Chapter 134: Night Prospecting
The ancestors of the white shopkeeper have been passed down for three generations, and he has no children directly here, although the surname of Baijia Village is Bai, but the white shopkeeper is a side branch of Wufu, so the white shopkeeper has been sick for so many days, and almost no one has come to look at him, at most he asked, "Is the illness better?"
This time Shen Yuyu and Ji Xun came, Aunt Bai seemed to have a backer, and she didn't even have the qualifications to cry before, but now she also hugged the body of the white shopkeeper and cried.
The person is gone, and the next thing is to spend money, Shen Yuyu and Ji Xun almost sent the white shopkeeper to the funeral according to the specifications of their daughter and son-in-law.
It has been three days since the aftermath of the white shopkeeper was dealt with, and Shen Yuyu and Ji Xun sent Bai Damiang back to Fengming Restaurant.
Shen Xingwang also knew the shopkeeper Bai and Aunt Bai, and was saddened to get the news, so he settled down with Aunt Bai.
After all this, Shen Yuyu and Ji Xun went directly to Baijia Village, and after going to Baijia Village and several villages downstream to investigate, Shen Yuyan, who originally only wanted to kill the person who poisoned the Bai shopkeeper, changed his mind.
The water in the river is polluted with slag, the water is undrinkable, and the crops irrigated with the water from the river are poisonous, and even bathing with this water causes sores, and people are almost desperate.
Seeing that someone came to investigate the matter, they all knelt down and kowtowed and cried, hoping that someone could help them.
After some investigation, it was getting late, and the two were ready to go back to Big River Town.
"Ah Xun, we have to help them" Shen Yuyu's eyes were firm, she was not a, she came from the modern countryside, she knew the hard work and helplessness of the peasants, knew how small and humble they were, and knew how desperate they were when they were cornered.
Therefore, she wants to help them, just like helping her parents and helping her fellow villagers.
It may be difficult, because in this era, iron mines are all government-run, and each iron mine represents a huge force, and not everyone can bring it down.
But Shen Yuyan wants to do it anyway, how do you know if you can do it if you don't work hard?
"We can collect human and physical evidence, and then go to the Inspector and ask the Inspector to help." Shen Yu said.
Ji Xun had already guessed that Shen Yuyu would make this move, but this iron ore was mined privately by the crown prince Wei Yuande without the emperor's knowledge, and the physical evidence is easy, so many carriages transporting ore can be obtained casually, mainly human evidence, which is definitely not so easy to get.
"Don't worry, leave this matter to your husband." Ji Xun drove the carriage, his voice was faint but determined, "I'll send you back to Shenjia Village first." ”
"No, I'm going with Ah Xun." Shen Yuyu's tone was affirmative.
"It's too dangerous, Yu Yu doesn't know how to do kung fu."
"Ah Xun's kung fu can be worth ten with one, but can it be worth one to a hundred?" Shen Yuyan said, "Isn't it good to have multiple people discuss?" She will never let Ah Xun take risks alone, never.
"Okay." Ji Xun took a step back, "Then let's go to the iron mine field tonight to explore." ”
"Hmm." Shen Yu responded.
The two went to the town of Great River in a carriage, bought two night clothes and rented a horse in the town, and then went to the inn to open a room, and ate something casually until it got dark.
In the middle of the month, the moon was big and bright, and at about eight or nine o'clock in the evening, the two of them changed into night clothes and left Dahe Town, and rode to Baijia Village.
After arriving in Baijia Village, it was about midday, and the countryside went to bed early, and the village was silent.
In order not to alarm the villagers, they rode around the village to the iron ore fields on horseback.
The iron mine is located to the north of the village, and from a distance, you can see that the foot of the mountain is full of torches, and the sound of mining is incessant.
Tie the horse to a hidden place by the river, and quietly touch the iron mine by the moonlight, and when it is closer, Ji Xun climbs a big tree and looks inside the iron mine.
In order to prevent the miners from escaping, the mine was heavily guarded by high walls, and hundreds of miners in shackles and pickaxes were mined.
At the gate of the mine, the mine manager and several officers and soldiers were drinking and chatting.
"What kind of poison is in this iron ore? So powerful? That day, he put a small amount in the old man's tea, and he died in only seven or eight days. ’
Hearing this, Shen Yuyu looked at the man fiercely, it turned out that he gave Uncle Bai poison, and he must kill him with his own hands to avenge Uncle Bai in the future.
The man had a big black mole on his chin, and Shen Yuyu firmly remembered his appearance.
The other two replied.
"Who knows? Anyway, it's none of our business, the official family ordered it, and it doesn't matter how many people die. ”
"Isn't it? If we go on like this, the villages on both sides of the river will die, come, drink, it's none of our business. ’
Shen Yuyu listened from afar, his fists clenched, who is the boss behind this iron mine? The Great Zhou State has such a big official, which is simply a disaster for the people.
In a fit of rage, Ji Xun came down from the tree.
took Shen Yuyu's hand and quietly hid in the forest on the side, and told him about the situation inside, feeling that there seemed to be no way to sneak in at the moment.
"You can wait for the guards inside to sleep." Shen Yu said.
"Well, that's all there is to it." Ji Xun shook Shen Yuyu's hand and held her in his arms to resist the chill of the spring night.
The two had just waited for a long time, and suddenly there was a shouting and scolding from inside the mine, which sounded like someone was resisting, and the two of them hurriedly pricked up their ears.
"Eating worse than a pig, and not letting me sleep at this time, who can survive like this?" As soon as this voice was raised, Ji Xun's face changed, and he clenched his fists fiercely.
This is a veteran under him, named Wang Chang.
He Shaoyuan, a dog thing, actually threw such a brave veteran to dismiss his post and mine here.
"That's it, if you don't give you food or sleep, if you continue like this, you have to be tired to death."
"We must go to bed at the beginning of the morning and get up at the middle of the day, otherwise we will all do nothing."
One of these two voices is General Lin and the other is Deputy General Zhang!
These were once the brave and loyal soldiers under his Night King, but now they have all been ......
In the mine, the sound of whips and sticks and angry scolding sounded, scolding the eighteenth generation of He Shaoyuan's ancestors, but he didn't let out a scream.
Ji Xun's face changed and changed, and no one knew his mood at the moment.
I don't know how long it has been, there was the sound of the iron door closing, and Shen Yuyu, who was dozing off in a daze, suddenly woke up.
Ji Xun climbed the tree again and looked into the mine, where many torches had been extinguished, a few were left, and hundreds of guards had gone to sleep.
However, the gate was locked, and there were four or five people inside the door drinking tea and chatting, and it seemed that they were on duty in turn twenty-four hours a day. Ji Xun felt that it was really difficult to get in, so bring the rope tomorrow and try to see if he could sneak in.
I was about to get off the tree, when I suddenly saw a big fat pig popping up out of nowhere, humming and arching towards the gate.
The big fat pig was at least one or two hundred catties, and the five people in the door could see it at a glance.
"Wouldn't it? Where is it such a big boar?" The five guards had their eyes shining, and they all stood up without drinking any more tea.
"Catch it and you can have a meal tomorrow, how about it?" One of them pulled out a large bunch of keys.