"Girl, what are you..."
Mrs. Chen's mother-in-law looked puzzled as she watched Chen Xue move the vases and ornaments in the hall.
"The house is about to be confiscated. How can these things be cheap for them?"
Chen Xue said while taking the opportunity to put the vase into the space.
When Mrs. Chen heard this, a ruthless look flashed across her face, "That's right, we can't take advantage of them."
After saying that, she grabbed a vase next to her and threw it to the ground. There was a loud bang of hundreds or even thousands of taels. The vase was shattered on the floor.
Chen Xue was stunned for a moment, and then her body ached.
My dear mother, I told you not to take advantage of the enemy, and I can't let you destroy it.
Then, when he saw that her mother wanted to smash other vases, she immediately ran over to stop her.
"Mom, don't get excited!"
"What's wrong?"
"I mean, I can hide these things so that others won't be disadvantaged."
"Hide them?"
"It's useless."
Mrs. Chen sighed. He said in a tone of voice, "You don't know those people. When they ransack a house, they dug three feet into the ground. They could find it wherever it was hidden. It's better to smash it, so as not to take advantage of them."
"Don't..."
Chen Xue snatched the vase with a look of pain on her face. Come here, "I have a way."
Seeing this, Mrs. Chen no longer stopped her, and at this time she also heard a report from her servants, saying that the Chen residence was surrounded by officers and soldiers, and she had no choice but to run out.
Chen Xue took the opportunity to take away the vase, and even the teapot and teacups on the table. Of course, the tables and chairs were not spared either.
If the floors weren't difficult to dig, she would have wanted to dig them all out. These floors were all made of fine wood.
After doing all this, she saw a man wearing black armor and a sword on his waist rushing in with a group of officers and soldiers.
That man is Guo Qiang.
As soon as he came in, he waved to his men, "Go and drive everyone out and gather together."
Soon, everyone was rushed to the front yard of the hall and surrounded by officers and soldiers. Seeing this, Guo Qiang was satisfied. He nodded, then took out the imperial edict, read out the notice of the Chen family's confiscation and exile according to the script, and couldn't wait to let his men collect it.
Guo Qiang asked his men to keep an eye on Chen Xue and others, and he took the lead in entering the hall.
However, when he entered the Chen Mansion's living room, he felt something was wrong. He always felt that something was strange, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
He walked around the hall before he suddenly realized it.
When he ransacked a house before, when he got tired of searching, he would sit in the living room for a while and then continue searching. Now...
where is the chair?
What about the table?
The huge living room was empty, with nothing.
If he hadn't been here before and confirmed that this was the Chen Mansion's living room, he would have suspected that he had searched the wrong house.
"Search, search carefully for me, they must have hidden things."
Guo Qiang slapped the table, a little angry, but the result was empty, and he almost stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Let's go to the warehouse and have a look!"
He bribed the Chen family's servants and secretly transported a lot of relief food into the warehouse. As long as the disaster relief food was found, Chen Yuan would be dead.
Then there will be plenty of time to search slowly.
"Sir, the Censor is here."
"What?"
Guo Qiang's expression suddenly changed when he heard his subordinate's report. The Censor was not someone he could offend.
Although the status of the censor was not as high as that of his uncle, his status was higher than his, and he did not dare to offend him openly.
After all, the imperial censor has the right to supervise all officials. If the time comes to report to the emperor, it will be over.
Thinking of this, he quickly ran out the door and saw an old man in official uniform comforting Chen Xue and others.
"Don't worry, I know Zheng Yuan's character and it is impossible to be corrupt. I will definitely find out the truth."
Hearing the old man's assurance, Chen Xue breathed a sigh of relief. At least her father still had someone to support him. No wonder he was not beheaded, but When he was exiled, it turned out that a group of people protected him.
"It's just that I can only wrong you now."
The censor also knew that exile was the best outcome, but he still felt a little guilty. After all, Chen Xue was only seventeen or eighteen years old, about the same age as his granddaughter, and she should have stayed there Enjoying yourself in the boudoir, but now you are going to be exiled...
"Why are you here, Master Yushi?" Guo Qiang quickly ran over to interrupt him, "I am confiscating the house under the order, Master Yushi..."
Although he did not say it clearly, he meant it. Obviously, I have the emperor's order, and the censor has no right to stop it.
The censor heard what he meant, clasped his fists and raised his hands, "I have reported to the Holy One, and the Holy One has agreed that I will supervise General Guo's raid on his home, and find out whether Chen Yuan's home really has disaster relief food hidden..." "
In that case, Then the Censor can be a witness."
Guo Qiang sneered in his heart, he came at the right time, if he just found out that the disaster relief food was in the Chen Mansion, he would still be targeted.
But with the fair and strict censor here, once he sees the relief food in the warehouse with his own eyes, the evidence of Chen Yuan's corruption case will be conclusive.
"Master Yushi, please come this way!"
With such a mood, Guo Qiang walked towards the warehouse with a smile on his face. He had already obtained the map of the Chen Mansion and knew which warehouse the disaster relief grains were stored in.
"Huh?"
"This is?"
A group of people passed by the Huxin Pavilion and were stunned.
Because there is no water at all in the lake, leaving only a layer of silt and some weeds, it looks like it has been abandoned for a long time.
Guo Qiang frowned. He remembered that there should be a small lake here. There were many precious fish in the lake. Why is there nothing now?
Not only was he puzzled, but the Censor was also puzzled.
The confused people continued to move forward and soon arrived at the warehouse. Guo Qiang couldn't hide the smile on his face.
"You two, go open the warehouse and let the censor see how much grain Chen Yuan has embezzled."
Guo Qiang casually ordered two men to open the door, and then waited for the surprise to appear.
However, there was no surprise, but there was shock.
After the warehouse was opened, there was nothing inside, let alone food, not even rat droppings. Oh, by the way, there was a lot of rat droppings.
wrong.
What about food?
What about the thousands of bags of grain?
How about a big bag of grain?
where it goes?
Guo Qiang was full of questions and even looked around the door carefully, thinking that he had gone to the wrong place.
Then, he looked at a subordinate next to him, and the subordinate nodded, indicating that he was definitely here.
At the same time, he was also confused.
I remember that he clearly hid the grain in this warehouse. After all, for peace of mind, he personally took people to hide it. He carried the bags of grain on his back.
He obviously piled them all together, worked overtime for several nights, and even stepped on mouse droppings... Ahem, in short, he was 100% sure that the disaster relief food was in this warehouse.
On the contrary, what now?
Nothing at all!
What the hell?
He remembered last night that there was relief food in it, and he hadn't seen a carriage leave from Chen's house all day, so it was obviously impossible to send it away.
The subordinates looked confused and even wondered whether their old eyes were dizzy because of working overtime and staying up late these past few days.
When he wiped his eyes and found that there was still nothing inside, his face became very ugly.
Things are messed up!
Although he didn't know how the food disappeared, he knew very well that Guo Qiang would not let him go.