Chapter 367: Strange (Second Watch)

After waiting for a long time and not hearing the response inside, Gong Yinxue slammed the door again, walked down the steps angrily, and said to Qin Ke: "Something is wrong." Even if these officials don't know that I have returned home, I said that they should always open the door and come out to check it with the uncle's seal, why do they have to close the door and pretend to be deaf and dumb?"

"Why? Could it be that your third uncle is resentful, and he can't give them any orders?"

"I don't know. Gong Yinxue shook his head, "If it's just like this, it's simple, just give it a dismount, I'm worried about ......"

She pondered for a moment, looked at Qin Ke and said, "Can you break through this gate?"

Qin Ke smiled mysteriously and said, "Bump into it, no, I have an easier way." ”

This time, he deliberately brought the Bodhisattva Sword, although he didn't think he would really encounter any danger, but he could always deal with some unexpected needs with a weapon.

The early morning sun penetrated the thin clouds unique to the late autumn in the north, reflecting the sword body and reflecting the bright light of the Dao Dao like flowing water, the sword blade was cold, and with a low snort, the long sword was embedded in the crack of the gate of the official warehouse as soon as it was handed over.

The sharpness of the divine weapon is enough to cut through ordinary iron weapons, and Qin Ke's physique is so strong that it is beyond ordinary people, even if the door bolt of the official warehouse is heavy, it is difficult to withstand the power of Qin Ke's sword.

The blade of the sword cut the bolt of the door almost in an instant, and with a soft roar from the sharp blade raised upward, Qin Ke followed up and kicked on the door, the gate opened in response, and several officials standing in the courtyard at the door suddenly looked panicked.

"This ...... You...... You ......" The official's eyes widened, and he thought that he had seen the hell in broad daylight, how could the deadbolt be cut into two pieces in the blink of an eye?

Qin Ke stood with his sword in his hand, the tip of the Bodhisattva's sword pointed directly at the three of them, and the decisive appearance shocked the three of them in that scene, and one of them trembled and said, "What do you want to do? Do you know what kind of place this is...... Trespassing is a capital offense!"

Gong Yi Yinxue raised her eyebrows, raised her foot and crossed the threshold, unceremoniously raised the seal letter in her hand, and said: "This is the personal seal letter of the Gong Loss Lord, do you all know it? I am Gong Yin Xue, I was ordered to come to check the accounts of the official warehouse, and you have been closed the door, what crime should I be guilty of?"

How could the official errand not recognize her as the public loser Yinxue, even the official who led her before heard her voice, after all, the former official Yinxue followed the late second old lady of the public loser to come several times.

It can be said that before opening the door, the three of them believed that the public Yinxue and the others standing outside the door did not tell a lie, but the public loss was still ringing in their ears, so they had to force a smile at this time and said stubbornly: "I...... How did we know that it was really Miss Gongyi outside the door? The previous Ma Liu, who didn't say anything, was about to come in to check the accounts with his throat in his voice, and we thought that this was the person he was looking for was talking nonsense......

Gong Yinxue's eyes were sharp, and he looked at the official and said, "Do you think it's Ma Liu's people? Is it that my third uncle explained something to you that made you refuse to open the door for a long time?"

"I didn't ...... Didn't ......" The official waved his hand again and again, and said: "What can the third master explain to us, we are all looking at the official warehouse according to the rules, this is all a misunderstanding, misunderstanding, where is Miss Gongyi talking about it......"

Gong Yinxue looked around at the three of them, sneered, and shouted towards the door: "Ma Liu!"

Ma Liu, who was outside the door, had already seen the situation here, but he had been hiding and peeking into the door, and when he heard the shout of the public Yinxue, he was full of excitement and hurriedly ran in: "Miss." ”

"Since it was a misunderstanding, you have also seen it, now, you can always let Ma Liu go in to check the accounts, right?" said Gong Yinxue word by word.

However, when she said this, several officials were still looking at each other, their faces were a little pale, and they were all divided.

Gong Yinxue didn't expect them to say anything, and walked straight to the granary with Ma Liu.

Just after taking two steps, he was stopped by the officials.

"Miss......" The leader said with a smile, "Although you have the seal of the adult, but on weekdays, the adult is handed over to the third master to manage, you want to check the accounts, you have to wait for the third master to come over to do a handover, so as not to make any mistakes in our small momentary mistakes, and then be punished, right?" ”

Gong Yinxue said: "My uncle has already told the third uncle that I will be in charge of the affairs of these official warehouses in the north of the city in the future, I came over today, the third uncle naturally knows, just check the accounts, and there is nothing to hand over, you can just turn out the account books and hand them to me, why invite him to come over again?"

She looked at the three of them, craned her neck and said, "What about the official in charge of the granary?"

"There's something wrong with the storekeeper...... I went out, it seems to have gone to the east of the city, and as for what happened, we little ones didn't know. The official stubbornly moved in front of Yinxue and insisted: "Miss Gongyi, would you better inform the third master?"

Gong Yinxue said impatiently: "I have already told you just now, is it possible that I have to explain it to you again now?" Get out of the way, otherwise I'm welcome." ”

The system of the Mo family is chaotic, the county is not like the county system, and the sub-feudal system is not like the sub-feudal system, the top often cannot control the bottom, and the ability is not strong enough, so there are often some cases of monstrous authority of the official eunuch family.

For example, in Jinzhou, the public loser is actually equivalent to the existence of the soil emperor.

Therefore, even if Yinxue does not have an official position, she can not be angry and arrogant with the seal of Gong Yinxue, and the official finally did not dare to continue to block at this time, so she could only retreat to the side and stand like a few angry little daughters-in-law.

"Ma Liu, you have someone bring some tables and chairs. Gong Yinxue turned her head and looked at the leading official again, "You go and take out the account book, and check it in this courtyard." ”

Bundles of books were piled up on the table, and Ma Liu immediately showed his capable side, after all, he was one of the few top-notch bookkeepers in the public loser, and he could keep up with the mental arithmetic speed at a glance.

"This thousand stones were put into the warehouse last year...... It's just that I got another account book right, but from here it has become eight hundred stones, and I don't know ......where I went if I lost two hundred stones," Ma Liu suddenly whispered to the public.

Gong Yinxue nodded, stretched out his hand to take the account book, and drew a circle on it with a cinnabar pen: "Write this down for the time being, and go to the warehouse to confirm it later, you first calculate the grain in the entire warehouse." ”

"Yes. ”

Qin Ke didn't know how to read the accounts, and he couldn't help Yinxue, so he could only move a chair and sit aside after receiving the Bodhisattva sword.

When his eyes fell on Gong Yinxue, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, she was really a smart and capable girl, capable of martial arts and literature, those long strings of numbers that made people have a headache when she heard them, but she only needed to listen to them once, she could remember a rough idea, and even then she could identify some slight deviations in Ma Liu's mental arithmetic, so that Ma Liu lowered her head and apologized repeatedly.

Perhaps because she felt Qin Ke's gaze, she raised her head slightly and looked over.

The eyes of the two collided in the air, and Gong Yinxue blushed inexplicably, and hurriedly spoke to Ma Liu seriously, but the words were more or less as sharp as at the beginning.

Several officials who moved the account books were so tired that they stuck out their tongues, like a few poor stray dogs, compared to Ma Liu and Gong Yinxue, they were as bad as Qin Ke about the accounts, and when they were asked by Gong Yinxue, they basically didn't know anything, and in the end they could only shrink aside and look at it from afar.

Qin Ke watched them turn their heads and ears, his heart moved a little bored, the wind vision technique unfolded invisibly, and the voices of those people also poured into his ears along the wind.

"How is this good? I only heard that this Miss Yinxue is a shrewd person before, but I didn't expect to be so shrewd, this Ma Liu really doesn't know what to do, even if he sees that something is wrong, he doesn't know how to play sloppy and pretend to be deaf and dumb, and then let her investigate like this, how can we explain to the third master?"

"Yes. If it goes on like this, I'm afraid that a few of us will have to be skinned and cramped by the third master, so if I want to say, we should still snatch all the account books back......"

"Grab the account book? Do you rob it or do I rob it? You are the lady of the public loser, and you are the niece of the public loser! What is your identity? You are not even an official, you are just a low-class official, go up and grab the account book, don't you want to die? Also, look at the young man holding the sword, you can see that he still stares at us from time to time...... Can someone break the deadbolt with a sword, can he be an ordinary person? That must be a master of cultivation!"

Qin Ke couldn't help but tilt his head and smile, thinking to himself that he could not have looked so terrifying, as if he had never been a murderous person, and he didn't look so vicious, right?

However, what the next few people said made Qin Ke feel more and more interesting.

"Then what should we do, we can't let her keep checking it, don't you know the in our granary? There is so much grain written in the account book, where do we have it? When the time comes, the Lord Gong will ask about the crime, and we won't have to go to the guillotine?"

"Calm down...... We don't have that much food in our granary, but she doesn't necessarily find out. If she wants to check, let her check, anyway, when she takes it to the warehouse, she can't see anything. ”

"And what about the grain she's going to carry?" said one of them worriedly.

Someone made a suggestion: "Take it from the first few warehouses, she can't transport all the grain at once, the first few warehouses are not double-storey warehouses, she shouldn't see any clues." ”

"Yes, too...... That's all there is to ...... for now."

......

When Qin Ke heard this, he stood up with the Bodhisattva sword in his hand and slowly walked to the side of Gongyi Yinxue.

Gong Yinxue looked at him and walked over, feeling slightly confused: "What's the matter, what's wrong?"

Qin Ke whispered in her ear, "I have something to ask you." ”

Gong Yinxue looked at Qin Ke's solemn eyes, so she nodded involuntarily, glanced at Ma Liu, and said, "You continue to count, and we will continue to do it later." ”

Then she walked to the side with Qin Ke and asked softly, "What's the matter, you can tell me." ”

Qin Ke glanced at those officials, and said in a hesitant voice: "Double-layer warehouse...... What is it?"