After chatting for a while, I leaned back in the carriage seat and began to close my eyes - I felt a little tired after an all-night toss, and I wanted to take a break because I didn't know what I was going to face next. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Big brother, I want to bow to you, I don't know if you can give me this face?" Suddenly, the dream whispered timidly in my ear.

"We were born and died together, and we have long been brothers, since you value form so much, it doesn't hurt to bow down." I opened my eyes and smiled.

Mengyi and I got off the carriage at the nearest post station, and then came to the roadside and kowtowed for the incense for 8 times, and since then we have officially become brothers.

"Brother." Yumeji shouted to me with joy.

"Good brother." I patted Yumeji on the shoulder and smiled slightly.

After the bows, we re-boarded the carriage and after a few transfers, we arrived at the post station outside the south gate of Beijing at about 8 o'clock.

Led by the dream, we came all the way to Dali Temple.

"I am really a heavyweight wanted criminal, I caught the local yamen and went directly to Dali Temple." I quipped.

"Hehe, brother, I will wronged you first, and when I receive the reward, I will definitely find a way to save you." Yumeji smiled.

As soon as Mengyi approached the door, the doorman greeted him with a smile and a fist to greet him.

It seems that he is a regular visitor here, and must have caught a lot of wanted criminals for the government, I thought to myself.

Mengyi exchanged a few words with the doorman, and the doorman turned around with a grin and went in to report.

After a while, the doorman returned, and he frowned and said to Mengyi: "Master, Master Cao is not here, according to the people under him, he has been on leave for two days. ”

"How's that okay?" Mengyi muttered to himself, "Master Cao is not here, who am I looking for to hand in the task?" ”

"Who is Lord Cao?" I couldn't help but ask.

"Dali Temple Shaoqing Cao Xianzong." Yumeji replied absentmindedly.

"Yo, what a big official." I sighed, "You can see Shaoqing of Dali Temple directly, and your face is not small." ”

"I have helped the government arrest many important criminals, which has attracted the attention of Lord Cao, so he personally received me." "After that, he personally gave me a lot of tasks, and I also had a dozen wanted criminals for him to capture." ”

"Brother, you're awesome enough." I exclaimed.

"I'm finally worthy of my special identity." Yumeji smiled implicitly.

I was about to make a few words to ridicule the dream, but suddenly I heard a burst of shouting in the distance, I raised my eyes to look, only to see several officials walking towards Dali Temple while opening the way, they followed by a sedan chair, 4 sedan chair men carried the sedan chair "snort" and ran fast.

"That's the sedan chair of Cheng Wangyang in Dali Temple, and I know the entourage in front of me." "I'll go and ask him about Lord Cao's situation." ”

Mengyi stepped forward, stopped more than 10 meters away from the sedan chair, clasped his hands together and shouted: "The poor monk asks Lord Wang for peace." ”

The entourage at the head motioned for the team to stop moving forward, and nodded to Yumeji with a smile.

The sedan chair drivers put down the sedan chair, an attendant reached out and lifted the curtain, Wang Yang leaned out and asked, "Is the person who came is the master of the dream relics?" ”

I looked at it and saw that Wang Yang was dignified, kind-faced, and kind-hearted, and I couldn't help but have a good impression of him.

"The poor monk greets your lord." Yumeji fell to his knees and shouted.

Seeing that I couldn't dodge, I had to take a few quick steps forward, knelt down in front of the sedan chair and shouted, "The poor monk greets your lord." ”

"Two masters, please, don't be polite." Wang Yang raised his hand and gestured.

Yumeji and I stood up and stood respectfully on the ground.

"Who is this......?" Wang Yang looked at me for a moment, then turned his head and asked the dream.

"This is the senior brother of the poor monk, and his Dharma name is mentally retarded." Dream replied.

"Oh, it turned out to be a mentally retarded master." Wang Yang smiled and said, "What are the two masters doing when they come to Dali Temple?" ”

"The poor monk has something important to report to Lord Cao." Dream Relic said.

"This official has something to tell you, please come over to the two masters." Wang Yang beckoned mysteriously.

Mengyi and I hurriedly took a few steps closer to the sedan chair and stood less than a meter away from the ocean.

"This matter is confidential and must not be known to outsiders." Wang Yang said softly, "Please go to Lord Cao's house immediately and tell Mrs. Cao that this official has sent you to help, and Mrs. Cao will naturally inform you of the reason at that time." ”

"Yes." I said in unison.

System Prompt: You have accepted the quest "Investigate the whereabouts of Cao Xianzong".

I looked at Yumeji in confusion, thinking that I really didn't expect to be given a mission here.

The two of us said goodbye to Wang Yang, turned over and hurried to Cao Xianzong's mansion.

When he arrived at the gate of Cao's Mansion and reported his name to the doorman, a sturdy doorman trotted into the mansion to report.

After a while, the doorman came out and ushered us into the living room, where Mrs. Cao was already sitting and waiting for us.

After we met Mrs. Cao, she invited us to sit on the guest seat.

"Are the two masters doing things for Lord Wang?" Mrs. Cao asked.

"The poor monk is specially designed for the government to arrest important criminals, and he often goes in and out of Dali Temple on weekdays, and has a lot of contacts with Lord Cao." Dream replied.

"Has Lord Wang informed the two masters about my family's affairs?" Mrs. Cao asked eagerly.

"Nope." Mengyi shook his head and said, "Lord Wang said that after we came, Madame would tell you the truth." ”

"Only a few people such as the Cao family and Lord Wang know about this matter, and the reason why we didn't report it to the official is that we are afraid of damaging the reputation of my family and the Cao family, and we are trying to solve it privately." Mrs. Cao said, "Lord Wang is a close friend of my family, I was the first to ask him for help when something happened, he has sent a master investigator to investigate the case, who knows that there has been no progress in two days." ”

"I want to hear about it." I folded my hands.

I was calm on the surface, but in my heart I was actually impatient—Mrs. Cao was rambling for a long time, and we still didn't know what was going on.

"The night before yesterday, my family rested at the fourth aunt's place, but when I got up yesterday morning, I found that he had disappeared for no reason, and I searched all over the house, and I didn't see any clues, and what was even more bizarre was that the doors and windows of the bedroom were bolted from the inside, and there was no trace of outsiders breaking in." Mrs. Cao said worriedly.

"The doors and windows are intact, and there is only the fourth aunt in the bedroom, so she is the most suspicious." I continued.

"Well, the master is right." Mrs. Cao nodded and said, "The famous Xing Zhutou in the six doors also said so, yesterday he came to the mansion to inquire a little and learned that the doors and windows were intact, so he tied him up as if he was being tortured in the backyard, but although she passed out several times, she kept shouting that she was wronged, and it seemed that she really didn't know. ”

"Do you know Xing Zhutou?" I asked in a dream.

"I don't know, I only accept the dispatch of Lord Cao, and I have no contact with the six doors." The Dream Relic replied.

"Mrs. Cao's acquiescence to Xing Zhutou's punishment of the fourth aunt is a bit of a fake public and private meaning, do you believe it or not?" I secretly dreamed, "As if she should be Cao Xianzong's favorite concubine, Mrs. Cao must have always been quite dissatisfied with her." ”

"Brother, your brain is really open." Dream Relic replied, "I'm not hurting you, I'm praising you for your rich imagination, imagination, and boundlessness. ”

"Damn, although you explained that it didn't hurt me, your words sound very uncomfortable." I said angrily, "I don't believe in it." ”

"I believe that a smile appeared on the corner of Mrs. Cao's mouth when she talked about the punishment just now." Mengyi hurriedly whispered, "This just confirms your thoughts. ”

"What do the two masters think? Let's put it bluntly. "Mrs. Cao saw me and Mengyi frowning and looking strange, and couldn't help but ask.

"If I were the fourth aunt, if I conspired with someone to kidnap Lord Cao, I would definitely destroy the doors and windows, saying that it was a strong man breaking in, and no matter how bad it was, I would declare to the outside world that it was the maid's old mother who did not close the doors and windows tightly." I smiled slightly.

"Oh, why didn't I think of that?" Mrs. Cao suddenly realized, "It's like eating a lot of flesh and skin." ”

I smiled at each other, very unimpressed by Mrs. Cao's fake style.

"Madam, can you let us meet the fourth aunt? She was the last person to see Lord Cao, and there were some things that she had to ask in person. I asked.

"Of course you can see it, but you are only allowed to interrogate, and you must not be tortured." Mrs. Cao said with a little sadness, "She has suffered too much, but I am afraid that she will not be able to bear it anymore." ”

Cut, pretend to be a good person? Hypocrisy! I cursed in my heart.

Dream Yi also looked disdainful, pouting and smiling at me.

"Duofu, you take the two masters to the backyard to see the fourth aunt." Mrs. Cao ordered, "From now on, if the master has any orders, you can just do it, and you must not disobey it." ”

Mengyi and I left Mrs. Cao for the time being, and followed the housekeeper named Duofu into the backyard to the fourth aunt's residence.

The fourth aunt lives in a small courtyard called "Cuizhuxuan", a single family, with an elegant environment, and it is not difficult to see that her status in the Cao family is very high.

"Does Lord Cao particularly favor the fourth aunt?" I asked Dofu.

"Hey, hey." Dofu smiled innocently, and didn't give me an affirmative answer, but the meaning he meant was very obvious.

"Brother, you're so tall." "You expected it from the beginning. ”

"Nonsense, the temperature is close to 30 degrees at night in the summer, Lord Cao is not afraid of the heat and withstands the pressure from his wife, and stays in the fourth aunt's room without hesitation, is it just to sleep?" I laughed, "Obviously, he has a soft spot for the fourth aunt, and no matter how hot the weather is, he can't stop the hunger and thirst in his heart." ”

Dream Lost laughed squintingly.

Duofu looked at me and Mengyi, puzzled and embarrassed.

Presumably he already had doubts about our monkhood in his heart, I'm afraid he has never seen such a dissolute monk in his life, right? I couldn't help but laugh in my heart.

"Madame sent two masters to see the fourth aunt, open the door quickly." Duofu shouted loudly to Cuizhuxuan as he knocked on the door.

After a while, the door opened from the inside, and a maid welcomed us in and led us to the outside of the fourth aunt's bedroom.