The inn was just arranged, but the people who came back from a walk around said that they didn't want to stay here longer.

Cao Fang almost wanted to vomit blood, but he forced himself to ask angrily, "Why did you get up temporary?"

Liao Fanzhi asked knowingly, "How can a group of people have fun with them?" Why don't you hurry up and finish your errand and go back to Liangzhou City to be happy?"

Cao Fang didn't want him to get rid of the guards, but he asked Liu for the sake of looking for flowers, so he snorted, "Also, how can there be a stunning woman in the county town for Mr. to have fun, even so, it is better to make a quick difference."

"Well, that's exactly what I mean" Liao Fanzhi flicked his sleeves and quickly got into the carriage, until he couldn't see the face, and then smiled treacherously like a monkey.

Talking nonsense went and returned, Ben was also expected by Fang He, and after being investigated, Fang asked coldly, "Is there anything wrong?"

"Well~ Let's not think there's anything wrong with it, I can play it tomorrow" Liao Fanzhi nodded on the table and finished speaking, and suddenly asked as if he was missing something, "Why didn't that dog come to make me happy?" I just said that something seems to be missing~"

Hearing that Hu Chat was about to pick up the pen, Cao Fang and the others breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the fold is beautifully written, why not endure it for a while?"

The jailer outside the door got the order, and secretly laughed, and brought Chen Ping to the errand.

When Chen Ping saw Liao Fanzhi, he first cowered aside, and then rushed forward and called out in surprise, "Master Hu, you can come back......"

Chen Ping's attitude is full of a dog's leg who is afraid of wolves and tigers, and such a forward-looking attitude also makes Cao Fangluo feel relieved. Come to think of it, this dog thing may not have had any deals with Hu Chat in private.

Liang Zijun saw his virtue, first raised his ears and scolded him, and then tossed him like a monkey for a while, until the pug was tired and collapsed on the ground, and then he laughed and carried people back to the room, "Let's go, if you want to play tonight, I will send you this dog thing to grind ink."

"Xie Huye appreciates ......" Chen Ping got up with his head slumped, and went straight to Fang He for help in fright.

Fang He snorted and looked away with disdain. He wants to kill him by talking nonsense......

"Haha...... What this thing is most afraid of seeing is nonsense, and it has to pretend to be flattered, and it deserves it!" After the people left, Cao Fang laughed out loud.

"Beware of fraud! There are many prisoners in the salt field, why don't you look for this thing to relieve your boredom?" Fang He summoned the cell boss uneasily, learned everything Chen Ping had done in the past half a month, and muttered, "Isn't it that I'm suspicious?"

"There's nothing wrong with being careful, if you hadn't thought it through, I wouldn't have left the salt pan in your hands. When the work is done, I will praise your merits to the above" Cao Fang recovering his hands on his back, showing grace and retribution.

"Lord Xie Cao" Fang He saluted respectfully, and was busy with people buying good food and wine as a thank you.

Back in the bedroom, Liao Fanzhi changed his smile and asked seriously about the mine.

Chen Ping put aside his personal grievances for the time being and told everything he had.

After finishing the business, Chen Ping grabbed Liao Fanzhi by the collar and scolded: "You fucking tricks! What kind of monkey picks peaches? You can also learn from me......

Liao Fanzhi slapped away the black hand, flicked the placket and leaned against the back of the chair, "Who is that Daidi?...... Ah, in vain, I came all the way to deliver a letter to you, I can't bear such a little humiliation, next time I don't play you, it's ......"

"Daidi, where is he ......" Chen Ping couldn't wait to ask, and almost picked up his collar and started scolding.

"Tsk~ You don't hold a grudge against you before?" Liao Fanzhi dug his ear holes, looking unwilling to say more.

"Master Liao...... You just trick me twice more and make it......" Chen Ping's face immediately changed, and he said in a dog-legged manner, "Or ...... I'll play a monkey pick peach for you again?"

"Poof...... Come on, tease you!" Liao Fanzhi burst out laughing and glared at him with squinted eyes, "Why don't you see that you are still an amorous species, tsk~"

"Oh, my Master Liao, don't fool me now......" Chen Ping pleaded sadly.

Seeing that he was really anxious, Liao Fanzhi stopped teasing him, told him about meeting Liu Daidi halfway, and explained in detail the subsequent strategy.

Chen Ping learned that Liao Fanzhi was also involved in Liu Daidi, and stopped doing it at the moment, "You can do whatever you want me to do, why don't ......you take my daughter-in-law?"

"Don't worry...... Don't you say that no one knows, and besides, with him as a cover, the way of the money can be covered? What's the matter? It's not good to give you a chance to make out with your daughter-in-law?...... Okay, I'll go back and take back the money and drive people back to my hometown, and someone in the province will go around to find out your news," Liao Fanzhi got up and wanted to leave.

“…… Forget it, forget it" Chen Ping grabbed Liao Fanzhi and thanked him in a low voice, "Thank you......"

"I didn't hear it!" Liao Fanzhi sold well when he got cheap.

Chen Ping took a deep breath, and just as he was about to shout, Liao Fanzhi covered his mouth and nose, "You want to die!"

Retracting the stuffy air blocking his chest, Chen Ping sat aside sullenly. Liao Fanzhi took out a letter from his arms and handed him a finger of wide linen, "There are many people with miscellaneous eyes, you tie it inside"

Chen Ping took the strip of cloth, his breath suddenly became chaotic, and he hurriedly opened the letter paper...... In the middle of the night, tears gushed out of his eyes, and where the tears flowed, like meandering muddy water, how could he be embarrassed?

In the letter sent by Liang Zijun to Liao Fanzhi, he detailed the cause of Miao Rencui's death. Chen Ping knew that his mother's crime deserved to die, but he still couldn't stop feeling uncomfortable in his heart, after all, it was his mother-in-law, who had loved him for 20 years and gave birth to him and raised him.

Now that his relatives have died, he doesn't even have the opportunity to go to the grave to guard his filial piety, how can he not grieve and regret it?

Liao Fanzhi threw a cloth towel to cover his face, "It's ugly to death, wipe it quickly, so as not to let people see it"

Chen Ping wiped away his tears, choked up and scolded, "It's not that your father and mother are dead...... Damn!"

If you had listened to the persuasion earlier and didn't cause so many troubles, why would you have let your father and mother die without children!

Liao Fanzhi just wanted to scold him, but then he thought about this person who had just learned the bad news, and swallowed this sullen breath alive, "The matter has come to this, and the mourning is changing"

“…… Hmm" Chen Ping snorted and retracted his head into his knees in a hoarse voice.

Liao Fanzhi was quite surprised by his behavior, first a love species, and then a filial son, this guy's change is not insignificant, so he patted him on the shoulder and persuaded, "Think more about your daughter-in-law, how difficult it should be for him to be alone in the village and have no one to rely on? You don't want your son to be laughed at since he was a child, right? Solve the case as soon as possible, and you will be able to return to your hometown in the future."

Chen Ping nodded sullenly, and only then did he finally make up his mind to complete the task as soon as possible, solving the case was not only for the more than 300 lives, but also for the fate of his family. Thinking of his infant son, no matter how bad he is as a father, he can't even affect his son being ridiculed since he was a child......

"Last time you said that your bones hurt, this time I specially brought you ointment, use it carefully, don't let people see it" Liao Fanzhi took out the ointment prepared from the pharmacy, handed it to him and stopped talking.

Chen Ping clenched the medicine bottle tightly, and his heart was full of remorse, was it a little too late for him to repent? If he had listened to the advice in the morning and practiced farming in a down-to-earth manner, how could he have ended up in the field today?

Liao Fanzhi left early the next day.

Chen Ping cried all night after being cleaned up by him, and such a wretched appearance made the prisoners in the whole frying field very ashamed, and even the fourth prisoner was angry, shouting and scolding: "What are you doing to make people play, no matter how cheap our prisoners' lives are, we can't afford to be so humiliated! You are still not a gentleman!"

Chen Ping raised his sleeves to wipe away his tears, and said with red eyes, "Who is not a gentleman!"

"Look at your cowardice! Hurry up and get to work!" the fourth prisoner looked at him lazily, and threw a large handful of firewood to him to work.

In the past half a month, Liao Fanzhi has not been idle, and has already secretly investigated the guards of the salt works. Now that the approximate location is known, if you want to find out where the mine is, you have to send someone to secretly investigate.

There are countless mountains of Liangshan, large and small, and it will take some time to break through the encirclement. Fortunately, this matter is not rushed, and it will not be difficult to find out the exact location of the salt mine in time. At present, the most important thing is to collect criminal evidence, so as to release the fish caught in the net, and it is necessary to convict all the officials involved in the case in addition to encircling and suppressing the salt mines.

The periphery of the salt field is handled by officers and soldiers, and a post is set up 100 meters, which rotates once every hour, and has one day off every month. Officers and men who are not on duty are not allowed to leave the camp without permission on rest days, and only officers and men of the rank of generals and those who carry corpses can be dispatched according to orders.

The jailers are different, most of them are from the state, and in addition to Xiu Mu, they can also visit relatives, that is, save up the vacation together, and go home to make love with their daughter-in-law for a few days.

The method that Liao Fanzhi taught Liu Daidi was to block these jailers who were visiting relatives and resting, and through them, they would send messages to the cell boss, and then the cell boss would arrange all kinds of items brought in.

Because without the instructions of the cell boss, the jailer did not dare to carry things to the prisoners easily, and even if it was silver, he only dared to be greedy in private.

Like Xiao Jiu, the exception is to reap the benefits from peripheral relatives, and the cell boss will extract the corresponding benefits from them, and then turn a blind eye to allow the jailers to take care of individual prisoners.

The officialdom has a strict hierarchy, and it has always been subordinate to subordinates, and pawns are never allowed to accept bribes in private. And the large amount of bribes collected by the cell boss also went into the pockets of the court captain, and the court captain then honored the head and the salt and iron envoys, and the layers of exploitation finally flowed into the pockets of the important ministers.

According to Liao Fanzhi's explanation, Liu Daidi spent fifty taels of silver to connect with the cell boss.

The first time Liu Daidi did business, the cell boss did not agree to meet, but brought in the package through the hand of the jailer.

Chen Ping received cotton clothes from his daughter-in-law that night. Twisting the note in the middle, I felt happy and moved to the point of crying. He's a stupid daughter-in-law, who doesn't know a single big word, how did he come all the way to the foot of Liangshan?

The matter was in a hurry, Liu Daidi didn't have time to ask someone to write a letter to her family, and it was not easy for people to know about it, so she had to draw a "family letter" by herself, put it in a cotton coat and ask the jailer to bring it to her husband.

A picture of a wife looking forward to her husband's return, really expresses Liu Daidi's longing, Chen Ping pinched the letter, looked up and blinked away tears, and looked carefully over and over again, "Hehe...... Fool...... Woohoo......"

On the mountain, the shackled man is bending over to work, and a lonely back looks at the mountain at the foot of the mountain. In the distance, there are four new graves floating on barren fields and empty farmhouses, and in the courtyard of Zhumen lie weeping babies......

The gloomy scene all shows the eagerness of the wife to return to her husband.

"Ah...... There's no one left at home...... My son is entrusted to the Liang family to raise, and you will run to the foot of Liangshan Mountain and wait for me......" Chen Ping read the family letter, and sobbed twice without crying every time he read a sentence, and read a letter for half an hour before carefully putting it into his arms.

Wearing a cotton coat sewn by a clumsy wife, Chen Ping's body and mind were very warm, and he moved his hands and feet before running to work with a smile.

"Why are you crying like a girl?" the fourth prisoner scolded him, and then exclaimed, "Didn't the letter just take it away? Why did you receive the clothes in just a few days?"

"Hey, hey, hey...... The daughter-in-law is here" Chen Ping touched the brand-new cotton clothes and smiled happily.

"Tsk~ What did I say...... It's good to come, it's good to have a head when you come! Your kid has a good life, you can marry such a good daughter-in-law, the old man is envious" The fourth prisoner finished speaking with emotion, and glared and scolded, "You promised me wine!"

"I haven't forgotten, I haven't forgotten, I didn't ask someone to buy it for you" Chen Ping hurriedly appeased, and flattered him with a thief, "How can I forget you if it's good?"

"Count your kid with a conscience" The fourth prisoner smashed his tasteless mouth, how long has he not drunk?

With Liu Daidi handing over the silver, Chen Ping's small life became completely leisurely, and the cell boss arranged for someone to bring things to him every once in a while, so that all the prisoners in the same cell rushed to tie up Chen Ping.

Liu Daidi bought a gold lock as instructed, and it was not until the cell boss came to the door that he wrapped the silver ticket and the gold lock into the burden and handed it over.

The cell boss opened it and looked at it, and shouted with a little dissatisfaction, "How can such a little be enough to honor the above?"

"I'm in a hurry to go out this time, and I have to bring it to my family, and I will definitely have your share of benefits," Liu Daidi pleaded for Ai Ai.

"Well, I'll let it go first, and when I get the money at home, don't forget my "The cell boss took a hundred taels of silver tickets and gold locks into his arms, and left with his baggage.

"Thank you for your trouble" Liu Daidi and the others walked away before closing the dilapidated courtyard door and going back to the house to ponder.

Thanks to the benefactor's thoughtfulness, if there is no golden lock, the head of the cell will allow the lion to open his mouth. It cost no less than a hundred taels just to piggyback on food, and if you don't want to worry about it, I'm afraid it won't last long.

One hundred and fifty taels were transferred to the stove room, Liu Daidi felt that the money was not unjustly spent, and he didn't care whether he was tired or not, so he could have a full meal.

The next day, Liu Daidi went to the street to find out if there was a shop for rent, and he was ready to set up a bun shop, first, to have something to do, and second, to add an entry.

If you can't get in and out, Chen Qing has no face to ask for it, and the silver must be saved. The land in Liangzhou is barren, and the tenant land is at most mixed with food and clothing, and it is definitely impossible to earn bribes.

Liu Daidi didn't learn anything else in the Liang family, but even Liu Hongmei, the master of this steamed bun, praised it.

Within a few days of the storefront, many customers bought it. Liu Daidi has a job in her hands, and she can finally sleep well, and she has reduced her mind a little bit when she is busy every day.

Chen Ping was transferred to the stove room, and at first he felt comfortable, but within two days, he realized that this was really not a good place to stay.

In addition to the two men, ten other prisoners served in the stove. The people who can be transferred here are all the children of officials with deep backgrounds, and the most unfortunate ones are also outlaws with important cases.

Chen Ping has the care of the cell boss, and Ben is also safe with them, but the bad thing is that the stove room is a place to eat, and the guy thinks he is too dirty, so he gets a basin of bath water to clean. This wash will wash away bad things......

Chen Ping is not ugly, and there are rumors among the prisoners that the reason why Chen Ping has been specially taken care of is because he has "served" Mr. Hu......

Don't forget, after Hu Chat came back, Chen Ping cried all night......

The salt works are all strong laborers who have not seen meat for many years, and they are accompanied by rumors with excess energy, so they will naturally not let go of such a beautiful and delicious man.

"There are less than 60 prisoners in the salt farm, but we have to make 300 meals a day...... Chen Pingzheng secretly rejoiced in the discovery of further discovery, and was blocked in the stove room by two prisoners in the same cell.

It wasn't until he was stripped naked and pressed to the ground that Chen Ping understood what these two people wanted to do......

"You fucking broken sleeves stay away from Lao Tzu!" Chen Ping's thin arms and legs kept struggling, and when he saw the hideous stick, he was about to slam in, and when he touched the firewood knife on the ground, he stabbed it hard.

"Murder!" the other prisoner stumbled out to shout as blood gushed out of the man's chest, not daring to lift his pants.

Chen Ping shook his hand and threw away the firewood knife, and shouted in a panic, "Blame you...... Not bad for me......"

How did the flat-headed chai knife stab in, and before Chen Pinghao could understand, he was knocked unconscious by the jailers who rushed in.

When he woke up again, he had been taken to another mine.

Murder while serving a sentence shall be punished by hanging. The person who died was a relative of the Jingguan, and the above explained that the hanging was too cheap, and it was necessary to torture him before he died.

Liu Daidi paid a lot of money to ask about her husband's situation, and the cell boss knew that Chen Ping would die, so he deliberately concealed it from him at first, until there was no benefit, and then told him the truth, "Hurry up and remarry, kill someone, and spend more money to save your life"

Liu Daidi was immediately dizzy, barely stabilized her body by holding on to the table, and begged in a weak tone, "Please give the family letter to you at the end......"

The cell boss sighed softly, "You're planning to go back, this time when I send back my kindness, I don't want the silver."

Liu Daidi stumbled into the back room, Mo Mo depicted the things explained by his benefactor into the painting, and then packed up his baggage and went out immediately.

When Chen Ping received the letter from home, he had already been beaten to the point of not being human, and if he hadn't sworn to save this cotton coat, he would have been unable to resist the cold and frozen to death at the bottom of the mine.

It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a human purgatory, with daily super-intense physical labor, and the pain of flesh and skin at every turn. The officers and men waved their whips for a moment, driving the animals who were still staggering due to physical exhaustion. Prisoners basically have to lie down forever if they don't get up in three breaths......

Countless prisoners were killed, frozen, and beaten to death, and every day humanoid animals were brought in or carried out.

Chen Ping was even more taken care of as a key criminal who couldn't survive and couldn't die, and the reason why he was able to survive a month was because he didn't want him to die too quickly.

After getting the family letter, Chen Ping finally looked forward to a glimmer of life, and after pretending to fall, he grabbed the officers and soldiers who whipped him and cried, "I have silver, so hide it under a pine tree......

The officers and soldiers didn't believe it at first, but they couldn't stand Chen Ping's repeated assurances, and learned that there were 50 taels of silver hidden in it, and Sanniuzi couldn't help but be moved.

Being a soldier all year round is only twenty taels of silver, and in the face of such a huge amount of money, it is strange not to be moved. At most, he will run empty, if it is true, then he will make a fortune......

According to Chen Ping's confession, Sanniuzi ran two hills to find the tallest pine tree, dug three feet into the ground and dug out a small bag of silver, and slipped back to the camp at night.

The officers and men on duty were not surprised to let people in, and as long as they were not on duty, the soldiers would sneak out to hunt for wild food.

With the silver dots, Chen Ping can occasionally eat two more nests, but being beaten is still commonplace, not beating hard, and he refuses to reveal where the silver is hidden.

Sanniuzi and several officers and soldiers took turns to take care of Chen Ping, and after tasting the sweetness three times, they whipped him even more unscrupulously, but fortunately, they still cared about the silver and did not really beat him to death.

When he was beaten for the last time, Chen Ping thought that he really couldn't get through it, but before he died, he seemed to see his daughter-in-law's anxious eyes, holding his head and shedding tears...... "Take Di ......"

"Husband, I'm here to save you...... Liu Daidi took people into her arms and cried bitterly, regardless of the chaotic scene.

By the end of winter, the salt smuggling case had finally been solved. Led by the salt and iron envoys, all the officials involved in the theft and sale of official salt by enslaving prisoners were arrested.

Among them, there are more than 10 dignitaries in the DPRK and China, and they are even more than a number of subordinate officials such as the Ministry of War and the Criminal Department. The emperor was furious and decreed that all those involved in the case would be killed, and all the nine clans would be reduced to slavery and assigned to labor in the bitter cold land......

A large number of vacant positions attracted open and secret battles among various factions, King Jing planned in advance, took the lead, and won most of the important positions under his name, and the rest of the idle positions were left to the various factions to fight endlessly.

Chen Pingguang has been recuperating from his injuries for more than half a year, and when he learned the reason why he was rescued, he couldn't help but grab his daughter-in-law's hand and muttered repeatedly, "Thanks to your timely delivery of the letter, if you hadn't buried silver everywhere, you wouldn't have been able to find out where the salt mine was so quickly."

Liu Daidi didn't expect the situation to be so endangered, so she didn't wait to act before the incident, so she had to hastily divide the silver into ten parts and bury it in various places, and emphatically marked the burial location.

Fortunately, the husband understood his painting, and before the last two copies were dug up, he led the officers and soldiers to arrest the three cows who stole the silver, if not, it would be really difficult to rescue the husband in the shortest possible time.

Every time she thinks about the moment when Chen Ping's breath is dying, Liu Daidi is afraid of the future. One day in the evening, it is estimated that the husband's life will not be guaranteed......

"Tsk~ It's also a big life for your kid, not only survived, but also made a rare contribution" Liao Fanzhi pushed open the door and joked with a smile.

"You still have a fucking face? Didn't you say that you didn't miss anything? Why didn't you calculate that I would be ...... Being ......" Chen Ping thought of the reason for the killing, his eyes were red and he bit his lower lip and refused to let go.

"Ahem~ Who thinks that your face can cause trouble......" Liao Fanzhi aimed at the thin body with bad intentions, until Liu Daidi asked suspiciously, and the two of them unanimously changed to other topics.

Although Chen Ping said that he had made great contributions, he would inevitably be retaliated against in the future, but he still had to remain incognito until the end of his sentence, and as for the matters after returning to his hometown, Liao Fanzhi had already made arrangements.

It is impossible to talk about returning to his hometown with honor, but unjust, false and wrongful cases can also save his bad reputation, and in addition to the meritorious reporting of fraud in the imperial examination, he will be rewarded with ten acres of fertile land and one hundred taels of silver.

Liao Fanzhi's original plan to kill two birds with one stone did not come to fruition, but he accidentally captured all the key criminals, although he let go of the biggest fish that was caught in the net, but presumably cutting off its wings can also weaken the huge power, and the left minister is not far from the day of the case.

If it weren't for Chen Ping's suffering, Liao Fanzhi would not have dared to make dangerous moves, first secretly sent guards to pretend to be salt merchants to purchase on a large scale, and then encircled and suppressed the salt works that produced official salt in one fell swoop.

Breaking away from business registration, benefiting children and grandchildren, and enriching one's own pockets during the case-handling period, it can be regarded as a one-dollar profitless transaction.