After entering the cloth shop, Song Wan waved his hand and bought several pieces of fine cotton cloth and several furs, of course using the silver he had extorted from the officials.
When the owner of the cloth shop saw such a wealthy customer coming, he immediately smiled and offered to give him a small discount.
Song Wan was naturally happy to spend less money. She took the silver she had recovered and sent the woman and child back to the Song family's secret guards who had finished their shopping. She then turned around and merged into the crowd, walking into a deserted clinic.
Although she has mental power, she is currently in Suizhou City. According to Gu Lingfeng's explanation, this is still the territory of bad guys, so she should use her mental power as little as possible.
The doctor in charge of the clinic was an old doctor with a white beard, who was prescribing medicine for a man in black clothes.
Song Wan passed by him. The man bought the best wound medicine, hemostatic medicine, and even detoxification pills.
It's not simple, and Song Wan found that this ordinary-looking man seemed to have a murderous and bloody aura, as if he had just finished a fight.
"What does this girl want to buy?" the old doctor asked, stroking his beard.
Song Wan withdrew his gaze and said calmly, "Doctor, does anyone have ginseng for sale?"
The old doctor played with a jade pendant in his left hand, which was the one the man in tight clothes had used to pay for the medicine. He counted twice on the abacus with his right hand and said, "Of course I have it. One hundred and thirty taels of fine old ginseng per head."
Upon hearing this, Song Wan took out two hundred taels of silver notes and sixty taels of silver change and said, "Give me two."
"Little girl, wait a moment." The old doctor counted the money and opened the drawer, intending to put the banknotes and jade pendant in it.
Song Wan's eyes flashed and fell on the jade pendant, and she suddenly felt a familiar energy.
It was very light, and seemed to contain some impurities, not pure, but the feeling was not wrong. Song Wan stopped the old doctor in time and said, "Wait, how much is this jade pendant? I want to buy it."
"This jade pendant was used by the gentleman just now to pay for his medicine. If you want to buy it, young lady, I'll give you one hundred taels." The old doctor put the jade pendant back on the table.
The texture of this piece of jade is pretty good, but the carving is average, so its value is only about one hundred taels. The old doctor was speaking the truth and did not ask for an exorbitant price.
Song Wan picked up the jade pendant and touched it carefully. The energy was not emitted from the jade pendant itself, but the jade pendant must have been placed together with something with this energy for a long time, so it was contaminated.
"I'll buy it." Song Wan took out another hundred taels, "Thank you, doctor."
After walking out of the clinic, Song Wan held the jade pendant in her hand and secretly absorbed the remaining energy in it.
After a moment, Song Wan could clearly feel that his mental power was about to break through level four, which was faster and more abundant than recovering by eating meat.
If the source of this energy is found, then her mental power should be able to recover to the level of the end times quickly.
Song Wan threw the jade pendant into the big purse that was originally used to hold snacks, but she was thinking about the man just now.
Returning to the team, Song Wan handed the ginseng to Gu Lingfeng, "This is medicine for you three patients. Remember to boil a bowl of it and drink it every day."
Gu Lingfeng took the ginseng, thanked him, and said, "Sister Wan, should we stay in Suizhou City for one night, or should we go out of the city and find a place to rest?"
Song Wan thought of the man who bought the wound medicine and paused before replying, "Let's leave the city."
"Okay." Gu Lingfeng also agreed to leave the city in his heart. After all, they entered the city by using someone else's identity and pass. It would be best to leave the city early while the guards were lax.
Suizhou City is not small. It took less than half an hour to walk from the north to the south of the city. When she was near the city gate, Song Wan used her mental power again. Thanks to the jade pendant, her mental power was now abundant.
This also made her want to find the real source of energy more and more.
After leaving the city safely, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The grain trucks gradually moved away from Suizhou City, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road. Occasionally, green smoke could be seen rising in the distance. It should be the villagers in the nearby village preparing dinner.
Song Wan and his group found an open space near the stream and stopped to rest.
A clean oilcloth is spread on the ground, with stones pressing down the four corners so people can sit on it and rest.
Qi and her friends took the pots and pans they were going to use to the stream to wash them. There was still a lot of pheasant and rabbit meat left from the ones Song Yi and his friends had hunted earlier. Qi planned to cook some salted chicken porridge and a dish of braised rabbit meat in the evening, plus some steamed buns bought from the city. That would be enough.
The pheasant meat was deboned, chopped into small pieces, and poured into the boiling rice porridge. Because it was salty in nature, Qi only added half a spoonful of salt.
Cut the semi-dried rabbit meat into pieces of similar size. Heat the oil in the pan, then pour in the rabbit meat and stir-fry.
When it is almost cooked, pour in soy sauce and continue to stir-fry. Finally, pour in enough water to cover the rabbit meat, cover the lid, and wait for the sauce to collect.
Song Wan sniffed the aroma rising from the pot and silently swallowed. Chu glimpsed this and chuckled, "Ah Wan, would you like to try my mixed wild vegetables first?"
The wild vegetables were just picked along the stream. Chu broke the steamed bun apart, picked up a few chopsticks of mixed wild vegetables, and handed it to Song Wan. "Fill your stomach first. You must be hungry after traveling for most of the day."
Song Wan didn't bother to be polite with her. She reached out to take it and took a bite of the steamed bun with wild vegetables. It tasted really good.
This made her look forward to the rabbit meat buns that were to come.
While cooking, Song Wan asked Song Qi and others to fix the oilcloth with holes in the four corners and tied with thick hemp ropes to four trees on the outskirts of the woods less than ten meters away from the open space. They laid clean grass underneath and covered the four sides with oilcloth. A total of two simple tents were made.
One of them had two rooms of the same size placed together, where Song Wan would stay at night with the women from both families and two little girls.
The other room was occupied by Gu Lingfeng and his two children, and Song Wu was responsible for guarding them.
Song Zhaoyuan and Gu Xun, the two brothers in distress, still slept on the grain truck with a roof, and Song Yi would take care of them.
Song Qi and Song Jiu were assigned by Song Wan to guard the carts of grain.
After eating and drinking, Song Wan lay in the tent with a little girl on each side of her.
Chu and Liu, along with Yan and Chu, started cutting the cloth for making clothes before it got completely dark.
Wei helped them match needles and thread, and also prepared to sew a bigger purse for Song Wan.
"Aunt, when can we find my second grandfather and his family?" Anan grabbed Song Wan's sleeve with a confused expression.
He was clearly still in the exile team a few days ago, having trouble eating and sleeping, but just two days later, the baby fat on his face has grown back, looking so cute.
Song Wan pinched her chubby face, very satisfied with the little girl's growth. "Almost there, almost there."
In fact, Song Wan was still thinking about the man in Suizhou City during the day. He looked like a bodyguard or thug of some young master or lady, or like Song Yi and the others, they were all secret guards specially trained by aristocratic families.
Song Wan was more inclined to the latter in her heart. She was playing with the jade pendant which no longer had any special energy in her hand, but her eyes were cast into the distance. Qingyun Mountain was just ten miles away.
At night, the mountains are quiet.
Song Wan suddenly opened her eyes, and a moment later, she walked out of the tent silently, walked all the way to the grain truck, glanced at the sleeping Song Qi and Song Jiu, and casually picked up Song Qi and put him on the grass outside the tent.
Without disturbing anyone, he unloaded a horse from the grain cart, and without even taking the whip, he simply jumped on the horse, slowly swung out of the mountain stream, and headed towards Qingyun Mountain.
Qingyun Mountain.
The autumn night is thick with clouds and fog.
Gu Yan quickly suppressed her cough and asked the secret guard who had just returned from exploring the road, "Gu Wu, how is the city?"
A man in a tight black suit stood with his hands clasped in a solemn manner, "General, everything is normal in Suizhou City, except that the guards at the city gates are much stricter than before."
"Did you encounter anyone suspicious?" Gu Yan coughed several times while speaking in a hurry.
In the quiet night, there was a faint smell of blood. The man had a cold and indifferent expression, and his abdomen, which was covered with one hand, was bleeding continuously. Gu Wen was giving him sedatives to clear the poison.
"I didn't encounter anyone suspicious at first, but when I went to the clinic to buy medicine for the general, a girl in the store seemed to be staring at me." Gu Wu hesitated for two seconds and continued, "I think that girl has extraordinary skills."
What Gu Wu didn't say was that although he had a blank expression on his face at the time, he could actually feel the pressure coming from the girl in his heart, as if he could see through people.
"Girl?" Gu Yan frowned anxiously.
He closed his eyes and carefully recalled the dream he had half a month ago. There was no girl with extraordinary skills in the dream.
Recalling that dream, Gu Yanji still feels a lingering fear. In the dream, after he forced the Huns to retreat outside the southwestern border, an imperial edict came to the capital in an urgent manner.
The imperial edict said that the Southwest Prince's Palace had rebelled and intended to revolt. The late emperor, in recognition of their merits in guarding the border, changed the sentence of execution of the entire Southwest Prince's Palace to exile to Guizhou 2,000 miles away.
The Weiyuan Marquisate, as an accomplice of the Southwestern Rebellious King, was punished with the same crime.
In his dream, he was negligent because of this decree and was seriously injured by a deputy general stationed in the army by King Xiang.
When he woke up from his coma, more than half a month had passed. The southwestern border army was defeated, and he was brought out of the border fighting by several loyal secret guards and rushed all the way to the capital, which was the only way to Guizhou.
But when Gu Wen and Gu Wu rushed all the way with the seriously injured him and dodged all kinds of pursuit and arrived, all that was waiting for him were a few corpses with unclear faces.
In his dream, he even saw a heartbreaking scene: his father and brother both died in exile, his younger brother was missing, his nephew was abducted by a killer, and his mother and sister-in-law could not bear the humiliation and directly died under the shaft of a carriage.
Gu Yanji was awakened by this scene. It was the second day after he was injured and unconscious, and he was suddenly awakened by the shock.
In the doctor's words, there was no way he could wake up so soon.
Perhaps God couldn't bear it anymore and gave him another chance. After waking up in a hurry, Gu Yan asked Gu Wen and Gu Wu to take him all the way from the border to the capital, trying to prevent the ending of the dream.
Now they have just passed Yizhou and are at the border between Yizhou and Suizhou, on Qingyun Mountain.
The countless assassinations he encountered along the way were only slightly different from what he had dreamed, which made Gu Yanji even more certain that everything in his dream was real.
His father, brother, mother, sister-in-law, younger brother and nephew are in extremely dangerous situations.
When Gu Yanji thought about the scene that might happen in the dream, her breathing became faster.
Seeing this, Gu Wen looked anxious. "General, please slow down your breathing. Otherwise, this poison will be difficult to clean up."
They are now hiding in an abandoned thatched hut that is no longer wanted by the bandits in Qingyun Mountain, so they have to be extremely careful in everything they do.
"Once the poison is cleared, we'll continue on our way." Gu Yan was anxious and couldn't wait any longer. Every moment later, there would be more accidents.
"General, please think twice. You are not fit to move drastically right now!" Gu Wen advised anxiously. In order to kill the general, the lackeys of King Xiang had poisoned him with a very fierce poison. If the general had not noticed it halfway and had only drunk half a bowl of poisoned tea, King Xiang's goal would have been achieved long ago.
"No need to persuade me anymore." Gu Yan raised her hand to reject him. "After the poison is cleared, we will set off immediately."
Gu Wen and Gu Wu wanted to persuade him again, "General——"
Suddenly, a rough male voice sounded outside, "Who is it?"
Gu Wen and Gu Wu looked at each other, a cold look flashed in their eyes, and at the same time they drew their swords and approached the half-broken door of the thatched hut step by step.
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