"Okay..." After Mingruo finished washing, she saw Si Haochen coming in with a clay pot.
Mingruo took a closer look and said, "Wow, my husband can actually cook rice-treasure porridge!"
"Yes." His Highness Prince Yun's proud little expression was so foul that it caused Ming Ruo to run wildly like an old deer. He must be rewarded with a sweet kiss.
"If you keep making trouble, don't eat anymore." Si Haochen put the claypot on the table and caught the troublemaking bad girl in his arms.
"The porridge won't taste good when it's cold." Mingruo got out of her husband's arms, went to the kitchen to find some snacks, and slowly baked them in the alchemy furnace.
"This... buns can be baked?" In Si Haochen's understanding, buns are steamed. He picked up a bun with a crispy skin and looked at it.
"Yes, let's bake buns..." Mingruo also took a bun, "That's how they eat it in Xiliang."
Si Haochen raised his eyebrows slightly: "You have never been to Xiliang, how do you know there are baked buns?"
"I said... I saw it in a dream, do you believe it?" From the present point of view, isn't the previous life just like a dream?
"I'll believe it if you tell me." Si Haochen touched Mingruo's head.
"Haha, my husband is so cute." Mingruo served Si Haochen some braised beef, "What are we going to do next? Even if Emperor Danxu receives the letter and sends someone from the Sanfa Department, it will probably be half a month later.
.”
"If we have money to help, it will probably arrive in ten days." Si Haochen said with a smile, "However, we won't wait for the people from the Third Law Department to verify the evidence before taking action."
After spending so much effort, I must eat meat. Emperor Danxu has nothing to do, so it would be nice if he could drink soup.
Si Haochen spent two days integrating all the incriminating evidence.
In the past two days, Xunzhou City has lost its peace as before.
First, the prefect got mad and called all the doctors in the city, but nothing improved. The prefect’s wife saw that her husband was paranoid all day long, squatting in the Buddhist hall and unable to come out, so she had to send people to the nearby state capital to invite famous doctors to see him.
diagnosis.
However, the doctors with good medical skills in the nearby prefectures were all recruited by Shi Shilang to Feilai Temple and various resettlement sites for the victims, and there was not even a trace of the doctors.
In fact, Cheng Taishou was frightened by the 'ghost', but he just stopped lifting it. Seeing that all the gold in the darkroom was taken away by the 'ghost', this was the source of his madness - if the master's gold was lost, the master would definitely
Kill him...
Several principals of the Xunzhou Chamber of Commerce were either suffering from strange illnesses and looked like stone sculptures, or they were so angry that they were bedridden...
This news spread from the doctor's mouth, and he added at the end, "Don't tell others." In this way, it spread from ten to ten, and it became a secret known to the people in the city——
"This must be the old man's eyes opened. Evil people will be punished..."
"The price of brown rice in Gongjia Grain Store has reached 300 cents per liter, and everything that can be sold at home has been sold out... We are going to starve to death anyway, so it would be good to have a few people to support us..."
"If you stay in the city, you will starve to death. If you leave the city, you will die of illness. Anyway, there is no way to survive..."
A tall man lowered his voice and said: "I went to carry a big bag for the Liu family the day before yesterday. The warehouse in the north of the city was full of grain... Where did they get so much grain? Why can't they sell it cheaper if they have so much grain?
ah?"
"I know where the Liu family's food comes from." An insider's voice was even lower, "My second uncle's fourth cousin's daughter-in-law and brother are civil servants in the government. Do you remember that the city gate was just sealed and no entry or exit was allowed?
At that time, the government would open a warehouse to store grain, and each family would have ten liters for adults and five liters for each child..."
"Remember... I took my household registration and received thirty-five liters of grain."
"The emperor asked Governor Cheng to distribute grain for disaster relief, but Governor Cheng only distributed a little bit to the people in our city..." The man's tone became lower and lower, "The rest were sold to the Xunzhou Chamber of Commerce, and the disaster victims outside the city
I didn’t even get a grain of food...I couldn’t stand the hunger anymore, so I had no choice but to flee elsewhere..."
Everyone was silent for a while. It turned out that the grain they bought at a high price in the grain store in the city should have belonged to them and the victims outside the city. Those evil-hearted people not only taxed the grain and sold it for money, but also drove up the price of grain. They really sucked their blood away.
Not to mention, even the bones will be broken to extract the oil.
Mingruo sat at the window of the teahouse, listening to the whispers of the people, and then looking at the exquisite snacks and tea on the table - no wonder these big restaurants and teahouses can keep running, it turns out that there is a lot of 'tax grain' in the treasury
Woolen cloth.
Seeing that the tall man was about to leave, Si Haochen made a gesture and asked the secret guard to follow him.
The man chatted a few more words on the street and then went home. He turned into the small alley where he lived and was blocked by someone.
"Two eldest brothers, I really don't have a penny on me." Now I don't have any money, let alone money. Even I can't exchange it for a bucket of rice.
"Do you know where the Liu family's grain depot is?" a secret guard asked.
"I know... I know..." The tall man nodded.
"Take us there." The secret guard took out a five-tael silver ingot and weighed it in his hand.
"Okay." Once he knew where the food came from, he was willing to lead the way even if he didn't give any money.
Arriving at the warehouse in the north of the city, the tall man pointed to the Liu family's granary, and then pointed in another direction and said: "A mile over there is the Zhao family's granary. I have worked in both places, and I have saved money at least.
Tens of thousands of stones of grain.
I also heard from people who worked with me that a cellar was dug in the Gong family's warehouse in the east, and more grain was stored in it."
"Do you know the way?" the secret guard asked again.
"I recognize you." The tall man nodded repeatedly.
"lead the way."
The tall man took the secret guards to find the Gong family's grain warehouse. This warehouse didn't look big from the outside, but it was guarded by three times more guards than the Liu family's before.
The secret guard carried the tall man up the tree like he was carrying a chicken. The tall man looked at the position and said: "The people who worked together said that they entered the basement from a small house. There was a big stone grinder next to the small house.
, it should be that room.”
"Yeah." The secret guard secretly noted the location, planning to go in and check it out later.
The secret guard put the tall man down on the tree and threw two fifty-tael silver ingots to him: "You can leave."
"Thank you." The tall man put the money into his arms. He was about to starve to death. If he didn't have his mother and sister to take care of at home, he and these two heroes would have robbed the chamber of commerce's granary! (Secret Guard: We are
Serious people, not bandits!)
At dawn on the third day, Prince Yun dispatched three thousand soldiers to the city.
The secret guards took control of the defense of the city gate and city wall last night. Mingruo stood on the tall city tower and saw the rising sun dyeing the eastern sky red, and the soldiers in military uniforms entered the city covered in rays of light.
The original defenders were all driven outside the city and ordered to build three camps to house the victims before sunset. Anyone who violated the military order would be punished with death.
As the sun rises in the east, there is a lively labor scene in the open space outside the city. All the alleys in the city are under martial law, and people are not allowed to move around at will.
