Chapter 442 [Don’t Get Close to Me]
“Who is it?”
Xue Wei's men were making a fire when suddenly hundreds of people came out from the mountains and swarmed towards Xue Wei and the others.
——"This mountain is mine, this tree is mine. If you want to pass through here, you must leave some money to buy your way through!"
Zou Hu and Zhang Tongban led their men straight to Xue Wei, Guan Yue and other four "soft targets". They thought that the people around these four people would still fight hard, but they didn't expect that the guards and servants would directly put down the axes, hammers and other weapons in their hands and beg for mercy.
Qiu Wan shouted with a trembling voice: "Don't hurt Master Xue! We can do anything!"
The veteran actors from Guanjiazhai were not to be outdone, and squeezed out a few tears of fear, "Hey, good men, please be kind and take the things, but don't hurt us."
Zou Hu, Zhang Tongban and others were stunned. It was the first time they saw someone surrender so quickly without any resistance.
Xue Wei shouted angrily, "You daring villain, you actually robbed a court official. Is there any law left?"
Old Doctor Qi quickly hid behind Xue Wei and blinked in confusion. As the strongest assistant of the palace fighting champion, his intelligent brain instantly understood that this was a plan of Xue Wei and others.
His hands trembled with excitement. The thrill of the stormy waves he had experienced in the palace all those years came back to him! After retiring these years, he had lived a comfortable life. Old Doctor Qi was becoming increasingly bored.
Xue Wei felt the trembling of the old doctor Qi and comforted him, "Master Qi, don't be afraid!"
Zou Hu laughed sarcastically: "Outside Wan'an Pass, you dare to talk to me about the law? Even if you are the king of heaven, I will still rob you today!"
He turned his gaze to Guan Yue, who was frightened and pale. "This young lady is really beautiful. Why don't we enter the bridal chamber tonight?"
Cheng Jiayu stood in front of Guan Yue, and with a flick of his sleeve, a flying needle appeared at his fingertips.
He said to Zou Hu lightly, "I warn you not to act recklessly, otherwise you will bear the consequences."
"Warning? What warning do you have?"
Zou Hu stepped forward with a knife in hand, ready to grab Cheng Jiayu by the collar. "You'll be the first one I'll kill!"
However, as he rushed forward, he suddenly felt something hit his knee. His legs and feet went limp and he knelt in front of Cheng Jiayu. His head hit the sand hard and he got a mouthful of sand.
The originally noisy robbery battlefield suddenly became silent.
Zhang Tongban, who was directing people to search for things, felt so embarrassed when he saw this that he quickly directed two people from Menghu Village to drag away their embarrassing boss.
Zhang Tongban walked straight towards the surrendered enemy and asked, "Where are all your valuables?"
Xue Wei shouted at Qiu Fang, "Qiu Fang, if you tell me, do you think I will still hire you in the future?"
Qiu Fang pointed at the first carriage with a look of fear in his eyes: "In the big box of the carriage."
After saying that, he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Xue Wei's eyes.
"Master Xue, we ordinary people are also trying to save our lives."
Zhang Tongban asked someone to find the big box: "Master Xue doesn't even know the basic laws of human nature, so why would he be an official in the northwest?"
Zhang Tongbian has cheated countless people, even those who are more powerful than the top scholar.
I originally thought that this top scholar was a great man, but unexpectedly he was just a useless person who only knows how to talk big but not big enough.
"Boss Zhang, that box is too heavy. The two of us can't lift it!"
Zhang Tongban said unhappily, "Then send a few more people!"
Soon the big black box on the carriage was carried in front of Zhang Tongban.
Caution made him keep his distance as he allowed the box to be opened.
“Squeak—”
The black wooden box was opened.
"ah!!!"
The moment the box was opened, a big and long centipede crawled out of the box and crawled onto the person who opened the box.
Dense swarms of poisonous insects swarmed out of the box and crawled in the darkness towards the bandits' location, disrupting their original encirclement formation.
Old Doctor Qi had seen the poison and was very interested in treating it, but he was not familiar with the General of the Cavalry and his faction, and this was the secret skill of their mother's family.
Now that he had seen so many poisonous insects gathered together, he came out from behind Xue Wei and observed attentively the way these poisonous insects attacked people.
Could it be that the twelve personal guards that Emperor Qingning asked the General of Cavalry to select were all Miao people who were proficient in witchcraft?
How could the General of Cavalry be willing to lend his elite troops to an irrelevant person like Xue Wei?
The perceptive old doctor Qi was full of doubts.
At this moment, Zhang Tongban, who had escaped the disaster by being cautious, took off running, shouting, "Go, get some kerosene! These things are afraid of fire!"
He observed that these poisonous insects only crawled towards their accomplices and did not touch Xue Wei at all. Their eyes were fixed on the lone old doctor Qi.
Zhang Tongban quickly grabbed a few people and took them towards the direction of Doctor Qi in the chaos.
Little did they know that their little actions had been seen by Cheng Jiayu.
When he got close to the old doctor Qi, Zhang Tongban clenched the knife in his hand and pounced on him!
Just as Cheng Jiayu was about to take action, he saw that a large silver needle appeared in the hand of the old doctor Qi, and he quickly stabbed it into Zhang Tongban's neck!
“Uh uh uh—”
Zhang Tongban's movements suddenly slowed down, and he couldn't make a sound. Old Doctor Qi was impatient and kicked Zhang Tongban away, "Get out of here! Don't let me check on you!"
Zhang Tongban's three younger brothers were stunned as they witnessed the entire incident. Was this a sixty or seventy-year-old old man? Could it be the leader of the Beggars' Sect?
Doctor Qi looked at the three minions impatiently: "Why, you guys want a few injections too?"
The three of them quickly shook their heads and were quickly tied up by the guards. The situation quickly turned around and most of the bandits present were arrested.
Old Doctor Qi watched reluctantly as the guards called back the poisonous insects. He stood up from the ground and turned around, only to find that Xue Wei, Guan Yue, and Cheng Jiayu were all staring at him with wide eyes, as if he were a monster.
"Master Qi, I didn't realize that you, as an imperial physician, could actually use hidden weapons!"
Old Doctor Qi blew his mustache and snorted unhappily, "You young people are too narrow-minded!"
He put his hands on his hips and said, "I entered the palace as an apprentice at the age of twelve and have been there for nearly fifty years. If I didn't have a few self-defense skills, how would I have survived?"
"I recall when I was twenty-three years old, I accidentally discovered that the prominent Concubine Yan was faking a pregnancy to win her favor, and was hunted down by assassins she had sent to silence her."
As soon as they heard a story, Xue Wei and the other two immediately pricked up their ears.
Doctor Qi gestured with the silver needle in his hand: "I knocked him down with just one needle, and he ran to the Empress at that time, now the Empress Dowager Yu, to seek protection, and that's how he saved his life."
"Not only that, I also found evidence to help the Yu family overthrow Concubine Yan."
"From then on, he gained personal recognition and rose rapidly to the position of Chief Judge of the Imperial Hospital, where he worked until his glorious retirement."
Xue Wei and Guan Yue were filled with awe after hearing this. They almost forgot that this ordinary old man in front of them was the strongest assistant of the previous palace fighting champion!
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