Su Xiaolou and others followed the government officials in a carriage to several small rooms prepared by Mr. Zheng. This should also be the place where officials from the River Department rested before they died. The furnishings inside were very simple. Su Xiaolou was so sleepy that he couldn't even open his eyes. , because they were afraid of leaking the news, they rushed from Baoying County to Jiangdu Pier overnight last night. By now, his body was almost falling apart. He didn't even take off his shoes and fell asleep on the bed.
Half asleep, I heard Bao Bao Tou say that Cao Cao wanted to treat him to a meal. He sat up and was confused: "Why does Cao Cao want to treat me to a meal?"
For the first time, the arrester complained speechlessly: "Are you Guan Yu? Cao Cao invited you to dinner, how big a face are you! I said that Cao Ye, who was absconding in fear of crime, was captured."
"What? You want to feed me?"
"..."
When Su Xiaolou and Bao Baotou arrived at the front hall of the River Department, they saw the scene of a loving father and a filial son. Cao Ye knelt on the ground and pulled Mr. Zheng's thighs and cried bitterly: "The students are ashamed of the teachings of the old man." , The student is really blinded by lard, and he is so obsessed that he would do things that harm the country and the people. The student regrets it! I hope you will take care of yourself!"
As soon as Su Xiaolou came in, Cao Ye stopped crying and looked at Su Xiaolou with snot and tears. Su Xiaolou had an innocent expression: "Did I delay your performance? How about I go out?" ?Go on!"
Mr. Zheng calmed down his grief: "You are here, Mr. Cao, you can take him away! I am also upset when I look at it!" Who could not be upset by this howling, which was like a mourning wail.
Su Xiaolou and Bao Baotou cupped their hands and said, "I thank Master Zheng." They turned to Cao Ye who was on the ground and said, "Master Cao, please put away your performance and come with me!"
Su Xiaolou looked at Cao Ye provocatively. Cao Ye himself was short and fat, but his skin was very white. He was kneeling on the ground like a steamed bun lying in a cage. His round face was full of flesh and grooves. There is a pair of small eyes embedded in the gully, like a Chinese New Year steamed bun that ordered two black beans, looking at Su Xiaolou slyly.
"What are you looking at? Are you jealous that I'm handsomer than you?"
"..."
Su Xiaolou's supervisor, Mr. Zheng, borrowed a villa, and the leader ordered Cao Ye to be escorted into the woodshed of the annex. On the way to the annex, Cao Ye shouted at him to make a carriage, and he wanted to take this road. I couldn't move even one step, and then I sat down on the ground and refused to move.
When the leader saw this, he threatened: "Master Cao, if you refuse to leave, we will put you on the back of a horse and drag you all the way back."
"That black-faced man, when I was an official, you didn't know which stinking puddle you were playing in the mud! Who are you trying to scare? I am an official of the imperial court, and was born as a second-class Jinshi. How dare you lynching me? I’m afraid I don’t want the skin of the Punishment Department on you anymore!”
"You..." Bao Baotou looked at Cao Ye's mocking eyes and his face turned white and blue in anger.
"Brother Bao, you are good at investigating cases. I am good at dealing with this 80,000-year-old tortoise from the year before last. Watch." Su Xiaolou raised his eyebrows at Bao Bao and shouted: "Everyone, come and take a look. Ah! Mr. Cao Huacao, the director of the River Department, is suspected of corruption and bending the law. He has been detained. Come and take a look! If you don't take a look, you will never see him again."
"Is it the Cao Ye who killed a thousand swordsmen? He never gives me any extra money when he comes to eat at my restaurant. I owe him almost a hundred taels."
"This grandson hit and killed my son on the street last year. Where is he? I want him to give my son his life."
"Old Wangtou, your dog likes to run around."
Su Xiaolou shouted and a group of people rushed over to this side, and it was their own fault. Cao Ye, who was sitting on the ground, was filled with shame and anger. He glared at Su Xiaolou and got up in a hurry. The government servant holding the leash walked quickly. Go forward.
The boss gave Su Xiaolou a thumbs up once!
Su Xiaolou shouted to Cao Ye: "Master Cao, my subordinate is Jia Bujia, the eldest son of the Jia family. If you find out that Master Cao has been wronged in the future, you can come to my father Jia Shutang."
Although the arrester didn't understand why Su Xiaolou said that, he still didn't expose Su Xiaolou. He now felt that everything Su Xiaolou did had a certain reason.
Seeing Cao Ye walking forward dejectedly, Su Xiaolou couldn't help but laugh. He stepped forward and continued: "Master Cao, if you can tell me the evidence of the Yangzhou magistrate's crime, I can let you take the car back. How about it?"
"Go ahead and dream about your big dreams! How could I have evidence of the Yangzhou magistrate's crime?"
"Master Cao, you are not good now."
"..."
Su Xiaolou and Bao Baotou took Cao Ye back to the yard where they lived. Su Xiaolou personally pushed him into the woodshed and whispered: "Master Cao, I wish you good luck."
As soon as Cao Ye entered the woodshed, he realized how bad Su Xiaolou was. He saw Dai Qingyuan also in the woodshed, staring at him angrily.
Cao Ye suppressed and bullied Dai Qingyuan frequently during his tenure.
Cao Ye pointed at Dai Qingyuan's nose angrily: "You, a loser, betrayed me, great! Very good! If you think you can escape guilt by betraying me, stop dreaming."
Dai Qingyuan didn't give in. "If you hadn't forced me, I wouldn't have fought you to the death. It's all because of you. You deserve it. Go and die!"
It is said that scholars look down upon each other, and both Jinshi scholars are talented people with outstanding literary talent! I just don’t know if I will scold my mother when I quarrel. Su Xiaolou thinks that quarrels without scolding are soulless...
"You are a farmer's son, and you are willing to betray your friends to seek promotion and wealth. You are destined to not have a good outcome."
"You are just a mouse, a bedbug, a fat moth in the treasury, lying on the bodies of thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty to suck blood, you will not die well."
The two well-spoken literati kept going back and forth, quoting famous stories and proverbs from time to time. Su Xiaolou and others who were afraid of the corner outside the house felt that it was not enough. What kind of quarrel was this? It was almost an academic exchange. I don’t know who suggested it. They started a bet outside the door, betting on when the two of them would take action, and Which one has a greater chance of winning...
The argument between the two people inside became more and more intense. It was not clear who would fight first, but the sound of fierce fighting could be heard in the room.
Su Xiaolou said excitedly: "Look, they are taking action, they are fighting."
"Hurry up and place your bet. I bet that Cao Cao will win. Cao Cao feels that he can kill Dai Qingyuan with just one click."
Su Xiaolou retorted: "Although Cao Cao is not good, he has to take a breath after taking three steps, but I bet Dai Qingyuan will win."
Su Xiaolou and others present happily placed their bets, and bursts of Cao Ye's croaking sounds came from the woodshed. The young man was indeed more effective in fighting.
When the shouting was almost done, Su Xiaolou said to Xiucai: "Open the door! Let's go inside and watch the fun."
Mazi opened the door and saw Dai Qingyuan suppressing Cao Ye, who was beaten all over. So he stepped forward to separate the two and helped Cao Ye up.
Su Xiaolou looked at Cao Ye, whose face was covered with blood, and said sarcastically: "How dare someone beat our second-class Jinshi and imperial official into this state? How audacious."
Cao Ye was speechless and could only endure it silently. As a second-class Jinshi, he was defeated by a third-class Jinshi. He felt very ashamed.
Cao Ye thought that he could accurately see a person's nature and thought that Su Xiaolou did not dare to be cruel to him. But he didn't expect that Su Xiaolou would find a dog to bite him. He really underestimated this Jin Yiwei. Su Xiaolou also specially ordered more food for Dai Qingyuan and asked for a whole pot of wine to strengthen Dai Qingyuan's courage. Cao Ye despised Su Xiaolou's behavior.
Seeing that Cao Ye was a little stimulated, Su Xiaolou sneered: "I've been stimulated for a while now, but the more powerful ones are yet to come." Cao Ye was a little frightened. He originally thought that the military attache was just a reckless man with strong limbs and a simple mind. , but now realizes that he may have underestimated Su Xiaolou's insidiousness.
Su Xiaolou suddenly changed his attitude and said with a smile: "Master Cao, don't be angry, I'm just teasing you. You are an official of the imperial court, how can you be afraid of this?"
Cao Ye held on and said, "Humph!"
Su Xiaolou asked the fat man to prepare some good wine and food, and decided to have a drink with Cao Ye. Cao Ye felt a little nervous looking at Su Xiaolou's mean smile, and was very worried about what would happen next. He understood that he had fallen into Su Xiaolou's game, and that Su Xiaolou might be harboring something evil.
Bao Baotou sat aside and drank tea, watching Cao Ye being forced to the point of collapse by Su Xiaolou. During this period of time, he had already experienced Su Xiaolou's methods of bullying people. A thousand-year-old fox would be stripped of its fur and would collapse when Su Xiaolou met him. Su Xiaolou's insidious and cunning methods are endless and make people unable to guard against him.
Previously, the captor thought that Su Xiaolou was just a playboy who could only do some small tricks and opportunistic tricks. Unexpectedly, every time the clues he traced fell into a bottleneck, and when he was at his wits' end, Su Xiaolou would be able to use his seemingly... The unreliable strategy worked wonders. Cao Ye, a cunning old fox, was about to collapse, but he didn't know how long he could hold on.
What the captor didn't expect was that Su Xiaolou could come up with such a damaging idea and use Dai Qingyuan's hand to teach Cao Ye a lesson. Cao Ye would actually tell others where he hid the money when he was drunk, which shows that As long as Cao Ye is drunk, he will become frank and maybe even give out some other useful clues.
Two-quarters of an hour later, the fat man brought back a food box filled with fine wine and meat. Su Xiaolou invited Cao Ye to have a drink with him. Cao Ye had almost no resistance to the temptation of delicious food. After all, he was born in a mortal body and had a plump figure. Order something to eat. So, he also started to taste these delicacies, but his heart was full of uneasiness and depression.
…
Su Xiaolou did not deliberately pour wine into Cao Ye, but pretended to be concerned and advised him to drink less. However, Cao Ye lowered his vigilance and drank one glass after another. He soon became drunk and started talking nonstop.
Cao Ye is already in his forties, but he has no children of his own. He can only adopt the son of a relative, but this unrelated blood relationship has always been a pain in his heart. He felt frustrated that he didn't have the ability to continue his career.
Su Xiaolou deliberately guided the conversation to the silver hidden by Cao Ye: "Master Cao, why did you choose to hide your stolen silver in the busy ferry warehouse?"
Cao Ye said drunkenly: "Don't you understand? In a busy environment, it is easier to hide things and safer. This is called the most dangerous place is the safest."
"You certainly made a smart choice."
"Hey! It's not worth mentioning." Cao Ye waved his hands and asked in confusion: "How do you know where I hide my money?"
Su Xiaolou deliberately said in a mysterious tone: "Of course the people around you told me that."
Cao Ye's face was very ugly: "Is it the gatekeeper who told you?" He said angrily: "This damn guy! He used to be a gatekeeper. I was so good to him and promoted him to be the ferry steward. How dare he betray me."
"So the place where you hide your money is not hidden enough."
Cao Ye said unconvinced: "At least you are smarter than those who hide gold at home, in the study or in the latrine."
"What are you talking about?" Su Xiaolou asked in disbelief: "There are still people who hide gold in shit? They really treat money like dirt!"
Cao Ye said mysteriously: "Wang Chonghua, the prefect of Yangzhou, do you know that that little brat Wang Chonghua hid gold in the latrines of other courtyards and in the sewage in the pond in front of others? This matter spread like wildfire, and those people in the River Department all know."
"Is he really arrogant?"
"Wang Chonghua relied on the support of Hou Ninghou and regarded Prince Ning as nothing."
Su Xiaolou continued to inquire: "Wang Chonghua and Prince Ning don't have a good relationship?"
Cao Ye's face was red, his eyes were blurry, and he spoke with a bit of a tongue. He seemed to be very drunk: "The young princes of Prince Ning's Mansion are bullying men and women in Yangzhou. Even the officials of Yangzhou don't look down on them. Everyone had been complaining for a long time, but now they bumped into Wang Chonghua, a thorn in his side. Wang Chonghua was not a vegetarian either. He wrote thousands of words in the memorial to impeach Prince Ning."
"Then Prince Ning won't let him go, right?"
"The current doctor of the Ministry of Justice was recommended by King Ning." Cao Ye looked a little drunk and said, "If Wang Chonghua hadn't offended King Ning, why would the Ministry of Justice suddenly send someone to investigate our affairs?"
Su Xiaolou realized that he had fallen into a deep pit. All of this was actually a struggle between Shouning Hou and Ning Wang, and they were just pawns on their chessboard.
Su Xiaolou stood up and looked at Cao Ye, who was obviously drunk, but his eyes were extremely clear: "Master Cao, why do I think you are sober?"
Cao Ye ignored Su Xiaolou, as if he hadn't heard anything, raised his cup and recited a poem: There must be a road for a car to reach the mountain, and for a boat to reach the bridge.
