Chapter 2041 Suspicion
Chapter 2041 Suspicion
It would have been better if Sun Qing didn't protect him, but this made Scarface even more angry.
He sneered and was about to get angry when the subordinate who had gone to report the news turned his head and suddenly saw something.
"Boss, there's something over there!"
He pointed and found that it was at a corner of the remaining grain pile. The things were not fully exposed, so no one had discovered it before.
Scarface gestured, and his men hurried over to get it. They took it and presented it with both hands. It turned out to be a jade pendant.
Scarface took it and looked at it, his brows suddenly frowned - he had seen the style of this jade pendant before.
Liu Balang has one exactly the same.
He turned to look at Liu Balang, his eyes scrutinizing and dangerous.
When Liu Balang saw the jade pendant, his heart skipped a beat. He quickly said, "This jade pendant is not mine! I still have it with me!"
As he spoke, he reached out to touch his waist, but after searching for a long time, he couldn't find the jade pendant - his jade pendant was gone!
Scarface looked at Liu Balang's panic and his suspicions were confirmed at once.
He held up the jade pendant in his hand, his voice as cold as ice: "Liu Balang, you still dare to say that this jade pendant is not yours? This style, this pattern, it's exactly the same as the one you wore before! Now your jade pendant is gone, and this one appeared in my warehouse, what do you say?"
Liu Balang was anxious and hurriedly explained: "It's not me! This must be a frame-up! I have never been into your warehouse, how could I have left the jade pendant in there?"
"Frame-up?" Scarface sneered. "Who would have the time to frame you? Besides you, who else would have a reason to steal things from my warehouse? You're just pretending to borrow someone, just trying to distract me with some irrelevant things so that you can arrange for someone to steal things from my warehouse, right?"
"I didn't!" Liu Balang's face flushed with anger. "Don't spit on me!"
"You're slandering me?" Scarface took a step forward and threw the jade pendant in front of Liu Balang. "The evidence is all here, and you're still trying to argue? If you don't give me an explanation today, don't even think about leaving this water fort!"
Liu Balang looked at the jade pendant on the ground, then at Scarface's angry expression, and knew that he could not wash away his guilt even if he jumped into the Yellow River.
He was angry and anxious, but didn't know how to explain it - he really didn't steal anything, but how did the jade pendant appear in the warehouse?
Scarface looked at him with an innocent face, pretending to be wronged, but his anger grew even stronger: "Stop acting here! You are not immune to this matter!
Today you either return the stolen items or compensate me for all my losses!"
Liu Balang felt a chill in his heart. Seeing Scarface like this, he seemed determined to cause trouble for him. He felt both hatred and helplessness.
He looked around and saw people from the water fort everywhere, all of them staring at him with murderous eyes, and there was only one person beside him, Sun Qing.
But he didn't steal anything, so why should he return it and compensate for the loss?
He didn't know what was in Scarface's warehouse, but seeing how angry Scarface was, it must be worth a lot of money.
He originally wanted to borrow money from a few people, but now he has not been able to borrow anyone, and he has been wrongly accused of stealing things. He has to bear such a huge amount of compensation. He can't swallow this loss.
Liu Balang pointed to the grain stack and said, "If I stole it, if I had the ability to steal so much, then why did I leave this alone?"
This is indeed a problem.
Scarface didn't understand either, so he waved his hand and his men immediately went over to check.
"Boss, this pile of grain is the batch that was just delivered two days ago."
Liu Balang immediately said, "I have always been the one delivering the food, and you know the risks involved. If I had delivered it, why would I steal it? Boss, you must investigate this thoroughly."
Scarface frowned: "You didn't give it to me as a gift. I spent money and gave you some of the money I earned from selling the wine."
Just as Liu Balang was about to speak, the scar-faced man stabbed in with a knife, tearing open a bag of grain.
With a "crash", the food that flowed out was not the best military rations, but stale food mixed with sand.
Scarface was stunned, and his subordinates were also stunned. Just as they were about to look at other things, Scarface strode over, pushed him away, and took action himself.
With a few "swish" strokes, several sacks were cut open.
With a "crash", all the food inside came out.
Without exception, it was all old grain mixed with sand and even stones.
The scars on Scarface's face twitched, and the knife light reflected the anger in his eyes.
"Someone, open these sacks and see what's inside!"
"Yes!"
At a command, his men rushed forward, carried down the sacks one by one, and placed them on the ground.
Cut it open one by one.
In an instant, the ground was covered with stale grain.
The scarred man tilted his head and swept his eyes like knives at Liu Balang.
Liu Balang was also a little panicked: "This is not the food I sent."
Scarface sneered: "Just now you said it was you who gave it to me, but now you say it wasn't?"
"No, what I mean is..." Liu Balang's mind was in a mess and he couldn't figure out what was going on.
After this batch of grain was received, it was placed in the warehouse of the governor's mansion. He only asked Liu Da to check it a few times, and he always said that there was no problem.
Later, when the day came to deliver food, it was also arranged by the governor's office, and he only sent a few people.
But what happened to those people later?
He was extremely busy these days and was beaten every now and then, so he really didn't have time to ask in detail.
First, he didn't expect that anyone would have the idea of coveting these grains. Second, it had always been arranged by Governor Ding. He just wanted to gain fame and make some big money, and he came to the water stronghold a few times to maintain relations.
But who knows!
Something like this went wrong.
"It must be a frame-up," Liu Balang said quickly, "Master, you must not be fooled. There have been strange things happening in my house recently, so I came to you to borrow someone."
He pointed quickly around: "What happened to your warehouse, I've also experienced. Really, my warehouse at home, no, not just the warehouse, has been..."
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly heard a "bang" outside.
Scarface was getting impatient with Liu Balang's words, and when he heard the noise, he immediately shouted, "What happened?"
Someone rushed in from outside, his voice a little trembling.
"Boss, our ship... was burned."
To travel to the water fort, you rely on boats. At the foot of the back mountain, there are more than a dozen high-quality boats parked.
Scarface's eyes widened when he heard this: "Say it again!"
"Boss, our ships have all been burned."
……
Yan Ruyu had not expected such an unexpected gain. She had originally wanted to look for other places to store valuables, but she found more than a dozen ships, made of solid materials, with shiny paint and in excellent condition.
What else is there to say? Just put it into the space, find some relatively poor quality wood, take it out and burn or fry it.
Anyway, after burning and frying, you can’t tell what it originally looked like.
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