imperial psychologist

Chapter 712 Want to add a crime
After staying beside Cao Xun and Wang Meng for a while, Bo Ling found an excuse to leave there. When she exited the door, she saw Shao Kuan walking this way with a straight face from a distance.

Bo Ling bowed to Shao Kuan from a distance at the same place, and nodded his head on the other side.

After watching Shao Kuan enter the room, Bo Ling looked at his back and thought for a moment.She couldn't explain why, but for no reason, she developed a somewhat favorable impression of Mr. Shao, perhaps because Wang Meng's narration today made her feel a bit of untimely stubbornness towards this magistrate Shao.

Berlin returned to his room.

"Don't hide it, it's me." She said softly.

Li Yiru came out from the gap between the bed and the wall, and breathed a sigh of relief, "Why did the second brother go for so long?"

"Because Mr. Cao was late for more than an hour this morning, he was delayed." Bai Ling took off his robe, and then opened a few windows facing the south to ventilate. "I also asked Vice-General Wang today. With the official withdrawal, we can set off for Yanzhou."

Bo Ling also told the young man what he heard from Cao Xun at noon, and Li Yiru heaved a sigh of relief, and sat with Bo Ling in front of the charcoal fire.

"Yanzhou is really miserable." The young man stretched his hand close to the brazier, "If Mr. Wang had led his troops to continue marching north, maybe these things would not have happened."

Burling smiled.

"Perhaps General Chang felt that the price of the latter was even more unacceptable between the destruction of several counties in Yanzhou and the loss of both ends."

……

In the evening, Bo Ling and Li Yiru were waiting for food in the house. When someone knocked on the door, Bo Ling got up to pick it up, but found that the person who came was not the official servant who delivered the meal.

"You are……?"

"We were sent by the prefect of Cao."

Bo Ling's heart sank slightly, "Looking for me?"

"Yes." The person came with a serious face, "Tonight's grain inspection in the city, Governor Cao asked Mr. Wei to go with him."

Bai Ling frowned, "Why do you want me to go with you? I am neither an official of Zhuozhou Prefecture, nor have I ever participated in the unloading of grain and grass at Liangduwang—"

"That's what the prefect Cao ordered," the man quickly interrupted Bai Ling, "If you go late, everyone will wait for you."

"Then I can change clothes before leaving, right?"

"No need," the visitor waved his hand, and the two walked around behind Bai Ling, and went straight to fetch Bai Ling's cloak, "Let's go like this."

Bo Ling glanced at the back room from the corner of his eye.

After all, Li Yiru escaped from Cao Xun's custody... Could this be a trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain and arrest him secretly?
"Hurry up, don't make it difficult for us." The visitor said in a low voice.

Bo Ling snorted softly, put on his cloak and followed the crowd into the snowstorm.

……

When Bo Ling came to the county government office where he was looking from both sides, everyone was already gathered.

Everyone was silent, only the sound of wind and torches burning softly in the air.

"Everyone is here," Cao Xun looked at Shao Kuan, "Lead the way."

Bo Ling faintly felt that Wang Meng and Shao Kuan looked at him strangely, but it was too difficult to ask what happened right now, so Bo Ling followed behind the Xue brothers as usual.

Shao Kuan and his chief officials walked in the front and led the crowd to the backyard of the county government. Along the winding steps, Bo Ling saw the underground warehouse for the first time.

It looks very similar to the warehouse that Lao Xu wanted to detonate outside the city of Huizhou. There are huge and neat rocks on both sides of the road and above the head. , Such a well-preserved granary, everyone couldn't hide their surprise.

No wonder Chang Sheng is so desperate to keep it here.

Cao Xun didn't say a word the whole time, his dark eyes had already been firmly grasped by everything here, and he greedily looked at the food stored here over and over again.

After leaving the warehouse, Cao Xun's face returned to the coldness before, "How many warehouses like this are there?"

"Four." Shao Kuan replied.

"Four...four?" Cao Xun was startled again, he couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry, "Well, Shao Kuan, it's been almost five years since I took over Zhuozhou, and you never—"

"Every year, I deliver surplus food brochures to the magistrate's yamen." Shao Kuan said coldly, "If Mr. Cao doesn't know, then he probably has never seen these brochures."

Cao Xun glanced at him coldly, "Who knows which corner you handed the folder to?"

"I don't know either," Shao Kuan said with a livid face, "A few times, General Chang and General Shen sent people directly to discuss with me. I said that Liangduwang is a county under the Zhuozhou Prefecture, and they will usually be able to hold the seal in a few days. A complete set of documents came over, but the inscriptions were often full of wrong characters... It's strange that the officials in the lord's yamen can't even write their own names."

Cao Xun took a deep look at Shao Kuan, then his face changed slowly, and finally he showed a warm smile.

"Since the food has been inspected, let's go tonight."

"Scattered?" Shao Kuan glanced at Cao Xun, "There are still three granaries, Mr. Cao, don't you want to see?"

"Since it's all the same as this, is there any need to look at it?" Cao Xun looked ahead, "It's too wasteful to look at both sides of these grains. I will send you an order tomorrow to transfer some of them to Zhuozhou for emergency."

Shao Kuan cupped his hands, saluted Cao Xun, and said, "Then wait for the news from the Master Futai", then turned and walked away, as if he didn't want to stay by Cao Xun's side for a moment.

"Then...Song Qing," Cao Xun suddenly turned around, and spoke to Bai Ling for the first time tonight, "Come with me, let's talk for a while."

Bo Ling frowned, she looked at Xue Ziping and Wang Meng, both of them were watching Shao Kuan, as if deliberately avoiding eye contact with her.

Bai Ling tilted his head slightly and followed Cao Xun's footsteps.

Cao Xun stopped at the least crowded place, turned around and said with a smile, "Songqing's journey has been very exciting. I said that General Chang specially asked Vice General Wang to send you to Yanzhou safely... As expected, you have fallen into the general's favor. People, after all, are not ordinary."

"Master Cao has won the prize."

"If I had known you had such abilities, I wouldn't have let you be so overqualified." Cao Xun said softly, "When the imperial court is employing people, this official is thinking of personally recommending—"

"No need, Mr. Cao." Bai Ling said, "Caomin is a commoner, and he has never thought of such a thing. Let's leave the opportunity to those who need it more."

"Oh, let's talk about something else." Cao Xun laughed, "For example, your two friends..."

Bo Ling raised his eyes, "Are you talking about Li Yiru and Mucheng?"

"Naturally." Cao Xun said with a smile, "The young master of the Li family has slipped away again, and we are sending people to look for him. But Mu Cheng's injuries are almost healed, and he is still resting in my house right now."

Bo Ling sighed, "...Thanks to Master Cao for taking care of me."

Cao Xun shook his head, "After all, Songqing, you are still working outside for me."

"Master Cao means...?"

"You've been looking at both sides for so many days." Cao Xun's eyes darkened, "Didn't you find anything suspicious?"

(End of this chapter)