After Lu Xin finished reading the grain in this cellar, the barns restored the chaff and straw mats to their original state, and Zhu Dafeng was finally late.

"Lord Zhu should have moved over a long time ago, right?" Lu Xin looked outside, the sun was already in the west, and Zhu Dafeng obviously came in after enough grinding outside.

"The adults smiled, Xia Guan had a bad stomach at noon......" Zhu Dafeng showed a look of shame. If you don't solve the problem, how dare you stay with adults? Saying that, he hurriedly changed the subject and said, "My lord, how are you looking?" ”

"What can be seen from this?" Lu Xin said lightly: "It's nothing more than a look at the grain Xinchen." ”

"That's what my lord said." Zhu Dafeng beckoned, and a warehouse official presented the account book to Lu Xin. "But don't worry, adults, our Taicang Department has clear accounts and strict regulations. Every grain purchase is strictly recorded, and adults only need to look at the records above to find the corresponding grain here. ”

Lu Xin took the account book and flipped through a few pages, and it was indeed very clear. Each entry clearly records the number, quality, and who transported it from when, when and where, to whom it was handed over, and where it was sent to the official warehouse.

The warehouse official also carried an account book, which was the account book of Xingluocang, which recorded who received how much grain and when, what kind of condition, in which cellar it was stored, and the signatures of the regular inspectors.

Although Lu Xin is mainly responsible for the criminal name in Jiangnan, he is also in charge of the manor of the landing valve in the Wu County generation, and he is usually used to reading the accounts. At this moment, he also has to admit that the two accounts of the Taicang Department are indeed smart and clean, and they are tightly matched. His intuition told him that it was impossible to see the clues from the account.

But it is even more difficult to see from the 1,300 cellars of grain—each cellar is four or five zhang deep, and contains 8,000 to 10,000 stone of grain, and if you want to make sure that the accounts match the facts, you must open them one by one, and transport the mountain-like grain inside to be weighed in hanging baskets. I'm afraid that a granary will take more than 100 people to toss for several days, and when the 1,300 cellars of grain are finished, the victims are afraid that grass will grow on their graves.

Only then did Lu Xin completely understand what kind of game Xiahouba set for himself. The old thing just expected that he couldn't be sure at all, whether the grain stored in Xingluocang was consistent with the account, as long as he admitted the account in a daze, there must be a good show waiting for him later.

Therefore, Lu Xin has always refused to express his position, but silently selected a few grain cellars at random, looked at the surface articles, and then climbed the wall of Cangcheng, pointed to the huge above-ground warehouses next to the wharf, and asked in a deep voice: "There is also grain stored there?" ”

"Go back to your lordship, that's a place to temporarily store food." Zhu Dafeng hurriedly explained: "Although there are many benefits to storing grain in the cellar, it is not a small trouble, whether it is to transport it in or out, it is time-consuming and laborious, and it is very frustrating. Therefore, those transshipment warehouses were built to temporarily store the newly transported grain that had not yet had time to go to the cellar. The grain that was brought out of the cellar was also temporarily stored in it, waiting to be loaded and transported away. ”

"yes, I see." Lu Xin nodded, walked down the city and said, "This official wants to go back before closing the city gate, so let's get here first today." ”

"Oh, how can you let the adults go back on an empty stomach? The lower official has already ordered someone to put wine and food in the yazhong, so let's go and eat two bites first. Zhu Dafeng hurriedly persuaded.

"If you don't eat a meal, you won't starve to death." Lu Xin looked at Zhu Dafeng's round belly, and then went to the dock with his entourage.

"My lord, let's hand over the accounts first, right?" Zhu Dafeng hurriedly chased down the city, followed behind and said with a bitter face: "Otherwise, the lower officials will have to run again." ”

"It's time to lose weight." Lu Xin ignored him and went straight to the boat.

"Alas, this grandson, what kind of majesty are you shaking with me?" Zhu Dafeng watched the boat go away helplessly, and smacked it on the river. "Have you a day when you cry?"

"My lord......" The warehouse official dared to come up and asked carefully, "What about the banquet?" ”

"He doesn't eat, let's eat." When Zhu Dafeng mentioned eating, he suddenly had strength.

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The sky was dark, and the candles were shining high in the Xingluocang Yamen. Zhu Dafeng's mouth was full of oil, and while dealing with the table full of wine and delicacies with the warehouse official, he was talking nonsense.

"Taste this, my lord, our own sauce elbow is no worse than the one in the Luodu restaurant." The warehouse official picked up a plate of greasy pork knuckle and served it to Zhu Dafeng.

Zhu Dafeng didn't pay attention to decency anymore, he directly reached out and picked up an elbow and gnawed it in a big gulp.

The cangguan hurriedly poured him wine again, Zhu Dafeng squinted his eyes and shook his head comfortably. "His grandmother's, drinking wine and eating meat race fairies, if there is another chick singing a little song, then it will not be changed for a fairy."

"It's not simple, the next time the adults come, the next time the officials will arrange it in advance." The cangguan said with a smile: "This time it's too hasty, and I'm worried that the lord who came out of the land valve doesn't like our tune." ”

"Don't think that the gate valve comes out, it is a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world, he has to shit and fart the same, and he has three disasters and eight difficulties." Zhu Dafeng sneered disdainfully: "I didn't see that the person surnamed Lu is like a dead mother today, I'm afraid I already know that I am going to be unlucky." ”

"Yes, whoever does his job will have to peel off the skin if he doesn't die." Cangguan sighed sympathetically and said, "My lord, you say, did someone deliberately fix him?" ”

"Hehe, I really let you talk." After all, Zhu Dafeng is an official in Beijing, and he has heard a lot of rumors. He pretended to beckon mysteriously, asked the cangguan to come over with his ear, and whispered: "Let me tell you, he offended the old lady miserably, and let him be this disaster relief envoy, just to cut off his head!" ”

"Ahh The warehouse official stared at him in surprise and said: "That grain is not enough, as long as he bites it to death and does not admit it, this is a bad debt, and he can really put him to death!" ”

"This is the difference between us and the Taishi, does the Taishi still need evidence if he wants the whole person?" Zhu Dafeng looked like a spirit, obviously substituting himself into the identity of Xiahou Ba. "If it weren't for his status as a deacon of the land lord, he wouldn't even need an excuse, he would just be killed."

"That's right." The warehouse official sighed for a while, suddenly his face tightened, and he hurriedly asked in a low voice: "Then we won't eat and hang up, right?" ”

"Don't worry, the adults have already promised, we just need to do our duty, don't talk nonsense, we won't be implicated." Zhu Dafeng burped and looked at the warehouse official who was talking. "Full on full!"

"Hey, okay, full."

"What are you talking about that bad luck thing for? Let's be serious, you really don't have a woman hidden in this ghost place, give Lao Tzu a pastime at night? ”

"Alas, didn't you say it, I thought that the surname Lu would stay overnight, and they were all sent away......"

"Wow! I can't get used to your cowardice, so I'll be a hamster for the rest of my life......"

"The hamster is good, he doesn't have to worry about eating and drinking all his life, what else do you want?"

The two talked about Lu Xin for a while, and then the topic turned to wealth again, and there was no more valuable information to hear.

This made the uninvited guests who had been quietly lying on the roof feel very unhappy.

The uninvited guest was naturally Lu Yun. In the afternoon, he accompanied Lu Xin into Cangcheng, and quietly hid while people were not paying attention. waited until it was dark before he entered the official office, wanting to hear what Zhu Dafeng would say in private......