Chapter 192: Rumors of Wong Tai Sin’s Apparition
In fact, before Yang Zhen took Xiang Wanlin's token to the villa to get food, the villa's manager and guards had not discovered that the food had been stolen.
It was not until Yang Zhen received the order and came to get the grain that everyone was dumbfounded when they saw the empty warehouse.
"This... this... what's going on? How are you responsible for guarding it?" The manager in charge of Mingjing Villa looked at the empty warehouse stupidly for a long time before he reacted and blamed the guards.
The guard in charge of the villa's security was even more furious than he was. "Manager Liao, we should be asking you this. The brothers guard the villa every day, never slacking off for even a moment. You should know best why the grain in the warehouse disappeared. You're the only one who has the key to the warehouse, and look at the lock. It's fine. Did you steal the grain and secretly take it away?"
"Nonsense! There's so much grain in the warehouse. How can I move it without making any noise?" Liao Heng was so angry that his saliva flew everywhere. "Don't think you can shirk your responsibility by throwing shit on me."
Obviously, it was impossible for either Liao Heng or the guards in charge of the grain to steal so much grain without making any noise.
The only possibility is that the villa's manager and guards colluded with each other, stole the villa's food, and then deliberately staged such a scene.
Yang Zhen thought so, so he immediately asked the soldiers who followed him to control the manager and guards of the villa and report to Xiang Wanlin immediately.
Xiang Wanlin thought similarly to him.
But he thought more deeply than Yang Zhen, "Investigate it, investigate thoroughly, and see who they are colluding with!"
He didn't believe that without finding a new backer, the villa's manager and guards would be so bold as to steal his food.
With so much food, how dare they!
Xiang Wanlin slammed his fist on the table and said, "After you find out, execute them all!"
"Yes!" Yang Zhen bowed and strode out.
He had only taken a few steps when Xiang Wanlin changed his mind and said, "Come back!" He took down his sword from the wall and said, "I'll go and investigate myself. I want to see who dares to betray me."
However, even though he went to investigate in person, he couldn't find anything in the end.
To transport so much food, a lot of manpower and material resources would be needed. However, no one has ever seen a large convoy transporting things in the villa.
No matter what kind of torture Xiang Wanlin used to extract confessions from the guards and managers of the villa, they kept protesting their innocence, saying that they had never done anything to offend him, and had never colluded with outsiders to steal food from the warehouse.
Xiang Wanlin was so angry that he captured Manager Liao and the family members of several guard captains and started killing them in front of everyone.
"Tell me or not? Who did you collude with to steal my food? Where did you take it?" Xiang Wanlin killed Liao Heng's youngest daughter with a single blow. "If you don't tell me, your wife, son, and mother will all end up like this."
Liao Heng knelt on the ground, kowtowed frantically, and begged for mercy, "Master, I really didn't know. I really didn't betray you! Please, spare my family! They are all innocent!"
"Sir, we really didn't collude with anyone to steal the grain from the warehouse. Please give us a chance to find out what happened. If we can't find out, it won't be too late to deal with us then!"
The guards of the villa also knelt on the ground and kowtowed to beg for mercy.
Xiang Wanlin looked at the people below with a cold face.
These people were personally selected by him and the ones he trusted the most. He didn't believe they would betray him.
But with so much food, it’s impossible for it to fly away by itself!
Just as Xiang Wanlin was lost in thought, someone else came running over in a panic, "Master, this is bad..."
Xiang Wanlin looked at the managers and guards of the other manors and felt an ominous premonition in his heart.
Sure enough, several people wiped their sweat and said, "We heard something happened at Mingjing Villa, so we thought we'd check it out ourselves... But to our surprise, all the grain in the warehouse is gone... Could it be that Wong Tai Sin has cast a spell?"
"Ridiculous!" Xiang Wanlin's eyes widened in anger. "How could this be possible? You must have ganged up on me to steal my food, and you're trying to blame it on Wong Tai Sin. I'll kill you bastards!"
He raised his sword and was about to chop off several people's heads.
Everyone knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, "Sir, since we came to the manor, we have been guarding it diligently and have never done anything to offend you! If it weren't for Huang Daxian's magic, how could the grain in the warehouse disappear without a trace?"
"Yes, yes, yes, it must be the spirit of Wong Tai Sin. He couldn't bear to see the people starve to death, so he gave the food away to save them!"
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Xiang Wanlin angrily chopped off the heads of several managers, rode his horse, and quickly returned to his mansion.
If Wong Tai Sin appeared and used magic to take away the food in his warehouse, it is impossible that he only took the food from the farm and not took the things in his warehouse!
He wanted to go back and check the warehouse in the mansion himself.
But after this investigation, he almost went crazy.
The gold, silver, jewelry and other things in the mansion's warehouse, just like the food in the villa's secret warehouse, all disappeared.
Xiang Wanlin ran between several warehouses like a madman, "Impossible! Impossible!"
"Master..." The servant saw Xiang Wanlin running like a madman with his hair all over the place and mumbling strange words. He was frightened and worried. "What happened to you? Are you okay? Don't scare the kid!"
Xiang Wanlin grabbed the servant's hand as if it were a lifeline and said, "Do you think there really is a Wong Tai Sin in this world? Is it true that good deeds are rewarded and evil deeds are punished?"
The servant said subconsciously, "Of course, God is watching!"
After saying that, he realized that their master was not a good person. Not to mention their master, even the servants who followed him had done a lot of evil things.
After realizing what was happening, the servant quickly flattered him, saying, "Sir, you are a good official. Even Wong Tai Sin would bless you!"
But this time his flattery backfired. Xiang Wanlin was not happy at all, but even more terrified. "Wong Tai Sin has appeared, Wong Tai Sin has appeared..."
A scandal had just occurred in the Xiang Mansion a few days ago, and a large number of people had been punished. The newly bought servants had not been trained yet, the mistress of the mansion was not in charge of things, and now Xiang Wanlin was like this.
The Xiang Mansion was now like a sieve. All the things in the warehouse disappeared overnight. Prefect Xiang was shocked and became mentally ill. He suspected that Wong Tai Sin had taken them away through magic, and the news quickly spread.
In the past few days, those who had been following Lu Shiyan's orders and paying attention to the movements in Xiang Mansion immediately seized the opportunity and used some tricks.
Soon, the news that Wong Tai Sin appeared and used magic to move all the granaries in Xiang Wanlin's mansion to rescue the refugees spread throughout Qiongzhou.
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