Feng Qiao had sensed from Ge Qian's words just now that these people were wrong, and she didn't try to step forward to cause unnecessary trouble. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

She stopped about ten paces away from those people and said to them: "I'm sorry for what happened just now, it has affected you, if there is any damage to your goods, I will compensate them in full." ”

Those people didn't expect Feng Qiao to open his mouth to apologize, and they were all slightly stunned.

Among them, the middle-aged man who seemed to be the leader breathed a sigh of relief on his face, stepped forward and hugged his fist at Feng Qiao and said, "Thank you Miss for your understanding, but don't need it, it's not a valuable thing." ”

Feng Qiao saw that the man's words were concise, and he didn't want to talk to anyone more, so she didn't say much, just nodded at the man, turned around and prepared to leave with Ji Jiu.

Who knew that at this moment, a gust of wind blew, and rolled up the corner of the tarpaulin on the ground over there, revealing what was covered under the tarpaulin.

Feng Qiao smelled a faintly strange smell at the tip of his nose, his eyes froze, and he subconsciously looked over there, and saw the gray-black powder exposed under the oilcloth.

Is that......

"Brush!"

The middle-aged man on the opposite side saw Feng Qiao's gaze fall on the oilcloth, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull the oil together with a nervous expression, but he inadvertently kicked a piece of something under his feet, and the thing rolled towards Feng Qiao with a grunt and stopped at Feng Qiao's feet.

Feng Qiao tilted his head slightly and looked at the thing on the ground, it was a white stone of irregular size, the lines on the stone were messy, faintly with a dull yellow color, and the colorless place was a little transparent.

She curiously picked it up and put it in front of her to take a closer look, and the people on the other side were all nervous when they saw this, and the middle-aged man unconsciously clenched his fists.

"What is this, such a strange stone?"

The middle-aged man saw Feng Qiao's eyes curious, as if he had never seen that thing at all, his hand loosened a little, and he walked over quickly and said with a smile: "This is saltpeter for ice making, my lord wants to build an ice cellar, but the ice hidden in the surrounding areas of Beijing every year must be supplied to His Majesty and the nobles first, so I found some saltpeter and came back, ready to make ice by myself according to the method in the history of the wild." ”

"This is saltpeter, but how can this be made into ice?" Feng Qiao's eyes widened.

The man said, "This saltpeter absorbs heat when it is placed in water, and it will not be long before the water freezes exactly like the ice dug up in the winter cellar." ”

Feng Qiao seemed to hear this statement for the first time, his eyes were very curious, and he played with the stone in his hand and said to the middle-aged man: "I have seen the method of making ice from saltpeter in some miscellaneous books before, but I have never tried it, I wonder if my uncle can sell me a piece of this stone and let me go back and try it?"

"This ......"

The middle-aged man looked at Feng Qiao with some hesitation, seeing that she had a pair of big eyes, looking at him delicately, and put his hands on his chest, protecting the stone was the same as protecting a rare thing, and only after a while did he say helplessly: "Okay, Miss just talked to the county lord, and it can be regarded as a favor for the villains, so that I don't wait for the anger of the unruly county lord, and this stone villain will be the master and send it to Miss." ”

"The villain doesn't want any money, but the young lady must not say it, this saltpeter is not easy to come by, we don't have much, if my lord knows that the villain will give away, he will blame the villain. ”

Feng Qiao nodded hurriedly and said happily: "No, no, I definitely won't say it, thank you, uncle." ”

When the middle-aged man saw Feng Qiao playing with the stones in his hand lovingly, and was helped by the maid beside him to get into the carriage, he was still whispering excitedly, and when he went back, he tried to make ice, and his eyes were completely relaxed.

After Feng Qiao got into the carriage and Ge Qian threw his horsewhip and drove away, the people who were originally standing in front of those boxes breathed a sigh of relief, and one of them walked up to the middle-aged man and said in a low voice: "My lord, that child seems to have seen something just now, but do you want to go down and check her identity?"

"No need, it's just a little girl who doesn't know anything, she can know Qin Feng, and dare to talk to the county lord of Zhaoping like that, I'm afraid the identity is not simple. The master's affairs are at a critical juncture, so don't make any extraneous complications. ”

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he looked at the things on the ground that were covered with oilcloth and said in a deep voice: "Hurry up and pack up the things and send them to the house, let people take care of them, and don't have any problems." ”

"Yes, sir. ”

The man answered, and quickly turned his head to clean up the overturned box on the ground with the others, while the middle-aged man walked quickly to the door of the mansion not far behind him after looking around.

On this side, after Ge Qian left in the carriage, the group hurried back to the house without saying a word.

After entering the mansion, Feng Qiao sent her and Hong Aya out under the pretext of letting Qu'er go to the end, and then left Ji Jiu and Ge Qian in the room.

Feng Qiao threw the stone he had been holding in his hand on the table, rolling in the middle of the table.

Ge Qian said in a low voice: "Miss, those people just now are not simple, they seem to be dressed as slaves of ordinary people's houses, but their body shape, as well as their vigilance and reaction in the face of danger, can't hide it at all. ”

"Those people should have had human lives on their hands, and their subordinates looked at them with a very heavy evil spirit, they must have been wandering between life and death all year round to be so heavily stained, and there is no one in these five alleys who can support this kind of servant. ”

Hearing this, Feng Qiao looked at the stone and whispered, "I know they are not ordinary people. ”

Ge Qian and Ji Jiu both looked up at Feng Qiao, they both knew that Feng Qiao didn't know martial arts, how did she know that those people were not ordinary people?

Feng Qiao seemed to know their doubts, pointed to the white stone on the table and said, "Do you know what this thing is?"

"Didn't the man say saltpeter for making ice?"

"It's saltpeter, but do you know what saltpeter can do besides making ice?"

The two of them were stunned, and Ji Jiu's face changed suddenly, and he exclaimed, "Miss is saying, Black Fire?"

"Yes, it's Black Fire. ”

Feng Qiao said to the two of them with a solemn look in his eyes: "When I passed by those carriages, I smelled a very strong smell of gunpowder, and in the boxes that the Zhaoping County Lord's carriage knocked over just now, in addition to some saltpeter, there were also some semi-finished gunpowder powder. ”

"The man said that his master wanted to use saltpeter to make ice, and the things in the car were all saltpeter, but now that the midsummer has passed, the time has long passed to make ice, not to mention that if it is just to make ice, how can it be possible to use so much saltpeter, is it not that the entire mansion is ready to be converted into an ice cellar?"