Chapter 728 Mysterious and Unpredictable
The nights in late April and early May were still a bit chilly, but fortunately, Li San Niang was picked up by a carriage, so sitting in the carriage, she at least didn't feel too cold.
Li San Niang's five senses were already very sharp, and now that she was sitting in the carriage with her eyes closed, her senses were even more acute.
She could sense that the carriage was heading away from the outskirts of the capital and onto the other side of the official road, especially as the night wind blew into the carriage midway, carrying a noticeable amount of moisture.
People with a keen sense of smell don't need to be very close to a river to be able to tell how far away a river is by the smell in the air.
At this moment, Li San Niang had a 3D map of the suburbs outside Chang'an in her mind. She knew that she had passed the Jue River and was heading towards the southeast corner of the outer three cities outside Chang'an.
The carriage traveled for another fifteen minutes before stopping.
"Third Sister, we've arrived."
Li San Niang got off the carriage with Qiu Xiang's help. By the moonlight, she looked around and found herself in a courtyard.
Looking back towards the courtyard gate, you can see that there is still a dirt road after you leave the gate.
Looking at it this way, Li Sanniang had a better idea of what was going on. If she wasn't mistaken, she figured she was probably in one of the villas or estates of various families in Chang'an, not far from the outer three cities.
"Mrs. Li, please."
The masked, black-clad thugs who came to meet Li Sanniang and Qiu Xiang stretched out their hands and led Li Sanniang into the courtyard.
As soon as they entered, the lampstand was lit.
Fortunately, Li San Niang was a doctor herself, so she was brave and never afraid of ghosts or gods. Even though she was a time traveler, she was still a conservative materialist.
Otherwise, the masked man in black's actions would have given her a huge fright.
The man in black moved the lampstand on the square table, and a door opened in the wall.
"Mrs. Li, please go ahead."
Qiu Xiang pulled Li San Niang's arm, making Li San Niang hide behind her.
Just as Qiu Xiang was about to enter the hidden door, Lao Shi stepped in first, saying, "I'll clear the way for Third Sister."
After entering the hidden door, there was a long corridor, pitch black, so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
Li San Niang felt that she was walking while holding Qiu Xiang's arm, and only stopped after turning left twice. After exiting the secret door, she found herself in a quiet and peaceful scene.
Li San Niang gently rubbed her eyelids with the back of her hand, and only looked towards the source of the light after her eyes had adjusted to the brightness.
"gentlemen!"
It was a fairly large main room, and sitting at the head of the table was still Mr. Unreliable, dressed in white.
After exchanging greetings, Li San Niang sat down, and Mr. Bu Ke said directly, "Without further ado, time is of the essence, so I'll speak directly to San Niangzi."
Li San Niang nodded nervously, looking at Mr. Bu Ke, whose angular face, illuminated by the candlelight, had softened to some extent.
"...Therefore, we suspect that these foreigners may have some connection with the Temple Gate. It's hard to say whether they had the Temple Gate in mind to deal with the Tang Dynasty, or whether they deliberately wanted us to deal with the Temple Gate."
I know that the "Beauty's Intoxication" that Princess Taiping suffered from last year was cured by your doctor, Dr. Liang.
But, after all, you are one of us, the Bad Guys.
I was thinking, even if you can't cure this poison, you should at least have a way to wake these two up, right?
The more Mr. Bu Ke spoke, the more Li San Niang frowned. She never expected that the temple door, which she had forgotten about in some corner, would suddenly pop up and start jumping around.
(The Temple Gate appears in Chapter 190)
"Third Sister, how is it?"
"To be honest, sir, although I did not participate in the matter of my master taking my junior brother to the palace to detoxify Princess Taiping, I did ask my master about the antidote afterwards."
Upon hearing this, Mr. Ke's eyes lit up with surprise.
"Quickly, take Third Sister to see her."
Thus, Li San Niang and Qiu Xiang, carrying a medical kit, followed the hunchbacked servant as he pushed Mr. Bu Ke's wheelchair toward the side hall.
Upon entering the side hall, the first thing Li San Niang saw was two foreigners, one large and one small, dressed in white with black hair, who had been placed on a bed, each occupying one side of the bed.
Twenty-nine, twenty-one, and twenty-two remained masked and stood to the side. They showed no curiosity about Li San Niang's arrival, staring at the ground in a daze, seemingly lost in thought.
The clever Twenty-Nine, however, looked at Li San Niang with great interest. Li San Niang naturally felt Twenty-Nine's gaze, but she could tell that the gaze was not malicious, but simply out of curiosity.
But the gaze was so intense that Li San Niang couldn't ignore it, so she nodded slightly towards Twenty-Nine.
"These are the two people?"
Mr. Bu Ke nodded. He glanced at Twenty-Nine, who promptly stepped forward and bowed to Li San Niang before speaking: "We found the little one in the secret door of the cabin seventeen days ago, and the big one was found on the same day."
When we found them, they were already unconscious. We called a doctor to examine them, but the doctor only said there were no external injuries, they were just unconscious.
On the way back, they were only fed rice gruel to keep them alive.
Li San Niang nodded in agreement with Twenty-Nine's words and then asked how she came to be so obviously thin and weak.
She turned to look at Mr. Ke, who naturally said, "Third Sister, you can do as you please."
With permission, Li Sanniang took out her pulse pillow and first took the pulse of the sleeping beauty. After carefully examining the pulse, under the curious gaze of the twenty-ninth man, Li Sanniang reached out and untied the sleeping beauty's sash.
With her X-ray vision activated, Li San Niang carefully examined Sleeping Beauty from head to toe.
Then she took out a gold needle from the gold needle pouch at her waist, pricked Sleeping Beauty's index finger, drew two drops of blood, and examined its color and smell.
The same procedure was performed on Sleeping Beauty, and by the time the entire examination was completed, it was past midnight.
"how?"
Third Sister took the cloth handed to her by Qiu Xiang, first wiping the gold needles that had been used to prick people, and then burning them on the lampstand with the flame to disinfect them.
After putting the gold needles back into the gold needle pouch, Li San Niang then looked at Mr. Ke, who was looking at her with hopeful eyes.
After exchanging a glance with Li San Niang, Mr. Bu Ke realized that Li San Niang was unsure whether she should say it in front of Twenty-Nine.
Twenty-Nine noticed it too. Although he covered the lower half of his face, his two exposed eyes looked incredibly aggrieved. Li San Niang avoided Twenty-Nine's gaze.
"You can go down now."
"Yes, sir." With a hint of reluctance, Twenty-Nine hesitated and looked back several times as he left the side hall.
"Alright, Third Sister, just say it. There's no one else here."
After leaving the side hall and the main entrance of the main hall, Twenty-Nine went to another secret passage.
After exiting the secret passage, the room was lit, and Li Dalang was sitting at the round table with his eyes closed, resting.
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