Warm fragrance cloud around

Early the next morning, Lin Junnuan rarely stayed in bed and didn't think about it.Cheng Jiangyun came here yesterday, will she go to Dali Temple today?

Meng tangled in the thin quilt for half a quarter of an hour, but when she heard cicadas began to sing outside, she still stood up and got up to ask someone to change.

It wasn't her who was rejected, so what was she struggling with, as long as the case was investigated, she would be out of the way.Now that you have made up your mind to scum the family, then you should make it a bit more scum.

Cheng Jiangyun had been at Dali Temple early in the morning, and when he saw her, complex emotions mixed with guilt and anticipation appeared on his face, but Lin Junnuan just saluted him as if nothing happened yesterday, even The kindness of being rescued from falling into the water was offset by Mr. Cheng's "pleading guilty".

"Where is he locked up, can I see him?" She asked calmly.

"You just... have nothing else to say?" Cheng Jiangyun wanted to pretend to be calm, but he still crumpled the paper in his hand.

Lin Junnuan smiled at him, "What did you say? Oh, by the way, my parents asked me to thank Master Cheng on their behalf. Thank you for saving my life yesterday."

"that's it?"

"that's it."

A strong sense of frustration welled up in Cheng Jiangyun's heart. The woman in front of him clearly had a bright smile on her face, but his heart was as cold as ice. She was clearly only one step away from him, but she seemed to be standing far away in the sky.He tried to keep her by his side with his reckless enthusiasm, but it was in vain after all.

"Must go?"

"It's good for us." Lin Junnuan looked at him seriously, "Master Cheng shouldn't waste his thoughts on me now, Jian Yuanhou in the prison is still waiting for you to save him." She had heard it early in the morning Jing Zhaoyin was ordered to take Jianyuanhou into custody.

Cheng Jiangyun was silent for a moment, "There are still four days."

"what?"

"The emperor gave me five days to find out the truth, and now there are four days left."

"Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and investigate the case." Lin Junnuan inadvertently raised her voice.This may also be the last four days of her stay in Dali Temple, and she must draw a successful conclusion.

***

After Cheng Jiangyun rescued Lin Junnuan yesterday, he immediately ordered his subordinates to seal off the entire courtyard. None of the 40 or [-] people inside escaped, and they were all detained in the cells of Dali Temple, which filled four rooms.They were suddenly arrested by officers and soldiers, but most of them did not feel dissatisfied or resisted, their faces were covered with ashes-like numbness, regardless of men, women, young or old.

When asked about their origins, only five or six people could answer one or two, and the rest either shook their heads or answered lightly, homeless people, even if they threaten them with torture, their attitude is not painful, but they are not interested in prison. The food delivery people were very enthusiastic, and the porridge boiled by Chen Mi was completely licked, which made people feel a weird feeling that they might just come to the prison to make a living.

Lin Junnuan found the people who threw her into the pool yesterday and asked why they wanted to drown her.

The white-haired old man who took the lead said dumbly: "If I don't kill you, we are the ones who will be driven away. They only want the best [-] people." With such a face, Lin Junnuan couldn't bear to be angry, even if they almost took his life away.

"They feed us, they clothe us, they house us, and when we get out of there, we end up on the streets, starving to death."

"who are they?"

"I don't know. We just follow orders and don't ask too many questions. Anyone who is curious will be driven away."

"What did they make you do?"

"Spread word, beg, coolie, fight, steal, rob, do anything."

The old man's eyes slowly swept across the other people in the cell, and finally fell on a pair of men and women whose faces were plump and lustrous than others, "Those two are their eyeliners, responsible for disciplining us, and those who are disobedient will be beaten." The woman was the one who opened the door to Lin Junnuan yesterday.

"It's all like this, you still don't want to leave?" Lin Junnuan frowned puzzled, "Isn't it good to find some serious work outside, and have to follow them to do evil?"

The old man glanced at her blankly, "People who have never been hungry, why should they make irresponsible remarks to us?"

"If there is another way to go, who wants to live like this without people and ghosts?" He leaned against the cell wall, the tight wrinkles on his face slowly eased, and his voice was slightly comfortable, "Here is also good , can you stay here without leaving?"

Lin Junnuan didn't know how to answer, she had always disapproved of words like "dead end", there are more than ten million paths in life, why did she have to force herself to take the most dangerous and extreme path, but the old man sat in the prison and showed The trace of satisfaction in her heart hurt her.

"Your family...doesn't care about you?" She even subconsciously used an honorific title.

"Family?" The old man laughed and coughed as if hearing something ridiculous, "Where does a trash like me have family?"

The old man grabbed his robe full of holes and wiped his mouth, "Boy, you and I, one is in prison and the other is outside, living in two different worlds." He raised his head and looked at Lin Junnuan, With a serious face on his face, "Tell me a little more, boy, there are many people like us who have no relatives, no friends, no family property, no errands, no ability, no future, and nothing at all, much more than you can imagine. If you encounter it, don't get close, run away quickly, in order to survive, we will do anything."

After finishing speaking, he lowered his head and never looked at Lin Junnuan again.The old man looks very shabby on the outside, but he speaks with some convincing power. He may have had a glorious past, but no matter how he asks, he keeps silent, and Lin Junnuan has no choice but to give up.

On Cheng Jiangyun's side, he got important information from the man and woman guarding the crowd.

"Did they really say that it was the treasurer of Baiji Study who instructed them to recruit people?"

This is definitely good news that makes people overjoyed. Although there were many clues that vaguely pointed to shopkeeper Bai before, they were all conjectures that were not even conjectures, but now they are real witnesses.

This man and a woman are actually a couple. Although they usually like to do some bad things like bullying or petty theft, they are not very courageous. They were dragged out by the people from Dali Temple to beat and intimidate them, and they confessed everything up.

Shopkeeper Bai just gave them money to hire people, and did not ask for anything else. The couple wanted to earn as much as possible from it, so they found many homeless vagrants to make up for it. The usual gains from begging or stealing were also into their pockets.Shopkeeper Bai didn't reveal his identity at first, but when they were transporting sundries, they found out that the person with the joint had entered Baiji's study.

"What did Shopkeeper Bai ask you to do?"

"We didn't do anything, we just shipped the goods a few times, and we were also very surprised. Oh, we were asked to spread rumors two days ago."

Lin Junnuan lifted his spirits, "What cargo was shipped, and where did it go?"

"It's just a few boxes of broken books and clothes. They are all in our house. They are said to be useful in the future, so they can't be thrown away."

Could the weapons that were smuggled into Beijing be hidden in the suitcases and book boxes?Cheng Jiangyun subconsciously looked at Lin Junnuan, but the other party just lowered his head in thought and didn't look at him. The previous tacit understanding was gone.

"We brought these sloppy ghosts here, and gave them food, clothing and shelter. What we did was to save people's lives, and we didn't seek wealth or murder. Adults, please be aware, and don't wrong good people."

The couple complained about their grievances, and a priest of Dali Temple angrily pushed them back into the cell, "There is no such thing as murder for money, there are countless thieves, don't worry, none of them will be missed. "

After cross-examining five or six people, the clues obtained were similar to those before. Cheng Jiangyun simply handed them over to his subordinates, and said to Lin Junnuan, "Go and see their hiding place."

"Go ahead, my lord, I'll ask other people." Lin Junnuan subconsciously refused.

"Let's go together," Cheng Jiangyun said with a slightly cold face, "You are still my subordinate now, be obedient."

Lin Junnuan pursed her lips, but followed silently.

The yard that was crowded with people yesterday became empty today, with only a few people from Dali Temple inside and outside guarding it.What surprised Lin Junnuan was that although there were so many people living there, there were not many objects in the whole yard. Except for the main house where the caretaker couple lived was fully furnished, there were at most a few quilts in the other houses. There is hardly any extra luggage to be seen, and even the traces of life are very thin.

Those people really have nothing, as the old man said.

They found the large boxes the couple described in the east wing adjacent to the main house.There were about fifteen or six boxes, half of which were for books and half for clothes. Lin Junnuan rummaged through each of the boxes to the end, and found no hidden weapons as they had guessed. Could it be that they guessed wrong?

Cheng Jiangyun directed the people from the Dali Temple to move the boxes out of the room and put them in the yard for a thorough inspection. The clothes and books in more than a dozen boxes were taken out, but nothing else was found.The warm sunshine slanted down, and there was a bit of an atmosphere of being idle and reading books.

Lin Junnuan sat on the box lazily stretching his arms, felt a warm gaze from behind, and quickly stood upright, but the tip of his nose vaguely caught a faint smell, which seemed to be the smell of tung oil.

"Wait, there's a problem!" She stopped the guards who were about to put the sundries back into the box, pulled out one of them's saber, and pried it against the edge of the inner wall of the box. There was no response after a couple of pryings. The wooden planks at the bottom of the box began to loosen.

"The box has a mezzanine!"

The others hurriedly imitated her action to pry the boxes. There were interlayers in more than a dozen wooden boxes. Going to such a piece is hardly noticeable.

The batch of weapons that they have been paying attention to for a long time is hidden in the interlayer of the box.Among them, there are swords and daggers, and there are about twenty pieces in total, each of which bears the symbol of red flames and red flame patterns.

Now there is finally even physical evidence.