Leng Yi picked up all the green bricks and looked at them, and after reading them, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he stood up, and said to a few guards: "Last night, apart from a few of you, who else was here?" ”

Several guards shook their heads: "No one else." ”

"And which of you has ever been out at night?"

Several people looked at each other again, and they all shook their heads together.

"Where are your patrol routes?"

The guard pointed to the avenue between the rows of warehouses and the road in front of the door.

Leng Yi said: "Take off your shoes!" ”

A few guards didn't know what Leng Yi was doing when they asked them to take off their shoes, and the eldest man didn't dare not listen to his words, so they all obediently took off their shoes.

Leng Yi picked up the shoes one by one and looked at them, he carried one of them, looked at the owner of the shoes, and sneered: "It's you, this hole you dug up, right?" ”

The guard's face turned pale, and he shook his head again and again: "It's not me, it's really not me!" ”

"Not you?" Leng Yi pointed to a yellow line on the wall, "This is the part where the flood flooded the city, and after the flood receded, the silt piled up. ”

He pointed in the direction of the embankment and said, "The flood is coming from that side, and the direction is outside the wall, and the flood water in the courtyard is coming in through the crack in the gate, and because of the blocking effect of the gate, the mud entering is much less than the outside." In other words, when the flood waters recedes, the silt accumulation on the outside of this wall is significantly higher than on the inside, right? ”

Si Cang nodded hurriedly and said, "That's right, when we cleaned up the mud in the warehouse, there were indeed many more on the outside than on the inside. The pile is old and high, and there is only a very low part of the inner wall. ”

Leng Yi picked up a green brick, "Look at the six sides of this green brick, five of them have clay, only one side does not, and the yellow marks left by the flood mud are stuck on it. Explains that this side is facing outward, right? ”

Si Cang and the others nodded again and again.

"This wall is made of large green bricks stacked on top of each other," Leng Yi pointed to the broken edge of the bricks, and said, "This is the trace left by the sharp mouth hoe when digging the wall, and he can explain the direction of the excavation." Right? ”

Si Cang and the others nodded together.

Leng Yi put down the green bricks, clapped his hands, and said, "Okay, you check the green bricks on the ground, how many of them have traces of mud on the broken places?" No, how many. ”

Si Cang and the two officials hurriedly squatted down to check, and soon finished the inspection, and said, "Only about thirty percent of them have traces of mud on them. None of the others. ”

"Very well, you now pile up these green bricks, compare them to the silt lines elsewhere in the wall, and restore them all and look at them again."

Several people were busy stacking the green bricks, and after piling them up, several people understood that those with traces of damage were all facing the inside! Only in this way can the silt line coincide with the inside of the fence. This means that the wall was dug from the inside.

Si Cang suddenly realized, looked at the guard and said, "It turns out that you really did it, say, where is the grain?" ”

"It's really not me!" The guard knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "I didn't come out of the house last night." ”

"Really?" Leng Yi sneered, turned over the soles of his shoes, pointed to the mud on them, and said, "The route you patrol does not have a place where there is any mud left in the corner of the wall, so their shoes are only dust, not silt." Only your shoes, with mud stuck to them. And under the wall where the hole was dug was left with silt. So, who are you if it's not you? ”

The guard was speechless, squatted down and kowtowed: "I was wrong, but it was really not that I stole the grain, but someone asked me to dig such a hole and give me 8,000 wen." I dug it. ”

"Who is it? Who told you to do this? Leng Yi said.

"It's the gangsters in the city." The warden said, "I asked him what he was going to do with this hole?" He said I don't have to worry about it, just dig it up, and gave me 8,000 wen. So I had to listen to him. ”

"Eight thousand wen? If you are given 8,000 Wen, you will do this kind of thing? Did you know that stealing grain is a capital offense? Isn't your head only worth 8,000 wen? ”

The guard cried, "I told you that you must not steal food, otherwise I will not be able to get out of it." He said it was okay, he wouldn't do anything like that. He has been friends with me for many years, and I believed it, but I didn't expect him to ......."

Leng Yi said to Song Zhutou, who was following: "Immediately arrest this rotten eye and inquire about the whereabouts of the grain!" ”

Song Zhutou agreed and took the order.

Leng Yi instructed Soap Li to take down this guard and deal with it at that time.

Not long after, Song Zhutou came back in a hurry, and reported to Leng Yi that the whereabouts of the three Rotten Eyes were unknown, and they had searched all the relatives and friends near his home, including him, but they didn't find him there, and it was estimated that he had absconded in fear of crime. In addition, no trace of food was found.

Leng Yi frowned, if you can't find food in this way, not to mention the impact on disaster relief, you will also put yourself on the black pot, but if you can't find it now, what can you do?

For several days in a row, Leng Yi was depressed.

On this day, he was working in the office, reviewing the disaster situation reported by various places, and suddenly, he heard a noise outside, and he didn't know what was going on, so he put down his brush, stood up and walked out. I saw a middle-aged woman, standing at the door of the sixth room with her hands on her hips, pointing inside and scolding: "The surname is Zhao, you get out of the old lady!" Don't think that you can fool around by hiding inside, let me tell you, if my mother can't receive money today, she won't leave! Hear me! Do you think the old lady's girl let you ride for nothing......? ”

Several scribes stood at the door watching the joke, and when they saw Leng Yi coming out, they all stuck out their tongues and quickly slipped in. The head of the house came over to greet Leng Yi with a smiling face: "Master Tongju!" ”

"What's going on?" Leng Yi frowned.

"The old bustard of Cuixiang Building came to the door to ask for a stay! It seems that Zhao Laosi went to him to spend the night and scooped the girl, owed money, hid everywhere, and people came to the door to ask for money. ”

Leng Yi said: "This is the official yamen, what kind of system will it become!" ”

"Yes, yes, I'm going to have someone get her out!"

"Is it okay to get out of here? Debts to repay money, a matter of course, you drive him out, she screams and scolds at the yamen, isn't that more ugly? ”

"yes, hehe, the little one thinks the same way, so I didn't kick him out. It's just that Zhao Laosi hid and refused to come out. No way. ”

"There's nothing wrong with it, tell him to come out, just say that the official is looking for him!"

"Yes!" The chamber turned and went into the house, and soon came out with a thin man. As soon as the old bustard saw him, he rushed up angrily: "Zhao Laosi, you bastard, do you think I won't dare to come to you if I hide in the yamen?" Get the money! Otherwise, even if you hide in the Jinluan Palace, the old lady will catch up with the Jinluan Palace to find you! Pay it back! ”

The secretary said angrily: "You fucking young envoy splash! The general judgment lord is here, you can't be presumptuous! ”

Only then did the old bustard see Leng Yi, Leng Yi has been sticking to the flood control embankment in the flood fighting and rescue, and it was he who immediately transferred the people to avoid a large number of casualties, and afterwards solved the case of the golden shopkeeper murder and the embankment, and distributed the wealth of the gold shopkeeper to the people, and actively won a large amount of disaster relief money and food from the imperial court, so the entire Bazhou can be said that there is no one who does not know him. This bustard is no exception.

The old bustard immediately changed his smiling face, greeted him, and said: "The villain has met the big man here, we invited a few red cards from Waifu, this Zhao Lao fell asleep at four o'clock, and gave the money before, and said that he would give it together after signing the bill, I felt that he was a person from the yamen, and he couldn't speak in a whisper, so he believed it, I didn't think that this turtle grandson didn't give money, and hid, I chased the door to ask for debts, he relied on not giving, and pushed back and forth, and lied to me every day that he would give money, and he hid in the yamen in modern times. - Sir, my girls are all eating here, if you can't get the money, who will do such a shameless thing? He even relies on such money, you say he's not human! Woowoo"

In the end, the bustard actually howled and cried, of course, because of the free thunder and no raindrops.

Leng Yi said: "Okay, don't cry yet." The official asked clearly. ”

The bustard's crying immediately stopped abruptly.

Leng Yi looked at Zhao Laosi and said coldly: "Is she telling the truth?" ”

"Well...... some yes and some don't."

"Did I tell a lie?" The old bustard was angry and said in a sharp voice, "Everything I said is the truth......"

Leng Yi raised his voice: "If you interject again, I won't bother to pay attention." Yamen is not a place where you can just make noise! ”

Only then did the bustard shut up and didn't dare to say any more.

Leng Yi asked Zhao Laosi: "What she said is the truth, which is not the truth?" ”

Zhao Laosi said in a low voice: "The girl who slept with them, this is the truth, it is not the truth to say that I deliberately relied on the debt and avoided the debt." -- I really want to give money, but I just can't make it over for a while. It's not that you don't want to give money. ”

"How much is it in total?"

"Twenty-four thousand texts, plus food."

Leng Yi sneered and said, "In a month, you spent 24,000 women?" ――How much do you get a month? ”

"1,800 Texts"

"That is, you spent more than a year's salary in a month? You're not going to live in the future? ”

"I, I made a small windfall, and I wanted to spend it, but I didn't think that the girls from other cities were so expensive, and I blamed me, I was drunk, and I slept without asking......"

"I asked for three at once!" The bustard couldn't help but interject.

Leng Yi looked at him with interest: "What are you doing?" ”

"It's ......, it's the private money of the house."

"Private banking?" Leng Yi looked at him, "Private silver makes a windfall, that's not a good thing!" ”

Zhao Laosi also blurted out, and when he heard Leng Yi's words, he immediately panicked, and hurriedly said: "Master, I am not corrupt, my accounts are clear, I don't believe that the Lord can check it." ”

"And where did you get that little windfall?"

Zhao Laosi was very sorry for not opening the door with his mouth, but he had already said it, and it was impossible to take it back, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "That's the case, a few days ago, I distributed disaster relief food, and invited some people to carry the grain, and I was responsible for distributing the wages, but as a result, some people did not come to receive the wages, and no one came after I waited for several days, and it is estimated that they don't want it, so I spent it myself." ”

Leng Yi is very curious, are there still people who work in this era and don't need to be paid? "How much?" he asked. ”

"More than 20,000 yuan."

"How many are there?"

"I haven't counted, there are probably dozens."

"Who are they? Who invited it? ”

"I don't know, I don't know until I check the accounts."

"Check it out now!"

"Yes!" Si Yin hurriedly agreed, ran back to the house, took the account book out, and after looking through it, he said, "It was invited by a person named Ruan Shou." ”

"Who is Nguyen Shou?"

"I ......, I don't know ......"

Leng Yi said: "You don't know anything, and you still let you be the treasurer?" Okay, hand over your work to someone else immediately, and you won't have to do it later. You pay your debts. Don't come to the yamen again! ”

Si Yin's face was ashamed, and he didn't dare to beg for mercy, so he lowered his head and went into the house to hand over the work roll and go home.

Leng Yi took the account book, turned around and asked the household secretary: "Who are the people who came to carry the grain?" Who introduced you? ”

Si Fang said: "Generally, it is the people who are registered with the yamen who are responsible. But when I can't get busy, I also find some acquaintances to help. This time, because there was a lot of food needed for disaster relief, they couldn't be busy, so they asked the people from the yamen to find some acquaintances to help. ”

"Can this Ruan Shou find out?"

"It should be possible, there may be registration where the food is distributed."

"Okay, you go check it out right away, and report it to the official as soon as you find out! The people who carry grain don't want money, there must be a reason for him, and he can't let the people suffer! ”

The household secretary hurriedly agreed, and arranged for people to visit everywhere.

That night, Leng Yi was having dinner in his house, and the secretary hurriedly came over, and Leng Yi received him in the study.

The secretary wiped the cold sweat from his head and said in a low voice: "Master, check, I can't find out." ”

"What?" Leng Yi couldn't cry or laugh, "You don't know who will carry the grain?" How do you do this? ”

The secretary was shocked, Leng Yi had just fired Si Yin, and if he wanted to expel him as the secretary, it was also a matter of one sentence. Crying and mournful, he said: "It's very strange, it stands to reason that the person who carries the grain must be a person with a clear background, but no one can tell how these people came, who invited them, and the subordinates inquired about the relevant personnel, as well as other people in the yamen, but they don't know." It's as if it fell from the sky, carried food, didn't collect money, and disappeared out of thin air! ”

Leng Yi looked at him, his hair straightened, and he said coldly: "Is it possible that people from various counties and townships came to receive food?" ”

"Impossible!" The secretary said with certainty, "The people from the counties and townships only wait outside the yamen, and the grain transported from the granary is our own people in the yamen or other people who have been supplemented by us. Therefore, these people can only be invited by our yamen, and strangely, no one knows who invited them. ”

Leng Yi stood up, slowly walked to the window, looked at the night outside the window, and said, "You go and bring me the account book of the grain received by each county and township this time, I want to see it!" ”

The secretary hurriedly agreed, and quickly retreated.

Soon, the account book was brought, Leng Yi flipped through it casually, and said, "Okay, you can go back." The ledger is left here, and I look at it slowly. ”

The secretary withdrew, only to find that the back of his spine was covered with cold sweat, and he prayed in his heart that he would not fall on this matter.

(To be continued)