In the dark and damp dungeon, Zhang Fakui, who had a blue nose and swollen face, sat on the grass, his expression was dull, his eyes were empty, and he looked at the beam of light that was slanting in.

He rubbed his swollen nose, blew out some bloody snot, threw the two-inch-long snot into the cage next door, and rubbed his fingers on the cage fence: "Even if we can get out alive, the future will not be too easy." Han Fei won't trust us anymore. ”

Zhang Falin, who was sitting on the sidelines, bored and weaving grass ropes with weeds, raised his head and said, "When there was no Silver Snake Gang before, didn't we mix well?" ”

Zhang Fakui shook his head: "That's different. In the past, we were fools, and from time to time a few people would pop up to challenge us. Luckily, we did them; If you're unlucky, you're by someone else. Since following Han Fei, it can be regarded as a guarantee. If we can fight, we will fight; If we can't beat it, let the Fang Department help us fight. But if there is no Han Fei, can the Fang Department still take care of us? It would be nice not to arrest us. ”

Zhang Falin asked, "What does the big brother mean ......?" ”

Zhang Fakui sighed: "Let's go find Han Wei." ”

"Han Wei?" Zhang Falin sneered: "He is already a relative of the fifth blessing of the Han family, and he has long lived in the Hou Mansion, so he is not considered a member of the Han family." ”

Zhang Fakui said: "Distant relatives are also relatives, and people have lived in the Hou Mansion since childhood." His father-in-law died, and he and his mother moved out. I heard that Shouxiang Hou Hanping is still thinking about the two of them, and he also has a care for the New Year's holiday. Otherwise, her mother's little foot girl, widowed, can she support two children? ”

Lao Liu said: "I met Han Wei a while ago, and the Han family asked him to be in charge of transporting the goods. He also needs people over there, especially those like us, and he asked me if I wanted to go. I said that if the eldest brother goes, I will go, and if the eldest brother does not go, I will not go. ”

Zhang Fakui looked at the sixth child with satisfaction.

Zhang Falin frowned and said, "But Han Wei's character is too poor, he is a villain." ”

Zhang Fakui glared and said, "What's wrong with the villain?" Aren't we villains? In the eyes of the villain, there is only the word profit, if it is profitable, it will come, and if it is not profitable, it will leave, and it will not talk about those false feelings. But hypocrites are different, they talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, but in fact, they want to call people in vain, in essence, they are real villains, and we are villains in order to live. It's not the same. ”

The sixth child became excited: "Big brother is right! They're the real villains! ”

Zhang Fakui raised his hand and high-fived the sixth child.

As they spoke, the cell door opened, and an overseer walked in with a paperwork and the key to the cage. Anyone who has been in prison knows that this is to release people. If he is here for interrogation, he will be accompanied by a small official with a shackle in his hand.

The men in the cage stood up and stared at the overseer, hoping that he would come to release him. But when the superintendent passed by their cage, they sat down again in despair.

Su Bottle stood in front of the cage where Zhang Fakui was, and Zhang Fakui stood up ecstatically: "Inquire about Su Da personally, who fished us?" ”

Su Bottle said: "It's the Han family." ”

"Is someone coming to pick us up?"

"No one."

"Is Li Chengbiao still alive? Did he put it too? ”

"If he dies, you don't want to get out." Su Bottle opens the cage.

Zhang Fakui walked out and said in a low voice, "Master Su, let me tell you a secret. ”

"What's the secret?"

Zhang Fakui looked left and right with his eyebrows, his bald head lowered, raised his right hand, and rubbed his fingers.

He was asking Su for money.

Su Bottle sneered: "You tell the secret first, I will give you as much as I think is worth it." ”

"Alas, Master Su, don't be such a chicken thief. Although we offended Han Fei this time, we are still messing around in Luoyang, don't underestimate our brothers. We know a lot about the Tao. If you can't keep it, you will have to inquire about us in the future. Do you know Nanshi Tu Lao? But do you know who the black market boss in North City is? While speaking, Zhang Fakui patted his heart and said, "It's me!" ”

Su Bottle sneered: "Do you want to say it? If you don't say it, I'll leave, and I don't have time to grind my teeth with you. ”

"Alas, Lord Su, take a look, why are you so anxious?" Zhang Fakui smiled and continued to pinch his fingers: "I promise, this news will be useful to you." Give a little, give a little, not much, two taels of silver will be. ”

Su Bottle took out a handful of broken silver, estimated to be seven or eight yuan, and put it in Zhang Fakui's hand. Zhang Fakui's face was bitter: "That's it?" ”

"Too little?" While speaking, Su Bottle stretched out his hand to take it back, Zhang Fakui hurriedly put the money in his pocket, smiled, and said in his ear: "The crossbow machine in my hand was snatched away by you." Later, you sent the crossbow machine to Nanshi and handed it over to Tong Yin. Right? ”

"How do you know?"

"Oh, Master Su, you just asked. I know all about this. Do you know how that crossbow got into my hands? Hehe, if you don't give me money, you'll never hear the truth. Because the lies I told before were already very round, no one could find the flaws, and at that time, Han Fei would definitely redeem me. It's not easy. ”

"Less nonsense, to the point."

"Oh, well, to the point. Beishi is not handsome Bao An, originally to lead the child. As a result, the trickster made a mistake and stole Cao Bao's crossbow machine. To say that this is also my bad luck, I didn't make it clear to the trickster. As a result, Bao An didn't admit it afterwards and didn't give me money. I said to Bao An, Tong Yin suppressed this matter, that is also a sin. Poke this matter, Tong Yin will have a stain, and the official promoted by the Ministry of War this time is you, Bao Shuai. But Bao An said, what if people don't admit it? Cao Bao took the responsibility himself, saying that he didn't report it to Tong Yin after he lost it? ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Fakui spread his hands: "Master Su, you said, the surnamed Bao didn't listen to me, did you miss an opportunity?" ”

Su Bottle nodded and said, "I really missed an opportunity." ”

Zhang Fakui smiled proudly: "Hehe, right." ”

Su Bottle said: "Missed an opportunity to find bad luck." ”

The smile on Zhang Fakui's face became embarrassed, and Su Bottle took out two more coins of silver and put them in his hand, turned around and left.

……

Su Bei has taken over the new case and is planning to go to several counties outside the city to take a turn, because most of the cases that sued the emperor are because of land issues.

The imperial merchants annexed land in Gyeonggi Province on a large scale, but they only gave very little money to the people. Those poor people, honest and honest, can only suffer dumb losses. But some landlords quit and came to the city to complain. As a result, without exception, the landlords not only failed to bring down the imperial merchants, but caused a commotion. Some had an accident and died on the way home with a complaint; Others were imprisoned; Some were exiled.

Xue Pang believes that there must be unjust cases in this, and Su Bei also thinks so.

And the superintendent in charge of the case, who was fired before, already had a lot of evidence, but he just didn't dare to investigate further, so he handed over the problem to Xue Pang.

Isn't that embarrassing for leadership?

No wonder Xue Pang wanted to remove him from his post.

It's like on the battlefield, an officer gives him a mission that almost kills. And the practice of this superintendent is equivalent to saying to the officer, "You can do it!" ”

Of course, this is just a metaphor.

If he was really on the battlefield and he didn't go, the officer would have cut him down with his own hands. Left and right is a death, dying on the battlefield, and still being able to fall into the name of a martyr and fight for a pension for the family. If you are cut by an officer, you will be counted as a deserter. There is no treatment, and it also affects the family.

In fact, it is not so easy to put your life into it when you are arrested. For example, in a major corruption case, when he found that the situation was not good, Xue Shilang would not withdraw his love.

It's a long way out of the city, and you may even stay outside, so Su Bottle returned to Qinghuafang to bring some clothes and say hello to the county lord. But just when Su Bottle was packing up his clothes, the maid who heard the report said that the master of the Su family was here.

Chang'an to Luoyang, seven or eight hundred miles away, why did my dad come over?

"Rebel, rebel!"

Before they could meet, they listened to Daddy Su Mantang's voice, and it sounded like he was so angry.

I don't know where he heard about it - after Su Wei came to the Guogong Mansion, he was disrespectful to Miss Six, so he was expelled. And at this moment, the sixth lady was promoted to the lord of Dacheng again.

As soon as they met, my father became angry, Su Bottle asked him to sit, but he didn't sit, stood at the door and scolded: "It's a good day, but you have to die!" Do you know what kind of person An Guogong is in Chang'an? That's the emperor of Chang'an! If you are fortunate enough to enter the Mansion of the Rich Kingdom, it is equivalent to being a colt! This is your blessing, what grievances do you have? How dare you disrespect An Guogong's daughter? Do you know that since the marriage with the Guogong Mansion, Daddy and I have a lot of face in Chang'an? The big men in Fuli County all invited their fathers to dinner. Characters with heads and faces often run to my house. Your five younger sisters are all fragrant and sweet now, and the matchmaker who came to ask for marriage is about to break through the threshold. Your brother is always victorious and always profitable, and he also has a bright future. But suddenly I felt that something was wrong, no one was coming to our house. As soon as I inquired, I found out that you kid died! Disobedience to the county lord! ”

Daddy Su Mantang was originally the richest man in Wuwei. To say how wise he is is to compliment him. His greatest characteristic is not intelligence, but courage and action. He dared to do business with the Hu people, so he got the first pot of gold. Then he colluded with officials in Wuwei, and the business became bigger and bigger.

Collusion between officials and businessmen seems to be a derogatory term. But if you don't collude with officials, how can you become the richest man? At least in the Liang Dynasty, Su Bottle did not find a richest man who dared not to please the government.

But Daddy also has advantages, he is a man who wants face. Catching up with the famine years, as the richest man in Wuwei, he must have the face of being the richest man, set up a porridge shop at the city gate, and relieved the lives of many refugees, which can be described as a bit of public morality.

"Dad, what are you yelling about? You weren't like that before. ”

"Alas, my good man, my father also has difficulties."

Usually my dad is relatively calm, why is he so excited today? Later, Su Bei figured out that his father shouted these words for the county lord. The voice was quiet, and I was afraid that the county lord would not hear it.

When Tang Mei heard these words, the corners of her mouth unconsciously raised......