Yan Yan Yugui

Chapter 104 Discovery
Xiao Qian led Lin Yanyan from Hongwu Gate, and said as he walked: "Turn east from Zhuque Street to Changning Street, cross Anhe Bridge, and Chenping Bridge is the royal temple Tianning Temple."

"Previously, the Ministry of Industry was responsible for the maintenance of two bridges. I have sent people to investigate secretly, and found no problems. In Tianning Temple, my people mixed in with the masons and carefully checked it several times, and found nothing. Saltpeter and kerosene."

Lin Yanyan frowned: "Fire oil?"

"That's right, kerosene. We investigated the registration records of goods entering the city at each city gate in the past three months, and found that there were three or three truckloads of kerosene shipped in through each city gate in recent months. Because it was too scattered, and every time The quantity transported was small, so it didn't attract attention, and saltpeter is the main ingredient in making gunpowder, if these people add gunpowder with kerosene, the power can be imagined."

"So, there are no traces of saltpeter and kerosene in the visible places where civil engineering has been done?"

Xiao Qian nodded.

Lin Yanyan asked again: "Is the emperor clear on the way out of the palace to Tianning Temple?"

"Zhuque Street is cleared, and Changning Street will have people lined up to welcome the holy driver."

"What will happen if we can't find saltpeter and kerosene before the emperor leaves the palace tomorrow?"

"Father will change course. No one can risk the lives of the emperor and ministers."

At that time, not only the father, but also the elders of the court, first-rank officials, and relatives of princes and nobles will go to Tianning Temple to pray for blessings. Can not afford.

Lin Yanyan frowned more and more tightly: "Go find a wooden stick."

Xiao Qian was inexplicable: "What do you need a stick for?"

"You just found it."

Xiao Qian was worried, where can I find wooden sticks on the street?Fortunately, an old man on crutches passed by, and Xiao Qian stepped forward to negotiate, willing to spend two taels of silver to buy the old man's crutches.

The old man was puzzled, his crutch was made of a wooden stick he picked up on the side of the road. Could it be that there is some mystery hidden in this crutch, or some kind of treasure?Otherwise, why is this son willing to pay two taels of silver?
So the old man tightened his grip on the crutch, and looked at Xiao Qian warily.

Xiao Qian had no choice but to raise his chin towards Lin Yanyan who was not far away: "Old man, that is my wife, her legs and feet are so bad that she can't walk, if you really don't want to sell it, then forget it, at worst I will carry my wife home. "

Lin Yanyan's ears are good, and Xiao Qian's words fell into her ears word for word, and she blushed involuntarily.

This guy really knows how to talk nonsense, who is your wife?
After a while, Xiao Qian came back with a crutch: "Can this work?"

Lin Yanyan pretended to be calm, took the crutches and tapped the ground: "It's okay!"

Lin Yanyan had no intention of settling accounts with Xiao Qian at all, he was just making excuses in order to get the crutches, if she was more serious and appeared not to be airy, then just pretend she didn't hear it.

On the contrary, Xiao Qian was a little apprehensive, and peeked at her expression, but she couldn't see anything unusual about her wearing a veil.

He didn't remember Lin Yanyan's sharp hearing until he finished speaking.

Maybe she wasn't paying attention!Xiao Qian comforted himself, he could breathe a sigh of relief, but at the same time, why was there still such a small loss in his heart?
Lin Yanyan leaned on crutches and walked slowly from Zhuque Street to Changning Street.

Changning Street is not as wide as Zhuque Street, but it can accommodate four carriages in parallel. There are many shops on both sides of the street, there are restaurants, silk shops, studies, grocery stores... It is one of the most prosperous streets in the capital. ...

In the case of excluding Tianning Temple and the two stone bridges, if she wanted to wreak havoc in the capital and make a big commotion, then she would choose Changning Street.

Once there is an explosion or fire here, it will definitely cause chaos, crowding and stampede. If killers are arranged to mix among the onlookers, it will be enough to cause damage to Yu Jia.

Lin Yanyan took a deep breath, concentrated, and took a step forward.

With the pace of money moving forward, the shops, stalls, pedestrians on both sides of the street... the dynamic scenes you see in front of you become static and three-dimensional pictures one by one and engraved in your mind. Smell and hearing are like two infinitely extendable The tentacles pass through the windows and doors and through the brick walls, outlining the picture beyond the reach of the eyes.

The shopkeeper of the grocery store was working the abacus at the front desk. The proprietress was washing clothes in the backyard while watching two children kick shuttlecocks.

In the private room by the window of the restaurant, the ten-year-old Zhuangyuanhong exudes this seductive mellow aroma, and the two guests are clinking glasses for the upcoming business cooperation.

In the private room next door, there was the fragrance of green bamboo leaves, and the guests sang new works with chopsticks, expressing the joy of meeting old friends.

In the brush and ink studio, the fragrance of ink is lingering, and the waiter in the shop is enthusiastically recommending the rattan paper of Shanxi to the guests.

In the embroidery building, sandalwood is wafting, and the embroiderers are chatting and laughing while embroidering, teasing a certain embroiderer named Yu'e who has always been out of her mind these days, and she is afraid that she has taken a fancy to some lord.

……

Suddenly, the sound of the crutches hitting the ground echoed hollowly, Lin Yanyan stopped immediately, and the crutches hit the ground again.

The tentacles of hearing and smell are extended again.

On the left is a shop under renovation, the painters are painting, the air is full of the smell of paint, the carpenter is shaving, swish... swish... the plasterer is beating something, boom boom...

On the right hand side is a shop selling spices, the business is slow, the sign at the entrance of the shop says that musk is sold out, but she can clearly smell the aroma of musk inside, and a blind fortune teller is sitting not far away, yelling from time to time... Divination, fortune-telling, and advice, those who are destined will not get a penny.

Xiao Qian followed Lin Yanyan all the time, seeing her stop suddenly, he stopped too.

"what happened?"

Lin Yanyan wiped the fine sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, and said, "Help me go to the spice shop to buy some agarwood!"

Xiao Qian didn't know why, but Lin Yanyan would never ask him to buy spices for no reason, so he said, "Wait a moment."

Xiao Qian walked into the spice shop, and there was no one there. After calling several times, the shopkeeper lifted the curtain and came out: "Guest officer, what do you need?"

"Give me two taels of agarwood."

"You wait."

The shopkeeper searched for a long time before finding Chen Xiang, took out two fragrant cakes and weighed them on the scale: "It's exactly two taels, one tael of silver."

Xiao Qian frowned indiscriminately, said nothing, took out a tael of silver to the shopkeeper, took the fragrant cakes and left the spice shop.

"Agarwood you want."

Lin Yanyan took the cake, sniffed it, and asked, "How much money?"

"One or two."

Lin Yanyan smiled: "Let's go!"

"You don't think..." Xiao Qian wanted to discuss with her, whether she asked him to buy spices because she found out that there was a problem with the spice shop, but it turned out that there was indeed a problem with the spice shop.

"Let's talk when we go back." Lin Yanyan interrupted him.

　Thank you Taogu and Murong Lanling for the reward, and another 100 yuan was returned. The original owner died of angina pectoris, and the angina pectoris was caused by the original owner's poisoning. After the poison was removed, these symptoms will improve.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)