with words in mind

Chapter 291 The Case of the Abandoned Queen of Nanjiao Kingdom 6
Jingzhi Temple.

When Queen Bo saw Yan Mo after the change of clothes, she felt that her eyes were brightened too!
"Second Sister-in-law!" She smiled and looked up and down the visitor, "I didn't expect that the clothes in the southern border would be so suitable for Second Sister-in-law. Ugh~"

Before the other party finished speaking, Yan Mo felt ashamed, so he pulled Queen Bo directly and started running!
"Where something strange happened, take me to see it!"

"Haha. Sister-in-law of the second emperor. Wait! I can't run fast!" Queen Platinum didn't expect that the other party's skills were really unreal!Even if I ran passively, I felt that I was about to be pulled up by the opponent!

"Queen—Honored Guests—" Seeing this, the court ladies had no time to react, and could only chase those two from afar!
"Wait, wait!" When Queen Bo saw Huang's sister-in-law hugging her by the waist, she knew that she was going to use lightness kung fu!With no martial arts skills, facing the sudden lift-off, she almost wanted to scream! "what--"

"Hold on to me, don't look down!" Yan Mo hugged him tightly, and quickly threw the group of court ladies far away!

Queen Bo used both hands and feet to pull Yan Mo directly, and just closed her eyes hard!

Yan Mo picked a courtyard and slowly settled down. Seeing that there was no one behind her, she stood still and said, "Okay."

When Queen Platinum opened her eyes, she felt that her feet were soft!She staggered and tried to take two steps with her body crooked, but she felt dizzy!

"Queen!" Yan Mo hurriedly supported her!She didn't expect that the sixth princess didn't know any martial arts at all, after all, Fox, Brother Jin and troublemaker all know martial arts!

"Second Sister-in-law." Queen Platinum had a pair of circled eyes, like someone who was drunk, and her tone fluctuated, "I have my own way of avoiding them. It doesn't have to be so troublesome."

"Uh" In fact, Yan Mo's sudden use of martial arts was to cover up her shyness, so she made the other party dizzy, and she was indeed a little embarrassed, "I'm sorry, queen. I was in a hurry."

"Ha, let me find it first. Find where my feet are." After a while, Queen Bo managed to stabilize herself, and said with a serious face, "Sister-in-law, what is your plan?"

Yan Mo: "I want to see those."

"Oh! Yes! Look at those places where strange things happened. Yes!" Queen Platinum finally remembered that she was in the Jingzhi Palace just now, and the other party had already stated her intentions, "Go! I will show you there in order!"

After a while, Yan Mo, led by Queen Bo, came to the vicinity of the Yizheng Hall, and the two stood on the opposite floor of the Yizheng Hall.

"It's that pillar, it's new now." Queen Platinum pointed to the stone pillar and said, "The original waste stone has been disposed of."

Yan Mo looked at the palace people coming and going to deliver refreshments and fruits to the hall, and saw a familiar corner of the trouser leg, guessing that the fox and Lord Shen were in the hall!
"Go to the next place."

The pillars have been replaced with new ones, and craftsmen who are familiar with stone materials also said that the old stone pillars have been cracked for a long time, and the inspection value is not great.Yan Mo asked to go to the next place.

Queen Platinum looked at the Yizheng Hall, followed in the footsteps of the opponent, and led him to the Hundred Gardens, where the three fallen banana trees were located.

Yan Mo took a closer look and found that the stumps of the three banana trees were relatively tender, and the sections were not even.

Queen Bo dismissed the palace servants in the garden, and only called the gardener to confess and ask Momo.

"How did these traces come from?"

"Returning to the honorable guest," the gardener hesitated, "Small... I don't know. I have compared them with shovels, hoes, knives and axes, and they all don't match. I am also wondering how these broken marks are. come"

Yan Mo: "When did the three banana trees collapse?"

Gardener: "That tree was the evening ten days ago, this one was the evening six days ago, and the last one was the evening two days ago"

Yan Mo: "It's all at night?!"

Gardener: "Yes. It was ten nights ago. The little one was on duty at night, and suddenly heard a sound in a daze! When I came to check, I saw the banana tree fell on the ground! Six days ago, it was not the little one who was on duty. Gu Bei said, that tree fell down suddenly! Two days ago, there was a heavy rain in the evening, and it was the turn of the young man to be on duty. The plantain tree in the garden was blown to a mess, and the plantain also fell down suddenly! Several leaves were blown far away!"

After Yan Mo listened, he checked the cross-sections of the three trees again. The wood that was blown off by the wind and rain usually showed sharp wood thorns, but the cross-sections of these trees were like scooping up ice cream with a spoon. It is combined with the block surface.

Because there are no tiny micropores in the section, she can conclude that it is not infested by borers such as termites.

Yan Mo: "Who in the palace raises animals?"

Queen Platinum: "Well, not many people keep animals in the palace. There are only a few beautiful birds in the Manhua Palace. There are two cats in the Gongyu Palace."

"Cat?" Hearing this, Yan Mo suddenly thought, "Are there rats in the palace? Rats like to grind their teeth with wood!"

Queen Platinum was startled when she heard this: "A mouse?! How big is this mouse to have such a big tooth mark?"

"." Yan Mo scratched his head irritably. Indeed, judging from the traces of the broken section, the mouse must be at least as big as a cat!
The gardener looked at the broken section, and said suspiciously: "Going back to the queen, and back to the guest, the garden was quiet during the two days when the little one was on duty, and no rat-like sound was heard. Which beast bit it out?"

"." After listening to Yan Mo, his thoughts became even more chaotic!Then, she thought, "Ten days ago, six days ago, two days ago, four days in between"

When the gardener heard it, he suddenly thought of something, and replied again: "Returning to the honorable guest, the younger one is supposed to take a shift every four days, and the younger one felt unwell six days ago, so he switched shifts with Gu Bei."

Yan Mo frowned: "That is to say, originally, you should have seen the three tree collapses."

So, is the tree collapse related to the gardener?

Afterwards, Yan Mo and Queen Bo asked the gardener to call Gu Bei for questioning.

"Little Gubei sees the queen, sees the guest of honor."

Yan Mo: "Gu Bei, tell me what happened that day when you were on duty?"

Gu Bei: "On the day when the little one was on duty, there was nothing special except that a little monkey broke in and was caught and released by the little one."

Yan Mo: "Little monkey?"

"The second emperor's wife doesn't know that Nanjiao country is not only rich in coconuts and plantains, but also rich in monkeys!" Queen Bo said cutely, "They are very smart, they will always break into people's homes or palaces, and steal those things. Eat bananas and plantains! However, they only eat fruits, and I have never heard that monkeys can still eat trees?"

"Yeah..." Yan Mo scratched his head, before he could figure it out, "Leave these tree stumps for now, and plant new trees after the matter is resolved."

"Yes, honorable guest."

"Go to the next place and have a look."

Upon hearing this, Queen Platinum began to lead the way again, and the two came straight to the stables.

"You!" Queen Platinum pointed at a guard on the opposite side, "Tell me about the sudden fire that day, what happened?"

When the guard heard this, he stepped forward respectfully and saluted, "Queen, three days ago, the stable suddenly caught fire for some reason! The flame was originally quite small, because the stable was full of hay, which was easy to burn. Lay it out and burn the trough! The horse almost escaped in shock!"

Yan Mo: "Is there no source of fire?"

Guard: "It was just at noon at that time. After the subordinates put away the hay, they saw the horses eating happily, and they were all ready to eat. No one came near the manger." He pointed to a room and said , "The subordinates were eating in that room, and after eating for a while, they saw that the stable suddenly caught fire!"

Yan Mo stepped forward to check carefully, but fortunately the old food trough was not evacuated, and was still there: "Where did the fire start?"

"This end." The guard pointed to the corner and replied.

Yan Mo thought for a while and said, "Before and after the fire, was there anything strange? For example, was the trough moved? Was the horse frightened?"

Hearing this, the guard lowered his eyes and recalled for a moment, "So it seems that those horses are huddled over there to graze, and there are no horses near the place where the fire started."

"Why is that?" Queen Platinum asked curiously upon hearing this.

"It means that the horses already know that there is a problem with the fire." Yan Mo replied, "Animals are more sensitive to danger than humans." Then, she turned to the guard and said, "I want to see the hay for the horses."

As soon as the guard heard this, he quickly called someone to fetch hay!
While waiting, Yan Mo broke off a piece of the food trough and sniffed it carefully. Apart from the burnt smell, there was also a trace of sour smell. She was not sure if this smell was left by animals.
After a while, the guards returned to the stable with baskets of hay.

Yan Mo picked up some hay and smelled it carefully, looked at it, then walked back and forth around the stable, and went into the stable to compare the smell.
When Queen Platinum saw it, she suddenly felt that the beautiful Hesa ​​dress worn by the second emperor's sister-in-law was really a waste. Unexpectedly, the second emperor's wife was really not afraid of getting dirty or smelly. Sullen, very unhappy?
However, before she could think about everything, Yan Mo already showed a brisk face, and walked out of the horse's den!

Queen Platinum knew something was going on as soon as she saw the other party's expression!

"What does Second Sister-in-Law know?"

"Queen, don't worry." Yan Mo said with a smile, "Is it what I think? I still need to test it."

"test?"

Yan Mo responded with a confident smile at the other party, and called the guards to follow her request, and began to deploy.

After a while.
Queen Platinum was sitting in a house that was not exposed to the sun, wiping her sweat frequently!Because the most poisonous sun in the afternoon is working at this moment!

Yan Mo, however, is not afraid of the heat, and walks up to the new trough to watch
The new trough is full of hay, and it is being exposed to the hot sun, exuding a sour smell that seems to be absent.
"When will we wait?" Queen Platinum was bored enjoying the breeze fanned by the maids, waiting until her expression almost heated up.
Just when she felt that it was far away, suddenly, the new trough began to emit a little smoke!
"Queen, look!"

After being reminded by the maid, Queen Platinum regained her spirits instantly and sat up straight, just in time to see the smoke getting thicker and thicker, and then with a bang, the dry grass caught fire like that!

When the guard saw it, he hurriedly saluted and said, "Queen, that day, what my subordinates saw was just like this!"

Yan Mo wiped off his sweat, and finally returned to the house and said, "Due to storage and fermentation of hay, poor ventilation and heat dissipation, etc., it may cause spontaneous combustion.

I picked those hay from the warehouse, and some of them have deteriorated a little. The climate in Nanjiao country is hot and humid, and there is no breeze today. Once the outside temperature reaches the condition of spontaneous combustion, the hay is very easy to catch fire.

The horse's reluctance to nest in that corner to graze is enough to show that the hay in that corner is no longer fresh.

The stables needed a good sweep, as did the hay-house.It was because the stable smell was a bit strong that it covered up the rotten smell of the hay. "

As soon as the guard felt that he had neglected his duty, he knelt down and pleaded guilty: "The queen forgives the crime! The guest forgives the crime! The hay warehouse is located in a low position and the ventilation is not good. The subordinates will arrange people to renovate it every day. I don't want it to be there! The stables are too. It is cleaned every day, but the smell of horse manure is really strong, so I didn’t check it. It set the stables on fire.”

"Magnolia officinalis, betel nut, green bark, Atractylodes macrocephala, wood fragrance, amomum. Grind these things into powder, mix them well, and put them in the stable to get rid of the stench." Yan Mo said calmly, just now she went into the hay warehouse to look However, what the guard said was true, "As for the hay storage, the problem needs to be solved fundamentally. Either choose a new location and build another one, or renovate the storage to facilitate ventilation."

Queen Platinum seldom came to the stables, so she naturally didn't understand these things, so she couldn't help being a little surprised when she saw the second emperor's wife pointing out the problem in a few clicks!
"Wow! I didn't expect that!" She stood up, held the other's hands and said, "The Second Emperor's Sister-in-Law is so smart! But after going around for a while, I figured out everything!!"

"." Yan Mo looked at his hands embarrassingly. To be honest, she had already smelled the smell when she entered the horse's den, and she was sweating under the scorching sun. Now, she doesn't smell good. So, even if she entered the house , she also keeps a distance from others
"Have you heard everything? Do you know what to do?" Queen Platinum ordered to the guards.

"I'll do it, my subordinate!" The guard quickly agreed and retreated in a hurry!
"That Queen" Yan Mo weakly withdrew his hands, "Since the problem is solved, let's wash our hands first."

When Queen Platinum heard this, she realized it!She looked at her hands stiffly. No matter how disgusted she was, the smile on her face did not dare to decrease.
After cleaning, the two continued to walk and came to the gate of the dungeon.

"The spontaneous combustion of the brazier happened here." Queen Platinum called the dungeon guards, "Tell me about the situation that day."

The guard of the dungeon: "Queen, on the night of the fifth day ago, and at noon two days ago, the three braziers suddenly caught fire. When it was just dark five days ago, the little one was about to light the fire, and just lit the first brazier. The brazier far away suddenly lit up by itself! At noon two days ago, these two braziers suddenly crackled and started to burn themselves!"

"A crackling sound?" Yan Mo pondered, "How loud is it?"

"It's kind of like the crackling sound of burning wood," the dungeon guard replied.

Queen Platinum heard this and asked curiously: "Sister-in-law, the charcoal here will spontaneously ignite, is it the same as hay? Let's concoct it according to the law and do another experiment?"

Yan Mo frowned, logically speaking, combustibles would release a certain amount of heat, and the hot climate in the southern region provided a very favorable external environment for spontaneous combustion.But the southern climate is not only hot, but also humid. Can charcoal ignite spontaneously after being damp?
(End of this chapter)