Chapter 56: Pulling the Firewood from Under the Pot

When Yang Ge came out of the Yongtai Granary, the sky was already showing the first light of dawn.

He calculated the time, wanting to finish the job before daylight and then let the imperial guards clean up the mess with those useless people from the county government, preventing the situation from getting out of control.

But as he approached the Fengyu Granary, he smelled a strong burning odor!

A bad premonition suddenly rose in his heart, and he hurriedly jumped onto the ridge of the tallest nearby loft to look out.

He saw a raging fire at the Fengyu Granary, with countless villagers in various disheveled clothes surrounding the flames, running around persistently with wooden basins and buckets to extinguish the fire…

The moment he recognized the location of the fire, a tingling sensation climbed to the top of Yang Ge's head, and his whole body broke out in goosebumps.

"How can people, how can they…"