Cang Huang Ji one of the overlord supreme

After a period of darkness before dawn just now, the sky is now twilight. In the faint light of dawn, Li Yuan unfolded the ball of paper and took a look. It was a picture, which looked more like a map, with two black dots on the left and right. Round dots, one of which is marked with three small characters "Lou Zhenbei".

Everyone is still studying, Lou Ruoshui lost his voice: "This seems to be a map of our ranch!"

Li Yuandao: "Really? Take a look at these two places again, do you know each other?"

Lou Ruoshui couldn't help nodding.

The three immediately rushed to ask questions.

Bai Ziyi pointed to the map and asked, "Could this be the place where your father was imprisoned? What about the other place? What does the black dot here mean?"

Li Yuan asked: "Why didn't your uncle simply kill your father, why did you leave him alive? What's the reason?"

Shen Youhuai asked, "What does the man in white look like?"

No one answered Bai Ziyi's question.

Regarding Li Yuan's question, Lou Ruoshui thought for a while before saying, "I seem to have heard Lou Zhennan and that shameless slut mention some treasure or something. I don't know if it has something to do with it." She no longer calls Lou Zhennan called her uncle by his first name, and as for her aunt, who was Lou Zhenbei's concubine, she simply called her a slut.

Li Yuan's eyes brightened immediately, and he said, "Could it be that your father knows the secret of some treasure? Could it be that this caused the disaster?" No one answered.

Regarding Shen Youhuai's question, after Lou Ruoshui's description, it seems that it is not like the young man in white who rescued Wu Ming in the inn that day, Shen Youhuai asked after being disappointed, "Why did that person help you?" No one answered.

After all three of them had asked, Wu Ming opened his mouth.

Wu Mingdao: "Those people were killed last night and failed to return to their lives. There is no guarantee that Lou Zhennan will not transfer the owner of the building to another place. I think you and Li Yuan will go to this place to investigate before the sun is bright. Check, it’s best to find the building owner and rescue him. If not, at least find out some news and know his whereabouts.”

Bai Ziyi couldn't help asking: "What about me? I'll go with them."

Wu Mingdao: "Except for Miss Lou, you are the one who is most familiar with the terrain. You should go to another place with us to have a look. There may be a reason why they marked it specially."

Everyone had no objection, only Bai Ziyi seemed to have something to say, but Wu Ming didn't give him a chance to speak: "It's not too late, let's split up and come back here to gather."

Wu Ming has always been concise and to the point.Although his magnetic ascetic voice is usually heard to be elegant and graceful, like the sound of nature, but if he speaks decisive words with such a voice, the hidden majesty is simply irresistible.

Bai Ziyi immediately fell silent.

Early in the morning, Shen Youhuai, Wu Ming and Bai Ziyi walked along the foot of Qilian Mountain, heading northwest of the Benteng Racecourse marked on the map.

Since the few of them left Qijiabao, even if Hua Xing didn't follow along the way, they were still afraid that the people in Hanhai City would find fault with Shen Youhuai. Pay attention to hiding whereabouts.When they arrived on the grassland, they had already changed into the costumes of local herdsmen.It might be because of this that Lou Zhennan didn't realize that Lou Ruoshui had actually returned home, and she wasn't the only one who came.

The grassland is vast, and often at first glance it seems that the scene is in front of it, and half an hour has passed by the time I walk in front of it.Shen Youhuai had no idea how big the Pentium Racecourse was, anyway, he felt as if he couldn't reach the end of the field no matter how he walked, he couldn't help but wonder if there was any problem with Baizi Yidai's road.

Fortunately, there were still horses for transportation. Even so, the three of them walked for a long time before they saw several rows of simple wooden houses in front of them, and many people were constantly coming in and out, busy.

Shen Youhuai couldn't help but asked strangely: "What are they doing?"

With enough eyesight, Bai Ziyi looked at it for a while before saying, "I seem to be carrying something. It's too far away, so I can't see clearly."

When Shen Youhuai heard this, he immediately said, "It can't really be that treasure, right?" When she asked this question, she looked at Wu Ming with shining eyes.

Wu Ming couldn't help laughing, and said, "How did you become so obsessed with money?"

Shen Youhuai chuckled and said, "I'm just curious."

Bai Ziyi said indifferently: "It's nothing to be a money fan. Since we bumped into each other, we should have a part in seeing it. Otherwise, how can we pass?" After looking carefully, he continued: "Look at them one by one. The appearance of resisting something very heavy, could it be...a big gold brick?" A pair of eyes blinked, ten times brighter than Shen Youhuai's.

It is obviously impossible to get close without being noticed in such an open place. The three of them, mainly because Wu Ming felt that there was no need to wait until dark, so he simply pretended to be an ordinary local nomad, swaggering and showing off. He rode his horse over directly, anyway, knowing that Bai Ziyi spoke all kinds of dialects from all corners of the country could temporarily coax people.

In fact, Shen Youhuai didn't want Wu Ming to follow, but he didn't worry about him staying in the wooden house alone.Ever since he knew that the Galloping Racecourse was not as peaceful as he thought before, he had already secretly regretted not keeping Wu Ming in Shanxi Qi's family, but now the matter has come to this point, it's too late for regret!

The three of them were talking like this while walking, just halfway there, it seemed that they had already spotted someone coming from the other side, and immediately several people rode their horses and galloped towards them, and they arrived in front of them in just a moment.

The one in front of him was a bearded man in his thirties, who looked strong and mighty, and shouted loudly at the three of them.Wu Ming said to Bai Ziyi: "You just say that we are businessmen from Guannei. We are more interested in the things produced here, and hope to discuss business with their boss."

As soon as Bai Ziyi spoke the half-baked local dialect to the other party, the man immediately looked at the three people in front of him suspiciously, and then said something to Bai Ziyi, and Bai Ziyi explained to them: "He asked how you know what's produced here?"

Wu Ming smiled lightly and said, "Well, you tell him, I naturally have a source of my news, and I will explain it to their boss when the time comes, so I won't bother him to ask."

Although the big bearded man in the head couldn't understand what Wu Ming said, seeing his extraordinary demeanor, he didn't dare to underestimate him because of his youth. He turned around and said something to Yiqi beside him, and the man galloped away immediately .It is estimated that he went to inform the person in charge.

Here, a group of bearded men with eight men and eight riders stared at Wu Ming, Shen Youhuai and Bai Ziyi covetously, neither inviting them to sit down nor talking to them.

Wu Ming didn't seem to feel the other party's hostility at all, he got off his horse, and then slowly walked up to the big bearded man in front of him...

Shen Youhuai raised her throat, couldn't help getting off the horse and following him, only to hear him smile and say: "This horse is well-raised." While talking, he reached out and touched the horse's head.

The bearded man who was still riding on the horse was obviously a little surprised at the young man's boldness, but seeing that Wu Ming was just a frail scholar, he was not as wary as before, and felt that his voice was "gentle and pleasant". , so it was not blocked.

At the moment Wu Ming is like a boy who loves horses but doesn't know much about them. While tsk-tsk-ing enviously, he touches this horse's head and scratches that horse's neck twice.

But soon he seemed to lose interest, wandered around boredly, then stopped Shen Youhuai and Bai Ziyi to sit on the grass together and rested.

Although those men are still paying attention to them, it is much better than the intense staring at the beginning. Now they will occasionally say a few words among themselves, and glance here and there from time to time.

Shen Youhuai turned slightly sideways, in his hand was a white crystal, which Wu Ming had just slipped into his hand while pulling him.Wu Ming sat on the grass opposite him, resting his chin in one hand, opened his mouth slightly silently, and the shape of his mouth was the word "burn".

Shen Youhuai understood, bent his left leg to block the sight of those people, held the white crystal with his right hand, concentrated for a moment, a little smoke ignited from a small flame.Upon closer inspection, the thin smoke was actually purple in color!

Shen Youhuai's heart couldn't help but move slightly, he remembered seeing such a sentence in "Cao Mu Jing Ji Zhu" - burn it with fire, purple green smoke will rise, the cloud is saltpeter.

Could this white crystal be saltpeter?

Could it be that this so-called treasure is actually a saltpeter mine?

In the blink of an eye, the imperceptible light smoke has been blown away by the wind on the grassland.

Shen Youhuai knew that saltpeter was a kind of medicine, which was listed as the sixth top grade in the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" in the Han Dynasty, and it was believed to be able to cure more than 20 diseases.But he also knew that saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal can be made into gunpowder in a certain proportion.What is the use of the saltpeter mined in this place?

In any dynasty, private mining and mining were not allowed, especially this kind of minerals that could be made into dangerous gunpowder. In this dynasty, it was clearly stipulated that private mining was strictly prohibited.Seeing the remoteness and secrecy here, and the heavy security, it is hard to believe that this mine was mined with the permission of the government.

Thinking of the gunpowder that Hanhai City prepared for itself before, it can be seen that although the government has explicitly banned it, the demand for gunpowder, especially the demand for it by people in the rivers and lakes is still huge.Because of this, the benefits of mining saltpeter are incalculable for ordinary people.

Could it be that because Lou Zhennan discovered this saltpeter mine, in order to take it for himself, he did not hesitate to kill his own brother?

But since he has already found out and already attacked Lou Zhenbei, why did he leave him alive in the end?Is it because there are other minerals?Or is the conscience still alive, still thinking about the brotherhood and can't bear to really take his brother's life?

Shen Youhuai couldn't figure it out.Looking at Wu Ming again, he frowned slightly, his eyes flickered, as if he saw something.

At this time, there was a sound of hoofbeats in the distance. Looking from a distance, a group of about twenty riders galloped towards here quickly.Wu Ming just glanced lightly, and then signaled Shen Youhuai and Bai Ziyi to be on guard with his eyes.