"Han Cong is leaving?"

Liu Zhiran no longer asked about Bai Luo, and the tip of the pen slightly signaled that Hua Qian didn't need to grind the ink anymore, put down the pen and got up.

"Youshi has already set off, and it is estimated that I will be able to reach Minqin County the day after tomorrow after I have traveled all night."

Hua Qian put down the ink ingot in his hand, and secretly glanced at the rice paper on the long case while replying.

There are five big characters written on it solemnly and clumsy - the sun and the moon are long in the pot.

My lord, this is ...... Taoist inaction?

Inaction?

Hua Qian didn't dare to look at it anymore and think about it, so he lowered his head and took a step back and stood aside.

"I remember that Zhao Yutong, the political envoy of Gansu Chengxuan, reported to the imperial court the drought situation in the northwest year after year through Liu Boming, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and the emperor authorized Gansu to open the prison every year in order to help the victims, and it was not stopped until the drought eased two years ago."

"According to the records of the imperial court, a total of 574,450 prisoners have reported for donation over the years, although Zhao Yutong, the political envoy, said that because of the drought in Gansu for many years, according to the regulations of the imperial court, the donation of prisoners only accepts the original grain and rice, and I think that Gansu should be rich in grain storage, right?"

Liu Zhiran walked to the copper basin to clean his hands and said coldly.

Although Liu Zhiran's tone was as indifferent as usual, Hua Qian keenly heard a hint of mockery from it.

Hua Qian took a clean cloth towel from the shelf and handed it over, but did not answer, except for the relevant officials in Gansu who knew about this issue, no one else could know.

Liu Zhiran naturally knew that he didn't expect Hua Qian to answer his question, and asked, "Do you know when the people who collect grain from the grain road will arrive in Minqin County?" ”

"Master Cai said it would be about five days later." Hua Qian answered.

"Your Excellency. The scope of this Gansu grain case is too wide, not to mention the high grade of the officials involved, and they have all been operating in Gansu for several years, if the whereabouts of the adults are exposed, I am afraid that it will be dangerous, and now that Han Cong has also been sent out by you, do you think you need to transfer a few more secret guards from your subordinates? ”

"Bai Luo, a corrupt official, is the best cover, these people shouldn't have imagined that I would hide under the protection of a notorious corrupt official, there is no need to add people for the time being, just wait patiently for news in Anning County." Liu Zhiran threw the cloth towel that wiped the water stains on his hands into the basin and said coldly.

"Yes." Hua Qian respectfully agreed, thinking to herself, I am afraid that after this Bai Luo is used up by adults, it will be disposed of like this cloth towel for wiping hands.

After all, Bai Luo is indeed a corrupt official, and he is just one of thousands of corrupt officials for adults.

Liu Zhiran pinched the knuckle of his middle finger, and looked at the opposite side room with cold eyes, his eyes were like seeing Bai Luo in the room greedily counting the gold and silver treasures in the room through the heavily closed window lattice.

Bai Luo in the west wing was indeed counting the thick pile of silver tickets in his hand, and he was very busy.

However, it was by no means the greedy and joyful expression that Liu Zhiran thought, but the expression of tangled depression and wanting to scold his mother.

“…… Thirty thousand, thirty thousand, thirty-two,...... Seventy-five thousand, seventy-six thousand......"

Bai Luo's voice began to tremble, according to the Dazhou country's greed for ink for one hundred taels and the hanging of one hundred taels, he could already be ground into meat filling!

She had never known that counting money could be so painful and so angry......

The candles were burned more than half, Bai Luo finally counted his "stolen money", and when he counted the last silver ticket, Bai Luo had tears in his eyes, a full 106,000 taels of silver tickets, and a few hundred taels of scattered silver, plus all kinds of jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings......

Bai Luo wanted to cry without tears, the most annoying thing was that the original Bai Luo didn't even have the habit of keeping accounts, and she didn't even know who gave the money.

She...... How is she going to return the stolen money?

Bai Luo put the box back depressedly, and she didn't bother to clean up elsewhere, so she tidied up the futon and lay down hastily.

She thought that she would be so worried that she would stay awake all night, but she didn't expect that maybe it was during the day to investigate the scene, receive the people, and conduct an autopsy, and it was too tiring to toss for a day, so she actually fell asleep when she went to bed, and slept until dawn.

The next day, as soon as it was dawn, Chai Hu knocked on the door with hot water and served her to get up.

Bai Luo slept too late last night, got out of bed in a daze to pull the door bolt, but didn't want the soles of his feet to be weak, and tripped over the basin shelf, the copper basin "bell" smashed on Bai Luo's instep with a bang, and then bounced on the ground, and the dripping "clang" turned around a few times before stopping.

Chai Hu outside the door became anxious when he heard this movement, "Young master, young master?" Are you okay? ”

He knocked on the door so loudly that the whole courtyard was awakened.

In the east wing, as soon as Bai Luo's basin fell to the ground, Hua Qian jumped up from the ground, lightly ran to the window, and carefully opened the window a crack to look out.

Bai Luo was slapped on the door by Chai Hu, and he couldn't care about the pain in his feet or the copper basin on the ground.

The foot that had been hit by the copper basin was so painful that he had to jump to the door with one foot and pull it open.

Chai Hu carried the kettle and ran into the threshold with an arrow, and saw that Bai Luo was wearing only a white undershirt, with cloth shoes under his feet, holding the door with both hands, one foot of the golden rooster was independent, and the other foot was raised high, with a distorted expression on his face, standing by the door in a weird and funny posture.

He hurriedly stepped forward to hold Bai Luo's arm and asked with concern, "Young Master, what's wrong with you?" ”

"What's wrong? What else could have happened? Bai Luo's angry little entourage glanced at him: "It's not that you're in a hurry, will you shoot Mensven next time?" ”

"Oh, young master," Chai Hu squeezed a thin face and muttered aggrievedly, "Didn't you confess yesterday, saying that there was a lot of official business today, so let me call it earlier?" ”

"But you're too early, and the rooster hasn't even crowed yet."

"Look, I'm lame now, you say, what else should I do, young master?" As soon as the words fell, a long rooster crow came from the direction of the kitchen outside the yard.

"Oh oh ......"

Chai Hu looked at Bai Luo with an innocent face.

Bai Luo was extremely angry: "Who, who raises chickens in the county office?" ”

"It's Brother Dahai, who said he ate braised rooster today." Chai Hu replied with a smile.

"...... "My sidekick and cook are specially here to anger her, right?" Bai Luo thought hatefully.

Hua Qian watched this scene, silently closed the window, and lightly lay down on the ground again.

Liu Zhiran, who was lying on the bed as if he had been asleep and had not woken up, suddenly closed his eyes and said lightly: "Lie down, hurry up and sleep for a while, today you go to Gaotai County and find a way to enter the granary set up by the imperial court in Gaotai County to see the situation." ”

"Yes, sir." Hua Qian solemnly agreed, and sure enough, he closed his eyes.

There was silence in the bedroom.

Liu Zhiran's voice sounded again: "Remember, don't carry it hard, come back first if you don't have a way in, don't fold it in and I have to find a way to save you." ”

"Yes, sir." Hua Qian lay on the ground and promised to do so, her voice still solemn.

Liu Zhiran let out a vague "um", as if in a dream, turned over and fell asleep again.

Hua Qian also slowed down his breathing.

Silence reigned in the bedroom.

Both of them seemed to be asleep again, but if you look closely, you will find that the corners of Hua Qian's mouth are slightly upturned, and a soft smile appears.