Han official!

Chapter 55 Ugly Treasure
Two villagers came over wearing tattered undergarments, one barefoot and the other wearing straw sandals with exposed toes. They were holding a thick hemp rope in their hands and were walking around a haystack.

The two men had lewd smiles on their faces and stared at Madam Jia who was chopping grass with greedy eyes.

Just when the two villagers took out the hemp rope to tie up Mrs. Jia, they were suddenly stunned. They saw two people standing next to Zishu, with fierce looks on their faces, staring at them with a grin.

"Two brothers."

The villagers holding the hemp rope were worried that the scandal would spread, so they invited the two men to enjoy the pleasure of being a female eunuch together.

He was horrified to find that two people were approaching with weapons in hand. "What are you doing? I don't know you. You are not from Kunchi. If you dare to hurt anyone in Kunchi, the village officials will not forgive you."

The two villagers were so frightened that they stepped back repeatedly and bumped into the haystack behind them. They had nowhere to retreat and no way to retreat any further.

"Hurt someone?"

Guo Jie said coldly: "You are wrong! I will not hurt anyone."

Just as the two villagers were about to breathe a sigh of relief, they heard another murderous remark.

"I only kill people!"

Guo Jie stepped forward quickly, and before the villager holding the hemp rope could see his movements clearly, he was struck on the neck by a sharp two-foot sword, leaving a deep wound.

The villager's eyes widened, he fell to the ground, holding his bleeding neck. After struggling a few times, he turned into a corpse lying at Mrs. Jia's feet.

Another villager suffered even worse. His head was smashed by the iron hammer in Mang Tong's hand, and he fell to the ground without even having time to struggle.

“Ah wow wow!”

When Mrs. Jia saw the corpse at her feet and the blood splattered all over her, she was greatly shocked and screamed in fear, waving the iron hammer in her hand wildly, causing gusts of whistling wind.

"boom!"

The wooden structure was cut down, and a catalpa tree planted in front of the thatched house was also hit. Mrs. Jia was very strong and almost cut through the catalpa tree which was as thick as her arm.

Madam Jia smashed around frantically, and the iron hammer chopped the two corpses, breaking them into two pieces.

"This"

Guo Jie pulled Mang Tong back repeatedly, shaking his head and saying, "As expected of Lieutenant Jia's wife, she's incredibly strong. If she had hit you or me, we wouldn't have died instantly, but we'd have been seriously injured and wouldn't have lived long."

"Worse than a beast."

Mang Tong was a quiet man, but he couldn't help but curse, "Madam Jia is Lieutenant Jia's wife after all. Even though Lieutenant Jia has died of illness, it's not necessary to torture a lieutenant's wife like this. Qiu Jing deserves to die."

Wait until Mrs. Jia has finished venting.

Her emotions gradually stabilized, but after suffering a strong stimulation, her numb expression changed. She suddenly woke up and threw away the iron hammer in her hand with a look of fear.

"I, the concubine, have killed someone?"

Madam Jia's face was filled with fear at first, but soon it turned to hatred: "Good kill! When I was abducted here, I should have killed him. Dying in resistance is much better than being tortured."

"You didn't kill him."

Guo Jie walked over and explained the cause of death for the two villagers: "This official and Mang Tong killed two villagers. You have nothing to do with it. Don't panic. They deserved to die. They just dumped their bodies outside the inner wall somewhere and framed the bandits."

This word from the official woke Madam Jia up.

"Are you from the government?" Lady Jia saw Guo Jie wearing a black robe and was delighted at first, but then she became wary. "Are you here to rescue the plundering doctor? Or are you here to collect the land rent?"

It doesn't mean that anyone who sees an official will be saved. Many officials are in cahoots with powerful people like Qiu Jing.

She was lured out of the city by Tian Dian, a minor official in Chang'an, and then kidnapped and sold to the unknown Kunchi.

Guo Jie was startled, and seeing Madam Jia's worry, he explained, "I am a junior official under Zhang Tang. I came here today to inspect the prisons, investigate the grievances in my village, and write a love letter to take back to the official temple in Chang'an."

"Chang'an official temple?"

Madam Jia breathed a sigh of relief, but was also confused: "I remember Zhang Tang was the lieutenant of Maoling. How did he become the head official of the Chang'an government? Was he promoted?"

The name of the cruel official Zhang Tang is very useful.

The minor officials under his command who dared to collude with the powerful would die a more miserable death than the common people. As long as they violated the Han laws, they would be tortured by Zhang Tang himself.

Seeing her let down her guard, Guo Jie hurriedly asked, "Madam Jia should know Yishuo. Do you know where Yishuo is hiding? I'm here to find Yishuo and, by the way, to rescue you, the daughters who have been kidnapped and sold."

At the mention of the word "swindle," tears welled up in Madam Jia's eyes, and she couldn't help but sob, "Qiu Jing is such a beast. He's kidnapped and sold many doctors, forcing them to help him bring forth ugly babies. It's said that he found a proven recipe in an ancient book by a pre-Qin alchemist that can make an ox bear ugly babies."

The ugly treasure is a combination of one ounce of ox gallstones and two ounces of gold.

In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", bezoar is listed as a top-grade product, which records: Bezoar is the essence of hundreds of herbs, a magical object in the world, and unmatched by other medicines.

Bezoar is a kind of cattle gallstone. It is hard to come by and its price is comparable to gold.

Guo Jie understood the whole story of the looting and selling. No wonder Qiu Jing took great risks to ask Tian Dian to kidnap Yi Shuo, who was used to treat the illness of a noble. It turned out that he had the delusion of laying golden eggs.

No, Qiu Jing's delusion is even more serious.

The hen only lays golden eggs, but Qiu Jing wants the ox to give birth to a golden bull.

Lady Jia knew her only hope of rescue lay with Zhang Tang's junior official, so she hurriedly said, "I know where Yishuo is imprisoned. If you are willing to rescue me along with me, I will take you to find Yishuo immediately."

"it is good."

Guo Jie immediately agreed: "Follow me out of the stable. If you can leave Kunchili safely, I will take you to Chang'an. But first, we need to throw the two bodies of the villagers outside the inner wall."

There is an inner wall next to the stable. Drag them to the inner wall and throw them out with force. No one will notice the two bodies lying in the stable, panic and go looking for the local officials, and alarm the residents of Kunchi.

"It's not right to throw it out."

Madam Jia bit her lip and said, "The resthouse isn't far from the stable. Throw them into the resthouse's pigpen to feed the pigs. If the two bodies land in the pigpen, they will not only be eaten clean, but not even a bone will be left."

She hated the residents of Kunchi so much that she tied up the bodies of the residents with hemp ropes. Without Guo Jie doing anything himself, she dragged the two bodies away along the wall.

At this time, many villagers carry plows and rakes to the farmland, and walk close to the base of the inner wall so as not to be discovered from inside.

Mrs. Jia walked to the pigpen in the toilet and threw the two bodies. With a "bang", they fell into the pigpen and were fought over by a group of pigs.

The big and small pigs howled and fought over the corpse, and soon destroyed it.

Guo Jie looked at the tall Lady Jia and saw that she was staring at the pigs in the pigpen, and he was thinking.

"This woman is not only strong but also tough. Who would dare to marry her?"

(End of this chapter)