"Haha! What's so hard about this? Wang Xiaodong's mother had an old illness with heartache and had been sick a lot recently, so I identified myself with him and told him that I was familiar with Sun Daochang and could let Sun Daochang treat his mother's illness.

Then he told him that the gold shopkeeper had illegally lent money, and now he was being investigated by the imperial court, if he cooperated with us, he would naturally be safe, and he could also let Sun Daochang treat his mother's illness, if he had to go to the dark with the gold shopkeeper, then he would go to prison with Boss Jin! ”

Lantian County County, in the back hall, hearing Li Ke's question, Cheng Chumo smiled proudly, and then explained the general cause and effect.

After hearing this, Li Ke couldn't help but admire: "Ugly cow, you can be regarded as moving with affection, knowing with reason, and promising benefits, not bad!" In this way, Wang Xiaodong should be on our side, and we also have plenty of time to collect more evidence! ”

"Hey! If you want me to say, what other evidence are we collecting? Directly arrest Jin Wanfu and Zhang Xiongfei, and interrogate them, they must all be recruited~! ”

Cheng Chu pursed his lips silently and said disdainfully.

"Never!"

Li Ke shook his head, "We only went to Beijing this time to exterminate locusts, and my father did not give us the right to arrest people without authorization, even if it is finally found out that Jin Wanfu did lend money to Zhang Xiongfei who wanted to hoard Juqi and raise the price of grain, we must also rely on the power of the Xinfeng County Government!" Let's wait for a while, and ask the mountain chief's opinion in a moment~! ”

Cheng Chu shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said, "Okay!" It's up to you! Oh, someone's coming! ”

At the end, Cheng Chumo's face changed slightly, because he heard a sound of footsteps outside.

When Li Ke heard this, he sat down, and his complexion returned to normal.

"Your Highness, the meals and soup are all ready! Do you want to send it to Yong'an Hou and the children now? ”

Wang Dezheng walked in and saw that there was an extra Cheng Chumo in the room, he was stunned for a moment at first, and then reported to Li Ke.

Li Ke nodded and said, "Hmm! Send it now! Wang County ordered you to immediately take the officials and go to the outside of the city with this king to deliver food! ”

Wang Dezheng bowed down and said: "The officials obey the order!" ”

After a while, the Xinfeng County Government drove out five ox carts, each of which contained a large wooden bucket, which contained the meals prepared by the Wang County Order, and Li Ke took the Wang County Order and more than a dozen government officials and walked straight towards the South City Gate.

At this time, the atmosphere in the city was completely different from the atmosphere when Li Ke and the others first came, because the news that the Tianji Brigade had come to Xinfeng County to exterminate the locusts had spread, and the people were suddenly jubilant after hearing the news, and the oppressive atmosphere generated by the arrival of the locust plague dissipated in an instant.

"Have you heard? Yong'an Hou brought the Tianji Brigade to our Xinfeng County to exterminate the locusts~! ”

"Really?"

"Then can there be a fake? If you go to the farmland outside the city, there are flocks of chickens brought by Yong'an Hou everywhere, and they are countless! ”

"Good boy! That's great! Our crops in Xinfeng County have been saved! I heard that it took less than two days for the chicken brigade to wipe out all the locusts in Lantian County, so doesn't that mean that the locusts in Xinfeng County can also be wiped out within two days! ”

"No, no, no! It should be faster! I just heard a doll from Hanjiazhuang say that there are a total of 310,000 chickens in the Tianji Brigade they brought this time, which is more than double the number before, which means that the locusts in our county can be exterminated today! ”

"Huh? That's great! In the past two days, the price of food in the city has risen, and I thought that the food shortage was coming! ”

"Hey! Now look at how the unscrupulous grain merchants in the city still raise the price of grain! ”

"That's it! It is! ”

"Huh! Do not say! I still have more than a dozen chickens in my house, so I'll go back and drive them out of the city to help Yong'an Hou and them kill the locusts together!" ”

"My family has thirty chickens, and I'll go back to drive the chickens!"

The people were happy, but some were uncomfortable.

"What? Yong'an Hou came to Lantian County with the Tianji Brigade? And now the size of the Tianji Brigade has doubled compared to before? ”

In the west of the city, the back hall of Zhang Ji grain shop.

After Zhang Xiongfei listened to the report of the house slave, an old face suddenly became extremely gloomy, and he slapped the table heavily and got up.

"Yes! Master! Now that the county has spread the word, should we go to Chang'an City to buy food? ”

The house slave said cautiously with a bitter face.

"Buy a fart!"

Zhang Xiongfei had a dark face and said, "The locust plague is about to be extinguished, do you buy so much food to feed the mice?" Get lost! Get out! ”

"Yes! Master! ”

Seeing that Zhang Xiongfei was angry, the house slave hurriedly retreated.

"300,000 chickens, that is to say, the locust Tianji brigade in Xinfeng County can be completely wiped out in less than a day, and when encountering some small counties, you can even clean up the locusts in two counties in one day, even if there are hundreds of affected counties, the Tianji brigade can clean up more than 20 within half a month, and there will definitely be no locust plague near Chang'an, and if you want to sell the grain at a high price, you can only go to other places, which is too much to lose!"

Inside the house, Zhang Xiongfei muttered to himself with a gloomy face.

After a while, he suddenly remembered the two orchids he had just given to Jin Wanfu in the morning, he slapped his thigh and said in annoyance: "It's over, it's over!" The old man just borrowed 6,000 yuan from Yanhuang Qianzhuang at double interest rate on the front foot, and he thought that he could make a lot of money with these 6,000 yuan, but now this is not considered a loss to his wife and soldiers? Alas! My two lovely beauties! Pity! What a pity! ”

As he spoke, Zhang Xiongfei hammered the Hunkou, with a heartache on his face.

Little did he know that there was even greater trouble waiting for him!

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"Xia Guan has seen Yong'an Hou! Hou Ye was able to bring the Tianji Brigade to Xinfeng County to exterminate locusts, and the lower officials and more than 50,000 people in the county were grateful to Hou Ye! ”

In a village outside the county seat of Xinfeng County, after Li Ke and his party found the "main army", they hurriedly distributed meals to the children, while Wang Dezheng came to Li Zexuan and saluted sincerely.

Li Zexuan nodded expressionlessly, and said: "Ben Hou came out with the Tianji Brigade to exterminate the locusts, first, he received the holy order, and the other was that he couldn't bear to see the common people being poisoned by locusts, but Ben Hou heard that the grain price in Xinfeng County has recently reached five cents and one stone, Wang County Order, can you explain it?" ”

After that, he stared at Wang Dezheng with burning eyes, obviously, Li Ke had already told him everything they had found in Xinfeng County.

Wang Xianling's face suddenly oozed a few drops of sweat, and he didn't know if the weather was too hot, or his heart was too nervous, he hurriedly said:

"The lower officials have no way to govern, resulting in the appearance of profiteers in the county who take advantage of the locust plague to raise the price of grain, and the lower officials are ashamed of the court and the saints, and after returning to the city, the lower officials will write a letter of invitation and hand it to the court!"

Li Zexuan said coldly:

"As the county magistrate of Xinfeng County, the price of grain in the county has skyrocketed, of course you can't escape the crime of dereliction of duty! But the most urgent task is to find out who are taking advantage of the locust plague to raise the price of grain! Xinfeng County is less than 100 miles away from Chang'an, but on the third day of the locust plague, there was a rise in grain prices. ”

Wang Xian Ling arched his hand and said: "What Master Hou said is true! The lower officials will go back to the city to thoroughly investigate the merchants who raise the price of grain! ”

"Wait!"

Wang Xianling turned around and wanted to leave, but Li Zexuan stopped him with words, and then said meaningfully: "It is not terrible for grain merchants to raise grain prices, but what is terrible is that officials and businessmen collude with each other to jointly raise grain prices!" So you don't need to investigate this matter, of course Ben Hou has no power and no time to investigate, before dark today, there will be officials from the Ministry of Officials to come to investigate this matter thoroughly, I hope that Wang Xianling will be able to cooperate at that time! ”

According to the information of Li Ke and Cheng Chumo, Li Zexuan felt that this Wang Dezheng Bacheng also had a bit of a problem, and it was necessary to investigate, but what Li Ke said before was right, they just went to the counties to exterminate the locusts, and Li Er did not give them the power to check the officials and businessmen in the counties, even if they had this power, Li Zexuan did not have time to delay here, so he planned to send the matter here back to Lantian County with an electric telegraph, and let Li Tai report to Li Er.

When Wang Dezheng heard this, his face instantly turned pale, and he hurriedly said:

"Master Hou forgives sins! Xiaguan has been busy with disaster relief recently, but he has ignored the soaring food prices in the city, and Xiaguan is indeed guilty of negligence! Yes, it's Zhang Xiongfei, he took the lead in raising food prices this time, and Xiaguan's wife is his sister, so he has nothing to fear! But Xia Guan dared to swear to the sky that he had never received a penny from Zhang Xiongfei in this matter! The lower officials are wronged! I also hope that Hou Ye Mingjian! ”

When Li Zexuan heard this, he nodded thoughtfully and said, "Heh! You don't count whether you have received benefits or not, and what Ben Hou said doesn't count, the officials of the Ministry will find out clearly! But you can say this to Ben Hou, it can be regarded as a bit of sincerity, Ben Hou will tell the truth what you said to the court! As for whether you are guilty or not, it depends on how the Holy One decides! ”

Wang Dezheng arched his hand and said, "Thank you, Master Hou!" ”

At this moment, Li Ke walked over quickly and said, "Mountain Chief! A lot of villagers came over there, saying they were meeting you! ”

Li Zexuan raised his eyebrows and asked, "See me?" See what I do? ”

Li Ke said with a smile: "Some of them came to deliver food, some came to thank you in person, and some came to deliver chicken!" ”

"Chickens?"

Li Zexuan can understand the delivery of food and thanking him in person, but this delivery of chicken makes him a little unable to react for a while.

"Oh! Ke means that the people want to send their captive chickens to the Tianji Brigade to help catch locusts together, and return them to them when we run out~! ”

Seeing Li Zexuan's doubts, Li Ke hurriedly explained.

"Oh? And such things? Let's go, let's take a look~! ”

When Li Zexuan heard this, he was very surprised in his heart, although there are 90,000 chickens in this Tianji Brigade that are from the farmers in Lantian County, but after all, Xinfeng County is not Lantian County, and the people here do not trust him like the people of Lantian County, but now there are people who are willing to lend their chickens, which really surprises him.

The two walked towards the people not far away, Wang Xianling thought about it and raised his heels.

"Master Hou is here!"

"This is Yong'an Hou! So young! ”

"He is worthy of being a fairy child, he looks so handsome!"

"If it weren't for Yong'an Hou, all the grain in my fields would have been ruined by locusts! I want to kowtow to Yong'an Hou! ”

Seeing Li Zexuan coming towards him, the group of people suddenly became excited.

"See Master Hou!"

When Li Zexuan was still four or five steps away from them, the people bent down one after another to worship.

Li Zexuan took a look, good guy, there are thousands of people here! It's noon now, these people are likely to come to deliver food, chicken, and thank you without even eating lunch, he never thought that he could be so popular with the people in Xinfeng County, and he was a little flattered for a while!

"Folks, don't be polite! Hurry up, please! ”

Li Zexuan hurriedly raised his hands and said loudly.

"Master Hou! You brought these dolls to help us exterminate locusts, we are grateful, we just want to use some food to reward these hard-working children, and I hope that Hou Ye will not refuse! ”

At this time, a white-haired old man carrying a food basket stood up and said to Li Zexuan with a sincere face.

As soon as the words fell, the rest of the people hurriedly shouted excitedly.

"Yes! Master Hou! This is my mother-in-law's stewed chicken, I hope to replenish the children's body! ”

"My family even stewed eggs!"

"Master Hou saved my crops, that is, he saved my family of seven! Old man, I've kowtowed to Master Hou! I hope that Hou Ye will be safe and prosperous in his life! ”

"I also kowtowed to Hou Ye, thank you Hou Ye for saving my family's crops on 35 acres of land!"

"Master Hou! I have 30 chickens at home, do you want to see if you can merge into the Celestial Chicken Brigade to exterminate locusts together? ”

"Master Hou! I have 50 chickens at home, and I'm willing to lend them out! It doesn't matter if you lose it! Please don't refuse~! ”

The people were talking about their demands, and after a while, there were already kneeling on the ground in front of Li Zexuan, including children of seven or eight years old, middle-aged people in their thirties and forties, and even old people in their sixties and seventies!

They are all people who are in danger in the locust plague and are saved by Li Zexuan today, no one can understand the joy and emotion in their hearts for the rest of their lives, at this moment, they are willing to do anything for Li Zexuan!

Li Zexuan didn't like others to kneel to him, when the first old man wanted to kneel for him, he had already reached out to stop him, but he could stop one, but he couldn't stop these hundreds of dealers!

Seeing that more and more people were kneeling down to him, and the scene was getting noisier and noisier, Li Zexuan hurriedly got lucky and said loudly: "Folks! Listen to me! ”

The loud voice came into everyone's ears, and the excited people suddenly quieted down, and Li Zexuan continued: "Folks, you get up first!" The boy has just reached the crown, and many of you can be regarded as my elders, how can the boy be able to afford this great gift of yours? You're not repaying the favor, you're breaking my birthday~! So please hurry up, folks, if you have something to say, let's stand up and speak slowly! ”

Hearing this, the people who were kneeling on the ground couldn't help but look at each other, and after a moment they all stood up.

Seeing this, Li Zexuan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the people knelt down again, so he hurriedly hit the railway while it was hot: "You fellow villagers feel sorry for the children in Lantian County, and they are very grateful to send them food, but as you can see, the children already have food, which is a waste, and please bring back the food you brought!" ”

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