Uncle Luo could only swallow his words back, and watched Shen walk behind the three of them.

There was a pan of oil boiling on the stovetop, the hot oil bubbling in the pot, and a plate on the stove next to the pot with some red balls in it.

Xue Nuo stood by the stove, grabbed one in his hand and stuffed it into his mouth, and his sweet peach blossom eyes were bent, making the two little girls who were still arguing with her blush.

Shen felt funny when he saw this, this child looked like a disaster, and the girl in the house who hooked up before her hair grew was full of spring, and she didn't know how many women she would provoke when she was older.

Seeing Xue Nuo's smile as he ate, he was very satisfied.

Shen said quietly: "Is it delicious?" ”

"Delicious! This hydrangea crisp is soft on the inside, crispy on the skin, and the brown sugar is moist and not sweet, it is simply amazing......"

Xue Nuo turned his head while praising him, and was startled when he met Shen Ke's eyes, and took half a step back and almost fell into the oil pot.

Shen hurriedly grabbed her, grabbed her by the back of her neck and pulled her back: "You want to fry human flesh?" ”

Xue Nuo hit his head in front of him, the bridge of his nose was almost broken, and he whimpered in pain before he covered his nose and looked up: "Childe, why are you, you almost scared me to death!" ”

Shen looked cold: "Didn't you go to the toilet?" An afternoon away? ”

Xue Nuo: "......"

"Where's your book?"

The accusation on Xue Nuo's face disappeared in an instant, and he was directly empty-hearted.

She rolled her eyes and looked at Uncle Luo, looking like she was begging to solve the siege.

Uncle Luo saw that her ears were about to drop like a puppy, and he couldn't help but smile and said:

"Don't teach him a lesson, when Childe passed through Chengyang before, didn't you eat Yipinju's hydrangea cake and think it tasted good, Arnold heard about it and grinded me for a long time to make it, Childe taste it."

Hearing this, Xue Nuo hurriedly turned his head and held the plate on the stove and offered treasure to Shen Ke: "Childe, hydrangea crisp!" ”

Shen looked at the hydrangea crisp on the plate, which was almost half a fist size, the intertwined noodles on it were twisted and twisted, and some places were scorched, he raised his eyebrows and said, "This is hydrangea?" Flaky? ”

The word hydrangea is extremely heavy and strange.

"Flutter!"

The two little girls covered their mouths and laughed.

Xue Nuo glared at them, turned his head and said dissatisfiedly: "Why not, although it is a little ugly, it tastes almost the same, but it is delicious!" ”

She took one and handed it to Shen Ke, but Shen didn't answer.

Xue Nuo's face became depressed, and his originally flying peach blossom eyes also drooped, and he puffed out his face and muttered: "Ugly is ugly, then I'll go back and do it again, Childe will ...... next time."

Before he finished speaking, his hand was light, and the ugly hydrangea crisp arrived in Shen Ke's hand.

Xue Nuo's eyes lit up instantly, and when he saw that he was about to eat, he hurriedly said, "Childe, be careful, the brown sugar inside is a little hot!" ”

Shen took a bite and tilted the leaky opening upwards, and after the crispy dough in his mouth exploded, the taste of brown sugar and crushed peanuts followed.

Xu Promise stuck to his side and tiptoed and said, "How is it, is it delicious?!" ”

"Not bad."

Xue Nuo was complimented, and his eyes instantly bent into crescents.

"I'll just say it's pretty good!" She smirked.

Most of those ugly hydrangea cakes finally entered Shen Ke's stomach, and when he was full of food and drink, he came out of the kitchen with Uncle Luo personally making the delicate and beautiful hydrangea crisps.

Xue Nuo walked briskly, and the ends of his hair were flicked at the back of his head.

Shen saw her humming an unknown song, followed behind and asked, "In such a good mood?" ”

"Of course it's good to eat sweet, my aunt said that there is nothing in this world that makes people more happy than sweets." Xue Nuo said.

Shen was stunned when he heard this, as if he had heard it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

Seeing Xue Nuo walking backwards and talking to him with crooked eyebrows, he shook his head and chuckled, after all, he was still a half-old child, and this temperament was really the same as a child.

Xue Nuo put the food box behind him and asked, "Childe, since we don't leave and want to stay in Qizhen, have you figured out how to deal with that Xu Lizhen?" ”

Shen said "um".

Xue Nuo asked: "What is that boy going to do, do you want me to help you?" ”

"How can you help me?" Shen smiled.

Xue Nuo didn't stop, raised his chin and snorted softly: "Childe, don't underestimate me, I can help you a lot." ”

"Although I'm not as powerful as Childe, there are some things that Childe may not be as good as me, just like that day in the alley, didn't Childe also catch my way?"

She didn't hide her badness, only squinted and smiled, "I crawled out of the mud, so I know best that people can use any means when they want to be bad." ”

"Childe is a good person and has his own exquisiteness, so your tricks are only suitable for dealing with good people who talk about rules, and they are useless for bad people, and if I were Childe, I knew that Xu Lizhen had dealt with me several times, and I would trouble my family."

"Then it doesn't matter what he came to Qizhen for, I will definitely pit him first."

Shen saw what she said as a matter of course, and remembered that Xue Nuo didn't know anything before, but he could keenly sense that the news sent by Tao Ji was wrong and stopped him from leaving.

In the dream, Xue Nuo, who has become an adult, is no worse than Xu Lizhen, and the pit people are even more accurate, so few of the powerful people in Beijing can escape.

Now she has not set foot in the capital, and she has not encountered those things in her dreams, but some instincts still seem to be there.

He suddenly became curious: "Tell me how you want to deal with him?" ”

Xue Nuo tilted his head and thought about it: "If it's me, I'll take down the Hu family first, and then take down Master Tao, dig a pit and wait for him to come, and the thing of reversing the black and white pit people is not only he can do, we can do the same." ”

"Didn't Childe say before that Xu Lizhen came to Jiangnan to inspect salt, and Hurong's black mine is for salt mining."

"Let's say that he colluded with the people of the Hu family to open a black mine, and was broken by Gongzi so he hurried to cover it up, besides, doesn't Gongzi think that Hu Rong and Mrs. Hu died too coincidentally? This is clearly being extinguished. ”

"Maybe Xu Lizhen really asked him to do it."

Shen listened to Xue Nuo's babbling, and at first he thought it was funny, but when he smiled, his expression was a little wrong.

He stopped at his feet: "Who did you hear that black mine in Hurong is for salt mining?" ”

"Just the people in the yamen."

Xue Nuo said: "When Gongzi took me out to buy books two days ago, didn't he go to the yamen by the way? ”

"When you went to see Master Tao, I chatted with the yacha at the door for a few words, and gave him a few pieces of Uncle Luo's snacks, and I heard him say that the black mine that Hu Rong opened with others was originally an iron mine, but later it was found that the water was brine, so I opened a few salt wells and became a salt miner."

"The yacha said that he had been to the black mine once when he was investigating the case before, and the salt output of the salt pit was so high that a few wells in that place could be compared to several salt mines in other places."

Xue Nuo didn't seem to know how important what she said was, and only said to Shen Qi,

"Childe, you think, how expensive is that salt, how can the Hu family eat the few salt wells, there must be someone to transport and sell salt, let's catch those people before Xu Lizhen comes, and then say that the salt mine belongs to Xu Lizhen, and pit him."

Shen didn't listen to Xue Nuo's obviously clumsy calculations, but instead focused all his mind on the salt well.

Tao Ji looked for him three times and twice before, and when he came over today, he looked even more panicked and looked like the sky was about to fall, he wanted to ask him to help him speak in front of the supervising imperial history, and he also wanted to use him to take the lead in the affairs of the family.

Although Shen didn't agree, he also asked about the Hu family several times, but Tao Ji never told him that the Hu family's mine was actually mining salt.

After the Hu family incident, the government took over the Hu family's black mine, and the surrounding area was guarded by the people of the government, and it was impossible for Tao Ji not to send someone in to inspect it.

Even the things that the yacha knew, Tao Ji didn't mention half of the sentence from beginning to end, and even misled him in and out of his words, making him think that the Hu family's private mine was mining iron.

Although salt and iron are all things under the control of the government and cannot be mined privately, the two are completely different.

Iron ore is heavy and miscellaneous, it is extremely difficult to transport it out for sale, ordinary people cannot buy a large number of buyers and dare not buy, and the buyers who can buy a large number of buyers are almost all problematic origins, and they will try their best to cover up the traces and the whereabouts of the iron ore when buying, and it is normal to be able to hide from the inspection department and the local government.

On the contrary, it is private salt, which is very easy to sell, with high interests and convenient transportation, and it is also a best-selling thing that is in short supply in various places.

Illicit salt mining will not last long, and most of it will be transported out immediately and exchanged for money, which means that merchant ships or horse-drawn carriages transporting salt will travel to and from Qizhen frequently.

This also means that there are a lot of buyers after this thing enters the market, and it is difficult to keep the news.

But whether it is the Yamen of the Inspection Department or the local government here, or Caoyun, no one has ever found out.

Is this possible?

Shen Ke's expression turned cold a little, and he wanted to hide the matter of the salt mine, but it was not possible for the Hu family to do it, and the news had never been leaked under the huge profits.

Unless it is collusion between the top and bottom, complicity!

Who is the person who colluded with the Hu family?

Shen squinted slightly.

Tao Ji first had to rule it out, if he really had something to do with Hu's private salt, he wouldn't have hurriedly arrested Mrs. Hu in prison after he was scared that day.

At best, he received some benefits and did not report them, and if he could collude with the Hu family, he would definitely be able to suppress the news of private salt, and he could easily find a channel to sell salt.

Who else can do these two things better than the people of the Cao Yun Division?

"Childe, Childe?"

Seeing Shen Ke's expression condensed, Xue Nuo couldn't help but stop and call him a few times.

Shen came back to his senses, and when he looked at Xue Nuo again, his eyes couldn't help but be complicated: "Xue Nuo......"

"Huh?"

"You seem to be a little fatter?"

“……”

She's trying her best to mention him, what kind of bullshit is this mallet thinking about?!

Shen didn't know that she was slandering in her heart, but she just looked at the young and immature teenager in front of her, thinking about the ideas in her mind one after another, and made up her mind that she would never let her go crooked.

He walked up to her and rubbed the top of her head vigorously: "I know how to do Xu Lizhen's affairs, you don't care, it's too late now, you should go back to sleep." ”

Xue Nuo frowned, she hadn't finished her sentence yet.

Shen didn't give her a chance to speak at all, rubbing her head full of hair, "Go quickly, otherwise be careful not to grow tall." He looked up and down, and compared Bischerno's size,

"But aren't you too short?"

How did it get to his shoulders?

Xue Nuo: "......"

Damn it!

He's insulting her?!!