Chapter 252 Broken Words

Zhang Qian and Gan Lin were obviously not interested in investigating the case, mainly because they thought it was a waste of time. When they came here and saw that Shen Hao couldn't get anything out of his mouth, they lost interest. After chatting for a few words, they left the camp of the Black Flag Camp. He sent the two guides from the guard over there.

The two guides are locals in the neighborhood. After I introduced myself, I found out that one of them is a shopkeeper who goes from village to household, wandering around these ten miles and eight villages all day long. The other is the head of the village next door, and his wife is from the vegetable garden, so he walks with the vegetable garden frequently, and knows everything about the village, big and small.

These two people were questioned by Wei Shu once before, but now they saw the black robe, and they became nervous again. They had also heard of Xuan Qingwei, which was much more terrifying than Wei Shu.

The guards and yamen will try to reason with you anyway, but Xuan Qingwei is said to never be unreasonable.

"Don't be afraid, just say what you ask, understand?"

"Ming, understand!"

The two of them nodded their heads, and stood obediently in the corner of the tent with their shoulders shrunk, not daring to lift their heads.

"How many people are there in Caiyuanzhuang? What do you mainly do for a living?" Holding a cup of tea, Shen Hao asked the basics first.

"If you go back to your lord, there are about a hundred households in Caiyuanzhuang, and there are more than four hundred people, right? I don't know the exact number."

"Most of them are farmers. There are a few hunters, blacksmiths, and stonemasons. By the way, in the past two years, the yamen has advocated the construction of fish ponds, saying that it is faster to get money than farming. fishpond."

Shen Hao asked again: "Is there anything different in Vegetable Garden in the past six months? No matter what, you can talk about it as long as you can think of it."

"." The two shook their heads sadly. It should be that the guards had asked this question before.

Seeing this, Shen Hao shook his head. The two of them were obviously absent-minded, so it was easy to miss many details. After thinking about it, he waved his hand and took out a handful of scattered silver from the storage bag, about seven or eight taels.

"In this way, the silver here is my reward, but if you want to get it in exchange for a weird incident in the vegetable garden, you say, I will give one piece if I think it is appropriate. Anyone of you who thinks of it can just say it, repeat it It doesn't count."

Seven or eight taels of silver is not too much, and it is not too much. The two of them didn't expect it to be profitable? Get excited right away. Scratching his head and scratching his head, he desperately thought.

"My lord, I...I think of one!"

"explain."

"There are more daughters than sons in Caiyuanzhuang. There seems to be a saying that no matter where the women conceive, 70% are girls and 30% are boys."

This... can be regarded as a strange thing!

Shen Hao picked up a piece of broken silver and threw it over, the other party caught it and his eyes lit up, unexpectedly, this lord really gave it!

Looking at the silver left on the table, the two of them were extremely hot-eyed. After all, if even the gossip about having a boy and a girl counts, then there is too much to say.

"My lord! I remembered it too! The land property in the Vegetable Garden has always been 20 to 30% lower than that of other Zhuangzi. It is obviously the same soil and the same planting method, but it is worse than other places. It is said that the land is different. good."

All kinds of inexplicable "gossip" were scrambled by the two people. If the money on the table hadn't disappeared in the end, the two people would have been able to talk until dark. Just this one person divided three or four taels of silver, and the expression on his face was still unsatisfactory.

"Also, my lord, I remembered another one!" The money was gone, but the two of them had already regarded the generous Lord Xuan Qingwei in front of them as a good person, and they continued to talk about another thing: "At the beginning of the month, we talked about the vegetable garden village. Some people over there said that there was an earthquake, and several old houses in the village were cracked. But no earthquake was felt at all other than their village."

Earthquake? It's another name for an earthquake. However, this kind of thing is usually reported by local yamen, and it will also be mentioned in the official newspaper. But Shen Hao didn't miss every issue of the official newspaper, but he didn't find any news about the earthquake in Tukui City.

And how big is a Zhuangzi? When the earthquake comes, it will not only shake you, how can you not feel it elsewhere?

Or is it that the people from Vegetable Garden are lying? But what about motivation? There is still a crack in the house, and the evidence is there, so I won't just talk nonsense.

Or is this person in front of me lying? That's not right, this kind of thing can't keep the fire, and you can find out if there is any gossip about "earthquake" in Caiyuanzhuang after a little verification.

or is that.really?

Seeing that the two had nothing to say, Shen Hao waved them away.

"Look for someone to go to the surrounding villages and ask more people, whether there was really an earthquake in Caiyuanzhuang at the beginning of the month, and whether there were really cracks in the houses. It is best to see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears. The Zhuang people said."

Yang Ming nodded yes, and then went down to run an errand. He is familiar with local snakes here, and there are still a few people in his hands who can command him, so there is no need for Shen Hao to make other arrangements.

After thinking for a while, Shen Hao asked Wang Yiming to find someone from the Heiqi camp who had studied geography to see if there was really a problem with the geography of Caiyuanzhuang.

From others' point of view, Shen Hao's question and answer with the two guides just now was just slobber, and most of them were completely meaningless. Is it necessary to investigate similar rural gossip? Even Wang Yiming, who had always been in awe of Shen Hao, once again felt that his Shangfeng was messing around again.

But who dares to give Shen Hao an opinion face to face? Mr. Shen got promoted all the way by investigating cases and beheading people. Who in the Jingxi area can compare to him in the reputation of investigating cases? Only when you are crazy will you want to teach Mr. Shen how to do things. It's enough to say a few words in your heart, and you still have to follow Mr. Shen to do what you should do.

Soon, Wang Yiming called over the two people who were best at geophysics in the black flag battalion of Qianhusuo, and first looked at the military-level topographic map around Caiyuanzhuang.

"My lord, just looking at the picture, Caiyuanzhuang is surrounded by hills on three sides, and one side faces south. The mountains on both wings are neither high nor low, just to get Caiyuanzhuang in the middle, which is a very good auspicious wing.

The terrain here is very good! "

After one person finished speaking, the other nodded again and again, expressing that it was the first time he had seen such a superior geography.

The terrain is very good? Shen Hao was quite surprised.

"This place has a good location, will there be more boys and girls or less food production?" Shen Hao still asked the doubts in his heart.

"No. My lord, such a superior geography is rare. Living here is definitely a blessing for many children, and everything is full of vitality. If what you said is true, it will definitely not be caused by the influence of the geography. "

"That's right, my lord. It's actually a waste to use this kind of land for Zhuangzi's living people. Usually, this kind of land is used for large cemeteries."