Chapter 224： tied back with the child

Chapter 224 Tie it back with the child

Chu Nanzhi squeezed her nose tightly and immediately lifted her head up from the salt well, looked around carefully, and found that there were still some fragments of bamboo rafts and brine buckets scattered not far away.

She walked over to pick up a piece of brittle brine bucket, took it to the nose and smelled it, and there was still that unpleasant smell.

Looking at the surrounding deep mud, she probably understood what was going on in her heart, and quickly asked: "Laifu, Peng Dianshi, do you know if there are any other mines nearby besides the salt well? "

Peng Pai frowned and thought carefully.

Ma Laifu thought for a while, and immediately replied: "There is a smelting site two miles upstream of Majia Village, which is mainly responsible for metallurgy and iron casting. It is said that when we fought with the Dongsang people, it was still a place for casting weapons."

Chu Nanzhi suddenly became enlightened, and finally understood why the salt produced here could eat dead people.

The villagers of Niujia Village did not die from any plague at the beginning, but they died from excessive salt poisoning boiled in the salt well after long-term use.

Excitedly, she ran to the edge of a swamp where the stream merged, took some accumulated sewage and smelled it, and the disgusting rusty smell of iron came to her nostrils instantly.

Taking the handkerchief and wiping her hands, she pointed to the mud, and began to speak to everyone in detail:

"Look, this is the downstream area of ​​the smelting plant. The sewage from the smelting plant must have flowed directly through this place without being treated. However, the terrain of Niujia Village is relatively low-lying, and the sewage cannot flow out. It can only seep slowly underground. The more it penetrates, the more it combines with the brine used to cook the salt in the ground, and it boils out poisonous table salt."

As for the industrial salt, she has no way to explain it to everyone. She can only euphemistically say it is poisonous salt.

"This kind of salt is different from those crude private salts, and is highly poisonous. If my prediction is correct, the salt used for the meals that everyone ate in the inn that day must have been mined from this poisonous well."

As soon as Chu Nanzhi finished speaking, Peng Pai frowned and slowly stroked his beard and asked softly: "But as far as I know, all the salt wells here have been sealed up and abandoned for more than 20 years. Where did the poisonous salt in the post come from?" come here?"

Seeing his puzzled face, Chu Nanzhi looked at Ma Laifu with a meaningful smile: "Laifu, you said that you and Zhu Xiancheng went to Majia Village to inquire about the origin of the private salt, did you find out something?"

"I don't know the specifics."

Ma Laifu pinched his chin in deep thought: "However, brother Zhu suspected that there is indeed a problem with the salt well over there. Last time when we parted, he said that he would let me go with him again when we figured out the cause, but who knew that he would encounter such a disaster. He was killed."

Chu Nanzhi nodded thoughtfully, guessing that Zhu Yue must have found some clues, which is why he was murdered.

Afterwards, she looked at Peng Pai again, and then asked: "Peng Dianshi, the former Qian Xiancheng, can you be sure that someone's throat was cut after death?"

"I'm sure."

Peng Pai said firmly: "Although I haven't been an author for a long time, the case of Qian Xiancheng was sentenced to be killed by a knife. However, I inspected the wounds of the deceased. If someone cut his throat before he was alive, it would definitely cause bleeding. The lower part of the body was shrunken, but the next inspection found that the throat of Qian Xiancheng's corpse was swollen and wide, and there was clotted dirty blood attached to the knife wound."

"This is indeed a sign of poisoning."

Chu Nanzhi frowned and nodded.

This industrial salt toxin cannot be detected with silver needles, evidenced by knife wounds, and what happened in Niujia Village was classified as a plague by the government, so everyone naturally only thinks that someone died by cutting their throats.

Leading everyone back to the entrance of the village, Chu Nanzhi asked Ma Laifu while walking: "Laifu, how many villages does the water downstream of the smelter flow through?"

"Just Majia Village and Niujia Village."

Ma Laifu replied seriously: "However, most people in Majia Village don't use the water in that river on weekdays."

"Well, how many salt wells are there in Majia Village?"

"There is only one place."

Ma Laifu smiled stiffly: "The cost of well salt is high, and most of the private salt factories are concentrated near Sanghai, and the well salt around the county town is probably only there, and it has long been included in the government's name."

"Oops."

Thinking of the salt in the posthouse, Chu Nanzhi faintly had a bad thought.

The salt well here has been sealed up for many years. The poisonous salt that flowed into the post house could only be produced there. She was afraid that someone would destroy the evidence, so she immediately shouted at Li Sanmu:

"Li Langjun, you divide the people under your command into three groups. The first route escorts Kang Mingtang and others back to the county government office, and the second route goes to the post house to quickly control the cooks and handymen in the back kitchen. The rest are up to me. Let’s go to Majia Village together to seal the salt well.”

"Yes."

Li Sanmu immediately assigned people, and the group divided into three groups and set off from Niujia Village to their respective destinations.

Sanghai Sea in the southeast of Haikang County

Several sailboats were mooring quietly in the shoal, and a green young man on the shore was ecstatically watching the waves rolled up in the distance, and from time to time he covered his chest with his hands and let out a slight cough.

Hearing the sound of footsteps coming from behind him, he casually turned sideways and glanced at the group of people who were rushing over, his melancholy expression immediately turned, revealing a look of relief.

"His Royal Highness, I have already shot and killed all the men in black, and the government servants dealt with them on the way. The head of the Kang family also handed over to that lady Chu."

"Well, it worked out pretty well."

There was a wicked smile on the corner of the young man's mouth: "Sixth Uncle, this is not in Shita City, why bother to be so out of touch."

"Jing Chen, since it was Lady Chu who saved you, why don't you thank her face to face?"

Uncle Sixth Xie changed his tone, looked at Xie Jingchen who was still weak, and said with a puzzled expression.

"No need."

Xie Jingchen responded lightly.

Uncle Xie Liu looked at him secretly for a moment, as if he had noticed something, he speculated, "Jing Chen, you don't like that little lady, do you?"

"Talky."

"If you like it, take her back to Stone Tart City."

Uncle Xie Liu is full of sincerity and gives advice seriously.

Xie Jingchen sighed lightly, he never thought about it, but: "She already has a husband."

Uncle Xie Liu patted his chest, showing a disapproving expression: "Whatever you are afraid of, you are the future emperor of our Baiyu ten clans, and one day when my army invades Jingling City, the whole world will be yours, let alone she has a husband, Even if you have children, Sixth Uncle will ask someone to tie you back to Shita City."

"Uncle Liu, what do you know? Uncle Liu is still so superficial at this age."

Xie Jingchen scoffed angrily, then continued to look at the coastline in the distance, Wen Shenshen whispered: "The best way to like things is often to stand in the distance and appreciate them quietly, so as to maintain their beauty .”

"Cough, Uncle Six doesn't understand the thoughts of you young people. Uncle Six only knows how to be loyal to your father, and will continue to be loyal to you in the future."

Uncle Sixth Xie looked at him deeply, and said earnestly: "Go back earlier, you see that you insisted on coming this time, and made yourself so embarrassed, Master Xiangguo should blame you again when you go back. Fortunately, there is."

At this point, Uncle Xie Liu suddenly stopped.

He really didn't understand what His Highness the Crown Prince was thinking. Xiangguo's daughter Li Shiyao was so devoted to him that he refused to accept him, and insisted on going to the enemy country to provoke a woman from the village.

"Let's go, board the ship."

After Xie Jingchen finished speaking, he ignored him and walked towards the boat lonely.

(end of this chapter)