Chapter 2946: Alerting the Snake
All the salt that Inspector Luo knew was made by boiling. He had also visited the old salt field to see salt boiling. Boiling salt was shocking enough, but compared with drying salt, the most magnificent thing about boiling salt was the scene of boiling salt. When it came to actually producing salt, shoveling the salt in the salt field was the most exciting.
As he pushed the shovel forward, layer after layer of white crystals slowly gathered together. When he pushed the wooden shovel to the end, the white salt was able to cover the wooden shovel. Just one time, he was so shocked that he was speechless.
From then on, he decided in his heart that County Magistrate Bai was the one.
Based on County Magistrate Bai's ability, the Song family is no match for him.
As long as we guard the salt fields, we don’t have to be afraid of any monsters in Beihai County, okay?
Inspector Luo was originally quite confident. After all, there was only one way in and out of Dajiawa. If he guarded the checkpoint well and paid attention to inspections along the way, everything would be fine.
Who knew people could sneak in?
He summoned a soldier and ordered, "Take two men with you on horseback and inspect the checkpoints along the road to see where the man slipped in. Then fill in the gaps for me."
"yes!"
Inspector Luo led a group of people into the mountains, while Zhou Liwei led the rest of the people to patrol near the salt field. He also gathered all the people in Xiaowa Village to guard the salt field together.
As soon as the villagers of Xiaowa Village heard that someone had sneaked into the mountains, they immediately stopped cooking and eating, picked up harpoons and wooden sticks and went to the salt field.
Although the new salt field had only been open for a short time, they had already received their wages, and the cold copper coins made their hearts warm.
Moreover, Bai Shan selected people regardless of gender, as long as they were honest and willing to work, so there were many people in the village working in the new salt field.
If someone comes to cause trouble at this time, it would be equivalent to cutting off their source of income.
Cutting off someone's source of income is like killing their parents, and they will never allow it.
Zhou Liwei stood on the top of the mountain and looked down. The sky was getting dark. They stood there and looked down. Not to mention the salt fields, even the vast sea was invisible. It was pitch black everywhere, without a single light.
The soldier asked, "Master Zhou, how do we find this?"
Zhou Liwei thought for a moment and said, "Light the torches, and let's all follow each other. Once we finish walking this side of the mountain, we'll go a little further in."
The soldier was surprised. "Wouldn't that let the people in hiding know we've discovered them?"
"We need to let them find us," Zhou Liwei said. "We need to alert the snakes. We know where they came from. It would be great if we can catch them, but it doesn't matter if we can't. The most important thing is to protect the salt fields, so we need to scare them away."
Zhou Liwei felt that there was no need to confront the Song family head-on at this time. That was his brother-in-law's job, and he just needed to guard the salt fields.
My uncle-in-law also said when he left that he only needed to take care of the salt fields.
Zhou Liwei's heart tightened a bit, and he became even more resolute. He called out to everyone, "Light up the torches, and have the villagers light theirs too. The roads in the mountains are tough, and we'd better not catch the thief and end up getting hurt."
He said, "You don't have to speak softly. As long as you don't talk about the saltworks, you can speak loudly about anything else, even shouting 'Catch the thief!'"
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately lit torches and began to advance inward, surrounding the mountain on the salt field. At first, everyone was normal, just loudly cursing the thieves. Then, someone started talking about the fire two years ago, and someone loudly cursed the person who set the mountain on fire that time, hoping their sons would have no anus, and that their descendants would be fishermen without boats for generations to come...
Zhou Liwei: ...This curse is really unique.
But he also had an idea and shouted loudly: "Be more careful, be more careful, don't let them hide in the bushes and get away. Also, take a look in the trees. Don't just focus on what's below and not what's above."
Then he shouted, "Be careful with the torches in your hands, don't set the woods on fire."
"Don't worry, it just rained."
"Be careful then!"
"Master Zhou, I looked up, but there's no one."
"Then walk further in. Pay close attention and look around."
The sound spread far away, and a few people hiding in the trees not far away said: ...
They quietly slipped down the tree before anyone arrived and tried to go back in the dark to report to the main group. However, Zhou Liwei and others were looking for them with torches, so they were afraid that the fire would expose their position, so they put out the fire.
In the dark... they got lost.
After walking for quite a distance, they felt they should have reached their destination. However, the birds called out several times but no one answered them. They couldn't help but panic, so they lowered their voices and said in human language, "Brother Zhu, Brother Zhu, are you there?"
Of course Brother Zhu is not here. He is feeding mosquitoes on the other side.
He resisted the urge to slap his neck. Seeing the fire still approaching them, he lowered his voice and cursed, "Where did those lazy guys from Lao San go? I told them to quietly go ahead and investigate. How did they attract people here?"
"Couldn't the third brother have recruited them?" The second brother expressed his doubt. "So many people have come here. Weren't we discovered long ago?"
"Impossible, we didn't make any noise before."
As soon as they finished speaking, they heard faint movement on the other side. They turned their heads and saw that there were torches lit behind them, and the torches seemed to be coming towards them.
Brother Zhu's face changed. Wouldn't we be surrounded if we stayed here any longer?
He immediately stood up and said in a low voice, "Let's go."
"Where are you going?"
Brother Zhu: "It doesn't matter where we go, as long as we can't be caught by them. Let's avoid them first, and then make a fire and see what happens when we're far away."
"What about the third brother and the others?"
"Do you see any trace of them here?" Brother Zhu suspected they had already run away. "Let's go first and look for them later."
Seeing that the torches on both sides were getting closer and closer, the group could no longer bear it and quietly slipped away in the other direction.
Inspector Luo and Zhou Liwei met up in the mountains. Inspector Luo asked in disbelief, "Why are you here? Weren't we supposed to be guarding the salt fields?"
"Don't worry, we just followed the mountain on the other side of the salt field and came here bit by bit. If they were really here, they would have been scared away. Why didn't you run into anyone coming over there?"
"No."
Zhou Liwei frowned, "Strange, where did that person go?"
Inspector Luo was suspicious, "Did you really see anyone?"
Zhou Liwei wished he could turn back time and let Inspector Luo see for himself. He raised his hand and said, "Brother, I swear, I really saw someone. Otherwise, why would I bother with this?"
Yes, Inspector Luo touched his forehead and looked in another direction.
Zhou Liwei also took a look and said, "That's impossible. I've been there before. Beyond that is the sea. It's a steep cliff. Why would you go there? Jump into the sea?"
Because they were going to build salt fields, they not only had to find a place suitable for developing the salt fields, but also had to protect the safety of the salt fields, so Zhou Liwei went wherever he could.
The mountain in that direction was not easy to walk on. Although the trees became sparser as one went further, the ups and downs were easy to fall over. At the end was a cliff, and below the cliff was the sea. He had seen that although there were trees and grass along the cliff, which looked lush and green, it was still very dangerous, especially at night. If one was not careful, one could easily step on empty air and fall down.
If you go down there, it might be your whole life.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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