The location of the house is very good, it can be regarded as a high-end residential area in Qing'an Prefecture, and the surrounding people are either rich or expensive. I don't know if it is a coincidence, but the next door is the residence of His Royal Highness the Princess.
The yard assigned to Li Yi was the largest, but he didn't live in it. This place was less than a quarter of an hour away from Ruyifang, and he was used to living there, so there was no need to move around.
Lao Fang and the others were obviously very satisfied with this new home. After seeing their house, the melancholy caused by moving away from Liuye village quickly disappeared.
Although it was still far from the mansion he had imagined, he had at least taken a big step towards his goal. Progress was a good thing, and a bright and bright future was waiting for them.
There is no need to worry about those green forest bandits coming to make trouble, and no brainless guy dares to gather so many people to play wild in Fucheng at the same time, but there are not so many people, and they will die ugly when they meet Lao Fang and the others.
The formula of the gunpowder has been handed over to Li Mingzhu. This thing has not been seen by anyone, and he will never hand it over in his life. But since the matter has reached this point, he can only pretend to be generous.
As for what they will do with this thing in the future, he doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know.
However, things in the world are like this, accidents always come so suddenly, no one knows what will happen in the next moment.
On the second day, Li Yi, who was continuing his training at home, was hastily called away by a policeman, and half an hour later, he appeared in a village next to Fucheng.
Li Mingzhu had arrived before him, and was standing under a certain courtyard wall at this moment, with a thoughtful expression on his face.
On the way here, the policeman had already briefly introduced the matter to him.
This place is called Liujia Village, and they are now in the home of a landlord in Liujia Village.
This morning, a servant of the landlord's family came to the yamen to report the crime, saying that a strange incident had happened at home, and several arresters followed the servant to investigate.
The matter is not big or small, two of the three cows belonging to Mr. Liu's family died strangely last night, and the cattle have been filed with the government. If you kill them privately, you will be jailed. Two of them died one after another. There must be a saying, if Li Yi hadn't asked for leave, he should have brought the servants to check this morning.
"What's the matter, is something strange?" Li Yi walked up to Li Mingzhu and asked with some doubts.
Li Mingzhu might take care of such things as the death of two cows. After all, it is her nature to be nosy, but she just got the gunpowder formula yesterday, and she should not have such leisure time now.
"Look, is this here..." She looked at Li Yi, pointed to the area around the collapsed courtyard wall, and her tone was a little suspicious.
Li Yi looked in the direction of her finger, and was also slightly taken aback.
A part of the Zhang Xu high courtyard wall collapsed, and the base of the wall was sunken, and a large black pit appeared. After Li Yi was slightly astonished, he pinched a pinch of soil on the ground, put it in his nose and smelled it, and smelled a familiar smell. pungent taste.
This time, even he was a little surprised in his heart, it can't be... It's such a coincidence, isn't it
He turned his head, met Li Mingzhu's eyes, and nodded slightly.
"That's right."
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"You two adults, even if you give the villain so much courage, the villain would not dare to kill the cow! I really don't know how they died!"
A fat man in an officer's uniform was crying with snot and tears, and it was really sad for those who saw it, and tears for those who heard it.
At this time, of course, he couldn't keep calm. If this matter could not be explained clearly and the blame fell on him, he would really be finished.
"Okay, okay, don't cry, what happened last night, tell the truth." Li Yi was a little annoyed by this guy crying, waved his hand and said.
The problem now is no longer the problem of two cows dying.
I don't know who is the talent who actually made the black powder out. If this matter cannot be explained clearly, many people will be unlucky.
Seeing the words of the county lieutenant, the fat man immediately stopped crying.
"My lord, the thing is like this. Yesterday, Xiaomin just married the third concubine. He drank a few more drinks with the guests at night. When he woke up, it was past midnight, and Xiaomin took off his clothes..."
"Skip this paragraph..."
"The villain was planning on that... when he suddenly heard a shocking sound from outside, the little man was so frightened that he softened at that time..."
"Skip this paragraph too..."
"..."
"When the servants of the mansion went to look at it, two cows in the cowshed died, and even a hole was missing in the courtyard wall." The fat man was still a little terrified when he thought of this incident at this moment, and said in horror: "A servant said When I got up at night, I saw that the cowshed was full of flames, and a thunderbolt fell from the sky, splitting the courtyard wall, and the two cows were also taken away by God... "
"Xiaomin swears that in the future, he will eat fast, chant Buddha, build bridges and pave roads, and do more good things for the villagers. I just hope that God will see that Xiaomin has the old and the young, and don't send down thunder..."
Liu Yuanwai knelt in the yard, kowtowing non-stop. Thinking about the movement last night, he was also frightened to death, and he was frightened at that embarrassing moment. Whether he can have a happy life in the future is also a question.
"It's definitely gunpowder." Li Yi turned to look at Li Mingzhu and whispered.
Her Royal Highness pressed the center of her eyebrows, and looked at Li Yi with extremely complicated eyes.
He just said yesterday that from the perspective of so-called "probability", someone will discover the mystery of gunpowder in a day or a few decades. possibility.
"Look at what I do, it's not me who did it."
Li Mingzhu glanced at him. Of course she knew that it was not Li Yi who did it. No one could come out when the city gate was closed at night. Moreover, he could offer the formula without any selfishness, and he had no grievances or enmities with this Liu Yuanwai, so there was no need to do it. something like this.
The current plan is to find someone who knows the formula of gunpowder as soon as possible. If someone uses it, the consequences will be disastrous.
"Think about it carefully, you have grudges with everyone on weekdays, don't miss any of them." Li Mingzhu looked at Yuanwai Liu and asked with a frown.
"No, no, Xiaomin has always kept himself safe and kind to others, and has no enemies." Liu Yuanwai shook his head with a puzzled expression on his face.
"That is to admit that the death of the two cows was your fault?" Her Royal Highness's face turned a little unhappy.
"Zhang Yuanwai from the neighboring village had a quarrel with Xiaomin last year because of the ownership of a piece of land. I'm afraid he has always held a grudge."
"Liu Ergou, he is a farmer in the village, and he has always had a grudge against Xiaomin."
"To be honest, he ran into an affair with the cripple next door, Mrs. Liu's aunt, a few days ago. Although I paid him the usual money, I always feel that the way he looks at Xiaomin is weird these days..."
"..."
After being glanced at by Li Mingzhu, Liu Yuanwai's amnesia recovered immediately, and he began to talk endlessly.
Someone beside her had already memorized it all, and after a while, Member Liu said with a bitter face, "My lords, apart from these, Xiaomin really can't remember."
The person who took the record twitched the corners of his mouth. It was written on the paper that there were already more than twenty names.
"Master, the third lady hasn't eaten since yesterday. The cook brought the food over just now, but the third lady still didn't move. No matter how much we persuaded her..." A round-faced girl ran in from the door, Said that when he saw a few people wearing official costumes in the room, he immediately froze there.
Li Yi felt in his heart that this third lady might also be a person with a story.
But in this era, there are many such things. The orders of parents and the words of matchmakers are everything. The probability of a woman marrying a good man. Low ones can be ignored.
Member Liu laughed dryly, and said, "I made the two adults laugh. The third wife, Xiaomin, has been in Goulan for a long time. She just entered the mansion yesterday, so she may not be used to it. Xiaomin will gradually train her in the future."
"Goulan?" Li Yi and Li Mingzhu looked over at the same time.