came out over the wall, and Li Bin went to ask the official to report the county order.

When Lin Youlu came out this time, he was obviously a little impatient: "Oh, Deputy General Li, the lower official has made it clear just now, the county government doesn't have a bag of extra rice and noodles, why are you here again?" ”

"Lin County order, we are borrowing grain, not asking for grain. If you say you have no food to borrow, can you let us go and see the warehouse of the county government? Shen Congxi said.

"Who are you?" Lin Youlu has never seen Shen Congxi.

Shen Congxi said: "Shen Congxi, a grass citizen, is General Zhao's staff. ”

The county snorted from his nose: "Grass people? Grass people also dare to roar in court? The warehouse of the government, how can you see it if you want to see it? ”

Shen Congxi suppressed his anger and sneered: "There is an order in the military law, if the army is in urgent need, it has the right to requisition the official food of the local government, do you dare to disobey the military law?" Aren't you afraid that I will sue the prefect, or directly take you and deal with it by military law? ”

Lin Youlu laughed out loud when he heard this: "Staff Shen, I'm really not afraid of you suing!" You have military law, and I have county law! Someone! Reward this roaring grass man with twenty kills, and give me a beating! ”

Li Bin saw that something was going to happen, so he hurriedly stepped forward and stopped: "Wait, Shen Gongzi is the eldest son of Lord Shen An, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and he is also the imperial staff of General Zhao, please be merciful to Lord Lin's subordinates!" ”

"The secretary of the ministry? Such a big official can't control my small place. I don't know! Haven't heard of it! What are you doing while you stop? Don't drag it out and call me! Lin Youlu said in a weird way. He had already been instructed by Zhang Dujun that Ji Guogong wanted the lives of Shen Congxi and Zhao Muzhe, and it didn't matter who his eldest son was.

Don't blame me, if you want to blame, blame you for offending Zhongguogong. Lin Youlu thought gloating as he watched the servants press Shen Congxi onto the bench to hit the board.

Who knows, one of the two officials who beat the board was the thin-faced official who was kicked and dislocated by Zhao Dong that day, and when he saw that it was one of the people who was beaten, he immediately felt revenge. I saw that he used twelve points of force for each stick, and the last two sticks went beyond the area of the board and hit Shen Congxi's waist fiercely.

The county government has the rules of the county government, and the army can't interfere, and Deputy General Li can't stop it, so he has to wait until the fight is over and carry back Shen Congxi, who has half a life left.

Zhao Xiaohou saw that if the grain was not borrowed, forget it, and even beat Shen Congxi half to death! As soon as he got on the horse, he rushed to the county government to ask for the crime.

"General Zhao, I don't know who he is, he only said that he was a grass man, but he went to court, he didn't beat the drum, he didn't kneel, he pointed fingers directly at the county officials, this is a violation of the law, I beat him and acted according to the law, what is wrong with me......"

Listening to his energetic "ahhhhhh I had no choice but to ask again: "I borrowed rice from you for a few days, why did you delay it?" ”

Lin Youlu rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Since General Zhao came to borrow it in person, then I will transport the rice to the barracks tomorrow, and I will not miss the general's meal!" ”

The little marquis snorted, turned around and walked out of the county office, and went back to the barracks.

Shen Congxi's twenty sticks were not lightly beaten, but fortunately, before they came out, the begonia girl gave them a big box of various medicines. Yunyin and Qingmo helped Gongzi apply the Golden Creation Medicine, and fed him another Nine Flowers Jade Dew Pill, and Shen Dagongzi relieved his breath.

"I can't imagine that a little seven-grade sesame official can cover the sky with one hand!" Shen Congxi said angrily. His father is a secretary of the ministry, in charge of the appointment of officials in the Celestial Empire, this is the official he appointed?

Shen Congxi thought about it and said with a wry smile: "On weekdays, I am at the feet of the Son of Heaven, although I have no official position, I have my father's halo on my head, and I have an eldest sister who is the second princess, so everyone can save face." Only when I came out did I know that if I wanted to do the right thing for the sky, I still had to hold the authority in my hands to fight with these cows, ghosts, gods and snakes! ”

Zhao Muzhe also sighed: "There is a saying: If you don't plant good rice, you will grow barnyard grass." If you don't do a good job, there will be bad officials in this position, which is probably what you say. ”

"Fortunately, there will be food tomorrow, and I will urge it again to see where the military rations have been delivered. There are still a few days to come. Li Bin shook his head, and after speaking, he walked out of the inner account.

Early the next morning, sure enough, a grain truck was delivered to the barracks, and Zhao Xiaohou was relieved.

In the evening, the people sent out also came back to reply, saying that the military rations would arrive the day after tomorrow, but the quantity was not right, and it was much less. I'm afraid it won't last long, and I'll have to go to Beijing to urge food again.

The little marquis said ruthlessly: "Since there is little food, we need to fight quickly!" I don't believe that my 10,000 elite soldiers can't destroy these more than 100 pirates! ”

For two days in a row, the little marquis discussed tactics with the deputy generals and staff generals in the tent. However, there seems to be no more effective way to do it than to control it. There is a lot of trouble in the military tent here, and there is an accident in the barracks over there.

"General! Most of the sergeants had symptoms such as nausea and dizziness, and called the military doctor to see them, saying that there was a problem with their diet, but they could not find out the cause. After Li Bin finished the military rations he had received, he returned the uneaten rice and the rice to the county government together.

Shen Congxi's injury healed quickly, firstly because of his youth, and secondly, because he used Begonia's medicine. He sat up with his clothes draped and asked, "Is there a problem with the food of a large number of sergeants?" So how can we not feel it? ”

Li Bin said with a smile: "Shen Gongzi said that he laughed, we ate polished rice, and there was still a surplus that was shipped before, and the sergeants ate coarse rice, which was ...... I borrowed ...... from the county office! Li Bin's smile froze, and he realized that he had said the problem.

"Do you still have the rice borrowed by the county government?" Shen Congxi hurriedly asked.

Li Bin scratched his head and said, "I'll go back to the rest......" After thinking about it, he strode towards the cooking barracks tent. Soon, he returned with a small bag, followed by a military doctor.

The military doctor grabbed a handful of rice in his hand, and saw that the color of the rice was transparent and shiny, and it looked no different from polished rice, except that there was no rice flavor of polished rice. He tried it again with a silver needle, but it did not turn black.

The little marquis grabbed a handful of rice and looked at it, he didn't see anything wrong, but after throwing the rice back into the rice bag, he felt that his hands were a little greasy.

"Zhao Bei, you take this bag of rice back to Beijing, send it to Duanwang's mansion, and ask Duanwang to help check it." Xiao Hou Ye wiped his hands and thought, if there is a problem with rice, Tang Yu and Haitang will definitely be able to figure it out. Zhao Bei took the rice bag and went out.

The military doctor had to cook coptis soup for everyone to pour down, and after a day or two, the sergeants' symptoms disappeared.

It had been seven or eight days since King Duan got this small bag of rice.

"This rice is poisonous!" Haitang sniffed the rice, rubbed it vigorously in her hand, and after throwing the rice in her hand back into the bag, she licked her greasy hand with the tip of her tongue, and finally said affirmatively:

"This is a rice that has been polished with moldy aged rice and mixed with white wax oil, which looks the same as polished rice, but it is actually toxic. Although short-term poison does not lead to death, if eaten for a long time, the toxins accumulate in the body, and the same will kill people. Especially the elderly and children with poor physical fitness. ”

"That is to say, this is not specifically for poisoning the soldiers of the barracks, but shoddy, moldy old rice, but it can be sold for a price of polished rice!" Duanwang sneered and said, "What a Fujian mansion!" The money they gave to Zhang Zhi is probably from this trick! ”

"It's madness!" Shen Congxi received Ji Baiyu's flying pigeon message and scolded.

He made up his mind, immediately wrote a small note, only one line, and sent the pigeon back to the capital:

From Xi is willing to enter the office, vowing to eradicate local corrupt officials and corrupt officials!