Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 776 Let Me Find Out
After entering Dingshui City, Yang Yiyi and Wu Shaoyi went straight to the nearest inn.

"Ladies, please come in quickly. There are seats available."

The waiter warmly invited them in, and they found a secluded place to sit down and ordered three dishes, two vegetarian dishes and one meat dish, plus a few steamed buns.

There are not many guests in this inn. Logically speaking, although Dingshui cannot be considered a prosperous area, it is somewhat close to being a prosperous area. Many merchants going to Quzhou will stay here. How come there are so few people at a glance?
It’s very simple, because Quzhou suffered a disaster.

Most of the common people have fled for their lives. Why would merchants go to Quzhou? Who would they sell their goods to?

If you happen to run into a few refugees who have become bandits, that would be a real problem.

Yang Yiyi and the others didn't have to go to Quzhou, otherwise they would have just taken Tang Lianyu's boat. However, Yang Yiyi really wanted to know why the refugees outside Dingshui City were forced to eat bran.

"Enjoy your meal, ladies."

At this time, the waiter came with dishes and steamed buns. As soon as he put them down, Wu Shaoyi asked curiously:

"Little Brother, why are the steamed buns in your inn several times smaller than those in other places?"

"Alas, lady, you don't know. Don't blame us for not being honest in business. Our steamed buns used to be big, but the price of food has been too high recently, so we have to make them smaller."

"The price of food is high? Is it possible that someone is hoarding it?"

"Look at what you said. Anyone who dares to hoard goods these days will be confiscated and their family will be exterminated."

The waiter came closer and lowered his voice and said:
"It's because there's not much food left. I heard that more than half of the food in the government warehouse is gone."

"Why? Your Dingshui didn't suffer any disaster, could it be that they were transferred to Quzhou?"

"How dare we, the common people, ask too much about the important matters of the higher-ups? But the rumor is that the county magistrate has sold all the grain."

"What a courage!"

"Hey, hey, hey, lady, don't make any noise, don't make any noise."

Oh my goodness! Yang Yiyi slammed the table and startled the waiter. He quickly explained:
"This is all nonsense. It's said that the county magistrate sold grain in the name of disaster relief, but no one knows what happened. Anyway, there is not much grain left in the government warehouse, so the price of grain in the market is high."

Transportation was inconvenient these days, and the granaries in various places could be said to be the most important key points. The court's rules and regulations here were also extremely strict. No matter how greedy one was, one would not be greedy to the point of granaries. That would be like an old man drinking arsenic and wishing he could live longer.

"When you two ladies came into the city, did you see any refugees outside the city?"

Seeing Yang Yiyi and Wu Shaoyi nod, the waiter said:

"In the city, the food prices are just a little bit higher, but people can still survive. But outside the city, it's really miserable. The refugees are fed bran every day. Many of them can't even defecate and are suffocated to death."

At this point, the waiter smiled embarrassedly:

"My dear little one, you are too talkative. You shouldn't talk about this during a meal."

"Where did the imperial court's disaster relief grain go?"

"There is no such thing as disaster relief grain. The grain was not even stored in the warehouse when it was transported here. It was just dangled at the city gate and then taken away. No one has ever seen what disaster relief grain looks like."

Wu Shaoyi and Yang Yiyi looked at each other, and Yang Yiyi asked:
"Is it true that no one cares?"

"Who is in charge? When the high-ranking official sent by the higher-ups to inspect arrives, they open the granaries and give some food to the refugees outside. When the high-ranking official leaves, they continue to feed bran to fool the higher-ups. Who can still take care of it?"

The waiter shook his head and sighed:

"There were a few heroes passing by who couldn't stand it and shouted that they would go to the county magistrate to seek justice, but in the end they just talked big and either ran away in disgrace or showed no concern at all."

The waiter must have said these words to many people in the martial arts world. After all, his family runs an inn, and there are many martial arts heroes coming and going from the south and the north. No one is blind. Everyone will see the city gate when entering the city, so naturally they will go to the city to ask.

After saying this, the waiter bowed and ran off to greet other customers.

"Sister Yang, you..."

“We can’t just ignore this.”

As expected, this is the development. Wu Shaoyi had already guessed it. "The other party is an official appointed by the imperial court. Many people in the martial arts world don't care. There may be other hidden reasons. You and I shouldn't interfere."

The underworld and the imperial court are two parallel lines. They basically do not interfere with each other, or try not to interfere with each other.

In other words, both sides have a tacit understanding and do not want to intensify the conflict.

But when Yang Yiyi gets stubborn, who can stop her?

Based on these rumors, Yang Yiyi has already formed an image in her mind of a corrupt official who disregards the lives of ordinary people in order to embezzle money.

"At least I have to see what kind of person this Dingshui County Magistrate is."

Seeing that he couldn't persuade her, Wu Shaoyi had no choice but to say:
"Do you want to hear what Brother Li has to say first?"

The only one who can hold back the stubborn Yang Yiyi is Li Chengxi.

But it just so happened that Li Chengxi was packing his moving things at that time, so he was not online and did not see these things.

However, when talking about Li Chengxi, Yang Yiyi suddenly calmed down a little, probably because she was afraid of being nagged by Li Chengxi.

"Well, let's go around the city during the day and ask around."

After all, those are just what the waiter said, and they might be a little biased.

But it can be seen that Yang Yiyi still has to take care of it. She practices martial arts in order to become a hero. If she doesn't care about such things, she is not a hero at all.

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Time passes little by little, the sun and the moon alternate, and night falls.

The night watchman banged the gong, indicating that the hour of Hai had arrived.

Due to the recent disaster in Quzhou, Dingshui, which is close to Quzhou, was also affected. In order to prevent any unforeseen events, a curfew was imposed in Dingshui City. Except for the night watchmen and patrolling yamen runners, no one was allowed to go out on the streets late at night.

Lanterns were still lit in front of the Dingshui Yamen, and one could vaguely see that the lights were still on inside the Yamen.

The gatekeepers were yawning. Since the county magistrate had not returned home, they had no way to go off work and could only stay at the door.

"Did a figure just pass by?"

"Nonsense, at this hour, there are only mosquitoes at most."

The bailiff who was laughing looked at the place his companion pointed to and waved his hand nonchalantly:
"Guard it well, how could a ghost fly over?"

"Brother, be careful with your words. Talking about ghosts in the middle of the night will really attract ghosts."

"Okay, okay, I know."

Just as they finished speaking, they heard a rustling sound, as if the clothes of someone running fast were being pulled by the wind behind them. But before they turned around to look, their vision went dark and they lost consciousness.

Seeing this, Wu Shaoyi hurried over from the darkness at the corner of the street in his wheelchair.

"You won't kill them?"

"No, I pressed their acupuncture points."

Yang Yiyi was dragging the two yamen runners into the bushes at the entrance of the Bazi Yamen and quickly hid them.

Yang Yiyi is quite good at brute force, and she can press acupoints...

Let me put it this way, it is easier to pierce a person with one finger than to press acupoints.

However, she had recently practiced the White Crane Fan Technique and the Autumn Wind Palm Technique, and had become more adept at controlling strength, and only then did she understand the operation of acupoint pressing.

The only small problem was that her acupressure was still a miracle, so it was hard to say whether the two yamen runners were knocked unconscious by the acupressure or simply knocked unconscious. This was a small matter, at most they might feel a little pain when they woke up...

(End of this chapter)