Tian Sheng Monster Hunting

Chapter 33
At the second watch, Sheng Yang's window made a strange movement.

"Maybe Chiyu is here."

Sheng Yang got up from Duan Yuzhi's arms, opened the window excitedly, half of Chiyu's leg had already stepped into the room, and then saw the scene in the room, and smiled awkwardly.

After the second watch, Duan Yuzhi was still in Shengyang's room. Although he pretended to be reading, Chiyu could clearly see the contented smile on the corner of his mouth that he hadn't had time to put away. In the middle of the night, the love is endless!

Chiyu and him looked at each other unceremoniously, and chanted while turning in.

"Your Highness, you have to be careful, you agreed with me that you should be careful of men!"

Duan Yuzhi was reading the book with his head down, raised his eyebrows, unexpectedly did not refute, but looked up at Chiyu with some complacency, and closed the book casually.

Chiyu angrily stuffed the things in his hand to Shengyang.

"Here, you can eat with your love brother."

"Why do you look incompatible with him?"

Sheng Yang was in a good mood, and smiled and pulled her over to sit down. Chiyu was even more surprised to see the corpse of the cup left under the table. Are these two so fierce...

"Good sister, what did you bring me?"

Sheng Yang opened the box, and there was a shiny roast chicken inside, as well as small pastries and some side dishes.

"Come here and eat together, Taifu Duan is sitting there, do you want His Highness to feed you?"

Duan Yuzhi got up and walked over, and deliberately said in an angry way, "Miss Chiyu laughed, if you weren't here at this time, Yue'er would have already fed me to my mouth."

Chiyu was so angry that his teeth itched, Duan Yuzhi sat down, and seeing Sheng Yang staring at the roast chicken in a daze, knowing that she thought it was greasy and dirty hands, he cut the chicken into pieces for her, and Sheng Yang took over from Duan Yuzhi. Yu Zhi broke the chicken leg that was given to her, staring at her eyes, but the habit engraved in her bones still made her take small bites, chewing and eating slowly, and then she opened her mouth to criticize the two.

"The two of you are really strange. Usually, one or the other is very fierce to everyone, and you look like you will kill if you are not happy. When you two meet and quarrel, you are as naive as a child!"

She continued to taste a small bite of chicken drumsticks.

"It's not all because of you!" Chi Yu put his arms around Sheng Yang, "My dear sister, have you forgotten our vow?"

"What oath?"

Sheng Yang had already stuffed his belly, so he immediately lost interest in chicken legs. This chicken leg was shiny and shiny, and it looked like a meat dish that officials with big bellies love to eat.

Duan Yuzhi saw that she didn't want to eat meat anymore, so he handed her another piece of pastry. Sheng Yang smiled flatteringly, gave him a look that he was too lazy to do anything, and began to eat with his hand.

There is no outsider in the eyes of these two people, Chi Yu waved his hand, "Pretend I didn't say anything."

"Where did you get all this food?"

Chiyu seemed to think of something, and smiled sarcastically, "Heh, this rich man in Beiguan really put on a good show!"

It turned out that Chiyu and the others entered the city first, and searched the empty city all afternoon, but couldn't find a grain of rice. She was so hungry that she almost went to the porridge shed to ask for porridge.

On the first watch, she was so hungry that she couldn't even walk, she lay down on the eaves to rest for a while, at this moment, she saw a figure walking in a remote alley, and she was still staggering, saying something in her mouth. Humming a song, as if drunk.

Chiyu quickly moved to the edge of the eaves, and when he approached, he heard him muttering drunken words, "Keep drinking, keep drinking!"

She jumped off the beam and walked past him with her head bowed, pretending to be a passer-by. At the moment of brushing shoulders, the strong smell of alcohol on his body rushed to her face, and the smell of food made her dizzy.

There was a shortage of food in the city, where did he get the food and wine to live so chicly?
Chiyu felt that something was wrong, followed the drunk man to the depths of the alley, blocked him in a corner, and forced him to find out where he drank.

The man trembled, "Zuixianlou, Zuixianlou, chivalrous woman, if you are hungry, you must go there!"

She followed the direction the drunk man pointed to and found Zuixianlou. From the outside, the restaurant was really big, not much worse than Wenxianglou, but it was already closed, the light at the door was off, and the door was locked.

She walked around the house for a week, only to find that a faint light was on at the back door, and after a while, a fat man picking his teeth came out.After he left, Xiaoer carefully looked around and closed the door.

Chiyu transformed into a black cat and jumped into the house.

I really don’t know if I don’t see it. There are many tall trees planted in this yard, covering the eaves. The branches and leaves are dense, like a layer of leaf quilt is spread over the yard, so the light inside cannot be seen clearly from the outside. After entering, I am surrounded by trees. , you can see a row of lighted houses surrounded by trees, and figures are moving on the window paper.

Chiyu was already so hungry that he could smell the aroma from a distance, it was clearly the smell of wine and meat.

Sure enough, she climbed to the roof and looked in, and every room below was full of guests, most of whom were men, and they could be identified as belonging to rich families at a glance by the clothes and uses on their bodies. A table of dishes, a combination of meat and vegetables, thick oil and water, glistening white rice, paired with fine wine, is as rich as Pingyang's food, and one can't imagine that there are so many people who are dying of starvation in the city separated by a wall.

Chiyu found the kitchen, followed the cook to the underground warehouse, and was even more surprised. There were mountains of meat and vegetables in the warehouse, several large vats of white rice, and several large wine vats. The servant was pouring wine. It seemed that it had been prepared for a long time. There was cold air in the warehouse, and it turned out to be ice cubes. This thing is only available to the royal family.

There is no food to sustain life outside, but there is food to make wine here, which is really ironic.

Chiyu was full of food while no one was paying attention, took the food, and came here in shock.

"There are even more surprises. Guess who I saw?"

"Hu Luan?" Duan Yuzhi seemed to have expected it.

Chiyu gave him a blank look, she was flying over the eaves, but she saw that after coming out of the wine and meat courtyard, there was always a carriage going in the same direction as herself. Hu Yuan had seven or eight portraits, so he recognized Hu Luan, the magistrate of Beiguan County.

"If you don't believe me, if you go to his house to look for him, you will definitely smell of alcohol!"

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Chiyu said while eating, choking on this mouthful of pastry, Sheng Yang and Duan Yu subconsciously found the teacup and fell to the ground when they saw it, the three of them looked at each other in embarrassment.

"No need to go, I've already seen it."

Another person pushed in through the window, it was Wen Ming who had been away all afternoon but was already dying.

Seeing that there was food on the table, his eyes lit up, he picked up the pastry and stuffed it into his mouth, "Why do you have something to eat... cough cough cough cough!"

"water!"

Sheng Yang and Duan Yuzhi looked at each other awkwardly again, and Duan Yuzhi brought the teapot to him.

He was in a hurry and didn't react, so he swallowed a few mouthfuls from the spout of the pot, and when he finished the difficult pastry, he put down the teapot and questioned, "Teacher Duan! Why did you give me the teapot to drink?" Water, I'm not an animal."

Chiyu smiled disdainfully, "The teacup was broken by your master."

Following her hand and seeing the poor broken teacup on the ground, thousands of reasons flashed through Wen Ming's mind, each of which made him clear his throat in embarrassment.

"It's okay, it's okay, our master loves to smash things when he loses his temper, I'll go to Hu Luan to ask for it tomorrow."

"Talk about the business." Duan Yuzhi reminded without the slightest embarrassment of Wen Ming.

Wen Ming tore off another piece of roast chicken and ate it unceremoniously, "Just now when I came back and passed by Hu Luan's yard, he was scolding his concubine, and his wife was still persuading him to stop going crazy after drinking. .”

Everyone was slightly taken aback, this is some kind of out-of-the-ordinary gossip...

"It seems that he can eat and drink enough, and his family members know about it." Chiyu said.

"I also saw his wife at dinner today, she was as thin as a bone, and her complexion was very bad... It seems that he is enjoying the blessing alone, and the whole family is not hungry!"

"No, he is enjoying the blessing alone, and the whole city is not hungry." Duan Yuzhi corrected.

Sheng Yang was so angry that he patted the table, "Well, you Hu Luan, you dare to be pitiful in front of me, but you secretly eat spicy food while you are giving me some rice soup."

Wen Ming squeezed the chicken legs, thinking about the dizziness from hunger today, he was also a little angry, "It seems that they have been prepared for a long time, maybe the theft of the granary has something to do with them! Now the dignitaries have food and drink, and stand by. people."

"Why did they do this?" Chiyu asked puzzled.

"That's right, Your Highness. Hu Luan, as an official of the imperial court, had the granary stolen, the whole city famine, and refugees everywhere. These are all serious crimes. Why did he take such a big risk to do this drama?"

Duan Yuzhi tapped his fingers on the table, and raised his eyes when he thought of something.

"There is only one possibility. The benefits brought to him by food theft far outweigh the disadvantages."

"Did he sell the grain?"

Duan Yuzhi disagreed, "If he sold the food just for profit, he should run away, and he wouldn't be here waiting for us as if nothing had happened."

"It seems that he is not afraid at all."

Sheng Yang was thoughtful, "Maybe he did all this for the sake of the prince. There are people in the court who are behind him, and he is sure that the truth will not be found out, so naturally he is not afraid."

"It's not a day or two for them to collect money for the prince here. Why do they suddenly want to take such a big risk with their swords?"

Chiyu suddenly thought of something, and closed his pupils slightly, "I heard the minister of the court mention it in Wen Yulou. About half a year ago, the crown prince failed to build a canal in the south and wasted a lot of money. It seems that he used his own financial resources later. , the canal was repaired? Taifu Duan should know about this, right?"

Duan Yuzhi nodded, "Indeed, the Holy Majesty also knew about this matter. It was also half a year ago that the Holy Majesty began to worry about the financial resources behind the prince, so he gradually took back the power of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households from the prince."

"Perhaps the lack of food in Beiguan has something to do with this matter!" Wen Ming took a bite of the drumstick firmly, "It's so oily!"

Duan Yu handed him the teapot with one hand, and tapped lightly on the table with the other hand, "Financial resources can build canals... It seems that Hu Luan and Yu Wanliang are the prince's gods of wealth..."

(End of this chapter)