9. Hidden pearls

Miao Fan sat in meditation until late at night, and when he heard that the Buddha hall gradually died down, he estimated that several donors had rested, so he lit a candlestick and went to the main hall to check the Buddha statue that had been repaired.

There are two Buddha lamps burning on the incense table in the hall, the golden body of the Buddha is wiped clear, and the faint light is cast to refract the Buddha light back to Pudu, Miao Fan looked at the Buddha with kind eyebrows, and couldn't help but think of the deceased Dingzen master, and his eyes were a little moist. He lit all the Buddha lamps, and then filled the lamps with sesame oil, and in an instant the hall was filled with golden light, and it could be seen from two or three miles away, and half of the sky was illuminated.

The group of people who had already left Kinkakuji looked back and saw the brightness of the glow, and they were very emotional.

Xiaohe exclaimed: "My good man! Did the Buddha descend to earth? So bright! ”

Ah Piao smiled with a smile: "It's not our gold foil is good, think about it, full of real gold beating, no copper at all, can there be no light on the face of the Buddha and his old man." ”

Xiao Hebai glanced at him: "Brother Piao, you don't know what to do, the gold leaf was beaten by Master Lu and pasted by Master Lu, what did you do?" Don't have the virtue of inviting merit! ”

The two quarreled, Master Lu stroked his beard and smiled without saying a word, but Qianqian gritted his teeth and stomped his feet and complained: "This idiot! It's like running water and boiling it, for fear that it won't attract outsiders! Seeing that she rolled up her sleeves and looked angry, as if she was about to go back to the temple to settle accounts with the little monk, Master Lu hurriedly grabbed her.

"Let's go, it's hard to get out if it's late."

Qianqian followed Master Lu away step by step, scolding nerds along the way, hating iron but not steel.

The hole in the roof used to be temporarily covered with a mat, but now it has been replaced with new tiles by Ah Piao, and it will never leak again. However, the broken beam is not a simple job, Miao Fan pondered that when the morning dawned, he would go into the mountain to cut wood, and then ask the carpenter to plane the skin to make the beams, and then ask the villagers to help hang it on the roof. In a blink of an eye, most of the night passed, and seeing that it was almost the time for morning class, Miao Fan had no intention of sleeping again, and planned to go to the courtyard to fetch a basin of water to scrub the floor tiles of the main hall.

Next to the camellia tree, he slowly shook the well wheel to raise the bucket, and lifted it out of the well railing, and a bucket full of water overflowed a little, wetting the Luohan shoes on his feet. He stooped down to take off his shoes, unexpectedly something slipped out of his arms. He thought it was a purse, and subconsciously pressed it with his hand, but who knew that those things were like pebbles, gurgling from between his fingers to the ground, and scattered at his feet to emit a white and clean light.

Miao Fan picked up a grain and looked at it carefully, it turned out to be a pearl! He hurriedly pulled out with his chest full of arms, and soon found a few more, plus about seven or eight that had rolled to the ground.

He didn't even know he had this thing in his arms!

Miao Fan hurriedly searched his body again, only to find that in addition to the pearls that appeared out of thin air, the purse was also missing. He pinched a handful of beads, stood by the well with a confused expression, and thought for a long time before touching his lips in a daze.

It's her......

The girl named Qianqian, only she loves to tease him so much, and only she will take a handful of valuable pearls in exchange for the purse she didn't grab.

But when did she steal the beams?

Miao Fan pondered, raised her eyes and looked at the half-closed temple door, as if she saw the situation where she pressed herself against the door last night, she was obviously not as tall as him, and her body bones were not as strong as his, but she relied on her courage to bully him. And in the meditation room, she just came up, her lips ......

He didn't dare to think about it anymore, so he quickly closed his eyes and recited the scriptures, and waited until his mood was stable as usual, before he sighed: No wonder Master Dingzen said that women are like demons and will mess up their cultivation, she deliberately disturbed his mind twice, once stealing his purse, once stuffing pearls, and also blaming him for not cultivating enough, and she didn't even notice it!

Miao Fan looked at the closed meditation room, thinking that after she got up, he would take the initiative to apologize to her, and then return the pearl to her, as for the purse...... If she likes it, give it to her.

It's all something outside the body, something outside the body.

Unexpectedly, they had already said goodbye.

Li Chengyuan asked people to chase the liar, but naturally they didn't catch up, the post house in the neighboring county was empty, and those people didn't go there at all to wait for him to meet. He didn't even know the names of the people who had deceived him, let alone where the gang fled, so he could only search the officials in the yamen like a headless fly. I thought that the swindlers would attract attention with a large box of treasures, and it would definitely be difficult to get out, but after looking for three or four days, there is still no news, no one has ever seen a foreigner carrying a large amount of money, and even the guards at the city gate are adamant, and there is absolutely no "Miss Huang" that Li Chengyuan said out of the city.

Li Chengyuan was puzzled, why did he disappear? You can't fly away! Could it be a female ghost?! When he thought about it, he scared himself enough, and when he was so frightened, he collapsed on the bed and couldn't get up, and he had a serious illness, and his brain was a little confused.

Li Zhixian's family wealth was deceived and almost died, but when he saw that his only son was crazy and crazy, he did not complain about his son's greed for money and lust, but gritted his teeth with hatred for the liar. He felt that the flow of money was not good, first the silver he saved sank in the river, and he had no return, but he didn't dare to make a noise, so he could only secretly rectify the silk merchant who transported the goods, and the most descendant died in the prison before he let out a bad breath. Now, this gang of gangsters actually beat him Qiu Feng, and if he catches people back with his means, it will be light to peel and cramp!

Having said that, Li Zhixian didn't dare to make too much fanfare, and it was known that he had been cheated of a huge amount of money. Think how much money can he have with a little nine-pin sesame official? Even if you don't eat, drink, or use, you won't be able to save more than 40,000 taels in a hundred years. If he accidentally leaked the news and was sent to the Imperial History, he would lose his head. Li Zhixian is distressed, the current situation is that he has broken his teeth and swallowed blood, and he can't say that he is a dumb person who eats Coptis chinensis, and he can only swallow the good and bad things by himself, and all he can do is to secretly use his hands and feet to find out the news.

Just when the Zhizhi County family was frowning and the house was cloudy, a good opportunity fell in front of them.

The imperial court finally came to interrogate the criminal officials into Beijing, and Jianing County could also throw out the hot potatoes that could not afford to offend, and this time there were not only people from the Criminal Department, but also Lord Zhan Liantai Zhan, the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. To say that this Zhan Liantai, it should be a genius of this dynasty, it is said that he was born in the countryside, and he did not hear of one before the age of twenty, and only became the pastor of the Famous Yuan Horse Temple. Later, he was valued by the prime minister for exposing a corruption case, entered the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and climbed to his current status in just over ten years, and now he is only 32 years old, in the prime of life, and his future is limitless.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is in charge of the supervision and impeachment of court officials, and it is the most powerful and most feared yamen. At this time, Zhan Liantai came to mention the criminal, which shows the importance that the saint attaches to this case, and it also shows that in this case, I am afraid that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the one who is in charge, and the rest of the people are just accompanying the singing and singing, purely going through the motions.

Li Zhixian knew that Zhan Liantai was coming, so he was busy making preparations, and tried his best to hold the reception banquet in a decent and thoughtful manner, so that he could say a few words with a familiar face. He set up a banquet in the most magnificent proud building in the city, and personally went to the city gate to greet him, but when he came to Jingcha, he didn't see Zhan Liantai, and when he asked, he knew that Lord Zhan had entered the city in advance and went directly to the county jail. was so anxious that Li Zhixian sat in a sedan chair again and hurried to the prison.

At the same time, the cell boss Lao Zhang read the official document handed by the other party, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and returned the document with trembling hands, as if his tongue was knotted and not straight: "Big, adult, please please, please come ......"

The man in a strong suit put away the paperwork with a blank face, turned around and respectfully replied to the man in civilian clothes waiting on the side: "My lord, it's okay." ”

This man in civilian clothes is looking up at the pear blossoms on the treetops at the moment, only to see that he is about thirty years old, the years have smoothed the edge between his eyebrows and eyes a lot, and he has accumulated more calm and elegant, thinking that he must have been a handsome young man who was amazing ten years ago. He was wearing an ordinary plain yarn crewneck shirt, but there was a translucent crystal buckle embedded in the belt, faintly revealing his extraordinary identity, and he was holding a folding fan in his hand, which was made of silk thread, which looked very old.

When his subordinates called, he came back to his senses for a long time, lowered his eyebrows and saw a few petals of pear snow on his shoulder, raised his finger and gently brushed it away, looking pity.

"Let's go inside."

Lao Zhang led the way, took the two of them to the yashe and pushed the door open, and said cautiously: "Lord Huang from Yongzhou is inside, he is sick and can't speak for several days." ”

The subordinate nodded with a cold face, motioned for Lao Zhang to leave, and welcomed the real big man into the house, and when he passed in front of Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang seemed to hear a sneer, very light and shallow.

The two of them entered the house and closed the door tightly, Lao Zhang didn't have the heart to listen to the corner this time, so he left quickly, and he could go as far as he could. The officials at the door rushed up again, and inquired about the origin of this lord.

Lao Zhang's legs and stomach were still weak, and he wiped the sweat on his forehead and whispered: "It's Lord Zhan, a big man from Beijing." I've never seen such a big official in my life, my mother and grandmother, an adult is an adult, that bearing! Gee! ”

In the room, Zhan Liantai held his hands behind his back, watching his subordinates search for Lord Huang from a distance. After a while, the subordinate said: "I didn't find anything, he was drugged, and he really can't speak." ”

Zhan Liantai's eyebrows were cold, and the folding fan in his hand knocked on the back of his hand one by one, and it took a while to slowly open his lips: "Dumb?" ”

The subordinate shook his head: "Ordinary anesthetic, you can still speak when the medicinal properties are dispersed." ”

"That's-" Zhan Liantai curled the corners of his lips slightly, "I can only help him." ”

The subordinate understood, put his palm on the neck of the dying Lord Huang and twisted it, and there was no movement with a click. Zhan Liantai slowly paced forward, looking at Lord Huang who was staring at him on the bed, and his expression did not have a trace of pity: "The Prime Minister is not at ease, so he specially asked me to give Brother Huang a ride, so that he can go." ”

He dusted off his robe and turned around, his subordinates were responsible for handling the scene, and when he got out of the house, he looked at the half-crippled pear tree again, breathed a sigh of relief with some melancholy, and quickly looked back at the instructions.

"Find out who has been here and who has drugged him."