Don't make trouble, let's build infrastructure!

Tong Ran got out of bed, wrapped herself in some clothes, and walked out quickly.

"what happened?"

"The ground is shaking."

"It exploded! The kiln exploded!"

Someone yelled, and the sleepy crowd immediately boiled up.

"My lord," Yuan San came over with a middle coat and a knife, "The vertical kiln exploded, please don't go there, my lord."

"It doesn't matter," Tong Ran said, he passed through the crowd and went straight to where the vertical kiln was.

The thatched shed where the shaft kiln was placed was blazing into the sky, and more than half of it had collapsed. The remaining part was supported by a single log, and the flames had already greeted there.

Tong Ran's face darkened.

This shaft kiln was his design, and several knowledgeable masters were invited to look at it before finalizing it, and a master who specialized in building kilns was also hired to build it.Although there is no cement in this world, pottery and porcelain have been fired for a long time, and there is also the technology of forging iron.

Tong Ran said to Yuan San, who was half a step behind him: "Go and call Mr. Gao, and bring another team of yamen servants."

Yuan San looked embarrassed, Tong Ran only took him with him on this trip, and now that something like this happened, he couldn't leave, otherwise what would happen if something happened to Tong Ran?

"Go quickly." Tong Ran said.

He has no evidence yet, but he doesn't believe the shaft kiln, but the quality is not good.

Tong Ran explained that when Yuan San returned to the city to call people, Wu Fuqiang took several young and middle-aged men to draw water from the well and started to fight the fire in an orderly manner.Fortunately, the fire was not big and was quickly extinguished. Wu Fuqiang wiped his face with ashes at will, ran to Tong Ran and said, "My lord, the fire has been extinguished."

Tong Ran nodded, and took the lead towards the charred thatched shed.

"Move that place away." Tong Ran pointed to the place closest to the shaft kiln.

Wu Fuqiang should be, and immediately led someone forward to clean up the ashes of the grass shed on the face, revealing what was underneath.

The thing was only a little bit exposed, and a man cleaning up the ashes bent over and vomited, and the scream of an unknown woman pierced the night sky.

"Dead people, there are dead people!" The cleaners shouted at Tong Ran out of control, regardless of etiquette.

Wu Fuqiang's complexion was also not good, and he came over and waited for Tong Ran to show him.

Tong Ran was not far away, and he also saw that thing. He pressed his lips tightly together to suppress his vomiting before he said, "But you're on duty tonight?"

"My lord, it's not." Wu Fuqiang said, "I saw the two on-duty staff just now, and they are all here."

"Bring it up." Tong Ran said.

As soon as Wu Fuqiang heard his words, he knew that the matter was not simple. There were no yamen servants here, so he led two young men and turned the two on duty to Tong Ran.

Cao Min saw that the county magistrate is required to kneel according to the rules, Tong Ran is not used to this, so he didn't ask for it, but this time when the two came, he directly reprimanded: "Kneel down."

Those two people were so scared that their knees went limp, but they immediately fell to the ground after hearing Tong Ran's low reprimand.

Tong Ran pointed to the dead man in the ashes and said, "Look up and speak, I have a few questions to ask, if you lie, it will be your fate."

"Yes, yes, villain... the villain does not dare to deceive the adults." One person tremblingly raised his head, and there was a bright moon above Tong Ran's head, and the moonlight shrouded him like a fairy.

The explosion of the shaft kiln was so loud that not only the workers sleeping nearby, but also many people in Wujia Village were alarmed.

They all knew Tong Ran, but they had never seen such a stern side of him, and they were worried at the moment.

Someone secretly speculated about the cause of today's accident. Before he finished speaking, someone next to him immediately stabbed him: "You don't want to die? Shut up!"

Many people gathered around, but none of them dared to speak. When the people who had just arrived saw the corpse, they only dared to cover their mouths and whisper.

The figure standing in the middle was not tall, with narrow shoulders, just a teenager, but the righteous pressure around him became stronger and stronger every moment, everyone held their breath at the same time, and the scene was eerily quiet.

After waiting for a long time, Tong Ran finally said, "Where were you two before the shaft kiln exploded?"

The teeth of the two people who were kneeling kept chattering, and it took a long time for one of them to say: "I am... in the toilet."

Tong Ran: "Two people together?"

Those two people: "Yes."

Tong Ran: "I told you that this shaft kiln must be kept under constant supervision to control the heat. Why did you leave at the same time?"

The pressure of righteousness was too strong, and the two of them almost fainted, but they didn't dare to faint, so they gritted their teeth and said: "The villain has a stomachache and diarrhea."

Tong Ran turned to the other person and asked, "What about you?"

The man said: "The villain is also...so."

"Where is Granny Liu who is in charge of cooking today?" Tong Ran asked.

An old woman who was over half a century old tremblingly raised her hand: "My lord, I am wronged, it is absolutely none of my business for them to have diarrhea!"

"Take good care of them all." Tong Ran whispered.

The pressure of righteousness was relaxed, and the two people on duty fainted to the ground in a blink of an eye.Wu Fuqiang immediately led people forward, took away the two on-duty officers, and put Po Liu under surveillance.

Tong Ran walked towards the hut that was still smoking.

The person was crushed under the thatched shed, and his face was completely changed. Tong Ran squatted down to take a closer look. This person was completely suppressed by the collapsed thatched shed just now, but there were many places that were not burned. It should be that he died immediately when the explosion happened. .

Tong Ran lifted the clothes around his neck, and among the mottled blood, some white powder adhered to the unburned skin.

Tong Ran raised a point with his clean little finger, and looked at it under the moonlight. After a while, he frowned, turned his head and searched around the crowd, and finally said, "Seventh Aunt, come here."

It was Yan Shishi's mother who was named, and everyone's eyes fell on her. Yan's daughter-in-law also felt weak for a moment, but Tong Ran's tone towards her was still gentle, and she only hesitated for a moment. , clenched his fists, and moved towards Tong Ran.

"Look at this." Tong Ran stretched out her hand and showed her the white powder stuck between her nails, "Can you see what this is?"

Yan's daughter-in-law didn't dare to look at the corpse, but Tong Ran's hands were still clean, so she looked at it under the moonlight and said, "Isn't this just flour?"

"Sure enough." Tong Ran stopped.

The onlookers were not far away from them, and they almost heard them all. They didn't dare to speak loudly, but they couldn't help but look at each other.What's so important about flour? Maybe this person just finished tossing in the kitchen, and when he came here, the shaft kiln happened to be fried?

"But this is too much of a coincidence." Someone whispered.

When the shaft kiln exploded, the two guards passed away, but this person who should not have appeared happened to pass by the grass shed and was killed.Looking at the position where he was pressed, it was not only directly under the thatched shed, but also very close to the shaft kiln.

After the initial panic passed, the crowd gradually calmed down.

"My lord," a person came out from the crowd. Tong Ran turned around and recognized this person as Qu Qilang from Wujia Village, "My lord, I have read in a book that a large amount of flour can explode when exposed to open fire. It is too coincidental that this person happened to be here at the time of the explosion."

Qu Qilang's words expressed what Tong Ran was thinking.

When a large amount of flour dust is suspended in the air and encounters an open flame with sufficient oxygen, it will cause a dust explosion, and its explosion power is no less than that of explosives.

No one would sit idle and sprinkle flour into a shaft kiln for burning stones and earth, unless the person's original purpose was to create an explosion.

"Get rich? Get rich!" A woman rushed out from the crowd and threw herself at the charred corpse under the hut.

"Stop her!" Tong Ran shouted.

As soon as he spoke, the woman threw herself to the side of the charred corpse, crying loudly: "Fat Cai! You died so badly!" The woman's voice was sharp, especially eye-catching at night.

"Go and bring her here." Tong Ran said to Wu Fuqiang.

Wu Fuqiang and another person approached the woman, and the woman suddenly jumped up, breaking through two young and middle-aged men to Tong Ran, pointing her slender index finger at him: "It's you! It's you who want to burn some mud, I'm a man." He was killed by the bomb! You son of a bitch, you killed him!"

It was only then that Tong Ran realized that this woman belonged to Wu Ba's family, no wonder she called Fa Cai just now, that was exactly Wu Ba's name.

"Ah, I'm so miserable, we still have Xiaobao! Xiaobao is only ten years old, how can he live without his father!" Wu Ba's wife scolded Tong Ran, then sat down on the ground again, crying.

"Tsk tsk, how pitiful." A man who came to work from a foreign country said.

Others also sighed.

"Maybe it's really a shaft kiln problem," someone said.

"This was built by the county magistrate, why is there a problem?"

"Who knows about this, hey, one person will be gone, and it's not auspicious to get people's lives on this road, even if it's repaired."

The crying of Wu Ba's daughter-in-law seemed to call out the soul, calling back the panic that had been driven away just now.The crowd became more and more commotion, Wu Fuqiang looked around, wanted to do something, but didn't know what to do.

A lot of manpower is bound to be used to build the road. If there are many false rumors about the vertical kiln today and many remarks that are not conducive to road construction, then it will be difficult to build this road in the future.

He subconsciously looked at Tong Ran.

Tong Ran looked at Wu Facai's daughter-in-law, and there was no expression of joy or anger on his face. After a while, he asked, "This is already outside the Wu family village. Wu Facai doesn't sleep at home at night. What are you doing here?"

Wu Facai's daughter-in-law said angrily, "We quarreled!"

As she spoke, she burst into tears again.

The bystanders sighed again as they listened, it was a trivial matter for a husband and wife to quarrel, and it was too pitiful to suffer disaster after coming out to breathe.

"Can anyone hear their quarrel?" Tong Ran asked.

"I heard it." A villager said in the crowd.

Tong Ran turned her head and saw that it was indeed a villager who lived near Wu Ba's house, so she asked again, "Do you know when they quarreled?"

The man recalled it for a while, and then said: "I remember Wu Facai and her daughter-in-law hurried back in the evening. It should have happened to be the time when rice was served at the end of the vertical kiln. After a while, after the sky darkened, I will prepare I heard them arguing while I was asleep, and then someone went out, maybe it was Wu Ba."

"Did the two on duty start to have diarrhea after dinner?" Tong Ran suddenly asked Wu Fuqiang.

"Yes." Wu Fuqiang replied.

"Bring Po Liu." Tong Ran said, and at the same time he winked, Qu Qilang stopped behind Wu Facai's wife, blocking her way.

"Liu Po, do you know her?" Tong Ran pointed to Wu Facai's daughter-in-law.

Wu Facai's daughter-in-law turned her head away, and the Liu Po ​​said: "See... yes, she... sometimes comes to help me."

"What did she do for you?" Tong Ran asked again.

Wu Facai's daughter-in-law glanced at Po Liu.

Granny Liu walked around between Tong Ran and Wu Facai's daughter-in-law, and said, "I cook the meals for the workers tonight. The two on duty are far away. I have bad legs and feet, so I call her Send it."

"You're talking nonsense!" Wu Facai's daughter-in-law snapped.

"Then you say it." Tong Ran said, righteousness like ripples on the surface of a river, swaying in circles.Wu Facai's daughter-in-law and Liu's mother-in-law are ordinary people with no rank, and they immediately feel cold.

Wu Facai's daughter-in-law stroked her braids unnaturally, and said, "Grandma Liu...she wants to steal the food from Liyao and feed it to her grandson. I just passed by and was dragged by her as a cover. The diarrhea on duty has nothing to do with me." !"

"You can't talk nonsense, girl, I..."

Halfway through speaking, Po Liu suddenly saw Gao Zhuo rushing over with a team of people. She didn't know Gao Zhuo, but she did know his official uniform. "No, no, don't take me to the officials, don't take me to the officials." Liu Po ​​yelled while backing away. She sprained accidentally and was restrained by two yamen servants.

Dressed in official uniform, Gao Zhuo came to Tong Ran neatly, cupped his hands and said, "My lord, a team of yamen servants will bring them here."

"Thank you." Tong Ran nodded, walked around him and walked to the front.

There were still whispers in the crowd, Tong Ran coughed lightly, and the whispers stopped suddenly.

Tong Ran ignored Granny Liu who was at the side, but looked at Wu Facai's daughter-in-law who was kneeling on the ground: "You just came here, how do you know that everyone on duty has diarrhea?"

Wu Facai's daughter-in-law said with red eyes, "Of course I heard people say it."

Tong Ran knelt down and looked at her at the same level. Wu Facai's daughter-in-law resisted the pressure and looked back at him for a moment, then hurriedly moved her eyes away.

Tong Ran said again: "You know that this charred corpse is your man from outside the crowd, and someone told you?"

"I..." the rich daughter-in-law choked back.

"So it was her medicine!"

Tong Ran didn't avoid this question, and everyone around heard it, and many people were already stunned when they heard this.

"Why did she prescribe the medicine?" His mind was slow and he was still at a loss.

It was said that someone was about to explain, but Tong Ran said: "You first add medicine to the meal, so that the diarrhea on duty tonight will not stop, so that there will be no one around the vertical kiln. Then run home and pretend to quarrel with Wu Facai, Afterwards, Wu Facai went out and threw flour into the kiln, which caused an explosion. As for why you rushed out to claim the corpse, I think your employer wanted to blame the matter on the vertical kiln I designed. It cannot be built."

"So it is!"

"This woman has such a vicious heart that she doesn't even care about her own man's life!"

"Master Tong said there is an employer, who is the employer?"

"Without an employer, I did all these things alone!" Wu Facai's daughter-in-law yelled.

Tong Ran's hand reached the back of her head, and Wu Facai's daughter-in-law immediately moved away, but Tong Ran pulled out a gold hairpin from her hair, and looked at it under the moonlight: "What a pure gold peony hairpin, listen to it!" It is said that Wu Ba’s family’s harvest is the lowest in the village this year, where did your golden hairpin come from?”

"That gold hairpin is so pretty." A girl said.

"I remember Wu Ba's daughter-in-law didn't have it before, and she only put it on her head in the past two days."

"That's how it came about, disgusting."

"Wu Facai's family is used to thinking wrong things. This time they didn't have a good harvest, so they were bribed to do this kind of thing. Fortunately, only Wu Ba was killed, otherwise it would be too unfair."

Wu Facai's daughter-in-law gritted her teeth and stared at Tong Ran fiercely. Gao Zhuo led someone to take her away. Liu Po ​​and the two guards on duty also took her back to the yamen, and ordered people to collect Wu Facai's body.

Things are done, it's already light.

"You watch and ask someone to sort out the wreckage first, and I'll talk about the rest when I wake up." Tong Ran told Gao Zhuo.

After working all night, his eyelids were also fighting, and he went to his room after explaining.

As soon as the little tiger woke up, Tong Ran's green eyes caught him as soon as he entered the door.

Tong Ran walked and took off his middle clothes, then fell face to face on the bed, wrapped the little tiger in his arms, and fell asleep.