Chapter 405 The person must be at Guming Cliff!
Sang Zhixia guessed that what Chen Anzhu handed over to her were the things left by the Sun family, but before opening the box, Sang Zhixia really didn't expect there were so many.
Sang Zhixia leaned back in her chair and rubbed her sore shoulders. Looking at the pile of land deeds on the table, she sighed, "The Sun family was indeed the number one landowner in Shu back then. They had quite a lot of property."
There are gardens everywhere in the eight counties of Shu. The smallest one has 15 acres of land, and the largest is 80 acres of gardens.
The amount of money Chen Anzhu got from the wooden box he gave out lightly almost exceeded the total amount of their scattered purchases in the past few days.
Suddenly, Sang Zhixia became one of the largest landlords in Shu, and the key point is that he hasn't spent any money yet.
The shopkeeper, who was helping out on the side, was amused and helpless when he heard the noise. He said, "It's a lot, but don't forget, sir, the land in this area is not worth much."
"These are wastelands that have been abandoned for who knows how many years. They haven't produced any decent crops in many years. You harvested so much at once. What are your plans for the future?"
Sang Zhixia tapped the table with her finger and said slowly, "It's true it's been abandoned for many years, but before it was forced to be abandoned, wasn't it able to grow something?"
"Do you remember what was grown on the arable land in Shu in the early years?"
The shopkeeper tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said uncertainly, "I think we have rice, wheat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, soybeans, and sorghum?"
Shu has distinct four seasons and abundant rainfall. As long as the seeds sown in the soil are carefully tended, there will be more or less a harvest.
It’s just a pity that the officials have been doing their job for many years, forcing the people under them to abandon their farmland and work as salt workers.
The shopkeeper had lived in Sichuan for many years, but he could hardly remember the magnificent sight of rice seedlings and rice fields everywhere.
After hearing this, Sang Zhixia chuckled softly and said slowly, "What was able to be grown back then can also be grown now."
"As long as we can pick up the hoe and sickle again, there won't be many people starving to death in this land."
She just needs to think about the details of what to plant, how large the scale and how to plant it, so there is no rush now.
Shen Anzhu gave such a big gift for nothing, so it was impossible for him to accept it for nothing.
This matter needs to be carefully considered.
Sang Zhixia had a vague idea in her mind. She took a sip of her cooling tea and said, "How's the food preparation going? Has the news of tomorrow's porridge distribution spread?"
The shopkeeper stood up and said, "I did it all according to your instructions."
"When I was escorting the carriage out of the city, I took a look and saw that quite a few people were already waiting at the porridge stall outside the city. As long as the porridge is distributed tomorrow, there will definitely be more and more people."
The news travels with the wind and can be heard silently.
As long as people see something that can actually keep them full and alive, there is no way the porridge stall will be a dull occasion.
Sang Zhixia rubbed the edge of the teacup and thought for a moment before adding, "Too many people can easily lead to chaos. I'll need to arrange more people to maintain order tomorrow."
"It's the first day of business. We can't afford to make any mistakes at this critical moment."
The shopkeeper agreed repeatedly, then nervously checked the details for tomorrow with Sang Zhixia. After Sang Zhixia nodded in agreement, he held the booklet and said, "It's almost dawn. You should go back to your room and get some rest."
As if fearing that Sang Zhixia would be nervous, the innkeeper said, "Don't worry, the guards inside and outside the inn have been arranged. We will definitely not make the same mistakes as on Guan Yedao again."
Sang Zhixia laughed and held her forehead with her hand, then hummed and said, "I know."
"You've all worked hard these days. Go and rest. I'll sit for a while."
The shopkeeper left the empty lobby, holding the booklet. Sang Zhixia looked thoughtfully at the bright moon hanging high outside the window and said softly, "Any news from over there?"
Lingchu silently trimmed the candle wick on the table to make the candlelight brighter, and whispered in the flickering candlelight, "Not yet."
"but……"
Bang bang bang!
“Who is it?!”
The long sword at Lingchu's waist flashed with a cold light. The person knocking on the door bared his teeth through the door panel: "It's me! Meng Pei!"
"I have something very important to say!"
"Meng Pei?"
Sang Zhixia stood up unexpectedly: "Lingchu, go open the door."
As soon as the door opened, Meng Pei rushed in, grabbed the teapot on the table, gulped down a gulp of tea, and said pantingly, "I..."
"I might know where Mr. Qi's daughter is! Mr. Qi's daughter is not on the mountain!"
Sang Zhixia was speechless when she saw the empty teapot in Meng Pei's hand. After a moment's hesitation, she frowned and said, "Do you know where it is?"
"Then why did you..."
"To be precise, I just found out about it too."
Sang Zhixia's brows furrowed even tighter now: "What do you mean?"
Meng Pei was so anxious that he couldn't sit still. He put his hands on his hips and turned around in a circle. Finally, he straightened his tongue and began to speak in a burst of words: "It was the bearded man who reminded me."
"The bearded man once went to a place with the military advisor's nephew. He suspected that the person imprisoned there was Elder Qi's daughter!"
Big Beard and others had previously conspired with Meng Pei to kidnap Sang Zhixia and use her as a bargaining chip while she was out.
As a result, he was accidentally tricked by Sang Zhixia.
In the end, Meng Pei thought he had eaten a deadly poison, and was captured along with Sang Zhixia and taken to Huwei Mountain to revisit his old place.
The few people who were arrested with him were locked up in an inn and gained a lot of weight.
These people were friends with Meng Pei, and Sang Zhixia had no intention of making things difficult for them. When he let Meng Pei and Chen Anzhu go, he gave each of them ten taels of silver as a parting fee and released them all.
Unexpectedly, when these people learned that Meng Pei was going on a long journey, even though they didn't know where Meng Pei was going, they followed him to Sanlitun outside the city in the middle of the night. While chatting, the bearded man said something shocking.
Meng Pei panted heavily and said in a thudding voice, "Big Beard still remembers the way. I asked him to wait outside. As long as..."
"How do you know for sure that it was Mr. Qi's daughter?"
Sang Zhixia pressed down with her palm, interrupting Meng Pei. Frowning, she said, "Hu Wei was relying on this man's life to force Elder Qi's cooperation. I'm afraid he wanted to cover him up tightly with an eggshell. How could he have been discovered by the bearded man by such a coincidence?"
"Because Qi Yan'er's life depends on medicine."
Meng Pei said shockingly, "Qi Yan'er's hands and feet were all severed, and her tongue was cut off. She's long been a living dead being, breathing more than she breathes out. The only reason she managed to survive until today is thanks to the life-extending medicine."
"When Big Beard was little, his family ran a clinic. He was one of the few people in the mountains who knew how to identify and collect herbs. The doctor stayed there all day to keep Qi Yan'er alive. From time to time, Big Beard would be assigned to go to the mountains to look for herbs and then send them to a designated place. There must be something fishy going on in that place!"
Meng Pei's words seemed a bit far-fetched at first, but considering the current situation, they made perfect sense.
Qi Yan'er has confirmed that she is no longer on the mountain.
Her whereabouts were the bait used by Bai Chengren and his men to lure Old Qi down the mountain.
As long as we can find Qi Yan'er first, then maybe...
Sang Zhixia narrowed her eyes meaningfully, and was about to say something when an eagle suddenly cried outside the yard.
Tied to the eagle's claws was a letter sent by Xu Yu.
Sang Zhixia quickly scanned the letter and made a quick decision: "Master Qi has already gone down the mountain."
"What place were you talking about?"
Meng Pei threw the teapot in a panic, grabbed the hem of his clothes and ran out: "Gu Mingya!"
"The person must be at Guming Cliff!"
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