Fu Song

Chapter 460 Helpless
With a bang, a bag of grain fell from the grain cart, the rope at the mouth of the beam came loose, and the grain inside spilled all over the floor. The eyes of everyone around turned to the place where the grain was spilled. The children all stared.

Because at least one-third of the grain that falls on the ground is discolored old rice and moldy rice.

The captain who led the team bent down, grabbed a handful of rotten rice from the ground, stood up slowly, and slowly stretched out his hand to the officer who distributed the food in front of him: "Officer Gao Liang, this is what you gave us. food?"

Gao Bin looked down at the food in the opponent's hand, but did not answer the opponent's question.

The captain angrily threw away the rice in his hand, turned around and walked to the grain cart, grabbed another bag of grain from inside, drew a knife and stabbed it in, with a twist of his wrist, the grain bag had been cut open, slammed With a sound, the food inside fell out, which was better than the previous bag, but there was still a lot of moldy old rice inside.

Soldiers around shouted.

"Officer Gao Liang, tomorrow is New Year's Eve. If you don't have meat or wine, you don't even talk about it. Is it like this?" The captain was extremely angry: "We have been born and died with the general country all the way, how dare you treat us like this?"

The grain officer surnamed Gao opened his mouth, but he didn't make any excuses.

"I knew you were greedy a long time ago, but I didn't expect you to be so courageous that you dared to be greedy on our heads!" The captain stretched out his hand and pushed the food officer, pushing him back a bit.

If it wasn't for the fact that the other party's surname was Gao, and he was a close relative of the general, he was a confidant, the captain would have stabbed him long ago.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, the captain strode towards the granary.

"What do you want to do?" Gao Liang was startled, stepped forward, and stopped in front of him.

"What are you doing? Do you still have to ask?" The captain sneered, "I'm just taking back what is due to us brothers. Don't worry, Gao Liangguan, I will never take an extra catty, but you want to use these things to fool us." We brothers absolutely can't."

"Do you want to grab food?" Gao Liang officer also drew out his knife with a choke.

"It's not about grabbing, it's about taking back our food!" The captain sneered, pointing to the rotten rice on the ground, and said, "I'm not afraid of this lawsuit, even if it comes to the general."

"Come here!" Officer Gao Liang was pushed back a few steps by the captain, but he called out to the food guards around him loudly: "Guard the granary, send a signal, someone wants to grab the food!"

The surrounding food guards and the soldiers in the warehouse rushed out and formed a line behind Gao Liang officer. The swords were out of their sheaths, and the guns entered the forest. They were already in formation.

The captain looked at the situation, but he laughed loudly: "I fought the enemy on the front line, and sometimes I was hungry for several meals. You dogs are guarding the granary, and you eat your brains and guts one by one. Don’t think that we don’t know about all your bullshit activities. You didn’t talk about it before, because you didn’t bother to pay attention. Now everyone is about to have nothing to eat. If you still do this, I think it’s boring. !"

The lieutenant drew his knife and slapped his breastplate vigorously, making a bang-bang sound. Around him, some soldiers who came to transport food looked at the moldy rice on the ground and seemed to understand something. They also gathered slowly, Confront the Granary Guard.

Moreover, these people are people who have survived hundreds of battles on the battlefield. When they stand there, they are full of murderous aura, and there are very few people who draw knives. You have to step back.

The loud arrow shot up into the sky, Gao Liang officer was a little panicked, he looked back, and after a dozen steps, he was about to retreat to the side of the warehouse, and there was no way to retreat.

But the granary must not allow these people to enter.

"Go forward, don't blame me for being rude!" He hissed.

"You're welcome to give it a try!" The captain sneered.

The knife in Gao Liangguan's hand was pressed against the opponent's breastplate, but the captain leaned forward, but Gao Liangguan involuntarily retracted his hand.

The sound of horseshoes suddenly sounded, and when he saw the figure and the flag that appeared in the distance, Officer Gao Liang breathed a sigh of relief.

"General Li Yan, you came just in time!" Officer Gao Liang breathed a sigh of relief.

"General Li, you have to be the master for us!" The fierce school captain also shouted loudly when he saw Li Yan.

Li Yan got off his horse, glanced at the moldy rice on the ground, then at the captain, and said angrily: "What's the matter, don't you know to go back to the superior or even to me? How dare you act wildly in the grain depot?" Don't want to live anymore?"

"General Li, you can't protect him just because his surname is Gao!" The captain yelled aggrievedly: "Look, it's New Year's tomorrow, this bastard hides good things and gives us these things You didn’t treat your brothers as human beings!”

"Stubborn!" Li Yan was furious, and he just whipped his hand down, the captain trembled, although he stopped making a sound, the resentment in his eyes couldn't be concealed no matter what.

Li Yan turned around, looked at Gao Liangguan, and stretched out his hand without waiting for the other party to defend, "Take this thing down for me!"

Official Gao Liang was stunned, before he could explain himself, the soldiers brought by Li Yan rushed forward, pinned him down and tied him up, and the guards of the grain depot, because it was Li Yan who ordered the arrest, unexpectedly did not Dare to make a sound.

Although Li Yan's surname is not Gao, but in front of Gao Yingxiang, his status is much higher than this Gao's.

"Wait!" Li Yan turned around and shouted at the captain.

The captain who was beaten had a look of excitement and admiration on his face at the moment: "I knew that General Li would make decisions for us."

He turned and shouted at the soldiers, who all cheered.

Li Yan smiled, motioned for the guards to set up Gao Liangguan, and walked into the grain depot.

The door of the storeroom was closed heavily, but Li Yan's face collapsed.

Gao Liangguan struggled vigorously: "General Li, what do you mean?"

Li Yan waved his hand, and the guards released Officer Gao Liang and retreated.

"General Li, you know the truth." Gao Liang officer twisted his body and said, "There are ten large warehouses on the side of the grain depot, and now only one warehouse has grain, and the rest are all fake. It's these mildews, old rice, I got them through my old nose."

"I know!" Li Yan said: "Gao Sicao, but let the soldiers know that we have no food in reserve, what do you think will happen?"

Gao Liang fell silent for a moment.

"So, Gao Sicao, since the incident happened today, I can only use you to top the tank first, and this is what the general wants!" Li Yan said.

"What do you mean?" Gao Sicao's expression changed.

"It can only be said that it is your problem!" Li Yan took a breath and said in a low voice: "I can only say that you are corrupt and broke the law by stealing and selling military food, which caused some problems with the food."

"General Li, I can't afford this crime. I'm going to lose my head." Officer Gao Liang yelled.

"If you don't say that and the army collapses, you won't lose your head alone!" Li Yan snorted coldly: "Don't worry, it won't cut off your head, but to appease the anger of the soldiers, you must Let you go to the prison for a while."

"What's the use of beheading me?" Gao Liang said, "Could it be possible to produce food?"

"Get through these few days first, maybe food will come." Li Yan refused to say any more. "So, Gao Sicao, if I tell you this, I want you to go to the prison and keep your mouth shut, so that when the food arrives, it will be considered a meritorious service, you know?"

"This scapegoat might crush me to death!" Gao Liangguan tremblingly said.

"They all died for the great general!" Li Yan patted Gao Liang on the shoulder and sighed, "I hope the food will come in soon!"

He took out two bags of rice from the granary, threw them to his own guards, pouted his mouth, and the two guards lifted the grain bags knowingly, and walked out of the barn.

The snow-white rice made the captain who was waiting outside laugh like a flower.

But when he saw Li Yan's pale face, he was a little puzzled.

Then, he saw Gao Liangguan was bound and escorted out of the way, and then rushed towards the general's mansion.

"General, what happened? Could it be that this bastard really moved the army rations?"

Li Yan nodded with a serious face: "This dog really moved. I exchanged moldy old rice for good rice, and sold the good rice for money. But don't worry, we can get the rice back right away. Brothers lasted for two days, although the rice was a bit rotten, but at least it could still last for a few days. We caught that guy's off-line immediately, and we can recover the food."

"This dog won't sell the food to the opposite side?" The captain looked at Gao Liang's back and gritted his teeth: "Then I'm afraid I won't be able to chase him back. This year, everyone is short of food!"

"If you can't chase it back, go grab it!" Li Yan said coldly.

In the General's Mansion, in front of Gao Yingxiang, a civil servant was crying with tears in his eyes.

"General, I beg you to bring some rations to help the people in Huichuan! Before the general went out, the officials did everything they could to collect all the food for the general. Now the people in Huichuan have no overnight food. Some people are starving to death, if this continues, I'm afraid, I'm afraid there will be big troubles!"

Li Yan was walking outside the hall, and when he saw this scene, he stopped all of a sudden.

"Come in, just tell Du Fuzun about the actual situation!" Gao Yingxiang beckoned.

Li Yan walked into the hall, without explaining, but directly said to Gao Yingxiang: "General, let's get over the chaos at the granary first. I arrested Gao Sicao and accused him of stealing and selling military rations."

Du Zhifu, who was kneeling on the ground, jumped up and said in shock: "What, what? What's going on here?"

Li Yan said: "Master Du Mansion, it's not that the general didn't release food, but that there was no food. After we retreated to Nongdong Mansion, we suffered a big defeat. The logistics battalion was attacked, and there was not much food looted. .Now in order to stabilize the army, we can only say that Gao Sicao is stealing and selling military food, let’s cover it up first. You said, we can’t even guarantee food for the army now, how can we get food for you?”

Du Zhifu was in a daze, "What should I do? What should I do?"

"General, when will the food from Jianchang Mansion come in? How much?" Li Yan asked.

"Within ten days, there should be a batch of grain, about [-] catties!" Gao Yingxiang said.

"That's okay, the other party is willing to sell us food, so it's easy to handle." Li Yan said.

Gao Yingxiang shook his head slowly: "The other party doesn't want money for this batch of food, and they say it's for helping us. They said so, and they don't have any leftover food!"

Li Yan's face changed slightly: "You don't want to sell?"

"Yes, the ones that don't cost money are the most expensive ones. It's not that they don't have food, they don't want to sell it to us!" Gao Yingxiang said with a wry smile: "They are waiting for me to run out of money, until I have nowhere to go. This batch of [-] catties The food is just the so-called goodwill they throw out."

Prefect Du stared at Gao Yingxiang with wide eyes. He probably guessed what Jianchang meant when he heard this.

"General, they, do they want you to surrender to them?"

Gao Yingxiang glanced at him, and said: "It's just an introduction to asking me to surrender. What they really like is the whole of Dali. Xiao Cheng, who wants to annex the whole of Dali, this glutton saw the opportunity, how could he let it go like this?" A beautiful meal!"

"Impossible!" Du Zhifu yelled: "The Dali Kingdom has been established for hundreds of years. Back then, Song Taizu's jade ax split the land into a frontier. How can you lure wolves into the house now? General, if you defect to them and take them to seize Dali , Gao Xiangguo will not rest in peace under the Nine Springs."

Gao Yingxiang smiled, turned around and walked to the chair in the middle of the lobby and sat down.

However, Li Yan walked behind Du Zhifu calmly, bent down and took out a short dagger from the boot, stepped forward, covered Du Zhifu's mouth with one hand, and lightly touched Du Zhifu from under his ribs with the other. He stabbed in lightly.

Prefect Du stared at Gao Yingxiang in front of him with wide eyes, full of horror and disbelief.

As soon as Li Yan let go, Du Zhifu fell to the ground with a bang, his legs only stomped a few times, and there was no more sound.

"The Du family has stored a lot of food in the city, but they don't remove a cent. Do you really think we don't know?" Li Yan kicked the opponent, "You see that our military is not going well, so we sent someone to flirt with Dong Xian. When we I don’t know? I’m still here today to test our reality for the dog thief, hehe, whoever dies will die if you don’t die!”

Gao Yingxiang waved his hand and said: "Go, lead people around Du's house, search out the food stored in their cellar, and then tell the soldiers that this is the military food stolen and sold by Gao Bin. In this way, what you said is also true. , and there is no need to use Gao Bin's head to take the blame for the time being!"

Li Yan nodded: "General, the Du family is quite powerful in Huichuan, this time, we must not be lenient!"

"Go and do it!" Gao Yingxiang nodded.

"But General, it won't last long. How are we going to go next?" Li Yan asked softly.

"I have already sent people to Jianchang to talk." Gao Yingxiang looked gloomy: "Now, do we have another way to go?"

(End of this chapter)