"Madam, what is going on? Can you tell me now?" Lan Zhi, who was already sitting on the carriage at this moment, had to figure it all out.

At this moment, besides Lan Zhi, there were also Chai Yu and Zhao Wu in the car. Because Zhao Wu was more familiar with matters at the dock, he was also called on.

"I also deduced this matter. The thing is that your batch of illicit salt was targeted by the government. I received a message this morning saying that our family should be careful about illicit salt that may be investigated by the government. However, since our family does not engage in illicit salt sales,

Salt business, so I didn’t pay attention to it. But just now when you were negotiating for private salt shipment, I received another news here saying that the Shipping Department of Huating was planning to send people to Yangshan Port to check for private salt. Then combined

From the news in the morning, I can conclude that your private partner has been targeted."

After hearing Chai Yu's words, Lan Zhi was shocked: "It's impossible. It's not like I have no connections. I wouldn't dare to engage in private salt business if I didn't have ten of my courage."

"It's useless. How big can your network be? The people who are eyeing this group of smugglers are Kaifeng Yin and Xu Wang Zhao Yuanxi."

"Then it's even more impossible. I am following the path of Prime Minister Zhao Pu. I heard that Duke Zhao and King Xu are very advanced."

Chai Yu got another very useful piece of information from Lan Zhi's words. It turned out that there was something about Zhao Pu in it. No wonder he was able to use the power of Shibo Division twice.

"It seems that you have been betrayed. In order to consolidate his position with Zhao Yuanxi, Zhao Pu did not hesitate to use you to deal with the Wuyue Palace, which had had issues with Zhao Yuanxi before. Did you also tell Zhao Pu the date of the smuggling?"

"Yes, Mr. Zhao sent someone to ask me for the date, saying that he would help me take care of everything and avoid unnecessary trouble."

"Then that's right. All the clues are correct. Otherwise, how could Shibosi come to check for illegal salt today? The Shibosi group took advantage of them at the temple fair two days ago. They went back one by one.

There is no difference between the time and the New Year’s goods.”

If Lan Zhi's mood at this time can be described using a later term, he was really shot while lying down. I just wanted to smuggle some salt and make some money. The businessman who did this went to the sea. Why did I have to be punished by Mao?

It's implicated.

In fact, it was his own fault for being unlucky. In order to seek stability, he went to what he thought was the most reliable way: Zhao Pu. However, he didn't expect to be directly sold by Zhao Pu. It is possible that he would not be in danger if he found another way.

When they arrived at the dock, workers were already pouring bags of Lanzhi's salt into the sea. However, a new problem arose. Since the seawater already contains extremely high salt content, the salt content in the water near the dock at this time

It's almost saturated, and all the newly poured salt has condensed together and won't even sink.

"Find someone to stir it up with wooden sticks, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up." Following Chai Yu's order, countless workers found the poles they usually used to pick goods and began to stir the place where the salt blocks were concentrated.

But at this time, the sea water was already full of salt, so stirring was very laborious and progress was slow.

It happened that at this time someone came to report: "Madam is not well, the people from the Shipping Department are less than three miles away from our dock."

"What to do, what to do." Chai Yu was already sweating profusely at this time, because she knew that once the Municipal Shipping Department seized this batch of illegal salt, not only would something happen to Lanzhi, but the dock might also be directly closed down.

A long period of time, by which time the losses will be immeasurable.

"Calm down, I have to calm down. There will definitely be a way to find a way." At this moment, Chai Yu felt water dripping on her hair, so she looked up suddenly and saw the sky was covered with dark clouds.

And the raindrops have started to fall.

"It's raining, it's raining, that's great. Order everyone to stop pouring salt into the sea. Pour the salt directly on the dock and let the rain wash it away." Following Chai Yu's order, all the workers began to pour the remaining salt into the sea.

Pour all the salt on the ground, and then spread it all with a rake.

Chai Yu, who has lived in Huating for more than two years, knows that once it starts raining this season, it will definitely rain heavily. It is more efficient to spread the salt on the ground and let it be washed away by the rain and then take it into the sea than pouring it directly into the sea now.

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As expected, the rain got heavier and heavier. As the heavy rain washed away, the salt on the ground began to get soaked, then melted. Finally, it all flowed into the sea through the gaps on the pier bridge, and the unmelted salt blocks in the sea also

As the raindrops hit, they gradually became smaller and finally slowly sank into the sea.

Just after the work of destroying the corpses and eradicating traces was basically completed on the dock, officials from the Municipal Shipping Department also arrived.

"Is this the wind that brought Mr. Liu here?" Seeing the people from Shibo Division coming, Chai Yu immediately calmed down and then put on a hypocritical smile.

"I have met Madam." Mr. Liu bowed to Chai Yu and then continued: "Didn't we receive a tip that someone was trafficking illegal salt at the prince's dock? In order to prove the prince's innocence, I had no choice but to lead the team here myself.

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"Our palace never deals with illicit affairs. It's not like you don't know about it, sir. You can check it out." He felt that he had basically destroyed all the evidence and was not afraid of what they would investigate, so he took the initiative to get out of the way.

The official quickly checked all the boats, but did not find a bag of salt. The man named Liu naturally thought that the people at the dock had discovered the shipping company when he was still halfway on the road.

The traces were processed in advance.

So he sent people to dive into the water near the pier. In his mind, it was estimated that the people at the pier would not be able to move so quickly to dispose of all the salt. At most, they would throw it all into the sea with the bags attached. If so,

In this case, there should be bags in the sea and salt that has not been completely dissolved in the bags.

He hadn't thought about whether someone in the Shipping Department had notified the dock in advance before setting off, but there was almost no one in the Shipping Department who had not received a small favor from the Wuyue Prince's Palace. If he wanted to find out the evildoer, even Liu Mou

No one can rule out suspicion.

But to his disappointment, there was nothing in the sea, no bags, and no salt, because even if there were still unmelted salt grains at this time, they had sunk to the bottom of the sea and were mixed with the sand and could not be distinguished.

"Master Liu, have you found anything?" Seeing that the people in the Shibo Department were a little embarrassed, Chai Yu felt like he was gloating about his misfortune. I almost died of panic just now, she deserved it.

Seeing Chai Yu gloating about his misfortune, Liu became a little angry. "It's impossible, nothing was found. The information can't be wrong."

At this time, an official brought a bag and said, "Mr. Liu, we found this." It turned out that these were the remaining salt ribbons. Before they could be processed, there was still some salt in the bag.

"Madam, can you explain to us what this is?" Finally finding something useful, Liu felt much better.

"This, this is a bag for hams. A batch of hams were just brought over today to be shipped. If you don't believe me, I will show you." After Chai Yu finished speaking, he turned around and entered a warehouse.

Mr. Liu, who thought it was Chai Yu's fault, also led the officials into the warehouse. After entering the warehouse, he found countless hams hanging inside.

In fact, this batch of hams arrived five days ago. Some of them were sold at the temple fair, and the rest were placed here. Chai Yu always knew about the existence of this batch of hams, so she didn't rush to deal with those salt bags.

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"Look, Mr. Liu, these are the same hams you 'bought' at the temple fair two days ago. Because the sales were good, we bought some more." Chai Yu pronounced the word "buy" with an accent,

What I mean is to tell this person named Liu that it’s almost okay. Anyway, I haven’t found any evidence to determine the surname. You usually receive favors from our family.

The moment he saw these hams, Mr. Liu knew that today must be in vain, so he didn't say a word after Chai Yu finished speaking, and left with the team in despair.

After seeing that the people from Shibosi were gone, Chai Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief. She found Lan Zhi and said to him: "Due to the grudge between our palace and King Xu, Mr. Lan is implicated. I feel really sorry for Mr. Lan's concubine."

All the losses will be borne by the Wuyue Palace. Once you come up with the detailed figures, just go to the housekeeper Zhao Wu."

Lan Zhi nodded silently when he heard this. It was for the sake of what others said, and it was difficult to express any complaints.

"There is one more thing I would like to trouble Mr. Lan. I would like to ask you to temporarily stop trafficking illegal salt overseas for a period of time. I would like to thank you very much."

After something like this happened, Lan Zhi naturally did not dare to continue trafficking illicit salt overseas, which was actually the Liao Kingdom, so he agreed as a favor.

After settling everything here, Chai Yu immediately ordered the carriage to take him back home. Because the heavy rain just now had already soaked his clothes, he had to change clothes quickly at this time.

As soon as Chai Yu returned to the house, Li Nian came over with Zhao Ling'er in his arms. However, seeing that Chai Yu was soaked to the skin, Li Nian immediately realized something was wrong, so he quickly ordered his servants to boil bath water and prepare a change of clothes.

Although Chai Yu quickly took a shower and changed his clothes, because he wore wet clothes for too long, Chai Yu still developed a high fever that night.

"Doctor, how is our wife?" After seeing the doctor's treatment, Li Nian hurriedly went up to ask.

"It's nothing serious. It's just that I'm infected with wind and cold. I'll prescribe two doses of medicine later. You can grab it and give it to my wife on time according to the method I gave you."

"Okay, thank you doctor." After Li Nian sent the doctor out of Chai Yu's room, he said to the servant at the door: "Come, you take the doctor to get the consultation fee, and then send him to the doctor's medical center to grab the medicine."

After ordering the servants, Li Nian turned around and returned to Chai Yu's room. Seeing Chai Yu in great pain, Li Nian held her hand with great distress and said, "Madam, the doctor said you are just infected with cold. You only need to eat

The medicine will do. But do you need to call the prince back?"

"I've told you so many times, call me Sister Yu." Chai Yu said weakly: "Didn't the doctor say it's just a cold, nothing serious, so don't call him back. He has his own things to do. That's it.

I'll have to trouble you to take Ling'er with you in a few days."

"This is what I should do. Just stop talking and have a good rest."

At the same time, due to weather reasons, Zhao Weiji and others were also blocked halfway and were unable to move forward.
Chapter completed!