Before Zuo Xingzhi could react, a group of government officials rushed in.
He frowned and asked, "What are you doing?"
The leader of the Yamen shouted loudly: "We received a report that there are bad people who intend to rob the official warehouse!"
"Everyone who comes to Huaizhou from other places is suspected and needs to be investigated!"
"You all go downstairs and accept questioning. No one can leave the inn until the suspect is identified!"
Zuo Xingzhi frowned slightly when he heard this.
Someone reported that someone wanted to rob the official warehouse?
Who is so bored as to report such a thing?
As smart as Zuo Xingzhi was, he didn't understand the logic.
He knew that there were many people coming to Huaizhou to buy grain this time, but King Huai was very strict about grain.
In Huaizhou, the daily rice sales are limited, and you have to obtain household registration to buy rice.
Moreover, the upper limit of rice purchase for each household register per day is ten kilograms. If the amount exceeds this amount, it will no longer be sold.
Because the situation is so tight, Huaizhou's daily supply of rice grains is just enough for the people of Huaizhou to eat. Basically, people coming from out of town cannot buy rice grains.
This is also one of the fundamental reasons why after Zuo Xingzhi arrived in Huaizhou, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get food.
It was precisely because he could not collect food that he concluded that Tang Miaoxin could not collect food.
In this case, if they want to get rice grains from Huaizhou, they can only rob Huaizhou's official warehouse.
But Zuo Xingzhi had always suspected that King Huai's official warehouse was a smoke bomb. It was unlikely that King Huai would use the official warehouse tree there as a target, waiting for everyone to rob it.
He originally thought that Tang Miaoxin had already made a breakthrough, and he just needed to keep an eye on her.
But now he is not so sure, and the direction of this matter has completely exceeded his expectations.
Now Zuo Xingzhi even wondered whether Tang Miaoxin had done something to attract the attention of King Huai.
When the official saw Zuo Xingzhi standing there without moving, he glared at Zuo Xingzhi and said, "What are you doing standing there stupidly? Why don't you go downstairs and get checked!"
The guard next to Zuo Xingzhi was a little angry and wanted to take action. He stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Let's go downstairs right now."
The guard glanced at the officer, who kicked him and said, "What are you looking at? Are you the one stealing food?"
The guard's face was very ugly, and his hand was holding the hilt of his sword.
The officer's eyes widened, he rushed directly in front of the guard, snatched the sword from his hand and said: "What? You still want to do it?"
The martial arts skills of guards are much higher than those of officers. When encountering this kind of situation, the first reaction is to hit people.
Zuo Xingzhi put his hand on the guard's hand and said to the officer with a smile: "The officer misunderstood."
"Didn't you say that someone wanted to rob the food? We just thought it might not be safe here."
"In case you encounter a robber or something, we can also be of some help."
The official looked him up and down sideways, and found that his appearance was quite harmless.
Coupled with the aura he had gathered at this time, he looked like a gentle and gentle young man.
The officer said coldly: "Really? I see that you guys all have weapons in your hands. Are you the robbers who want to rob food?"
Zuo Xingzhi said helplessly: "I am afraid of encountering danger when I go out, so it is normal to bring a few guards with me."
"Besides, there are only a few of us, how can we have the courage to rob the granary?"
The official looked at him again, his face was not very good, and he sneered and said: "That's not necessarily true, after all, people can't be judged by their appearance!"
"I've heard that those scholars who look weak and weak are full of evil!"
Before this operation, the Sixth Prince specifically told them that the more people don't look like bad guys, the more likely they are.
There is no need to be polite to these people.
Zuo Xingzhi didn't expect that this official would be so difficult to deal with, so he said, "What the official said makes sense."
"But we really just came here to enjoy the scenery because we heard that Jiangnan in Huaizhou is extremely beautiful."
The official said in a deep voice: "I don't care if you are here to enjoy the scenery, please show your way!"
"I have to find out who you are and what your purpose is in coming to Huaizhou."
Looking at this posture, one of the people on the left knew that it would not be easy for them to send them away this time.
And at this time, they were in this inn, and none of the spies he sent out had returned, so he didn't know what was going on outside.
He had been the left prime minister in Qi for many years, and he knew very well that these lower-level servants in the yamen did not have much reason to speak.
So he simply stuffed a piece of silver into the officer's hand and said warmly: "We really just came to see the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan, we have no other thoughts."
The officer weighed the money in his hand, and his expression became slightly better: "This matter was given by the superiors, and we are only following orders."
"You take out the road guide and register it. As long as you can prove that you are a good person, we will not make things difficult for you."
When Zuo Xingzhi heard this, he wanted to scold his mother.
What does it mean to prove that you are a good person? This is the most difficult thing to prove in the world!
He now extremely suspected that these officials had no money to spend and deliberately came out to blackmail people.
It's just that he had other thoughts when he came to Huaizhou. At this time, he couldn't offend these officials, otherwise he would easily get burned.
He could only say patiently, "Thank you, sir, for your advice."
Their road guide is naturally fake, it is the road guide of Zhao State.
His identity has also been modified a bit. He is a traveling scholar from a scholarly family in the State of Zhao.
On the surface, there seemed to be no problem with their identities. After the official asked them to pay another deposit, they were allowed to stay in the lobby of the inn.
The officials cordoned off the entire inn and did not embarrass them, but they were not allowed to leave the inn or go back to their rooms to rest.
At this time, Zuo Xingzhi also realized that something was wrong.
These officials put them all under house arrest in this inn. There is something inherently wrong with this matter.
After all, this attitude is too gentle for robbers, but too harsh for ordinary people.
It looked more like they were going to lock them up temporarily and extort them.
Zuo Xingzhi's eyes narrowed slightly, wondering in his heart whether this was Tang Miaoxin's handwriting?
If this was Tang Miaoxin's handiwork, how did she get these officials to obey her orders?
The officers locking them up here at this time, does this mean that Tang Miaoxin will take action tonight?
This conjecture made Zuo Xingzhi feel a little uneasy. If they were kept here all the time, would they miss a lot of things?
Zuo Xingzhi's brows furrowed slightly, he waved, and the guard came to his side and asked, "What are your orders, Master?"