"Here" After hearing Sha Diao's words, Cai Xiao breathed a long sigh of relief. That's fine, but if something happens to the supervisor, he will be slapped on the head of Cai with a shit basin. It would not be a pity for Cai to die alone, but if he is worried
If he is charged with insufficient protection, the whole family will have to suffer the consequences.
The Qiaobei Road warehouse is really big. It was used to store grains from Suzhou Prefecture in the past. Later, after Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion, local officials were afraid that Kunshan would be unsafe, so they transferred the Suzhou grain warehouses to Wuxian and Suzhou. However, the grain warehouses in Kunshan were still retained.
After that, according to what Sha Diao learned, since Zhang Xianzhong was killed, this warehouse was leased by the Kunshan County Government to local merchants.
The warehouses were close together, and each door was locked. Cai Xiao took out the key and opened the door. Before anyone walked in, he could already smell a strong musty smell. It had not been cleaned for a long time.
, plus there was a lot of rain and humidity today, it was normal for the musty smell to be a little strong, but for some reason, Tie Mo thought the smell was weird.
Xu Meiling frowned. Her nose has always been sensitive, and she couldn't help but look a little surprised at this moment. Why does this warehouse smell like rotten meat? Although the smell is very light and even covered up by the smell of mold, it still
It can be distinguished. Seeing Xu Meiling's reaction, Tie Mo put his ear to the canal and asked, "Meiling, did you smell it too?"
"Well, husband, there is something wrong with this warehouse!" After Xu Meiling said that, she immediately stopped taking out the short knife, while Sha Diao had already put his right hand in his long sleeve. Sha Diao was born with a pair of pig noses and was very sensitive to smells. Tie Mo and
Xu Meiling can smell it, but there is no reason why he can't smell it. It's really weird. I remember that when I came to the warehouse before, there was no such smell. If I weren't sure that Cai Xiao was fine, I would have suspected that Cai Xiao had touched something.
Hands and feet.
Cai Xiao was very nervous. He didn't know what was going on. Seeing Xu Meiling pull out a short knife, he nervously put his hand on the handle of the knife. Xu Meiling was the first to walk in and visually inspected the warehouse.
There is nothing special. There are four small windows on both sides for ventilation. There are two gates at the north and south. Tie Mo and others entered through the south gate. The warehouse was dark and damp, plus the weird smell.
The smell of rotting meat added a bit of weirdness to the air, as if there was hair growing on the back.
After observing for a moment, the warehouse was empty and there didn't seem to be any danger, so Xu Meiling took back the sword. Mu Wanqing held the long sword and directly picked up the rice bag on the ground. She glanced at it briefly before throwing it to Tie Mo.
.Taking the sacks over, Tie Mozi observed them carefully. He could clearly see some rice grains stuck to the inside of the sacks, which meant that these sacks had indeed been filled with rice grains recently.
After checking the sacks one by one, it was true that as Sha Diao said, the grain in all the sacks was gone. What was even more incredible was that these sacks were still in the same state as they were originally stored. They were stacked one after another, and there were ten sacks in each pile.
Two or three bags, if they were filled with grain, they would probably be two feet high. It's really strange. Could it be that the grain just disappeared like this? How is this possible? The granary is not the only place where it should be stored. It is heavily guarded, not only outside.
There are guards, and there are four guards in each warehouse. How can the grain be transferred without anyone noticing under such circumstances?
"Master Cai, was this what the warehouse looked like before?" Tie Mo couldn't think of a clue and frowned tightly. Cai Xiao immediately handed over his hands and replied, "It turns out that this is what it looked like. General Ning and Magistrate Peng personally ordered it at that time.
Be sure to protect the warehouse and wait for General Tang to come to investigate. The warehouse has always been like this since the incident. You can ask General Tang about this!"
The sand sculpture nodded expressionlessly. He had gone through countless things like the Worship Department, and then went to the Dark Palm Hall, but this was the first time he encountered such a weird thing. There were a total of fourteen warehouses of grain.
All gone.
At first, Sha Diao doubted whether the grain had not been brought in at all, but after interrogating the warehouse stewards, county officials and soldiers on duty, everyone unanimously insisted that the grain had been brought in. There was no way of cheating on this.
Yes, the grain in each warehouse must be randomly inspected. If the sack is not filled with grain, it cannot be found out. Moreover, even if the sack is not filled with grain, why are the sacks empty now? It turns out that the sack is empty.
Where did the contents go?
Some people say that the food was taken away by ghosts, and not only one person has this idea, but half of the soldiers in the Qiaobei Road Warehouse think so, because except for ghosts, what can be protected by the army?
They robbed the food from fourteen warehouses at night, and they were so unnoticed. Of course, the sand sculpture did not believe this statement. The theory of ghosts and gods is unreliable. The other party must have used some mysterious method, but no one can think of it.
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The smell in the nose became stronger and stronger. The sand sculpture slowly squatted on the ground and sniffed randomly. Tie Mo knew that the sand sculpture had a sensitive nose and must have discovered something, so he didn't bother him. He saw the sand sculpture walking along the empty aisle in the middle of the warehouse.
Moving forward little by little, he sometimes lay down and sometimes squatted up. After about a quarter of an hour, he turned to Cai Xiao and ordered, "Send someone to get water."
The floor of the warehouse was paved with bluestone bricks to prevent rats from gnawing. The sand sculptures knocked on each stone brick and listened very carefully. Tie Mo was very puzzled. Could it be that someone had dug through the secret again?
Tao? If there really is a secret passage, it can also explain why the food disappeared. As for why the soldiers guarding the warehouse did not notice it, it is also easy to explain. Just get some incense and the like, and you can easily make the guards
The guards in the warehouse slept comfortably. How others entered the warehouse was relatively simple. Although the windows on both sides of the warehouse were not big, anyone with a slim body and good clavicle skills could definitely get in.
The water was quickly brought, and two large buckets were also brought. Cai Xiao didn't know what General Tang was going to do, so he came in with two buckets of water. But this time, Cai Xiao did the right thing.
There is really a lot of water demand. Standing up, Sha Diao asked Cai Xiao to pick up the bucket, while he took a water ladle to get some water and sprinkle it on the ground little by little. Look at him bending down and looking serious, like
A farmer planting rice in the field.
Maybe he thought the sand sculpture looked funny. Mu Wanqing leaned on Tie Mo's shoulder and pursed his lips in laughter. Inspector Tie did not have such a relaxed attitude as Mu Nuxia. He carefully observed the sand sculpture's movements and gradually understood what the sand sculpture was going to do.
What? He is testing whether there is a secret passage. If there is a secret passage, water will definitely seep in. Even if others seal the entrance to the secret passage, the soil will be much softer than other places, and water will still seep in easily.
The entire warehouse was very large, and it was a very complicated process to find it bit by bit. Tie Mo also ordered someone to fetch water, walked to the north door, and walked in the opposite direction, sprinkling water as he walked. Xu Meiling
He helped carry water while others searched around.
Such a little search was really tiring. Half an hour later, there was still nothing found. Just when Xu Meiling was losing her patience, a magical scene happened. When the water was sprinkled, it quickly seeped in.
Then the gap between the stone bricks became clear on one side. Tie Mo was afraid of finding the wrong place, so he poured a ladle of water again, and the water still seeped in instantly.
After discovering the abnormality, Tie Mo seemed very excited. He said hello, and Sha Diao and others ran over. Xu Meiling threw away the bucket, took out a short knife and gently picked the green bricks along the gap. From the surface,
, there is nothing abnormal about the ground under this square brick, but if you stab it with a short knife, it can penetrate easily. There is something wrong with this soil. It must have been thrown on it recently. If it is the soil that has been there for many years, it should be very hard.
, not to mention absorbing water. As the green bricks were removed, the strong smell of rotten meat became stronger, as if dead human flesh was buried underneath. Xu Meiling covered her nose and hummed unhappily, "This
It smells so bad!”
What is there in the soil? In fact, there is no need to wonder for too long. Xu Meiling dug into the soft soil with a short knife and quickly picked out a dead mouse. This mouse was not big, but its tail was extremely short. This was
The forest vole is unique to Kunshan. However, this kind of vole usually lives on the gentle slopes of rice fields and in the woods. How come it appears here?
After Xu Meiling got out the dead mouse, she stood aside. The next thing was simple. Cai Xiao called two soldiers in. The soldiers dug with shovels and quickly took out the new soil. But what happened next?
I couldn't dig any further because I found a large wooden pillar, about two feet in diameter, which just blocked the entire hole.
Seeing this, Tie Mo and Sha Diao were also a little relieved. No wonder Sha Diao was so meticulous that he didn't notice anything unusual when he came here for the first time. With such a wooden pillar holding the soil on top, even if you put it piece by piece
I knocked the stone bricks over, but I couldn't tell what was wrong with the sound. If I hadn't smelled rotten meat when I walked in today, I guess I wouldn't have thought of a way to sprinkle water on it.
Cai Xiao wanted to call more people to take out the wooden pillars, but was stopped by Tie Mo. He felt that doing so was completely useless. Judging from the big wooden pillars, there must be a secret passage underneath, but taking out the wooden pillars was useless.
Others may have destroyed the secret passage after using it, which means that even if the wooden pillars are taken out, people will have to go in and dig little by little. Only by clearing the destroyed secret passage again will it be possible to find the entrance.
How long will it take? Tie Mo doesn't have that much patience.
"Cai Dutong, are there any gardeners in Kunshan?" Tie Mo asked with profound meaning. It would be time-consuming and labor-intensive to clean up the secret passage, which is not worth the gain, but there is a shortcut, and that is to distinguish it from the soil quality. The reason for this is,
It was also the tip given by the dead vole. It was impossible for the other party to get a dead mouse and put it on the wooden pillar stupidly, so it was probably that a vole was killed when taking out the soil, and the dead vole was also wrapped in the soil.
It was placed on top of the wooden pillar.
I have to say that the other party is very smart. With the soil on top, the people who hid in the warehouse in advance can re-cover the bricks and flatten the soil immediately. Not to mention knocking over the square bricks one by one, all the square bricks will be destroyed.
If you uncover it, you probably won't find anything unusual. At least in the eyes of ordinary people, there is no difference between soil.
However, there are two types of people in this world who know how to distinguish soil. One is the gardener who grows flowers. Because gardeners need to cultivate flowers carefully, and the soil suitable for each type of flower is different, so gardeners often do research on the soil quality in various places.
Yes, the other one is the bricklayer in the kiln. Because making bricks and ceramics requires different soils, the craftsmen will also do some research on the local soil quality.
In later generations, if you want to distinguish soil, you only need to do a test. But this was not possible in the Song Dynasty. Without microscopes and other high technologies, you can only rely on existing people. There are no kilns in Kunshan, and there are few kilns you can find.
Only the gardener.
Cai Xiao was a martial artist, so he could charge into battle, but he was too far behind when it came to thinking about things. However, he did not dare to disobey Tie Mo's words, and he clasped his hands and said, "There is an old man Wei in the east city, but he was in trouble.
I don’t know if he is still there, so the supervisor will wait for a moment and I will go look for him right now!”
Tie Mo knew that Cai Xiao was telling the truth. In the current situation, there are so many refugees. Kunshan and Taicang have become the hardest hit areas. People who are not dead are also thinking of fleeing. Therefore, it is not uncommon for others to leave Kunshan. Wait.
About half an hour later, Cai Xiao led an old man in his fifties back to the warehouse. The old man had gray hair and looked very thin. He must have been ordered by Cai Xiao before, so he kowtowed to Old Man Wei and made a big salute.
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"Don't panic, old man. I just want to ask you something." As she spoke, Xu Meiling had already pulled up some of the new soil she had taken out. She was not as polite as Superintendent Iron, and said to Old Man Wei, "Old man,
Come and take a look, can you tell where the soil comes from?"
It turned out to be looking at the soil. After knowing this, Old Man Wei felt a lot more at ease. He squatted on the ground and picked up a handful of soil, twisted it in his hands, and then licked it with his tongue. Seeing this, Xu Meiling's
His face looked a little weird, and Tie Mo was very puzzled. Before asking, Xu Meiling stood on tiptoe and put her ear canal, "Can this old man get the plague? All this dirt is stuck to those dead rats...
"
After listening to Xu Meiling's words, Iron Supervisor was speechless. It was better not to tell Old Man Wei. If Old Man Wei knew the truth, he would probably have to spit out the overnight meal on the spot. Old Man Wei checked very carefully, and it took about a stick of incense.
Then he raised his head and said confidently, "Supervisor, if my prediction is correct, this soil should come from Powa Gang in the south."
Po Wagang? How did Tie Mo know where Po Wagang was? He could only look at Cai Xiao with his eyes, but Cai Xiao had a look of confusion on his face. He pointed at Old Wei and said unhappily, "Old Wei,
Are you mistaken, Powa Gang is a place where garbage is thrown."
"General Cai, I don't have the guts to deceive the Governor of the King of Qin. This soil comes from Powa Gang. Last year, I went there to get soil." As he spoke, he spread out some soil.
He whispered back, "General Cai, please take a look. The soil particles are relatively large, a little black, and the taste is a little sour. If you don't believe it, you can try it!"