Upon hearing Tang Nian's words, the man nodded in agreement without hesitation.
Tang Nian is now their only lifeline.
A big shot from the capital must have a way to save them!
"You must not tell anyone what I told you before."
The young soldiers were different from those roughnecks; they weren't so big-mouthed.
He agreed immediately.
Tang Nian was still worried, so she secretly set up a restriction on this group of people.
If someone were to control the information and leak it out, wouldn't that cause a huge uproar?
Upon arriving at the military tent, Tang Nian and Lou Mu immediately began to investigate separately.
Sure enough, the legs of the entire squad of soldiers had turned into wood.
There are also signs of wood decay in other places.
And all of these were stitched up by Mr. Yang.
The two quickly found other wounded people for Yang to stitch up.
These were soldiers who, like the group of young men, should have been beyond saving, but had voluntarily asked Old Yang to stitch them up.
Most of the soldiers whose wounds were stitched up by Old Yang had developed some degree of petrification.
Faint wood grain patterns covered the area around the wound; it was just one trigger away from turning into wood.
Without exception, two types of lines appeared on their wounds.
This made Tang Nian even more curious.
Could it be that something is really wrong with Old Yang?
Suddenly, an idea came to Tang Nian's mind.
With a slight twitch of her fingers, she cut the stitches that had been sewn onto a soldier's leg when he wasn't looking.
Then he leaned forward to examine it, feigning surprise, and said, "The stitches on your wound have snapped."
Upon hearing this, the soldier looked down and found that it was indeed so.
Seeing this, Tang Nian sighed.
“Wounds don’t heal easily. If they’re not stitched up, it’s hard to know how long it will take to heal. I just happened to see that Old Yang seemed to be free when I came over. Why don’t we ask him to come and stitch up your wound?”
The soldier hesitated, "Wouldn't this... be too much trouble for Elder Yang?"
Tang Nian chuckled lightly: "Old Yang stayed here precisely for the sake of you wounded, so why would he be afraid of trouble?"
At Tang Nian's suggestion, the soldier nodded in agreement.
Old Yang arrived quickly.
When Old Yang arrived at the scene and saw that Tang Nian and Lou Mu were both there, his brow furrowed almost imperceptibly.
He stepped forward, nodded to Tang Nian first, and then asked about the soldier's injuries.
After the soldier finished speaking, Old Yang sat down without saying a word and began to stitch up the soldier's wound.
Old Yang suspected that Tang Nian was testing him, so he became even more cautious in his every move.
Tang Nian watched the other person stitch up their wound the whole time.
But Old Yang simply stitched up the wound normally and did nothing unusual.
This was also within Tang Nian's expectations.
If it were that easy for her to discover something, then Tang Nian would be worried.
The two could only alleviate the symptoms of the petrification, but they could not completely eliminate it.
Just as Lou Mu said before, in order to completely eliminate the evil magic, it is necessary to find the magic artifact and use the blood of the Chu family's descendants.
After calming the group of young soldiers down, the two returned to the inn.
What do you want to do?
"sleep."
Tang Nian yawned. She hadn't had a good night's sleep these past two days because she was so worried.
"You rest here, I'm going out for a bit." Lou Mu took a sip of tea, patted his clothes, and stood up.
"etc."
Tang Nian took the token from her waist and tossed it to Lou Mu.
"This is a token given to me by Chu Roujia. Use this token if you encounter someone who is uncooperative. Don't use your Prime Minister's token."
"You've already taken it out?"
Lou Mu carefully put away his token and hung it on his waist.
"Otherwise what?" Tang Nian rolled over on the bed and said irritably, "Do you think those generals would let me wander around the military camp like this?"
"Alright, alright, don't be angry. It's true that not just anyone can enter a military camp. It's just that once this is over, these people will need their water changed."
Lou Mu smiled and shook his head helplessly.
Tang Nian snorted softly, wrapped herself in the blanket, and only showed Lou Mu the back of her head.
Lou Mu chuckled and left the inn without saying anything more.
The next day, feeling refreshed, Tang Nian dragged Lou Mu along, wanting to go to the city again to investigate Old Yang.
Lou Mu stood by the window: "Let's not do it today. Lin Zhenming said he wants to discuss some things with me. I'll go to his place later."
"You told him your identity?"
“How could that be?” Lou Mu turned to look at Tang Nian. “It’s just that they prefer to believe that this token is mine, not yours.”
Tang Nian pouted.
These chauvinistic brutes were exactly as she had imagined.
"Don't be angry. Chu Yanjun is already recruiting female officials. Great Chu will get better and better."
Hopefully.
Tang Nian was a little downcast and turned to leave the room.
What frustrated her even more was that she couldn't find any information about Mr. Yang.
Tang Nian began to doubt herself.
Could it be that I really guessed wrong?
However, my intuition has always been accurate, and now many clues point to Old Yang. It is absolutely impossible that this matter has nothing to do with Old Yang.
But I can't find anything out.
She changed her approach and went to find a carpenter in the city.
She searched for every carpenter with a name, but none of them used mahogany.
No one would make those puppets.
Tang Nian refused to believe it and went to see Old Yang for three more days, but she still found nothing after three days.
On the fourth day, Tang Nian finally stopped going out.
She's already pushing me too hard; if this continues, the investigation will become even more difficult.
She needs to slow down, and she also needs to let Old Yang slow down.
If you make him feel like he's given up, then his true colors might be revealed.
Just then, Lou Mu knocked on the door and came in.
Lou Mu entered and saw Tang Nian looking utterly dejected. He couldn't help but chuckle, "What's wrong? Did you suffer another setback with Old Yang?"
Tang Nian sighed and glared at Lou Mu: "You've already figured it out, why are you still saying this? Are you trying to make fun of me?"
"How could that be?" Lou Mu shook his head with a smile and sat down opposite Tang Nian.
“I’ve always felt that something was off about Old Yang, but he’s not stupid, so why wouldn’t he hide himself better?”
“I know, but those soldiers…”
She began to doubt herself, wondering if she might have made a mistake.
However, Ming Huan's actions and the soldiers' death were all related to Old Yang.
"I have already sent people to investigate Old Yang's background, and we should have results soon."
“Even if members of the royal family like them want to live in anonymity, they will find a surname that is related to them.”
"But the Empress Dowager's surname is not Yang. What I'm looking for now is whether there was someone with the surname Yang who was very important to her back then."
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