As soon as Cao Yilang's voice fell, Hou Shigui asked.

"The beggars helped those twenty-five lives, but you did it?"

"This! How do you know? ”

Cao Yilang looked shocked, who is this person? Even the officials patrolling the city didn't find out about the beggars gang last night, where did he hear about it?

Before he was shocked, Hou Shigui asked again:

"What are you doing guarding this river?"

"This ...... I don't know ...... either."

Cao Yilang shook his head and said.

Looking at his appearance, it doesn't look like a lie.

But people, once they believe that what they are saying is not a lie, it is naturally difficult for others to see that he is lying:

"Interrogation."

Hou Shigui said lightly, and what was summoned was Cao Yilang's painful wail in the next bowl of tea.

Fortunately, the sound of rain mixed with thunder outside the cabin was deafening, and Cao Ichiro's screams couldn't get out of the cabin at all.

After a bowl of tea, Jiang Yong and Fang Feibai dragged the dying Cao Yilang out and threw him in front of Hou Shigui:

"Commander, although this guy has also explained something, but according to my opinion, there are still some words in this guy's mouth that haven't been spit out, if you give me another half an hour, I will definitely be able to ask you what is going on."

Fang Feibai said a word, and looked at Cao Yilang with an unwilling face, thinking that this was the first time in his life that he hadn't asked all the truth, and he had to rectify this guy well.

"What has he explained, it's not too late for you to tell me first and then try again."

"The guy said that someone had given him money to wait with the rest of the people on the dock until this afternoon, and to take a boat to kill people.

As for who gave him the money and who killed him, this guy didn't reveal a word, not to say that he didn't know.

Isn't it nonsense that the hired killer doesn't tell the killer who he wants to kill? Commander, and let me try again! ”

After that, he was going to drag Fang Feibai back to continue the interrogation.

Who knew that Hou Shigui waved his hand and said:

"No need, if he really knows, unless you take him back to the Jinyi Yamen for trial for half a month, and give him all kinds of torture to the side, he will never recruit him."

"Why is that?"

Jiang Yong asked puzzled.

Hou Shigui glanced at the riverbank opposite the pier and said:

"This river is connected to the canal, and in half a day, our Jinyiwei's ships will pass through the canal and arrive at Qinggang.

This guy was hired to assassinate the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and the crime of raiding his house, he would not have said anything if he had not gone through all the torture on him. ”

Hearing Hou Shigui's words, Cao Yilang, who was lying on the ground and dying, looked at Hou Shigui from the ground with wide eyes as if he had been beaten with chicken blood:

"You! How do you know! ”

Hou Shigui turned his head to look at him, his tone was soft, but he almost died of fright on the spot:

"This official, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Hou Shigui."

"Poof!" With a muffled sound, Cao Ichiro's head collapsed weakly on the wooden plank of the cabin, and his eyes were full of despair.

He didn't doubt Hou Shigui's identity, at this time, this person had no reason to pretend to be Hou Shigui.

Even...... The moment he knew Hou Shigui's identity, he also understood.

Why is this Hou Shigui looking for Chen Jin?

According to the clues he knew, Chen Jin came to He'an County a month ago while begging, and no one knew what he did before and what his identity was.

And what did Hou Shigui come to investigate? What was investigated was the truth about the rout of the Southern Army.

If this Hou Shigui really wants to check, how can he check Xiaoping, who is full of Yuwen's ears and eyes? There is only one private visit to Weifu.

But the people of Xiaoping don't know about the rout of the Southern Expedition, who can Weifu visit privately? Haven't you visited those deserters yet?

No wonder Chen Jin is so good, it turned out to be the rout of the Southern Expeditionary Army!

Cao Yilang, who understood everything, was already disillusioned at this time, and he didn't think about being an assassin himself.

Before he could start the assassination, he was subdued by the target he was going to assassinate:

"Commander, Cao knows the death penalty, and Cao really doesn't know the whereabouts of the deserter.

But if the commander is willing to let Cao's family go, Cao is willing to tell the identity of the person who hired him. ”

"Hey, you sold the Yuwen family so soon?"

Needless to say, Hou Shigui didn't have to think about it to know that it was the Yuwen family who did it.

He is a celebrity around His Majesty, and he is also an important means for His Majesty to balance the power of the family.

If you kill yourself, and under the wrath of Your Majesty, those families will definitely not be pleased.

And if I die, Hou Shigui one, there is a second, and the third, Your Majesty will support endless people to balance the family.

Although these people will eventually form a new family, His Majesty can't control that much.

If you kill yourself, you will be considered to have turned against Your Majesty, and at that time, under Your Majesty's anger, I am afraid that it is conceivable to support ten Hou Shigui to deal with them at the same time.

Therefore, those families will not be so stupid and reckless.

And the person who is so anxious to think about his own death, besides the Yuwen family, who else is coming?

After all, in order to protect Yuwen Hao, the Yuwen family had a falling out with the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, not to mention, even His Majesty's side disliked His Majesty, so he sent me out.

They can offend the Manchu family for a Yuwenhao, and naturally they can also kill me, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, for the same person, so as to give them time to solve the deserters scattered all over the place.

In this way, Yu Wenhao can give the Southern Expeditionary Army a unified caliber.

This Yuwen Hao, but he dragged the Yuwen family to the point of no return.

However, Hou Shigui also knows that the mentality of the Yuwen family is nothing more than the mentality of a gambler.

He invested a lot of energy before, compromised with various families, and paid, which made Yu Wenhao the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army.

I thought that in the matter of the southern expedition, Da Chu was pressed down with absolute superiority in troops, equipment, grain and grass, and this battle must be won and undefeated, and they are all waiting for the fruits of the victory.

Who knew that in a big defeat, the Yuwen family had already invested so much, so naturally they were reluctant to let their previous investment go down the drain.

So he wanted to keep Yu Wenhao.

After paying a lot of things to compromise with the major families, they finally asked for help from the major families.

But now, His Majesty has sent himself to investigate the matter.

Counting the things they paid for Yu Wenhao before and after, of course they didn't want those efforts to go down the drain.

So the more he paid, the more extreme he became, and finally he took the risk, wanting to kill himself and give Yu Wenhao time to unify the caliber of the Southern Army.

Hearing Hou Shigui talk about the Yuwen family, the last glimmer of hope on Cao Yilang's face was also shattered.

He lay on the ground weakly, as if he had given up everything, waiting for the moment when the sword and axe would be added.

Hou Shigui glanced at him:

"You are also clever, and you can guess that Chen Jin I am looking for is a deserter because of my identity."

Cao Yilang didn't want to pay attention to Hou Shigui, so he just lay on the ground and closed his eyes to die.

For a long time, he didn't wait for the sword and axe to add to his body, but waited for Hou Shigui's words:

"I can spare your family, I can spare your life, and even let you continue to be your He'an County Guardian."