Chapter 327: Black Fire
On this day, Su Wenbo wanted to return to Beijing, and he needed to leave early, after all, he found out about selling illicit salt in Yanzhou.
Shen Baiqing tied Su Bowen's belt in the room. "It's going to be separated again."
Su Bowen kissed Shen Baiqing's hand.
"It won't be long, I'll go back and see my son by the way."
Shen Baiqing sighed. "There's been so much going on lately that you haven't been able to get a good rest."
"Yanzhou isn't particularly safe right now, and I can't rest. I leave the people around me to protect you. ”
"And what do you do?" Shen Baiqing looked up dissatisfied.
"Your martial arts are okay, don't worry. I'll be back soon after this is settled. Su Bowen hugged Shen Baiqing.
"I hope so." Shen Baiqing's voice was a little muffled, and her mood was obviously not high. But this is also a helpless thing, the merchant has moved the interests of the imperial court, how can the emperor allow someone to go to his bowl to grab the cake, isn't that a tiger's mouth!
"Then you take the salt you have found and bring it to the capital to be disposed of by Your Majesty."
Shen Baiqing watched Su Bowen ride a horse and leave Yanzhou with things and people.
After that, he took He Lian and Zhao Yi, as well as some officers and soldiers from Yanzhou, to the suburban salt village to search carefully, so as to seal this illegal place.
The carriage stopped at the door of the salt village, and Shen Baiqing returned here again, this will be able to have an end.
"Zhao Yi, take someone to thoroughly investigate this place up and down, inside and out."
"Yes." Zhao Yi received the order. "Follow me to search."
A group of people split up and began to search.
It is rare for such a place like Yanzhou to find out that such a thing as selling illicit salt is rare, and the petty officers and soldiers have worked hard to almost dig three feet into the ground.
Shen Baiqing took He Lian and walked deeper into the backyard, and the sound of officers and soldiers clanging and searching was in her ears.
Walking into the study, Shen Baiqing looked around.
Since the discovery of the smugglers, everything here has been emptied, leaving only a few large objects, beds and bookshelves.
The room seemed empty.
He Lian watched Shen Baiqing wander around here.
"Madame, I'll go find a chair for you to sit down and rest."
Shen Baiqing waved his hand. "No, I guess they're almost done."
There are several traces of different sizes on this wall, like something that has been hanging on the wall before, because the covered part of the wall has been exposed after it has been removed, it is very clean and has not fallen dust.
"What was hanging up here?"
Zhao Yi just walked in. "There were a few landscape paintings hanging in these places, and they were taken away by our people. The owner of this Zhuangzi is obviously a businessman, but he is also a little leisurely. ”
Zhao Yi was slightly mocking.
"The traces of the walls here are not very clean, and the painting scrolls that used to be hung here are often taken down and viewed?"
"I don't know about this villain, maybe it's a new hanging, or, let's take it down often." Zhao Yi didn't care very much.
"But the traces of this nail seem to be a long time ago." Shen Baiqing touched this side suspiciously, and suddenly the wall sank in!
He Lian's eyes quickly supported her stumbling body, and looked vigilantly at the slowly opening dark room.
Zhao Yi's eyes widened, this small salt village was hidden so deeply!
"Someone!" Zhao Yi called a few people outside.
Shen Baiqing and He Lian glanced at each other and said.
"I'll go in and have a look."
"Madam, let's go in, in case there is danger......" He Lian didn't want Shen Baiqing to go in.
Shen Baiqing felt that it was okay, this Zhuangzi had been checked, and at most it was the salt or gold and silver they hid.
Shen Baiqing walked in with the support of Zhao Yi and He Lian.
It's not a very large secret room, and the daylight makes it possible to see it without lighting a candle.
Zhao Yi used a knife to pry open a box at hand, opened the paper bag, and saw the contents of the contents shocked to Shen Baiqing, it turned out to be black fire!
Shen Baiqing's pupils were shocked, fortunately he didn't light the fire when he came in, this pile of dense boxes, if they were lit by Mars, they wouldn't want to live!
Shen Baiqing asked someone to seal the place and exit the secret room.
"Let's bring back the salt we found first, and send someone here to watch it, so that no one can get close."
He Lian nodded solemnly.
"By the way, have you found out who those corpses are?" Shen Baiqing suddenly remembered.
"A few faces can't be seen anymore, and a few of them are nearby villagers, who should have been killed by mistake."
"Give their families a sum of money, these people can be regarded as unjustified disasters, and they should be buried properly." Being able to do this kind of crime of the Nine Clans, they don't think it's a big deal to kill a few people, this group of people is really greedy.
"Yes, ma'am."
"Let's go back first."
Shen Baiqing returned home, looking at the food on the table a little dazed, is it so lonely to eat alone.
There was always some restlessness, and after eating a few bites of lunch, He Lian was anxious when she saw that her wife couldn't eat, but she couldn't persuade her.
It's been like this for the past few days, and the lady eats very little at every meal, and she looks uncertain.
He Lian finally opened her mouth as she looked at the meal that was almost unchanged again.
"Madam, why don't you eat more, these dishes are made according to your taste, I drooled when I saw this sweet and sour pork ribs made today."
"He Lian." Shen Baiqing took a sip of tea. "You go down first, I'll be alone."
Shen Baiqing dreamed of the owner's "trouble" last night, and she has been troubled by this matter for the past two days, and she always feels that something bad is about to happen.
Sitting in the room and exhaling, I let myself not think about it, I can't always think about these bad things, my husband will definitely return safely.
I don't know how long it took, He Lian knocked on the door to bring back her thoughts.
"Madam, a letter from the capital."
"Bring it to me."
Shen Baiqing had a bad premonition, and her fingers trembled a little as she unfolded the letter.
It was a letter written by Tong Qiurong.
Su Bowen took those illegal salt and prisoners to the capital and entered the palace to meet His Majesty, but he didn't expect His Majesty to detain Su Bowen in the palace, it is said that he has anything to do with those salt dealers, and she doesn't know the specifics.
Su Boxing is still in the court, and he has already written to His Majesty, saying that Su Bowen must be innocent, and his younger brother will not do such a thing, please Your Majesty investigate this matter thoroughly, release Su Bowen and return his innocence.
Su Bowen is an escort, what can he do!
The more Shen Baiqing looked at it, the more trembling he became, why was it suddenly like this, the words of the owner of the village flashed in front of his eyes again, and the expression on his face Shen Baiqing recalled clearly.
Looking at the pale lady, He Lian was also very anxious.
"Madam, what's wrong, don't worry, be careful."
Shen Baiqing's hands and feet were cold, how did Your Majesty want their Su family to be satisfied!