Chapter 115
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This errand went unexpectedly smoothly.
Because when Tang Fan and other people dragged away the body and burned it, the remaining survivors did not come out to stop them, but just watched indifferently, motionless-they had no strength to stand up-even Among those bodies are their own relatives.
After doing all this, Tang Fan and Lu Lingxi took off the cloth covers and masks covering their mouths and burned them, and then followed the others back to the city.
After inspecting their names and identities, the soldiers put them into the city and distributed each person 30 bucks.
After leaving the city gate, after confirming that no one noticed them, the two went out from an alley and went directly to the south of the city, where Chen Luan and Tang Fan went to inspect yesterday.
Even though the scenes seen and witnessed by Fang Cai confirmed all the speculations, Tang Fan still had to embark on this trip himself.
Sure enough, when they were close to the temple, the well-organized Shantang was already empty yesterday, and even those straw mats and bedding that were originally spread on the ground were moved clean, let alone the shadows of the victims.
The so-called proper resettlement of the victims is just a hoax from start to finish.
It was the imperial mission sent by the imperial court.
No matter how cunning Ren Renluan is, Tang Fan still found clues and saw the truth he wanted.
However, at this moment, not only did he not have any joy in his heart, but replaced it with anger.
The plain, gentle and elegant smile has completely disappeared from his face. Tang Fan quietly looked at the empty Shantang not far away, and his expression was irritated, but when anyone approached at this time, he could feel the deepness of his body. And awe-inspiring.
Lu Lingxi never knew that the approachable Tang Fan would show such a chilling expression. When he wanted to say something, Tang Fan had turned around and walked back.
He froze for a moment and quickly caught up: “Brother Tang, are we now …?”
Tang Fanyan said concisely: “Back to Wuxian.”
Naturally, they want to go back. They came here dressed like this, and they did n’t want to attract anyone ’s attention. Even if the truth was found, what would Tang Fan do now even go to Chen Luan, even if the other party pleaded guilty on the spot? If you look back, you can still confess your confession, and with Chen Luan ’s cunning, you will certainly not confess your sins, because Tang Pan cannot pull the emperor here to see everything he sees. To.
Between him and the emperor, there are thousands of mountains and rivers, and many personnel and variables.
Therefore, Tang Fan must find evidence.
Personal or physical evidence.
Of course it was difficult. On the way back, Tang Fan didn’t say a word, and his heart was tossing and turning, thinking about it all the time.
When the two returned to Wuxian, Lu Lingxi noticed that his mouth was still tight, and he seemed a bit cold.
“Brother Tang,” Lu Lingxi helped out the idea: “If I go back to Beijing now, I will report this matter to Huai Gong and let him help me find a way. Huai Gong is a red man of your majesty, and won the trust of your majesty. his words.”
Tang Fan pulled the corner of his mouth, revealing a radian that was not a smile. At first glance, it seemed a bit mocking, but the object was not Wyan.
“It’s useless. Even if I spend ten days and a half months now to draw what I see as a painting and send it to His Majesty, the final result is still not under our control.”
Lu Lingxi surprised: “Why?”
Tang Fan coldly said: “Someone will obstruct.”
Lu Lingxi didn’t understand: “It’s useless even Huai Gonggong to tell His Majesty Xiang Chenqing personally?”
He regarded Wyan’s status and importance as too high and too heavy, but he didn’t know when Wyan could do nothing.
Tang Fandao said: “There is only one Wyan. He can only speak to His Majesty once or twice at best. What about the other party? Chen Luan’s uncle is Nanjing Hubu Shangshu. Kanhe, in such a position, do you think Wandang will let those who do not agree with them sit on it? “
“Chen Luan has no fear, not only because of his uncle’s backing, but also because he knows that even if I poke up, there may not be anything in the end. Also, Zeng Pei and Wu Zong warned me before I came to Suzhou , And monitor my whereabouts, is it just because of the filial piety of Jiangnan merchants to Dongchang? “
“Shang Ming is not willing to help people up to this point, there must be the involvement and relationship of Dongchang. There are so many of them speaking in front of your majesty, do you think your majesty will listen to them, or listen to Wyan?”
Sentence after sentence, I asked Lu Lingxi nothing to say.
At this time, it was late spring and early summer, and gentle wind, but he came out in a cold sweat.
Lu Lingxi stared at Tang Fan staring blankly, and somehow suddenly felt his nose sore, and quickly lowered his head, blinking the sourness in his eyes.
He also faced dozens of mountain bandits alone in a sinister environment. He did n’t feel how to bleed and hurt, but at this time, he looked at Tang Fan ’s side face, but he played an indescribable thing from his heart. Depressed, just want to cry out.
For Tang Fan.
Struggling for him.
Lu Lingxi never knew that being a good official and trying to do a good thing was so difficult.
He was silent for a while, and asked: “Then … shall we still check?”
Tang Fan did not want to think: “Check, why not check!”
Lu Lingxi frowned: “But can we fight them?”
Tang Fan smiled: “Not tried, how do you know?”
In such a bland and unremarkable sentence, there is a thrilling fighting spirit.
Lu Lingxi was infected by his smile, and suddenly sighed: “Brother Tang, I finally understand why Huai Gong let me come to you.”
Tang Fan turned his head, as if seeing what the other person was thinking: “Yi Qing, you can choose to be a rich man, you can also choose Youyou Shanlin, and be a hermit who does not ask the customs. You did not choose the road like Chen Luan, Yang Ji or Hu Wenzao. “
Lu Lingxi arched solemnly said: “We will not live up to expectations!”
He originally thought that Wyan sent himself to Tang Fan’s side, he wanted to use his own skills to protect each other.
Later, Lu Lingxi also felt that having his own advice and suggestions around Tang Fan really helped the other party a lot.
But it wasn’t until now that he understood Wynn’s intentions.
Not only to help myself help Tang Fan, but also to let myself use Tang Fan as a teacher.
Be a man, be a man.
Tang Fan must have known this, but he hasn’t broken it all the time, but let himself go everywhere.
This made Lu Lingxi feel a little ashamed.
However, apart from being ashamed, there was a faint admiration rising unclearly.
The man in front of him had no martial arts, and he had no strong background, but he had a tough heart that no one could match.
Even if Tang Fan accepted the 12,000, even if Tang Fan helped conceal the disaster, he did n’t need to do anything. He just had to reply to the court ’s remarks that everything was peaceful and there was no exception. No one would find him in trouble. Those victims are less likely to jump out and blame him.
But Tang Fan still chose the hardest path.
Lu Lingxi took a deep breath, because Tang Fan remarked, he rekindled his fighting spirit: “Then where do we start now?”
Tang Fandao said: “No matter how strong the fortress is there will be a breakthrough. There is no real indestructibility in this world, only that we will not discover it. In this matter, we need to ring the bell.”
Lu Lingxi frowned and thought for a while. Chen Luan was impossible. He was strong and reliable. Although he was only Qipinzhi County, he dared to deceive Tang Fan in his face. He did not put him in his eyes at all. Money, it can be seen that Chen Luan was also stunned, so there was only … “Hu Wenzao?”
Tang Pan nodded.
Lu Lingxi: “But didn’t he avoid it?”
Tang Fan said lightly: “That’s because he didn’t know that he had been sold. He was acting silly because he didn’t want to offend Chen Luan. Now Chen Luan and Yang Ji both have to push him to scapegoat. Hu Wenzao can still sit. Will it survive? “
Now the sky is getting brighter, and more people are watching outside the official post. It is impossible for them to dive back without knowing the spirit of the original method. Tang Fan simply wore the coarse clothes and the hats. , Together with Lu Lingxi, walked in from the main entrance to the ground.
The two were stopped by the guards at the door. Tang Fan took off his hat. The other party still recognized Tang Fan’s appearance and stuttered: “Big, Master ?!”
Not only he, but also the whistlemen who were monitoring outside the official station at this time were taken aback. No one knew how Tang Fan and Lu Lingxi slipped under their eyes and where they came back.
Tang Fan smiled at the Guanyi soldiers: “It’s me, why not let in?”
The soldier quickly let go: “No, no, please, please!”
Watching the two of Tang Fan go in, the guard scratching his head, thinking where he sang this out, is it that the big guys have some quirks, and good officials are improper, and even run out of the people’s clothes to sway, if he can also be an official, You must wear your official gown for a lifetime, and you will not be too addicted to sleep!
Back at the official station, Qian San’er came to report: “Master, Yang Ji has not yet woken up, neither Zeng Pei nor Wu Zong have gone out.”
Tang Fan asked: “Wu Wenzao, has he been here?”
Qian San’er: “No.”
Tang Fan sneered to himself secretly, this Hu Wenzao, he didn’t even know it when he died.
He didn’t talk nonsense: “Help me change clothes. I’m going out.”
Qian San’er hurriedly said: “You haven’t slept all night, where are you going, or do you want to rest first?”
Tang Fan shook his head: “It’s too late to take care of things. When we go out, those people will definitely report to Chen Luan, maybe they will do something to Hu Wenzao. I will win this person as soon as possible.”
He took the hot water sent by Qian San’er, washed away the makeup on his face, restored his original appearance, put on a regular dress, and went out.
Lu Lingxi has now seen Tang Fan’s appearance of being able to sleep without interruption, and he sighed in his heart and followed behind in a hurry.
The two went to the prefectural government office, early in the morning, and it was Xiumu today. Hu Wenzao was still sleeping in the hall behind the government office.
Tang Fan did not wait for someone to report this time. He directly took out the handed-in waist card and rushed in under the guard of Lu Lingxi and went straight into the back hall.
Hu Wenzao slept soundly, and a woman screamed from the cold, and he was a little familiar, as if it was the sound of his concubine’s room.
He moved his eyelids, trying to open a gap, and saw that he was standing by the bed.
Hu Wenzao thought that someone who didn’t have long eyes came to disturb his sleep. Even if his eyes were not all open, he murmured vaguely: “Who dares to come in and not get out of this house!”
“Hu Zhifu’s life is really nourishing, even Tangmou should be ashamed of himself!” Instead of being scared away, the other party ridiculed.
This voice …
Hu Wenzao somehow felt familiar.
Until his concubine whispered angrily, “Don’t you hear what the adult said, let you get out!”
Hu Wenzao was an agitated spirit, crawling up from the bed, and waking up completely after seeing the appearance of the man in front of the bed.
“Tang, Tang Yushi!” Hu Wenzao’s face was in a panic, mixed with anger and embarrassment. “How can you break into without the master’s consent!”
Tang Fan didn’t speak, just looked at him calmly, until Hu Wenzao looked away guilty.
It took a while for Hu Wenzao to remember that he was level with the other party, and he didn’t have to be so scared.
Tang Fan negatively said: “I am here to save your life, Hu Zhifu.”
Hu Wenzao dumbfounded: “Please also ask Tang Yushi not to be alarmist, what is the danger of my life!”
Tang Fan laughed, meaning unclear: “Drag all the idlers and others.”
This sentence was said to Lu Lingxi, and it was thoroughly implemented.
Together with the disheveled concubine, Lu Lingxi dragged her off the bed and shoved it out of the door.
Throughout the whole process, Hu Wenzao could only use futile words like “What do you want to do, what do you want to do”.
Lu Lingxi was unheard of. After finishing all this, he thoughtfully closed the door of the room and directly stood outside. Before Tang Fan came out, no one could enter.
“Okay, it’s quiet now. We can sit down and talk about business.” Tang Fan sat down on the Taishi chair.
Talking about business, he did n’t even wear his clothes, what business can he talk about! Hu Wenzao vomited fiercely in his heart, of course his face was not easy to see where to go.
Anyone who sleeps well and is disrupted by someone who breaks in will probably not have a better-looking complexion.
“I don’t know what Tang Yushi wanted to talk about?” He said coldly.
Tang Fandao said: “I was ordered to go south to inspect Wujiang’s famine last year. As the prefect of Suzhou, you avoided it. Not only did you not report it to me, but also a lot of negligence. as a result of?”
Hu Wenzao was unimpressed: “The government has adjusted and allocated grain on time. Other things are within the responsibility of Wujiang Zhixian. Why don’t Tang Yushi ask him?”
His attitude of shirk responsibility is very common, but when Yang Ji and Chen Luan iron together to pit him, it seems stupid.
Tang Fan laughed: “I visited Wujiang County yesterday. Do you know how Chen Zhixian told me?”
Hu Wenzao did not answer.
Tang Fan disregarded it and said, “Chen Zhixian first took me to see the charity hall in the city. He arranged it well, and the victims were all placed properly. The only thing that was lacking was the lack of food for the victims. In three days, the county warehouse was empty, but Chen Zhixian did not shirk. He planned to help the victims through the collection of grain from the wealthy merchants in the county. However, Chenzhi County also told me that the reason for the relief food Not enough, because the Suzhou government only allocated food for Wujiang Shishi. “
Hu Wenzao’s eyes widened instantly.
Tang Fan ’s eyes flicked across his face without any trace: “Do you believe it, I do n’t believe it, but Chen Zhixian showed me the grain book, and it clearly read thirty stones on it. He also said, if It ’s not that your Suzhou government has only allocated such a small amount of food, and disaster relief would have been sufficient. ”
“Fart!” Hu Wenzao couldn’t help it anymore. He patted the table and stood up. If he didn’t speak again, he wouldn’t know how to die. “Tang Yushi, Thirty Stones is not enough even for a year’s worthless salary for an incompetent official. How could I do such a thing! The food allocated by the Suzhou government at that time was obviously three thousand stones!”
Tang Fan asked lightly: “He has a grain certificate, what do you have?”
Hu Wenzao said angrily: “I also have a grain book! When the grain is allocated, it is natural to register for the book!”
Tang Fan: “What about the grain book?”
Hu Wenzao said loudly: “Come here! Come here!”
Tang Fan’s “good intentions” reminded: “Hu Zhifu, although the weather is hot now, but it is a bit indecent to meet guests in single clothes?”
Hu Wenzao realized that he hadn’t put on his clothes well. He quickly put on his coat and put on his shoes and socks in exasperation.
A servant came in: “Master, are you looking for a small one?”
Hu Wenzao said: “Let Liao Tongjue bring the grain book!”
The next man went away.
It took a while for someone to take advantage of this gap, and Tang Fan asked: “After returning from Wuxian, I went back to Wuyi privately and found out that there were many victims outside the west of the city. , The plague is rampant, presumably you should know what is going on? “
Hu Wenzao stubbornly said: “Xiaguan does not know what adults are saying.”
Tang Fan was also not angry: “You don’t say it now, and if you want to say it later, I might not want to listen.”
Hu Wenzao still didn’t speak.
The room was suddenly immersed in a strange silence.
After a while, Liao Tongjue hurried over: “Master Fuzun!”
He glanced at Tang Fan. He was there when Hu Wenzao led the people out that day. He naturally recognized Tang Fan: “See Tang Yushi!”
Tang Pan nodded slightly, and said nothing, but Hu Wenzao couldn’t wait: “Where is the grain book, did you bring it!”
Liao Tongjuan busyly said: “I brought it, but there are more, and it is still outside. Do you want to see …?”
Hu Wenzao: “Less nonsense, the government asks you, last year the Wujiang famine, Suzhou government allocated Wujiang’s grain registration to create a record!”
Liao Tongjuan: “Yes! Are you going to watch that paragraph?”
Hu Wenzao: “Quickly find out!”
Liao Tongjue: “The two adults and wait a moment, go to the office to find out!”
He transported the grain books of Suzhou this year by car. The grain books are arranged according to time and region. It is easy to find. Without much time, Liao Tongjuan sent the grain books needed by Hu Wenzao.
“This is the grain book related to Wu Jiang last year. Please look over.” He turned to one of the pages, holding Hu Wenzao with both hands.
Hu Wenzao almost grabbed it, grabbed the booklet, and hurriedly glanced from the top to the bottom, suddenly frozen.
“Here, what, how, why, what?” He raised his head in shock and anger, and his eyes almost swallowed Liao Tongjuan.
Liao Tong judged it unclearly, so he looked at it and said with sincerity: “Master, I don’t know what’s wrong here?”
Hu Wenzao shouted: “It is obviously three thousand stones, how could it become thirty stones ?! Where did the remaining two thousand nine hundred and seventy stones go! Have you eaten it! Ah ?!”
Liao Tong sentenced to war with trembling: “Xiaguanguan is wrong, sir, you will clearly order 30 stones, where are the three thousand stones?”
Hu Wenzao was almost going crazy: “The grain storage in Suzhou ’s grain storage last year was 5,000 stone, and 3,000 was left, leaving 2,000 left. If it is 30 stone, there are more than 4,000 stone left in the granary Go and see now, if there are no more than four thousand stones, you will wait to leave the head and the black gauze hat together! “
Liao Tong judged that Hu Wenzao’s eyes looked like a neuropath: “Adult, did you remember correctly? The grain storage in Suzhou Granary last year was 1530 stone. Of these, 15,000 stone has been escorted to Nanjing It was turned over to the imperial court, and the remaining 30 stones were also allocated to Wu Jiang. Now the grain storehouse in Suzhou has no more grain, where are the two thousand stones? “
Hu Wenzao stared at him, his chest undulating: “I’m going to see it myself, and, you take out the grain book!”
Liao Tongjue brought Hu Wenzao and Tang Fan to the state granary, and ordered people to open the granary door.
As soon as the door was opened, Hu Wenzao pushed away the crowd like crazy and ran in.
The walls are clean and clean, and there is not even one grain on the ground, which is really an empty warehouse.
Hu Wenzao shouted, and grabbed the grain book handed over by Liao Tongjue, as expected, what was written above was exactly the same as what Liao Tongjuu said before.
Hu Wenzao watched blankly, he never thought he had lost his mind, or there was a mistake in his memory.
Chen Luan!
Chen Luan! !
Chen Luan! ! !
The name circled frantically in his heart, almost swallowing the whole person.
Hu Wenzao slowly raised his head, staring at Liao Tongjue fiercely.
The deep and deep eyes made Liao Tong subconsciously step back two steps.
“Liao Shouchang, you are really kind!” With a deep resentment, he spit out Hu Wenzao’s mouth, his eyes red, as if he would pounce and die with each other.
Liao Tongjuan said with a smile: “Xiaguan does not know what the adults are saying.”
Tang Fan wanted to laugh after hearing this sentence.
Not long ago, Hu Wenzao used this sentence to block him, and now it ’s his turn to others, and he ’s still on his own.
Feng Shui turns.
He did indeed laugh out loud.
This smile made Hu Wenzao seem to be suddenly touched. He was shocked and recovered, looking at Tang Fan with the thirst and urgency he had never had before.
“Brother Run Qing, can you borrow the details?”
The other party was in a hurry, but Tang Fan was not in a hurry.
With his hands on his back, he said leisurely: “What to talk about, what else do we have to talk about, don’t you not know what I’m talking about?”
Hu Wenzao’s face flickered and said: “I used to be blind to Mount Tai. I also asked Brother Runqing to care about it with me. The younger brother really has a hundred thousand urgent things to tell. Please also ask Brother Runqing to give me a moment! “
Tang Fan deliberately considered, glanced aside at Liao Tong’s uneasy expression of judging eyeballs, and applauded Lu Lingxi.
Lu Lingxi realized that he walked directly behind Liao Tong’s judgment and squeezed the opponent’s neck with a sudden thunder.
Liao Tongjuan immediately fell down softly, and Lu Lingxi groaned: “Master, what’s wrong with you, is the grain silo suffocating and stuffy? The little one helps you out to rest!”
He didn’t wait for anyone to stop it, carried him away, and didn’t know where to take him.
Hu Wenzao didn’t get dizzy to get home at last, he also reacted and called his cronies aloud: “Come here, control this place, and wait for all the people to get it!”
After doing all this, he turned to Tang Fan, revealing his imperative: “Adult?”
Tang Fan finally nodded slightly.
The two returned to the back hall of the prefectural government office.
The place is still the original place, and the person is still the original person, but the state of mind is not the original state of mind.
If it was Tang Fan who wanted to pry Hu Wenzao’s mouth, the position of active and passive is now reversed.
Tang Fan didn’t give him much time to adjust his thinking: “Finally, I don’t have much patience.”
Hu Wenzao was silent for a moment and took a deep breath: “All this is Chen Luan’s conspiracy.”