[Red House] That natural stay

It was night, and Mo Jue and Xia Rong were planning to visit the magistrate's mansion again.Tomorrow is the day to give porridge, and in the past few days, the news has already spread inside and outside the city.For the people who have been hungry for many days, this is naturally great news.Even in this world of ice and snow, there is a subconscious smile on the corner of his mouth.

Let Xie Tiao stay where he is, and the two of them go to the city.As the saying goes, once you are born and you are familiar with it, those who are familiar with the road will soon arrive at the county magistrate's mansion. When passing through the 'refugee area' under the city, the thatched hut looks much stronger, and it seems that it has also been repaired.

As soon as the two entered the street where the county magistrate's mansion was located, they saw a small bridge being carried in through the corner door on the side of the main gate. It feels weird and weird.Then tacitly followed.

I saw the small sedan chair being carried into the main courtyard without any pause, and then a figure who seemed to be one with the night came out of the sedan chair.A young man with a dim yellow lantern stood at the door. After knocking on the door, the figure walked in.

Mo Jue recognized at a glance that it happened to be Zhou Zhi's study room. He met people in the study room late at night. It seemed that the matter to be discussed was not a small matter, but at this time, it could be called a major matter, and only those sent by the imperial court Relief team.

After the two followed, they lifted off the tiles on the roof and started 'peeping' again.

"Sir, you're here." The middle-aged man who was wandering back and forth by the table immediately greeted him when he saw him.

"Lord Zhou." Under the candlelight in the room, the black figure also revealed its full appearance.Thin figure, ordinary face, with two strands of beard on the chin, stroked occasionally, looks quite like a teacher in a private school.But the glint in his eyes showed that he was not as 'kind' as he appeared on the surface.

"Sir, please sit down quickly. You are finally here, but I am so anxious. I don't know what instructions brother-in-law has?" As soon as he sat down, Zhou Zhi couldn't wait to speak, his face was full of anxiety.

An imperceptible look of disdain flashed across the gentleman's face, but he immediately returned to his original state.As if he didn't see Zhou Zhide's anxiety, he pondered for a while before slowly opening his mouth: "Master Zhou, don't worry, the governor has already made arrangements, please read this." He took out a letter from his bosom, handed it Gave it to Zhou Zhi.

Zhou Zhi grabbed it, tore open the envelope, took out the thin white paper inside, and read ten lines at a glance.After a long time, he let out a long breath of relief.

"May I ask, sir, where is that batch of food stored now?" He raised his head and asked again.

"Your Majesty has already sent someone to the warehouse for tomorrow's disaster relief. Don't worry, my lord. But..." There was a sudden pause.

"Does my brother-in-law have some other instructions? Mister, why not just tell me." Zhou Zhi asked quickly.

Hearing what Zhou Zhi said, the gentleman said as if he had made up his mind: "This is not something we staff should take care of, but I still can't help but say more, after all, my lord, you are my wife's younger brother."

"Did something happen to my sister?" Zhou Zhi panicked in an instant. He owed his life to being the sister of the governor's wife. How could this not make him anxious?

"Don't panic, my lord. Ma'am is fine. It's just that when I went down to discuss matters in the governor's mansion that day, I saw that the food my wife was eating was really simple. After inquiring, I realized that not only my wife, but also the governor. Most of the food in the mansion was used for disaster relief, that's why I ate so poorly." Finally, he choked up a few times.

Only then did Zhou Zhi heave a sigh of relief, but immediately made a look of heartache and self-reproach, "I didn't expect my sister and brother-in-law to live in such a poor life, it really makes me feel ashamed. My brother-in-law is a good official and he is dedicated to the people, but he can't be so disrespectful." Take good care of your body. Mr. Trouble, tell my brother-in-law for me: You must take good care of your body, the whole of Qingcheng and the entire south of the Yangtze River is still counting on your brother-in-law to be the backbone!"

The gentleman also nodded quite seriously, expressing that he would definitely bring the words to him.

Afterwards Zhou Zhicai continued to speak: "If my brother-in-law doesn't dislike it, please trouble me to bring back the original food in the warehouse to Qingcheng! I think the food that my brother-in-law sent is enough for disaster relief, and there are more refugees in Qingcheng. "

"Then I will dare to thank Mr. Zhou on behalf of Mr. Governor, Mrs. Xiangbi will be happy too." The gentleman stood up and bowed solemnly.

"Sir, you're being polite!" Zhou Zhi hurriedly helped him up, and the conversation was a joy for both the host and the guests.

Mo Jue, who had heard every word of their conversation, frowned. Zhou Zhi looked incompetent but not stupid.From the conversation between the two, it can be seen that since Liang Shan asked his staff to send food to Zhou Zhi, why did he tactfully ask Zhou Zhi to send food back when he had nothing to eat?Obviously it's just a change of a batch of grain, wouldn't it be one action many times?The only explanation that made sense was that there was something wrong with the batch of relief food shipped from Qingcheng.But both sides knew it well, but they didn't point it out.

What audacity, even the disaster relief officials sent by the imperial court dared to do this.It can be seen that Liangshan really covers the sky with one hand in Jiangnan.

After the matter was settled, Liangshan's staff left.Not long after, Zhou Zhi also left the study.Afterwards, the two of Mo Jue went to the granary in Min County.Sure enough, under the cover of night, a group of people came in and out of a granary, constantly transporting batches of grain bags out.

The two carefully sneaked around to observe for a while, and then knocked out the two passing by, and dragged them in the corner in an instant to change their clothes.Because of the large number of people, no one noticed this little accident.

Mo Jue and the others followed other grain transporters into the warehouse. There were a few torches placed by the door of the warehouse, but they were only outside and did not go inside. Although it was winter, they were afraid of any accidents. , it is better to be cautious.So the interior of the warehouse was dark. Fortunately, the rice was packed in bags, and it didn't have much impact.

Mo Jue and the two entered the warehouse with normal expressions, and deliberately walked towards the dark interior.After hiding in the dark and finding that no one noticed that two people were missing, he relaxed and continued to move.After walking a little further in, he poked a small hole with a dagger on a rice bag, and the pure white rice spilled out finely and densely.Mo Jue caught it with his hand and put it in front of his eyes for a closer look.These rice grains are plump, with moderate hardness, and seem to have the smell of sunshine.This is apparently the new rice of the year.

Walking in, sure enough, I found another pile of rice bags.If you look closely, it is completely different from the new rice just now, with faint yellow or even cyan mildew spots.It is not as hard, moist and moist as the previous rice.This is probably the rice transported from Qingcheng, obviously soaked in water, but there is no condition to dry it in this weather, so it can only be allowed to mildew like this.I didn't expect to give such spoiled rice to the common people so frantically, so aren't you afraid of something happening?That's right, since he did this, how could he not have considered the consequences?

Looking at all this, Xia Rong seemed to have two flames burning in his eyes.The sons and daughters of the common people lived and died for the southern country at the border, but their parents and relatives in the southern country can eat such food to fill their stomachs. How does this make him face the thousands of soldiers at the border?

Mo Jue suddenly stretched out his hand to hold the trembling big hand at the side, and the slight coolness brought Xia Rong back to his senses.

"We have more important things to do." The boy who only listened to the side said.

Yeah, they have more important things to do now.It's still too late, and such a bad situation can be changed.

"Well, I will calm down. Thank you, Xiaojue." She bowed her head and thanked sincerely.

Mo Jue shook his head, "It's not too late, let's act quickly!" Then he whispered in Xia Rong's ear.

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Bags of rice were shipped out from the warehouse.

"Okay, are they all here?" The man in charge standing beside a train asked solemnly.

"Yes, it's all here." Everyone replied in unison.

"Okay, you guys set out overnight to transport the rice back to Qingcheng. I will remind you all in front of the governor," the man said.

"Thank you, Manager Liu." There was a sound of thanks, even though I knew it might be a polite remark, but what if I really mentioned something?You can stand out in an instant.

"Okay, everyone has worked hard. Here I am Liu..." Before I finished speaking, the warehouse just a few dozen steps away suddenly burst into flames.Instantly, his eyes widened in horror.

"It's on fire, put out the fire!"

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and when they came back to their senses, sure enough, the warehouse they just came out of not long ago was ablaze.The raging fire seemed to be burning in front of my eyes in the blink of an eye.

"Hurry up to put out the fire! Hurry up to put out the fire!" Butler Liu's distraught voice rang in his ears again.

It seemed that the time that was suddenly forbidden suddenly sped up again, shouts came and went, and everyone started running.

The flames soared into the sky, as if the whole sky was burning red.

The people outside the city also saw this scene, and suddenly, I did not know what to say:

"The granary is on fire!" There was an uproar.

This movement was not small, and the people living in the city all looked towards the place where the flames were soaring into the sky.Sure enough, it was the location of the government's granary. The news that the porridge would be given out tomorrow had already been spread. If all the food was burned at this time, what would they do!So, they all turned around and picked up their own utensils, and rushed to the place where the fire was getting bigger and bigger.

Those who didn't have time to bring anything with them picked up snow from the ground and threw it into the fire, trying to make some difference.

A few hours passed, and after a while of busy work, the granary was still burned to the ground.Nothing left.

Everyone fell to the ground exhausted, with sad and hopeless expressions, weeping silently, and they didn't even have the strength to shout out loud.

"There is still here, there is still a lot of food here, and we still have rescue!" Suddenly there was a loud cry, like thunder hitting my ear.

They turned their heads one after another, and sure enough, they saw bags of rice lying quietly in the boxes on that car, and some of them were even being kept exposed.

All the people rushed up in an instant, their eyes glowing green like wolves.

Butler Liu looked at the scene in front of him with a disheartened face, and understood that it was over, everything was over.