Chapter 261 Suspicion
Chen Ji silently watched the crowd running in front of the inn gate. The soldiers of the border soldiers drove away with swords and captured the people who were leading the trouble everywhere. Once there was any resistance, they would be killed on the spot.
A team of soldiers from the border army passed through Kucha Street. When passing by Longmen Inn, soldiers turned around and looked at Chen Ji coldly but ignored him and continued to chase him forward.
As the sky became darker, Chen Ji turned around and flipped onto the roof. Instead of getting food, he sneaked towards Taohuaifang on the eaves of the gray tiles.
When we arrived at Dequli Street, the whole street was quiet, and the tailor shop and Baofengzhai closed the door panels.
Chen Ji walked straight to Mr. Li’s door and knocked on the yard door.
But after a long time, no one responded in the yard.
Chen Ji frowned. He was here to find Bailong to inquire about the situation. He wanted to test whether Bailong was burning the food and whether there was a solution to it...
Even if that fire was not done by Bai Long, bringing Xiaoman, Zhang Zheng and Zhang Xia to join Bai Long at this time is the safest way to save your life, which is better than following the Yulin Army.
He thought about it for a while, and finally he jumped gently onto the eaves of the wall, and used his hands to squat gently on the courtyard wall and looked inside.
There was no one in the yard. The more than ten secret spies holding swords and axes had gone where they had gone. The yard was neatly viewed, as if no one had ever lived here.
Chen Ji jumped into the yard and pushed open the east and west wings, leaving only tables, chairs, benches and beds inside. Apart from that, not even a piece of white paper had been left.
He felt a little absurd for a moment. Has the White Dragon gone? Where did he go?
Is it a dream in the afternoon?
He walked to the main house again, pushed it gently, and the door opened.
There was no one in the room, only a single brown leaf wrapped around the table.
Chen Ji walked up and opened a corner. It was the orange that Bai Long wanted to bring to Miss Zhang Er in the afternoon!
Everyone left, but this bag of oranges was left in its original place, as if the white dragon knew that he would come back, making silent ridicule in some dark place.
Chen Ji returned to Quli Street with oranges in his arms. He walked straight to the tailor shop and knocked on the door, but no one responded.
He lifted the door panel and walked into the house. The cloth was neatly stacked on the shelves, and half of the clothes that he had not had time to finish were stacked on the counter...
The boss of the tailor shop is gone.
Chen Ji went to the next door to knock on the door as if he didn't believe in evil, but he knocked all the Quli Street and found that the entire Quli Street had been emptied!
This huge and long Quli Street seemed like a haunted, empty and silent.
Chen Ji looked at the long black street and was shocked and puzzled: "Is this street full of Bailong people? Then didn't this street hide hundreds of people?"
Where did Bailong transfer so many secret spies? Why did he transfer so many people?
What exactly does the White Dragon want to do?
As he thought, a group of people were openly holding fire, holding torches and short swords to break into Quli Street. The first person pointed forward with a short sword: "Search, search for food from door to door. If the border army does not let me live, then no one will think about living. If the border army does not give me food, I will find it by myself!"
Not only Quli Street, but also Duohun Street next door. The powerful men in Guyuan were too hungry and could not afford to offend the border army, so they could only attack the people.
Crying and cursing sounds are endless.
Guyuan is going to be in chaos.
Chen Ji slowly withdrew from Quli Street, climbed up the roof, and rushed to the grain and oil shop.
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In Longmen Inn, Xiao Wu was lying on the counter and slept soundly. Li Xuan led a group of Yulin soldiers in the main hall, and everyone was carrying pottery bowls, which were thin porridge.
The young men of the Yulin Army sat in a dirt, and forty kilograms of grain were distributed to the bowl of 500 people, so they just barely survived.
The prince picked up the bowl, and the porridge in the bowl was less than that of the others.
Li Xuan persuaded: "Your Highness, let's give you some more porridge. You can drink this little, what if you get hungry?"
The prince smiled and comforted, "The soldiers are exhausted when they are running around to buy food. I stayed in the inn and enjoyed the fruits. How could I eat more and take more? Everyone doesn't have to be discouraged. Maybe the Right Guard will be able to come back with the food later."
Li Xuan said worriedly: "Your Highness, although Chen Ji is capable, he is still too young. He was stimulated by Qi Jing and took on important tasks. I waited for a day to run, and naturally I knew how difficult it was to find food. If he really couldn't find food, he couldn't blame him."
He murmured in a low voice: "It's him who wants to show off his power, what does it have to do with me?"
Li Xuan looked at each other with glaring eyes: "Don't you shut up yet? When is it still different to help Your Highness? If I find out that you are causing trouble for Chen Ji again, I will write to you when I go back! Don't blame me for turning against you!"
Qi Jingju said unconvincedly: "But what he said is too annoying. What does it mean that food is easy to find? It seems that our Yulin Army is very useless."
Suddenly, the inn became noisy outside the inn.
Li Xuan winked at Qi Juju. After going out for a while, his face calmed down when he came back: "No, the powerful men in Guyuan are plundering the people and forcibly searching for food from their homes. Some people failed to find food at home, and even the walls of the house were pushed down."
The prince suddenly stood up: "How can this be done? Does the Guyuan border army ignore it?"
At this moment, a figure quietly came to the inn door and squeezed into the room through the crack of the door.
Everyone turned their eyes and saw Chen Ji walking in with a bag of grain. Xiao Wu suddenly woke up and hurriedly brought a handkerchief and slapped the wind and sand on Chen Ji's body.
All of them looked surprised. He took the mabao and paused heavily on the table, unbuttoned the hemp rope tied on the mabao's pocket, which was full of orange corn kernels.
He looked at Chen Ji in disbelief: "You... where did you get the food?"
Chen Ji looked at him: "Of course I bought it from the people's homes."
Qi Jingju immediately questioned: "It is impossible. We visited so many companies and paid a lot of money. Why can't we collect it?"
Chen Ji glanced at him without a response.
At this time, Qi Jing pointed at the grain and questioned: "You are not robbing me from the people's homes just now, right?"
Chen Ji frowned slightly: "No."
Chen Liqin stood up and said in a deep voice: "Chen Ji, tell the truth, did you snatch this food from the people's homes?"
Chen Ji replied again: "No."
Chen Liqin stepped forward a few steps: "Where did this food come from? Which yard, which street, which family, how much does it cost?"
Chen Ji said calmly: "Taohuaifang, Quli Street, and Li Yuanwai's family spent 500 taels of silver to buy 60 kilograms of corn."
Qi Jingju suddenly said, "No, you must have snatched it."
Chen Ji said in a narrow voice: "What if it is not?"
After considering the silence for a few breaths: "The prince gave you Buddhist Tongbao before. If you bought it, the string of Buddhist Tongbao is no longer on your body. If you snatched it, the string of Buddhist Tongbao must still be on you, and there is no spending. Please let me search for it, and you will know it once you search."
Chen Ji looked at the prince: "What do you think about Your Highness?"
The prince hesitated for a moment, and then said confidently: "No, Chen Ji has worked hard to find food and come back. How can we speculate? Everyone, don't doubt it."
But when they thought about it, they looked at Chen Liqin and laughed: "Mr. Chen, today you reminded me not to steal the cat when waiting for the Yulin Army. What do you say now? Is it your turn to Chen family? Do you still not search?"
Chen Liqin looked at it carefully, looked at Chen Ji again, and suddenly bowed to the prince and said, "Your Highness, search."
The prince shook his head: "Can't search."
Chen Wenzong also stood up and stopped Chen Ji, and said coldly to everyone, "The Master said, "Don't be traitorous, don't believe it! Don't suspect others' fraud in advance, don't guess others' lies out of thin air!"
The next moment, Chen Ji smiled and pushed away Chen Wenzong: "Thank you brother, but since everyone has doubts, then search and see."
After saying that, he opened his arms and signaled to look forward.
Without hesitation, he searched Chen Ji's ankles with his hands, and searched the bag of oranges hidden in his arms and the Buddhist Tongbao on his wrist.
He took all the considerations and handed the Buddhist Tongbao to the prince with priests: "Your Highness, you see, the Buddhist Tongbao is still on him. This kid is not going to buy food at all, but rob the food while the chaos is in the chaos!"
The prince frowned and handed the Buddhist Tongbao back to consider: "Chen Ji... what do you have to say?"
Before Chen Ji answered, Xiao Wu came to me and looked at the string of Buddhist treasures: "No, this is a Buddhist treasure of 2,500 taels of silver, not 500 taels. Look, the first six Buddhist beads are engraved with 'All Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas', which is flowing out of the Dhara Temple in Luocheng; the middle six are engraved with 'Jing Prince's Mansion', which means that the first time they left the temple was handed over to King Jing; the second six are engraved with 'Jing's freedom in the ten directions', which is the meaning of 2,500... Do you understand?"
After saying that, he started to touch the micro-carving of Buddhist Tongbao again: "Well, it's true, this micro-carving feels like it cannot be wrong."
Everyone was puzzled, and the prince said curiously: "Where does this Buddhist Tongbao come from?"
Chen Wenzong hurriedly explained: "My brother had developed a cement item before, which was the treasure that King Jing paid to me when he bought the cement formula."
The prince breathed a sigh of relief: "So that's it. It seems that everyone has misunderstood Chen Ji."
Li Xuan stood up to smooth things over: "Chen Ji, you have also seen that someone plundered the people outside the door just now, so we...
Chen Ji didn't listen to what he said or replied, but just carried the mahjong bag and walked out.
Qi Jingjing was shocked: "What are you going to do?"
Chapter completed!