"Presumptuous! How can you stop Du Tongzhi! ”

Su Hao stepped forward and shouted to the two soldiers holding spears, and after drinking, he turned his head to Du Weiming and said, "These sergeants of mine are rough people who don't know how to count etiquette, and I ask Du Tongzhi to forgive me." However, in the opinion of the younger brother, Du Tongzhi should not rush to see Xu Rendi. ”

"Master Su, do you also believe that the official and Xu Rendi are relatives?" Du Weiming asked with a dark face. He knew that the sergeant had just stopped him with a spear, in fact, he was declaring force to him, and in this case, if he wanted to break through, although it would be impossible for the sergeant to hurt him, but it would be impossible for him to move an inch, but he could do it, and then he would really lose face. Su Hao made it clear that he didn't want him to go in to meet the people inside, and he came up with such a trick, which really made him unable to deal with it.

Su Hao said: "Du Tongzhi, of course the younger brother believes that Du Tongzhi is a person, since Du Tongzhi said that there is no such cousin, then there must be none." However, this matter is based on Xu Rendi's confession, and before the investigation is clear, Du Tongzhi is afraid that if he rashly goes to see Xu Rendi, he is afraid that the officials will have a statement in the future. ”

"In your opinion, what should an official do?" Du Weiming asked angrily, what kind of official has a rhetoric, it is obvious that Su Hao himself has a rhetoric. Xu Rendi's confession is in Su Hao's hands, if he really uses this as an excuse to find fault with Du Weiming, Du Weiming is really difficult to deal with.

Su Hao said: "I think it's still like this, the younger brother will go to see the situation first, and also interrogate Xu Rendi to see if he is talking nonsense." Du Tongzhi has worked hard all the way, so he will go to the post house to rest first, and then make plans when the situation is clear tomorrow. ”

"Hey!" Du Weiming stomped his foot violently, turned around angrily, and walked away, Tan Yizhong hurriedly chased after him. also left in a hurry.

"Su Shoubei, this dog officer was scared away by you." Seeing Du Weiming walking away, Zhang Yunlong stepped forward with a smile and said to Su Hao.

Su Hao shook his head and said, "This time, we have torn our faces with Runing Mansion, Yunlong, have you found anything useful in the past few days?" If there is nothing good about it, the next step will not end well. ”

Zhang Yunlong said: "Don't worry, Su Shoubei, Mr. Lin and Zhou Juren have been busy reviewing people and checking accounts for the past few days. I've found quite a few things, so I'll take you to meet them. ”

Su Hao followed Zhang Yunlong into the Xinglong Gambling House, and when he passed by the hall, Su Hao saw that the ground was still full of wolves, and there were still bloodstains in many places. didn't wait for Su Hao to ask. Zhang Yunlong preemptively explained: "Su Shoubei, this is what Mr. Lin specially explained, saying that don't change the scene, and you can be a witness in the future." ”

Su Hao nodded, expressing understanding, and then followed Zhang Yunlong to the backyard of the gambling house. The backyard grounds are large and have more than a dozen rooms. The two sides involved in the brawl were held in these rooms, each guarded by heavily armed soldiers. There are several other rooms in the backyard that are the accounts and warehouses of the original gambling house, where Li Zhen and others check the account books and books of the gambling house.

"Changed it."

Seeing Su Hao walk into the account room, Li Zhen got up from the chair. Greeted Su Hao.

"Mr. Lin, please be seated." Su Hao called Li Zhen's pseudonym, "It's been hard work for Mr. Lin these days." ”

"It's not hard, it's just that this matter is quite risky, but fortunately it was not in vain." Li Zhen responded.

Su Hao asked Li Zhen to sit down. I also found a seat and sat down, and then asked, "Listen to Mr. Lin." What a big gain this time? ”

Li Zhen said: "We suddenly attacked and caught the opponent off guard. All the books in the account room did not have time to be transferred or destroyed, and we had all of them. In the past few days, the old man and Gengshu, as well as a few of them, have sorted out these account books and found a lot of clues. ”

"That's great." Su Hao said happily.

Li Zhen took a booklet, opened it and explained it to Su Hao, this booklet is the information of the firms, Haoqiang, and officials who have business dealings with Xinglong Gambling House that they have sorted out these days. As Li Zhen said before, this is an intricate network of relationships, covering almost the entire territory of Runing. All entities on the network have money transactions with each other, and as long as the reason for these money transactions is grasped, it is not difficult to convict these people.

"Have you verified any of these situations?" Su Hao asked.

Li Zhen said: "We interrogated Xu Rendi and other relevant people, and they all confessed to these circumstances, and their confessions have been recorded, so that they have been detained, which can be described as ironclad evidence." ”

Su Hao smiled: "These people are so easy to talk to, whatever you ask, they will say?" ”

Zhou Ruyuan interjected on the side: "These people are very vicious to the people on weekdays, but in front of our officers and soldiers, they don't dare to tremble at all. The third child of the Xiong family took a musket against the lifeblood of the shopkeeper Xu, and scared the shopkeeper Xu on the spot, and he said whatever he asked, and even explained the ugly thing about peeking at his aunt taking a bath when he was a child. ”

Hearing Zhou Ruyuan say this, Su Hao couldn't help but feel a little painful, being pointed at the root of his life with a gun, it was an extremely terrifying thing. However, extraordinary things must also use some extraordinary means, if they don't put on such an unreasonable appearance, Xu Rendi and others will not cooperate like this.

"In the next step, we will also go to raid those usury firms, which are distributed in several other counties, and I have arranged for someone to secretly keep an eye on them in advance." Li Zhen said.

Su Hao said: "To raid the trading house, you have to find a name, right?" Is Mr. Lin prepared? ”

Li Zhen said with a smile: "If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse." Instead, stay here tonight and watch a good show. ”

"Okay, I'll just take a look at the good drama made up by Mr. Lin." Su Hao also responded with a smile.

On this night, Luoshan County was destined to be unpeaceful.

Du Weiming went to the county government's guest house with a stomach full of anger, hastily ate a few mouthfuls of the wine and food prepared by Tan Yizhong, and then convened relevant people and others to discuss behind closed doors, mainly to discuss how many tricks in Xinglong Gambling House would be caught by Su Hao, and how they should deal with this change.

Everyone discussed until late at night, and in the end they didn't come up with a foolproof plan, in the case that the evidence was already in Su Hao's hands, what they could do was to say that they didn't know, and Xu Rendi and other unlucky people pushed out to be cannon fodder to protect everyone's interests. Xinglong Gambling House is a cash cow for the officials of Runing Mansion, including Liu Qichang, and now it has been cut down by Su Hao, even if it does not pull out the radish and bring out the mud, its direct loss is enough to make everyone's flesh hurt for a long time.

After talking about these things, Du Weiming was also sleepy, so he waved his hand to signal that everyone could disperse. Before Tan Yizhong and the officials of Luoshan County walked out of the State Guest House, they heard an earth-shattering noise from the direction of Xinglong Gambling House.

"What's wrong!" Du Weiming jumped out of the room and asked loudly.

"It seems to be...... It's a thriving casino! Tan Yizhong guessed by pointing in the direction where the loud noise was made.

"Of course, it's Xinglong Casino, and now there are other places where there will be such a disturbance. I'm asking, what's wrong? Du Weiming said.

Tan Yizhong said: "Xiaguan will send someone to investigate immediately." ”

Before Tan Yizhong's voice fell, a servant rushed in and reported to him: "Qiqi County Zun, the Xinglong gambling house was attacked and disturbed by a strongman, and the strongman used gunpowder to blow up a door of the gambling house. ”

"Strongman? Where did the strongman come from? "Tan Yizhongzhang and the second monk can't touch his head, this is a gambling house surrounded by thousands of officers and soldiers on the third floor and the outer three floors, what kind of strongman will touch this moldy head? Also, it is extremely unreasonable for a strongman to have gunpowder, and only the regular army can find such a thing as gunpowder, right?

"I don't know." The official scratched his scalp and replied, he was in charge of monitoring outside the gambling house on the order of Tan Yizhong, but after taking a nap, one of the side doors of the gambling house was blown up, and then the officers and soldiers of the brigade ran out with a roar, it was said that they were chasing some strongman. As for what this strongman looked like and where he came from, he didn't know at all, and the situation he reported to Tan Yizhong was basically told to him by the soldiers of the survey battalion.

After a while, the person sent by Su Hao to deliver the letter also arrived, it was a squad of soldiers, there were about 40 people. The leader was a flag general, who told Du Weiming and Tan Yizhong that a strongman tried to break into the Xinglong gambling house and rob the prisoners, but when he failed to do so, he detonated the gunpowder and injured several soldiers of the Kanyu battalion. Su Hao was worried that the strongman would be unfavorable to Du Tongzhi, so he sent them over to protect Du Tongzhi.

"Where did you come from, did Master Su say it?" Du Weiming asked Mr. Naqi.

Mr. Qi said: "The villain has not heard Su Shoubei talk about it, but our Zhang Qian has personally led the troops to hunt down the strongman, and it is estimated that the strongman will be able to be captured before dawn, and everything will be clear by then." ”

"Uh...... All right. Du Weiming only felt exhausted, he couldn't figure out whether there was really a strongman, or Su Hao was acting in a play again. If this is Su Hao's play, then what is the purpose of his acting? Who do you want to blame?

Tan Yizhong left first, and after he went back, he was busy arranging people to listen to the news and spy on the movements of Xinglong Casino, needless to say. Due to his identity, Du Weiming was inconvenient to go out, so he could only go back to his room to sleep. Strange to say, although he was extremely tired all the way, he couldn't sleep at this time, and began to enjoy the taste of insomnia.

Finally survived until dawn, Du Weiming sat up from the bed, and asked his entourage with two black circles under his eyes, "Has Master Su ever come?" ”

"Back to my lord, Master Su didn't come." The attendant replied.

Du Weiming said: "Didn't he say that everything would be clear as soon as dawn?" Isn't he here to inform about such a big thing? ”

"This ...... My lord, it's still very early, if Master Su wants to come to meet your lord, I'm afraid it will take a while. The attendant said. At this time, most people haven't gotten up yet, Su Hao and Du Weiming look like each other, how can it be possible to come to Du Weiming early in the morning to report the news.

"Prepare the sedan chair, the official wants to go to the Xinglong Gambling House to see in person, this Su Hao interrogated the prisoner for one night, and it should also be judged that the official and that Xu Rendi are not relatives!" Du Weiming shouted angrily.