Taifu Temple is in charge of Jinbofu silk and the construction of utensils. It is notoriously rich in oil and water. Therefore, Taifu Temple Minister has always been a fat post that many officials in the court have always thought about.

But now this fat job falls on Song Guifei's younger brother, Song Duan, the uncle of Qin Wang Xiao Huang.

Although many people were talking about it behind their backs, saying that Song Duan was destined to be lucky, and having a good sister like Concubine Song gave birth to a worthy prince for the emperor, who led his troops to sweep the Western Regions at a young age, and the forces of Dihu were completely expelled. , rebuilt the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and restored the Silk Road that had been interrupted for a hundred years. In the end, not only the concubine Song's mother was expensive by her son, but she was promoted to be the second only concubine after the queen, and Song Duan was even a chicken and a dog. He became the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple, and was promoted again to be the Minister of the Taifu Temple not long after, taking charge of the most lucrative Taifu Temple.

But Song Duan's temperament is very similar to his sister Song Guifei, who is cautious by nature. Although he has become a high-ranking official in the court and has the support of Song Guifei and Xiao Huang, he has not become arrogant because of this. The next is also polite and polite, and is recognized as a good old man.

And even though the Taifu Temple was rich in oil and water, Song Duan was able to avoid greed and appropriation, which made many officials in the court praise him, and even the emperor Xiao Ji ordered him to praise him.

With this prudence and incorruptibility, Song Duan never made any mistakes in his position as Minister of the Taifu Temple, although he could not say that he was doing well.

But the world is impermanent, and people are often afraid of what will happen.

Although Song Duan was so cautious, there was still a big mistake in Taifu Temple, that is, a large number of precious gold, silver and jewelry were stolen from the treasury overnight.

When Song Duan heard the news from his subordinates, Song Duan was so frightened that he almost lost his wits, feeling that disaster was imminent.

The Taifu Temple is in charge of building utensils for the palace. Naturally, there are a lot of valuable gold, silver and jewels stored in the treasury, so the defense has always been strict, but no one knows what tricks the thieves used to make them disappear overnight. Unknowingly, a large amount of gold, silver and jewels were removed. The quantity and value were unprecedented since the founding of Daning.

Knowing that the treasury was stolen, Song Duan's first thought was to report it to the palace, and wanted the emperor to send someone to investigate the matter and recover the property, but You Zang Ling Wanchong persuaded him not to let the palace know about it. , His reason is also very simple, Taifu Temple has lost so many gold and silver jewels, Song Duan, as the Minister of Taifu Temple, is naturally to blame, and he is also responsible for dereliction of duty and ineffective supervision, even if the emperor sends someone to find it Without these gold and silver jewels, Song Duan would be disappointed, and he, the minister of the Taifu Temple, would have done it.

Song Duan thought about the same, and he could only suppress the idea of ​​reporting to Tianting for the time being, thinking whether he could rely on the strength of their Taifu Temple to recover these stolen gold, silver and jewels, so as to keep the black hat on his head.

After all, it wasn't easy for him to get from a low-level official to the current position of Dali Siqing, and he didn't want to beat him back to his original shape overnight because of this theft case, and years of hard work were instantly wiped out.

Moreover, Wanchong also mentioned that there were several thefts in the treasury of Taifu Temple before, but it was finally found out that they were all done by people inside Taifu Temple, so this time the theft is likely to be his own. People are guarding and stealing themselves, so Wanchong suggested that Song Duan might as well investigate from his own people in Taifu Temple.

Song Duan thought about it and felt that Wanchong's words were indeed reasonable. After all, the treasury of Taifu Temple had always been heavily guarded and guarded by special personnel, but the thieves could steal a large amount of gold, silver and jewels without anyone noticing, and did not leave them behind. A trace, if it is said that there is no secret cooperation from the internal staff of the Taifu Temple, it is absolutely impossible to do it.

Otherwise, it is hard to guard against family thieves, so Song Duan decided to follow Wan Chong's words and start with the people in his own Taifu Temple to find out who is cooperating with the thieves in guarding himself.

But as he sent people to conduct a secret investigation, Song Duan was surprised to find that Wanchong, who was the order of Youzang, was the most suspected.

Although even Song Duan himself found it strange, there were too many doubts about Wanchong that could not be explained clearly. One was that Wanchong was not guarding the Taifu Temple on the night of the theft, but Wanchong took the initiative to talk to Chang Ping on the grounds that he had something to do tomorrow. He ordered Teng An to change shifts and take over the night for him, and it happened that the treasury of Taifu Temple was stolen on the night when Wanchong was on duty for him. what connection.

If Wan Chong's night and the theft of the treasury were just a coincidence, then there is another more suspicious point about Wan Chong, that is, he is a gambler by nature, and it is said that he owes a large amount of gambling debts to the gambling house.The gambling houses in Luoyang are not small, and they are backed by powerful people, but Wanchong is just the Eighth Grade’s Youzang order, and the gambling houses don’t take him seriously at all, and often send people to block Wanchong chasing him to gamble. The debts made Wanchong unable to step down again and again, lost his elegance, lost his face, and couldn't hold his head up among the neighbors.

But recently I heard from Wanchong's neighbors that people from the gambling shop have not been to the door for a long time. According to Wanchong himself, he has recently changed his luck and won a lot of money in the gambling shop. Naturally, the people in Fangfang would not bother him again.

But in Song Duan's view, Wanchong's words are simply nonsense. How could there be a winner on the gambling table? The money Wanchong used to repay the gambling debt must have come from an improper source, maybe it was gold and silver stolen from the treasury of Taifu Temple jewelry.

Reminiscent of Wanchong's repeated requests not to report the matter to the palace, Song Duan now sees this as an expression of guilty conscience, and Song Duan even believes that Wanchong must be related to the theft of the treasury, and it is even very likely that it is what he did.

But everything is just Song Duan's own speculation. He doesn't have sufficient evidence to prove that Wanchong is guarding and stealing himself, and he doesn't know where Wanchong hid the gold, silver and jewels stolen from the treasury. Silver jewellery, he is not only insecure, but also more likely to be questioned by the court.

Therefore, Song Duan did not choose to scare the snake away, but sent someone to secretly monitor Wanchong day and night. In the end, his hard work paid off, and he finally got a piece of news that lifted his spirits. A house in the north of Luoyang City.

The people living in the north of Luoyang City are either poor people or foreigners. It is impossible for Wanchong to run there for no reason without a reason. Therefore, Song Duan concluded that the reason why Wanchong went to a dilapidated house in the north of Luoyang City was to meet his accomplices. , or he hid the gold, silver and jewels stolen from the treasury in that room.

Thinking of this, Song Duan naturally couldn't sit still any longer, asked about the location of the house, immediately called a dozen servants from Taifu Temple, and went straight to the north of Luoyang City.

If the stolen gold, silver and jewels were really hidden here by Wanchong, naturally Wanchong could no longer quibble, and he could give the emperor an explanation, so as to keep his black hat.

It's just that when Song Duan led people to stand outside that house, looking at such a dilapidated house in front of him, even the door looked like it had just been repaired, Song Duan couldn't help but fell into deep suspicion, feeling that so many batches of gold and silver Can jewelry really be hidden in such a dilapidated house?

But now, the arrow is on the string and has to be fired. Song Duan Shao hesitated, and led people into the house, but saw that there was only a corpse in the empty house that was about to rot and gave off a stench. There was no trace of gold, silver and jewelry. .

Song Duan and a group of servants were almost nauseated by the rotten smell. They just wanted to go out of the house, but they didn't expect a burst of sweet and strange fragrance to come from the house. As soon as everyone inhaled it, their heads felt heavy and drowsy. After a while, their eyes went dark. , one by one fell down...

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