"Lord Qiyu, someone outside claims to be Tang Long and has come to ask to see your lordship. When Lord Yue was interrogating, an errand officer from outside came to pass the ceremony, saying that Tang Long was here.

When Yue Su heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said lightly:

"Pass him to the court."

After a moment's effort, an errand brought Ji Huaizhen to the hall.

Although "Tang Long" belongs to a first-class wealthy businessman in Hangzhou, you have no fame, just rich is counted. When you get to the hall, you must honestly kneel on the ground and knock before the Governor.

Yue Su nodded slightly and said, "Raise your head." ”

Gu Huaizhen raised his head according to his words, Yue Su looked at it for a while, and asked, "You are Tang Long, the owner of Tang Ji Goods Store?" ”

"It's Xiaomin." Gu Huaizhen replied.

"The shopkeeper and steward of your goods store said that you went out to run business and were not in Hangzhou, why did you suddenly appear today?"

Yue asked suspiciously.

"If you go back to the adult, Xiaomin did go to Suzhou to run business, and the way to do things was rushed back. This morning, I was at the border of Hangzhou, and I heard that something had happened to the goods store, so I hurried to the city. Gu Huaizhen said.

"I see. You came back just in time for the Governor to have a case here that I need you to confront you. Yue Su said, waved his hand, and said: "Take the Zhu Guan in the hall down in advance, and pass Tang Zhen to the hall." ”

Above the court, it was now a steward surnamed Zhu who was in the warehouse, and Yue Su asked the messenger to take him down, and it didn't take much effort to bring Tang Zhen to the court. As soon as Tang Zhen arrived in the hall, he saw Gu Huaizhen kneeling on the ground, he was startled, and said secretly in his heart: "Why is the hall master here?" ”

But he was surprised, he still honestly walked to the bottom of the steps, knelt on the ground, rushed up and kowtowed, and said, "The grass people knock to see the blue sky."

Yue Su nodded slightly and said, "Tang Zhen, you can recognize the person kneeling beside you." ”

Tang Zhen looked at Gu Huaizhen's back and recognized who it was. But now, he still looked to the side and pretended to be surprised: "Isn't this our host?" Boss, why did you come back so soon? ”

Gu Huaizhen deliberately said angrily: "It's not a good thing you did, while I'm not at home, you actually did such a thing to make money, and almost ruined the goods store handed down by my ancestors."

The owners are all small and bad, and the small ones are willing to bear it, and they will never drag down the owners and the Tang family. Saying that, Tang Zhen rushed up and kowtowed again and said, "My lord, our owner has returned now, and now it can be proved that our owner was not killed." The robbery of the crowd is all the fault of the small people, and I hope that the adults will learn from it and be dealt with lightly. ”

"If your crimes can be punished lightly, then the grass in the world will be punished, and those who block the road and rob will not be able to be punished lightly. Once you have pleaded guilty, the case will be understood and he will be able to sign for the custody. Yue Su said lightly.

The clerk's office took the confession and asked Tang Zhen to sign and draw it, and then heard Yue Su say: "Tang Long, although Tang Zhen led the crowd to rob the people, although it has nothing to do with you, but this governor wants to ask you a question now, and you have to answer it truthfully." ”

"Xiaomin must answer truthfully." Seeing that Yue Su recognized Tang Zhen's case, Gu Huaizhen's hanging heart was also put down, but when he heard Yue Su say that he still had questions to ask, he hurriedly said carefully.

"Tang Zhen's robbery, you are doing business in other places, and you don't know about it, which can also be said. However, Tang Zhen was able to mobilize so many robberies at once, and you can't escape the blame.

The Governor now asks you, have you done something similar in the past? Yue Su asked.

"What the adults said is that Tang Zhen can do such a thing, Xiaomin is indeed to blame, he really trusts him too much, and he is free to do today's disaster, and he must remember this lesson in the future. As for what the adults said, whether there has been a similar thing before, the small people can swear to the sky, there is no such thing, we Tang Ji Goods Co., Ltd., has always been based on integrity, legal business, and has never committed robbery. Ji Huaizhen said with a worried face.

"It's hard for me to believe your answer. The reason for this is that your subordinates kill people and sell goods, without mercy, and even dare to confront pirates head-on. Tang Long, did you say yes? Yue Su said calmly.

Lord Yue's words seemed bland, but when asked to the point, it really made Ji Huaizhen difficult to refute. "Xiaomin...... Xiaomin didn't know either...... Why are they so powerful...... These people...... I don't have much contact with them on weekdays...... In the goods store...... It is generally managed by Tang Zhen...... So...... I don't know ...... mouth."

He could only kick the ball to Tang Zhen. Gu Huai secretly thought in his heart, this Yue Su is really powerful, every question is difficult to quibble, no wonder he was able to solve so many cases at the beginning, Mr. Ye, Nangong Shuo and other characters can be defeated in his hands, and when I see it today, it is really worthy of its reputation.

"Tang Zhen, your boss can't say clearly, then you can explain to the governor, why are your subordinates so powerful?" Yue Su looked at Tang Zhen coldly.

"Back to your words...... That one...... The nursing home in the house also imposes training on weekdays, otherwise when you go out to take goods, once you encounter robbers, how can you resist ......," Tang Zhen explained.

"Didn't you say yesterday that some of the self-scooping people here are nursing homes, and some are laborers in the goods store? It's just a nursing home training, and if you've seen it, do you have to train on weekdays? Then who will do the work, you Tang Ji Goods Store should be very busy. Yue Su said coldly again.

"I ......" Lord Yue once again dumbfounded Tang Zhen's question.

Yue Su saw that he couldn't answer, and said lightly: "I can't answer, then let this governor answer for you, you Tang Ji Goods Store, although you are in business on the surface, but you will inevitably do some black and black things behind your back, seeing that a large number of thieves have come to sell, you will definitely agree on a place with someone, and then force and plunder." Tang Long, Tang Zhen, what Ben Du said, are you right? ”

"Your Excellency...... Xiaomin is indeed a legitimate businessman, and he has never done such a thing......" Gu Huaizhen still made an innocent look.

However, Tang Zhen saw that this matter was difficult to overcome, so in desperation, he had to grit his teeth and say: "What the adults said is very true, and the people are willing to recruit." Indeed, as the adults said, when the small people received the goods, once they saw the sale of thieves and stolen goods, but the amount was huge, they agreed with them to make an appointment, and then robbed them. But the small people can guarantee that they are only robbing pirates who sell stolen goods, and have never robbed serious businessmen. ”

"If you're honest, does your host know about this?" Yue Su asked again.

"Our hosts don't know."

"I really don't know?"

"I really don't know."

"Humph!" Yue Su snorted coldly and said, "Then you snatched so many goods and put them in the goods store to sell, can't your owners see it?" And every time you fight with pirates, it is inevitable that there are no casualties, and so many people die, can't your hosts see it? For example, this time, more than 40 people died at once, and Li Ye's group of pirates has not been taken down, and it is estimated that if the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division did not encounter it, they would have stopped it, and many more people would have died. Are you blind in the eyes of your hosts, or are you blind in the eyes of the governor? ”

"This ......" Tang Zhen's reaction was very fast, and he immediately said: "If you go back to the adult, Xiaomin is the shopkeeper of the goods bank, and it is easy to do something with the goods." After all, there are so many goods in the goods store, and the owner can't check them every day. As for saying that there are deaths and injuries every time the black eats black, the owner will not pay attention to this, because there are so many goods stores doing work, and the owner can't know all of them. Moreover, I will give a heavy reward to all the guards and powerful men who participate in the robbery, and they will not say more than half a word of fifty taels of silver. ”

His defense was seamless, Yue Su nodded, did not ask any more questions, only asked them to sign and draw the charge, and then said: "Let the two of them be taken down for the time being, and Li Guang, the leader of the Transmission and Nursing Academy, will go to the court for questioning." ”

Gu Huaizhen and Tang Zhen were imprisoned, and the two of them didn't feel anything in their hearts, thinking that this was also normal. Yue Su interrogated Li Guang, the leader of the courtyard, and Li Guang's answer was not much different from Tang Zhen's, which also said that the owner did not know, and every time he robbed, he gave fifty taels of silver to the people below, and the big guy was happy, and there was nothing else. Yue Su recorded it as usual, asked him to sign and draw the detention, and then interrogated the others. It wasn't until the evening that Lord Yue came to say, "It's not early today, let's leave the court for the time being, and the trial will be held tomorrow." ”

Xingyuan Prison, in addition to the people in the goods store, it is Li Zhong's people. The inside is now crowded, and those little minions are more than 20 people squatting in a cell, but senior prisoners like Gu Huaizhen, Tang Zhen, and Li Zhong can still enjoy a single room.

When it was time for dinner, the jailer brought the meal as usual. What good can the prisoner eat, a bowl of brown rice, a few broken pickles. This kind of food, Gu Huaizhen, Tang Zhen and others, will not take a look at it, but at this time and then, if you don't eat, you will be hungry and hungry.

At the beginning, Gu Huai really didn't eat it, but on the second watch, he was really hungry and couldn't stand it, so he picked up the brown rice, sandwiched a pickle, and ate it in a bite. I thought in my heart that I was at least a person in the rivers and lakes, and if I ate some of this rags, I should taste all the gall.

However, the meal was really unpalatable. The rice is hard, and it's a little rancid, the pickles are salty, and if you eat a bite, you can kill two salties, and you want to come to the master who makes the dishes, and the family sells salt. No wonder these pickles, Ji Huaizhen estimated that it would be enough to eat two by himself.

Rancid rice, who can eat it normally, just rely on this deadly pickle, Ji Huaizhen finished the meal with his eyes closed. After eating, I felt a little sleepy, my eyelids began to fight, and I fell asleep on one side.

But not long after he fell asleep, a jailer came over, saw that he had eaten all the rice, and a smile appeared on his face, and he turned away. After a short time, a group of people came to the prison, led by Yin Zhu and Li Haoran, and they also brought more than 50 soldiers. The gang went directly to the cell where Gu Huaizhen was, opened the prison door, dragged Gu Huaizhen up and left.

Ji Huaizhen slept enough to die, and even so, the ministry didn't wake up. Tang Zhen lived in the cell diagonally opposite Gu Huaizhen, and when he saw this scene, he was terrified. Secretly begged himself: "What's going on? ”