Xiao Ye used his trembling fingers to point at Xi Yuanxiu, who was pinching Liu Xiao's face.

Xi Yuanxiu didn't pay attention to it, but looked at all the officials present with his eyes.

He found it.

The two people he was looking for were following the other Yangzhou soldiers to clean up the mess in the courtyard.

He walked straight towards the two of them and asked, "Is the Yangzhou Mansion really poor?" ”

The servant, who was holding a big broom in his hand, pointed to the ground with his finger and asked, "Don't you think Lord Xi?" ”

The blood flowing into the brick joints on the ground, if someone wants to wash it with water, I'm afraid it will only be washed away with the bricks, and the Yangzhou Mansion is indeed very poor.

Xi Yuanxiu also pointed to the man's feet, but the place where he pointed was not the bricks under the man's feet, but his shoes.

"That's not going to happen, let's go to the Salt and Iron Division to borrow shoes to wear!"

After hearing this, the man immediately covered his feet with the broom in his hand, his expression became nervous, and his eyes glanced away, no longer looking at Xi Yuanxiu.

The official standing beside him slowly retracted his feet half a step unnaturally.

Xi Yuanxiu looked at Xiao Ye with a gloomy face and said, "Could it be that the Salt and Iron Division is so generous that even the official boots in the division can be given away at will?" ”

Xiao Ye said coldly: "It may be that I made a mistake when issuing official boots at that time, what does this have to do with whether I am generous or not." ”

The Marquis of Anding, who had just let Hu Wei deal with Xue Luping and Wang Shichang, heard the news, and he wanted to see why Xi Yuanxiu was holding on to the shoes of these two.

While wearing the new robe that Hu Wei had brought over, Andinghou asked, "Yuan Xiu, it's just two pairs of erroneous official boots, which are you?" ”

Xi Yuanxiu called Liu Xiao, who was standing at the door of the prison, to his side, and after Liu Xiao saluted Andinghou, according to Xi Yuanxiu's request, he carefully recounted to Andinghou that day when he was knocked unconscious.

After hearing this, An Dinghou also became interested in this matter, and he caught it in the air, and actually sucked the two officials directly in front of him.

"Take your shoes off!"

Faced with this kind of Hou Ye, who might take his own life at any time, the two of them glanced at each other and had to take off the shoes on their feet.

Under Xi Yuanxiu's urging, Liu Xiao covered his nose with one hand, and lifted the two pairs of shoes one by one with the other, and then looked at them carefully.

"Brother Xiu'er, this type of official boots were only issued to the Salt and Iron Division three months ago, and as far as I know, in the past six months, there have been no new clothes in Yangzhou Mansion!"

Liu Xiao endured the stench and said with a hidden face.

Andinghou's gaze, like that of a falcon hunting, slowly moved to Xiao Ye.

Xi Yuanxiu also looked at Xiao Ye, as well as Xiao Ye's slightly trembling legs, and said, "Lord Xiao, the one who came back from my Scoop City, but is he in your mansion?" ”

Xiao Ye only felt that a muffled thunder had hit his head, but because it was muffled thunder, he could only forcibly reply: "What is Lord Xi talking about?" ”

"Lord Xiao, I'm too lazy to go around the bend, but I think it's a bit condescending for you not to lead the troops to fight!"

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In the confusing conversation between the two of them, the backyard of the entire Yangzhou Mansion has become much cleaner.

Xu Lai and the others also came to rest under the corridor with the prince.

The prince and the king were also smiling and not smiling, playing the drama of brotherly love, which made Liu Xiao and the others feel uncomfortable.

The tiger guards in the field set up a large umbrella that seemed to be able to cover the sky and the sun, which was used to shade Andinghou.

Of course, there is also the bench that Xue Luping sat on in the prison before.

Andinghou looked at the Yangzhou soldiers who were standing under the scorching sun, as well as the leader of the general, and said indifferently: "There is no military order, rashly sent troops, and did some things for the tiger, you take your subordinates, after burying the dead soldiers, go to your General Zhao's eighty military staff, take it down, let you be promoted to another official and a half position, you can't stand it, Ben Hou will come to Yangzhou to see you again at this time next year!" ”

The general didn't talk nonsense, and after coming down, he took the rest of the soldiers and the corpses and walked towards the front yard.

When passing through the corridor, the general stared at Xu Lai like a hungry wolf.

At this time, Andinghou's voice came from behind the general.

"More than 20 people, using the formation against one enemy, and almost all the army was wiped out, if you are in the past, you still want to train the soldiers under your command again!"

When the words fell, those black-armored Yangzhou soldiers also came out of the backyard.

Now there are only thirty tiger guards left, a number of officials, and Xi Yuanxiu and Xiao Ye, standing in the middle of the courtyard.

Xi Yuanxiu looked at the tiger guards guarding various positions, nodded with some satisfaction, and said, "Lord Xue may be confused for a while, but Lord Xiao, you are different, you know the roots!" ”

Xiao Ye squinted his eyes and said, "Master Xi is afraid that he is a little confused, why can't I understand a word when you speak?" ”

Xi Yuanxiu glanced at Wang Shichang who was in shackles, turned his head and said with a smile: "I mean, you Xiao Ye did this private salt trade with that Wang Shichang, I say this, Lord Xiao may understand?" ”

After hearing this, Xiao Ye laughed angrily, and after laughing, he said indifferently: "This official really doesn't understand." ”

Xi Yuanxiu glanced at Andinghou, Andinghou nodded slightly, motioning for him to continue.

"Since the adults don't understand, then the officials have to explain to the adults, at the beginning of September, after the Chaoli Qin sent Lord Zhou to Yangzhou, you assigned your subordinates to control the various intersections leading to Yangzhou, all the people on the official road, all one by one, originally these people are traceless, but it's a pity, your subordinates' salt and iron division standard official boots, exposed horses' feet!"

Xi Yuanxiu didn't wait for Xiao Ye to speak, and continued: "My master has never forgotten half of his face, anyone he has seen or a word can remember seven, seven, eight, eight, and eight, and before he passed out, the last thing he saw was the pair of official boots just now!" ”

At this time, the two people kneeling in front of Andinghou were about to bury their heads in the ground.

Xiao Ye sneered: "What if you only have a pair of shoes, what if these two people go away from our company!" ”

The official who sent Xi Yuanxiu a hundred thousand taels of silver tickets just now stood up and said, "Lord Xiao, there is a record in the secondment records of Yangzhou Mansion, on August 17, due to the transfer of personnel from Yangzhou Mansion, 38 people were seconded from the Salt and Iron Division. ”

Xiao Ye's face turned pale, and his speech became inherent.

"But this... Can it be considered evidence? ”

Xi Yuanxiu then said: "Yes, this can only be regarded as a clue, but the whereabouts of the person you sent to deliver the letter to the Huangcheng Salt Farm have always been in my grasp, that day in the Guangxing Building, I thought he was looking for Lord Xue, but later I found out that it was not, he was actually looking for you, Lord Xiao of the Salt and Iron Division!" ”

As Xi Yuanxiu finished speaking, several tiger guards had already set their eyes on Xiao Ye.

Everyone under the corridor looked at Xiao Ye with different expressions.

"Of course, this still can't make Lord Xiao admit his guilt, but between Xue Luping and Wang Shichang, who is the person who made the button connecting the two, I thought that you and Xue Luping had little personal relationship, but when I went to the Salt and Iron Division that day to see the magnificent plaque, I learned that the two of you still have such a relationship."

"But in the conversation between Xue Luping and Wang Shichang just now, it seems that Xue Luping doesn't want Wang Shichang to get involved, which means that Xue Luping has nothing to do with this private salt case, but Wang Shichang appeared in the team you brought, which is quite interesting, and every year the emperor bar is you personally go to the mighty dart bureau to talk to him!"

Xiao Ye said with a pale face: "So what? ”

Xi Yuanxiu felt a little dry mouth, licked his lips, and continued: "So it can only be because His Royal Highness Xianwang and I accidentally touched Xue Luping's fat, so he can only send the two of us to prison first, but he is afraid that Lord Zhou will continue to investigate, so he found you, he already knew that you were also the person behind this private salt business, so even if he didn't say it, you and Wang Shichang would find a chance to do it, but why not give him a favor, the best of both worlds, and just now you want to take these two people to the salt and iron prison, It's nothing more than wanting these two people to make a false impression of committing suicide in fear of crime, and then protect themselves, so I said Lord Xiao, you are so good at this treacherous way, it's a pity not to go to the frontier to lead the troops! ”

Xiao Ye's feet were weak and he collapsed on the ground, he looked at Xi Yuanxiu blankly and said, "You guessed about it!" ”

Liu Xiao ignored the princes around him and shouted at Xiao Ye: "This is not a guess, this is all calculated by my brother Xiu'er!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu waved his hand at Liu Xiao a little proudly, walked in front of Xiao Ye, then squatted down and asked, "I just don't know, my lord, you are already in a high position, if you want to be greedy for some money, you can't do such a thing as private salt!" ”

Xiao Ye looked at the fine carved patterns on the corridor, and then at An Dinghou, who closed his eyes and recuperated, and said with a miserable smile: "You will understand, but it is estimated that it will be when you become a prisoner again!" ”

After Xiao Ye finished speaking, he lay on the ground, lifeless.

The two tiger guards were just about to come over to check, but Xi Yuanxiu said softly: "No need, the person is already dead!" ”

As he spoke, Xi Yuanxiu opened Xiao Ye's mouth and slipped out of his mouth with a bloodstained half-amputated tongue.

Xi Yuanxiu sat on the ground, looking at Xiao Ye, who was still smiling at him, and felt a little indescribable.

He closed Xiao Ye's eyes with his hands, and then began to frown again, rubbing his thighs with his hands, thinking about what Xiao Ye said just now.

Xue Luping, Wang Shichang and A Qu were pressed into the prison of Yangzhou Mansion under the care of Huwei, and coincidentally, Xue Luping lived in the same room where Xi Yuanxiu lived before.

All the officials who came to Yangzhou Mansion with Xiao Ye were killed on the spot by the tiger guards, including the two officials who had taken off their shoes.

Because Andinghou knew that after these people were sent to Chang'an, the fate would be the same as now, and it would also affect the speed of the march.

All in all, today's events are quite complete.