Chapter 25: The Cellar

In the face of Zhao Chen's indifference, Zhao Yuankai finally didn't dare to bare his teeth, so he had to follow behind Zhao Chen with a sad and angry face, obediently returned to the county office, and lived in a house arranged by Zhao Chen, the county government.

Zhao Chen arranged for two guards to guard the door, except that Zhao Yuankai could not be asked to leave the room, the rest were not restricted. Of course, no one was allowed to approach Zhao Yuankai's room.

Not long after returning from Zhao Yuankai's mansion, Liu Huizhi also came with Ma Zhou. This is the first time Zhao Chen has seen Ma Zhou since he came to Lantian, although he knew that Ma Zhou was in Lantian last night, but a lot of things have not been dealt with, how can he have the time to see Ma Zhou.

For Ma Zhou, Zhao Chen always has a curious mentality, this is the most legendary figure in the early Tang Dynasty, there are many records about Ma Zhou, the most famous is Ma Zhou's more than 20 things for Chang He, it is precisely because of this note that Ma Zhou suddenly entered Li Er's sight.

And then from a real Han clan, he jumped into the circle of the core of the empire, a typical legendary phoenix man!

"Ma Zhou has seen the court sentence!" When Ma Zhou and Liu Huizhi came in, Zhao Chen had just come back from Zhao Yuankai's room, and when he saw Zhao Chen, Ma Zhou's expression paused slightly, and he still said to Zhao Chen.

Even though he had heard Liu Huizhi say that Zhao Chen was a young man who had not yet reached the crown, at this moment, when Ma Zhou saw Zhao Chen himself, a complicated look flashed in the depths of his eyes.

When Ma Zhou looked at Zhao Chen, Zhao Chen was also looking at Ma Zhou. Dressed in a washed white Confucian robe, he stood with a long body, with a faint look of arrogance between his eyebrows and eyes, perhaps he had heard that Zhao Chen's identity was extraordinary, and he was a little restrained at this time.

"Brother Ma is polite!" Zhao Chen smiled, let the two into the room as he spoke, then made a pot of hot tea, looked at Ma Zhou politely and said: "Actually, I heard Liu Zhubo say about Brother Ma last night, and Zhao also admires Brother Ma very much in his heart!" ”

"It's all Lord Liu's false praise!" When Ma Zhou heard this, he arched his hand at Liu Huizhi reservedly, and said modestly: "But Lord Liu loves the people like a son, which makes Ma Zhou admire!" ”

"Hahahaha!" When Zhao Chen heard this, he immediately laughed, interrupted Liu Huizhi's words that he was about to be modest, and said with a smile: "Both of them are admired by Zhao, so don't be modest at this time!" ”

Zhao Chen said, sat opposite Ma Zhou, suddenly his face froze, looked at Ma Zhou and said, "Brother Ma must have said the purpose of coming when he came, Master Liu had already said the purpose of coming, right?" ”

"Yes!" Seeing Zhao Chen's face condensed, Ma Zhou immediately sat up and said seriously: "When Ma Zhou came, Lord Liu had already roughly said it, but this Ma Zhou is only shallow in learning, I'm afraid that there is a mistake in the court's judgment!" ”

"Brother Ma, don't shirk!" When Zhao Chen heard this, he opened his mouth and smiled, looked at Ma Zhou and said with relief: "Actually, this piece is not a splendid article, Brother Ma doesn't have to worry about anything, you just write down the things here as they are!" ”

It's as simple as that? When Ma Zhou heard this, the expression on his face was suddenly slightly stunned, and then he looked at Zhao Chen and Liu Huizhi with strange eyes, and said in his heart that it is so simple, then why can't you two write it?

Liu Huiyi next to him saw Ma Zhou looking at him with strange eyes, and suddenly looked a little embarrassed, and just wanted to speak, but Zhao Chen, who was unexpectedly listening, had already said: "Is it difficult for Brother Ma to have any concerns?" ”

"The court sentence is too much!" When Ma Zhou heard this, he didn't know what he thought, he suddenly took a deep breath, looked at Zhao Chen and said, "Ma Zhou doesn't have any worries, this note will be written by Ma Zhou!" ”

"Haha!" When Zhao Chen heard this, he immediately smiled happily, looked at Ma Zhou and said: "That's the case, then don't delay the time, without further ado, Brother Ma will do it at this time!" ”

Zhao Chen said, carefully took out the box from the collapse and handed it to Ma Zhoudao: "This is all the evidence of all the crimes committed by Zhao Yuankai, Brother Ma will take a look first, and after reading it, I will have a bottom!" ”

Just like when Zhao Chen saw these incriminating evidences before, when Ma Zhou opened the box and looked at each of the crimes recorded on it one by one, his face gradually turned from calm to iron, and his hand holding the paper was trembling slightly.

"Ma Zhou didn't expect that this Zhao County Order would do so much evil in Lantian!" Ma Zhou only looked at a part, then raised his head and took a long breath, and said with a pale face: "It's really a crime that deserves death!" ”

As soon as Ma Zhou's words came out, Liu Huizhi next to him suddenly looked embarrassed, after all, he is also an official of Lantian, Zhao Yuankai is so unscrupulous in Lantian to do whatever he wants, as an official of Lantian, but he can only watch and do nothing, it seems that he has also become Zhao Yuankai's accomplice!

"Brother Ma has to plan carefully!" Zhao Chen saw the embarrassed look on Liu Huiyi's face next to him, chuckled lightly in his heart, stood up and said to Ma Zhou: "I won't bother with Master Liu, to be honest, Zhao came to Lantian this time, but he didn't do anything serious, he was entangled by such things!" ”

"Although the court judges that they are busy with other things, Ma Zhou will do his best!" When Ma Zhou heard this, he quickly got up from the ground, arched his hand at Zhao Chen, and said.

"Good!" Zhao Chen smiled and nodded, and then stopped talking nonsense, and left the room with Liu Huizhi one after another, leaving Ma Yiren alone in the room to slowly brew the content of the sparse.

Qin Ming stayed up all night last night, and after returning from Zhao Yuankai's mansion, he opened his mouth and yawned and went to his house.

Without Qin Ming, Zhao Chen had no choice but to ask the other two generals sent by Lao Qin to guard the door of the house, still without Zhao Chen's permission, no one was allowed to approach the room.

Xue Wanche didn't need him to greet him, probably these three people also noticed the dozen or so thugs guarding outside the door, these thugs were not like they met last night, stupidly fighting with them, Zhao Chen had already given a death order, as long as Xue Wanche and the three of them, as soon as there was a disturbance, they would be killed immediately!

These people in Lantian have to be solved as soon as possible, Zhao Chen gave a few restaurants last night, saying that as long as they give porridge for three days, he will settle all these refugees after three days, and promise that after three days, Lantian City will return to the previous peace.

It's only three days! Zhao Chen took Liu Huizhi out of the door of the county government and went straight to the south of Lantian County, this time the snow disaster Lantian County only a few thatched houses in the south of the county were crushed, and the hardest hit were several townships under the jurisdiction of Lantian.

As Zhao Chen said in the court, almost every family has a vegetable cellar in these years, Zhao Chen went all the way to Nancheng, and gave this method to Liu Huizhi, no need for Zhao Chen to explain anything in detail, Liu Huizhi immediately agreed.

As soon as the two arrived in Nancheng, they immediately went to a house that was crushed by heavy snow, and asked where the vegetable cellar was, Zhao Chen immediately asked someone to shovel the snow around the vegetable cellar and open the entrance of the vegetable cellar.

The vegetable cellar is about one meter deep, and the entrance is straight, and when you get to the bottom, you can dig a hole about 80 centimeters high, and you can stack summer vegetables inside.

The entrance of the vegetable cellar opened, and there was immediately a surge of moisture, which was very smelly, Zhao Chen frowned, and just wanted to signal the official he brought to go down and dig it up, but he didn't want to open his mouth yet, but Liu Huizhi next to him had already taken off his robe, and his hands were at the mouth of the vegetable cellar, and he had already jumped down.

Seeing such a scene, Zhao Chen suddenly chuckled, and couldn't help but shake his head with a smile!

The soil below is really soft, Liu Huizhi carried a shovel, dug it gently, and immediately a large shovel of soil was dug down, and then dug around, the result is the same, no need to make much effort, according to this situation, within an hour, you can dig out a huge space casually.

"The court judged that this strategy is very good, and this time it can be regarded as a safe place for these people to spend the winter!" After Liu Huizhi was convinced that the method was feasible, he climbed up from the vegetable cellar with an excited face, and said with a big smile at Zhao Chen.

"Master Liu, don't be too happy too early!" Zhao Chen was actually like Liu Huizhi in his heart, and he was sincerely happy, but for the sake of being more appropriate, he still said to Liu Huizhi: "Let's wait until it is completely dug out!" ”

"Haha, the court is right!" When Liu Huizhi heard this, he laughed out loud and said to Zhao Chen: "Only when you dig it out can you count!" ”

Then, immediately arrange for the officials to go down and dig in turn!

The speed of excavation was very fast, and Zhao Chen, a bad star, stood on it to supervise the work, and the officials dared to be lazy, and they rounded their hoes one by one, and used all their strength to eat milk.

As baskets of earth were hoisted up, the space below became larger and larger, and at first only one person could dig underneath, but later, five or six people went down to dig together.

In less than half an hour, a space about three meters high and about a dozen square meters was dug underneath, which was very different from the thatched hut where a family of four usually lived.

Zhao Chen looked at it, and then asked a few officials to start digging up, this is the most critical, only by removing the upper layer, and then covering the roof, a cellar is completed.

It took another half an hour, and finally, with a 'boom', the upper layer was crushed, and a large boxy pit immediately appeared in front of me.

The crowd was busy cleaning out the dirt inside, and then the family's collapsed roof was cleared out, and the pit was covered untouched, and a cellar was completed.

It's just that it's a little dim inside, Zhao Chen walked into the cellar along the slope dug out, felt the temperature inside, and nodded with satisfaction. It's better to be afraid of something in the dim light inside than to sleep outside in the cold and snow!

He estimated that the temperature inside was warmer than the hut where the family lived!

Succeed with flying colors! Zhao Chen walked out of the cellar with a smile on his face, this cellar can be regarded as a sample room, and after a while, you can call those people over and let them take a look, and then tomorrow you can arrange for the young people to go back first, and then move everyone back after the cellar is dug out.

How simple! Even if Zhao Chen didn't come, this kind of thing would be easily done, but Wei Hui's old puppet forced him to Lantian, and thinking about it made people feel a nameless fire!