Traveling to ancient times with a sign-in system

Chapter 29 (My dears, please vote for me~) Lead her into a trap

Gu Tang was very alert as they entered the mountains in the dark. She had sharp ears and was paying attention to all kinds of movements and sounds along the way.

When they were on the village road, the two sides were far apart, she did not hear the footsteps, did not look behind her, and did not notice the torch following behind her.

But as they entered the mountains and the distance between them shortened, some sounds different from those made by small animals in the forest gradually caught her attention.

Gu Tang extinguished the torch and hid behind a big rock to look at the road ahead.

After a while, she vaguely saw a fire among the trees.

No need to think, it must be a torch.

Gu Tang sneered. Anyone who could come out and follow him at this time would be known to the fool.

No one else will follow her except the Gu family!

Gu Tang is more familiar with this mountain than anyone else, including where wild beasts roam, where medicinal herbs grow, and where traps are dug by hunters.

After pondering for a while, Gu Tang relit the torch with a lighter, waited there for a while, turned around, and led people to another road.

Ever since entering the mountain, Wei had been worried about losing Gu Tang. Not long after following him, in the blink of an eye, the faint torch in front of him disappeared and could no longer be seen!
This frightened Wei so much that he stumbled forward for a while, and then the torch that had disappeared suddenly reappeared.

The tense Wei immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing the torch turn a corner, she didn't think much about it and continued to follow happily without any doubt.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the sky began to brighten and Wei's steps became more difficult.

Besides being tired and hungry, there was no road to walk on. The path she walked on was paved by Gu Tang who had come before her.

I don’t know which hill this is. There are only thick trees and dead weeds all around, and there is no road at all.

It's obvious that few people have ever set foot here.

Wei cursed inwardly. She wondered why that damned girl Gu Tang had chosen such a place to collect herbs. How could there be medicinal herbs in such an overgrown area?

In the blink of an eye, the torch in front disappeared again!
Wei was so angry that he simply trotted forward to catch up, no longer carefully observing the road under his feet.

When passing by a patch of dry grass, Wei stepped on it without thinking, and then missed the step -

"Ah!!!" With a scream, the whole person fell into a hunter's trap!

The trap contains sharp wooden stakes inserted by hunters to kill or trap wild animals that fall into it.

Although Wei was not a wild animal, he was still injured when he fell in.

The sharp wooden stakes scratched her arms and legs, and the torches and dry grass that fell with her collided with each other and caught fire instantly.

Wei screamed and waved her hands, trying to slap the fire, but the fire still spread to her body, igniting her clothes.

The raging fire burned his skin and flesh, the pain was unbearable for a human being. Wei immediately rolled around in the small pit.

This trap must have been there for some time. There was a lot of water in the low-lying areas at the bottom of the uneven cave. It was probably because the temperature inside the cave was higher that the water did not freeze.

Wei rolled down to the low-lying areas, absorbing all the accumulated water onto his body. His clothes were soaked, but he finally put out the fire.

Although the fire was out, the burned skin and flesh still hurt, and because it was wet, the pain became more severe.

To make matters worse, along with the pain came the cold. Soaked clothes stuck to the body, and in this cold morning, the cold could keep one in bed for three to five days.

Wei was so panicked that she had no idea what to do. She threw all the thoughts of being followed and plotting out of her mind. She screamed for help: "Si Ya! Si Ya! Are you up there?! Pull me up there quickly! Si Ya?!"

The shrill cries were so eerie in this forest that anyone passing by would probably be scared to death.

Gu Tang came out from behind a stone pestle not far away, walked forward quietly, and stopped three feet away from the cave entrance.

As early as when she heard the first scream, she recognized the person and felt both surprised and not surprised.

I thought the lawsuit two years ago could scare Wei, but I didn't expect that only two years later, she started to have evil thoughts again.

I just don’t know if Feng family is involved in this.

Gu Tang thought about it and decided that he should intervene.

Otherwise, with Wei's intelligence and means, he would never think of following her into the mountains.

As for what this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law want to do, we don’t know the details, but we can probably guess the ultimate goal.

It was simply that he had been too "rampant" these past few days, putting pressure on the two elders of the Gu family and the eldest family, making it difficult for them to breathe.

They thought of teaching themselves a lesson.

As for how he would teach her a lesson, he could make a rough guess just by looking at the way Wei followed him into the mountains. The most likely possibility was that he wanted to find a place to collect herbs and either secretly pick them or destroy them.

When each herbalist comes across a place where medicinal herbs grow, he only picks those of older age and leaves those of younger age. In addition, he also sows and transplants the mature seeds or branches.

Ensure that medicinal materials are not out of stock and can be harvested every year.

Over time, these places became herbal medicine collecting points for generations of herbalists, passed down from generation to generation, allowing their descendants, apprentices, and others to make a living.

Before the original owner's master died, she also opened several herb collecting spots. After her master died, she took over the herb collecting spots left by her master.

If you pick all the herbs in these herb-picking spots, even if it's not a lot, you can still make dozens of taels of silver from them.

Many people know about this, but few actually do it.

Because no one knows how to identify medicinal herbs, herbalists never teach people how to identify them. They only teach their sons and daughters, or apprentices who have formally learned from their master.

In the past, some people have followed herbalists, but the herbalists are all familiar with the mountains and forests, and those who don't care will just go around and get rid of them.

The more ruthless ones would directly lead the tracker to a trap dug by the hunter and let the tracker fall into the trap, or lead the tracker to a steep cliff where the tracker could be smashed to pieces if he was "careless"!
Gu Tang felt that Wei’s purpose must be more than just this.

The mountains and forests are steep and dangerous. It would be normal for something to happen to me there. Given how ruthless the Wei and Feng families are, they would definitely attack me if they had the chance.

As time passed, Wei's wailing gradually became quieter. It was probably because she was exhausted after all this ordeal.

Gu Tang had no intention of showing up, so he bypassed the trap and returned the same way.

After returning to the original route, Gu Tang continued on his journey as if nothing had happened, and did not cancel his plan to go up the mountain today because of Wei's matter.

The reason she went up the mountain to collect herbs today was secondary. Her main purpose was to check the traps she had set two days ago, hoping to catch some valuable wild animals.

Even if she couldn't catch any valuable wild animals, she hoped to catch more rabbits. After all, besides collecting herbs, this was her only legitimate way to make money.

(End of this chapter)