Dali Temple Small Dining Room 2

Chapter 314 Steamed Pork Ribs with Black Bean Sauce ([-])
"When did this tummy trouble start, because I didn't pay attention to it, it's not easy to find out, but it's intermittent, it's clear, but it started again in a few days, it's really puzzling." Wei Wei Fu said, "Coincidentally, there was a man in the neighbor who had a stomachache together. He was going to the nearby Xianyang for a few days. The whole family resting at home is even better, and it was only after smelling that I realized that he hadn’t had a stomachache in the past two days when he was out, so I knew the problem must be the food in his mouth.”

Because of doubts about food in the market, the neighborhood family hardly ate anything from the market in the past few days. All they ate was porridge made from rice at home. This stored food was grown by the old parents in Xianyang. After the man returned to Xianyang, he also ate the food stored in the old parents' house, which was produced in the same field, which shows that there is no problem with the food.

In this way...the only problem is water, but why is there a problem with this water?It is not surprising that a family was drugged in the well, but many people in Chang'an City were recruited, even those rich and powerful families who had guards patrolling day and night would also be recruited. Could it be that the guards at home Can all the family members eat dry rice?

What kind of drug-prescribing thieves have such supernatural powers that they can attack the whole city?

"It's true that there are culprits, but the culprits didn't administer the medicine themselves," Wei Fu smiled wryly, shook his head, and said, "It's not others who prescribe the medicine, but the people themselves."

The water that the people in Chang’an City drank was all well water. After a small-scale epidemic caused by the unclean water in the well a few years ago, the government has always attached great importance to this. Every few months, it will go door-to-door to distribute dogwood leaves, realgar Things like alum were thrown into the well water to keep the well water clean.

"A few days ago, the government happened to distribute a batch of water purification products," Wei Fu said, "and sent them to every household for the common people to purify their own water."

"It seems that my family threw alum and other things to purify the water in the well water in the backyard before my family had a stomachache," Wei Fu said here, and couldn't help laughing bitterly, "Although the water purifying things are stained with medicine, the amount of medicine is shallow due to the large amount of well water. Even if all the food we eat in a day comes from the well water, nothing serious will happen. It seems that I spend most of the day in the yamen, and I only drink a few cups of tea at home. I can't feel anything."

In this way...some circumstances that seemed strange at first can be explained.

"The common people have a stomachache, and Dr. Xun prescribes medicine. Because they suspect that they have eaten something bad, they are more careful about the food they eat. While checking and careful about the food, at the same time..." Wei Fu said here, helped He raised his forehead, sighed, and said, "Throwing more things to purify the water into the well water, so... the laxative properties that had faded in the well increased again, and this cycle went on and on again and again. , the stomachache has been intermittent, non-stop!"

Wei Fu nodded, looked at the "really so" expressions on Lin Fei and Bai Zhu's faces, and said again: "I don't dare to hesitate after hearing this. The scene in the house is about to change, so naturally I immediately gave money to the handyman, and went into the steward's house to have a look."

"I found out that the person in charge of this matter was a steward surnamed Niu from the Internal Affairs Office, so I went to pay a visit," Wei Fu said, looking at the crowd, his face slightly condensed, "unfortunately, I heard that a few days ago , this manager Niu has something to ask for leave and returned to his hometown."

Therefore, the common people suspect that the water is unclean, so that they try to purify the water, but they don't know that the real source is the water purification products distributed by the government.

It seems that there is a faint hand that merged the two seemingly irrelevant cases.

so coincidental?One of the stewards of the internal affairs yamen involved committed suicide, and the steward Niu returned home on leave?
Years of experience in handling cases let Wei Fu know that there must be something wrong with this matter, but Guan Niu's affairs are not like Guan Mao's. With Feng Tong's body and the old city order's confession, he can directly let the people in the yamen go there. After the results of the water thing investigation came out, the Yamen of Dali Temple could make a move.

So... Wei Fu put away the water purifiers distributed by the government at home, and prepared to send them to Dali Temple to find someone for inspection, and at the same time, he tracked down the person who distributed the water purifiers.

Once the source was found, it was easy. Wei Fu no longer asked his family members to throw water purifiers into the well, and sure enough, he didn't have any stomach troubles since last night.

Although the yamen of Dali Temple could not be allowed to take action, this trip was not in vain. Wei Fu spent some money to manage the servants of the internal affairs yamen, but those servants took him directly into the courtyard where Steward Niu lived.

Hearing this, Wei Fu's heart skipped a beat, and a subtle feeling arose spontaneously, and he immediately asked who the "housemates" who were the housekeepers and stewards were, and as expected, when he heard the name of the "housemates", , Wei Fu's heart froze for a moment.

The two stewards of the internal affairs yamen were allocated a courtyard, but steward Niu was assigned to one. It wasn't that steward Niu was so powerful, but that the "housemates" who lived with him had moved out.

Liu Yuan couldn't help but snorted coldly when he said the words "I'm afraid the room will have a different scene if I go in next time".

"The people who deliver the clean water to the door to door are all government servants and Lizheng. There are too many and mixed people, and there are people from all over the world who have troubles. It is impossible to buy them all." Wei Fu Said, "So, I think most of the problem lies in the source of this thing."

"The water purification products distributed by the official yamen to the common people are provided by the yamen of internal affairs," Wei Fu said, looking at Liu Yuan and the others whose expressions changed slightly, and nodded with a delicate tone, "It's the yamen of internal affairs again."

Hearing what Wei Fu said, and seeing the expression on Wei Fu's face, Liu Yuan, who was the most impatient, blurted out immediately: "The housemate is none other than the dead Guan Mao, right?"

The death of Guan Mao is so strange that Lao Wei's worry may really come true.

"Boss Niu's house is very clean. The money and daily clothes are taken away, but the bed quilts are still neatly stacked in the house. This is very similar to 'going home to visit relatives'." It matches." Wei Fu said, "Seeing that the furnishings in the house are tidy and tidy, this steward Niu seems to be a well-organized person, and this has also been confirmed by the handyman, and this steward Niu doesn't like people to help him clean the house. , Most of the cleaning in the house is done by myself, even if someone does it occasionally, I will watch from the side, meticulous and cautious."

Just such a meticulous and prudent person who kept the house spotless left something in the house.

Wei Fu pointed to the charcoal basin with a lot of ashes left in front of Lin Fei, and said, "This is left in the Steward Niu's house."

(End of this chapter)