AWB Chapter 255 Target Discovered
Chapter 255 Target Discovered
When Ana saw that Li Qingqing was willing to stay and treat Ahe, and learned that she would need to brew herbal medicine later, she grabbed the teapot from the table without saying a word and hurried out.
"Please have a seat for a while, I'll be back soon."
Li Qingqing nodded, "Okay."
No sooner had Ana left than the woman returned with clothes from another room.
“These clothes are all clean. I see that you and Ahe are about the same size. Why don’t you try this one on?”
The woman handed Li Qingqing a set of slightly worn linen clothes, then pointed to another set of clothes in her hand and asked:
"Where is your companion? Perhaps you could let him try this on and see if it fits?"
"Thank you." Li Qingqing smiled as she accepted the clothes, feeling a sense of relief.
The clothes were so easy to borrow, which saved a lot of trouble.
She turned and immediately walked towards the front door, intending to call Bai Ye in.
Previously, the Shadow Guard reported that Protector Wei was very likely to escape through the secret passage.
If Protector Wei enters the secret chamber and finds that everything inside has vanished, he will certainly not dare to rashly step into the secret passage.
They would definitely send trusted confidants into the secret passage in advance to scout it out, and only after confirming that it was safe would they use this secret passage to escape.
Therefore, based on the timeline, it is highly likely that the Protector-General of Wei was near the temple.
As long as he changes his clothes and doesn't attract the attention of the tribespeople and the soldiers around the temple, Bai Ye's skills would be more than enough to capture Wei Duhu, who has few protectors.
But we must warn this fellow beforehand not to stab Protector Wei to death with his sword.
Thinking this, Li Qingqing headed straight for Bai Ye's hiding place.
But to everyone's surprise, Bai Ye was nowhere to be found, and no one knew where he had gone.
Helpless, Li Qingqing had no choice but to return to Ana's house.
While changing her clothes, Li Qingqing slipped into her spatial dimension to search for herbs to cure a cold, and to her surprise, she actually found them all.
When she emerged from the space carrying the prepared herbs, Ana had not yet returned.
Li Qingqing then instructed the woman to feed the medicine to Ahe after it was decocted, while she continued to search for Bai Ye at his hiding place.
This time, it didn't take long before Bai Ye returned, bringing with him some news.
"Master, I saw Protector Wei. He seems to have a close relationship with the tribal chief. The two of them went to the temple together!"
Bai Ye told Li Qingqing what he had just seen.
Unfortunately, there were soldiers guarding the area around the temple, so he could only look at it from afar.
"You're saying that Protector-General Wei has a close relationship with the tribal chief?" Li Qingqing asked, somewhat incredulously.
She had previously thought that Protector Wei had dug out a secret passage not only to hide his gold, silver and jewelry, but also to use it to escape.
Unexpectedly, it was a covert operation, and they colluded with the leader of this tribe.
Come to think of it, the secret passage connects directly to the temple, and there's even a side room for cover. How could the tribe not have someone protecting them?
Furthermore, considering the management methods of that black market back then, it's highly likely that Protector Wei was also involved.
Li Qingqing frowned. Protector Wei was protected by local tribal forces, so capturing him would likely be quite difficult...
However, knowing Wei Duhu's whereabouts will make things much easier!
"Quickly change into these clothes and keep an eye on him. Don't alert him! I'll meet you at the temple later."
After giving Bai Ye several instructions, Li Qingqing returned to Ana's house.
Just then, Ana returned and was pouring water to boil herbs.
Li Qingqing went over to take a look and found it somewhat amusing. "Ana, pour in more water. Look, these herbs aren't even submerged yet."
With so little water, by the time it boils, the liquid will probably evaporate before the medicine is extracted.
Ana glanced at Li Qingqing, a hint of embarrassment on her face, "There's... there's no water left."
Where's the water you brought?
Li Qingqing found it strange. She glanced at Ana and noticed two scratches that had suddenly appeared on Ana's face, as if she had been scratched by fingernails.
What happened to your face?
"It's nothing," Ana hurriedly turned her face away to cover up, "I just accidentally got scratched by a tree branch."
She paused, her voice lowering.
“A few days ago, the spring in our village suddenly stopped flowing. I could only get this little water... Is this enough to brew medicine?”
The woman tending the fire stopped what she was doing and looked at Li Qingqing with a worried expression.
"The mountain spring suddenly stopped flowing?" Li Qingqing frowned and muttered to herself.
Could it be that someone is ostracizing Ana and preventing her from fetching water?
Li Qingqing glanced at the earthenware pot used for decocting medicine. The fire in the stove was already lit, and the water at the bottom of the pot began to steam.
If the herbs are not submerged during the decoction, even if the herbs are not wasted, the patient will not benefit from drinking it!
Alright, alright, let's get them away first, pour in some spring water from the space, and brew the medicine first.
As Li Qingqing was thinking this, Ana had already spoken up to explain.
"I don't know what happened. This has never happened before in our tribe. Suddenly, the water source stopped flowing!"
Ana's eyes suddenly welled up with tears, as if she were thinking of something.
"Because of this, Chief Ying sent my father and another person from the tribe to check the situation. Unexpectedly, my father fell ill the day after he returned."
The woman stood up and couldn't help but interject.
“At first we didn’t take it seriously, but two days ago, the person who went to check the water source with Ana’s father suddenly died. That’s when we found out that he had fallen ill the night he returned, and his symptoms were exactly the same as Ana’s father’s!”
“That man also has a son, and his son is sick too,” Ana interjected, speaking in a low voice.
"The shaman said that we offended the mountain god and were cursed. Last night, he took my father and that man's son to the temple to be sacrificed, saying that they would be used to appease the mountain god's anger so that the spring would regain its water source!"
Upon hearing this, Li Qingqing immediately spoke up to explain, "This is not bad luck! Can't the people in your medicine hut see that this is a cold?"
There are many types of colds, and the one that Ahe suffered from is a severe case of epidemic cold.
It is generally not directly fatal; death only occurs when left untreated and uncontrollable complications develop.
"We don't know what a cold is. If someone in the tribe gets sick, they go to the shaman for treatment, and whatever the shaman says goes."
The woman spoke with extreme grievance, her voice gradually changing from a sob to a wail.
Ana, standing to the side, involuntarily clenched her fists and said resentfully,
"I think it must be Chief Ying settling a personal score! He's long resented that my father has a higher reputation in the tribe than him, and he's trying to frame my father!"
Listening to their back-and-forth conversation, Li Qingqing already understood most of what was going on.
This is clearly a case of quack doctors harming people!
However, the most urgent task at hand is to prepare the medicine and then mix it into the temple offerings.
"Alright, Ana, let's not waste any more time. Help your mother to rest first, then come and brew the medicine."
Ana, unsuspecting, saw the woman crying uncontrollably and immediately helped her into the room.
Seeing the two of them leave, Li Qingqing quickly poured some spring water from her spatial spring into the earthenware pot she was using to brew medicine.
At this moment, Wei Duhu and Ying chieftain were chatting and laughing in the temple, completely unaware that someone had discovered his whereabouts.
He was incredibly grateful that he had kept a backup plan back then, and now he still had a safe place to stay.
Moreover, he is now dressed in the same way as the local natives, so who would know that he is from the Dayuan Kingdom?
As for the locals, they wouldn't suspect anything.
"Brother, I will rely on you from now on!" Protector Wei said with a smile to Chief Ying.
It's all Zhang Haoyi's fault for not cooperating properly. Doesn't he know that one should strike while the iron is hot, then lose momentum, and finally be exhausted?
He insisted on maintaining his usual facade of incorruptibility, which forced him to flee far away.
They could only watch helplessly as their men completely blocked the secret passage that had taken them years to dig!
When Governor Wei thought of the secret passage and the empty secret room, he felt a pang of heartache.
What a terrible thing to do! I wonder which audacious thief took everything out of the secret room!
What a waste of so much gold and silver!