In the Push Heart Pavilion.

Lin Fan helped Song Mao straighten the cup and poured him a cup again.

Looking at Song Mao, who was wiping his clothes, he smiled indifferently: "Brother Song, you really don't know?"

Song Mao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "The subordinates really don't understand what the adults mean?"

Lin Fan didn't pick up his words, but said softly: "Actually, from the bottom of my heart, I am very reluctant to doubt Brother Song, including any brother in the Inspection Division."

"But before me, two successive patrol envoys died at the hands of thieves, and when I first came, I was ambushed by bandits in Yanhuan Mountain. All kinds of signs, you have to make me believe that there are no problems in the inspection department, these are accidents and coincidences, and it is too difficult for some strongmen! ”

Song Mao stood up and defended: "Could it be that just by virtue of some possible accidental coincidences and without any evidence, the adults want to determine that our own brothers in the Inspection Department are not complicit?"

He directly buckled a big hat that caught the wind and shadows on Lin Fan's head, and by the way, he also pulled the rest of the patrol department onto his warship.

Lin Fan smiled and asked him to sit down, "Don't worry, I just said that I suspect that there is a problem in the Inspection Division, but I never said that the brothers of the Inspection Department are bandits." ”

Resolving Song Mao's problem lightly, Lin Fan said again: "Since there is a problem, then naturally we have to investigate." At the beginning of my attack, An Ning had doubted you, because you were the most convenient to do this, and if I died, the Inspection Department would fall into your hands again. ”

"But after all, you are a high-ranking court official, how can you speculate without evidence. So after he told me what he thought, I reprimanded him and told him not to act rashly. ”

"Of course, the reason why I reprimanded An Ning does not mean that I trust you. I'm just telling him not to point fingers at anyone without evidence. ”

Song Mao's face also calmed down, "Then according to the meaning of the adult, since you spread out all the words today, it must be because there is evidence, right?" I don't know what evidence there is in the hands of adults, so I might as well take it out and let everyone see it! ”

Lin Fan was noncommittal, he didn't pick up Song Mao's words, but continued to say: "For a long time in the future, I will only stay in doubt about Brother Song, and there will be no substantial progress."

"And for such a long time, nothing else worth noting has happened, and even I myself have begun to wonder if I am too suspicious, and it is really possible that all this is just a coincidence!"

"However, Brother Song, you also know that there are many refugees who have fled recently, and I have a good relationship with them, and I often say hello when we meet. Once I went to see them in Wuguan Town and brought them some food from Yanlailou in the city, and an old lady said something that caught my attention. ”

Lin Fan paused, stared at Song Mao and said, "She told me that every time Deputy Envoy Song goes out of the station, he will go to Yanlai Tower to drink."

Song Mao interrupted him and said, "It's nothing, it can only be said to be a personal habit, what's there to make a fuss about?"

Lin Fan nodded, "You are right, there is nothing strange about this, but a few days after you went to Yanlai Tower, the Tian family was wiped out, so I have to be curious." ”

"So, in order to test you, I have made a battle plan for today, and I have nothing to hide from you. Sure enough, just the day before yesterday, you went to Yanlailou again. ”

"And what you don't know is that that same night, I sneaked into Yanlai Tower. I put on my night clothes, lit a lamp, and took a knife and sat down on the table in front of the shopkeeper's bed. Before I could speak, he told me everything about your relationship! ”

"He first used you to threaten me, saying that he knew you, and he had the support of the government behind him, so I didn't mess around, otherwise I wouldn't be able to eat and walk around."

"Seeing that it didn't work, he said that he was still a person from Yan Huanshan Li Tianming, and he was a person on the road like me, and said that I should not embarrass him, otherwise everyone would not look good."

As he spoke, Lin Fan seemed to think of what happened that night again, and burst out laughing.

Song Mao said flatly: "This can only show that I know him, and merchants like them who do business are ushered in, isn't it normal to eat both black and white?" You can't just say that I am also a bandit just because the restaurant owner is a bandit, right? ”

In fact, when he heard the three words Yan Lailou come out of Lin Fan's mouth, Song Mao already knew that Lin Fan had already identified it as him in his heart.

He just wanted to see if Lin Fan really had any real evidence in his hands.

Lin Fan smiled: "Of course! But since the restaurant owner personally admitted that he was a bandit, then I don't have to be polite to him. After some questioning, he told you all the things you had conspired to do before! ”

"Including how you should cooperate with the outside, and successively designed to get rid of the two inspection divisions; and the tragedy of the Tian family, how did you plan it. In addition to these, there are also some other cases involved, one by one, all of which are clear. In fact, when I first heard this, I really couldn't believe that you, who seemed to be a little loyal and honest on the outside, had secretly done so many evil things. ”

A smile bloomed on Song Mao's somewhat fat face, and he said with a smile: "These are his one-sided words, his testimony is not credible at all, I can also say that these are all tricks made up by adults, and he has to make them up!"

The matter has come to this, and the truth of the matter is already known to both of them; Now that there has been a showdown, there is no room for return between the two of them. As for why Song Mao still didn't admit it, it was to see what Lin Fan could come up with.

Lin Fan looked at Song Mao with an expression that I knew you would say that. "Brother Song, I'm afraid I don't know yet, every letter you wrote to Yan Huanshan was copied by the restaurant owner, in fact, what was sent to Yan Huanshan was not written by you, it was all copied by him, and your correspondence was kept by him, in case you turned your face and didn't recognize anyone at that time."

"But how can you blame him, dealing with the government and bandits, neither of these two is easy to mess with, how can you do it if you don't guard against it? Otherwise, wouldn't it be eaten up and wiped clean at any time and not admit it. ”

Lin Fan stretched out his hand and took out a letter from his arms, handed it to Song Mao, and said with a smile: "Brother Song, come and see, is this letter written by you?"

Song Mao took it and opened it, and sure enough, it was the letter he wrote to Li Tianming, the master of Yan Huanshan last time, in addition to the news that the inspection department was going to attack the mountain this time, there was also a plan to inform Li Tianming to ambush in Tuixin Pavilion and get rid of Lin Fan.

"Bang Bang!" Song Mao closed the letter, threw it aside, applauded and sighed: "My lord is really prepared!" However, I still don't understand one thing, since the adults know everything, they should have arrested me directly in the camp, and didn't leave me any chance, so that nothing could be lost. ”

"It's a pity that I don't know why, but you didn't do it, and even took the risk yourself and stayed in the Tuixin Pavilion, and even asked me to transfer the other people in the inspection department, and now it is impossible for them to rush back to An Ning. I wonder if now that adults are alone and in danger, do they still have the certainty of turning defeat into victory? Yes... Ha ha! ”

In the face of the facts, Song Mao simply stopped defending, or was too lazy to act in this scene again, and directly admitted it.

Lin Fan said with a smile: "Actually, the reason why I came this time is to have an open and honest conversation with you to solve the doubts in my heart." If I had caught you directly, would you have said something to me? ”

Song Mao sighed softly and said, "My lord, my subordinates must know everything!"

This is the second time Song Mao has said this sentence today, perhaps because of the fact that he has the chance to win, this time it sounds much more sincere than the last time.

Although he didn't know why Lin Fan dared to risk his life, this made Song Mao feel a little uneasy in his heart.

However, he knows the things in the inspection department best, there are so many people up and down, except for his own cronies, the rest have been arranged by him, and Lin Fan has absolutely no hidden power to turn the tables. Unless Lin Fan can really defeat a hundred, but I'm afraid even Lin Fan himself won't believe this!

Ignoring what Song Mao was thinking, Lin Fan opened his mouth and asked, "Brother Song, I don't understand, you are a dignified court official, although your grade is not high, why do you want to be in the company of bandits?"

"Did you know that I gave you a chance to mend your ways? Since I came to Wuguan, I have heard more than once that the former veterans have complained in private, saying that you have cultivated cronies, withheld the food and salary of the rest of the brothers, and filled their own pockets. ”

"And when I came, the number of people reported by the inspection department was more than 120 people, but the actual number was only about 70 people. I asked you why, and you said that the locals were unwilling to join the army, and it was difficult to replenish the personnel damaged in the war for a while; Actually, I know that you ate the empty wages of these fifty people. ”

"But I pretend I don't know, and I don't ask you to spit out what you've eaten before. As long as you can stop your hands and no longer stretch out your hands to the people and your own brothers after I come, as long as you can know that you are lost, I will not ask about the past! ”

Song Mao sneered and said, "What, then I have to thank you, thank you for surviving my life?"

"Don't say that you are so noble, you don't pursue me, after all, it's because you're new to the city, and your foundation is not stable, and you're worried that getting rid of me will cause chaos, and it's hard to clean up in the end."

"In all fairness, if you were really in complete control, would you still keep me? You must know that cultivating power and deducting food and salary are all capital crimes! Not to mention colluding with bandits, robbing the people, and killing Shangguan! ”

"If these things are poked out, my life will not be too much to die a hundred times!"

Seeing that Song Mao was mocking himself, Lin Fan didn't want to explain, but he still said: "Whether you believe it or not, I never thought of killing you before I confirmed that you were a bandit!"

"I know your resume, and I know that you are from the military on the border of northern Xinjiang, and you have also served the country, resisted foreign enemies, and even suffered injuries."

"You have gone through the battlefield and killed, and you can go from an ordinary soldier step by step to today, and you are by no means a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, so I am willing to give you a chance, but I don't understand, you can obviously take a fair and righteous road, but why did you fall to such a point?"

"Huh!" Song Mao sneered.

"Why did I get to where I am today, you ask? Let me tell you, it's all because of you! He roared in a low voice, his tone full of anger and unwillingness.