Huo Lao Er remained as unassuming as a stone beside him, and said in a low voice, "Nobody saw it!"
Seeing that no one admitted to taking the money bag and curved knife, the short, stocky man sneered, "Old Huo, you keep inviting me to come to Broken Gold Town to make a fortune, but you're stuck in this cave every day, afraid to go out. What exactly do you mean by that? Do you want to use us to settle your personal scores?"
The people around immediately became restless, drawing their gleaming curved knives.
Huo Lao Er was not angry, but said in a deep voice: "The current Suijin Town is different from the one before. You saw it yourself. That day, it was just a small disturbance in the market, and the garrison immediately came to stop it."
"It's impossible to stir up trouble and loot during the chaos like we did five years ago; we have to find an opportunity..."
The short, stocky man interrupted him: "Don't give me any more questions about finding an opportunity. You said you'd pay us brothers to do something, so pay us first. As long as the money is there, you can wait as long as you want."
Who wants to hide in a cave eating mushrooms? We want to go back to the grasslands, raid a tribe, eat meat, and sleep with women.
If you keep making empty promises and drawing up grandiose ideas, I'm going to get serious.
Huo Lao Er was speechless for a moment: It's easy to invite a god but hard to send him away. These barbarians never change their ways. Now, only money can appease them.
He had infiltrated the town a while ago and found out that the money for buying land in Broken Gold Town was in a courtyard in the town. However, the town was heavily guarded, making it difficult to make a move.
The Song family, on the other hand, appeared relaxed on the outside but was actually very strict, with the three siblings always having someone by their side.
What troubled him the most was Song Liyun.
Despite being a girl with no martial arts skills, she reacted extremely quickly and was incredibly brave. No wonder the two people who tried to attack her the first two times failed.
If we want to catch her and get her to reveal the secrets of the Wan family, we have to take another risk.
They could simply send the Di barbarians in to infiltrate and disrupt Suijin Town, and then capture people themselves.
But these barbarian tribesmen wouldn't listen to him at all.
Moreover, people have died now, although it was just a group of refugees who were gathered along the way, which gave the Di people an opportunity to retaliate.
“Chibuluo, don’t be angry. This isn’t the first time we’ve dealt with each other. Harmony brings wealth.”
With a hoarse voice, an old man slowly walked out of the cave.
Song Liyun didn't recognize Huo Lao Er, but she did recognize this old man. When she saw him from afar, she was greatly surprised and murmured, "It's Hong Jingtian!"
Zhao Tingduo was lying prone beside her. When Song Liyun mentioned Hong Jingtian, she stopped and whispered, "Who is he?"
Worried about alerting the bandits, Song Liyun leaned close to Zhao Tingduo's ear and whispered, "The last time you came to Suijin Town, the men who disguised themselves and committed violence at my house were his subordinates."
"Hmm!"
She heard what was said clearly, and a warm breath rushed over her. Zhao Tingduo felt her ears instantly burning, so she quickly moved them a few inches away and stopped talking.
He didn't have the habit of chatting casually during a battle, and he had never spoken to a woman at such close range before.
Hong Jingtian had grown accustomed to a life of luxury, and the days of running and fleeing had taken a toll on him, pushing him to the brink of collapse.
He took out a silver note from his sleeve: "This is a bank draft for two hundred taels of silver from Tonghui Money Exchange. You can take it first."
Chibuluo refused, saying, "What use are these scraps of paper on the grassland? I want real gold and silver."
He was a Di person and could not possibly exchange silver notes for silver in the Wu Dynasty's capital.
If Hong Jingtian were to give him a silver note now, it would be nothing but a piece of waste paper.
Hong Jingtian was not annoyed. He cheerfully stepped forward and whispered to Chi Buluo, and then the two walked back to the cave.
As night fell, some people prepared to dig a pit near the cave to bury the body.
Only Huo Lao Er and five or six others remained outside; the rest of the people went back to the cave to rest.
Song Liyun knew her chance had come!
The sedative is most effective in these enclosed caves, but she needs to get close to them.
However, there were two people digging in the soil nearby, and three others guarding the entrance to the cave, making it impossible to get close.
Song Liyun tugged at Han Ming and Zhao Tingduo, and the three of them retreated several feet.
Before the two could speak, Zhao Tingduo said, "They are colluding with Di bandits, so be careful."
"Di barbarians?" Song Liyun exclaimed in surprise.
This was the first time she had ever seen the so-called Di people. She had heard Yunniang describe the Di people as ferocious before, and she had imagined that the Di people looked terrifying.
Actually, I only noticed something different about his speech; his facial features were slightly more defined than those of the Wu Dynasty people.
Han Ming said with a stern face: "These bandits collude with the bandits of the Wu Dynasty and roam between the two places. Once they escape, they will be difficult to capture."
Seeing that Song Liyun was still a little stunned, Zhao Tingduo explained, "These bandits are a pack of wolves that roam the grasslands. They usually carry some tea bricks and salt and stay at a tribe for a few days whenever they come across one. But if they are given the opportunity, the tribe they stay at will be harmed."
In other words, these people were also rejected by the grassland tribes.
Song Liyun nodded, indicating that she understood: "There are at least twenty of them. If it takes too long, things might change. We can't waste this opportunity."
Now that the Di people have gone into the cave to rest, there are few people left outside. Song Liyun is worried that if the main force of the garrison comes, there will definitely be a lot of people and this place will be alerted. If they just wait, they will miss the opportunity.
Han Ming asked, "What ideas do you have, young lady?" He knew that Song Liyun wouldn't pull someone away for no reason.
Song Liyun didn't waste any more time and said directly, "Most people are resting in the cave now. I have a kind of potion that can knock people unconscious if you spray some around."
Zhao Tingduo's eyebrows twitched, but she didn't say anything.
Han Ming had no curiosity whatsoever; he would use whatever the girl gave him. He reached out and said, "I'll go put the medicine in!"
"No, you don't know how to handle medicine bottles, I'll do it."
The potent sedative was administered via canned spray. The fact that such a time-traveling item ended up in someone else's hands is even harder to explain than a steel pipe.
Zhao Tingduo said calmly, "You don't know kung fu, so you can't go into the cave."
From the outside, all we know is that the villains are resting in the cave, but we have no idea what's going on inside. It would be too risky to let Song Liyun go in alone.
"Then what should we do?"
Song Liyun wasn't stubborn. Everyone says that three cobblers can outwit Zhuge Liang, so she was still willing to listen to other people's opinions.
Zhao Tingduo said, "I am not good at lightness techniques. I would like to trouble Uncle Han to distract the people at the door first, and then I will go in with Miss Song."
Then, as if remembering something, he asked, "How long does it take for your medicine to take effect, and how long does it last?"
Song Liyun said, "It takes effect in one breath. If there is no antidote, it will take at least an hour for him to wake up. The time depends on the amount inhaled."
Han Ming's eyes lit up as he listened.
Zhao Tingduo, however, did not understand. He only frequented military camps and pastures and was not skilled in matters of the martial world.
Han Ming said, "This medicine is really potent. If nothing goes wrong, everyone in the cave will definitely be captured."
There are also mind-altering drugs in the martial arts world.
It could be mixed into alcohol or food and taken orally, or blown into a room as a sleeping drug so that people could inhale it while they were asleep. Not only was it easy to be detected, but the effectiveness was also hard to be sure of.
Outside the cave, two people who were burying the body had already dug a shallow pit and were putting the body into it.
Let's get started immediately.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
