Chapter 474 It’s not easy to be an official these days
"It's worthless if you don't tell me. Have you been punished before? How did it feel? You can do it again." Su Yizhao snorted coldly.
Chen De trembled when he heard this, but he quickly calmed down.
"Even if you beat me to death, I won't say anything. If you don't believe me, why don't you try? If you want to know something, you have to show some sincerity."
"What kind of sincerity? Tell me, I can consider it." Su Yizhao was a little surprised. This person is really brave.
Chen De glanced at Su Yizhao and said, "You should be able to make the decision, right? The person who came before was not you."
"Of course, if you don't believe it, then just use torture. There are many ways to make you unable to survive or die." Su Yizhao sneered.
"Okay! Prepare for me three thousand taels of banknotes from Youfeng Bank, and prepare another horse."
"The appetite is not small, you actually want three thousand taels?" Su Yizhao snorted coldly, this person is smarter than expected.
"Although my life is not valuable, the information I know will definitely make you feel it is worth it. I am just an ant in your eyes, but I want to live."
Su Yizhao looked at the evil look in the other person's eyes. If this person were alive, he didn't know how many people would suffer.
"I think you ask for too much. I don't know if your news is worth three thousand taels." Su Yizhao looked at Chen De condescendingly.
"I know the characteristics of that person. It's obvious that you can definitely find him."
Su Yizhao squatted in front of Chen De, and his eyes fell on Chen De's clothes.
The stitches are fine and the threads are brightly colored, so it must have been made by a woman.
She suddenly said: "How long have you been in the capital?"
Chen De was stunned, "More than two years."
Su Yizhao nodded, "It's been so long?"
"You have a sweetheart in the capital, right?" Su Yizhao suddenly chuckled.
Chen De's face changed greatly, "I am alone and a desperado. Where did I find a good friend?"
"Not only do we have a sweetheart, but we might even have a child!"
Su Yizhao stood up as he said this, "I won't find you in your house, but if you search for the widow with her children from Nancheng, there should be clues."
Chen De's eyes were a little flustered, "My sweetheart is the matchmaker from Cuiyan Tower, but she doesn't know anything."
Su Yizhao smiled and said, "You are really good at diverting misfortune. The matchmaker has no enmity with you, and you can drag her into trouble. In this case, I will seize your sweetheart and your child."
Su Yizhao turned around and was about to leave, but Chen De panicked.
"Please let my child go. He is only over a year old and he doesn't know anything."
Chen De had no time to think too much at the moment. He was already thirty-six this year and had just given birth to a son. His son wanted to continue the legacy of his Chen family, so nothing happened to him.
Su Yizhao stopped and said, "You should know that it is not difficult to find the child. Tell me what you know now, and then maybe I will give him some money for the sake of the child's innocence."
A trace of self-mockery flashed in Chen De's eyes, "I knew that I would be punished sooner or later for killing so many people."
"The man who asked me to kill Xi Changming, the ambassador of the Ministry of Industry, gave me three hundred taels of silver at first, and promised to give me another two hundred taels after the incident was completed, but I didn't believe him. Although the man was wearing a bamboo hat, I could
If I feel the murderous intent in this person, he will definitely silence me afterwards."
"So I pretended to agree, but actually I wanted to take three hundred taels of silver, take the child and his mother away and fly away. Unexpectedly, this person saw through my intention at that time and said that if I didn't do it, he would kill me.
child."
"He knows your affairs very clearly. Does his voice sound familiar to you?" Su Yizhao asked.
"He must have investigated me, otherwise why would he come to the door? His voice is very unfamiliar, but I heard that he has a slight stutter."
"Oh?" Su Yizhao was already searching in his mind, which courtier's entourage stutters?
She had known about the personal attendants or bodyguards around each important minister before, and none of them had a stutter!
"Although it's not obvious, he always speaks in small bursts, with two or three words popping out. He only speaks a long sentence, and there will be a little stuttering in the middle."
"Are there any other characteristics?" Su Yizhao then asked.
Chen De nodded, "I also discovered a characteristic of him. This person should be left-handed."
"How do you know?" This is an important feature, Su Yizhao quickly asked.
"He took out the banknotes for me from his pocket, and he used his left hand. He was wearing a right-sided robe at the time, which was very inconvenient. Also, when he threatened me with a dagger, he also used his left hand."
Su Yizhao's heart moved, "Is there anything else? For example, is it authentic Beijing Mandarin, or is it mixed with accents from other places?"
Chen De lowered his eyes and thought about it carefully. After a moment, he suddenly realized, "I remembered that he didn't say much at that time, and they only spoke two or three words, and few of them were connected to one sentence, but I felt familiar at the time."
"Now that I want to come back, his Mandarin is a bit stiff, but he has a bit of an accent from the border area."
Su Yizhao immediately asked: "Are you sure?"
"Sure! I've been at the border for many years and I'm very familiar with the accent there."
Su Yizhao pondered for a moment, "Since you have killed Xi Changming and completed your plan, why don't you leave? Are you still waiting for him to pay you the remaining reward?"
Chen De sighed and said with a wry smile: "I was about to leave after finishing my work, but wasn't I caught by you on the way back? I didn't even have time to collect the reward, and I didn't dare to collect it."
Su Yizhao suddenly turned around and shouted to Chen De: "Where do you live? Now, maybe it's still too late to save the lives of your wife and children."
Chen De was a little confused, and then his expression changed drastically, "You want to break your promise?"
"I thought you were smart just now, but now it seems you are nothing more than that. Do you think they will let your wife and children go? What they want to do is kill people and silence them."
Chen De quickly revealed the address, and Su Yizhao ordered Meng Si to immediately take people to protect the mother and son.
No matter what, they were two innocent lives. If it was too late, maybe we could confront that person.
"Didn't he promise to give you a reward after your work is completed? Where can we meet?"
"There is a ruined temple outside the south city, right over there."
"I've even chosen your burial place." Su Yizhao sneered, then turned around and prepared to leave the darkroom.
"You promised me that you would take care of my child." Seeing that Su Yizhao was leaving, Chen De shouted quickly.
"If I promise you, I won't break my promise."
Su Yizhao left the darkroom without looking back, and then ordered Meng Er to take the people to the attendants, and sent people to guard the ruined temple outside the south city.
Just as the carriage was about to return home, a large group of people rushed towards Beicheng.
"What happened again?" Some people stopped and knew that it was an official from the Beijing Guards Command and Envoy Department.
"Are we going to catch the officials who committed the crime again? I just don't know which company is going to fail. It's not easy to be an official these days."
"If you don't do anything wrong, you won't be caught. Now that the emperor is wise, the people can live and work in peace and contentment."