The two of them turned their bodies along the boots, not daring to get up. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhou Tingyu sat on the chair with a deep voice, "Say it." ”

Guan kowtowed in advance, and then said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness, we sent a batch of grain to the Turks ten days ago..."

"Bang"

The steward and the head of the guard shook violently, looked at the scattered table in panic, and swallowed unconsciously.

"I think you're tired of being crooked."

Zhou Tingyu's face was gloomy and terrifying, and there was also a coldness in his voice, which made people afraid for no reason.

"Yes, Your Highness, we know that the sins are great, and we should be killed and killed, and we should be disposed of."

The steward's voice trembled, and although he was afraid, he still took responsibility in the end.

"Go on."

Zhou Tingyu saw himself like this, and the two of them still insisted on taking the mistakes, but they were impressed.

"Here's the thing..."

As the steward spoke, the head of the guard added that he would tell the Turks how to deliver food to the Turks.

According to what Zhou Tingyu secretly saw that day, the matter of transporting grain was not hidden at all, so other things should be true.

"Where did this grain come from? Didn't you say that your master's family made a living from jade? How did he get so much food? ”

What Zhou Tingyu is most concerned about is how this batch of grain came from, and he can't figure out the person who provided the food, who knows if there will be other people who will secretly send food to the Turks through other methods?

The steward shook his head, "We don't know how this grain came from..."

Hearing this, Zhou Tingyu felt a burst of disappointment in his heart.

"However, before this escort mission, I saw a man come to Fengcheng to visit our family master."

The head of the guard added on the side, "It's Master Zhang, the original owner of the border city courtyard." ”

Well?

Zhou Tingyu's eyes suddenly froze, and he looked directly at the head of the guard, "You make it clear, who did you see?" ”

"It's Master Zhang, the original owner of the courtyard with a secret passage underground."

The head of the guard didn't dare to let out a breath, and he didn't stop talking for a while.

"You're not mistaken?" Zhou Tingyu was a little excited in his heart.

"I'm not mistaken, it's Master Zhang." The head of the guard affirmed.

Zhou Tingyu asked again: "He came by himself?" ”

"He came by himself with a caravan, and after coming to Fengcheng, he came to visit the head of the house, and was personally welcomed in by the head of the house, as for when Master Zhang left, the little one doesn't know.

One day later, the head of the house announced that the two of us had gone in and told us about it. ”

The head of the guard glanced at the steward beside him, and his voice was low, "At that time, after the two of us left the housekeeper's place together, when it was almost night, the housemaster summoned me alone and told me that I would kill the others on the boundary of the sandbank afterwards, so as to create the illusion of being robbed by bandits. ”

The steward's face was expressionless, and he had been repeatedly disappointed in the master's family since the family wanted to kill him.

"I'm afraid your master has promised you a lot of benefits, right?" Zhou Tingyu sneered and mocked.

The head of the guard blushed and said in a low voice: "Yes, the head of the family promised me to do this well, and when I go back, I will arrange to be the shopkeeper in charge of the shop, and promise me a hundred taels of gold." ”

"The shopkeeper of a shop, a thousand taels of silver, bought forty-seven lives, do you say your lives are precious, or cheap?"

Zhou Tingyu looked at the two of them sarcastically and mocked unceremoniously.

The head of the guard lowered his head in shame, but the steward raised his head and said bluntly: "It's cheap, because buying our forty-seven lives is not the two conditions that were agreed." ”

The head of the guard turned even redder, he understood what he was saying, because it was obvious that the head of the family did not want to fulfill his promise at all, and even he wanted to catch it all.

Zhou Tingyu didn't ask them again, they all knew it, and the most important thing now was that Master Zhang.

"Master Zhang, who are you?"

Zhou Tingyu's muttering was heard by the other three people in the room.

The steward's eyebrows moved slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, I don't know who Master Zhang is, but I have heard his accent, with the Wu language of Huainan Road." ”

Zhou Tingyu looked at the steward sharply, "Are you sure?" ”

The steward thought about it seriously, and then said affirmatively: "Little certainty, the original delivery of the border city annex was the border city that I came to with Lao Li, and it was also the delivery of the house deed and land deed that I did with Master Zhang. ”

Zhou Tingyu turned his head to look at the leader and asked in a deep voice, "Didn't you say that Master Zhang is from Jiangnan?" ”

Huainan Province and Gangnam Province are two places.

When the steward and the head of the guard saw that His Royal Highness the Fifth even knew that Master Zhang was from Jiangnan, they understood that they were afraid that the details of the two of them had been almost checked, and they were glad that they were not playing tricks.

The leader was slightly stunned at first, and then frowned, "Could it be that Master Zhang said that he was from Jiangnan is fake?" ”

The steward paused, lest his words affect His Highness's judgment, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, I don't know where Master Zhang is, just because the little old lady is from Huainan Dao, and I have heard that Wu language since I was a child.

Master Zhang's accent only had a hint of Wu language, I just thought that such a clue was useful to His Highness and said it, but I was not sure that Master Zhang was born in Huainan Province. ”

Zhou Tingyu wrote down this important clue, and then asked the two, "This Master Zhang, if you want to recall, do you remember what he looks like?" ”

The steward and the head of the guard nodded in unison, "Remember." ”

"Okay, then you will tell me about his appearance, and I will paint it and make a portrait of him."

Zhou Tingyu asked Qing Fan to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and he wrote it, and the steward and the head of the guard dictated, and it took nearly two quarters of an hour to draw the portrait.

"I know what happened to you, you sent food to the enemy during the war, this is a great crime not to plot rebellion, I can assure you that you can avoid the death penalty, but the living sin cannot be escaped."

Zhou Tingyu thought that if it weren't for the two people who gave food to them, they would never have bypassed the lives of these two people, but fortunately, the two of them had a good attitude of admitting their mistakes, and they were willing to take responsibility and spare their lives for the time being.

The two were overjoyed, they were ready to die, just begging not to involve their families, and now they are lucky not to die, even if they suffer a heavier punishment, they deserve it.

The two kowtowed again and again, grateful, and before being taken away, the steward said one more thing, "Your Highness, the dozens of truckloads of ore that came back with us are real ores."

If Your Highness can trust us, we can help Your Highness open the jade inside while we are being guarded. ”