Soochow Salt and Rice Conspiracy

Name: Soochow Salt and Rice Conspiracy
Author: Long Caihua

by Long Caihua

ongoing Suspense Detective Mystery Male Lead

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189Kwords30chapters

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Ch. 30 — 尘埃落定话江南

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About This Novel

In the autumn of the third year of Jiahe in the Eastern Wu Dynasty, it was raining continuously in Changsha. The sour and rotten smell of the old rice in the granary of Zoumalou spread for miles. Lu Ji, the captain of Diannong School in Changsha, was wearing a soap coat and led his deputy Zhou Tai to conduct routine warehouse inspections. Half a year after he took over as the captain of Diannong School in Changsha, he had been strictly controlling the storage of salt and rice. But today, in a pair of account books and physical items, there was actually a shortage of 300 dendrobium of official salt and 500 shi of official rice. The warehouse clerk Xu Di, who was nearly forty years old and had always been timid, was now kneeling on the ground and trembling. He cried and confessed without asking further questions: "It was a villain who was confused for a moment and colluded with the boatman Liu San to transport the salt and rice to the lower reaches of the Xiang River on the night of the 15th of the first lunar month and sold it on the black market!" Lu Ji stared at his pale face and became suspicious: Xu Di had been working in the granary for ten years and had always been cautious. How could he dare to commit such a major crime that could be decapitated? Moreover, the "fifteenth night of the first lunar month" in the confession coincides with the flood season on the Xiang River, so sailing is extremely risky. How could Liu San, an ordinary boatman, dare to take the risk to take the order? He remained calm and ordered Xu Di to be imprisoned. He took Zhou Tai to check from warehouse to warehouse, and found that the grain storage in No. 3 Warehouse on the west side showed signs of being tampered with, and there was still a small amount of fine sand that did not belong to the official rice remaining on the ground. What's even more strange is that among the core slips recording Yanmi's comings and goings, there are obvious tears on the edges of three key account pages. Chen An, the clerk in charge of keeping the slips, claimed that they were "accidentally lost." Lu Ji suppressed his doubts and ordered Zhou Tai to investigate Chen An's whereabouts. He returned to the office and read Xu Di's confession transcript overnight, trying to find flaws. Late at night, while Lu Ji was frowning at the confession, a black shadow suddenly flew past the window. Then the confession transcript on the desk was swept to the ground by the strong wind. There was an extra word "Pan" dotted with ink on the page - who did this word "Pan" refer to? ...