stupid enough to be fooled by her words.
Then Jian Yang continued, "I can prove that what I said is true!"
The bandit leader became interested and asked, "How can you prove it?"
Jian Yang laughed and said, "Actually, I am over three hundred years old. In order to prevent others from noticing my abnormality, I change my face and my residence every ten years. You can see for yourself."
As she spoke, she raised her hand to touch her cheek, found the edge of the human skin mask on her chin, and then, in front of everyone, slowly peeled off the mask.
The scene was so horrifying that even the ruthless robbers stared wide-eyed.
In fact, the so-called human skin mask is not real human skin, but a mask made by Jian Yang by boiling pig skin into a gel, adding medicinal materials, and then cooling and processing it.
Because it fits the skin so perfectly, and because people of this era have never seen anything like it, no one has ever questioned whether her face is fake.
At most, people thought that Dr. Jian seemed a bit expressionless and made some strange expressions, but no one bothered to investigate the real reason behind it.
At this moment, she took off her mask in front of everyone, which caused quite a shock. After seeing her original face, the robbers went from being frightened to being stunned.
Jian Yang was already extremely beautiful. In the capital city, where beauties were everywhere, her alluring yet elegant appearance was second to none.
These bandits, who had never seen much of the world, were all astonished when they saw Jian Yang's true face.
The previously arrogant bandit leader blinked and opened his mouth, unable to utter a word for a long time.
Jian Yang sighed and said, "But out of a doctor's conscience, I still have to tell you all that this elixir of immortality has side effects."
"What are the side effects?" the bandit leader asked hastily.
Jian Yang knew he was probably convinced by now, so she continued to exaggerate and make up a story: "The side effect is that I will grow younger and more handsome as I grow up. As a grown man, having this face is really affecting my mood. For hundreds of years, I have been too ashamed to show my face to anyone."
The caravan members behind her were itching with curiosity, their curiosity burning as they looked at the face beneath Jian Yang's mask.
What kind of face could make these vicious robbers change their attitude so quickly?
And does the elixir of immortality really exist?
Everyone had many questions in their minds, but with bandits in front of them, none of them dared to step forward and find out.
The bandit leader cleared his throat and said loudly, "Since that's the case, do you have any medicine on you?"
Jian Yang nodded: "There's only one, brother, would you like to test it?"
The bandit leader nodded and said, "Give it to me!"
Jian Yang smiled and walked towards the bandit leader, meeting everyone's gazes, then reached into his satchel and rummaged around.
When she took her hand out again, it was filled with a handful of brown powder. Before the bandits could react, she sprinkled the powder directly onto their faces.
"You..." The bandit leader only managed to utter one word before he and his men, who had inhaled the powder, collapsed to the ground.
The robbers were terrified, realizing they had been tricked by the woman in front of them, and they all raised their knives to slash at her.
Jian Yang reacted quickly and threw out two more handfuls of poison powder, knocking out several more people.
With just three handfuls of poison powder, they effortlessly poisoned more than a dozen people, and the rest of the robbers, no matter how brave and ruthless, dared not charge forward.
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