[Red House] Big Salt Merchant

The artesian well exploded.

Until returning to Rongguo Mansion, Lin Yu still hadn't recovered from the shock brought by the news.

Cooking salt with air has a long history. It is reasonable to say that they have sufficient experience before and after. With so many salt merchants working together to open the salt field, they must invite experienced craftsmen to come, and there is absolutely no chance of accidents.Even if there was any negligence, it is impossible to blow up almost the entire saltworks——

Xia Shengzhi said that the salt merchants bombed in the middle of the night, when there was no one around.At that time, everything was ready, and the wells in the entire salt field had been drilled, and the brine could be brine in just a short time.The previous few wells did not produce any good brine, and everyone placed their hopes on the next day. How could they have imagined that on this night when everything was ready and only owed the east wind, when the new Ziliujing salt field was about to be built, something like this went wrong.

In the middle of the night, in the dark salt field, a burst of fire suddenly broke out, one well exploded and burned, another well was overturned, one after another, all the fire wells in the entire salt field were blown up and burned!

That night was a nightmare for the entire artesian well.

The fire illuminated the entire area around the artesian well as if it were daytime, countless people's efforts were wasted in an instant, and the ones who cried the most were those salt merchants who had suffered heavy losses.

This fire has been burning for three full days, and it cannot be extinguished no matter what.

A fortune teller said that it was the curse of the ancestors, and this saltworks could not be opened, which made people panic.

The gas originally came out of the ground, coming out of the wellhead, and the wellhead had to be blocked to put out the fire.

The ground of the entire salt field is as if it has been covered with iron. I don't know how much thought it took to cover these salt wells.

In the end, the fire was extinguished, but the whole salt field was also destroyed.

No one dared to mention the opening of the saltworks anymore, as if they were afraid of offending someone.And because of the words of those fortune-tellers and Taoist priests, other saltworks in Sichuan were also panicked, and the saltworks in Leshan, Qianwei, Chengdu, Chongqing, and even Rongchang Fushun were all temporarily closed.

In a few days, rumors have been flying all over the sky. At one time, it was said that some salt merchant had something strange and saw the spirits of Jiao Ge and Li Bing. At another time, it was said that it was a dream that a big monster emerged from a salt well... Anyway, what is it? Bizarre things have come out, which one of the Sichuan salt merchants is not worried?

The thing about the saltworks was too sudden, without any preparation.

The salt merchants recognize money but not gods and ghosts, but the salt workers below are terrified and dare not start work.It's not that there were no salt merchants who forced them to work in the salt field, but these hard-working people rose up to resist, and no one wanted to die. When there were too many people, they became courageous and made troubles to the government, even the government compromised.

This month in Sichuan, hardly a single grain of salt was produced.

In the whole salt market, the price of salt went up.An accident occurred in the Sichuan salt field, and the price of salt in other salt fields rose suddenly. Xia Shengzhi had already shipped in these private salt shipments, but suddenly something happened in Sichuan. But it's different.

The salt merchants wanted to get rich from Xia Shengzhi, but Xia Shengzhi was a wolf, and he would be a fool if he didn't keep money for himself.

So without any guilt or hesitation, Xia Shengzhi directly tricked the group of salt merchants before, and that's why Lin Yu met Xia Shengzhi in Tanghua Garden.

It's just that Xia Xingzhi didn't finish what he said, these were all guessed by Lin Yu himself.

Lin Yu even suspected that Xia Shengzhi had a backer behind him, otherwise how would he dare to do such a thing without being afraid of revenge?Salt merchants are not vegetarians. If Lin Yu met someone like Xia Shengzhi back then, his first thought would be to cut the grass and root out the roots. Such a person must not be kept.He is considered a rare benevolent type among salt merchants, but he also thinks so, what about others?

If Xia Shengzhi had no backing, Lin Yu would not believe it.

However, who this backer is is a difficult mystery.

With the Rongguo Mansion close at hand, Lin Yu calmed down and went back with Jia Lian.

Today Jia Lian was frightened, and after sending Lin Yu back, he left in a hurry. He brought a troupe back to please Jia's mother. This was Lin Yu's idea.The old lady likes to be lively, and Jia Lian will be filial, at least she won't be scolded.Later, Lin Yu also gave him an idea, asking him to please Mrs. Xing and provoke Mrs. Xing, so that the guy in his family might restrain himself.

Anyway, Lin Yu didn't plan to stay here for a long time, if his letter was successfully sent back to Lin Ruhai, I'm afraid that sister Dai would only stay in Rong Mansion for a while.

When he came back, he just sat under the window and began to read.

Before he went out, Zhang Bao'er was in charge of delivering the letter. Seeing Lin Yu came back now, she came in to serve him, saying that the letter had been delivered by someone.

Lin Yu nodded and asked him to go outside to listen to the news.

Zhang Bao'er was confused again, "Master, why do you always let your slaves go out to hear news? You never tell the reason why, how do you know what news to ask?"

"I never told you, it's just to make you use your brain - you see, the Lord has let you listen to the news for so long, haven't you become much smarter?"

Lin Yu spoke seriously, scaring Zhang Bao'er around.

Zhang Baoer touched her head and went out, probably still wondering how she became smarter.

But for today's matter, he didn't need to use his brains to inquire about the news, the news had already come.

The second master Lian in the Rong Mansion went out to find an opera troupe for the old lady, and said that if he didn't sing now, he would just keep it at home and sing when the old lady was in a better mood.He coaxed the old lady with a bunch of sweet words, Jia Lian had a sweet mouth when he could talk, the old lady smiled happily and rewarded him with something, so Jia Lian went back triumphantly.

But Lian's second grandma had already heard from the servants below that Jia Lian took his brother who had just arrived in Rongfu out to fool around today, and even bullied brother Yu who didn't understand the scenery of the capital.

Earlier Wang Xifeng heard that Jia Lian took Lin Yu out, so she knew that nothing good would happen, but later it was rumored that she was almost arrested, so scared that Wang Xifeng dropped the cup in her hand.After a while, Jia Lian came back as if nothing had happened, and went to please the old lady.Wang Xifeng still doesn't know his heart?

At this time, when Jia Lian came back, he sat there directly, very proud of himself.

He just came back from Mrs. Xing. Normally, he had no reason to talk to his stepmother, but today, in order not to be caught by Wang Xifeng, he deliberately went to greet her for a while, coaxed Mrs. Xing, and by the way provoked Mrs. Xing and her mother. The relationship between Mrs. Wang.

After all, Wang Xifeng is Mrs. Wang's niece, and Mrs. Wang is under Jia's mother who runs the family and holds real power. Mrs. Xing has a bad background and is a house-filler. Mrs. Wang stepped on it.She has no children, no one to rely on, and it is extremely difficult to be a human being in the Rong Mansion with her tail clamped tightly. Jia Lian is not her biological child, so naturally she can't get close to her.

Now she came to get close to her suddenly, even if she knew that Jia Lian had other plans, for her own sake, Mrs. Xing had to bear it.

On the surface, she and Mrs. Wang were calm, but inside they were competitive and refused to let go.

Wang Xifeng is her daughter-in-law, but she doesn't have much respect for her on weekdays. She looks down on that aunt and the like, and has already accumulated deep grievances. Taking this opportunity, how can she not try her best to squeeze Wang Xifeng?

Seeing Jia Lian's complacent look now, Wang Xifeng was so angry that she had already quarreled with Jia Lian before she could say anything clearly.

Ping'er went up to persuade him as usual, and said that such disgraceful things should not be made a big deal, because it will make people laugh.Wang Xifeng just slapped her away and scolded her again, looking like a shrew.

Jia Lian took it very seriously, he preferred Ping'er who was gentle and capable, but Sister Feng was very strict with him and never dared to cause trouble, but today because of Lin Yu's plan, she had a fight between the old lady and Mrs. Xing. Huanxin became more courageous.Men are bloody, and they can't be pushed too hard, but Sister Feng is too pushy, and there is no end to the trouble.

There was a commotion in Jia Lian's house, and it was even louder. Ping'er was wronged and couldn't persuade her, and she couldn't cry. I don't know when it will stop.

Thinking about it, Ping'er simply asked someone to report to the old lady.

This time, the matter came to the old lady.

It was dusk when Lin Yu heard the news.

Zhang Bao'er's expression was lively and excited: "I heard that the second master Lian cried when he came to the old lady. The theater troupe, to please her, said that he did not neglect his job, but just to show his filial piety, how could he be blamed for the unforeseen misfortunes he encountered? He also said that it was his fault to implicate you, but he did not pull you at this time Listening to operas, Tanghuayuan is a place for literati, who read and write poems - and said that the old lady doesn't believe it, so you can ask Master She and Master Zheng..."

Lin Yu almost wanted to applaud Jia Lian, what a fool.

Not to mention Jia Zheng, he is an arty man, he must have been to this Tanghua Garden; Jia She is a seductive person, how can he not go to this place?But these two brothers, if they want to talk back and forth with the old lady, how dare they say it?

To say that Lian Er is a brainless person is probably not biased. Sister Feng can't stop this man's brain from becoming bright.

"Later it was Mrs. Xing who said something nice to Second Master Lian. She seemed to think that Second Grandma Lian was not good. After talking for a while, Mrs. Wang came in and interrupted. It took a long time to settle the matter. Anyway, ..." Zhang Baoer scratched her forehead and thought for a while, "Anyway, it's all over."

Naturally, we can only let it go, otherwise what else can we do?Punish the "filial" Jia Lian, or get rid of the troublemaker Wang Xifeng?

Lin Yu threw down the book in his hand and looked at the sky. Someone came in to talk outside, and the old lady passed the meal to him to go too.