Exquisite ingenuity

Chapter 32 The fog is heavy
At this time Zhu Zhiping hurried over, Xu Shi was sleeping soundly when he was woken up, put on his clothes in a hurry, and didn't argue with Zhang Kai when he heard the words, he just pulled Song Jingxing aside and talked with Song Jingxing Whispering his ears: "Song Xiandi, Ma Shilang was late last night, and I haven't had time to tell you. Last night, Ma Shilang gave thousands of instructions, and the current wind direction in the court is not very good for Su Shangshu. You were single-handedly promoted by Su Shangshu. People, it is best to go to Su Shangshu's home and ask the ins and outs of this matter."

At the end, he gave Song Jingxing a rare smile: "Go quickly, I'll take care of the craftsmen for you here."

Song Jingxing thought about it and agreed.

Just before leaving, he said to Zhu Zhiping: "The artisans are innocent, I have to trouble Zhu Yuanwailang for food and clothing."

Zhu Zhiping responded with a smile.

When Song Jingxing returned to the granary, Zhu Zhiping and Zhang Kai were discussing matters in the temporary tent.

Hearing Xiaobing's announcement, Zhu Zhiping lifted the curtain and came out with a solemn expression: "Mr. Song is back."

Song Jingxing smelled a vague smell of alcohol and a faint smell of mutton.

He also had no intention of exposing Zhu Zhiping, he just said: "Zhu Yuanwailang, this time the granary in the east of the city collapsed, does the Holy Majesty have a will?"

Zhu Zhiping's expression became solemn: "Mr. Song, just now the angel from the palace came and said that the Holy Lord was furious and ordered me to repair the granary quickly. Those who should be held accountable should be punished."

Song Jingxing looked at Zhu Zhiping with serious eyes, and didn't ask him who was responsible and who was punished.

He was still holding the big donkey, but the donkey snorted impatiently and hoofed at Zhu Zhiping.

Zhu Zhiping was taken aback in his heart, and secretly cursed: Donkey is playing against others!

On his face, he said embarrassingly: "I have investigated, and the craftsmen brought by Mr. Song are all innocent." He said, but his heart was extremely strange. It was obvious that Song Jingxing was a craftsman. His face turned out to be so frightening.

Song Jingxing said: "Since the craftsmen are innocent, let them quickly repair the granary, and don't delay."

Zhu Zhiping didn't want to follow Song Jingxing's words, rolled his eyes, and said, "Mr. Song, how is the investigation of the collapse of the Kanglefang gate? It seems that the sky is getting dark now, and the day is gone in a blink of an eye. Leaving Song The doctor boasted about the time limit for going to Haikou, but there is only one day left."

Song Jingxing smiled slightly: "That won't bother Zhu Yuanwailang. Song has to go and see the craftsmen, so I'll take my leave first."

Zhu Zhiping heaved a long sigh of relief as he watched Song Jingxing's figure gradually disappearing.After this slack, I realized that my head was covered with beads of sweat.

When he entered the tent, he was standing at the door with his hands behind his back.Seeing the beads of sweat on his face, he frowned and said, "What are you afraid of that guy? Except for the recommendation of that old fellow Subo, he is just a craftsman who beats with a hammer. If you want to crush him to death, it's just like It's just crushing an ant to death."

Zhu Zhiping obviously has a long-term friendship with Zhang Kai. Hearing this, he said: "It's the craftsman who holds the hammer, Kong Wu is powerful. If you offend him, you don't mind taking out a hammer from somewhere. Hammer out people's brains."

Zhang Kai has thin skin and tender flesh. He turned out to be a military officer thanks to Yin En. He is too lazy to practice on weekdays. As for the battlefield, he has never been on the battlefield. Although he has whipped his servants, he has never seen such a disgusting one. scene.Hearing this, I couldn't help feeling a chill creep up from the back of my spine: "Don't talk about it, just eat and drink."

There was still a hint of worry on Zhu Zhiping's face: "Tell me, will those craftsmen..."

Zhang Kai's tone was a little impatient: "They are all bumpkins who have never seen money. They are happy when they get money. How could they talk nonsense with that craftsman and cut off their own money."

That's right.Only then did Zhu Zhiping feel relieved.

Anyway, Ma Shilang said that Song Jingxing is just a grasshopper after autumn, and it won't last long.As long as the old guy Su Bo is knocked down, can this Song Jingxing still be an official?Thinking of the benefits that Ma Shilang promised to himself, Zhu Zhiping's mood suddenly became more comfortable.

The craftsmen were working. Song Jingxing tied up the donkey and walked into the collapsed granary.

The Dajun granary in the east of the city is a bungalow on the ground. It seems to be continuous but independent. The foundation in the warehouse is rammed with sand, covered with fine sand, fir as the bottom, the wall is made of square bricks, and the roof is made of wood and gray tiles. structure.

The soldiers who guarded the granaries before found that the roofs of several granaries were leaking, soaking the grain in the granaries, so they reported to the Ministry of Industry and asked the Ministry of Industry to send people to repair them.

At that time, he and Zhu Zhiping inspected the scene.Zhu Zhiping excused his inexperience and climbed up the ladder to the roof to inspect by himself.

When Zhu Zhiping came down, he said that only a few tiles were damaged, and that's why the rainwater leaked into the granary.Just send a few bricklayers to replace the damaged tiles.

Unexpectedly, when the bricklayer came to replace the tiles that day, he barely managed to climb the edge of the roof, and half of the roof collapsed with a whimper.

Rao was an experienced bricklayer, but he was almost scared to death.

The roof bricklayers of the leaky granary stood cautiously beside the long ladder, picked it lightly with a bamboo pole, and it also collapsed.

Zhu Zhiping's responsibilities were quickly dismissed, so Song Jingxing hurriedly found craftsmen to repair the granary.

It took the craftsmen two days to clean up the beams and tiles, but when they were about to re-erect the beams, the square brick wall collapsed.

Song Jingxing's eyes were heavy.

He looked it up, and found that the granary in the east of the city was built in January six years ago, and it was completed before the New Year's Eve of the following year.It has only been used for four years, and the granary has problems.It took almost two years of construction, if such a fragile granary was still built, the Holy One should be furious instead of letting it go lightly.

Although the granary was built under the leadership of Su Hao, as his father, Su Bo, who is also the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, is afraid that he will be doomed this time.

Either Zhu Zhiping lied to him.Either Su Bo is very favored by the Holy Majesty, and the Holy Majesty does not want to deal with him yet.

Song Jingxing was thinking about it when someone pulled him, "Brother Song."

Song Jingxing turned his head to look, it was Du Shi.Du Shi was one of the ten craftsmen he recruited. He was a year younger than him, but he was already quite an experienced craftsman.

Du Shi was met by Song Jingxing when he was working. He is a down-to-earth person with a simple and honest personality.It's just that the family is poor, there are many brothers and sisters in the family, and the parents are seriously ill and bedridden.Song Jingxing brought Du Shi with him whenever he had a job before. Du Shi had a lot of trust in Song Jingxing.Today, he was also thinking that something was wrong, so he pulled several other people to the Song's house to knock on the door.

Song Jingxing looked at Du Shi.

But Du Shi looked around and saw no one noticed him, so he said in a low voice: "Brother Song, as soon as you left this morning, those people threatened and lured us, coaxing us to blame you for the collapse of the granary. "

Song Jingxing raised his eyebrows, he was so good and capable, but he had only been in office for more than a month, and he was framed like this at all costs?
Du Shi whispered again: "They gave each of us one or two pieces of silver..." He said, taking out the piece of silver from his pocket.

Song Jingxing laughed suddenly, this Zhu Zhiping really looked down on others, he bribed the craftsmen with only one tael of silver.His Song Jingxing's life is so worthless?

Song Jingxing said: "You guys take this money, it's your wages."

Du Shi looked at him anxiously: "Is it okay?"

Song Jingxing nodded: "Of course you can."

Du Shi felt relieved and went to work by himself.

Song Jingxing looked around and saw that the craftsmen he had brought were all looking at him, giving him trusting eyes.

He returned a determined smile.

When Song Jingxing rode a donkey back home, the night was as dark as ink.Tao Liuniang served him hot noodle soup, Song Jingxing finished eating, went back to his room, lit up the oil lamp, and took out a thin booklet from his pocket.

It was given to him by Su Bo, the list of officials who participated in Su Hao's construction of the palace.

Song Jingxing opened the booklet and flipped through it carefully.Suddenly, a somewhat familiar name jumped out.

(End of this chapter)