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Chapter 94 Poisonous Salt
The wife gave each of the three children a bowl of fish soup.

The fish was also distributed among several children, and less than half a bowl of soup was left in the pot.

The eldest daughter is more sensible. She took a sip of the delicious fish soup and handed the bowl to Xu Daniu.
"Dad, you drink too."

Xu Daniu smiled happily and said, "Dad had enough to drink at the landlord's house today. You guys can drink."

"Really?" the eldest daughter asked with eyes flashing.

"Well, it's true. Dad just thought it tasted good, so he bought fish for you too."

Hearing this, the eldest daughter took back the bowl and drank heavily.

This fish soup is delicious with enough salt.

Xu Daniu licked his lips and gave the remaining half of the bowl to his wife.

"Come on, have a drink too. There's so much salt in it, don't waste it."

The family ate porridge with fish soup, which was considered dinner.

However, less than half an hour later, the three children playing in the back room started to groan in pain while holding their stomachs.

Xu Daniu went in after hearing the screams and saw the three children rolling in pain on the bed, with cold sweat pouring from their foreheads.

When asked, they all said they had a stomachache.

Xu Daniu turned around to discuss it with his wife, but saw his wife getting up from the bed with difficulty.
Suddenly he leaned over and vomited.

The food residue spit out was still mixed with blood foam.

Xu Daniu panicked and ran out to find the doctor.

After searching for four streets, I finally found a doctor who had just returned.
Xu Daniu took the doctor home and could no longer hear the three children crying out in pain in the back room.

The doctor entered the back room and found that the three children were foaming at the mouth, their eyes were white, and they were almost out of breath.

After checking the pulses of the three of them, the doctor shook his head solemnly.

"How's it going, doctor?" Xu Daniu's voice was trembling.

"Daniu, it's too late, there's nothing I can do." The doctor looked very tired.

"How could this happen? How could this happen?" Xu Daniu was confused for a moment and murmured, "How could this happen~"

"It can be concluded that he ate something bad." The doctor sat down next to the edge of the bed.

"Besides, this is not the case with your family. Today, I have visited three families, and all of them are hopeless."

"What did your family eat today?" the doctor asked.

"Fish soup and porridge," Daniel replied, "and I bought new salt today."

The doctor hesitated for a while, "The newly bought salt... where is the salt?"

Xu Daniu quickly brought the salt shaker over.
The doctor took a pinch of salt and smelled it under his nose, then walked to the chicken coop outside the house.
He caught a rooster and fed a few grains of salt into the rooster's mouth.

After only two quarters of an hour, the rooster fell down in the coop, stretched its legs a few times, and then became silent.

"Salt is poisonous!"

"I'm so damned good," Xu Daniu slapped himself in the face, tears streaming down his face, "What the hell am I doing with my cheap hands to buy salt..."

Xu Daniu's three children died overnight. His wife only vomited blood because she drank too little fish soup. Although her life was saved, she couldn't get out of bed for a while.

The next day, news about the poisonous salt spread in Guangling City.

It turned out that in just three days, nearly a hundred people in the city died of poisoning from newly bought salt.

Among them, more than fifty children alone died.

The people in the city soon realized that just half a month after the salt production industry in Guangling County was handed over to the government, hundreds of people were poisoned by salt.It must be that the government doesn't know how to make salt at all, and the salt produced is highly poisonous.

The rumor soon spread throughout the city.

Public opinion was boiling, and a large number of people gathered outside the county governor's house to demand an explanation from Liu Xuan.

On the other side, the people asked the court for orders to severely punish Liu Xuan. They also handed over the petition.

Sheriff's Mansion, Chamber of Commerce.

Liu Xuan looked at the briefing handed over by Hu Caosi with a livid face.

"In three days, hundreds of people have died. Where is the salt? Arsenic is nothing more than that."

Jia Xu took the briefing and read it, frowned and said,
"There are hundreds of people dead in the city, all of them ordinary people. There are so many aristocratic families in Guangling City, but not one of them has been poisoned."

Liu Xuan immediately understood the meaning of Jia Xu's words.
"Mr. Wenhe thinks this is the work of a noble family in the city?"

Jia Xu nodded, "Although no evidence has been found yet, Jia Xu can deduce that this matter is definitely related to these aristocratic families."

"You're right, whoever benefits the most will be the most suspect." Liu Xuan punched the case, "I thought they took the initiative to show their kindness and really wanted to help me govern Guangling County."

"If you want to take something, you must give it first. The noble families in the city took the initiative to show their kindness, just to let the lord relax his vigilance. Moreover, in Jiangdu Pavilion that day, Chen Cong deliberately handed over the salt and iron industry to the government to tell the whole city. It should be It is also paving the way for this matter.”

"Now that the poisonous salt incident occurs, the people will only point the finger at us. If this matter is not handled properly, the Lord will not be trusted by the people in the city. He has no choice but to follow Yan Baihu's old path again and hand over the salt production industry to the family. .”

After Jia Xu's analysis, Liu Xuan felt confident.

Liu Xuan also visited the salt fields in Guangling County, but they were just ordinary salt fields.

After the ancient method of drying salt, the salt obtained can be sold as table salt.

Even if there are any omissions in the production process, it will only cause the salt to be of substandard purity and will not become a highly toxic substance.

This matter can be concluded to be man-made.

The aristocratic families in Guangling City have monopolized the salt production industry for so many years. Of course they know the huge profits of the salt production industry.
According to Han law, the salt-making industry is a government-owned industry, and anyone who sells or makes private salt must be beheaded.

As a necessity in daily life, salt is used in huge amounts and the profits are extremely huge.

They won't let go so easily.

"Wen He, since we all infer that the aristocratic family is responsible, let's find evidence and bring these aristocratic families to justice."

Although Liu Xuan wanted to kill all these aristocratic families directly.

But in that case, he would have to bear the reputation of being cruel and murderous, and he would still have to bear the blame for the poisonous salt.

Jia Xu searched for three days, but found no useful clues.

The aristocratic families in the city had obviously made adequate preparations this time, and no abnormalities could be detected from the salt fields to the salt sellers.

In order not to alert the enemy, Jia Xu did not come to arrest anyone, so he had to investigate secretly first.

"My lord, the salt fields in Guangling County are temporarily closed, and the salt sellers in the city are not allowed to sell salt for the time being. In the past few days, there have been no new cases of salt poisoning, but the people in the city are afraid to use salt. This will not last for a long time. count."

Jia Xu and Liu Xuanhui report,

"The investigation of the aristocratic family has not yielded much results. They have obviously made sufficient preparations this time. Information about each family has been tightly sealed. Ordinary family members do not know about the poisonous salt. It is estimated that they can only find out from the heads of each family. Breakthrough.”

"This is the information collected by Hu Caosi on several famous families." Jia Xu handed a booklet to Liu Xuan.

"Liu Xuan took it over and flipped through it. This information contains detailed records of the heads and main members of the major families, and even some interests and hobbies are marked."

Liu Xuan looked at it for a while, staying on one page for a long time, and then ordered to his guards,
"Hurry back to Huaiyin and bring Zhao Liniang to Guangling."

(End of this chapter)