Cuiwei went down to the east building and saw Ziling, the girl, who was already waiting for her downstairs.

"Cuiwei, are you looking for me?"

Cui Wei was stunned for a moment, and frowned: "Do you know that the eldest lady is looking for you?" ”

"My uncle counted it, and my uncle asked me to wait here."

"In that case, then follow me upstairs quickly."

Cui Wei pulled her up to the attic.

"Ziling has seen the eldest lady."

Ziling bowed deeply and saluted.

Chu Wanqing pointed to the salt jar on the table and asked, "Ziling, tell me, where did you get such a precious fine salt?" ”

Ziling replied honestly: "Miss Hui, this is made by my uncle, he said, if you want to taste this soup made of fine salt, you will definitely ask the slave and maid for questioning." ”

"He asked me to bring you a message."

Chu Wanqing was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "What words?" ”

Ziling looked around, and stopped talking.

Chu Wanqing beckoned and motioned to step forward.

Ziling stepped forward and said two sentences.

Chu Wanqing was surprised: "Can this work?" ”

"Does he really have such a way to reach the sky?"

Ziling smiled and pointed to the salt jar on the table: "Miss, isn't this the best proof." ”

Chu Wanqing looked at the salt shaker and thought that she had exhausted her donkey skills.

Ning Hao's method, you might as well give it a try.

He immediately ordered: "Okay, just do what he said, and all the people in the house and the shop will be sent by him." ”

Cui Xia and Xinghua, the two personal maids, were all taken aback.

How can the eldest lady give power to a son-in-law.

Could it be that he is looking at the poisonous salt thing, and he has nothing to do, and wants to find a scapegoat.

Ay.

In the end, it's a son-in-law, and if it's dead, it's dead.

It's better than the Chu family's full slaughter.

For the life of the son-in-law, everyone never cared about it.

Ziling didn't see it that way, and immediately happily reported the good news.

After Ning Hao heard the news, he immediately twisted his neck and rubbed his hands: "Okay, just wait for her words, let's go, let's go to the salt shop and do a good job." ”

……

"Mighty~!"

The prefect of my uncle opened the trial of the Chu family's poisonous salt case.

The people gathered at the door, waiting for the next step.

They are clamoring to bring profiteers to justice as an example.

Not killing is not enough to outrage the people.

The old lady of the Chu family, Chu Hongyang was handcuffed and shackled to the court.

Below him were his three sons.

Chu Xinwei, Chu Xinchang, Chu Xinle.

As for the other men of the Chu family, because they were not the main culprits, they were not arraigned.

The Chu family invited Gusu to file the first major case, and Chen Zhanyuan fought this lawsuit.

There are 56 plaintiffs and victims.

Entrust a local good person, Xu Gong, to litigate on his behalf.

Yuan Shanzheng came to the court, and first waved his hand at Xu Gong to show respect.

After all, Xu Gong is a famous local squire and has a good reputation.

Yuan Shanzheng must give the old man this thin noodles.

Syllable!

Shocked.

"Silence."

The lively people at the door were suddenly silent.

Ning Hao and the maid Ziling were mixed in the crowd.

Seeing such a great official authority, I felt that the knowledge of the ancients was too shallow.

However, it is also understandable that in ancient times, the people were fish and meat on the chopping board, and life and death were not up to them.

The case was heard.

First, Xu Gong appealed.

Then Lord Yuan began the trial.

"Chu Hongyang, can you plead guilty?"

Chu Hongyang looked at Chen Zhanyuan.

Chen Zhanyuan bowed his hand and immediately shouted injustice: "My lord, you are wronged." ”

"The fifty-six poisoned people were definitely not caused by the Chu family's salt shop."

"In fact, some profiteers deliberately framed him, and I hope that Lord Yuan will be aware of everything."

Xu Gong scolded: "Nonsense, if it weren't for eating your Chu family's salt, how could these fifty-six people be poisoned." ”

"Master Chen, Hugh must be clever here, reversing black and white, and shirking responsibility."

"It's the Chu family's salt that's poisonous."

Chen Zhanyuan was not in a hurry, and said with a smile: "Gong Xu's words are wrong. ”

"The Chu family's salt, I've been using it all the time, but why am I fine?"

Xu Gong replied: "That's because the salt that the Chu family sells to these people is inferior coarse salt, and the salt you eat is incomparably more expensive than gold, so naturally there will be no poisoning problem." ”

Chen Zhanyuan shook his index finger: "It is true that ordinary people can't afford to eat good salt, so they can only buy coarse salt to eat." ”

"But why did something happen to them? Other people, don't there be many people who use the Chu family's salt, why are they fine? ”

"Lord Yuan, this matter is quite strange, if there is a problem with the salt, when there is at least the number of people poisoned, and it is by no means just fifty-six people."

"If there is any suspicion here, I hope you will find out."

Yuan Shanzheng replied: "This matter is indeed a bit strange, Duke Xu, do you have anything to say?" ”

Xu Gonggong said: "Lord Hui, what the Chu family means is that his family's salt is non-toxic, since he said that his salt is fine, I don't know if he dares to test it?" ”

Chen Zhanyuan immediately said: "Why don't you dare." ”

Yuan Shanzheng immediately said: "Come on, go to the Chu family salt shop and get salt." ”

Soon.

The official brought a bag of salt from the Chu family's salt shop.

Yuan Shanzheng ordered the officials to open it in public.

The fine salt of the snowflakes suddenly catches the eye.

Xu Gong was shocked: "How is it possible? It's actually a whole bag of fine salt, what about the coarse salt of the Chu family? ”

Yuan Shanzheng also asked: "This official ordered you to take coarse salt, why did you take this fine salt." ”

The official replied: "Lord Hui, it's not that we don't want to take coarse salt, but in the Chu family's shop, there is no coarse salt, only fine salt." ”

Chen Zhanyuan immediately said: "My lord, Miss Chu Wanqing, the current head of the Chu family, can give an explanation for this matter." ”

Yuan Shanzheng immediately said: "Xuan Chu Wanqing went to the court." ”

The people in the hall talked about it one after another.

"This Chu family shop actually doesn't sell coarse salt."

"Could it be that they poured all the coarse salt overnight?"

"It's unlikely, this coarse salt is expensive, and you are willing to throw it away?"

"Then why is there no coarse salt?"

……

Chu Wanqing came to the hall, and as soon as she appeared, the hall was immediately shocked, and everyone stopped talking and looked at Chu Wanqing stupidly.

This woman is too wicked.

Chu Wanqing knelt down and bowed, "Meet Lord Yuan." ”

Yuan Shanzheng looked at Chu Wanqing for a while, but only then came back to his senses after being reminded by Master Huang's cough.

He coughed embarrassedly and asked, "Chu Wanqing, why is there no coarse salt in your shop, but in order to annihilate the evidence of the crime, you dumped and destroyed the coarse salt overnight?" ”

Chu Wanqing replied: "My lord Mingjian, even if the people are bold and bold, they will never dare to dump the coarse salt, in fact, my Chu family has mastered the technology of coarse salt purification, but whenever the coarse salt enters the shop, it will not be sold immediately, but will be purified first, and the impurities in it will be removed before it can be sold to the people." ”

Yuan Shanzheng's face was suddenly shocked: "Is this true? ”

Chu Wanqing said in a bright voice: "What the folk girl said is true. ”

As soon as these words came out, the whole house was shocked.

The yield of coarse salt in the Dayu Dynasty was already low, and the salt mines were uneven, and the salt produced by many salt mines was highly toxic and inedible.

This directly leads to a greater scarcity of salt production.

If the Chu family really masters this purification technology, it will be a qualitative leap for salt production.

It's just that the Chu family really mastered it?

Yuan Shanzheng expressed his suspicions, and immediately frightened: "Chu Wanqing, do you know what the crime of deceiving this official should be." ”

Chu Wanqing immediately bowed and said: "My lord, the people don't dare to deceive the adults, if the adults don't believe it, they can verify it on the spot." ”

"As long as the adult delivers a bag of coarse salt to the people's daughter, take it back for processing, and in less than an hour, you can return a bag of fine salt."

Yuan Shanzheng immediately asked: "Verify it in court." ”

Chu Wanqing said with a smile: "Lord Yuan, this is the secret recipe of my Chu family, in exchange for you, are you willing to disclose the secret recipe in public?" ”

"This?"

Yuan Shanzheng was suddenly embarrassed.

Chu Wanqing took a step back and said, "My lord, the maiden can allow a servant to enter my family's workshop to oversee." ”

Yuan Shanzheng immediately agreed: "In this case, then good, this official will allow you to catch Zhang Sanshun for an hour, give her a bag of coarse salt, and you will go to supervise." ”

"Commanded by humility."

"Thank you, sir."

Chu Wanqing took the bag of coarse salt back to the shop.

She watched with her own eyes the purification method arranged by Ning Hao, and the fine salt was distilled and crystallized little by little.

Watch the miraculous output of these delicate, white flowers of fine salt.

Chu Wanqing was full of admiration: "I can't imagine this scoundrel, in addition to eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, he still has some skills, but I underestimated him before." ”

Take this bag of fine salt back to your life.

At this moment, there are already a lot of sedan chairs gathered at the entrance of the yamen.

They are all wealthy merchants in the city, and most of their family industries are related to the salt industry.

Salt road, in this world, is fragrant and sweet.

Whoever can afford to open a salt shop, not to mention the pot full of money, at least a few thousand taels of silver is not a problem.

More than ten taels of silver is enough for a family of three for a year's expenses.

It can be seen how profitable this salt industry is.

Now the Chu family says that their family has mastered the technology of coarse salt purification.

This is a revolutionary technological innovation, which has a huge impact on the industry.

They were in a hurry, so they came to check the authenticity.