As soon as it was dawn, Tyuming was woken up by a loud noise, he yawned loudly, and actually squeezed out two tears, it seemed that he was really tired last night. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Following the sound to the front office, Qiu Ming found that several guards who followed him to the post were arguing with a small official, and it seemed that there was a tendency to do it. Seeing Qiu Ming coming, the guards finally didn't draw their knives immediately, but said loudly: "Lord County, it is natural for soldiers to eat food, this small official with a sesame mung bean dare not to give us food, if it weren't for your face, we would have beaten his mother." ”

Qiu Ming looked at the color of the little official's clothes: "I am the new county Cheng Qiuming, and you are the county Cangcao." The little official hurriedly nodded and bowed, calling himself Cangcao Wu Gui, and giving the county a courtesy.

Qiu Ming said: "The name of the warehouse money seems to be the matter of the county Cheng, and these soldiers were also brought by the county Cheng from Wancheng, so why don't you open a warehouse for them and send them grain?" ”

Wu Gui smiled bitterly: "It's not that I refuse to open a warehouse, it's really that there is no grain in the warehouse, and I really can't send it out." ”

Qiu Ming was surprised: "Now is the harvest season, and Dengzhou is a famous grain-producing county, how can there be no grain storage?" At this time, a few more officials came into the county office to work, nothing more than Hu Cao, Du Cao, Fa Cao, Ji Cao, etc., all smiled bitterly and shook their heads when they heard the words: "The Dengzhou granary has not stored grain since three years ago, and the grain of rice has not been entered in the past three years. ”

Tyuming said with a straight face: "Don't wait, I'm going to see the granary now." Seeing the surprise on the faces of the others, Qiu Ming said angrily: "This is the duty of this official, can't you see it?" ”

Wu Gui was frightened, originally because he was not in charge of affairs with the county order, several of their officials would never come to the office so early to work. But yesterday Tyumen opened a killing spree at the city gate, and the whole city was terrified, and early this morning, Wu Gui's wife urged him to come over and report quickly, so as not to be used as a chicken by Tyumen as a monkey.

In the early morning, the mist and the autumn breeze were cool, but Wu Gui's cheeks were dripping with beads of sweat, and he hurriedly said with a smile: "It can be seen that the lower officials just consider that the warehouse has not been cleaned for many days, and the dust is very heavy, I am afraid that the county will be abrupt." ”

Qiu Ming waved his hand and said, "It's okay, go and see me quickly." ”

As soon as the door of the warehouse was opened, a large stench of stench mixed with dust rushed out, like a lively gray dragon. Wu Gui saw that the opportunity was early, and hurriedly dodged aside, but Qiu Ming was the first to be sprayed by the gray dragon, his face and body were covered with dust, and he coughed loudly. Seeing Wu Gui carefully shooting dust for himself, Qiu Ming didn't know for a while whether he was intentionally teasing or unintentional, so he didn't have a seizure.

Looking in through the early sun, Qiu Ming and a few guards were dumbfounded, only to see that the warehouse was empty, dusty like a mountain, a dozen broken clay pots and empty cloth bags were stacked horizontally against the wall, and the ground could be seen everywhere with shriveled rat corpses, from the expressions and postures of these rats, their yearning for life and despair for death could be vaguely seen.

At this time, Guo Jia and Chen Zhen both rushed over, and they were not only shocked to see the situation in the granary. Guo Jiadao: "Effect said: into the He, ten thousand stones accumulate and Li Zhi is the household. How can the warehouse of a county be so empty? Chen Zhen also said: "Xi'e is only a second-class county, and there are still tens of thousands of stone grains in the official warehouse, and Dengzhou is a first-class county, why is it so empty?" ”

Wu Guitong sweated and said, "This, this, wait for the county order to come back and explain." ”

Qiu Ming shouted: "The county is not here, the county should take care of it, you go and get all the account books over the years, I want to check the accounts." When Wu Gui heard this, he seemed to be relieved, and hurriedly called his entourage to bring many boxes of account books like a mountain.

Taking advantage of Wu Gui's busy work in and out, Guo Jia said with a smile: "Check the accounts? Little cousin, do you understand this? ”

Qiu Ming said solemnly: "I don't understand, but aren't you here?" If only you could understand it. ”

Guo Jia smiled even more happily: "I can't understand it either, or although I can understand the general entry and exit accounts, I don't know anything about the middle tricks, even if there is any personal fraud, I can't see it at all." ”

So the two turned their heads to look at Chen Zhen together, Chen Zhen touched his nose and said with a bitter face: "I can understand it, but such a large number of account books, at least three or five or seven years old, when do you have to see this?" ”

Qiu Ming patted him on the shoulder and said: "The heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, starve their muscles and bones, and work their bodies and skin." Rest assured, I will definitely support you. ”

Wu Gui finished moving the account books and looked at Chen Zhen with his empty hands to check the accounts, but Qiu Ming remembered the problem of the military rations for the guards again, and asked, "Is there a righteous warehouse in the city?" You can't go without food for a day in the army, so I'll go and get some grain and rice on credit. ”

Wu Gui shook his head very dryly: "It turned out that there was one, but in the past few years, I can't make ends meet, and no one takes care of it, so it is gradually abandoned." ”

Qiu Ming said angrily: "These guards of mine have all been conscripted and killed from the sea of blood mountains and corpses, if there is no food to provoke a mutiny, can you afford to bear the crime?" As soon as he became angry, several guards next to him immediately glared at him, quite like a fox and a tiger.

Wu Gui was taken aback, and said: "Yi, Yicang is gone, but Qiuxian Cheng can go to visit Aunt Lu, she has a lot of grain and rice, and she may be willing to come out on credit to help the army." ”

Qiu Ming remembered what the old man said yesterday, and frowned: "I heard that there are three major evils in Dengzhou, Aunt Lu, the king of Penglong, what kind of person is this Aunt Lu, why is there so much grain and rice?" ”

"Aunt Lu is a witch from Ba County, I wish the doctor a very good spirit, every time I ask for money, I only thank you for five buckets of rice, and over the years, there is really a lot of rice stored at home."

"Five buckets of rice?" Tyumen smiled, it seemed that the strange thing that happened last night had found the right person: "Then why do you call her a big evil?" ”

Wu Gui said with a smile: "The people of the countryside don't know witchcraft, and they are always frightened by Aunt Lu's spells, thinking that they are strange. Moreover, she persuaded people to join the church, and there were many believers in the county's good families who went to Qingcheng Mountain to make absurd words all day long after returning home, and their parents all hated Aunt Lu. ”

Qiu Ming frowned and said, "Since there are so many people who hate Aunt Lu, why don't you just drive her out of Dengzhou?" ”

Wu Guidao: "There are also those who hate her, and there are many who have been rescued by her, and it is said that the former Nanyang Taishou Liu Yan is a little unclear with her, and he takes care of her." With the support of the county guard, who dares to touch her? ”

Qiu Ming laughed: "It's funny, Liu Junlang is old, and he can still have such a romantic affair." It's okay, you take me to Aunt Lu's door for a walk, and I'll see what this witch is capable of. ”