Dai Qingyuan originally just wanted to be a little greedy, save some money to change to a bigger house, and take his parents from his hometown to live, so that they can see that their son has a chance, but he didn't expect that the opportunistic luck psychology made him more greedy and unable to take it back, he told himself that this was the last time, but in this last time, his boss caught the handle, and now he regrets it, Hearing that the imperial court sent a salt patrol envoy to Yangzhou to thoroughly investigate the salt affairs, he was even more anxious all day, and recently heard that there were officials who disappeared one after another, and the whole person was like an ant on a hot pot, and he felt that he would be completely finished.

Unexpectedly, the first thing to wait for was not the killer who killed the mouth, but the people of Lord Qincha.

Dai Qingyuan was a little shocked, and after taking a sip of tea, he truthfully confessed everything he knew, in this chain of interests from selling illicit salt, he was just an insignificant small role, when the big ship with illicit salt entered the ferry port of Baoying County, he only needed to collect some money, and then pretend that he didn't know anything to let him go, and he sometimes accepted bribes from small merchant ships.

Dai Qingyuan also resisted at first, but his boss, Cao Ye, the governor of the river, warned him that he should pretend to be blind if he shouldn't see it, shut up what he shouldn't ask, and do it honestly if he is not obedient, he will change to an obedient river director to replace his position.

This is indeed the case in officialdom, in the long chain of interests of selling illicit salt, some people are forced to get involved, and some people do smell the smell and travel thousands of miles to get involved.

To put it bluntly, this Dai Qingyuan is a small character who can be abandoned at any time, Su Xiaolou was a little disappointed, it seems that this trip is going to be in vain.

"Although you have done something wrong, but you are forced, as long as you confess the evidence of other corrupt officials, Lord Qincha is willing to write a letter to intercede for you, and strive for a lenient sentence."

Dai Qingyuan shook his head: "I don't have any evidence of those people's crimes, they are very cautious and never allow me to ask about things that I shouldn't know." ”

Sure enough, it was the same as Su Xiaolou thought: "Then I'm sorry, we can't help you, so we can only take you away." ”

Dai Qingyuan said eagerly, "But I know the place where the governor of the river and Cao Ye hid the silver, is this okay?" ”

This is too good, Su Xiaolou and Bao Zhutou glanced at each other, and asked overjoyedly, "Where did he hide the silver?" ”

"It's hidden in a warehouse cellar at the Jiangdu Ferry."

Bao Zhutouhu said suspiciously: "His wife who has shared the bed for many years may not know about such a secret thing, how did you know?" ”

"Half a year ago, Cao Yexin married a little concubine like a flower, and he was happy to drink too much wine at the banquet, and when I sent him back, he stood by the river and didn't leave, pulling me and saying that he had a mountain of gold, I didn't believe it at first, I thought he was talking nonsense after drinking, and then he said that the mystery was hidden in a warehouse cellar at the Jiangdu Ferry, and he had to pull me to see it, I believed that he was drunk and spit out the truth, but he didn't remember it the next day."

Su Xiaolou said: "Then you should really thank him for not remembering this, otherwise you don't know where to pick your feet now." ”

Bao Catcher suddenly asked, "Then where is the silver you embezzled?" ”

Dai Qingyuan hesitated for a while, got up and came to the study to lift a few bricks on the ground with great difficulty, took a shovel and dug for a long time, and then took out a small box.

After more than a year in office, he embezzled so much money, I really can't imagine how much money those big corrupt officials have in their hands, it is estimated that they can build a golden house, and the River Division is indeed a rich errand! It's no wonder that many people want to come in.

"All the money I've been greedy for more than a year is here, and I don't dare to spend a single copper." Seeing this yamen broken like this, you can know that this sentence is somewhat true.

"Do you have anything else you have hidden somewhere else?"

Dai Qingyuan waved his hand again and again, and said in horror: "No, no, absolutely nothing, I will never dare to deceive the two adults." ”

Su Xiaolou was curious: "Why are there all gold bars inside?" Every time you get bribes, you exchange them for gold bars? ”

"Most of the money here is a bounty from the people above, and they give gold bars." Su Xiaolou touched his chin, it seems that gold bars are common money among corrupt officials.

Su Xiaolou and the others took the box full of gold bars, told Dai Qingyuan some things, went to rent a carriage on the street, put Dai Qingyuan's box into the carriage and prepared to leave, Dai Qingyuan hurriedly went home and packed up some salutes, and left with Su Xiaolou and his party.

A carriage and several fast horses stepped on the moonlight to the Jiangdu ferry fifty kilometers away.

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The sky is white, the ferry port in Jiangdu has begun to be lively, the porters have begun to work one after another, the open space of the ferry is full of goods, this pile and that pile, there are many warehouses in this row and that row, and I don't know which one Cao Ye hid the silver into, it will take a lot of effort to find it.

Su Xiaolou turned his head, returned to the carriage and took out Dai Qingyuan's box containing gold bars, and found the ferry steward and said, "The box explained by Lord Cao Ye Cao is here." With that, he put down the box and left.

The ferry manager looked at the box and couldn't help laughing, seeing that no one around him noticed his side, he used his strength to eat milk and grinned and wanted to pick up the box, but the box didn't move at all, motionless, as if it was embedded in the ground, he just saw which little brother was holding the box very easily! Why can't I hold it myself!

"My lord, do you want to help?"

As soon as the ferry steward looked up, it was his subordinate Wang Er, who was looking at him with big white teeth.

"Get out of the way, can I not even lift a little box? Just kidding, what should you do, don't be an eyesore here. ”

The ferry steward impatiently blew away Wang Er, a perennial porter, who has a powerful lifting of the box and can guess what is contained in it according to the weight and sound, and the ferry steward naturally knows, so he refuses to let others carry the box.

The steward rolled up his sleeves, took a deep breath, put his hands on both sides of the box and exerted his force, suddenly the green tendons on his arms burst out, the box finally left the ground, the ferry steward moved his pace with difficulty, because of the excessive force his face was red, he was sweating profusely and went back to a hut with the box, he slipped his hand with exhaustion, the box rolled over and fell, and the golden gold bars fell to the ground whirring, playing the most beautiful music in the world, and the ferry steward held his feet and screamed in a place of gold.

Su Xiaolou was secretly observing the every move of the ferry manager, and he was anxious to watch it from the side, this person was too empty, he couldn't even move a small box, it was wasted!