The strategy of conquering the national division begins with drawing Thangka

Chapter 49
in the library.

Huo Erye was wearing a white round-neck gown embroidered with purple bamboo, sitting at the desk writing a pen.

Banxia was boiling water and ordering tea in front of the tea table on the left, looked up and saw Bai Zeqing, said "huh" first, then smiled coquettishly: "It's our Sanniang who has eyesight, the doctor's lady is so pretty!"

Huo Erye raised his head when he heard the sound, and saw Bai Zeqing wearing a silver-red jacket and skirt, covered with a moon-white boudoir drape, making his skin as white as jade. His jet-black hair was simply tied up in a bun, and half of it was neatly draped over his vest. His figure was light and slender.

Huo Erye's eyes lit up, but in the next second, he saw Bai Zeqing striding into the door with his skirt lifted, he was slightly stunned, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he simply lowered his head and continued writing.

As soon as Bai Zeqing entered the study, he went to the pinellia tea table unceremoniously to pick up the teapot and poured a full cup of tea down.Then he walked to the desk, bowed politely, and asked, "Second Master, how is the situation at Bing Shancang?"

"Come, come, let me tell you," Banxia smiled and waved to her, "Don't disturb the second master's writing."

"Writing a notebook?" Bai Zeqing was a little surprised: businessman, writing a notebook?
"That's right, the Huo family is the imperial merchant of the world bestowed by the emperor, and has the right to reach directly to the heavens." Ban Xia added tea to the opposite teacup, pointed, and said, "What do you want to ask?"

Bai Zeqing pulled the hem of her skirt and walked towards Banxia, ​​and said as she walked: "All envy the imperial merchants of the world, who reach heaven. And I don't know, this official warehouse supervision is not easy to supervise. Since you are not in the officialdom, others will avoid it for fear." Not enough."

Huo Erye raised his wrist slightly, glanced at her, frowning slightly, was stunned for a moment, did not speak, and did not write.

Bai Zeqing had already sat across from Banxia, ​​and asked, "Is there still food in the Yushan warehouse? How long is the food in the Bingshan warehouse enough for the porridge factory?"

Ban Xia took a sip of tea, and said angrily: "Little beauty, you have to ask questions one by one, how do you ask me to answer them like this?"

Bai Zeqing couldn't help scolding her for being hypocritical in her heart, and she was not polite, saying: "If you love it, don't talk about it. If you don't talk about it, I'll pester the second master."

Huo Erye shook his head, and continued to write after he collected himself. He was afraid that his hand shaking would ruin the writing.

Ban Xia snorted coquettishly, and said, "You're dressed like a girl, but you're still so shameless when you talk." Seeing Bai Zeqing making a gesture to get up, she hurriedly called her back, saying, "The Yushan warehouse is completely burned. All the warehouse soldiers who were arrested said it was a fire dragon, and after interrogation and interrogation, no one dared to say that they heard an explosion."

"Fire dragon? You can make it up!" Bai Zeqing pursed his lips, paused suddenly, thought for a while, and said, "No, someone deliberately guided it. When the fire started, I seemed to hear someone yelling that the fire dragon is coming."

"Yes, the second master said the same thing." Ban Xia nodded heavily, "Those who want to mislead Cang Bing on purpose."

"Then what should we do?" Bai Zeqing asked.She didn't believe that the second master had no countermeasures.

"There is a warehouse manager's wife and brother in Yushan warehouse who is a gambler. He owes us hundreds of taels in the Xicheng gambling shop, and borrows money to make money. After counting back and forth, he owes us thousands of taels. The IOU The guarantee is the warehouse manager."

Bai Zeqing was speechless, the Huo family even opened a gambling shop to borrow usury?In previous years, it was probably true that the Huo family was in charge of the black market.She blinked and asked, "The warehouse manager's confession must also be a fire dragon?"

"The warehouse manager knew the death penalty, so of course he insisted that the fire dragon burned the warehouse. His wife and brother confessed first to protect themselves, saying that the storage in the Yushan warehouse is moldy rice, and they will eat dead people!"

"That's why we have to burn the warehouse! You bastard!" Bai Zeqing punched the tea table, causing the tea cups on it to jump up.Huo Erye stopped writing again, closed his eyes for a moment, and then continued to write.

Bai Zeqing didn't pay attention at all, and only said angrily: "Twelve warehouses! These warehouse managers, the food in the warehouses is their life! How dare they?"

"All the twelve warehouses have been replaced with moldy rice, and their lives have long been bet on it." Ban Xia said, "We will get the testimony of his wife and brother here, and then go to interrogate the warehouse manager. It has been confirmed: nine of the twelve warehouses contain moldy rice, and the other three are simply empty warehouses."

"You can plead guilty after reading a testimony?" Bai Zeqing didn't believe it.

"Oh, of course I refused to admit it at first." Ban Xia said perfunctorily, "Of course I used a little trick."

Bai Zeqing looked at Ban Xia suspiciously.

Ban Xia secretly glanced at the second master, then cleared his throat, and said in a low voice: "I didn't teach the children badly. You insisted on asking."

"She still uses you to teach me badly?" Huo Erye finally couldn't help speaking.

It doesn't sound like a good thing.Bai Zeqing rolled her eyes, and cursed in her heart: Yes, yes, I was bad at first, but in front of the second master, I really played tricks.

Ban Xia laughed, and said: "Actually, it's nothing. The warehouse manager has a son, a daughter, and a pair of twins. The people from the gambling shop in Xicheng went to his house to collect debts last night. How could his family take out thousands of taels? They arrested her wife and children, saying they were going to sell them into Panyue Tower to pay off the debt. They also deliberately let his wife and brother go. Guess what?"

Bai Zeqing said: "As long as his wife and brother bring him a letter, and the interrogator promises that if he confesses, he will buy and sell the debt and save the lives of his wife and children, then he will be able to tell the truth."

Ban Xia was slightly surprised, but still said: "Exactly. But..." Ban Xia frowned, not knowing what to say.

But Bai Zeqing said: "The testimony of the storehouse manager in Yushan probably means that the moldy rice was ordered by the mastermind of Sun Zhifu? As for the burning of the granary, I'm afraid he still denies it."

Ban Xia patted the case and said: "That's right, this is the most annoying part. It's just about moldy rice. I'm afraid that our second master will be responsible for negligence. The fire dragon burning the warehouse is even more outrageous, but now there is no evidence to prove it. Behind the scenes."

"Moldy rice. Burn the granary." Bai Zeqing drew a line on the desk with his finger dipped in tea, and said, "The most important thing right now is to find out where the granary rice was transported to? The second is to find the magistrate Sun and commit suicide." The clean man who was the first to find him that day. The third is to protect the warehouse manager so that he doesn't get silenced."

Banxia looked at Bai Zeqing with bright eyes, and she glanced at Erye Huo again, before she said with some admiration: "Second Master also said the same thing. The portrait you drew has already been copied and sent away by Second Master. Go to all the hidden piles in the city to search. The third lady is investigating the whereabouts of Cangmi."

"Previously, the magistrate Sun didn't open the barn door for a long time. I'm afraid he knew about it..." Bai Zeqing didn't pay attention to Ban Xia's expression, dipped in some tea and wrote the word "Sun", circled it, and said:

"No, Sun Zhifu must have been involved in this matter. It's just that the city of Ningzhou was broken suddenly, and no one could have expected that so many refugees would suddenly come to Yuanzhou City in one night. Moldy rice will eat people, No matter how brave Sun Zhifu is, he would not dare to give moldy rice to the refugees. He suddenly hid in Tingquan Temple, he must be buying himself time, trying to find a way to mobilize rice from other places for emergency. So, you can check All the paperwork transfer orders of the prefect Sun three days before his death. It is best to check the private letters of the prefect Sun."

(End of this chapter)