Everyone in the platoon gang started digging Fu Biao out of the ground. Fu Biao had already fainted. Fang Jinshi walked up to him, tested his breath, and then slapped him seven or eight times in the face. , After a while, Fu Biao sneezed and woke up leisurely.
Fang Jinshi smiled and said: "How does it feel to walk in front of the gate of hell?"
Fu Biao scolded: "If you can, kill me."
Fang Jinshi squatted in front of him and said: "Seeing that you are so tough, okay, let's help you. Anyway, if you don't say it, someone will tell you, and you are not the only one who knows this. At most, it will just waste some of my time. You are Where is your family name? Tell me and I will come over next spring to set up a tombstone for you. It is better than no one knowing that you are lying alone under the yellow mud."
Fu Biao lowered his head in silence and stopped scolding. Fang Jinshi waited for a while, and when he saw that he was silent, he stood up and said: "Since you want to die so much, there is nothing I can do. Brothers, bury him." Alright."
Several people from the platoon came forward, holding Fu Biao and fell into the pit again. Several people quickly shoveled the soil. When Fu Biao dodged the dirt, he saw Fang Jinshi slowly leaving with his back to him, and finally shouted: : "Stop, stop, stop, I said, I said."
Fang Jinshi turned his head, motioned for everyone to stop, then squatted in front of Fu Biao and said, "Have you thought about it clearly? If your uncle knew it was you who said it, he might not let you go. I won't force you to say it."
Fu Biao said hurriedly: "I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything. Please let me go, young master."
Fang Jinshi smiled slightly and said to Li Jiupo: "Brother Li, find a brother to make a confession for him, lest this kid will not admit it later."
Li Jiupo agreed and arranged for her brothers to bring rocks, pens and ink, and light torches to ask Fu Biao for his confession. Fang Jinshi went to the river to rest for a while, and someone from the Pai Gang came over and said, "The confession is ready."
When Fang Jinshi came back, Fu Biao sat on the ground tremblingly, without any trace of his previous arrogance. Someone brought the confession to Fang Jinshi to read. After reading it, Fang Jinshi became furious. He came over, grabbed Fu Biao's hair and shouted, "Okay, I I gave you a chance to survive, but you dared to lie to me.¡±
Fu Biao was horrified and said: "Everything the villain said is true, I don't dare to deceive him at all."
Fang Jinshi turned back the steel knife of a platoon gang brother next to him and said to Fu Biao: "You still said you didn't lie to me. Just now I asked another one of you over there why what he said was different from what you said?"
Fu Biao said anxiously: "What I told is the truth, that person lied to you."
Fang Jinshi grabbed a piece of his scalp, cut it off with a knife, and cut off his hair along with a small piece of scalp. The cold blade slid against his scalp, and blood immediately flowed out. Fu Biao had already lost his soul and sat on the ground wailing. .
Fang Jinshi said: "Okay, I will call that person over now and confront him on the spot. If there is any discrepancy between you and me, I will chop off your head immediately."
Fu Biao¡¯s face turned ashen immediately and he almost lay down again. Fang Jinshi said: ¡°I will give you one last chance. Are you going to tell the truth, or do you want to beheaded after confronting me?¡±
Fu Biao said anxiously: "I will say it."
Fang Jinshi smiled with satisfaction and said: "That's right. It's better to chop off other people's heads than your own. I'll go over and interrogate your accomplice. I'll chop off the head of anyone who tells lies tonight."
Fu Biao said: "I said, I won't dare to hide anything this time."
Fang Jinshi balled up the confession, put it on a torch and burned it, and said to Li Jiupo, "Let's give him another confession."
The Pai gang brothers spread out the paper again and gave him a new confession. Fang Jinshi came back to take a look after a while. Fu Biao kept peeking at his face. After Fang Jinshi took a look, he drew his knife and squatted in front of Fu Biao. Biao immediately turned pale, and knelt down. He kowtowed to Fang Jinshi and said, "Master, I really didn't panic. Every word is the truth. It must be a lie told by that person. Please spare my life, please spare your life." "
Fang Jinshi slapped him in the face a few times with a razor blade, and then said: "What you two said this time is not too different. I'm quite satisfied, young master. But, what you said was your uncle Fu Zhi's fault." Rong Mangmao instigated it, so who instigated your uncle to do this?"
Fu Biao said in a trembling voice: "Everything was my uncle's idea, no one instigated it."
Fang Jinshi waved his hand and slapped him in the face: "He Fu Zhirong is just a small shopkeeper. Who gave him such courage to openly rob the merchant ship of the Pai Gang?"
Fu Biao said with a crying face: "My uncle was confused for a moment and offended the young master's power. There was no one to instruct him. Even if there was, the villain didn't know."
Fang Jinshi slapped him hard again, stood up and kicked him again and again.He said: "Obviously you heard what Mr. Meng Da ordered your uncle to do, but you still pretended not to know. Let me see if you know" He kicked and hit him one after another, and Fu Biao kept shouting: "The villain knows. Yes, the villain knows."
Fang Jinshi stopped and said, "If you had known better, you wouldn't have had to be beaten. It seems like you deserve a beating."
Fu Biao glanced at him fearfully and whispered: "The villain knows."
Fang Jinshi said: "What do you know?"
Fu Biao said: "I will know whatever the young master tells me to know. I will listen to the young master in everything."
Fang Jinshi scolded again: "You listen to me, then I ask you what to do?" He pretended to kick and hit again. Fu Biao said hurriedly: "Young master, don't hit me. I know this. Mr. Meng Da instigated me to do this." My uncle did it, and my uncle ordered others to do it.¡±
Fang Jinshi said with satisfaction: "Since it was ordered by Mr. Meng Da, how did you know?"
Fu Biao looked at Fang Jinshi worriedly. Seeing that Fang Jinshi looked unhappy, he quickly lowered his head and said, "Yes Mr. Meng Da sent someone to inform my uncle. I heard it from the side."
After hearing this, Fang Jinshi kicked him again and said, "For such a confidential matter, the fewer people who know about it, the better. Your uncle will let you listen to it? Do you think Mr. Meng Da is as stupid as you?"
Fu Biao kicked him and quickly corrected him: "It was the people sent by Mr. Meng Da who had a secret conversation with my uncle. I hid under the window and overheard."
Fang Jinshi said: "Do you know who Mr. Meng Da sent here?"
Fu Biao said: "I have never seen this man before, and I don't know him. Moreover, he left very quickly and has never been seen again."
Fang Jinshi patted the back of his head with satisfaction and said with approval: "My dear boy, you finally got smarter. I won't hit you this time."
He stood up and said to the person from the Pai Gang who was giving the confession: "Brother You Lao, please write down what he said next and ask him to sign a monogram."
The person who was recording the confession hesitated and looked back at Li Jiupo. Li Jiupo immediately came over, put her arms around Fang Jinshi's shoulders and said, "Young Master, let's talk over there."
Fang Jinshi walked with him to a place far away from everyone. Li Jiupo let him go and said: "Young Master has a really good way of asking for confessions. This man is cunning. If Young Master hadn't come to ask him in person, I'm afraid I would have given him It got passed by."
Fang Jinshi said: "I once spent a few days in the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion. I learned all these things from the officials and police officers in the Yamen."
Li Jiupo said: "The young master is really knowledgeable, and those who come from the public family are different."
Fang Jinshi said: "Brother Li, thank you for the award."
Li Jiupo said: "It's just I just said some words about Mr. Meng Da later. I'm afraid it seems inappropriate for our brothers from the Pai Gang to record this confession. After all, this is an internal matter within your Sihai Company. I, Li Jiupo, am the only one who Outsiders really shouldn't get involved. Why don't you do this? Brother, I'll take the people to retreat first. Brother, you have to work harder alone. I'll write this guy's confession. I'll lead the brothers to guard the area for you. What do you think? ?¡±
Fang Jinshi looked at Li Jiupo and said, "Captain Li is very prudent in his work. He didn't leave when the interests of the Pai Gang brothers were at stake. Now that he is about to offend Mr. Meng Da, he will not sit on the same boat as my brother and I, regardless of his loyalty." He kicked my brother into the water, and I was about to row away. If Brother Li is really so unloyal, it doesn't matter that you and I don't want to be brothers. You don't have to say anything to keep the wind, just tie my brother and hand it to Meng Da. If Mr. Meng goes, Mr. Meng Da will naturally have a drink and chat with Captain Li and return those ships. Captain Li will make a great contribution to Cai Meng again, and the reputation of the Pai Gang brothers in the world will definitely become more famous."
He accused and ridiculed Li Jiupo to her face like this for not being loyal but for profit. Even though Li Jiupo had been in the world for a long time, she was so ashamed that she blushed. Li Jiupo said hurriedly: "Young master, I have misunderstood what I mean. Li It¡¯s not that I don¡¯t want to sit on a boat with my brother, it¡¯s justit¡¯s just that the tree behind the young master and Mr. Meng Da is too big and too deep. Although the Pai Gang has some reputation on the Huaihu River, in fact they are just some powerful people traveling in the world. You two low-class coolies who are sweating profusely, if you two want to prevent the platoon gang from living, it is as easy as killing an ant. Our platoon gang really cannot afford to offend you two, so please let the young master Haihan understand your difficulties. "
Fang Jinshi said: "What Brother Li said makes sense, but you have to offend someone today, either cooperate with Mr. Meng Da, or get on my boat. If you want to stay out of it now, I'm afraid it's already too late. Brother Li wants to Think carefully and make a decision. Whatever help Mr. Meng Da can arrange for you, I can do the same, and I promise it will only be a little more. Behind Mr. Meng Da is the Cai family, and behind me is the former Prince Yun¡¯s Mansion, the Cai family It¡¯s possible that he fell down, but what¡¯s behind me I won¡¯t say more about this, I believe Brother Li can see it clearly.¡±
After he said this, Li Jiupo felt sweat on her forehead. After a long time, she said: "We don't want those big ships anymore. Even if I dismantle the platoon gang, I will definitely compensate you for all the losses, young master. Please, young master." Raise your noble hand and let my brother live. All brothers in the Pai Gang will always be grateful for his great virtue." After saying this, he bent down and arched to the end.
Fang Jinshi did not expect that Li Jiupo would be so afraid that he would rather lose money than offend Cai Meng, which shows his fear of the Cai family. Once Li Jiupo retreats, so many days of hard work and effort will be in vain. Fang Jinshi thought for a moment, gritted his teeth, and decided to take the gamble. He helped Li Jiupo up and said, "Brother Li, you don't have to be like this. In fact, you have a better way to go."