Wangjiang Tower was destroyed, and it would not take a day or two to build a new one on the same site. Su Ren asked Liu Jian to supervise the work there, and he had to show up somewhere every day, just to show everyone in Shouchun and even Huainan Kingdom that
The eldest son Liu Buyai is about to rise, so the officials of the Huainan Kingdom should be prepared in their minds.
Liu Jian had been busy all morning. The young man wanted to do something very much. Only in this way could he prove his worth. Every afternoon when Liu Jian came from Changxing Street, he would like to offer treasures and tell Su Ren about the renovation of Wangjiang Tower.
After receiving a few compliments from Su Ren, Liu Jian's face was full of joy, as happy as a child. If Su Ren pointed out a mistake, Liu Jian would grimace. After hearing this, he returned to Changxing Street overnight and drove the workers to make corrections.
"Yes, the hall of the wine shop needs to be big, so that it looks like a wine shop. The second floor can receive distinguished guests. This design is very good!" Su Ren saw the design drawing Liu Jian brought and praised it with a smile.
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Liu Jian looked excited: "My father and I painted this in the past two days. Since Mr. Su agreed, it can't be wrong."
"I didn't expect the eldest son to be able to do this. He is much better than me. I can tell you one thing after another, but if you really want to do it, you can't do anything!"
"Hehehe, Mr. Su is being humble. I'll do it as you ask, and I'll make sure it's done properly."
However, something happened. On the tenth day, some helpers who were digging the foundation felt that something was wrong as soon as they dug into the foundation. They opened their eyes and took a closer look and found that there was water seeping out of the ground. Shouchun City is close to the Huaihe River, and there is water under the pit.
The presence of water is not a strange thing, but the water flowing out today is completely different from usual. The helper rubbed his eyes, made sure again, screamed, and rolled out of the pit.
come out.
"There is something evil!"
The two helpers ran and shouted, and came towards Liu Jian who was standing on the roadside. Liu Jian was discussing things with several craftsmen, and when he suddenly heard such a voice, he was frightened, and looked at the panic of the helpers.
, his face suddenly turned dark.
The two helpers rushed to Liu Jian and knelt down on the ground with a thud: "Young Master, no, it's not good. There is something evil!"
The two of them were so frightened that they couldn't speak clearly. When Liu Jian was led down by the two helpers to the foundation, the pit was already surrounded by people. They all poked their heads out and looked into the pit in surprise. They were going to build the second building.
For a small-story building, the foundation must be dug deeper. In order to dry it, quicklime is the best foundation material. Mix the quicklime and soil together, and tamp it down to make it hard and stable.
There is a shortage of stone for building houses in the south, especially in towns. There is no stone for building a city, let alone building a wine shop. Half of the water has accumulated at the bottom of the pit, and the color is scary red. It looks like half a pool of blood, seeping out from the side.
There is more and more water in the pit, and the red water in the pit is also accumulating more and more, becoming more and more red.
Liu Jian frowned and asked the craftsman next to him: "Have you ever encountered this kind of thing before?"
The two senior craftsmen shook their heads quickly, and while retreating, they said: "Why did blood flow out for no reason? I'm afraid it's not a good sign. Young Master, why don't we choose another place?"
Another craftsman echoed: "Yes, Wangjiang Tower has suffered a disaster, and now it is bleeding again. This place is unlucky."
Everyone looked at Liu Jian. Liu Jian looked at the half of the pool of blood. After a long time, he said, "Find someone to scoop out the red water and continue working."
No one listened to him. These people all came here to work for wages. Now that such a strange thing happened, it was said that it was not a good sign. No one wanted to provoke him. Regardless of Liu Jian's command, no one wanted to do it.
After going down, Liu Jian took out his trump card and promised that as long as he got into the pool, his wages would be doubled, but everyone remained indifferent.
The strange incident in Wangjiang Tower attracted the attention of Changxing Street. The crowds of onlookers flocked to the place, almost to the point of being empty. They all wanted to see how the blood flowed out of the ground, but some did not dare to get too close.
Standing on tiptoes in front of the big pit, I tried to stretch my neck to look forward. Those who saw it were amazed, while those who didn't saw it tried their best to move forward.
I don’t know what happened, but there was a push from behind, and a young man standing in front of him jumped in. The guy splashed in the red water for a long time, and tried his best to call for help from the people standing on the shore, but he couldn’t.
No one was willing to reach out. Liu Jian couldn't see it and pulled the guy out. As soon as he got ashore, the young man burst into tears, took off his clothes and ran home.
The old craftsman said tremblingly: "I really can't do it anymore. Why is there blood in the ground? Why don't we report it to the official immediately?"
No one wanted to go down, and Liu Jian also felt strange. He was the general person in charge of this construction site and did a good job, so why did something like this happen? After everyone unanimously persuaded him, Liu Jian knew that he could no longer work, so he waved his hand.
He asked the helpers to go home first, sighed, and walked out of the crowd dejectedly.
Su Ren was shaking his head in the yard, trying to distinguish the awkward and difficult words in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". He was seeing a section on Jingwei's reclamation of the sea. Jingwei transformed into a bird and held stones to fill the sea. He felt that Jingwei was too stupid.
Yes, the sea is so easy to fill. Later generations used high technology and tried various methods to build an island in the sea, but no one tried to fill the sea. It can be said that the ignorant are fearless.
Liu Jian rushed in in a panic, feeling depressed, and the expression on his face was uglier than eating bitter melon. Su Ren asked for a long time, and then Liu Jian explained the matter in a cryptic manner. After Su Ren heard this, he also frowned: "
Are you sure it's blood?"
Liu Jian nodded repeatedly: "I can see clearly, it's red, it's half the pool, and it's still growing. I don't know how much blood was used. They all said they encountered evil spirits. It seems that the shopkeeper of Wangjiang Tower has done this over the years.
There are a lot of immoral things, otherwise we would have made such a big mess as soon as we took over. No, I have to go find that man named Lin. We can’t build a haunted house after spending so much money."
Su Ren poured a glass of water for Liu Jian: "That shouldn't be the case. How could there be blood coming out of the ground? Take him and take a look."
The incident at Wangjiang Tower caused a sensation in Shouchun. More and more people gathered to watch, standing by the pit and pointing. The topic of discussion had changed from the evil talk just now to the accusation against Liu Buhai. Li left.
Not far away, Su Ren could clearly hear someone in the crowd talking loudly. He was analyzing the inevitable connection between the blood and water at the Wangjiang Tower construction site based on Liu Buhai's experience. The people next to him were stunned and nodded.
Su Renyi pointed to the guys who were talking loudly and asked Liu Jian: "Do you know those people?"
Following Su Ren's instructions, Liu Jian looked at those people carefully: "I seem to have seen them somewhere. They are definitely not businessmen or civilians."
"Are you sure?"
Liu Jian nodded: "Yes, the clothes of those people look like ordinary people, but the smell on their bodies cannot be changed. How can anyone wear linen outside but wear a high-quality silk coat inside?"
Su Ren didn't ask any more questions, and pushed through the crowd towards the pit. It was indeed half a pool of blood, so red that it made people dizzy. As a modern person, the idea of evil spirits was untenable in Su Ren's eyes, so there was only one possibility.
, that is, someone did this deliberately. Who was it? What method was used? Su Ren suddenly remembered the deceptive tricks of those masters in later generations. A piece of paper was written on with a special liquid. When the liquid dried, nothing could be seen.
After being roasted by fire, writing can appear. Is this half a pool of blood using a similar method?
"What did you put into the foundation?"
"It's nothing, except for the soil, it's just some white ash. This is how we build houses and lay foundations here."
"White ash?"
Liu Jian turned his head and asked someone to take a piece of quicklime and give it to Su Ren: "This is it. This thing absorbs water well. If it is buried under the foundation, it will not easily attract insects. In summer, most people will spread a layer of it in the yard.
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Lime and water, mixing these two things together will definitely not make the water red. What is missing? Su Ren doesn't understand chemistry. He was only forced to learn some chemistry knowledge in junior high school and high school, but in this environment it seems
It was of little use. I was pacing back and forth along the edge of the pit, staring at the blood-red water in the pit. Suddenly I felt uncomfortable in my nose, so I took two breaths, and a spicy smell immediately entered my nose.
Su Ren's eyes moved and he glanced at the edge of the pit. When he saw dots of yellow powder on the ground, his tense nerves suddenly relaxed. He found a rag, collected the yellow powder bit by bit, and put it away again.
He took a sniff under his nose, and the spicy smell made Su Ren sneeze several times.
"Go and get a bowl of water!" Su Ren ordered Huang Shisan.
Soon the clean water was brought. Su Ren put the lime in it and stirred it twice with a wooden stick. The original clear water became turbid. After the lime basically dissolved and settled, the milky white lime water appeared in front of everyone. I don't know.
What Su Ren was going to do? The people around him craned their necks to watch.
He added a little yellow powder from the rag to the water bowl. A strange thing happened. The originally milky white bowl of water was turning red little by little at a speed visible to the naked eye. As Su Ren added more and more yellow powder, the water became redder.
The water in the bowl becomes redder and redder, until it is as red as blood. A full bowl looks scary.
Liu Jian's eyes did not leave Su Ren for a moment. He was so surprised by Su Ren's magic movements that he opened his mouth wide and saliva flowed to his chest. The others were similar. They were all a little dumbfounded and thought that they had seen it wrong. A bowl of water would
So it turned into blood?
Picking up the wooden bowl, Su Ren said: "Did you see it? It's not some evil spirit. Someone deliberately caused trouble. If the problem is found, then work hard."
The two old craftsmen closest to Su Ren saw it most clearly. When Su Ren finished speaking, the eyes of the two old men were shining. Seeing the admiration and shock in Su Ren's expression, they just knelt down with their knees weak.
Su Ren kowtowed in front of him.
Handing the water bowl to Huang Shisan so that the nearby onlookers could see clearly, Su Ren wrapped the remaining yellow powder in rags: "Although I don't know what this is yet, I promise to find out.
Whoever did this will have to pay a price for daring to cause trouble here." Scanning the crowd with his eyes, two strong men shrank and slowly retreated. (To be continued)