Chapter 163: Clearing Suspicion]
The soldiers guarding the city had no idea what was going on. They listened in bewilderment and said, "What does this...what does this have to do with your secret storage and smuggling of caltrops?"
Chen Fenghe remained calm and said with a smile, "The ironware made in Yanzhou, southeast of Dayu, is charcoal-black and very hard. The ironware produced in Cizhou is bronze-colored, while the ironware produced near Qingzhou City is slightly silvery-white. What color is the caltrop in your hand?"
After hearing this, the onlookers all turned their eyes to the hands of the soldiers guarding the city.
Just now, in order to establish evidence of their crime, the soldiers defending the city held up those caltrops high up to show the onlookers, so now everyone has seen them.
"It's a bit silvery-white. I have an iron pot made in Yanzhou at home, and it's really the color of charcoal! And there's also ironware from Cizhou, including a pot for cooking meat, which is really bronze-colored, but the color of this caltrop is different!"
"Yeah, it looks a bit white to me too. Could this caltrop be produced in Hejian Prefecture?"
"Produced in Hejian Prefecture?"
At first, everyone didn't understand why the young lady didn't speak up to defend herself after being caught thief and found smuggling caltrops. Instead, she suddenly started talking about the color of the iron.
At this moment, someone suddenly understood!
"That's right! If this caltrop is produced in Hejian Prefecture, then the exile team just came from Hedong Prefecture and entered the territory of Hejian Prefecture, and they haven't even entered Qingzhou City yet. Even if they wanted to smuggle it in, why would they smuggle caltrops from Qingzhou City instead of Yanzhou and Cizhou? This doesn't make sense!"
"That's... indeed... indeed! She just arrived in Hejian Prefecture, so how could she possibly have gotten the caltrops from Qingzhou City? Why would she travel thousands of miles to secretly hide these caltrops? If she were to sell them, how much could she possibly fetch? And there's even a risk!"
"So, doesn't that mean the city guard is framing us..."
Having said this, the conversation of the onlookers suddenly stopped.
They were just there to watch the fun, but they didn't dare to confront the officers. If they said one wrong thing, they would be thrown into jail!
However, after this discussion, although the onlookers did not dare to speak, they all understood the situation clearly.
I'm afraid that this is ninety-nine percent a deliberate frame-up against the young lady!
Chen Fenghe's expression remained calm, and she didn't say another word.
She was not exaggerating when she said that the ironware produced by the three iron mines of the Dayu Dynasty had subtly different colors.
The reason why the original owner knew it so clearly was naturally because when the original owner was young, the original owner's grandfather was in charge of the mining and coinage of the three major iron mines in Dayu.
When she was a child, her grandfather used different materials mined from three iron mines to cast small toys for her, and the colors were different.
As for why it appears in different colors, the original owner and the people of this dynasty probably don't know, but Chen Fenghe knows that it is because the iron is not pure enough and contains impurities.
Charcoal black is the purest color, and therefore, is close to the color of cast iron. Bronze is due to the presence of copper and lead. Silvery white is due to the presence of chromium and nickel.
The officers guarding the city also reacted, their faces turning blue and red, and they didn't know what to do for a moment.
At this moment, a clear female voice suddenly sounded.
"Don't be fooled by this woman's words! She clearly got the caltrops from somewhere and hid them on purpose!"
After hearing this, Shen Fenghe sneered. The mastermind behind this had emerged!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
