Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 381: Drawing silk
Yang Qian had quite a few of these pills, the Little Spiritual Rhythm Pills. They were used by cultivators to improve their cultivation, and were in short supply, but not rare. Any alchemist with a little experience could actually make them.

This kind of elixir is generally most effective in the Qi training stage, followed by the Dan forming stage, and is useless after the Yuanying stage.

Li Sancai was just stuck in the late stage of Qi training and had a little hope of trying to form a pill, so his eyes almost popped out when he saw the Xiao Lingyun Pill.

Without saying a word, he patted his chest and promised to help Yang Qian get the job done.

The next day, Li Sancai brought over a waiter from the Fengqing, who was said to be a minor manager in the ship, mainly in charge of two granaries, and knew most of the affairs of the Fengqing.

Yang Qian met this man in the lobby below the inn.

"Sir, now that you've mentioned that, I remember that there are indeed a few new faces who have come recently, and they are all managers. But I can tell that these people have never worked in a granary before, and they can't even tell the difference between old grain and new grain."

"Oh? Do you think these people are any different from the people you usually meet?"

He doesn't know the ins and outs of the grain store, but he can directly get into a key position in the grain store and become a manager. There must be something fishy going on here.

It also reminded Yang Qian of the rice pounding mill in Linshui City.

The rice pounding shop in Linshui City could still claim to be unaware, but Zhou Zhong and his gang appeared directly in the grain warehouse in Hengcheng. It seems that Zhao Xinquan, a big landlord in Linshui City, must be related to Zhou Zhong and his gang, and it is even possible that he was someone Zhou Zhong arranged in Shuangqing Prefecture in advance.

"Well, sir, I don't feel anything else, but I feel that the new managers always have cold faces, and I feel scared when they look at you. And they don't care about anything else, but they control the entry and exit of the granary at night. Every time they drive the guys who are watching the granary out, they have to stay inside for most of the night.

It’s very strange anyway.”

The guy didn't think there was anything he couldn't say. He had received benefits and was talking about things he had seen and heard. As for what the gentleman opposite him wanted to do with these questions, he didn't bother to answer.

Yang Qian fell into deep thought after hearing this.

Those so-called unfamiliar faces must be Zhou Zhong's gang. There must be a reason for watching over the granary, which reminded Yang Qian of what he had heard in the farm outside Linshui City. At that time, someone said that the grain had been returned to the warehouse and would be loaded onto trucks soon, and asked if he could start mixing "divine ash" into it.

What is divine ash? Yang Qian didn't know. But he could guess that it was not a good thing. And it was mixed in the food, which meant it was for people to eat.

"Can you get some of the food that's about to be shipped out of the warehouse?"

"This is easy! Please wait a moment. I will go home. I have some new grain that was just delivered from the warehouse yesterday. You can take a look."

"Okay, I'll wait for you here."

Li Sancai had been waiting on the side, guessing that Yang Qian must have some big news for secretly checking the Fengqing, otherwise why would he bother Lord Yang, the most powerful person in Shuangqing Prefecture, to come in person?
But after listening to it, Li Sancai was a little confused. It seemed that Fengqing was colluding with some evildoers to do something with the grain from Linshui City?
Thinking about the fact that he had three big bowls of rice for every meal, Li Sancai suddenly felt a little uneasy.

"Sir, is the Fengqing doing something bad with the food?"

Yang Qian smiled and said, "Do you feel any difference between the food you ate half a year ago and the food you ate recently?"

Li Sancai shook his head. Isn't white rice fragrant? What's the difference?
After a meal, the guy from Fengqing who had just run back came back again with a small cloth bag in his hand, which was bulging with food.

"Sir, I brought it to you, please take a look." This man was not stupid, and he looked a little nervous. The food they ate was from the Fengqing Ship, if there was a problem, wouldn't it be a disaster?

Yang Qian took the bag of rice, opened it, grabbed a handful and spread it on his palm to examine it carefully.

After a while, a ball of fire suddenly ignited in Yang Qian's palm. This was not an ordinary five-element fire, but his Dan fire. The Dan fire, which could easily deal with iron essence and copper essence, burned the dozens of grains in Yang Qian's palm into ashes in just a blink of an eye.

Li Sancai and the other man standing next to him didn't understand what Yang Qian was going to do, but they were frightened by the fire that came out of Yang Qian's palm.

Especially Li Sancai, he recognized that what Yang Qian used was Dan Fire.

After blowing away the ashes in his palm, Yang Qian's face gradually became solemn. The black and gray ashes left after the food was burned were blown away, but there was something else left in the texture of the palm that was pressed over.

A very fine dark red powder.

Is this the divine ash?
After careful investigation with his divine sense, Yang Qian finally discovered something wrong with the divine ash.

It looks like poison, but also like some kind of living thing?

He took out a porcelain bottle, put the dark red powder in his palm into it, and then put it together with the small bag of grain into the storage bag.

"Sir, is there something wrong with the food?"

The guy and Li Sancai both saw that after Yang Qian blew away the ashes in his hand, there was still some dark red powder left, and it was obvious that this powder was what was left after the grain was burned.

Seeing these things mixed in food makes people feel creepy at the first sight.

"Don't eat the food from Linshui City if you can. Of course, don't eat too much if you have no choice. I don't know what these things are yet, but eating them for one or two days, or even one or two years won't necessarily cause any problems."

Although they said that, Li Sancai and the other man secretly said in their hearts: We can’t eat any more!
Although 70% to 80% of Hengcheng's food comes from Linshui City, there are also some arable lands and food production locally. As long as you ask when buying, or pay attention, it is not difficult to buy locally produced food.

"Just keep this to yourself. Don't alert the enemy. Do you understand?"

Li Sancai immediately nodded to show that he understood. The guy next to him also quickly agreed.

Psychological burden?

That kind of thing doesn't exist at all. There are very few elderly people in Shuangqing Prefecture. It's hard for an ordinary couple and their children to survive. Who would care about the life and death of others? Not to mention this weird thing.

"Li Sancai, keep an eye on him. If he wants to leak the news, help him shut up."

"Sir, don't worry, I will never let him ruin your business."

The guy on the Fengqing naturally shook his head and swore that he would never go out and tell lies.

Yang Qian waved his hand and asked the guy to leave. Then he took out two small Lingyun pills and a box of low-grade spirit stones and handed them to Li Sancai.

"Keep the stuff for now. We'll need you to keep an eye on the Fengqing later. The man just now was not enough. Let him find someone else inside the Fengqing to get some information.

For example, the appearance, address, and whereabouts of those suspicious people.

Remember, take your time to find out information, don't force it, and don't expose yourself as the first principle. If you find anything, you can use this amulet to contact me."

(End of this chapter)