Jiaohua

Chapter 1513: In this troubled time, I will protect you

The gray-blue layer of the sky became darker and darker, and was finally swallowed up by the night. Fortunately, it wasn't long before the moon finally peeked out from behind the clouds, and the darkness in the unlit places on earth was finally illuminated.

The elixir formula had been written down long ago and handed to Shen Lie, but Qiao Kaishi and the others could not give a specific time for the elixir to be made.

Shen Lie stood in the courtyard of the Taoist temple, looking down at the medicine formula. He didn't say he wanted to leave, nor did he say he wanted to wait.

The busy Qiao family members coming and going looked at him with eyes full of anxiety. No one knew what he was going to do.

Liang Jun came back from outside at this time and whispered in Shen Lie's ear: "General, it's 11:00 p.m. Liu Yijian has arrived. Ye Zheng should go and lead them over."

Shen Lie then put away the recipe: "Okay."

Liang Jun glanced back at the hall and lowered his voice and said, "They are too generous. They are giving the formula as soon as they say it. Is there any fraud?"

"I don't know," Shen Lie frowned, "but judging from these medicinal materials, this doesn't look like an elixir, it's just an ordinary pill."

Liang Jun smiled faintly: "Why, the general thinks that alchemy is those mysterious and unorthodox techniques?"

"Ah."

"To be honest, I am the same," Liang Jun said with a smile, "I don't blame the general. After all, the general's elder brother is indeed weird."

"Strange and evil." Shen Lie repeated in a low voice.

He suddenly felt confused, and his mind flashed back to the places where Shen An had taken him when he was young. They were either ancient tombs, deserted temples, or swamps full of rotting corpses.

Shen An loves feng shui, fortune telling, saying strange things, and often behaves coldly and strangely.

Once when they were camping in the mountains, his men caught a lot of game. When Shen Lie came back with a basket of fresh fish from upstream, he saw Shen An sitting motionless by the river.

When he went over, he saw a wild duck with its neck cut in half not far from Shen An. The duck was running around in pain, blood flowing out of its broken neck and spilling all over the ground.

Shen Lie could not forget Shen An's expression at that time. His eyes were filled with admiration and excitement as he watched the duck finally fall down.

Noticing that he had returned, Shen An turned around and smiled at him: "Zhi Yan, you're back."

  Shen Lie lowered his eyes and looked at the folded prescription in his hand, laughing in his heart. Shen An, I have always asked you to find a doctor to see a doctor and take medicine properly, but you always said they were useless and couldn't cure you. In the end, you found these Qiao family members, and the medicine they prescribed for you was not the "traditional prescription" that you despised the most before?

Suddenly, the sound of countless horse hooves was heard outside the Taoist temple, and everyone in the temple was startled. Except for those who had to keep an eye on the fire in the alchemy furnace, everyone else ran out.

Zou Zhan had been hiding at a side door on the other side of the Taoist temple. Upon hearing the noise, he walked out as quickly as possible.

After going out to take a look, Zou Zhan ran back to look at Shen Lie in disbelief: "Are your people outside? What are you going to do?!"

Shen Lie gave him a cold look and walked out.

"General!" Liu Yijian and Miao Zhonghai dismounted and rushed over.

Liu Jijian clasped his fists and said, "General, all the troops in Yunliang are here!"

Shen Lie stopped and said, "Send ten people out immediately."

"Yes!"

Liu Yi saw that when he turned around, all the soldiers had dismounted and were lined up on one side of the horses.

Liu Yijian called a captain over and asked him to lead the team. The captain led the team forward and shouted in unison: "General!"

Shen Lie said in a deep voice: "Catch the young woman in green clothes and gray pants in the Taoist temple, and the little girl in brown clothes and black pants beside her, and send them to Hejing immediately and hand them over to Yang Guanxian."

He didn't need to explain anything else. He just sent the two girls to Yang Guanxian. Yang Guanxian would know what he meant when he saw the girls' faces.

"Yes!" the soldiers responded.

The young woman and the girl beside her standing at the entrance of the temple widened their eyes.

The young woman hurriedly grabbed the girl's hand, turned around and pushed through the crowd to run, but it was too late. The soldiers here rushed over and caught them, dragging them out without any mercy.

The other members of the Qiao family were stunned by what they saw, but no one dared to step forward to stop it.

The young woman and the little girl screamed continuously and were forcibly taken away by the soldiers under the gaze of everyone in the Qiao family.

"Qiao Kaishi." Shen Lie turned around and looked at Qiao Kaishi who was stunned in the crowd.

Qiao Kaishi was sweating profusely and walked out quickly: "Shen, Second Young Master Shen."

"I'll leave five people here to wait for the medicine. If the medicine is good, you can give it to them."

"Yes."

After a pause, Shen Lie continued: "If the medicine is really useful, I will protect you in this chaotic world."

Qiao Kaishi was startled, raised his head and looked straight at Shen Lie, his eyes filled with joy: "Second Young Master!"

Shen Lie suddenly changed the subject: "What are the names of those two people?"

Qiao Kaishi knew that he was referring to the young woman and girl who had just been taken away, and said, "The woman's name is Qiao Lingqiu, and the girl's name is Qiao Xinyi. They are from the same village as me. It's pitiful. In our village, their family was once a prominent family, but now they are the only ones left."

"Qiao Jingxian, who is it?"

Qiao Kaishi frowned: "Let me think about it. Qiao Jingxian, Qiao Lingqiu, and Qiao Xinyi's father are cousins, but he is dead... Too many people in our Qiao family have died."

Shen Lie nodded and didn't ask any more questions: "Go back and make medicine well."

"Yes."

Watching Shen Lie lead his men away and completely disappear in the dark mountain road, Qiao Kaishi and other members of the Qiao family breathed a sigh of relief.

A man stepped forward and whispered in Qiao Kaishi's ear, "Why did Second Master Shen take Qiao Lingqiu and her daughter away?"

"How dare I ask," Qiao Kaishi sighed, "Whatever, as long as we can survive."

Thinking of Shen Lie's promise, Qiao Kaishi felt hopeful. He raised his hand to the five soldiers, including Miao Zhonghai, who were left behind by Shen Lie, and bowed to them from a distance, smiling flatteringly: "Come on, warriors, go in and sit down. I'll serve you tea!"

Thank you Carl for the reward of water, thank you~!