A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 393: Madam Honghua's character has not changed, the flower thief gets his retribution

"Boss, still no trace!"

After the Jing'an City detectives had been searching outside the city for over an hour without success, four of them came to Captain Peng and reported.

"Where is that young brother?" Captain Peng sighed helplessly, then he reacted and looked around and asked hurriedly.

"I saw him going over there alone." One of the detectives raised his hand and pointed to the mountains in the distance that were faintly visible in the moonlight, and continued.

"Why don't you stop him? It will be very dangerous for him to be alone." Captain Peng frowned immediately, glanced at the constable, and was about to rush towards the mountain with a knife in hand. Miss Si Yao was in trouble, and he didn't want the medicine boy to get into trouble too.

“Ah~Ah~Ah~”

At this moment, several shrill screams were faintly heard in the darkness. Although they were far away, Captain Peng outside the city and the detectives behind him could hear them clearly.

"Head, it seems to be coming from the mountain in front." The constable pointed forward again and reported.

"Go up the mountain!" Upon hearing this, Captain Peng waved his right arm and immediately led his men straight to the mountain.

At the same time, following his intuition, the person who was almost at the foot of the mountain path heard the screams and rushed up the mountain resolutely.

Si Yao, who also heard the scream, went back into the cave and saw the scholar in white covering his face and rolling on the ground, still screaming.

"What did you do?" Si Yao turned around and saw Madam Honghua washing her hands leisurely by the fountain, and asked hurriedly.

“Humph, I thought the man who dared to bully you was a powerful figure, but it turns out he is just a useless guy. His only skill is running over rooftops and walls. He must flee if he can’t win. Am I not worried about you outside? So I sprinkled a handful of poison powder on him in a hurry.” Madam Honghua stood up calmly and smiled at Si Yao as if nothing had happened. Then she glanced at the scholar who was still in agony on the ground, and said with a look of watching a show, “This poison powder is very powerful. Once it touches a person, it will be as painful as being burned. Alas, such a handsome face is ruined like this. Maybe his eyes will be blinded too. Tsk tsk, what a pity!”

Seeing the woman in front of him still poisoning people for fun, Si Yao couldn't help but frowned slightly, then asked: "Is there an antidote?"

She naturally did not sympathize with the flower thief, but she thought that since he could be brought to justice, there should be no lynching, especially since she was using such a terrible poison to torture people.

"Isn't this good? He's blind and ugly, let's see if he dares to bully girls everywhere in the future!" Madam Honghua glanced at Si Yao, crossed her arms and curled her lips in dissatisfaction.

"His face and eyes have been burned by the poison powder. Even with an antidote, it would probably be difficult to recover, right?" Si Yao continued to ask seriously.

Madam Honghua smiled but said nothing. It was just as Si Yao said, even if there was an antidote, the scholar would become blind and ugly from now on.

However, ever since she had a big fight with Lao Zhou at Li's Mansion and left angrily, Madam Honghua had been holding a grudge and had not let it out. Tonight, she finally caught a thief, and hearing his painful screams, she felt indescribably relieved. Of course, she wanted to delay it a little longer.

"I was kidnapped from the county government office by this flower-stealing thief today. The county magistrate of Jing'an City must be furious. If I guess correctly, there are soldiers everywhere in and outside Jing'an City. His screams must have been heard several miles away. It won't be long before the soldiers find this place..."

"How come you're in cahoots with the government after not seeing you for several months?" Mrs. Honghua felt disappointed when she heard that the soldiers were coming, so without waiting for Si Yao to finish speaking, she handed a two-color pill to the other party and ridiculed him with a sneer.

Si Yao ignored Madam Honghua's sarcasm and walked straight to the scholar, put the pill in his hand, and said calmly: "This is the antidote. If you detoxify, you won't be in so much pain."

The scholar swallowed the pill impatiently. Soon, he calmed down. However, he still didn't dare to raise his head to face Si Yao. Instead, he trembled all over and said timidly, "Thank you, young lady."

"Those who do evil will eventually perish. You have harmed so many girls and this is your retribution." Si Yao stood up, looked at the scholar on the ground coldly and said indifferently.

"Sister Si Yao!" As soon as Si Yao finished speaking, Xiaolu's excited voice came from the cave entrance.

He ran all the way up the mountain, but found that the top of the mountain was empty. Calmly, he followed the sound and found the cave in the cliff. He happened to hear Si Yao's voice and couldn't help but be ecstatic.

"Captain, the screams have stopped?" But when Captain Peng and his men climbed up the mountain, the screams suddenly stopped.

"Hurry, search everywhere!" Captain Peng wiped the sweat from his face, cursed inwardly, and then gave the order.

"Captain, we've searched everywhere, but there's no one there." After a while, a constable came up to Captain Peng and reported.

"Strange, the sound just now clearly came from here." Captain Peng looked around, puzzled.

"Boss... no... is it a ghost?" The constable suddenly bent over with a look of fear on his face and whispered to Constable Peng. However, as soon as he finished speaking, he was hit on the back of his head by Constable Peng:

"What nonsense are you talking about? How many years have you been a detective? How many dead people have you seen? How dare you still believe this nonsense?"

"Yes, yes, what you said is absolutely right." The constable touched the back of his head and nodded repeatedly, saying with a smile.

"Boss, there are footprints here!" At this time, a constable who was holding a torch and checking the edge of the cliff suddenly shouted to Captain Peng.

Then a group of people followed Captain Peng and rushed forward. All the footprints were heading towards the cliff. Captain Peng looked at the dark bottom of the cliff and felt dizzy. He didn't believe that the thief escaped here.

"Boss, these vines seem to be worn."

But what the constable said afterwards shocked Captain Peng. So this is how it would go.

"Go to the foot of the mountain and look for clues!"

Captain Peng once again led his men in a hurry down the mountain.

"Sister Si Yao, are you okay?" Xiao Lu came to Si Yao and asked anxiously.

"I'm fine." Seeing Xiaolu, Si Yao was surprised and happy, but he soon realized that it must be the screams of the flower thief that attracted him.

"You bastard..." Seeing Sister Si Yao smiling at him calmly, Xiao Lu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Then he glanced at the white-clothed scholar still lying on the ground and couldn't help but get furious. With a sullen face, he raised his fist and cursed, but was stopped by Si Yao:

"Forget it, he has already received his retribution, we just need to hand him over to the authorities."

"That's right. If you want to beat him to death, don't blame me." Madam Honghua, who was already sitting in front of the stone table, yawned and smiled lazily.

"It's you, the poison..."

"Ok?"

Hearing the woman's voice, Xiaolu remembered the previous grudge between him and the woman in the southwest. He was about to curse her but saw a dangerous look in her eyes, so he shut up immediately.

Of course he was not afraid of this vicious woman, but he had finally found Sister Si Yao, and he didn't know what had just happened. He couldn't act impulsively and implicate Sister Si Yao again.

"Xiaolu, don't misunderstand. It was only thanks to Madam Honghua's timely appearance that I was rescued from this flower thief." Seeing that Xiaolu seemed to be hostile to Madam Honghua, Si Yao hurriedly explained.

Hearing that it was this vicious woman who saved Sister Si Yao, Xiao Lu was surprised but also relaxed his vigilance. He bowed to Madam Honghua reluctantly and thanked her: "Thank you Madam for rescuing me."

"Hmph, I saved my sister Si Yao, what does it have to do with you? Why are you thanking me?" Madam Honghua snorted coldly.

Xiaolu almost died when he heard this, but thinking of the fact that this woman had saved Sister Si Yao, he suppressed his anger.

Seeing Xiaolu gritting his teeth in anger, Madam Honghua became proud instead.

"By the way, I haven't asked Madam why you came here? Is Miss Yanyu feeling better?" After a moment's silence, Si Yao remembered and asked Madam Honghua curiously.

"Of course I came here to look for you because of my sister, but there are too many people here and it's not a place to talk." Mrs. Honghua then put away the teasing and smile on her face, sighed lightly, glanced at the other two people in the cave, and said with some disgust.

After leaving Qile City, she headed south and passed by Jing'an City at dusk. She had always been a loner and didn't like staying in inns, so she found this mountain.

After witnessing a scholar in white jump off the cliff and disappear in mid-air, Madam Honghua curiously groped for a vine in the moonlight and slowly walked down the cliff. When she reached about three meters, she was surprised to find a cave in the cliff. Naturally, she saw Si Yao who was abducted by the thieves.

Si Yao knew that Madam Honghua must have something important to tell her, but the current matter had not been resolved yet and the flower thief had not yet been sent to the authorities.

"Forget it. One more night won't make a difference. I'll wait on this mountain. Remember to come up to find me after daybreak." Seeing Si Yao's embarrassment, Madam Honghua also felt sleepy, so she yawned again, looked at the stone bed beside her and smiled.

Si Yao was a little surprised to see that Madam Honghua was so considerate this time, but she didn't say anything else.

After bidding farewell to Madam Honghua on the mountain, Si Yao, Xiaolu and the flower thief went down the mountain and walked towards Jing'an City.