The Wangjiang Tower was destroyed, and it was not possible to build one again in the same place in a day or two. Su Ren asked Liu Jian to supervise the work there, and where he would go every day to show his face, just to show Shouchun and even everyone in Huainan Kingdom that the eldest prince Liu Buxi was going to rise, so that those officials of Huainan Country could prepare in their minds.

Liu Jian was busy all morning, young people are very eager to do things, only in this way can they prove their worth, every afternoon Liu Jian came from Changxing Street, to offer treasure to the renovation of Wangjiang Building to Su Ren to say, get Su Ren two words of praise, Liu Jian was full of joy, happy like a child. If Su Ren pointed out the mistake, Liu Jian had a bitter face, and after listening to it, he returned to Changxing Street overnight and drove those Gu workers up to revise it.

"Yes, the hall of the wine store should be large, so that it can have the appearance of a wine store, and the second floor can receive distinguished guests with status, this design is very good!" Su Ren looked at the design drawings brought by Liu Jian, and praised them with a smile.

Liu Jian looked excited: "This is what I painted with my father in the past two days, since Mr. Su said it was good, then it can't be wrong." ”

"I didn't expect the eldest prince to have this, much stronger than me, I said one set at a time, I really want to do it, I can't do anything!"

"Hehehe, Mr. Su is modest, you say I will do it, I promise to do it properly."

However, something went wrong, and on the tenth day, several helpers who were digging the foundation dug down with a pickaxe, and they felt that something was wrong, and they opened their eyes and looked carefully, and found that there was water seeping out of the ground. Shouchun City is close to the Huai River, and it is not strange that there is water under the pit, but the water flowing out today is completely different from usual. The helper rubbed his eyes, and after making sure again, he screamed and crawled out of the pit.

"There is evil!"

The two helpers shouted while running, and came over to Liu Jian, who was standing on the side of the road. Liu Jian was discussing things with a few craftsmen, and suddenly listened to such a voice, and was frightened, looking at the helper's panicked appearance, his face turned black all of a sudden.

The two helpers rushed to Liu Jian and fell to their knees with a pop: "Little boy, no, it's not good, there is, there is evil!" ”

The two of them were not lightly frightened, and they couldn't speak. When Liu Jian came down to the foundation under the leadership of the two helpers, the pit was already surrounded by people, and they poked their heads out one by one and looked at the pit in surprise. To build a two-storey building, the foundation should be dug a little deeper, in order to dry, quicklime is the best foundation material, the quicklime and soil are mixed together, and it is hard and stable after tamping.

There is a lack of stone to build houses in the south, especially in cities and towns, and there is no stone to build a city, let alone build a wine shop. The bottom of the pit has been silted up with half a pit of water, the color is scary red, it looks like there is half a pool of blood, as more and more water seeps out from the side, the red water in the pit is also accumulating more and more, 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 hurriedly shook their heads, and said as they retreated: "How did you shed blood for no reason, I'm afraid it's not a good sign, why don't we choose another place, right?" ”

Another craftsman chimed in: "Yes, Wangjiang Tower has suffered from Zhurong in a good manner, and now it is bleeding again, this place is unlucky." ”

Everyone looked at Liu Jian, Liu Jian looked at the half pool of blood water, and after a long time, he said, "Find someone, scoop out the red water, and continue to work." ”

No one listened to him, these people came to work here for wages, and now that such a miracle has happened, it is said that it is not a good sign, and no one wants to provoke him. Under Liu Jian's command, no one wants to go down. Liu Jian came up with a killer idea, promising that as long as he went down to the pool, his salary would be doubled, but everyone was still indifferent.

The strange incident of Wangjianglou attracted the attention of Changxing Street, and the crowd of onlookers flocked to it, almost to the point of ten thousand empty alleys, all wanting to see how the blood flowed out of the ground, but some did not dare to get too close, standing on tiptoe around the big pit, trying to stretch their necks to look ahead. What you see is amazed, and what you don't see is moving forward.

I don't know what happened, someone pushed and shoved in the back, and a young man standing in front of him slaughtered him. The creature had been tossing in the red water for a long time, trying to call out to the people standing on the shore to help, but no one would reach out. Liu Jian couldn't look at it, so he pulled the guy out, and as soon as he got ashore, the young man howled and cried, and ran home while undressing.

The old craftsman said tremblingly: "I really can't do it anymore, how can there be blood and water underground, so let's report to the official quickly?" ”

No one wanted to go down, and Liu Jian also felt strange. I am the general manager of this construction site, and I am doing a good job, why did this kind of thing happen. Under the unanimous persuasion of everyone, Liu Jian knew that he couldn't do it anymore, waved his hand to let the helpers go home first, sighed, and walked out of the crowd dejectedly.

Su Ren was shaking his head in the courtyard trying to distinguish the jerky and difficult words in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and he was seeing the section on Jingwei reclamation. Jingwei turned into a bird and held a stone to fill the sea. I think Jingwei is too stupid, the sea is so easy to fill, later generations used high technology to think of various ways to build an island in the sea, and no one has seen anyone to reclaim the sea, it can really be described as ignorant and fearless.

Liu Jian rushed into the door in a panic, feeling down, and the expression on his face was more ugly than eating bitter melon. Su Ren inquired for a long time, and Liu Jian told the matter secretly. After hearing this, Su Ren also frowned: "Are you sure it's blood?" ”

Liu Jian nodded again and again: "I see it really, it's red and gorgeous, there is half a pool, and it's still increasing, I don't know how much blood is used, they all said that they have met evil spirits, it seems that the shopkeeper of Wangjiang Tower has done a lot of immoral things over the years, otherwise we will have such a big mess as soon as we take over, no, I want to find the one surnamed Lin, I can't get a murderous house after spending so much money." ”

Su Ren poured Liu Jian a glass of water: "It shouldn't be, how can there be blood in the ground?" Take it and take a look. ”

The incident of Wangjianglou caused a sensation in Shouchun, and the onlookers gathered more and more, standing on the edge of the pit one by one and pointing and pointing. The topic of discussion has changed from the heretical remarks just now to the accusation against Liu Buxian. Not far away, Su Ren could clearly hear that someone in the crowd was talking loudly, and he was analyzing the inevitable connection of blood and water at the Wangjianglou construction site from Liu Buxian's experience, and the people next to him were stunned and nodded one after another.

Su Ren pointed to the guys who were talking and asked Liu Jian, "Do you know those people?" ”

Following Su Ren's guidance, Liu Jian looked at the people carefully: "It seems that I have seen it somewhere, it is definitely not a businessman, and it will not be a civilian." ”

"Are you sure?"

Liu Jian nodded: "Yes, those people look like ordinary people in their clothes, but the smell on their bodies can't change, how can anyone spread linen cloth outside, but they are wearing a silk jacket with a top number inside?" ”

Su Ren didn't ask any more questions, pushed away the crowd and walked to the edge of the pit. It is indeed half a pool of blood, and the red is dizzy. As a modern person, the evil statement is not tenable at all in Su Ren's eyes, so there is only one possibility, that is, someone did it on purpose. Who is it? What methods were used? Su Ren suddenly remembered the deceptive tricks of those masters in later generations, a piece of paper was written on it with a special liquid, and when the liquid dried, nothing could be seen, and the handwriting could be shown after being roasted by fire, did this half pool of blood water use a similar method?

"What did you put in the foundation?"

"It's nothing, except that the soil is some white ash, and we build a house here and lay the foundation in this way."

"White ash?"

Liu Jian turned his head and asked someone to take a piece of quicklime and hand it to Su Ren: "That's it, this thing absorbs water well, and it is not easy to attract insects if this thing is buried under the foundation. ”

Lime, water, these two things mixed together certainly don't make water red, what is missing? Su Ren didn't know chemistry, and he was only forced to learn some chemistry knowledge in junior high school and high school, but it didn't seem to be of much use in this environment. Pacing back and forth along the edge of the pit, staring at the blood-red water in the pit, he suddenly felt uncomfortable in his nose, so he took two breaths, and a spicy smell immediately entered his nose.

Su Ren's eyes moved, and he aimed his gaze at the edge of the pit, and when he saw the yellow powder on the ground, his tense nerves suddenly relaxed. I found a rag, collected the yellow powder bit by bit, put it down under my nose again and sniffed it, the spicy smell made Su Ren sneeze several times in a row.

"Go, get a bowl of water!" Su Ren instructed Huang Thirteen.

Soon the clear water was brought in, Su Ren put the lime in, found a wooden stick and stirred it twice, the original clear water became turbid, and when the lime was basically dissolved and precipitated, the milky white lime water appeared in front of everyone. I didn't know what Su Ren was going to do, and the people around him craned their necks to watch.

Add a little yellow powder from the rag to the water bowl. Strange things 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 in the bowl became more and more red, until it was as red as blood, and the bowl was very scary to look at.

Liu Jian's eyes didn't leave Su Ren for a moment, he was shocked by Su Ren's trick-like movements, his mouth opened wide, and saliva flowed to his chest. The others were similar, all of them were a little dumbfounded, thinking that they had mistaken a bowl of water and turned into blood like this?

Picking up the wooden bowl, Su Ren said, "You saw it, right?" It's not an evil thing, someone deliberately makes it bad, and the problem is found, so work hard. ”

The two old craftsmen closest to Su Ren saw it most sincerely, and when Su Ren finished speaking, the eyes of the two old men were shining, and there was admiration and shock in Su Ren's expressions, so they just knelt down on their knees and kowtowed in front of Su Ren.

Handing the water bowl to Huang Shisan, so that the nearby onlookers could see it clearly, Su Ren wrapped the remaining yellow powder in rags: "Although I don't know what this thing is, I promise to find out who did it, and if you dare to make trouble here, you will have to pay the price." Glancing at the crowd with his eyes, two strong men shrank and slowly retreated.