"Is there something wrong with this ledger?"

"Nope."

Li Jin flipped through the small ledger several times. Shake one’s head.

All the accounts can be reconciled, and there is not even the slightest problem. Simply seamless.

Tang Jingruo took the account book from his hand, flipped through it carefully, and his slender fingers tapped the cost, and said:

"No problem is the biggest problem, these items can be checked, but the price is not right!

I don't know what the price of the imperial city is, but I think it should be less than the border gate where materials are scarce. But these bluestone slabs, quicklime, and utensils are a little too high, right? ”

His words reminded Song Yiyao, and she called Jiang Liang and found several businessmen.

I carefully checked the specific market price of those things.

It turned out that everything recorded in the ledger was more than double the market price.

Even the best stuff shouldn't be the price. What's more, the places where I buy are mostly some very mediocre stores that are not very famous, not too small.

If you say there's no water in it, you won't believe it.

After not eating a few bites of rice, Song Yiyao began to be busy again.

Li Jin was distressed watching from the side, and he couldn't help much. I can only say goodbye gloomily.

"It's the Tobe Squire Li-sama?"

On the way back, Li Jin's carriage was stopped.

The stone took hold of the reins and asked, "Who are you?" What are you looking for my son-in-law to do? ”

The little servant bowed respectfully: "The Prime Minister has invited Master Li to come over to the house." ”

Shi opened the car door and asked Li Jin what he meant. Rejection:

"My son-in-law is still sick, so I bother my little brother to go back to Tongbing, and I will visit him when he recovers."

What is the Prime Minister going to do? Li Jin sat in the car, his eyes slightly closed, and he pondered carefully.

Li Xiang was waiting in the study in the house, excited and emotional.

Since the accident of Li Dian, he remembered the child back then.

sent someone to check it out, and found that the child who was going around and around might be Li Jin. When he saw the list of this year's imperial examinations, he was very happy in his heart.

But I was afraid of making a mistake, so I waited patiently for several days to investigate.

Now his subordinates have sent back the news that Li Jin is his child back then. It is said that the tiger father has no dog, and he knows that his child will not be so bad!

With a creak, the door was pushed open, and the red embroidered shoes embroidered with peonies stepped into the threshold, and the people who came wore bells, dressed in gold and silver, and were extraordinarily luxurious. But not the person he wanted to see now.

But it's not an outsider, it's the Prime Minister's wife, the niece of the Queen Mother, Ji.

"What did you just send someone to do?"

"You don't have to worry about it."

Li Xiang didn't look at her, and opened a book casually.

His impatient look hurt Ji. pierced the high coldness that was pretended. She swept down the piles of things on Li Xiang's desk, with a resentful expression:

"Dian Er just had an accident, you sent someone to find that illegitimate son, really my Ji family is dead, isn't it? surnamed Li, don't forget how you became prime minister! Without my Ji family, you would be a petty official of five or six grades at most! ”

Since the accident of that unfilial son, there has been a small trouble in two days and a big trouble in three days. It's endless, isn't it? Li Xiang frowned, his patience was about to reach the limit, and when he heard the Ji family mention the Ji family, he couldn't help but be angry:

"Ji, wake up, your Ji family has long since declined! The throne is gone! ”

Ji's phoenix eyes were round, a beautiful face became hideous, and the blood-red Dankou pointed at Li Xiang:

"Our Ji family is in decline, but it's not like you can bully the top of your head! Let me tell you Li Guangyuan, you dare to bring that illegitimate son back to try! I, Ji, will not make you feel better even if I fight everything! ”

It was really more and more unreasonable, Li Xiang pushed her fingers away and turned over the old accounts.

"Jin'er is a year older than Li Dian, you don't have a bastard here! You know what happened back then! ”

Ji was so angry that he calmed down, in the final analysis, it was Li Xiang who abandoned his wife and children, she snorted coldly:

"I know it in my own heart. Don't you know in your heart, you know that I deal with her, and I bullied her and let her go, don't you just think that she is no longer worthy of you, the Tanhualang? You're the one who kicked the chaff wife! It was you who abandoned your wife and children, and now I am the original partner with a marriage certificate, and he can only be an illegitimate child! I won't let him in this door! ”

What a shrew, Li Xiang protected Li Jin more and more in his heart, he said:

"Jin'er is my child, and he deserves to go home! It doesn't matter if you agree or not. ”

Ji sneered, turned around and went out. If that child knew the truth back then, would he be willing to recognize this father?

"You bought the quicklime from this for City Gate Avenue, right?"

The old man's voice was not loud, more like talking to himself.

At this time, it was the afternoon, the man leaned against the door and fell asleep, and when he heard someone asking, he stood up with a spirit, looked at the old man in front of him with a pair of eyes, and replied with a kind smile.

"Of course, we are also imperial merchants! Are you building a house or building a road? ”

The old man was dressed in tattered clothes, washed white, but clean and tidy, with a kind smile, and a little bit of the timidity of the countryman into the city.

"When the child is older, build him another house and repair the bluestone road in front of the door! Can I go in and have a look? ”

At first glance, he knew that he was not a big customer, but the guy did not snub him because of this. The old man in front of him reminded him of his old father. My heart softened for a moment, and I was about to put down the mobile game that I was going to welcome inside. Asked in a low voice:

"Old man, how did you come to the Imperial City to buy these?"

"It's not that I think the things in the imperial city are good, if you can be an imperial businessman, you must be stronger than others! This house is for my children to live in for the rest of their lives, and they want to pass it on! Of course, cover it well! ”

The old man said seriously. There was a glint of anticipation in his eyes, as if he had seen what his house would look like when it was built.

"Are there any guests?"

The man heard the voice of the master, and squinted his eyes, and the respect he had just had made completely gone. There was also contempt in his voice.

"Old man, I advise you, I'm afraid you can't afford it here, so let's go back to your town and take a look!"

The principal's eyes bypassed the man, and he only stayed on the old man for a moment before moving away. Apparently despised.

"Come here and give me a thump on the back."

The old man sighed deeply and walked away.

The guy looked at his back and said to himself, I'll be able to help you get here.

If you want to build a house for your children after saving up all your life's belongings, you can't just be trapped in the pockets of those unscrupulous profiteers!

"That guy is a breakthrough." Jiang Liang returned to the Criminal Department, tore off the disguise from his face, and said after telling what had just happened.

Ma Anshan is busy comparing prices and the quality of quicklime. Answered:

"You go in the evening and see if you can convince the fellow to testify. It's best to get the ledger. I suspect that they are shoddy, replacing the materials that were originally nuclear. ”

"They really dare, go out here and outside, and then move some other hands and feet. I don't know how much money it has entered, and I don't know whose pocket it is! Guan Yu was the most jealous and hateful, and clenched his fists and said angrily. It's a little louder. Frightened, Jiang Liang hurriedly reminded:

"Be careful!"

Although the criminal department is not a person who comes and goes. However, there are many people who come to deliver case files, submit them for trial, and redress grievances.

Shen Yuezhi rolled in from the window, startling Guan Yu, who was calm at the window.

"Can you walk through the door next time?"

Shen Yuezhi ignored his words, and handed over a bag instead.

Guan Yu took it upside down, full of weight. It was opened, and it all fell on the table. I saw a whole bag of broken silver instantly spread all over the table. There was also a silver ingot, which clearly had not yet had time to be broken into silver.

And the official seal on the silver ingot is particularly obvious.

As an old partner for many years. Guan Yu instantly understood what Shen Yue meant.

"This is from their house?"

Ma Anshan put down the things in his hand, and also leaned over and said:

"At that time, wages had not been paid. They shouldn't have this batch of official money in their hands! ”

They said that it was stolen that day, but the silver had been spread a few days ago, and why this happened can only mean that they were guarding and stealing from themselves. The problem is within them.

Who can use the things in the treasury of the labor department without anyone else noticing?

Of course, there are only left and right attendants in charge of this matter in the Ministry of Works.

Why would they give them money? This question is worth digging into.

At the city gate, the tunnel can be seen to be deliberately filled in, and the soldiers dug for a day and a night to clear out the tunnel of more than ten zhang.

And the tunnel is far from the end. While the soldiers were eating and resting, Song Yiyao raised his feet and tried the height of the pit.

"What are you doing?"

Tang Jingruo grabbed Song Yiyao, who wanted to jump into the pit.

Song Yiyao pointed to the tunnel and said:

"I want to go down and have a look."

The tunnel inside was not ventilated, and Tang Jingruo frowned when he heard this. I couldn't see anything handy everywhere, so I dug into the placket of my clothes, took out a moon-white silk handkerchief and handed it to her, and the corners of the handkerchief were embroidered with branches and peach blossoms. There is also embroidered with half a line of poetry, and the mountains have trees and branches.

Song Yiyao looked at him strangely, not understanding what he was going to do.

Tang Jingruo simply reached out and wrapped his hand around the back of her head and tied it for her.

"It's not ventilated inside, it's still underground."

The nose was suddenly filled with the fragrance of pine wood, Song Yiyao took a breath, and when he realized what Tang Jing wanted to do, he asked in a muffled voice:

"You give me the handkerchief that the girl gave you, aren't you afraid that people will be angry?"

As soon as the words came out, Song Yiyao regretted it, why was this tone so strange! She and Xiao Hou Ye are obviously very normal friends. Why did she see this handkerchief, and her heart was a little panicked.

Tang Jingruo paused for a moment, not understanding why she said this, and explained:

"No, it's not embroidered by girls. Nor was it given by a woman. This is the cloud splendid scenery rewarded by the emperor. ”

The old butler saw this and put him in his clothes, which he had never used.

Say this to me what to do. Song Yiyao looked away, and his voice couldn't help but soften a little: "Then what do you use?" ”

"I don't need to"

Before he could finish speaking, Song Yiyao had already tore off a piece of green yarn from his outer robe. Thrown into his arms.

Looking at the person who had already walked away with a torch, Tang Jingruo hurriedly caught up.

The tunnel was wet and cold, empty, and Song Yiyao looked around, trying to find some clues.

Tang Jingruo took a step, saw that there seemed to be something in the soil, squatted down, and pulled out a piece of broken red clay porcelain. Apparently on the bottle.

"They must have drunk. The drug was poured into the wine. ”

Song Yiyao pinched the fragment, and the conjectures in his mind were connected:

"This tunnel was newly filled, and who filled it? Most likely, it is them.

We can make a reasonable assumption that the seventeen of them discovered tunnels when they were building roads. reported it and was intercepted. Give them money. Then let them fill in the tunnels. There must be something in the tunnel. In order to cover up the incident, the person behind the scenes chose to kill people.

Now we should find out, who is the person behind the scenes? ”