Cheng Xiao felt a little suffocated, he pulled his shirt and swallowed his saliva again.

"But that's not all." Changying raised her lips and looked over again: "Since we have found out that you are colluding with the Zhenhai Gang, then of course the Zhenhai Gang has to investigate the dealings with the Dongying people."

"What does Master Cheng have to do with the Dongying people, I don't have to say it too clearly?"

When Cheng Xiao heard this, his face turned uncontrollably gray.

"What do you know?" He asked.

"I don't know." Changying gritted his teeth, "So I want to ask Master Cheng for advice, the man in black asked you where the account book you want is hidden?" ”

"You think I'm going to tell you?" Cheng Xiao gripped the handrail and sneered.

Changying thought for a moment and stood up.

Cheng Xiao was a little nervous for no reason.

She smiled, approached him slowly, and suddenly stopped: "I guess, your account book is not a record of the official silver that was stolen, but a record of the transaction with the Japanese at sea, isn't it?" ”

Cheng Xiao only felt that the candle flame in front of him jumped, and the face in front of him suddenly became unfathomable.

"The ledger in your hand is from above, and it stands to reason that you should never leave such a thing as a trouble.

"What can make you desperately stay, of course, is an account that cannot be erased.

"With the power of the people behind you, what accounts in the government and the opposition can't be eliminated, and they are afraid of being denied?"

She spoke very slowly, but each word weighed like a hammer striking the heart.

Cheng Xiao's hands holding the handrails were already oily, and the sweat on his forehead was choked for a while, and at this moment, it came out in a more turbulent state.

"I've thought about it for a long time, and I haven't figured out who can make the master behind you not leave the ledger in case of trouble.

"At the same time, there is another thing that I don't understand, that is, the Zhenhai Gang and the Dongying people seem to be colluding in private.

"When I think about the two things, it's not hard to find.

"According to the current banditry situation in Jiangnan, only bandits and pirates are making trouble. Of course, you don't take the bandits seriously, so you can only be pirates.

"Over the years, the guards have not been lazy and derelict in their duties, but the sea and land have been repeatedly beaten and repeated, not because of the inaction of the guards, but because there are too many people like you Cheng Xiao in the south of the Yangtze River.

"You have reached an agreement with the bandits, and on the one hand, you are asking for troops to suppress the bandits, and on the other hand, you are crying poverty with the imperial court, and the imperial court can only continue to allocate funds to send troops.

"With the money, both of you will earn, and they will take a part, and you will take a part, and if so, the robbers will never stop, and the money above you will never be exhausted.

"But you maggots are not easy to get along with, for example, if you take 50,000 taels of silver, peel them off layer by layer, and fall into the hands of the master behind you, it is less than sixty percent, right?"

Cheng Xiao's face was already a little hideous.

Changying looked at him from afar, and continued: "The silver is constantly being allocated, and of course the deputy department has the responsibility to check it.

Chen Tingchen, the head of the household department, was aware of the truth, but because he was very involved behind it, he felt powerless to expose it, so he had to die to admonish him. Am I right? ”

Cheng Xiao's face tightened, and he listened without saying a word.

Changying didn't sneer or ridicule anymore: "Although I have never participated in a battle on the sea so far, my comrades who died because of the war abound!"

"When they are bleeding and working hard for the country, there is a group of people like you who eat human blood behind them, secretly colluding with the enemy to calculate their own country and nation!

"Where you are greedy for silver, it is the flesh and blood of our soldiers! Do you think you should have cut them with a thousand knives, should you bow to them and apologize?! ”

The long sword rested on his neck, and the cold touch reached the bone marrow.

Cheng Xiao rolled his throat and said, "I haven't been involved much in what is happening on the sea!" I'm just in charge of the general ledger! ”

"Even if you don't participate in the affairs of the sea, at least in Changxing Prefecture, you are responsible for entrusting the official money that you have privately swallowed to the gangs in the rivers and lakes?"

Changying stretched out his sword and pierced his skin: "The banditry in Huzhou has not been able to settle down in recent years, but in fact, it is also your officials and bandits who colluded to earn the silver of the court?" It's just that you don't have to set up separate accounts to prevent the other party from defaulting! ”

She withdrew her sword and glared angrily.

Cheng Xiao's body shook, and his prostrations were so numb that his fingers were a little numb.

He sighed and looked up at her, "Even if you know all this, what's the use?" It's a pity that you know what I've done, and you can't take my guilt.

"Shen Changying, don't forget that you are the enemy of the Ling family, you don't dare to return to Beijing, you killed your own uncle, and you can only hide in a remote place for the rest of your life!"

Changying's face was expressionless.

Cheng Xiao stood up, straightened his clothes, and said with his hand: "General Shen does have some means, and it is not easy to figure out the secret of the ledger.

"However, since I know that the enemy in the heart of Marquis Wu Ning is here, do you think I will be at your mercy?

"If I tell this news to the Ling family, the general thinks, can you still be your general in Nankangwei in peace?"

"Why not?"

At this time, there was another voice outside the door, clear and firm, like a cold blade that could break through the wall.

Du gradually stood under the corridor with his sword, and the corridor lamp reflected his long figure in a strange and majestic way. "Why do I think that after General Shen finishes this case, her official position will be more secure?"

Cheng Xiao's figure flickered, and he suddenly looked back at Changying.

"You guys, you're really in a group?!"

His eyes widened, and his gaze shuttled back and forth between his two faces, "Du Yan, I treat you well, you dare to betray me!" ”

"I also treated you well, saved the lives of your family of four, didn't you also turn your face and come to kill me?"

The long tassel stood under the threshold, his eyes snorting coldly.

Cheng Xiao was speechless, turned to look at the courtyard gate, and was about to open his mouth, but the family crawled in: "There is an accident at the dock!" As soon as the box appeared, it was stopped by Feng Gongzi and them!

"Then Nan Kangwei came, General Tan, General Tan and the prefect took the people to the dock and took the people of the Zhenhai Gang to the front!"

Cheng Xiao stood there, his face was like earth!

Changying smiled and said: "I think Lord Cheng is 'unable to escape'." How about it, do you want to wait until General Tan arrives to hand it over, or do you want to hand it over to me first? ”

Cheng Xiao glared at her angrily: "Don't you think about it!" Even if you seize the official silver, I can still push it to the Zhenhai Gang and say that it was the silver they robbed!

"If you know who is behind me, you should know that we will be prepared in advance to deal with such a situation!

"As long as the Zhenhai Gang insists on insisting that they robbed the silver, can it be that with the power of the East Palace and the Gu family, they can't save the lives of a few thieves who robbed the silver?

"Even if I die, I will never hand over the ledger to you!"