Zhou Tongtuo came out of the prison and said that he was not in danger and would soon return to the Li family to take charge of the shops.

"The surname Zhou is lucky this time, but he can't contain the fire in the paper, his affairs will happen sooner or later, and he wants to come out of prison and continue to be the shopkeeper, and do his spring and autumn dreams!" Xiao Qi said angrily, and truthfully told his young master the news he had inquired from outside.

It was indeed Ma Xiancheng's henchmen who took Zhou Tong away and seized the Li family's shop.

I thought that seeing some discrepancies between the transaction of the day and the account book was the mistake of holding Zhou Da's shopkeeper, so I justifiably put Zhou Tong in prison.

Who knew that the development of things was not exactly what they wanted, and the surnamed Zhou not only cried and cried along the way, but also simply refused to admit it after arriving at the Yamen.

Zhou Tong doesn't have any fame, just a minion who runs errands for the Li family, since he doesn't confess, then he will be tortured.

can't even clean up a Diao Min, how can Ma Xiancheng still have the face to compete for power with the county lord, once he is unfavorable and loses his authority, then he, the second master, will really become the ears of the cage, and can only be a decoration.

Although Zhou Tong is usually pampered, he is not ambiguous when he encounters things, and he is beaten with thirty sticks on his body, and he is drenched in blood, but he actually endures it.

This Xia Ma Xiancheng was dumbfounded, this guy refused to admit it if he died low, did he really want to increase the punishment and beat him to death?

The account book of the salt shop had already been shown to Master Qian Gu, and this old pedant, who had always been pragmatic, spent two days and did not find anything wrong.

When the gray-haired master expressed his apologies to Ma Xiancheng, he realized that he had fallen into a dilemma.

If he can't close the case in a short period of time and can't get Zhou Tong's incriminating evidence, then the magistrate will definitely have to intervene in it, and when the time comes, it will be light to complain about his incompetence, and he will be afraid that the magistrate will beat the rabbit with grass, catch his own mistakes, and give him a charge of dereliction of duty, and Cheng and his life will be over.

Ma Xiancheng's hesitation made Zhou Tong see a new dawn, and then he sent a message to the Li family to tell his sister not to worry, and to ask someone to take care of the matter when the matter eased up.

"Brother Ling, for my brother's sake of being a cow and a horse for the Li family, you can go to the prison to see his situation and give our mother a letter!" At lunchtime, Zhou unexpectedly made a request to Li Ling.

She had asked Li Ming to go many times, but she was stopped every time, and the cell boss said that Zhou Tong was an important criminal, and the boss had already ordered that no one should visit at will.

"Master, you can ask Brother Ling to help, he is a talented man, he has a meritorious reputation, even if he sees the county master, he doesn't need to kneel!" Seeing that Li Ling was silent, Zhou opened his mouth to Li's father, and his voice was extremely coquettish.

"Ling'er, you better go and take a look, after all, Shopkeeper Zhou is also doing things for our Li family!"

Father Li ate Zhou's set, and when he heard her coquettish to himself, his bones were crispy, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, he hurriedly agreed on behalf of his son.

Li Ling nodded expressionlessly.

Today's Zhou family seems to be a different person, although he is also worried about his younger brother's affairs, but he is not so worried, and he has no anxiety in the past.

How did he know that all this was out of confidence in Zhou Tong, although this confidence was blind, after all, her younger brother did what he said to him, and he never lost his word, since the younger brother said that he was fine, he would come out of prison safe and sound sooner or later.

After Zhou gave Father Li a bright smile, she turned around and nodded to the others, looking like a victor, and after her mood was settled, she relapsed a little and began to show off.

When he arrived at the prison cell in this county, Li Ling wanted to bribe the cell boss with a few taels of silver, but he didn't expect that as soon as this uncle heard that he was Xiucai, he actually refused his kindness and let him in with a smile.

Entering Zhou Tong's cell, he was taken aback, this place is very different from the scene he imagined, the ground inside is very clean, there is a single bed near the wall, the quilt on it is very neat, Zhou Tong is honestly lying on the bed.

"Young master, don't worry, the villain sends someone to clean up the room for Shopkeeper Zhou every day!" The cell boss explained to Li Ling as if flattering.

He also thought that Li Ling really cared about the shopkeeper of his shop, and came to intercede for Zhou Tong.

"My father brought you a message to Shopkeeper Zhou, I don't know if it's convenient for the kid to tell him?" As Li Ling spoke, he took out a piece of broken silver and put it in the hand of the cell leader.

"Convenient, how inconvenient! I'll go out first, but if I want to grieve the son, I will first close the door and open it when the boy leaves! ”。 The cell boss took the silver in his hand, and after casually weighing it, he knew that it weighed about five taels, and his face immediately smiled, which was worth two months' wages.

With a "click", the heavy iron rope hung down again, and the cell leader left the cell satisfied, and he began to think about which green building he was going to go to tonight to have a good time, or he would let his tigress search for it one day.

"What are you doing here?". Zhou Tong struggled to get up from the bed, but as soon as he moved, he touched the injury on his fart/thigh, grinning his sore teeth, and finally gave up this unrealistic approach.

"I wonder what you've done with your accounts? So far, you still say it obediently, so that we can do something to remedy it, if you are obsessed, it can only make you more passive! ”。 Li Ling said bluntly.

He originally wanted to wait until the township tried to deal with these trivial family matters, but since such a thing happened, he simply figured out the things in the shop, so that the Ma family would not have to talk to the Li family about these things.

"The accounts are clear and clear, I don't believe you can check it, I am loyal to your Li family, do you still doubt me?"

"Joke, who doesn't know that the interests of salt merchants are big, this year, our Li family donated a hundred taels of salt tax, which can be sold for 40,000 catties of salt, what a fortune this is, you didn't hand over a tael of silver to our Li family, you said that you didn't do anything on the accounts, who believes this!".

Looking at Zhou Tong's righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, Li Ling felt ridiculous.

In modern times, everyone wants to break their heads in order to reimburse some more expenses in the company, what kind of accounts have not been seen, he can make an ancient man scare himself?

"Okay, okay, in that case, I'll go first, although the officials have taken away the account books, but there is still a sub-book in the shop, once I find out what's in it, don't stay in the Li family!"

"Since that's the case, I won't send it, Childe let's go!".

Zhou Tong lay on the bed with a grin, but he didn't even mean to get up to see off the guests, and sent Li Ling away with just one sentence.

He spent a lot of money to learn the method of making fake accounts, and he was a little apprehensive at first, but later he saw that the Li family did not notice, and then he asked someone to invite a clever account man to Ying Tianfu, and the man spent seven days without finding the flaws, and his courage gradually grew.

, even Master Qian Gu in the county government has no way to take himself, even if the other party is a showman, what can a layman do to him?

"Li Gongzi walks slowly, can you chat with the old man?" When Li Ling walked out of the prison door angrily, he found that the person who opened the door for him was not the cell boss, but a middle-aged man wearing an eight-grade official uniform. How much did he hear the conversation between himself and Zhou Tong just now?

"Presumably the son has already guessed the identity of the old man, I am the county of this county, first of all, I want to clarify, I have no ill will towards you, I already know the things on the painting boat of the drunken flower building, and I apologize to you here for my uncompetitive son, and I hope you will help you a lot in the same matter!".

There are no eternal interests, only eternal friends, Zhou Tong has always been like this, sooner or later the matter will be known to the magistrate, and now there is not much time left for Ma Xiancheng, only before the magistrate intervenes, Zhou Tong forged the account book, and even the evidence of embezzlement of the Li family's money. Only then can he completely get out of this matter, otherwise he will be passive at that time.

It's easy for him to find a way for Li Ling, that is, to start with other people in the shop, and give Zhou Tong a salary from the bottom of the kettle, everyone knows that Zhou Da's shopkeeper is now in prison, can he get out of prison or not, people are selfish, as long as Zhou Tong falls, all the shops will not fall back into the hands of the original owner? As long as Li Ling releases his words, are you afraid that no one will expose the good things that Zhou Tong has done?

Ma Xiancheng had already come over, and he had been standing outside the door of the cell, just to hear what the two were plotting about, Zhou Tong and the eldest son of the Li family looked like each other, this was his biggest gain.

"Your teacher is going to come to my Ma house to discuss some things, how about inviting Li Gongzi to come together for a small gathering at that time?"

Everyone shared the same hatred, although Ma Xiancheng didn't believe that Li Ling could refuse him, he still threw his own bait according to his previous plan.

All the scholars in this county have to come to greet the Grandmaster, and if the other party wants to mix with the scholars and completely integrate into this circle, he will definitely agree to his request and help him find out the tricks in the accounts.

"I don't think it's that simple, most of the old people Zhou Tong uses are brought out of their hometowns, and they can betray their families? I'm afraid that only the participants know the specific truth! These people will definitely not betray each other, that would not benefit anyone! ”。

Unexpectedly, Li Ling did not agree to Ma Xiancheng's request, he did not believe that with his knowledge of being six hundred years ahead, he could not see through the tricks of an ancient. Master Ma's kindness can only be thanked for not being sensitive.

The other party rejected his conditions so directly, and Master Ma was relieved, and in his heart he had already defined Li Ling as a reader who didn't know how to be flexible.

The little guy is too scheming to dislike his own strategy, and he is a stupid idiot who reads books, so don't worry!