Chapter 34 [Little Brother]
When Jiang Lili heard Yuan's words, her eyes rolled and she suddenly thought of a way to scare Yuan and dispel her curiosity about the backpack.
Jiang Lili sighed and said, "My husband and I haven't had any children since we got married, but when I carry this backpack, I feel like a child is lying on my shoulders, and I feel at ease."
As she spoke, she took off the backpack and shook it in her arms.
Jiang Lili's abstract behavior frightened Yuanshi so much that her face turned pale.
Yuan Shi stared at Jiang Lili's shoulder for a long while. She replied to Jiang Lili in shock, "Is that so? Then I wish you a son soon."
Jiang Lili breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Yuanshi didn't dare to look at her.
The Xin family guessed that Jiang Lili's backpack contained important items sent by her grandfather, so she never left it. But when they heard Jiang Lili's excuse, they could hardly hold back.
Chen grumbled, "Sister-in-law, what you said is really scary."
Only Xin Che noticed Jiang Lili's unusual reaction after she returned to the main hall. He looked under the table and saw that Jiang Lili's hands were shaking.
He held Jiang Lili's left hand under the table. Jiang Lili's hand was very cold, and there was a layer of cold sweat on her palm.
Jiang Lili was still thinking about Guan Yuedi's news. This village might be a dangerous place. Could she possibly get through tonight safely?
Suddenly, her hand was held by a big warm hand.
Jiang Lili noticed that Xin Che wrote the words "What's wrong" on the palm of her hand.
She forced herself to smile, covered her face, and whispered to Xin Che, "There was a case in Langyan Village where a stranger stayed here and disappeared."
Xin Che remained calm upon hearing this, and tightened Jiang Lili's hand soothingly: "Don't be afraid."
"I didn't really eat the food on the table. I will protect you."
Xin Che grew up in the mountains and received various trainings with his master, including learning from outstanding spies how to avoid food and alcohol.
Jiang Lili was no longer panicked. She had forgotten that the person next to her had experienced all kinds of monsters and demons.
The two of them were talking in low voices, and the atmosphere seemed quite harmonious, but Yuanshi didn't care.
At the dinner table, Yuan Shi chatted with Jiang Lili and the others about Linzhou. She also warned them, "Be sure to prepare well when you arrive in Linzhou. There are many poisonous insects in the Qinglin Mountains."
Yuan asked the maid beside her to distribute sachets to Jiang Lili and her group.
"These sachets are for repelling mosquitoes and insects. If you don't mind, please accept them."
Xin Che gave his brother a wink, and Xin Cheng took the sachet and carefully examined it. He found that it contained some anthelmintic herbs that are also used at the border, and there was nothing unusual.
Everyone then wore the sachets with confidence.
Seeing that everyone had almost finished eating, Yuan stood up to arrange for the guests: "Then I will arrange a room for you."
Yuanshi assigned rooms to everyone. Jiang Lili and Xin Che lived in one room, Xincheng Chenshi and her little boy Xin Yan lived in another room, and Zhaoping Hou and his wife lived in another room.
Yuanshi's face still had a warm smile: "It's getting late, everyone should go to bed early. Hot water has been prepared for everyone in the room."
Chen spoke up to thank everyone, "Thank you for your hard work today, Madam Yuan."
"It's okay. Talking to you about things in the north has broadened my horizons."
Yuan waved her hand and left with the maid beside her.
When Yuan returned to her room, her kind face had become fierce.
The kind-hearted woman beside her sneered, "They are very cautious. They didn't even drink the perilla water in the ancestral hall before."
Yuan rubbed her aching head and drank a sip of tea. "Hmph, once we enter this Wolf Smoke Village, there's no reason to escape."
In order to get these people to join the game, she even ate the food laced with knockout drugs herself, and now she quickly took the antidote with tea.
The prepared sachets are just a decoy. Sachets are normal. The anti-insect sachets are meant to make them more confident that they have no bad intentions.
If Jiang Lili and others don't listen to her and don't eat at her house, then she can only use more brutal means.
Fortunately, these people were sensible and she didn't have to do anything.
The old woman beside her was happily planning: "The young ones will be sold as slaves in Nanzhao, and the old ones will be crippled and sent to beg on the streets of Nanzhao."
"There are three men and three women. The two younger ones are quite good-looking, especially the one surnamed Jiang. She will definitely fetch a good price in Nanzhao. The older one has an extraordinary demeanor and would be a great nanny for a wealthy family."
“It’s really a hair!”
Yuanshi also smiled and said, "Those villagers should have succeeded one after another, and are just waiting for Old Yan to come and report on the situation."
At this time, there was a slight noise outside the window. Yuanshi opened the window vigilantly, but did not see anyone.
She and the old woman carefully checked every place where someone could hide before they felt at ease to continue talking.
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Jiang Lili and Xin Che returned to the room. Jiang Lili received a message from the squad leader that there was a knockout drug in the food.
The squad leader has already given the prescription to Xiaopang and asked him to go to the Chinese Medicine Pharmacy to pick up the medicine, so that Jiang Lili can hold on for a while.
Jiang Lili was lying on the bed with a dizzy head at this time. She told Xin Che to pay attention to his backpack. If there was a bowl of medicine in the basket, it would be the antidote.
Jiang Lili's eyelids were drooping, but she was still holding on.
Xin Che rolled his eyes and tucked the quilt in for her: "Go to sleep, you'll be fine."
Jiang Lili finally closed her eyes with peace of mind.
Half an hour later, Jiang Lili fell into a deep sleep.
Xin Che heard a noise and the door was locked from the outside.
He calmed himself down and prepared to go out from the roof to check the situation after feeding Jiang Lili the medicine.
But strangely, after about another quarter of an hour, a very slight sound of a key turning was heard outside the house.
Xin Che narrowed his eyes and walked to the door calmly, ready to take action at any time.
“Crash—”
The door was quietly pushed open a crack, but the person pushing it was very slow, as if it was extremely difficult.
Xin Che didn't see anyone, but when he lowered his eyes, he found a small figure, not even as tall as his knees!
The little figure pushed the door hard and came in.
Xin Che was stunned when he saw the child's face clearly in the moonlight.
Isn’t this Yin Zhen’s Dabao!
Xin Che was thinking about how to avoid scaring the child, but Dabao noticed him and they stared at each other.
Dabao's small, childish face showed a calmness and maturity that was inconsistent with his age.
It's quite funny to see a child pretending to be an adult.
Dabao stuffed a bunch of keys in his hand, which were bigger than his face, into Xin Che's hands. Then he put his hands behind his back and said in a tone like a little adult: "Brother, these are the keys I stole from the cook."
"You'll open the doors of the other two rooms. This job is too tiring for me."
Xin Che's face was already disheveled when Dabao, who was only as tall as his knees, called him brother. Is this child really one and a half years old?
"I was trying to unlock it just now and nearly fell on my butt."
Dabao ignored Xin Che, who was already stunned by him, and poked his head into the room: "Where's my sister Li? Is she okay?"
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