In the dead of night, a dark shadow flashed across the sky, startling the sleeping cat.

"Wow--"

The cat's screams woke up Lin Xing from her sleep. She turned over and sat up. When she saw a figure passing by outside the window, she put on her coat and followed her.

Just when she walked outside the door, she saw a person standing in front of her. Zhou Yan shook his folding fan and raised his eyes to look over: "Are you still not sleeping?"

"Did you hear anything just now?" Lin Xing frowned, with a vague premonition in her heart.

Zhou Yan also frowned slightly and said calmly: "It should be the sound coming from the southeast. The flooding is serious now. Maybe someone was very hungry and caught the wild cat and ate it."

Lin Xing nodded, such things are indeed not uncommon.

Zhou Yan patted Lin Xing's shoulder and comforted: "People from Stone Village who are more serious will come tomorrow. You should go and rest quickly to recharge your batteries."

The next day, Lin Xing just woke up and heard that the cat raised by the well guard in the county had died.

She and Zhou Yan looked at each other, and the man guarding the well said that he was guarding the well, but everyone knew that water was the key to survival, and few of them seriously wasted it.

Especially now that the floods are spreading and the well guards are busy working on their own one-third of an acre of land, how can they care about this well.

Nowadays, the only one who often hangs around the well is the well keeper's cat.

It was used to staying by this well with the well keeper, and had food and accommodation here. This time it died unexpectedly, Lin Xing and Zhou Yan looked at each other, and they both became more suspicious.

The soldiers carrying water have returned.

Lin Xing came to the water tank, scooped up half a ladle of water, put it in front of her and examined it carefully. Xiao Yi analyzed it three or four times under her urging. At first he was still energetic, but finally he collapsed in the forest.

Xingzhihaihai.

"I think we need to talk about trust."

Lin Xing wiped her sweat and asked, "Is there anything wrong with this water?"

"I swear on my system's future, the water in this tank is indeed clean."

"Did you bring this water back from the well?" Lin Xing asked the soldiers.

Seeing them nodding, Lin Xing was still a little worried. Seeing that it was time to give out porridge, Lin Xing could only let them go and cook porridge.

She and Zhou Yan watched at the side for a whole morning, and were relieved after seeing that these refugees did not show any discomfort after eating the porridge.

Just when I returned to the house to rest, I heard someone hurriedly looking for Zhou Yan.

Lin Xing was uneasy and followed her there. Sure enough, she heard the report: "Your Highness, all the crops in Shitou Village have withered."

"The same goes for Jinshui Town!"

Several more soldiers came one after another, all talking about how many places in Cangzhou were completely dry.

Thinking of the strange noise she heard last night, Lin Xing understood it almost instantly.

This is someone who has tricked the tiger away from the mountain.

All their energy was focused on the well, but in fact the man had other reasons for poisoning.

One night plus one morning, combined with the places Zhou Yan heard about now, almost all of them were in the area around Jinshui Town.

It seems that that person is someone from around Jinshui Town.

Zhou Yan nodded. They didn't know much about Cangzhou, and the county magistrate didn't know anything about it.

In desperation, Zhou Yan could only find Su Xiaoxiao again and asked: "Do you know anyone in Jinshui Town or around here who is lonely or extreme?"

The logic of Zhou Yan is very simple, this kind of large-scale indiscriminate poisoning.

Unless you are psychologically distorted, you will not do such a thing easily.

Su Xiaoxiao hugged her robe tightly and said with an innocent face: "I have always been on good terms with everyone in the town, but... I really don't see anyone with this tendency."

This is true.

Lin Xing looked at Su Xiaoxiao's current situation with mixed feelings in her heart.

If she honestly does business in Jinshui Town, with the support of everyone in Jinshui Town, she will become the richest man in Cangzhou in less than three years.

But her thoughts were not right, which shattered the sympathy and sympathy in Lin Xing's heart.

"It's a pity that I did a bad thing with good intentions this time. Now that Jinshui Inn has been destroyed, I'm not as good as before in everyone's mind, and I can't help you much." Su Xiaoxiao pretended to be pitiful and put the basket in the forest.

In front of Xing and Zhou Yan, he lowered his eyes and said, "These are all the medicines I have planted in the past few months. Most of them have been wasted. These are the ones that can be used. See if there is anything you can do to help."

Lin Xing glanced inside and saw that they were indeed rare and life-saving medicinal materials.

Su Xiaoxiao also cares about the people of Cangzhou.

She sighed, touched Su Xiaoxiao's hand and said, "This matter itself is not your responsibility, and you don't have to blame yourself too much for it."

"Why is Zhou Yan so indifferent? Even though I am so selfless, I still don't see his favorability increasing?"

Lin Xing was frightened by the sudden sound.

When he came back to his senses, he saw Zhou Yan and Su Xiaoxiao both looking at him in surprise.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Yan asked.

Lin Xing shook her head, seeing Zhou Yan's uninformed look, and thought of the same sound she heard when she held Su Xiaoxiao that day.

Is she checking Zhou Yan's favorability level again?

Even these medicines are not given to the victims sincerely?

Lin Xing has always been a Buddhist and only looks at the results when doing things, not people's hearts.

But facing Su Xiaoxiao this time, I felt really unspeakably depressed.

She subconsciously looked at Zhou Yan. His face was expressionless, and he was indeed not disturbed in any way. Lin Xing waved her hand: "It's nothing, I just had a chill."

Before she finished speaking, a trace of suspicion flashed in Su Xiaoxiao's eyes.

The last time they were in the restaurant, Lin Xing was a little stiff.

"It's been cold recently, Madam, you still need to pay attention to adding clothes." Su Xiaoxiao said empathetically, "I just saw the victims of the disaster in Shitou Village being transported here, and their injuries are not serious. You should hurry up and take a look, don't delay.

If you save your life, I will leave first.”

Zhou Yan nodded, used a folding fan to lift up the red cloth covering the basket, looked at it carefully, and then placed the medicinal materials in Lin Xing's hand: "You take these first to relieve the victims, and I will investigate the case."

Come."

Zhou Yan made it clear that he did not want Lin Xing to interfere.

Lin Xing was happy to do her duty. She took the basket away and went to the temporary refugee camp built by the magistrate.

Mr. Li, the new member of the imperial court, was holding blueprints and giving instructions on the table outside the door. Lin Xing walked in and took a look. Several people were studying how to deal with the flood.

Although the heavy rain in Cangzhou has stopped, water several feet deep has accumulated in many places.

The Baitiao River and Yiyang River in Cangzhou were both full, covering five miles around them.

Now, the time has come to find ways to dredge water sources.

However, Mr. Li used a brush to draw on the drawing, and he was actually calculating how deep the soil would be piled on the bank to block the leakage embankment.
Chapter completed!