webnovelfull Chapter 633 Searching the Mansion
Chapter 633 Searching the Mansion
Jiang Wangbei undoubtedly did not have the fate of an emperor, but he had the disease of an emperor.
Ji Yuntang and Luo Junhe had not even started eating when Jiang Wangbei had already invited them to eat.
He said, "This is your first time to the City Lord's Mansion, and I didn't have time to prepare anything, so I just asked the cook to make some home-cooked dishes and serve them up."
"If this city lord's hospitality is not good enough, please don't be disgusted, Master Yun and Madam Yun."
Ji Yuntang curled his lips and said, "Of course I won't mind. It's us who made the city lord spend money."
"I will use tea instead of wine to offer a toast to the Lord City Lord."
Ji Yuntang picked up the teacup in front of her. She had checked and found that there was no poison in the dishes.
Even the chopsticks and bowls used for eating are clean.
It was not that she did not understand Jiang Wangbei's intention. He would not attack them before the three thousand kilograms of rice were delivered to the City Lord's Mansion.
Therefore, for now, Ji Yuntang and Luo Junhe are relatively safe.
Jiang Wangbei picked up the wine in front of him and raised the glass.
"Mrs. Yun, you are too polite. It is an honor for this city lord to meet you two."
The two exchanged a few more polite words, and Ji Yuntang picked up the chopsticks.
She glanced at Luo Junhe and said, "Husband, let's eat. The food will get cold and won't taste good."
This sentence is a disguised reminder to Luo Junhe that there is nothing wrong with the food and he can eat it.
"Okay." Luo Junhe curled his thin lips slightly, picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of the fattiest meat of the Qilin perch, and placed it in the bowl in front of Ji Yuntang.
"Madam, please eat more. You two are so thin from hunger. Your husband will feel bad for you."
Ji Yuntang also picked up a piece of shrimp ball for Luo Junhe and placed it in the bowl in front of him.
"Husband, you should eat more too. You have been accompanying me on the road to sell rice and taking care of me recently. You haven't had a good night's sleep. I will feel bad if you are exhausted."
The two of them were being affectionate and feeding each other, which made Jiang Wangbei so itchy that he even lost the mood to eat.
After finally finishing the meal, Jiang Wangbei quickly ordered the maid to take Ji Yuntang and Luo Junhe to the guest room.
As soon as he returned to the room, Ji Yuntang held his stomach and laughed.
She said: "This city lord's ability is just so-so, he actually gets upset at other people showing off their affection."
When she and Luo Junhe were picking up food for each other, she was observing Jiang Wangbei's expression out of the corner of her eye.
The look in the other party's eyes showed that he wanted to kill them on the spot.
However, he still had to appear gentle and polite.
Luo Junhe said: "I always feel that this city lord has bad intentions, so we should be careful."
What he didn't say was that he had noticed that there was something wrong with the way Jiang Wangbei looked at Ji Yuntang when they were on the street.
He is a man and knows very well what that look means.
It was only because he was next to him that Jiang Wangbei restrained himself.
And it was for this reason that he deliberately showed his affection with Ji Yuntang in front of him.
Ji Yuntang curled her red lips slightly, she stood up, opened the window, looked outside, and found that it was already dark.
However, we still have to wait at least another quarter of an hour before dark.
Ji Yuntang closed the window and walked over to sit next to Luo Junhe.
She picked up the teapot on the table and poured a cup of tea for both of them.
"Ahe, it will be dark soon. I want to go to the well in the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion."
There has been drought in Liangzhoukou for half a year, and every household is suffering from water shortage.
If the people wanted water, they had to take buckets and go to the mountains to fetch spring water.
It can be said that there are no more than five wells in the entire Liangzhoukou.
In many cases, the entire village shares one well.
As for the City Lord's Mansion, Jiang Wangbei had a well all to himself.
Ji Yuntang heard from Gu Zhou that the water in this well is limited and not very deep, and usually three or four buckets are enough to draw all the water.
Only in the early morning every day will some clear spring water emerge from underground.
Jiang Wangbei was worried that there were too many people drinking water in the City Lord's Mansion, and he himself would have no water to drink, so he ordered that no one except himself could use the well.
If the government wanted water, they would go to other places to get it.
It was also for this reason that the servants did not dare to use the water from the well.
Even if he needed it, he would do it behind Jiang Wangbei's back and secretly drink a small bowl to quench his thirst.
When Ji Yuntang heard this, he sneered in his heart.
She never thought that Jiang Wangbei, as the lord of a city, only cared about himself and didn't care about the lives of others. How selfish he was.
But on second thought, if someone really poisoned the well, then wouldn’t the other party’s purpose be just to target Yu Jiang Wangbei?
Therefore, Ji Yuntang wanted to confirm whether there was poison in the well.
Luo Junhe was naturally willing to accompany her in whatever she wanted to do.
When it got dark and the night enveloped the earth, Ji Yuntang and Luo Junhe changed into black night clothes and sneaked out of the room.
They headed straight for the well in the backyard.
Occasionally, a patrolman would pass by the City Lord's Mansion yawning, and Ji Yuntang and Luo Junhe would immediately move away.
The two men didn't search for long before they found the well in the backyard.
There was no well cover on the well. Under the reflection of the moonlight, the ripples inside reflected a faint light.
Ji Yuntang took a black rope, tied a small bucket underneath it, and threw the bucket into the well.
Soon, she brought up a bucket of water.
Ji Yuntang put the water into the space for testing. While waiting for the results, she said to Luo Junhe: "Ahe, let's split up and look around to see if we can find any other clues."
She always felt that there was something hidden in the City Lord's Mansion.
Even in this ordinary well, she saw the shadow of Feng Shui.
Luo Junhe nodded and said in a low voice: "Atang, be careful."
After saying that, he went to the right, while Ji Yuntang went to the left.
There are many rooms in the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion, more than thirty in total, large and small.
Ji Yuntang was worried that searching inside would alert the enemy, so she took out the detection equipment in the space to see if she could find out anything.
When I walked to a door, the metal detector suddenly flashed.
Ji Yuntang stopped and narrowed his fox eyes.
Her metal detector is an improved version that can detect not only metals, but also gold, silver and iron ore.
But one bad thing about it is that its indicator light will only flash when the number of detected objects reaches a certain level, otherwise there will be no prompt.
The faster the indicator light flashes, the more things are found inside.
Ji Yuntang looked down at the metal detector in his hand and found that its flashing speed was very fast, reaching a speed of 0.1 seconds per flash.