In the main hall of Huixian Temple, the clay sculptures of the Three Pure Ones are sitting upright and enjoying a feast, with their eyes downcast as if they are looking at the various situations in the world, and they seem to only care about the lights in front of them fading, and no one is willing to pick them at this moment.
The Supreme Being in the hall has forgotten his feelings, but ordinary people do not have such skills. The little Taoist priest took the place of the master and recited the Taishang Taoist Sutra. Everyone in the hall listened to the chanting without falling asleep. For example, Xiao Shitou was lying on the floor of Shopkeeper Fang.
On his knees, his eyes competed with the moths buzzing on the roof.
"Tell me, the two Taoist priests have been in there for so long and why haven't they come out yet..."
Zhu Xiaoqian walked around the room anxiously, looking at the two children moaning in pain from time to time, and finally couldn't help but speak.
The little fat man Fang Dahong timidly grabbed the hem of her clothes: "Mother-in-law, I think the Taoist priests may be busy, so you should sit down and wait..."
Zhu Xiaoqian touched his head and said, "I'm just asking casually. There's really no use in being anxious."
The conversation between the two people did not last long, but was heard by Ma Dashan next to him. He was originally confused and suddenly asked: "This guest, I heard your voice and saw that you have a kind face... Are we somewhere?"
Have you seen it?”
Zhu Xiaoqian quickly covered her face and said in a high-pitched voice: "Master, I just came from the country, how could we know each other... Have you recognized the wrong person?"
Ma Dashan was also a little suspicious, and his character of convincing others with his virtue broke out. He stepped forward to see: "Really? Have we really never seen each other before? Just raise your head and let me see!"
While the two were entangled and sizing up, footsteps finally sounded from the back door of the hall.
"You're done! With Lao Dao's Taiyi Xiaohuan Dan, if you take it three times, 70% of the poison in these children will be eliminated!"
The old Taoist priest looked hale and hearty, filled the newly refined elixir in a medicine gourd, and said to everyone in the hall.
Jiang Wen hurried up from behind and asked Yuan Huazi curiously: "Master, why is it only 70%? Could it be that the remaining 30% belongs to someone else?"
The old Taoist priest brushed his beard and smiled, "That's why you don't understand. After seven days of testing, the medicine will be three-thirds poisonous. We have cured 70% of the poison in the child, and the rest..."
Zhu Xiaoqian took the opportunity to bypass Ma Dashan and said to the old Taoist priest: "Can we slowly detoxify the remaining rotten bone poison?"
"No, no, no..."
The old Taoist shook his head slowly and waved his hand: "In the remaining time, the old Taoist should slowly remove the golden elixir poison in them."
Jiang Wen took a breath, no wonder the Taiyi Xiao Huan Dan, which is thickened with mercury, sulfur and stir-fried to reduce the juice, is not well-known, and is far less famous than the Shaolin Xiao Huan Dan.
Everyone who has eaten it has died!
"...We have been busy for a long time, and we have solved it by 70%, and it is also stained with golden erysipelas? I just said that the thing you added is heavy metal!"
Yuan Huazi glared angrily: "What I use is the divine elixir gold liquid. The longer it is burned, the better the transformation will be. It will last for a hundred times of refining and will be immortal forever. If you take it, you will never grow old or die. Mortals with leaks in their bodies will certainly not be able to withstand the power of this immortal."
It’s medicine!”
"Uh...Ma'am, otherwise please keep the medicine for me first, and I'll think about it later."
Although Taoist elixirs have not made any breakthroughs in immortality, other research has yielded fruitful results, such as the Taiyi Spirit Pill to treat madness, the Turtle Xiahai Pill to treat lymphatic tuberculosis, the Poison Dragon Pill to treat dysentery—and of course the Heilongjiang Pill that changed the world.
gunpowder.
On one side is a child who is turning blue due to poisonous pain and is tossing and turning, and on the other side is Taiyi Xiaohuan Dan, which has obvious effects as well as side effects.
Whether or not he should take the medicine, Jiang Wen fell into deep thought, which made everyone present fall silent.
"Mother-in-law, where are you going? I'm going too!"
The little fat man Fang Dahong had sharp eyes and noticed Zhu Xiaoqian slowly walking towards the side door and was about to go up.
Zhu Xiaoqian covered his mouth angrily: "My mother-in-law is going to pee, do you want to follow her? Just stay there and I will bring you a chicken butt to eat when I come back."
"oh!"
Fang Dahong nodded obediently and sat down on the spot. He couldn't figure out where his mother-in-law would find chicken butts for him to eat in this barren mountain?
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Zhu Xiaoqian put on her night clothes and was crawling on all fours on the tiled roof, waiting for the opportunity to sneak in.
The Chong'an County government office was heavily guarded, with guards constantly patrolling by. The torches were kept on all night long, and even the watchmen were driven away. It had become a land of golden soup.
However, the patrols on the ground could not reach the level of three-dimensional defense, and the county government compound where all the elite soldiers were deployed did not have enough Qinggong masters to stop her.
To put it bluntly, among the few known masters in the Qing army, she, Zhu Xiaoqian, could not defeat any of them in a fight, but when she ran away, none of those masters could catch up with her.
"Hiss... this incense smells bad, it must be that demon lama's room..."
A few pieces of tiles were moved away, she hooked her feet on the roof beam, dexterously ducked in, and then landed quietly on the ground without disturbing anyone.
"So much medicine? Why are you still sticky and bleeding?"
Zhu Xiaoqian was already prepared and did not dare to touch it. She just used large and small porcelain bottles and oil paper to plunder all the wrapped things, and planned to retreat from here.
Jiang Wen was worried that there would be an ambush here, but Zhu Xiaoqian was not worried. Putting aside other methods, who could steal things better than a long-time thief like her?
The two children suffered too much. I don’t know why - maybe it’s because they are older. Zhu Xiaoqian found that she couldn’t help but meddle in the children’s business and liked them to act coquettishly towards her.
If nothing else, she had to think of a way to save Ningdie's mother-in-law and bring her back to Yangzhou.
After restoring the house to its original state, Zhu Xiaoqian climbed up to the roof, put the tiles back in place and was about to leave over the wall when she encountered a group of inspection soldiers coming from the east side of the county government office.
After a sleepless night, they fought hard to stay awake and could only rely on whispering to stay awake. The leading patrol inspector also turned a blind eye to this.
"Zheng Da, why did you put us here in the middle of the night?"
"It is said that there are imperial prisoners who have escaped to the county, and the patrol commander has already led a team to arrest them."
"Nonsense, our Inspection Department only has 16 soldiers, 21 archers, and three are on free wages. How can we get more than 200 people to enter the mountain?"
"Who told you that this is Chong'an County? The chief cook in the back room is my uncle. He said that this time inspections from three provinces, six prefectures and eleven counties have come, and no less than 500 people are coming into the mountains one after another.
, what you see is just the tip of the iceberg!”
"Hey! With so many people, does the prisoner have three heads and six arms?"
"It's hard to say, just in this Wuyi Mountain, would you dare to go in in the middle of the night? They dare! Maybe they spend the night in a cliff coffin, bathe in the wild forest, and wait to kill people and drink blood."
"Tell me, will we also go into the mountains? I don't dare to go there. How many people disappear there all year round... Last time we had noodles, I heard that there were legless women coming out to cut meat and eat it in the mountains..."
"Stop thinking nonsense. Now that there are a lot of troops gathered, they will definitely be surrounded. When reinforcements from a dozen other prefectures and counties arrive, those people will be completely unable to fly!"
"That's good, hehe... I always feel butterflies in my stomach when I think of going into the mountains. Hmm? What did you hear that sound just now?"
"You almost scared me to death! There must be a cat on the roof, don't be surprised!"
The patrolling sentry's voice was not loud, but the sound fell into Zhu Xiaoqian's ears.
As an experienced snitch, she has stolen thousands of things. What she is most proud of is not only her skills, but also her rich experience and keen intuition.
As a snitch, what is more important than having a good hand is to be precise and know yourself and your enemies. The more information you know, the more things you can steal.
This trip was indeed worthwhile, and she had already heard a lot of information. For example, the Qing troops' entry into the mountains was not accidental, but heavy troops were mobilized from many parties, determined to surround the Tiandihui people and annihilate them all.
The burglary is nothing more than this. The good people in Ma Dashan are greedy for the beauty of red beans, so their family property will naturally be difficult to protect. There must be a big problem behind the big sweetness.
Thinking about it this way, the previous victory of the chief helmsman was probably just a bait set by the Tatars.
Zhu Xiaoqian secretly memorized everything, threw flying stones to divert attention and took the opportunity to break out. Knowing this, she hurried back to deliver the medicine, and also told the story quickly, so that silly girl Hongdou ran away immediately!
After passing a few more tile-roofed houses, this was already the edge of the inner village. There were no houses ahead to fly across. Zhu Xiaoqian turned around and jumped into an alley, preparing to find the right opportunity to follow the river crossing the county center and climb onto the low road.
Sneak out by the wall.
But as soon as her feet touched the ground, footsteps suddenly sounded from both sides of the alley...