"Investigate! We must investigate strictly! Our Longcheng County is by no means a place outside the law!"
Ouyang Rong banged the nanmu koan table.
The eyelids of Wang Caozhi, Shopkeeper Ma and other grain merchants jumped again as they followed the pen holder on the table.
It's a familiar place again.
A familiar face again.
It was a familiar tone again.
But it's a bit expensive for the table.
But a certain young county magistrate actually took the photo while holding a gavel under his sleeve, otherwise his palms would not be able to hit such a nanmu table. He found that this thing worked quite well. No wonder he often watched the county magistrate in movies and TV series.
This is indeed a stress-reducing tool.
"This is simply unreasonable. Is there any royal law for publicly burning ships in our Dragon City territory? Is there any law?"
Ouyang Rong raised his hand fiercely, threatening to drop it and slap the table. All the grain merchants in the hall subconsciously leaned back slightly, but this time after waiting for a long time, no expected sound was heard.
At a glance, the young county magistrate raised his right hand high, lowered it gently, turned to the detective in blue and asked... This was a top-notch feint.
"Yan Captou, are there any casualties this time?"
"In the Ming Dynasty, only two boatmen suffered minor burns. The others were all familiar with the water and jumped off the boat in time to escape. Fortunately, the boat was not far away and our people rushed there early, so there were no other casualties."
"That's good. Fortunately among misfortunes, it's good that everything is fine."
"Sir, my food is gone!" It's better that someone is in trouble.
Shopkeeper Ma gritted his teeth and clutched the rosary tightly, his heart bleeding.
Wang Caozhi and others saw that the rosary beads in his hand had been pinched and broken, but they did not feel the same way. Instead, they hid a bit of gloating on their faces.
"Take it easy, Shopkeeper Ma." Ouyang Rong comforted and asked the detective in blue: "Two tank boats burned at the same time. This is too coincidental to be called a coincidence. Can we find out who set the fire?"
"The boatmen who rescued them all said that they did not see clearly how the boat caught fire. The fire first started to spread from the grain storage warehouse. Later, they found that the fire could not be extinguished, so they abandoned the boat and jumped into the river..."
Shopkeeper Ma cut his teeth and interjected: "They don't even try to save the fire, they just run away. They are all white-eyed wolves!"
Wang Caozhi sighed and said something fair: "Shopkeeper Ma, I can't believe that they have tried their best. After all, anyone in that kind of environment would be very panicked if the boat caught fire..." After a pause, as if thinking of something, he added:
"Besides, I haven't even eaten any food."
"Try your best!"
Shopkeeper Ma stood up suddenly, his rosary beads scattered on the floor, his face full of indignation:
"Not even a single person died, how dare you say they tried their best?! People from both ships ran back, and I was the only one who ran out of food. There is definitely something fishy, there is something fishy!
With red eyes, he looked up and said, "My Lord County Magistrate, you have to make decisions for the common people! You must investigate thoroughly."
Ouyang Rong raised his hand and pressed it softly, then said seriously: "Shopkeeper Ma, please don't worry."
He turned around and said to Yan Liulang: "To be able to set fire to the food without anyone noticing, either there is a ghost among the boatmen, or... someone with excellent water skills got on the boat at night and did it."
"It's possible that there's an insider taking care of it!" Shopkeeper Ma interrupted.
Ouyang Rong glanced at him and nodded, "Yes, it is indeed possible. We have to investigate both sides, Yan Captou, this matter is related to the shipping safety of our Butterfly Creek, we must deal with it in a big way!"
"Here!"
Yan Liulang's face was as usual and he handed over his hands, but just as he retreated, a burst of muttering suddenly came from the county government courtyard outside. Soon, Yan Liulang returned to the county government hall with a lost old businessman with a goatee.
It's shopkeeper Li who is absent today.
Wang Caozhi and the small grain merchants beside him looked around curiously.
In the past two days, Shopkeepers Ma and Shopkeeper Li took the lead in checking the grain storage. They were both busy transporting grain. They had no contact with their colleagues and had nothing to contact. After all, they had just had a falling out in front of the young county magistrate not long ago.
You fight for me to grab it.
Shopkeeper Ma was the first to be inspected at a dock warehouse. Yesterday evening, he couldn't wait to load the goods and leave first.
As for Shopkeeper Li, a warehouse containing more than 900 kilograms of grain was inspected just last night. However, Shopkeeper Li seemed to have heard about Shopkeeper Ma's experience and learned a lesson. Instead of transporting grain in the middle of the night, he chose to leave the city in broad daylight and gave up water transportation.
We use land transportation and personally supervise the transportation...
"Um, Shopkeeper Li, didn't you take someone to transport food out of the city? Why do you look like this..."
Wang Caozhi looked at the old businessman with a goatee whose hat was gone and asked cautiously.
Shopkeeper Li had a messy beard, his eyes were dazed, he seemed to be mumbling, and he ignored Wang Caozhi.
He was led into the lobby by Yan Liulang. If the latter hadn't reminded him to "pay attention to the threshold," he almost tripped over the one-step high threshold at the door.
The young county magistrate in the hall raised his eyebrows and looked at Shopkeeper Li's embarrassed look. He couldn't help but whisper to the secretary and clerk next to him: "No one should steal the stone covers of sewers in our county... Road safety must be taken care of."
"..." Secretary and junior official.
"...They are all robbers... They are all robbers... They are all robbers..."
When they came to the hall, shopkeeper Li murmured sadly.
Ouyang Rong cleared his throat and wondered: "Shopkeeper Li, did you... fall into the well?"
Shopkeeper Li opened his mouth but fell silent. When the young steward following him saw this, he cried with lingering fear:
"Reporting to the county magistrate, the shopkeeper hired us a porter this morning to carry the food out of the city. But when we passed the fields on the outskirts of the city, the victims and refugees in the broken shacks on both sides of the road suddenly swarmed up, like hungry wild dogs.
Likewise, all the food in our car was stripped away. Hundreds of bags of fine rice were all snatched away by these untouchables. What a sin!"
"The robbers... they are all robbers..." Shopkeeper Li knelt down with a thud, whimpering: "Master Qingtian, you have to make the decision for the common people!"
Ouyang Rong jumped up from his chair.
Bang bang bang! The gavel shook the whole hall.
"Unruly people, simply unruly people! Stealing food in broad daylight! The road security in Longcheng County has deteriorated to such an extent!"
The young county magistrate was heartbroken:
"This group of unscrupulous people in the disaster camp on the outskirts of the city have simply eaten the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard. Who gave them the courage to rob them? It's not like I didn't send them rice, and each of them had half a rice dumpling during the Dragon Boat Festival. Why did they rob?"
"Don't you know that even the rice dumplings are brought to Longcheng by all the virtuous shopkeepers? What's wrong with it being more expensive? If it weren't for you, they would just eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, forget it if they don't be grateful, and dare to retaliate
Benefactor!"
The young county magistrate seemed to be furious. He threw down the gavel, lifted up his clothes, flung up his sleeves and rushed out of the county government hall, to angrily scold the unimpressed people.
This impassioned speech made Shopkeeper Li and Shopkeeper Ma, who were complaining about injustice, stunned. Wang Caozhi and others who were eating melon on the side were even more stunned.
"Calm down the Ming Mansion! Calm down the Ming Mansion!" Fortunately, Yan Liulang, the secretary and other officials tried their best to stop him.
"Let me calm down? Why should I calm down?" Ouyang Rong said righteously, "Shopkeeper Ma and Shopkeeper Li have suffered such a great injustice, and the people under their rule are so ungrateful. How can you tell me to calm down!"
Yan Liulang said with a bitter face: "No matter what you do, just let the low-level officials do it. How can the Ming government come in person? You are the magistrate of a county. If there is something wrong, the sky will fall for us."
"Okay, you investigate, investigate carefully, investigate thoroughly!"
Ouyang Rong pointed the finger under his sleeve at Shopkeeper Ma. Shopkeeper Li and other shopkeepers signaled, setting the tone with their straight faces:
"Put down what you are doing in advance and send all the people out. First go to the disaster relief camp on the outskirts of the city to recover the rice, and then go to investigate the burned tanker. We must give justice to the two shopkeepers!"
Shopkeepers Ma and Li looked at the young county magistrate and couldn't help but feel a little moved. They really couldn't be picky.
"I obey my orders!"
Yan Liulang was about to go out after receiving the order. Shopkeeper Ma hesitated and hurriedly shouted:
"Wait a minute, Capt. Yan, you guys are going to investigate the case. What about counting the grain?"
Yan Liulang said casually: "Of course I'll let it go first. The business is important. Brothers, we have to go and seek justice for you two!"
Shopkeeper Ma was about to speak but stopped.
Shopkeeper Li's mouth was a little dry and he couldn't help but said: "Master, counting the food is also a business."
Yan Liulang frowned, held the knife in his arms, tilted his head and asked:
"Then what should we do? The workload of these two official tasks is very heavy. Our small county government does not have enough manpower to do it together. Originally, my brothers and I often patrolled the disaster relief camp in the suburbs. In the past, the security was very good. In the past two days, because of the
You were a little lax in checking the granary, but something so bad happened in a blink of an eye, which made the Ming government furious..."
"This..." Shopkeepers Ma and Li hesitated.
Yan Liulang sighed: "Then why don't we continue to check the granaries for you? That's right. The two shopkeepers have tens of thousands of dans stored in the dock. Being burned or robbed for two thousand dans is nothing. It's a trivial matter."
"No, no." Shopkeeper Ma waved his hands anxiously: "This time I burned a thousand dan, but next time I burn 10,000 dan. Mr. Yan must quickly find the real culprit and find out the truth. This is a big deal!"
Shopkeeper Li nodded fiercely as if he was making medicine, with a painful look on his face: "The grain that was robbed by those poor people must be recovered as soon as possible, and... we must also find out the truth! I suspect that someone among these unscrupulous people led the robbery, and the catcher must catch it.
, otherwise who would dare to transport food out of the city."
Yan Liulang was speechless and spread his hands: "Then tell me, what should our arrest team do first?"
Shopkeeper Ma whispered: "Why don't you hurry up and divide it into two groups to take care of everything..."
The blue-robed catcher didn't say anything, but the expressionless look on his face as he held the knife and stared at Shopkeeper Ma clearly showed his attitude.
Shopkeepers Ma and Li were a little guilty.
Yan Liulang suddenly nodded:
"Okay, just divide it. Although the brothers in the police squad are used to acting together, who makes the two shopkeepers the masters? Let's divide it into two batches. However, if we turn back, there will be insufficient manpower, the case has not been solved, and the food supply has not been solved.
You two, please don’t blame me and my brothers for not recovering it. The same goes for the food inventory, which is probably going to be even slower. Please bear with me, sir..."
"Okay!" The young county magistrate, who returned to the front and sat down again to rub his forehead, suddenly interrupted with a light shout: "Okay, what are you talking about in anger?"
Ouyang Rong shook his head and turned to Shopkeeper Ma. Shopkeepers Li and Shopkeepers frowned and said:
"You two, I know that you are in a hurry, but the safety of Dragon City is more important than counting the granary. If the score is clear, let's let Detective Yan and the others do their best to investigate the case. We can do the counting of the granary later."
He made the decision directly.
Shopkeeper Ma and Shopkeeper Li were so nervous that they didn't know how to refute, and were in a dilemma.
Why does it feel like the situation is still standing still? The door to store food and transport it out of Dragon City is shut tightly with a bang...
The two big grain merchants couldn't help but turn to look at Wang Caozhi and other colleagues, hoping to unite everyone to put pressure on the county government again.
But facing the two men's pleading glances, Wang Caozhi and a group of small grain merchants remained motionless, just like the clay Bodhisattvas in the temple, either looking away or turning a blind eye.
The moods of Shopkeeper Ma and Shopkeeper Li suddenly plummeted...
People's hearts are scattered.
Not long after, the Yamen shouted "Retreat".
No matter how unwilling they were, everyone in the lobby had no choice but to disperse one after another.
Wang Caozhi walked at the end of the grain merchants leaving the county government. Before going out, he couldn't help but look back. In the high hall, the "cheap brother-in-law" patted his wide sleeves with ease and calmly turned around and went to the back hall.
The short young man frowned and looked thoughtful.
…
Beside the patio in the back hall, Xie Lingjiang was feeding the fish again with his head down.
Ouyang Rong walked away with his hands behind his back.
"Aren't you busy anymore?" she asked curiously.
"The enemy must be surrounded..." He nodded. "It's over."
The young county magistrate smiled again and turned around first: "Let's go, I told you to take you to a place before. Let's go and have a look before it goes bankrupt."
Xie Ling Jiang was stunned.
It’s finally on the shelves, good news and bad news. The good news is that the brothers were so aggressive that the first order exceeded expectations. Although it’s not as good as the big brothers, it made me cry. The bad news is... ahem
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