Chapter 34 Huo Lanci, Don't Lie to Me

When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Huo Lanci carried a bamboo basket and walked towards Beishan in the dark. He was very careful along the way, and would give up the rest of his journey if there was any sign of trouble.

He stopped in front of the dilapidated thatched house at the foot of the mountain, and after hesitating for a long time, he carefully knocked on the door. He tried to control his strength, fearing that using too much force would cause the wooden door to collapse.

With a creak, the wooden door opened.

A man who looked to be in his fifties appeared in front of Huo Lanci. He frowned slightly when he saw Huo Lanci: "I told you not to come, why didn't you listen?"

Huo Lanci thought about what would happen tomorrow night, and he said slowly: "I'm worried."

Cen Xuning looked outside, and Huo Lanci quickly said, "There's no one nearby."

Knowing that they were already living like frightened birds, how could Huo Lanci dare not be careful?

Cen Xuning had no choice but to let Huo Lanci enter the house.

There was a main hall and two rooms in the thatched house. When Huo Lanci entered, a man and a couple walked out of the two rooms respectively. They were all quite old.

The only woman here is named Dong Lianyi. She has a gentle and beautiful appearance. Even though she is over fifty years old, she is still very beautiful. The hardships and sorrows brought by life in the past six months have not been able to take away her temperament and appearance.

She sighed and said, "Ah Ci, we have told you many times not to come here. We don't want to implicate you."

There are already many people implicated by them, there is no need to drag a young person into this.

Huo Lanci put the bamboo basket on the table and said to the four people, "Don't worry about my safety. I will be careful before I come. If anyone finds me, I will not come to Beishan."

"This is the food I cooked. Come over here and have some."

At this moment, a violent cough was heard from the room. The gloomy uncle Lu Jingan, who had been silent all the time, turned around and walked towards the room.

Dong Lianyi and her husband Fu Henian followed closely behind.

Huo Lanci looked at Cen Xuning who opened the door for him and said, "Uncle Cen, is Elder Kang sick?"

Cen Xuning followed him in and said as he walked: "A few days ago, when he went to the river to fetch water, he was pushed into the river. The man also held his head and tried to drown him."

Thinking of this, Cen Xuning gritted his teeth and said, "If I hadn't arrived in time, Mr. Kang would probably be dead."

After hearing this, Huo Lanci's eyes flashed with anger. These five people were sent here secretly, and only a few people who handled this matter knew their whereabouts.

Now someone wants to take action against Mr. Kang, which proves that there is a traitor among the people involved.

He followed him in. The room was very simple, with adobe bricks stacked at both ends and a few wooden boards placed on top. This was their bed. It was very small, but it was enough for three people to sleep.

Lu Jingan said: "Mr. Kang has a high fever that won't go away. If we can't find medicine, there is a high probability that he will not be able to survive."

Mr. Kang is already over sixty years old and has many hidden injuries of varying sizes on his body. After this incident, even if he is rescued, his body will be very weak.

"I'll go find some antipyretic medicine." Huo Lanci said and walked out.

He returned home and pushed his bicycle to rush to the commune overnight. Before he rode away, Yu Wanqing opened the window and asked, "Huo Lanci, where are you going so late?"

Her voice was not loud, but it reached Huo Lanci's ears. His body froze and he slowly turned to look at the woman who was holding a flashlight and looking at him.

Yu Wanqing said, "Don't lie. I don't like people who tell lies."

After saying that, she took the flashlight and went to open the door.

Huo Lanci was already standing outside the door. Yu Wanqing pulled him into the house and closed the door. She just stared at him quietly.

"I want to go to the commune clinic to buy some medicine." Facing Yu Wanqing's serious eyes, Huo Lanci finally did not lie: "Wanqing, among the people living in Beishan, there is a grandfather who is my family's old friend and has always been very kind to me."

"He, he fell into the water a few days ago and has a high fever."

Yu Wanqing smiled when she heard this: "You didn't lie to me. I'm very happy."

"You wait."

After saying that, she turned and went into the room, closed the door, went into the office, took out some Chinese medicinal herbs and a fever-reducing pill, and came out.

She changed her clothes before appearing in front of Huo Lanci. She waved the cloth bag in her hand and said, "I brought a lot of herbs. Now take me to see your old friend. Maybe these herbs can be of use to me."

"Oh, and here are some fever-reducing pills."

Huo Lanci was simply in disbelief. He parked his bike back home, locked the door, and took Yu Wanqing with him toward Beishan.

At this moment, he was very glad that he had chosen to build the house near Beishan. Even if they really went to Beishan, they would not have to pass by the educated youth site.

The two of them were so cautious, just like little mice that dared not show up during the day and sneaked out quietly at night. Seeing them like this, Yu Wanqing laughed in her heart. She had already used her wood-related ability to check the surroundings and found nothing unusual.

No one in Beishan expected Huo Lanci to come back so soon, and bring a pretty young girl with him.

Dong Lianyi and the others frowned slightly, thinking that Huo Lanci was talking nonsense.

Before they could say anything, Huo Lanci spoke first: "Aunt Dong, this is my girlfriend Yu Wanqing. She has fever-reducing medicine. I'll bring her to see Elder Kang."

Hearing that the little girl had antipyretic medicine in her hand, several people looked at her with hope.

Yu Wanqing said, "Can I go see the old man first?"

"I know a little bit about medicine, and I want to see if Chinese medicine or Western medicine is better for him."

Lu Jing'an's voice came from the room: "Let her in."

Yu Wanqing looked at the simple house and thought that the people living here at that time must be extraordinary. She felt mixed emotions. She squatted on the ground and took the pulse of Mr. Kang who was already unconscious.

At this moment, she was glad that she did not slack off that year, at least she would not make a mistake in taking the pulse.

"It's infected." She said, "Take some medicine to reduce fever first. I'll go back and boil some Chinese medicine. I'll have the abbot bring it to you for you to drink later."

At such an old age, lung infection is no joke.

Without medicine, the old man wouldn’t last more than two days.

She mixed the antipyretic medicine into water and fed it to Mr. Kang. Only after doing all this did she leave with Huo Lanci.

On the way back, Huo Lanci held Yu Wanqing's hand and whispered, "Wanqing, thank you."

He was really grateful to her, and this incident also reminded him to keep medicine at home.

Yu Wanqing looked at him and said, "This Mr. Kang must have come back from the battlefield. The other four are all scholars, right?" When she examined Mr. Kang's pulse, she found that he had thick scars on his hands, which were the marks left by years of holding guns.

They all called him Mr. Kang, so he must be someone very important.

As for the other four, one could tell from their temperament that they were men of letters.

Huo Lanci nodded: "You are very sharp and meticulous." From the survey data and daily interactions, he knew that his target was very smart, but he didn't expect his observations to be so meticulous.

"Mr. Kang came back from the battlefield and is also a good brother of my grandfather." He slowly recounted the situation of several people.

Since Wan Qing already knows, there is no need to hide it from her.

He was willing to believe Wan Qing, believe in Yu Zhian's education, and believe in his own vision.

Yu Wanqing was a little surprised. Those four people were all talented people who had returned from studying abroad. Two doctors and two graduate students were all secretly sent to this remote mountain village in the south. What was the purpose of this?

She looked at the man beside her again. Is he just an educated youth?