"Kouzhong!" Zhou Jingshi suddenly yelled and walked into the purchase house, and did not ask anyone to light the lamp, and entered the inner room in the dark. Kicked the door open, and the light inside was so bright that he couldn't open his eyes for a while.

"Steward?" Kou Zhong sat on the chair and went about his business as usual, when he heard the knock of the door, his body couldn't help but tremble, and his heart beat violently.

He saw the fire in Zhou Jingshi's eyes, which looked even more terrifying in the brightly lit room. "Okay...... Zhou Jing walked forward and looked at him angrily. Kou Zhong tried to suppress his early restless panic at the moment, and methodically put down the pen in his hand.

"Do you really think you are my benefactor of Zhou Jingshi?" Zhou Jingshi lowered his voice and said gloomily. "I don't know about Steward Zhou...... For...... Why ......" Kou Zhong pursed his lips and looked at Zhou Jingshi in amazement, there should have been a long explanation of it, but he couldn't spit out a word at this time.

"Why am I!" Zhou Jingshi grabbed Kou Zhong when he arrived, lifted him off the chair, and rolled on the ground a few times before he climbed a few steps and sat against the door. At this time, he calmed down his emotions and remembered the reason why Zhou Jingshi gritted his teeth.

In the months after Steward Zhou took care of his marriage, Kou Center was not very comfortable. He always has to leave to buy a house, Kou Zhong thinks very clearly. Of course, it's not about going back to the days of cleaning the latrines - it's about climbing to a higher council chamber, maybe you can get rid of the gloom in your heart. Kou Zhong was determined to do this, and he always approached the council hall with the help of Zhou Jingshi's relationship. He seized the opportunity of Zhou Jingshi to send himself to dredge up his connections, dealt with the minions in the council hall, and never mentioned Zhou's affairs when bribing everyone, so he became familiar with it.

Cheng Congyuan often came to the council hall to rest, but he drank a few cups of tea with the minions, and then got up to say goodbye, so he didn't meet Kouzhong. Only this time Cheng Congyuan came earlier, and the two happened to meet. Kou Zhong was chatting with everyone, and when he heard someone coughing behind his back, he tilted his neck to peep, and saw Cheng Congyuan making tea casually, and he was speechless for a moment, and his expression was much more restrained.

"It's not too early, the villain will leave." He stood up in a panic, bowed his head and walked silently out of the hall; Cheng Congyuan's eyes never jumped, as if he didn't know that Kou Zhong was in front of him, and he only cared about drinking tea.

Seeing this, Kou Zhong's heart was much more relaxed, and he walked quickly to the door, and when he was about to step out, a calm and sluggish voice suddenly came from his ears, so he could only stand upright and stop. "Don't go yet." Cheng Congyuan took the lid of the bowl and gently scraped the tea bowl, which was crisp and pleasant.

Kou Zhong listened for a while, took advantage of this to think of the wording, and then walked up to Cheng Congyuan, and his tone was steady: "Mr. Cheng, let the past pass." ”

Cheng Congyuan never looked up, staring blankly at the tea in the bowl. "That's a good point. I feel like I'm tired! After all, today is very different from the previous one! You have a different mind than others, and now you can say that you hit it off with me. Cheng Congyuan smiled faintly.

"In other words, I am valuable in the eyes of Mr. Cheng......"

"But it's up to you to agree with it or not." After that, Cheng Congyuan pushed the bowl away, still didn't glance at Kou Zhong, and left directly.

Since then, for some reason, Kou Zhong and Cheng Congyuan often meet each other, and they are immediately like brothers. At this time, Cheng Congyuan had already made a big fanfare to strictly investigate bribery, so he killed many people, and a long-lasting smell of blood echoed in the council hall, which seemed to be getting heavier and heavier. But buying a house in this atmosphere seems to be extraordinarily peaceful. Kou Zhong knew that Cheng Congyuan deliberately got close to him naturally with this purpose, and he could also take the opportunity to buy a house in order to seek a career next to his master, the so-called "hit it off", probably so.

But he was always worried that if he investigated the corruption in the purchase of the house, Cheng Congyuan would also be able to catch some of his disgraceful evidence, and at that time, he would have no power to fight back; But so far there is no way back, just like a war horse on the battlefield, it can only run wildly, and life and death are tied to fate.

"You're trying to kick me! I call you brother with all my mouth, but I didn't expect such an ungrateful person! Zhou Jingshi stepped forward and kicked him again, his eyes bloodshot red. Kou Zhongfu got up with difficulty, his face was firm, his eyes suddenly changed to panic, and he was calm and calm.

"Steward Zhou...... Let's get things clear first, so I know. ”

"Well loaded...... You yourself understand! Zhou Jing said hoarsely.

"I really don't understand what can make the steward even doubt me......"

"You and Cheng Congyuan are discussing how to pack up and buy a house, of course you don't understand!" Zhou Jingshi calmed down a little bit earlier.

"Did the steward hear it from those people?"

"How many people?" Zhou Jingshi sneered, as if he wanted to see how Kou Zhong would defend himself.

"Just a few stewards." Kou Zhong coughed lightly and looked at him.

"That's right. How? ”

"Steward Zhou! You don't know what kind of ghost they're pregnant! Kou Zhong laughed, and sighed again: "Don't you know that Cheng Congyuan has more than once broken my body into ten thousand pieces!" If it weren't for the fact that Ye Mansion is a famous family, I would have died here a long time ago, let alone colluding with him, this feud would not be unraveled for ten and a half years......"

"Those people are jealous of my ability, so they take advantage of this unstable day to plant it! The steward may not know that when I went to your house to ask for funerals, they almost kicked my waist off because of this incident, and I insisted on going to ......"

"They didn't see them when they bought a coffin to raise funeral expenses, how can you listen to them now?" Kou Zhong gritted his teeth, looking very sad.

He got up slowly, picked up the inkstone on the table, and threw it on the ground. "If Steward Zhou has a decision, he will kill me with this thing here, the life of a minion......" He kicked the inkstone to Zhou Jingshi's feet.

"Come!" Kou Zhong closed his eyes, his face suddenly wrinkled, and tears gradually rolled to his cheeks. Zhou Jingshi hesitated for a while before bending down to pick up the inkstone; Kou Zhong squinted his left eye slightly, nervousness and panic were like hot oil poured on two tripods, blending and boiling in his heart.

The inkstone sways in a blur of light and shadow; Zhou Jingshi's expression at this time was not clear; My chest is inexplicably blocked.

But the steward finally put down the inkstone slowly, and it was very light. He hurriedly opened his eyes, and finally breathed a breath, but he suddenly felt dizzy and his head was swollen, and his eyes were fluttering. Fortunately, Zhou Jingshi's suspicions were dispelled at this moment, and the rest was much easier.

"Steward Zhou, do you still believe in this brother......" Kou Zhong stepped forward and patted him on the back, and then as if he couldn't help it, he covered his eyes and cried in a low voice, choked up so that he couldn't speak.

Zhou Jingshi also held him tightly.

"I can't live up to such a loyal man......" he said.

Kou Zhong didn't say a word when he left the house, he just pretended to wipe his tears and looked up at the direction of the moon, as if he was estimating the time. It may be just to see the scene, but it should be ready to cut off the purchase of a house.

"That's it, Mr. Cheng." Kou Zhong's tone was steady, without a trace of struggle or hesitation, as if he had already decided, and he spoke lightly and discussively. Cheng Congyuan was a little surprised by this, looked at the stack of silver tickets and said, "How can you say that Zhou Jingshi has cultivated you, it's a bit inappropriate." ”

"Mr. Cheng, if we want to behave in a proper manner, you won't be able to figure out how to buy a house." Kou Zhong replied in a kind voice.

Cheng Congyuan still didn't look at him, just smiled. "Therefore, the house always has to raise a few two-faced people......"

After hearing this, Kou Zhong also smiled quietly.

Cheng Congyuan led people to shout in front of the door of the house, and the knocking sound became louder and louder, startling the sparrows perched on the trees, and each of them flapped their wings and flew around. The door of the house that could be purchased was not opened for a long time, and Cheng Congyuan was extremely angry, pushed the crowd away, and roared: "If you just hit it open, you won't get it!" He stepped forward and kicked the door hard, and someone inside opened it.

"It's nothing, you all have a good life." Cheng Congyuan said as he opened the door.

The man's face was pale, and he didn't dare to ask Cheng Congyuan, so he turned to the people beside him and asked, "What happened?" Here, Steward Zhou still told not to open the door......"

"Just tell us, where is Zhou Jingshi!" The people were impatient and authentic.

"In the back room, ......" the man was in the middle of his sentence, and the people rushed into the room, and then turned into the back room, where the door seemed to be closed, and the windows were closed.

"Open the door! If you don't open it, you will burn this room directly, and it will be a big deal to send someone to repair it! Do you think you can get away? Several arresting subordinates walked up behind Cheng Congyuan and shouted hard into the house.

"What nonsense to talk to him!" Cheng Congyuan raised his hand, his tone was full of contempt, "A few people went up and kicked the door!" ”

At the sound of the order, the subordinates swarmed to the door, and the leader handed out the rope in his hand, kicked at the door, and then staggered a step, and his body immediately fell in.

"The fucking door is unlocked!"

When the people heard this, they immediately broke in.

Cheng Congyuan waited outside the house for a while, and everyone tied Zhou Jingshi out violently, and Cheng Congyuan immediately stopped. "Don't be afraid in advance, I'm just asking you a few words to verify the truth."

"Kou Zhong told you?"

"That's right......" Before Cheng Congyuan finished speaking, Zhou Jingshi straightened his eyebrows in anger and immediately cut off: "That thing...... I should have killed him a long time ago! I treated him like a confidant, but he bit me! Mr. Cheng! This unkind bastard, how dare you believe him? ”

"You can't say that," Cheng Congyuan said, "he exposed you for the sake of our family's plan, so you don't have to be so angry, right?" Seeing that Cheng Congyuan was calm, he became somewhat worried.

"Ask one thing first," Cheng Congyuan rubbed his eyebrows, "When Kou Zhong denounced you, he brought about a bundle of treasure money, commonly known as silver tickets, and said that this was the reward you gave him after you sent him to curry favor with the council chamber, right?" ”

"Nonsense! Why didn't Mr. Cheng suspect that Kou Zhong had made the money himself? Besides, it is customary in the government to hand over silver to the council chamber every month, so why give him any reward! Mr. Cheng considered it. ”

Cheng Congyuan smiled, "The council hall also needs to be checked, and you will understand when you ask." I'm not going to kill indiscriminately...... Chase people! He immediately raised his hand again and ordered his subordinates to take Zhou Jingshi to the utility room to guard, and he turned back to the council room.

"Steward Kou, Zhou Jingshi has been sent by Mr. Cheng to take custody, just waiting for the result of your trial." A minion followed Kou Zhong and explained.

"Don't take care of everything! Am I still acting as a comprador? Kou Zhong said this, and he couldn't help but smile smugly on his face.

So saying, the two of them had entered the inner room from the hall where they had purchased the house, and there were a dozen or so servants in the room holding the stewards, and in the other hand they were holding hard clubs; Seeing Kou Zhong coming, he hurriedly threw those few away and stepped forward to salute.

After the salute, these minions each held sticks and lined up on both sides, just like the style of a county official being promoted to the court; The stewards knelt with their heads bowed, for fear of being recognized by Kouzhong.

The minion who followed Kou Zhong pulled the chair to the middle and helped Kou Zhong to sit down.

"Look up." Kou Zhong was full of sarcasm, and said to those stewards.

Those few should not.

"Tell you to look up!" Kou Zhong slapped the chair, and the stewards were so frightened that they raised their heads, all covered with putty, and looked panicked.

"Do you recognize me?" Kou Zhong deliberately leaned his face closer and asked.

"Yes, of course I do......" said the former Guan who had almost kicked him in the waist.

"I don't believe it. Think about it again. Kou Zhong stood up and walked over to him.

"I didn't ...... I'm not mistaken, it's Kou ......."

Before the words fell, he suddenly felt a pain in the fire in his waist, and with an "ouch" sound, he fell to the ground.

It was Kou Zhong who took the stick and struck him the waist, and then asked, "Do you remember?" ”

The man was in pain for a long time, and Fang struggled to get up, and had to kneel on the ground and beg for mercy; Everyone looked at Kou Zhong nervously.

"Okay, let's get down to business." Kou Zhong returned to his seat. The people around me have prepared pen and paper.

"Have you ever stuffed Zhou Jingshi with silver? When was it given? Make it all clear. ”

The steward carefully recalled, and the servant wrote them down on a piece of paper as he had said.

"That's all." All the stewards looked at Kou Zhong together.

"What else?" Kou Zhong asked.

"And the money from the compradors, elsewhere...... There is no bribery. ”

"More than that," Kou Zhong said matter-of-factly, "there is also the silver to bribe the minions of the council hall, that is, you let those people slander the master, so that the master can alienate Cheng Congyuan and appreciate Zhou Jingshi, is there such a thing?" ”

"This is nonsense, I don't know whose lies the steward has listened to......" The stewards were confused, not knowing what it was.

"That's ......," Kou Zhong smiled slyly.

"Let's fight. Fight until you confess. "It cannot be said that when the stewards were still confused, they were already being pulled by the minions, and when they came up, they were beaten badly, and the sticks crackled down.

After a fight, I saw that they were crying for their father and mother, half-dead, so they had to make up a blind call, and finally confessed.

Kou Zhong put the confessions together, turned around and left the house, leaving behind the former stewards who were still screaming pain.