Lady forced to seek prince

Chapter 309
Xie Chen had never been questioned in court, but in front of this girl, he suddenly couldn't speak.

At first, the girl stopped him and lied to them. After the crowd became turbulent, the girl said: "Grandpa, uncle, you can leave after a while. If someone says something, don't believe it. There are many people here." The bad guys want to frame our Master Zhao."

The girl left them and left.

The girl has already revealed too much, she looks like a female family member of a peasant family, but she is very clear about what is happening now.Logically speaking, this should not be the case. They have seen a lot of civil unrest, and it is the people who are against the government office, but now the people in Taozhou are helping the government office.

So it might not be a riot.

Under such circumstances, can they not follow?The horse was no longer needed, and the luggage was also collected by the attendants. They just shuttled through the crowd like this, and finally caught up with him.

Xie Chen was stared at by the girl like this, he cleared his throat and said, "We don't know what's in our mind, and we want to ask you for clarification."

Only then did Zhao Luoyang understand: "We have things to do now, you really want to know, just live in Taozhou for a day, and you will understand everything."

It is impossible for Xie Chen to wait until then to ask questions.

Zhao Luoyang has already waved: "Uncle Ding, here, bring the rice."

Zhao Luoyang ignored Xie Chen and Cao Ben, and went straight to meet Ding Maosheng.

Shi Jiu said in his mind: "That's it, don't pay attention to the two of them anymore?"

Zhao Luoyang smiled and said, "The fish are all hooked, who will take the bait again?"

People from sixteen households put the grain in the open space at the gate of the northern city, and they worked hard like they were working in a stockade.

This food was transported to the imperial court, but it was like moving it to one's own house.

Every face is full of smiles.

More and more people gathered around, and the crowd dispersed at the gate of the government office, and they all came here, looking at the food with eyes.

"Real food?"

"real."

"It's all true."

"Look, on these donkey carts, that's all. I went to the city gate and looked outside. There are still many people carrying food here!"

"What you said at the gate of the government office just now is the truth."

Hearing the word "grain" and seeing the piles of rice grains, the refugees' eyes stared and they all swallowed their saliva.The doll had been crying "hungry" before, but now she also opened her eyes wide, looking at these in a daze.

"Stand up."

Someone yelled, and several men worked together to lift a few large pots and started to light a fire at the bottom of the pot.

There is only one clerk in charge of the porridge shed, and all the people working around him are people dressed as common people.

"Master Zhao said that the porridge shed in the government office cannot be collapsed," the civil official shouted, "When the porridge is ready, everyone line up to get it."

The clerk's voice was not loud, but everyone heard it and saw it even more.

It doesn't matter whether you say it or not, what matters is that you do it.

"My lord," Cao Ben whispered next to him, "how about we ask Zhao Jingyun to see what he is doing, how did he turn Taozhou into a pot of porridge?"

Hearing that it wasn't civil unrest, Cao Ben felt a lot more at ease, wishing Zhao Jingyun could explain the ins and outs.

"Ask what?" Xie Chen said, "It's better to stand here and see clearly."

Hot smoke rose, and food was still being transported into the city in a steady stream.

No one expected that there would be so much food.

Isn't there not a grain of rice in the Taozhou granary?

Obviously, the current situation does not make people want to understand.

……

"Get out of the way, get out of the way."

"Stop them, this is our rice."

"This is the food they stole. No one is allowed to touch it."

A group of people suddenly chased from the gate of the city, and those who ran in the front stretched out their hands to snatch the grain bag in Shi Ping's hand.Seeing this, Zhao Xuejing, who had been on guard all along, stepped forward immediately and tore the man away.

"What are you doing?" Gao Zhengfa wanted to break free from Zhao Xuejing's hand, but that hand seemed to be stuck in his flesh, and he screamed out in pain, "You robbed food and beat people? In broad daylight, there is There is no law of the king?"

Almost all the people from the East Village of Fengxia Village arrived. The Gao family walked in the front. People are chasing food.

It is impossible for the food to disappear all at once. Gao Lizheng almost immediately thought of the West Village of Fengxia Village. Hearing that the people in the West Village had pulled the donkey carts out early in the morning, they believed that it was the ghosts of the resettlers.

They were going to watch a play today, watching how Zhao Jingyun was convicted, but they didn't expect their food to disappear overnight.

Gao Lizheng also thought that those Qianmin were dishonest and might have bad intentions, but he didn't expect that Qianmin would dare to rob them openly.

It's the other way around.

Gao Li was furious, he had to bring people to stop the grain, it was the rice grain he had saved up with great difficulty, so that no one could waste a grain of it for nothing.

Those who moved his food will all be sent to prison.

"Where did you get the food from?" Gao Li was being supported and stepped forward, pointing at Zhao Xuejing's nose, "Tell me, where did your food come from?"

Before Zhao Xuejing could speak, Gao Lizheng saw a figure approaching, she was not tall, and she was born thin, it was the girl from the Zhao family.

Zhao Luoyang didn't hide it either: "I took it from the foot of the mountain two miles west of Fengxia Village."

Gao Lizheng didn't expect the girl from the Zhao family to admit it so easily.

Gao Li said angrily, "That's our food."

Zhao Luoyang said: "There is no printing on the rice grain, how can you prove it?"

Gao Li was panting heavily, thinking that there was no writing on the rice grains, so he couldn't go back?
"They're all scoundrels," Gao Lizheng said, "When you were registered... I knew... you didn't have any good intentions... Sure enough, I guessed it right..."

Gao Zhengfa let out a "spit", and then said viciously: "We let you go to the village to fetch water... If I knew it, I would have died of thirst."

"If you can't produce evidence," Zhao Luoyang said, "then the rice has nothing to do with you."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Luoyang looked at Zhao Xuejing: "Third uncle, continue to move. We will not keep these unowned rice grains, and donate them to the imperial court as relief food."

Hearing this, Gao Li was so angry that he rolled his eyes, a mouthful of phlegm stuck in his throat, and coughed for a while before he recovered his breath: "Put it down...let me put it down..."

"We have accounts, we have accounts."

As Gao Li was talking, he took out the account book from his pocket: "It's clearly written on it, how much food we have saved, you can know it at a glance."

When Gao Li was arguing, the clerk of the government office happened to come over.

Seeing this, the Gao family hurriedly knelt down and begged the civil servants to decide: "These people have long been optimistic about the place where we put our grain, and they did this on purpose. We never raised the price to sell the grain, and they deliberately framed it. Please wait for me, my lord." call the shots."

It is true that Gao Lizheng did not sell grain to the resettled people in the West Village. The sixteen households earned so much money, how could they ask him?

The clerk held the account in his hand, opened it and looked at it roughly.

"Okay," said the clerk, "with the accounts, this is the proof."

Gao Li was finally heaving a sigh of relief, and his whole body relaxed a bit: "My lord, please return these...food...to...we wait."

Gao Zhengfa also followed suit: "In addition to the accounts, the farmers in our village can testify for us."

Gao Zhengfa said and looked at Meng Gao behind him.

Meng Gao nodded, took a few steps forward, and then knelt down in front of the clerk with his knees bent: "My lord, please make the decision for me."

Hearing this, Gao Zhengfa looked at Zhao Luoyang with a bit of complacency, and even sneered a bit, so he wanted to take their food?It's just a dream!They have the accounts, and the farmers in the East Village.

Meng Gao next to him continued: "That's right, the food belongs to the Gao family...it's just that they bought it from us by force. If we refuse to agree, we will be beaten in return. Even this year, there are still people who want to keep more food." They broke one hand of the rice grain, and some people died because of it a few years ago, we are not willing to sell it, but we dare not rebel against the Gao family."

Having said that, Meng Gao knocked his head heavily on the ground: "My lord, please make decisions for the common people."

"My lord, please make the decision for the little people."

After Meng Gao died, people from the East Village of Fengxia Village knelt down one after another.

(End of this chapter)