63The weather in June was already hot, and it was only noon, and the sun was shining. As usual, the Hesheng Grain Store opened its doors early in the morning, and after the men finished practicing, they were standing or squatting in the backyard while eating and laughing and joking, and people in the store came in from time to time to buy some rice and noodles. At this time, a junior rushed into the backyard in a hurry, and tripped over the threshold. Many people looked at him, only to see him sweating profusely, raised his head and glanced at everyone, and hurriedly said, "Where is Dong Zhou's house?" ”

The crowd was still looking at him with bowls, and many of them were chewing unhurriedly. He was anxious and yelled, "Don't eat it!" Poison in the rice! ”

When some guys heard this, their eyes widened, and some of them didn't know whether to spit out or swallow a mouthful of rice in their mouths.

"What do you say?" Zhou Dao rushed out of the house in two steps. "Zhou Dongjia, this rice is poisonous, tell them not to eat it! I'm Qu Langzhong's apprentice, and someone in the city has been poisoned! The latter roared, and his chest rose and fell with the fierce breath.

"Wow!" "Oh? Bah! Phew! "The guys around me were spitting up their food and retching." Don't eat it, stop! Zhou Dao shouted, "Does anyone know him?" "I know, he is Qu Langzhong's apprentice." Lao Zhang said. Someone ran to the vat, directly picked up a handful of water and poured it into his throat and squirted it out, spitting and spitting his fingers into his mouth. "Wow! ＂

Lao Zhang stretched out his hand and touched his stomach and felt it carefully, as if he didn't feel any pain, and asked, "What's going on with you clearly?" ”

"At noon, the boss of Hu Xingguo came to my master and said that his whole family was in an emergency and needed to save people quickly! After my master took me over, I saw that they were a family of five, except for the eldest who had all fallen, and it was said that he had eaten rice cereal, and the eldest had not eaten when he came back from collecting firewood. My master looked at the symptoms and heard that they had just bought some rice to cook this morning, and he suspected that the rice had been poisoned, so I hurried over to inform him. ”

"Lao Feng! Lao Feng! Let's go, follow me into town right now. "Zhou Dao didn't wait for him to say anything more, and he was going to leave soon." Landlord! I'll go. Lao Zhang hurriedly stopped, "The situation is unclear at the moment, you just sit at home, I'll go." Zhou Dao was anxious, I didn't know if it was okay, Lao Zhang didn't wait for Zhou Dao to answer, and ordered, "The food in the store will stop selling immediately, I'll go and see it first." With that, he took a few people and hurried with the apprentice.

"Which storehouse is selling grain today? Hurry up and check it out! Zhou Dao was not idle, and immediately commanded. Go and close the door, let the men guard the door and don't let people in, and say that today's inventory will not be sold. ＂

When Lao Zhang entered Hu's house, he only felt a sour and pungent smell rushing to his head, there was one person sitting in the room, it was Qu Langzhong, and there were four people lying on the ground, and there was vomit everywhere. "Here you are, help me carry them to the yard." "Are they dead?" Lao Zhang stared at Qu Langzhong, looking very nervous. "It's not dead yet, carry it out first, it's too smelly here, I can't get out of breath." Several people moved people to the courtyard one by one, and the boss of the Hu family threw himself on Lao Hu and cried and shook.

"Don't shake, people aren't dead yet! It's just not sober. Qu Langzhong said impatiently while feeding the little daughter of the Hu family. Lao Zhang hurriedly walked to the gate and closed the courtyard door. "Water a couple of their faces, wake them up and water. Under the guidance of Qu Langzhong, everyone pinched people again, slapped their faces and watered, and finally woke up and poured water into their mouths. Lao Hu's mother-in-law was also crying, twisting her body and spitting, not to mention how uncomfortable it was. The yard is also full of stench, especially the second son of his family, who was tortured and pulled into his crotch, and people are still confused.

When they vomited again, they gasped and cleaned them up. "Where's the rice? Bring out the boiled porridge. Lao Zhang said. The eldest of his family brought out the uncooked rice from the basket, and someone brought the porridge to the pot and put it on the ground in the courtyard. Lao Zhang leaned in and scooped some with a rice ladle and put it in front of his nose and sniffed. "No smell?" He looked at Qu Langzhong suspiciously, Qu Langzhong took the scoop and sniffed it, then walked to the basket and grabbed a handful of rice to look at it carefully, he said, "This rice is not right, it is a little red." Lao Zhang also nodded. Depending on the situation, it looks like arsenic-frost, arsenic-frost is not clean, and the color will be darker, red with a little yellow. Doctor Qu said slowly, Lao Zhang's face was ugly.

"Do you have any silverware in your house?" The boss of the Hu family was asked, "Does your mother have any silver jewelry?" Is there a silver hairpin silver slot? ”

The boss stared at Qu Langzhong with his mouth open, "Your mother!" For drug testing, find it quickly! "I have." Lao Zhang took out a small silver horn from his arms, Qu Langzhong grabbed it and looked at it, and then grinded it on the stone in the corner of the wall, and then buried it in the rice and pressed it repeatedly before taking it out. "Sure enough, it's arsenic-frost!" The few people in front of them all saw that the color of the silver horn was a little black. Lao Zhang's face was completely black at this time, he grabbed the silver horn and put it back in his arms, "You, and you come with me, the rest stay here to help Dr. Qu save people, no one is allowed to say anything about today!" Don't open the door until I come back. With that, he led the people and hurried away.

"Well, I knew it was arsenic-frost, I found it out." Zhou Dao sighed, his eyes filled with despair and anxiety. Lao Zhang gasped and asked, "What about the ones that were sold?" "This batch of goods was only sold today, there are seven or eight of them, and people have been sent to chase them." Zhou Dao had a deep sense of powerlessness, "I hope God bless it is still too late." ”

At noon, there were three groups of men who came back with rice, and the people who bought the grain also followed, and he was told by the guys of Hesheng Grain Store that the grain he bought before was some moldy and spoiled, so he was chased back, and as compensation, in addition to replacing the new rice, he also gave him an additional 30%. Therefore, in their opinion, this Hesheng grain store is really different from other families, and it is indeed a trustworthy trader, and he said kind words in his mouth, and happily picked up the new rice that he had exchanged. "There are four more households."

Zhou Dao thought silently, in addition to these three households and the Hu family who had been poisoned, this batch of poisoned rice was sold to eight households this morning, and they could still chase it. The people who came to buy grain were all local, mostly from the city, so they all knew each other. If it is any later, and there is a boat from far away to buy food from someone you don't know, who can you chase?

At this time, Mr. Xu and Pan Ye also rushed all the way after receiving the news. "How many died?" When Pan Ye met, he asked, "There are no dead people yet, there is a family of four poisoned." Zhou Dao shook his head. Who poisoned it, and did you find it? Zhou Dao nodded, smiled bitterly and shook his head. Seeing this, Lao Zhang took over the conversation, "You don't need to ask about this kind of thing, there will be no one except Yu Qingtian." "Hey!" He sighed, "It's also to blame for the carelessness before, it should be the rice harvested the day before yesterday, there are two people, not local, and we don't know each other, and they transported a boatload of ten quintals of milled white rice to sell, and the price is not high." Dog day! "What about Yu Qingtian? What's the matter? Just waiting? Pan Ye asked. Just wait. Xu Wei spoke, so a room of people waited so anxiously.

When the time came, the people who went out to chase rice finally came back, and they all came back, counting the Hu family, which was exactly eight households. Only the Hu family was poisoned, and I don't know if his family ran out of food or what? Buy the rice and put it in the pot, fortunately the family of four is not dead until now, and everyone is finally relieved for the time being.

"God forbid don't die! Let me escape this! Zhou Dao bowed silently in his heart.