After getting the yin and yang ledger from Hongfa Pharmacy, the smile on Shen Hao's face couldn't be hidden. The nerves that had been tense for so many days finally relaxed several times.
Although it was quite different from the previous plan, I finally found a breakthrough. It's luck and the result of careful planning. If the mystery hidden in the Zhou family's account books had not been discovered, this clue would have been missed.
After looking at the sky outside, Shen Hao put away the original copy of the ledger and took another rubbing.
"You continue to ask the people below you to carefully sort out the information in their hands and see if there is anything else that can be used. At the same time, let the personnel in the Imperial City keep an eye on the Xu Mansion and be prepared to take people. Wait for me information."
"Sir, where are you going?"
"Beach rocks."
Shen Hao first went to Haixia, and then teleported from Haixia to Tanshi. When he came out of the teleportation array, it was already Xu Zheng. Looking up, you can see the branches above the moon.
Compared with Fengri City, the temperature in Tanshi is higher. Even now at night, it still feels hot and humid.
He met Wu Kai, but neither of them showed any signs of friendship. After going through the formalities, Shen Hao led more than a dozen guards who came with him out of the defense area of the teleportation circle, and met those who were already waiting outside. Chen Tianwen and others gathered together.
"Where are the people?"
"Still at the station."
"How is your mental state?"
"It's not very good. But I gave him some water and food according to your instructions, treated his wounds, and gave him some soothing medicine. I checked before I came out and fell asleep."
Chen Tianwen walked half a step behind Shen Hao, reached out and led him into the carriage, and then the group of people galloped back to the Tanshi Inspector's station.
Time was running out, and Shen Hao did not exchange greetings with the supervisor, Zhang Baihu, but went directly into the torture room where Zhou Qing was imprisoned.
"I see you, my lord!"
The two killers in the torture room did not know that Shen Hao would come in person. When they saw it, they were startled and stood up suddenly, knocking down the chairs behind them.
"Well, thank you for your hard work."
"Sir, you are serious. Please sit down!" He wiped the chair clean with his sleeves and placed it behind Shen Hao.
"Wake him up, I have something to ask him."
"Okay sir."
The killers' wake-up call service is to pour a ladle of ice-cold water directly on their heads, which will chill their hearts. No matter how hard they sleep, they are guaranteed to be pulled out instantly.
Zhou Qing's appearance was very miserable. Both his upper and lower body were basically ugly. He was half disabled even if he was not dead. The only thing that can be commended is that the two people who tortured him were good at their skills. Although there were tragic wounds all over their bodies, there was no real fatal wound at all.
Shen Hao had seen Zhou Qing's documents before and knew that he was a monk who cultivated physical skills. He had an unusually strong physique and a powerful aura. Now that I saw it with my own eyes, I felt that it was true. It gave Shen Hao the feeling of seeing a caged animal. Especially the pair of eyes that opened after being woken up by the splash, with a flash of fierceness that was undisguised, like a wild beast.
"Zhou Qing, it seems that you recovered very quickly. The monks who cultivate physical skills are indeed different. Ordinary monks now have less energy to breathe. You can still stare, which is good."
"..." Zhou Qing looked at Shen Hao sitting in front of him without saying a word.
Shen Hao paused and continued: "Our Xuanqing Guards are the last group of people in the entire Jing Dynasty to study the subject of torture. The two people serving you have ten years of torture experience. They are members of the Xuanqing Guards." You are a master of torture. But they tried their best on you but couldn't pry your mouth open. I have to say that you are a tough guy.
admire! "
"..."
"My name is Shen Hao, the Hundred Household Officer of Xuanqingwei Black Flag Camp. I am in charge of your case this time. All the plans and arrangements were made by me, so you are now considered a defeated general of mine. So you say Do you agree?"
"Hmph!" Zhou Qing still didn't speak, but he snorted heavily, looking at Shen Hao with a look that was more resentful and sarcastic. He probably sneered at Shen Hao's "defeated general".
Shen Hao smiled and said: "You don't seem to agree with me saying that you are a defeated general? Haha, I know what you think without saying anything. It's just that you resisted our methods and refused to speak, so you thought you could defeat us. The clue ends with you, right? You know that you will definitely die. As long as you don't confess, the people behind you will be safe, and you won instead of losing, right?
Haha, it’s actually normal for you to have such thoughts, but it’s ridiculous.
I'll help you figure it out. If you collude with foreign enemies, no matter what your purpose is, you have been convicted of treason. To be honest, all nine of your clans will be exterminated, and if you are lucky, you will also kill the three Yi clans. You protected the people behind you, but as a result, your family was ruined and you didn't get any benefits. Why did you bother?
Even if you are not afraid of death, if you insist on persisting, our case will be ruined, but I will not suffer any loss if I do a little bit of manipulation. Anyway, it is a meritorious service to deal with your front-line thieves, but I am not able to reap the full merit.
In this way, the people behind you will continue to laugh at the situation, and I will make some small contributions and go back to live my life. The only losers are fools like you.
Are you saying that you are not defeated yet? "
After a brief attempt at verbal stimulation, Shen Hao noticed that anger rose in Zhou Qing's eyes, but he still did not speak. It's obvious that this guy is very stubborn.
Shen Hao took out a ledger from his storage bag, the rubbing copy, and handed it to Chen Tianwen beside him to show it to Zhou Qing.
"This is the account book that was found from your Zhou family's accounting room. Of course, this is a rubbing book. I gave it to you to show you our new discovery. I guarantee that you don't know about it."
While Shen Hao was talking, Chen Tianwen took the account book and turned it directly to the part that was outlined with a red pen, which was the part of the secret account that the Zhou family was trying to cover up.
Zhou Qing was casual and dismissive at first. He had already guessed that his family would not be at peace after he was captured, and he had even made plans to be defeated by the three tribes. However, when he saw the accounts marked out with red pen, he couldn't help but frown a little, and there were some waves in his heart, and he had an inexplicable bad feeling.
I heard Shen Hao next to me continue with a slightly smiling tone: "You have been leading troops in Tanshi all year round, and you have deliberately kept a distance from your family business, fearing that it would have a bad impact on your official reputation. Have you ever thought about your Zhou family? Will others use your name to open other businesses in Haixia?
Tsk tsk, the medicinal materials business is great. Although it's not a huge profit, you can still make a profit of 40 to 50% every time you go in and out, which is not much worse than the food store you allowed your family to open in Haixia. You don’t know this, right?
It's okay, you don't know, we do. We'll help you figure it out and see what your family members have done behind your back over the years. "
Shen Hao took out another rubbing ledger and asked Chen Tianwen to show it to Zhou Qing. This time Zhou Qing couldn't hold himself back for long and shouted loudly: "This is a fraud! This is impossible!"
