After Chen Xiancheng stepped on the broken nest head, he was still angry, and looked at the woman with a gloomy face and said: "What are you making of the nest head, why is it so difficult to swallow, is it deliberately trying to murder officials?" ”

The charge was so great that the old woman trembled with fright and fell to her knees.

With a choked voice, he said: "Wronged! Adults, this is the food that grass people's families usually eat.

No matter how many grass people there are, they don't know that adults will come to the grass people's house for dinner today.

Because after paying the grain tax, there is not much food left in the family, and the days are even more difficult to pay some other miscellaneous taxes.

My family usually doesn't eat lunch at noon, but these days, the grass man's wife is sick, and there is a young grandson at home.

Originally, these wowotou mixed with wild vegetables and wild fruits were meant to be used by them to replenish their bodies at noon, but I didn't expect the rice to be eaten for you.

My wife was also charged with murdering an official, which is really a wrongful death. ”

...... "You liar!" Whoever takes this thing to nourish the body.

Are you sure that you will not make up for the weakness of your body, no wonder this family has a handful of thin dry bones, it turns out that they are all made up like this, Master Gou thought to himself.

However, when he saw the county people with a calm face and gnawing on the nest, he didn't dare to say what he thought in his heart.

Chen Xiancheng also knew that this old woman could not have the intention of murdering him, because at that time, he also accidentally saw smoke coming from the chimney, so he would bring people to this house.

These words were just what he said angrily for a while, but how could he, a county man with a positive eighth grade, admit his mistake to a grass citizen, so he was about to throw off his sleeves and leave.

At this time, behind him, a faint voice said: "Chen Xiancheng, since you brought us here to eat, why don't you leave without paying for the meal." ”

Chen Xiancheng suddenly turned his head and glared angrily, his expression was still naturally gnawing at An Chu, who was in the wowo, and he realized it in an instant.

If he hadn't given this special meal money today, he might have encountered something more uncomfortable than being hungry in the future.

Thinking that there would always be a time to clean her up, Chen Xiancheng threw a silver ingot to the woman before leaving, there was no way, he didn't want to give so much money for food, but unfortunately his family was too rich.

When I went out, I didn't always have a copper plate in my money bag, so I had to find one from it, and the smallest five taels of silver ingots were thrown over.

The people of the village rarely saw silver, and the woman picked up the silver ingot from the ground and did not feel dirty, put it on her tooth and bit it heavily, and smiled happily when she saw the tooth mark.

Master Gou saw the old lady with such a look of disdain, and also walked out.

An Chuxia felt that it was normal for an old peasant woman to show this kind of look when she saw Yinzi, just like someone who won the five million lottery in her previous life, she would not also look like she was happily kissing Grandpa Mao.

Zuo Wang followed An Chuxia's instructions in the morning, hired a few carriages to pull goods to Yuande Village in the afternoon, and after collecting taxes, the villagers helped to carry the grain onto the carriage, and a team of people and carts returned to the county seat.

Chen Xiancheng and Master Gou were so hungry that they didn't even get out of the carriage, so they hurried home to find food.

Their negligence didn't matter, so An Chuxia grabbed them again.

After the tax and grain paid were put into the warehouse, An Chuxia asked casually how much old grain was still in the warehouse of the officials who managed the warehouse.

The officials who took care of the warehouse couldn't say a word for a long time, and such a look immediately attracted An Chuxia's attention.

"Let's go, take me to Chang Ping to have a look!" An Chuxia's tone cannot be refused.

Seeing that things were not good, the officials wanted to run.

Seeing that the officials wanted to escape, An Chuxia immediately ordered Zuo Wang and Zhu Tiehua beside him: "Catch him!" ”

The officials who watched the granary didn't run far, and they were caught by Zuo Wang and Zhu Tiehua with the officials.

He led everyone to the warehouse where Changping's grain was stored.

Changping grain is the grain that the imperial court allows all counties to leave every year to keep the price of grain stable in the year of disaster prevention, and it is also the life-saving food for the people.

Zuo Wang tore down a bunch of keys from the waist of the official, opened the Changping granary after confirmation, and everyone was dumbfounded after entering.

The Changping granary, which should store about 120,000 catties, is now empty, and even a few grains to feed the sparrows have to be carefully searched.

Everyone walked around the warehouse, the empty granary, it was really clean.

This is still a small reserve of Changping grain in their county, and if the Changping grain in the big county town is stable in the disaster year, it will be stored to 300,000 catties.

However, the large population of the county also pays more grain taxes, and there are more people who need first aid in disaster years, and it is also necessary to store more Changping grain.

An Chuxia looked at the officials who were trembling and their legs were already unstable, and couldn't help but sneer, "Tell me where all this grain has flown to." ”

"Big... Adult, small... Small ......"

The officials who looked at the warehouse trembled their lips, unable to tell where the grain had gone.

"Zhu Bantou, take him to bring me the account books of the granary."

An Chuxia looked at the officials with sharp eyes, and said in a solemn tone: "You'd better hand over all the real account books in and out of the granary to me."

You are afraid to hand over the books, and those who pull the grain away will not make you feel better.

But you also think about whether they will push you out and let you carry this pot after this matter has been exposed.

The loss of so much official rations is not an exaggeration to cut off your head. ”

An Chuxia's words pierced the heart of the clerk in the warehouse, and his face turned pale with fright at this time, he didn't know the consequences of this.

But he was just a small official who looked at the warehouse, and Chen Xiancheng, who was in charge of the county's affairs at that time, couldn't stop him at all by sending someone to pull the grain away.

In addition, whether he was reluctant to accept it or not, when the person who pulled the grain was leaving, he gave him twenty taels of silver as a hush money.

Even if he said that he was forced, who would believe that he had already collected hush money, and now he is speechless.

An Chuxia saw that this official was a cowardly person, and he should have passively become a pawn of the conspiracy.

However, you must always be responsible for what you have done, but the size of the culpability is different, An Chuxia's voice was softer, and said: "If you can prove that you are forced, and make meritorious contributions with the crime!"

Maybe the official will remember that you are not subjective, and if you do such a thing, you will end up with a new punishment! ”

Hearing this, Yu Xian's eyes lit up, but they slowly dimmed again, thinking that Chen Xiancheng had secretly claimed hegemony in Wei County for so many years, could this newly appointed female county commander really deal with him?

"You can only trust me now!

For I can be sure that if you were to be brought for interrogation now, you would either be killed in prison and create the illusion of suicide in fear of sin, or you would be pushed out to the top of the pot at the end. ”

The official is just cowardly, not a fool after all, he knows that if he does not hand over the real account book, cooperate with him to trip the culprit.

In the end, his result will be as the county order says, there is only a dead end.

(End of chapter)