Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

"The outer city is so big, how can we find it?" Gu Yue said.

"The official roads that Nanwai City relies on are well connected. No matter which direction you come from in Chang'an, you can quickly complete the handover." Gu Xu looked at the building in the distance: "The contact point is placed outside the city, firstly to conceal it from others, and secondly to avoid the trouble of identity verification when entering and leaving the city."

"So you went straight to the South Gate without any hesitation." Gu Yue nodded repeatedly.

Gu Xu turned his horse around, and the two of them headed towards the buildings near the official road in the distance.

"If we want to hide the location, it's best to put it in the mountains and forests. However, it seems that all the trees outside the city have been cut down and turned into farmland." Gu Yue looked around.

The South Official Road is very wide, with many post stations and teahouses on both sides of the road, as well as various grain and wine shops. It is almost as prosperous as the city.

Seeing that he was staring at the restaurants and post stations, Gu Xu said, "Businesses like escort agencies usually don't enter large cities. And caravans have to pay business taxes when they enter the city."

"I see. Then the prices outside the city should be more expensive than inside the city, right?" Gu Yue said.

"Yes." Gu Xu nodded.

The two walked along the official road of the South Outer City for a while and saw a simple pharmacy in front of them.

"They are all selling medicine. Maybe they have some information. I'll go and ask around." Gu Yue said.

Gu Xu felt it carefully and found that there was nothing special about this medicine shop, so he nodded and said, "Be careful."

Gu Yue put on his hat, got off his horse, and walked to the drugstore.

"Sir, what medicine would you like to buy? Our shop is small, and we only have medicine for wounds and pills for relieving cold and heat." The waiter at the door came up to greet him.

"I heard that Baoshun Pharmacy in the city has a special detoxifying plaster, but for some reason they are not allowed into the city. Isn't this a branch?" Gu Yue asked.

"We are just an ordinary shop. How can we be compared with such a big place like Baoshun?" said the clerk.

"Which pharmacy is this?" Gu Yue asked.

"This is just a small shop I opened myself. How can it have any pharmacy background? Sir, you are flattering me." The waiter said with an apologetic smile.

Gu Yue walked to the door of the shop, and the waiter had no intention of stopping him. The adobe house was not big, and the whole picture could be seen at a glance. There was a medicine cabinet against the wall at the innermost part, and the top was full of bottles and wooden boxes.

"Your shop is really small." Gu Yue said.

"Yeah." The guy answered honestly.

Gu Yue went further in and walked to the middle of the room. Gu Xu stood still at the door. The waiter responded and squeezed into the room: "Sir, there is nothing in our room. The medicine is outside... What do you want?"

Gu Yue took a look at the medicine cabinet.

"Do you have any detoxifying ointment?" He turned around and walked out of the store.

"Yes, but it can only detoxify common poisons." The waiter bent down and picked up a wide-mouthed porcelain bottle from the stall in front of the door.

Gu Yue showed a bit of disdain on his face: "I heard that Baoshun Pharmacy has a branch in Nanwai City, but I searched all the way and only found your pharmacy."

The guy just smiled and said nothing.

The adobe houses on the official road were not row houses like those in the city, but were separated and independent. Gu Yue walked to the side of the medicine shop and took a look at the thickness of the house.

"How much is this jar? I want it." Gu Yue walked back to the waiter.

The man looked normal, with a perfectly happy expression on his face: "One hundred coins a jar."

"One hundred coins!" Gu Yue's first reaction was that it was a bit expensive. But Gu Xu beside him had already taken off his purse and was ready to pay, so he did not question it.

"Would you like to order anything else, sir?" asked the waiter.

"Do you know where the Baoshun branch is?" Gu Yue asked.

"I'm just a worker, how would I know all this?" the worker said timidly.

"You do not know?"

"I will not deceive you, sir..." The waiter looked helpless.

Gu Yue nodded.

He put away the ointment and returned to the horses with Gu Xu.

The two men remounted.

"What did you find?" Gu Xu asked in a low voice.

"This person is a bit strange, but I can't tell." Gu Yue frowned.

"I didn't see any suspicious people around this medicine shop." Gu Xu said. He was paying attention to the surroundings.

"Just think about what we have in the fried chicken shop in the martial arts hall." Gu Yue said.

There were people and cars coming and going on the road. They rode their horses slowly along the roadside, paying attention to the flags waving on the streets around them.

“…pots, pans, and utensils?” Gu Xu was stuck for once.

"…There were account books, boxes for silver and money, oil paper for packaging, and other odds and ends. The first thing that I felt was wrong was that the shop was too simple and had nothing in it. The walls were normal, with no hidden layers, but where were the pens, ink, and tables for accounting?"

Gu Yue said as he turned around. Less than a cup of tea after they walked out, the waiter had already sat down in front of the door again. When he saw Gu Yue turning around, he lowered his head in panic.

"He is still looking at us. Why don't we just catch him and question him?" Gu Yue felt even more that something was wrong.

Gu Xu motioned for him to look at both sides of the road.

"Did you see those people wearing brown riding and archery uniforms? They are the ones guarding the place." Gu Xu said, "The visibility on the official road is not as good as inside the town, so we can't just take action directly."

"Tsk." Gu Yue frowned, "Then we can only..."

"What do you want to do?" Gu Xu glanced sideways, "No, it's dangerous."

"Don't I have you?" Gu Yue smiled.

“……”Gu Xu had a bad feeling.

"What's that expression on your face? I believe you can do it. They're just a few minions." Gu Yue reached out and patted his shoulder, a look of trust on his face.

……

"Oh? What do those two people look like?" the second shopkeeper looked up and asked.

"They were wearing bamboo hats, so we couldn't see their faces clearly, but judging by the material of their clothes and the accent of the leader, they sounded like they were from Luoyang." The guard in riding and archery uniform said, "They were asking around for the location of the Baoshun Pharmacy branch outside the city."

"...The drugstore also sent a message saying that two suspicious guys came today and asked questions." The second shopkeeper closed the account book in his hand and frowned, "What's going on? Why did someone suddenly come from Luoyang? Could it be..."

"Could it be that he was sent by that great master?" the guard guessed.

"If he was a messenger sent by that lord, how could he not know the location and code of the stronghold?" The second shopkeeper paced back and forth in the room with sweat on his forehead.

He stopped suddenly and asked: "Did you ask anyone to keep an eye on it?"

"We have been following them." The guard said, "They have been wandering around the South Outer City for a long time and have no intention of leaving."

"…If there is a chance, arrest them both!" the second shopkeeper said in a panic, "Whether it's poison or some other method…remember, capture them alive, don't let these two die!"

"Yes!" The guard clasped his fists, turned and left.