"Yes, what are these?" Shen Cha looked at the letters tied together with ropes. There was no signature or signature on them. She had no idea what they were. She looked at Mrs. Ning, "This is yours too. thing?"
"These are not my things. They are all the gadgets I liked when I was young. I wanted to put them away, but I didn't want anyone to see them, so I stuffed them all into this." Mrs. Ning denied it outright. He reached out and pulled his adopted son, looked at him, and asked, "Little Chengzi, did you stuff this in?"
"Ah? What is it? Ah! This! Yes, I stuffed it in." Ning Cheng looked at the pile of letters in Shen Cha's hand, nodded slightly, and explained to Shen Cha, "This The stack of letters, actually, they were put together with the volume of sea charts. They should be treasures of the clan chiefs and elders, and are something they attach special importance to. When I saw these things in there, I took them all back. .”
"Is it so easy?"
"It is indeed very convenient. I thought at the time that since they put all these things together and hid them in a secret compartment, it means that they are their lifeblood, and anything can destroy them. Then They must be taken away. Therefore, if you want to bring them down completely and prevent them from causing trouble to us in the future, it is better to have more preparations on hand. Besides, since they are all here, there will naturally be more A little is enough, right?"
"Well said, I'm here anyway."
"That's not all!" Ning Cheng stood up and walked between Mrs. Ning and Shen Cha. She squatted down and rummaged through the box. She found three small round boxes and two more. He pushed something like a small bamboo tube in front of Shen Cha and said, "And these are all I picked up. I haven't opened them. They should be very important things. General, take your time and take a look. I don’t know what’s inside, but it’s been well hidden by the clan leaders and elders, so it should be something very important to them.”
"well done!"
Shen Cha smiled at Ning Cheng. She was more concerned about this pile of unsigned and unsigned letters. She didn't care much about other things at the moment.
She picked up the scissors handed over by Hong Ye, cut the thin hemp rope, picked up the top letter, and opened the envelope. What fell out was not the letter paper, but a tightly wrapped square. There is an object, and on the oil paper package of that object, there is also a square "Luan" written on it.
"Luan?" She frowned slightly and wanted to take it apart to see what was inside, but Jin Miaomiao stretched out a hand and knocked it away. She raised her head and looked at Jin Miaomiao, who was standing next to her with an unusually serious expression, "Is there something wrong with this thing?"
"Yeah!" Jin Miaomiao put on her gloves, picked up the object, put it under her nose and smelled it, then sneered and put the thing back on the table, "Wangyousan."
"Is this Wangyousan?"
Hearing Jin Miaomiao's affirmative answer, everyone's eyes were focused on the square object. They had never seen what Wangyousan looked like, so they were still very curious.
"Want to take a look?"
Seeing everyone nodding obediently, Jin Miaomiao raised an eyebrow and gently opened the wrapping paper, revealing a black thing inside. She took a step back and waved to the others.
"Look, this is Wangyousan. You can also smell this."
"This smell..." Shen Cha went over to smell it, rubbed it against Shen Haolin in disgust, and said, "It's a very strange smell, it smells like medicine."
"Because it is a medicine in itself, it naturally has a medicinal smell." Jin Miaomiao looked at Shen Cha and couldn't help laughing, "Remember this smell, any restaurant outside that has this smell will Go directly to the local government and report it, and you will get it right."
"It doesn't look like anything special. It's just ordinary."
"Don't look down on this thing, Lord Marquis. It's just a piece. The current market price is at least thirty taels of gold. It may be more expensive in some places." Jin Miaomiao looked towards Xue Ruitian
Showing a provocative smile, "Is it still ordinary?"
"It's not that bad!" Xue Ruitian continued to curl his lips in disgust, "But, what did you just say, if a restaurant outside smells like this, report it to the government? What kind of restaurant would do this? Isn't the cost too high? A little too high?"
"It's not that they really forget about it. They may use the shell of the rice bag fruit as a seasoning, such as some mutton soup pots. If it's a bit heavier, they will throw the fruit shell in and follow it with some. When Chinese medicinal materials are boiled together, the taste of the soup or snacks is quite good. But the rice bag itself is addictive, even if it is the shell, so if you eat the soup or snacks cooked with this kind of thing, The food can also make people feel addicted, but it’s not that extreme.”
"This is actually addictive!"
"You will feel that if you don't eat the food made by this restaurant for a few days, you will feel very itchy and always wonder when to eat again. Generally, some restaurants will use this method to attract repeat customers, although it is not always the case. It's illegal, but..." Jin Miaomiao spread her hands, "When you know the truth, you will be very uncomfortable."
"This should be considered illegal, right?" Shen Cha frowned slightly, "I have heard of the situation you mentioned before. A similar situation has occurred in Xijing City before, and the boss of that company was punished particularly He was cruel. He was in jail for several years and was only released two years ago." She raised her eyebrows at Xue Ruitian and Shen Haolin, "It's just that the boss or shopkeeper was just pushed out. This store You are also familiar with the real boss, the one before Sister Jinyu..."
"Husband's family?" Seeing Shen Cha nodding, Xue Ruitian's eyes almost rolled to the sky, "There is no good person in that family. Fortunately, she didn't marry her, otherwise, she might have suffered a lot! If the incident comes to light about that family, she may not be implicated, but she will definitely be forced to plead for that family."
"That's right. Fortunately, the engagement was broken off. That family is all stag-headed and rat-like. I don't think it's unusual at all for them to be kicked out of their family for such a thing."
Shen Cha was also very dissatisfied with Song Jinyu's former fiancé's family. She had always felt that the family had bad conduct and was not good at doing anything. Taking advantage was always the first priority. Fortunately, her sister Jinyu woke up in advance and broke off the engagement in time. Enter the sea of suffering.
"That's true." Xue Ruitian looked at the dark thing and smiled evilly, "Tell me, why is Luan written on it?"
"Why else, it could be a sample from the Luan family!" Jin Miaomiao raised her eyebrows slightly, "In the whole of Daxia, there are not many people who have the ability and channels to do this business, right?"
"Is there anything else in the envelope?"
Shen Haolin was not interested in this Wangyou Powder. He just wanted to see if there were any other clues in those envelopes.
Shen Cha watched Jin Miaomiao re-wrapping the Wangyou Powder, picked up the envelope and looked inside. It was empty, with nothing in it.
She asked Jin Miaomiao to throw the wrapped Wangyou Powder back into the envelope. She had already made a plan. That person named Luan was talking nonsense, wasn't it just because they didn't have any evidence in their hands? Now that there is evidence, it's still It was provided by his closest friend. Show it to him when the time comes and see what else he wants to quibble with.
After sealing the envelope and putting it aside, Shen Cha picked up the second letter and opened it. There was no Wangyousan in it, but a large banknote.
"A banknote of thirty thousand taels." She handed the banknote to Shen Haolin, "That doesn't mean anything, does it?"
"Huitong Bank!" Shen Haolin looked at the stamp on it and raised his eyebrows slightly, "Generally wealthy families in Xijing City will open accounts at Huitong Bank, but Huitong Bank has a special point. , if you want to open an account, it is not allowed to deposit less than 30,000 silver coins, so those who open an account here are either wealthy businessmen or wealthy people."
"So that's it!" Shen Cha thought for a while, took the banknote handed over by Shen Haolin and put it back into the envelope, looking at Ning Cheng, "Can I dispose of this thing as I please?"
"Of course!" Ning Cheng nodded, "Everything in this can be used by a general."
Dispose of it at will. Originally, I took this thing out not to redeem it for money, but to collect evidence so that the Ning family and those who hooked up with it would never have a chance to stand up. "
"With your words, I feel relieved." Shen Cha nodded and handed the envelope containing the 30,000 taels of silver notes to Ying Shisan, "Go back to Xijing City to find out who this silver note came from. Hand, and also, you ask the commander-in-chief to accompany you, if there is no commander-in-chief, Huitong Bank probably won’t tell you the truth.”
"Okay!" Ying Thirteen took the envelope and put it in his arms. After putting it away, he patted it and said, "As soon as you get the letter, send the message back. There will be no delay."
Shen Cha didn't speak, just nodded slightly and picked up the third letter. This time, there was really a letter inside the envelope. I saw the signature and the last name on the top.
"What's wrong?" Shen Haolin pulled up a stool and sat next to Shen Cha. He saw the letter in her hand, "This is solid evidence."
Shen Cha looked at Shen Haolin and nodded towards him. He didn't care that a group of people gathered behind them and slowly began to read the contents of the letter.
This letter was actually written by the head of the Luan family to the patriarch of the Ning family, not the previous old patriarch, but the current patriarch who had been imprisoned.
When the head of the Luan family wrote to the clan leader, the date was ten years ago. The clan leader was not yet the clan leader, but at most an heir. At that time, the two people had already hooked up.
The content of the letter probably means that since we parted ways in the capital, we have not seen each other for a long time and miss each other very much. The two people have the same thoughts and opinions. They are more like brothers than those from Ningchang.
"Ning Changguo probably doesn't know what these two people are saying about him behind his back."
"Even if I knew, I wouldn't care." Shen Haolin chuckled, "I just didn't expect that the two of them actually met in Xijing City and had a very happy conversation." He looked at Mrs. Ning, "The Ning family is now The clan leader has been to Xijing City?"
"Yes!" Mrs. Ning nodded, "When the couple sent their youngest son to Ning Changguo, the old patriarch took his son there. This was also Ningchangguo's own intention, and he wanted to ask the old patriarch to do it. A testimony. Regarding this matter, the old patriarch came to me specifically and asked me what I meant and whether I agreed with Ningchang Guo’s decision. I just said that his decision was his decision and had nothing to do with me. The real Ningchang Guo Madam is a young lady from the Lu family. If you want to seek advice, you should ask that lady."
"Old Madam, you are so powerful!"
"Because I still want to win over the Wang family." Shen Cha sighed, with a helpless expression, "The Wang family will be miserable if they are stained by such a dog-skin plaster."
"It's really miserable. If we hadn't been smart enough to clear things up with them in time, otherwise, they would have fallen and we wouldn't have been able to eat and walk around." Mrs. Ning sighed softly, "But, then again , this old patriarch is slightly better than his son, at least he knows how to write the word "restraint", while his son doesn't know at all."
"I can see it!" Shen Cha tapped the letter paper in his hand lightly, "This letter mentioned that the clan leader and Boss Luan hit it off immediately, and the two of them had actually discussed the Wangyou Powder business in Xijing City. "
"Have we already talked about it at that time?" Ning Cheng looked shocked, "So early..."
"Indeed, we have already talked about this business so early. However, Boss Luan said that he is still looking for channels and honest and reliable people to do this. When he finds it, he can start. And, The letter also said that in addition to the Wangyousan business, Boss Luan also talked about other more hidden businesses that they planned to do together." Shen Cha said as he handed the letter that he had read to To Xue Ruitian, "It's just that none of these businesses seem to have been completed, because Boss Luan had to open up the trade route in the Western Regions and had to give up these very profitable businesses for them."
"I'm afraid it won't work if I don't give up!" Xue Ruitian sneered, "If they didn't give up, they wouldn't have to wait until now, they would have been caught long ago."
"What do they want to do?"
"That's a big business. If you are caught, you will be executed and executed." Xue Ruitian sneered and said, "They plan to make a connection and sell salt and iron to Liao and Jin."
