As soon as he picked up the rice, the old man realized something was wrong. He took a closer look and saw that what he held in his hand was only a handful of sand and rice husks.
The old man was shocked. He stretched out his hand and said, "Sir, this, this..."
Han Tiexin frowned: "Useless thing! Why are you asking so many questions? Don't you want to live? Hurry up and pretend!"
The old man trembled with fear, knowing that something was wrong. But he dared not say anything. He hurriedly put the rice husks into the bag, tied it tightly, and carried it to the warehouse.
Han Tiexin breathed a sigh of relief and angrily shouted at the yamen runner, "Watch out! If this kind of problem occurs again, I will chop you down!"
The bailiff hurriedly bowed and said, "I understand!"
The old man had just put down the bag, wiped his sweat and was about to move the grain to the cart outside the granary. He saw the prefect Han Tiexin coldly blocking his way.
The old man was so frightened that he fell to his knees with a thud: "Sir, please spare my life, sir, please spare my life!"
Han Tiexin's eyes were sinister: "If you dare to tell anyone about what happened here, I will skin you alive!"
The old man kept kowtowing: "I dare not, I dare not!"
"Hmph!" Han Tiexin pulled out a bag of silver from his sleeve and threw it at the old man's feet: "Shut your mouth, you don't need to work here anymore, get out!"
The old man grabbed the silver and ran away crawling.
Han Tiexin looked around and left the granary.
Liu Yu did not show up from beginning to end. He was hiding under a big willow tree outside the granary.
"Sir, is it okay to do this?" Su Yuanzhong, a horse-riding attendant under Liu Yu, asked in a low voice.
Liu Yu sighed, "What else can we do now? Wu Ge alone would be easy to deal with, but I didn't expect His Majesty to come to Langya. You know, His Majesty may appear unlearned, but in reality he's a wise fool. If he comes to Haizhou, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with him!"
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