Wang Gang knelt on the ground and said a little slurred: "The villain was also confused for a while, and he was instigated by others to frame General Ouyang for colluding with bandits. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info In fact, the villain didn't see anything, the villain drank that night, fell drunk in the barracks, and was given the handle, so he had no choice but to promise to help him frame General Ouyang, the villain is guilty, please ask Lord Qin to spare the villain's life. ”

"Bang" There was a loud noise, and Wu Cheng immediately shouted: "Say, who instigated you to frame General Ouyang?"

Wang Gang was already frightened, and without hesitation, he said the mastermind behind the scenes, and said hurriedly: "It's Zuo Tengzuo's deputy general!"

Before the words fell, a cowardly voice also echoed: "Yes, yes, Lord Qiyu, the villain Ma Xiaosheng was also coerced by the left deputy general to let the villain frame General Ouyang, the villain did not see General Ouyang and the bandits secretly communicated, the villain was all according to the instructions of the left deputy general, please spare your life." As he spoke, he fell to the ground and kowtowed desperately.

Wu Cheng pondered for a moment, looked at Wang Gang and Ma Xiaosheng, who were constantly kowtowing and begging for mercy under the hall, and slapped the hall in shock, and suddenly the hall fell silent.

A middle-aged woman kneeling at the back, her expression uncertain, opened her mouth, and was about to say something, but after this fright, she swallowed back the words that came to her mouth.

Wu Cheng asked in a deep voice: "What else do you have that you haven't confessed to when you commit crimes against Wang Gang and Ma Xiaosheng? ”

Wang Gang thought for a while and said, "Lord Qiyu, Deputy General Zuo said that when he becomes a general, he will definitely not treat the villain badly, and he also gave the villain a silver ticket of five hundred taels, please look at it." As he spoke, he took out a silver ticket folded into a small square from his bosom, and quickly spread it out with trembling hands, raising his hands above his head.

A guard stepped forward to take the silver ticket and presented it to Wu Cheng. Wu Cheng took the silver ticket and looked at it, and sure enough, it was a silver ticket with a face value of five hundred taels from the capital bank, his brows frowned slightly, and he couldn't help but secretly feel that this matter was not good.

"Report-" The official who had gone to invite Zuo Teng had already rushed in and said loudly: "Lord Qiqi, Zuo Teng is gone!"

Wu Cheng said secretly, sure enough. Since all the crux of the problem fell on Zuo Teng's head, Zuo Teng suddenly disappeared, which is in line with someone's style of doing things. Twisted his eyebrows and asked, "But I've been looking for it, what have you found?"

The official immediately said: "Lord Qiyu, the villain has asked, his family said that he did not come back, and the brother who guarded the city together today said that after lunch, he left early on the pretext that there was something at home." ”

When Xing Dewu heard this, he was stunned, stood up, and said angrily: "How can this be true!

"My subordinates are here!" The two guards standing outside the hall quickly walked in, stood with their fists clenched, and answered loudly like a bell.

Xing Dewu angrily ordered: "Go, lead the troops to search for Zuo Teng in the whole city." At the same time, go to his house and search, and don't let go of any suspicious clues!"

"Yes, Lord Taishou, my subordinates obey!" the two guards bowed to the order, turned and strode out the door. Out of the main hall, immediately two teams of people quickly followed behind the two of them, trotting away from the public office, and the sound of neat running gradually faded away.

Wu Cheng's eyes were like torches, he glanced at the people in the hall, and finally landed on Liu Jinfeng's body, and slowly spoke: "Young Master Liu, you insisted that General Ouyang must have something wrong at the beginning, but there is no evidence that General Ouyang has anything to do with the theft of military rations and salaries, what else do you have to say now?"

Liu Jinfeng turned his head to look at Ouyang Yufei, frowned, and said loudly: "General Ouyang, if you didn't know in advance that the military salary and rations had been stolen, how could you dare to risk killing your head and forcibly destroy the seal and check the military salary in the box? No matter how cunning you are, you can't deny the fact that you already know that the military salary in the box has been exchanged!"

Ouyang Yufei glanced at Liu Jinfeng contemptuously, clenched her fists and arched her hand to Wu Cheng in the high hall: "Lord Wu, if you have seen those boxes, you can also see at a glance that there is something wrong with those seals. At that time, the lower officer did not know that all the military salaries had been changed, and the lower official only suspected that someone had changed the seal. It is suspected that someone has filled his own pockets and stolen part of the military salary. But he didn't expect that there was not even a single ingot of silver in that box. ”

Wu Cheng nodded slightly, encouraging Ouyang Yufei to continue.

Ouyang Yufei was very emotional, and continued: "Later, Xia Guan ordered his subordinates to inspect all the military salaries and rations, and I never thought that the thief would be so insatiable that he didn't even leave a grain or a single ingot of silver for the Pingnan army. Xiaguan grew up in Fengming City since he was a child, although he was an orphan, but he also knew that if there were no soldiers of the Pingnan army to resist foreign enemies and defend the country, the people of Fengming City and Fengnan City, and even the people of the entire Dafeng would lose their homes, suffer, and be displaced. Therefore, the lower officials will never allow those fake military salaries and fake military rations to be transported into Fengming City from under the noses of the lower officials. ”

Wu Cheng nodded again and ordered, "Go and bring the evidence up." ”

"Yes, sir. The two officials bowed down to receive the order, and then walked into the back hall.

After a while, he brought in a box and a sack and placed them in the center of the main hall, right in the middle of Liu Jinfeng and Ouyang Yufei.

Wu Cheng pointed to the evidence under the hall and said to Ouyang Yufei: "General Ouyang, please explain it to everyone." ”

Ouyang Yufei arched his hand to Wu Cheng, stood up, walked to the wooden box, pointed the seal on the wooden box to the adults in the high hall, and said loudly: "His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Third Prince, Lord Wu, Lord Xing, look. As he spoke, he pointed to the seal and said, "This seal was very complete and tightly sealed before it was picked up by the lower officials. And, judging from this moment, the handwriting on this seal is also very clear, and even the fire paint seal has not fallen off at all. ”

Everyone in the high hall looked at the seal, and sure enough, as Ouyang Yufei said, the seal was very intact except for the place where it was cut in the middle.

Ouyang Yufei glanced at Liu Jinfeng and continued to explain: "These military salaries and rations were transported all the way from the capital to Fengming City, and after nearly a month on the way, the wind and rain were exposed to the sun, let me ask, how did Liu Gongzi protect these seals so well?"

Liu Jinfeng looked at these seals and opened his mouth, he didn't know why this was so. If he had discovered this problem earlier, he would not be in the situation he is in today. They had already exchanged half of their salaries and rations on the outskirts of the capital, and those fake seals and real seals were transported from the capital together, and they would definitely not be so new.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Liu Jinfeng's body, waiting for his explanation. However, Liu Jinfeng couldn't say any reasonable explanation at the moment, except for secretly scolding himself for being careless, so he was so anxious that he was sweating profusely and was annoyed.