Chapter 941 From Subei
The man lay on the ground and dared not look up.
When he heard Lord Zhong call this man "Prince", he couldn't believe it. He actually met the Prince?
But Lord Zhong certainly wouldn't dare to joke about such things, so he now felt a sense of fear, as if he would not be punished by the prince if he didn't look up at Zhou Shiyue.
"I, I saved an old man a few days ago. He saw that I was so poor that I could hardly make ends meet, so he gave me some change and said that he wanted to do a good deed and asked me to help him."
"He said he accidentally discovered a valley where there was a hillside blocking the snow and a hot spring nearby, so there were a lot of wild vegetables growing near the hot spring."
"He said that with the natural disaster, many people would not have enough vegetables to eat, so he asked people to dig up those wild vegetables, and I ran errands for him to deliver these wild vegetables. I was afraid that others would not believe such a good thing, so I just charged a copper coin and treated it as selling vegetables."
"He gave me this copper coin. When the matter is done, he will give me another five taels of silver. This cotton jacket I am wearing was given by him."
"Sir! I really thought this was a good thing. I even picked those who were really in poverty to sell wild vegetables to. As for those who came into the city halfway, they just sold them when they saw them."
For those whose conditions seemed good, he was just greedy and sold them at a high price.
I thought that if I collected a little more, the old man wouldn't know about it.
Unexpectedly, after these people entered Shuning City, they had money to stay in an inn and to hire a doctor, but they did not die of illness at home, which immediately alarmed the officials.
Zhou Shiyue and Lord Zhong looked at each other.
"You mean, the old man originally just asked you to give these wild vegetables to the poor people?"
"Yes, that's what he said..."
But he became greedy for a moment and sold some to rich people.
"What's the old man's name? Where is he?"
"I don't know. He didn't tell me, so I just called him uncle. He didn't say where he was from, but I've been to Subei, and I always felt that his accent sounded a bit like Subei."
"Where did you go to dig the wild vegetables?"
"I didn't go to dig them. He had someone dig them and put them on the other side of the mountain road, and I went to get them. We agreed to deliver them once every three days, and now I have delivered them three times. I should have gone to get wild vegetables again today, but when I went there, there was no one there, and I met the officials, so I was arrested..."
Lord Zhong said, "I had someone check the food scraps and found something similar to vegetables, but nowadays even the rich families in the city have difficulty getting fresh vegetables to eat, so where do the poor people get their vegetables from?"
"So I guessed it might be wild vegetables, and wild vegetables must be dug outside the city and in the mountains. Although I thought the weather was incredible, I still had people keep an eye on people entering and leaving the city gate, and I caught this person..."
Zhou Shiyue nodded.
"Have you sent someone to look for the old man?"
"I have seen people who match the description entering and leaving the city gates in the past few days. I suspect he has already left Shuning."
After discovering that so many people were sick and died and alerting the government, the old man left, so no poisonous food was sent to the man today.
"grown ups!"
There was a young officer coming over from outside.
He saw Zhou Shiyue and was stunned for a moment.
Zhou Shiyue also recognized him. This was the Man who was acquainted with Lu Song.
"What's the matter?"
"I remember one thing. Three days ago, an old man left the city. He was quite tall and his steps were steady, so I had some impression of him."
The man kneeling on the ground quickly shouted.
"Yes, yes, that uncle is quite tall. He is old, but he still looks very strong."
Xiaoman said, "That man was still leading a horse out of the city. The saddle was black. I saw a jade pendant on his waist. It was a knife-shaped jade with a green tassel."
"Yes, yes, yes! There is such a knife-shaped jade pendant!" the kneeling man shouted again.
Zhou Shiyue glanced at him with disdain.
"You remember it so carefully?"
Xiaoman said a little embarrassedly, "I am guarding the city gate, so I usually observe more. When you asked me about it before, I didn't remember it at the moment. As soon as I remembered it just now, I hurried over to tell you."
He paused for a moment, and couldn't help but add, "I just remembered this because I saw a soldier from Shaguan City riding away on a horse. The horse also had a black saddle."
Zhou Shiyue raised his eyebrows, knowing that he was probably talking about Lu Anfan.
"Do you know where the old man went?"
"I don't know, but I think that person has a Subei accent. Maybe he went to Subei?"
"Right, right, right! Right?" The kneeling man shouted again, "I just said it has a Subei accent!"
Zhou Shiyue had some idea in his mind.
Subei.
Maybe something happened in Subei, so he reached out to Shu Ningcheng.
After Xiaoman and the man were taken away, Zhou Shiyue looked at the poisonous vegetables on the table and started to wrap them up.
"Your Majesty?"
"Do you know where these things were dug from?"
"I was just thinking of sending someone to check, but it's snowing hard right now, so it's difficult to find such a place in the mountains outside the city."
Lord Zhong said this very honestly.
"Then I will take these things away. I will have people find a place to destroy these poisonous vegetables. You should continue to pay attention to the conditions of those patients."
"Yes."
Lord Zhong didn't know how Prince Jin would find that place, but he felt that Prince Jin was confident about it.
He couldn't help but think, Prince Jin is really amazing, why do others insist on saying that he is a playboy?
In fact, what Zhou Shiyue was thinking at this time was——
Lu Yiyi's little paper crane will definitely come in handy.
If the little paper crane is of no use, his ghost father can also float to the mountains to look for it, right?
Anyway, he has use for both humans and ghosts.
"Does this Shu Ningcheng have any special effect on Subei?" Zhou Shiyue suddenly asked.
"What I mean is, a constraint, or a way out?"
Lord Zhong thought for a long time, and suddenly a person's name inexplicably popped up in his mind.
He moved his mouth but didn't dare to say anything.
What does the prince mean by asking this? It's impossible that he is really asking that person, right?
Zhou Shiyue glanced at him.
"Have you met Zhou Yi?"
hiss!
Lord Zhong immediately bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me!"
I didn’t expect that the prince was really asking this person?
Zhou Shiyue didn't expect that when he asked that question, Zhong Chuang would immediately think of Zhou Yi.
What does this mean? It means that Lord Zhong had met Zhou Yi, and when he met him, Lord Zhong had some guesses in his mind.
They are all smart people, there is no need to explain it so clearly.
If Zhou Shiyue had not saved Lord Zhong before, Lord Zhong would not have dared to show that reaction just now.
When he said "Your Highness, please forgive me", he was admitting that he had indeed met Zhou Yi and was thinking of Zhou Yi.