“Recently, disaster relief food has been stolen and exchanged, and the white rice specially collected by the government has become old rice.”

After Kankan said a few words, the people below began to become agitated, and Gu Siyuan took a look.

In order to appease the people, Gu Siyuan said in a deep voice: "It is human nature for you to worry about hunger and fullness. He has ulterior motives and secretly exchanged life-saving food and disaster relief silver. I will give you an explanation."

As the prince, Gu Siyuan had great prestige. He had led the victims to the mountains to take refuge earlier, and he had great prestige among the victims.

Xu Shao was hidden in the crowd and shouted loudly, "His Royal Highness, a gentleman, says that a horse cannot be chased. We will definitely believe it."

"When did His Highness the Crown Prince do anything wrong? We all can live well until now, thanks to His Highness the Crown Prince!"

With Xu Shao's words in the crowd, the people's hearts were stirred up, and if the disaster-stricken people said that there was no operation at all, it would be a lie. However, with the assurance of His Highness the Crown Prince, they could not make any waves for the time being.

Although it was old rice, most of it was rotten after picking and picking, but it could barely last a few days. The people were used to suffering and were not unreasonable people.

The restlessness in the past two days was all because no one came forward to give them an explanation. Now that they have Gu Siyuan's guarantee, most of them can wait peacefully for Gu Siyuan to investigate the cause and effect of the incident. People are even more despised.

A letter was sent from Fei Ge in Chang'an, bringing good news.

He discovered clues in the transportation process.

The wooden boxes on the food and silver shipped by the imperial court were all locked, and the key was only on Lu Ting's body.

They made no mistakes all the way to Xu County. However, on the day they first arrived in Xu County, they stopped at Mazhuang Station for one day.

Chang'an pretends to be a refugee and only asks for food. He can do anything.

After two days of secretly asking around at Mazhuang Station, I finally got some news.

"Are you from Xu County?" The boy who was also a waiter at the inn gave Chang'an a strange look.

Chang'an scratched his head, with a dull look on his face, "Brother Zhang, I am from Xu County. I was lucky enough to escape the flood for a few days, but my parents... well, let's not mention this."

Chang'an pretended to be sad, "Brother Zhang, I don't know what's going on in Xu County. I heard that the imperial court sent people to Xu County, and His Royal Highness must be here to take charge."

Brother Zhang waved his hand impatiently, "How did I know this? They are all low-level servants. Don't ask about this or that, so as not to offend the noble."

Chang'an smiled honestly and touched his head, "What did Brother Zhang say? The inn has been very empty these days. How can there be any noble or unnoticed people? Let's talk in private."

"Brother Zhang, I heard that the guards sent by the imperial court were stationed at our inn for a day, but what happened?"

"Tell me, is the officer leading the team very majestic? Is he riding a tall horse?..."

The series of questions made Brother Zhang upset. Seeing the innocence on this stupid boy's face, he kindly gave him a few words, "Don't be verbose in front of nobles in the future. That official is still riding high." They are all sitting in the carriage with their tall and tall horses, and they still dislike this one and that one."

Brother Zhang curled his lips and quenched his breath on the ground, "Our inn was also affected by the disaster. Mr. Lu was dissatisfied everywhere. He lost his key and asked everyone to search for it all night. Fortunately, he found it back in the end, otherwise we would all be dead. There’s no way to escape the relationship.”

"Key?" Changan narrowed his eyes.

"Yes, but I don't know what the key is. I was in such a hurry. You didn't know that Mr. Lu's face was pale when he came down."

……

There were no lights in the camp, and it was dark. The young guard leader and Lu Ting were temporarily detained here. Their hands were tied tightly with hemp ropes behind their backs, and they could not escape even if they had wings.

Lu Ting was thrown off by Gu Siyi's whip, his skin was torn and his flesh was torn, and he was lying on the ground dying, when suddenly a pair of black boots appeared in front of him.

"His Royal Highness?"

Lu Ting raised his head, his eyes bursting with light instantly. He ignored the hot wounds on his body and twisted forward like a maggot.

While crawling back, he kept saying, "Your Highness, I am really unjust. I really don't know when the contents of the box were changed."

It's a pity that Gu Siyuan was not here to interrogate him today, but had someone stop Lu Ting's mouth.

The young leader of the guard army, whose surname is Liu, has been in the army for more than ten years.

"Didn't you notice anything wrong when we stopped at Mazhuang Station that day?"

When he mentioned it, he also felt strange. The box had never been opened on the road and the lock on it was in good condition. How did it end up in Xu County?A hundred taels of silver from the imperial court turned into a pile of copper plates.

"Starting from Kyoto and walking all the way south, the soldiers never slack off, but the general doesn't know when exactly something went wrong?"

Liu Jiang lowered his head, his face full of shame.

Seeing that his shame was not fake, Gu Siyuan silently eliminated him from the list of suspects.

"There was something wrong that day at Mazhuang Station!"

"Brother Emperor, didn't we agree to leave this matter to my brother to investigate? Could it be that Brother Emperor doesn't believe me!?"

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