A carriage was speeding along the official road.

The official road was rugged and uneven, with no carriages or horses, and no one around. When the carriage drove into the side covered by the mountains, it stopped and two masked men in black jumped out of the carriage.

The two looked around, looked at each other, and nodded.

They got back into the carriage, and after a moment, they carried down a man covered in blood and threw him on the ground. Then they forced two sturdy men, also covered in blood and with their hands tied with ropes, off the train.

Without further ado, the two men in black got back on the carriage. The horses whinnied and dragged the carriage away.

The man covered in blood on the ground was unconscious, but the two tied men were still in good spirits.

Shi Si knelt beside He Gui and shouted anxiously, "Old He! Old He!"

He Gui's lips were pale, his eyes were closed, and he didn't move.

"Fuck it, they just threw the guy down like that, hoping we wouldn't survive!" Shi Wu cursed. He moved his body, turned his back to Shi Si, put their hands together, and tried to untie the rope.

Shi Si cooperated, and after the two of them struggled for a long time, the ropes on their hands loosened.

"He Gui!" Seeing that He Gui showed no signs of waking up, Shi Si was extremely anxious, "We have to find a doctor right away."

"They took everything away and we have no money," said Shi Wu.

"You can't just wait to die in this wilderness." Shi Si lifted He Gui's arm and tried to drag him up and carry him on his back.

He Gui coughed twice and slowly opened his eyes.

Shi Si was overjoyed, and quickly laid the man down again, leaning closer to take a closer look: "Lao He? What happened? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." He Gui said weakly, "It's just a superficial wound. I need to drink some water now."

Shi Wu volunteered: "I'll go find some water!"

He Gui forced himself to say, "No, cough cough cough... Don't be alone."

Shi Si said, "I'll help you. Can you still walk? Are your legs and feet injured?"

He Gui shook his head, supported himself on Shi Si's arm and slowly stood up from the ground.

After simply determining the direction, the three of them supported themselves and walked into the mountain. The most urgent task now was to find some water so that they could treat their injuries.

He Gui had sobered up a lot. He asked, "Why are we here?"

Shi Wu rushed to answer: "The gang said that the three of us didn't seem to have touched the core and were no longer valuable, so they didn't want to keep us locked up and waste food, so they let us go."

He Gui moved slowly, lowering his eyes and thinking.

"They actually treated you so harshly!" Shi Wu carefully supported him and cursed: "Come after us brothers if you dare. It's nothing to embarrass a scholar!"

Shi Si said, "What do you know? Old He looks smarter than the two of us, and he's the steward of the Bo's Mansion, so the focus must be on him."

He Gui smiled weakly: "Fortunately, Boss Gu didn't tell me anything, otherwise I would have confessed."

When Gu Yue was mentioned, the three of them fell silent.

Shi Wu's eyes turned red, and he asked, "Is Boss Gu...really dead?"

Shi Si said nothing. He saw clearly that Boss Gu was shot by an arrow and blood was flowing from the corner of his mouth. He Gui had just received the signal and did not have time to shoot the special arrow.

He Gui said: "The situation is unclear now, so we should not speculate."

Shi Si said: "Let's go back to Luoyang now."

Shi Wu followed up and agreed: "Yes, let's go back to the Bo's Mansion. If Boss Gu is safe and sound, we can see him when we come back. If not, we can still..."

"Shut up." He Gui interrupted Shi Wu who was about to say something.

Shi Wu quickly shut up and looked at him in confusion.

He Gui shook his head.

Shi Si used his eyes to stop his brother, and the three of them supported each other and walked for a while in the mountains, finally coming to a small river.

Without a container, they helped He Gui to the river bank.

The three men drank some water using bowls made from their hands, and then tore off some pieces of clothing to clean their wounds and bandage them up.

He Gui said, "Please find a suitable place to light a fire. We can't move forward today. I need to think carefully about the situation."

Shi Si and Shi Wu nodded and picked up some branches and dead leaves nearby.

He Gui slowly recalled what he had experienced over the past ten days.

Boss Gu's plan should have nothing missing. The armor and arrows were enough to create a fake death, not to mention the jade token to attract everyone's attention.

But he was still shot, the blood in his mouth was not what he had planned, and his face looked like he had been severely injured. Why? The armor, could it be fake?

He Gui thought that the armor must be real, but was secretly replaced by someone, which caused Boss Gu to be hurt.

The archer should be the one who secretly replaced the armor, but the plan was only known to a few of them, and Boss Gu never wrote down the details of the plan, so how did the details leak out?

He Gui looked at the two brothers Shi Si and Shi Wu who were carefully picking up firewood over there.

No, it won't be them.

He Gui shook his head. They were from the same pawnbroker business, so their backgrounds were clear. During the years they had been with Boss Gu, their whereabouts were clear and transparent, and there was no possibility of them being bribed.

He Gui believed that he was very good at judging people, and he knew very well that Shi Si and Shi Wu were pure in nature.

So, it’s Shi San?

But Shi San is Boss Gu's true confidant, otherwise he would not have given Shi San the most important task of picking him up. Besides, if he wanted to kill Boss Gu, Shi San had too many opportunities, so why wait until now?

Who was he trying to frame? However, the two forces present were uncontrollable, so it was easy for Shi San to manipulate them. And there was Wu Huo running behind him. It was Shi San's job to give him the knockout drug. If he controlled the dosage and let Wu Huo see that scene...

He Gui leaned against the tree trunk and looked at the increasingly dark sky. Shi Si and Shi Wu had already started a fire and were considering whether to get some food.

"Roasting food might attract wild beasts. How do you feel? Can you still hold on? We'd better survive this night." He Gui said.

Shi Si and Shi Wu nodded, not knowing what decision they had made, but He Gui fell into deep thought again.

Who arrested them? They interrogated them for ten days, but then released them without any hesitation. It was really strange.

There are two possibilities. One possibility is that Boss Gu is dead and no one will support these three small characters anymore, so as Shi Wu said, they are left to fend for themselves.

The second possibility... they believe that they are a tough guy who knows something, and want to follow them to see what tricks Boss Gu has behind the scenes.

He Gui paused when he thought of this.

"Shi Si and Shi Wu, come here," he said.

The two brothers walked up to him, two similar concerned faces stretched out to him.

He Gui whispered, "Next, we need to speak quietly. Don't look around, as someone may be following us."

A cold breeze rustled in the woods.

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