Chapter Twenty-Five: Fourteen Wells
"If this poisoner only wants the people in the village to be asleep from time to time instead of taking people's lives, he must have other plans." Yan Miao kept searching in her mind for the plots of the novels and TV series she had watched, trying to find similarities.
"This water must be poisoned from time to time to remain poisonous, so I'll send someone to guard it here." Tang Su has made arrangements.
"That's right." Yan Miao listened to Tang Su's words, and actually felt a little proud, this is her own credit! Not quite, though.
At this time, Tang Su already had a plan in his heart, not only this well, but several nearby wells needed to be paid close attention to. And it is most appropriate to send secret guards to guard it, but Tang Su does not need to talk to Yan Miao about this.
Tang Su asked Yan Miao to walk towards Zhang Ergou's house first, and then made a gesture to the shadows, and then two people came out of nowhere, he sent one of them to protect Yan Miao in the shadows, and then gave a few orders to the other person. After arranging it, Tang Su walked towards Wang Ergou's house.
Tang Su was extremely fast, and it didn't take long for him to catch up with Yan Miao.
When the two of them were about to arrive at the door of Zhao Ergou's house, they saw the well that the village chief said, Yan Miao's eyes lit up, and she thought that her opportunity had come! Without saying a word, he ran to the well, rolled up his sleeves and began to draw water like Tang Su.
Tang Su was stunned in place, not knowing what was going on, and laughed out loud when he saw Yan Miao's smug face but the movements in his hands were very stiff.
What's so angry about this, this woman is really weird.
Even Tang Su himself didn't notice that in the past few days with Yan Miao, he had unconsciously laughed more often.
Yan Miao excitedly hit half a bucket of water and began to toss again.
After a while, Yan Miao turned her head, and then saw Tang Su laughing at herself, and said angrily: "Do you still want to know if there is a problem with this water!" ”
I saw Tang Su unfold a folding fan with one hand, pretending to fan the fan, squinting his eyes and saying, "This suburban scenery is really good. ”
Yan Miao felt as if she had punched the cotton, which was really embarrassing.
"Hmph. Love to listen but not to listen, not to listen to pull down. Yan Miao pursed her lips and spoke to herself, "This poison is the same as the previous well, and the concentration is about the same." ”
"Then why don't we go in and see if there are any other suspicions?" Tang Su didn't laugh at Yan Miao anymore, and after a change of words, he and Yan Miao went to Zhang Ergou's house to check.
Not long after entering, Lanxiang Gaoyang came with news and drawings, which is too efficient, right? Yan Miao couldn't help but secretly admire in her heart.
"Lord Wang, this is the drawing you wanted, and the water from each well has been numbered and placed in your room." The two saluted Tang Su, and then Gao Yang handed the drawings to Tang Su with both hands.
Yan Miao leaned over and looked at the drawing with Tang Su.
Actually, it's not quite in line.
Yan Miao naturally wouldn't notice this, after all, as a modern person, everyone is equal since elementary school, not the difference between class and inferiority in ancient times.
But Tang Su did not show any displeasure, as far as he was concerned, it was only necessary to have a clear hierarchy and prohibit it when he was in the army. On weekdays, he and his subordinates get along like brothers in the palace, but although Lanxiang Gaoyang and his party are close to him, they will never be polite.
In their words, "The prince and we are like brothers, but if we don't pay a salute, we are afraid that we will attract criticism from the outside world. ”
When he was a child, Tang Su's family was poor, and although he barely went to a private school, he was squeezed by people everywhere. He didn't have many friends, and when his family was flooded, he would have been gone if it weren't for his mother's sacrifice to save her son.
Orphaned, he wandered around, and one day rescued the emperor who escaped from the palace to play, when he and the emperor were only ten years old, and the two were simple-minded, so they became brothers with different surnames.
Later, the two became more and more familiar, Tang Su knew his identity, and also knew that he would inherit the unification in the future but no one was available, so he joined the army in order to help the emperor stabilize the government. After entering the barracks, he practiced hard day and night, read military books well, promoted one by one, and finally quelled many disasters and was named the king with a different surname.
In fact, his life in the military camp was very hard, and he must have endured a lot of hardships due to his military achievements at a young age, but he was willing to do it. Because only when he was in the military camp could he experience the deep brotherhood, everyone didn't care about being born in a family, drinking wine and eating meat together, and the joy of fighting on the battlefield.
Since he was crowned King Xuan, he has been in Beijing all the time, and everyone knows that he is a king with a different surname who crawled out of the pile of dead, and he is very scared. Even though the Imperial City Division has done many good deeds, no one can talk to him on an equal footing anymore, even if the emperor is close to him, but more often, they are monarchs and ministers.
Thinking about it like this, growing so big, it seems that only Yan Miao treats him as an ordinary person, and he is actually a little happy in his heart.
Tang Su's thoughts were pulled back in Yan Miao's brain collapse, it seemed that he had been too dull recently, and there would be times when he was distracted, Tang Su thought to himself.
didn't care about Yan Miao's rude behavior just now, and the two immediately discussed the current situation.
On the outskirts of Beijing, there are six villages of Zhao Qiansun, Li Zhouwu and Wu, which are distributed in a fan shape, and the northernmost is a mountain range that runs east-west, which just surrounds the six villages and a half, and the mountain range is also the highest place in the six villages.
The mountain range is surrounded by a river and is one of the main sources of living underground water.
Rumor has it that the six villages themselves were a town called Shuiqu Town, and that the ancestors had made a living by farming paddy fields, and that the villagers had dug 14 wells to divert groundwater for their convenience. Therefore, each village has two or three wells to facilitate water diversion and irrigation, but the most used are large wells near the river in the back mountains.
The reason why no canal was dug to divert the water from the back mountain to the paddy fields was rumored to be because a feng shui master said that the fan-shaped terrain should not lead to clear water, otherwise it would bring ominous, so the ancestor had to give up.
Unexpectedly, the land here is becoming more and more unsuitable for paddy fields, and the villagers who are unable to cultivate paddy fields gradually no longer use the large well closest to the river, but dig a small well to provide a lot of convenience for the villagers' daily life.
The well in Houshan, mentioned by the village chief, was the most used well when paddy fields were popular, and with the disappearance of paddy fields, the well was almost abandoned.
"It's really intriguing, how can the land suitable for paddy fields become unsuitable?" Tang Su asked.
"I don't know how to farm, you're asking the wrong question. I wonder if this could have something to do with this incident. Yan Miao was helpless, Tang Su asked her first about everything, did he use her as Baidu.
But what she didn't think about was that the two of them would be together when the case was investigated!