As soon as Lin Chucai walked out of Yusi Yamen, Zhong Si and Lin Changxi came up to meet her.
The grain inspector who had been knocked unconscious also faintly woke up, but Lin Changxi blocked his mouth with a piece of cloth. He lay exhausted on the ground and groaned angrily.
Lin Chu stepped in front of him, calmed down his arrogance, took off the cloth from his mouth, and stared at him condescendingly.
"Let me ask you," she said, "was there anything unusual before the fire started?"
The grain inspector was stared at by her, his heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but reply: "Not really."
Just when Lin Chu was about to ask again, she saw Zhong Si winking at her.
Then he calmly said to the grain inspector: "Go down, the prefect still needs your help."
"It's okay to say it." Lin Chu raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhong Si.
"Yes." Zhong Si's face was serious, and his eyes revealed an undisguised coldness: "The fire this morning was a trap!"
Lin Chu squinted his eyes, and there was a small dark glow in his eyes.
She had just become Yu Shi, and a fire broke out. What was even more coincidental was that she was going to deliver food to the Tianshu Army in three days.
He thought that she would not be able to do anything other than raise military supplies and deal with the aftermath.
In anyone's eyes, raising 200,000 loads of grain and grass in three days is an impossible task. This round is meant to kill her!
She slightly raised the corners of her lips: "It is also an honor to be remembered by so many people."
"Sixth brother." Lin Changxi lowered his voice: "Kuizhou is the ancestral home of our Lin family, and it can be considered a relatively large scale for several generations. I may not be able to find relatives in the clan..."
"No need." Lin Chu waved his hand to interrupt him: "If it's not necessary, contact less than those people. I have my own concerns."
She and the Lin family of Kuizhou had long been at odds with each other. Old Mrs. Song and her group would only add insult to injury. Helping others in times of need? Haha!
Zhong Si frowned, his emotionless face raising concerns: "How can we raise two hundred thousand dans of grain in three days?"
"Come here." Lin Chu hooked his fingers and asked the two of them to come closer to him.
"this……."
After listening to a few words, Zhong Sixian's eyes were filled with panic: "This is too..."
Lin Chu looked at her sideways, his eyes cold and bright: "To do it or not to do it?"
"Do it!" Zhong Si straightened his chest and back.
"Sixth brother." Lin Changxi frowned slightly, with an uncharacteristic seriousness in his peach blossom eyes: "You should be more careful with people in the Yamen!"
Lin Chu looked at him: "Did you discover something?"
Lin Changxi stretched out her hand, spread out a handful of charred rice in her palm, and stared at Lin Chu.
Lin Chu picked up a few grains of rice and rubbed them with his fingers. They felt extremely hard, unlike the things in the granary, which softened when touched by his hands.
These rice grains are not burned completely, and you can even feel a little sticky. If you lower your eyes and take a closer look, you will see that the fingertips are bright and greasy.
Lin Chu put his finger to his nose and smelled it. The smile on his lips became a little colder. The look in his eyes became more and more evil.
"All the rice in the warehouse is stained with oil." Zhong Si said in a deep voice.
"Yes." Lin Changxi nodded: "Someone soaked the rice in oil in advance."
Oil is a combustion-supporting substance and can start a prairie fire when exposed to fire.
"Liangjiang Province has always been humid. In order to store grain, the rice in Kuizhou Yusi Yamen mostly adopts the method of holding bran on mats." Lin Changxi threw away the rice in his hand and carefully wiped the grease on his palms with a handkerchief.
"Zhong Si and I just looked around and saw no traces of the mats. They must have been burned clean."
Lin Chu's eyes flashed slightly: "What you say doesn't make sense. Since mats are used to hold the chaff, how can the rice be soaked with oil?"
