After Tao Kite taught the people how to use locusts, they did not panic as she expected.

After all, people can eat anything when they are very hungry, and many people just hesitate for a while before putting locusts in their mouths and chewing them. Soon everyone noticed that the locust tasted very good, and there was a lot of meat aroma.

This is like a drought and nectar for the people who have been hungry for a long time, and everyone works together to catch locusts and come back to eat.

Mo Bai asked the two of them to stay for one night, Fu Yinxiao originally wanted to refuse, the environment here is difficult, in case his wife is bitten by some insects, it will be troublesome, but Tao Yuan agreed, so he couldn't say anything.

At night, living in the house cleaned by Mo Bai, Tao Yuan rubbed his hands coldly, "Why is it so cold here?"

Fu Yinxiao had a smile on the corner of his mouth, but the candlelight was dim, and Tao Kite couldn't see it very really. He covered her little hand and said angrily, "It's not all because you insist on staying here to write something. ”

"I just sorted out what I remembered, and with the specific month of cultivation and the grain, the people's harvest was a little better." Tao Kite withdrew his hand and continued to write.

Fu Yinxiao was not in a hurry to rest, but sat beside her to accompany her, and said while grinding ink with his free hand, "Do you see the strangeness of the county order?"

"Hmm." Tao Kite nodded and motioned for him to continue.

Fu Yinxiao coughed lightly, sorted out his thoughts, lowered his voice and said, "There is mud in the tea presented by Mobai's daughter today, but when we walked around Cen County, we obviously found that there are so many wells, although the drought harvest is not good, there is no food, but it is not so good that there is no clean water at home. ”

"Yes, what is even more strange is that some people say that the levy tax is too heavy, and the grain is collected by the imperial court." Tao Yuan suddenly gasped, "You say, will the deputy governor of the county deliberately put dirty water on us to show off his own breeze." ”

"I think so too," Fu Yinxiao felt that the mystery seemed to be solved, "Could it be that Mobai created such an illusion of loving the people like a son in front of us?"

Tao Kite put down the brush in his hand and said seriously, "If that's the case, what does he mean and what does he want to get?"

Halfway through the sentence, it came to an abrupt end

Footsteps rang out outside the door. Then there were two soft knocks on the door, and then a girl's soft voice came, "Madame, have you rested, Daddy ordered me to deliver some snacks." ”

"No," Fu Yinxiao got up to open the door, "we're not hungry, so we don't have to send snacks." ”

"But it's already here, so let's save face." Mo Bai's little daughter quickly slipped into the house as she spoke, and put the snack on the table with a smile, "What is Madame writing?"

"Something boring, nothing to look at." Tao Yuan smiled and quickly covered the paper, since she and Fu Yinxiao realized that something was wrong with the deputy prefect, they were wary of the people around him.

"Oh, then I'll go back to the house and go to bed." The little girl smiled, her eyes were full of innocence, and Tao Yuan couldn't help but associate her with the little maid in the palace who framed her, and shuddered.

As soon as Mobai's youngest daughter went out, Fu Yinxiao came over and lifted the lid of the dim sum and sneered, "Sure enough, as we expected." ”

In the center of the plate are a few pieces of osmanthus cake, which are crystal clear and fragrant. Next to it is a very tempting looking jerky, and at a glance you know that it is not something that can be taken from the homes of Qing officials who have been plagued by drought and locust plagues.

Tao Kite didn't have a good meal today, and after seeing it, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva and pinch a piece of osmanthus cake. "I also saw that the deputy governor was wearing high-quality materials in his clothes today, and there were jade pendants that were not hidden around his waist."

"Could it be that he not only embezzled the disaster relief funds allocated by the imperial court, but also privately collected the people's money in the name of collecting taxes." Fu Yinxiao's heart gradually cleared up, "Stay until tomorrow morning, and I will interrogate him." ”

Tao Kite's osmanthus cake was handed to his mouth and suddenly paused, and he came to his nose and sniffed it. Puzzled frown, "Why is the taste so far off?"

Even if you don't know how to make osmanthus cake anymore, you won't make a cake that smells pungent. Fu Yinxiao lowered his head and smelled the osmanthus cake, and there was really a smell of sulfur.

"That's weird." The clay kite plucked a silver hairpin from his head and gently inserted it into the osmanthus cake. When she pulled it out again, she saw the hairpin with a blackened tail, she "hissed" and took a breath of cold air, and said fearfully, "Fortunately, I haven't eaten it yet." ”

"I can't wait for tomorrow," Fu

Yin Xiao was so angry that he took the matching sword, "Let's go, let's go and ask Mobai now, where did he get the guts to poison"

Because there are still a lot of entourages in the county magistrate's house, Fu Yinxiao is not afraid to make a move. He pushed the door open and found it locked.

Tao Kite realized that something was wrong and hurriedly pushed the window. The outside was sealed, and from the cracks that were pushed open, it could be seen that the entire outside of the house had been sealed, obviously prepared.

Fu Yinxiao took the sword and slashed horizontally and vertically for a long time, and there was a cold sweat, "Oh no, we can't get out." ”

The food sent by Mobai was highly poisonous, and now it was nailed to the outside, because he wanted their lives.

Tao Yuan also frowned, knowing that the current situation was not good, but they couldn't guess what Mobai's intentions were.

He is a small official, and the big deal is that the matter is exposed and runs away directly, why do you have to kill the two of them

Or take another 10,000 steps back, wouldn't it be more cost-effective to use the lives of the two of them as a threat?

"Crazy, crazy, crazy" Fu Yinxiao was annoyed that he could be so careless, and wondered where he came from to poison the son of the prince.

"Don't worry, husband, even if we starve to death in the house, it will take days." Tao Kite was surprisingly calm in the face of this situation, and also comforted him.

"If you can't find it, you will definitely send someone to find it, and I just looked, the cracks in the steel bars outside the house are very sealed, and we can't go out or get in."

Tao Kite patted him on the arm like a hair, "It's not so easy for him to want our lives. ”

Fu Yinxiao quickly calmed down and nodded. "It's late, let's go to bed first, recharge our energy and wait until tomorrow to figure it out."

While sleeping, Fu Yinxiao wrapped the Tao Kite in his arms and whispered in her ear, "It's going to be fine, don't be afraid." ”

"I'm not afraid." Tao Kite hugged him tightly, the sweet smell of sandalwood lingered on the tip of her nose, and she fell asleep with peace of mind.

When it was almost dawn, Tao Yuan turned over in a half-dream, as if she heard some strange sound, but after her legs hit Fu Yinxiao's stomach, she immediately fell asleep again.

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