The more things happen, the faster time flies, this room Gu Yanzhang led a group of people to count the grain in the regular closing position, but Chen Ducai was busy demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall.

Fortunately, he rented grain that day, which was in the name of the Li family, a merchant in the capital, and had nothing to do with himself, only saying that there was a merchant surnamed Li in the capital who took over a big deal, but the warehouse was outside Beijing, far away from here, and the grain in the grain store near the left was not enough.

At this time, those people from the grain store came to urge, and everyone didn't know that it was Yongqiu Zhixian sitting behind him, so he naturally couldn't find the owner of the debt, except for looking for the next person who rented grain on behalf of him in the early days, and sent people to the capital to find Li Chengwei, and overnight, he couldn't find any better way.

Chen Ducai was thick-skinned, and at this life-and-death juncture, he had no time to care about the consequences, so he hurriedly wrote two letters, asked a few trustworthy family members to take them with him, and quickly went to the capital.

After he finished this work, although he didn't know the bottom in his heart, but when he came to his senses, he gradually came back to his senses, and comforted himself in his heart - don't be anxious, don't panic, as long as things don't reach the last step, there must be a way to think about it. You must know that as long as the inspection of the Criminal Prosecution Department is dealt with, you will be able to have at least half a year of respite, and when the new grain is on the market, it will not be long, and the price of the old grain will naturally fall.

But as long as there is time to fill the treasury before the court calls for regular closing, the rest is nothing.

Originally, he didn't leave a few county officials in the regular liquidation, and only arranged three or two to help keep an eye on them, not to help, but to help ventilate and report the news. However, the inspectors of the Criminal Division went in to inspect for many days, and it was calm, and the spies that Chen Ducai had planted in it also came out to report every now and then, only saying that everything was normal, but it was checked according to the method of checking grain in the past, and there was nothing serious.

Chen Ducai counted the time, and knew that no matter how it was, the cadres of the Criminal Prosecution Department could only stay here for five or six days at most, because they had already received news from other places, Gu Yanzhang still had a number of counties and towns in his hands that needed to be inspected, and it was impossible to leave all the time here, so he was also relieved, and only waited to survive these few days, and then transport the grain out and plug the mouths of those grain merchants.

However, on this day, he was sitting in the back office, turning over a family account book in his hand, thinking about how to fill in the bad debts, but he had not seen half of it, and he could already hear a chaotic footsteps outside. ”

The voice was full of anxiety.

Chen Ducai saw that he didn't look right, and hurriedly looked up.

The errand officer didn't have time to approach, so he said in a hurry: "County Zun, the villain found out that the Gu official was taking a cadre from the Criminal Division and others at this time, and hired a lot of county porters to enter the Changping warehouse and inspect the grain one by one. ”

Chen Ducai was startled, but when he heard what the errand servant said, he finally relented and scolded: "What kind of panic, a few porters, what can they do?!" ”

At this time, the grain in the warehouse was inspected, but there were two methods, one was to use a bamboo pole to insert it into the grain and measure the height of the grain hoard to convert the quantity of grain and grain, and the other was to dig up the grain hoard and take rice from it layer by layer to test the quality of the grain.

The former is simple, you can add up all the grains, but the latter is a lot of trouble, and it is easier said than done if you want to take rice layer by layer. There are tens of thousands of stone grains in a warehouse, and there are hundreds of thousands of grains in Yongqiu County's regular closing warehouse, and it takes at least two people to spend a whole day together to find out a grain hoard.

In addition, inspecting the quality of grain and grain is not a matter of rough opinions, let alone something that anyone can do at will, and there are strict requirements.

It was Chen Ducai who heard that Gu Yanzhang had found a picker to enter the regular liquidation, and his first reaction in his heart was not panic, but funny.

- A group of coolie sellers, checking grain? Scold!

How to take samples, how to check, how to record, there are extremely strict requirements in the criminal department, if a few porters can complete it, then why do you want so many officials to do it?

Afraid that Gu Yanzhang was the dog, the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, calculating that the time was not right, so he had to hurriedly grab a group of people and go in to deal with the matter.

Thinking of this, Chen Du became more and more calm.

- The surname Gu is smart, he didn't ask him to beg for people, if he asked him for a few more county officials to help him, it would be difficult to refuse at that time, and he could only use the reason of urging the autumn tax to shirk the past.

Chen Ducai was still thinking about things, and the errand officer on the other side was so anxious that his hair was wet with sweat, and shouted: "County Zun, you listen to the little one, the Gu official doesn't know what method he used, and found a lot of big bamboo poles to take grain from the warehouse - the bamboo poles are different from ordinary poles, and they can be inserted into the grain pile, and they can take grain layer by layer, without unpacking at all, let alone digging up, and a grain hoard can be checked in only half an hour, which is very fast compared to before!" Yesterday my two brothers and I were sent out to work, and we didn't know or think too much, if it weren't for the chance of something today, the little one hurried to the middle of the closing position, I'm afraid I don't know that there was such a thing—but after a few days, there is only half of the warehouse left, and I am afraid that it will be finished today! ”

The errand officer couldn't speak clearly, upside down, Chen Ducai had never seen a bamboo pole that could get grain, just by imagination, hearing him say this, he was really confused, where did he know what it meant, only stared at his eyes and said: "What if you take grain?" My grain is just the same, not much, even if there is some problem, the big deal is to make up for it......"

He was about to speak, but suddenly he saw a servant rushing in from outside the door, rushed to the front, and shouted, "County Honor! Something happened in the middle of the regular closing position! ”

It was also the person he sent to keep an eye on Chang Ping.

Chen Ducai originally heard the errand officer, and didn't pay much attention to it, but when he saw this officer, he really felt that something was wrong, and he was frightened, and wanted to ask in a hurry, but there was already a messenger outside, and he hurriedly came over and said: "County Zun, Gu Guanren is just outside the door, it is convenient to ask you at this moment, and I want to ask if I want to ask." ”

These three groups of people were able to enter, one after the other, so that Chen Ducai had no spare breath, he had to figure out the ins and outs, and then he got the news that Gu Yanzhang was outside the door, so anxious that his heart tightened, and he turned his head to look at the official who had just come in, and just about to ask, he saw a tall figure at the opposite courtyard gate coming out of the shadows.

The man's shoulders were stretched and his back straight, and he walked from the gate of the courtyard to the door, but it was only thirty or forty steps, but he walked on foot, and he actually walked out of a bit of murderous aura.

Chen Ducai involuntarily stood up.

The other three people in the room swallowed their saliva in unison, and all of them froze on the ground, not daring to move, but forgot to step forward to greet them.

There was no difference on the other party's face, and when he stepped into the door, he said to Chen Ducai: "Chen Zhixian, there are some abnormalities in the regular liquidation, and the official can't find out the reason, so I have to come to ask for this, please go with me." ”

His voice was faint and his tone was very peaceful, but for some reason, the hairs on Chen Ducai's back suddenly stood up, almost bulging his close-fitting clothes.