The rural doctor bought a husband who was very treacherous

Chapter 232: Journey to Nanshan

There were no outsiders in the yard at this time, and the guards who carried the box left after putting it down.

Chunmei and the others were sent away early by Su Tang to rest.

Looking at the closed gate, Su Tang smiled and put all the boxes in the yard into the space.

"There shouldn't be any evidence among those properties, right?" Su Tang looked at Qi Yan and asked.

"No, they are just some ordinary belongings. The evidence is all in that box." Qi Yan was talking about the small box that he had just handed to Qi Lingheng.

Su Tang subconsciously patted the non-existent dust on her hands, yawned and said, "It's a little late today. We still have to go to Nanshan early tomorrow morning. You should also go to bed early."

Qi Yan bowed and clasped his fists, "Yes."

Qi Yan didn't ask Qi Lingheng any more questions. He bowed and turned away.

Su Tang hummed a little tune and returned to her room. Qi Lingheng in the room was still looking at the evidence.

"Aren't you going to sleep yet?" Su Tang walked to Qi Lingheng's side and glanced at the book he was reading.

Most of the records above are about what gifts were given to whom on that day, and each page is written neatly.

"You go to sleep first, I'll read for a while." Qi Lingheng put the book on the table, walked to the bed and made the bedding.

"Put those aside for now. Your method is too slow. I will be able to help you figure it out on the way to Nanshan tomorrow."

"Okay, tomorrow I can also learn from my wife how to calculate quickly." Qi Lingheng walked to the table again, put the booklet in the small box, and handed the box to Su Tang.

In his opinion, it is safest to put important things in Su Tang's space.

Su Tang smiled with curved eyebrows and kissed Qi Lingheng on the face, "Then let's go to bed."

She gained a lot of wealth today, and this kiss was a reward for Qi Lingheng.

"By the way, I forgot to ask just now, how is Magistrate Hong?" Su Tang took Qi Lingheng back to the space to wash up.

There are no hot springs at the Qi Mansion, so Su Tang doesn't want to trouble the servants to help boil water and move the water around. Besides, she is not used to using ancient bathtubs.

"Now that Prefect Hong has severed ties with the Song family, if you want to convict him, you'll have to look for evidence elsewhere." Prefect Hong could not be brought down based solely on what the Song family did on the street that day, which is why Prefect Hong acted so quickly to protect himself by killing his first wife who was related to the Song family.

"Please have someone keep the bodies of those people from the Song family. I have a way to find evidence that they didn't commit suicide." Su Tang is a modern doctor, so it is easy for her to find out whether someone committed suicide or was murdered.

Of course, the bodies cannot be left for too long. She will go to check them when she returns from Nanshan tomorrow.

Qi Lingheng didn't expect Su Tang to personally examine the corpse. He thought that Su Tang was going to use the items in the space to investigate, so he just responded lightly.

Afterwards, the two of them washed up, came out of the space and returned to Qi Mansion to rest.

Before going to bed, Qi Lingheng called a secret guard to deal with the bodies of the Song family.

Su Tang and her friends had a good night's sleep.

But in the backyard of the Yangzhou prefectural government office, Prefect Hong tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.

"Bang!" Prefect Hong kicked the beauty on the bed off. The beauty didn't expect that after being favored by Prefect Hong today, she was rejected by him before the night was over.

The beauty's forehead hit the wooden block under the bed, and she hissed in pain, but she had just been kicked off the bed roughly, so she knew the situation and didn't dare to cry or make a fuss.

They are all Yangzhou skinny horses who have been well trained since childhood. They know best how to please men. Of course, they also know that in this situation, their crying will only accelerate their pain.

"Someone come here!" Magistrate Hong sat on the edge of the bed and looked towards the door.

Soon, several men who looked like servants came in from outside the house.

They lowered their heads, waiting for Magistrate Hong's instructions.

"Take this woman back to her yard."

After hearing the order, the servant immediately entered the inner hall and dragged the disheveled woman on the ground out.

The woman was dragged by the servants but she did not struggle at all, instead she seemed relieved.

It seemed that her performance just now did not annoy Magistrate Hong, at least he did not beat her to death or sell her out again.

The candlelight in the room was flickering due to the wind blowing in from the door.

Prefect Hong sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the candle on the table for a long time.

Suddenly, he stood up, walked to the clothes rack, put on his clothes, and walked out of the room in the night.

Day two.

Su Tang and his group left Qi Mansion in a carriage.

After they left, a man in a corner outside the Qi Mansion pressed down his hat, stood up and followed them.

Nanshan is not far from Yangzhou City. After more than an hour, the carriage arrived at the foot of Nanshan.

However, the Nanshan mountain range is too vast, and it is impossible to visit all the temples and Taoist temples here in one day.

Fortunately, Su Tang and his group were not really here to visit the temple. After finding the largest temple here, Su Tang and his group gave some incense money and the temple arranged an independent courtyard for them.

"Miss, are we going to stay here tonight?" Because they came here, Su Tang and her group did not reveal their identities.

The temple just treated them as ordinary pilgrims, but Su Tang had just donated a lot of incense money, so they arranged a separate courtyard for them.

"This has not been decided yet. You guys should clean up the yard first. We will go to the back mountain for a walk. You guys don't have to follow us."

Qi Lingheng has Qi Yan and others by his side. Chunmei and the others also know that Qi Yan and others' martial arts are better than theirs and Xia Mei's. And with King Qi by Su Tang's side, they can rest assured.

Afterwards, Su Tang and Qi Lingheng took Qi Yan and several secret guards to the back mountain of the temple.

At first, when walking towards the back of the mountain, you can occasionally see a few pilgrims walking in the mountain to burn incense, but the further you go into the mountain, the fewer people you can see on the road.

Fortunately, there are small paths in the mountains, which should be the paths trampled by the monks in the temple.

"Okay, let's stay here." After making sure that there was no one around, Su Tang and the others stood in a relatively empty place.

Su Tang took out a drone and planned to use it to scan Nanshan first, so that they wouldn’t have to wander around in the mountains.

As the drone flew high into the sky, Su Tang and Qi Lingheng huddled together and looked at the images scanned back.

Soon Su Tang discovered a special place.

Judging from the visual images transmitted back, there was nothing special about the mountain. It was also lush and green with bamboo and other vegetation.

"Look, this place is empty. The image sent back by the mountain below is different from the place we just saw."

The drone in Su Tang's hand is a military one and can analyze the situation inside the mountain.

The equipment on the drone can scan where there are holes and where there are solid mountains.

Qi Lingheng and the others were no longer surprised by the equipment in Su Tang's hands. It was just that the functions of these devices were beyond their comprehension. They all listened to Su Tang's explanations like studious students.

After remembering the location of that place, Su Tang controlled the drone to fly to another place.

"This position is also empty." Su Tang saw another special deep scan image.

An hour later, the scanned images of the entire Nanshan Mountain were transmitted back, and Su Tang also retracted the drone.

She projected the image information sent back into the computer, and then they all saw the entire Nanshan situation from the computer.

"This should be a mineral vein." Su Tang pointed to several specially marked marks and analyzed them.

Among these special marks, some are huge holes, but in some places the holes are extremely small.

Judging from the image analysis, these holes were all artificially dug.

At that time, Dayong had not yet used gunpowder for mining, and all mining was done by manpower.

"With so many mines being dug, I'm afraid they have been doing it for several years or even more than ten years. Did you see that there is a small Taoist temple near each mine?"

Su Tang called up another image. This time the two images overlapped each other. On the underground picture, there were only a few yellow dots left in those specially marked places.

In another picture, there is a Taoist temple at the overlapping point, near or far.

"Disguising myself as a Taoist priest, I can save myself the trouble of shaving my head." The mouse in Su Tang's hand kept moving, and the image on the computer gradually enlarged, and the scenes of the Taoist temples appeared in front of everyone.

These Taoist temples all have one special feature, that is, there is almost no sign of incense burning in the temples.

You have to know that in the temple they came to today, there were many devout believers who came to burn incense, and the incense burner in front of the temple hall was constantly burning.

Therefore, judging from the popularity of incense, you can guess which temples or Taoist temples are fake.

"There aren't many people in these Taoist temples, probably because the mines nearby have been almost mined out, but I don't know why people are still staying here."

In Su Tang's opinion, if the mines here are gone, those small Taoist temples should be abandoned.

"Look, they have a lot of firewood piled up here." Qi Lingheng suddenly pointed to a place on the image.

Su Tang enlarged the image a little more and saw that there was indeed a lot of firewood stored in the Taoist temple.

This is even more strange. The temperature here in Yangzhou is not low, and it is spring now. If the Taoist temple wants to cook, how could it use so much firewood?

"I'll send them to take a look." Qi Lingheng planned to let the secret guards go to investigate.

"Okay, just take a look at the situation over there and don't alarm them."

Although she knew that these secret guards had learned these things since childhood, Su Tang still gave some advice.

"Yes." After hearing this, several secret guards clasped their fists in response.

"By the way, you guys should carry these with you." Suddenly, Su Tang had a few more black small objects that looked like buttons in her hand.

The secret guards didn't ask anything. Each of them took one and put it on their body. When they saw that Su Tang and the others didn't say anything else, they turned around and left quickly in several directions.

Looking at the secret guards who quickly disappeared, Su Tang sighed enviously, turned around and sat back in front of the computer.

Qi Lingheng knew what Su Tang's sigh just now meant. She also wanted to learn Qinggong, but Su Tang was already quite old and it was a little late for her to learn it now.

Of course, she can still learn some skills to strengthen her body.

"What did you just give them?" Qi Lingheng walked over and sat down next to Su Tang.

"Tracking locator. Look." Su Tang said, pointing at the computer screen.

When Qi Lingheng looked at it, he indeed saw a lot of small red dots moving on the screen.

The number of these red dots is consistent with the number of secret guards who just went out.

"You envy their kung fu, but in fact I envy the technological development in your world more." Qi Lingheng said as he looked at the rapidly moving red dot on the computer.

"Everything has its pros and cons. There was no Qinggong in our era."

In Su Tang's world, even if there are some people who are agile, they are people with good motor nerves. After acquired training, they are more agile than ordinary people.

Anyway, Su Tang had never seen anyone like the people in this world who could climb over eaves and walls and fly dozens of meters away with just a breath.

On the screen, the red dots quickly overlapped with the yellow marks on the original map.

After a while, the red marks quickly returned.

After making sure they were returning, Su Tang knew that they must have found out the news.

After all the secret guards came back, they told Su Tang and the others a shocking news.

Those places did stockpile a lot of firewood, but that was not what they were going to use. The Taoist temples were using the firewood to make charcoal.

"Sell it for money?" Qi Yan did not follow the secret guards to the Taoist temple to investigate. He stayed to protect Su Tang and the others.

"No, even in winter, Yangzhou can't use so much carbon. Besides, the combustion temperature of carbon is higher. They should be using it as fuel for smelting ore." Su Tang analyzed.

"Yes, after mining the ore, it must be refined." Qi Yan said, slapping his forehead.

"It should be used for more than just refining ore." Qi Lingheng said.

In the previous life, King Li rebelled and suddenly attacked the city of Kyoto with 50,000 heavily armored soldiers.

Those soldiers were all wearing heavy armor, and the forging of those armors also required a large amount of iron ore.

But Prince Li’s fiefdom was the same as the Qi family’s, both of which were places without mineral veins.

So, where did the armor of Prince Li’s heavily armored soldiers come from?

Qi Lingheng suddenly felt that the ore mining here must be related to King Li.

Prince Li might have started planning this more than ten years ago.

But at that time, Emperor Jing had just ascended the throne, and Prince Li was so humble that even Emperor Jing believed him and sent him back to his fiefdom.

"Master, I saw a lot of people where I went. Although they were wearing Taoist costumes, they were pale and thin, and did not look like Taoists." At this time, the last secret guard who came back said to Qi Lingheng and Su Tang.

“How many Taoists are there?”

"Hundreds of people."

There is indeed a problem. Which Taoist temple needs to support hundreds of people?

The daily food source for these Taoists alone is a problem. After all, Taoists are not farmers. Even if they grow some food for themselves, they certainly cannot feed so many Taoists by growing their own food.

Judging from this, these people might be miners.

"Send two more people to investigate here carefully. Oh, and put this on." Su Tang took out two more cameras. With this, the images seen by the secret guards can be directly transmitted back.