A Western Doctor's Happy Farming Life

Chapter 305: Snatch

Translator: LiamHW

The blacksmith, however, seized the chance and burst out crying before Song Qinghan react to explain, “It’s my fault, it’s my fault, Lords, please forgive me and don’t submit the case to the official court, I still have a family to feed and they can’t leave me…”

Wu Dahu was confused and glanced at Song Qinghan subconsciously. Song Qinghan gestured for him to have an operation position. He then sighed out of relief as he saw Wu Dahu seemed to understand what he meant, and then he looked down at the blacksmith who was crying with snot and tears. He now believe that such a poor guy might not have that thought to steal something like that, and he said in a low voice, “Tell us more information and details about the robber’s characteristics, the more detailed the better. If we are able to catch him, we will let it go. Well, if you just fabricate one, and we fail to investigate, you will see what’s going to happen on you…”

“I will confess, I will confess!”

The blacksmith cried pitifully before Song Qinghan finished his statement.

After he cried out like that, he paused for a moment and seemed to be recalling something in his mind. And then he spoke again hesitantly, “He is a bearded guy, so I failed to see his face clearly, I just remember that he got a pair of big eyes, just like a pair of bronze bell…”

Seeing Song Qinghan frowning, he quickly added, “Be… besides, he is kind of tall, half a head taller than this lord I suppose, and he looked rather stern with an imposing temperament. In addition, he got a first-rate quality dress. Even though it was not the fabric we are able to find in this area, it is some kind of material that is expensive. That was why I did not choose to go to the official court to get the justice…”

Song Qinghan closed his eyes and thought for a moment and, according to the blacksmith’s description, an image of fierce and beast-like barbarian popped up in his mind.

If such a person appeared in front of them, they would never forget it even at just a glance, so the only possibility for this event was that they had never met someone like that. But why would an unknown guy rob their scalpel kit then?

By thinking of this, he opened his eyes and responded in a low voice, “Did he only claim that he owned the scalpel kit? What else did he say? Tell us every detail.”

The blacksmith held his chin and thought about it, while his other hand unconsciously rubbed the corner of his shirt and he answered slowly, “He just came in and grabbed that knife kit from me and robbed it away, and claimed that he owned that stuff and it was stolen recently, and the stuff finally returned to its rightful owner. As for the other information he delivered, nothing, and after that he just turned around and left.”

Returned to its rightful owner? Song Qinghan failed to find any information from this statement, and he just frowned tight and looked at Wu Dahu.

Wu Dahu didn’t seem to be able to hear any clues as well, yet he still tried to suggest, “Or maybe we should report this case to the official court? It will be so hard for us to find the culprit based on such a useless clue.”

The blacksmith seemed to have come back to his senses. He was obviously deceived just now. It turned out that the duo right in front of him was the rightful owner of that scalpel kit, so that they wouldn’t be afraid to report the case to the official court. But if they were to report, they’d better have the ability to find the robber, if they failed to catch the culprit, this blacksmith might be the one who should take the full responsibility and get the severe punishment.

After recognizing this fact, he closed his eyes and cried in carelessness while murmuring as if he was talking nonsense, “Lords, maybe you should go search first, probably we can meet him halfway? Please don’t report the case! If you report it to the official court, I might be punished to death, I don’t want to die…”

Song Qinghan laughed angrily again and he said mercilessly, “Ha, you don’t want to die? But do you know how many people will die without that kit of scalpels? Since your life is precious, what about the others’?”

The blacksmith’s crying cease abruptly, he opened his eyes wide as two sides of his cheek were without a drop of tear. Obviously, he was just pretending to cry.

In fact, he had never thought about the seriousness of that stuff. Was it so important? People would really die without it?

Seeing that Song Qinghan’s expression was not fake at all, the blacksmith suddenly became panicked as his face was full of complexed emotion, and then he gritted his teeth, saying, “I will make you another kit! And will never stop making it unless you are satisfied with it! You are here to change another set of those knives anyway. If I am able to produce a kit the same as the previous one, you won’t report to the official court, will you?”

Song Qinghan calmed down a bit as the blacksmith seemed to have found the best solution to solve this issue, and then he answered peacefully, “Alright then, start making it now. If you succeed making another kit of it, you won’t be investigate anymore and I won’t accuse you. But as for that bearded man, I will.”

The blacksmith paused and didn’t care about the second half of Song Qinghan’s statement. He just cared about himself and his whole family, as for the others, it was none of his business.

Song Qinghan walked out of the iron shop and scanned the surroundings with a gloomy expression.

He indeed really wished that he could meet the so-called bearded man at the corner so that he could catch him. However, as the fact always turned out to be in the opposite side, the so-called bearded man wouldn’t be that stupid and, obviously, he wouldn’t meet this family at any corner.

Besides, he was kind of confused about the motives of the bearded man. It would be more reasonable if someone stole coins and some other valuable stuff, but what was the point to steal the scalpel kit? If he robbed it in order to murder someone, that would be foolish not to rob the other fine dagger in that iron shop but the smaller-sized scalpel kit instead.

If the bearded man was to shift the blame of murdering case onto Song Qinghan, well, that would be more impossible unless he killed the blacksmith by the way so that all the insiders would have vanished from this world. And if Song Qinghan reported the case immediately to the official court, he would never be suspected by the officials to be related to any murder case caused by that scalpel kit.

So overall, this seemed to be just an accident.

However, when they went back to the cow stall and tried to get the milch cow out from the place, he finally realized that it was not an accident at all.

All the milch cows and milch sheep as well as the sellers who sold them vanished without reason. There left no one and no animal but the empty stall.

There was no one to ask around at the same time. Due to the annoying smell of cows and sheep, other sellers refused to make their stalls closer to this one. As for the pedestrians, they were very mobile. The pedestrians who were here just now had already gone nowhere, so even if they wanted to find one, they had no idea to search anyway.

Song Qinghan and Wu Dahu exchanged glances at the spot, both of them realized the strangeness among this event.

“Someone seems to provoke the disharmony again.”

Seeing Song Qinghan saying so dubiously, Wu Dahu did not nod nor did he shake his head, but he answered in uncertainty, “We can draw such a conclusion right now and assume something like that before the event is successfully investigated. After all, these two events happening in a row are too coincident.”

Snatching their scalpel kit wouldn’t be so bothering to them because those scalpels were portable to carry, but snatching their milch cow? That was just…

Nothing was reasonable though because even if someone was anxious to acquire all the milch cows and sheep in such a short time, he should get a time to bargain, or at least had a time to make a meticulous selection on the breed. It must be insane for the man to purchase all the cows and sheep without reason.

Song Qinghan glanced at the rice and noodles in their hands and consoled himself, “Fortunately, there’s still something that hasn’t been snatched away. They can’t at least buy everything in the Xingyue City to upset us, right?”

Something seemed to have occurred to Wu Dahu in his mind as his expression started to shift into a strange one, and he uttered in a slow manner, “They can’t buy everything in the Xingyue City, but they are able to snatch the place we are about to get all these stuff loaded…”