Zhang Zong and Di Renjie hurried to Beiyuan in a carriage. The reason why this place is called Beiyuan is because it is located north of Tai Chi Palace. The garden not only planted various strange flowers and plants, but also raised many rare birds and beasts. In the past, Zhang Zong followed Xue Shao to come here to fight for the autumn wind, mainly collecting some seeds of flowers and plants to go back to plant. There are many flowers and plants in his small flowerbed from here.

The carriage rushed directly into Beiyuan and rushed to the northeast corner near the palace wall of Hanguang Hall. A field was specially opened here to grow corn and potatoes. However, unlike Furong Garden, there was no wall around the field, but a fence was built with wood, and there were also some guards around it, and there were guards to guard it.

Di Renjie hurriedly got off the carriage with Zhang Zong and quickly walked into the field. When he got off the carriage, Zhang Zong saw from afar that the fields were green and lush, as if nothing unusual. However, when he got closer, he found that the corn and potatoes in the field looked listless, especially the corn, and the long leaves drooped.

"How come this way!" Di Renjie immediately screamed in pain when he saw the tragic situation of corn and potatoes in the field. Although he was not the official responsible for planting these crops, he also knew the importance of these crops to the Tang Dynasty. Now these crops have become like this, which makes him angry and anxious.

Although Zhang Zong was surprised, he was mentally prepared. He calmly walked up to check the corn and potatoes, and then shook his head helplessly and said, "These corn and potatoes are beyond rescue!"

Although these potatoes and corn still maintain a green color, the leaves are all drooping, especially the growth position on the top, and they all lose their vitality. If they are perennial woody plants, there may be some hope, but annual things like crops have basically no hope of survival.

"What happened, what about Yang Shaoqing?" Di Renjie was even more anxious after hearing this and asked again. The governor of the Sinong Temple who was originally in charge of this place had been arrested in prison for the previous incident. Now, a Shaoqing named Yang is responsible for the management of these high-yield crops.

"Yang... Yang Shaoqing fainted, and she hasn't woken up yet!" At this time, an official from the Sinong Temple next to him replied, but his face was like bitter gourd. After all, if such a big thing happened, they would be in trouble. After all, the governor was still in the Heavenly Prison of Dali Temple.

"What's your name? Do you know why these crops became like this?" asked the official who answered Zhang Zongxiang.

Yang Shaoqing and Zhang Zong from Sinong Temple met. After all, corn and potatoes are only planted in two places, so he and Sinong Temple also had some communication. However, Yang Shaoqing is over 60 years old this year and is not in good health. Now that such a big thing is happening, I guess he will hurt his body and be angry and will definitely not be able to introduce it to them in a short period of time.

"Xu Fang, the official, was appointed as the official of the Sinnong Temple. I have met Mr. Zhang before!" The official introduced himself to Zhang Zong. He was a middle-aged man in his forties. He looked white and fat, and looked very ordinary. He was the kind that could not be found even if he was thrown into the crowd, so Zhang Zong had no impression of him.

"Xu Dianbu, tell us quickly why these crops have become what they are now?" Di Renjie couldn't help asking again. The case of horses trampling on crops before had not been fully investigated, but now there are cases of high-yield crops being destroyed, which is like burning oil on fire.

"I... we don't know either!" Xu Dianbu also said again with a bitter face. He was also full of grievances. During this period, in order to take care of these corn and potatoes, the officials of the Siong Temple worked day and night. He even hadn't had a good night's sleep for several days. But now this happened. Not only were the corn and potatoes ruined, but his future was probably ruined.

"What's going on? Haven't you sent people here day and night? Why don't you know how these crops died?" Zhang Zong immediately asked again.

Xu Dianbu sighed and then explained: "To be honest, a few days ago, horses trampled on crops. The original officials were either arrested or replaced. We just arrived not long ago, but we are really doing our best to take care of these corn and potatoes. Who would have thought..."

Xu Dianbu finally turned into a sad face, and then said, "Who would have thought that after we thought about bed this morning, we saw something wrong with these corn and potatoes. At that time, Yang Shaoqing was also angry and anxious. He asked us to check around, but found that almost all the corn and potatoes were dead. As a result, Yang Shaoqing didn't breathe a sigh of relief after hearing this, and is still in a coma."

"All the crops died in just one night?" Zhang Zong asked with a surprised expression when he heard this.

"Yes, I can't figure it out now. We had personally checked the growth of corn and potatoes yesterday afternoon and found no problems. But when we woke up this morning, they all died. I don't know what happened?" Xu Dianbu nodded aggrievedly again.

Zhang Zong also looked surprised when he heard this. You should know that although the planting area of ​​these corn and potatoes in front of him is not large, there are several acres. It is not easy to destroy them all in just one night.

"Brother Zhang, have you discovered something?" Di Renjie saw Zhang Zong pondering and silent, so he immediately asked.

"Brother Di, if you only gave you one night and let you destroy this crop, what would you do?" Zhang Zong did not answer Di Renjie's words, but looked up and asked.

"How to destroy crops?" Di Renjie was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then pondered for a moment before looking up, "It is not easy to destroy crops of several acres. If I were asked to do it, I think the best way is to set a fire. After all, water and fire are ruthless. Although these crops are still growing and have a lot of water, as long as the fire is burned, they can be roasted to death even if they are roasted!"

"Yes, setting fire is indeed a good way!" Zhang Zong nodded after hearing this. In fact, when he thought of destroying this crop, the first thing he thought of setting fire was to set fire, but now there is no trace of fire in this crop, and there is even mud on the ground, which is obviously watering.
Chapter completed!