Don't Forget Everything

The account books given by Wei Chuyue are only enough to capture Cai Jingshan. It is not easy to investigate thoroughly. The Cai family is too big and has too deep roots. Come to interrogate, Cai's business cannot be closed, after all, Dali Temple, the Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Criminal Justice have not yet been interrogated, Qin Tang can't really copy the Cai family.

Cai Jingshan has always been confident, so he wouldn't be caught by them so easily.

Yan Xu interrogated Cai Jingshan's two most trusted shopkeepers, and escorted them to Mu Xuan and Qin Tang for questioning.

Qin Tang glanced at the trembling two people, then exchanged glances with Mu Xuan, and said, "Let's interrogate each other, we don't have much time."

Mu Xuan nodded: "Qin Shaoqing, would you like to gamble with me, and the loser will buy a drink?"

Qin Tang looked upright, as if he didn't hear what Mu Xuan said, stood up and bowed to Mu Xuan, and took one of the shopkeepers away.

"Ha." Mu Xuan smiled lightly, and was not offended by Qin Tang's bluntness. Mu Xuan has not been in Beijing for a long time, but she has heard of Qin Tang's name. It is true that she can take the position of young minister of Dali Temple at a young age. He offended many people. If he was a flamboyant man, the Qin family would not be able to keep him.Dali Temple asked Qin Tang to come in person, and Cai Jingshan's case was not true.

Mu Xuan yawned, stretched her waist, walked towards the big shopkeeper who was kneeling in the hall, didn't rush to speak, walked around him twice slowly, and then said: "Hmm..."

"General! General! The villain doesn't know anything! Really! Really! Really don't know!"

"Oh..." Mu Xuan paused, turned around and said to Yan Xu, "Ah, I almost forgot, Yan Xu, please go and tell Master Qin, don't be too harsh."

"General!! My lord!" The big shopkeeper kowtowed at Mu Xuan's boots, "I am wronged by the villain!"

Yan Xu responded, backed out, and walked towards Qin Tang's place.

Qin Tang brought him into the study room, lifted him up by the back of his neck, sat him down in front of the desk, and said coldly, "I'll ask you to write."

"Ah? Big, big, small, small, everything..."

Qin Tang handed the ink-stained pen to the big shopkeeper: "I don't know what my last name is? Write."

Qin Tang's tone was not too harsh, but he was so cold that he could drop ice scum. He stood in front of the lamp, his tall figure covered most of the light in front of the case, and shrouded the shopkeeper in the shadow, invisible. It oppressed people so much that the big shopkeeper wished he could cook a boiled shrimp, and curled up so that his chest almost stuck to his thigh.

"Write." Qin Tang knocked on the desk.

"Ah! Hey! Write it! Write it, little one!"

The big shopkeeper shook his hand, a pen did not fall, a few drops of ink had dropped, and a piece of white paper was ruined just like that, and what fell down with the ink, and his head was sweating profusely, obviously the Mid-Autumn Festival was over, But he seemed to be roasting next to the stove in the midsummer sun, and he was really familiar with it.

Qin Tang changed a piece of paper for him: "Name, where is the person, how long have you been in Cai's, write."

The big shopkeeper wrote his name crookedly, Cai Xun, from Xuzhou, a son of the Cai family.

"It's no wonder that Cai Zhifu has won the trust and is in charge of Caifu's business affairs."

"Big, big, big..."

"Did I let you speak?"

Cai Xun hurriedly shut his mouth, not daring to raise his head to look at Qin Tang at all, he just felt that the people around him were as towering as a mountain, and it would collapse at any moment, crushing him to pieces.

Just now in the courtyard, Yan Xu's nightmare was like a punishment in the underworld. He could see it clearly from close by. The youngest's terrified eyes and blood-red pupils were clearly the reflection of an evil spirit. Cai Xun had never seen it before. It was too cruel to go through such a poison, the third child almost scratched his throat with his own fingers, and he just watched helplessly as the third child's fingers broke through the skin and dug into the flesh, bloody and bloody as if he didn't know the pain, Still desperately scratching at it, as if it would be better to die, to turn oneself into a ghost... Killing people is nothing more than dripping, and a knife wiped off a scar no bigger than a bowl on the neck, but the poison is too ruthless!so horrible!The young general watched from the side without moving a finger.Cai Xun's face was smeared with the flesh and blood of the third child, and the young general's robe, shoes and boots were not even covered in dust!

Now Qin Tang was standing beside Cai Xun, like the judge of Hades in the underworld, he was so afraid that he just wanted to kneel down and kowtow to Qin Tang, begging Qin Tang to give him a good time.

"The Southwest Sui Gong's accounts are wrong, and 500 million taels are missing. Does your patriarch, Cai Jingshan, Cai Zhifu know the inside story?" Qin Tang said in a slow voice, "Think clearly, and then write down."

Cai Xun shook his hands, and another drop of ink fell off, and he fainted on the white paper, blurring a little bit of the word "Xuzhou" he just wrote.

"This villain doesn't..."

"Is it you I'm asking?" Qin Tang lowered his head slightly, staring at his neck like a goshawk staring at its prey, showing no emotion, not in a fierce or ruthless manner, but cold, Qin Tang hasn't moved yet, Cai Xun already felt that the next moment, Qin Tang would jump over and bite his neck off.Cai Xun's nose was still lingering with a thick and lingering smell of blood, which belonged to the third child, and seemed to emanate from Qin Tang's body. He couldn't stop trembling because of the smell of the underworld.

"You are wasting my time." Qin Tang straightened up and gave Cai Xun a breath, "I ask, you write, it's so simple, can't you do it? If General Mu asks for a statement first, you will It's useless. And you wasted my time..."

Cai Xun held the wrist of his right hand with his left hand, supported it, and with all his strength, wrote down: "I know! I know! Master knows!"

"Where are the ledgers?"

"Small...Small, really, really don't know!"

"Then write what you know. Is it Cai Jingshan who is greedy for Mo's tribute? Is it more than the five million taels?"

Cai Xun didn't dare to make mistakes, and honestly wrote it all down, writing three pieces of paper eloquently and tremblingly, sweating and crying while writing.

The Cai family has been living for a hundred years, and the words of Cai Jingshan in Xuzhou are the imperial decree. Cai Xun has been living in the Cai family since his grandfather. , He spent most of his life cautiously, smarter than his father, able to write and calculate, smooth and flattering, raised in Cai's mansion since he was a child, knows how to read words, knows how to collect money, and knows where to spend money to be useful. current position.

There are more than 50 shopkeepers in the Cai family. It is said that there is no distinction between big and small, but it is not the case. There are many ways to make money, what is hard work, and where can be closer to Cai Jingshan. With his current status, more than 30 shopkeepers look at his face, and every day someone holds his stinky feet and says they are delicious.Cai Xun never imagined that Cai Jingshan would have such a day.

When Chifengying had just surrounded the mansion and forcibly took away their shopkeepers, they were still yelling and cursing, they are servants of the Cai family, who would dare to touch them? !But they knelt in the yard for a long time, Cai Jingshan did not come back, inside and outside the mansion were soldiers from Chifeng battalion, the blade was right in front of them, the third child almost scratched himself to death, everyone watched, Chifeng battalion didn't even have a finger Did not touch the third child.Cai Xun half-body followed Cai Jingshan to run rampant, and he didn't remember the word "Wang Fa" for a long time. Now he wants to reason with Chifengying and talk about Wang Fa, which is really ridiculous.He knew in his heart that Cai Jingshan had failed this time.If it's just Dali Temple, if Cai Jingshan can't be caught, impeachment will be nothing, but the Chifeng camp is different, they are soldiers, and they are going to destroy the Cai family!He is dead!But he still wants to die happily!

"Years ago, the assassination of Cao Sheng, the former Xuzhou Jiedu envoy, was related to Cai Jingshan?" Qin Tang picked up the three papers that Cai Xun had finished writing, looked at them, and asked Cai Xun to continue writing.

Cai Xun wanted to look up at Qin Tang, but he didn't dare. He finally understood why the soldiers from the Chifeng Battalion had come. The past six months had been peaceful, and it turned out that he still couldn't escape!

"Don't rush to say you don't know, I'm asking Cai Jingshan, think it through."

Cai Xun pulled his sleeves to wipe away the sweat in a small way. The sweat mixed with sticky blood smeared on his face, as if he was going to smother him to death.

"Big, my lord... the little one can tell you the truth, can you, can you please spare the little one's life? That kind of thing, my master... Cai Jingshan can't tell us, but I guessed something... my lord, the little one will definitely Don't dare to lie!"

Cai Xun chanted the gods and Buddhas all over the sky to embolden himself, and he knew nothing about such a felony as assassinating an imperial official. Even if he knew it in advance, he would be powerless to stop it. He didn't want to die for Cai Jingshan!

"Write."

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It was daylight, and there was a gray mist outside the house, like the yin qi sinking in the sun, circling before the gate of the ghost closed, entangled the living soul and turned into a wild ghost.

Qin Tang walked out of the house, ordered someone to escort Cai Xun away, and went back to find Mu Xuan with Cai Xun's confession.

Mu Xuan had just finished working on the other side, when Qin Tang walked into the courtyard, the door opened.The other big shopkeeper was dragged out by two soldiers. He seemed to have fainted. There was no blood or wound on his body, or he might have died. The cause of death was not obvious.

Qin Tang turned to look at Mu Xuan who took a big step across the threshold.

"Hey, Qin Shaoqing, good morning."

Qin Tang looked at Mu Xuan with doubts in his eyes, and didn't go to greet Mu Xuan immediately.

Mu Xuan smiled: "Don't worry, I'm still angry. After staying up all night, I'm a little tired. I've explained everything that needs to be explained. It doesn't matter if you sleep more deeply."

Qin Tang nodded slightly, and cupped his fists at Mu Xuan.The Chifeng battalion is a soldier and has no right to interrogate, so it is logical that they cannot intervene in the case of Dali Temple. If we talk about it, we should refer to Mu Xuan for the crime of usurpation.But Qin Tang is alone now, time is too tight, he needs someone to help, yesterday he said that one person interrogates one, and Mu Xuan agreed with a smile. Favor.

"What is Qin Shaoqing doing?" Seeing the confession in Qin Tang's hand, Mu Xuan asked with a smile, "It seems that Qin Shaoqing's clever trick is that the confession was written so quickly."

"Just wanted to take a look with you."

"Then let's compare."

The account of Sui Gongjing's government office has disappeared, and the government's experience, governor, scribes, and officials have all been arrested and sent to prison early in the morning, but they will all die without saying a word.Regardless of whether they were forced or took the initiative to get involved, anyone who touched the money or the account would be doomed. They just knew it in their hearts, so they killed them even more. As long as Qin Tang can't find the account If they can't find the money, they may still have a chance.

Qin Tang and those slippery ones wasted a day, but still had no clue, so he could only order him to be hung up, not allowed to eat, drink or sleep for a day and a night, and to come to Cai's mansion first to check, so much money, if not Taking the account of Cai's own business, there is no way to hide it, and the Cai Mansion must have other clues.

Mu Xuan exchanged the confession she had obtained with Qin Tang, and the two of them read it carefully, and both sighed deeply.

Qin Tang spoke first: "These two are Cai Jingshan's confidantes, and their confessions are credible."

"I've sent someone to look for this Kang Pengnian."

Qin Tang nodded: "Cai Jingshan's case has not been tried. Kang Pengnian is Cai Jingshan's sister-in-law, not a member of the Cai family. Even if he is a member of the Cai family, we can only question him, not detain him..."

"I'm not afraid that he won't say anything, but I'm afraid that people will run away early."

Qin Tang frowned. They have been besieging Cai Mansion for two and a half days.Cai Jingshan tried his best to suppress Cai's side branch and his own brothers, and even drove them out of Xuzhou City. They were already outside the city. If they wanted to run away, they would have to go to Bian City by now.

Yan Xu was beside her, quietly.Mu Xuan suddenly looked at him: "Yan Xu, send a letter to Wei Shao."

Yan Xu nodded and walked out.

Qin Tang sighed. From the beginning, he didn't want to use Wuwangzhai's power, nor did he want Wei Chuyue to get involved. Now he can only sigh, Wuwangzhai, a local snake, is really easy to use.He left Beijing this time and owed a lot of favors.

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The more I write, the longer it gets... I plan to finish it this week... I'll try my best??