Farm Gate Escape: There is Room For Full-level Bosses

   Chapter 384 The tricks in it

   Zhang Tong's back was covered in sweat, and he bit his head and pretended to be calm: "The villain asked for the consent of Lord Qian before he dared to let his family remove Baimian'er."

   "If you don't believe me, you can ask Sir Qian!"

   Qiantu was just a small chief of yamen before, and was ordered to go to the Syrians to buy grain. He did a good job, so he was appointed as the grain chief, who was specially responsible for inventorying the grain. The batch of grain that had just arrived in the court was all in his hands.

   Xiaoyao Kingdom was established, and Qiantu's worth was also rising.

After being summoned by Cui Shize, he seemed very calm. After salutes Cui Shize, he took out a book of accounts from his sleeve as if he was fully prepared in advance, and said respectfully: "My lord, Baimian'er has been checked by the lower official, and according to the food security of the Empress The standard, many of these batches do have big flaws, and the subordinate officer couldn’t bear to destroy it like this, so he privately made the decision to sell the white noodles to those in need at a low price, but the minister never enriched his own pockets, and every account It's all here!"

   "The lower officials are also confused, thinking that they can reduce some losses for the court and the common people can earn more, so they do this." He said with a bit of grievance in his words.

  Cui Shize took the ledger and read it carefully. The ledger of Qiantu did record the journey of every pound of white noodles in detail.

  Qian Tu secretly peeped at Cui Shi Ze's face, and felt a little proud. He just sold expired white flour to the common people at a low price in private for the sake of the court, but there was no profit. At most, Cui Shi Ze said a few words orally and then fined him some salary.

   There are three unqualified standards for white noodles, look at the color, smell, and whether there are insects.

  If one of the three is not up to the standard for human consumption, it will be processed into fertilizer.

   Regardless of whether there is any problem with the white flour, Qiantu sold the white flour to others without authorization, and waited until after the incident to report it, which has committed a serious crime.

   As an official in charge of grain, it is impossible for him to have no basic common sense.

   There must be something tricky about it.

Cui Shize's face was gloomy, Qian Tu was flustered, and knelt down to plead for himself: "Sir, the lower officials see that their life is not easy, so they will be soft-hearted for a while and give them white noodles. , I definitely won't agree!"

   There are many more difficult people than Zhang Tong's family. Why did the money go to Zhang Tong's family? They also gave orders to others in private, not to mention it, and made it clear that it was deliberately hooking up for profit.

  Cui Shize detained Qian Tu in a cell, turned around to go to the warehouse where the white noodles were stacked, and checked whether the white noodles were really expired.

   Bags of white noodles were neatly placed together. Cui Shize randomly selected a few bags and opened them to check them. The white noodles were fine and smelled normal, and there were no insects at all.

   He went to the white face who was judged unqualified by Qiantu.

  I opened the bag and saw that the white surface was yellow in color, and there were some small bugs inside.

  How can this happen to the same batch of white noodles.

  Cui Shi Ze asked Sheng Huaixuan again to ask if Yu Suisheng had falsified when purchasing food.

   It is impossible for Yu Suisheng to do such a thing, and when food is purchased, it must be carefully checked.

   Sheng Huaixuan found many people to testify that the food Yu Suisheng bought was intact until it was transported to southern Xinjiang.

  The grain warehouse was specially treated to prevent moisture when it was built. All the grains here can be properly stored, and there will be no insects or mildew in the short term.

   Then, there is only one possibility left. Someone deliberately created the illusion that the white face is broken.

  Cui Shi Ze squatted down, picked up a bug and took a closer look, and found something unusual.

   The bug in his palm is a long-nosed rice bug, not a face bug with a hard shell.

   In the past, Cui Shize would definitely not be able to distinguish between rice worms and face worms. He has been farming in Youjia Village for so long, and he and the people have been doing household things every day.

  How could the rice bug crawl into the face bug?

   Someone must have put it there on purpose.

  Cui Shi Ze found a major clue, his eyes lit up, he grabbed a handful of white flour and sniffed it under his nose, there was a smell of soybean flour.

  This means that these expired white noodles are dyed yellow by soybean flour, and bugs are also deliberately put in.

   Cui Shize immediately asked the soldiers to arrest everyone who was guarding the warehouse and question them carefully.

  So many white faces have been made like this, they can't be unaware.

  Some people are timid and immediately recruit.

   It was Qiantu who ordered them to do this, grinding a bucket of soybean flour, and asked them to go to Banye City to get a few bags of rice grains with long worms and moldy rice, and deliberately caught the rice worms and put them in the white noodles.

   are all small bugs, if you don’t look carefully, no one will notice.

   And even if someone noticed the slight difference, they could interpret it as just crawling into the rice bag.

  The evidence is conclusive, the only thing that is unclear is why Qiantu went to great lengths to sell white noodles, and only charged a little money.

Cui Shize asked Zhang Tong to be brought up and tentatively said: "Qiantu has already recruited them. You deliberately used soybean flour and rice worms to create expired white noodles to hide people's eyes and eyes for profit. Chance."

Zhang Tong's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it, and when he met Cui Shize's solemn and dignified black eyes, the dog was timid and shirked his responsibility pitifully: "My lord, it's none of my business, it's all forcing me by Qiantu. , his official is in a big trend, and he asked me to cooperate with him in ordering expired flour to sell buns, I have to obey, if I don't listen, he will put on small shoes for me, and I am forced to help!"

   "We will get 10% of the money earned from selling buns, and he will take the rest, please forgive me!"

   Cui Shi Ze's eyes sank instantly, so it was!

  Qiantu wanted to make money, but he was afraid of getting burned, so he specially introduced Zhang Tong as a shield. Not only did some people make money for him, but if something went wrong, someone could also be a scapegoat.

   "We've been terrified all day long, all the money has gone into his pocket, and we don't want to, but how can we fight him! Lord, please spare the villain this time!"

   He only knew now that he was afraid, afraid of being demoted to low status, afraid that the whole family would suffer together with him, afraid that the children would never become officials, that the house that was about to move in and the fields that were waiting for the autumn harvest would also vanish.

   Zhang Tong's begging for mercy did not arouse Cui Shize's sympathy. He had many ways to get rid of the money, but he did not do it.

   Until before, he was still covering himself and his money, which means that he must be actively cooperating with him when it comes to making money with white face.

   Cui Shize ordered Qian Tu to be brought up for interrogation, and sure enough, the persecution Zhang Tong said was his idea of ​​trying to please Qian Tu and sent him to the door on his own initiative.

   It's just that he never expected that Baozipu would be targeted by the Empress herself and carefully investigate the matter.

  If it were other officials, maybe they could get away with it.

   (end of this chapter)