When a passerby becomes a princess

After a few days, the pill furnace finally arrived.Because the smoke and dust were billowing during the refining process, the furnace could not be opened in the county government, so Jingyun found an abandoned temple outside the city, packed up with the dozen or so nuns who brought them in, and mixed some of the medicinal materials they brought with them. Alright, let's start refining medicine.

It was already April at this time, and the weather was gradually starting to warm up. There was no ice cellar in the temple, so the pearl white jade fruit and seabass were still stored in the county government office, and only some were taken to the temple for trial matching.

During this period of time, Second Sister Qiao searched around every day when no one was around, hoping to find the pearly white jade fruit to treat Wu Qingyu's poison. The cloth bag is not big, and it is really not easy to find it in such a large county government backyard.

Fortunately, after the alchemy stove arrived, Jingyun went outside the city, and a few nuns often went to help, even the tiger's head was carried back and forth, Liang Xi worked in the county government every day, and Lin Qiu started to work in the workshop again As for the affairs of the Neijin Farm, Second Sister Qiao was often left alone in the backyard, which happened to be convenient for her to search for the pearly white jade fruit.

She finally found it in the ice cellar that day.

The original ice cellar of the county government had only one floor, and the exit was sealed with thick wooden doors and quilts. In winter, ice cubes were stored, and in summer, they were taken out and added to sour plum soup, which quenched thirst and kept cool.

When it was being renovated, Madam Liu asked the craftsmen to dig another layer underneath, so that the upper layer was used to store some meat, fruits and vegetables, and ice cubes were placed underneath, so that Lin Qiu could eat his favorite dishes at any time. It's just that it was already early winter when they arrived in Beimo County last year, and it was the heavy snow season after the repair of the county government office, so they put some dried fruits, bacon, and fish in it.

The pearl white jade fruit is on the first layer, packed in a thick bag, placed among some dried fruits, and there is a skin bag next to it.

Second Sister Qiao came down with a candle, and saw the bag at a glance. When she opened it, it was the fruit that she had looked through before. She was so excited that she wished to take it to Wu Qingyu immediately, but she still had a bit of reason in the end. If all the fruits were taken away, Liang Xi would definitely not let it go. Thinking of Liang Xi's status as the crown prince, Second Sister Qiao only took three fruits from the bag, and then took a wine pot to pour some snow water, and finally took The two small fish next to it left.

As soon as she returned to the backyard, she saw Nanny Xing coming out of the fire room, which shocked her to stand where she was, her hands and feet went limp.

Madam Xing came back from the market to buy vegetables, and just put them in the fire room, when she came out, she saw this woman who was almost killed by her as a monster. Seeing that, that's why she looked panic-stricken, couldn't help but rolled her eyes, ignored her, turned around and went back to the front yard.

The second sister Qiao was still in shock, and quickly touched her bosom. Fortunately, she put the fruit and small fish in her bosom just now. If she held it in her hand, she would have been discovered.Thinking of this, she hurried out through the back door and delivered these things to Wu Qingyu before anyone found out. As long as he ate it, so what if he was found out? Could it be possible to make him spit it out?

However, Madam Xing walked all the way to the front yard and saw that no one was there, so she had to go to the county government office and ask the government servants to invite Liang Xi out.

It turned out that they had been looking for Hutou's parents. Some time ago, they published a missing person notice in Beimo County's newspaper, which showed the tiger-head hat and the pair of tiger-head shoes that Hutou had worn.

Today, Madam Xing went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. An old lady who sold vegetables only saw a revelation in an old newspaper in the past few days. At the end of the month, a man came to look for the child. The man looked handsome and was dressed luxuriously. He only said his surname was Xin, but he didn't say where he was from.

"Did that man tell you about the characteristics of Xun's child?" Liang Xi asked.

Nanny Xing said: "The man said that the lost one was a male doll, who had just turned one year old, wearing a red tiger hat, and didn't elaborate on anything else."

"Could it really be Hutou's father?" Liang Xi thought for a while and said, "Since that's the case, let's continue to publish the missing person notice in the Beimo County Daily. Since the aunt can see it, maybe one day Hutou Dad can see it too."

Madam Xing also thinks this idea is feasible. Recently, the tiger head has been kept in the rooms of several mammies. After a few months, several mammies also like this little doll who seldom cries and is always cheerful. Although the nuns can take good care of Hutou, it is better for the child to grow up with his parents, so they all hope to find his parents as soon as possible.

Liang Xi called the master book, and explained the matter of continuing to post missing person notices, and suddenly remembered something, and called the county lieutenant to ask: "The brawl incident yesterday, has it been dealt with properly?"

The county lieutenant quickly said: "The officer is about to report this matter to the county magistrate."

It turned out that someone came to report yesterday afternoon that there was a group fight in Wanjia Township and Jiuwan Township under Beimo County. Hundreds of villagers fought together with hoes, sticks and other objects.After Liang Xi knew about it, he asked the county lieutenant to take the Yacha and two hundred guards to stop it.

The county lieutenant said: "There is no water source near Wan's hometown, and the canal used for irrigation passes through Jiuwan Township, and nothing has happened before.

It's just that last year a family in Wan's hometown married the daughter of a family in Jiuwan Township, who knew that the woman ran away with someone in a few days.The Wanjia family thought that the Jiuwan family cheated on the marriage, and the Jiuwan family said that the Wanjia family abused their daughter, so the daughter ran away.The two families even went to court over this matter.

The irrigation canal in Wan's hometown happened to pass through the land of that family in Jiuwan Township, so he moved stones to block the canal, which caused the villagers of the two townships to fight. "

Liang Xi was dumbfounded when he heard this, and then he remembered that there was indeed such an incident in the file, which was handled by the former county magistrate, who sentenced the family in Wanjia to divorce his wife, and Jiuwan Township to compensate all the betrothal gifts.

"Did they discuss yesterday how to deal with the canal in the future?" Liang Xi said.

The county lieutenant said with some headaches: "The family in Jiuwan Township said that the land belongs to their family, so they won't let the canals in Wan's hometown pass through unless they return their daughter back."

Liang Xi said somewhat dumbfoundingly: "His daughter ran away with someone, and where did she go to find it? Couldn't the canal bypass his land?"

The county lieutenant shook his head and said, "That place happens to be between two mountains. If we want to bypass that family's land, unless we move the mountain away, the canal will go to Beisang County on the other side of the mountain."

Liang Xi really thought of the waterwheel designed by Lin Qiu. Although the waterwheel can move water over mountains and mountains, the land of a township is not the same as the land of a farm. To irrigate the land of a township, how much water would it take? Only water trucks can solve it?

When eating at noon, Liang Xi was still thinking about this matter. It is rare for a person who always likes to chat during meals to "eat without talking" at the dinner table.

After lunch, Lin Qiu looked at Liang Xi who was deeply frowning, and didn't ask any questions, but just sat quietly drinking tea.

"Qiu'er."

"Ok?"

"I remember you said that gunpowder can explode, and just a little bit can kill people. The power is amazing. Can you blow up the mountain?" Liang Xi thought of countless ways, and even looked at the map nearby. , the canal is too far away if you want to detour, the only way is to move the mountain away, but there are huge boulders on the nearby mountain, and it is impossible to move it by manpower. This reminds me of the gunpowder that Lin Qiu mentioned once.

"can."

"Can rocks explode too?" Liang Xi said, his eyes lit up.

"Well, as long as there is enough gunpowder, no matter how big a stone is, it can explode."

"Wow, that's great!" Liang Xi smiled until his eyes rolled.

Lin Qiu looked into his eyes and showed a smile. Every time he saw Liang Xi's eyes crooked with a smile, Lin Qiu always felt that he was also very happy, a kind of warmth from the bottom of his heart.

"Look, we need to move the mountain away from here, so that the canal only needs to go around a little bit from here." Liang Xi took the map and said to Lin Qiu: "There are many huge rocks on this mountain, and it can't be done without manpower. To carry it, so the stone must be blown to pieces."

Lin Qiu nodded. Looking at the map, if the family in Jiuwan Township really doesn't allow the canal to pass by, Liang Xi's method is indeed the best, but wouldn't it be better if he could find the woman?

Liang Xi rubbed his temples, and said: "I heard that the girl was rolled up and ran away with a street peddler, and she disappeared. Where can I find her?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mammy Liu rushed in and said, "His Royal Highness, the head catcher in the yamen asked for an interview, saying that something happened."

If it's petty theft, fights and troubles, usually the head arrester can handle it by himself. If you really want to find the county magistrate, it's definitely not a trivial matter.

Liang Xi hurriedly changed his clothes and came out, only to see the head catcher and two yamen servants waiting at the door, seeing him immediately stepped forward and said: "My lord, someone came to report just now, it seems that a murder case happened in Jingu Inn."

"It seems?" Liang Xi asked after hearing this, and ran towards the Jingu Inn.

"Yes." The head catcher followed behind, and said, "It's the little girl there who came to report that there were women calling for help and men shouting and cursing in the backyard, but they were afraid that the gangster would hold a murder weapon. I didn’t dare to go to check, so I had to come to the Yamen to report the case.”

"How dare this man in the open sky dare to kill people?" Liang Xi ran even faster after hearing this.

Qin Yu followed with more than a dozen guards. Although the county town was relatively safe, the crown prince had no sense of security. Wasn't he in the county town when he disappeared last time?

The Golden Valley Inn was only two blocks away from the county government office. When they arrived, there were many guests in the inn outside the door of the backyard, and there were intermittent screams of women in the backyard.

Hearing this, Liang Xi was furious. This is really unlawful. He kicked the closed gate hard, and the two thick gates were kicked flying out.

Qin Yu's eyelids twitched when he saw the door flying out. The doors of this inn are usually made very strong to prevent theft. Unexpectedly, the prince was so skillful that he kicked the door to pieces.

Liang Xi didn't pay attention to the door at this time, and rushed in with a group of arresters, yamen and guards, and saw two white and greasy meat sticks rolling and shaking on the bed, and one of them couldn't move. screamed.

Taking a closer look, Liang Xi couldn't help exclaiming: "Second Sister Qiao?!"