"I'm afraid she's been greatly shocked." If she's not knocked out soon, she'll faint herself!
The master and disciple looked at the person lying on the ground and fell into deep thought.
"Hurry! Is this the place?" Suddenly, there was a sound of frantic running and a man's hoarse shouting outside.
Shen San was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to open the door, the people outside broke in.
The officer raised his halberd and put it against his neck with a clang.
"Sir, sir...what are you doing? I shouldn't have done anything wrong, right?" Shen San laughed dryly and raised his hands, feeling a little puzzled.
"I heard that someone is hiding a criminal in your inn. We are going to search it now. Don't move!" The leading officer winked at the people behind him.
A large group of officials rushed into the room.
The shopkeeper hurried up, wiping his sweat. "Gentlemen, we're a small business. Even if I had a thousand guts, I wouldn't dare harbor a criminal! Some people say... they must be looking for trouble because they can't stand our success!"
As he spoke, he nodded and bowed, and stuffed the purse in his hand to the leading official.
The other officers found nothing, so the chief officer took the purse.
"Let's go! Search somewhere else!"
The officers left in unison.
*
At the city gate, an ox cart was shaking as it moved out.
"Stop! Who is in there?!" The officer guarding the door raised his halberd and quickly blocked their way.
A large man with red eyes forced a smile and slipped a few copper coins into the officer's pocket. "Sir, this is my grandmother. She's seriously ill. The doctor says she'll die if she continues like this... I'm at my wit's end. I'm thinking of taking her to see the masters of the Medical Immortal Sect. I'd appreciate your assistance."
The officer looked inside suspiciously.
The man with his head down had his eyes flashing, and he opened the curtain to let him see the people in the carriage.
In the carriage, an old woman was lying there, her face flushed, her eyes closed, and she looked unconscious; next to her was another woman with a pale face.
The officer was about to ask the woman to look up when he saw her suddenly coughing.
She took a handkerchief, covered her mouth and nose tightly, and coughed for a while. The handkerchief was stained red with blood.
The officer's face changed drastically.
He didn't know about other diseases, but this cough... and he was coughing up blood, so it was probably an incurable disease, and many of them could still infect humans.
He was so scared that he quickly stepped back, covered his mouth and nose, and waved his hands with a look of disgust: "Go away! Don't block the road here!"
The man thanked him repeatedly and drove away in his ox cart.
After walking a long way out of the city gate, Lu Yunxi threw away the ketchup-covered handkerchief and jumped off the ox cart. "What's going on? Where are we now? How long will it take to get to the capital?"
"If we head west from here, it will take about half a month to reach the capital." Shen San looked at the map and rubbed his brows with a headache.
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