Chapter 682: Don’t panic when you have food in your hands

When Song Cheng and his servants brought the rice to the shed where the porridge was cast, the refugees saw the rice in a hurry, and the joy suddenly erupted.

Early this morning, people reported that there was no rice in the official warehouse. Many people were half-believing and half-doubted. Although two bowls of porridge a day were not hungry, they could guarantee that they could not starve to death. If there was no porridge, how could they survive? Therefore, many people were anxiously waiting to see if the rumors were true. Now that they saw the official transporting rice, they realized that the rumors were fake, so they were naturally excited.

Song Cheng couldn't help laughing when he heard this cheer, but when he thought that the rice in the official warehouse could not hold on for much time, he couldn't help but frown secretly and instructed the officers to move the rice bags down, open them, and put them in the pot. He held his hands on the side and thoughtfully.

The team of receiving porridge was long and took two hours to put the porridge into the rice. At this moment, Song Cheng saw a team rushing towards this side, all of whom were fully armed lieutenants, surrounded by the King of Pingxi, which was very majestic.

Song Cheng looked at it and quickly ran to see it. He saw that the King of Pingxi was wearing a python robe, a fluffy cloak, and a winged hat, which was very distinctive. He seemed to be in a hurry to go, and hundreds of lieutenants around him were walking fast, but when he got here, he happened to be blocked by the victims.

When the victims saw the King of Pingxi, they all came over and said, "The King of Pingxi, Duke and Marquis Wanda."

Shen Ao smiled slightly and had to stop. He thought to himself, no wonder they were victims of disasters and could not even flatter. I am already a prince and my eldest son is a vassal king. He is more than enough to be alone. But these people say that the Duke and Marquis will be born. Wouldn't it mean that the Shen family will be stripped of their title?

Although he felt whispering in his heart, Shen Ao decided to forgive them when he saw the crowded and cheering scene.

At this time, someone shouted in the crowd: "Where is the King of Pingxi?"

Shen Ao sat on the horse and said loudly: "Go and get the food!"

“Care grain…”

Many people were confused. Shouldn’t food be in the official warehouse? Why did you come here to receive the food? Going here is to go to Ximen in Taiyuan. Could it be that Ximen has food?

As he was talking, Song Cheng had already brought two servants to say hello to Shen Ao. Shen Ao sat on the horse and said, "Song Ai Si, it's hard for you. Is it all put down this porridge?"

Song Cheng could not have thought that Shen Ao still remembered his name and said flatteredly: "All it was released, and no grain of rice was left behind. Is Your Highness going to Ximen to receive the food?"

Shen Ao smiled and said, "This is natural, don't forget that Taiyuan is not far from Xixia!" After that, he beat the horse and led a long line away.

Song Cheng recalled Shen Ao's words and stood there motionless. Suddenly his eyes lit up and he couldn't help but say, "Yes, I heard that Xixia was going to transport food to rescue disasters a month ago, but there were many mountains along the way from Xixia to Taiyuan. Today, the air suddenly changed again. I thought that Xixia's food would not be transported until spring, but who knew it would come so early.

It seems that this urgent problem has been resolved so easily.

Song Cheng smiled happily and asked the servants to collect the stalls, and couldn't help but say to the servants: "Taiyuan is really saved. There is food in Xixia. As long as we can survive until the beginning of spring, more than 100,000 people can survive."

The servants came to ask, and Song Cheng did not shy away. These servants were all well-informed people. After a while, the news of the food transported from Xixia spread throughout the city. People who had heard the rumors were a little shaken before, first saw the porridge and rice distributed on time, and then heard that the food transported from Xixia was brought, and they were also happy and laughed and laughed.

The martial law was already in place on the west gate, and hundreds of lieutenants separated the crowd. Chen Ao led a team of people to wait at the long pavilion outside the city. There were a few short mobs in the long pavilion, and the snow water on it was wiped dry. Chen Ao sat on it and looked at the horizon in the distance.

Naturally, the grain from Xixia was not transported. After all, it is not as simple as hooking your fingers. You have to raise, check, and weigh it first, then load it and open the road. There is no official road between Xixia and Taiyuan, and there are many mountain roads. Now the north is full of heavy snow, not to mention one or two months. If the weather continues like this, it may not be able to transport it in a year.

However, last night, Chen Ao called his confidant captain to disguise himself from the city. Of course, this plan was planned by him long ago and was waiting for someone to take the bait.

Chen Ao sat leisurely on this short stud. Seeing the thousands of layers of snow on the mountains in the distance and the ice condensed on the branches of the trees, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "What a painting like a painting, but it's a pity..." Unfortunately, it disappeared afterwards. At this time, he felt like a painter, holding a pen in his hand, using Taiyuan as paper, and using the mountains, forests and cities as the background. Every stroke of his drawing, whether the country was hell on earth or the peace of the world, was between his thoughts, under his pen tip. Just like playing chess, everyone is a chess piece, and everything is a chess board, and the chess player determines the fate of the chess pieces.

Chen Ao hates being a trader the most, but in the dark, it seems like a hand is pushing him to the forefront. If he doesn't stand up, this is the hell on earth. He is indifferent. This place will be countless hungry people and thousands of miles away from the ground.

"Damn it, the personality has been sublimated again." Chen Ao couldn't help but smile.

After looking at the sun, a convoy indeed appeared on the horizon. Chen Ao stood up and said, "Take the convoy into the city."

The convoy entered from outside the city, and the axles ran through very deep marks. There were bags held by tart cloth on their heads, piled up like a hill, hundreds of large trucks, as if they could not see the end.

When everyone saw this, there was even more joy. Many people followed the food truck from afar and clapped their hands. The lieutenants carefully guarded the convoy, but nothing went wrong.

Afterwards, the convoy arrived at the official warehouse and unloaded the rice bags, and many talents dispersed.

The news that the grain from Xixia was transported to Taiyuan was spreading quickly, and some people even said seriously that a total of 100,000 dou of food was transported this time. If you save some food, it will never be a problem to eat for two months. Taiyuan City is considered to be saved.

Someone also sent the news to a different hall, and only informed the doorman at the door, and hurried in. Zheng Ke heard the news in advance, and his face turned pale, he rolled his shoes and put on a piece of clothes and hurried out. The two happened to meet at the gatehouse. Zheng Ke asked in a slight manner, "What's the news in the city?"

The person who came to report the news said: "The food from Xixia has been transported, and hundreds of large trucks are piled up like mountains, and I am afraid it is as many as hundreds of thousands of buckets."

Zheng Ke's face suddenly became cold and he said, "Did you see clearly?"

"I saw it clearly, there was no mistake at all. It was the car that King Pingxi personally went to escort, and hundreds of lieutenants guarded it and sent it directly to the Guancang."

Zheng Ke said coldly: "I understand, you go down." Then he said to the human again: "Take my husband's famous sect and go and invite Governor Wen."

Zheng Ke went straight to the side hall to drink tea, full of worries. If the grain was really transported, it would be really bad. More than 100,000 buckets were said to be too much, but it really didn't matter. It should be a problem to survive the coldest winter. Once the ice on the river thawed, countless official ships would transport food. At that time, the Zheng family would not only lose the rice without stealing chickens, but also their previous plan to deal with Chen Ao would be completely lost.

"It's really strange. Taiyuan collapsed two months ago. Xixia received news to raise food and transported it to Taiyuan. How could it be delivered in two months? Even from Bianjing to Taiyuan, it might not be so fast." Zheng Ke sat in a daze on the chair, his eyes closed and thought.

After all, Bianjing to Taiyuan is different from Xixia to Taiyuan. There are waterways between Bianjing and Taiyuan and official roads, but the waterways are not mentioned. Now that the river is frozen, it will definitely not be smooth, but the official road is still there. However, Xixia and Taiyuan are not connected. If you have to cross the mountains and rivers, even if the snowy day will not slow down, you shouldn't have come so early.

"Could it be..." A glimmer flashed in his eyes, and he suddenly became excited: "That's right, it must be like this, Humph, I'm hiding the world, do you really think I'm a fool?"

Zheng Ke smiled coldly, then grabbed the teacup on the table and started drinking slowly.

At this moment, Wen Xianzhi came. He was in a hurry and before he could report it, he came in rushing in and said, "Duke, do you know the latest news in the city?"

Zheng Ke slowly put down the teacup and smiled faintly: "Governor Wen, sit down and talk first."

Wen Xianzhi sneered, "The fire is burning to the eyebrows, why are you still sitting down and saying? Duke, do you have any idea? With grain in the city, we are just a snake that has been pinched for seven inches. Chen Ao is the imperial envoy and the prince. When the time comes, is it not easy to deal with you?" He said sly, "I have thought about it when I came. When the matter came, I naturally can't surrender. It's really not possible. I called Master, go to the Guancang tonight to set up a fire and burn all the food. Without food, the Chen one is the toothless tiger, and the first opportunity is naturally in our hands."

Zheng Ke smiled faintly and said, "Burn grain? Do you know how many lieutenants are guarding the official warehouse?"

Wen Xianzhi sneered: "If the border army pretended to be a victim who robbed food, no matter how many people he had, he would be in the dark. When he got up in the middle of the night, he suddenly rushed up. Are they still in a solid wall?"

Zheng Ke shook his head and said, "There are too many people going there, and the news will leak. As the governor, you will go to burn the official warehouse. If this news reaches the palace, even if you have a hundred heads, you will not be enough to atone for your sins. There are fewer people going there, and there are hundreds of lieutenants guarding you. It is unknown whether you can escape with your whole body. This method is not good...not good..."

Wen Xianzhi sighed, sat down and said, "It's better to do it if you take action, and it's better to do it if you sit and wait for death."

Zheng Ke smiled and said, "Does Mr. Wen really think the food from Xixia has been shipped?"

"What? Didn't so many people see the food truck that opened their eyes?"

Zheng Ke laughed and said, "I did see the food truck, but who knows what is inside? Even if he is loading sand, no one knows."

Wen Xianzhi was so happy that she was happy at first, then frowned and said, "I'm afraid it might not be. If it were sand, what would he take so much effort to do?"

Zheng Ke said lightly: "Maybe it was to lead the snake out of the cave. Mr. Wen thought about it. If the grain in the official warehouse had been put into use, what would King Pingxi do?"

Wen Xianzhi frowned: "A clever wife has no rice, even if the King of Pingxi has great ability, he has no choice but to do anything. If there is really no rice..."

"Corresult to the blame!" Zheng Ke interrupted him and said immediately: "This man is as cunning as a fox, full of conspiracies. He did this to make an illusion that we thought that the rice in the Guanjian had accumulated as mountains and that we would cause us to lose our own way and reveal flaws." He continued to say slowly: "If Zhenru Wen had just said that he would ask someone to burn grain tonight. If the Chen man ambushed a military horse near the Guanjian, and wait for us to burn the grain and then kill it, what would happen?"

Wen Xianzhi couldn't help but say: "The result is naturally that people and stolen money are captured. People in Taiyuan will know that we burned the official warehouse in Taiyuan City, and that the false Xixia disaster relief food was also turned into ashes when we raised our hands."

"Yes!" A hint of coldness flashed in Zheng Ke's eyes: "He is so scheming. No matter whether there is food in the official warehouse or not, as long as we take action, you and I will be a great sinner. The world is so big, and there is no place for us to live in. If Chen Ao takes his soldiers to kill you and me, he will go to Zhengji Mishop to confiscate the wealth of Qin to confiscate Qin's prisoner's wealth, not only will he have this food, but you and I will die without a place to bury him."

Wen Xianzhi couldn't help but take a deep breath. He was not the one who couldn't hold back. It was just because Chen Ao suddenly had "food" in his hand that made him lose his inch. But at this time, if Chen Ao really had food, he would have to bite the bullet and take risks. Once such a thing happened, Chen Ao ambushed his men and intercepted his subordinates, and then torture and collect evidence of the crime, it would be like giving people and a handle, and his family and life would be ruined tomorrow.

"No wonder, I also said where the food came from. It turned out that this was to lead the snake out of the cave and put it to death before it was born." Wen Xianzhi closed her eyes, and a trace of fear appeared on her face. If it weren't for Zheng Ke's reminder, I really didn't know what the consequences would be in the end.

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Chapter completed!