Yingchun Building
In the peony box, a man in black clothes sat at the table with his upper body exposed, leaning against two women on the left and right in his arms. One of them was holding a wine glass, and the other was holding grapes. You were feeding me one bite at a time. Wearing men.
One of the women said something unknown, which made the man laugh.
At this time, there was a knock on the door. The man glanced in the direction of the door, let go of the woman, and said in a deep voice, "Come in."
The door was pushed open from the outside, and then a man dressed as a guard walked in. The man stepped forward and said excitedly, "Master, Fufeng has been found."
When the man heard this, his eyes lit up.
"Where is he now?"
"Water prison."
At the same time, Zhang Jing also received news that Jiu Qingzi had appeared. He immediately put down his official duties and rushed to Baijia Village on the outskirts of Beijing with his government servants.
At this time, Tao Yaoyao also came to Baijia Village.
Before she came, she was thinking about how to find Xiao Shuo. After all, even if the village was not big, it would take some time to search each house, so on the way here, she thought of several ways to find him quickly.
But as soon as she entered the village, she found that her previous considerations were unnecessary.
At this time, the main road into Baijia Village had been blocked. The villagers and the people in official uniform were quarreling, and the villagers' dissatisfaction could be heard from far away.
“When we first reported the crime, only two cows died in the village. Now, only two of the twenty cows in our entire village have died.
Mr. Xiao, cows are our labor force. Without them, how would we grow crops and live our lives? "
"That's right, it's Dali Temple, and it's Kyoto City's top detective. I can't even solve such a small case. Are you ashamed?"
"Master Xiao, no matter what, you must investigate this case today, otherwise, the only two cows left in our village will be lost.
It’s almost the beginning of spring, and we don’t have cattle. What will we do next year’s spring plowing? "
Speaking of spring plowing, the villagers began to frown one by one.
"Miss, let's not go there. There are so many people over there, what if you get hurt?" Qiu Gui persuaded Tao Yaoyao that if she wanted to watch the fun, she could do so from the carriage.
But Tao Yaoyao didn't come to see the fun. She didn't let Xie Fei see her at the entrance of the Hanlin Academy just now. She already felt that her trip was in vain. Now that she had gone through all the trouble to come to Baijia Village, she couldn't make another trip in vain.
Standing in front of the officials was a man in red official uniform. This man's back was turned to her. He had a slender figure, broad shoulders and narrow waist, and a slender neck...
"Village chief, it's not good. Uncle Bai's cow seems to be dying."
A woman ran out of the village, shouting loudly as she ran.
When the people in the village heard that another cow was about to die, their expressions changed drastically. Almost instantly, there were no more villagers at the entrance of the village where there had been a lot of noise just now.
When Xiao Shuo frowned and turned around, Tao Yaoyao's sight immediately came into view with his sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, as well as his sexy Adam's apple.
Before, she only thought Xie Lan was good-looking, but now she realized that there were so many good-looking people in Kyoto.
Moreover, this person has clear eyebrows, a neat posture, and calm manner. Even if this kind of person is not a good husband, he is definitely a good person.
That's him.
"Uncle Bai, your cow was fine last night, but why did it suddenly feel uncomfortable? Please carefully recall what it has eaten from yesterday to now. Has anyone touched it?"
Recently, a lot of cows have died in the village, and the government has come so often that the villagers have learned their interrogation words. Uncle Bai is a man in his forties. At this time, he looked at the cows in the cowshed with a worried look.
Cows in this era were very valuable. Whoever had a cow in the village would be proud of their ancestors.
So the place where the cow lives is not only clean, but also very spacious. The cow trough was right next to it. After taking a look at it, the man sighed and scratched his hair, "It eats the same food as before. There is no difference."
At this time, the nose of the cow lying on the ground began to bleed. When the villagers saw this scene, they all said anxiously, "Its symptoms are exactly the same as those of my cow before it died."
As soon as the man finished speaking, everyone looked at the cow on the ground.
"It's over. Isn't it possible that our village won't even be able to keep a single cow this time? Who is the murderer who wants to harm our village like this?"
The village chief was so anxious that he knelt on the ground, and the expressions of other villagers were not much better.
"Can I show it?"
Tao Yaoyao watched for a while and roughly guessed what happened to the cow, so she squeezed through the crowd and came to Uncle Bai.
Neither Uncle Bai nor the villagers recognized her, so they subconsciously looked at Xiao Shuo after seeing her.
Xiao Shuo raised his head and glanced at her, and then said to the village chief, "She is a famous miracle doctor in Kyoto City. Maybe she can save your cow."
Miracle doctor?
When the villagers heard this, they quickly made room for her. After Tao Yaoyao thanked Xiao Shuo with her eyes, she turned around and squatted down to start examining the cow. By the way, I asked, “Do you often go there to herd cattle?”
"It's at the foot of the mountain at the end of the village. There's a lot of grass there. People in our village like to go there to graze cattle." The village chief replied.
“When did cows start dying in your village?”
"It's been almost a month." The village chief didn't remember clearly. "Oh, this is the first time I've seen something like this in all my years. In less than a month, one cow after another in the village I feel so sorry for the death of the cow that I haven’t had a good sleep for many days.”
The people who had killed the cow also echoed, "So are we. We can't wait to catch the poisoner immediately and cut him to pieces."
Tao Yaoyao confirmed what he was thinking after checking the cow's nose, eyes, mouth and some acupuncture points on its body.
Then in front of everyone, he pulled off the purse from his waist, selected a red bottle among so many bottles and jars, took out a pill and stuffed it into the cow's mouth.
"Has anything strange happened in your village in the past month, such as a particularly heavy rain, or a landslide or something?"
"It did rain heavily in our village a month ago, and there was indeed a landslide in the back mountain."
Tao Yaoyao once again proved what he was thinking, so he turned to look at Xiao Shuo, "The answer lies in the dirt washed down from the back mountain."
Neither the government officials nor the villagers believed that those things could poison cattle.
"People in our village pass by there every day, but no one has anything wrong with them," the village chief retorted.
Tao Yaoyao stood up and explained with a smile, "The immunity of humans and animals is different. Moreover, if the cow eats the grass that grows on the land, but if people just pass by, the final result will naturally be different." .”
"Don't you want to find the truth? You don't have any other good ideas. Why don't you come with me and I'll do an experiment for you, and then you'll know."
Tao Yaoyao was walking in front, and when she was about to walk out of Uncle Bai's house, she thought of something and turned her head to look at Xiao Shuo, "Can you help me catch a mouse?"
Xiao Shuo nodded, then turned around and called two government officials.
There were a lot of rats in the village, but it was not easy to catch them all at once. In the end, the villagers told them where there were more rats, and the government officials found two skinny rats.
"It's okay to be thinner."
Tao Yaoyao caught the mouse calmly and put it in the cage in front of everyone. Then he found some rice grains and covered them with the juice of the wild grass at the foot of the mountain.
Finally, these juice-stained rice grains were thrown into the cage. The mouse didn't eat at first, but then started eating happily after there was no sound around.
The two mice must have been hungry for a long time and were eating happily. Just when everyone was immersed in the scene of watching the mice eating rice, the mouse that was jumping around and eating enthusiastically suddenly fell down in the cage and stopped motionless.
The villagers were immediately shocked.
"This... this grass is really poisonous."
"It's not grass. The miracle doctor said the soil is poisonous."
"How can the soil be poisonous? This is the first time we have heard of such a thing after so many years of working in the crop fields."
The people are curious and scared. After all, they will stay here every day. If the soil here is really poisonous, how can they eat the food they grow?
They are farmers, they don’t grow food, and they don’t know how to do anything else.
"Miracle doctor, you have to save us."
Before Tao Yaoyao came, they just wanted to find out the real culprit who poisoned the cows, but now, they just wanted to live well.
Xiao Shuo glanced at the land under his feet, and then thought about what Tao Yaoyao had just said, and quickly grasped the key point, "What Miss Tao means is that there is a problem with the soil on the mountain, not the soil in the village." ?"
It saves trouble to talk to smart people.
"That's right, Mr. Xiao is taking people up the mountain now. Wherever there is no grass, there will be problems with the soil."
In order to appease the villagers here, Xiao Shuo immediately took people up the mountain. Seeing that it was still early, Tao Yaoyao pulled Qiu Gui over to join in the fun. When Xiao Shuo saw it, he reminded her, "Although it is winter now, the mountains are still there. It’s hard to leave, so it’s better for the girl not to follow you.”
"If I didn't follow Mr. Xiao, I might not know why there is a problem with this soil."
Xiao Shuo was indeed curious about this question, and saw that she looked confident, so he did not stop her. An hour later, the yamen servant finally found a place near the hillside with no grass growing.
"There is actually a place like this on the mountain. We have never noticed it before."
This place is remote, and villagers used to go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables and find firewood. Naturally, they would not remember places where they did not need it.
"But why is there no grass growing on this soil here, and grass growing at the foot of the mountain? Moreover, in this season, the grass in other places is sparse, but in that area, it grows extremely lush, almost catching up with summer. It’s crazy.”
