Su Xiaolou and his party sent Cao Ye and Dai Qingyuan back to the governor's office of the river and asked Governor Zheng to take care of them on their behalf. As the governor of the river, Mr. Zheng had some shortcomings in managing his subordinates, but he actively cooperated with them to arrest corrupt officials. This shows that he is an honest official and will not protect his own people, so they were very concerned about handing over two important criminals to Mr. Zheng. The guards are quite relieved.
After Cao Ye woke up, he became the Cao Ye who had previously promised that he was not afraid of any threats. He seemed not to be in a hurry about what he had said last night.
Su Xiaolou felt that Cao Ye was deeply cunning and difficult to deal with. He said he would never betray his friends, but in the blink of an eye he confessed everything...
When Cao Ye was taken away by the officers of the Governor's Yamen, he gave Su Xiaolou a meaningful look. He never expected that the life and death of these people were actually controlled by a small general. He had already said everything that should be said and should not be said. Okay, the rest is up to Su Xiaolou.
The struggle between Hou Ninghou and Prince Ning is no longer a matter of a day or two. Over the years, they have been grudges over the years of overt and covert competition for Yangzhou's resources. They don't care about the life and death of the chess pieces, let alone the life and death of the people. Power can cultivate more chess pieces.
Su Xiaolou and his party handed the two prisoners to the government officials and immediately returned to Yangzhou Mansion.
The night gradually faded, and there was a faint light in the sky. Sparrows were chirping on the branches to welcome the new day. Su Xiaolou and others walked back to the official post of Yangzhou Mansion in the first ray of morning sun.
Su Xiaolou, who had been riding all night, felt stiff all over and felt uncomfortable everywhere. He rubbed his sore buttocks and felt that he was terribly uncomfortable...
When He Fei comes back, be sure to ask him how he protects his butt. He must have some secret recipe for protecting his butt. Otherwise, how could a weak scholar who has never studied martial arts be able to toss back and forth all day without showing signs of fatigue on his face? High-spirited every day.
The captain came over and asked curiously: "What's the matter with you? Are you in need of urination? The latrine is over there."
"My butt hurts."
"..."
Su Xiaolou took out a ball of cotton from his pants. Everyone's eyes widened. If it hadn't been for a layer of padding, his butt would have been scratched.
Fatty and others watched Su Xiaolou throw the cotton aside and complained: "Boss, why didn't you remind me? If you had known, I would have stuffed it too. My thighs are worn out and my butt is almost in four pieces."
"Boss, my butt hurts too."
"..."
Su Xiaolou said nonchalantly: "You are all old butts, what are you worth maintaining?"
"..."
The arrester ordered some of the agents and spies left behind in Yanzhou Prefecture to keep an eye on the other courtyard where Tongzhao, the prefect of Yanzhou Prefecture, was located, and report immediately if there was any movement.
Su Xiaolou limped back to the room and lay down on the bed to sleep, but his heart was heavy and he kept thinking about what Cao Ye said.
After it got dark, the blind man asked Su Xiaolou to get up and eat something. After a few bites of the meal, Su Xiaolou and others quietly went to Wang Chonghua's other courtyard.
The captor easily subdued the guards, and then found the hut built next to the sewage pool in Wang Chonghua's courtyard on the outskirts of the city.
"Who's going to fish?" They looked at each other without speaking.
Su Xiaolou was speechless: "Bao Captou, this is a cesspit! If it's deep, people will die if they jump in. We'd better find a fishing net!"
"Where did you get the fishing net?"
Hearing that it would kill people, the faces of several government officials changed and they all went to find fishing nets. It took them a long time to find a net bag in a warehouse, which seemed to be used to catch things floating in the water.
Bao Baotou took the net bag, rolled up his sleeves and planned to go into battle himself.
Su Xiaolou raised his eyebrows: "Tou Bao, look at your posture, you have quite a lot of experience in fishing for shit, right?"
The captor rolled his eyes at him, waved his hand, and a golden gold bar wrapped in shit appeared in the net bag.
Su Xiaolou took off the hair tie on her head and stuffed it in her mouth and nose: "Damn it! I really hid it here."
The leader replied: "And the number is quite considerable."
Su Xiaolou ran over and grabbed the fishing net from the hands of the catcher, eager to try: "Let me fish it, I am an expert in stirring up shit."
Bao Bao was a bit dumbfounded. Su Xiaolou could always say unexpected things and do unexpected things.
Su Xiaolou fished several times in a row, and finally caught a net full of gold bars.
"We've made a fortune." Su Xiaolou stared at the silver with eyes wide open.
The boss reminded dissatisfiedly: "This is stolen money."
Su Xiaolou didn't care: "It's okay! I don't mind the stolen goods."
"Don't stand so close and you'll fall into the pit again. I don't want to go down and get you."
Su Xiaolou took the basket as if he didn't hear it, put the gold ingots in it nonchalantly, and muttered: "This Wang Chonghua actually threw the gold into the pit. He must not have wanted it anymore. Otherwise, we..."
The arrest leader said righteously: "Don't even think about it. This is evidence of crime and you have to hand it over."
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"Where do you hide the gold?" Bao Baotou asked after returning to the official post.
"Why do you ask?" Head Bao looked at Su Xiaolou and said with vigilance, and said with a wry smile: "I clearly saw you hiding part of it, please hand it over quickly."
Su Xiaolou said with a straight face: "I found it myself, why should I hand it over?"
"..."
"Now that the stolen money has not been fully recovered, the top priority is that we should find someone as soon as possible to find all the gold, and then arrest Wang Chonghua."
The captor frowned and said, "Then who can we ask for help? We need to ask the Governor to come and help arrest him."
Su Xiaolou whispered: "You don't need Master Zheng, hasn't Prince Ning always wanted to kill Wang Chonghua? We can ask Prince Ning for help."
"makes sense."
"I think after we catch Wang Chonghua, we won't need to investigate further."
"Why?"
Su Xiaolou said with a serious expression: "This Yan Yin case is not as simple as we imagined. Aren't you curious about how your Ministry of Punishment's list of Yangzhou corrupt officials came from?"
The leader of the arrest group said without knowing why, "It was given to us by the superiors."
"Then how did the people above get this list?"
"..."
Su Xiaolou said helplessly: "If my guess is correct, this should be given by King Ning to the Ministry of Punishment. King Ning wanted to use the power of the Ministry of Punishment to weaken Hou Ning Hou's power in Yangzhou. Both King Ning and Hou Ning regarded Yangzhou as their The two of us were fighting for the food on the table."
Bao Baotou sneered and said, "Can Hou Ning fight against Prince Ning easily?"
Su Xiaolou said helplessly: "Although Marquis Shouning is stupid, are his staff also stupid?"
Bao Captou was enlightened: "It seems to make some sense."
Su Xiaolou said helplessly: "I thought about it carefully. We are just small characters whose arms cannot twist our thighs. If we continue to investigate, our lives will depend on it. Shouning's backstage is tough, and we dare to put our hands into Ning In the king's job, King Ning was angered by Hou Ninghou, so he designed to eradicate the dissidents in Yangzhou."
Bao Captou said regretfully: "What should we do now? We are afraid that we have aroused the dissatisfaction of Shouning Hou!"
Su Xiaolou thought: "So we have to bring Ning Prince's Mansion in, let Shouning Hou think that Ning Prince wants us to do this, and then bring in the river governor Mr. Zheng to share the firepower. It shouldn't be for any reason. But , if we continue to investigate, Shouning Hou will feel that we are targeting him, and he will also attack us in order to protect himself. Moreover, Shouning Hou will probably abandon his pawns to protect his chariot, and use the names on the roster to protect his chariot. Kill everyone together"
"Why?"
"Now I feel more and more that Cao Ye let us catch him on purpose. He was imprisoned without a watch and was convicted. Hou Ning Hou had many means to rescue him, but if he stayed in Yangzhou, Hou Ning Hou would probably treat him badly. They took action and then supported their own people to rise to power. Maybe the few people who had disappeared before were silenced by King Ning.
The arrester was silent for a while. The twists and turns were really complicated. He was still more willing to solve the case...
