Tian's little cook

Chapter 169

"Your honor?" Lin Zhimo sat up straight and asked, "Are you an official?"

Dong Kangyi shook his head slightly, "It's probably more important than being an official, otherwise why would so many people be sent to search?"

Lin Zhimo thought about it again, and said, "Could it be from the palace?"

This time, Dong Kangyi said inexplicably: "It's all just guesswork. We common people don't know the real situation."

Lin Jiao was thinking about another question: "Boss Dong, will the closure of the private salt factory be related to the disappearance of that person?"

"Mr. Lin is really accurate." Dong Kangyi picked up the chopsticks again: "Although we don't know the connection, there must be something inside. You think, after the man disappeared, the imperial court immediately sent many people to search. The two private salt factories in the city were also searched, and even the prefect of Xicheng was transferred away, and a new prefect was replaced some time ago."

Lin Zhimo nodded: "It must be related."

At this time, when she saw Lin Jiao sitting beside her, she suddenly remembered what Sun Langzhong said that Lin Jiao might have drifted from the upper reaches of the river to the back mountain of the village, and Xicheng was just upstream of Yunze City.

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Lin Zhimo was shocked by his conjecture, it couldn't be such a coincidence, could it?

But Lin Jiao asked again: "Has anyone been found?"

"I found it, otherwise I will definitely not withdraw." Dong Kangyi drank a glass of wine and squinted his eyes: "A while ago, the control was very strict, and it was very difficult to enter and leave the city. Later, all the officers and soldiers were dispatched within a day. Leave, otherwise you may not be able to enter the city now."

Lin Zhimo felt relieved, although she kept reassuring Lin Jiao that one day she would recover her memory and reunite with her family, but when there was a slight possibility, she was afraid.

There was a curfew in Xicheng, and after the three of them had finished eating, Lin Zhimo packed up the dishes and went back to the inn with Lin Jiao.

Lin Jiao could feel that Lin Zhimo was in a good mood, and couldn't help asking, "What's so happy?"

"Oh, is there?" Lin Zhimo asked back, and then explained a little stammeringly: "Yes. Finally, the matter is settled, and this time I can bring a lot of brine back."

She definitely wouldn't say it was because the missing person that Dong Kangyi mentioned just now was not Lin Jiao.

"Yeah." Lin Jiao nodded, "Since the salt factory is closed, we try to bring back as much as possible. Next time we want to buy more, we may have to go to the government's salt factory. It will be more troublesome then."

Sure enough, throughout the ages, dealing with the government/government is the most cumbersome thing for ordinary people.

With Dong Kangyi's coordination, Lin Zhimo and Lin Jiao did have a lot less trouble.They went to the market to buy a lot of wooden boxes, oiled paper and gauze, and then went to the salt factory to pack brine blocks.

In order to prevent the brine block from breaking and leaking, according to Dong Kangyi's suggestion, they first wrapped the brine block tightly with oil paper, then covered the outside with two layers of gauze, and finally put it into a wooden box.

The brine block is boiled quickly and the price is cheap.It's just that, as Dong Kangyi said, only some salt factories opened their doors every day, and they waited for five days in a row, buying almost all the brine from the salt factories that hadn't been moved out to make brine blocks.

On the fifth day, Lin Zhimo and Lin Jiao went to the place Sun Ling mentioned last time early in the morning. Sure enough, a caravan returned to Yunze City in the past two days.

At that time, Sun Ling also told the people in the caravan that Lin Zhimo was going to go with him.According to Sun Ling's description, the person in charge of the caravan confirmed that it was them after seeing Lin Zhimo's face, and asked them to come over tomorrow morning, and the departure date was brought forward.

(End of this chapter)