Chapter 306: The smell of gunpowder
Early the next morning, Fu Rongxue rarely woke up earlier than Ye Huiming, she patted the sleeping man next to her, leaned over and exhaled in his ear: "Wake up, don't forget that you still have business today."
Ye Hui muttered, reached out to hold the person in his arms, and rubbed hard to open his eyes satisfied.
"I woke up so early."
"That's, you should hurry up too, it's getting too late."
Last night, Fu Rongxue fell asleep when she arrived at the inn, but Ye Huiming dealt with a few urgent matters in the capital, and she was busy until midnight before closing her eyes.
The temperature in her arms had cooled, and Ye Huiming had to sit up from the bed, looking at the energetic Fu Rongxue, her mood was inexplicably better.
After eating breakfast at the bottom of the inn, Ye Huiming only brought two guards to follow, and the rest of the people stayed in the city to continue to observe and collect information, especially about the county order.
Walking to the road, the dappled sunlight sprinkled on the ground is somewhat fun.
Fu Rongxue jumped forward and didn't look back: "Ye Huiming, I finally thought of where Jiang Xianling's inconsistency was last night, he was lying, he must know about the river god."
"Oh? Let's hear it. Ye Huiming raised his eyebrows, he actually forgot about it.
"The old man said that the silver was taken away by the river god, so these people must have secretly planned to worship the river god, but the county order said that these people have only disappeared in the past few days, and the time is not right, the old man doesn't look like he is lying, so there is only ......"
The results speak for themselves, compared to Jiang Xianling, she is more willing to choose the old man.
"Clever." Ye Huiming reached out and flicked her head, and got a coquettish look before walking to the front.
The secret guard who was exploring the way rushed back and said respectfully: "Lord Wang, the place in front is where the silver disappeared."
Fu Rongxue ran over quickly when she heard this, the road was uneventful, and she heard that it had just rained some time ago, and most of the traces were nowhere to be found.
Looking at the empty ground, Fu Rongxue was a little deflated.
"Looks like nothing?" She spread her hands and said helplessly, her enthusiasm in the early morning was extinguished by a basin of cold water, and she was like a wilting flower.
"Don't worry, let's go to the mountains and have a look, maybe there will be new discoveries." Ye Huiming raised her hand and pointed at it.
The road is sandwiched between two small hills, the dense jungle of the hills, which is the easiest to hide, and because of the abundance of vegetation, some things are not easily washed away by heavy rain.
"The team that delivered the silver was attacked here, but there were so many of them, how did they rob it?"
This is the most doubtful place for Ye Huiming, the people who transport the silver are basically from the military camp, and they are all good at it, and ordinary bandits are not enough to see in front of them.
But not only was the silver robbed, but even the people who transported it were nowhere to be found, and Ye Huiming couldn't figure it out.
The road on the small hill was not easy to walk, and it was even a little steep, Fu Rongxue felt that it was too troublesome, so she simply dragged the grass and trees with strong roots and stems to climb up.
Yehui was thinking about something, she didn't bother, she tiptoed around, and there was no new discovery, so she searched carefully on the ground aimlessly.
There are a lot of potholes here, and if you are not careful, you will trip over, so be extra careful.
She crouched down, bored and looking through the grass, when suddenly, a black powder caught her eye.
The powder has already congealed into lumps, but it is easy to crush quickly and easily in the palm of your hand, and it is still in powder form.
She felt familiar, put it under her nose and sniffed it, a smell of gunpowder smoke rushing to her head, and she sneezed violently, but held on to the powder.
Ye Huiming hurriedly walked over when she heard the sound, and patted her back in a hurry: "I can't change your bad habit of eating at will, you dare to stuff it in your mouth if you don't know it, are you disgusted with your life too long?"
Fu Rongxue rolled her eyes, and when she eased up, she couldn't point to her other hand: "Gunpowder, this is gunpowder!"
She stretched out her hand to show him, Ye Huiming was more familiar than her, even if he was blistered, he could know it.
In South Vietnam, gunpowder was banned, and there was basically no way to obtain it except for the government.
"Jiang County is suspicious." Fu Rongxue let out a long sigh, this is a big discovery.
With this sufficient, the two of them went home, and the guards continued to search for exactly how much gunpowder was there.
When Jiang Xianling heard that the prince was looking for him, he had a bad premonition in his heart, blinked, and continued to smile and go to the house.
"What is the matter with the prince looking for ministers? The refugees still have urgent matters waiting to be solved. Jiang Xianling's attitude was a little cold, mixed with an unknown lack of heart.
He also knew that King Lian was going to the trail today, but after a heavy rain, how much evidence could be left, which was also his confidence to be fearless, but King Lian called him over as soon as he came back, which was really not a good sign.
Ye Huiming sat in the first place and didn't speak, and Fu Rongxue interrogated on his behalf: "Jiang Xian Ling said last time that he didn't know about the river god, so my memory should not be bad."
Jiang Xian Ling immediately reacted to her meaning, knelt on the ground, and wailed: "The minister is guilty, the minister should not hide the prince, but the stakes are very high, those people are too rampant, and the robbery of the silver is already a subordinate's ineffectiveness, but if the people know that there is no money, I am afraid it will cause a riot."
He finished speaking quickly, with a handful of snot and tears, and then blamed himself: "So the minister made up this lie, lied to them that he was taken away by the river god, and begged the prince to take it lightly for the sake of the minister's hard work."
Fu Rongxue was speechless and choked, the first time he was blocked, Jiang Xianling's thinking was quick, and he couldn't even use conventional methods to make him say things.
If it weren't for the fact that they controlled the gunpowder information, maybe they could really be confused by his superficial statements, but unfortunately, everything Jiang Xianling showed now was extremely false in her eyes.
She clapped her hands, everyone in the room retreated and even closed the door, Jiang Xianling buried his head in his chest, and began to break out in a cold sweat, the princess didn't believe his words?
"Jiang County Order is really a good official who thinks about the people and relieves the emperor's worries." Fu Rongxue said sarcastically, slowly walking behind him.
Ye Huiming saw the silver light flickering in her sleeve, and sat back down with her body that had just gotten up.
"It should be, it's just that I made a mistake in this matter, and I ask the prince to punish him."
Fu Rongxue held a silver needle between her index finger and middle finger, and pierced it by slapping him on the shoulder.
"And what's the deal with all this gunpowder? The county commander has to think about the answer, after all, if the answer is wrong, he may die. ”
Fu Rongxue said with a smile, turning around and returning to the first place.
Jiang Xianling's smile stiffened at the corner of his mouth, and he tried to move his body, but found that he couldn't move, and only then did he understand that Fu Rongxue didn't buy a joke with him.
Fu Rongxue shook her finger and sighed: "Don't move, otherwise the toxins will flow all over the body faster, even if there is an antidote at that time, Jiang Xianling, have you thought about how to answer?" You're running out of time. ”