Qu Yutang glanced at the food on the table, pursed his lips, and a feeling of dissatisfaction instantly surged in his heart.
Whole grain steamed buns! ! ?
Brown rice porridge!!!
Dried radish!!!
The food provided by the post station was not even as good as what the common people ate.
He is the imperial envoy appointed by Emperor Tianwu.
How dare the people at the post station treat him so harshly?
He would definitely take note of these ignorant people and settle accounts with them when Magistrate Deng arrived.
"Okay, let's all eat breakfast and get some rest. We'll talk about it tomorrow morning."
Qu Yutang suppressed his anger and waved his hand tiredly.
In the dead of night, he made a noise and woke up everyone in the post station, but he was the one who was embarrassed.
The officer looked at Qu Yutang in astonishment.
Are you just going to swallow this frustration like that?
50 taels of silver, in exchange for some coarse grain steamed buns and brown rice porridge, and you don’t care! ?
"...Sir, the people at the post station are obviously trying to fool us."
"When we entered the post station, we could clearly smell meat and white flour buns. How could there only be these coarse grains?"
The more the officer spoke, the more aggrieved he became.
"When the subordinates pulled the horses to the back of the yard, they saw that the horses were eating better than us."
Isn't this insulting?
Treating them as non-human beings is really too much!!!
After hearing the words of the official, Qu Yutang gritted his teeth.
"Go and rest first, we'll talk about it tomorrow!!"
How could he not be angry, but what could he do if he was angry?
The people at the post station who had received them in the middle of the night had already locked the door and ran away. Who could he go to for justice?
After all the commotion, if word gets out that the imperial envoy eats like an animal, how can that sound good?
He swallowed his anger for the time being.
He would definitely submit a memorial to the emperor to criticize Governor Deng.
"...Yes!" The officer responded angrily and turned around and walked out.
They had followed the imperial envoy on so many occasions, but none of them had felt as frustrating as this time.
Qu Yutang felt bad when he saw the indignant look on the official's face.
He picked up the whole grain steamed bun on the table and took a bite. His brows frowned instantly, and he quickly picked up the brown rice porridge and took a sip.
After taking a mouthful of brown rice porridge, Qu Yutang was so angry that he almost smashed the bowl.
“How ridiculous!!!”
"Putting salt in brown rice porridge is sick!"
After taking a sip of the salty brown rice porridge, Qu Yutang felt even thirstier.
He looked at the teapot on the table and quickly picked it up and shook it twice.
The empty teapot instantly made Qu Yutang angry to death.
“Bold!!”
Qu Yutang put down the teapot heavily and was so angry that he wanted to raze the post station to the ground.
This is simply too much.
My mouth is so dry that I obviously can't eat this whole grain steamed bun.
If you force it into his mouth, he might choke to death.
But if I don’t eat, I’ll feel so hungry that it’s really uncomfortable.
Looking at the bowl of salty brown rice porridge on the table, Qu Yutang became furious.
Just then, several officers knocked on Qu Yutang's door angrily.
"Sir, these people are really going too far. It's fine if they give us coarse grains, but this brown rice porridge is so salty that I can't even drink it."
"The whole grain steamed buns are also hard to eat."
Qu Yutang pursed his lips, listened to the official's words, and looked at the brown rice porridge on the table with a dark look in his eyes.
A moment later,
"Come on, follow me to the kitchen."
The people at the post station have gone to rest, so it’s okay for him to take them to cook.
He just couldn't believe that the common people could eat fine grains, but he, an imperial envoy, couldn't.
He must have white flour buns tonight!!!
Qu Yutang stood up with a gloomy face, and put the hard coarse grain steamed bun in his hand down on the table with force, making a "bang" sound.
The officers' eyes lit up, "Yes!!"
"The subordinates know where the kitchen is."
Thank God, the adults finally came to their senses. If they continued to eat like this, they would have to follow the horses and eat the grass on the roadside.
The horses had fresh grass to eat, but they could only eat this coarse grain that was as hard as stone.
Is there any justice in the world?
If they had known that they would not be able to have a hot meal at night, they would have asked for some food when they saw people distributing food on the road.
They could just find a high-sounding excuse, saying that the imperial envoy was inspecting the people's conditions and wanted to taste the people's food. They didn't believe that the cooks would refuse to give them the food.
Why!
Such a great opportunity was missed.
"lead the way."
Qu Yutang and six officials went straight to the kitchen of the post station.
"Sir, the kitchen door is locked."
A group of people rushed to the kitchen door. When the officer pushed the door open, he found a huge lock hanging on it.
Qu Yutang gritted his teeth and said, "Pry it open."
Who are you guarding against, ah!!!
He had never seen an inn lock the kitchen in the middle of the night.
There are always guests who use water or want to cook a midnight snack in the middle of the night.
Not to mention having a cook waiting in the kitchen, how can you even lock the kitchen?
Considering the attitude of the people at the post station towards them, Qu Yutang felt that those people looked down on others and locked the kitchen door just to prevent him.
Good good good!!
If you are so careful about him, don't blame him for picking the lock.
50 taels is enough for the post station to buy more than ten such locks.
"....Yes!" The officers responded excitedly and went to another door with their knives in hand.
The lock head is quite large, but the padlock tower is not that strong.
The officers unlocked the tower after a few pushes.
With a crash, the kitchen door was finally opened.
Qu Yutang put his hands behind his back, smelled the fragrance, and stepped into the fragrant kitchen.
The smell in the kitchen clearly showed that the dinner was not the kind of whole grains they ate.
Smelling such a delicious aroma, everyone's stomachs growled even louder.
After the officers rushed into the kitchen, they immediately lit the candles in the kitchen.
In an instant, the dark kitchen lit up.
Qu Yutang looked around, "Search!"
He just couldn't believe that there would be no food in such a big kitchen with such a big lock.
The officers responded excitedly and immediately started searching separately.
They searched every corner of the kitchen, including the large vats and cupboards.
After a while, the excitement on the officials' faces disappeared, and they returned to Qu Yutang with dejected expressions.
"Sir, there is only a tank of water in the kitchen, nothing else."
There were quite a few pots and pans, but they were all empty.
Those large vats for storing rice, flour and grains were so clean that it looked as if they had never been filled with rice, flour or grains.
Qu Yutang looked at the officials in disbelief, his brows furrowed so tightly that they could kill a fly.
“How come there is nothing?!”
"Look more carefully!!"
There's nothing there, so why bother locking the door with such a big lock? You're crazy!
Who could believe that there wasn't even a grain of rice in such a huge kitchen?
So what's with this fragrance wafting through the kitchen? Is it just his hallucination?
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