"It's a little interesting, then Ben Hou asked you, what does this Xue Governor's Mansion have to do with you?"

An Dinghou's tone was calm at this time, but everyone could see that if Jia Daya really said something unknown, I was afraid that these two people would be killed here by his own hands.

Jia Daya looked at Xue Luping with some trepidation, hesitating, and didn't say a word for a long time.

Xue Luping acted disapprerovingly, and said indifferently: "Master Hou asked you something, and you answered truthfully, what do you think I do?" ”

When Jia Daya heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and forcibly endured the pressure of Andinghou and said: "Governor Xue's Mansion has nothing to do with the small one, it's just that half of this Apricot Blossom Courtyard is Lord Xue's, and the small one just does some work to serve tea and pour water for him every year when Lord Xue comes to pick up the silver!" ”

Zhou Wenbin, who had been silent, rushed behind Jia Daya with an arrow step, and directly turned him around despite An Dinghou's presence.

"This official asks you, has Xue Luping, the prefect of Yangzhou, done nothing else except for half of the industry of the Xinghua Courtyard?"

Jia Daya was shocked by Zhou Wenbin's cold drink, and he replied tremblingly: "Return... Back to the University... If you are an adult, Lord Xue has indeed not done anything else, the little one knows that he has committed a capital crime, even if he deliberately pulls Lord Xue into the water, the little one will not survive! “

Zhou Wenbin let go of the hand that was holding Jia Daya's shoulder, his eyes were empty.

Li Yuanhuan stared at the unconcealed smile on Xue Luping's face, and couldn't help but breathe inside, as if he wanted to catch Xue Luping in front of him and ask for an understanding.

Liu Xiao and Bian Ying also muttered secretly, while Xu Lai looked at Wang Shichang, who was sitting cross-legged in the distance, recovering his internal breath.

Only Xi Yuanxiu seemed the calmest, he looked at the straw that was only half a straw left after the previous war.

These people couldn't have imagined that Xue Luping, who was deliberately trying to let a few people die here, didn't seem to have anything to do with the case.

Xi Yuanxiu looked at Xue Luping, and suddenly smiled: "Lord Xue, you really don't think it's okay, right?" ”

Xue Luping, who was talking to Xiao Ye, glanced at him casually and did not reply to him.

"Lord Hou, Lord Xue hired a murderer the night before, and today he wants to take my life in prison, I don't know how you decide on this matter?"

An Dinghou looked at Xi Yuanxiu in front of him, and felt as if he had seen Xi Fang, who was a Confucian in the war of tongues back then, and he was neither humble nor arrogant.

He knew that Xi Yuanxiu was not begging him to decide, but he had to give an explanation.

"Ah Ping, what do you explain about this?"

"Back to the Hou Ye, as the prefect of a state, this official will not do anything to hire murderers, and it is even more nonsense to take the lives of these prisoners in prison!"

Xi Yuanxiu was very calm, he was not displeased by Xue Luping's quibbles, because he knew that someone would speak for him.

Sure enough, Cao Cheng spoke.

"Then why would a dart board with a royal plaque go after me, a salt seller, for no reason?"

Xue Luping squinted at Cao Cheng and said: "You are a grass coward who has brought disaster to the country and the people, everyone has to punish him, where can you talk about it for no reason?" ”

After hearing this, Zhou Wenbin shouted angrily: "Then what about the hand-picked messenger of this official, is it also punished by everyone?" ”

"Lord Qincha, why didn't anyone in the Manchu Dynasty take the initiative to come to Yangzhou to investigate this case, why are you so anxious, it's not that you have a ghost in your heart!"

An Dinghou looked at these people, arguing like children arguing, and was a little upset.

Now such a boring argument, I am afraid that if it continues, there will be no conclusion, so An Dinghou chose to take the initiative to ask.

He used that almost ghostly body to come directly to Wang Shichang.

He looked at Wang Shichang, who was closing his eyes and recuperating, and Ah Qu, who was standing next to Wang Shichang and holding the sinking dragon sparrow in his hand.

"Wang Darttou, do you have any justification for chasing and killing the imperial court?"

Wang Shichang opened his eyes, stood up, clasped his fists and saluted, and then replied: "Return to the Hou Ye, there is no justification." ”

Cao Cheng then said: "The leader of the Chenghua Gang is really extraordinary! ”

"Oh, in this way, you are the master of the biggest salt gang in Yangzhou!"

"Back to the Hou Ye's words, exactly!"

"What about Xue Luping, what does Ah Ping have to do with you?"

Wang Shichang looked at Xue Luping not far away and shook his head.

Wang Shichang's answer made everyone present feel a little surprised.

They didn't expect Wang Shichang to answer so happily, including Xi Yuanxiu.

With his hands behind his back, Andinghou started to breathe, facing Wang Shichang, who might be ready to escape at any time.

Xi Yuanxiu also hinted at Xu Lai, staring at Xue Luping's every move.

"By the way, Master Xue, no matter how you argue, your silver ticket that received 100,000 taels is still in my hand!"

Xi Yuanxiu looked at Xue Luping with a smug look and said.

Xue Luping couldn't help laughing and said, "Lord Xi can really laugh, you..."

Xue Luping's words were not finished, not because he didn't want to say it, but because he was interrupted by the actions of the official behind him.

The official behind him suddenly trotted in front of Xi Yuanxiu, took out a silver ticket from his arms, and handed it to Xi Yuanxiu.

"Fortunately, I didn't lose my life!"

Xi Yuanxiu looked at the servant, nodded with satisfaction, and then asked him to stand beside Liu Xiao and the others.

"How could it be..."

Xue Luping looked at the silver ticket in Xi Yuanxiu's hand, and his face suddenly turned pale, not necessarily bloody.

If he wants to say that the business of this Xinghuayuan is related to him, he is not worried, because which prefect does not have some property of his own, and coupled with his relationship with the Marquis of Anding, these are naturally trivial.

But the silver ticket used to take a person's life was enough to take his life.

Marquis Anding also looked at the silver ticket in Xi Yuanxiu's hand with great interest, and more at the official who suddenly ran to Xi Yuanxiu's side.

Xi Yuanxiu took the silver ticket worth 100,000 taels, looked at Xue Luping who was being supported, and said slowly: "Lord Xue can be said to be a hundred secrets, how can you put such a valuable thing in your concubine's room?" ”

"I know you don't have anything to say now, because no matter how big the industry of Xinghuayuan is, it is impossible to give you so much money at one time."

Xi Yuanxiu folded the silver ticket, put it in his cuffs, and continued: "Since it is the money to buy my life, then Lord Xue will not mind if I put this money away!" ”

Liu Xiao looked at the silver ticket that Xi Yuanxiu had just put into his cuff, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

"By the way, Lord Xue won't say anything about your Yangzhou in the future, as far as this matter is concerned, this Yangzhou is really not yours!"

Xue Luping was close to fainting at this time, because he knew that An Dinghou was watching him from behind.

Xue Luping tried his best to calm himself and asked, "I want to know when this person entered my mansion?" ”

Xi Yuanxiu looked at Xu Lai and did not speak.

Xu looked at the official and said unhurriedly: "Four years ago, on the day you suppressed the homeless victims who were shipwrecked! ”

Four years ago, the East China Sea experienced a rare wave of water that washed away fishermen's houses.

As the prefect of Yangzhou, Xue Luping originally wanted to help, but because of a refugee child, he soiled the prefect's sedan chair, who was no longer a general in the army.

He decided to kill the victims!

The waters of the East China Sea on that day were redder than the afterglow of the setting sun.

One of the officials was old and frail, so he had to let his nephew do these shady things for him.

The two uncles and nephews were both killed by Xu Lai with a sword.

Then he took advantage of the situation and placed the official just now into the Yangzhou Mansion, claiming to be a distant relative of the old officer.

Of course, this kind of trivial matter will not be remembered by Xue Luping, and those officials don't care about this new officer.

In this way, this person lived in the government for four years.

Xi Yuanxiu picked out some less important things from them and explained them to everyone present, without revealing the slightest news of Chichao.

It's just that this person is Xu Lai's miscellaneous servant in the Nanshan Sect.

"Xi Yuanxiu, do you know what kind of culpability it is to plant eyeliner in the Sanpin Dayuan's Mansion?"

Xue Luping's official for so many years has not been done in vain, and he pointed the finger at Xi Yuanxiu again with one sentence.

Xi Yuanxiu looked at the unmoved An Dinghou, and said with a smile: "Lord Xue, compared to you, I am nothing?" ”

"In this way, did Lord Xue also accept the benefits of others and deliberately frame His Royal Highness the Offering King?"

"Or, with Lord-sama Chincha?"

Xi Yuanxiu's three questions made Xue Luping not know how to answer, because of the silver ticket, he was now at a loss for words.

Xi Yuanxiu added fuel to the fire and continued: "Your Excellency won't think that your silence will be exchanged for Hou Ye's trust in you, right? ”

Xue Luping laughed angrily, he looked around at the people present, from Xi Yuanxiu to Wang Shichang behind him, and the prince who had been silent from just now to now.

"This official really can't figure it out, why you have targeted this official since you came to Yangzhou, from the time you first entered the Yangzhou Mansion until now!"

Xue Luping had already admitted these crimes at this time, but he just didn't understand why the son of this criminal minister was like a ghost that haunted him all the time.

Xi Yuanxiu also laughed, but it was a sneer, the voice was not loud, but everyone could hear it.

"If you hadn't done those things, you wouldn't have been stuck to a dog skin plaster like mine!"

No matter how Liu Xiao listened to Xi Yuanxiu's words, it was like a metaphor for himself.

"What about them, which of them is really innocent, and which one has not done anything wrong?"

Xue Luping pointed at everyone present like crazy.

Xue Luping knew that he was destined to be imprisoned today, so his words became much more presumptuous.

"Xi Yuanxiu, why don't you pester those princes, why don't you go back to Chang'an and look at those adults in official uniforms, it's not because you're close to them, isn't it?"

The prince shouted coldly: "Presumptuous, are you talking about this palace?" ”

Xue Luping smiled contemptuously, didn't reply to him, just looked at Xi Yuanxiu, he wanted to hear what Xi Yuanxiu had to say.

Xi Yuanxiu replied generously: "That's right, I do have selfish intentions, but in fact, I really didn't see how they did mischief, and what you did, I saw it in my eyes, Chang'an has His Majesty, there are mirage lords, but here is only you, only you are the prefect who regards himself as the emperor of the old country!" ”