Chapter 105: Hearing Ghosts Knocking on the Door in a Dream

  After a series of mechanical friction sounds, the white wall in front of Li Bai Cao slowly opened, revealing a secret room inside.

  The furnishings in the room were all too familiar to Shi Jin. It was here that he had been brought by Li Bai Cao after being wounded when they first broke into Huayin County. At that time, he had lain inside, injured, while Chen Da led his troops to rescue him and came in from outside to visit him. But now the situation was reversed: Chen Da lay heavily injured in the same place where Shi Jin had once lain, and it was Shi Jin's turn to come and visit him. And yet all this had happened in just a few days - sometimes fate is a mystery that no one can decipher.

  As the door opened completely, Shi Jin also came out of his memories, and met a pair of vigilant eyes, just like his own vigilance at that time.

  Chen Da saw that it was Shi Jin who had come to see him, and with a push of his arms, he struggled to get up. Shi Jin wouldn't let him move around, and hurriedly came forward to support him back onto the bed, saying in a pretended scolding tone: "Why be so polite? What's the point of getting up? Just rest and recover well, then we brothers can ride horses and fight again!"

  "I can now!" Chen Da immediately came to his senses and replied firmly. As he spoke, he also stood up as if wanting to show something to Shi Jin.

  "Third time's the charm!" Lei Baicao saw Chen Da wanting to get up again, and quickly came to the bedside, this time he was anxious, and pressed him back onto the bed with one hand.

  Shi Jin smiled and looked at him, knowing that Li Bai Cao was really worried about Chen Da. At this moment, Chen Da was indeed not in a good condition to recover from his injuries. So, before Li Bai Cao could continue to persuade him, he quickly comforted him by saying: "Good brother, don't force yourself anymore, with me here, everything will be fine, and besides, Meng Sen is injured at the moment, so it's impossible for him to take action personally for a while."

  Chen Da's heart suddenly lit up with joy, good for you Meng Sen, it's your turn to receive this retribution! That day he led his troops out and clashed with Yang Chun in a two-pronged attack, originally they could have succeeded, but because of Meng Du's sharp eyes like an old eagle, at the last moment, he saw through Chen Da's military direction. Not only did he not increase the number of soldiers in front of Chen Da's charge, but instead opened up an even bigger net. Meng Du's military genius lay in his thorough understanding of the coordination and strengths and weaknesses between different types of troops, let alone whether Chen Da and Yang Chun could meet up and break through together. Just the two thousand archers that Meng Du later dispatched to reinforce his troops were enough to shatter Chen Da's beautiful dream with a hail of arrows, almost letting Yang Chun be surrounded and captured by the government army as well. And it was at that time that Chen Da was shot off his horse by a flurry of arrows, if not for his brother who followed closely behind him sacrificing himself to save him, then he would have really lost his life there.

  Meng Duzi was also injured, and Chen Da's heart not only balanced but also felt very pleased. He couldn't help but ask for details: "Brother, you avenged me well! Quickly, tell me carefully how that scoundrel suffered."

  "Meng Sen was injured, but it wasn't by my hand. To be honest, I'm quite ashamed..." Shi Jin shook his head and sighed.

  Lei Baicao knew that the following would lead to Wu Sanlang's life for a life, and Wu Sanlang was mixed with Chen Da all the way out. The feelings were very good. If he heard now that Wu Sanlang was dead, how could he be happy in his heart? Not to mention taking care of his illness. So Lei Baicao kept making eyes at Shi Jin during Shi Jin's sighs, but unexpectedly Shi Jin turned his head away and didn't see anything.

  "It was Wu Song who injured him. At that time, I just took advantage of the government troops being leaderless and led the soldiers to chase and kill them, and caught a cheap one." Shi Jin actually knew in his heart, deliberately avoiding mentioning Wu Song's death in the enemy formation.

  However, the more Shi Jin avoided it, the more curious Chen Da became. Especially since his own brother, whom he had personally trained, had severely injured Meng Sen, he couldn't quite believe it and secretly felt a sense of pride. Chen Da's face began to flush with excitement as he questioned Shi Jin, who was originally beaming with joy but pretended to look extremely disdainful: "How did Wu Sanlang injure Meng Sen? I really don't believe it."

  Shi Jin's eyes stared at the ground in front of him, his gaze wandering along the pattern on the floor, and he really didn't know how to answer this inappropriate question. But hiding like this wasn't going to work either.

  Just as Shi Jin was hesitating, Li Baicao suddenly spoke up and said: "Third Master, this is not the time to talk about that now. Eldest Master has come not only to see you, but also for something more urgent."

  "What's more important? Is... " Chen Da's concern for Huayin County was immediately taken advantage of by Li Baicao, and this suddenly shifted the topic that had just been discussed to a completely different direction.

  Shi Jin immediately understood and made an excuse: "Although Meng Sen is currently injured, a big disturbance has occurred in Huayin County."

  "What a mess!" Chen Da became even more anxious.

  "The water in the well has been poisoned, and many people in the city have been poisoned. If it's not stopped in time, the poison will spread, and I'm afraid that within ten days, there won't be a single living person left in this city."

  "Bai Cao, you'd better think of a solution quickly." Chen Da looked at Lei Bai Cao with full of hope.

  But Li Baicao didn't dare to meet his gaze, and could only helplessly sigh: "I can't cure this corpse poison, and the 'Shun Tian Book' that recorded the prescription is also gone."

  "Ah?" Chen Da was startled, his tiger eyes widened to the extreme, he paused before continuing: "The 'Shun Tian Book', isn't that the one your master gave you?"

  "It was that book, but now it's gone without a trace, it must have been stolen. And I think the person who stole the book and the person who poisoned are probably the same person or the same group of people, or there is some unclear connection between the two groups. But for now, the only ones in this besieged city who can stir up trouble are those two big families, and the most suspicious one right now is the Huang family." Shi Jin looked at Chen Da's anxious expression and continued Lei Bai Cao's words, summarizing the situation. Shi Jin looked at Chen Da's slightly furrowed brow and continued: "Now, I want to know if you've noticed anything unusual while being here, for example..."

  Chen Daxiao understood Shi Jin's meaning and continued his words, saying: "For example, is there any sound of footsteps on the roof? This... really isn't, this yard except for the patient's painful moans coming from the front yard, nothing else can be heard. However..."

  Shi Jin and Li Bai Cao's hearts, which had just fallen, were hooked up again by Chen Da's "however". Two pairs of bright eyes stared straight at Chen Da's face, expecting him to provide some earth-shattering clues.

  "But I did hear a ghost knocking on the door in my dream..."