Dress up as a sickly person to capture the villain princess!

"Oh, what are you going to say?"

The two constables are also very smart.

They put down the brushes in their hands and looked carefully at the old man kneeling on the ground. Although the old man was wearing linen clothes, there was not a single patch on them.

This is a rare thing in Shanghe Village.

Except for a few wealthy families with names and surnames, the clothes worn by other people were all made of pudding-sewn cloth.

The old man swallowed.

He immediately said: "Sir, I say..."

"I'll tell you..."

"Behind my house... there is a cave... which leads directly to an abandoned mine..."

He spoke incoherently, almost out of breath.

But this one sentence made the whole audience silent.

Some people even gasped.

You must know that Shanghe Village has never had any mines from the beginning to the end. Mining is still a top priority in the court. If someone mines privately, he will be guilty of the crime of killing all nine generations of his family!

Who is so bold...

“When was the mine dug?”

"How did you know that?"

The sword-wielding constable narrowed his eyes and stood up.

He walked up to the old man and wanted to find out what was going on.

This is a big case. If it is handled well, maybe they can get a promotion and a monthly salary increase in a short time.

When the old man saw the black boots in front of him, he kowtowed several times in fear and shouted, "To answer your question, sir... the mine is none of my business. I don't know... when... a big hole appeared behind my house."

"It's just...it's just...there was a well behind my house, but I thought it was dry and I couldn't get any water out...Then one day, I thought..."

"I can't always go to my neighbor's house to fetch water... or else I'll get the cold shoulder from Erniu again."

"So I sharpened my hoe, hung a thick rope, and dug down bit by bit..."

Hearing what he said, the constable continued, "So, you then discovered... that your well had been dug through?"

This would explain why the well behind the old man's house no longer produces water.

The old man nodded.

“…After I went down, I realized that there was mud under my feet. All the water from the well had seeped down. A few steps forward…there was a big hole dug there!”

"When this well was dug, it was originally away from the spring... so it had to be dug deeper. If it weren't for the ladder and rope... even if I had ten times the courage, I wouldn't dare to go down!"

Hearing this, Zhao Changlin frowned slightly. She didn't expect that the matter of investigating animal traps turned out to be related to a smuggling case.

However, if this matter is true, then it is indeed necessary to re-investigate it.

With his slender index finger against his chin, Zhao Changlin always felt that there was some connection between the two.

If it were any other time, she would definitely not think like this, but now all the strange things are happening in the same area.

Aren’t there too many coincidences?

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

It seems that I should write a letter to tell Zhiyuan about this matter and ask her to be more careful and vigilant.

.........

"Is there a mine in the well?"

Xia Zhiyuan looked at the letter sent back by carrier pigeon from His Highness, and suddenly felt that it was like pulling out a radish and finding a potato hidden under the radish pit.

"Miss, it's time to take medicine."

Looking at Xia Zhiyuan lying on the hospital bed and still worrying about him, Chunni sighed in her heart and put the medicine bowl on the table.

A bitter medicinal aroma wafted through the air.

Xia Zhiyuan felt that his life was just like bitter medicine.

"knew."

Taking the medicine bowl, Xia Zhiyuan picked up the white porcelain spoon and scooped a spoonful of medicine.

After drinking lots of good food these past few days, the inflammation in her body has finally subsided a little, and her energy and spirit have also improved a lot.

"Oh, by the way... Chunni, do you know any famous blacksmiths around here?"

Xia Zhiyuan looked at the arrow and drank the medicine.

I started to guess.

After all, she had been in the imperial court for a long time, so she naturally had some understanding of the craftsmanship of the Ministry of Works' armory. The arrow was exquisite, but it did not look like it was made by the Ministry of Works.

It is more like a unique piece produced by a skilled craftsman.

No, maybe not the only one...

But this arrow does not seem to be mass-produced, because its quality is really too good. Even the white eagle's tail feathers, patterns and waterproof treatment have at least two or three layers.

This is more like - a sample.

In other words, this is a sample shown to customers.

If a blacksmith could make an arrow out of such fine iron, he would definitely accept the order. But what if he wanted to double the price?

The samples have been sold, and the next step is to negotiate the business. The person who can prepare so much fine iron is definitely not a blacksmith.

Therefore, there must be someone behind the blacksmith who provides fine iron, which coincides with the appearance of mines in Shanghe Village.

Could it be that in order to facilitate transportation and avoid being discovered, this group of people found a place where they could mine ore and refine iron?

"Miss...you really asked the right person."

Chunni was surprised and happy. She didn't know why the young lady suddenly asked this question, but it happened that she really knew the answer to this question.

"Could it be that your ancestral home is Shanghe Village?"

Xia Zhiyuan asked blankly, he didn't expect that Chunni, this big leaky spoon, would have a day when he could turn out to be a hidden dragon and crouching tiger.

"Of course not, miss."

"I am a child of the Xia family... However, there is a woman named Ah Lu in our family. She is from Longcheng. When she was still in the Xia family... She often mentioned to us that there was a famous blacksmith in Longcheng!"

"Many outlaws and people in the underworld would ask this blacksmith to make weapons."

"It was with that hammer that the blacksmith supported his family and even bought himself a large yard in Longcheng."

Hear this person's identity information.

Xia Zhiyuan immediately snapped his fingers.

"System, come out and work. Since we can't find the bug, we can only check it manually~"

She just doesn't believe it. God is watching what you do. If you do something, you will get tired of it!

"Searching for the host - Longcheng Blacksmith - Five targets that meet the requirements have been found, please review -"

Immediately afterwards, Xia Zhiyuan's mind was filled with information about the five blacksmiths, which made him dizzy.

"Then what's his name?"

Xia Zhiyuan looked at the five blacksmiths carefully and found that they all matched what Chunni said, except that three of them were a little older, while two of them looked young and strong.

"To answer Miss... that person's name is... that person's name is..."

Scratching his head, Chunni thought hard, paused for a while, and finally spoke it out.

"Call me Zhou... Zhou Asan!"

Zhou Asan.

Xia Zhiyuan's gaze stayed on Zhou Asan's panel. The man was in his early forties, with a weathered face. Perhaps due to years of blacksmithing, his arms were strong and his skin was wheat-colored.

His hair is quite thick and he is the least bald among the five people.