Li Xin entered the cell, only to see a blood-stained man curled up on the grass in a corner, he wanted to get up several times, but he had no choice but to smash the locks and shackles that added up to more than 100 catties on his hands and feet. In order to prevent such heinous felons, the restraints on them are usually unlocked, but the iron bars are burned and the joints are stoned to death. In this way, even if there is a spy to respond, the felons will not want to escape with more than 100 catties of shackles.

The restraints on the hands and feet of Liu Sheng, the general manager from Quanzhou Mansion, are this extremely cruel thing. Li Xin didn't have any extra words to him, and glanced at this person's body, his calf was obviously bandaged simply, and there were also overturned pottery bowls and clay pots next to him, which were already empty, and there were no water stains on the ground.

"Anyway, you want to see Ben Shuai, don't you have a secret to tell?"

Liu Sheng suddenly sneered for a while, and asked in a strange tone, "Isn't the Marquis of Zhenyu angry at all?" ”

"Why should I be angry?" Li Xin's tone is very ordinary!

"My people bombed your military port, destroyed your supplies, made you lose face, and almost drove you out of Nanjing, this is all unexpected, right?" Liu Sheng gritted his teeth in every word and sentence, as if these words were not mean words, but poisonous arrows shot at Li Xin.

"So what? Didn't what you said fail in the end? Li Xin's face was calm, his breath was indifferent, but he stretched out his hand and pointed to the more than 100 catties of iron shackles on Liu Sheng's body, and said with ridicule: "So now you have more of these things on you, and Ben Shuai is the one standing here interrogating you!" ”

Liu Sheng's original intention in saying those words was just to provoke Li Xin, and making him angry was the only way Liu Sheng could retaliate against Li Xin. Liu Sheng knows very well that his leg is injured at this moment, and the brothers who went north to Nanjing with him are either dead or injured, and the fortune and misfortune are uncertain, so the fate that awaits him can be imagined.

Unexpectedly, Liu Sheng's attempt failed to provoke Li Xin, but he himself was provoked, suddenly his eyes were red, his forehead was bruised, and the muscles of his body were tense, like a wounded and angry leopard, ready to burst out and hurt people.

Li Xin saw Liu Sheng's state in his eyes, but he was not worried, like Liu Sheng's back and leg injuries, and more than 100 pounds of iron shackles on his body, it was impossible to hurt himself at a distance of a few steps.

Li Xin looked at Liu Sheng contemptuously, and slowly spoke again.

"Don't be a trapped beast! If you want to live, say what Ben Shuai wants to know! If you are bent on death, you can say nothing, and Ben Shuai will respect your choice! ”

The psychological contest between the two made Zhu Yuncai, who was watching from the sidelines, feel very embarrassed, obviously Liu Sheng was very well-behaved and cooperative in front of him, how to see the Marquis of Zhenyu was like a different person. But Zhu Yuncai was not a fool after all, and immediately understood that he was being used by Liu Sheng's gang, and he brought the Hou Hou to the town, just to provoke the Hou Zhen. After comprehending these, Zhu Yuncai even regretted his intestines, and only today did he understand what it means to lift a stone and hit his own feet, he did this kind of stupid thing more than once today, but was hit by a stone twice in a row.

Regret and anger were intertwined, Zhu Yuncai's body trembled slightly, but he was not as stupid as the previous prison guard, and immediately intimidated Liu Sheng, but stood aside silently, waiting for the Hou to completely defeat this Liu Sheng psychologically.

Li Xin's words were like a tightened fishing net, which suddenly made Liu Sheng feel a little dry lips, he smashed his chapped lips, and wanted to say something, but he didn't know where to start. Liu Sheng asked himself over and over again in his heart, did he have the courage and determination to die willingly? In the past, I was willing to die in my mouth, but when I was faced with the choice of life and death, I hesitated, hesitated, and didn't know what to do.

Liu Sheng suddenly thought of the beautiful wife and concubine he would marry in the mainland after Zhao'an, and even that pair of lovely children, but this death was dead, but there was no way to say it. He could only ask inwardly, "What do you want to know?" Don't be delusional, I won't say anything, I won't betray the handsome! ”

Li Xin laughed, this Liu Sheng was much more cowardly than he imagined, although what this person said was pretending to be strong, but there was still a thick weakness in his bones.

"Who said I made you betray the handsome man behind you? I just want to know some questions that have nothing to do with your handsomeness! It will never make you sad for the infamy of selling for glory. Li Xin paused when he said this, he saw a trace of longing in Liu Sheng's gaze, so he continued to say step by step: "As long as you say what Ben Shuai wants to know, Ben Shuai can not only give you back your freedom, but also reunite you with your family, how about it?" ”

The last sentence finally broke Liu Sheng's psychological defense, and he asked in a trembling voice with an extremely trembling voice: "When, seriously?" ”

"Once the word is spoken, the horse is hard to chase! When did Ben Shuai speak? ”

Li Xin's rhetorical question was like giving Liu Sheng a reasonable reason, and he asked tentatively: "Ask, ask, what do you want to know?" At the same time, he did not forget to emphasize, "I won't do anything to betray the handsome!" ”

This sentence made Zhu Yuncai, who was listening on the sidelines, want to laugh, such self-deceptive words, coming out of the mouth of a tough guy like Liu Sheng are really funny to the extreme. But then he denied it, what kind of tough guy is Liu Sheng like this? groveling in front of himself, and coming to the town of Hou but being so weak, isn't he afraid of a dead word in the end?

With these judgments, Zhu Yuncai looked at Liu Sheng with a little more disdain and contempt in his eyes. However, he wanted to see what the Marquis of Zhenju could ask about not betraying the marshal. In his impression, the Zhenju Marquis sometimes behaves in a proper manner and is not good at using cunning, and many times he seems a little pedantic, he is worried that Li Xin agreed to the thief's words, and he really wants to fulfill his promise, is it possible that as long as he answers the question, he really wants to release him back to Quanzhou?

If this is the case, how can we deal with those soldiers who died in the Dinghuai Gate? Thinking of this, Zhu Yuncai looked at Li Xin again, he wanted to see how Li Xin dealt with this thief.

Li Xin didn't ask questions immediately, but turned back to Zhu Yuncai and said, "Call the bookstore, take a pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and record the confession!" ”

Zhu Yuncai had already prepared these things, and with a wave of his hand, Ying Tianfu's scrivener came to the cell with a few cases, and the paper was laid on the case, the ink had already been polished, and the brush dipped in thick black ink could be written immediately.

Zhu Yuncai waved his hand again, waved away the clerk who was in charge of recording, he took the brush from the clerk's hand, and planned to record the confession in person, which could be regarded as a good performance in front of the marquis of Zhenyu.

Seeing that everything was ready, Li Xin looked at Liu Sheng and asked slowly, "How?" Won't you regret it? If you don't regret it, you can ask! ”

Liu Sheng was stunned when he heard this, he obviously didn't expect Li Xin to ask such a question, he was hesitant in his heart, and finally made up his mind, who asked this, he couldn't help but ask himself, did he really think about it?

"It doesn't matter if you don't think about it, Ben Shuai will fulfill your wish to be a martyr, and will bury you well, so that you won't be able to be eaten by wild dogs!"

Li Xin's words were pleasant, but when they fell on Liu Sheng's ears, everything became a counterword, is this a threat? Do you want to let yourself be a raging wilderness and let wild dogs gnaw on it? Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shudder. He always said that he was not afraid of death, and this time he even entangled him with what happened after death.

To tell the truth, when he deceived Zhu Yuncai before, Liu Sheng's will to die was still relatively resolute, and in his imagination, it was a pity to bring Li Xin to this guy and humiliate him in front of him. But who would have thought that Li Xin's guy didn't do what he envisioned at all, not only did he not get angry, but he pointed every word on his own weakness.

Liu Sheng was unwilling, unwilling to be a soft bone, unwilling to die, a non-literate, thrown into the wilderness to feed wild dogs. He finally chose to give in, and could only hope that Li Xin would keep his promise and not let him do those disgraceful betrayals.

"Figured it out! The marquis of Zhenyu asked, as long as he didn't betray the marshal, I knew everything! ”

Li Xin immediately clapped his hands and praised: "Good! The first question, was the fire in the military port outside Shangyuan Gate planned by you behind the scenes? ”

When it came to the fire at the military port outside Shangyuan Gate, Liu Sheng was still quite proud, and he didn't expect things to go so smoothly, from persuading the general Shao Hualong to buying Li Shuangcai, the general of the Three Guards Army who was in charge of the supplies at the military port, everything was carried out in an orderly manner. It's just that he still has a little regret, the gunpowder warehouse is a little far away from the waterfront of the wharf, and the big ships of the Pingbo fleet did not all dock when they exploded, otherwise even the Pingbo fleet would have blown him up, what kind of credit is that?

Thinking of the word credit, Liu Sheng's eyes couldn't help but dim for a while, what is the meaning of the word merit now? He himself has become a prisoner, life and death are in the hands of others, and these things worthy of pride have now become his own life-threatening talismans.

"It was indeed from the hand of the marker!" After Liu Sheng's heart defense was broken, even his attitude towards answering questions changed.

"Okay, Ben Shuai knows! Tell us a little bit about what you did behind the scenes. ”

So Liu Sheng told how he persuaded Shao Hualong and how he bribed Li Shuangcai one by one. It was not difficult to convince Shao Hualong, and the two almost hit it off. It's just that Li Shuangcai is a little difficult, and he also knew that Li Shuangcai was a veteran of the Three Guards, and it was not easy to succeed.

But if a person is good, he must have weakness, and this Li Shuangcai's weakness falls on a woman. A house, a woman, and that's it!