The fertile water of farming does not flow to outsiders' fields

Xue Yinsong was taken aback, not to mention whether there is enough evidence for the collusion between the county magistrate and the rice merchant, at least the closure of mountains and rivers in Deyang County a few years ago absolutely existed. How can this master say it is nonsense?

"Mr. has been in Deyang for half a year. How can you not know that the county has closed mountains and rivers for three or four years?" Xue Yinsong said with a smile: "It seems that Mr. doesn't come out often."

The man was taken aback, and replied with some doubts: "I have been walking around wherever there are rumors, and I have never seen people or notices to seal mountains and rivers."

Xue Yinsong raised his voice and asked the surroundings: "When was the mountain and river behind our village closed?"

The person next to him didn't understand what he meant, but immediately replied, "How many years has it been?"

"Three years is definitely there."

"I'm afraid it's been four years. It's not wrong. It's almost four years. Wasn't it autumn when the mountain was closed? So it's close to four years."

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The man's face suddenly became very ugly, and the wide sleeves of the robe trembled slightly, as if he was clenching a fist: "Zhuzi! Really short-sighted and insufficient and resourceful!"

Xue Yinsong was taken aback, and looked at Xiao Xiucai: "Where did you say that, sir?"

The man hurriedly waved his hand, and hurriedly said: "My last name is Kong Dan, and I am older than the two of you. It is enough to call me Brother Kong."

The little scholar already felt that his demeanor and demeanor were extraordinary, so he immediately asked, "What year is Mr. Enke?"

"It's Hong You's 13nd place in the [-]th year."

The little scholar was in awe: "It turned out to be Kong Lingyu, Lord Kong." The man was also surprised: "How did the little brother know..."

The little scholar said with a smile: "Mr. Jinbang ranked second my father was Tanhua. My father praised him all the time during his lifetime. I just regret that I never saw him in my lifetime."

Kong Lingyu immediately said: "So it's brother Shiqing's beloved son, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Xiao Xiucai's eyes immediately became moist when he heard his father's name: "Uncle Kong."

Kong Lingyu hesitated for a moment before saying: "I heard that Shiqing passed away many years ago. I don't know that my nephew is now..." According to his thinking, doing business has always been a shame for scholars, but now the other party has been reduced to selling rice. Temporarily changed his words: "If you have any difficulties, you can come to me."

The little scholar immediately replied gratefully: "I can't think of it, and it's enough for food and clothing. I'm going to trouble Uncle Kong."

But Xue Yinsong thought to himself that you are the second place in the list, and you are a dog-legged teacher who is the county magistrate. What else can you do to help others, but he said: "Master Kong, that rice..."

Kong Lingyu immediately came back to his senses: "I have something to rush to the county seat immediately, and I will find the two of you to catch up on the old days and say goodbye."

The little scholar was busy and returned the gift, but Xue Yinsong was most afraid of being angry with the scholar, so he would risk his life for the so-called maintenance of orthodoxy.

Kong Zhou was quite conceited: "It doesn't matter." Then he turned and left, walking in a hurry.

After he disappeared without a trace, the little scholar frowned and asked, "In your opinion, is Uncle Kong being deceived?"

"It may seem so on the surface, or it may be acting, but he really has no reason to act, so I'm afraid the truth is that he really doesn't know about sealing mountains and rivers."

The two couldn't understand the complicated relationship inside, but the little scholar naturally believed in Kong Lingzhou. In his eyes, scholars are gentlemen who promise money. Now that Kong Lingzhou said that he can handle the legal sale of rice, he can definitely do it. .

Xue Yinsong didn't take it seriously. This Master Kong didn't even know about the closure of mountains and rivers. He must be a bookworm who doesn't care about world affairs. If he exposes the matter like this, will he startle the snake instead?

However, he sold [-] tans of rice to Deyang in ten days without asking any questions. It is absolutely impossible to say that the rice merchants in the county town didn't know anything about it, but why did the other party stand still?

Xue Yinsong had a headache thinking about it, he simply let go of the question, turned around and asked Qiangzi: "How much rice did you sell?"

Qiangzi's face was filled with joy: "It's almost half the time, why don't you go back and prepare for the next shipment. I can't sell it in three or five days, and the next shipment of rice will come just in time."

Xue Yinsong nodded and turned his head. After thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong, and asked with some doubts: "Where was the worst disaster in this area last year?"

"Of course it's our place. It's better to have a higher terrain facing north."

Xue Yinsong felt even more inappropriate, and after thinking for a while, he asked again: "Although I don't know the number of cases consumed, Deyang is not bigger than Fuchun County, why are these people still asking for rice when they are given a full five thousand tans of rice? Based on the calculation that an adult eats 30 catties of grain a month, this 15000 tans of rice is enough to feed [-] people, even if there are so many people in Deyang, it should be enough for at least one month.”

Qiangzi raised his head and was a bit puzzled: "I think the nearby folks heard that rice was sold at a low price, so they spread the word to hundreds of people, so they all came?"

Xue Yinsong didn't say a word, he already had other thoughts in his heart: "Have you ever paid attention to these people who buy rice, has someone come here several times?"

Qiangzi frowned and thought for a while, "It seems that some people have been here two or three times, but they have met too many people these days, so I'm not sure, but some people have a little impression because they asked for a lot."

That's it!Xue Yinsong smiled slightly, he had already taken action, but we were still in the dark, collecting food?Damn, I want you to cry and call your mother!

Xue Yinsong immediately asked: "Qiangzi, can we support it for three to five days?"

Qiangzi said: "It's okay to delay the sale, Brother Xue, let's see if we want to..."

Xue Yinsong waved his hand, thought for a while and said, "Wait a minute, Zhajin, aren't you good at observing the sky? Let's see if it will rain in the near future?"

Zha Jin said: "It's hard to say, but now it has entered the rainy season, and there will always be a little rain after a while."

Xue Yinsong thought about it: "For rice to be moldy, it needs temperature in addition to humidity. Only the drizzle is conducive to mold." He said to himself that others could not understand, Qiangzi said: "Brother Xue..."

However, Xue Yinsong turned his head and asked them: "I want those rice merchants who collect rice to pay a big discount, so that the rice they collect will be turned into a pile of waste. Rainy weather is the best thing to do.”

Qiangzi said, "Release the mice?"

Xue Yinsong was angry and funny: "Fart, a thousand rats only ate up a load of rice in one night, and they collected at least one or two thousand loads in their hands, not to mention where I went to get so many mice, so what if I got them?" Sending so many rats into the city?"

Qiangzi said again: "Except for mice, there are no beasts that like to eat rice."

Xue Yinsong also had a headache, but it is absolutely impossible for him to give up easily. Although this approach is dirty, it doesn't matter. The way you collect rice may not be upright.

Zha Jin seemed to remember something, and said, "Brother Xue, attack with fire."

Xue Yinsong laughed: "What if it hurts the neighbors?"

Qiangzi added: "Please wait for the water dragons to lie in ambush around, and if the fire breaks out of the wall, they will show up to fight the fire."

Xue Yinsong shook his head: "There are too many people involved, and once the news leaks out, we can't get rid of it."

"The most important thing is that I have made arson a serious crime in the law. Those who deliberately set fire will be sentenced to three to five years in prison. If they burn more than ten households in a row, they will at least be exiled for thousands of miles." The little scholar finally interjected: "Punishing the other party does not mean that we If you want to implicate yourself, if you think about it again, there must be a better way.”

Everyone felt that it was reasonable, and for a while they were thinking hard.

Xue Yinsong was finally convinced, this scholar is really different, his words hit the nail on the head, it seems that he will not dare to underestimate him in the future.

Zhajin thought for a while and said, "If you don't have a plan for a while, let the mice go. Even if you eat ten catties a day, you will still consume some grain after eating for ten days and a half months."

Xue Yinsong smiled wryly: "There is no rice seller who doesn't keep cats. Letting a few mice is just to find live animals for the cat to entertain."

Qiangzi's eyes lit up: "Let's let the dog chase the cat first, and then let the mouse go after the cat is gone."

Xue Yinsong blurted out: "It's better to smear some moldy rice powder on the mice, and when the mice enter the warehouse and pollute the rice, the whole warehouse will naturally become moldy when it rains."

Everyone's eyes brightened together, Xue Yinsong was a little uneasy: "Is it too obscene?"

The little scholar said with a smile: "I didn't hear it, I don't know." As he spoke, he walked to the side to enjoy the couplets on the door couplets with great interest.

Qiangzi chuckled: "Okay, that's it, let's see if you can't kill those bastards." Zhajin is also fearless, not to mention he was a soldier, so he was used to all kinds of conspiracies and tricks, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Yes, even a little eager to try: "We have to get more mice, why not catch them now?"

Qiangzi was beaming with joy: "Last year's floods didn't help me. I didn't have the idea of ​​hunting down mice. I'm not the first or at least the second in Tianba Village in this mouse-catching skill. I'll make preparations in a while. Catching mice."

Zhajin is not a serious person at heart, and rubbed his hands together excitedly: "Okay, we're in Tianba Village... oh no, Deyang has a big fight."

The two immediately went aside to discuss in a low voice, probably discussing how to act, Xue Yinsong had no choice but to say loudly: "The moldy rice, I will find a solution!"

There are no telephones in this era, otherwise, if you call and ask your father, you will know how to mold the rice. Xue Yinsong has no one to discuss, so he can only think about taking some rice and soaking it in water to soften it, and then stuffing it in a cool place to see.

There is no need to rush this matter, besides, it is not possible to catch many mice at once, Xue Yinsong suddenly remembered the lock, this kid is also a restless master, maybe there is a way.

He made up his mind to go home immediately, and happened to meet the long follower on the way, he carried a cloth bag and said with a smile: "I'm going to buy rice."

Xue Yinsong stood still and said, "How is your family?"

Chang Sui smiled and said, "Thanks to you, the price of rice is cheap now, and my stepmother treats me much better."

Xue Yinsong was surprised, and Chang Sui immediately explained: "Uncle Jiu is an educated person. In the past, Uncle Jiu liked to say that you will be promising in the future, but now the stepmother sees that you can get so much cheap rice, so she thinks you have some background. Come on, be polite to me, just because I'm afraid I'll tell you that she's wrong!"

Xue Yinsong laughed: "I only have this ability, but you must not tell your stepmother, otherwise she will show you her face again!"

The long follower issued an invitation: "Why don't you come to my house for a while, if I can invite you, the family will be honored, and my father can't say that he has a long face and overwhelms the prestige of the stepmother."

Xue Yinsong immediately thought of the disadvantages: "Everyone in the village knows that I got cheap rice?"

Chang Sui proudly replied: "Of course, now the whole village is full of chanting, wishing to enshrine you as a Bodhisattva."

broken!Xue Yinsong immediately thought of the disadvantages, and his face turned ugly: "Everyone in the village knows about it? Doesn't everyone in the city who comes to buy rice also know about it?"

Seeing his ugly face, Chang Sui replied with some hesitation: "It should be, when Qiangzi came to transport the rice, he said that he was ordered by you, we..."

Xue Yinsong thought of the [-] tans of rice delivered to the He family, and thought that these ten days would be enough for the He family to transport the rice from Fuchun County to Deyang. His heart sank to the bottom of the valley and he sighed: "Finally, we have to face each other."