Zhu Yuner said hatefully: "It's really unkind for wealth!"

"It's an unkind official!" Yang Qiuchi said, "The official grain for the imperial court to provide disaster relief has arrived long ago, why hasn't I been distributing it yet? Seeing the victims like Huier's parents and brothers in Mancheng starved to death, allowing the profiteer to hoard food, wantonly raise the price of grain, and the people, there must be something wrong with it."

Yang Qiuchi asked Xia Ping to take Mrs. Bai, Bai Sumei, the little maid Huier and Yingtian Mansion to go back to the post station first, and took the rest of the people straight to the Wuchang Prefectural Office to ask what was going on.

On the way, Master Jin whispered: "Sir, there have been people who have made great money through disaster relief and disaster relief since ancient times. These people dare to take advantage of the world's worst, and obviously have some support. We must be careful."

Yang Qiuchi nodded: "Mr. Jin said very well, I remember it."

There is a large square in front of the Wuchang Prefecture Prefecture's yamen, which is specially used for celebrations. Next to the yamen is a platform more than one person high, dozens of square meters in size, specially used for the display of criminals' shackles.

There is a flagpole on the platform. Yang Qiuchi asked Master Jin and then realized that this was a beheading for public display. However, it was sometimes hung at the city gate.

The square in front of the yamen covers a wide area and is empty on weekdays. Ordinary people walk around, but now they are full of victims in groups of three or three. Many constables, Min Zhuang and officers and soldiers stand in front of the yamen gate and are on guard.

Yang Qiuchi and others came to the prefect's office, handed over a reply, and gave the gatekeeper a tael of silver, saying that there was something important. After waiting for a while, he brought Yang Qiuchi and others into the yamen from the side gatekeeper Yang Qiuchi and others, and asked the rest to wait in the gatekeeper. Yang Qiuchi brought Master Jin and Nangong Xiong to the living room. After waiting for a while, the tea was cold. Only then did the prefect of Wuchang Prefecture, Lord Tan, appeared.

As soon as the prefect Tan thrust, his eyelids were not twitching, he asked, "What's the matter with Guixian? Tell me. I'm busy."

"Mr. Tan. I went to Qingxi County, Yuanzhou, Huguang Town to take up my post. I passed by Wuchang and saw hungry people all over the city. After asking, I found out that we were plaguing locust plague, but I wonder if the court could allocate funds for disaster relief? "

After hearing this, Magistrate Tan rolled his eyes and said unhappily: "Mr. Yang, you are the magistrate of Qingxi County. If you want to come to take care of my Wuchang Prefecture, your hand is not long enough!"

"No, you misunderstood. The official asked casually out of curiosity."

Prime Minister Tan snorted in his nostril: "This is our responsibility. Our administration will naturally handle disaster relief matters well, so you won't have to worry about Guixian."

Yang Qiuchi said: "I heard that the court's disaster relief funds have arrived long ago, why..."

"I have a good attitude towards distributing disaster relief funds, so you don't need to remind me!" Prime Minister Tan was very unhappy with a stern face.

"But the hungry people in the city are starving to death, frozen to death, and everywhere..."

Prefect Tan slapped the table: "Mr. Yang, you said there is something important. Is this important thing just to come to ask our government for guilt? Humph!"

"I dare not, I just..."

The prefect Tan didn't even talk about the basic etiquette of serving tea and seeing off guests. He stood up, shook his sleeves, and turned around and entered the back hall. The attendant next to him pulled his neck and shouted: "Send him to see off guests~!"

Yang Qiuchi looked at the back of the prefect Tan and sneered in his heart. It seemed that in order to ensure the disaster victims all over the city, it was necessary to use the privileges of his commander and envoy of the Jinyiwei.

At this moment, the sun had already set west. With such skill, the hungry people in the square in front of the yamen increased a lot, trembling and crowding together in the bitter north wind.

Song Yuner said strangely: "What's wrong with these people? This place is so empty, there is no place to shelter from the wind and rain. They all came here to join in the fun!"

"It's not that they are joining in the fun, they are waiting to release food." Yang Qiuchi sighed, then looked up at the distance and said strangely: "Did you find out that there are more and more people? There are still many people walking slowly towards this side."

After hearing Yang Qiuchi's reminder, Song Yuner also noticed this problem: "Yes, I was in groups of three or three just now, why did she have more skills in the martial arts world?"

"You go and ask them, what are they all here for? Did they open the warehouse and release grain today?"

Yun'er agreed, ran over and asked a few victims, ran back and said, "Brother, you are so amazing, you are just to release food tonight."

"Get out of second update?" Yang Qiuchi was stunned. How could he choose to put out of second update? It was dark at that time. No, when he went to see the official prefect Tan area, if he had released food tonight, it would be a good thing to show off. Then Prime Minister Tan said it bluntly. He has so much face, why bother to make so much effort to make an official provocation and make excuses himself?

Could it be that Master Tan didn’t know that he would release food tonight? That would be strange. People in charge of food didn’t know where the news of the food was released tonight. So where did the news of the food come from? What are the intentions of the people who spread the news?

Yang Qiuchi personally came forward to ask a few victims, but they all heard others say it, but they couldn't say who said it. Anyway, they were all spreading this way.

If I can't find out what's going on, I'd better go back to the station first.

The post station was next to the yamen of the governor. When he arrived here, Yang Qiuchi suddenly remembered the newly collected little maid Huier who said before that the food for the imperial court's disaster relief had started to burn before it was distributed. Why is it so strange? I remembered the things just now, and the more I thought about it, the more I decided to go to the scene to take a look.

The granary was in the governor's yamen. Yang Qiuchi came in the morning. The gatekeeper recognized him and knew that he had given him a generous gift to the governor. When Yang Qiuchi said he wanted to visit the governor's yamen, he politely let him in. Yang Qiuchi asked Master Long to reward him with two taels of silver, and the gatekeeper was even more happy.

Yang Qiuchi said he wanted to go to see the granary that had caught fire some time ago and wanted to ask the doorman to accompany him to see it. Seeing Yang Qiuchi being generous, the doorman agreed happily, and found someone to take the temporary shift and led Yang Qiuchi to the ruins of the granary.

The concierge introduced as he walked: "The granary in the yamen of the governor's yamen is on the right side of the yamen. Before it was burned, it was considered to be very vigilant. Now it has been burned to ashes, so there is no need to guard it here."

Yang Qiuchi asked: "Do you know the fire in the granary that night?"

"Of course I know that I was on duty in the concierge at that time, and I was almost scared to death." The concierge said with lingering fear, "I slept in a daze that night, and I heard outside say that it was watery~! It was watery~! It sounded like the sound was right next to my ears."

"I was so scared that I got up, put on my clothes and ran out of the door. I saw that the smoke was rolling, and the ashes floated down the wind were choking. I pulled my shoes and ran to the granary to see if I could help. But as soon as I ran to the granary, I saw that the roof of a granary had been burned through, and the red flames hissed and rushed upwards, scaring people!"

Yang Qiuchi stopped and asked with interest: "Did you see the roof burned through?"

"Yes, thick smoke first emerged from the roof, and then the flames burst out from the roof, burning bigger and bigger, and then spread to all the granaries. Half of the burning sky turned red, from late at night to dawn, and finally it was rescued. I have never seen such a big fire since I was a child."

"Are the granaries next to each other?"

"Yes, one building next to another, only about ten steps apart, there are more than ten buildings in total, all filled with food transported by the imperial court. What a pity!" The doorman shook his head and sighed, and said, "Fortunately, the yamen halls and courtyards are far away, and the water dragon team arrived in time to put out the fire, so the yamen was able to preserve it, but so much food was burned to ashes."

"What a pity. If it is given to the common people, how many hungry people can be saved." Yang Qiuchi sighed.

"That's it!" the concierge also sighed, "The two governors were so angry that they almost got crazy. They arrested all the fire guards and said they wanted to punish the crime and punish them, but what's the use of this?"

"Do you remember where you saw the fire burning through the roof?"

The concierge lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "It seems that the fire was first caught in the second granary in the north," he thought about it again, and shook his head, "No, it seems that it is the third... No, it seems that it is the second one first, and then the third granary burned through the roof, and then it went down and burned everywhere. I can't remember it, anyway, there were fires everywhere."

After hearing the doorman's words, Yang Qiuchi nodded thoughtfully and asked again: "Do you still remember the wind that night? What wind was blowing?"

"Blow! What a strong wind! How can there be no wind in the cold winter? As for what wind is, I have to think about it," the doorman frowned and knocked on his forehead with his fingers. "I remember that the water dragon team that put out the fire was shouting at that time, to demolish the house in the south to block the fire road. By the way, the north wind was blowing at that time, yes, the flames were also heading south."

Speaking of this, the concierge was a little strange and asked, "Sir, you asked these..."

"Oh, hehe, nothing, I'm very curious, I also heard that the fire was very big and almost burned the yamen, so I came in and checked it out. Later, someone asked me so that I could tell them about the past. Hehe." Yang Qiuchi made up a reason casually.

The concierge immediately believed it and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, such a big fire is really rare."

While speaking, I came to the burned granary. The granary was surrounded by a wall more than ten feet high. When I entered it, I looked up and saw that there was a large area of ​​ruins, and the wood shelf that had not been completely burned was lying there in black.

Yang Qiuchi asked the concierge: "Where did you see the first fire?"
Chapter completed!