Ye Chen had been on the city wall. Seeing Chen Qiu's carefree look, he knew that the smoke over there was caused by her. As soon as Chen Qiu reached the city gate, she smiled at Ye Chen with an expression of praise on her face. Ye Chen naturally knew why she had such an expression. Ye Chen reached out and hugged Chen Qiu in his arms, "Qiu'er is so amazing, Qiu'er, can your husband give you a reward?"
"Well, of course I want a reward." Chen Qiu patted Ye Chen's back. She could feel Ye Chen's body trembling. She knew that Ye Chen was afraid, so she patted Ye Chen's back again and again.
Ye Chen let go of Shen Qiu and kissed him on the forehead. Shen Qiu blushed immediately. After all, there were so many people on and off the city wall. "Husband, can you give me this kind of reward... when I get back?" Shen Qiu buried her head in Ye Chen's chest. Ye Chen chuckled and said, "Okay."
"Cough cough!" Xiao Mu clenched his right fist and placed it on his mouth and coughed twice.
"Senior Xiao, the people below are from the martial arts world. Most of them have stayed here, but they have been poisoned and need to be detoxified before they can leave. Otherwise, letting them leave like this will push them to Luo Qi's side again." Ye Chen has always been thick-skinned. When he heard Xiao Mu's voice, he immediately changed the subject.
"Leave this matter to me!" Jingxin went up to the city wall.
"How is Lu Chenyuan?" Jingxin was called by Ye Chen. He thought she would be delayed for a while, after all, Lu Chenyuan was seriously injured, but he didn't expect her to come so soon.
"He's fine now. His leg bones have been set, and he's being cared for. He's resting."
"Are these the people below whom you want me to save?" Jingxin lowered her head and glanced at the group of people who were finding places to rest under the city wall.
"Yes, they were all fed poison and need an antidote."
Jingxin's martial arts skills weren't very good, but she had a good light skill. She jumped down from the city wall, grabbed someone's hand, and began to feel their pulse. Then her brows furrowed more and more, "Who poisoned you?"
"Luo Qi, the owner of Luo Family Manor!"
Jingxin returned to the tower and said, "They were poisoned by the poison from my Medicine Valley. I can cure it."
"Is it the poison from Medicine Valley again? Aren't all the people in your Medicine Valley doctors who save the world and save the people?" This was not the first time that Chen Qiu encountered someone who was poisoned by Medicine Valley.
"Medicine and poison are one and the same. Medicine is medicine when used in the right place, but poison when placed in the wrong place. Medicine is three-quarters toxic. Furthermore, human nature is fickle. Someone with first-rate medical skills can also be a good poison master. It just depends on the person who possesses these skills." Jingxin sighed. If she were still the eldest disciple of the Medicine Valley Master, she wouldn't have ignored the incident. But now that the Medicine Valley was gone and her Master was gone, did she still have to intervene?
"Then let's detoxify them first. Only after I deal with them can I go to Luojiazhuang and see who this Luojiazhuang is."
"I'll just write a prescription. Give it to them for three days and it will clear the poison from their bodies."
Finally, Ye Chen asked someone to set up a big pot outside the city to boil medicine for these people. They could not enter the city, at least not until he took over Luojiazhuang.
After the cauldron was set up, the person who was sent to track the whereabouts of the treasure came back and found the so-called Luojiazhuang.
Ye Chen brought a thousand silver-armored soldiers to meet Luo Qi. "I'll go with you. I need to know how he got the poison in the Medicine Valley." Jingxin finally decided to take care of this matter.
Led by that man, they set out in the afternoon and walked all night. It was not until the end of the Yin hour of the next morning that they saw the big house hidden in the dense forest. It was probably bigger than the imperial palace, but not as magnificent.
Along the way, Xiao Mu was the busiest. Because they made too much noise this time, Xiao Mu took the initiative and cleared out all the open and hidden stakes outside the village. Otherwise, the people inside would have run away long ago.
They stood on a high place and watched the busy crowd coming in and out below, and the teams patrolling back and forth.
"Did something happen to them? Why do they seem to be in such a hurry?"
"Well, their owner Luo Qi had his shoulder pierced by me, and there was also a cold beauty named Luo Shu who was seriously injured by me. I guess they are still receiving treatment for their injuries. But, it shouldn't be like this. It's been almost a whole night and they haven't been healed yet? I didn't coat the arrow with poison, did I?" Chen Qiu felt that perhaps something had happened that they didn't know about.
"Qiu'er, don't think too much. We are here to take them in anyway. Once we take them in, they will know everything." Ye Chen looked down. He didn't expect that there was such a big house in the depths of Langya Mountain, and no news had leaked out.
"Let's go and meet the four masters of music, chess, calligraphy and painting that Qiu'er mentioned."
"The Silver-Armored Army, surround them. Since they are traitors, just capture them and put them in jail for trial later." Ye Chen had no intention of meeting with those people and directly ordered the Silver-Armored Army to go to war. Even if a thousand Silver-Armored Army rode on war horses and broke into an army of tens of thousands of people, they would only be able to slaughter others, not to mention that mob now?
The Silver Armored Army rushed down from the mountainside as the sky began to brighten. The sound of galloping horses was like the roaring river, so loud and powerful.
In the blink of an eye, the Silver Armored Army arrived at the gate of the house below. After receiving the order, they basically started a massacre. After the cavalry stepped into the house, one side massacred the other.
The Silver-Armored Army didn't even dismount. Wherever they went, their cavalry would just bang on the doors. In just a quarter of an hour, the Silver-Armored Army occupied the entire yard.
Ye Chen and his companions followed the Silver-Armored Army into the yard. All the living people were brought to Ye Chen. With a "search" order from Ye Chen, the Silver-Armored Army began to collect all the valuables in the yard, looking like bandits breaking into a house to rob.
"Luo Qi?" Ye Chen looked at the man who was thrown to the ground and glared at him with hatred in his eyes, and called his name.
"I have never understood. Fu Xia rebelled in order to restore her country. After all, she was a princess of the previous dynasty. Luo Qi, you betrayed her but still wanted to rebel, and built such a big yard. What was your purpose?" Ye Chen couldn't understand. In his previous life, he only thought that Luo Qi was Fu Xia's military advisor. Now it seems that Luo Qi is the mastermind of the whole thing, but what is his position?
"Humph, Fu Xia? Her dynasty was snatched from our Luo family. We, the Luo family, have painstakingly cultivated it for nearly a hundred years. Otherwise, why do you think Great Xia had three emperors, two of whom were short-lived, and one was a lustful and incompetent ruler? It was all the work of our Luo family. They've only existed for a hundred years, but to think that in the end, someone surnamed Chu would seize this empire that should have belonged to our Luo family. You all deserve to die." Luo Qi was still breathless as he spoke, but his words were utterly unreasonable. What did he mean by "their empire"? They couldn't hold on to it, so why couldn't they allow someone more capable to take it?
These people are all crazy and paranoid. Their kingdom has been in decline for more than a hundred years, but they have never given up. However, Daxia has been around for a hundred years, and now even Dayin has been around for almost fifty years. They have sacrificed several generations of their lives. This kind of paranoia seems to be integrated into their bones and blood, passed down from generation to generation.
At that time, Ronghua Kingdom was at its peak, but it was destroyed by ministers who plotted to usurp the throne. Those loyal ministers wanted to restore order, but so many years have passed, they have struggled for more than a hundred years, and so many people have been involved. This restoration of order has long since changed in the torrent of time.
They built Luojiazhuang in the name of loyalty and righteousness, but how much suffering did the people suffer in the following years because of their so-called loyalty and righteousness?
"Ronghua has been destroyed for more than one hundred and fifty years, and your so-called loyalty has long since changed. If you are really loyal and righteous people, how could you ignore the people? Let them fall into war again and again and suffer from the pain of war?" Ye Chen really didn't expect that he would meet so many crazy people in his new life.
I was a madman in my previous life, and most of the people I met in this life were not normal either.
"Sir, we have found everything. It is twice as much as what was found in the cave before." The person who followed Ye Chen out this time was Lu Chenyuan's confidant, the deputy general of the Silver Armor Army named Feng Xi.
"General Feng, take them all with you and kill everyone here. After all, we don't know what kind of trouble they will cause after they get out. It's better to have less trouble than more." After Ye Chen gave the order, he stood up and was about to leave.
"Wait!" is the voice of Jingxin.
"Who gave the Ten Thousand Insects Pill to those people?" Jingxin's purpose of coming this time has not been achieved yet.
No one responded to her, but she didn't get angry. She walked straight to those people and gave each of them a Ten Thousand Insects Pill, which she fed to Qin, Qi, Shu, and Hua.
"Sister, I really don't know. I don't want to die yet. I'm only fifteen years old. I have never killed anyone. I really don't know anything!" It was the little girl named Luo Hua, her eyes big and shining with innocent tears.
Jing Xin didn't show any mercy, but asked again in a deep voice, "Who gave me the Myriad Insects Pill? I just need to clean up the mess, it has nothing to do with you. If you tell me, I will naturally give you the antidote."
"Hehe, we are going to die anyway. Do you think it is important for us to have an antidote or not?" Luo Qi was still lying on the ground on his side. He was shot by an arrow by Chen Qiu yesterday and his shoulder hurt a lot. He was thrown to the ground and simply didn't rush to get up. He just lay there.
"But I don't want to die. I haven't done anything bad. Why should I die with you?" Luo Hua cried and yelled.
"Sister, sister, I saw a man come here. He looked unfamiliar, but I remember what he looked like. Come here and I'll tell you what he looked like."
Jingxin didn't suspect anything and leaned over, "He looks like this..." Before she could finish her words, Jingxin grabbed the raised hand and pulled out a small golden snake from Luo Hua's sleeve.
"Do you think I leaned over to listen to you? I saw the little thing's head sticking out a long time ago. This trip is not in vain. It's really a good thing for me to raise such a good golden snake." Jingxin was obviously in a much better mood. She put the little snake into the small bamboo bag she carried with her.
"Then it was you who gave me the Ten Thousand Insects Pill, right? You haven't had any reaction since you took my Ten Thousand Insects Pill. It seems that you have reached a certain level in your poison skills." Jingxin praised sincerely.
Ye Chen had Qin, Qi, Shu, and Hua killed directly. He was not a Bodhisattva, nor was he a philanthropic person. He just didn't want to commit too many sins of killing in this life because he was a little greedy. This life with Qiu'er was not enough, what he wanted was life after life. He thought that doing more good deeds would make his wish come true. After all, he prayed to the Buddha for this life.
Afterwards, Ye Chen had someone dig a hole in the yard and bury them in it. At this point, the trip to Wuzhou was completely resolved.
Ye Chen didn't expect it to happen so soon. He thought there would be a big battle no matter what. Unexpectedly, Chen Qiu and Xiao Mu helped him a lot. It was best that the war didn't start. It didn't matter how it ended.
Ye Chen could never understand Fu Xia's move to restore the country, and he could not understand the actions of the Luo family. The Luo family does not refer to a family, but to those people who are loyal to the emperor and protect the country. It is an organization named after the country. They started out as loyal to the emperor and protect the country, but in the end they became the ones who provoked wars on this land again and again.
The Chinese New Year is approaching, and even if they rush, they will not be able to get back to Kyoto before the New Year. There are also three seriously injured people. So, they just prepare for the Chinese New Year together in Wuzhou County Yamen. During this time, Ye Chen took on the work of Wuzhou County Yamen.
The memorial has been sent to Kyoto. After the New Year, Lu Chenyuan's Silver Armored Army will escort them back to the capital. After all, there are still so many gold, silver and treasures.
When Ye Chen registered those treasures, he had someone omit a box of silver ingots, saying that they were reserved for these people to use during the New Year, which made these people very happy.
"How's the investigation going?" Ye Chen was in the study, talking with Zhu Da. He knew very little about Luojiazhuang. A family that had been entrenched for more than a hundred years could not have only these people.
If someone hadn't backed out, or if they'd hidden deeper, they wouldn't have emerged at all. For example, who was that person from the Medicine Valley who was poisoning everyone? The Myriad Insect Pill was a poison from the Medicine Valley. Luo Hua was so young; she hadn't studied medicine in the Medicine Valley. How did she acquire the Medicine Valley's poison treatment techniques? Who, exactly, taught her the art? Luo Family Manor leaves so many questions unanswered.
During this time, Ye Chen had people dig deep into the mansion, hoping to find something. They found nothing except a secret passage leading out of the woods. It was too clean! It was so clean it was abnormal.
The secret passage was under Luo Qi's bed. If he had wanted to escape, it wouldn't have been impossible, but he didn't. Why? There was only one reason: he was protecting someone from leaving, at least someone more important than himself or the four of them. Could that person be the one from the mysterious Medicine Valley?
"We can only be sure that there was only one person who left that day, and it was a woman." Zhu Da was a secret guard, and he was very confident in his tracking skills.
"A woman? Why a woman again?" Ye Chen seemed to have lived two lives and the opponents he met seemed to be all women except Yan Qinglian before?
"Yes, it's definitely a woman." Zhu Da didn't know why Ye Chen asked this question, so he answered again.
Ye Chen occupied Yin Peirong's study, which was filled with books and various paintings brought from Luojiazhuang. He wanted to look for something among these books and paintings that could help him better understand the Luojiazhuang organization.
He didn't want to waste too much time on others in this life, as he still wanted to take his Qiu'er on a tour. Therefore, he had to hurry.
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