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  Chapter 201 Illegal Salt

  Tan Yicheng was so frightened that he trembled all over, knelt on the ground and buried his head tightly, not daring to speak.

   Seeing this scene, Chu Nanzhi first asked calmly: "Lord Yi Cheng, where did you get the salt for cooking for everyone today?"

  Tan Yicheng raised his head submissively, and replied without thinking: "Of course it was sent by Yandao Yamen."

  Afterwards, he deliberately turned his attention to Kang Mingyuan, and emphasized: "Master County Magistrate, this salt was transferred from the salt storehouse by the salt magistrate himself and delivered to all levels of the county government. There will be no difference."

  Kang Mingyuan nodded deliberately: That's true, the Yanling officer was replaced only last month, no matter how negligent this person is, he dare not slack off the affairs of the yamen.

Seeing that Hu Maoxi hadn't come back, Kang Mingyuan had no choice but to report back to Lin Jinxiao: "The salt in the salt depot is all brought back from the government's salt field in Sanghai Sea, so it cannot be faked, and the salt used by the yamen at all levels in the county has been carefully checked. , no one dares to do anything."

   "What does Master Yikang mean, are we deliberately making trouble here and spreading rumors?"

  Lin Jinxiao's face was cold, as far as he could see out of the corner of his eye, the yamen servants were rushing back and forth, looking for the huts.

  It is simply inappropriate for such a thing to happen in the majestic county government office.

  Looking at Li Sanmu, who was just clutching his stomach and abdominal pain, Lin Jinxiao ordered in a stern voice: "Go and bring over the food you didn't eat and let Mr. Kang inspect it himself."

  Li Sanmu was about to turn around, Kang Mingyuan looked very annoyed, and stopped him with deep annoyance: "No need."

   Then he looked at Lin Jinxiao, and vowed: "Your envoy, I will investigate strictly and give you a satisfactory explanation."

   After finishing speaking, he stared back at Yi Cheng angrily, and shouted: "Hurry up and call all the cooks and handymen who are cooking today, and I will strictly interrogate each of them."

  Tan Yicheng responded and left, and not long after, he brought a total of six cooks and handymen from the back kitchen of the post house.

  Kang Mingyuan pointed at a few people, and began to curse out of embarrassment: "You idiots, tell me the truth, how did the food in the posthouse be prepared today?"

  The head chef was terrified by his scolding, and he replied tremblingly: "The small ones are all made according to Master Yicheng's orders. Every dish is carefully cooked, and I dare not slack off."

"fart."

Kang Mingyuan was so anxious that he cursed and cursed: "Please show me that these distinguished guests from Luyan Port feel uncomfortable after eating the food at today's post house. You still dare to quibble. If you don't invite the truth, I will definitely kill you." You were beaten to pieces."

Seeing everyone who was at a loss and was scared out of their wits, the chief secretary Tan Miao reminded him: "Did some of you steal some shoddy private salt from the market? If it is true that this official is involved in the first crime, he can ask the county magistrate for a lighter sentence, otherwise, once found out, he will be punished as the serious crime of murdering a court official."

  The six people heard the words and began to look at each other.

  Chu Nanzhi glanced casually, and found that the guy who was talking had a white hair on the back of his head, missing a poke of hair, which was very abrupt.

At this time, I don't have the time to appreciate it. Hearing these people mention private salt, she also wants to see what the private salt mentioned by these people looks like. By the way, let's see what the number one litigator in Haikang County has. This matter can judge the person who adulterated salt.

   I saw his sinister eyes passing slowly in front of everyone like a blade, and wherever he went, everyone was frightened and dared not look directly at him.

   "It's still too late to confess, murdering a court official is a serious crime that loses one's head."

  Tan Miao threatened while examining the crowd: "This officer keeps his word. As long as you are willing to confess your mistakes truthfully, I will swear to the death and beg the county magistrate Paul to wait for his life."

After such enlightenment with kindness and power, when his eyes looked at the burly chef Chen Wu again, the man immediately lowered his head and replied in horror: "It's a small carelessness. A batch of illicit salt found by Mr. Zhu last month was put into the meals."

   "Illegal salt discovered by the magistrate?"

   Tan Miao asked in surprise.

  His reminder, Kang Mingyuan immediately reacted: "Last month, Zhu Xianzheng did find out a batch of crude illegal salt, so this official replaced the salt officer."

   As he spoke, he glared majesticly at the chef, and reprimanded loudly: "Chen Wu, you are so courageous, you dare to hide inferior private salt in the post house, what do you want?"

  Chen Wu replied tremblingly: "Reporting to the county magistrate, the small one is just a momentary negligence, because the new salt has just arrived in the past few days, and there is some confusion in the treasury, and there is no time to deal with the last batch of illegal salt."

   "Can you show me the misplaced private salt?"

  Chu Nanzhi interrupted the chef.

  As soon as she finished speaking, Kang Mingyuan yelled, "Go soon."

Waiting for the chef to fetch the misplaced private salt, Chu Nanzhi took the pot of private salt in his hand and looked at it carefully, then stuck some seemingly normal private salt with his fingers and touched it to his tongue to taste. As Ma Laifu said, there is indeed a strong bitter taste mixed with the salty taste.

  It was only after repeated careful tasting, but I never smelled the faint rusty smell.

   This is surprising.

  Although I don’t understand the process of making salt, even if I eat inferior private salt, the adverse reactions will not be so bad. I am afraid that the only thing that can cause this series of bad reactions is industrial salt.

  Obviously, judging from the color, the salt in the hand is flawless and has a strong salty taste, like fine sand, which is very different from the gray and granular industrial salt.

  Just now I looked at Liu Shuyang and Li Ce's painful appearance. If they really took industrial salt, they would die if they took it for a long time, no matter how strong their bodies were, they would not last for a few months.

   "But how can industrial salt be produced in this era?"

  Chu Nanzhi silently wondered in her heart.

  She has no idea yet, and she can't connect this matter with Zhu Xiancheng's death.

  So the best way at the moment is to keep silent and not startle the snake.

She smiled and handed the salt jar back to Chen Wu, and said gently: "This salt is indeed crudely made, but it will not cause any serious problems. Thousands of people in this county can eat it. Let's eat it occasionally." No one could die last time."

Hearing the second part of her words, Kang Mingyuan was so frightened that his whole face turned black, and he quickly argued: "Miss Chu, don't talk nonsense, the county's salt production is related to people's livelihood, and this official has always been strict. Supervised and guarded, but villains are hard to guard against, there are always some unscrupulous people who secretly produce shoddy private salt and flow it into the market, and this official is also very distressed by this."

   "What your lord said is very true."

  Chu Nanzhi smirked and said: "Since the matter has been investigated clearly, then I will stop bothering the two adults. The women have to prepare to confront the Lord Registrar in court tomorrow, ha ha."

   "I will wait for Mrs. Chu in court tomorrow."

   Tan Miao replied calmly, but he didn't believe that this woman could really disprove the facts he deduced.

  (end of this chapter)