At Houde Villa, Le Shanren's eldest son, Le Youchang, has been waiting in front of the gate and looking in the direction of the forest path.
Le Youchang heard from his servants that his father and a man in green shirt carrying a sword box went to the clearing in the forest, so he knew that his father must have itchy hands again, and he had to pester him to compete with each other, otherwise he would not forget the time to eat.
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Le Youchang saw his father and the young man talking and laughing as they turned out of the forest path, and then he went up to them.
"Father, mother is waiting for you to eat!"
Le Shanren pointed at his son and said: "My eldest son, Le Youchang. - Youchang has not come over to meet little brother Taiping. You must know that little brother Taiping is a master of swordsmanship!"
Li Taiping and Le Youchang smiled after seeing each other and said: "Master, don't go out and say that Taiping is a master of swordsmanship. If people listen to it, they will laugh out loud!"
"It doesn't matter whether you laugh or not, let's eat first."
After Le Shanren said this, he looked at his son and said, "Go back and tell your mother that your father's best friend is visiting and you won't eat with her!"
Le Youchang nodded helplessly and left.
Looking at Le Youchang's back, Li Taiping said: "Master Ling, you didn't learn martial arts?"
Le Shanren smiled bitterly and said: "The old god said that the medical skills were entrusted to you to save the world, so you can pass on the medical skills, but the martial arts cannot be passed on to future generations without my permission! It's almost thirty years ago.
I haven’t seen the old immortal in years, so I don’t dare to pass on this martial arts.”
After saying that, Le Shanren smiled again and said: "However, it doesn't matter to my Le family whether I want to learn martial arts or not. My Le family only knows how to save people but not harm others. Naturally, no one will harm my Le family. Learning martial arts is not a problem for me."
There’s no need to be too attached to things!”
Li Taiping and Le Shanren had a very lively chat, so they drank a little more and did not return to the guest room until midnight. Li Taiping felt that Le Shanren was a good person, with a benevolent heart as a doctor and some loyalty as a Jianghu person. Especially,
After hearing that Huo Liandong had been defrauded of a thousand taels of silver, Li Taiping felt that the image of Le Shanren in his heart had become fuller, and he was more like a down-to-earth person of flesh and blood, rather than a big man standing in the clouds who could not touch or reach.
Luo Jinxian.
The next day, after breakfast, Le Shanren personally saw Li Taiping off Dongli Town. Before leaving, Li Taiping took out a stack of banknotes from his bag and stuffed it into Le Shanren's arms.
Le Shanren originally didn't intend to accept it, but Li Taiping's next words changed his mind.
"Zhao Tianya saves people, and practicing medicine and treating diseases also saves people! But these coins are of little use to me. It is not as good as the village owner who can save more people by using them!"
Li Taiping left in a very cool manner without looking back, and those two thousand banknotes were his entire wealth. Now Li Taiping's pockets were cleaner than his face.
Before leaving Cui's caravan at the border, Cui's caravan received Ashina's compensation. Li Taiping suddenly became a wealthy man in the Qian Dynasty, but before he received the money, he waited for
Come to Dongfang Mubai’s words.
"If you become rich overnight, you will be easily distracted and may go astray, so Auntie will keep the money for you and treat it as if you have invested in Cui's caravan. When you marry a wife, Auntie will hand over the money."
With your wife."
A mountain of gold turned into a few thin silver notes before it was warmed. Li Taiping wanted to reach out and order more, but when he saw the cannibalistic look in Dongfang Mubai's eyes, the rest of his words were aborted and he held them tightly.
He slipped out of the small bamboo forest with his tail on his tail.
Li Taiping walked along the official road for half a day and saw a wine shop not far away fluttering in the wind. He couldn't help but touch his dry belly.
It was very shriveled, not only because there was no food in the stomach, but also because of the lack of money. Li Taiping took out all the money in his arms and counted it. There were only a few pieces of silver less than one tael, plus more than ten coins. In the morning, he was still a rich man, and at noon, he was still rich.
He became a pauper, and his identity changed so quickly that Li Taiping did not expect it.
If you are poor, you must be careful with your budget, otherwise you will only become poorer. Li Taiping sat in the wine tent, took out a penny from his pocket, and said reluctantly: "Boss, come and eat for a penny!"
Li Taiping was wearing a green shirt and carrying a sword case. The sword case in particular was not an ordinary object at first glance. The boss thought that he had a distinguished guest, but he didn't expect that it was actually a silver-like pewter spear head, a poor boy who liked it but didn't see it. Especially when he saw it.
The man in green shirt took out a penny, and the boss's smiling face suddenly disappeared, replaced by a look of disgust.
"Two scones for a penny! If you choke, there's water nearby and you can drink it yourself."
The boss said and threw two scones on the table, collected the copper coins and turned around to greet others...
The scones are hard and chewy. If they can be paired with a bowl of mutton soup, the taste will be acceptable. As soon as Li Taiping finished eating one scone, he saw an old woman coming up the official road.
, the old woman looked haggard, looking and shouting as she walked...
"Pan Di'er - Pan Di'er - where are you!"
The old woman didn't want to eat when she entered the wine shed. Instead, she asked everyone she met, "Have you seen my brother-in-law?" She looked very anxious.
"Grandma, you've been searching for your daughter along the official road for two days. If you can't find her again, go to Changshan County and report her to the official!"
A coachman had seen the old woman yesterday and knew that her daughter had gone missing a few days ago. At this time, she couldn't help but persuade her.
The grandma was very excited and said: "I reported this to the police today, and the government also filed a record, but the police officer said that my daughter is already in her prime, how could she get lost! Let me wait for two more days.
God, if you still don’t see anyone, go look for him.”
After listening to the old woman's words, the coachman could only sigh. It's no wonder that the city's police officers are unwilling to investigate this kind of missing persons case. It is really a thankless task. Let alone the current Daqian Dynasty, even if
Throughout the ages, missing persons cases have been ranked behind other cases. Only when the police officers are idle will they help investigate.
I saw the old woman wiping her tears and saying: "I know why arresting the headman is not a concern. It is because I think that my brother, Hope, has eloped with someone else! But my brother, Hope, has been very obedient since he was a child, and he has been very obedient recently.
She was engaged to Suo Suo from the old man Li's family in the same village. How could she run away with him? But the police officer didn't believe him, so he told me to wait. But it's been three days, and if anything happened to my brother, I wouldn't be able to live.
Got it!"
Li Taiping took a sip of water, swallowed the pancake in his mouth, came to the old woman and asked with concern: "Grandma, where did your daughter get lost?"
"On the official road fifteen miles away from Changshan County."
Li Taiping pulled the hand over the bed, asked the old woman to sit down and said slowly...
Three days ago, the good man Leda came to my Zhengyang Village to help the villagers with free medical treatment. My old man suffered from tuberculosis, so he prescribed medicine for me, but there was still a main medicine missing, so the good man Leda gave it to me.
He gave me a hundred cents and asked me to go to the pharmacy in Changshan County to buy some. Pandi'er and I walked for more than two hours and were about to arrive in Changshan County. Pandi'er said that he would go to the woods to relieve himself, but
Once I left, I never came back!
Li Taiping brought a bowl of water to the old woman to calm down, but her mind was spinning rapidly.
She was a grown-up girl in her early years, a child from a poor family had long been the head of the family, and Pan Dier was already a director. How could she leave her old father who was ill in bed at home and run away with someone? This is obviously impossible. Another thing, it's just official.
In the nearby forest, you don't have to go far to untie your little hands, so how can you get lost?
Li Taiping thought about it and thought that there was only one possibility for his brother's disappearance, and that was that he was kidnapped by strong men.
On the official road fifteen miles away from Changshan County, two figures came from a distance. The two people walked from far to near, and one of them was a young man wearing a green shirt. The man had fair skin, although he was not handsome.
Also watchable.
The young man supported the old woman and pointed to the woods beside the official road and said, "But here?"
The old woman nodded and said with certainty: "It's not wrong, I remember clearly that it was the forest where I entered by hitting the crooked-neck tree."
The man in green shirt said: "Grandma, wait a moment, I'll go and come back."
Seeing the green mountain man, after saying this, he stood up and walked into the forest on the crooked branches.
The forest is not dense and the grass is not high. Since it is already the last month of winter, the vegetation is a little dry. If someone walks through it, it will definitely leave traces.
The green-shirted man entered the forest only thirty steps before he stopped, because the traces of his younger brother Pan disappeared here. The man looked back and glanced in the direction of the official road, and found that although the trees were sparse, there were no official signs.
He said, he couldn't help but frown slightly and began to look at the surrounding environment carefully.
There were only traces of Pan Dier left in the forest. But Pan Dier was just an ordinary person and could never disappear out of thin air. Moreover, Mr. Qingshan didn't believe in ghosts and gods, so there was only one possibility. Pan Di'er
He was kidnapped by martial arts masters.
The traces at the scene were so obvious that even if a police officer came from Changshan County, they would be able to tell that this was not a simple missing persons case, but a kidnapping case.
Mr. Qingshan shook his head and stood in the forest for a while, sorting out the clues before returning to the official road.
"Grandma, please go back to the village first! I'll help you find it, my dear brother. Regardless of whether you can find it or not, I will go to Zhengyang Village to give Grandma an explanation in five days."
The old woman was about to kowtow to the man in blue because she was so grateful. However, she saw the man holding the old woman in his arms and saying, "Grandma, there is no need to be polite! Since this happened to me, I would feel uneasy if you didn't care about it."
!Grandma, it’s better to return to the village as soon as possible so that I can investigate the disappearance of my younger brother as soon as possible.”
The man didn't tell grandma that Pandi had been kidnapped, because three days had passed, and telling grandma would make grandma worried. It would be better to wait until he had the exact information.
The county seat of Dongyang County is in Changshan County. Changshan County is surrounded by mountains on three sides, including Dapan Mountain, Qianligang Mountains and Longmen Mountains. If this was a good year, the terrain of Changshan County would be fine, but the current year is very bad.
, Daqian Chao was like an old man covered in pustules, with no good place in his body, so Dongyang County was naturally not much better.
In the current situation of the Qian Dynasty, where there are mountains, there will naturally be bandits. If the governor of Dongyang County is only a half-hearted military general, I am afraid that the people of Dongyang County will not have an easy life.
Mr. Qingshan stood in front of the gate of Changshan County, looking at the soldiers guarding the gate and frowning...