Chapter 723 Beauty's Intoxication
Li Dalang gestured to Wang Dadan, Gao Haiping, and Lao Qi, telling them to pack their things quickly.
Inside, Li Dalang and the others were quickly tidying up when a soft knock suddenly sounded at the door.
Wang Dadan stopped tying his bundle. He exchanged a glance with Gao Haiping across from him, and they both looked at Li Dalang first. Then, at Li Dalang's nod, Lao Qi, carrying a long knife, came to the door and asked in a low voice, "Who is it?"
Just then, Twenty-Nine's voice rang out from outside the door: "Brother Li, it's me, Twenty-Nine."
The seventh brother turned to look at Li Dalang, and seeing that Li Dalang nodded, the seventh brother then took the knife in one hand and went to open the door with the other.
Twenty-Nine, whose lower half of his face was still covered and only his eyes were visible, went inside as soon as the door opened. He stepped forward and first saw the knife in the hand of the seventh brother who opened the door. Then he glanced at the seventh brother and looked into the room. He laughed when he saw it: "Haha, how come you guys are so slow?"
Hurry up, we're all ready.
The seventh brother opened the door a little wider and looked outside. Sure enough, there were four people standing outside, one of whom was carrying the large white-clad, black-haired foreigner on his back.
"We've dealt with the people keeping watch. Hurry up, they change shifts every fifteen minutes."
We need to make the most of this time and get out of here quickly.
Yes, the paper scroll tied to the arrow that shot into Li Dalang's house at midnight clearly instructed Li Dalang and his companions to cooperate with the Bad Guys and take the two foreigners back to Chang'an.
Actually, when Li Dalang and Twenty-Nine were sitting face to face drinking tea and analyzing who these two foreigners, one big and one small, were, Li Dalang already harbored suspicions about Twenty-Nine.
Following the advice of the doctor from the Du family army, Li Dalang directly guessed that the reason the two men were unconscious was because they had been poisoned.
This is the truth as told by Li Dalang, and it is indeed the truth.
However, Li Dalang still managed to deceive Twenty-Nine.
Let's talk about what the highest level of deception is.
It means not telling lies, only telling the truth.
Furthermore, they only tell part of the truth, or they rearrange the order of the truth to deliberately guide the listener to fill in the blanks in their minds.
This is the truly masterful deception; even if you eventually discover you've been fooled, you'll only think you were overthinking it and won't blame the liar.
What Li Dalang didn't tell Twenty-Nine was that when he was with the Li family, a major event that shocked the entire city had occurred in Chang'an.
It was during the Lantern Festival, and many envoys from tribes who had come to participate in the Longevity Festival the previous year had not yet left Chang'an. The city was bustling with activity.
It was also on that occasion that the emperor's little princess, Princess Taiping, went missing. The Imperial Guards rode their horses and blocked the road. At that time, in order to capture her, an entire brigade of archers was mobilized.
It caused quite a stir, and Li San Niang was even captured by Prince Xiang to help him.
(Plot summary of chapters 387-394)
Although they eventually found Princess Taiping, she was in a deep sleep. It was Wang Shuzheng of the Imperial Medical Bureau who nominated Dr. Liang, Li San Niang's master, to bring the young boy from Shaoyang, who was not going to the palace with Dr. Liang, to the palace to detoxify Princess Taiping.
It took Dr. Liang quite some time to wake Princess Taiping up. He then spent several months gradually removing the remaining toxins from her body, allowing her to slowly recover and return to a normal routine.
Li Dalang had a deep impression of this incident because it was he who led the palace official to the backyard next to the Li family to find the old doctor Liang.
He later asked Li Sanniang, so he knew for sure that Princess Taiping, who had been poisoned by the Western Regions' strange poison, "Beauty's Intoxication," had become Sleeping Beauty and remained in a deep sleep.
Are these symptoms exactly the same as those of the two foreigners, one big and one small?
If we want to cure this beauty's intoxication, wouldn't we still have to go back to Chang'an to find Physician Liang?
After all, the clues to the mastermind are now on these two people. Those who are unconscious are of no value; only those who are awake, can speak, and can answer questions are what the higher-ups want.
"Although the relationship between our Shi family army and the Bad People is relatively good, no matter how good it is, the Shi family army is still the Shi family army, and the Bad People are still the Bad People."
"Don't blame me for what happened 29; you might be hiding something from me too."
Yes, these were the thoughts that Li Dalang had when he and Twenty-Nine were drinking tea and he said that the two men in white were poisoned.
However, before Li Dalang could find an opportunity to inform his superiors of his analytical conclusions and current situation, he received the message arrow sent at midnight.
The scroll instructed Li Dalang to take advantage of the night, quickly wrap himself up with the dwarf, and work with the Bad Guys to escape from the Du family army's camp and return to Chang'an.
"We must never hand over Bai Mianpi to the Du family army!"
These are the original words on the scroll.
So after Li Dalang read the scroll, he immediately burned it, afraid of leaving any clues that would let the Du family army know, since they were still in the Du family army's camp at the moment.
Li Dalang and his fellow soldiers moved quickly, carrying only necessities. Wang Dadan now had a short man on his back as well.
The little dwarf was now wrapped in strips of cloth, his limbs were fixed, and he was tied to Wang Dadan.
Sure enough, after everyone left the thatched huts, they saw the fallen soldiers outside.
Seeing that Li Dalang glanced at the person on the ground for a moment longer, Twenty-Nine leaned closer to him and whispered, "He's not dead, he was just knocked unconscious."
Don't worry, we know what we're doing.
Following Twenty all the way, they managed to avoid the Du family army's shift changes and hidden sentries without any major incidents. After a quarter of an hour, the group left the camp under the cover of night.
Once they were far from Du Jiajun's residence, Twenty-Nine spoke at a normal volume: "Brother Li, everything is arranged. Once we get to the mudflats, we'll be on a sampan, and there will be a boat waiting for us."
Li Dalang nodded. He didn't ask any more questions. After all, they were still on the run, and it would be the same to ask any questions after they were safely settled.
They ran quickly to the mudflats, boarded a sampan, and rowed with great effort to the depths of the river, where they boarded a boat that could carry about fifty people.
There were already people waiting on the ship. After they got on the ship and settled the two sleeping beauties, Li Dalang and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After arranging for guards, Li Dalang finally had the mind to talk to Twenty-Nine.
The sky was still as dark as ink. The two men, who were sitting on the deck, took turns drinking the gourd of wine that was only twenty-nine cents long.
As the wine, fragrant with grapes and sweet, slid down his throat, Li Dalang felt he understood why drinking was sometimes necessary in certain situations.
Li Dalang and Twenty-Nine looked at each other, and then burst into laughter.
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