Nine thousand years old [rebirth]

The news that Wei Xihe was ordered to search the salt merchants and the Cao Gang reached Xue Shu's ears the next day. After he summoned Wei Xihe for questioning, he finally couldn't hold back and went to find Yin Chengyu.

When Yin Chengyu heard the announcement of "Xue Shu begging to see him", his brows furrowed: "He can't recuperate properly, so what is he doing here?"

Having said that, he still let people in.

Xue Shu strode in, Yin Chengyu sized up his wound, and seeing that it was tightly bandaged, he looked away and looked at him lazily: "What are you looking for again?"

"As for the search, why doesn't Your Highness want me to go?" Xue Shu stared at him closely, not as if he was here to ask, but rather to collect debts.

His tone of asking for debts made Yin Chengyu feel a little unhappy, it was really kind to be treated as a donkey's liver and lungs.

Yin Chengyu squinted at him, and sneered, "You're just a mule, and there's no reason for you to be asked to pull the wheel after you've been injured. If others see it, doesn't it mean that you treat your subordinates harshly?"

"The minister's injury has healed."

There was still dissatisfaction in Xue Shu's eyes. He had rested for six or seven days, and the wound had been properly treated, and now it has begun to heal.It's just taking someone to ransack the house, it doesn't affect anything.

But Yin Chengyu pointed out the errand to Wei Xihe, making him feel that he could be easily replaced, and even looked at Wei Xihe disliked.

He should be the only one around His Highness.

He is capable of killing people, ransacking homes, and taking care of daily life.

However, Yin Chengyu obviously didn't think so. He was irritated by Xue Shu's nonsense, put the book in his hand heavily on the table, and said angrily: "Whether the wound is good or not is up to the doctor, you just go back to recuperate honestly." , I will have time to use you in the future! If you really have nothing to do, go read a few more sage books and change your dog temper!"

After finishing speaking, he didn't want to listen to Xue Shu's sophistry, so he kicked him out.

Not being able to seek justice for himself, and even being scolded, Xue Shu was in a very bad mood. He stood at the door, stared at the closed door for a long while, and then took a step and went to the prison.

If he is unhappy, he has to make others unhappy.

The salt merchants and the Cao Gang had rich family resources, so Wei Xihe led people to search from house to house, and it took ten days to count the stolen goods.

The copied gold and silver items must be registered and added to the treasury.Yin Chengyu ordered people to pack up the stolen silver in a box, and prepared to escort Wan Youliang Guan Haishan and other principal criminals back to Beijing to await trial.As for the follow-up finishing matters, Fang Zhengke is in charge.

Due to the large amount of dirt, when returning to Beijing, Yin Chengyu called a big yellow boat and a small yellow boat.

The cargo hold at the bottom of the ship was filled with stolen goods, and the waterline of the hull was much deeper than usual.

The ship was carrying a lot of weight, and the speed also slowed down.Loading began at noon, and the ship left the pier in the evening.

Yin Chengyu was still a little seasick, but because the yellow boat was moving slowly and steadily, the reaction was not that big, and he just leaned on the imperial concubine's couch disconsolately.

A little eunuch knelt behind him and gently massaged his temples.

I just don't know if the little eunuch is not strong enough, he always feels that the pressure is not as comfortable as Xue Shu, either it is lighter or heavier.At first he asked a few more words, but the little eunuch trembled with fright, and became even more unsteady in his hand, Yin Chengyu simply didn't speak, and just let him hold it down, which was better than nothing.

It's just that it's inevitable that I miss Xue Shu's good craftsmanship.

It was probably because of whatever he was thinking about, and just as he finished thinking about Xue Shu, Xue Shu went out to see him.

Yin Chengyu looked at the people who walked in, and his eyelids lifted lazily: "Why does Supervisor Xue always run to Gu here when he has nothing to do?"

Since being reprimanded last time, Xue Shu stayed in the side courtyard of the hotel to recuperate from his injuries, and never had a chance to see Yin Chengyu.

At this moment when he finally saw the person, he looked at him greedily, only his shadow in his eyes: "The doctor said that the minister's injury is no longer serious."

"Okay?" Yin Chengyu raised his body and waved to him: "Come here and show Gu."

Xue Shu took two steps forward, tilted his neck, and pulled down his collar a little, so that he could clearly see the healed wound on his left shoulder.

After more than half a month, the hideous wound has healed, leaving only some ugly scabs.

"It's better soon." Yin Chengyu frowned and looked at the scab, frowning, thinking that he might leave a scar in the future.

The old scars on Xue Shu's chest in the previous life must have been obtained through such recklessness.

"I can continue to serve Your Highness." Xue Shu didn't notice the slightly complicated look in his eyes. After finishing his clothes, he stared at the little eunuch behind Yin Chengyu very unkindly.

When he came in just now, he noticed that the little eunuch was pressing Yin Chengyu's temples, probably because Yin Chengyu was seasick again.

The little eunuch's scalp was numb from his fierce stare, and he shrank his head and shoulders like a quail, not daring to meet his gaze.

Yin Chengyu noticed the undercurrent between the two, cast a sidelong glance at Xue Shu, waved the little eunuch to retreat, raised his chin, and said, "Since the injury has healed, I will press Gu's head."

Naturally, Xue Shu couldn't wish for it. Hearing this, he took off his boots and got on the couch, knelt and sat behind him, controlled his strength and began to massage him carefully.

He controlled his strength extremely well, neither too light nor too heavy, which relieved Yin Chengyu's discomfort just right.

The dizziness was relieved, and Yin Chengyu's spirit also improved. He leaned on the pillow, took a plate of open pine nuts, and slowly peeled the shells.

Xue Shu looked from top to bottom, and his eyes were attracted by that pair of extremely beautiful hands.

Yin Chengyu's hands have always been good-looking, he has long recognized it.

But today's hands are a little different from usual, there is a little more bright red on the slender fingers.

——It was a bright red agate ring, the ring surface was polished round and smooth, and the surface was glowing with luster.At this time, it was on Yin Chengyu's left index finger.

The bright red is stacked on top of the cold white, as if that clear and cold person is also infected with worldly desires.

Xue Shu's breathing was a little messy, his eyes were fixed on the bright red spot, and he didn't turn away.

Yin Chengyu paid attention to his reaction, and when he heard his breathing was disturbed, he knew it in his heart.He glanced at the agate ring on his finger, hooked the corners of his mouth imperceptibly, and continued to peel the pine nuts unhurriedly.

"Have you interrogated Wan Youliang and Wan Youliang? Did you find anything useful?"

Xue Shu's whole mind was fixed on that bit of beauty, so his reaction was slower.It wasn't until Yin Chengyu knocked on the table with his fingers that he came back to his senses. He restrained his gaze and replied, "Wan Youliang admitted that the assassin on the tank boat was ordered by him."

Although the spying incident by the tank boat that day was nothing compared to the crimes committed by Wan Youliang today, Xue Shu has always been a small-minded person when it comes to Yin Chengyu.

He has to get back every penny and tenth by himself.

"Now that no one is watching on the boat, go to the trial again and dig out the relationship between Wan Youliang and Yin Chengjing."

According to the confiscated accounts, the eight major salt merchants and the three major gangs, together with Wan Youliang Guan Haishan and others, confiscated a total of more than 2000 million taels of gold and silver; plus the jade, calligraphy and paintings, the total amount was less than [-] million taels .

However, the deficit of the Yanzheng over the years has reached more than [-] million taels.

The difference of more than 600 million taels of silver, most of which flowed to other places.

Yin Chengjing is not as addicted to sensuality and pleasure as he appears on the surface, he must have benefited a lot from his painstaking efforts to get involved.

As for the fat sheep he plucked, there would be no one else but Wan Youliang.

In this life, Wan Youliang failed to forge seamless evidence to slander the uncle, even if it was investigated later, the uncle would at most be guilty of dereliction of duty.But he revived his life, and his intention was never just to keep the Yu family.Even if you can't expose the true face of the third child this time and drag him into the water.Yin Chengyu would also have to break his arm.

"Yes." Xue Shu agreed, still gently rubbing for him.

While peeling the pine nuts, Yin Chengyu was lost in thought, and soon became sleepy.Throwing the unpeeled pine nuts back into the plate, he wiped his hands with a handkerchief and signaled Xue Shu to stop.

"You go first." Yin Chengyu covered his mouth and yawned, then sent Xue Shu out.

Xue Shu responded, retracted the eyes that were glued to his hand, and withdrew his eyes.

Just two steps away, he was stopped again. Yin Chengyu pointed to the plate of peeled pine nuts on the table, and raised his chin slightly: "Gu suddenly doesn't want to eat it, so I reward you."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Xue Shu thanked him, stepped forward to pick up the plate of pine nut kernels, bowed again before leaving.

After going downstairs, Xue Shu took the plate of pine nuts to the deck.

He stared at the plump pine nuts on the plate, but what he recalled in his mind was the scene of Yin Chengyu peeling them one by one.

Those hands were as white as jade, with slender fingers, and the slightly raised phalanges were slightly pink.When peeling the pine nuts, the fingers are slightly curled, and the thumb and forefinger are twisted to open the thin pine nuts, and the full pine nuts are squeezed out.

It's obviously just an ordinary movement, but when Yin Chengyu did it, it seemed to have a bit of provocative meaning.

Not to mention the bright red between the fingers.

There was a night wind blowing on the river surface, bringing the coolness of early spring, Xue Shu closed his eyes, let out a breath of dry air slowly, picked up a pine nut and put it in his mouth.

The pine nuts are oily, and Xue Shu sipped it carefully, and suddenly felt thirsty.

That hand is as white as snow, if you put it in your mouth, it may quench your thirst and produce body fluid.

……

Xue Shu finished eating a plate of pine nuts before going to the bottom cabin where the prisoners were held.

When Wan Youliang heard his footsteps, he shrank towards the corner of the wall in horror, staring at the direction where the footsteps came from.

——Before Xue Shu interrogated someone, he lost half his life, but seeing him now, he immediately remembered the feeling that life would be worse than death.

A person like Xue Shu cannot be called a human being at all.

He is simply an evil ghost crawling out of the underworld,

Seeing him walk in step by step, Wan Youliang's teeth chattered in fear, and his bulging eyes quivered in their sockets, full of fear.

Xue Shu stopped in front of him, looked at his frightened look, smiled, and said, "Bring it to the execution room."

Two soldiers opened the cage and dragged the man out.

Wan Youliang had been tortured once before, and his body was full of hidden wounds that were invisible to the naked eye. When he was dragged out with his arms crossed, his legs dragged feebly on the ground.

Xue Shu didn't want him to talk nonsense, so he hung him on the shelf with his hands tied, and ordered someone to bring a burning charcoal stove, and put a pair of iron shoes on it with tongs to burn.

"The checked accounts did not match the amount of the deficit, so His Highness sent our family to ask Mr. Wan, whose pocket did the missing accounts go into?"

Wan Youliang shook his head desperately: "I really don't know, I've told you everything I know."

Xue Shu laughed suddenly: "I'm afraid Mr. Wan doesn't know what these are?" He used pliers to pick up the pair of iron shoes that were slightly reddened by the charcoal fire: "These iron shoes are called 'red embroidered shoes' , do you know why you chose such a name?"

Wan Youliang didn't need to answer the question, he answered by himself: "Put the iron shoes on the fire and burn them for a long time, won't they turn red?"

He put the red-hot iron shoes under Wan Youliang Xuankong's feet, and the cold voice floating in the air suddenly sank, as if impermanence was asking for his life: "My family sees Mr. Wan, I want to try this" It tastes like red embroidered shoes."

The red-hot iron shoes exuded scorching heat, and were no more than two inches away from Wan Youliang's toes.

"I said, I said." Wan Youliang bent his legs desperately, shaking his body on the shelf: "It's Chen He, he grabbed my handle, and I score [-]% of his income every year."

"Chen He, Minister of the Household Department?" Xue Shu went through the names of the officials in the court, and quickly found the corresponding candidate.

"How can he be so bold alone? Who is behind it?"

"It's the third prince." Once he opened his mouth, Wan Youliang had nothing to worry about.The red-hot iron shoes under his feet were like a life-threatening talisman, he didn't dare to hide anything, and he confessed everything like beans poured out of a bamboo tube.

In Wan Youliang's first year as a transfer envoy, it was Chen He who was ordered to go to the Changlu Salt Envoy to inspect the salt department.Except for the old stubborn Fang Zhengke, when the previous salt censors visited the salt class when the local salt envoys inspected the salt class, they were just passing through the scene.

After all, the Yanzheng government is deep, and no one wants to get into trouble.

At that time Wan Youliang was far less cautious than he is now, and was accidentally caught by Chen He, threatening him to share [-]% of his income every year.

He took all the risks, but gave Chen He the bulk of the risk. Naturally, Wan You didn't want to, but under the threat, he could only hold his nose and admit it.But he is not someone who just sits and waits to die. After sending Chen He away, he sent people to follow Chen He secretly, trying to find out something about him.

Unexpectedly, it was unexpectedly discovered that all the filial money he had given to Chen He under the pretext of "respecting fire with ice" had been secretly sent to the third prince's private residence.

Knowing that the third prince was behind Chen He, Wan Youliang didn't dare to bother anymore, obediently disguised the filial piety silver as "Bing Jing Huo Tan" and sent it to Chen's house as scheduled.

If it hadn't been for the fact that the Zhao family suddenly withdrew from the family and moved to Wangjing this year, he was caught off guard, and he felt uneasy, so he wrote to Chen He, implying that he was willing to be loyal to the third prince, and begged Chen He to solve the Zhao family's troubles for him. There will be no such things behind.

"Do you have evidence in your hand?" Xue Shu asked.

"No." Wan Youliang shook his head: "Chen He acted very cautiously, every time he sent his confidants to deal with it, without leaving any evidence."

At first he wanted to leave evidence, but later he found out that the person behind Chen He was the third prince, so he stopped thinking.

Xue Shu was thoughtful.

What Wan Youliang said was mostly true, but there was no evidence, and it made no difference whether it was true or false.

He glanced at the soldiers beside him, said "torture", and went to find Yin Chengyu to return his life.

Wan Youliang's heart-piercing howls and curses behind him were isolated in the bilge.

After Xue Shu's interrogation, he just arrived at the time of Haishi, and he woke up after inquiring about Yin Chengyu from Zheng Duobao, so he went into the room to report the interrogation result to Yin Chengyu.

Yin Chengyu knew that Yin Chengjing would definitely intervene in it, but he didn't know that the pawn under Yin Chengjing's hand was actually Chen He.

Chen He is a native of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He was born in the second place in Chengzong's reign and served as the servant of the household department.About two years ago, he was sent by Emperor Longfeng to the Changlu Salt Commissioner to inspect the Changlu Salt Division.

This person has made great achievements in politics and is good at dancing. He can also be regarded as one of the leaders of the southern faction officials.

Yin Chengjing is indeed capable of taking such a person into his own hands.

"Since there is no evidence, then create a piece of evidence." Yin Chengyu thought for a moment, and then he had a plan in his mind: "Go and bring up that old Taoist priest alone, and let Wan Youliang dictate, and the old Taoist priest made up the correspondence. If Gu remembers correctly, there are Chen He's comments and seals in the batch of dossiers escorted back to Beijing."

In his previous life, Yin Chengjing was able to use Wangchen Daoist to create evidence to frame the Yu family, and now he can naturally use his own way to deal with him.

If it was before, he would disdain to use such a despicable method.

But now, right or wrong, good or bad, he just wants to win.

The ashes of the past were brought up again, Yin Chengyu lowered his eyes, and the haze flashed across his eyes.

Seeing Xue Shu standing in front of him again, his mood became even worse.

He narrowed his eyes and looked at Xue Shu, the old things that he couldn't say were surging in his heart, and the depression was stuffed in his chest, and malice was born.

Want to torment him.

This thought rolled around in his heart for a few times, and Yin Chengyu asked someone to bring a small basket of hickory nuts.

He relaxed his body and approached the armchair, folded his hands, and slowly turned the jade ring on the index finger of his left hand with his right hand.

"Gu suddenly wants to eat walnuts, you peel them for Gu."

Along with the basket of hickory nuts came the tools for shelling them.

The pecan kernels are delicious, but the walnut skin is hard and the kernels are finely divided, making them difficult to handle.But because Yin Chengyu likes to eat amber walnuts, Zheng Duobao will ask people to save a batch of walnuts with skins for preparation every autumn.

The basket of walnuts on the boat was specially ordered by Zheng Duobao to be collected from Orion in the mountains.

Xue Shu glanced at him, picked up tools without saying a word, and peeled the walnuts in a somewhat rusty manner.

Yin Chengyu sat on the upper seat, looking at him with his chin propped up.

Peeling walnuts is a trivial job, but there is no trace of impatience on his face, and he carefully picks out the whole walnuts and puts them on the plate with his eyes down.

In just a quarter of an hour, his movements were very proficient, and a shallow layer of walnuts was spread on the white porcelain plate.

The gloom in Yin Chengyu's heart became more and more unrelieved, and he couldn't get up and down in a panic. He squinted his eyes and said deliberately: "Actually, Gu doesn't like this food at all." He just wanted to torment you on purpose.

Xue Shu was silent, raised his eyes and stared at him, seemingly puzzled: "Why is Your Highness unhappy?"

He was very sensitive to Yin Chengyu's emotions. Since Yin Chengyu said that he wanted the old Taoist to forge documents, his emotions were not quite right.

"Naturally, it's because there are too many people who make people angry." Yin Chengyu said casually.

Xue Shu frowned, and said without hesitation: "Then I will kill them for His Highness."

Unexpectedly, when he said such words suddenly, Yin Chengyu was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but laugh, and the anger that was stuck in his chest also dissipated.

"Then you can't kill them clean."

He leaned forward, put his fingertips on Xue Shu's lips, fell along the line of his jaw, and pressed his Adam's apple, his voice was low and hoarse: "Besides...you are one of the people who make you unhappy. Woolen cloth?"

He looked at Xue Shu with a half-smile, and asked slowly, "Are you going to kill me too?"

Xue Shu was silent and tried hard to recall, but he didn't know when he made him unhappy again.But he still said: "Your Highness can punish me."

"You're a slippery head." Yin Chengyu laughed when he heard that, and suddenly raised his hand to grab him by the collar, and pulled him closer. The two of them pressed their faces together, almost rubbing their ears together: "I will not kill you, I will only punish you. how?"

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