Chapter 399: The Rat and the Yellow Sparrow

In the fire, the person who was caught and rushed into the sea of fire, thought that he would definitely die, but he didn't expect that although the surrounding area was very hot, the fire failed to burn himself.

Then look down at the cloth covering his head and face, the black is transparent with silver, and the flames continue to lick the cloth, but it can't leave traces.

He knew that this was a baby, and he was very grateful to the other party for taking out such a treasure to save himself, so he tried his best to look up and thank the other party in the posture of being carried, but the other party suddenly passed through a flame, and the intense heat hit his head and face, and he was even suffocated from breathing, let alone talking.

When he woke up, he found that he had passed through the high wall of the sea of fire, and there were people behind him who were also carried through the Fengbao Cang, which was getting stronger and stronger, and he vaguely recognized that the other party was Kurabe Langzhong, who led the team this time, and there were a few colleagues in the future, but obviously there was no treasure he used to prevent fire, and he was dragged into the sea of fire, letting out a loud scream.

He was anxious at the wall, and hurriedly begged the man in black beside him: "Strong man!" Heroes! Please, go and save my colleagues! He hurriedly took off his fireproof suit and wanted to throw it down to his colleagues.

As soon as the fireproof suit fell, he was copied by a hand, and he stared blankly at the slender snow-white hand, the owner of the hand said in a gentle and low voice, and said calmly: "My treasure, who allowed you to throw it away?" ”

This person's attitude is kind, but there is a natural sense of Ling Ran in his tone, as if that kind of dignity and superiority is not intentional, but innate, the head of the warehouse department suddenly felt that this tone was a little familiar, and couldn't help but stare at this person suspiciously, but suddenly attracted his attention by the movement below, and saw someone chasing him out from the second courtyard, as if it was the person who stabbed Lord Shi, and called those warehouse directors to come back quickly, and those warehouse directors hesitated and wanted to go back, but they were held down intentionally or unintentionally by the black-clothed man who brought them out.

The head of Kurabe was shocked: "This lord, why didn't your subordinates let them go?" If you don't let people go at this time, you will die! Please also order ......"

Before he could speak, the man's voice next to him interrupted him even more kindly: "Why do you suddenly call me Lord?" ”

The head of the warehouse department was stunned, in fact, he didn't think much about it under urgency, and this title came out of his mouth, but at this moment, when the other party asked like this, he suddenly didn't know how to answer, but when he raised his eyes, he saw the other party's eyes, the seemingly merciful but ruthless eyes between the cold moon and starry sky and fire, suddenly made him break out in a cold sweat.

He suddenly realized that if he answered incorrectly, maybe under this high wall was his burial place.

He was also quick, and said in amazement: "Lord is an honorific title for the elders. You have a guard, you must have a high status, and you are my savior, so I naturally have to respect you. ”

The man stared at him, seemed to smile for a moment, turned his head, and the head of Kurabe breathed a sigh of relief, and looked down, only to see that those colleagues finally refused the call of Lord Thorn Shi's subordinates, and followed the men in black to break in, but the few men in black flew up at the moment when the fire became fierce, leaving a few colleagues in the sea of fire!

The head of the warehouse exclaimed.

Lord Thorn Shi's subordinates also seemed to be in a hurry, someone was pouring water on their heads, trying to rush in to save people, but they were soon forced back by the fire, and it was too late.

The figure twisted and struggled in the firelight, and the miserable screams shot into the eardrums, tearing his heart and lungs, Huo Ran, the head of the warehouse, looked back and wanted to question the people around him, but he heard the man laugh and said, "Okay, get down." ”

And then he was pushed down!

Fortunately, under the high wall is a thick and soft grass, the recent drought, the grass and shrubs grow luxuriantly, support him, he rolled all the way down, gradually offset the momentum, rolled to the bottom of the slope staggered up, with anxiety and doubt in his heart, did not know the direction, he rushed towards the official road, when he got up, he seemed to see someone in the other direction also rolled down, he guessed that it should be the boss Lang Zhong, but Lang Zhong did not run in the direction of Huzhou City like him, but staggered out of the direction of the city.

The principal hesitated, he also knew that it was also a risk to return to Huzhou City at this time, but such a big thing happened tonight, how could he not tell the world? At the very least, His Royal Highness is still in the city.

When he thought of His Royal Highness King Ding, he suddenly saw the prince's guard of honor in front of him.

The chief was overjoyed, and hurriedly pounced, holding aloft the token of his own head of the branch department.

"His Royal Highness King Ding, Xiaguan Chen Cheng, there is a shocking case to tell you!"

As soon as the sedan curtain was lifted, the eye circles were blue and black, and he was obviously sleep-deprived, but the energetic Dingwang Yanjue poked his head out with a smile, and said in a tone full of expectation and encouragement: "Okay, come on, this king is waiting!" ”

……

In Fengbao Cang, Wen Zhen's guards who rushed to the first person to save people in the courtyard just now all retreated back and reported to Wen Zhen what had just happened.

At this time, the fire in the second courtyard had already risen, Wen Zhen's guards shot spears and smashed into a burning warehouse, and saw that the fire inside was continuous, and the so-called interval had no effect at all.

Wen Zhen narrowed his eyes, stared for a while, and said for a moment: "The earthen wall in that interval is not an earthen wall at all, it is a wall made of grass stuffed in the middle of the paper, which is extremely cleverly done, and the light in the warehouse is dim, which hides everyone's eyes." ”

The last time Wen Zhen came to inspect, the jackdaw didn't come, although Wen Zhen's eyes could see the subtleties, but they couldn't see through, and naturally they couldn't see the catty of this wall.

Everyone suddenly realized, and then they understood why this fire jumped so fast, it turned out that the firewall turned out to be a fire wall. It's just that there are so many walls in the warehouse, and it is not a small project to change them all to false walls, which was there before, or has it been done recently?

The few warehouse directors who were stopped said sharply: "Lord Thorn Shi, you even cheated on the partition wall of the warehouse!" ”

Wen Zhen spread his hands: "And then?" Just to burn myself? ”

A few people were speechless, and then someone hated and said: "I don't know that you didn't exploit and persecute the warehouse prisoner too much, he did it to fight and take revenge!" But Lord Wen, today's fire, Fengbao Cang is burned, your head will definitely not be guaranteed, and I don't have to talk to you anymore! ”

"Yes." Wen Zhen said, "Although I will definitely die, it is worth it to have you to be buried." ”

Several principals: "......"

It is said that His Royal Highness King Yi is the first difficult person in Dongtang, is this one who has been with him for a long time and has been infected with a husband and wife?

The jackdaw came over with a little anxiety and said, "My lord, I have found it, there is no exit on all sides, we will escort you out from the high wall!" ”

Wen Zhen didn't move, she stood in the middle of the field, the firelight baked her face red, and the dancing flames danced like phantoms in her pupils, she watched those barns continue to fall, disappear, and turn into ashes in the fire, and muttered, "I'm still very angry......"

Get a bunch of fake grain, make a fake case, and then kill people in front of her, and burn down the Fengbao warehouse in front of her, this is really a desperate plan.

The jackdaw watched the flames gradually approach, and said urgently, "My lord! ”

Wen Zhen took a breath, turned her head, and walked a few steps in the courtyard, the courtyard was set low on all sides and high in the middle to facilitate drainage, she walked to a stone mill at the highest place, turned left three times, turned right three times, and finally stretched out her fist, rolling a few sounds, the stone mill moved, and a dark opening appeared in the ground.

Wen Zhen stood at the entrance of the tunnel, stretched out his hand to the principals, and said with a smile: "Since you want to accompany the burial, you naturally have to choose a good tomb, how about it, do you dare to go down with me to take a look?" ”

Zhang Yue and Su Xun have stepped forward quickly, Su Xun kept in mind the lesson of "the danger zone guards investigate first", and Zhang Yue kept in mind that "men should protect women first." It was the jackdaw, who was the first to react to what kind of place this was, and first went to tweet Zhen: "Adults, go down!" ”

The two men reacted in unison again and hurriedly got out of the way.

Wen Zhen is also not polite, although the guests should be allowed to get out of danger first, but the guests dare not go down first.

She entered first, and the tunnel had stairs, and the careful jackdaw noticed that it didn't look like a new building, judging by the wear. When the group went down, there was a loud echo, and it could be seen that there was no space below.

When everyone was down-to-earth, they all smelled the faint fragrance of grain.

With a "bang", the lights turned on, and everyone saw the scene in front of them.

Shocked and speechless for a moment.

In front of me is actually a huge square, the pattern is almost exactly the same as on the ground, all around is also a barn, but also a barn, at first glance almost make people think that the granary above has moved down, but the space below is even more huge than the above, people are amazed that the huge treasure warehouse underground, there is such a mystery.

This is obviously no longer an authentic secret room, but a real Fengbao warehouse!

The real Fengbao warehouse turned out to be an underground granary!

The underground granary has always had higher requirements for the sealing of grain, and a few old officials in the warehouse department forgot everything for a while, and took a step forward, first went to the barn where the grain was sealed to touch, and went closer to see that those barns were still different from the top, basically a cellar pit, someone squatted down and touched the cellar wall, cut a little with a knife to see, and exclaimed: "Sure enough, it is the mat chaff method!" ”

Zhang Yue was eager to ask what method this was, and the old cousin was very excited, and said to him that this was one of the wonderful methods of moisture insulation and heat preservation in the underground grain cellar. Dig a pit to store grain, the pit is first dried with fire, and then the bottom of the pit is paved with plant ash, and then the wooden planks are laid, and the mats are laid on the wooden boards, and a layer of chaff is laid on the mats, and then a layer of mats is laid. The cellar wall is also treated in this way to ensure that the entire grain cellar is like a huge insulated and dehumidified jar to preserve the grain.

The old master was amazed again and again, saying that the person who designed this grain cellar must be a master here, and Wen Zhen somehow thought of Tang Xianzhi. felt that such a pragmatic move was like the handwriting of Tang Wu, who was fluttering in the fairy spirit, and felt that this association was really weird, and couldn't help but sigh.

Zhang Yue turned his admiration and amazement to Wen Zhen: "My lord, how did you guess that there is a hole in this underground?" ”

"It's still related to what Xiaoye Village has seen, as I asked you earlier, if some counties and towns really collected another wave of spring money before I came, and Fengbao Warehouse was already full, then where was the grain stored? Moreover, if Huzhou's taxes had been collected three times in the past few years, where was a lot of grain placed before it was shipped to Tianjing? The storage capacity of 400,000 stones in Fengbao Warehouse is not enough for most of the year. So before I came last time, I paid attention to the ground and found a mystery in the second courtyard. ”

Zhang Yue thought for a while about the situation of the first time she came to inspect, and only remembered that the adults were full of praise, and the second time she entered the courtyard, she turned around, and then she thought of these things at that time, and she saw that there were so many, and then she kept quiet?

He didn't feel that he was also being deceived and was not trusted, but thought happily, my lord's eyes are really like torches, and the city is amazing!

After the directors of the warehouse department finished studying the grain storage method, they suddenly turned around and asked Wen Zhen sharply: "Lord Thorn Shi, such a huge granary, why is there no grain of rice at this moment!" ”

Wen Zhen smiled, stretched out his hand and motioned for everyone to come with him, everyone followed her in confusion, turned left, and walked to a pit on the far left, and then there, found a secret door, there was a passage behind the door, and there was some grain scattered at the mouth of the passage.

Looking back again, he saw the open cellar door next to him, and Zhang Yue said, "The grain has been transported?" This direction ......" He estimated, it was difficult to estimate underground, Su Xun suddenly said: "On the west side of Fengbaocang, if the tunnel goes up, it may not be long before it comes out, it is the wharf, and you can cross the river directly." ”

Huo Ran, the head of the warehouse, changed color.

"Where?"

Wen Zhen was silent for a moment and said, "Dingyang." ”

The director of Kurabe was both shocked and angry: "Lord Assassin, you are a great crime!" ”

Wen Zhen curled the corner of his lips and said, "Come, take a look here." Turning and walking eastward, the crowd was once again confused, this time in the opposite direction from the direction just now, turning a corner, and at the end, there was also a small door, but that gate was not as delicate as the previous gate on the west side, and it was dug hastily and hastily, obviously as long as the car could get out, and some grain was spilled by the door, and the fire broke down, and the ground was also obviously rutted, and the darkness stretched all the way ahead.

The pit door next to it is also open, and there are obviously many fewer cellars here, and it can be seen that the grain here has been transported away from this tunnel.

The wind came out of the small door, whistling like a flute, and Wen Zhen's voice was empty and leisurely in the wind: "Guess what, where does this tunnel lead?" ”

……

Fengbaocang leans on the big river of the tributary of Zangzhu Lake, there is a big boat on the river at this moment, the top of the boat gives birth to the bright moon, and the bright moon reflects the silk strings.

The silk strings are plucked at the snow-white fingertips, and the sound is murmuring, which is the heart of the soup soup river and the waves flowing in the heart, the wind on both sides of the river bank through the ten thousand pine trees, the cold moon washing in the earthly and miscellaneous sky, and the starry frost clock on that day.

The stars hang down the plains, the rivers are wide, the high boats are dulcimer, and the crowd is silent.

The one facing the Gaozhou guqin is the Fengbao Cang standing on the high ground, and at this moment there are fireworks in the sky, reflecting half of the sky.

The surrounding people have been alarmed, and they all carry buckets and baskets, wanting to come to the rescue, but because the big iron gate of Fengbaocang is closed, they are not allowed to enter.

The person in front of the guqin didn't seem to be surprised by the turmoil, and after the song was over, his fingers pressed on the strings, and he glanced at the sky like the sunset.

The river breeze blew his clothes, like the moon and snow.

"Did he do it himself?"

"Yes. He got in touch with Mao Lao, and also brought a few rare fireproof clothing to save a few Lang officials. But at most, they can only save two. ”

"Even if he had more fireproof suits, he wouldn't have them. If there are not a few officials in Kurabe Lang, how can Wen Zhen's crime be aggravated...... Have all the grain ships been carried away? ”

"I have something to tell my son."

"Huh?"

"Seven days ago, Elder Mao said that he needed someone to help arrange it in Fengbaocang, and he was short of manpower and needed to transfer our people, he took out the sage order, and his subordinates couldn't disobey it, so he ......"

"So you took the order and went to help him with the arrangement of Feng Bao Cang?"

“…… Be. Please forgive your sins. However, his subordinates have already explained to the team that they have been rushing to transport food in the past few days, and it should be okay to come to that place so secret that no one has found it. The subordinates thought that after the Fengbao warehouse was burned down, this place would be abandoned, and then the grain would be transported more secretly and safely, I don't know what the prince wants? ”

There was silence, only the river breeze remained, singing the song of the ancients that no one could understand.

After a while, there was the sound of plucking the strings, and the fairy weng sounded, and his fingertips shone under the moon.

It was as if a cold, ethereal, and slightly mocking answer.

“…… I don't know when you'll be able to make your own decisions. ”

"Childe ......"

"I don't know, your heart is already a sage."

"Childe!"

The fingertips are drawn on the strings, and the moonlight is like water, and the sound of the piano is also like the sound of soup and water, which is moving.

The person who spoke fell silently, and the moment he fell, blood splattered from his mouth, nose and ears, and under the moonlight, it was like a few fiery red snakes that were strangely drilled into the seven orifices.

With a pop, the river water was cold, accepting this like a fairy moonlight, and also accepting this fishy corpse.

Gao Zhou was still silent.

Even if this person has followed Gongzi for more than ten years, although he still has no name, he is more or less a figure of the old man's cronies.

Someone stepped forward silently and stood where the man had just stood, and even his posture was exactly the same.

The conversation continued, as if it were just a moment of confusion in the wind.

"What are the benefits of Jia San's old age?"

"There is one house on the side of Bixi Lake in Hengshui."

"I remember he already had a five-entry house."

"So Son, people's hearts are insufficient, and there is more than enough to die."

"We're ready to go."

"Childe, the grain hasn't been shipped yet......"

"It's too late."

"Childe...... Fang Cai Jiasan said correctly, once the Fengbao warehouse is burned down and this place is abandoned, it will be more convenient for us to transport grain, and we can always transport it together at that time......"

"I said it's too late, I mean that from today onwards, it will be impossible for us to transport a single grain of rice from Fengbao Warehouse."

"Childe, the subordinates are stupid ......"

"Do you see that little red and white building? Wen Zhen's new restaurant that is about to open, did you see the huge mansion behind the restaurant, and the river behind the mansion? Guess what's hidden in that house? ”

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