Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside Chapter 1720: The Medicine Thief

"God has shown a miracle, this really is an immortal!"

"Quick, everyone get down and kneel, pay respects to the immortal, let the immortal bless us."

Bless your damn sister.

Gu Jinli was speechless at the sight, snatched a copper gong from a nearby household and started banging it hard.

Dang dang dang!

After banging for a while, she smashed the copper gong toward the crowd kneeling to that random man, cursing, "Are you all crazy? What immortal? The poisonous insects aren’t attacking him because I had people apply medicine on him beforehand. That medicine repels insects; the poisonous insects are afraid of it, that’s why they ran!"

She then pointed at their feet and let out a cold chuckle. "But you don’t have any medicine on you. If you don’t want to die, hurry up and stand, before the poisonous insects crawl onto you!"

These people were busy stupidly worshipping some immortal and forgot about the poisonous insects that had been splashed out. By the time they came to their senses, some already had poisonous insects crawling on them.

"Ahhh, help, help, quick, give me Insect Attractant, help me get rid of the insects!"

"Me too, me too, the poisonous insects are on me, they’re on me!"

Several people were frantically slapping at their own bodies, begging those around them for help, but everyone dodged away from them.

Gu Jinli really didn’t want to save them, but in order to make more people understand that there were no immortals, only the effect of medicine, she took out a few small pouches, opened the mouths of the pouches a little, and tossed them toward those people. "Catch. This medicine will drive the insects away."

Those few, hearing this, hurriedly grabbed the pouches that had rolled to the ground, yanked open the mouths, wanting to sprinkle the medicine onto themselves, but were stopped by You Xi and the others. "Stop! The medicine only works when kept together as a packet. If you scatter it, its efficacy will be greatly reduced, and it won’t scare the insects into fleeing!"

What are you yanking for?

Do you have any idea how precious this Divine Medicine of the Rong bandits is? The master spent nearly two months rummaging across the front lines and only managed to send back a bit over thirty packets for Madam, and some must be kept for formulating the prescription. How can it be wasted like this?

"Just hold the medicine bag and stand there; the insects will crawl off on their own!" You Xi shouted, then turned to the people nearby. "Once the insects come down, stomp them to death immediately."

"Yes." A few subordinates had just replied when the poisonous insects, as if they’d seen a ghost, quickly crawled down from those people. They immediately moved their feet, bang bang bang, stomping a large number of poisonous insects to death.

The surrounding people were all shocked at this sight and shouted, "Look, the insects really ran away... It’s truly the medicine’s doing, there are no immortals!"

Ms. Gao Lei snorted coldly. "Now you know it’s the medicine’s doing? Earlier you let yourselves be bewitched by the Rong bandit spies and were ready to give up the land of your ancestors. Truly idiots!"

Everyone was deeply ashamed upon hearing this.

The few who had gotten the Divine Medicine lowered their heads and said, "We were stupid and fell for the Rong bandits’ trick. Please, Old Madam, forgive us."

And once the people around came back to their senses, they shouted, "We have medicine that the poisonous insects are afraid of, we have medicine that the poisonous insects are afraid of! It’s stronger than Insect Attractant; from now on we don’t have to worry about insects burrowing into our bodies!"

This shout was louder than the copper gong, passed from one mouth to another, and quickly spread through the entire street.

Magistrate Hao and Qi Vice Magistrate heard that Rong bandit spies were causing trouble here and immediately brought Government Officials and Protectors rushing over.

But before they squeezed their way in, they heard these words and were overjoyed, the same thought popping into both their heads: their Xing’an Prefecture had medicine that insects feared now; they’d earned another merit, could get promoted, make a fortune, and leave this damned place!

Stop dreaming.

You two did pretty well; you managed to hold Xing’an Prefecture. Emperor Jingyuan is very pleased and has decided to keep you here until the Northwest is peaceful. Gentlemen, work hard.

"Move, all of you move your damn selves, Lord Magistrate and Lord Vice Magistrate are here!" Squad Leader Lou and the Government Officials cleared a path for the two adults, struggling like hell to squeeze into the center of the crowd.

"Old Madam Gao, what exactly happened? We heard there’s medicine that insects don’t dare to climb onto a person?" Magistrate Hao glanced at the skinny man tied up over there; that guy looked to be the Rong bandit spy.

But compared to a spy, medicine that could frighten poisonous insects was obviously more important—after all, the spy had already been caught and couldn’t cause any more trouble.

Yet when Magistrate Hao shifted his gaze away, a trace of a smile welled up in the spy’s eyes... a smile of mockery and triumph.

Something’s wrong!

Gu Jinli was startled by what she saw, then looked up at the blazing sun overhead, finally understanding that this was a chained scheme. "Magistrate Hao, quickly issue orders to close the city gates. No one is allowed to leave the city. Everyone who has already gone out must be brought back—don’t let a single one slip away!"

She pointed at that spy. "He’s laughing. I bet he has accomplices. He risked his life coming out to cause trouble not only to stir up panic, but also to buy time for his accomplices to get away!"

In the letter Brother Qin had sent her, he wrote that the Rong people did not possess any medicine that could attract insects; they only had a kind of Divine Medicine that poisonous insects feared.

But that Divine Medicine could only prevent poisonous insects from climbing onto the body. Once poisonous insects burrowed into the body, the Divine Medicine was useless; the insects would instead hide inside the human body out of fear of the medicine and refuse to come out.

And Da Rong didn’t have enough Divine Medicine to distribute to the hundreds of thousands of Rong soldiers, so they were in desperate need of Insect Attractant to save lives.

Gu Jinli figured that if this spy had accomplices, they were definitely here to steal Insect Attractant.

Da Rong is formidable, and the Great Wizard who can breed poisonous insects is even more formidable. If you give him some time, and he slowly experiments with the dosage of each ingredient in the Insect Attractant, he’ll definitely be able to formulate it.

She herself was now experimenting with the dosages in the Divine Medicine, hoping to create her own medicine that poisonous insects feared.

The Rong bandits were hateful; if she wanted peaceful days in the Northwest, she had to plunge Da Rong into chaos!

So under no circumstances could she let the Rong people obtain Insect Attractant too quickly!

"What?" Magistrate Hao was horrified. How could something like this happen on such an auspicious day? He hurriedly shouted to Squad Leader Lou, "Ride to the city gate at once and notify General Liang to close the gate immediately, and lead troops to chase after everyone who left the city today!"

Now that Xing’an Prefecture’s crisis was resolved, the city gates were no longer kept closed all the time. After all, outside the city spring plowing had to be done and poisonous insects had to be cleared, so the gate was opened once at noon every day to let people in and out of the Prefecture to work.

However, to prevent spies from entering the city, everyone coming in and out had to be registered: where they were going, what they were doing, and who vouched for them all had to be clearly written down.

Yet now this rule of opening the gate at noon had been exploited by the spies. If the medicine thieves really got away and Da Rong obtained lifesaving Insect Attractant, the Emperor would have his entire clan chopped to pieces!

You Xi was a step faster than Squad Leader Lou; he had already rushed out of the crowd, unhitched the warhorse from the cart, leapt on its back, and galloped toward the city gate.

Sanqing let out several sharp whistles; outside the crowd, Daqing immediately led their disguised subordinates in, to protect Gu Jinli.

The Rong bandit spy was handed over to Master Xiao Yu under Old Madam Gao’s command for guarding.

But when Master Xiao Yu saw that spy, he was startled and said to Old Madam Gao, "Old Madam, this is the Immortal Lord from the Rong bandits’ Female Slave Camp!"

After driving off the Rong bandits, General Liang and his men went out of the city with troops and discovered a Female Slave Camp.

In that camp were not only Great Chu women who had been captured, but also handsome Great Chu men.

Everyone in the Female Slave Camp had been ravaged by the Rong bandits—some had gone insane, some were heavily pregnant, some had fallen ill from being unable to withstand the Rong bandits’ abuse. In short, it was miserable.