Leng Yi said: "Do you think, why did this eunuch use gold to pay for food when he had broken silver?" So that those gangsters saw the robbery? ”

"He did it on purpose?" Cheng Luojie asked hesitantly.

"Hmmm! He must have seen that these three thugs were not good people, so he deliberately exposed his wealth and led them to rob. Why did he do it? It has been analyzed just now in order to throw the scroll into the river in front of them, so that we mistakenly think that the scroll has been destroyed, and let us stop thinking. However, there is also the question here, that is, why did he choose to do so only when we were investigating the scholar's case? You know, that bag of treasures was entrusted to the scholar for safekeeping. ”

"He's trying to distract us?" Cheng Luojie said excitedly: "At that time, in order to raise money for the journey, the scholar took one of the jade ruyi pawns, and after it was discovered, we were investigating the case. He was worried that we would continue to investigate at the scholar and find the thing, so you said that the thing should be there with the scholar! ”

Leng Yi smiled and nodded: "This is just my guess." I don't know if it's accurate. ”

Yin Eagle shook his head and said: "However, that scholar I have tortured him to extract a confession, but there is no result, I can be sure that he is not lying, he really doesn't know that there is something else." ”

Leng Yi said: "He doesn't know, it doesn't mean that the thing is not in his house!" ”

Cheng Luojie said happily: "That's right! Maybe somewhere in his house, or maybe it's in his family and he doesn't know. ”

Yin Vultures said: "That's right, as soon as we started investigating his family, there was a case of the eunuch being robbed and killed. We hadn't noticed this coincidence before, but it wasn't actually a coincidence, but this eunuch did it on purpose! He wants to distract us from thinking that he has thrown things into the flood. Walk! Keep inquiring about the scholar's family! ”

Leng Yi and the others came to the scholar's family with soap, and Yin Eagle continued to extract confessions from the scholar's family.

Leng Yi couldn't stand it, and said, "Yin Zhutou, don't use torture!" ”

Yin Vulture arched his hand and said: "I'm sorry, big lord, before I came, there was a strict order from above to find these treasures at all costs and by any means, so my subordinates can only do this." ”

Leng Yi knew that this was an instruction from the royal family, and Yin Vulture couldn't listen to him, and he couldn't stop it, so he could only shake his head and walk away.

Leng Yi didn't want to listen to the screams of the scholar's house, and he didn't sleep even after saying that it was hard, so he went straight back to the house and fell asleep.

Zhuo Qiaoniang told him not to quarrel with him, and slept until the afternoon, and then woke up.

Although he was still sleepy, Leng Yi couldn't sleep because of something in his heart, so he dressed and came to the yamen office. However, this case has reached the crux, and only by finding out the three most precious royal treasures can he get rid of the royal attention and continue to be his impostor with peace of mind.

So, in the end, he still threw down the brush and continued to think about what to do with this case.

He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes in thought.

The thoughts are so mixed that I can't gather them for a while. However, a thousand threads finally slowly converged on one point, that this eunuch had been caught by the whole country, and sooner or later he would be caught. Therefore, it is reasonable for him to transfer and hide things, but why should this eunuch, when the situation is not very urgent, give such a precious thing, even something that is disguised at the expense of suicide, to a fellow who only speaks the same language and does not have any deep friendship?

There must be a reason for that!

He couldn't figure it out. After thinking about it, he decided to interrogate the scholar himself, and perhaps, if he found the reason, he also found the clue to crack this secret!

Leng Yi called the attendant outside the door in and asked him to bring someone to bring the scholar to interrogate him.

Soon, the scholar was brought in.

Leng Yi saw that the scholar was covered with scars all over his body and could not stand steadily, so he ordered to open his shackles and shackles, and personally poured him a cup of tea. Let him sit down.

The scholar was so moved that his eyes were red, he sat with his buttocks crooked, and said in a choked voice: "Thank you for your kindness." Thank you very much......"

Leng Yi patted him on the shoulder and said, "I came to you and wanted to talk to you casually, I believe that you don't know that the things entrusted to you by this fellow you are actually stolen, and you are implicated." Right? ”

"Yes, yes! Master, that's right," the scholar was almost grateful, he felt that he was a little out of shape, and wanted to calm himself, so he took a sip of the teacup, but the tea was too hot, and his teeth were so hot that his face was flushed.

"Don't worry, take your time" Leng Yi said: "You can tell me how you met this fellow." ”

"Good, good!" The scholar hurriedly put down the teacup and said with a smile: "That's the case, that day, I was drinking with two friends in the riverside tavern, and I was drinking happily, when I heard a person in the next seat talking loudly to a fellow, and his voice was very high. Moreover, the accent is very familiar, it is the native accent of my wife's hometown! Although some pronunciations are different, they are basically the same. It is estimated that my wife is from a county or township. ”

"So that fellow is not your fellow, but your wife's fellow?"

"Yes, I'm a local, my wife isn't. That man was my wife's fellow countryman. ”

"What did you say earlier?"

"They didn't ask about it, they just asked me where the things were, if they had hidden the other treasures. Then just hit me. I was also afraid that my wife would be affected, so I didn't take the initiative to say it. They didn't ask anyway. ”

"Well, well, let me ask you, where is your wife's hometown?"

"My wife is from Hejian Province, which is close to Da Liao, and she married to our Bazhou, because her maid who is married is also from Hejian Province, and the two of them speak in the dialect of Hejian Province, and I am familiar with it, and the person speaks in the dialect there, and I drank again, and when I was happy, I went over to answer. The man was also very talkative, so he struck up a few words with me. I heard that my wife was from Hejian Province, and I was very happy, saying that he was from Zhending Province, not far from Hejian Province, and he also often went to Hejian Province, which is half a fellow countryman. I was very happy to be able to meet the people of my hometown in the far south, and I must be invited to drink. I let him drink with him. This person is very cheerful, generous, and orders a table of good dishes. When I asked him what he was doing, he said he was a trader, a trader. I was also happy, so I invited him to my house to meet my wife, who is from my hometown, and my wife will be very happy to see her. So I took him to my house, and my wife was very happy and asked a lot about her hometown. I saw that my wife was so happy, and this man was very cheerful and generous, so I kept him for a few days, and he agreed. I got drunk, so I went back to sleep first, leaving them to talk about their hometown. He stayed for two days, and then said that he was too busy with business to stay for a long time, and that he wanted to leave, so he left. ”

Leng Yiqi said: "Didn't he say that he entrusted you with a bag of things for safekeeping?" ”

"Yes, to be exact, entrusted to my wife."

"What the hell is going on?"

"When he left, he didn't say he wanted to leave anything at my house, he left. That night, I happened to be flipping through one of my books in the house, and I turned over my wife's jewelry box and found a pair of insoles at the bottom of the jewelry box, which was very old and looked to be old. Moreover, there is a pair of mandarin ducks embroidered on it, as well as the words eternal knot and concentric. I became suspicious and called my wife to ask about it. She refused to say anything at first, and I got angry, so I threatened that he must be stealing people outside behind my back, so I quarreled with her, saying that if I didn't tell the truth, I would divorce her. That's when she told the truth. Only then did I realize that in fact, all this is not a coincidence! ”

"Oh? Not a coincidence? ”

"Hmmm! When I had fallen asleep that night, the fellow took out a letter and showed it to his wife. It turned out that before my wife married me, she had a childhood sweetheart in her hometown, but the family didn't agree, so it didn't work out. And this letter was written to my wife by the childhood sweetheart, saying that he had some things he wanted my wife to keep on his behalf, and asked this fellow to bring them, and he would come back to pick them up later. However, it may take a long time. Maybe years, maybe even decades. I hope my wife will see the face of their childhood sweetheart, and must keep this thing, don't tell anyone, and attached a pair of insoles as a token with the letter, which my wife made for him back then. When my wife saw the insole, she cried, so she agreed to his request. I asked her to bring it to me. The wife dug out an iron box from the corner of the yard and opened it, and inside was a beautiful wooden box. There are locks, and seals are attached. ”

"How do you know there's a treasure inside?"

"My wife said that the fellow only gave her the wooden box inside, and the iron box outside belonged to our family. I'm curious.,What exactly did my wife's childhood sweetheart let my wife keep.。 So, I came up with a plan, didn't the man say that it might be a few years or decades before he came to get it, so I used a small hoe to scrape the bottom corner of the wooden box and see what was inside. When they came to get it, I asked my wife to say that it was under the bed and was gnawed by rats. ”

Leng Yi smiled: "This is a good way for you." ”

The scholar blushed and said, "Actually, I don't want to do this either, but, I heard that it was my wife's childhood sweetheart who deposited something, so I'll see what it is, otherwise I won't be able to sleep at all." ”

"You're jealous, hehe, you go on."

The scholar laughed dryly, and then said, "I opened it and looked at it, and there were some treasures inside!" I thought about it, and I thought that there was nothing, maybe the man had committed a crime, or maybe he had transferred the things in the house to us to store it in order to avoid the creditor. I was anxious to enter Beijing to catch the exam without entanglement, and when I saw these treasures, I moved my mind, so I took a jade Ruyi and wanted to pawn it. was arrested by the yamen in this way. - Is he a thief? ”

Leng Yi did not answer, and ordered Sooli to escort the scholar back to the cell.

(To be continued)