I solved crimes in the Song Dynasty and strengthened the country [Seventh Five-Year]

56 silver candles have burned red

After everyone finished eating, Jiang Lin took a map of the waters near the Black and White Pagoda and began to study it alone.

According to what they know so far, the black and white tower has a special terrain.There is snow on the top of Baita Mountain, and it will thaw when the weather is warm, causing the water volume of Songjiang to increase; the land of Heita is dry, and no grass grows.

The magnetite under the tower has a certain traction force on the steel floating in the water. It is not difficult to find the missing dark iron according to this characteristic, but correspondingly, it will take more effort to take them out.

Not to mention that there is a possibility that there is a secret treasure of Suzaku hidden in that small cave, Jiang Lin can't directly push this matter to others.And holding his breath for half an hour is really anti-human, he has to come up with a more secure method no matter what.

How can you locate the cave if you don't go by water?

While thinking about it, Jiang Lin took a walk outside the inn, and when he regained his senses, he saw a pair of alert eyes behind the big tree looking in the direction of the inn.There were imperial envoys living in the posthouse, and officers and soldiers were guarding the door. The other party was caught by Jiang Lin, but he walked out from behind the tree without any guilt.

Jiang Lin recognized at a glance the young man who had been robbed of Shui Sinan on the boat before, and the other party seemed to recognize him too, and was about to start a conversation with him, but the officers and soldiers at the side interrupted.

"Hey, why is this kid still guarding here?" The officer immediately explained to Jiang Lin in a low voice, "Jiang Shaoqing, after Fan Yushi was attacked this afternoon and was sent back to the post house, this kid has been inquiring about Fan Yushi at the door We asked him what he did, but he didn’t say anything. If we wanted to catch him, he would run away, but if we chased him away, he wouldn’t go away...”

Jiang Lin raised his eyebrows, looked at the boy and said, "I know the situation of the person you want to care about. If you have any questions, you can ask me."

The young man showed some surprise, and hurriedly said: "The official who was beaten...how is it now?"

"But you have to answer my question first." Jiang Lindao, "His injury is related to you, isn't it? Let me guess, it was you who first clashed with those gangsters?"

The young man didn't want to answer at first, but when he heard Jiang Lin's question, he froze: "Well, I don't know what happened. At that time, I was squatting on the side of the road watching ants, and suddenly a group of people ran out and complained. To take me to another place, I was arguing with them, and the official came over. Listening to the official, I knew that the group of people might want to abduct me..."

These words did not surprise Jiang Lin.Fan Chunren is a gentle scholar, if those gangsters came to him directly, he would definitely be able to see that the other party had bad intentions.

But if the gangsters picked a soft persimmon first, and Fan Chunren became the one who stood up for justice, he didn't expect that group of people to come and hurt him.If Fan Chunren hadn't torn off the note, I'm afraid they wouldn't have thought so quickly that the other party was trying to delay their investigation progress.

Now that Xu Zhizhou has been placed under house arrest by them, hoping to attract other accomplices of the other party, Jiang Lin will naturally not easily let go of this group of hooligans who dare to touch the imperial court.

Jiang Lin and the boy confirmed a few more details. The latter obviously blamed Fan Chunren's injury on himself, and answered whatever was asked, very well-behaved.Seeing that Jiang Lin had collected enough information, the young man said, "I'm just here to check if he's okay. Judging by your reaction, he shouldn't have a big problem, so I'm leaving."

"You take this by the way." Jiang Lin took out something from his pocket and handed it to the young man.

"The Shui Sinan I made before? Has it been repaired? You..." The young man looked up at Jiang Lin, and Jiang Lin smiled and said, "Just repair it. This little thing is very delicate, it's a pity if it breaks. I never thought there would be a chance to return it to its original owner.”

"Thank you." The young man paused, "Actually, the accuracy of this Shui Si Nan is not enough, and it often drifts and sloshes on the water. If the official wants to confirm the direction, he can hang the magnetic needle in a windless place, and then he can point out the north and south. "

Jiang Lin was taken aback when he heard this.He calculated the years in his mind, and felt that Sinan hadn't developed to this point at the moment, so he couldn't help but ask, "What's your name?"

The young man didn't quite understand why his reaction was so strange, because he involved a high official, he didn't dare to report his father Shen Zhou's name, he only reported his name: "Shen Kuo."

Jiang Lin's eyes lit up.

Sure enough, what kind of luck did I have? On a business trip, I had the opportunity to get in touch with Sansu's family, and even meet Shen Kuo, who was only fourteen or five years old.

Jiang Lin immediately poked Shen Kuo's shoulder, looking serious, but his words were so inhuman that even Fan Chunren would faint when he heard them.

"I see that you are still ashamed of Fan Yushi, why don't you come and do me a favor and return his favor?"

·

In the early morning of the next day, on the Black and White Pagoda.

Bai Yutang leaned leisurely on a piece of bluestone, facing the river and said, "I thought you were planning to go into the water with your posture yesterday. I didn't expect that you took us to climb the mountain this morning."

"There is a specialization in the art industry, and it is safest to leave the matter of entering the water to Instructor Jiang."

"how about you?"

Jiang Lin flicked his fan and said with a smile, "Of course I used my brain."

Bai Yutang rolled his eyes immediately, and gave him a bad mouthful: "Shameless."

Zhan Zhao coughed lightly, and said, "So Jiang Shaocheng came up with a way to allow us to enter the cave from this mountain?"

Jiang Lin nodded and said, "I'm teaching Jiang to bring a tightly sealed package, which contains a lot of wormwood. When he arrives, he will light up the wormwood. We can find him on the mountain by following the smell."

"What's your method? Two mountains so big, rely on moxa smoke to tell the direction?" Bai Yutang crossed his waist and said, "Even if you can really smell the smell of wormwood, didn't Jiang Laosi say yesterday that it was missing in the cave? There is no light in the sky, and there is no wind, so it should be completely isolated from the outside world?"

Due to his personal likes and dislikes, Jiang Lin was indeed very sensitive to those smoky smells. In addition, the original owner had excellent five senses, so he was confident that he could find the location of the smoked moxa with his nose.

He slowly answered Bai Yutang's question: "First of all, it's not two mountains, but one. Yesterday, Coach Jiang said that the water temperature in that place is high, so it shouldn't be a white tower covered with snow all the year round, but a black tower. .”

Knowing that the secret treasure of Suzaku was hidden in the pagoda, Jiang Lin even suspected that the extremely powerful Phoenix of Nirvana was the reason for the black pagoda to dry up.

"Furthermore, that cave can't be completely sealed." In order to explain the problem of pressure, Jiang Lin deliberately took out a U-shaped iron pipe and poured a glass of water into it for everyone to see, "Look, If I do nothing, this glass of water can just fill the entire iron pipe. But if I block one end of the iron pipe..."

He emptied the iron pipe, plugged one end, and poured a glass of water into it.

Bai Yutang was puzzled and said, "Isn't this also full?"

"Really?" Jiang Lin turned the cup over, and there was still excess water in the cup falling on the ground.

"Are you juggling? The water surface of this iron pipe is clearly flush with the mouth of the pipe..."

Jiang Lin smiled, and removed his finger blocking the mouth of one end of the pipe. Everyone heard a crisp "Bo", and then saw the water level slowly descending, unable to fill the entire pipe.

Jiang Lindao: "As we all know, there is Qi that we can't see between heaven and earth. If the cave is really a closed space, then when the water flows in, it will definitely squeeze the Qi that originally existed in the cave. The squeezed Qi will give people It brought a completely different feeling, but according to Instructor Jiang, he did not find any other problems except the water temperature, that is to say, the air in the cave is in circulation with the outside world, so it will not bring him the feeling of being squeezed. feel."

Jiang Lin's statement was easy to understand, and Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao immediately understood it, and Shen Kuo, who came to join in the fun, also found it very interesting, and took the U-shaped iron pipe and began to fiddle with it.

"Then we'll just wait for Coach Jiang to send us a signal." As soon as Xie Ling finished speaking, Jiang Lin said, "I smell it."

The crowd hurriedly followed him to the place where the smoke was coming out, Jiang Lin ordered them to dig a hole.Bai Yutang couldn't help but said: "Finally found this cave, the black iron on the sunken ship inside is not easy to get, let's call some soldiers over to help?"

Jiang Lin glanced at Xie Ling, shook his head and said no need: "Let's go down to find a way to see the situation first."

Not long after, the smoke vent was widened by many yamen servants. Jiang Lin and Xie Ling each tied a piece of rope and went into the cave.The location of the small cave was still too low, and the rock walls were slippery. They walked from high to low, and Jiang Lin, who was already a little afraid of heights, basically slipped and slid all the way to the bottom.

Fortunately, it was pitch black in the cave, and he repeatedly brainwashed himself that he was having a nightmare, but Bai Yutang didn't catch his gaffe.

They lit torches and lit the water.

Jiang Ping called them, and Bai Yutang went in his direction, only the sharp-eyed Jiang Lin noticed a small hill rising above the water, and pulled Xie Ling to walk in another direction.

Jiang Lin whispered: "What can the Phoenix of Nirvana guarded by your family do?"

Xie Ling said: "I heard from the ancestors that the 'Phoenix of Nirvana' was originally an alchemy stove built by the former emperor with a lot of money. Later, a warlock discovered the power of gunpowder, and felt that the material of the Phoenix of Nirvana was special, so he transformed it into an alchemy stove. A very powerful cannon..."

"Then is there any ammunition in this cannon?"

"That's not sure, maybe there is, you have to see it to know..." Xie Ling murmured, and went up to the "mountain bag" with Jiang Lin.The mountain bag was actually an old ship that had been dilapidated for a long time. They held a torch and flipped it up, and soon found the secret treasure of Suzaku covered in moss.

Jiang Lin stretched out his hand to caress it, peeling off the filth. Before he could see the whole picture, he could see the beauty of the Nirvana Phoenix from the shiny red-gold tail feathers.

Jiang Lin took a look, there was ammunition left in the cannon tunnel, he asked: "Can the power of this cannon fire directly overturn the top of the Black and White Pagoda?"

Xie Ling trembled and said: "Shaoqing...you don't intend to blow up the top of this mountain, and then take out the Phoenix of Nirvana and the black iron?"

"Of course not."

Before Xie Ling could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Jiang Lin say, "I'm going to set up a time-delay device and shoot a big blow into the water to sweep out everything that sinks in this water, including the black iron. "

Seeing Xie Ling's stunned expression, Jiang Lin smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have passed the agreement with Su Tong who was looking at the dam. He will open the dam and release the water while lighting the cannon fire. Things are washed clean."

·

At noon, all the people in the city heard a deafening bang of thunder coming from outside the city, and after the frightened force passed, they quickly started talking among themselves.

Not long after, the news that the imperial envoys had recovered Xuan Tie spread in the city.

"My God, I didn't expect that Jiang Shaoqing to be so decisive, and I don't know where he found such a big cannon, and he bombarded the black and white pagoda with a knife in his hand. If I want to say bomb it, every year to thaw the torrential flood, How many villages along the Songjiang River have been washed away!"

"Isn't it? You can become a fourth-rank official at a young age. Let alone whether the lost military salary has been recovered, it is also a great achievement to find the black iron. I saw the group of officials at the gate of the yamen that day. My lord, she is so capable and beautiful, I wonder if she can take a liking to our southern girl..."

As they talked, the topics of the people became more and more deviant, and they all wanted to see the demeanor of this group of imperial envoys.

In the restaurant, only a man wearing a silver mask slowly put down his wine glass.Only the lower half of the face that was exposed showed no joy or anger, but the corners of the mouth were slightly tensed.

A moment later, a pigeon with a golden thread tied to its leg landed on the window sill in front of him.

He took down the letter box, unfolded the note, and saw the letter: "West poplar forest in Sangeng City—Xu."