Chapter 492: Suspicious
"Lord Chincha, it's not too early, this meal..."
Shen Man'er smiled innocently.
"I happen to be hungry too, let's go. ”
During the banquet, Shen Man'er was like a young lady who had been living in the boudoir for a long time, and she was full of interest in the new things Mu Yingqiu said, especially when Mu Yingqiu mentioned some local characteristics of Mo Feng City, Shen Man'er looked like she was going to see it immediately.
Mu Yingqiu looked at her like this, and slowly put her mind at ease.
He just said, Shen Man'er is a deep lady, what is there to worry about, in vain his brother-in-law asked him to be careful of this woman.
Late at night, Shen Man'er and the others blew out the candles early, and only when the black shadows disappeared did Shen Man'er and the others come out from behind the screen.
"I didn't expect this old thief Mu to think so highly of me, and he would send so many people to spy on me. ”
The crowd sat down at a table, and there were ten of them.
"Yingying, with your understanding of Mu Yingqiu, is he abnormal today?"
"No, this Mu Yingqiu usually looks like he is worried about the country and the people, and loves the people like a son, and there is no difference between him and him on this day. ”
It's really like life, life is like a play, this old thief Mu is acting all the time.
"Ziling, have you found anything?"
"If it is according to what Yingying said, this Mofeng City should be a country and a peaceful country, where the people are well fed and drunk, and live and work in peace and contentment.
But today, as far as I can see, all the people are malnourished, and this is not a day or two, but a long period of lack of food and clothing. ”
"Do you mean to say that this bread distribution today is false, and that it is done for me to see. ”
"Quite possibly. ”
Everyone thought about what Ziling said, if it was for Man'er to see, those people went to receive food in an orderly manner, and it didn't look like it was the first time.
"Don't you think it's strange that the people are clothed in cotton clothes?"
Everyone was thinking about the strangeness of this, and they heard the voice of a thousand machines.
"What you say, it's none of your business here. ”
Ziling looked at Qianji viciously, and she didn't know what Man'er thought, she actually let this man get involved, wasn't she afraid that this man was a spy, what if he was sent by the other party to find out the news?
"Ziling..."
Shen Man'er looked at Ziling helplessly, Ziling's hostility towards Qianji was too great, and she was the opposite, as soon as Qianji appeared, she felt exactly the same as when she met Yingying, and she had an inexplicable sense of trust.
"Qianji, I also think that cotton clothes are very strange, but I can't see where the specific fault is, have you found anything?"
Qianji closed the folding fan in his hand, dipped the tea and wrote the word "li" on the table.
"You mean there's something wrong with the inside of the padded clothes?"
Qianji's writing reminded everyone.
"I also remembered that as those people passed me, I heard a rustling sound coming from them, like the sound of broken leaves huddled together. ”
"Pearl, are you saying that the cotton clothes they are wearing are not cotton, but leaves?"
Shen Man'er was so shocked, the emperor sent disaster relief silver taels to various provinces, if it was cotton clothes made of leaves, then where did all the money go.
"Mademoiselle, I'm not sure if it's a leaf, but I'm sure it's not cotton. ”
"Bastard..."
"Corrupt officials..."
Everyone couldn't suppress their anger, this food is fake, the people should still have some food in their homes, and there should be no problem in surviving this winter.
This cotton garment is used to protect against the cold, they wear several layers, and they are shivering with cold, and those who get this cotton garment are still enduring the cold all their lives.
And looking at the gloomy sky outside, it is estimated that there will be another heavy snow in the next few days, how can these people survive.
"Pearl, what else did you hear?"
"Miss, when we just entered the city, I heard a housekeeper-like person ask a little guy, is it arranged, and the little guy replied okay, that Master Mu has been by your side at that time, and I have no way to tell you. ”
According to Zhu'er, it seems that this food distribution must be fake. I can't imagine that this old thief Mu is so bold and daring to be greedy for the relief food of the people. ”
Ziling said fiercely, if this old thief Mu was by her side, she would definitely dismantle him on the spot.
"Didn't you notice that there are no young adults in this Mo Feng City?"
Qianji said again, and when he spoke again this time, no one objected.
"I also found out about this problem. ”
Shen Man'er said slowly.
"It's as if the young people in Mo Feng City have disappeared out of thin air, and all the way we have come, except for this shop, even the vendors who set up stalls on the street are all old people who are close to their sixtieth birthday.
It stands to reason that it is impossible for Mu Yingqiu not to know such an obvious thing, but looking at him along the way, he doesn't seem to be worried at all. ”
"Because he has already told you that those people are going into the mountains to cut wood. ”
Logging in the mountains?
This is inevitably too funny, pouring the whole city into the mountain, even if there are more trees in this Mo Feng City, they should be cut down.
"Does this Mu Yingqiu want to cut down all the trees? ”
"It's true that those people went into the mountains, but it's hard to say whether they cut down trees or not. ”
Shen Man'er squinted at Qianji, and it seemed that Qianji knew more than she imagined.
"Qianji, what else do you know?"
"I know that's pretty much what you know.
But I know that the Mu family has a business, which is graphite, and the mountains and forests south of Mo Feng City are where the Mu family mines graphite. ”
Qianji's words frightened everyone.
"You mean, in the name of disaster relief, Mu Yingqiu actually asked those affected people to go into the mountains to mine graphite for him. ”
"It's all guesswork, everything is yet to be verified. ”
Originally, after Yingying said about the relationship between Mu Yingqiu and Shangguan Zhe, Shen Man'er didn't plan to tear her face with Mu Yingqiu, but if all their guesses were confirmed tonight, this Mu Yingqiu would definitely be killed.
Not only Mu Yingqiu, but even the foundation of the entire Mu family, she has to pull it out.
"Man'er, what are you going to do?"
"An Long, An Hu, I have been letting you hide in the carriage before, your identity, Mu Yingqiu must not know, you will go to check the matter of cotton clothes early tomorrow morning. ”
"Yes. ”
"Huang San, I know that you are in Mo Feng City, and you must have companions, let them help me check the things in the mountain. ”
"Miss, don't worry. ”
Eagle Eagle looked at everyone, they all arranged tasks, and a few of them won't be playing in the house tomorrow.
"What are we doing?"
The corners of Shen Man'er's mouth hooked slightly, what they wanted to do was the most important thing.
"Tomorrow, you will sing a good scene with me and pull out the fox tail of Mu Lao Thief. ”