Unfortunately, they failed to see the king, and the things were in the hands of the prince. Before they could seek benefits for themselves, the village began to suffer bad luck, and then the whole kingdom suffered bad luck, and was directly wiped out by Dajin.
And now, their doom doesn't seem to be over yet.
The prince didn't intend to continue to haggle with them. After all, they were just fools who happened to have handled poisonous stones. Before he found them, they even hid the remaining broken stones like precious stones.
Therefore, the prince only questioned the prince of Gaochang, and did not even affect some high-ranking officials in Gaochang.
But the entire village is suspected of being involved in the murder of the prince. In Xizhou, neither the new government nor the old aristocrats are willing to let it go lightly, so the people in the village don't even talk about moving away, and now they even communicate with the outside world. Not anymore.
When Manbao arrived, the road out of the village was covered with grass.
She looked around curiously, but found no one, so she couldn't help asking Daji, "Did the village guards hide?"
Daji said: "Is there no one around here?"
Man Bao asked Ke Ke.
Ke Ke said: "There is no one here, but there are people about 200 meters along the intersection."
So everyone went in along the road and saw someone working in the field.
When the man who was weeding looked up and saw the incoming convoy, he was so shocked that the hoes in his hands dropped.
He rubbed his eyes to make sure that someone really entered the village, turned around and ran towards the place where there were houses. Because he ran too fast, he fell to the ground with a slap, and the sound was so loud that he raised his hand and wanted to talk to him. Bai Shan who greeted him froze in place.
Before he could ask someone to help him, he got up by himself and continued to run, and disappeared after a while.
Bai Shan and Man Bao: ...
The two couldn't help but looked at each other, hesitated for a moment between going in and waiting here, and then signaled the team to stop, let's wait, it seems that someone will come to see the situation soon.
The villagers who found them stumbled back and yelled as soon as they entered the village. After a while, a group of people gathered. He pointed to the road at the entrance of the village in fear and excitement and shouted, "People, people, people—"
It took a while for everyone to understand what he said, and asked, "Did you enter by mistake?"
So everyone ran to see it, and when they got to the entrance of the village, it was indeed a human being, not only a human being, but also a Han Chinese, so everyone didn't move for a moment.
The handsome young man smiled at them, and then asked them in a familiar Hu language, "Is this Xia Hafu's hometown?"
The eyes of the village chief, Kuini, stepped forward two steps and asked excitedly, "Yes, are you friends of Xia Hafu?"
Xia Hafu was the one who brought back the antidote and sent the remaining poisonous stones in the village to the capital. After sending the poisonous stones to the capital, he never left and has been living in the capital.
Occasionally, I send some things back to my hometown, but it’s okay if nothing is delivered, because no merchants come here.
Knowing that there are poisonous stones here, all the caravans diverted and subconsciously avoided this place.
When Man Bao and the others decided to come to Gaochang, they visited Xia Hafu and the others, and learned their Hu language from them for a long time, so communication here is not a problem.
Originally, Xia Hafu wanted to be their guide, but Man Bao and Bai Shan had other plans, so they declined him.
Bai Shan smiled and nodded, "We are Xia Hafu's friends."
Queenie was skeptical and a little apprehensive, but they hadn't seen outsiders in this village for a long time, even if they doubted Bai Shan's identity, they didn't show it, but warmly invited them to sit in the village.
While inviting them, he whispered to the villagers: "Go back and hide the children."
The villagers ran back quickly, Bai Shan and the others saw it but didn't know it, they brought the token from Xia Hafu, and they brought a lot of guards, even if there was something, they were confident that they could escape unscathed.
Everyone went to the village with the enthusiastic village head.
The houses in the village were a bit dilapidated, but they were tidied up fairly well. Some teenagers led a group of older children to watch them from a distance, and did not come forward.
The village head invited them into the house to talk.
Man Bao lowered his head and went in, feeling that the room was a bit dark, so he took the highland barley tea offered by the village head and said with a smile, "Why don't we talk in the yard?"
Man Bao said: "We also brought some gifts for everyone."
The village chief was slightly startled, "A gift?"
Man Bao nodded, put down the tea bowl, turned around and went out, took out a bone chain and showed it to the village chief, "This is Xia Hafu's token, he said that people in the village will know it when they see this bone chain."
When the village chief saw the bone chain, he couldn't help but look at Zhou Man, "Are you really Xia Hafu's friends?"
Man Bao nodded, "Of course, we have no malicious intentions."
The village chief touched the bone chain and said, "No one has come to our village for many years."
Man Bao looked around and saw that there were only older children and no younger ones, so he couldn't help feeling a little worried, "Has there been no newborns in the village in recent years?"
The village chief was startled, and subconsciously became alert, "I don't know what you're talking about."
The surrounding villagers also stared at them nervously.
Man Bao gave them a comforting smile and said, "I made the antidote that Xia Hafu brought back back then."
When the village chief heard this, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but carefully sized Zhou Man up.
When Xia Hafu and the others came back, they said that there was a little genius doctor in the capital who was very powerful, and she made the medicine they took. Although the children were still growing poorly, at least they would not get worse.
After confirming that Zhou Man was really a miracle doctor, the village chief immediately knelt down and begged her, "God doctor, please save our village."
The villagers also huffed and knelt down.
Man Bao was startled, and quickly reached out to help him up, "Speak up if you have anything to say."
After a pause, Man Bao asked, "What's wrong with the village?" She thought it was a matter of relocation, but it could be helped.
But the village head said: "Children born in the past two years will still have defects. Please save us with a miracle doctor."
Man Bao was stunned for a moment, then sighed and said: "I remember I told Xia Hafu and the others that the damage has already been done, and the antidote can only prevent you from being affected by the poisonous stone, relieve the related symptoms, and perhaps cure the pain." It is good for those who are less affected, but it is impossible to heal the damage that has been done, so I do not recommend that people in the village have children."
Xia Hafu said these words when they came back that year, but the village chief didn't listen to them, and he couldn't help becoming anxious, "How can you not have children?"
He cried out, wiping his tears and said: "Three years ago, there were eighty-six people in our village, but now there are only seventy-eight. There will be no one in the village.”
Man Bao didn't speak for a while, and finally said: "I want to see the people in the village."
The village chief immediately went to call everyone over.