What does a granary fire mean?

Is it a surprise?

Not to mention that Murong Qingli didn't believe it, even if he told it to Guo Fu who was standing next to him, he wouldn't believe it either.

Otherwise, why was the granary intact and not on fire?

Just the day before the imperial commissioner was going to investigate the granary, the granary caught fire.

Lord Zhou, who was in charge of guarding the granary, is also missing?

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that someone was afraid that Feng Liuyu would find out something, so they simply burned the granary and destroyed the evidence.

How could Murong Qingli not be angry after seeing this?

He wished he could just run up to the prefect of Guozhou with his sword in hand and kill him on the spot.

As a local official, he enjoyed the support of local people and the salary distributed by the Zhou court, but he did nothing.

It would be fine if he was just lazy in politics.

But besides being lazy and inactive, he also exploited the people and didn't care about their lives.

Now it is even more outrageous. Just to maintain his image in front of the imperial envoy and thus keep his official hat, he is willing to burn so much life-saving food.

This is absolutely intolerable!

Although Feng Liuyu mentioned in the memorial that he had temporarily taken over the position of prefect of Guozhou.

The prefect of Guozhou was temporarily detained, and an investigation was started from the cause of the fire in the granary.

In addition, he tried every possible way to transfer grain from various places, set up tents to provide porridge, and appease the people.

But the current situation in Guozhou is still relatively complicated, and he will not be able to return to Beijing in the short term.

Murong Qingli was thinking about how to deal with the matter when he heard the eunuch's report coming from outside.

"Your Majesty, the Wei guards from the cold palace are outside the palace and want to see Your Majesty."

"Guard Wei? Let him in."

When Murong Qingli heard this name, he knew that it must be Si Muqiao in the cold palace causing trouble again.

He wanted to hear what trouble this restless Si Muqiao had made again.

"Your Majesty, long live your Majesty."

It was the first time that Wei Zheng entered a place like the Hall of Mental Cultivation. As soon as he entered, he knelt down and kowtowed politely.

"Stand up. What's going on?"

"Your Majesty, there seems to be a fire in the cold palace."

"What? A fire? Is Miss Si injured? What's the current situation of the fire?" Murong Qingli's eyelids jumped.

Although that woman, Si Muqiao, often made him so angry that he gritted his teeth, he might be hurt when he heard her for the first time.

Murong Qingli's first reaction was worry.

"Your Majesty, the fire is not serious, but the white smoke is a bit strong. When I came here, I had already asked others to go in and put out the fire."

"Well, let's go and take a look." Murong Qingli stood up.

On the way to the cold palace, Murong Qingli couldn't help but think too much.

In order to cover up the evidence, the prefect of Guozhou found a way to burn the granary.

What about Lady Si? Why did she set the fire?

It can't be that they set fire for fun, right?

Could it be that Lady Sima deliberately set the fire to attract his attention?

If I remember correctly, one of my father's former concubines had done something like this.

He used the excuse that the servants in the palace were careless and caused a fire to happen accidentally to lure his father over, then pretended to be frightened and took the opportunity to curry favor with his father.

Since Lady Sima loves him now, it is not impossible for her to do such a thing?

If that's the case, he will definitely not let Simian go easily, humph.

Soon, they arrived at the cold palace.

When Murong Qingli entered, the cold palace had already returned to its original peaceful state, and it was so calm that nothing could be seen.

After all, it was just the smoke in the kitchen.

When Si Muqiao realized that something was wrong, his first reaction was to flee the scene.

Tang Yuan and others in the cold palace also ran over in panic to put out the fire the moment they saw the white smoke rising.

When we arrived at the place, we found that there was no fire at all.

When their master was secretly cooking, the pot didn't burn, but the white smoke burned the small kitchen.

Tang Yuan and others who learned the truth immediately said: "..."

What on earth is their master thinking?

Why do I have a special liking for cooking?

Didn’t His Majesty tell her not to enter the kitchen until the wound on her beautiful lady’s hand healed?

Can……

Although everyone was speechless, the master is the master.

No matter what the master does, servants like them have no say in it.

Everyone worked together and soon the white smoke in the kitchen was gone.

They had just finished dealing with all this when the guards who were responsible for maintaining order in the cold palace and who had been ordered by Si Muqiao to weed and dig the ground appeared outside.

"Are you doing something?" Seeing them appear, Si Muqiao asked, acting like a beauty.

"I heard that there was a fire in the cold palace, so I came in to take a look!" While the guards were talking, they did not forget to look around.

However, not to mention the sparks, even the white smoke that was seen outside before was gone.

"Fire? How come I don't know there's a fire in the cold palace?"

"Are you dazzled?"

“But I saw a white smoke rising into the sky outside before, so…” The leading guard looked confused.

"White smoke? What white smoke? I don't know."

"Could it be some strange phenomenon from the sky?" Si Muqiao continued to play dumb.

She didn't want to tell these guards the truth!

What if these guards found out the truth and turned around and told the dog tyrant?

The dog tyrant is now on high alert against her.

If he really knew, he would definitely give her a lecture and torture her.

The guards were stunned by Si Muqiao's words.

But what can they do?

There was indeed nothing happening in the cold palace, let alone a fire, so they could only nod and leave.

As soon as those people left, Si Muqiao immediately told everyone in the cold palace to keep quiet.

The ten palace maids and eunuchs, led by Tangyuan, all nodded solemnly and seriously.

Then, everyone went about their business.

When Murong Qingli brought Wei Zheng to the cold palace, they found that it was peaceful and quiet.

What is water leakage?

No!

There was no scene as he had imagined, where Concubine Si took advantage of the fire in the cold palace and rubbed herself against his arms with a wronged and frightened look on her face.

What is Simei doing?

She sat in her study and copied the "Spring and Autumn Annals" seriously.

Because I was so engrossed in the conversation, I didn't even notice him walk in.

"Cough." Guo Fu coughed consciously as a reminder.

When Si Muqiao raised her head, she met Murong Qingli's dark and bottomless eyes. She put down her pen and asked.

"Your Majesty? Why are you here again?"

[I'm talking, what's going on? Why did the dog tyrant appear again? ]

[Could it be that he also heard some rumors? ]

[Pooh, pooh, pooh, no matter what, I will just deny it to the death. ]

[Anyway, I knew that I wanted to cook secretly, but because I couldn't heat the pot, it caused a lot of smoke. I have already silenced them. 】

[The scene has been handled, there is no evidence, why should I panic? ]

【Hold on, hold on! 】

"..."Murong Qingli's face darkened visibly.