This thunder and lightning does not have eyes.
It is within a certain range and centrally covers the carriage area.
If it were a precise strike, it would not be possible within a one-mile radius.
"Princess Xian, please send someone to search all the scorched earth areas to see if there are any suspicious traces."
"Suspicious traces?" Zhou Jingxian looked at many places that were covered with sand due to fire extinguishing, and said with a wry smile: "It's raining and fire extinguishing, so even if there are suspicious traces, they should be erased."
Even Qin Shi agreed with this statement.
"Mr. Ning, if Master Hua was really persecuted by others, for such a big thing, they did not leave traces on the living people, let alone the dead."
Jiang Shu has confirmed that there is no problem with those blocking the road, so there must be no problem.
Qin Shi believed in his men's ability to discern.
A radius of one mile is not a large area. The three hundred imperial guards brought by Princess Xian can search all the places in less than a quarter of an hour. They can even dig out and count the ants hiding in the holes. .
But so what?
This has nothing to do with controlling lightning.
"What I ask you to check is not the traces left by living or dead people, nor the traces left by lightning strikes. What I ask you to check is iron tools."
"Iron?"
Everyone looked confused and didn't understand why they were suddenly asked to investigate this matter.
But seeing Ning Wuxu's unquestionable expression, they could only give the order in confusion.
After the three hundred Beijing Guards heard that they were looking for iron tools in the woods, they formed a team of three and spread out in a "pin"-shaped formation with Hua Yi's corpse as the center.
Ning Wuyan went to check the three corpses carried off the carriage.
Qin Shi's eyes couldn't help but become moist when he thought that two of the three corpses were still his subordinates.
at this time.
But he saw Ning Wuyan taking off the coat covering the corpses and touching the charred corpses with his own hands.
Qin Shi was startled and hurriedly approached and asked, "What are Mr. Ning looking for? There are regulations on what Long Wei wears every day. There is no need to search personally."
And based on the extent of the damage to the body, nothing could be found.
"weapon."
Ning Wuyang responded simply. After finding a bunch of weapons on their waists. It was unclear whether they were long swords, daggers, or daggers. He pursed his lips and looked at the pile of scattered weapons. On the carriage.
Zhou Jingxian learned the lesson this time. Seeing him staring at the wooden frame of the carriage, she hurriedly asked: "Mr. Ning, do you want to check what's on the carriage?"
"right."
Ning Wuyan stood up and patted the dust on his hands.
Before he could reach the carriage, Zhou Jingxian ducked out of the way and had already pulled out her red gold sword. After sifting through it, she picked out a pile of burnt iron pieces and a few wooden boards that had not completely turned into charcoal.
Ning Wuyang smiled gratefully at her and called Manager Zhang.
"Come and identify where this part is on the carriage."
"These iron pieces should be from under the carriage, and these wooden boards too... By the way, the traces that have been chiseled by the hoe here should be from under the front of the carriage, and those larger iron bumps should be from the roof. As for the edge sealing, autumn has recently arrived, and the carriage curtains have been replaced with thick cloth to block the wind. In order to secure them, iron nails were riveted on the roof."
Riveted iron nails on the roof are the norm.
Ning Wuyang squatted down and found a triangular iron frame from a pile of iron lumps that had been smashed but still had a pointed shape and was about two feet long.
"What is this?"
"This? Is there still this on the carriage?"
Manager Zhang stared at the triangle for a while, suddenly realized, patted his head and said.
"There are only two feet left of this iron frame. In fact, it must be three and a half feet high, because the horses in the imperial village are so hungry that many of them cannot run. The Chinese Master also asked us to prepare herbs on the carriage, because We couldn’t pull another cart, and the herbs were not heavy, so we simply put a layer on top to put the herbs, but the herbs were all burned away.”
Manager Zhang said, and then murmured suspiciously.
"When we were building these shelves, the carpenters said that the nails were made of wood. How come they were made of iron? I also looked at it at the time and saw that the material was so thick. I thought it was because the wood was thick. From this point of view, iron must have been added to the wood. Piece, can it be fixed?"
As soon as these words came out, not only Butler Zhang felt suspicious.
Even other people present felt that there was something fishy about this matter.
Herbs are lightweight, while wood has a considerable carrying capacity.
This lump of iron is at least two fingers thick, and you can imagine how thick the wood surrounding it is.
Isn't it abnormal that such a thick wooden board can't stop those light herbs, and iron pieces are deliberately added to the wood?
"The rack on the roof should have four sides. This is the only side left. Can you tell which side of the carriage it belongs to, Manager Zhang?"
"Yes, it's the door of the carriage. Because the herbs need to be loaded from this side, this side is also the lowest and thickest. The remaining three sides are relatively slender."
After listening to Manager Zhang's words, the scene of being struck by lightning flashed before Ning Wuhuang's eyes.
A bolt of lightning fell from the sky.
When Hua Shi opened the curtain and saw the lightning, he turned over and fell to the ground. It was supposed to be an instant death. However, because the iron weapon was installed at the rear of the carriage, the other two dragon guards in the carriage were locked by lightning and could not jump out of the carriage even after reacting. He was killed the moment the lightning struck him.
And because more than one bolt of lightning fell, the iron tool that triggered the lightning was directly destroyed, leaving only the iron tool at the door.
Ning Wuyan gestured at his height, imagining that he usually rode at a carriage height, and then increased it according to Manager Zhang's instructions. He glanced at the dense woods around him, and his expression changed drastically.
"wrong!"
Zhou Jingxian saw that his expression was as solemn as when Zhou An led the assassins to attack that night, and asked nervously: "Mr. Ning, is there anything wrong with this carriage?"
Even if it is raised with an iron frame, its height is only as high as two people.
It's much shorter than the pallets that are specially used to pull goods.
Not to mention anything else, the loading pallets that blocked Jiang Shu's path not far away also had fences made of iron sheets as guardrails to protect the goods. If the lightning strike was really related to iron tools, they should have been struck over there first. It is impossible for a caravan to attack a carriage with only a few iron tools.
Ning Wuyan glanced at Zhou Jingxian, who was confused. He opened his mouth, but he still couldn't talk nonsense until he found conclusive evidence.
But he knew that he was thinking in the right direction!
"Manager Zhang, is there only one road leading to Huangzhuang?"
"This is the only way."
"How many roads lead to this forest?"
After hearing Ning Wushan's question, Manager Zhang thought about it seriously and pointed to the southwest.
"One is the road leading to Huangzhuang, and the other is a small road northwest of the convoy blocking the road ahead. According to Long Wei who sent the letter, the Beidi caravan did not pass Huangzhuang and gave the other caravan to The car was overturned and it should have rushed through from the southwest corner of the woods. Is Mr. Ning going there?"
"No."
