Luan's return today

Chapter 39 The Rat Punching the Hole
That night, Li Fang and Xu Wen were very grateful to Jiang Yue and Li Xing for what happened today, so they set up a table of good wine and food in the courtyard to treat the guests.

Jiang Yue and the others didn't refuse either, they also wanted to see if they could get any news about the granary.

During the banquet, they couldn't help talking about what kind of thing they were contaminated with today, and they were besieged by snakes.

Li Xing was very curious to see them, and he said it openly without hiding it.

"The outer robes of the two of you are stained with a strange fragrance from the Western Regions - the sad and crisp breeze."

"This fragrance comes from the snow-capped mountains in the Western Regions. It is made from the Happy Valley on the mountain. It is colorless and odorless. It is a good medicine to help people calm down."

"However, the sad and crisp breeze cannot be matched with the scent of daffodils, otherwise the combination of the two will produce a scent that stimulates snakes. It happens that there is a pool of daffodils in the granary bamboo garden."

"But the fragrance of the sad crisp breeze doesn't last very long, usually three or four days. Can you think about who you stay with for a long time?"

After leaving the line for a while, Li Fang and Li Fang recalled it, their pupils suddenly shrank, and their faces froze, and they said the same thing, "Dancing girl?"

"Oh?" Jiang Yue raised her eyebrows, meaning unclear.

Li Fang turned his head to look at Jiang Yue, with a serious expression on his face, and said embarrassedly, "It's the woman that my lord met the first night when I came here."

After Jiang Yue heard it, she realized who they were talking about, but at that time, her attention was all on Shen Hui and the other three, and she never paid attention to that woman.

But now that I think about it carefully, the dancing girl is taller than the average Central Plains girl, and her facial features are more three-dimensional. She really doesn't look like a Central Plains person.

Jiang Yue seemed to catch something in her mind, and quickly asked, "How did this dancer get here?"

Li Fang and Xu Wen also smelled the tricks, so they said without any concealment:
"I heard from Shen Hui that this was sent by Lord Hou. It was not too early or too late. It arrived in Jiangnan the night before your lord came to the government office."

Even if Li Fang didn't say the rest, Jiang Yue could guess it, but it was Shen Hui who dragged them to enjoy the dance that night, and then was given a sad breeze by the dancer.

And Shen Chong had already guessed that the first thing she would do when she came to Jiangnan was to raise food, so no matter what, she would not let the granary go.

At that time, no matter whether she escorts Shen Hui or Li Fang surrenders, they will inevitably fall into this predicament.

What a poisonous scheme!
However, I heard that rice porridge was served on the day the dancer came. It is impossible for the food to disappear in such a short period of time. Where would it be?

Jiang Yue and Li Xing looked at each other.They all saw the same answer in the eyes of both parties, that is, the granary.

The two of them immediately got up and said goodbye to Li Fang and the others.Instead, they called Mingyu, and the three of them walked towards the granary.

The full moon hangs high, exuding bursts of afterglow, shining on the ground like daytime.

The three of them stood in front of a pile of ruins, their faces contemplative.

"Li Xing, where do you think it will be?"

"underground!"

Jiang Yue nodded, she thought so too.

There is only one reason for being able to evacuate the grain silently, and that is that there is a secret room inside, but now the ground has been burned to ashes, so it can only be underground.

Before Mingyu could react, Jiang Yue and Li Xing were dragged here from under the covers. He didn't know why, and seeing them talking to themselves like a charade, he was even more puzzled.

"What underground!" Mingyu asked, yawning.

Jiang Yue didn't answer too much, but just picked up a shovel and stuffed it into Mingyu's hand.

Then he took the lead in digging shovel by shovel into the ground among the ruins. After half an hour, the ground had been dug half a foot deep, but nothing was found.

Jiang Yue and Li Xing looked at each other, both doubting their own judgment, but suddenly Ming Yu shouted:
"General, come here, there seems to be something here!"

Jiang Yue immediately walked towards Mingyu, squatted down and took a look. It was so dark that she tapped it twice with the shovel in her hand, making a rattling sound. From the sound, it must be hollow inside.

A gleam of joy flashed in Jiang Yue's eyes, and she finally found it!

"Keep digging and see what this is."

Another half an hour later, it was already the middle of the night, and the entire Jiangnan city was extremely quiet, with occasional wisps of wind blowing, causing the bamboo leaves to rustle.

"General, there is a lock here!" Mingyu's voice sounded again.

Jiang Yue hurried over and saw that although the lock was covered with dust, it was still as bright as ever, so she was sure that the contents inside were grain.

Then she yelled Li Xing, and saw Li Xing slashed down with his sword, and the lock was broken into two sections immediately, and then she lifted the cover, and what came into view was a staircase leading to the depths.

Jiang Yue took out a fire pocket from her bosom, illuminated it, and Mingyu and the three walked slowly towards the secret room.

The passage of the secret room was winding. After walking for about a quarter of an hour, there was a spacious room inside. There were dozens of burlap bags in the room, all of which were sealed with lids.

A flash of excitement flashed in Jiang Yue's eyes, she took the sword in Li Xing's hand, and stabbed it in from the side of the cloth bag, only to see white rice sprinkled out of it.

Jiang Yue held the rice on the ground and frowned. There is so much rice, but the people are hungry all day long, which shows her heart!
However, Mingyu, who was wandering around, ran over from the other side.

"General, there is another exit at the other end of this secret room."

Jiang Yue raised her head to look at Mingyu, with deep thought flashing across her eyes, she immediately got up, "Let's go and have a look."

Afterwards, Jiang Yue and the others walked along another secret passage in the secret room, making many turns and detours along the way. After walking for nearly an hour, they finally saw the exit.

Jiang Yue and the others climbed out from the secret passage, only to see a piece of red ground, and lifted the red cloth in front of them. The scene was very familiar. It was the ruined temple outside Jiangnan City, and the place where they came out was under the altar in front of the Bodhisattva.

Jiang Yue finally knew what they wanted to do, turned around and went back the same way, and stood the punctured bag against the wall to block the traces of the punctured bag.

Then they went to the ground in the backyard and buried the excavated soil back, piled with burnt beams on it, and arranged it as if no one had ever been there.

Turn to Mingyu and Li Xingdao.

"Don't let anyone know what happened tonight."

Ming Yu and Li Xing nodded.

After returning, Jiang Yue wrote a letter and handed it to Ming Yu, "Send this letter to General Guan Song in the south of town."

Ming Yu accepted the letter, but couldn't understand Jiang Yue's actions, "General, what are you?"

"Catch the thief and take the stolen goods, catch the adulterer and make a pair, I want to invite you into the urn!"

Li Xing instantly understood Jiang Yue's approach, and asked, "I don't know when this turtle will come, but the people in Jiangnan have been hungry for three days, and they can't afford it!"

"As for the food, I have already made sufficient preparations to keep it safe for three to five days. Before dawn tomorrow, I will take people to fetch food. You will stabilize the people in the city."

(End of this chapter)