Sang Tianjiao girl is a little sweet

Chapter 577 Unknown Food
During the process of moving the food, Li Zhao stood beside Nangong Han, staring at the sacks carried by the soldiers, trembling with fear.

The last bag, the last bag!

As long as the last bag was loaded onto the carriage and Nangong Han realized something was wrong, he could deny it to death, or infer that Nangong Han had framed him.

Li Zhao had a good idea, but unfortunately, things backfired.

After the last bag of grain was loaded onto the carriage, a soldier suddenly shouted, "My lord, there are holes in several bags of grain."

Hearing this, Li Zhao was so frightened that his face instantly turned pale, and he didn't dare to move while standing.

Nangong Han walked towards the soldier who spoke, but before he got close, he heard another soldier shouting: "This...all these millets are deflated?"

"What did you say?" Nangong Han approached quickly, and the soldier was taken aback, but he quickly calmed down and said, "My lord, the millet in this bag is all deflated."

Nangong Han frowned, took a look at the exposed millet, and snorted coldly: "Open the bags of grain in the car and check them carefully."

Before loading the food into the carriage, Nangong Han ordered someone to check it briefly.

In their hearts, they believed that Li Zhao and other officials were buying food even if they were greedy. Now that the food has been placed in the post station, they must not dare to cheat.

Who knew that they were so bold that they even falsified the food they sent to the north for disaster relief.

Two quarters of an hour later, a soldier came to report: "Reporting to Your Majesty, among the 150 bags of millet, the top three fingers thick is good, and the bottom is either dry millet or straw."

Nangong Han nodded, then looked at Li Zhao, and asked solemnly, "Master Li, what do you have to say?"

Li Zhao was so frightened that he trembled, but he had been immersed in officialdom for many years, so he cried out for injustice:
"Your Majesty, when the grain was put into the warehouse, the lower official and the two officials checked it. There is no problem with the grain. Now that something is wrong, someone must be guarding and stealing it."

Nangong Han raised his eyebrows and walked towards Li Zhao.

"The key to the warehouse of the post station is in your hands. If you say that you are guarding yourself and stealing yourself, don't you mean yourself?"

Li Zhao was so frightened that he knelt on the ground, "Your Excellency, you have no evidence, how can you wrongfully dismiss me?"

"Whether I was wronged or not, I will find out for myself! Somebody, tie up Li Zhao to my son and send him to the prison of the Fengxi City Government Office." Nangong Han said with a displeased expression.

Li Zhao knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, the official's first daughter is at least the crown prince's side concubine. Is it a bit too much for you to send the official to prison without finding out?"

Hearing the words of the crown prince and side concubine, Nangong Han's usual gentle expression showed a trace of disdain.

"In this case, I will give you a chance to make up for your mistakes. If you can make up the other 150 bags of grain within half an hour, I will pretend that I don't know about it."

When Li Zhao heard it, he was happy at first, but then his heart sank, and he always felt that such a thing happened not long ago.

However, before he could figure it out, Nangong Han urged: "Lord Li, why don't you hurry up and make up the food supply, are you really trying to get real with this son?"

"Yes, I'm going to fill up the food right now." After Li Zhao finished speaking, he staggered away.

The other two officials did not speak from the beginning to the end, and they were glad that they did not keep the key to the granary of the post station, otherwise it might be one of them who is unlucky now.

Li Zhao, who returned to the inn, called his confidant Li Shan over to discuss with him about replenishing the food supply.

Hearing that Prince Ping's son asked them to deliver the food to the post station within half an hour, Li Shan was horrified.

"Master, what happened today is so similar to when you made things difficult for Hua Qian that day."

Li Zhao, who was already uneasy in his heart, was also very frightened when he heard this, and tremblingly said: "Then...then what should we do now?"

During this period of successive defeats, Li Shan also panicked, and said, "Master, let's find a way to replenish the food, or Prince Ping will really investigate, and we will be in trouble."

Li Zhao walked back and forth in the room, feeling uneasy in his heart, "150 bags of grain can't be replenished all at once."

"Master, the big grain store in Fengxi City can still buy so much grain, let's act faster, and we can always get it together within half an hour." Li Shan suggested.

However, when Li Zhao heard that he wanted to spend money to buy food, he was very unhappy.

"Now that the food price in Fengxi City has risen, won't this officer suffer a lot?"

Li Shan saw that it was at this critical moment, but Li Zhao still only thought about money, and said angrily: "Master, is money more important or life?"

"All right, let's go to the grain store now." After Li Zhao finished speaking, he left the inn with his subordinates and headed for the grain store on the street.

I don't know what happened today, Li Zhao and others walked all the way, but the grain shops were all closed.

Seeing that there was less than two quarters of an hour left in half an hour, Li Zhao was really in a hurry.

"Why does this grain store choose to close today!" Li Zhao said angrily, and suddenly saw a small grain store not far away, so he hurried over.

"I want to buy grain, call your shopkeepers!" Li Zhao entered the shop with full authority.

Hua Qian, who turned into a man, stood behind the counter and said with a smile, "I'm the shopkeeper. I don't know what food my lord wants to buy?"

Li Zhao looked at Hua Qian, but didn't find anything, and said, "I want to buy 150 bags of millet, do you have any in this small shop?"

"Yes, yes, sir, if you don't believe me, you can follow me to the backyard to have a look." Hua Qian said excitedly in a low hoarse voice disguised.

Li Zhao held his head high, beckoning Hua Qian to lead the way.

Li Zhao and Li Shan followed Hua Qian to the backyard of the grain store, and finally smiled as they looked at the grain that was pushing the warehouse full.

"How do you sell this food?" Li Shan asked.

Hua Qian stood next to the two of them, pretending to be low-key and said: "These grains were originally ordered from me by a grain merchant in the north. If you want to buy them, you can buy them for one tael of silver per catty."

Don't you guys want to cheat me for money? Now I'm cheating back too!

After Li Zhao heard the price, his face became gloomy with anger.

"Presumptuous!" Li Zhao pointed at Hua Qian angrily, and said angrily, "Believe it or not, I ordered someone to put you in prison!"

If other ordinary people encounter such a thing, they would rather suffer a loss than offend an official.

But it was Hua Qian who offended Li Zhao, so she was naturally not afraid of him.

"My lord, I'm doing business honestly, why do you want to lock me up?" Hua Qian pretended to be angrily staring at Li Zhao, but she couldn't stop laughing in her heart.

"You...someone, arrest her, and remove all the unknown food from her shop!" Li Zhao opened his mouth, and uttered these shameless words.

The officials behind Li Zhao quickly came over and surrounded Hua Qian.

Seeing this, Hua Qian was not annoyed, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, some people have come to our store to behave wildly, and you still have to deal with them!"

Li Zhao was startled, but before he could react, someone put a knife on his neck.

As for the people brought by Li Zhao, they were all knocked down by Wu Li and Wu Xun at this moment, lying on the ground staggeringly, stiff and motionless.

(End of this chapter)