Chapter 368: Hot Potato

"Master Meng, tell me, what do you want me to do for you?" Kuaixiang is already salivating and can't wait.

This pig's head meat is too attractive to him.

"I'll talk about it later, I also brought two jars of good wine, how about we have a drink?"

"Is it the immortal drunk of the Pine Crane Tower?"

"Lord Kuai guessed that it was the immortal drunk of Songhe Tower."

"Then someone is blessed tonight." Kuaixiang was like a child, dancing happily.

"Here?"

"Yes, I'm slacking, Lord Meng, please!"

"Who are these two?"

"Let me introduce, my staff, Mr. Cai Jin Cai, Fan Xiping, the general banner of the Jinyi Wei of the Nanya Craftsman Warehouse!" Meng Yan introduced.

"Come, come, sit down and have a drink?" Kuaixiang greeted.

"This ......"

"Lord Kuai is the master, the master has spoken, what are you still doing in a daze?" Meng Yan beckoned.

"Yes!"

Pig's head meat is the main dish, and Meng Yan and they also brought a lot of cooked food, sauced beef, sauced pig's trotters or something, and quickly set a table.

"Master Meng, are you here prepared?"

"Hehe, I'm prepared!" Meng Yan smiled.

"Come, come, full, full!" Kuaixiang greeted while chopsticks had already caught a piece of pig's head meat and put it in his mouth.

It can be seen that Kuai Xiang is a person of temperament, and he does not treat Meng Yan as an outsider, otherwise, he would never be so image in front of Meng Yan.

is also a court official, how can he not care about his image at all?

"Good wine. Good wine, the immortals of this Songhe Tower can't get drunk all year round, and today is the blessing of Lord Tuomeng! ”

"Lord Kuai likes it, I'll order someone to send you some another day."

"No, no, it's useless, Master Meng, you must not do this, otherwise, this friend will not be able to do it."

"Brother Kuai. Since we're all friends. Do friends need to be so careful? Meng Yan asked rhetorically.

"What's so embarrassing?" Kuai Xiang said with a smile.

"This Jinyi Wei Medical Hall still relies on Brother Kuai's wonderful pen design." Meng Yan smiled slightly and hugged his fists.

"In this way, I will design this great medical hall for you. It's my return gift to you. How is it? Kuaixiang said.

"How can this be. Am I taking advantage of it? ”

"If you don't want it, I don't want the wine!" Kuaixiang said.

"Well, there is no advantage. That's a bastard, Brother Kuai, you are cheap, brother and I take advantage of it. Meng Yan laughed heartily.

"That's right, come, come, drink, drink......"

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, this meal is almost finished, and it's almost time to talk about business.

"Brother Kuai, my little brother is here today, there are two things for you to take a look at." Meng Yan made a gesture, and Fan Xiping got up and went over to take the things he brought.

"What?" Kuaixiang is a master builder, and has a superb carpenter workmanship, and his ability to appreciate wood is also unparalleled.

"Brother Kuai, take a look, are the craftsmanship of these two objects from the same person?" Meng Yan asked.

Kuaixiang stretched out his hand to take it, he knew Meng Yan's intention, someone took Meng Yan's post to him a few days ago, and he also read it at that time and gave some guidance and direction.

Under the light, Kuai Xiang carefully checked the interface of the two objects, as well as the knife technique of the pattern, and nodded: "If Kuai didn't look away, this should be from the same person." ”

"Are you sure?" Meng Yan's eyes lit up and he asked.

"Definitely." Kuaixiang nodded.

"Old Fan, what's the name of this craftsman?"

"Zhang Xiaohua."

"Zhang Xiaohua, I know this person, does he live in ......" Kuaixiang opened his mouth and asked.

"Lord Kuai is right, this Zhang Xiaohua lives in ......"

"This Zhang Xiaohua's craftsmanship is still good, I also know his father, he should have passed away the year before last, but this person is lazy and lazy, good at gambling, and likes to visit brothels, the family background is quite solid, his father died less than a year, he lost all the family funds, and I also funded him for thirty yuan, hey!" Kuai Xiang sighed and said.

"Brother Kuai, this person didn't do anything big, he just did some secret work, we just want to find him to understand the situation and testify." Meng Yan Road.

"I see." Kuaixiang's expression was a little lonely.

"Thank you, Lord Kuai, for helping us identify this key witness." Meng Yan solemnly raised his glass, "Little brother, I salute you." ”

"!"

Coming out of Kuaifu, the street was pitch black, and there was no human figure in sight.

"My lord, do you want to arrest this Zhang Xiaohua immediately?" Fan Xiping asked.

"Don't worry, let's go back tomorrow, go back today." Meng Yan shook his hand, Zhang Xiaohua didn't do much, he was just a witness.

Back home.

"Husband, it's the Lantern Festival in two days, this year's lantern festival will be held in the palace, the saint will decree to have fun with the people, when the time comes, will you accompany me?"

"Lantern Festival, why don't I know?"

"You care about the case all day long, how can you have time for other things?" Wen Xiaoyu glanced at Meng Yan and said.

"Lantern Festival, you just let Mei Ji accompany you, I'm a big man, what kind of lantern festival do you visit?" Meng Yan said, accompany a woman to go shopping, don't you find guilt?

"But people want you to go with me!"

"Okay, okay, okay, I'll go with you, it's all right, I really don't understand, you women love to join in the fun, aren't you just looking at the lights? What's there to see? Meng Yan was afraid, this woman was coquettish, she really couldn't stop it.

"Okay, are you allowed to lie to me?"

"I don't lie to you, you really can't help it, go to sleep, what time is this, tomorrow I have to go to the yamen to investigate the case!"

"Husband, how is Su Xin's case?"

"Bai Suxin's suspicion of murder is getting less and less, but. It's not time yet. ”

"Is it okay to release the plain girl first?"

"No, the government and the opposition are paying attention to this case, if I have a little bit of favoritism, those people in the court don't have to drown me to death?" Meng Yan refused.

"Then I want to go see the plain girl?"

"Look at her, she has to follow the rules." Meng Yan thought for a moment and nodded, this can be regarded as using power for personal gain.

"I know, Xiaoyu won't embarrass my husband."

Early the next morning, after eating the loving breakfast cooked by Wen Xiaoyu himself, Meng Yan rushed directly to the inspection envoy's yamen.

"Old Fan. Zhang Xiaohua will be handed over to you. Bring people back and ask according to the procedure, understand? ”

"Understood!"

"Mr. Cai, how is the duty arrangement?"

"It's all arranged. Just wait for your approval. Cai Jin said.

"Hmm. Good. ”

"Skywalk. In the afternoon, you go to Beiya, take a look at the two brothers, He Wendong and He Wenhai, and see what they have to say. What else is needed. ”

"Oh, sir!"

"Baohui, the official's wife will come to visit the prison in a while, you can arrange it, and come according to the rules, understand?"

"Bao Hui understands!"

"Is Master Zhang Xuan here?"

"It's coming, do you want to mark it down?"

"No, the official will just go over in a while, it's nothing, let's do our jobs." After arranging things, Meng Yan waved his hand.

Bai Suxin's case has reached this point, the human evidence is almost complete, and the physical evidence is almost collected.

It's time to interrogate the main culprit, Jiao Hong.

"My lord, we haven't found the keys to the four big boxes on the Bai family and Jiao Hong's bodies, do you think we can just smash them open?"

"Do you need to be so violent?" Meng Yan glanced at Lin Tianxing with disdain.

"So what do you say?"

"Let's go, come with me?"

In the evidence room, four large boxes are placed very conspicuously in the middle, and each box is locked with a huge copper lock.

"Is there wire?"

Lin Tianxing behind him shook his head slightly, who is okay with wire?

Meng Yan touched himself, and he didn't bring the lock-picking tools: "Find a woman's hairpin." ”

The woman's hairpin, this is not difficult to find, and soon Lin Tianxing brought a copper hairpin.

"To learn to unlock the lock, first of all, the structure of the unlock, the structure of each lock is different, in fact, I have taught you when I was in the craftsman's division, of course, unlocking is also a course that needs to be practiced, Tianxing, don't think that this unlocking is the next three indiscriminate trades, in fact, it is the people's thoughts, not the people themselves."

"Tianxing understands."

Meng Yan quickly opened the first copper lock, lifted the box, and looked inside, revealing a slight hint of surprise.

There are neat account books inside, arranged according to the number of years, starting from the ninth year of Xuande to the tenth year of orthodoxy.

Meng Yan frowned slightly, he had a hunch that the contents of these four boxes were unusual, so he didn't open them on the spot to check, and now it seems that his hunch was right.

I picked up a book and looked through it, and it recorded the time of entering and exiting the palace and selling the stolen goods, the location and the amount of money.

This pen has been recorded in detail, Jiao Hong recorded these things, I'm afraid that he will save his life later, right?

This involves a huge criminal group of theft, sale of stolen goods, and distribution of stolen goods, and a large number of items flow out of the palace every year, and their value is immeasurable.

This pen, Meng Yan just looked at it a little, and felt that it was shocking, these people are too bold, such a theft gang has not been discovered for more than ten years, and the interests in this are probably not something that Jiao Hong, a small spy of the East Factory, can handle.

But Jiao Hong is a very key link in this chain of interests, these things are sold by him, and the money is divided through his hands.

That's why he had the opportunity to write them all down and organize them into a booklet.

Jiao Hong is only in his early thirties, he actually has such a heavy scheming, no wonder he is so calm when facing himself.

"My lord, what's in the box?" Lin Tianxing opened one of the remaining three boxes, saw Meng Yan stunned, walked over, and asked.

Meng Yan, who woke up suddenly, quickly closed the lid of the box with a "snap".

Hot potato, I didn't expect to get such a huge hot potato! (To be continued......)