eurekapd Chapter 314 Oh no, Wenhujiu was kidnapped!
Chapter 314 Oh no, Wenhujiu was kidnapped!
Lingnan North Camp.
Su Xin paced back and forth in front of the tent, pacing back and forth, almost making the spear-bearing man in front of the tent dizzy.
He was extremely nervous. The weather in March was not hot, but a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Seeing that the scout who had gone out to scout two hours ago had not returned to the camp, Su Xin became a little impatient:
"Call the scout leader over here! Is this stupid mission even possible? The people who went out haven't come back to report yet!"
Zhang Zhong, the captain of the personal guard, walked in from outside the tent, clasped his fists and said, "Yes!"
In less than half a minute, the yellow-skinned and narrow-eyed scout leader was smuggled into the central army camp by Zhang Zhong.
The scout leader fell to his knees. "General, we've already sent everyone out, and I figured they should be back to report by now. I don't know why..."
Su Xin's eyes were fierce, and he raised his hand and slapped him:
"I should have killed you with a knife last time about Hou Simao. You are useless in everything you do!"
The scout leader felt pain, covered his face and dared not speak.
Zhang Zhong came close to Su Xin and whispered:
"General, the bandits you sent people to find may have already started to act, so we don't have to worry. Even if Wenhujiu finds out about this, we can just deny it to the death!"
"Wen Yanzhao is not in Lingnan, so I don't believe the Wen family dares to come to our Beidaying to ask for an explanation!"
Su Xin rolled his eyes, put his hands behind his back, thought for a while, and nodded:
"Hmm... that's right. Then send a few of your personal soldiers to disguise themselves as civilians in the city and investigate quietly. If anything changes, report back to me immediately!"
Zhang Zhong's armor creaked, and he clasped his arms and said, "As you command!"
Then he pulled the unlucky scout leader and left the camp.
Su Xin's heart was beating up and down. Although he had taken great pains to find a group of very famous local bandits from Nan Jue, Wen Hujiu was, after all, a master who had been on the top list.
Not to mention his horrifying poison skills, he is no longer a martial arts master, he is a living devil that thousands of people cannot get close to!
That group of green forest bandits were quite capable. Their leader was called Jin Sanshun. He had been kidnapping prominent families from all over Nanjue for a long time and demanding payment. If the victims hesitated for a moment, their relatives would not be returned, hence the name "Jin Buhuan".
His subordinates were all desperate bandits, most of whom were at the Vajra Ordinary Realm or the eighth or ninth level of cultivation. However, these people had complex methods and were cunning, so they rarely failed.
It can be said that Su Xin was forced into a corner. The old emperor had previously ordered him to use force to besiege the Wen family, and he was just pretending.
This time a death order has been issued. If you try to get away with it again, you will probably lose your armor and title.
But how could the Wen family be easily provoked? Any one person from that family could be enough to poison the entire Lingnan City.
As a general stationed in Lingnan for a long time, Su Xin knew better than anyone else.
So this time we can only use our wits to outmaneuver, and not rush in with our troops, as that will only increase the KDA for the Wen family!
That's why, following the advice of his subordinates, he spent a large sum of money to invite Jin Buhuan and his gang of bandits from Nan Jue, in an attempt to kidnap the Wen family.
Unexpectedly, on March 3rd, he went out to meet Lan Zhenzhen with a pot of warm wine, but was discovered by Su Xin's scouts.
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Without further ado, the scene shifts to Yuzhenfang in Lingnan City.
"Daidai, which one do you want? This one..."
In Yuzhenfang, there are mostly young girls who come to buy rouge and powder, and there are few middle-aged uncles like Wenhu Wine.
The sister at the counter enthusiastically introduced various rouges to Lan Zhenzhen, and while warming the pot of wine, she deliberately moved forward, picked up a few cheap ones, and handed them to Lan Zhenzhen.
Lan Zhenzhen knew his little trick, so she reached out and pinched the man's thigh while he was warming the wine.
"Ouch!"
He felt pain when drinking the warm pot of wine and dared not say a word.
Lan Zhenzhen picked out two high-quality Western goods, asked the sister at the counter to pack them up, and waited for the warm pot of wine to pay the bill.
Wenhujiu asked with some pain:
"Sister, how much silver?"
My sister smiled brightly and held up three fingers:
"Your wife has a good eye for quality. She picked out only the finest Western goods. I'll give you an eyebrow pencil for free for two boxes. I'll charge you thirty taels!"
Wen Hujiu was deeply distressed and couldn't help but ask:
"No, sister, is your rouge box made of gold, or is your rouge foam made of gold? Isn't this too expensive?"
When the girl saw that the warm wine was too expensive, her face immediately turned unhappy. She frowned and said:
"How is it expensive? It's been this price for years, okay? Don't talk nonsense... It's really hard for us at Yuzhenfang to get goods from the Western Regions!"
Lan Zhenzhen pinched the leg of the wine bottle again and whispered:
"Stinky wine jug, hurry up and pay the bill and stop arguing with her. The price is the same everywhere, unless you go to the Western Regions, where you can buy a whole stack for less than three taels of silver!"
Wenhujiu reluctantly took out three ingots of ten taels of silver from his purse and threw them to the girl at the counter. She then handed the rouge and eyebrow pencil wrapped in brown paper to Lan Zhenzhen.
As I was leaving, I could still vaguely hear the saleswoman at the counter mumbling:
"It's been thirty taels for so many years, how is it expensive? If you think it's too expensive, why don't you look for your own reasons? At your age, do you have the ability to earn more money..."
Fortunately, Lan Zhenzhen was there to warm up the bottle of wine, otherwise he would have gotten so angry that he would have thrown it all over the place, no matter how expensive it was!
The two of them had just walked a few steps out of Yuzhenfang when Wenhujiu felt someone's footsteps hurriedly following them.
He cautiously gathered all his internal energy with one hand, and also pinched some poison powder between his fingers, ready to release at any time.
But unexpectedly, a beggar with a dirty face jumped out from behind him. He looked to be in his early twenties, with sunken cheeks as if he had been hungry for several days.
"Poison Bodhisattva, you... you are Master Wen!"
The beggar stopped the man who was warming the pot of wine and bowed his head.
Wenhujiu was surprised. He didn't expect that this guy actually recognized him.
Before Wen Hujiu could speak, the beggar continued, "Master Wen, I never thought I could see you here! I am so lucky!"
Seeing how much he respected him, Wen Hujiu became curious:
"You recognize me? Everyone in the martial arts world avoids the Wen family, so how can you say you are so lucky?"
The beggar raised his head, tears welling up in his eye sockets. He spoke in a trembling voice, pausing each word:
"It doesn't matter if Master Wen doesn't remember me, but I will never forget Master Wen!"
"Back in Shangyong, I was still a naked child. I don't know how my whole family got poisoned. It was you and a miracle doctor who saved the lives of our family of five!"
"Before you left, you saw that my family was poor, and you gave my mother two hundred yuan. You are a living Bodhisattva, a great and kind person..."
As the beggar spoke, he actually shed a few tears, and his emotion made everyone on the street look at him with a smile.
Gradually, many people gathered around, including passers-by, and of course there were also a few guys with sinister looks who came over.
Seeing that he spoke so sincerely, Wen Hujiu also recalled that he made a bet with someone in Shangyong City and accidentally leaked the poison, poisoning everyone in the city.
It was originally his fault, but now the little beggar was actually grateful to him for saving his entire family, which made Wenhujiu both happy and ashamed.
He reached out and pulled up the little beggar who was kneeling on the ground, and asked gently:
"Aren't you a Shangyong? Why did you end up here? Where are your family members?"
The beggar wiped his eyes, leaving a few more smudges on his face:
"Uncle Wen, you don't know. A few years ago, there was a flood, and after the flood, there was a plague. I was the only one in my family of five who escaped with my life. That's why I had to beg all the way to Lingnan..."
Wen Hujiu was a kind-hearted person. Seeing him so pitiful, he couldn't bear it and reached for his waist pouch...
However, he didn't expect that after buying rouge for Lan Zhenzhen, there was no money left in his purse.
Wenhujiu looked at Lan Zhenzhen beside him with an embarrassed expression. Lan Zhenzhen knew that he was short of money, so she took out a few pieces of silver from her sleeve:
"Go and be your Bodhisattva, Master Wen!"
Although there was a hint of joking in Lan Zhenzhen's words, she admired Wenhujiu even more in her heart.
He warmed the wine and stuffed the few pieces of silver into the beggar's hand, comforting him:
"Don't cry, a man should be upright. Take this money and find a job. If you need help later, come to the Wen family and find me!"
The beggar took the silver, thanked the beggar profusely and kowtowed repeatedly.
Wenhujiu quickly reached out to stop him, but he didn't know that a guy holding a two-foot iron hammer had already approached him among the onlookers!
Lan Zhenzhen didn't pay attention at this time, her mind was all on the rouge in her hand. Just as she was warming the pot of wine and reaching out to pull the beggar, she felt a strong wind behind her head!
"clang!"
But his hand was held tightly by the beggar, and he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head and lost consciousness!
Lan Zhenzhen saw that things were not going well and was about to use her internal energy, but she felt a numbness on her waist and someone held her acupuncture points, causing her to fall backwards!
"The government office is arresting someone. All unrelated people must get out of the way! Anyone who tries to stop us will be killed!"
With a loud shout, several men rushed out from behind Wen Hujiu, holding weapons and driving away the onlookers.
There was a sudden commotion in the crowd. The beggar, who had just been crying and snotting, suddenly stood up from the ground. With a fierce look on his face, he took out a copper coin fishing net from his waist and covered Lan Zhenzhen with it!
"Kan Si, Tuo Shuanglin, take action!"
Jin Sanshun let out a low shout, and Kan Si and Tuo Shuanglin grabbed a leather bag from behind and threw the warm pot of wine into it, then tied the bag tightly with silver thread!
"Tang Wanlong! The car is coming!"
A carriage carrying a black iron coffin broke through the crowd and rushed towards them.
Several people threw the rhinoceros skin bag containing the warm pot of wine into the black iron coffin, and then shouted and drove the carriage towards the north.
Lan Zhenzhen's entire body was numb and she couldn't move. She was covered in a copper coin fishing net and thrown to the ground.
The two boxes of rouge that Wenhujiu bought for her were trampled into pieces by the chaotic crowd. The fragrance of the rouge was blown away by the wind, floating from Lingnan City to the Luofu River.
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