A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Second Master Tong's eyes, but he didn't say anything more, and stood honestly.

Seeing that he was honest, Song Bantou snorted coldly, and hurriedly said to the other officials: "Hurry up and untie Liu Wenqing and see if his head is injured?" ”

"Huh." The officials immediately untied the rope on Liu Wenqing's body, checked his head, and found that it was only bruised and swollen, and there was no blood, and finally relieved: "Brother Song, it's nothing serious." ”

But Liu Wenqing felt that something was wrong, and ran over to stare at Liu Wenqing, seeing that he looked sluggish, his pupils were full of death and fear, and he frowned and said: "Song Bantou, Liu Wenqing is a little wrong, it is estimated that he has been drugged, so he has to hurry up and ask a doctor to take a look." ”

Song Bantou looked at Liu Wenqing, and also realized that he was inappropriate, and immediately asked a servant to leave: "Go and invite Doctor Lian." ”

"Huh." The official responded and left immediately.

Old lady Liu said to Song Bantou: "Song boy, send someone to the government for help, this Tong family is not quite right, the torture room at home looks very scary, ordinary rich and noble people, where can they get those things?" Just looking at the torture equipment in the torture chamber doesn't look like an honest person. Steward Tong even dares to stop you, if you can't get into trouble with the Tong family, we all have to fold here. ”

Old lady Liu has always been dissatisfied with the Tong family. First, the Tong family was originally the same as his family, and after three generations of wealth, it has begun to decline. But just thirty years ago, the Tong family suddenly became rich again, and I don't know where the Tong family's money came from.

The second is that the Tong family is too excessive, and after it is developed again, it will use means to squeeze other merchants in the city, and his Liu family has no official and no backer, so it was squeezed to only two carriage and horse shops and two small Zhuangzi.

Wen Qing's child was fed up with the Tong family's run, so he went to befriend Tong San and used Tong San as a cow and a horse, wanting to keep the rest of the family's livelihood.

The old lady Liu hadn't spoken to Liu Wenqing for several years because of Liu Wenqing's work as a dog slave for the Tong family.

But what Liu Wenqing did tonight made Mrs. Liu change his opinion of him a lot.

Wen Qing knelt in front of him and told him about Tong San's hobbies and what Liu Wenqing might suffer.

At that time, he beat him up, angrily scolded him for not speaking out earlier, and finally rushed to the yamen to report the case, which led to the current situation.

"Xiao Qian, hurry back to the yamen and call someone." Song Bantou listened to the words of the old lady Liu, and immediately asked a government official to return to the mansion to call people.

"Huh." Xiaoqian ran away in a hurry, but before he ran out of the courtyard of the firewood house, the official who had gone to ask for a doctor ran back and said to Song Bantou: "Brother Song, there is a problem with the Tong family, and the door of the firewood courtyard is locked, and we are not allowed to go out." Steward Tong took the courtyard that had stopped us before to guard the courtyard of the firewood room, saying that there were thieves in the house, so let us stay in this courtyard and not run out, so as not to be hurt by the fire or thieves. ”

Song Bantou was stunned: "What does the Tong family want to do?" We're servants, how dare they do that?! ”

Steward Tong shouted outside the courtyard of the firewood room: "Song Bantou, the house is on fire, please stay in the courtyard for a while, and then come out after the fire is extinguished, so as not to be provoked by the fire." ”

Song Bantou was so angry that he rushed to the door of the firewood courtyard, shook the courtyard door that had been locked from the outside and said, "Are your Tong family crazy?" Even the officials dare to be locked up, aren't they afraid of being punished by the Yamen of the Fucheng City?! ”

I'm afraid, of course the Tong family is afraid.

But the Tong family is even more afraid that the officials will find out the secret of the Tong family, in case the secret is broken, it will not be punished by the government, but by the house and exterminated.

After weighing the pros and cons, Master Tong chose to detain the officials for half an hour, and then release Song Bantou and them after the fire was completely extinguished and the treasury under them was covered.

As for the matter of imprisoning the officials, Master Tong will explain clearly to the prefect, at most, he will push a few subordinates out to take the crime, and then be fined a few thousand taels of silver, which is not a big deal.

Although Master Tong's abacus played well, tonight's abacus failed to work.

Liu Ya Shi and they guarded the back door of Tong's house, and after seeing the flames soaring into the sky, they knew that something had happened to Tong's family, and Liu Ya Shi immediately sent someone back to the palace to inform Shi Zhifu.

And the prefect Shi didn't need them to tell him at all, and when he saw the fire, he immediately took all the officials and rode towards here.

Shi Gongzi was also dragged by Shi Governor's Mansion and said: "Old lady Liu has come to report to the official, Tong San is finished, since you bumped into Tong San's matter, you can no longer pretend not to know, lest you end up with a reputation for covering Tong San in the future, and go to Tong's house with your father to testify and block Tong's mouth." ”

Shi Zhifu rushed to Tong's house with Shi Gongzi, a large group of officials, and Shen Tongju.

The concierge of the Tong family was instructed that no one was allowed to open the door until the fire was extinguished, so when the Shi Governor brought someone to call the door, they pretended not to hear.

Shi Zhifu was on fire, and ordered the official to throw the hook and claw long rope, go directly over the wall and go in, and grabbed the two frightened porters and beat them up: "Damn, the prefect came to call the door in person, you dare not open it, are you tired of it?" Think your family is the emperor? ”

Eh, don't say it, Master Tong has made the Tong family prosperous again since he took great luck, and after being complimented in Fucheng for decades, he really feels that he is the emperor of Linhe Mansion.

"Stop fighting, stop fighting, ah!" The two gatekeepers were beaten very lightly, screaming again and again, and the officials also rushed to open the door to the Shi Governor's Mansion, and after beating them more than a dozen times, they stopped and opened the door of Tong's house.

Shi Zhifu didn't even get off the horse, and rushed in directly on horseback, knocking a few Tong family nurseries who were running towards him and asking who he was.

Shi Zhifu condescendingly stared at the injured nursing home and said: "This mansion is handling the case, whoever dares to stop it, don't worry about killing!" ”

Shi Zhifu was about to explode, I didn't expect the Tong family to be so bold and dare not let him in, but now is not the time to pursue this, Shi Zhifu pointed to the direction of the fire and said: "Go to the burning yard, this house is on fire, where should the men of the Tong family put out the fire." ”

"Yes." The officials immediately ran up and followed the prefect Shi to the burning courtyard.

Shen Tong's sentence was to let people close the door, leaving the five nursing homes at home to guard, and not allowing the Tong family to go out. It's really not enough for the government officials, so they can only bring their homes to protect the home.

After arranging the things here, Shen Tongju also rushed towards the burning courtyard.

But as soon as he arrived at the burning yard, he heard a loud boom, and the Tong family's warehouse was burned down.

The warehouse collapsed, but the problem was that the whole warehouse yard was filled with a bad smell.

Shi Zhifu frowned: "What kind of smell is this?" ”

Shen Tongju's face changed, and he said to Shi Zhifu: "My lord, it is the smell of iron after the iron is melted. ”

When the iron is melted by the fire, it will produce a unique smell, which is somewhat unpleasant, and Shen Tongju is specialized in handling cases, and often goes to the execution room to watch the prisoners executed. The red-hot soldering iron in the torture room emitted this iron stench.