Kaifeng Mansion's Little Boss

While Su Yuan was sipping tea, he saw a young man from the palace leading a Taoist priest in a blue straight gown. He was pacing slowly, as if he was not in a hurry, but his walking speed was not slow.It does look like 27 or [-] years old from the outside, with a heart-shaped face, sharp edges and corners, exquisite facial features, a pair of black and clear eyes, a smile when he sees people, and a fairy-like demeanor, but he is not arrogant and polite. People can't ignore him, and they are too embarrassed to deal with him with a cold face.

Du Yi said that he smiled like a star, which is not an exaggeration.

After paying respects to Princess Zheng, Daoist Wang Chuan glanced at Su Yuan and Bai Yutang, and asked with a smile if there were any distinguished guests in Zheng's mansion.

His whole process of observing people is very fast, and he will not let others notice that he is rude.

Mrs. Zheng was originally angry before meeting Taoist Wang Chuan, but after seeing him in person, affected by his smiling and calm attitude, her anger has completely subsided.She almost didn't think carefully, and wanted to directly hold Daoist Wang Chuan accountable.The Taoist priest has powerful spells. If he wants to ask for money, he does not know how many high-ranking officials and nobles will offer it to him, so why steal it.

Mrs. Zheng was about to say that this was probably a misunderstanding, so she heard Su Yuan speak first.

"We are the investigators of the Kaifeng Mansion, and we are not considered distinguished guests. We just investigate the case according to the rules, and try our best to find the lost ancient paintings for the Palace."

When Mrs. Zheng heard that they were going to investigate the case according to the rules, she knew that it was necessary for Ma Weimao to ask Taoist Wang Chuan because of the rules, so she didn't need to say anything more.Anyway, those who clear themselves will clear themselves, and they are not afraid of being investigated.

"These two are officials from the Kaifeng Mansion, the fourth-rank imperial bodyguards with swords and the imperial judicial officer who joined the army." Zheng Shi formally introduced to Daoist Wang Chuan.

Master Wang Chuan nodded after listening, and praised Su Yuan and Bai Yutang with a smile as young and promising, as the pillars of the Song Dynasty.He didn't specifically express his surprise because Su Yuan was a woman as an official. He treated Su Yuan and Bai Yutang equally, no matter in his eyes or words.

This made Su Yuan feel quite comfortable.In the feudal society, men and women were not equal. No one regarded women and men as equal. It is indeed different for Taoist Wang Chuan to have a view that does not fall into the world.

Bai Yutang's phoenix eyes cast a cold sideways glance at Taoist Wangchuan, and his attitude did not change because of his words of praise.

Daoist Wang Chuan didn't care, he smiled calmly, as if he didn't notice Bai Yutang's coldness.

"Has the Taoist priest ever been to this study?" Su Yuan asked.

Master Wang Chuan shook his head, and politely replied: "Pin Dao has never been to this study."

Su Yuan showed the horsetail hair in his hand to Daoist Wangchuan, "How did the Daoist priest explain that there was a horsetail hair left in the place where the ancient painting was lost?"

"It seems that I don't need to be explained by the poor Taoist." Daoist Wang Chuan implied that this matter has nothing to do with him, of course he doesn't need to explain.

"I heard that the only person who uses whisks in the mansion is the Taoist priest. Since the palace is heavily guarded, the possibility of outsiders entering the mansion to commit crimes is not high. Even if there is a possibility, which thief would come with whisks when stealing paintings?"

When Su Yuan said this, she turned her head slightly, and cast a teasing look at the 'thief' Bai Yutang she was talking about.

Bai Yutang slightly raised the corners of his mouth, on the surface he seemed to be sneering at the moment.In fact, Bai Yutang was secretly answering in his heart: yours.

"How can this poor Taoist know?" Daoist Wang Chuan said helplessly.

Su Yuan: "I have admired the Taoist priest's name for a long time. I heard that the Taoist priest has profound Taoism. His cultivation base is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea. He is extremely powerful in exorcising ghosts and summoning gods and divination. He has tried everything."

Although what Su Yuan said was all praise, but Taoist Wang Chuan seemed to hear something wrong, and had a faint feeling of bad premonition.

"Isn't the Taoist priest good at fortune-telling and life-telling? Can you do a fortune-telling for this horse's tail, who is its owner? Or who is the person who stole the ancient painting?" Su Yuan asked.

"Not everything can be divination." Daoist Wang Chuan told Su Yuan that what he is good at divination is the future.

"Oh, it's the things that haven't happened in the future that no one is sure about. The Taoist priest can divination. This has already happened, so you can't make up for it?" Su Yuan brought into play her special skill of sleight of hand.

Daoist Wang Chuan gradually restrained the smile on his face, and concentrated his eyes on Su Yuan.

Zheng Shi felt that there was something wrong with what Su Yuan said, but after thinking about the content of what she said, it seemed that she couldn't find any mistakes.On the contrary, there is a feeling of sudden enlightenment, Taoist Wang Chuan does often divination about the future, is it because the future is uncertain?

"Su Judici seems to have a lot of opinions on the poor Taoist?" Daoist Wang Chuan still maintained a calm tone, and he was not angry because of Su Yuan's making things difficult.

Su Yuan smiled: "But which sentence I said is wrong, which makes you misunderstand the Taoist priest?"

"Su Judici doesn't believe in the law. It's normal for him to have misunderstandings. If Su Judici wants the pindao to divination about the situation of this ancient painting loss case, it's not impossible for the pindao to do divination." Daoist Wang Chuan's tone was polite, still convincing The posture of being open-minded and inclusive.

"Okay, I have Daoist Master Lao." Su Yuan wanted to see Daoist Wangchuan's divination ability with his own eyes.

Daoist Wangchuan ordered Daotong to fetch the tortoise shell and roast it with fire. The tortoise shell made a sound when it cracked. Hearing the sound, Taoist Wangchuan closed his eyes and muttered a mantra in a low voice. Then he fetched the tortoise shell and inspected it. Signs of cracks.

"This is exactly the technique of scorching divination with the tortoise shell." Seeing Su Yuan's doubts, Bai Yutang explained in a low voice.

"What was the result?" Su Yuan immediately asked Daoist Wang Chuan.

Daoist Wang Chuan's clear eyes met Su Yuan's clear almond eyes, "It's strange, this hexagram shows that the ancient painting has not been lost."

Su Yuan and Bai Yutang: "..." It was calculated correctly!

"How could it not be lost?" Zheng asked puzzled.

Su Yuan said to Zheng Shi: "I have a guess, maybe this ancient painting is still in the palace, so it is not considered lost."

Zheng suddenly realized: "But if this ancient painting is still in the palace, doesn't it mean that someone is guarding and stealing in the palace? I just found the hair of the horse's tail..."

Mrs. Zheng became suspicious of Taoist Master Wangchuan again. On the one hand, he felt that Taoist Wangchuan’s cultivation was not good enough, and on the other hand, he felt that the two ancient paintings were masterpieces in the world. Maybe the person who stole the paintings was not greedy for money but greedy for paintings. I can explain it.

Mrs. Zheng couldn't figure out such a headache, so she asked Su Yuan to investigate thoroughly, and asked the housekeeper of the palace to fully cooperate.

After Mrs. Zheng left, Su Yuan also went to see Taoist Master Wangchuan as arrogantly as Bai Yutang, and did not hide her provocative attitude towards Taoist Wangchuan at all.

Daoist Wang Chuan was startled, but smiled bitterly.He got up this morning and calculated that there was a catastrophe. He thought that he could avoid the disaster by not going out, but he didn't expect to trouble himself to come to the door.

I don't know how he offended these two Kaifeng government officials.Isn't Bao Zheng the current head of Kaifeng Mansion?Famous for his uprightness and strict governance, how could there be two officials with such an arrogant attitude under his command?

"The priest doesn't know me?" Su Yuan asked.

Daoist Wang Chuan shook his head, "Pindao has never met Su Joining the Army before, how can he know him?"

"Do you know Su Jinjing?" Seeing Taoist Wang Chuan nodding, Su Yuan said to him, "My surname is also Su, and I am seventeen years old, but I am not Su Jinjing's Su."

The implication of these words is to tell Taoist Wang Chuan that she is Su Jinjing's daughter who cannot be recognized outside.

Daoist Wang Chuan was a little surprised, and looked at Su Garden again, with the meaning of "so it is" in his eyes.

"A Taoist priest can change a person's life with a single sentence, which is the most admirable." Su Yuan once again 'praise' Taoist Wangchuan.

Daoist Wang Chuan looked at Su Yuan with complicated eyes. Obviously, he understood that this was Su Yuan's mockery of him.

Su Yuan's original intention was to stimulate Taoist Wangchuan with words, and see how he reacts first.It would be even better if it could irritate him. When people are emotionally angry, it is always easier to show their flaws.

But this Daoist Wang Chuan has very good emotional control, even if he is upset by her irritation, at most he just condemns her with his eyes.

Compared with Su Jinjing's appearance of jumping in anger at every turn, such a quiet Taoist Wang Chuan looks a bit cute.

"Since the Taoist priest can't figure out where this ancient painting is now, who stole it, and can't explain the origin of this horsetail hair, then we can only offend." Su Yuan immediately took people to search for Taoist Wangchuan. Residence peace concept.

The Peace Temple is built on the east side of the Wangfu, surrounded by bamboo forests and rockery, with pleasant scenery. You can reach the Taoist Temple after crossing the stone arch bridge full of lotus flowers.

There are only two Taoist boys in the temple, and there are no other people.The main hall is a place for chanting scriptures and cultivating Taoism. It is not much different from the ordinary Taoist main hall, but it is slightly smaller due to the limited space.The East Wing is the residence of Taoist Master Wangchuan, and there are two Taoist boys living in Baoxia.The west chamber is a place for placing ritual instruments and drawing talismans for meditation.There is also an alchemy furnace room in the backyard, which is exclusively used by Taoist Wang Chuan to make alchemy.

Master Wangchuan saw that Su Yuan really wanted to lead people to search the Taoist temple, so he hurriedly stopped him.

"It's absolutely impossible. Soldiers don't enter the Taoist temple. Such a search will offend the gods. If the Eighth Prince comes back, he will be displeased when he learns of your actions."

Hearing this, all the yamen servants looked at Su Yuan hesitantly.

"What retribution will there be for offending the gods?" Su Yuan asked.

Daoist Wang Chuan: "I don't know about this poor way, it all depends on the will of heaven."

Su Yuan entered the main hall and knelt down in front of the statue of the gods, "My gods, the justice of the Kaifeng government joined the army, and I am here to investigate the case of the theft of ancient paintings in the palace. All the searches have nothing to do with the gods, they are only for the purpose of verifying the identity of Taoist Wang Chuan. clean."

After saying that, Su Yuan got up, and said to Taoist Wangchuan and the others: "All the gods are gods of understanding and understanding, and they will understand that I am not targeting them, but the Taoist priest."

Daoist Wang Chuan: "..."

"As for the Eighth Prince, I heard that he is upright and resolute, and enforces the law strictly. As long as he speaks the truth, he will definitely not embarrass us. Don't worry about that."

The search started immediately, and Su Yuan and Bai Yutang went to the dormitory and Danlu room of Taoist Wangchuan respectively.

Su Yuan studied with Gongsun Ce for a period of time and had a little understanding of pharmacology, so she was the one to search the alchemy furnace room.She checked and identified all kinds of herbal medicines and elixirs in the room one by one, but she didn't find a single abnormality.

Bai Yutang came at this moment and shook his head at Su Yuan, expressing that there were no clues in the dormitory.

"That's not true either." Su Yuan pinched her waist, raised her head and sighed.

"How do you feel about this Taoist Wangchuan?" Bai Yutang knew that Su Yuan was more accurate in terms of intuition.

"I can't feel it." Su Yuan kept staring upwards, and said to Bai Yutang, "This is also the reason why I tried to provoke him several times. I didn't feel any danger or threat from him. Either this person is really nothing, or he Hidden extremely deep, to the point of unfathomable."

Su Yuan suddenly pointed to the beam, "There is something to gain."

Bai Yutang looked at what he was pointing at, although the light was dim, but when he looked closely at the corner where the beams and wood intersected, there seemed to be something.Bai Yutang flew onto the beam of the house, and took out a black cloth bag from there, which had some weight.

When I opened the cloth bag, there was a jade paperweight engraved with a toad pattern inside.There is also an agate pen holder in the shape of a 'mountain', and two gold leaf, gold bean and gemstone rings.

"Yo, if I knew there was this thing, I wouldn't have troubled Fifth Master." Su Yuan sighed slightly.

Bai Yutang chuckled, and praised Su Yuan for being a good fortune teller.

According to the theft case, Taoist Wang Chuan was investigated, and the real theft case was found out.

Su Yuan was arrogant without any evidence, but once the evidence came, she couldn't rest easy, so she immediately invited Princess Zheng to show her the results of her search on the spot.

Daoist Wang Chuan was standing at the entrance of the Taoist temple, holding a fly whisk and closing his eyes, as if he had entered into meditation.He didn't think Su Yuan and the others could find anything, and he also knew why Su Yuan targeted him, so he just waited patiently for the matter to end.

Unexpectedly, they really found something in it!

Confirmed by Zheng, the two gemstone rings were exactly what she lost half a year ago.She didn't know the jade paperweight and the agate pen holder, but these things belonged to wealthy people and should not appear in Taoist temples.As for gold leaf and golden beans, they are more common.Every year during the Chinese New Year, the palace will give these things to the younger generation to celebrate.

"I thought the ponytail hair was just a coincidence, but I never thought that you, Taoist priest, are actually greedy for money?" With the evidence in front, Zheng couldn't help but not believe it.

Mrs. Zheng immediately ordered someone to invite the prince back, this Taoist priest was originally liked by the prince, but now that his character has been seen clearly, it is more appropriate to send him to the prison of Kaifeng mansion.

Priest Wang Chuan hurriedly saluted Mrs. Zheng, and explained in a calm manner: "Princess, please calm down, this matter is not the work of a poor Taoist."

Su Yuan observed that there was a round-faced Taoist boy carved in powder and jade behind Daoist Wang Chuan.When he saw the things in the black cloth bag, his expression panicked for a moment, and then he lowered his head deeply, motionless, no one dared to look at it.

"Who would it be if you weren't? This thing is hidden in the alchemy furnace room of your Taoist temple. Could it be that someone else hid there and framed you?" Zheng asked back.

After hearing this, Daoist Wang Chuan glanced at Su Yuan's direction.

Su Yuan originally thought that Taoist Wangchuan wanted to accuse them of targeting him and framing him out of desperation, but he didn't want Taoist Wangchuan to come over and salute them.

Daoist Wang Chuan said to Su Yuan: "This matter is indeed not the work of the poor, please Su Judiciary and Bai Weiwei to investigate clearly."

Su Yuan and Bai Yutang glanced at each other.

After being provoked by Su Yuan several times, Daoist Wang Chuan actually chose to believe that Su Yuan and Bai Yutang could help him investigate clearly and return him innocent.

All of a sudden, there was a sense of 'repaying grievances with virtue'.

"How did the princess lose these two rings in the first place?" Su Yuan asked.

Zheng said: "Whenever there is dew, I will go boating on the lake to collect the dew on the lotus leaves to make tea. Half a year ago, after harvesting the dew, I found that the ring on my hand was missing. , the ring fell into the lake."

"Who was accompanying the princess to collect dew at that time?"

"My four servant girls." Mrs. Zheng greeted the four servant girls who came to accompany her, and pointed them to Su Yuan.

Su Yuan: "Is there anything else?"

"That day there were two Taoist boys together. The prince liked the Taoist tea made by the Taoist priest very much, so we would occasionally bring them along when we harvested the dew."

Liang Daotong was only six or seven years old, very young, and a monk, so there was nothing taboo for them.

Su Yuan pulled out the little boy with a round face and patted him on the head.

Xiao Daotong trembled in fright.

"Admit it yourself." Su Yuan said.

"No... no, it's not Xiaodao." Xiaodaotong's Taoist name was Sihua, and his voice was trembling at this time.

"My maidservant remembered that when he was gathering dew on the boat that day, he was a little unsteady, so the princess helped him up." One of the four maidservants said suddenly.

"My concubine suffers from a bitter summer, every summer it will be much clearer, the ring must be easy to take off." Another maid followed.

The case is simple and clear, so what is there to argue about?

Only then did Sihua cry and knelt down to admit his mistake, admitting that he did it.

"That day after Wangfei helped Xiaodao, the ring fell off Xiaodao's hand. Xiaodao wanted to return it to Wangfei, but seeing that Wangfei didn't realize it, he got greedy."

Su Yuan looked at the boy, although he was only six or seven years old, he spoke clearly and spoke like an adult.

"Where did you get the golden leaves and golden beans?" Su Yuan asked.

"When the young masters play pitching pots, they gamble with these things. Xiaodao is playing with them, and they just take one or two. The more times they are, the more they are saved." Sihua then also confessed that the jade paperweight and agate pen were placed together. The reason for this is that he stole it from someone's study when he accompanied the third son out to meet friends.

The friends of the prince's son must be rich and noble, but no matter how rich they are, they are not as rich as the palace. Even if the other party finds out that they have lost their belongings, they will not dare to inform the palace.With their identities, how dare they take the risk of questioning that someone from the Wangfu stole something, and if they accidentally said something wrong and offended the Wangfu, the loss outweighed the gain.It's better to suffer a dull loss, it's just losing some property, it's better than offending the emperor's relatives.

Mrs. Zheng was very angry when she heard Sihua's words. Her third son looked at this Sihua Taoist boy who was beautiful and lovely, and felt sorry for him since he was a child. Take him out to play when he is free, let him have more fun and gain more knowledge.Unexpectedly, this Daotong didn't know good and bad, went out to steal, and shamed her son and the palace.

The reputation of their royal family's incorruptibility has been tarnished by this Taoist boy!

"Did you also steal those two ancient paintings? Where are the paintings?" Zheng asked again.

Sihua quickly shook his head to show that it was not him. All the things he stole were put in the black cloth bag, and he did not hide anything else.

Zheng Shi naturally didn't believe it, and was about to ask Sihua to blame, when she saw Su Yuan stand up.

"He sleeps in the same room with another boy at night, so the possibility of stealing is unlikely."

Zheng Shi: "That's not good. This kid is very skilled. He can climb up the beam with a rope. It's easy to steal things through the window when his companion is asleep at night."

"Last night, when the ancient painting was lost, the two of them were punished by me to copy scriptures in front of the statue because of their mischievous mistakes. They were always together at that time." Taoist Master Wang Chuan summoned another Taoist boy to testify.

Another Taoist boy agreed, explaining that he had indeed been copying scriptures with Sihua last night, and Sihua did not leave.

Su Yuan hurriedly said to Zheng: "It is true that he did not steal the ancient paintings."

"Even if he didn't steal the ancient paintings, he stole all the things in this bag. Since he was a child in the Taoist temple, he didn't learn anything, and he became a traitor without a teacher. You really gave your master You have disgraced our palace!" Mrs. Zheng asked Su Yuan to deal with this boy in accordance with the law, in short, their palace will never keep this little thief again.

"Sihua, how can you do such immoral things?" Daoist Wang Chuan showed disappointment, and his tone was unprecedentedly serious.

"Sihua knew it was wrong, Sihua is ashamed of what Master taught." Sihua cried and kowtowed to Master Wangchuan.

Su Yuan immediately ordered the yamen servant to take Sihua away, not to give their master any more opportunities to communicate.

Daoist Wang Chuan had something to tell Sihua to take away when he saw the Kaifeng mansion, he hesitated to speak.

"If the Taoist priest still has something to say to him, you can choose a day to visit him in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion. Kaifeng Mansion welcomes the Taoist priest very much." Su Yuan smiled slightly at the Taoist priest Wang Chuan.

Daoist Wang Chuan was stunned for a moment, feeling that Su Yuan had something in his words again, and was mocking him.

"Forget it." Daoist Wang Chuan didn't get too entangled, and thanked Su Yuan, "I want Su to clear up the innocence of the poor."

"But the thief who stole the ancient paintings hasn't been found yet." Su Yuan sighed.

At this time, Mrs. Zheng looked at Taoist Master Wangchuan with suspicious eyes. The so-called upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, and the Taoist boy steals. Does this master really have a noble character?

Sensing Zheng's suspicious gaze, Daoist Wang Chuan gave a wry smile, and immediately expressed the hope that Su Yuan could catch the thief who stole the ancient paintings as soon as possible, so as to save him from being wronged.

"If I also solve this matter, would it be considered a kindness to the Taoist priest?" Su Yuan asked.

Priest Wang Chuan promised, "Naturally, as long as Judiciary Su clears up the innocence of the poor, he will be the benefactor of the poor."

"The benefactor has a request, will the Daoist respond?"

"If you can do it, you must do it."

"Well."

Su Yuan asked Taoist Wang Chuan for his whisk.She carefully observed the material of the ponytail used for the whisk, and then used the black cloth as the base to compare the ponytail hair on the whisk with the one she picked up.

"The whisk used by the Taoist priest is white, tough and shiny, but the one I picked up is yellow and easy to break. There is a big difference between the two. It seems that the horsetail hair is indeed not from the whisk of the Taoist priest." Su After Yuan explained it, he also specially invited Mrs. Zheng to screen it.

"That's true."

Zheng couldn't help but praise Su Yuan for being as meticulous as dust, for being able to notice such subtle things.

"Then where did the ponytail hair come from?"

Su Yuan rubbed her chin, as if she had been contemplating for a long time before she thought of something, and asked Mrs. Zheng, "Has the third son ridden a white horse recently? Could it be that the horse hair was stained on his body after riding the horse, and he just returned to the study and was blown on the ground by the wind?" on the ground?"

Mrs. Zheng hurriedly ordered someone to ask, and immediately got a positive answer.

"Then it seems that the ponytail hair is a misunderstanding." Zheng sighed with a smile, "But the misunderstanding was not in vain, so a thief in the mansion was found out."

Although the ancient painting was not recovered, the suspicion of Taoist Wang Chuan was cleared for the time being.

After Mrs. Zheng left, Su Yuan wanted to stay for a cup of Dao tea on the grounds that he was the benefactor of Taoist Master Wangchuan.Daoist Wangchuan naturally couldn't refuse, so he had to stay in Suyuan and Bai Yutang to have tea in the room.

At this time, there were only three of them in the house.

"Is the Taoist priest willing to give orders for me?"

Su Yuan didn't have the patience to continue making detours with Taoist Wang Chuan, she wanted to figure out the situation back then today.Is it true that as he and Su Fangming guessed, it was because of Daoist Wang Chuan's order that Su Jinjing wanted to kill her to silence her.

"Su Judici's visit today, I'm afraid it wasn't a coincidence?" From the time Su Yuan checked and compared the horse hair just now, Daoist Wang Chuan saw it very clearly. With Su Yuan's mind, he probably thought of this method a long time ago.But she held on to it all the time, provoking him several times under the pretext of doubting him, and searched his Taoist temple.

"I don't know if it happened by chance, but I know that there is a destined relationship between me and the Taoist priest." Su Yuan was not afraid of the doubts of the Taoist priest Wang Chuan.

Daoist Wang Chuan nodded and admitted that he had indeed approved the fate of the second child of Su Jinjing's wife's twins back then, as "fate to commit an orphan, and those who accompany him will have a narrow escape, but will not die well".

"But I didn't ask Mr. Su to kill you to avoid evil. On the contrary, committing murder will affect his fortune even more. He agreed to me at the time, but I heard that something happened to you afterwards. I guess he might not be able to tolerate it." You, but when I asked him again, he didn't admit it, he just said it was an accident, so it's hard for me to admit it without evidence."

"If the Taoist priest has some doubts and disapproves of Su Jinjing, it's okay to not communicate with him. After that, why did the Taoist priest continue to have close contacts with him?" Su Yuan continued to ask.

"Su Jinjing had the grace of saving lives to Pindao's parents. He donated money to do good deeds every year. Except for the unexplainable incident back then, seeing that he had a sincere heart towards Taoism, Pindao continued to associate with him. These In order to repay his kindness, whenever he asks Pindao for divination, Pindao will come forward to help. But Pindao does not want to have a close relationship with him. He built me ​​an extremely luxurious Taoist temple in the new house in Beijing. Pindao has never been there. lived."

After Taoist Wang Chuan finished explaining seriously, he apologized to Su Yuan. It was indeed because of his divination words back then that affected Su Yuan's life.

For the time being, Su Yuan did not distinguish between the truth and falsehood of Daoist Wang Chuan's words, and continued to ask him how many times he had met Su Jinjing in recent days, and whether he had mentioned her every time.

"Twice, once when he found out that you were still alive, he asked the poor Taoist to divination." Taoist Wang Chuan hesitated for a moment, and looked at Su Yuan, "The poor Taoist does not lie, he can only tell the truth."

"What truth?" Bai Yutang asked.

"The solitary spirit has arrived, fate has hardened, father and daughter are in conflict, and they must die."

After Daoist Wang Chuan said this, seeing Su Yuan staring at him, he thought she hated him for saying such a thing, so he apologized.

"Then can you suggest to Su Jinjing how to resolve my evil spirit?" Su Yuan asked.

"The way is natural, why bother to force it. Pindao advised him to let go, follow the destiny, do more good deeds, and he will be rewarded, but he doesn't seem to listen." Master Wang Chuan paused, and said to Su Yuan, "Four days A few days ago, he came to me again, told Pindao that the situation had become serious, and begged Pindao to give him a solution."

"Did you tell him?" Bai Yutang asked, he wanted to know whether the formation that harmed Su Yuan was done by Taoist Wangchuan.

Wang Chuandao shook his head with long hair, "Pindao said the method a long time ago, but he didn't listen, so there would be other ways."

"Of course there are other ways. Your order itself contains a solution, 'you must die'. He will be fine if I die." Su Yuan continued.

Daoist Wang Chuan was stunned for a moment, and said to Su Yuan: "That's a commandment, but not a way to resolve it. That's not my original intention."

After Su Yuan pondered for a moment, he examined Daoist Wangchuan for a long time.

Although Daoist Wang Chuan had been stared at by Su Yuan for a long time, his attitude remained the same. He was very frank with guilt, and he was not nervous, guilty, or afraid.

Su Yuan immediately got up to say goodbye, before leaving, he sighed unintentionally: "If I had known that the boss is a frank person, I would have come to the door earlier and asked directly, why bother so much trouble today."

Daoist Wang Chuan immediately understood, and asked Su Yuan, "Could it be that the throwing of the ancient painting is your plan?"

Both Su Yuan and Bai Yutang looked back at Daoist Wangchuan with the same silent attitude.

Daoist Wang Chuan only accepted their acquiescence, and sighed helplessly: "In an extraordinary time, it is not impossible to use an extraordinary method. But stealing other people's property is really not a good act. Please return the two ancient paintings to the third son." .”

Su Yuan chuckled lightly, didn't agree to return it, didn't say no, turned around and left with Bai Yutang.

Daoist Wang Chuan looked at the backs of the two, and he was relieved for a long time before returning to the concept of peace.

……

Su Yuan deliberately let Taoist Wang Chuan guess that she and Bai Yutang were plotting against him. She wanted to know whether Taoist Wang Chuan would be furious and expose him to the Eighth Prince and Bao Zheng.

Judging from the performance of Daoist Wangchuan just now, he probably didn't intend to do this.

Of course, Su Yuan dared to expose like this, and he was already prepared not to be caught.They didn't steal those two ancient paintings at all, they just rolled them up and put them in a painting jar in the study.Bai Yutang visited the palace at night, coming and going without a trace, as long as he didn't admit it, no one would catch any evidence.

"His words sound a bit sincere." Bai Yutang asked Su Yuan how true or false he thought it was.

"Based on what I've heard, I've sounded sincere."

When Su Yuan returned to Kaifeng Mansion, he interrogated the little boy named Sihua.

"Do you know that the property you stole is enough for you to chop off your head thirty times?" Su Yuan saw that Sihua was startled and cried immediately, and asked him if he wanted to make amends.

Sihua nodded hurriedly.

"Tell me all the abnormalities of your master in normal times. If there is one abnormality, he will be beheaded once. If you provide important clues, you can be released without charge."

"There is nothing unusual about Master, apart from practicing alchemy every day, and preaching to the prince." Sihua said immediately.

"Think about it again." Su Yuan reminded Sihua that as long as he felt a little strange, he could talk about it.

"Master often goes to the hut at night and doesn't come back for a long time." Sihua said.

Sometimes when he went to bed late, he would see the master put on a coat and go to the latrine. Every time he couldn't wait for the master to come back, he fell asleep.Several times he felt that he had been waiting for half an hour, and no one was seen.

"Is there any more?" Su Yuan handed the goat milk biscuits she made to Sihua, letting him think while eating.If you think about it, you can not only get rid of the crime, but also have more delicious snacks like this.

After Sihua ate the biscuits, he really became more active. After thinking for a while, he said to Su Yuan: "Master will recite scriptures devoutly all night during the Innate Festival every year, praying for the country, does that count?"

"Forget it, continue." Su Yuan said.

Sihua was bolder, hugged the plate, and said to Su Yuan while eating: "Master, he is very good at martial arts, and he is very good at killing ghosts. Ghosts are afraid of him, and even ghosts will come to worship him."

"Ghost? Have you seen it?" Su Yuan asked.

"Of course I have, all of them have green faces and fangs, but they are nothing in front of the master, so they can only submit obediently." Sihua said.

Su Yuan asked him when it happened.

Sihua: "Half a year ago, I went to Chenliu with my master to catch ghosts. I fell asleep in the car at night, and then woke up in a daze. There was a mass grave there. There were so many ghosts. Those fierce ghosts They all floated over to look for Master, and Master killed one of them with a sword, and the others were so frightened that they surrendered."

"And later?"

"I was useless at the time, and I was so frightened that I fainted. Then when it was dawn, I asked the master, and the master said that I should not peek. I am young and weak, and I will have a fever and headache when I see evil. I have a headache and fever, which is uncomfortable."

Sun He was very excited when he heard this, "So there are so many ghosts in Chenliu? Just in the mass grave? I actually missed it!"

Then Sun He asked Sihua what kind of ghosts he had and how many there were.

Su Yuan saw that Sun He's questions in this area were more detailed than his own, so he let Sun He ask, and ignored it for the time being.

……

Two days later, the Kaifeng government found out the identity of the thin-faced Taoist priest, who was the master of a temple called Tufang Temple outside the city.This Taoist temple is very small, with only seven ascetics, three of whom are Taoist boys under ten years old.The other three are actually domestic servants who had to practice Taoism in order to serve the Guanzhu.

The thin-faced Taoist priest named Pi Changshou has a wealthy family. He was originally an outsider, but because he was addicted to Taoism, he handed over the family business to his son and practiced in a Taoist temple by himself.Every two months, he will travel down to do some good deeds and accumulate virtue for himself.

"Seeing the sad face of the benefactor, the poor Taoist advised her to find a good match."

This is why Pi Changming explained that he provided the array to Yin Aoxue. No matter how much he asked, Pi Changming claimed that it was accidental.He also said that he didn't know Su Jinjing, and that the formation was his own idea.

Two days later, a middle-aged man in rough clothes came to Kaifeng Mansion and confessed that he had killed Jincai.

"Where's the corpse?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"The villain threw him into the Yellow River. He probably rotted and was eaten by fish and shrimp."

The middle-aged man's name is Tong Shitou. He told him that when he was digging in the field by the roadside, he met Jincai who asked for directions.

"But the villain didn't expect that on the way home, the villain was robbed again by a man in green clothes, and all the bank notes and account books were taken away by him!"

Su Yuan could see that the middle-aged man's purpose was to admit that Jincai was the one who killed him, and that the man in Tsing Yi had someone else, and told everyone in Kaifeng Mansion that Jin Cai and the man in Tsing Yi were two people.

"We already have evidence to prove that it was Jincai who disguised himself as a man in Tsing Yi."

Hearing this, the middle-aged man was startled, hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, "My lord, the life of the villain is miserable! The villain can't help it. It was Mr. Su and my family who threatened my life to confess the crime." .”

Not long after, the middle-aged man's parents, wife Huang and eight sons persuaded them all to come to Kaifeng Mansion, knelt at the gate of Kaifeng Mansion, and begged Kaifeng Mansion to release him.

While patting her thigh, Mrs. Huang yelled loudly with a loud voice that shook the world: "There is no law, we are planting the land of the Su family, and Master Su will use our family's rations as a threat to make my husband take the blame!" Ah ah ah ah ah--"

Zhan Zhao covered his ears and told Huang to keep his voice down.

Huang's voice was even louder: "Su Jinjing is going to kill our family——"

There were more and more people watching, Zhan Zhao wanted to stop Huang and bring her into the Kaifeng mansion.He just took two steps closer to her when Huang suddenly took out a kitchen knife, put it in front of her, and shouted again.

"If you don't arrest Master Su, the woman will die today and leave here with no regrets——"

Zhan Zhao was helpless, so he asked Gongsun Ce to help.

Gongsun Ce hastily called Su Yuan, and asked her in a low voice, "Tell me, Master, is that Huang family outside the plan you conspired with Bai Huwei that day?"