The first Taoist priest of the Tang Dynasty

This ability to handle affairs, Xu Fu sincerely doubted it in his heart, and it was not even the slightest bit. It can be said that Jin Shui's ability to handle affairs was completely denied.

"It's okay, don't worry, it's fine, if there's nothing else, go ahead." Zhong Wen responded.

Xu Fu left with a big question mark.

Afterwards, he went to the restaurant again and started to deal with today's business.

Not long after that, some of those literati came to the restaurant to ask for trouble.

However, they are all thinking about ordering food and eating.

Xu Fu was also stiff when he arrived at this time, he just closed the door and refused to entertain guests, what can you do with me.

The literati saw that Xu Fu had closed the door of the restaurant, cursed at the top of their voices, and saw no one answered, so they had to leave.

But at this time, the person assigned by Jin Shui started to follow, hanging from a distance.

Literati have a circle of literati.

The places where they usually gather are nothing more than places like restaurants, tea shops and restaurants, or places with water, grass and pavilions.

Of course, there are also some mansions.

Among them, the place where literati go the most is the brothel.

Because that is where they like to go the most.

It's best to have money, but if you don't have money and have some literary talent, then that's fine.

Besides, in this kind of place, there are all kinds of people from all walks of life.

Not to mention these literati.

And the place with the most brothels is Pingkangfang.

In Pingkangfang, brothels are everywhere.

why?Because Jiaofang is located in Pingkangfang, all brothels are basically located in Pingkangfang.

In addition, Pingkangfang is adjacent to Dongshi, which is the place for rich people. Naturally, brothels are blooming everywhere in Pingkangfang.

The brothels in Pingkang Fang were opened by people from the Tang Dynasty, as well as by people from Fanbang.

Of course, the establishments of Tang's affiliated countries are indispensable, such as the brothel opera houses opened by Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje and other countries.

At this time, those literati, after leaving Changshoufang, went directly to Wannian County.

The direction to go is Pingkangfang on the edge of Dongshi.

As those literati arrived around the gate of a brothel, without saying a word, they just walked in, regardless of their status as scholars.

However, those who can come to this Pingkangfang are nothing more than those honorable officials, plus these literati and so on, serious ordinary people will not come to Pingkangfang.

For ordinary people, this is a golden cave.

Before you go in, you are a master, but after you come out, you are a grandson.

"Do you want to go in?" At this time, the member of the Baiqi Division, seeing these scholars entering a brothel, asked in a low voice to their companions.

"Come in, how else do you check? If you really spent some money, then report to Captain Jin." The fellow responded.

After the two nodded to each other, they entered the brothel one after another.

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"Why did you come back so early today? Could it be that Li Shan took the imperial army with him again?" In a certain room of the brothel, a young son asked those literati.

"Yu Guanshi, it's not that we don't want to stay there longer, but that Huilai restaurant closed the door after seeing us, let alone going in. As for Li Shan, he didn't bring the forbidden army over there, Yu Guanshi, Let's do business, you can rest in your stomach." A scholar responded.

"Closed? This is a new thing. Okay, let's go on like this. Going there every day is enough for them to have a headache. Come here, bring some food and women over." After hearing this, the steward was delighted. Then he yelled outside.

At this time, in the next room, the member of the Baiqi Division happened to hear the conversation of these people, and he was also thinking in his heart, who is the steward.

The timbre of singing and dancing, the obscene sound, gradually reverberated in each room of the brothel.

……

After an hour, a middle-aged man came out of a certain room.

After that, he left the brothel and went to a certain lifang in Chang'an City.

But he didn't know that behind him was a member of Baiqi Division, following closely behind.

Another quarter of an hour later, the middle-aged man came to a mansion and entered.

And the member of the Baiqi Division, after seeing the mansion, suddenly understood, and then turned and left.

"Lieutenant Jin, I just found out some things. The man in charge, Yu, entered a mansion where Cui's family lived. However, I didn't dare to enter, so I had to come back and report to you." In the government office, the members of the Baiqi Division are reporting to Jin Shui.

"The Cui family? Do you know who owns that mansion?" Jin Shui understood when he heard about it, but he didn't know who owned that mansion.

"Cui Yu, Cui Yuanwailang." The man responded.

"So that's how it is." After hearing this, Jin Shui understood the problem in his heart.

"Hey, Captain Jin, we went to investigate the case this time and went to the brothel in Pingkangfang. See if we can report the money, otherwise, we can't afford it." The member of Baiqisi said to Jin Shui carefully.

"Okay, you report the number, and I will find the Taoist priest to go." Jin Shui immediately became excited after hearing this.

"Lieutenant Jin, seventeen pennies." The man was delighted after hearing this, and immediately reported an unrealistic amount.

It is a normal thing to pay the account with money, but the amount spent on going to the brothel this time is not seventeen guan, but seven guan.

"So much? That's it, I see. Continue to investigate and come to my place to collect the money in a few days." After hearing this, Jin Shui didn't care too much. Naturally, it costs money to investigate the case. As for going to the brothel to investigate the case , that money must have cost a lot.

"Thank you Captain Jin, then I'll go down and continue to investigate." After the man got the response, he retreated with a smile on his face.

Jin Shui knew about making money, but he couldn't point it out.

Originally, no one would want to make money if he had money, and besides, he only needed to ask Zhong Wen for a piece of paper, and Zhong Wen would definitely hand it over to him.

The investigation is for Zhong Wen, not an official business on the surface. This belongs to handling the case for a private person. Naturally, the owner must be reimbursed for the money spent.

Chapter 395: Zhongwen enters court for the first time

After a few days, Jin Shui and the others have basically found out all the problems of those scholars.

Moreover, besides that Cui Yu, there is another black hand behind those literati.

And this one's method is exactly the same as that Cui Yu's.

The literati were also invited to come out to do things, but the literati just made trouble and let it go, and didn't go to Huilai Restaurant every day to make trouble.

However, they still have a more powerful back move, and their methods are much more clever.

Moreover, it is not obvious, if you don't investigate carefully, you will have no idea who is running this conspiracy.

Just yesterday, there was a rumor in Chang'an City that the dishes of Huilai Restaurant were highly poisonous.

Because, just yesterday, a steward of a certain Xungui's family ordered food from Huilai restaurant, brought it back to the mansion, went to a certain restaurant on the way, and died suddenly in that restaurant.

And the steward died suddenly in that restaurant, which really scared the owner of the restaurant until his legs trembled.

In an emergency, he reported to the officials, and then the entire restaurant was sealed off, and the person was arrested and put in the prison of the Chang'an County Government.

But after the inspection, it was found that it was poisoned.

And all the food in that restaurant was inspected by the Yamen, and it was finally confirmed that it was the dead steward who found highly poisonous substances in the dishes ordered by Huilai Restaurant.

However, this matter is a bit strange.

A steward was supposed to bring the pre-ordered dishes back to the house, but he didn't expect to go to this restaurant called Wanxi halfway.

Are there still some problems in this?

In fact, it's simple to say, the person in charge just went to the restaurant called Wanxi for dinner, and he just took advantage of the meal time to wait for his master's family to return to the mansion.

After all, at that time, his master's family was still discussing in the Taiji Hall in the palace, even if he brought the dishes back, it was impossible to eat them so soon.

But no one thought that he was slanderous, stole the dishes he ordered from Huilai Restaurant, and died of poisoning.

The officials of the Chang'an County Yamen, after the court meeting ended, the honorable man became angry when he learned that the steward of the house had died, and rushed to the Chang'an County Yamen, pointed at the Chang'an County Magistrate, and even said, That is, we must strictly investigate to the end, who is trying to harm him.

Moreover, he also knew from the county government that the dishes he likes are highly poisonous and come from Huilai Restaurant. His first reaction was that Huilai Restaurant wanted to murder him.

But when he thought about it, he felt that it was unlikely that Huilai Restaurant wanted to murder him.

After all, he has nothing to do with Huilai Restaurant, let alone any enmity.

Moreover, he also knew who the owner of Huilai Restaurant was.

He and Zhong Wen didn't have any grievances at all, and it was impossible for Zhong Wen to poison him.

But after all, someone died, and the person who died was the steward of his house, so it would be impossible not to investigate strictly.

The Chang'an county government drove out a lot of people and sealed the Huilai Restaurant, and even everyone in the restaurant was arrested and imprisoned.

Xu Fu was the first to bear the brunt, and the person in charge of the spoon, the man, and Ren Zhu's grandmother and mother were all among them.

At that time, it can be said that the people in Huilai Restaurant were so scared that their legs couldn't move. Fortunately, Xu Fu comforted everyone, otherwise, I don't know what would have happened at that time.

Moreover, the officials of the Chang'an County Government sealed the Huilai Restaurant, but they didn't know whose property the Huilai Restaurant was, nor who the owner of the Huilai Restaurant was, but they identified Xu Fu as the owner.

Huilai restaurant was closed, and Xu Fu and the others were arrested and imprisoned. After Jin Shui knew about this situation, he didn't even know that there was such a thing.

Everyone in Huilai Restaurant was arrested, that was a big deal.

Zhong Wen was not in the Hou Mansion, and after Xu Fu and the others were arrested, there was no one in charge in the Hou Mansion, so all these had to be handled by Jin Shui.

But with all the questioning and investigation.

The dead steward left once after entering Wanxi Restaurant, but according to the investigation, he only went to the latrine once.

Who is Jin Shui?

Somehow, he is also a secret agent of Baiqisi.

In terms of other abilities, he may not be very good, but when it comes to investigating cases, he is definitely the leader.

With Baiqisi's intervention, gradually, more and more suspicious points were exposed.

In the end, a guy from Wanxi Restaurant was locked.

According to that guy.

At that time, when he saw that steward went to the latrine, while he was away, he put highly poisonous substances in the dishes in the food box.

And this fellow, originally heard from the people behind him, was just some croton-like medicine, after eating it, at most he just let it out and he was fine.

Unexpectedly, the person behind that was the nobleman who wanted to poison to death, but he directly poisoned the person in charge.

Does the person behind have any enmity with that honorable man?

I don't know.

At least Jin Shui didn't know about it.

But using the dishes of Huilai Restaurant to poison a nobleman, and blaming Huilai Restaurant, it is obvious that he is going to put the blame on Zhong Wen.

As soon as Jin Shui exerted his strength, he continued to investigate that day, and finally locked down one person.

However, this person is not something he can move with gold water.

That night, after reporting to Li Shan, Jin Shui was brought into the palace and reported to Zhong Wen again.

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"Daoist, according to our investigation, the person behind the poisoning is exactly that Lu Chengsheng and Lu Yushi, but we can't go down to investigate, because this Lu Chengsheng is also a nobleman." Jin Shui saw After arriving at Zhong Wen, he spoke bluntly about what happened during the day yesterday, even who was behind it.

"Honorable? How expensive? Can it be more expensive than today's sage?" Although Zhong Wen didn't know who this censor Lu Chengsheng was, but he dared to poison another nobleman, this is no longer a person who can get Zhong Wen Appreciate the administrator.

What's more, he still borrowed his own restaurant to poison him. This is putting the blame on others, and directly putting the blame on himself.

As for how Jin Shui and the others found out, although Zhong Wen didn't know, but thinking that everyone has their own way, some things are not easy to ask too much.

"Xiao Daoist, Lu Chengsheng is the magistrate of Yi County, granted by the Holy Majesty today, and a member of Fan Yang's Lu family." Li Shan, who was standing aside, responded.

"The Lu family? I, Zhong Wen, have no enmity with the Lu family, right? Why did he, the Lu family, frame me? Did he think that I, Zhong Wen, blocked their way or killed their people? Hmph!" I also understand that this is one of the four great families.

However, regarding the matter of blaming Huilai Restaurant, Zhong Wen can't allow anyone to act recklessly. Besides, Xu Fu and the others are still in prison. If this matter is not dealt with quickly, how can they explain it to the people in the house? ?And how to explain to Ren Zhu's mother and the others?

"Xiao Daoist, we don't know about this matter either." Li Shan couldn't answer Zhong Wen's question, and it wasn't easy to elaborate on whether he was offended or not.

Those who are officials in the court will always have an opponent inadvertently, just like what Zhong Wen is doing now, suddenly a Lu family will come.

"By the way, what kind of enmity does Lu Chengsheng have with the Zhang family? Do you know about Li Shan?" Zhong Wen asked again.