"impossible!"
"Absolutely impossible!"
The warehouse governor of Hanjiacang City, that is, the old eunuch, immediately denied Su Xian's words. He was old-fashioned, and his wrinkled old face was full of seriousness and seriousness.
If he were not afraid of Lord Su Xian's identity, he would really want to twist Su Xian's ears. Look, take a good look, there is only a large ruin here!
On the night when Hanjiacang City was flooded and caught fire, he witnessed the entire burning process with his own eyes.
How could a thief steal part of the food out of thin air right under his nose?
"Brother Su...this...is this true?"
Compared with the old eunuch's disbelief, Qian-faced Fox and Jiang Hanwen knew Su Xian's ability better. After all, this was the man who had solved three major unsolved cases in their Prison Department!
Su Xian turned sideways, facing a nearby ruin, and said calmly: "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth. Whether my guess is correct or not can be verified right now."
"How to verify?" Jiang Hanwen asked.
"Simple." Su Xian pointed at the ruins in front of him and said slowly: "Let's clean up the ruins and dig underneath!"
"Brother Su means..." Thousand-faced Fox and Jiang Hanwen looked at the mountains of ruins, then looked at each other, seeming to understand Su Xian's guess.
"No! You must not do it, Lord Marquis!" The old eunuch suddenly jumped three feet high and ran over to hold Su Xian's arm. His wrinkled old face was full of fear and anxiety.
"Why not?" Su Xian wondered.
The old eunuch said seriously:
"Because...because the underground of Hanjiacang City...is imprisoned with countless demons and ghosts! Once dug downward, it may cause a huge disaster!"
After hearing this, Su Xian, Qianmianhu and Jiang Hanwen couldn't help but look at each other.
…
Less than half an hour later.
The ruins designated by Su Xian just now have been cleared away. Under the command of Su Xian, dozens of Jinwu guards swung their shovels and dug downwards. For a moment, the ashes of burned food flew up.
Su Xian, Qian Mianhu and Jiang Hanwen stood aside and watched silently, their faces solemn and filled with a bit of expectation.
The old eunuch hid far away, but he was really curious, so he poked his head out from a distance. People who didn't know the truth would definitely think that he was a thief.
The granary of this era basically consisted of two parts: a granary in a general sense and a "cellar" deep underneath. The soil on the surface of the cellar has been specially treated so that it will not regain moisture or water for decades, and grain can be stored in it for more than ten years without going bad!
After cleaning up the ashes in the "cellar", Su Xian called out. He personally went down into the cellar to search carefully, and found huge stone slabs at the bottom.
"Move these slabs!"
Following Su Xian's order, the Jinwu Guards soldiers swarmed forward. Unfortunately, these stone slabs were too huge and heavy, and dozens of Jinwu Guards soldiers could not move them.
Seeing this, the old eunuch boldly stepped forward, took Su Xian's arm and tried to persuade him, telling him not to move the huge stone slab below, otherwise...
Su Xian pushed it away, convinced that there must be something fishy under the granary, and loudly ordered: "Since you can't move it, then open it up bit by bit for me!"
After a clanking sound, the soldiers used mason's tools to successfully cut through a huge stone slab. However, underneath was thick special soil that had been processed, and no abnormalities were found.
"Change to another stone slab and continue chiseling!"
"..."
After another burst of clanging sounds, five or six huge stone slabs had been cut through. Suddenly, a Jinwu Guards soldier yelled:
"There's something weird here!"
When Su Xian heard this, he immediately rushed over with a vigorous step.
Thousand-faced Fox looked at Jiang Hanwen and followed him silently.
The old eunuch wailed "Oh my God", rolled, crawled and stumbled a few feet away, and then poked his head into the cellar to silently observe what was going on in the cellar.
"This is... a dark passage!" Su Xian ran over and took a look, and was so excited that he almost danced.
"There is indeed something strange under the granary!" Thousand-faced Fox and Jiang Hanwen looked at each other, and both saw a hint of shock in the other's eyes.
"..."
A few feet away, the old eunuch almost fainted on the spot after hearing their conversation... It was over, the demons and ghosts underground were about to come out.
"Look, there seems to be something stuck on the surface of this dark passage?"
The master of Thousand Faces Fox Art was brave enough to put his hand into the one-foot-square black cave passage. He lightly touched the wall of the cave with his palm, and then took a look back——
Those little grains are nothing but food!
food!
They found a dark passage at the bottom of a certain granary in Hanjiacang City, and there was food stuck to the wall of the passage!
This discovery is truly remarkable!
Everyone in the cellar was shocked or stunned, and no one spoke.
Su Xian was the first to react. Relatively speaking, this incident did not shock him too much. After all, he had already speculated, and now it was just confirmed.
He stretched his hand to his waist, took off the gold medal given by the Queen, held it in front of the Jinwu Guards, and said slowly: "Here is the gold medal given by Your Majesty."
When the Jinwu Guards officers and soldiers saw the gold medal engraved with "As if I were here in person", they were all startled, and then they all half-kneeled to the gold medal and said:
"The general will wait to see your Majesty."
Su Xian held the gold medal and solemnly ordered:
"General, I'd like to trouble you to invite Captain Jinwu who is in charge of patrol in Hanjiacang City, Captain Qianniu who is in charge of bodyguards, and Lieutenant Jianmen who is guarding the city gate."
"Got the order!"
"..."
Soon, the Jinwu Guards, Qianniu Guards, and Prison Gate Guards who were stationed in Hanjiacang City rushed to them on horseback.
Su Xian pushed forward the gold medal that said "I am here in person" and shouted loudly:
"Here is the gold medal bestowed by His Majesty."
The three major lieutenants immediately rolled off their horses and walked a few steps forward. After clearly seeing the four shining golden characters "As if I were here in person" on the gold medal, they all bowed and said:
"The general will wait to see your Majesty."
Su Xian shouted loudly:
"Your Majesty has been ordered to immediately seal off the entire Hanjiacang City. Unless Her Majesty the Queen comes in person or with the permission of the official, no innocent people are allowed to enter or exit. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed without mercy!"
"The general is waiting to receive your order!"
The three major captains immediately mounted their horses and returned to their respective posts to get busy.
Thousand-faced Fox and Jiang Hanwen looked at each other, both coveting the gold medal in Su Xian's hand. They were the chief officers of the Prison Department, but they had never enjoyed such special treatment...
Su Xian turned around and ordered the Jinwu Guards to continue digging. There must be food under this passage, but I don't know how much.
Soon, with the concerted efforts of the soldiers, an underground granary was finally opened. Someone shouted excitedly: "There is food down there, a lot of food!"
Su Xian, Qianmianhu and Jiang Hanwen were all overjoyed after seeing it with their own eyes.
"My guess came true!" Su Xian laughed.
"I hope this discovery can alleviate the food shortage crisis in Daliang and relieve Her Majesty the Queen's worries." Thousand-faced Fox said.
"The remnants of the previous dynasty...are indeed very scheming!" Jiang Hanwen sighed.
"..."
After sighing, Su Xian ordered someone to pull the old eunuch over. The old eunuch was scared to death at first, but after seeing the food in the underground granary with his own eyes, he danced and was even happier than Su Xian and the others.
At Su Xian's request, the old eunuch took the officials in Hanjiacang City and personally estimated that the grain stored in this underground granary was about 20,000 dan!
"Twenty thousand stones may not seem like much, but we have only dug out an underground granary." Su Xian endured his excitement and waved his hand, and the Jinwu Guards soldiers rushed to the second ruins like a tide.
As expected, there is also an underground granary under the second ruins. According to the old eunuch's estimation, the grain storage in this granary is about 30,000 dan!
Su Xian took a deep breath, slowly turned his head, scanned the large ruins in Hanjiacang City, and said with a smile:
"There are more than 20,000 to 30,000 stones of grain in the underground granaries under each ruin, and there are more than 300 ruins in Hanjiacang City... Based on a rough estimate, we can dig out six million stones of grain!"
"Six million stones of food! It's enough to alleviate the food shortage crisis in Daliang and support the next season's food harvest! It can also alleviate Her Majesty the Queen's worries!"
"..."
