There are many treasures in this country

When Xiao Suo came back, his expression was a little dazed, he was holding a blue porcelain jar in his hand, which looked extraordinary.

Ouyang Xu came up to meet him with a smile, put away the umbrella for him, and asked: "What's the matter, did you hit an evil spirit? You were fine when you went out, did you dare to be frightened by the half-immortal?"

Babao looked at the two of them, and said, "Young Master, you can't find the half-immortal, and you may feel discouraged. Just come back and have a cup of tea." Saying this, he stretched out his hand to pick up the porcelain pot.

Xiao Suo snatched it back, and the air suddenly became sticky.He was slightly startled, then lowered his head and said: "I'm not feeling well, I'm going back to my room first." After that, he walked towards the dormitory with the porcelain pot in his arms.

Ouyang Xu paused, and asked Babao: "You went out with the young master, did you meet anyone?"

"I didn't see anyone, the young master was looking for that half-immortal, but it was raining so hard, there was no one on the street."

"That's it." Ouyang Xu smiled, turned around and left.

Babao turned his eyes, and ran to the eaves of the corridor, in front of the bleak window and scratched the wall, through the window paper, he vaguely saw a figure sitting beside the bed in a daze, still holding the porcelain pot in his hand.

He knocked on the door, but there was no response from inside, and he knocked again, but there was still no sound.Babao frowned, pushed the door open and walked in, stepped forward with small steps, and called tentatively: "Master?"

Xiao Suo was boiling a pot of paste in his head, when he heard a "buzzing" sound in his ears, when he looked up, he couldn't help being startled: "What are you doing?"

"My lord," Babao said, "Do you want it? You don't look good."

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay." Xiao Suo put down the porcelain pot, thought about it and picked it up again, "You go out to play, Shan Gu is cooking under the kitchen, you go and see if there is anything you like, you don't have to guard me."

Babao nodded, walked out, turned his head frequently, and suddenly asked: "My lord, what is that in your arms?"

Xiao Suo shook his hand, and the lid of the can knocked on the mouth of the can, making a "dinglang" sound. "No...it's nothing, it's just tea, you go and play."

He still didn't leave, put his hands on the door and said, "My lord, Babao is your book boy, he must be strict and loyal. If you have any difficulties, you can tell me. Although it may not be useful, it is better than being bored in your heart." It is strong to attract illness."

Xiao Suo looked at him, but didn't make a sound.Babao patted his chest with his small hands, put three fingers on top of his head, and said sternly: "Babao swears that he will never tell about the young master, not even General Shen. If someone beats and scolds Babao, Babao Bao also gritted his teeth and didn't say anything; gave Babao silver, and Babao didn't say anything; invited Babao to eat, and Babao didn't say anything; told Babao about his daughter-in-law, and Babao didn't say anything!"

Xiao Suo couldn't help laughing: "It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I don't know how to say it. 'There's nothing you can't tell others', it doesn't matter if you say it, let alone pay for your wife!"

Babao rubbed his head and smiled: "Young master, I don't know, it's difficult for us who grew up in Yingshantang to get married! If someone tells me about marriage, I...hehe."

Xiao Suo said softly: "You are born well and smart. You will definitely attract women in the future. If you study more, you will be able to stand out even more. Naturally, you are not afraid that you will not be able to get a wife."

"Really?" Babao's big eyes lit up, "everyone used to say that my face is not as strong as theirs, and it is the most useless. Brother Xiaohu was able to carry a sedan chair for others when he was 13 years old, and his strength is stronger than that of a cow. Big, the girls around him all like him, and they always make shoes for him secretly. I can’t do it, I can only carry a small bag, and at most I can go to the dock to help, but I can’t last long.”

Xiao Suo held the jar tightly with his left hand, and beckoned to his right hand: "Come here, I'll tell you."

Babao approached, sat on the side of the pedals and listened to him: "There are four lines in the world, scholars, farmers, businessmen, and scholars. Do you know what is a scholar?"

"I know," Babao said crisply, "Soldiers are soldiers!"

Xiao Suo smiled and shook his head: "A scholar is a scholar. There is no distinction between high and low in all professions in the world. It is just that scholars occupy the first place, so it can be seen that studying is the right way for you and me to stand. Even if your strength is not as strong as his, but if you can read If you want to make progress, he will become an official and benefit the people of one side, so it will be more useful than just carrying the sedan chair for one person."

Babao pouted and said, "But I don't like reading, and I feel dizzy when I see words. If you say so, you have to read? What about those who only have strength?"

"That's not true." Xiao Suo patted him to reassure him, "I am born to be useful. If I am really strong and brave, I can naturally join the army. I have contributed a lot in bloody battles and defending my family and country. It's just that everyone is motivated. All soldiers want to be generals, but if you want to be a general, you'd better read some books."

Babao laughed and said, "It's not like General Shen doesn't read, I heard that he can't even read all the words!"

"He also reads." Xiao Suo blinked, "Only books with pictures."

Babao saw that he was in a good mood at the moment, so he asked again: "What is in that jar, young master, why does it seem to be seduced by it?"

Xiao Suo's expression changed, and he frowned again: "It's... tea."

Lu Yu gave him a can of tea, which was said to be a newly harvested broken wall tea in Jinqiu, smoked with sweet-scented osmanthus.Osmanthus fragrans is hot in nature, and people with strong internal fire should not eat more.Xiao Suo's ancestors practiced medicine for generations, so he naturally knew this.

Similarly, he also knew that Shen Yan was always afraid of heat, and martial arts practitioners had strong firepower, so they should not eat more sweet-scented osmanthus.If it is eaten with cool seasonal vegetables like lotus root, it is okay, but if it is taken with this poisoned broken wall tea, the consequences will be serious.

Shen Yan has always been informal, and never cared about eating, no matter raw or cooked, good or bad, he grabbed it and stuffed it into his mouth.Poisoning him is probably the easiest thing in the world.

Huan Ye ordered Shang Huai to give him a piece of purple ginger, and he held it in his mouth without looking at it, and said vaguely: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward."

Relying on his physical strength and strong firepower, he didn't care about the coldness in the icehouse at all.Probably only a pampered emperor like Huan Ye would take care of it so meticulously. It was not enough to wrap it in mink fur, but he had to wear a piece of legal purple ginger to dispel the cold before he dared to set foot in the icehouse.

Shen Yan waved his hand, and told the attendants who followed behind the driver: "Be afraid of the heat, don't light too much fire inside, and it's not good for so many people to enter at once, just wait here." After speaking, he led Huan Ye to the ice room.

Just after taking two steps, suddenly, with a clever mind, he turned and knelt down to Huan Ye, who had not raised his foot, and looked at him indifferently, kowtowed and said: "My minister is dead, I was so confused that I said something wrong, please forgive my sin!"

He was in a hurry to see if Liao Hui and the others had come ashore, but in the ice cellar, his head got hot and he did the stupid thing just now.Not to mention whether he ordered the emperor's people to be charged with trespassing.

Just looking at the current situation, there are dark lights and lights inside, and there are still a group of sergeants wearing armor and knives hiding. He actually "forced" the emperor's servants to wait at the same place, and brought the emperor alone.

Fortunately, Huan Ye didn't move, he didn't take this step, which saved his life. "Get up, there is no time to joke around, I don't understand the rules even more!"

Shen Yan hurriedly borrowed the slope to get off the donkey: "Your Majesty is right, the minister is just joking, you really deserve to die."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the words, and Fang followed him into the freezer.

Liao Hui and the others had already climbed ashore, everyone looked terrified, their faces were very ashamed, and when they knelt down to say hello, their movements were quite stagnant.

Huan Ye covered his mouth and nose with a bright yellow handkerchief, raised his hands to order them to stand up, and asked, "How's the investigation going?"

Liao Hui bowed and said: "Back to the emperor, after the stone bricks here are pried open, the foundation should be underneath, but groundwater has been poured in for some reason. The general waits to swim along the water, but there is a pool for ice extraction." Looking at Shen Yan, "There is an undercurrent in this water. It looks calm on the surface, but the undercurrent is actually raging."

If Shen Yan hadn't forcibly ordered them to tie ropes around their waists, they would have been swept into the bottom of the water by the undercurrent just now.This piece of water looks small, but its depth is large, and it is difficult to float up if you go down.

They lost their strength just now, their hands and feet gradually became heavy, and they almost never drowned.Fortunately, in the blink of an eye, Liao Hui's feet were entangled with ropes, and he was shaking with the ropes while struggling, only to be pulled up by the soldiers waiting on the shore.

Shen Yan sighed, then turned around and said: "Your Majesty, the body of the minister who was lifted out of the pool yesterday was originally piled under the stone bricks. The strange smell in the ice is the result of the pool water soaking the rotting corpse. The smell. It’s just that the ice this summer was dug out last year. At that time, the pool water was not very smelly, so there was only a faint smell in the ice. Now that these corpses have been soaked in the water for a long time, the water is already smelly. "

Huan Ye uncovered a slit in the handkerchief at the end of his nose, sniffed it lightly, and immediately frowned: "It really smells bad!" As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at Shang Huai.

The latter flicked his whisk, and commanded everyone in a sharp voice: "The emperor wants to have a private conversation with General Shen, everyone go out first."

When everyone heard the words, they went out with a "crash", and the last person closed the heavy iron gate intimately.

When Shen Yan saw this, Fang went straight to the point and said: "Your Majesty, most of those corpses were caused by traumatic injuries. There are many kinds of murder weapons, including swords, Emei stabs, daggers, and even hidden darts. The wounds are very small. A fatal blow is obviously done by a master."

"What do you mean?" Huan Ye took two steps outside.

Shen Yan said expressionlessly: "According to my guess, this place should have been the place where the killers threw their corpses, but later the Emperor ordered the expansion of the ice storage, and the Ministry of Industry built the Ling Room on top of the buried corpses. Just now Liao Hui said Yes, there is an undercurrent in the water. It can be seen that the terrain here is strange. There is an undercurrent in the ground. It is easy to seep water, and the force of the water flow is easy to arch outward. The foundation should not be built here, but it may be destroyed by the compression of the ground gene over time. , collapsed, and the pool water on the other side of the mountain wall poured in, soaking these corpses out again."

"No," Huan Ye looked back into his eyes, "it's not that the foundation collapsed over time, but the foundation collapse caused the ground of the ice store to sink, which caused the previous earthquake."

Shen Yan was startled, then understood, followed him and said: "Your Majesty is wise, it must be the traitor who deliberately built the ice store here to hide the body, so that the foundation was unstable and collapsed, and the ground of the ice store sank, which caused the previous incident. The catastrophe of the earthquake. After the corpse was exposed to the water, it rotted and deteriorated, polluting the pool water, and even the ice used in the palace was stained with a strange smell. It is really a crime that cannot be punished!"

"Qing, who do you think should be held accountable for this matter?" Huan Ye straightened his cuffs and asked.

Shen Yan said: "Naturally, it is the official who presided over the expansion of the ice storage. Now go to the Ministry of Industry to check the files, and you will be able to find this person."

"There's no need to look for it." Huan Ye smiled, "The official in charge of expanding the icehouse is none other than the servant Chen Jidao."

"Then..." Shen Yan was puzzled, "The emperor's intention is to arrest Chen Jidao and send him to prison for questioning?"

Huan Ye was noncommittal: "Why would you help a Jianghu killer hide his body?"

"Yes." Shen Yan understood: "I will investigate immediately, and I will definitely not startle the snake."

Huan Ye paused, then walked out.

Shen Yan hesitated again and again, but finally couldn't hold back, and finally asked: "Your Majesty, I heard that Sheng Gong broke the peace, I wonder if it matters?"