Moth

Liu Changzhou was awakened by a bright light, and when he opened his eyes, it was already high in the sun, which is a rarer situation than rare in normal times.Some unspeakable soreness and discomfort on his body made him recall what happened last night with vigor, and he almost wanted to pick up the sole of his shoe and slap his face hard.

This kind of raw rice and cooked rice has a strong sense of sight, not to mention that the window paper has been torn, I am afraid that even the window has been destroyed by violence.

He turned his head and rolled his eyes a few times at the person he shared the same bed with, but was defeated by that person's jade-like face.Lu Hanzhang was in a coma for half a month. At that time, he was so anxious that he didn't have time to see what Lu Hanzhang looked like with his eyes closed. It was only now that he was in the mood to look at him carefully.He watched it for a long time, and only came to one conclusion - he looked the same as when he first met.

This conclusion caused him to have a strange thought of "holding his hand and growing old with him". They are now in Huarong, which is just a kind of non-human being.He was immediately stimulated by this thought, but the more he pursed the corners of his mouth, the more it turned up.

For the first time in my life, the desire to survive against the general situation of a person who is going to die like a dog is so strong.

The person who thought he hadn't woken up pulled out a hand from under the quilt, and covered his eyes accurately. The person didn't even open his eyes, and his voice was full of nasal, and he muttered, "Don't look at it." , Mr. Liu still has a big mess to deal with, is it appropriate to treat him as an adulterer early in the morning?"

Liu Changzhou: "..."

Lu Hanzhang continued: "The big iron pot of salt water in the backyard of the yamen can boil as much salt as a cricket jar at most. Even if it is sky-high salt, it must be bought for 100 taels. How can an idiot take risks for a mere 100 taels? You Recently, we should pay more attention to other entrances and exits in the city to see if there are similar situations, this jar is likely to be a kind of 'clear plank road, dark storehouse', a means of concealing people's eyes and ears."

Liu Changzhou paused for a moment—this was originally the most basic fixed thinking, but he was so careless that he completely ignored it. One can imagine who caused it.

He stretched out his arms to take the messy unlined clothes on the side, put on the clothes and got off the bed, turned around and tucked the corners of the quilt for him, but said very coldly: "Touch your conscience and ask yourself, it's all your fault." Who? Stop talking nonsense, and worry about yourself, it's best not to let me encounter any accidents with you, otherwise I will chop you up and feed the fish."

As soon as the words fell, Lu Hanzhang propped up his upper body from the quilt as if he had no bones—his posture was unprecedented. He put his hands on the back of his waist and propped his upper body into a bow shape, with the top of his forehead still attached to the Reluctant to leave the pillow, the slender neck was drawn into an arc, making the chin extremely thin, and the collarbone more clearly defined.However, he failed a few times during the period, and then sat up in one go, but his eyes still did not open.

His middle coat was slightly opened on both sides, revealing a small piece of chest, but this is enough to explain the current situation, it is full of some kind of dark and indistinct marks, and there are also deep and shallow red marks near the white feather on the side of the neck.I just heard him say in a daze: "That day was really an accident. Well, wait for me later, I will accompany you to find the cripple.

Liu Changzhou held his forehead with one hand, as if he couldn't see him like this, turned around and poured water on the table, and said very speechlessly: "You are so rare." I don't know if there is a chance to see the second one again.

After the two of them finished packing, Liu Changzhou just opened the door when he saw a large group of people standing in the yard.

The expressions on the faces of those people in the yard were colorful and colorful, which can be described as wonderful.Fang Bingbi quickly gave him a look, subtly conveying the meaning of "I can't stop it at all", and then he looked at his nose, nose, nose, and heart with a straight face, gloating at others' misfortune, and watching the lively demeanor like this obvious.

Du Heng leaned on his chin thoughtfully, and said in a godlike manner, "This is probably... the so-called double cultivation."

Xie Qingyun looked weird, but covered Xie Yitong's eyes very politely, but couldn't stop the naughty voice: "What is double cultivation, second brother?"

That's all right now, it's almost common knowledge that people have a relationship and go to bed.

However, all of this can't stop the thickness of the two's skins.

Liu Changzhou waved his hand as if nothing had happened, signaling that everyone who has nothing to do should go away, don't join in the fun here, and said in a very indifferent way: "What are you looking at? Make a fuss, have you never seen a bridal chamber candle? Or...Everyone is waiting in line to follow Candles in my bridal chamber?"

Lu Hanzhang chased after him, and answered Xie Yitong's question while yawning: "Shuangxiu means that the old master in your school gave you two days off in a row. How cool do you think that would be?"

It's out of morals!

Everyone's jaws dropped to the ground, and they looked at each other and looked at each other.

Spindle Alley is an alley with a small mouth and a big belly, and Lu Hanzhang, who is familiar with the way, led Liu Changzhou to turn left and right, and stopped in front of a large iron gate with a width of three feet.He pulled Liu Changzhou's hand through the cover of the long sleeves of his toga, and said in a low voice, "Don't look around blindly when you go in, there are almost eyes and ears around here, we will be watched as soon as we come in."

Liu Changzhou drew a circle on his palm and tapped it three times.Lu Hanzhang didn't need to remind him to notice that there were not many people coming and going in the alley, but almost everyone would stare at them for a long time when they saw them coming in.There is a faint smell of charcoal burning grass and ash nearby, and a layer of black charcoal is also densely deposited on the white wall. One can imagine the universe inside.

They just stood there for a while without doing anything, but footsteps appeared behind the big iron gate as if they had been sensed. A man with a sly eyebrow poked his head out and saw Lu Hanzhang and let him go.

Liu Changzhou was still thinking about what the so-called "wonderful flower among strange flowers" looked like, when he saw a person running straight towards him under a very delicate gazebo in the large courtyard behind the iron gate.

That person was dressed in red and willow green, with rouge and powder on his face, he looked very much like the famous lady in the portrait of the previous dynasty.As soon as he saw Lu Hanzhang, his eyes lit up immediately, and he walked very diligently in small steps, but it was obvious that one of his legs was indeed lame, it seemed to be of uneven length, and his walking was a bit lopsided.

Hu Lizi ran forward with full momentum, but stopped abruptly when he was two steps away from the two of them, as if there was a transparent barrier around the two of them, blocking him so that he could not approach.He clasped his hands together and held them in front of his chest. Stamping his feet and twisting his waist, he thought he was enchanting, and said in a fake voice that normal people couldn't make out: "Why did Hanzhang come in person? I sent someone to send him Have you run out of stuff?"

Liu Changzhou had a very strange feeling in his heart. For a while, Luo Hua was intentional and ruthless, Lu Hanzhang was taken care of by a pervert, and this person really cast the wrong gender. These thoughts thundered through his heart, making him hold back I couldn't help wanting to laugh, but was pinched back by Lu Hanzhang's very subtle pinch.

Lu Hanzhang said indifferently: "Boss Hu is polite." He pushed Liu Changzhou forward, "I wonder if Boss Hu's subordinates have any time to find a job for my little brother? I have read too much, so I don't know the sufferings of the world. I intend to use Boss Hu's light to teach him a good lesson. I also hope that Boss Hu doesn't have to spoil him, and just leave all the dirtiest and tiring work to him."

While putting on a paralyzed face, Liu Changzhou felt that Lu Hanzhang's move was really high-there must be a clear division of labor in the black salt workshop, those who sweated to make money, those who were responsible for exploring the market conditions, and those who made overall plans, it is no exaggeration to say that , They may all have a set of cover-up projects specially designed to deal with official inspections, and they may even have an armed force strong enough to resist officers and soldiers.

And there is no doubt that the dirtiest and most tiring must be the lower-level workers who are responsible for boiling salt.

Cripple Hu couldn't bear to give Liu Changzhou even a glance, staring at Lu Hanzhang like a pug staring at a meaty bone, almost drooling.He waved his hand very casually, and signaled his subordinates to take the little brother down, and said with goosebumps still: "What did Hanzhang say, isn't it easy?" He then said very understandingly: "People nowadays don't know what to think all day long. How could this piece of copper and a piece of silver grow out of a book? Poor these scholars, how much is it worth to write an article or a poem to become famous? Are you poor?"

Lu Hanzhang scolded "You know what a fart" in his heart, and nodded without any flaws: "Boss Hu is absolutely right."

He stretched out his hand again and pulled Liu Changzhou back. On the surface, the two brothers embraced his back, patted him in relief, turned their heads and said softly, "Two days?"

Avoiding people, Liu Changzhou took out his "Chess World" from his belt, stuffed it into Lu Hanzhang's belt, hugged his waist in a courteous manner, smiled lightly, and said in a ignorant way: "A stick of chess fragrant."

Lu Hanzhang: "Take care." Then he took a step back and waved his hand.

Probably due to the extremely harsh environment and a group of people staring at them, this deformed hug actually had a taste of cheating. After careful smacking, it didn't feel bad.

Liu Changzhou was taken down by the cripple's subordinates.

He thought that Hu Lizi was not as flashy as he appeared on the surface. He was able to build an industrial chain of transporting, boiling, and selling salt in the extreme north of Daqing. Naturally, his vision and skills were not small.And this is another kind of breaking the law against the wind and waves, so his selection, supervision and management of his subordinates will naturally not be weak, and he will probably have to be taught and repaired.

Sure enough, he was taken into an airtight black room. In the darkness, someone stripped off his clothes three times and five times, and another set of rough clothes that felt extremely bad to the touch was thrown over his head and face.Then someone pushed him, he let go of all the strength in his body, and obediently fell back on the thatch pile, several pairs of feet kicked over at the same time, landed on his body without any difference, which made him recall a good time. The scene of being beaten.

The current situation is that he is in the light, but the salt workshop is in the dark.Lu Hanzhang forged a false impression for him and sent him in, but he knew nothing about the reality of this salt workshop, so it seemed that he had no other way but to sneak in to find out the reality.

The person who didn't know the inside story was beaten for no reason, and his normal reaction must be to resist and shout.So Liu Changzhou pretended to dodge, and at the same time started swearing, counting generations from those people's eighteen generations of ancestors, cursing them down, and then turning them around again after cursing, spitting stars flying all over the place, as if he was eating people .

Fortunately, before he reached the point where he could run out of swear words, those fists and kicks stopped, and someone in the darkness gave a very sinister laugh, and he heard the sound of jars opening and closing, and then he was sprinkled on him without thinking. something.

In an instant, Liu Changzhou wanted to kick all these people down and give them to Lord Yan as appetizers - those rough guys sprinkled a layer of salt on him.The fists and kicks just now were really not light, almost all places started to throb and hurt, his eyebrows raised involuntarily due to the pain, and his sweaty hair was sticking to his face, so uncomfortable that he wanted to scratch all these people.

He twisted his movements quite a bit, and then trembled as if struck by lightning, and the last trace of consciousness flashed through his mind——Last night seemed to be a little over.

Then he decisively chose to simply faint.

When I woke up again, I heard a very noisy sound of shovels hitting stones, and there was a "whoosh" sound like a fire burning a mountain.When he opened his eyes, he suddenly felt that he had learned a lot.

He didn't know where he was in a place where birds didn't shit. This place was so dark that it seemed that there had never been day or night. The light above his head was completely blocked, and there were many thick iron chains hanging from the ceiling.

A few steps away is a very huge mutated hearth. The reason why it is called mutated is because it was designed in the shape of a hollow brick, which is filled with coal. On both sides of the brick-shaped hearth The sides are air vents.Then above the hearth is a very light and thin shallow tank, on the top there is a layer of transparent suet-like film, and the middle of the film is framed by a beam to form a roof structure.

From the shallow water trough above the hearth, mist continuously evaporated, all of which stuck to the suet roof, condensed into water and slid down to both sides, and fell into the pre-designed gutter around the hearth.If you take a closer look, you can find that the suet roof above the head is actually two layers, and there are densely packed thin hoses running inside, with flowing liquid inside.

Liu Changzhou looked around, and within his eyesight, there were nine such salt boiling tanks lined up, and there were no fewer than a hundred shirtless people going back and forth to change the charcoal.There are three or four large iron tanks around each roof structure, and the boiled salt water is brought up together with the shallow tank, and then someone puts a new shallow tank on the hearth, and the green water in the iron tank is cleared. will be poured in.

The method of smuggling salt with salt water only appeared, and these people here have such proficient skills, which can only explain one problem-someone was notified long before the remaining salt was exhausted and Fang Bingbi ordered a strict investigation.

Liu Changzhou understands the collusion between officials and businessmen, but he cannot tolerate such a combination of corrupt officials and smugglers.If it can be earlier than Fang Bingbi's order, it is very simple to point out a phenomenon. The people in Huarong's officialdom do not seem to be the ultimate behind-the-scenes masterminds, because only the Ministry of Households knows that Fang Bingbi is here to investigate smuggling. Several high-ranking Beijing officials.

Liu Changzhou looked at it thoughtfully for a while, and began to think that if someone informs and the government suddenly attacks, how can these people cover up these things in a short time?Also, what other value do these things have if they are not used to boil salt?

He thought about it for a while, and felt that there seemed to be no other place to use these things, so he simply destroyed them. He just used this to scare the snakes and see which poisonous snakes he could attract.

"What are you looking at?! If you are not dead, why don't you get up and work quickly?! You guys are here to eat Boss Hu's idle food?!" A fat man with half of his face covered by a beard came over angrily, Raised the whip as if wanting to whip.

But before he got close, a roof structure collapsed abruptly behind him, and fell into the shallow trough below. Some of the exposed parts touched the hearth around the shallow trough, and were instantly burned. Blockbuster.The fat man didn't care about beating Liu Changzhou anymore, he hurriedly shouted for someone to put out the fire.

With a stone in his hand, Liu Changzhou destroyed the other eight in the same way.The scene suddenly became chaotic, the laborers' bedrolls were placed nearby under the thatched shed where he was, sparks splashed out and ignited those things.

He pinched his throat and shouted in an extremely alarmist manner: "Run, officers and soldiers are coming!"

All of a sudden, almost everyone threw away the shovels in their hands, and hundreds of people merged into a stream of people and ran in one direction.A few people who wanted money rather than their lives seized the time, took advantage of the chaos and searched out some money from the bedroll that had never been affected, and stuffed it into their pockets.

Liu Changzhou, who was not familiar with his place of life, leisurely blended into the crowd, followed them all the way to the west, crossed a gate that only allowed one carriage to pass, and entered a slightly spacious avenue.

The scene around him immediately made his scalp explode-there are nine similar doors on this road, almost one for every hundred steps.If the layout behind the doors is roughly the same, such a black workshop has almost a total of 81 salt boiling tanks, and the number of workers is at least [-].

This amount of salt production is quite amazing.

He took advantage of the confusion and slipped into the nearest door.

As a matter of course, the door was also nine salt boiling tanks, but everyone seemed to be in order, and they didn't panic at all when they heard the crowd outside shouting "the officers and soldiers are coming".I saw that they were well-trained to remove the beams supporting the suet, stretch the two sides of the suet and fix it on both sides of the shallow groove.

The thick chain hanging from the ceiling that I saw before was hung on a protruding iron ring on the ground one after another.

Then everyone was divided into two parts, concentrated on the two long sides of the long strip workshop, and then a very loud "rumbling" sound sounded, and a long strip-shaped covering with a considerable area slowly descended from the roof of the workshop. , At the same time, the salt cooking tanks on the ground began to sink into the ground at the same speed. A row of salt cooking tanks moved in unison, as if they were embedded on a movable carrier, and they disappeared after a while.

A very large gap appeared in the ground, which coincided with the sinking salt boiling tank and the covering that fell from the top of the head.After the sound of "clang", the gap between the big cover and the ground was seamlessly closed.

The cover is actually a complete iron workshop.After Liu Changzhou glanced at it just now, he took advantage of the last opportunity to heal and jumped into the gap.

Below is a huge underground secret room, which seems to connect the space behind the nine doors at once. I saw similar carriers hanging down one after another. Liu Changzhou took a quick look. Eight came down.

Unless there is an earthquake, it is impossible to destroy such a large workshop at one time.With such a large scale, the flow of salt is by no means limited to the territory of Huarong.If it is not limited to Huarong, there is only one place left in the north - Beidi, the neighbor in the northern border of Daqing.

Liu Changzhou's face was very pretty.

High-level household officials smuggled salt from the Huaihe River and Huaihe River, transited in Huarong, and shipped it to... Beidi?He was almost sure that Liu Tong and the high-ranking household department behind the scenes were people on two different boats, and it seemed that they had just coincidentally intersected.This was even more wrong, as if someone somewhere was guiding him to find this workshop and find out something.

He immediately understood: who exactly is Zong Yi trying to use his hands to get rid of from the household department?Who is obstructing the new big policy that the imperial court is going to launch, and it is necessary to seize that person's handle to clear the way?

He looked around, and guessed very boldly, since the underground is all opened up... there is only one trigger mechanism that can restore the entire organization to its original state.Then he took it for granted, "It would be great if Lu Hanzhang was here."

Liu Changzhou: "..." It's over, we can't leave.

A hand protruded from nowhere, and five fingers were firmly inserted between his fingers. Someone laughed and said, "Not bad, you came faster than I thought."

This scene of cheating a corpse in broad daylight caused Liu Changzhou to froze for a moment due to conditioned reflex, and then he suddenly understood the reason why Lu Hanzhang was so relieved that he pushed him out—you have to witness it yourself, I am here The last place to pick you up.

Lu Hanzhang bent his eyes, and explained in a good mood: "Cripple Hu once insisted on dragging me to drink, he himself..." Before he finished speaking, Liu Changzhou turned around unexpectedly, and smacked his face indiscriminately. After kissing her, she said without thinking, "I love you so much."

Lu Hanzhang looked weird for a long time, then he smiled and said, "So? I'm finally better than Jin Dou?"

Liu Changzhou: "..."