In the National Teacher's Mansion, Bingwen took a small shovel and scraped under an old tree in the courtyard, and there were a few dark green vegetable leaves in the small basket beside him. Sand Slider was walking out of the back house, and when he saw this, he asked, "What is my father-in-law doing?" Bingwen turned his head when he heard the sound and said with a smile: "Dig some early spring vegetables for my father, this dish is most suitable for stewing with mutton, it is tender, delicious, nourishing and nourishing lungs, and I will let the kitchen make it for you to taste." ”

Sand Slipper was surprised: "There are early spring vegetables in the house?" Doesn't this grow in a ravine? Bingwen put down the small shovel and waved at the sand: "Strange, right?" I've been planting for my father for two years, so come and see. The sandslider approached and squatted down to take a closer look, "It's really, it's just too small, did it just come out?" Bingwen nodded, "Yes, it will sprout a few days later than in the wild at home, and it will grow slower." ”

"Mainly, it's because the soil is not as fertile as the ravine, and there is more snow melt water in the later period, which is also something that my father planted for two years. You see, this year is much better than last year, this is because of the cultivation of a lot of plant ash for my father, now is the season of early spring vegetable growth, in the last few days I asked people to shovel more snow and bury it on this ground, wait for ten days and a half to have a bumper harvest. But today, I can only pick some barely big ones for you to taste. ”

Sand Slipper picked up a shovel and dug up a cluster, looked at it carefully, and said, "Father-in-law, how did you come up with the idea of planting this?" Is it also the harvest of seeds sprinkled in the soil? The princess is going to plant food crops in Beiyan, so she has also tried to plant them in the mansion of Huaguo for two or three years, with trees, melons, grains, beans, and sweet potatoes. But it has stopped at the experiment, and it has not been really planted in the land of Beiyan so far, and I don't know whether it is deep or not, what is the specific situation? Now that I have the precedent of my father-in-law planting early spring vegetables, I think I will be more sure.

Bingwen smiled and said: "There are few people in the house, and there are a lot of things to do every day, such as collecting firewood, pulling water, herding cattle and sheep, and helping me drive the car, which is really not idle." There are only two old men and grandmothers in the kitchen, cooking rice and chopping wood for three meals a day, and cleaning the inside and outside of the house. So as a father, I thought about whether I could bring the spring vegetables to my yard, so that it would be much more convenient. ”

Sandboarding: "Having a considerate master like my righteous father is the happiness of every slave." Bingwen: "Slaves also have two kinds of intentions and perfunctory, they are so loyal and hard to take care of me, how can the father not keep it in mind and think more about it." So I took advantage of the free sky in the Mid-Autumn Festival to let the servants go to the ravine to dig a cart of evergreen withered grass soil, which contained both dry stems and leaves, roots, and grass seeds sprinkled from fruits. Then he poured the soil under this old jujube tree, and in the early spring after the winter snow, there were vegetable seedlings growing. ”

Grass is an annual herbaceous plant. In early spring, when the sprouts are proud, the sprouts absorb the melted snow water and grow into edible leaves, so it is also called early spring vegetables at this time. As the name suggests, early spring vegetables are only available in early spring, and the best time to pick them is a few days when the snow melts completely, and after a long time, it will be dried and bitter by the sun, and it will be inedible. At the turn of spring and summer, it begins to shed its leaves and branches to transform into grass, and this is its second growth, which lasts for a whole summer and autumn, and appears in a dry brownish-red color, which is the time of dryness.

There are two growth forms in a year, edible vegetables and inedible grasses, dark green, brown and red, which are named Rong Wei Cao. Early spring vegetables are one of the only two edible vegetables in Beiyan at present, the other is aquatic lettuce, as the name suggests, it is a vegetable that grows in water, aquatic lettuce is different from early spring vegetables, it sprouts in late spring and only grows for one summer. Therefore, in early spring and hot summer, the people of Beiyan will concentrate on picking these two kinds of vegetables, pickling or drying them for storage.

Sandboard patted his forehead and said, "I see! I thought I wanted the seeds of early spring vegetables, alas! I was confused, the early spring vegetables were fruitless and seedless, no wonder I was stuck in a dead end, and my father-in-law was busy first, and the sandslider retreated. "I can talk to the princess about this today, and let her find time to come to the house to take a look at this early spring dish. Bingwen raised his hand and said, "Wait, are you going out today?" Sandslider nodded, "Exactly." ”

"Prince Xia Yan will be cremated in a few days, the king and the princess want to find out the truth about his murder as soon as possible, and now I am about to accompany the princess to the place where Prince Xia Yan disappeared during the autumn hunt to see what can be found." Bingwen stood up, dusted off his body, rolled up his sleeves and said, "That's right, don't go, you call the princess and her father to go to the capital prison, and let's interrogate the captured assassins together." ”

"Break through them quickly, and go to the place where the eldest prince disappeared to investigate, which is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. It's been almost five months since the incident, and it's been a long time, and even if there are any clues, it's broken. What's more, since the day of the eldest prince's disappearance, the King of the North Sea and Bato, Lu He's father, and Nati's criminal lawsuit, the five of us have searched that area more than 100 times, but we haven't found any valuable information. Since we can't find it, you will go for nothing. ”

Slippery Sand pondered: "In this case, then come according to the father-in-law's wishes." My father-in-law can go to the capital prison first, and I will go to the agreed place to find the princess, and then we will meet at the prison guard. Bingwen bowed, "Feasible!" Let's go, let's go out together. The two walked and talked.

Bingwen asked, "...... When the king succeeded to the throne, he set up the vacant Beiyuan of the city government as the 'Weaving Administration', and appointed you as the governor and superintendent, so that you could collect the world's strange craftsmen and capable people, especially those who have studied the leyline ores. Wang Shang wants to find gold, silver and iron ore in Beiyan? Sandboard replied, "That's right." However, only the place was approved, and the interior still needs to be rebuilt, and the office staff also need me to go to the city government to hand-pick them, and the poster is not claimed for the time being, so it will take some time for the official launch......"

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In the capital prison, the 12 Xiliang people who were arrested were locked in four cells and interrogated day and night. When Xia Xing, Sand Slipper, and Bingwen arrived, Si Han was about to leave, and the two parties met each other and saluted each other. Si Han put his left hand on his right shoulder and bent down towards the three of them, "Her Royal Highness the Princess, the National Teacher, and the Governor Yu." "Bingwen, sandboarding, shoulders, Chong Sihan bowed his head," the criminal officer. Xia Xing nodded, "No courtesy." ”

Si Han got up and asked, "Your Royal Highness the Princess, the three of the national teacher and the superintendent are going to see the twelve captured assassins?" Sandsboard nodded: "Yes, we are about to go, I wonder what the result of today's interrogation is?" Si Han sighed and said, "I'll tell you the truth, it's slow. I only know that they are from Xiliang, and they make a living by robbing, and if you ask why they are assassinated in front of the Xiangping City Gate, they only say that someone paid to hire them. ”

"As for who? They all said that they had never seen the true face of that person, and the rest couldn't be asked, and the desert intercepted the disappearance of the king, the princess, and the eldest prince Qiu Hunt, and refused to admit it. Xia Xing's eyes were full of ridicule: "It's really cunning, you go first, let's go and meet those lucky guys." "Yes, the minister is retiring." Si Han saluted the three of them and walked out.

Xia Xing and the three of them continued to walk inside, and as they approached the cell where they were being held, the noise gradually increased. "Wronged, wronged~ We are wronged, we want to see the king of Zhongzhou...... Don't fight! Don't fight, don't fight~ I was wrong, let me go, everyone...... I don't know, I really don't know~ I'm just an errand runner...... Really, we're all little minions down there, we don't even know......"

"Who wants to see the king of Zhongzhou?" The low female voice sounded suddenly, the prison envoy, the jailer, and the Xiliang sand bandits all looked up, and Xia Xing, Sand Slipper, and Bingwen walked into the cell. The warden and a group of jailers hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "The ministers pay a visit to Her Royal Highness Princess Gu'an, the National Teacher, the Governor, and Her Royal Highness the Princess. "Excuse me!" Xia Xing turned his head and swept around the stunned assassins, and snorted coldly: "The assassin who was caught on the spot shouted injustice, and this is the first time this princess has seen him." ”

Hearing this, the leader of the sand bandits, who had had a few encounters with the two, couldn't help but say: "It's the first time I've seen such a beautiful princess, especially those unique eyes, which don't live up to that sultry voice at all." When the staff member in the other cell heard this, he immediately closed his eyes and lowered his head. It's over, my lord, which tendon is this that you have to bow your head under the eaves, do you understand? What's more, we're meat on the board. Woo woo so good, why are you provoking her? The birthday star is afraid of a long life, and he asks for hardship!

Sure enough, before Xia Xing could say anything, a group of indignant jailers had already surrounded the sand bandit leader with whips, and the warden: "You are presumptuous! Bold assassin, dare to be disrespectful to the princess, hit me! The jailers got the order, and they all started to do it, the whip was dazzling, the body crackled, and the leader of the sand bandits gritted his teeth and did not say a word. Xia Xing listened a few more times, and then said slowly: "Stop!" ”

The jailer stopped and retreated, and the leader of the sand bandits looked at Xia Xing with bright eyes, his eyes fiery. Xia Xing hooked his lips and chuckled, his eyes were deep, "Bring it out and judge him first!" The leader of the sand bandits was very happy to hear this, and came out very cooperatively and was tied to a chair, and when he thought that there would be a very comfortable interrogation, Sand Slipper raised his hand and beckoned to the jailer: "Prepare the brazier and bring the needle." "Yes!"

The leader of the sand bandits looked at the three people in front of him with a deep sense of discomfort, and his heart was up and down. Bingwen unfolded the previous transcript and asked while reading: "You are from Xiliang, but why did you appear in Beiyan?" The leader of the sand bandits rolled his eyes upward, tilted his head, and said impatiently, "Didn't I say that?" We were hired with people, who doesn't know, he has been hiding in the house with his face covered and communicating with us, how many times have ......"

Bingwen interrupted: "That's not what I'm asking, I'll say it again if you don't understand." You are from Xiliang, how can you appear in the capital of my Beiyan? How did you get here? Who let you into Beiyan? Say! The leader of the sand bandits was startled and stammered: "I'm just a little minion, running, running errands underneath, I don't know anything!" You should ask our boss, the leader who died at the city gates. ”

Bingwen raised his feather pen twice, and continued to ask: "Since you make a living from robbery, how did you start the business of killing people?" Also came to Beiyan? Assassinate our king and princess? The leader of the sand bandits continued to shirk and said, "You still have to ask our boss who died in front of the city gate, who knows what he thinks!" I have to make this clear to you, we really don't know that the people we want to kill are your king and princess of Beiyan, I'm wronged, you have to know who dares to do it! ”

Bingwen looked up at Xia Xing and Sandslide, "Princess, this prisoner doesn't seem to be very cooperative, I don't know if the warden can do anything to make him tell the truth!" Xia Xing's eyes were cold, and his words were threatening: "It seems that you are a dead duck with a hard mouth?" The leader of the sand bandits hurriedly shook his head and said: "No, no, no, no, the villain is really wronged, as the saying goes, 'those who don't know are not guilty', can you deal with it lightly?" ”

Sandboarding took two steps forward and said: "Those who don't know are not guilty?" As the saying goes, it's a pity that we don't. Since the dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, it is directly burned on the fire. Turning, raising his hand, "Bring up the brazier and needle!" Two jailers took braziers and a row of silver needles and stood in front of the bandit leader. Sand Slipper took off a needle and said: "Such a torture instrument can be directly pierced on the prisoner, or it can be combined with fire to burn red!" ”

"We usually let the prisoner choose these two methods to show respect. But for you, I'll use them all, so let's try them first. As he spoke, he quickly inserted the silver needle into the corner of the sand bandit leader's lips, "Do you feel bearable?" Then there's the red-hot needle, you can think of the taste of being burned by hot oil, right? Burning from the skin to the depths of the flesh, with a burnt smell and a scar full of pits......"

"What the hell do you want?" The leader of the sand bandits watched the sandslider with wary eyes, and his face twitched. Slippery Sand took out two silver needles and inserted them into the charcoal fire, and said with a smile: "I just want you to tell the truth." If we hear what we want to know, we won't embarrass you, or I'll burn all these needles red and stick them all over your face! Gently dusting the shoulder of the leader of the sand bandits, Sandslider continued to threaten, "Don't be nervous, stick it in when you have no room on your face, start again when you are done, and repeat the cycle until you are willing to tell the truth." ”

Xia Xing approached and said, "From now on, I'll ask you to answer." If the answer is not satisfactory to the princess, just insert a needle to warn, and if you can't say it after a needle, then this row of silver needles will put you into the brazier, understand? The leader of the sand bandits suddenly shrank his pupils, and looked at Xia Xing with a speechless look, "I ......" "Why did you call the king of Zhongzhou just now?" "Then ......," Sandsboard warned, "think it clearly, so as not to suffer from flesh and skin."

The leader of the sand bandits sighed, "The king of Zhongzhou has a cooperative relationship with the person who hired us, and the assassination in front of the gate of Xiangping City is also for him, I want to find him to let us out of here." The man who hired us was the one who commanded the assassination day, he was supposed to be the attendant of a certain nobleman, and I don't know who the person above him was, but he was the only one who contacted us from beginning to end. It was the king of Zhongzhou who let us into Beiyan, and I heard that man call him Buhe Counselor......"