Farming and reading family

However, she saw that Lu Hao's clothes were wet, and thought that since he had been out for such a short time and his clothes were wet, he must have gone to the bamboo forest.

Why is Luo Dagang going to the bamboo forest to get food at this time?

Just as I was thinking this, Jin Chao came trotting over with a nervous look on his face.

"Madam." Jin Chao stood beside Gao E and saluted.

"What's wrong?" Gao E saw Jin Chao so nervous.

"Uncle Lu is injured." He gestured at his arm.

Gao E frowned. How come Lu Hao got injured after going out?

It shouldn't be serious since he ran straight back to the cave. Does Luo Dagang know about his injury?

"Qing'er." Gao E called out.

Luo Qing'er was learning how to make flower-shaped steamed buns with Yang and the others. When she heard Gao E calling her, she hurriedly washed her hands and came over.

"Sister Gao." Luo Qing'er called sweetly, her eyes narrowed into crescents.

Gao E lost all her temper when she saw Luo Qing'er: "Your elder brother is over there in the bamboo forest, go find him."

"Okay." Luo Qing'er agreed and walked out.

As soon as she reached the door, she saw her elder brother coming back looking a little depressed.

"Brother, Sister Gao is looking for you." Luo Qing'er looked at her brother with some worry, thinking that something big had happened.

Luo Dagang nodded and walked straight over.

Gao E saw the blood on Luo Dagang's sleeve and asked, "Are you injured?"

Luo Dagang was stunned and looked at his sleeve: "It's stained."

"How did Lu Hao get injured?" Gao E asked directly.

Luo Dagang had a trace of guilt on his face, but did not explain.

He promised Ge Wei not to tell him about his time in Batou Village, and he didn't want to lie to Gao E.

"Then should I ask Lu?" Gao E asked tentatively.

"Yeah." Luo Dagang did not object.

Gao E knew that Luo Dagang didn't want to talk about it, so it was useless for her to ask: "Go change your clothes. It's unlucky to have blood on Xiaonian."

Luo Dagang nodded and went to change his clothes.

Lu Hao had just changed his clothes when Luo Dagang came in. Lu Hao looked a little unhappy.

"How is the wound?" Luo Dagang spoke first.

"He won't die." Lu Hao was a little angry. "Even if you owe him a favor and let him go, you have to find out how he got injured."

Luo Dagang knew this was the case: "The less you know, the safer it is."

Lu Hao lost his temper.

"Sister Gao is looking for you." Luo Dagang said directly.

Without Gao E calling him, Lu Hao packed up and planned to go find Gao E.

Luo Dagang could choose not to talk about Ge Wei, but he had to say it.

That Ge Wei wanted to kill him, and he might also kill other people he met.

Gao E listened to everything Lu Hao said with a very solemn expression.

They did owe Ge Wei a favor. If it weren't for Ge Wei, Baotou Village might have been robbed by bandits again.

But Ge Wei’s current situation is indeed very dangerous, and it would be troublesome if he hurt the villagers.

"Do you know what kind of poison is on the dagger?" Gao E asked in a low voice.

Lu Hao shook his head, but said with certainty: "It must be a deadly poison that kills instantly upon contact with blood."

Gao E looked at Lu Hao suspiciously.

"I only got a little bit of it on me, and I squeezed out the blood in time, and my whole arm was numb." Lu Hao explained immediately.

"Numb?" Gao E frowned.

Lu Hao nodded. "Besides, the dagger doesn't have any fishy smell, nor has it changed color. It must be some kind of highly refined poison, hardened into the dagger using a special method."

Gao E looked at Lu Hao suspiciously: "How do you know?"

"Isn't that what storytellers always say?"

Gao E thought she had met some expert, but it turned out to be a storyteller: "How do you think Ge Wei, with his ability, got such a dagger?"

It is not a knife or a sword, but a dagger.

Lu Hao thought about it seriously. He had his back to Ge Wei at the time and didn't look very carefully, but the poison on it was indeed abnormal.

"Yeah." He also became curious. "You'll have to ask Luo Dagang. They're familiar with each other."

"Go and call Luo Dagang over."

Luo Dagang changed his clothes and came over. This time, everyone in the yard looked over curiously, wondering if something had happened and why Luo Dagang and Lu Hao were called in for questioning one after another.

"I don't ask anything else, I just want to know where he got the dagger." Gao E asked without any context.

Luo Dagang knew what it meant: "I..."

"According to Lu Hao, the poison on the dagger is not simple, and the method of poisoning is not simple either. Why do you think a person like him would have such a dagger?" Gao E analyzed.

Luo Dagang really hadn't thought about this.

"You let him leave, but where can he go at this time? If he lurks around the village and hurts the villagers, you can't do that even if we offer favors." Gao E said sternly.

Luo Dagang frowned: "I was careless."

"You must find him as soon as possible. At least when he is near Baotou Village, you must know his movements." Gao E reminded.

Luo Dagang nodded and turned to leave.

Gao E raised her hand and pressed her temple, hoping that she was overthinking what happened to Ge Wei.

As a result, a group of yamen runners came to Baotou Village the next day and asked if anyone had seen an injured man.

The people of Batou Village naturally did not see it, but the yamen runners found bloodstains on the stones near Batou Village.

The man who came was called Chang Zhinan, the county lieutenant brought by the new county magistrate He Tangchun himself.

Zheng Fengan went over to greet him and said that he didn't know what the bloodstains were and that he might have just been passing by.

Chang Zhinan looked around at the people in Batou Village, all of whom looked bewildered. "Think carefully, that man's assassination during the Little New Year sacrifice is also very dangerous to you."

When everyone heard this, they became even more frightened, wondering what would happen if that desperado really came to their village.

"I wonder who was assassinated?" Chen Ke was a little curious.

"The young master of the Mo family in Tanzhou." Chang Zhinan stared at Chen Ke. "You are a scholar."

Chen Ke's heart skipped a beat. He didn't expect Mo Xun to be assassinated. "Yes."

"Then you made friends with people you shouldn't have made friends with?" Chang Zhinan stared at Chen Ke.

"Of course not." Chen Ke denied it immediately.

In his previous life, Mo Xun had never come to He County, nor had he been assassinated in He County. He felt that this cause and effect was all because of him.

Zheng Fengan thought that there were quite a few people in the Chen family recently, but he didn't say it directly.

"Then take us around the village for a careful check." Chang Zhinan was still very wary of Chen Ke.

"Yes." Zheng Fengan and his son led the way.

The news soon reached Gao E, and Gao E knew that Ge Wei's case was not that simple, as he had actually attempted an assassination during the New Year's Eve sacrifice.

Chen Ke kept rubbing his hands and looked very nervous.

Gao E was a little puzzled: "What's wrong with my husband?"

"The one who was assassinated was Mr. Mo." Chen Ke said subconsciously.

"Mr. Mo?" Gao E thought of the polite Mo Xun who was with Yan Congfang. "What's the problem?"

Chen Ke hesitated for a moment before finally saying, "I went to Tanzhou to look for Master Mo, but I didn't expect him to be assassinated."

"What?" Gao E didn't know that Chen Ke was looking for Mo Xun. "Then..."

Chen Ke held his head: "I really didn't expect it."

Seeing Chen Ke like this, Gao E knew that he was blaming himself for being reborn to change someone else's fate: "But Mr. Mo is... gone?"