Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

"I'm here to arrest people." Before everyone could ask, Yan Shu took the initiative to explain his purpose.

"Last year, in Deping County, 400 miles outside the city, there was a case of theft of official bank. I surveyed the scene, looked through the old files, and found that since nine years ago, the official bank from the south must have been stolen once a year. They are all within [-] miles of the imperial city. The total amount is about [-] million taels. I revisited the old case and questioned the witnesses again. After several investigations and analysis, I suspected that Ziyan Temple was here, so I sent troops to the nearby villages Pretending to be squatting, waiting for Ziyan Temple's next move, trying to grasp the evidence, but I don't want such a thing to happen today."

From the time the suspension bridge of Ziyan Temple caught fire, Yan Shu's subordinates who were dormant in the nearby village realized that something was wrong, and ran to report to Yan Shu. After Yan Shu arrived in the village, he temporarily stood still.First send someone disguised as a farmer cutting firewood to check the situation.Later, when he learned that a homicide occurred in Ziyan Temple, and that people from Kaifeng Mansion were already in Ziyan Temple, Yan Shu immediately brought troops here.

After listening to Yan Shu's narration, Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang realized at the same time what "Galaxy" was, and it should refer to the 400 million taels of silver that Yan Shu checked.

Yan Shu took the letter from Zhao Hanyan, and after reading the words in the letter, he suddenly narrowed his eyes with a serious face.

"There's an advance notification," Yan Shu sighed, and sneered softly, "Meeting such a lunatic and Mr. Bao's absence, it's hard for the two of you."

Yan Shu asked Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang how they were investigating the case so far, and when they learned that the murderer who killed Qingxi Taoist priest had been caught, Yan Shu praised them again and again.

"Since the murder case is over and the bridge is open, you two should be leaving?" Yan Shu asked.

"The murderer will definitely be brought back to the Kaifeng mansion for interrogation, but the death of Taoist Zi Yan is still unclear." Zhao Hanyan told Yan Shu that he didn't believe in the thunder disaster.

Yan Shu nodded, indicating that he didn't believe it either.Can a person who is silent be struck by thunder in the house?It's really bullying that everyone has never seen Tianlei before.

Yan Shu then listened to the story of the fire on the suspension bridge, and summed it up: "Someone on the side of Ziyan Mountain shot an arrow first, and then someone ran in the woods, and then found that the suspension bridge was on fire, but the iron chains of the suspension bridge were tampered with on the other side?"

Zhao Hanyan nodded.

"More than one person, do you have an accomplice?" Yan Shu asked

"It may also be a person," Bai Yutang explained. "He led the person away first, ran to the other side of the suspension bridge, tampered with the iron chain, and then set fire to it."

Yan Shu immediately said that when his men were repairing the suspension bridge, they smelled a strong smell of alcohol on the grass blades by the river ditch, and they were sure that it was strong alcohol that ignited the suspension bridge.

"So the person who burned the suspension bridge is no longer in Ziyan Temple." Zhao Hanyan sighed.

"Not necessarily, maybe he crawled over from the ditch under the bridge." Yan Shu then told Zhao Hanyan that when his men were repairing the suspension bridge, they scratched the so-called 'poisonous thorns' on the river bank, but nothing happened.

Zhao Hanyan: "It turns out that this poisonous thorn is a cover."

Things are becoming more and more chaotic. Although it is temporarily out of order, Zhao Hanyan believes that the more things are exposed, the closer to the truth.

"What are your plans now?" Yan Shu asked.

"Bring people back to Kaifeng Mansion for trial, and all relevant people will be arrested and brought to justice." Zhao Hanyan said.

"Since the investigations of our two cases intersect, why don't you just wait a while, first accompany me to find 'Yinhe', and then bring those people back to Kaifeng Mansion to interrogate your murder case." Yan Shu didn't ask for help in vain , put forward a very tempting condition, "After that, I can help you deal with the mastermind behind the scenes. In the future, whenever there is a need for the help of the Ministry of Justice, I will do my best to help."

Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang glanced at each other, and she felt that Yan Shu's proposal made sense, and that it was great for everyone to help each other.Moreover, there are many criminal case files on the news network of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, which Kaifeng Mansion does not have.

Zhao Hanyan first asked Bai Yutang for his opinion, and Bai Yutang said that it would be up to her, so Zhao Hanyan nodded in agreement with Yan Shu.In fact, they couldn't help but refuse to agree. He is the servant of the Ministry of punishment, so he can do whatever he wants to order. Now this is enough respect for the two of them, and Zhao Hanyan should be 'knowledgeable'.

Zhao Hanyan then asked Yan Shu how he planned to investigate.

"First of all, we must keep it secret. To tell you the truth, I have always suspected that there is a backer behind Ziyan Temple, otherwise, who would dare to grab the emperor's money at the foot of the imperial city. The backer will definitely be in the city of Tokyo. This is what I have been carefully investigating all the time. The reason. Therefore, until the matter is clarified, we have to block the news and not allow anyone to go down the mountain or communicate with the outside world, even the entourage we brought. Once the adventure leaves and leaves a message, the tortoise shrank its head, fearing that it will go out again. Difficult to track down."

"400 million taels, it's very heavy, and it must be troublesome to transport." Zhao Hanyan pondered.

"Last month, the Ministry of Punishments raided the home of a seventh-rank official. He insisted on crying that he was innocent, and that the house was completely empty. After I took someone to check it, it was true. Only a pile of wood looked abnormal. Later, I found it in the wood. 3 taels of silver were paid out."

Yan Shu specifically said that the purpose of this incident was to tell Zhao Hanyan that these people have many unexpected ways to transport silver.

"After remelting, silver can be molded into various shapes to deceive people."

After Yan Shu finished speaking, he ordered his subordinates to check the entire building of Ziyan Temple first, whether it was wood, walls or tiles, to see if there was a possibility of hidden silver.

Zhao Hanyan didn't have much experience in this area and didn't know much, so he admired Yan Shu's ability very much at the moment.

Yan Shu smiled modestly, and hurriedly said that he was not as good as Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang when he was a teenager, "Now I am ten years older than you, so I must eat more salt."

"Master Yan is too modest. You entered the examination as a child prodigy at the age of 14, and you were born as a Jinshi. I still can't even memorize the four books and five classics." Zhao Hanyan expressed that he liked his words very much.

Yan Shu was very surprised, and looked at Zhao Hanyan with a little surprise: "Have you read my Ci?"

Bai Yutang, who had been silent all the time, glanced at Zhao Hanyan and asked her when and where she had read Yan Shu's Ci.

"I... Lord Yan is so famous, what's so strange about it." Zhao Hanyan gave a sloppy look.

Chasing 'stars' really lost their minds, repent!

Yan Shu laughed, "Brother Zhao, does he often go to the Zhuangyuan Building? I often leave my words there, and the walls of the private room No. [-] are all painted by me. Fortunately, the store is good, so I don't mind."

"It's too late for the store owner to be happy with the words written by the adults. How can I care about them? If it were mine, I would definitely treasure them." Zhao Hanyan continued to exude the atmosphere of her little fan girl.

Yan Shu was even happier. The younger generation he admired happened to worship him. It would be a pleasure to cooperate with her in handling the case at that time.

Speaking of the poems left by many literati on the wall of the Zhuangyuan Building, Bai Yutang really wanted to thank Yan Shu for reminding him just now, and he would order shopkeeper Liu to change the wall when he returned!

The three of them had enough pleasantries and continued to return to the case.

Yan Shu felt that since Zhao Hanyan was suspicious of Taoist Ziyan's thunder disaster, he suggested to her: "I happened to bring my assistant here so I can let him inspect the corpse."

"That's great, thank you Lord Yan."

Yan Shu only speculates and suspects that Ziyan Temple may be a place where thieves hid silver based on the scope of the silver theft cases over the years, but there is no evidence to prove this.

If the three elders of Ziyan Temple were really involved in the silver theft case, after so many years of experience, and there is a well-established Taoist temple as a cover, they must be cunning and extremely cautious.Now that two Taoist priests have died, if the only remaining Elder Baiyun is directly interrogated without evidence, it may be difficult to get any useful answers.

However, since Zhao Hanyan mentioned that Xilin, another Taoist priest in the temple, reacted to Yinhe, Yan Shu decided to interrogate Xilin first.

Xilin and the other five Taoist priests were all imprisoned in the wing room of the West Second Courtyard. After the doors and windows were locked, they were guarded by two government servants.

After the Yacha was killed, he opened the door and wanted to enter the house to escort Xilin, but when he entered, he found that Xilin had died on the ground.He was foaming at the mouth, his lips were blue and purple, and a silver needle was pierced on his face.

After Zhao Hanyan, Bai Yutang, and Yan Shu checked the corpse, they found a hole through which a silver needle had passed through the window near Xilin's death.Basically, it can be confirmed that the murderer shot a poisonous needle through the window, killing Xilin.

"Another one died. It's a case in the case. It's a bit tricky." Yan Shu took a special look at Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang, and sighed that it was not easy for them.

"It's not easy, my lord. This is the only person in Xilin who definitely knows about Yinhe." Zhao Hanyan also felt sorry for Yan Shu.

"I'm not surprised." Compared with the unpredictable court situation, this thing that the tentacles can't get is nothing at all.

"You don't need to worry. Solving the case is like finding a thread in a mess. What you need is patience and calmness."

Zhao Hanyan nodded repeatedly and sighed that it made sense.

Bai Yutang asked Zhao Hanyan puzzled, "Isn't this the truth you already understood?"

"I understand it again." Zhao Hanyan said.

Bai Yutang held the knife and stared coldly ahead without saying a word.

Then another yamen came to report that Elder Baiyun was also dead. Everyone rushed to Elder Baiyun's room and found that Elder Baiyun had been stuck in his chest with a wooden awl and fell to the ground dead.

The wooden awl is relatively blunt. If you want to insert it into the chest, you must hit it with a hammer or something.

Since no one heard the cry before the elder died, Zhao Hanyan turned his head to check the situation on the table, there was half a cup of tea left unfinished.However, there is another tea bowl, although it is buckled and placed, there are water marks on the edge.Even blowing open a window closer to the table and looking out, there was indeed a puddle of water on the ground.

"Acquaintances committed crimes and drugged them."

The yamen who were in charge of searching the corpse found the silver needle in Elder Baiyun's sleeve.The silver needle was wrapped in a piece of deerskin the size of a palm, and when it was unfolded, the tip of the needle was a little black, which seemed to have been poisoned.

Then I tried it on a live chicken with a silver needle, and it immediately became a dead chicken.

"It seems that Xilin was killed by Elder Baiyun," Yan Shu sighed, "Then who killed Elder Baiyun?"

"It's like a killing game one after another," Bai Yutang sneered.

Zhao Hanyan was stunned, staring at Bai Yutang, and then hurried out.

Bai Yutang froze for a moment, then asked Zhao Hanyan what was the matter.

"You're right, one after another, and the last one kills the other." After Zhao Hanyan ran to the courtyard of Taoist Qingxi, he went straight to the alchemy room.

There are alchemy rooms in the courtyards of Taoist Master Ziyan, Taoist Master Qingxi and Elder Baiyun in Baiyun Temple.When investigating the body of Daoist Ziyan before, Zhao Hanyan discovered it. At that time, he and Bai Yutang checked the alchemy furnace of Daoist Ziyan, but it had been dusted for a long time and had never been used at all.Later, I asked the Taoist priests in the temple, and I learned that the alchemy is now unified in the newly replaced large furnace in the big alchemy room. The original furnace in the small alchemy room was not very useful, so it was put on hold.

The alchemy stove was as tall as a person, and Zhao Hanyan moved the stool to climb up.Bai Yutang hurriedly stopped him, went up in person, opened the lid of the top alchemy stove, and then was smothered by the smell inside, frowned in disgust, then Bai Yutang carefully looked at the bottom of the alchemy stove, and tore off the lid from the edge of the entrance. A few half white and half black hairs.

"There's black ash inside, it looks like it's been used not long ago." Bai Yutang jumped up, his moon-white clothes fluttered, and landed in front of Zhao Hanyan lightly, and then handed over the hair he had just obtained to Zhao Hanyan.

His hands are very slender, like hewn from white jade.

Zhao Hanyan was stunned for a moment, then quickly took out the handkerchief and held it in his palm, and Bai Yutang immediately put his hair on it.Two hairs fluttered down gently, and the hands were out of sight.Zhao Hanyan raised his eyes and glanced at Bai Yutang first, then looked down at his hair carefully.

"The ones that are white must belong to the elderly."

"Yes." Bai Yutang said without hesitation, "It was Daoist Qingxi who killed Daoist Ziyan."

"Xilin will kill Qingxi again, and Baiyun will kill Xilin again." Zhao Hanyan added.

Yan Shu who came later heard this and couldn't help sighing that the case was complicated. "Unfortunately, the two people most likely to know about 'Galaxy' are dead now."

"The person who killed Elder Baiyun must know, and even if there is a mastermind behind the scenes." Zhao Hanyan asked Yan Shu to help them catch the mastermind behind the scenes.

Yan Shu smiled and agreed, and asked Zhao Hanyan to say whatever he wanted.

Zhao Hanyan discovered that Yan Shu is really a rare person with excellent psychological quality. Under such difficult circumstances, he can still smile calmly and have a calm attitude.In fact, this is not a rare thing, Zhao Hanyan is mainly curious that since his temperament is like this, why is the poem written so sentimentally?

"First of all, there is still a murderer in Ziyan Temple, and there is also an unknown Yinhe." Yan Shu sighed, "The matter is not resolved, it seems that we can't go back to Tokyo to sleep tonight."

"Want to have dinner here?" Bai Yutang asked, then turned to look at Zhao Hanyan, "I don't want to eat cabbage tofu."

"Okay, I don't have a clue anyway, I'll make you something else." Zhao Hanyan agreed.

"Huh? Can I still order food?" Yan Shu also looked at Zhao Hanyan with interest, "Then take me a portion too. I'm delicate and expensive, and I'm not used to cabbage tofu."

Bai Yutang: "..."

Zhao Hanyan: "..."

This was the first time they had heard an adult call themselves 'delicate and expensive', but it was frank enough.

"I heard that there are always chickens in Taoist temples, and they are used for practical purposes, but now they may not be needed." Zhao Hanyan pondered, "It just matches the mushrooms in the back mountain. I will go to pick mushrooms."

Bai Yutang naturally followed.

Yan Shu thought about it, "I'm fine, let's go together, the three of us, and talk about the case while picking mushrooms, just in time I seem to have discovered the similarities in the way these four deceased died."