I am the county magistrate in Daming

The alcohol content of plum wine was not high, and Mu Qingtian woke up the next day without the hangover sequelae of nausea and headache.

This reminded him that since time travel, what he drinks most often is tea, or plain water.From the beginning to the end, he never took a sip of a sweet drink.The restaurant occasionally offers some fermented glutinous rice soup, but not many people buy it.

If you can make a fruit drink, wouldn't you be able to make another fortune?

Just after the new year, Mu Qingtian set a new goal.Fu Shou Tang has already tied up with him. You can try it in Fu Shou Tang first, and then promote it if the response is good.

There are also saponins and soap for laundry.The soap locust tastes good, but the soap is different.After all, it is picked from pigs and cows, so it will inevitably have an animal smell.Poor people can only use pancreas, ordinary people use saponins, and rich people still use saponins, but after washing, they have to put them next to the incense burner for a period of time to smoke.

Add spices to the soap to make soap for washing hands, which will definitely be loved by the lady.

With a goal in mind, Mu Qingtian immediately became motivated.He pushed open the door and took the first breath of New Year's air, feeling refreshed immediately.

"Morning, my lord." Cuizhu had been waiting outside for a while, seeing Mu Qingtian coming out, she quickly asked Shuhui to fetch hot water.

"Morning!"

"Ah!" Cui Zhu exclaimed, "What happened to your mouth, my lord?"

Mouth?Mu Qingtian stretched out his hand to touch it, and felt something hard near the corner of his lower right lip.

"hiss--"

A streak of red snaked down, not much, and was frozen by the cold wind for a while, forming a small drop of blood on the lips.

"Your Excellency must be on fire, Cui Zhu will go get the medicine now!"

Cui Zhu ran away without thinking too much, leaving Mu Qingtian alone with the corner of his mouth in a daze.

He remembered drinking with Ting Yun on the roof last night, and later, later... later?

Mu Qingtian couldn't remember what happened afterwards, he only had a blurry picture in his head, as if he was gnawing his elbow.It's just that the elbow was a little bland, tasteless, and still had a lot of water.However, the skin of the elbow was soft, even if it was a bit tough, he didn't bite it off for a long time.

Drinking mistake!Drinking mistake!Mu Qingtian angrily reprimanded himself for losing self-control last night, and decided to apologize to Wu Tingyun.

Before going up to the roof, Ting Yun only had a plate of peanuts and a plate of cucumbers in his hands. He must have been greedy later, so Ting Yun brought elbows from the kitchen.And today he woke up in his own room, without even thinking about who moved him off the roof.

Shuhui listened to Cuizhu, and went to the kitchen to prepare hot water, but when she was about to arrive, she turned a corner and slipped to Wu Tingyun's room.

Before the Chinese New Year, everyone in Lizheng/Mansion was busy. She is currently Wu Tingyun's distant cousin, but she can't get in touch with her frequently, so as not to arouse suspicion.

Absolutely, absolutely not because she ate so well here that she forgot about Mrs. Yao Jingdao.

"Your Highness." After entering the door, Shuhui transformed into a capable and regular person.

"En." Wu Tingyun didn't open his mouth.

"On the night Master Mu was drugged, something happened to Yao Jingdao."

"Huh?" Wu Tingyun hummed a questioning tone with his nose.

"Your Highness?" Shuhui looked up.

"En!" Wu Tingyun cleared his throat again, his eyes sharp.

Shuhui quickly lowered her head, and continued: "Under the arrangement of my subordinates, Yao Jingdao was taken away by the Fourth Madam. But at noon the next day, after His Highness and Mr. Mu left, there was news that the Fourth Madam had gone crazy."

Wu Tingyun raised his eyebrows, and finally opened his golden mouth.

"Oh?"

I don't know why, His Royal Highness King Qing said very little today.

"At first, Yao Jingdao was just investigating who stunned his subordinates, but after sneaking into the small courtyard where the fourth lady was locked up, the subordinates found that the fourth lady had already died. A rough inference shows that it happened to be that night."

"Ah."

"Yao Jingdao took advantage of the fact that his subordinate was stunned to track down the assassin on the surface, but in fact he wanted to cover up the death of the fourth lady." Shuhui speculated.

Wu Tingyun wanted to speak very much now, but he couldn't.How did the fourth lady die, where did she die, and whether her death had anything to do with Yao Jingdao.Did Yao Jingdao kill her for some reason, or was it someone else?

"My lord has arrived."

Shuhui didn't hear clearly, and asked: "What did Your Highness just say?"

"...cu go."

Shuhui didn't know why His Royal Highness Prince Qing was angry again, so she decided not to provoke him, and obediently retreated to the kitchen to fetch water for Mu Qingtian.

After washing up, Mu Qingtian put on the new jacket that Wu Tingyun specially brought back for him, cheered up, and looked at the bronze mirror with a guilty expression to ask Wu Tingyun to apologize.

Wu Tingyun sat in front of the table in his room with a gloomy face. The more he thought about it, the more irritable he became. He picked up his teacup and wanted to take a sip of warm tea.As soon as the tea was in his mouth, he was shocked.

Except for Mu Qingtian, no one could make him make such a big fuss.Wu Tingyun was sweet and angry in his heart, wishing he could strip Mu Qingtian and wrap him in a brocade quilt and send him to Prince Qing's Mansion right now.

"Jingyun? Are you there?" Said Cao Cao Cao Cao will be there.

"Ah."

Mu Qingtian pushed open the door happily, and suddenly realized that he came to thank and apologize, so he immediately put away his expression.

After last night, Wu Tingyun has been promoted to the column of "Intimate comrades in arms" in his heart, and he is currently the one with the highest favorability.

Wu Tingyun raised his head and saw Mu Qingtian's small face hidden in the fur cape, and the fire started from his lower/abdomen.

After walking a few steps, my face was frozen like this, so delicate.The rooms of the two of them are indeed a little far away, and after a while, find an opportunity to move there, so that Mu Qingtian won't have to suffer from the cold when he comes to see him again.The shameless Prince Qing thought very well.

"Last night..." As soon as Mu Qingtian opened his mouth, he was startled by Wu Tingyun's piercing eyes.

Wow, with that look, Ting Yun must have been blown away last night.

Wu Tingyun didn't expect Mu Qingtian to still remember what happened last night, he was a little excited and a little nervous.The two of them also kissed. Although they didn't make it to the last step, they still had a skin-to-skin relationship.King Qing has always done things from beginning to end, he will definitely be responsible, it depends on what Mu Qingtian thinks.

"Thank you for coming here with your elbow, hehe." Mu Qingtian lowered his head and scratched his head embarrassingly, "I'm just like that when I'm drunk, I don't know if I offended you."

Mu Qingtian hoped that he didn't eat all the elbows in one go, let alone rub elbow oil on Wu Tingyun's clothes like a drunk.

"No si." Elbow?What elbow?

"Huh? Why did you talk like this?" Mu Qingtian stared at Wu Tingyun's mouth curiously, "You won't get angry too, it just so happens that Cuizhu brought me some medicine, and you take it too."

After speaking, Mu Qingtian took out a small medicine bottle, poured out a pill and handed it to Wu Tingyun.

This was the first time the princess gave him something, and he had to pick it up.

"Thank you."

After waiting for a while, Mu Qingtian didn't see that Wu Tingyun wanted to take medicine. He thought he was afraid of hardship and didn't like to take it, so he persuaded him earnestly: "Take medicine to get better, take it quickly."

Hee hee, didn't he take this opportunity to avenge his previous drinking of chili soup?

Wu Tingyun's complexion was twisted, staring at the pill in his hand, he picked up the teapot and poured it into the half-cold cup of tea to refill.

Mu Qingtian came over one step ahead of him and grabbed the teacup.

"I just said, it's not steaming anymore, and the quilt is cold."

Mu Qingtian's breath was right next to his ear, Wu Tingyun couldn't help but look inside, and found that Mu Qingtian was wearing the jacket that he specially asked the emperor's wife for.

"This tea is too cold, should I pour it for you?" Mu Qingtian didn't notice Wu Tingyun's distraction, and asked him.

"Well, pour."

The neck is so beautiful, I should make another mark on it yesterday to see who dares to covet his princess.

Mu Qingtian poured the cool tea in the cup to the ground, and poured a new cup of tea for Wu Tingyun.The water in the teapot was still a little hot, but it wasn't too much to swallow, and drinking it would also warm the stomach.Mu Qingtian rubbed his hands, and poured himself a glass too.

"Come on, take some medicine."

Looking at the steaming hot tea in his hand, His Highness Prince Qing now understood what it means to be "deceived by beauty".

Lifting his head and gulping it down, Wu Tingyun resisted the burning pain on the tip of his tongue and smiled at Mu Qingtian.

Mu Qingtian was dumbfounded, and said, "What's the use of drinking water, you haven't taken any medicine yet."

……

Gan!

Finally, under Wu Tingyun's hesitation, Mu Qingtian discovered the secret of his tongue.

"Why are you biting your tongue?" Mu Qingtian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "It's not a big deal, it's fine if you say it, you have to show off. Look at me, I broke my lip because of getting angry, and I didn't hide it. "

Wu Tingyun raised his head and opened his mouth to stare at Mu Qingtian who was inspecting the wound on his tongue, and sneered in his heart: You don't remember anything, and you don't remember who gave the wound.

"It's quite symmetrical." Mu Qingtian smiled.

Does the king want to praise you "good technology"? ?

Last night, Wu Tingyun had his first taste/taste of love, he forgot all restraint and etiquette, and only cared about hugging Mu Qingtian and kissing him more deeply, until it turned into a savage biting in the end.He couldn't put it down, he wanted to melt Mu Qingtian into his flesh and blood, and be together like this forever.

Then he tasted blood, followed by a tingling on the tip of his tongue.How could King Qing, who had been on the battlefield, care about such a small injury, happiness outweighed pain, and was about to continue when Mu Qingtian bit him again.

One on the left and one on the left completely cut off his wishful thinking.

At that time, Mu Qingtian was dancing with the elbow, and mistook Wu Tingyun's tongue for the "tough" "soft and juicy" elbow skin.

As a considerate and good leader, Mu Qingtian gave Wu Tingyun a paid injury leave and didn't talk to him too much, hoping that he would get better soon.

After the accumulation of New Year's Eve, Wu Tingyun's hen has laid thousands of eggs.Half of them are cooked and eaten during the festival, and the rest are properly stored in the warehouse.On the second day after the yamen was opened, Mu Qingtian asked the people in Zimingli to collect eggs, two eggs per household, and families with children under the age of ten could receive one more egg.

The farmers who were favored by Mu Qingtian came soon after hearing the news, but they were not empty-handed, and more or less brought something to Mu Qingtian.The rest of the rascals who had suffered from Mu Qingtian's place all didn't come, wanting to show Mu Qingtian's face.

They also got the land they deserved in the last land distribution. Coupled with their previous savings, they had a very prosperous year.Mu Qingtian is not a person who avenges private enemies with public interests. Even if they once rushed to the Lizheng/Mansion to force Yao Qin to hand over the chili seeds, these lands were once their property, and he couldn't just keep them for a little bit of grievance.

But Mu Qingtian is fair and strict, but the others don't have the heart to repay their kindness.They have always remembered the hatred of selling red gold in Chongming County, and jointly planned when to teach Mu Qingtian a lesson.

Mu Qingtian didn't know what they were thinking, and was sitting at the gate of the mansion to distribute eggs to everyone.

"Next!" Yao Qin shouted.

A child came up timidly.

"Huh?" Mu Qingtian always felt that this child looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him.

The child talked for a long time without clearly explaining how many eggs he wanted. Yao Qin was a little impatient and said, "Which one asked the child to come and pick it up, my lord!"

A woman hurriedly rushed over, hugged her child and knelt on the ground, apologizing endlessly.

"Get up quickly. I'm asking you, you're standing next to me, why did you ask your child to pick up the eggs?"

"Thank you, sir." The woman stood up, and said falteringly: "My lord, forgive me, but the common people accept your kindness, but..."

Mu Qingtian remembered that this kid was the one who accidentally bumped into him doing a novice task at first.

The cabbage brought home by the child saved the lives of the family, but when the child's parents heard that the cabbage was given by Li Zheng, they changed their faces and severely reprimanded the child.

Later, everyone saw what Mu Qingtian did for Zimingli, and the child's parents gradually put aside their prejudices and began to try to trust Mu Qingtian.It's just that their family was timid and greedy, they didn't dare to offend Zhang Fu, they stood by and watched Mu Qingtian's crisis time and time again.

Until today, they dared to let their son come over to repay the kindness of that cabbage.

Mu Qingtian's smile faded a bit.He gently rubbed the ignorant child standing in front of the stage, and gave him three eggs.

The woman quickly picked up the basket of cabbage at the child's feet and sent it to the table.

"It's easy, you don't have to do it next time." Mu Qingtian said.

After distributing the eggs, the sun also went down, so Mu Qingtian took advantage of the last bit of time to look at the land in Xiaguantian.When the snow layer is removed, all the ground is covered with a layer of fertilizer piled up with hogwash, and the temperature is moderate. When the ice and snow melt in the coming year, the spring flowers can be directly sown.

Everything is developing in the best direction.

Fu Shou Tang bought the eggs sent by Fu Bao at a very generous price.Following Mu Qingtian's instructions, Fu Bao went to Orion's place again, and bought some pig and cow pancreas with the money.

Mu Qingtian transported the dead branches of peppers and rice stalks that had been in the sun for several months to the foot of Zimingli Mountain, and set them on fire.After burning for about half an hour, Mu Qingtian obtained a pile of plant ash.

Jinshan Yinshan swept the plant ash into piles and put them in sacks and brought them back to Lizheng/Mansion, and used a sieve to filter out the stones and unburned residual branches bit by bit.

Yao Qin came over with a small jar of clean water and watched Mu Qingtian pour all the fine plant ash into it.

"My lord, are you making pancreas?" Yao Qin asked.

"Well, make some." Mu Qingtian tried to stir with a stick.

"My lord, if you want to use it, we can buy the saponins and grind it into powder." Cui Zhu said, "The pancreas is dirty."

Mu Qingtian laughed, and said: "It's strange, soap horns and pancreas are obviously used for washing clothes, so why is pancreas inferior to soap horns, so why should it be dirty? Use dirty things to wash dirty things, Isn't it dirtier than dirtier?"

"This……"

No one has thought about this kind of thing, it's like a convention, people with a little background don't know how to use soap.

"Don't worry, when did I do something useless?" Mu Qingtian comforted.

Everyone thought that Mu Qingtian was going to make soap to sell, but they didn't expect that when this vat was completed, Mu Qingtian quit, and turned around with the medicine Qin Tiantian soaked in the study to study spices.

Most spices can only emit fragrance when they are burned, and Mu Qingtian can't let everyone wash their hands with burning soap.

The ready-made spices can't be used, can we only extract plant essential oils instead?

Mu Qingtian asked Yao Qin to take some tangerine peel and soak it in water, then put it into a stone mortar and pound it vigorously.

"Let me come, my lord, you rest for a while." Yao Qin saw that Mu Qingtian's hands were getting red, and said.

"Okay." Mu Qingtian was about to let go, when he heard Yao Qin say, "Let me see your hand first, it will be troublesome if the skin is worn out in winter."

When Wu Tingyun walked into the study, he saw Yao Qin holding Mu Qingtian's hand, and the two were very close.Mu Qingtian's eyes were blurred, while Yao Qin's was full of affection, his lips slightly curled up.

It's the other way around!

"What are you doing!"

Wu Tingyun rushed in, and Mu Qingtian blinked fiercely in fright, a tear oozed from the corner of his eye and rolled aside.

Wu Tingyun immediately regretted it.He should scold Yao Qin, not Mu Qingtian.

Mu Qingtian squeezed her eyes vigorously, squeezed out two more tears, and then slowly opened them.

"Finally figured it out." He sighed, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

Yao Qin smiled, ignored Wu Tingyun who rushed in recklessly, and said, "My lord, stay away next time, and don't let dust get in your eyes."

Oh, oh... so it was blowing dust.

"Tingyun, what's the matter?" Mu Qingtian turned his head and asked.

The dust had just been washed away, and there were still a few small teardrops hanging on Mu Qingtian's eyelashes, and his eyes were also red, as if he had just been bullied.

His Royal Highness Prince Qing is fine, his tongue is healed and he wants to see Princess Qing.

"It's nothing important."

"That's just right, you come over too and pound tangerine peel with Yao Qin."

The tool man Zhu and the tool man Qin spent the whole afternoon, but Mu Qingtian was not very satisfied with the final product.The cold pressing method can indeed squeeze out the essential oil, but if the tangerine peel is left for too long, there will be more impurities adsorbed on the surface, the amount of extracted essential oil will be less, and the color will be gray.

"Oil?" Wu Tingyun dipped his index finger into the liquid in his mortar and found that the texture was almost the same as that of oil, smooth and smooth.

"My lord, why do you use tangerine peel to extract oil?" Yao Qin asked puzzled.

Mu Qingtian stood up holding two stone mortars, put the mortars under their noses, and said, "Do you smell the fragrance of citrus?"

Yao Qin took a deep breath and exclaimed, "Indeed, the aroma is pleasing to the nose."

Not to be outdone, Wu Tingyun also praised: "This smell rushes straight into the chest, refreshing."

Mu Qingtian nodded.

"That's right. Soap and saponins both have their own unique smells, but they are not fragrances. If you can add fragrance to the soap, it will bring fragrance to everything you wash."

He also considered saponins at the beginning, grinding the spices into powder and mixing them into saponins powder.Saponin powder is not easy to carry, and it is not good to put it in Fushoutang. It will be bad if it is blown into the food by the wind.

Although the raw material of soap is somewhat unacceptable, it is low in cost and can be condensed into a solid, which is basically the same as modern soap.

Now spices are not available, only essential oils can be added.Soap powder cannot be mixed with essential oils, the best choice can only be pancreas.

After hearing Mu Qingtian's plan, both Wu Tingyun and Yao Qin were a little excited.If it is possible to successfully make scented soap, it will become popular within a month, and finally become popular all over the dynasty.

Unfortunately, things backfired. Just as the three of them were about to start the next step, a corpse was suddenly dug up in the back mountain.

The person who found the body was a person from Zimingli, named Zhao Mei, in his fifties, the eldest son of an old scoundrel who had made trouble in the Lizheng/Mansion before.

After Mu Qingtian heard about the corpse, he hurriedly led people up the mountain, and Zhao Mei led the way.

The state of the corpse was very bad, all the limbs were separated from the trunk, and there were traces of looking and biting at the wound, and the state of death was extremely miserable.

Those present, even Lushui, they couldn't help turning their heads over, not daring to look any further.

Mu Qingtian resisted the churning in his stomach, and wanted to take a closer look.

"My lord." Wu Tingyun was afraid that Mu Qingtian would be frightened, so he stopped him and said, "Let's go down."

Mu Qingtian shook his head, and slowly pushed Wu Tingyun's hand away.

"The matter is strange, I must conduct an autopsy myself."

Wu Tingyun respected Mu Qingtian's thoughts, and did not continue to obstruct him, but followed him step by step to protect him.

"Strange, why there is no hair."

Just when everyone was frightened by the horror of the corpse and wondering where the missing hands and feet were, only Mu Qingtian looked at the head of the corpse for the first time, and found something puzzling.

Wu Tingyun's gaze immediately turned to the head of the corpse.The top is bare, and there are maggots crawling over it, so there is no hair.

"Jingyun, if I want to cover up a shocking incident, what is the most natural way?"

"Create another even more appalling thing."

The missing limbs are not the point, the person who threw the body just wanted to use this shocking picture to cover up something.

What is he trying to cover up?

Mu Qingtian ordered people to search around carefully, and soon found the hands and feet scattered everywhere.The corpse was highly decomposed, and the chest was smashed to pieces, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman.

It was getting dark, and the wind howled across the ridge, carrying the tall trees to the west.The shadows of the branches falling on the ground were intertwined, like a big net, enveloping Mu Qingtian inside.

"My lord, let's go down the mountain." Some people who came up to watch the excitement said in fear.

Mu Qingtian looked around and said, "Contain the corpse and go down the mountain."

Lushuiqingshan Jiushi and Jinshan carried the airs and walked in the front, while Mu Qingtian fell behind, a little uncomfortable.This was the first time he saw a dead person, not because he was afraid, but because he felt disgusted.As long as the eyes are closed, the image of maggots crawling across the eye sockets will be continuously replayed in the mind.

"Be careful." Wu Tingyun supported Mu Qingtian's waist, worried: "It's okay. The mountain road is slippery, lean on me."

Mu Qingtian shook his head trying to wake himself up, and smiled absently at Wu Tingyun.Then he rushed to the front and shouted: "Green water! Don't go too fast, step firmly, be careful not to fall..."

Mu Qingtian stopped suddenly, frowned and looked at the snow-covered ground under his feet.

"Do you want to take a break, sir?"

"No." Mu Qingtian's face turned rosy, and his whole body became much more relaxed.

Because the identity of the corpse could not be confirmed yet, Mu Qingtian couldn't bury her properly, so he could only dig some snow and put it on a white cloth, and kept the corpse in the most remote room in the Lizheng Mansion.

"Go, deliver this letter to Shi Houjian, and watch him open it and read it with your own eyes. The king will see you at Lizheng/Mansion the next evening, understand?"

"Yes."

Cuizhu was timid, and fell seriously ill that night.Zhao Mei was also sick.

A dead body was dug up in the small self-examination, which was enough to startle everyone.Everyone was talking about this matter, and after hearing that Zhao Mei was ill, they even bluntly said that he was stalked by evil spirits and that evil spirits killed people.

Some people even came to the door, wanting to ask Zhao Mei if he saw anything unclean.

"Xiezhi killed people, Xiezhi killed people!" Zhao Mei lay weakly on the bed, muttering over and over again.

Mrs. Zhao hurriedly went up to cover her husband's mouth, looked around in panic, and said, "You are sick and confused."

In less than a day, "Xiezhi killed people" spread throughout Zimingli.

Mrs. He kept telling He Shengcai the news she had heard today, and even hinted at it maliciously when she mentioned "Xiezhi killed people".

"The wicked will be reaped by heaven, no, the retribution has come, God can't stand it anymore."

He Shengcai slapped the table and stood up, questioning her: "What exactly do you want to say, don't beat around the bush and insinuate here."

"You dare to murder me!"

He Shengcai didn't want to continue arguing with her, so he turned his head and slammed the door to leave.

Walking aimlessly on the road, He Shengcai found that everyone was talking about the corpse.Everyone seemed to believe that it was "Xiezhi" who killed people, and it was Xiezhi who sent the punishment.Among the chatterers, there are many who have received Mu Qingtian's kindness.

He Sheng was so angry that he ran to Lizheng's mansion on impulse.When he got to the door, he didn't dare to go in, hesitating back and forth.

"Brother He?" Yao Qin came over with a basket of snow, "Why are you wandering around here?"

"I, I want to see an adult."

He Shengcai thought that the rumors outside would chill Mu Qingtian's heart, and wanted to come over to comfort him, but he didn't expect that Mu Qingtian was sitting with Shuhui eating melon seeds and eating happily.

"What's the matter?" Seeing He Shengcai approaching, Mu Qingtian put down the melon seeds and shook the crumbs on his body, and said.

He Shengcai suddenly felt that he was a little redundant.It's business as usual in Lizheng/Mansion, and it seems that it is not affected by the rumors at all.

"Your Excellency is innocent, Caomin believes in Your Excellency!" He shouted in shame and ran out of the Lizheng Mansion.

The rumor of "Xiezhi killing people" spread more and more widely, and intensified.After Zhao Mei recovered from his illness, he categorically denied what he said in his sleep, but once, when he passed by the gate of the Lizheng/mansion, he suddenly twitched all over his body, foaming at the mouth, and fell directly to the ground unconscious.

"Tsk tsk, showman." Mu Qingtian said dumbfounded after hearing Wu Tingyun's description.

"Tsk tsk, showman. Sir, what does 'player' mean? Inhale energy?" Shuhui echoed.

Wu Tingyun glared at the presumptuous Shuhui, who immediately put down the melon seeds and obediently stood aside, making room for him.

"Anyway, I'm an acquaintance. Be nice to her little girl. Be careful that you won't find a wife in the future." Mu Qingtian teased.

In the whole world, Mu Qingtian was the first person who dared to say that King Qing could not find a wife.

"Sir, how many years older am I than you?" Shuhui said unconvinced.

……

After Zhao Mei was carried home, he had another nightmare, this time he didn't hide it anymore, but told all the things he dreamed about.

"I woke up in a wasteland, with a road paved with bones under my feet and a sea filled with blood around me."

"There is a black mountain at the end of the road. When I got closer, the mountain actually moved! It was not a mountain at all, but Master Xiezhi! It turned to look at me, the sun was its eyes, and there was a bird on its forehead. Jiao, it must be Master Xiezhi!"

"It said: 'Water overturns the sky, trees overturn the earth, the evil ones invade the Big Dipper.' After saying that, it yelled loudly, shaking the sky and the earth!"

Isn't water and wood together the same word for "wood"?

Mu Qingtian was almost overwhelmed by the metaphors of the ancients, and he had to make up a sentence in order to frame him, which made it difficult for them.

"Tingyun, if Xiezhi's eyes are the sun, how can Zhao Mei see what Xiezhi looks like?"

Wu Tingyun helplessly poured a cup of clear tea to Mu Qingtian, and said, "Shut up, my lord, even if you get angry, you can't stop your mouth. Just listen to this kind of nonsense, don't bother thinking about it."

"Oh."

Looking forward to the development of things too much, Mu Qingtian ate melon seeds unrestrainedly to watch a movie, and successfully made himself angry with mouth ulcers.

"Where's that person who was with Lord Mu before? Why haven't you seen him recently?"

"not……"

Xiao San sneezed on the horse, but didn't bother to wipe it, raised his whip, and hurried back to Zimingli.

"Your Highness, Shi Houjian has already set off with troops."

In the evening, Xiao San rolled into Wu Tingyun's room panting heavily.

"Very well, let's go rest."

Yao Jingdao was still chuckling with Zhang Fu, waiting to see what would happen to Mu Qingtian.

"My lord! My lord is not well! A letter from Suzhou Mansion!" The butler hurried over and presented the letter to Yao Jingdao.

A red string is attached to the outside of the letterbox, representing urgency.Zhang Fu resigned in a timely manner, and returned to Zimingli to make Mu Qingtian unable to stand up again.

"What kind of tribute tea, why have I never heard of it!" Yao Jingdao got up in a panic.

Shi Hou Jian spoke fiercely and directly asked Yao Jingdao why he didn't send the tribute tea to Suzhou.

Yao Jingdao had never heard of tribute tea at all, nor did he know when tribute tea would be delivered to Chongming County.He called the steward back, and asked him if the messenger had left.

"No, that adult still lives in the post house in the county."

"Hurry up." Yao Jingdao waved his hand, "Bring me my clothes, I'm going to see him."

After arriving at the post house, Yao Jingdao turned the corner and asked about the tribute tea, and he got the result after a while.

"I don't know what the people in Shibosi think. They have to go from Chongming County, and they have to pass through such a remote place as Zimingli." The official looked annoyed, "Master Yao, the prefect has been waiting for this batch of tea leaves. , tell me the truth, where the hell is the tea?"

When Yao Jingdao heard the words "Zimingli", his mind was completely confused.He knelt down and cried, "My lord, Mingjian, I have never heard from Mingli Zhengmu Qingtian report about the tribute tea!"

"What?!" The man jumped up, "It's nonsense, there is still news and records of this batch of tribute tea before it arrives in Zimingli!"

"My lord doesn't know! The newly appointed Zimingli Zheng Mu Qingtian is an out-and-out villain. Maybe Gongcha was robbed by bandits in Zimingli, so he dare not report it!"

"This is a serious matter, and I want to inform the magistrate immediately."

Yao Jingdao breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Master Xie. To be honest, Mu Qingtian was also responsible for a murder case, and the subordinate officials are also verifying this matter recently."

"Okay." The official of the Suzhou government waved his hand, "Don't talk too much, just do your own thing."

"Yes, yes, my lord, go slowly."

The sudden loss of tribute tea slowed down Yao Jingdao's pace. Zhang Fu waited in Zimingli for half a month before finally waiting for Yao Jingdao.

The loss of tribute tea is no small matter. If it goes wrong, it is not dismissal, but brains!Yao Jingdao thought about it for a long time and decided to put all the blame on Mu Qingtian, and sentenced him to death without proof.

"My lord, Yao Jingdao has made a move."

Shi Houjian put down the teacup and said, "Follow quietly."

The arrival of the police from Chongming County broke the tranquility of Zimingli in the early morning.Everyone put on official police uniforms, with big knives on their waists, serious faces, and lined up on the land of Zimingli.

"Where is Mu Qingtian!" Yao Jingdao walked out from the crowd, stood inside/outside the mansion and shouted.

Mu Qingtian asked people to open the door unhurriedly, walked out and bowed to Yao Jingdao first, then cupped his hands and said, "I don't know if the magistrate is coming, so I'm not far enough to welcome you. Please forgive me."

"Presumptuous! Don't kneel down when you see an adult!" Zhang Fu stood up from behind Yao Jingdao and shouted at Mu Qingtian.

Mu Qingtian was a little embarrassed.Looking at this battle, Yao Jingdao definitely did not come here with good intentions.It's too coincidental to come to take revenge on the Penglai Building now.

Seeing that Mu Qingtian didn't kneel, the chief policeman brought the policemen behind him to come up and press him down to kneel.

Wu Tingyun kicked and kicked, and they didn't let them touch Mu Qingtian's finger.

"Bold!" Yao Jingdao was so angry that his mouth was twisted, "You actually attacked an official!"

"Oh?" Wu Tingyun was disdainful, "The county government arrests fast, do they have grades? Since there are no grades, how can an official say anything about it!"

"Who are you, dare to contradict this official! Come here, and put the two of them under custody!"

A few Wu Tingyun came up and beat a few, but no one could climb the steps of Lizheng/Mansion.

Yao Jingdao was furious, pointed at Wu Tingyun and shouted: "Draw out the sword! Draw out the sword! Pull down these two untouchables who resist orders!"

"Bold!" Suddenly, another angry roar came from a distance.

Yao Jingdao was still angry, turned around and scolded: "What are you, dare to challenge me!"

"The magistrate of Suzhou is here, so hurry up and put down your weapons, kneel down and don't kill!" The general stationed in Suzhou got off his horse and slashed his sword, and immediately suppressed everyone.

The general is dressed in armor and looks mighty.On the other hand, on Yao Jingdao's side, after being kicked by Wu Tingyun for a round, all the arresters were disgraced.

The onlookers didn't know which was true and which was false, so they just knelt down and said.

Yao Jingdao recognized Shi Houjian in the crowd, knelt on the ground with trembling legs and walked forward, saying: "My lord! The matter of the tribute tea has been found out by Mu Qingtian. It has nothing to do with the subordinates. The officer doesn't know anything!"

Shi Houjian was helped off the horse by the general, directly ignoring Yao Jingdao who was kneeling on the ground, walked to the Lizheng/Mansion gate, knelt down to Wu Tingyun who was standing on the top floor, and said respectfully: "The official is late, please forgive me crime."

Silent.

Prince?What prince?Which prince?

"Excuse me." Wu Tingyun took a step forward and tore off the mask on his face.

Yao Jingdao fell to the ground, his body was already wet.

It's over, it's all over.From the very beginning, starting from Li Canshi, it was all a game.

Mu Qingtian was no less frightened than Yao Jingdao, but he didn't do anything wrong, he wasn't afraid, it was more shock than fear.

Uh, I should have done nothing wrong.Mu Qingtian let himself go... If the prince is magnanimous, he won't remember the past.

"Yao Jingdao, you are not in your Chongming County, what are you doing in Mingli!" Shi Houjian reprimanded loudly.

The surrounding people were all shocked.No high-ranking official has ever been to Zimingli before, but today the county magistrate of Chongming County, the magistrate of Suzhou Prefecture, and a prince have gathered together!

"Big, big, big..." Yao Jingdao was trembling, unable to say a word.

The chief arrester was also frightened to death, spat on Yao Jingdao who had dragged them into the water, gritted his teeth and said, "My lord, Master Yao said that Muli is embezzling tribute tea with solid evidence, so he brought the grassroots to interrogate him!"

"Interrogation?" Zhu Jingshou sneered, walked down and stopped in front of the chief arrester.

The chief arrester almost buried his head in the ground, when he heard the magistrate above his head say, "His Royal Highness, according to the order, the county magistrates are not allowed to leave the guard without permission, let alone dispatch arresters out of the city at will."

King Qing!It turned out to be that King Qing!

Yao Qin stood behind the door and firmly grasped the bricks and stones on the wall.King Qing, I didn't expect it to be King Qing himself...

Shi Houjian called two soldiers from Suzhou Mansion to come over and slap Yao Jingdao on the face several times, and then asked, "Isn't it real in front of His Royal Highness King Qing?"

Yao Jingdao's face was swollen, his nose was covered with tears and snot, and he said: "Your Highness, I have learned that this official is indeed here to investigate the theft of tribute tea."

Shi Houjian and Zhu Jingshou looked at each other, then turned their heads to look at Yao Jingdao with a smile, and said, "Gong tea? What tribute tea, why have I never heard of tribute tea passing through Suzhou Mansion recently?"

Yao Jingdao fainted, but Zhu