Chapter 29 (My dears, please vote for me~) Leading her into a trap
Gu Tang was very alert as they entered the mountain in the dark. She had sharp ears and was paying attention to all kinds of movements and sounds along the way.
When they were on the village road, the two sides were far apart, she did not hear the footsteps, did not look behind her, and did not notice the torch following behind her.
But as they entered the mountain and the distance between them shortened, some sounds that were different from those made by small animals in the forest gradually caught her attention.
Gu Tang extinguished the torch and hid behind a big rock to look at the road ahead.
After a while, she vaguely saw a fire among the trees.
No doubt it was a torch.
Gu Tang sneered. Even a fool would know who the person is who would follow him at this time.
No one except the Gu family will follow her!
Gu Tang is more familiar with this mountain than anyone else, including where wild beasts roam, where medicinal herbs grow, and where traps are dug by hunters.
After pondering for a while, Gu Tang relit the torch with a lighter, waited there for a while, turned around, and led people to another road.
Ever since entering the mountain, Wei had been worried about losing Gu Tang. After following him for a while, in the blink of an eye, the faint torch in front of him disappeared and could not be seen!
This frightened Wei so much that he stumbled forward for a while, and then the disappeared torch suddenly reappeared.
The tense Wei immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing the torch turn a corner, she didn't think much about it and continued to follow happily without any doubt.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, the sky began to turn white and Wei's steps became difficult.
Besides being tired and hungry, there was no road to go. The path she walked on was paved by Gu Tang who had come before her.
I don’t know which hill this is. There are only thick trees and dead weeds all around, and there is no road at all.
It's obvious from the look of it that few people have ever been here.
Wei cursed inwardly. She didn't know why Gu Tang, that damn girl, chose such a place to collect herbs. How could there be herbs in such a weed-covered place?
In the blink of an eye, the torch in front disappeared again!
Wei was so angry that he just jogged forward to catch up, no longer looking carefully at the road beneath his feet.
When passing by a patch of dry grass, Wei stepped on it without thinking, and then he stepped on empty space.
"Ah!!!" With a scream, the whole person fell into a hunter's trap!
The trap contains sharp wooden stakes inserted by hunters in order to kill or trap wild animals that fall into it.
Although Wei was not a wild animal, he was still injured when he fell in.
The sharp wooden stakes scratched her arms and legs, and the torches and dry grass that fell with her collided with each other and caught fire instantly.
Wei screamed and waved her hands, trying to beat out the fire, but the fire still spread to her body, igniting her clothes.
The raging fire burned his flesh, the pain was unbearable for a human being, Wei immediately rolled around in the small pit.
This trap must have been there for some time. There was a lot of water in the low-lying areas at the bottom of the uneven cave. It was probably because the temperature inside the cave was higher that the water did not freeze.
Wei rolled down to the low-lying areas, absorbing all the accumulated water onto his body. His clothes were soaked, but he finally put out the fire.
Although the fire was out, the burned flesh was still hurting, and because it was wet, the pain became more severe.
To make matters worse, along with the pain came the cold.
The wet clothes stick to the body, and the freezing cold in the morning can make people stay in bed for three to five days.
Wei was so panicked that she had no idea what to do. She threw all the thoughts of being followed and plotted out of her mind and shouted for help: "Si Ya! Si Ya! Are you up there?! Pull me up there quickly! Si Ya?!"
The shrill screams were so eerie that it made people's hair stand on end in this forest. If someone passed by, they would probably be scared half to death.
Gu Tang came out from behind a stone pestle not far away, walked forward quietly, and stopped three feet away from the cave entrance.
As soon as she heard the first scream, she recognized the person and felt both surprised and not surprised.
I thought the lawsuit two years ago would scare Wei, but I didn't expect that only two years later, she started to have evil thoughts again.
I just don’t know whether Feng family is involved behind this.
Gu Tang thought about it and decided that he should intervene.
Otherwise, with Wei's intelligence and means, he would never think of following her into the mountains.
As for what this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law want to do, we don’t know the details, but we can probably guess the ultimate goal.
It was simply that he had been too "rampant" these past few days, making it difficult for the two elders of the Gu family and the eldest family to breathe.
They thought about teaching themselves a lesson.
As for how he would teach his son a lesson, he could make a rough guess just by looking at the way Wei followed him into the mountains. The most likely possibility was that he wanted to find a herb-collecting spot and either secretly pick the herbs or destroy them.
When each herbalist encounters a place where medicinal herbs grow, they only pick those with older years and leave those with younger years. In addition, they also sow and plant the mature seeds or branches.
Ensure that medicinal materials are not out of stock and can be collected every year.
Over time, these places became herbal medicine collecting sites for generations of herbalists, passed down from generation to generation, allowing their descendants, apprentices and others to make a living.
Before the original owner's master died, she also opened several herb collecting spots. After her master died, she took over the herb collecting spots left behind by her master.
If you pick all the herbs in these herb-collecting spots, even if it's not a lot, you can still sell them for dozens of taels of silver.
Many people know about this, but few actually do it.
Because no one knew how to identify medicinal herbs, herbalists never taught people how to identify them. They only taught their sons and daughters, or apprentices who had formally become their apprentices.
In the past, some people had followed herbalists, but the herbalists were all familiar with the mountains and forests, and those who didn't care would just go around and get rid of them.
The more ruthless ones would directly lead the tracker to a trap dug by the hunter and let the tracker fall into the trap, or lead the tracker to a steep cliff where the tracker could be smashed to pieces if he was "careless"!
Gu Tang felt that Wei’s purpose must be more than just this.
The mountains and forests are steep and dangerous. It would be normal for something to happen to me there. Given how ruthless Wei and Feng are, they would definitely attack me if they had the chance.
As time passed, Wei's wailing became quieter. It was probably because he was exhausted after all this ordeal.
Gu Tang had no intention of showing up, so he bypassed the trap and returned the same way.
After returning to the original route, Gu Tang continued on his journey as if nothing had happened and did not cancel his plan to go up the mountain today because of Wei's matter.
The reason she went up the mountain today to collect herbs was secondary, but mainly to check the traps she had set two days ago, hoping to catch some valuable wild animals.
Even if she couldn't catch any valuable wild animals, she hoped to catch more rabbits. After all, besides collecting herbs, this was her only way to make money.
(End of this chapter)
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