Cao Kun abruptly threw out the matter of Sima Li Shen of the Right Army embezzling military funds from the state treasury, just to use this incident to deter and subdue the new lieutenant in front of him in one fell swoop, and then took out important clues from Shang Cheng's mouth, and then opened the curtain of the Nanguan camp's private fraud. He thought that since Shang Cheng was ranked first in the merit book submitted by Li Shen, then this person was undoubtedly Li Shen's confidant, Li Shen was calling for wind and rain in the Nanguan camp, and it was impossible to hide this person from others, as long as he could pry open Shang Cheng's mouth, he would definitely be able to cure Li Shen's crime.

His calculations are not old and thoughtful, and the timing of the last question is also just right, if it is someone else, at this time, most of them are still weighing how much of a mistake it is to order the warehouse to be set on fire without authorization, and they must still be worried about their future future. But Shang Cheng had already heard about this from Huo Shiqi in advance, and when he came from the backyard, he had made up his mind in his heart, and now when he saw him questioning, he said calmly: "I don't know." In the evening of the same day after returning to the old camp, I attacked Taihe Town on the military order of General Li, and never returned to the C-shaped camp or the Nanguan camp again. ”

Cao Kun's small eyes stared at Shang Cheng's face, as if he wanted to see something from his face.

But he quickly abandoned the move.

Because this face is really ......

Cao Kun didn't know how to describe this face, with a light smile on the left side of his face, but the right face was hideous and terrifying, two expressions that could never appear at the same time were combined on one face, making him feel uncomfortable all over his body.

He turned his gaze away, and said in a long voice: "Lord Shang, it's not been a day or two since Xia Guan came to Yi County......

Seeing that Cao Tong looked away and didn't look at himself to speak, Shang Cheng knew what was going on. When many people first meet him, they will show this kind of evasive and cowering look. He also knew what was going on, because his face was really scary. He was seriously injured on the right side of his face, because of the lack of medical treatment, dragged until the wound festered and filled with pus, and almost lost his life before the Gongqian Pass, fortunately he met a good doctor with ability, ripped off the carrion on his face, and gave a few cruel medicines, which saved his life. Life was picked up, but the right half of his face was also ruined, a dark red scar half a finger long and half a finger wide crawled from the sideburns along the cheekbones to the nose, and even the facial features on the right side of the face were distorted, and the eyes, nose and mouth were pulled towards the scar like iron filings attracted by a magnet, which was terrifying to look at. And since then his right cheek has lost its function, and he can't make any expression, whether he is crying, laughing, sad or happy, his right cheek always has a hideous smirk.

A teasing smile appeared on the left corner of Shang Cheng's mouth, and he didn't match Cao Kun's tone, he reached out and took a cup and slowly sipped the slightly salty tea soup mixed with minced ginger, waiting for Cao Kun to finish his words.

His tepid and calm appearance made Cao Kun look stunned, and he paused before continuing: "...... The captain of the merchant school thinks that the things in the Nanguan camp can deceive everyone? You must know that there are gods three feet above your head......"

Shang Cheng pinched the bottom of the teacup with three fingers, raised the cup in front of him and looked at it carefully for a long time, then he turned his eyes and looked at Cao Tongjuan, who was a little blue-faced, and said half-seriously and half-jokingly: "In this way, does Lord Cao think I have done something wrong?" ”

Cao Kun was annoyed in his heart, but he didn't forget his identity, turned his face away from Shang Cheng, arched his hand at him, and said-for-tat: "If you don't do something wrong, and who did it, adults naturally know it in their hearts." ”

Shang Cheng stared at him, a laugh erupted from his nose, and said slowly, "What if I say 'I don't know'?" Is Master Cao ready to leave with his sleeves up, or will he directly arrest me and go to the yamen for interrogation? ”

Wen Mu saw that it was not a problem, so he took Shang Cheng's words from the side: "Captain Shang is too careful. ”

Shang Cheng turned his face to look at Wen Mu, and said with a smile: "Really? ”

Wen Mu didn't flinch, and said to Shang Cheng's gaze: "Lord Cao and I came here today, just encountered some minor troubles on official business, and wanted to find an adult to verify some things. If you are suspicious, how can Lord Cao and I come to pay our respects? He winked and laughed as he spoke.

Shang Cheng smiled, and said, "If it's a business trip, the two of you should recruit me to the yamen." If it was a private visit, the two of them should not have slandered my superiors in front of me. Yiyi Wenzhibing doesn't have to take Changshi's orders out, and I don't know much about reading, so it's useless to read it. What's more, even if Lord Changshi is here, I will also say that all official affairs should be done in the place where official affairs are handled. Like you now, public is not public or private, not private, every word is pointed at Li Sima for interrogation, and Li Sima is implicit in his words that Li Sima embezzled military funds, money and food......" He paused the teacup in his hand on the square table, stared at Wen Mu and sneered, "Wen Zhibing, can Duanzhou manage the affairs of the guards?" ”

Cao Kun turned his face suddenly, put the two fingers of his right hand together, and pointed at Shang Cheng hatefully: "You ......"

Shang Cheng looked at him and said coldly, "Lord Cao, pay attention to your behavior. Although I have only been a lieutenant for a few days, I also know that Adjutant Advocacy has the same rank as you, and I also know what it is like to 'slander my colleagues by causing trouble'. ”

"You ......"

Cao Kun was deflated in front of Shang Cheng, but Wen Mu's face was still the same, but there was a hint of joy in his eyes. He and Shang Cheng have the same thoughts, and they both think that the local government is not qualified to meddle in military affairs, even if the evidence of Li Shen's embezzlement of money and food is conclusive, the killing and cutting can only be handled by the guards and the camp, and it is not the turn of the local government to point fingers. But seeing that Cao Kun was already annoyed and angry, he couldn't continue to stand idly by, cut off Cao Kun's words with a light cough, and said to Shang Cheng: "Captain Shang probably doesn't know that your credit in the Nanguan camp has been fraudulently claimed, right?" ”

"I already know."

Usually when the officers hear about this kind of thing, most of them will jump up and scold their mothers on the spot, even if they are deep-minded people, they will inevitably blush and behave at a loss at first encounter, but Shang Cheng's salty and indifferent attitude not only surprised Wen Mu, but also made him somewhat confused. If Shang Cheng was Li Shen's confidant, this matter could still be said to be reasonable, Li Shen would always make up for Shang Cheng's losses elsewhere; But Shang Cheng is not Li Shen's favorite general, he is just a villager who Li Shen picked up. But this person who is neither Li Shen's confidant nor Li Shen's favorite general is the only person he and Cao Kun have met in the past few days who neither speaks of Li Shen's good words nor Li Shen's bad words...... He suddenly remembered that when he was sorting out and reviewing the merits of the Right Army one by one, a colleague inadvertently mentioned that Shang Cheng, a fierce general who had just emerged, seemed to be the monk in the song "Shang Monk Fights Evil Wolf with His Bare Hands" that spread all over Yanshan last year......

While spinning his mind in his head, Wen Mu said in his mouth: "Does Master Shang know that your credit was taken from you again?" ”

Shang Cheng glanced at Cao Kun thoughtfully, and said, "I think that since the Camp Commander already knows that someone is making false achievements, he will naturally investigate clearly. ”

When he mentioned the "Xingying Zhibing Division", Wen Mu knew what he meant, even if Li Shen swallowed up his merits and embezzled the money and grain in the Nanguan camp, he still did not approve of handing over this matter to the local government for inspection and disposal, even if the Xingying and Duanzhou local governments jointly ran it.

Wen Mu agrees with Shang Cheng's opinion, soldiers are soldiers, and the people are people, and the two cannot be confused. However, he could not clearly express his support for Shang Cheng now, and the order he received was to work with the Duanzhou local government to jointly deal with the two cases of Li Shen, Zhang Guan, Li Dai, and the Nanguan Daying for private fraud. Moreover, Shang Cheng's uncooperative attitude made him very embarrassed. After thinking about it for a long time, he decided to tell the truth.

The first thing is simple. The Southern Route Army commanded by Li Shen included both two brigades of his own right army, as well as one brigade each of the Yanshan Central Army and the left army. Because this kind of thing is common in the army, the camp doesn't want to make a fuss about it, so he pretends to be confused and hands the credit book to the military department. I never thought that Li Shen and the Admiral were brothers, and he was always arrogant and domineering in the three armies of Yanshan, offending too many people, and now the Admiral's Mansion can't cover the sky with one hand, and in the blink of an eye, the guns and arrows will be poked at Li Shen's body. Immediately after someone revealed that Li Shen took advantage of the chaos to embezzle 8,000 yuan in the Nanguan camp, and the Duanzhou government sentenced Cao Kun to secretly report that the transfer division was colluding with favoritism inside and outside the Yi County warehouse, because the case was serious, the camp hurriedly made up for the merits of Shangcheng, and ordered Wen Mu and Cao Kun to join forces to carefully investigate the fraud case of the transfer department. The two have been in Yixian for five days, and they have seen a lot of people and heard a lot of rumors, but the conclusive evidence has not been fished out at all......

Shang Cheng listened to Wen Mu talk about the matter before and after, and after a little pondering in his heart, he understood the meaning of these words: The credit has been returned to you, and the credit asked the court for you is only more or less, so the matter of doing anything is over here, and the most important thing now is to investigate Li Shen's corruption case.

Thinking about things clearly, Shang Cheng asked, "How much grain is missing in the Nanguan camp?" ”

Wen Mu spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "The grain was burned by you, and the original account books were also destroyed in the fire, and now the grain matter has become a bad account." The money of the old camp is not afraid of fire, the camp has not been broken, and the old account books have been counted one by one, and there are 1,300 taels missing......"

Shang Cheng lowered his eyebrows and said slowly: "In addition to the eight thousand silks, there are still two thousand thousand silk that have not been found. He thought with his lips curled. These two thousand may be related to the fraud case. Two thousand is not a decimal number, and there is no reason for the people of Razor, no matter how bold they are, they dare not take it all at once, so they can only take it piecemeal. Since it is piecemeal, then there is a need for a reason to beat; What is the reason for this? Reward and bereavement is one, and subsidy and relief is one ......"

Having said this, Wen Mu and Cao Kun glanced at each other, and they both suddenly realized: "False name!" ”

Cao Kun jumped up and walked out, and said, "I'm going to seal the clerkship of the county yamen." One leg had already crossed the threshold, and he turned around and shook it respectfully to the ground: "Thank you, Captain, for waking up." ”

Five days later, Cao Kun personally sat in charge, and the transfer department involved in the fraud case in the South Gate camp and dozens of officials and officials of the Yi County Yamen were all arrested, and the wolf-like Duanzhou Mansion officials arrested more than a dozen large households in the county one after another, and the sound of wrenches pumping meat in the county government hall sounded for two days in a row, and on the eighth day, six bloody and blurred human heads were hung on the south gate tower of the county seat.

Half a month later, Sima Li Shen of the left army of Yanshan Wei returned to his hometown in Beijing to see a doctor and recuperate due to a recurrence of an old disease.

Twenty days later, Lieutenant Shang Cheng recovered from his injuries and was ordered to go to Yanzhou to wait for his post......