Xue Congjia narrowed his eyes, intending to let Shi Li finish.

Shi Li said: "Xie Yun colluded with businessmen to sell pig iron to the surrounding feudal countries, this is a sure thing, didn't Huo Lao Er say it?" Huo Lao Er is a human witness, and the underground casino is physical evidence, Xie Yun is arrested and tortured, and all the big people behind him have to confess? What is Brother Di worried about? ”

Xue Congjia smiled bitterly at this time: "How much do you think what Huo Lao Er said is true or false?" ”

"Didn't you see him fall out with Pei Jinxin with your own eyes? He must have hoped that someone would bring down Pei Jinxin's big tree, Xie Yun. "Shi Li calculates the accounts very clearly, but his mind is not as deep as Xue Congjia. The scene of Huo Lao Er and Pei Jinxin's turning face in court was described to him by Chu Tao.

"Master Shi takes a closer look, Huo Lao Er has been running Jiangdong for many years, and it is not strange that a smart person like Xie Yun does not accept it for his own use but becomes an enemy?" Xue Congjia said.

Shi Li pondered: "Xie Yun deliberately fought for this business, and it was really a bit deliberate. ”

Xue Congjia always felt that something was wrong, Xie Yun was wrong, Huo Lao Er was wrong, he already had a lot of pearls in his mind, and now he was short of a thread to string these pearls together, but he had been sitting here thinking about it for a long time, and he couldn't find a thread in his chaotic thoughts.

Shi Li joked: "It's better to marry Miss Na Xie, then everything will be clear." ”

Xue Congjia smiled bitterly: "Xie Yun and I don't trust each other, Master Shi should stop making fun of me about this matter." ”

"Brother Di, have you passed the crown?" Shi Li rarely said so much to Xue Congjia alone, and Xue Congjia was not as cold as in the past tonight, so Shi Li couldn't help but ask a few more words.

Xue Congjia was still young when he came to Dongyi, and he didn't have much impression of his birth date, counting the days, he was also nineteen, and it was only a year before the crown. He didn't know what Shi Li meant, and replied: "Next year and the crown." ”

Shi Li said: "My brother is also at this age, and he has already married a wife and had children. In addition, I have two younger sisters who are to be married, and they are both excellent in appearance and talent...... I don't know what Brother Di thinks. ”

Xue Congjia is a proton, and there is no one to serve around him, he is personally at a loss about getting married, his father and mother are not around, and no one has ever considered the matchmaking thing for Xue Congjia, so that Xue Congjia has forgotten that many men of his age have already married wives and had children, even if they have not married a wife, they must have a marriage contract.

Xue Congjia almost subconsciously refused: "Thank you Lord Shi for your kindness, I ......" Xue Congjia was exhausted.

Xue Congjia kind of wanted to say, women are too troublesome, you never know what they are thinking, what will she be angry with you about.

Just like that Jiang Chutao, you can never figure out what she has in her head and what kind of "surprises" she can bring to herself.

Shi Li is selfish, if Xue Congjia marries a wife, Chu Tao will definitely die.

Suddenly, Shi Li's eyes lit up, and he saw the purse on the table, and picked up the purse while smiling: "Brother Di don't feel embarrassed, look at this purse...... Eh, how small and cute, which girl should it be from, right? It's no wonder that they want to dismiss me as a matchmaker. ”

Shi Li wanted to praise the fine workmanship, but when he saw that the purse was embroidered like this, he was really embarrassed to open his eyes and say nonsense, he gently pinched it with his hand, and found that there was a small peach embroidered underneath, with a little red in the green, and the stitches were not smooth at all.

Shi Li was stunned, he rubbed the pattern on it with his thumb, and gently put it back in place.

Xue Congjia said expressionlessly: "I picked it up." ”

Shi Li smiled and didn't speak, Xue Congjia's lies were so lame that he didn't want to expose him. He said, "Then Brother Di will not go to the street tomorrow?" ”

Xue Congjia shook his head: "You guys go, I have something to do tomorrow." ”

Shi Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Brother Di should rest earlier, don't be too tired." ”

The next day. Chu Tao and Shi Li were dressed extremely thick and came to the street on time. In the afternoon, the sky was overcast, a thick layer of clouds obscured the sun like a cotton quilt, and occasionally a few birds that passed by the south flew in the sky, and let out two desolate and strange calls. Most of the people who went to the streets to watch the torture were women, children and the elderly, and they were very curious.

There was a commotion in the distance, and there was the sound of wheels sliding and chains dragging on the ground, and the long iron locks hung on the ground, making a dull and alarming sound on the bluestone slabs. The prison car moved very slowly, the shops on both sides were paved, and the open shops were deserted, and almost everyone ran out to see the execution.

The person in the prison car was black and thin, with his head down, wearing a dirty and torn prison uniform, with his hands behind his back, and when the prison car approached, Chu Tao saw that the person was tied not with an iron chain or a thick rope, and the iron chain was attached to a heavy iron ball hanging from the prisoner's feet to prevent him from escaping.

The old woman beside Chu Tao threw the rotten leaves on the prisoner, and there were words in her mouth: "So young, kill so many people, wait to go to the eighteenth layer of hell." ”

The people around them all smashed the rotten leaves and rotten eggs they had prepared in their hands into the prison car in the middle, in their opinion, the person who killed his father and mother should be stripped of his skin and cramped and then killed, and it was too cheap for him to be beheaded.

Chu Tao was squeezed by the people who were watching the execution, Shi Li spread his arms and protected Chu Tao's surroundings, not touching Chu Tao but protecting Chu Tao's safety.

The old woman squinted at Shi Li, thinking that they were a young couple, and said, "This official is really good to his wife." ”

Chu Tao said loudly: "Grandma, he is my brother!" ”

"I said, little girl, you're not afraid, you're going to cut off your head in a while, you better let your brother take you back!" After the old woman finished speaking, she threw a few more vegetable leaves.

Shi Li smiled and said, "It's okay, she's bold, so I took her out to see it." ”

Chu Tao squeezed forward a little more, wanting to see what the people in the car looked like, so that he could go back and tell Zhao Tieniu what his substitute ghost looked like. It's just that the dead ghost keeps his head down, and his messy hair covers his face, and Chu Tao can't see clearly. The carriage continued to move slowly, and the crowd moved with it.

This common people, what can't be changed is this personality that likes to watch lively, no matter whether it is a happy event, carrying the coffin and sending it to death will always be a topic they talk about.

An old man selling herbal tea at the corner of the street had no business in winter, and he originally wanted to come out to bask in the sun with a bench, but he was so frightened by the black pressure that he returned home. There was also a little girl who was selling along the street, carefully guarding the basket covered with a white cloth in her hand, and was worried that there was no business today.

Looking at the punishment, Chu Tao saw the feeling of life, she rarely went out before, and even when she went out, she went straight to her destination, followed by several maids, and she would not be mixed with so many fresh people like now. This experience, even if you return to Jinling, you can brag to your two sisters and Sun Shaomin!

is sighing, Chu Tao suddenly saw the old woman's shoes that had been beside him stepped on one, Chu Tao looked back, a cloth shoe on the ground lying quietly on the ground and let the crowded people trample on it, Chu Tao didn't think about it to go to the old woman to pick up shoes, everyone didn't react and suddenly lowered down a person, even stepped on Chu Tao's hand several times, and the pain made Chu Tao's tears come out.

As soon as Chu Tao looked up, she found that she and Shi Li had been scattered by the crowd, she was already a petite one, and she couldn't find it at all in the crowd. can only withdraw from the crowd first, so that it is easier to find Brother Shi. Hatsu Tao carried the hem of her skirt and slowly retreated.

A hand suddenly put on Chu Tao's shoulder, Chu Tao was overjoyed, thinking that Brother Shi had found her, and was about to turn back, when she felt a cloth with the smell of potion covering her mouth and nose, and the force behind her was dragging her back.

Chu Tao wanted to tear her throat and shout, but her nose and mouth were covered tightly, so she could only barely make a "woo" sound, and disappeared into the noisy crowd.

When Chu Tao woke up, she found that her mouth was tightly gagged, her hands were tied to the chair with ropes behind her back, and her feet were also tied with ropes, and she couldn't move at all.

Chu Peach Blossom took a while to remember what happened before, she was obviously helping the old woman pick up shoes, why was she tied up here? She has been in Xinyang for so many days, she has never eaten an overlord meal, and the worst thing she did was to instruct Xiaohong and Xiaozi to pick up the carp in the pond and stew it, why did someone kidnap her? It's the wrong one!

Looking at the sunshine outside, it didn't take long for her to be tied up. Chu Tao twisted her body, her whole body was sore, and even her butt hurt so much that she couldn't do it, Chu Tao moved her wrist and touched the rope, mother, it's okay to tie a pig with such a thick rope!

Chu Tao hurriedly shook his head, and warned himself in his heart that he must be calm and calm at this time, and stop thinking about some irrelevant things in his mind. She looked around and thought it was a very ordinary room.

But this is not an ordinary room, whether it is in the Jiangfu home, or the dormitory of Jichang Garden, or the top guest rooms that come to live along the way, the place where Chu Tao lives is very comfortable and elegantly decorated, and there is no shortage of antique jade in this room, all of which show the noble taste of the owner of this house. Only Chu Tao would treat this house as an ordinary residence, she thought that all the houses in the world were the same as her peach orchard.

Ah, what the hell is going on, it's good to come to someone, you can give you as much money as you want, and you won't get any money if you leave yourself tied up here. Chu Tao cried with a sad face, she was a little scared now. After calming down, Chu Tao heard a melodious guqin coming from outside the closed door.

Drive the other four peons, and the four peons are sloppy. The gentleman is relied on, and the villain is retained. Four peony wings, like a fish suit. Wouldn't it be a day to abstain, a stingy hole and a thorn? In the past, I went back, and the willows followed. Now I think about it, the rain and snow are falling. The way is slow, thirsty and hungry. My heart is sad, I don't know how I mourn! e8

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