Chapter 170 Did it actually start from the Xu family?
The night was already darker than ink, and it was the dead of night. Obviously, no one would notice what was happening in this small world.
Sang Zhixia was confused at first, and then her eyes began to turn red uncontrollably.
"you……"
"Shhh."
Xu Yu reached out and gently covered her mouth with his hand, saying softly, "I brought someone back with me. She used to come to the Xu family frequently, but it's inconvenient for more people to know."
"Hush, let's get Grandfather out."
The old man was already feeling too uncomfortable to sleep, but he forced himself to close his eyes and pretend to sleep just to comfort Sang Zhixia. When he heard they were silent, he couldn't hold back any longer and coughed softly, saying in a hoarse voice, "Girl, you stay here. Yan'er can take me out."
Sang Zhixia sniffed, feeling uneasy: "Grandfather, your health is still..."
"I can hold on."
Xu Yu walked over, took off the cloak from his shoulders, wrapped it around the old man, and then he carried him on his back and stood up and said, "Zhizhi, listen to grandpa, we will be back soon."
He even reached out and rubbed Sang Zhixia's head: "Be good."
Sang Zhixia looked at him hesitantly, and finally said nothing.
Xu Yu's skills are many times better than hers. Since it has been arranged, it must be thorough.
If she insisted on following them now, it would only cause trouble, so it would be better for her to wait here peacefully.
As for the strange thing that she was interrupted by the old man and couldn't investigate further, she would talk about it after Xu Yu came back.
In order to avoid being discovered, after Xu Yu took the old man away, Sang Zhixia simply locked the door in the room and sat by the bed with her arms folded, waiting.
Xu Yu had indeed made all the arrangements.
Three miles away there is an abandoned post station. It is sparsely populated during the day and even more deserted at night.
Xu Minghui was waiting there with the stolen imperial physician.
The old doctor’s surname is Hu and he is over 70 years old.
The old doctor with white hair and beard never thought that after living an ordinary life, one day he would have the miraculous experience of being carried on someone's shoulders and stolen!
Doctor Hu was first carried all the way, and then was shaken violently on the horse's back. When his feet landed on the ground, he was breathing more than he was breathing out. He mistakenly thought that he had been kidnapped by bandits, and even thought about how he could commit suicide in a decent way.
But who would have thought that when the black cloth covering his head was lifted, it turned out that the people who kidnapped him were actually two boys from the Xu family!
Doctor Hu was so angry when he saw the water bag that Xu Minghui handed over with both hands. He stiffened his neck and his beard was shaking wildly with anger.
"Confused!"
"You are absolutely confused!"
"What kind of place is the Northwest Camp? Can you trespass there? Do you know how much trouble you two will get into if something goes wrong or you get discovered?!"
Doctor Hu picked at Xu Minghui's nose with a shaking hand, angrily saying, "Since we've already reached the territory of the Northwest Camp, you could have figured out it was me with just a little inquiries. Couldn't you have used your brains and tried to send me a message? I knew you were coming. Would I have hidden away or would I have exposed you?"
"A few years ago, the Crown Prince was a reckless person, and I praised you for your maturity and steadiness. But now it seems you've followed the Crown Prince's lead and become bad! You won't even use your brain anymore!"
"You just do whatever you want!"
Doctor Hu was a military doctor when he was young, and he was also the military doctor serving the old man.
Although he was frail, he had followed the old man on the frontier for many years and was saved by the old man. Naturally, he would not act like others who flattered the powerful and looked down on the weak when the Xu family fell.
To be precise, he asked to leave the Imperial Hospital in the palace and come here, because he wanted to come to the northwest to find out what the Xu family was doing.
Facing an old man who was about the same age as his grandfather and Doctor Hu, who had a close relationship with the Xu family and had watched him grow up, Xu Minghui could only bow his head and admit defeat when he was poked in the nose with a finger.
Xu Minghui was actually very frustrated.
He wanted to use his brain and thought of other ways, but Xu Yu said it was not necessary.
They couldn't stop him, and couldn't persuade him, so they could only watch Xu Yu act recklessly.
Xu Yu was a man of quick decisions and brave but reckless nature. He sneaked into the northwest camp alone, took aim at the tent where the imperial physician was, and without even bothering to see his face, he raised his hand and slashed at the back of the physician's neck.
In less than half an hour, Xu Yu had carried the person out.
He didn't even have time to drink water along the way. After taking off the black cloth covering his head and seeing clearly who the kidnapped person was, Xu Yu turned around and ran away quickly. He could only watch helplessly as he was scolded.
Doctor Hu's mouth was dry from scolding for so long. He opened his water bag and took a big gulp of water. He cleared his throat and said, "You are acting so recklessly, but what happened to someone in your family? Who is ill? Is it seriously ill?"
"What's going on?"
Xu Minghui touched his nose and was about to explain, but Xu Yu, who had returned, had already arrived at the destination carrying the old man on his back.
When Doctor Hu entered the room, he saw the man under the cloak who was so thin that his face had been ripped off. He was so shocked that he dropped the water bag in his hand and said, "Old Marquis?"
"Old Marquis, what's wrong with you?!"
"Please keep quiet."
Xu Yu walked over quickly and put the old man who was coughing non-stop onto the wooden bed that had been abandoned for many years in the post station.
Xu Minghui was a thoughtful person, and being scolded did not slow him down. A layer of dry straw and his clean cloak and coat were already spread on the dusty wooden bed.
The old man had just leaned back on the bed and had no time to say a word when he coughed up a mouthful of blood uncontrollably.
Doctor Hu looked at the dark blood on his palm and his eyebrows twitched with shock.
"Old Marquis, please stretch out your hand and let me see it for you!"
Xu Yu held the old man's trembling hand and walked forward. Doctor Hu took his pulse and his expression became increasingly solemn.
"Switch hands."
After taking the pulse of both hands, Doctor Hu said without looking up, "Give me the medicine box."
Before Xu Yu had an affair, he did his homework. In addition to the imperial physician who could treat illnesses, he also thoughtfully took away the medicine box that Imperial Physician Hu always carried with him.
Doctor Hu pulled out a handful of silver needles and carefully inserted them into several of the old man's acupuncture points, with fine cold sweat oozing out of his forehead.
He pulled out the needle in perfect time, and in the rising candlelight he could see the faintly blackened tip. His tongue nearly got tangled and he swallowed it back into his stomach. He opened his mouth several times before he could articulate what he wanted to say: "This is a sign of poisoning!"
"poison?"
Xu Minghui said in disbelief: "How could it be poisoning?!"
The Xu family was now a small family, and all their food and drink expenses were handled by their own family. Furthermore, no one knew the Xu family had settled in Luobei Village, and the villagers were harmonious. Who could have reached out to the old man? And who could have quietly bypassed the rest of the Xu family and poisoned the old man alone?
Xu Minghui's heart nearly jumped out of his throat and he didn't care if he was causing trouble. He rolled up his sleeves and said, "Doctor Hu, please take a look at me. Is this poison only in my grandfather, or is it in all of us?"
Even if he didn't say it, Doctor Hu would have planned to do the same.
But after carefully checking the pulses of Xu Minghui and Xu Yu, Doctor Hu frowned and shook his head.
"You are all right."
It doesn't matter to others, it's just targeting the old man.
Xu Minghui's mind quickly flashed with the possibility that someone might have come into contact with the old man's food, and his heart suddenly felt cold.
This disaster...
Did it actually start from the Xu family?
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