Su Xiaolou and the others followed the officials in a carriage to a few small rooms prepared by Lord Zheng, which should also be the place where the officials of the River Department rested, the furnishings were very simple, Su Xiaolou was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, because he was afraid of leaking the news, they ran from Baoying County to Jiangdu Wharf overnight last night, and now his body is about to fall apart, and he didn't take off his shoes and fell asleep on the bed.

Half-asleep and half-awake, he heard Bao Zhutou say that Cao Cao was going to invite him to dinner, so he sat up and was confused: "Why did Cao Cao invite me to dinner?" ”

Bao Zhutou was speechless for a while and complained: "Are you Guan Yu, Cao Cao invited you to dinner, what a big face you are!" I said that Cao Ye, who absconded in fear of crime, was arrested. ”

"What? And feed it to my mouth? ”

“……”

When Su Xiaolou and Bao Zhutou Dao arrived in the front hall of the River Division, they saw the scene of the father's kindness and filial piety, Cao Ye knelt on the ground and pulled Lord Zheng's thigh and cried bitterly: "The student is ashamed of the teachings of the boss, the student is really blinded by lard, and the ghost will do such things that harm the country and the people, and the student regrets not being at the beginning!" I hope that the old man must take care of his health! ”

As soon as Su Xiaolou came in, Cao Ye stopped crying, looked at Su Xiaolou with snot and tears, and Su Xiaolou had an innocent expression: "Did I delay your performance?" Why don't I get out? You continue! ”

Lord Zheng calmed down his grief: "You are here, Lord Cao, you can take it away!" The official is also upset when he looks at it! "This howl is the same as the mourning, who can not be upset.

Su Xiaolou and Bao Zhutou arched their hands: "The lower official thanked Master Zheng." He turned his head to Cao Ye on the ground and said, "Lord Cao, please put away your performance and come with me!" ”

Su Xiaolou looked at Cao Ye provocatively, Cao Ye himself was short and fat, but his skin was very white, kneeling on the ground like a steamed bun lying in the cage drawer, his round face was full of horizontal meat, and there was a pair of small eyes embedded in the ravines and ravines, like two black beans in the New Year's bun, and he was looking at Su Xiaolou slyly at this time.

"Look at what? Jealous that I'm more handsome than you? ”

“……”

Su Xiaolou Guan Zheng borrowed a courtyard, and Bao Catcher ordered someone to escort Cao Ye into the firewood room of the courtyard, and on the way to the courtyard, Cao Ye shouted to make a carriage, he couldn't walk a single step on this road, and then sat on the ground and refused to go.

Seeing this, Bao Zhutou threatened: "Lord Cao, if you refuse to go, we will hold you behind the horse and drag you all the way back." ”

"That black-faced one, when the official was an official, you didn't know which stinky puddle you were playing in the mud! Who to scare! This official is an official of the imperial court, and he was born as a second-class jinshi, so you dare to lynch this official? I'm afraid you don't want this skin of the Punishment Department on your body! ”

"You ......" Bao Zhutou looked at Cao Ye's mocking eyes, and his angry face turned white and blue for a while.

"Brother Bao, you are good at investigating the case, I am good at dealing with this kind of Wang 80,000-year-old turtle of the year before last, watch." Su Xiaolou raised his eyebrows at Bao Zhutou and shouted: "Everyone come and take a look!" The River Department also knows that Lord Cao Huacao is suspected of corruption and perverts the law, and has been detained, come and take a look! If you don't look at it, you won't see it. ”

"Is it the Cao Ye who killed a thousand knives? I never pay extra money when I come to eat at my restaurant, and I owe almost a hundred taels. ”

"This grandson killed my son in the street last year, where is it, I want him to return my son's life."

"Old Wang, your dog loves to run around."

Su Xiaolou surged a group of people towards this side, and he couldn't live by himself, Cao Ye, who was sitting on the ground, was ashamed and angry, glared at Su Xiaolou angrily, got up in a hurry, and walked quickly towards the front with the leash officer.

Bao Zhutou gave Su Xiaolou a thumbs up at one time!

Su Xiaolou shouted at Cao Ye: "Lord Cao, the next official is the eldest young master of the Jia family, Jia is not fake, if you find out that Lord Cao has been wronged in the future, you can come to Jia Shutang, your father." ”

Although Bao Zhutou didn't understand why Su Xiaolou said this, he still didn't expose Su Xiaolou, he now felt that what Su Xiaolou did made sense.

Su Xiaolou couldn't help but laugh when he saw Cao Ye walking forward, and stepped forward to continue: "Lord Cao, if you can tell me the evidence of the Yangzhou prefect's crime, I can let you take the car back, how about it?" ”

"Dream your big dreams! How could I have evidence of the Yangzhou prefect's guilt. ”

"Master Cao, you're not well-behaved."

“……”

Su Xiaolou and Bao Zhutou took Cao Ye back to the courtyard where they lived, and Su Xiaolou personally pushed him into the firewood room, and said in a low voice: "Lord Cao, good luck." ”

As soon as Cao Ye entered the firewood room, he understood how bad Su Xiaolou was, and saw that Dai Qingyuan was also in the firewood room, staring at him angrily at this time.

Cao Ye suppressed and bullied Dai Qingyuan a lot during his tenure.

Cao Ye pointed at Dai Qingyuan's nose like thunder: "You wall grass actually betrayed me, okay!" Very good! I think you'll get away with betraying me, stop dreaming. ”

Dai Qingyuan didn't give up: "If you hadn't forced me, I wouldn't have broken the net with you, you forced it, you deserve it, you go and die!" ”

It is said that literati are inferior to each other, and the two Jinshi are both brilliant talents! I just don't know if I will scold my mother when I quarrel, Su Xiaolou feels that the quarrel without scolding my mother is soulless......

"You are the son of a farmer, and you are willing to betray your friends to seek promotion and fortune, and people like you are destined not to end well."

"You are a mouse, a bed bug, a fat and fat moth in the treasury, lying on the body of thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty to suck blood, you will not die well."

Two literati who have written chapters, you come and go, and from time to time they also quote famous stories and proverbial allusions. Su Xiaolou and the others, who were afraid of the corner outside the house, felt that they were not happy, what kind of quarrel was this, this was about to become an academic exchange, I don't know who proposed it, they started a gambling game outside the door, betting on when the two of them would make a move, and which one had a better chance of winning......

The argument between the two inside became more and more intense, and it was not clear who would be the first to Barra, but the sound of a fierce fight was already heard in the room.

Su Xiaolou said excitedly: "Look, they made a move, they fought." ”

"Hurry up and place a bet, I bet that Cao Thief will win, and Cao Thief feels that he can sit Dai Qingyuan to death with one butt."

Su Xiaolou retorted: "Although Cao Thief can't do it, he has to take a breath for three steps, but I bet that Dai Qingyuan will win." ”

Su Xiaolou and the others present happily bet, and there was a burst of Cao Yezhi's screaming sound from the firewood room, and the young man was really more combative.

When the call was almost over, Su Xiaolou said to Xiucai: "Open the door!" Let's go inside and see the excitement. ”

Mazi opened the door and saw that Dai Qingyuan was suppressing Cao Ye, who was beaten all over his body, so he stepped forward to separate the two and helped Cao Ye up.

Su Xiaolou looked at Cao Ye, whose face was covered in blood, and sneered: "Someone dares to beat our second-class jinshi and court officials like this? What a daredevil. ”

Cao Ye was speechless, he could only endure silently, and he felt very ashamed that he was defeated by a third-class jinshi as a second-class jinshi.

Cao Ye thought that he could accurately see a person's nature, and thought that Su Xiaolou would not dare to be ruthless to him. But he didn't expect that Su Xiaolou would find a dog to come over and bite him, and he really underestimated this Jinyi guard. Su Xiaolou also specially ordered Dai Qingyuan to add vegetables, and asked for a whole pot of wine to strengthen Dai Qingyuan's courage, Cao Ye despised Su Xiaolou's behavior very much.

Seeing that Cao Ye was a little stimulated, Su Xiaolou sneered: "These are stimulated, and the more powerful ones are still to come." Cao Ye was a little stunned in his heart, he originally thought that the military attache was just a reckless man with developed limbs and a simple mind, but now he realized that he might have underestimated Su Xiaolou's insidiousness.

Su Xiaolou suddenly changed his attitude and said with a smile: "Master Cao, don't be angry, I'm just teasing you, you are an official of the imperial court, how can you be afraid of this?" ”

Cao Ye said strongly: "Hmph! ”

Su Xiaolou beckoned the fat man to prepare some good wine and food, and decided to have a drink with Cao Ye. Cao Ye looked at Su Xiaolou's swishing smile and felt a little furious, and he was very worried about what would happen next. He understood that he had fallen into Su Xiaolou's game, and this Su Xiaolou might not be holding back something bad in his stomach.

Bao Zhutou sat on the side and sipped tea, watching Cao Ye be forced by Su Xiaolou to almost collapse. During this time, he had already learned Su Xiaolou's methods of rectifying people, and the thousand-year-old fox would be stripped naked and collapse when Su Xiaolou encountered it. Su Xiaolou's insidious and cunning methods are endless, making people defenseless.

Before, Bao Zhutou thought that Su Xiaolou was just a gentleman, and he would only play some small tricks and opportunistic tricks, but he didn't expect that every time the clues he pursued fell into a bottleneck, when he was helpless, Su Xiaolou could use his seemingly unreliable tactics to get miraculous results, Cao Ye, a cunning old fox, was about to collapse, but he didn't know how long he could hold on.

What Bao Zhutou didn't expect was that Su Xiaolou would be able to come up with such a bad idea and use Dai Qingyuan's hand to teach Cao Ye a lesson, Cao Ye would tell others where he hid the silver when he was drunk, indicating that as long as Cao Ye was drunk, he would become honest, and maybe he would explain some other useful clues.

Two quarters of an hour later, the fat man brought back a food box full of good wine and meat, Su Xiaolou invited Cao Ye to drink together, Cao Ye had almost no resistance to the temptation of food, after all, he was mortal and full of body was eaten little by little. So, he also began to taste these delicacies, however, his heart was full of uneasiness and depression.

……

Su Xiaolou did not deliberately pour wine to Cao Ye, but pretended to be concerned and persuaded him to drink less, but Cao Ye lowered his vigilance because of this, and after a glass of wine, he soon got drunk and began to talk endlessly.

Cao Ye is already a young man, but he has no children of his own, so he can only adopt the son of a relative, but this lack of blood relationship has always been a pain in his heart. He felt that he did not have the ability to continue the incense, which frustrated him.

Su Xiaolou deliberately led the conversation to the silver that Cao Ye was hiding: "Lord Cao, why did you choose to hide your stolen silver in the busy ferry warehouse? "

Cao Ye said drunkenly: "Don't you still understand? In a busy environment, it's easier to hide things and it's safer, which is called the safest place in the most dangerous place. "

"Your choice is really smart."

"Hey! Nothing. Cao Ye waved his hand and asked suspiciously, "How do you know where I hide the silver?" "

Su Xiaolou deliberately said in a mysterious tone: "That is naturally what the people around you told me." "

Cao Ye's face was very ugly: "Could it be that the one who watched the gate told you?" He said resentfully, "This damn fellow! used to be a caretaker, I was so good to him, and I promoted him to be the ferry steward, he dared to betray Lao Tzu. "

"So your place where you hide your silver is still not hidden enough."

Cao Ye said with some unconvincing: "At least smarter than those who hide gold in their homes, studies or thatched houses." "

"What do you say?" Su Xiaolou asked in disbelief, "Someone else hid the gold in?" This is really treating money like dung! "

Cao Ye said mysteriously: "Do you know Wang Chonghua, the prefect of Yangzhou, that little deflated third person Wang Chonghua hid the gold in the thatched house and pond sewage in the courtyard in front of others. "

"He's really arrogant?"

"Wang Chonghua, with the support of Hou Shouning, regards King Ning as nothing."

Su Xiaolou continued to inquire: "Wang Chonghua and King Ning have a bad relationship? "

Cao Ye's face was red, his eyes were foggy, and he had a big tongue when he spoke, and he seemed to be drunk: "Several little princes of Ning Wangfu are bullying men and women in Yangzhou, and they don't even pay attention to the officials in Yangzhou. "

"Then King Ning shouldn't let him go, right?"

"Lang Zhong of the criminal department of the dynasty was recommended by King Ning to take office." Cao Ye looked a little drunk and said, "If it weren't for Wang Chonghua offending King Ning, how could the Criminal Department suddenly send someone to investigate our affairs?" "

Su Xiaolou realized that he had fallen into a deep pit, all of this turned out to be a struggle between Shou Ning Hou and Ning Wang, and they were all just pawns on their chessboard.

Su Xiaolou stood up and looked at Cao Ye who was obviously drunk, but his eyes were unusually clear: "Lord Cao, why do I think you are very sober?" "

Cao Ye ignored Su Xiaolou, as if he hadn't heard it, raised his cup and chanted a poem: There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge.