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The two carriages they were riding in were light carriages, and as long as the road conditions were good, they could run quite fast.A dozen or so cavalrymen rode to the front. They were responsible for investigating the situation ahead, because the place where the salt mine is located is very close to the border. If you ride a horse, it takes less than an hour. The Tachibana cavalry scouts passed by that side, which can be regarded as a dangerous place.

They set off in the morning and barely reached the outer edge of their destination at noon. The carriage was running on the military road. Chen Xiansong poked his head out of the slightly shaking window and found four gray-white mountains standing in the distance. Among the forests, only the winding ridges and gray-white peaks are exposed.

"It seems that is the destination." Chen Xiansong rubbed his belly, it was almost noon, and he felt a little hungry.

"Here." A piece of cake wrapped in a silk scarf with the fragrance of Bai Min body was placed in front of Chen Xiansong.

Blinking his eyes, Chen Xiansong didn't answer, but said: "If I eat you, you will be gone."

"I still have more." Bai Min stretched his other hand from the collar into his career line, and took out another piece of cake wrapped in a silk scarf.

Chen Xiansong took one piece, stared at her chest for a while, and then asked, "Who taught you to put things on your body like this?"

"Sister Qianxin." Bai Min looked a little happy as Chen Xiansong began to eat the cake. She continued, "Sister Qianxin said to hide the cake in this way, and then give it to Xiao Song. You will like it."

I really like it!Chen Xiansong took a few bites of the cake, and once he tasted it, he knew it was Alice's handicraft. In addition, the cake was stained with Bai Min's fragrance, and it tasted very delicious.After he finished eating the cake, the carriage stopped, and he opened the curtain to see that there was a gray and white world outside.Behind a large salt plain, there are four extremely high salt mountains.There is a heavy acrid smell in the air, which is the taste of salt.

Chen Xiansong jumped down, feeling the sinking sand and gravel from the soles of his feet, as if he could hear rustling.The cavalry roamed and patrolled nearby, beware of all possible enemies and dangers.In Yanyuan, there is a small path that leads straight to the foot of Yanshan Mountain. Looking from a distance, it seems that there is a figure swaying there.

Zelonger approached.He looked at the Yanshan Mountain in the distance, and said helplessly: "About [-] years ago, my grandfather won the title with his illustrious military exploits, and the king asked him which piece of land he wanted as his territory. At that time, there were two territories for him to choose, one was on the mountain plain in the north. Although it was colder there, but there were iron mines and forests, as long as he worked hard, he could enrich future generations; and the other was our Black Rock City. Black Rock City It’s not very rich, there seems to be nothing but stones.”

"Grandfather originally wanted to choose the northern territory. But when he was thinking about it, he heard a rumor that seemed to be true but not true. There are several salt mountains here." Ze Longer sneered twice: "Grandpa didn't believe it too much at the time. But he still sent people to investigate, and it turned out that there was really a salt mountain here. Then he immediately went to tell the king that he chose Black Rock City as his territory."

Chen Xiansong frowned, he didn't know why Ze Longer suddenly wanted to tell a story.

Ze Long'er ignored Chen Xiansong's question, but continued: "Although grandpa is cautious, he is a soldier anyway, and he thought that this place has a salt mountain, which is definitely a good place, even if you don't understand it. Salt making, even if he only sells yellow mud salt, he can earn a lot of money every year. He was afraid that the opportunity would be taken away by others, so he decided to do so directly, but only after he came here did he find out... The Salt Mountain is the Salt Mountain , but this salt mountain is poisonous, ordinary people will vomit even a little yellow mud salt, and they will die if they eat too much, and they can’t sell it for money.”

"He regretted it very much, and asked someone to investigate who actually released the news secretly." Zelong'er's eyes were full of sarcasm: "The person who released the news was a certain nobleman who my grandfather had offended before. After the news, grandpa was deceived for himself, chose a poor territory and was depressed all day long. He died before he was five or sixty years old, and then he became a laughing stock for a long time. Got the nickname."

"It sounds like a sad story." Chen Xiansong sympathized with the old man who was taken in.

"This has also become a heart disease for every generation of our family. Although these mountains do not belong to our family's territory, they are within our patrol range and belong to our family." Ze Longer pointed to the front The little black shadow in the distance: "Our family has never given up the idea of ​​turning those salt mountains into gold coins. We believe that there are always some places among these mountains that are not poisonous, so we have been trying, But it never worked out."

"You guys are really resilient, you've been trying...wait a minute!" Chen Xiansong's face suddenly changed, and he asked anxiously, "What method do you use to test the poison?"

"Of course it's human." Ze Longer said very normally: "Dig a little yellow mud salt in another place every day and eat it. As long as there is no poisoning, you should be able to get it out and sell it. Unfortunately, so far, no salt has been found. There is a place in the mountains where the salt is not poisonous."

Hearing this, Chen Xiansong felt a chill rushing from the spine of his tail to his head, and then his scalp became numb.Knowing that if the salt here is not filtered, people will be eaten to death, but they dare to use people as test subjects, which can only be done by a ruthless person.

Seeing Chen Xiansong's complexion changed greatly, Ze Long'er said a little strangely: "You think this is not good?"

"Of course not!" Chen Xiansong jumped up angrily, his face dripping with gloom: "There are many ways to test poison, the easiest way is to use animals to test, don't tell me, you guys I can't believe this, I don't believe it."

"Animals are fine after eating... It doesn't mean that people are fine after eating them." Ze Longer said lightly: "There have been such things before, and animals are fine after eating them. Our family thought that the yellow rice in that place The mud salt can be eaten, and then we brought it back home, but the person who died was the youngest girl in our family at that time, she was only four years old, and the cause of death was accidental ingestion... After that, we used people to test salt poisoning."

Chen Xiansong was silent for a while, then said: "No matter what, it's wrong to use people to test salt poisoning, I can't accept it."

"It's not the same in your family that uses people to test poison." Ze Longer glanced at Bai Min.

"Xiao Min is different." Chen Xiansong sighed: "She has a special ability that you can't imagine. She can easily distinguish whether a substance is poisonous or not. In addition, her body has an unusually high resistance to poison, which is different from that of ordinary people. There is a fundamental difference."

"No matter how you say it, she is also a human being. She often tests poisons for you. This is not wrong. You have to admit that this is no different from what I do." Ze Longer said very coldly, as if wanting to say something. Hit Chen Xiansong's Achilles heel.

It's just that Chen Xiansong doesn't like this, he can see that Ze Long'er is just changing the concept secretly, and his face is a little more serious when he hears this: "I said, there is an essential difference between Xiao Min and ordinary people. For example, sending a civilian to the battlefield and sending a soldier to the battlefield are both doing the same thing, but no matter the common sense and reason, the two are completely different."

"You are a soul thinker, I can't say enough about you." Ze Longer kicked some salt sand with his feet, and said with an indifferent expression: "I know you are a good person, anyway, you know how to make salt, and they will be relieved in the future , I will not use people to test salt poisoning again, you can rest assured about this."

After speaking, he waved his hand, and the cavalry behind him rode their horses to the foot of the mountain. After a while, more than a dozen people with skin as black as charcoal and as thin as skeletons walked slowly. When they arrived in front of them, before they approached them, these people all knelt down on the salt ground, lowered their heads, not daring to look at the people in front of them, they knew that these people were important people, and they were afraid of offending their dignity.

Looking at these people, Chen Xiansong felt very sad. Even if Chen Xiansong didn't know much about medical skills, he could tell that if these people went on like this, they would definitely not survive two or three years.The sun was glaring, he squinted his eyes, clenched his fists, and then loosened them again. He felt more and more that he should do something in this world, something that would make him feel better in the future.

"Young master, there are only 13 people left now, and the other four have died. Their bodies have been confirmed, and no one has escaped." A cavalry stepped forward to report.

"You are useless!" Ze Long'er's words made the dozen or so kneeling people tremble: "But you are also very lucky, the Excellency Chen Xiansong next to me is a soul thinker, he tried to find a way Paid your debts and kindly let you get bonuses that didn't belong to you."

Ze Longer signaled, and several cavalrymen threw more than a dozen bags of copper coins on the salt ground, and then he continued: "Everyone takes a bag, and get out, don't let me see you in the city again."

The 13 people wept with joy, each took a money bag and ran away, running very fast, for fear that Zelong'er would go back on his word.

"Among these people, some are rapists, some are habitual thieves, and some are murderers." Ze Longer said calmly: "They should all be executed, but I gave them a chance to absolve themselves of their crimes. , as long as they find non-toxic yellow mud salt, I will let them go. Chen Xiansong, although I am not as good as you, but among the nobles, I feel that I am already very kind."

Chen Xiansong squinted his eyes and looked at the sun for a while, then asked: "You let me see this on purpose, and you are also deliberately guiding my emotions, why?"

Clap clap!Ze Longer clapped his hands and said: "As expected of a soul thinker, he is really smart, and I can't hide it from you. These things are actually my father's order to instruct me to do this last night. He means that since we have already drunk Blood oath, it is not a family, but it is better than a family. Our family has paid a lot for these salt mountains, and the [-]% is the reward we deserve. He doesn't want you to think that our city lord's mansion is greedy because of this. Ultimately it affects our partnership."

"He also asked me to tell you that the Dolan family has put you on the must-kill list." Zelonger sneered: "But now, our family will do everything in our power to ensure your safety until These salt mountains have been mined.” (To be continued..)