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"We should ask you this question, right?" Tao Yichu looked indifferently at the man in black who spoke, "This is the yamen. It's a crime for you to sneak in in the government's place wearing black clothes, and now you are cooperating with others If someone wants to steal the relief food that has just arrived, it is even more sinful."

"What food for disaster relief? These are all our master's things. They were stolen by the county magistrate Lan Mingzhou a while ago, and we just took them back." The man in black said viciously while confusing right and wrong, "Okay, I understand. You also want to get a share, don't you? Let me tell you, this is all our master's. If you still want to hang around in Zhuzhou, you'd better not offend our master."

It's no wonder that the man in black thinks so, Li Jin and the others are all wearing casual clothes, and now they will intercept them again. No matter how they look at them, they look like they are traveling together, coming to smuggle food.

It's just that the men in black still/touch/do not know who sent them.

Tao Yichu laughed angrily, "Really? Then I really want to try and see what the consequences will be if I offend the master you are talking about."

"you……"

Snapped.

Tao Yichu didn't bother to give him a chance to speak, so he slapped him with a knife on the neck in an instant, knocking him unconscious, and the other accomplices were also knocked unconscious by Li Jin and the others the moment he fainted.

at the same time.

Zhou Yunting also came in, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, Seventh Prince, my subordinates have cleaned up all the people outside, and I have also seized the problematic food they brought."

Li Jin raised his eyebrows and said, "Is there a problem with food?"

"Yes." Zhou Yunting nodded, "My subordinate opened one of the bags and found that the food inside was rotten and moldy, which was not suitable for consumption at all."

Li Jin nodded and said, "Very well, tie them up first, and interrogate them after the others wake up."

After all, this is the boundary of Zhuzhou, the county magistrate Lan Mingzhou is the one who decides, Li Jin will not interrogate himself first.

Perhaps the kitchen woman who was bribed and drugged took a lot of weight. Li Jin and the others waited until noon the next day before Lan Mingzhou and the others slowly woke up.

"Well, I'm...not right... What time is it now?"

Lan Mingzhou was unstoppable when he got up early to do morning exercises in the yard, so he found something was wrong when he woke up.

bang bang.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Tao Yichu's voice came from outside the door, "Lord Lan, are you awake?"

After hearing this, Lan Mingzhou seemed to think of something, his pupils shrank immediately, he quickly put on his clothes, and hurriedly opened the door and asked, "Master Tao, is there something wrong with the food?"

Tao Yichu was in charge of delivering food for disaster relief, he would appear at his door the moment he woke up, there must be something wrong with the food.

"Master Lan, let's talk as we walk."

"it is good."

Tao Yichu took the opportunity to tell Lan Mingzhou what happened last night one by one, and at the same time led Lan Mingzhou to the Yamen court.

I see.

Li Jin and Ying Yuan had already come to the courtroom one step ahead, sat down below, and waited for Lan Mingzhou to arrive.

As soon as Lan Mingzhou saw Li Jin and the others, he immediately pleaded guilty, "It's the lower officials who neglected to observe, and they didn't know that they had fallen into the other party's tricks. Please punish Prince Li and the Seventh Prince."

Ever since he heard Tao Yichu's words, Lan Mingzhou had lingering fears in his heart.

Lan Mingzhou didn't even dare to imagine, if Li Jin and the others were also recruited, whose hands would the relief food fall into.Moreover, what makes Lan Mingzhou most angry is that those people actually want to use second-hand products as good ones.

Isn't this harmful?

"You are also a newcomer here, so I can't blame you for this." Li Jin shook his head and said, "Compared with punishing you, it is more important to interrogate those people who sneaked into the Yamen yesterday, what is their origin?"

"Yes, I understand."

Lan Mingzhou nodded solemnly, and immediately asked the Yacha to bring the man in black who Li Jin and the others caught yesterday first for interrogation.

Not a moment.

The two men in black who were gagged and blindfolded were brought to court.

"Um..."

The two men in black kept murmuring because they couldn't speak, but judging from their expressions, it was definitely not a good thing to say.

really.

As soon as the yamen took away the black cloth and the cloth that blocked their mouths, one of the men in black threatened, "Bah, let us go quickly, if the master and the others find out, I won't spare you."

"Hey, something's wrong, look where this is."

The other man in black was obviously much more cautious than the man in black who threatened them just now, and he noticed at a glance that something was wrong with them.

"What's here... er... this is not the court of the yamen."

The man in black who made the threat gasped suddenly.

Before helping those so-called lords, this man in black was a frequent visitor to the yamen, so he naturally knew about it.

but.

These were all things before Lan Mingzhou came to Zhuzhou, so Lan Mingzhou was not familiar with them.

"Give me peace." Lan Mingzhou slammed the gavel with a cold face, and the entire courtroom fell silent. Then he looked at the two men in black and said, "Who sent you to the backyard of the yamen to secretly exchange for disaster relief?" food?"

"What stealing relief food? I don't know what you're talking about."

"Lord Lan, we are all good citizens, you can't slander us for stealing like that."

As soon as the two men in black found out that it was Lan Mingzhou who had captured them, they immediately denied it with disdain, not thinking that Lan Mingzhou was in their eyes at all.

Lan Mingzhou patted the gavel heavily again, "You sneaked into the Yamen wearing night clothes last night, how dare you deny it?"

"Who stipulates that wearing black clothes is a thief?" The man in black once again made unreasonable sophistry, as if predicting that Lan Mingzhou would not dare to do anything to them, "We are just here to steal something from our master."

"I stole it?" Lan Mingzhou's eyes grew colder, "Then tell me, what did I steal from your master? Who is your master?"

"Our chapter..."

"shut up."

Seeing that the man in black who spoke first said something he shouldn't have said, another man in black hurriedly interrupted.

"Uh……"

After the man in black who spoke heard it, he immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing.

"Is your surname Zhang?" Lan Mingzhou's eyes flashed brightly, "As far as I know, the most famous Zhang family in Zhuzhou is only Zhang Zhiheng's."

The reason Lan Mingzhou guessed Zhang Zhiheng so quickly and accurately was because Zhang Zhiheng was one of the prominent local families in Zhuzhou whom he had offended.

"So what if it's Master Zhang?" The man in black who said the wrong thing has reached the point of irreparable, and he just didn't do anything and said endlessly, "Master Lan, you asked for all this, if you didn't steal us Master's food, how could we sneak in?"

"Joke, that's food for disaster relief, why did it become food for your Zhang family?"

Lan Mingzhou laughed angrily.

Although he had known for a long time that these people were shameless, he never expected that after they knew that their identities had been exposed, they insisted on calling black people white.

One of the men in black retorted, "These grains are in such good condition, how could the imperial court call back the tricksters in Zhuzhou to waste them?"

"Heh." Tao Yichu smiled at the side, looked at the two men in black with cold eyes and said, "I'm really sorry, these grains are indeed allocated by the imperial court to Zhuzhou for disaster relief, and the person who delivered these relief grains is my deputy general. .”

"..."

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

Tao Yichu's words instantly stunned the two men in black.

What lieutenant?The main officials who escorted the food have been killed halfway, and only some soldiers are left?

Tao Yichu took advantage of the victory and chased after him, "Say, apart from that chapter, you'd better tell the truth, who else participated? This lieutenant general has not forgotten that you just mentioned the gentlemen."

"This……"

The two men in black choked.

Suddenly.

Just when the man in black was about to say nothing, Zhou Yunting walked in and reported to Li Jin, "My lord, the five people who were arrested together with them have already said that they were ordered by the three prominent families of Zhuzhou." The Zhang family, the Chi family, the head of the Lu family."

After hearing this, Lan Mingzhou said angrily on the spot, "The Zhang family, the Chi family, and the Lu family are so bold."

"Master Lan, you are clearly a trick of torture."

The man in black retorted loudly, making up his mind to put all the crimes on Lan Mingzhou.

Lan Mingzhou ignored the man in black's repeated confusion, turned to Tao Yichu and said, "Lord Tao, I hope you can lend me someone to arrest the heads of the Zhang family, the Chi family, and the Lu family."

"can."

Tao Yichu readily agreed, and ordered the soldiers to go arrest people with the only yaman in the yamen on the spot.

"Thank you."

Lan Mingzhou took it as a thank you to Tao Yichu.

"By the way, can these people be handed over to me?" Tao Yichu looked at the two men in black, and raised the corners of his lips with a half-smile, "I think I should have a way to make them tell the truth."

Lan Mingzhou thought for a while and agreed.

After all, he is seriously short of manpower now, Tao Yichu is willing to help is the best thing, and Lan Mingzhou will naturally not refuse.

……

Zhang family.

In order to get the news as soon as possible, Chi Zhen and Lu Wentao went to Zhang's house to wait for the news, but they waited until noon the next day and no news came back.

"What's the matter? Didn't I arrange several for them to take with them, why is there no news at all?" Zhang Zhiheng paced back and forth impatiently, "No, I'm going to send someone over to take a look."

"Patriarch Zhang can't do it." Chi Zhen hurriedly stopped him, "They haven't come back for so long, something must have happened. If we are sending people over at this time, wouldn't it be a sheep in the mouth of a tiger?"

Zhang Zhiheng roared in displeasure, "This won't work, that won't work, we can only wait? Don't forget, our moldy food has no news, it's all money."

to be honest.

Zhang Zhiheng was in such a hurry not because of the missing person, but because of his moldy food.

"Master, master, it's not good..." Suddenly, a servant rushed in, "Outside, soldiers came outside and surrounded our mansion."