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Bai Zhi and Lu Zhiyuan officially left Bai'an County three days later, and one day before leaving, Lu Zhiyuan and Ye Zongping had a long talk, from the sun in the right sky to the bright moon hanging high before it ended. As for what she talked about, she asked Lord Lu, but she didn't get an answer, but she privately guessed that it should be a big deal, because Lord Lu's face at that time was never more solemn.

On the day she left, Su Shi stood at the door with a big belly to see her off, and since they got along these days, from being polite to each other at the beginning to being able to tell the truth now, the relationship between the two has been established day by day. This will be separated suddenly, and they are a little reluctant, but they also know that it is a matter of time or time, fortunately, Bai'an County is not far from Jinling City, and they agreed to meet after the Su child is born.

Also reluctant is Xiao Yeqiu, he has been playing with Xiao Jincao all day long during this time, and he has already had a lot of feelings, although this is likely to be Xiao Yeqiu's unilateral feelings. This Xiao Yeqiu was led by the Su family, looking at the carriage with teary eyes, her mouth pursed tightly, and she secretly wiped her tears.

He looked at Su Shi and asked, "When will I be able to see Sister Jincao again?" ”

Su Shi smiled at his son, pointed to his stomach and said, "After your sister is born, you will be able to see Sister Jincao." ”

Xiao Yeqiu nodded, he looked at Su's stomach with blank eyes, and prayed silently in his heart, sister, sister, you must give birth early.

Bai Zhi sat in the carriage and waved a small handkerchief, and then the carriage moved, and the figure of the Su family became more and more blurred.

For this separation, Bai Zhi and Su Shi have similar feelings, they are a little reluctant, but they are not too sad, after all, there is a period of goodbye, and they are not far apart, and there are still many opportunities to meet.

It's just that at this time, she couldn't have imagined that the fate between people would be so shallow, so shallow that she didn't have time to react, so it changed from a short farewell to an eternal farewell.

They went out in early autumn, and it was already late autumn when they came back, Bai Zhi's days were back to before, eating and drinking every day, but Lord Lu seemed to be busier than before, although he had always been busy, but this time it was obviously different from before.

It's been a month since she came back in a blink of an eye, and in the past month, Bai Zhi pulled her fingers and counted, and the number of times she and Lord Lu had met was not even a finger.

Although she was a little dissatisfied and a little uncomfortable, but more of a distressed, Lord Lu has been very anxious about the case recently, although she doesn't know the specific situation, but even the news that Xiao Bottle'er heard back is enough to make her feel troublesome.

It all started a month ago.

Someone in the yamen of the Salt Administration Department reported that someone had been poisoned to death, and it was not one or two who were poisoned, and more than a dozen people had died in just three days. After reporting the case, Lu Zhiyuan naturally immediately mobilized people to investigate the place where the crime occurred, but the results made people frown, these families had a common feature in the accident, they all bought illicit salt in the hands of a smuggler of salt.

Lu Zhiyuan asked people to confiscate the remaining private salt from each family, and after someone went to check it, it was indeed mixed with a deadly poison called Qihuaguo. What he can't figure out is the origin of this poison, this strange flower fruit is produced in Beirong, it is not accurate to say that it is a poison, in Beirong country, the juice of this strange flower fruit is often used as a dye, because it is very special material, the unripe strange flower fruit is blue-green, the juice is white, colorless and tasteless, but it can make people die of severe poison. But as soon as it matures, it turns purple, which is not only non-toxic but also a natural dye.

The lord of Beirong also wanted to prohibit the people of Beirong from planting strange flowers and fruits, but he couldn't stand the fact that the color of the cloth dyed by dyes after it matured was more gorgeous than that dyed by ordinary dyes, and the price of selling these cloths to neighboring countries was several times higher. The economy of Beirong is the weakest among the surrounding countries, and most of the people are still in a situation where they can't eat at all, so this strange flower and fruit business has always been an important source of income, and it continues to be carried out in private, no matter how it is prohibited.

However, since the new lord succeeded to the throne a few years ago, it was clearly stipulated that the strange flower fruit could only be cultivated by a special person sent by the imperial court, and the people could buy it at a designated place after the fruit was ripe and the toxins were removed.

Although many people didn't care when the regulations were first promulgated, a few leaders were killed later, and the people behind them gradually became honest.

After several years of persistence, Qihuaguo is rarely seen in Beirong now, and this thing suddenly appeared in such a small village thousands of miles away, which can't help but make people feel shocked.

Since they all bought salt from the same salt dealers, it was natural that the salt dealers should be arrested first.

Although the salt seller is a person who walks the streets and alleys, he has been active in this generation all these years, and it is not difficult to find him, and the salt seller was brought to Lu Zhiyuan within three days.

But it was not until he was arrested and interrogated that he found out that the smuggler had been selling illicit salt here for many years, and because his price was much lower than that of other salt dealers, the people of several nearby villages bought salt from him. According to his confession, the batch of salt that happened this time was a batch of goods that dragged a friend's relationship in, and the price was much cheaper than usual.

He checked at the time, and the salt was all good salt, so he boldly bought a batch of goods back, and sure enough, they sold very well, and they were all sold out in a few days.

As for the poisoning and the strange flower fruit, the salt dealers don't know anything.

Lu Zhiyuan saw that his expression and tone did not seem to be fake, and it was difficult to judge for a while, so he asked people to take him into custody first, and then targeted the friend of the salt dealer.

That person's name is Wu Liu, and when he was young, he often traveled from south to north, and he had a group of friends. He would often get some low-priced items from all over the world and sell them to the surrounding vendors to make a fortune. The salt from this accident came out of his hands.

Lu Zhiyuan led people to Wu Liu's residence, but he didn't think that Wu Liu had already died at home.

"My lord, the blood is hot, it seems that the person has just died." After Tang Feng examined the corpse, he took a bloodstained letter from Wu Liu's hand and handed it to Lu Zhiyuan.

Lu Zhiyuan took the envelope and pulled out the paper inside, the contents of which made him frown.

This letter was written in Wu Liu's tone, and it was written that the batch of salt that had happened was that he had mistakenly believed others, which killed so many people, and he would feel deeply guilty and apologize for his sins with death.

Lu Zhiyuan's first reaction after reading the letter was not to believe it, he had asked people to investigate this Wu Liu in advance, he was very famous in this area when he was young, and there were countless fights and troubles.

He doesn't believe that such a person would suddenly commit suicide because of guilt.

"What do you think?" Lu Zhiyuan asked.

Tang Feng glanced at Wu Liu, pondering, and said, "The specific ones have to be checked before I can say." It's just that in my experience, his wound should not have been self-inflicted. ”

Lu Zhiyuan nodded, his thoughts were the same as Wu Liu's.

In the case of suicide, the wounds are generally deep to shallow, while the opposite is true for murder.

After conducting an examination, they came to the same conclusion as they guessed, that Wu Liu did not commit suicide, but was stabbed to death.

Kill somebody to do away with a witness!

This was the first reaction in Lu Zhiyuan's mind after listening to the results of the work.

As soon as Wu Liu died, all the clues were broken. Lu Zhiyuan investigated all the relatives and friends who came and went before Wu Liu's death, and none of the news he got had anything to do with the case.

Looking at the confession sent by the yacha on the table, the more he looked at it, the more upset he became.

The drum outside the window has sounded three times, and it is already late at night in the blink of an eye.

Lu Zhiyuan got up from the chair, stretched out his hand to open the door of the study, and suddenly a cool chill came to his face, and thin snowflakes fell under the moonlight, he was slightly stunned, this was already winter unconsciously.

It didn't take long for the snowflakes to stop, and he stood under the eaves when he heard Jixiang whisper, "My lord, do you want to go back to your room to rest or rest in your study?" ”

Lu Zhiyuan was busy with the case during this time, and most of the time he slept directly in the study, originally he planned to sleep in the study tonight, but when Jixiang asked, he remembered that it seemed that he hadn't seen Aunt Bai for a long time. Thinking about it, I couldn't help but get angry, this one has no conscience, he is busy with business and has no time to look for her, so she can't take the initiative to come over to deliver a soup and water, at least he should come to a wave of cold and warmth.

"Let's go for a walk in the garden." Lord Lu's face almost melted into the night.

Ji Xiang peeked at it, and was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head, thinking, eh, it's really scary, the adults must have been worried about the case recently, look at this face is really majestic and righteous.

Although it is true that as a personal servant, he should resolutely listen to his master's words, but Jixiang looked at the dark night, he really didn't know where Lord Lu came from, and what to see in the garden at this time.

Slightly stunned, Lu Zhiyuan had already walked a distance with his steps, and Ji Xiang hurriedly trotted a few steps to catch up.

The night breeze is cool and cool, and I can't help but shiver when it blows on people's bodies.

Lu Zhiyuan looked deeply at a certain position in front of him, with a solemn expression and didn't know what to think.

Jixiang thought to himself, look at their adults, they are still thinking about the case so late, what a good official. He just gave a thumbs up in his heart, and he heard Lord Lu speak, "Do you think Aunt Bai will sleep or not?" ”

"You should go to sleep, Aunt Bai usually rests before dawn." Auspicious return.

"Hmm." It took a long time for Lu Zhiyuan's syllable to sound.

After standing for a while, when Jixiang's legs were frozen and he couldn't stand steadily, he heard Lord Lu speak, "Go back." ”

Although it is only two words, how can it be heard from Lord Lu's mouth and how it is full of grievances, yes, yes, it is grievances.

auspicious, "......" said that it is good to worry about the country and the people, is it appropriate for you to think of Aunt Bai as a little woman at this time!

Lu Zhiyuan, the official of "......" hasn't seen his own woman for more than a month, doesn't it make people think about it.