Chapter 496: Void and Wrongdoing
Tao Yan pulled Gu Tiannan to sit down.
"Because you and I don't know where this arrow came from, maybe he is tempting us. If we lie and don't come back by then, won't we fall into his trap?
He deliberately tested us, and that's why he threw this question at us. So, let's throw that question back.
Anyway, we don't know the origin of the arrowhead, so why don't we just let him find out? He said he picked it up from the bandits' den, so that's from the bandits' den?"
After listening to Tao Yan's words, Gu Tiannan exclaimed wonderful.
He wanted to tell a lie, but Tao Yan was right, it would be difficult to lie if he lied.
The arrow that suddenly appeared in Su Xuan's hand might be a temptation!
"Let him check it himself, even if he finds out that it was omitted by our yamen, I will admit my mistake when the time comes!" Gu Dao.
"That's it! Because of an arrow, he won't do anything with great fanfare." Tao Yan said.
"Makes sense, makes sense! Master Tao, it's you who are extremely smart!" Gu Tiannan gave a thumbs up to Tao Yan.
"Master Gu praised it falsely, we crossed a single-plank bridge, and we can't slip our feet." Tao Yan squinted and said.
Gu Tiannan pretended to check all day.
In the evening, he hurried back to the governor's yamen.
At this time, Su Xuan was sitting in the lobby, his face was not very good-looking.
"My lord, the lower official is back." Gu Tiannan hurriedly bowed.
"Got the result?" Su Xuan asked coldly.
"My lord, the lower officials have been tracking it for a day, but they really haven't found out how this arrow was missed." Gu Tiannan replied.
When Su Xuan heard this, his face suddenly became even more difficult
Looked.
"Let you check it all day, and you will tell this official? The arrows of the official system are the materials controlled by the imperial court! What was omitted from you, and you can't find the slightest result?" Su Xuan said coldly.
Looking at Su Xuan's terrible expression, Gu Tiannan was beating a drum in his heart.
However, he is not weak-hearted.
According to what Tao Yan said, now you just need to tell the truth.
Don't lie, or you won't be able to get it back.
This must be a pit!
"The lower officials are incompetent! Please punish me!" Gu Tiannan arched his hand and bowed deeply.
Su Xuan roughly understood.
Gu Tiannan was fooling him, he didn't bother to check at all.
Therefore, Su Xuan's analysis is good, the problem of Baizhou is more difficult to solve than the problem of Shuzhou.
It's not that Su Xuan's manpower is insufficient, but that Su Xuan's people must act in secret for the time being and can't surface.
He didn't know who else was his opponent besides Gu Tiannan and Tao Yan.
Therefore, the chips in Su Xuan's hand cannot be all laid out.
"You don't want to be responsible?" Su Xuan squinted and asked.
"Arrows are military supplies, and even if one of them is lost, it is a crime of negligence on the part of the lower officials. The lower officials are ineffective, but they are not shirking their responsibilities. The adults have and punished, and the lower officials will never complain!" Gu Dao.
"Hmph, a fluttering word, you want to bring it over?" Su Xuan said coldly.
"Please punish me!"
This arrow didn't dig anything out of Gu Tiannan's mouth at all.
It seems that Gu Tiannan wants to throw all the problems to him.
The more Gu Tiannan was fooled, the more he could show that there was something wrong with him.
"Call Tao Yan, and this official will discuss with the two of you.
Su Xuan said coldly.
"Yes."
Soon after, Tao Yan hurried to the governor's yamen.
"My lord, the next official is late, please punish the lord!" Tao Yan walked into the lobby and bowed to Su Xuan.
"Then drag it out and hit the *** board." Su Xuan didn't have a good airway.
"Huh?" Tao Yan was stunned.
"Didn't you say that you asked the official to punish you? Why, don't admit punishment?" Su Xuan said coldly.
Tao Yan is just a scene, this Su Xuan actually took it seriously?
He also found out that Su Xuan was completely like two people when he first came.
This guy was eating, drinking, and having fun a few days ago, all pretending?
So what has Su Xuan done in the past few days?
Could it be that he already has some evidence?
"The lower officer pleaded guilty." Tao Yan arched his hand and said.
"Okay, sit down, two adults, this official has something important to discuss with you." Su Xuan waved his hand and said.
"Thank you, sir!"
Tao Yan hurriedly sat down, and he and Gu Tiannan glanced at each other.
"Lord Su, it's getting late, I don't know if the adults are looking for the two of us to come, what is the important thing to discuss?" Gu Tiannan asked.
"When was the last time the bandits in the Hakushu realm were infested?" Su Xuan asked.
"This ...... If they are active in the mountains, the lower officials will not know about it." Gu Tiannan replied.
"This official is asking about their last haunt, don't you understand?" Su Xuan said coldly.
"It should have been last month." Gu Tiannan replied.
"Oh, where did they go and what did they do?" Su Xuan asked again.
"They didn't go into the city and plunder the people, and the officials didn't know where they went and what they did. There are many mountains in Hakushu, and the movements of the bandits are indeed difficult to determine
Grind." Gu Tiannan replied.
"My lord, did you find the trail of the bandits?" Tao Yan asked towards Su Xuan.
Su Xuan squinted and looked towards Tao Yan.
This old fox, is he trying to get words out of his mouth?
However, you are too clever to say this.
Can a question like yours get out of my mouth?
"If the officer finds the trail of the bandits, what are you going to ask you for?" Su Xuan said coldly.
The matter of the arrow arrowhead failed to get anything out of Gu Tiannan and Tao Yan's mouths.
However, Su Xuan planned to continue the talk.
He could start with other things.
"Two adults, when was the last time the bandits robbed the people?" Su Xuan asked.
"The bandits in the mountains rarely enter the city to plunder the people, if you say the last time you robbed the people, it is estimated that it was a few years ago, and the lower officials can't remember it clearly." Gu Dao.
"Two years ago."
Tao Yan added: "Two years ago, on the night of the Lantern Festival, bandits entered the city and swept away the grain of a county next door."
"Last time?" Su Xuan asked again.
Tao Yan thought carefully for a while, and then replied, "Last time, Xia Guan can't remember clearly, it is estimated that it will be four or five years, maybe five or six years."
Su Xuan had already captured some information from the words of the two.
Su Xuan stood up and took two steps in the lobby.
"It means that the bandits only come out of the mountain once every few years?" Su Xuan asked.
"Judging from the evidence we have so far, this is indeed the case, please be aware of it." Tao Yan arched his hand and said.
"Then the official asks you again, they bandits, they only rob once every few years, what do they usually eat? Do you gnaw on the bark?"
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Xuan's gaze swept over, revealing a hint of coldness in his eyes.
This made Gu Tiannan and the two feel the pressure.
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