Chapter 343 A Vast Organization
"Then let's not look for him. Maybe he took money from those people! Otherwise, even if they report it to the authorities, it won't matter."
"Okay, send more people over. Be careful, this isn't Ming'an County."
"Oh, right!" Ji Ruyan found the medicine Tian Sheng had given him and handed it to Lu Qingqing.
"Tian Sheng gave it to me. It seems to be a medicine to replenish qi and blood. I don't know what it's made of. Please check if there are any problems."
Lu Qingqing opened it and smelled it:
"Rehmannia glutinosa, Asparagus cochinchinensis, tortoise shell, Achyranthes bidentata... these are indeed powerful tonics, and there are a few others that I can't smell."
Lu Qingqing picked up one and threw it into her mouth.
"Hey hey..."
Ji Ruyan grabbed her mouth and reached out to pry it open: "Spit it out, spit it out! You dared to eat it without understanding it!"
"Oh no, how did you manage to chew it up!"
He didn't mind the mess and picked out the powdered medicine, then hurriedly went to find water for her to rinse her mouth.
However, by the time the water was brought over, the powdered medicine had already dissolved completely in Lu Qingqing's mouth.
"Don't worry, I can still smell whether it's poisonous or not!"
Lu Qingqing smacked her lips and tasted several more.
"Eucommia ulmoides, Phellodendron amurense, and there's another one... it tastes really strange, what is it?"
Lu Qingqing racked her brains but couldn't find the match.
"My medical knowledge is still lacking. The saying 'drawing on the strengths of many schools of thought' is absolutely right. I'll have more people try it."
Lu Qingqing put the medicine away.
I'm leaving!
"Qingqing, don't take any risks. Tell me if you find anything wrong."
"knew!"
Mo Lang was already waiting outside, still dressed in the same animal skin, except the large steamed bun stuffed in his chest was gone.
I was hungry in the middle of the night, so he ate me.
"Little beauty, quite pretty!" Lu Qingqing teased casually.
Mo Lang almost fell over!
"Miss! The young master is following behind!"
Please, please don't hurt him!
ah?
Lu Qingqing turned around and, sure enough, saw a figure standing straight not far away.
Lu Qingqing waved at him and blew him a kiss.
In the darkness, the man's face immediately brightened.
After a while, when he heard that there was no unusual noise in the military camp, he returned to his tent and kicked over the table and chairs.
"What's that noise? What's wrong? What happened?"
The patrolling guards ran over.
Soon, everyone found out that the two "savages" had drugged His Highness and escaped!
Tian Sheng ran over without even putting on his clothes properly.
"Your Highness, what happened?"
"What happened? Who did you send? What are your intentions?!"
"I'm innocent, Your Highness!"
At this moment, Mu Daye came out of the tent, his steps still a little unsteady.
"Your Highness, I've been tricked! I was drugged as soon as I entered the tent. Are you alright?"
"It's nothing, just something is missing."
"Huh? What is that?"
"A jade pendant symbolizing the prince's status!"
Tian Sheng felt a sense of foreboding. Wouldn't that mean someone would use the jade pendant to do whatever they wanted outside?
While things were commotion here, another commotion came from the military camp gate.
"General, Your Highness, it's Prefect He. He says he has something very important to report!"
The important thing that Prefect He wanted to report was, of course, that the two "wild men" were not the dancers he had hired.
The two missing dancers are fast asleep in the woodshed!
But he reported it too late; the damage had already happened!
"General Tian, it seems you're not managing this military camp well." Ji Ruyan's eyes flashed coldly, anger surging within them.
Tian Sheng shouted that he was wronged and glared fiercely at Prefect He.
Prefect He was so frightened that he collapsed.
"Da Ye, lead men to thoroughly investigate the military camp!"
Mu Daye accepted the order and immediately led his men there.
Tian Sheng felt a sense of panic. Could it really have been done by someone from the military camp?
Dawn broke quickly, and the two men were nowhere to be found. However, more than two hundred people were found to have left the military camp without permission, more than fifty people were found to be soliciting prostitutes, and more than one hundred people were found to be gambling together.
"This military camp is a sieve; no wonder it allows bad guys to come and go freely."
Ji Ruyan glanced at Tian Sheng, whose face was pale, but did not reprimand him further.
"General Tian, it's really not your fault. After all, you were just a deputy general before, so there were probably many things you couldn't get involved in."
"Thank you for your understanding, Your Highness," Tian Sheng said gratefully.
"But the military camps really need to be managed. If things continue like this, something bad will happen sooner or later."
"This prince has sent someone to assist you."
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
Tian Sheng thought to himself, "This Crown Prince is indeed a tolerant and benevolent person. For the sake of the old prince, he won't be harsh on him."
"Prefect He, please get up. You reported it immediately after discovering it, which shows your loyalty."
"Thank you, Your Highness—"
Prefect He rubbed his weak legs and got up.
"Your Highness, those two wild women have been captured!"
Several soldiers escorted two women with chicken feathers stuck in their hair, faces painted like ghosts, and dressed in animal skins.
"Let me go! Let us go!"
"We've come to see His Highness!"
"Your Highness, Your Highness——"
Why does that voice sound so familiar?
Prefect He frowned as he looked at the two men.
Wait a minute, one of those two yesterday was very tall, these two don't seem like that.
"Well, you dare to make a scene here! Tell me, who sent you!"
Tian Sheng stomped his foot on it.
The two women screamed and collapsed to the ground, clutching their stomachs.
It was only then that they seemed to realize the seriousness of the situation.
"Father! Father, help me—"
"Dad, it's me, Rongrong!"
"Dad, it's me, Huihui!"
Prefect He's eyes widened, his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground again.
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Dongfeng Inn.
The people sent out to gather information have returned.
The information she gathered made Lu Qingqing even more aware of the seriousness of the situation.
The disappearance of pregnant women is not a new phenomenon that started in this year.
The earliest one was actually four years ago!
However, since these incidents all occurred in remote villages, everyone assumed the animals had been carried off by wolves, and no one reported them to the authorities.
His men went to the village to inquire, and it was only by chance that they heard it from a hunter.
The hunter said that the pregnant woman who went missing from their village was definitely not dragged away by wolves.
There were wolves in those mountains, but after he set traps and caught them a few times, the wolves stopped appearing in that area.
Following this route, his men went to several more remote mountain villages.
Missing pregnant women have been found in every village!
In another village, three pregnant women went missing together. The villagers all said that the three women were mistreated by their mothers-in-law and often gathered together to cry and complain.
After discussing it, they decided to run away together!
Scattered and scattered, from what they heard, there were more than fifty pregnant women missing!
More than fifty, fifty children, fifty families!
Lu Qingqing felt anger and coldness.
Why did the head of the household say that a pregnant woman had gone missing that year when we first arrived?
That's because, over the past year, pregnant women have started going missing in both the town and the city.
Many people only found out after they reported it to the authorities.
What does this tell us?
This shows that those people are becoming increasingly rampant and their organization is growing larger!
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