Chapter 452: Guarding and Stealing
Su Ying spent some silver to buy a pass from Shopkeeper Li.
The location of the granary mentioned by Shopkeeper Li is in a relatively hidden place outside the city, so she has to go out of the city.
Su Ying rode to the city gate, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city let her out after reading the pass.
As soon as she came out, she noticed that there were more people guarding the city gate than before, and she didn't look too much, but ran directly to the foot of a mountain outside the city.
The location of the granary is actually relatively open, mainly because it is afraid of too much moisture, so the light must be sufficient, and the location is not far from Los Angeles, and it takes less than two quarters of an hour to arrive.
In order not to expose the location of the granary, some small shielding was made outside the granary, but this could not stop Su Ying.
Su Ying rode to the mountainside, the mountain is not steep, and you can walk on horseback.
After crossing a mountain forest, she saw rows of houses built on the mountainside.
There was no one to guard the outside of the granary, and the courtyard wall could be seen in the distance as it was dark.
Su Ying turned over and dismounted, put the horse into the space and walked towards the granary, she took out the scanner and made sure that there was no one around before walking to the main entrance of the granary.
The door was locked, but the façade was so blackened that it was impossible to see the original color.
Su Ying flipped in from the wall, and at a glance, he saw the granary that had been burned to the ground.
There were several rows of rooms inside, but each one was burned black, and the darkness inside the room was a little oozing.
Su Ying stepped forward and pushed open the blackened door to find that there were still many burnt residues inside.
She walked over to a pile of debris and examined it with her hand, and found that the burned residue was not quite right, and it didn't look like the grain had been burned at all.
In order to make sure that there was no problem with his observation, Su Ying went to other granaries to check the situation, and finally determined that those large piles of residues were not grain at all!
Su Ying's face was darker than the blackened wall, and the shopkeeper Li said that there was a fire in the granary at that time, and most of the grain in the granary was burned because the rescue was not timely, so that the government now has no food to give porridge to the victims.
But what if the grain in the granary was not burned at all!
There is so much grain in the granary, and if you want to transport it out, it is impossible not to leave any traces.
Su Ying left the granary and began to look around.
This place is relatively private, there are very few people who usually come here, and there is no rain during this time, When he groped to the back mountain, Su Ying found rows of obvious wheel marks.
Following the traces, Su Ying found a cave, but she didn't approach it immediately, because there were people guarding outside the cave.
She hid in the shadows and observed, and after making sure that there were only two people guarding the hole, she took out her tranquilizer gun and put the man down.
Su Ying walked to the entrance of the cave, if it weren't for her familiarity with this kind of wilderness, it would be difficult to see that there was a cave entrance here.
She pushed aside the vines that had been used to cover the entrance to the cave and stepped inside.
There was a convective wind at the entrance of the cave, and as soon as the wind blew, she smelled the smell of rice grain.
Su Ying took out the flashlight for the lighting and turned it on, Rao had already thought of it, but she was still angry when she saw the neatly stacked food in the cave.
This brute dared to steal the grain of the imperial court!
Su Ying walked in and found that the cave was very deep, and it was almost full of grain.
In order not to startle the snake, she did not plan to put the grain into the space for the time being, and after determining the amount of food, Su Ying went out of the cave to wake up the two guards, lest they find out about the abnormality.
When Su Ying came down from the mountain, the sun had already set in the west, and she had to rush to the city after dark.
As night fell, the already quiet streets of Los Angeles seemed even more deserted.
Zhou Qing simply ate some dry food and planned to sleep, She will go out of the city early tomorrow morning to greet the queen!
Zhou Qing was lying on the bed, her heart was indescribably excited, and just when she was about to fall asleep in a daze, she suddenly smelled a burning smell.
She opened her eyes vigilantly, walked to the window to check the situation, and found that the inn was burning.
The inn was a wooden building, and the weather was dry, so the fire quickly became bigger.
Zhou Qing took out a cloth towel from his body, poured the remaining half pot of water on the handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose, and then bowed down and pushed open the door of the house and ran out.
However, she didn't go downstairs immediately, but knocked on the door next door, she knew that Su Ying saved a pair of grandchildren and lived next door.
"Open the door, open the door!"
But no matter how Zhou Qing knocked on the door, there was no movement inside.
The fire woke up the guests of the inn, and many sober people ran out of the guest room and rushed to a lobby to escape, but the door of the inn was locked from the outside!
"Help, open the door and cough cough...... Save ......"
"Open the door, open the door......"
The smoke inside the inn grew heavier and heavier, and they could barely open their eyes.
Zhou gritted his teeth and slammed open the door, and as soon as he entered, a billowing smoke hit.
The fire had already burned into this room, and the grandfather and grandson were probably stunned by the smoke, and they were lying on the bed at this time, and there was no movement at all.
Zhou Qing almost crawled to the edge of the bed on the ground and wanted to save people, but even if she had kung fu, it would be difficult to carry both of them out in this situation at this time.
Zhou gritted his teeth, picked up the child, turned around and ran out, but the fire was too big to run out, and he was trapped by the fire and smoke that burned up.
When Su Ying returned to the city gate, it was already dark, but the officers and soldiers of the city guard did not let her enter the city immediately after she showed her pass.
"You're out to buy goods? Why did you just watch you come back after you didn't go out for long? "Now the number of people who go out of the city every day is limited, and whoever goes out can remember the official errand.
"I was going to go out to pick up the goods, but there was something wrong with that batch of goods, and now I can't come over."
Now it is normal that there are either bandits or disaster victims outside, and the goods and food are prone to problems.
After making sure that Su Ying had no problems, the official sent the people into the city.
There were no pedestrians on the road, Su Ying galloped all the way, and as soon as he returned to the street where the inn was located, he found that the entire street was surrounded by billowing smoke.
Su Ying had an ominous premonition in her heart, she didn't rush over, but found a hidden place to enter the space and find a fireproof suit and a smoke mask, and then drove her horse towards the place where the smoke came out.
When she got closer, she realized that it was the inn where she was staying!
Su Ying's pupils shrank, quickly turned over and dismounted, and when he got closer, he heard desperate cries for help from the inn.
Su Ying walked to the door only to find that the door of the inn had been welded to death from the outside.
She gritted her teeth and took a step back and kicked on the four corners of the door panel, which "boomed" a few times and fell to the ground in an instant.
The moment the door of the inn was kicked open, a thick puff of smoke came to his face, almost enveloping Su Ying.
(End of chapter)