Daily life in Kaifeng dormitory

Murong Changqing didn't know what Ni Ye wanted to see, but they still left the city gate and headed north, to the Seeking Son Temple that Miss Yang was talking about.They should really go there and ask the people in the temple if Miss Yang has been here.

The temple is not far away, and it can be reached in less than two hours by horseback.

The two people went out of the city gate and inquired about it. I heard that it is a relatively famous temple nearby. You can see it by walking all the way to the north. It is very easy to find.

Ni Yexin said: "This direction seems to be different from the direction where Mr. Wu lives?"

Murong Changqing raised his finger and said, "That Mr. Wu lives in the west."

The two hurried on their way. When they arrived at the temple, it was still early, but there were already many men and women who came to offer incense in the temple. They probably came to seek children, and some of them came to seek marriage.

As soon as Ni Yexin arrived at the place, he found a supervisor and asked him if he had seen the young lady of the Yang family in a few days, when did the young lady come and when did she leave.

The young lady of the Yang family is a generous person. She has not come here once or twice. Every time, she will donate some sesame oil money, so everyone in the temple knows her.

Miss Yang had indeed been here, and she brought a little maid with her. She arrived before noon, and the time and date were exactly the same as what Miss Yang said.Miss Yang lived in the temple for a day, donated some sesame oil money, and then left early the next morning.Otherwise, on the return trip in the afternoon, the carriage would not be able to reach the city before dark, and the two women would not be safe.

Miss Yang has donated a lot of sesame oil money here, and Mr. Zhu has also donated a lot. Every time a large amount of sesame oil money is donated, the temple will have a record, and the time is very clear.

Murong Changqing didn't like places like temples, so he stood aside silently, and waited for Ni Yexin to finish reading, before saying, "How?"

Ni Yexin pondered for a while, and walked out of the temple with Murong Changqing, saying: "The situation is a bit complicated, but I seem to know what's going on."

"Oh?" Murong Chang said affectionately, "What's the matter with the snake pattern totem?"

Ni Yexin shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, I have to ask someone to find out."

"Who is it?" Murong asked affectionately.

Ni Yexin said: "I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry."

Murong Chang glanced at him affectionately and said, "Where are we going now?"

Ni Yexin said, "I have one more question."

"What?" Murong asked affectionately.

Ni Yexin said: "I just don't know who killed Miss Hua. I don't know if Zhao Yin has made any progress. Let's go back to the Yamen first, and then talk about other things."

The two of them were in a hurry, almost non-stop, and rushed back to the city from the suburbs. This time, when they returned to the Yamen, it was already afternoon, and the two of them didn't even have time to eat lunch.

As soon as they entered the door, they happened to see Zhao Yin.

Zhao Yin immediately said: "Master Ni! You are back, we are looking for you everywhere."

"What's the matter? Is there any clue to what I asked you to investigate?" Ni Yexin asked.

"It's more than just a clue!" Zhao Yin said: "Mr. Zhou drew a portrait of a man who spent the night with Miss Hua. The Wang catcher in the yamen recognized it at a glance. He said it was a bandit who often haunted the neighborhood. Especially He is very fierce, but I haven’t seen him much recently. I took someone to bring the bandit back. The bandit refused to admit it at first, but then he couldn’t stand it anymore. He said that someone gave him a lot of gold and let him Kill Miss Hua."

The bandit said that his employer told him about a place where he had been wandering around in recent days.The bandits lived in the inn for several days, and finally waited for Miss Hua and Mr. Zhou to stay overnight.The bandit didn't expect that the woman was accompanied by a man, so he thought of a way to let the Hua girl get along alone.

That Hua girl didn't know that he was a bandit, and she didn't know that he was going to kill herself. In the end, she spent a whole night with the man and was killed suddenly.

The bandits killed Miss Hua, fearing that the man who was traveling with her would find her body the next day, so they took the body away at night and dumped it in the wilderness.But he didn't expect that Mr. Zhou was actually a little clever, and found the blood that hadn't been cleaned up, and found Miss Hua's body.

The bandit refused to say who the employer was at first, but later had no choice but to confess.

Zhao Yin said: "My lord, the one who asked him to kill Miss Hua turned out to be that old man Yang! Miss Yang's father!"

"What?" Ni Ye was stunned. This seemed to be beyond his expectation, but it was indeed reasonable.

Miss Hua went to Yang's house several times to make trouble, and she even scolded Miss Yang, making everyone in the Yang family lose face, and became a topic of conversation after dinner. Hire someone to kill Miss Hua.

Miss Yang knew to find someone to find out the identity of Miss Hua, and there was absolutely no reason why Mr. Yang, who was in the officialdom, could not think of it.It is estimated that Mr. Yang knew that Miss Hua was not his son-in-law's wife, but a brothel girl.

Zhao Yin asked: "My lord, are you going to arrest someone? If you don't go, I'm afraid it will be too late."

"What's wrong?" Ni Yexin asked.

Zhao Yin said: "Your Excellency has been missing. I asked Chi Long to watch the Yang family, and found that the servants of the support family were packing up. I found out after inquiring about it. Last night, when Mr. Yang woke up, he suddenly called Miss Yang over. Decided to move out of this place! Will leave before this evening."

"Move away?" Ni Yexin was even more surprised.

Murong Changqing frowned immediately after hearing this, and said, "You can't let them go."

"Yes, we can't ask them to leave yet." Ni Yexin said, "Let's go and go to Yang's house immediately. If we let them go, no one will know what happened to the snake pattern on the courtyard wall."

"However," Ni Yexin said suddenly, "don't take other policemen and officials with you, just a few of us go there, we can definitely handle it."

Zhao Yin nodded, and the three rushed to Yang's house immediately.

When the three of them arrived at Yang's house, they saw Chi Long's anxious expression.

Ni Yexin asked: "Chi Long, what's wrong?"

"My lord! You're here!" Chi Long ran over and said, "I've been staring here for a long time, and I should have packed my things inside. Listen, Xiaosi has prepared all the carriages and horses, and it's in the yard. , I reckon that after a while, the Yang family will be gone!"

Ni Yexin listened carefully, and sure enough, he heard the sound of horses in the yard.

Usually the carriages are prepared outside the courtyard, but it is really strange that they are prepared in the courtyard, which makes Ni Yexin feel that the members of the Yang family do have ghosts in their hearts.

Ni Yexin said: "Chi Long, call the door."

Chi Long immediately stepped forward and slapped the door hard a few times. Soon there was a sound inside, but it was the voice of a servant, and he didn't open the door. He said through the door: "Is it the official? I'm so sorry. Both my master and miss I'm sick and can't see guests, please go back first."

Just as Chi Long was about to speak again, Murong Changqing snorted impatiently and said, "What are you talking about with them?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he walked forward, suddenly lifted his foot and kicked, and heard a loud "bang", and the huge courtyard door was completely kicked down.

The boy inside was obviously frightened, his eyes were wide open, and he was speechless.

There were quite a few servants and servants in the yard, and indeed there were two carriages parked there.Ni Yexin took a closer look, and found that the wheels of the carriage in front were a little bent. It seemed that a lot of things were loaded on it, which was quite heavy.

And the carriage at the back was not yet full, the curtain was lifted, and there were many boxes piled up next to it, and there were strong servants carrying things onto the carriage.

When Murong Changqing took a look, Jianmei raised his eyebrows angrily, and said: "The people of the Yang family really have ghosts."

The servant and the servant were all panicked, but someone reacted quickly and rushed to inform the master and lady.

Soon, Elder Yang came out, leaning on a cane, with gray hair and flushed face, he said, "You are not welcome here, leave now."

Ni Yexin smiled and said: "Old Yang, we are here to investigate the case, please cooperate. And, look, what are you doing? It's a good mansion, messed up."

Old Yang yelled angrily, and said: "Although the old man has already resigned, it's not your turn to be a little guard of the Kaifeng Mansion here to dictate. If you don't leave now, don't blame the old man for being rude!"

Ni Yexin said: "Indeed, I'm just a school lieutenant of Kaifeng Mansion, but a rank-[-] official. But Mr. Yang killed someone, so I can't ignore it."

"You...what did you say?" Elder Yang almost looked up and said, "How dare you talk nonsense?! Let me tell you, if you..."

Ni Yexin immediately interrupted him and said, "Mr. Yang, I have a question to ask you. Mr. Yang has been in the officialdom for so many years, so he must have accumulated a lot of contacts? Maybe many first-rank officials and princes will buy it. Your account, let me show you some face. You really don’t pay attention to me, a little captain of Kaifeng Prefecture. Then why did you pack up your belongings and run away overnight? What are you afraid of?”

After hearing what he said, Mr. Yang suddenly looked like he was about to turn over, and when he swayed, the servant girls next to him almost screamed, and hurried to support Mr. Yang.

"Father!" Miss Yang ran over in a hurry, helped Mr. Yang, and said nervously, "Father, how are you? It's okay! You can go back to your room first, okay?"

Mr. Yang kept shaking his head, and said, "Go back! Do you hear me? Go back, don't come out. I'll go find you after Dad finishes dealing with the matter here."

"No, I'll take care of this matter." Miss Yang said.

"You..." Elder Yang wanted to say more, but Miss Yang suddenly said to Ni Yexin: "Master Ni, let me take a step to talk, I want to have a few words with you alone."

Ni Yexin took a step forward, but before she could speak, she was suddenly stopped by Murong Changqing.

Murong Changqing remained expressionless, and said coldly: "No, you can't go alone."