peasant girl wedding

Chapter 270
The emperor asked the three ministers to pass the box containing the salt.

The three ministers looked at each other, wiped the eyes in the box with their index fingers at the same time, put it in their mouths, tasted it, and exclaimed, "Salty?"

"It smells like fine salt!"

"It really turns coarse salt into fine salt!"

The three of you said what I said.

Everyone in the hall breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and after a while, the pot suddenly exploded.

"Coarse salt has become fine salt. From now on, we all have enough salt to eat."

"Yeah yeah."

"This woman is really amazing. I thought she was just talking about it, but I didn't expect it to be true."

"........."

The people in the hall were discussing a lot, and in the hall, the emperor and the three ministers were also excited.

"Your Majesty, my wife has the courage to ask the emperor to release my wife's husband. My wife promises that I will make all the salt needed by the soldiers on the frontier."

"Okay, I agree."

The purpose of punishing Jili was originally to appease the border soldiers and give them an explanation.

Now that Tong Zhi'er's method of refining coarse salt is available, firstly, it solves the problem of border soldiers eating salt, secondly, it also saves the financial expenditure of the empire, and thirdly, all the people of the empire will benefit from it.

The emperor was naturally happy to agree to Tong Zhi'er's request.

"However, he made a mistake this time, and I still want to punish him."

Tong Zhi'er looked nervously at the emperor.

The emperor bowed his hands, and the officials immediately removed the shackles on Ji Li's body.

"Ji Li."

"The minister is here."

"You still go to Wuzhou City to deal with the things I told you before. Besides, find out where the gold mine is."

"The minister obeys the order."

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A punishment finally passed without any risk.

In the evening, everyone in the Duke's Mansion gathered in the dining room.

"Grandmother, father, mother, Erniang," Tong Zhi'er looked at the crowd and suddenly knelt on the ground.

"Zhi'er, what are you doing? Get up quickly!" the second lady said urgently.

Tong Zhi'er shook his head, "During the day, I made my own decisions in the court, and almost caused the entire Duke's mansion to suffer with me. It was my fault."

The old lady stood up, walked in front of Tong Zhi'er, and helped her up, "Silly boy, is it a blessing or a curse, a disaster can't be avoided, now, aren't we all fine?"

"grandmother………"

"Okay, don't talk about it. Ah Li has nothing to do now, so don't mention it in the future. Now that you are pregnant, you can't just kneel down. It's not good for the child."

"Yes, Zhi'er." The eldest lady came over, took her hand, and helped her to sit on the chair.

"Zhi'er, if it's because of you this time, if it wasn't for you, Ah Li would have gone to Mobei, this glass of wine is for you."

Holding the wine glass, Ji Chang said suddenly.

Tong Zhier quickly stood up and returned with tea.

The whole family ate together and said a few more words, Tong Zhi'er and Ji Li went back to the house to rest.

Early the next morning, Ji Li took his troops to Wuzhou.

Tong Zhi'er stayed in the Duke's mansion and gave the method of making fine salt from coarse salt and brine to the person sent by the emperor. Three months later, the husband and wife met again in Wuzhou City.

When Ji Li received the news, he was terrified.

"Zhi'er, why did you come here all of a sudden?"

Ji Li hurriedly stepped forward, and carefully supported Tong Zhi'er.

At this time, Tong Zhi'er was already seven months pregnant, and her belly was very bulging.

Ji Li frowned, thinking: How could parents and grandmother let Tong Zhi'er go on the road alone?

Seeing his worry and impatience, Tong Zhi'er said with a smile: "I must come, I am worried that you are alone in Wuzhou."

Ji Li nodded, and helped her walk into the house.

The surrounding security is more stringent than before. After the last hijacking incident, Ji Li will not let Tong Zhier be kidnapped again this time.

Ji Li helped Tong Zhi'er to sit down on the soft couch, and asked her about her situation in the capital in the past few months.

"After I taught the people sent by the emperor how to make salt, I reopened the rouge shop in the capital. With the funds, Er Niang's Yipinju was also redeemed. How about you? Sample?"

"Wang San has been arrested and brought to justice, and I have also found the gold mine."

Tong Zhi'er nodded and asked, "The people in the village..."

"It was Wang San who committed the crime. The people in the village didn't know about it. I won't blame them."

Tong Zhier breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that she looked tired, Ji Li asked someone to bring in hot water, Tong Zhi'er washed up, and lay down on the bed.

After lying down and waking up again, it was already dark.

A girl waiting outside heard the voice, quickly entered inside, and asked: "Madam is awake, but do you want tea?"

Tong Zhi'er nodded, took the teacup handed over by the girl, and took a sip, "Where's your husband?"

"Your Excellency has gone to work outside and hasn't come back yet."

"Okay, you go ahead and wait. If your lord comes back, come and tell me right away."

"Yes, ma'am."

Tong Zhi'er turned over and got out of bed, and sat down at the table after finishing dressing.

After about a stick of incense, there was a sound of footsteps outside, Tong Zhi'er got up to open the door, just in time to see the little girl who was rushing this way.

"Is the adult back?"

The girl nodded, "Yes Ma'am."

"Come on, you go to the front hall with me."

The girl closed the door and followed behind Tong Zhi'er.

In the front hall, everyone looked solemn.

Hearing footsteps, Ji Li turned around, smiled at her, and waved to everyone.

Everyone retreated quickly, leaving only Ji Li and Tong Zhi'er in the front hall.

"Why don't you sleep for a while?"

Ji Li stepped forward and held Tong Zhi'er's hand.

"When I wake up, I can't sleep. Have you eaten?"

Ji Li shook his head.

Tong Zhi'er immediately ordered the food to be prepared, and the husband and wife ate together in the dining room.

"My lord, Wang San said that he has something important to see your lord."

Tong Zhi'er was making soup for Ji Li when the urgent voice of the yamen came from outside.

"It's important, you go."

Tong Zhier said.

Ji Li gave her an apologetic look, put down the bowl, and quickly left the room.

.........

In the dark cell, Wang San had a gloomy expression on his face.

"Ji Li, you followed me!"

He looked at the person coming, gritted his teeth and said.

Ji Li raised his eyebrows expressionlessly, "It's only because you're not vigilant enough."

Wang San bit his lower lip stubbornly, with a look of hatred on his face.

"What do you want?"

Ji Li raised his hand, and soon, the yamen who followed him retreated.

"As far as I know from my investigation, the gold mine dug in your village was controlled by the King of Shu. He had long wanted to rebel and found out that there was a gold mine here. He ignored your life and death and decided to mine the gold mine. It's just that he didn't expect that an expert would help you and set up formations around the village to prevent the king of Shu from finding the gold mine. He postponed the original plan and recharged his energy for many years. He didn't start until last year thing."

Wang San lowered his head, Ji Li could only see his chin, and continued, "However, there is one thing I don't understand. The King of Shu is dead, so what's the use of the 10 taels?"

"What's the use? Ji Li, I'll make an exchange with you. If you let the people in the village go, I'll tell you."

Ji Li nodded.

"The king of Shu is very cunning. If I hadn't noticed it long ago, I'm afraid I would have been kept in the dark by him at this time."

Ji Li was confused, "What do you mean by that?"

Wang San looked at him and smiled maliciously, "Do you think the man who was escorted back to Beijing is the real King of Shu?"

"Isn't it?" Ji Li asked back.

Wang San laughed, but there was no smile in his eyes, "Of course not. As early as many years ago, the King of Shu found a person who was in the same shape and appearance as him. The two were so similar that many times Even the subordinates of the King of Shu can't tell who is the real King of Shu. The one you captured is just his substitute."

Ji Li pursed his lips tightly, shocked.

If this is the case, the King of Shu's mind is too terrifying.

It is not a good thing for an ambitious person to have such careful planning and insight.

"Where is the real King of Shu at this moment?"

"Where is it, only I know. If you let me go, I will take you there and take down the King of Shu in one fell swoop." Wang San said in a deep voice.

Ji Li stared at him closely, not letting go of the slightest expression change on his face.

"Why should I believe that you are not a spy?"

Ji Li said coldly.

Wang San looked at him, and said expressionlessly: "Go back and ask Tong Zhi'er, and you will know the mortal enmity between me and the King of Shu."

.........

Ji Li pushed open the closed door, still thinking about what Wang San said along the way.

"You're back."

Tong Zhi'er was very happy to see him, got up carefully, took a piece of casual clothes and walked over to change for him.

"Zhi'er, when you were in that village, did you find any relatives of Wang San?"

"Wang San has an older sister. Seeing Wang San's attitude towards her, they are very close."

"Do you remember what that man looked like?"

Tong Zhi'er described it a bit, and Ji Li secretly remembered that on the second day, someone went to the village and arranged for Sister Wang to another secret place.

You can't believe what Wang San says, it's best if what he says is true, if it's a lie, with Sister Wang in hand, it's easy to restrain him.

After finishing these things, Ji Li ordered Wang San to be released from the dungeon.

…………

With Wang San's assistance, it only took Ji Li two months to catch the Shu king who was conspiring with others.

The news was urgently sent to the capital eight hundred miles away, and the emperor was extremely shocked.

Quickly send people from the capital to bring the real King of Shu to the capital.At the same time, Jili was also rewarded.

In the following time, Ji Li was not idle. He led his people to search the inside and outside of Wuzhou City to make sure that there was no residual power of the King of Shu, so he was relieved.

Wang San made great achievements in the process of arresting the king of Shu this time, which offset his previous crimes, so Ji Li released him.

Because of the previous agreement with Wang San, no one would be stationed in the village to guard the villagers.

However, the gold mine here is what the emperor asked him to protect.

Ji Li wrote a letter of suspension, requesting the emperor to move all the villagers in the village to other places. In this way, the conflict with Wang San is gone, and he can also act according to the emperor's order, killing two birds with one stone.

(End of this chapter)