Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 90 The Night Trial
The arrest notice was posted for a few days, and the official roads outside the capital have been strictly checking, but the two escaped criminals disappeared without a trace.

Not only the Shuntian Mansion was looking for it, but the Wei family brothers were also looking for it, and the Pingjun Prince's Mansion also secretly sent people to search, but they still found nothing.

There was no movement from all parties in the capital, except Jiu Beizi's residence.

"...It is said that Brother Nine's eyebrows were wrinkled when he heard this! He threw the teapot in his hand at the housekeeper's face on the spot, scolded them for being stupid and not doing their job well, and then yelled at them to beat all the Burcha family members to twenty boards. Get out—not only De Xisun's mother-in-law, brothers and nephews who are servants in Jiufu, even that concubine was beaten and kicked out!"

In the elder brother's office, the sixteenth elder brother was like a storyteller, happily telling Cao Yong the "joke" that had been circulated in the palace for the past two days: "The Bucha family should be unlucky. The ninth brother scolded him and got angry. After a while, when he was about to drink tea, he found that what he had thrown out just now was his most beloved purple sand pot with crouching cow cover on weekdays. Distressed, the fire came up again, and after jumping and scolding for a long time, the boards of the Burchas increased from twenty to forty, and when they were kicked out, they had only one breath left."

Cao Yong thought of the arrogance of the fat woman that day, and looked at what happened now, couldn't help but shook his head.

The sixteenth elder brother glanced at him: "According to me, it's the report of the Bucha family's bullshit! The governor of the third-rank Shuntian mansion dared not look down on him, and took the tiger-skin banner of the ninth brother to the Shuntian mansion." I don't even think about being rude in the classroom. That old man Shi has always had a reputation of being upright and not afraid of the powerful, how can he be easy to get along with? If he belongs to the master, he must beat them to death alive, and they will lose all face! This time Ninth brother is smart, he beat up these dog slaves first, otherwise Huang Ama would have to blame him for not restraining the disciples. Now Huang Ama heard this and snorted, but she didn't blame him."

Cao Yong smiled helplessly, Tao Ranju became a shopkeeper, and now he performed this one again, plus the Linxiazhai incident and the Guishan incident before, this is getting deeper and deeper with Brother Jiu.

Coming out of the palace, brothers Wei Hei and Wei Bai came up to meet him and whispered to Cao Yong that the two escaped ruffians were found!

Cao Yong was overjoyed and asked how he found it.

Wei Hei replied: "Mr. Zhuang heard it in the teahouse during the day and told us both. Just now we went to the yard that Mr. said, and it really was the two who ran away that day. They were tied up and locked up immediately." The door, they don't even want to run away. Now ask for a word with the young master, shall we send them to the Yamen, or...Young master ask first?"

Cao Yong thought for a while: "We asked ourselves, and then sent to the Yamen."

Wei Bai interjected: "Brother and I also think the same way. It's just that if we still want to be sent to the Yamen, we can't show our faces. We have to go to the interrogation at night. In addition, the two of us have inquired about several small gangs in the capital these few days. , Qianmen Taoranju is the site of the Black Tiger Gang, and there are three NO.40 members of the Black Tiger Gang, the youngest of which is less than [-], and the young master can just borrow his identity. As long as they scare them in the end, even those two It doesn't matter if the bastard goes to the lobby to confess to the Black Tiger Gang."

Cao Yong nodded, the Wei brothers are worthy of being old Jianghu, so it is very appropriate.

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At night, Nancheng, a courtyard in Chunshu Hutong.

In the room, the lights were like beans, Cao Yong was wearing a black shirt, covering his face, sitting in the shadows, feeling quite a bit like a godfather.

The Wei brothers who were also masked in black brought out the two thugs, loosened the ropes on their legs, kicked their knees on the ground, and said in a rough voice: "Our young master of the Black Tiger Gang has something to ask you, and I told you the truth." Otherwise, if you have to say half a lie, be careful that we chop you up and feed them to the dogs!"

The Black Tiger Gang is well-known in the capital, and these two little scoundrels have heard of it before, but they just regard it as a powerful force, and they kowtow like garlic. They don't know how to express "respect", so they yelled: " Young master, please forgive me, no, no, grandpa, please forgive me, no, no, no, great grandfather, great grandfather... grandpa grandpa... forgive me..."

Cao Yong thought that if he grows up according to this seniority, he can be the same generation as the Terracotta Warriors before dawn. He coughed and let out a deep voice, according to the line that he had discussed with the Wei brothers before: "You two bastards are such big dogs. How dare you make trouble on the territory of the Black Tiger Gang, not to mention disturbing the business that you are protecting, and even causing your brothers to be taken away by Eagle Claws several times! Tell me! Who told you to come and help me Tired and crooked?"

The two ruffians kowtowed and kept saying, "Grandpa, spare your life. The little ones are really wronged. They are all Boss Wan. They are Boss Wan. They took money from others and brought us to Beijing to kill people. Don't do it to the little ones!" thing..."

Cao Yong sneered: "I told you to come to Beijing to kill people, hmph, if you want to kill people in Beijing, even if you don't come to our Black Tiger Gang, there is also Qixian Club, which specializes in head trading, and it's your turn from Tongzhou to intervene." ? You grabbed the business and grabbed our ground, and you are still talking nonsense here?"

One of the elders hurriedly confessed his innocence: "You guys really don't know... Boss Wan ordered us to take over the work. He promised us 300 taels of silver, and we followed him because we were obsessed with ghosts. We didn't want to offend Heihu. The grandpas of the gang, the young ones deserve to die, the young ones deserve to die, grandpa spare your life, grandpa spare your life..."

Cao Yong said: "300 taels of silver per person? What a big deal! How much money did that bastard Wan Jiu eat? Say, who entrusted that bastard Wan Jiu?!"

Seeing that the young master of the Black Tiger Gang was fierce, the ruffian replied with a mournful face: "I don't know who the younger ones are, but it was Boss Wan who took over the work himself. The younger ones only saw the buyer carrying it later." 1000 taels of silver ingots, said to be a deposit."

Cao Yong was stunned for a moment, if the murderer was holding a bank note, it was possible for anyone from a local or other place; but if he brought a heavy ingot to the door, ninety-nine percent of them were from Tongzhou, at least they could buy money from various local banks. Find something on the money exchange!It seems that we must go to Tongzhou.Immediately, he asked again: "You really saw it clearly? Are you taking cash?"

The ruffian swore that what he saw were forty silver ingots worth 25 taels.

Cao Yong nodded, and changed the topic: "You guys are capable, and you can get gunpowder. Even Li Ye is more guilty. Say, who gave you the gunpowder? I must have killed him alive!"

The ruffian obediently replied: "Boss Wan met a man named Li Xiong through gambling in Tongshun Fang, and he got the gunpowder for him."

Cao Yong and the Wei brothers looked at each other. They had received the news two days earlier. When Shuntian Mansion was going to arrest Li Xiong, they found that Li Xiong had been killed.This Li Xiong is just a gambler in Nancheng, who spends his days in casinos and has no direct access to gunpowder.

Wei Hei went up and gave the ruffian two kicks, yelling: "Grandma! You use a dead person to cover your back? Then Li Xiong has already seen the King of Hades, if you don't tell the truth, let you go with him! Is it really Li Xiong? There is no one else ?!"

The two ruffians were scared out of their wits, and tremblingly said: "The little ones never lied, it was really the gunpowder given by Li Xiong..., grandpa, please forgive me, the little ones are telling the truth."

The older one suddenly pushed the accomplice next to him: "Grandfathers, it's him, he was the one who got the gunpowder with Elder Wan that day, the younger one doesn't know anything..."

The accomplice didn't even have the strength to stare at others, he collapsed on the ground and couldn't stop kowtowing: "The little one never lied, never lied."

Cao Yong said in a vicious voice, "Think carefully for me, who gave you the gunpowder that day, and what did they say?"

The young ruffian replied while thinking: "It was the gunpowder picked up in Nancheng. Boss Wan told Boss Li at the time, please be safe with Mr. Tu, and he will go to the door to thank him when the matter is over. At that time, the little one became the rabbit's master. , I was joking with the boss, but the boss slapped me, saying that Mr. Tu is working under Mr. Baylor, and he is a great big shot."

Cao Yong's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "What Baylor?"

The murderer shook his head: "Boss Wan only talks about Lord Baylor, but never what Baylor it is."

Cao Yong frowned, there are many princes and clans in Beijing, and the title of Lord Belle is too folklore, I don't know if it is real or false - some people often call all clan nobles Lord Belle.

Just as he was about to ask further questions, Wei Bai who was close to the window suddenly made a gesture. Wei Hei quickly turned off the lights, flashed to Cao Yong's side, and said in a low voice, "My lord, someone is coming outside. Enter the yard." After finishing speaking, Wei Hei The two brothers captured a hooligan one by one, tied them tightly, gagged them, and kicked them into the inner room.

Cao Yong screamed in his heart that it was not good, could it be that the servants from Shuntian Mansion came?This speed is fast enough, if the three of them are blocked in the house, the situation will be very bad.

The three of them had a general idea, and they all stood close to the two sides of the door, planning to rush out sideways when the yamen servants from outside came in.It's the end of the month right and left, the crescent moon is like a hook, the sky is dark, just go out of the yard and slip away in the darkness of night.

However, a low voice came from outside the door: "There was a little bit of light just now, but it's gone now. It seems that this is the right place. The bastard reacted quickly enough, and the light was turned off."

"Hmph, Sijiu City has been looking for these two boys for several days, but I didn't expect them to hide here!" Someone replied in a low voice.

"Whether it's the two of them, or the other panting people in this yard, all..." There was a hint of coldness in the voice.

Cao Yong was a little nervous. Listening to the tone of his speech, how could he be a servant of Shuntian Mansion? !It was clearly to silence.He held the dagger in his arms, with some excitement for some reason, the assassination on the grassland, the gunpowder at the front door, it seemed that all the conspiracies gradually surfaced.

(End of this chapter)