Concubine Chongxi: Binding the Medicine Jar to the Master

Chapter 273 Mo Li Missing
Yufeng re-tied the rope to the rear wheel axle of the carriage, rode the horse and dragged the carriage for a distance, and after confirming that it was correct, Mo Li hugged Baili Jiuge and landed firmly on a horse.

Three people and two horses dragged a broken carriage and walked towards the market town at a slow speed.

That market town is leaning against several continuous foothills, and it is located under the ravine.When the three of them arrived at the market town, it happened to be late in the afternoon and early in the afternoon, the sun was half-slanted, and the weather was very hot. Most people on the street rolled up their sleeves and kept wiping their sweat.

Therefore, when Mo Li got off his horse wearing a crane cloak, everyone in the street looked at him with amazed and surprised eyes.

Baili Jiuge wiped off his sweat, turned around and looked at Mo Li, feeling sorry for his body.In such a hot summer, he was still wrapped in a thick crane cloak.

"Don't worry about me." His slender fingers gently caressed Baili Jiuge's forehead, and ripples bloomed in her heart.

She smiled and said: "It will be dinner time later, let's find a place to rest first. I think you seem very tired today, how about taking a nap?"

Mo Li's smile remained unchanged, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, maybe he was really too tired, and Jiu Ge saw it just like that.

"Okay, let's go to the inn, and you can rest for a while." Mo Li replied with a smile.

Baili Jiuge nodded, although he agreed, but he didn't think about resting.In the past few days, she was in a good mood because of Wu Niannian's incident. When she was riding a horse just now, she was hugged comfortably by Mo Li. She was not tired at all, and she really didn't want to rest.

So, when Mo Li slept peacefully in the inn, Baili Jiuge covered him with a quilt, closed the window, and went out behind closed doors.

At this moment, Yufeng dragged the carriage to find a repair carpenter, while Baili Jiuge was walking in the town alone.

Caressing the lower abdomen, breathing in the refreshing air, the world is bright.The townspeople who came and went around all turned their eyes to Baili Jiuge because they had never seen the woman in the red dress who was like a fire and was pregnant with Liujia.

She looked at her indifferently, and all the men, women and children in the street were looking at her... No!
Baili Jiuge suddenly realized something was wrong.

She stopped and looked around the streets.Strange, why are they all grown men and women, no old people or children?

He didn't take it seriously at first, but after walking several streets in a row and visiting the market, Baili Jiuge had to admit that this town was very strange.

She didn't see any old people or children.

Is this the custom here?
Baili Jiuge picked up a peddler and was just about to ask, when he heard a burst of shouting and cursing not far away.

She looked around, only to see two people being whipped by one with a whip.One of the two men was carrying several buckets of water, and the other was carrying a large bundle of firewood. Their trembling appearances were obviously used to submissiveness.And the person who wields the whip is actually just a street peddler!
Baili Jiuge said in surprise: "Why do you beat people in the street?!"

The salesman whipping the whip stopped when he heard the sound, and the two people under the whip quickly hugged their heads and huddled together, as weak as two chickens waiting to be slaughtered.

The shopkeeper sneered, then looked at Baili Jiuge, sizing her up with a killer-like cool look, for a long time, and said with a smile: "Okay, just for the sake of this beauty, please forgive me." Get rid of these two guys who don't work hard."

The two quickly rolled and crawled, and crawled along the street.This made Baili Jiuge heave a sigh of relief, but at the same time, he also felt a strange feeling in his heart.

She scoffed: "You are a shopkeeper, how can you beat others in broad daylight, and your conscience has been eaten by dogs?"

The shopkeeper took the whip away, and said coldly: "If you want to buy something, buy it, if you don't buy it, get out, don't mind your own business!"

Seeing his attitude, Baili Jiuge didn't bother to talk to him anymore, and lost all interest in shopping.She turned around and was about to leave, but she found that people all over the street were watching this side, no one spoke, they all stared at this side with a strange look, and quickly looked away, continuing to do what they should do.

Baili Jiuge's heart skipped a beat.These people reacted strangely, did no one say a word out of righteousness?
She opened her mouth to reprimand, but she thought that now that she has no martial arts, if she hurts the baby...

For the sake of the baby, she decided to go back.

On the way back, Baili Jiuge returned by the same way. This town is very small, with only two streets intersecting, and several small alleys interspersed between them.

Baili Jiuge was walking, her mouth dry, and there happened to be a tea shed next to her, so she sat at the wooden table and called the boss to serve a bowl of herbal tea.

The boss quickly brought over the tea, "Hey, guest officer, the herbal tea you want is here!" He put a large bowl in front of Baili Jiuge.

Baili Jiuge was so thirsty, he picked up the bowl and prepared to drink it all in one gulp.The scent of tea wafted into my nose. Although the tea was crudely made, the scent was okay.

Wait...the smell doesn't seem right...

Baili Jiuge was startled.The fragrance wafting from the tea, although very faint, but because of her experience in the world, she knows this kind of fragrance.This is a kind of ecstasy, which is specially poured into tea. It is said that after drinking this ecstasy, chaste women can become prostitutes...

Baili Jiuge was terrified, the owner of the tea shed actually wanted to trick her?
Thinking about it again, this kind of ecstasy drug is very difficult to buy in the market, and it is only sold in the black market.In the concept of Baili Jiuge, how could an ordinary person who sells tea get this kind of ecstasy?Even if this is a black shop, how can a black shop be built in a downtown area...

Thinking about just now, the shopkeeper beat her with a whip in broad daylight, and now the owner of the tea shed is giving her ecstasy soup in broad daylight, how come the people in this town...

An idea came into Baili Jiuge's mind - this town should not stay for a long time!
In any case, let's get away first, Baili Jiuge had an idea, "Ouch", and dropped the tea bowl to the ground.

Crack, the teacup was broken, and the boss's eye knife flew over immediately.

Baili Jiuge covered his stomach, gasped and said, "Why is this child so disobedient, he actually kicked me, why doesn't he let his mother have a good drink of tea?"

The boss was taken aback, and quickly said: "Don't worry, sir, I'll serve you another bowl!"

"Don't bother you, boss." Baili Jiuge stood up, clutching his belly and said, "This kid is disobedient, he keeps kicking me now, I'll go back and rest." Taking out some broken silver from his pocket, Put it on the table, and then hurried away with a stomach full.

It wasn't until he was far away that he breathed a sigh of relief.Baili Jiuge didn't dare to stop to rest, and went all the way back to the inn.

Thinking that Mo Li might still be sleeping, Baili Jiuge lowered his footsteps, and carefully pushed the door open, not expecting the couch to be empty, but Yu Feng was walking towards the door.

Seeing Baili Jiuge come in, Yufeng said: "Concubine Shizi, the carriage has been repaired, and my subordinates are going to look for you."

"Give me some water first." Baili Jiuge was really thirsty at the moment, seeing that Yufeng had prepared water for her, he quickly took out a pill for nourishing the fetus, and drank it with water.

"Where's the Moli people?" While asking, Baili Jiuge suddenly saw a black and red stain on the pillow of the couch.

It's blood!
She hurried to the side of the couch, pulled up the pillow and saw that it was really a bloodstain, and it seemed that the color hadn't been stained for a long time.

Is Mo Li coughing up blood again?

Baili Jiuge said: "Did something happen to Mo Li? Where did he go? Yufeng, tell the truth!"

With a frozen face, Yufeng clasped his hands and replied, "Your Highness, go to the mountain to explore the road. Later, when you find a road suitable for carriages, you will come back. Concubine, you can take a short rest and just wait patiently."

Is that right?Baili Jiuge thought about it, Mo Li is so powerful, nothing will happen if he thinks about it, not to mention Yufeng is still standing here calmly?
only……

Thinking about what happened on the street, Baili Jiuge asked: "Yufeng, did you encounter any unreasonable things when you went to repair the carriage? I mean, do you think the people in this town are a little weird?" .”

Suspicion flashed in Yufeng's eyes, and he said: "My subordinate searched all over the town before finding a carpenter's shop. I walked through all the streets during the search, and my subordinate found two strange things."

"You also noticed that there are no old people or children in the town, right?" Baili Jiuge asked.

Yu Fengdao: "Yes, this is one. The second is that there is no birthday shop in the town."

"There is no birthday shop? Don't people in this town go to mourning? They don't make shrouds or coffins, they don't need mourning clothes, and they don't burn paper..."

Yufeng's eyes sank, and he said decisively: "Concubine Shizi, my subordinates think that this town is probably..."

"What is it?"

"Let's pack up our things and leave now, and go to the mountains to meet His Royal Highness, and my subordinates will talk slowly to His Royal Concubine on the way."

"Let's go now?" Baili Jiuge thought for a while, and said: "I know, I also think this place is not suitable to stay for a long time. I was drinking tea in the tea shed just now, and the boss brought me a bowl of ecstasy soup. I knew I wasn't fooled."

After the two of them finished talking, they immediately put things together.Yufeng pushed open the door and looked towards the first floor, and saw that the first floor was very lively, people were already getting ready for dinner, guests kept coming, and the accountants and waiters were extremely busy.

Yufeng returned to the room silently, closed the door, and said in a low voice: "Concubine Shizi, there must be something wrong with this inn, we can't go through the main entrance, we can only jump from the window to the backyard, and leave quietly."

Baili Jiuge lightly opened the window with a narrow slit and looked down. Below is the backyard of the inn. The gate of the backyard is locked at the moment. The lock is an ordinary copper lock, and Yufeng's martial arts should be able to break it .

only……

"What about our carriage? We dragged the carriage and the speed couldn't increase. If there is a problem in this inn, wouldn't it alarm them?"

Yufeng was silent for a moment, then said firmly, "Abandon the car to save the commander."

Baili Jiuge understood what Yufeng meant. It seemed that the carriage they worked so hard to repair could only be thrown here in the end.

After confirming that there was no one in the courtyard, Yufeng pushed open the window and jumped down lightly, Baili Jiuge followed one after another, Yufeng helped her up.

The two of them didn't delay for a moment, Baili Jiuge came to the carriage, slashed with a knife in his hand, and the cart rope behind the two horses was cut off.And Yufeng sneaked to the gate of the courtyard, carefully observed the surroundings, then smashed the lock with his palm, and pushed the gate open.

Not long after, two horses galloped out of the backyard.Baili Jiuge and Yufeng evacuated quickly along the road into the town, and rode their horses towards the mountain road...

As time passed, the night gradually shrouded the top of the head, the moon was bright, and sprinkled some clear frost on the outline of the dark mountains.

By the moonlight, Baili Jiuge saw the epiphyllum mark carved by Mo Li with his fingers on the side of the mountain road.She knew that Mo Li was cautious and considerate. When he entered the mountains, he must leave a mark, not only for them to see, but also for himself to mark the route.

Along the way, Yufeng explained to Baili Jiuge what happened just now.

"Concubine Shizi, this town is called Shanren Town, and it is under the jurisdiction of Licheng Zhizhou."

Baili Jiuge murmured: "Shanren Town... Licheng Zhizhou..."

Yufengdao: "But my subordinates think that the present Shanren Town is no longer the original Shanren Town."

"What do you mean?"

"The subordinates just feel that those townspeople are not like real townspeople."

(End of this chapter)