Lady forced to seek prince

Chapter 204
Zhao Luoyang had a few guesses as to how the fire started on the Huangjiazhuangzi.

Zhao Luoyang said: "The fire was either intentionally set by the people in Zhuangzi that day, or it was accidentally started."

Nothing more than these two situations.

Shi Jiu said: "If you set fire on purpose, it may be either to burn people to death, or to burn some clues so that no one will come to check."

Zhao Luoyang said: "Ashu escaped. When I saw Ashu, I didn't find any obvious burns."

Shi Jiu said: "Perhaps there is someone else who is going to be burned?"

The two of them thought about it carefully and thought of another situation almost at the same time.

Zhao Luoyang said: "If the clothes on the Huangjiazhuangzi belong to Ah Shu, then Ah Shu has been to Huangjiazhuangzi, how did she get from Zhuangzi to the village?"

Shi Jiu said: "Could the fire be to attract people's attention? If Zhuangzi catches fire suddenly, there will be chaos, maybe we can take advantage of the chaos."

Zhao Luoyang thinks it is very possible, at least it can explain why Ah Shu was able to escape to the village with injuries.

But these are just guesses.

"The Liu family is following up." Shi Jiu's reminding voice came.

Zhao Luoyang also looked around from time to time, but he didn't notice it, so Shi Jiu was much more sensitive than her in this regard.

Zhao Luoyang said: "Do you think the Liu family is for the ermine, or do you want to get information from us?"

"There are all of them!" Shi Jiu said, "The servants of the Liu family who can follow Miss Bai must be able-bodied people around Uncle Liu. What you just reminded Miss Bai must have made him suspicious. Knowing that Ah Shu's body was found in Fengxia Village, I planned to ask the people in the village for news."

Zhao Luoyang gave the Liu family several reasons to follow.

At that time, who will inquire about the news from whom, it may not be certain.

After the two of them had finished talking, Zhao Luoyang took another look at her charm points. She talked with her three younger brothers in the morning and gained a lot of charm points. Later, when Shi Ping came, she also gave her 4 points of charm points.

These are normal.

What makes Zhao Luoyang more happy is that she once again saw the increase in the charm value of the character card in the charm value list.

After Zhao Jingyun's mission is completed, Zhao Jingyun and Ding Rong will not double the charm points for her.

Now that the new mission is unlocked, the charisma value of the character card is back.

[Charm value of character card +4]

This charm value comes from Bai Yuwei.

Zhao Luoyang lingered on the list of charm values ​​for a long time.

Shi Jiu asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Zhao Luoyang said: "There are hundreds of people in the village, right? Are they all counted as people related to character cards?"

So that's what she was thinking.

Shi Jiu said, "You can try slowly."

That being said, the sooner you go to the village, the better.

"Just now Bai Yuwei said that Liu's shop will be asked to sell a lot of sheepskins in the village. I never thought that the Xifan people who came to Taozhou should be proficient in raising livestock, otherwise they wouldn't live so remote."

Zhao Luoyang felt that the skills she learned from Mr. Zheng might be useful.

In addition, there are those veterinary medicines in the exchange area. Once they are done, they will be useful again.

The donkey cart moved forward slowly.

Zhao Luoyang said: "See if we can exchange some information with charm points."

Shi Jiu knew what Zhao Luoyang wanted, and since he mentioned ermine, he tried to expand the wealth value exchange area through the exchange of charm points.

In the end, the two of them found a copy of "Experience Records" and saw that the introduction was written by a scholar. It recorded what he had seen and heard near the northwest. He walked around with a hunter, and most of the content in the book recorded wild animals in the mountains.

Including the county annals that Zhao Luoyang wanted to redeem earlier, it cost a total of 35 charm points.

Zhao Luoyang doesn't need to look at the price now, anyway, the charm is worth enough.

There was no need to do anything else on the donkey cart, Zhao Luoyang read the "Experience Records" first. In fact, she didn't care if there were ermines in the exchange area.

She has the final say on what she has in her hand.

After reading the "Records of Experience", there was indeed movement in the wealth value exchange area.

New redemption items are listed there.

Rabbit skin: 7 yuan/sheet or 1 life point

Mouse skin: 90 yuan/sheet or 6 points of life

Buckskin: 800 yuan/piece or 28 life points

Mink fur (random): 680 yuan/piece or 21 HP points

Cowhide consumption: 400 yuan/sheet or 17 points of life

Toad (dry): 140 yuan/2 taels or 9 health points

Viper (dry): 175 yuan / 2 taels or 10 points of life

Kingfisher feather (imitation): 130 yuan/50 pieces or 9 points of life

These newly appeared items are all marked with the remaining 999 pieces in quantity.

There are many things, but there is really no ermine.

However, there is always a kind of fur that is suitable for sale in Liu's shop, and after she inquires about the price, she will decide what to sell.You can buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones in exchange for money.

"Into the city."

When Zhao Xuejing's voice came, Zhao Luoyang raised his head and looked forward, and he saw the gate of the city not far away.

"There are no more refugees," Zhao Xuejing said. "When we entered the city, there were still many people begging here."

Needless to say, Master Zhao must have resettled those people after he returned to the government office.

"Let's go to West Market," Zhao Xuejing said, "There are many shops over there."

Zhao Yuanrang and Zhao Yuanji looked around curiously, and they sat in the car and muttered.

"It seems that there are more people than Min County."

"However, the surrounding houses don't seem to be as good as Min County."

"Sister, look over there, what are so many people doing?"

Zhao Luoyang followed Zhao Yuanrang's gaze: there were several sheds in front of the crowd, and someone squeezed over from the sheds, holding a broken bowl in his hand, and there was steam wafting from the bowl.

Zhao Luoyang said: "It should be the porridge shed set up by the imperial court for the refugees."

Zhao Yuanrang and Zhao Yuanji recalled the twists and turns along the way. They also ate rice grains distributed by the imperial court in the mansion, but now they have a village where they live and a house of their own. They can eat enough every day, which is cheaper than these refugees. much better.

Zhao Yuanji said, "What will they do next?"

"Maybe let them go back to their original place, or find a place to settle down," Zhao Xuejing pulled the donkey cart. "However, refugees are different from immigrants. I heard that they are allocated very little land, and they may not be able to become farmers."

Taozhou needs to resettle the relocated people first, and then take care of these refugees. In such a cold weather, many people must not be able to survive the winter.

"The city wall of Taozhou is higher," Zhao Luoyang and Shi Jiu said, "Is it because there are always wars? But there are indeed more people coming and going in the city than Minxian County."

When the donkey cart stopped, Zhao Xuejing drove the cart to the barn, gave the steward 10 Wen and silver, and took the three siblings to the West Market.

Zhao Luoyang walked ahead with the bamboo basket in his arms.

"Sister," Zhao Yuan asked, wondering what exactly was in Sister's bamboo basket, "do you really have something to sell?"

Zhao Luoyang shook his head: "Let's see."

It appears to be true.

"Other people asked," Zhao Luoyang said, "they said it was Grandma's old clothes. Grandma brought them for them because she was afraid that we would be cold."

Zhao Yuanrang and Zhao Yuanji nodded seriously.

Little did they know that as soon as they left, Mrs. Yang searched for her patch upon patch of clothes. Just such a piece of clothing, where did it go?

There are obviously more people in West Market.

Zhao Luoyang happened to see a brush and ink shop, and was about to ask his third uncle to go and have a look, when he found someone rushing out of the brush and ink shop.

The man held a book in his hand and shouted, "How dare you sell the book written by Zhang Yuan?"

The shopkeeper and the man in the shop chased him out.

The man was still shouting: "If you dare to sell these things written by Zhang Yuan, be careful that the shop will be demolished by the people in the village."

People around heard the movement and stepped forward to watch the excitement.

The man noticed that there were more people, and his voice became louder: "Don't you believe it? Just a few days ago, a female family member disappeared from the village, and she was the adopted daughter of the head of the village. Later, the body of the female family member was found in Fengxia Village. The department is looking for the murderer everywhere, but guess what? The results were released today, Zhang Yuan was admitted to the government school, and the people from the government school went to the Zhang family to announce the good news, but no one answered no matter how hard they knocked on the door."

"Everyone had to go in and have a look. It was a terrible look. Zhang Yuan's house was full of portraits of the woman, as well as her clothes. The people in the government office are still in Zhang's house. If you want to watch the excitement, go there now." Look."

(End of this chapter)