Beijing.

The backyard of Zhongyonghou Mansion.

"I wonder if there is such a thing as distributing food and charcoal in Ma Laoshan?" There was no surprise on Zi Yan's face, but she looked a little too calm.

"That's what he said. Judging from his appearance, he probably really doesn't know. Do you want me to interrogate him? Or do you use Gu to test?" Wang Sa said.

"We are not enemies. What is the purpose of interrogation? Ma Laoshan, a villager like me, is an honest person. There is no need to lie to us..."

Zi Yan sighed and stood up.

"This winter, the imperial court distributed a large amount of grain and charcoal. I was ordered to spy, and I had already received some secret reports. But on the surface, whether it was local officials or petty officials, or even those who entered the village under the leadership of petty officials,

All we get is the conclusion that food has been distributed."

"This must be an old routine, right? What can't those corrupt officials do?" Wang Sa sneered.

"I still can't figure it out. Ping'an County is one of the five counties under the jurisdiction of the capital. It is directly under the jurisdiction of the capital. It stands to reason that in this world, even if it is corruption, it will come up with new tricks to prevent others from checking it casually.

come out……"

"Now, those officials are so bold as to withhold the grain and charcoal distributed by the emperor. They dare to deceive the superiors and conceal this important matter of people's livelihood. How can they be so bold?"

"Could it be that the sword in the emperor's hand is really bad?"

At this point, Zi Yan really felt that she couldn't figure it out.

"Sister Ziyan, look at the historical records. Was this kind of thing rare in the late Southern Dynasties? It's so unbelievable and incomprehensible that it happened, not to mention the greed for money."

"This amount of money is enough to impress people and make them take risks."

"As for those mud-legged people, in the eyes of some officials, those mud-legged people cannot be considered human beings at all."

"No matter how many mud-legs die, it doesn't matter. Anyway, mud-legs are like vigorous leeks. After cutting one crop, another crop will grow after a period of time."

Wang Sa said.

He climbed up from the bottom. Unlike Zi Yan, who was born into a famous family since childhood, he has a better understanding of the current situation of the people at the bottom.

"Is this really the case? Wait for me to check." Zi Yan clenched her fists.

Now that she has collected enough evidence, as long as she obtains the investigation order authorized by the emperor, she can find key people to "cooperate with the investigation."

"What about the two people? The two you captured." Wang Sa said.

"They're locked up. I'll arrange a scene to scare them later." The corners of Zi Yan's lips raised.

"Okay, I want to go see it."

Wang Sa likes to watch plays very much, especially the plays arranged by Zi Yan herself, which will definitely be exciting.

…

Yan Song, Yan Jie, both of them woke up at the same time.

The first thing they did after waking up was to open their eyes at the same time and subconsciously touch the knife at their waist.

However, they came up empty-handed.

At the same time, they felt the iron shackles tightening around their wrists.

Both of them were tied to the wall like a big character.

"Bah, that woman doesn't have martial ethics and attacked us sneakily."

"Can you beat her?"

"You can't beat me, but why don't you follow the rules and fight? Do you have to make a sneak attack?"

"Excuse me, this is not the classical aristocratic era of thousands of years ago. What kind of martial ethics are there in fighting? I have told you before that the moves that can defeat the enemy are moves."

"Hey, you don't speak for me, but you speak for that woman? Don't forget, you are tied up just like me."

Facing Yan Song's words, Yan Jing suddenly remembered that he was also a prisoner, and for a moment, he couldn't care less about the verbal dispute with Yan Song.

"Why!"

"Why!"

The two of them sighed, then turned their heads and glanced at each other. What they saw was the helplessness in each other's eyes.

At this moment, voices came from outside.

"Are those two men newly captured?"

"That's right, what you caught from the wild is probably a new dish."

"Who made me have the habit of punishing people recently? These prisoners are not good enough. Do you still remember the kid from last time?"

"Remember, why don't you remember? When that boy first came, he was very..."

"The adult picked up the clip, pulled out the nail on one of the boy's hands, and then stuck a bamboo stick into his finger. The boy screamed terribly."

"Later, the adults brought in some big wolf dogs and took off the boy's pants. Those male dogs are very powerful, and the boy... oh, he was in trouble..."

"...I heard that boy has finished playing."

"That's not true. Someone over there asked us to drag someone away."

Then, the footsteps got farther and farther.

After a while, the footsteps got closer and closer, and you could vaguely see someone dragging the bloody pieces of flesh away through the crack in the door.

At this moment, Yan Song and Yan Jing were already confused, and cold sweat could not help but break out on their foreheads.

"It's over now. That woman is abnormal. She wants to abuse us."

"Yeah, if you kill me with one knife, I won't even frown. When I was in the world, I just hung my head on my belt and didn't plan to go back alive... But, this woman now won't

Just kill people." Yan Jing said.

"Okay, it turns out that when you went out to wander the world, you didn't plan to come back alive. You also lied to us that you were going out to do business... Even if you took me out later, you were lying from the beginning. If you told me that I was going out, it would be

You are a fool, I will never go out with you." Yan Song frowned.

"What's wrong? Are you blaming your brother and me?" Yan Qing squinted his eyes.

"Can't I blame you? If it weren't for you, both of us would have died here? Would our Yan family have no descendants?" Yan Song said tit for tat.

"If you don't think about who built the big house for your family, who gave your family a good life, where did the thousand acres of land come from? Who found a way to make money for the children you raised?"

Yan Jin stared and gasped: "If I don't fight hard, our Yan family will still be the poor people in the mountains. The Huang family has killed our whole family long ago. How can we survive?"

"...Humbling around in the world is not the right path after all..." Yan Song couldn't deny Yan Yan's words, so he could only say this in the end.

"What can we do? Can you think of a way?" Yan Jin asked.

"I can't think of it, let's...accept our fate." Yan Song lowered his head.

"Gela..."

With a sound, the wooden door was pushed open from the outside, and a figure appeared in front of the two people.

As soon as Yan Song raised his head, he immediately lowered his head.

"I didn't see your face. The rules of the world are, don't look at your face and don't silence your mouth." Yan Song closed his eyes and said loudly.

"I didn't say I'd kill you, right? I'm just playing games with you." Zi Yan said calmly.
Chapter completed!