Chapter 96: The Mastermind Behind the Scenes
Li Xiuqi raised his eyebrows, this girl is really a little unusual, anyway, Yan Qinchang will give her this reward, and she should collect some interest.
"Okay, but I have to tell you first, I've been to a lot of places with this mouth, not to mention I've eaten all over the world, but at least there's nothing I haven't tasted, if you want to satisfy me, you'll have to put some effort into it."
When it comes to eating, Chu Xinyun thinks that he will not lose to anyone, and the thousands of years of cultural heritage of Chinese cuisine is not a joke!
Then she packed up her things and left Baiyun Temple in a carriage with Shopkeeper Xu and his party.
But as soon as she walked on her front feet, a fast horse came quickly in the direction of Baiyun Temple on her back feet, and the man on the horseback looked tired and dusty, with a little bloodshot in his eyes, and it seemed that he hadn't rested for a long time.
This person is Yan Qinchang, who has just returned from the capital with a holy decree.
After arriving at Baiyun Temple, he sneaked in along the previous route and found Xiao Wu who was the inner response inside.
Xiao Wu was very happy when he saw him: "Boss, you came back at the right time, I seem to have discovered the place where King Jing hid the silver!"
Yan Qinchang's focus at the moment was not on the silver, before looking for Xiao Wu, he first went to the courtyard where Zhao Chu Xinyun lived before, but found that it was already empty.
"Let's not talk about the silver first, what about Xiao Yun? Why isn't she in the temple?"
"I was about to tell you this! Miss Chu was taken away by Li Xiuqi just half an hour ago, will there be any danger Xiao Wu doesn't have a good impression of Li Xiuqi, this guy is a profiteer through and through, and he is the kind who robs business with them.
Now that he snatched Chu Xinyun away from Wei Jingqi, he was a little worried in his heart, so he ordered the secret guards hidden under the mountain to secretly follow and report any situation in time.
Yan Qinchang was immediately relieved when he heard that it was Li Xiuqi who made a move.
Xindao This guy is still quite reliable, at least he helped in times of crisis.
Since Chu Xinyun is fine, then he will put aside the matter of the holy decree for the time being, or he has to give priority to the matter of silver first, and the worry along the way made him really tired, he first went back to Fucheng to find an inn to rest, slept until it was dark before getting up, and took advantage of the night to go to Baiyun Temple and Xiao Wuwan.
"Boss, it's the one up ahead."
Xiao Wu pointed to a place not far away with a slight firelight, Yan Qinchang squinted his eyes, there seemed to be a lot of patrolling attendants in that area..... He asked, "Did you have so many guards last time you were here?"
Xiao Wu shook his head: "It seems that there weren't so many people before......
Yan Qinchang immediately thought of the reason: "It's broken, it must be that King Jing guy found the clue, thinking of taking advantage of the darkness to transfer the silver and run away!"
Xiao Wuyi was also anxious when he heard this: "Then what should we do, we finally found this place, if we really let him run, wouldn't it be a waste of all our efforts?"
Yan Qinchang's face was calm, and he ordered: "You go and order the secret guards to let them intercept the convoy coming down from this area as much as possible, and lead a group of people to come here and directly drag them down!" This is the preparation of toughness?!
Xiao Wu felt that his blood was about to boil, although his martial arts were not as good as Yan Qinchang, he was also a regular secret guard, and he had been running errands for half a year, and he always felt that his martial arts had been wasted.
Without saying a word, he immediately went to the bottom of the mountain to deploy, and then came to Yan Qinchang's side with five or six people, only to listen to his orders, the shadow-like dark guards immediately swooped in, and the sharp blades cut through the fragile neck...... The guard in charge of the transport immediately noticed that something was wrong and shouted angrily, 'Enemy outfit!' Immediately pulled out the saber at his waist and fought with the dark guard, and for a moment the crisp sound of swords colliding resounded all around.
And Yan Qinchang and Xiao Wu dodged into the cave after killing a few guards, and with the light of the fire fold, it only illuminated a small corner.
Xiao Wu showed him the location of this mechanism, and as one dagger after another swooped down, Yan Qinchang's eyes narrowed slightly.
I don't know if it's his delusion, just when the dagger shot down, Yan Qinchang heard a slight echo in the mountain, and he ordered Xiao Wu to step forward to test it, and finally determined it.
"The road is different, let's fumble around and have a look." After speaking, he walked directly towards the side wall, Xiao Wu looked confused but also followed.
Yan Qinchang rubbed the rough wall for a while, and suddenly touched a smooth surface under his palm, and subconsciously pressed it down, and with a roar, a stone door slowly opened.
"I'll go! There is such a mechanism?!" Xiao Wu was sorry, he thought that he needed to rush in directly from the front, so he thought for a long time about how to destroy those organs that shoot seven arrows, and the place was fundamentally right!
He was embarrassed in his heart, Wei Jingqi was really good!
The two walked in one after the other, this is an extremely long dark passage, there are extinguished candlesticks on both sides, Xiao Wu walked and lit it with the fire fold in his hand, and with the gradually brightening light, the two reached the end.
In front of his eyes, there were more than a dozen solid wood boxes that were large enough to hold two adults, Yan Qinchang stepped forward and cut the lock with a dagger, and as soon as he opened it, he was greeted by dazzling snow-white silver!
He picked up a piece and looked at it a few times, and found that it was all real silver.
Xiao Wu also opened the boxes everywhere, and there were snow-white silver insides, and there were even a few mahogany boxes in the corners filled with Xiao Indigo's gold and silver tickets.
"Boss! We've found the silver!" Xiao Wu was very happy, and from the number in front of him, it should be that the batch can't be wrong!
Yan Qinchang put down the snowflake silver in his hand and commanded in a deep voice: "Immediately order someone to go to Baiyun Temple to arrest someone!"
"Yes!"
Before there was no evidence, they could be said to be extremely uncomfortable, but now that the account books and silver were in hand, King Jing had no choice no matter how much he quibbled.
He immediately hoofed out and fired a secret signal into the sky, and in an instant, the secret guard hiding under the Baiyun Temple poured out, surrounding it and making it impassable.
Yan Qinchang did not leave, but returned to the previous tunnel and continued to rub up, and Xiao Wu, who came back after transmitting the signal, was a little puzzled when he saw it.
"Boss, are you looking for anything more?"
Yan Qin Chang said: "How did this large amount of silver come in, there are many steep mountain roads nearby, and tens of millions of silver itself is quite heavy, and it is easy to expose it if you are not careful....."
Xiao Wu had an idea: "You mean that there is a secret passage to other places here?!"
Yan Qinchang nodded, turned around, and groped, pressed to the corner of a stone wall, and suddenly a stone door opened, and the two glanced at each other and walked in.
Whew~' I was chanting in the wing room, I only felt a chill on my neck, and when I looked up, I found that the window of the room didn't know when it opened, so I got up and went to close the window.
Just as he was about to continue to sit back and recite the scriptures, the bead string in his hand broke directly with a slight thud, and countless polished beads were scattered to the ground.
He looked at the jade beads rolling on the ground in a daze, and couldn't help but sigh.
It looks like something big is going to happen .... Wei Jingqi was about to go down the mountain at this moment, but was told by the attendants that the way down the mountain was surrounded by people who came out of nowhere, and they wanted to break through directly but were caught off guard and had already lost several brothers.
"Rubbish! It's all rubbish!" He was so angry that he swept down all the utensils on the table, and the sound of ping-pong resounded throughout the room, Lei Wu stood aside with his head down and didn't dare to gasp, for fear of angering himself, just when Wei Jingqi was furious in the house, Yan Qinchang and Xiao Wu meandered all the way through the secret passage in the back mountain to a place full of scriptures.
Xiao Wu exclaimed after seeing the bookcases in these four places: "This back mountain can lead all the way to the host's study!"
Yan Qinchang sneered a few times, walked through the door diameter of the study and walked into the wing, the latter was looking through the scriptures in the room at the moment, but he did not panic at all in the face of the sudden visit of the two, but got up with a smile and saluted the two.
"Amitabha, the two donors are from the back mountain?"
Xiao Wu smiled: "You monk is a bit interesting, knowing that we are coming from the back mountain but not panicking at all, aren't you afraid that your biggest secret will be discovered?"
Ran chuckled and said: "If you want people not to know unless you don't do anything, you will always know that this matter will be discovered sooner or later, so I have already prepared my heart." ”
Yan Qinchang didn't have time to talk to him here, so he immediately shouted: "Take this monk to find King Jing, now that the human and material evidence are there, I see what else he has to say." ”
Xiao Wu immediately stepped forward and tied up Ran with the rope he was carrying, but the latter still did not resist as if he looked down on everything.
Just when the two of them stayed in Ran's monk, the secret guards who were blocking the way at the bottom of the mountain also attacked one after another, instantly narrowing the encirclement and making the whole Baiyun Temple impassable, and the monks in the temple were also driven to a piece and locked in a wing room.
Now this matter is a showdown between the boss of his own family and King Jing, and he can't let others ruin things.
Yan Qinchang pulled down his mask and came to King Jing's courtyard with Zhiran and said loudly: "His Royal Highness King Jing, Yan Qinchang asks to see!"
Wei Jingqi, who was walking back and forth in the house in a hurry, heard this voice, and his steps paused, and he raised his head suddenly, and his face was distorted like a ghost: "Yan Qinchang!"
The people outside the house didn't wait for a while, and then they saw a man in gorgeous clothes walking away from the house, surrounded by many attendants, Yan Qinchang immediately bowed and saluted: "See King Jing!"
Wei Jingqi saw the face that he wanted to kill in his dreams, and forcibly held back his angry emotions and said: "It turned out to be Commander Yan, shouldn't you be in the capital this time, what are you doing in this king's fief?"
"King Huijing, my subordinates came to investigate the case of harboring stolen silver in Baiyun Temple on the orders of His Majesty, and now that the main culprit has been brought in, there must be a mastermind behind the scenes, why don't you wait for the interrogation with me?"
Wei Jingqi naturally refused: "Since it is what your father ordered you to do, then you will interrogate it yourself, this king still has some things to go back to Beijing this time, let your people get out of the way, don't delay this king's affairs." ”
Yan Qinchang's eyes were like lightning, and he said in a deep voice: "Doesn't the prince want to know who is the mastermind behind this scene?"
Wei Jingqi sneered: "What does Commander Yan mean by this?" Who is behind this and what does it have to do with this king?" These tens of millions of taels of silver are not a small amount, and now they appear in this small Baiyun Temple, and the prince appears here so coincidentally. Isn't there a connection between that?"
"Yan Qin Chang!" Wei Jingqi frowned and shouted, "What do you mean by this?" Do you think the mastermind behind this is the king?!"
"You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense, this king knows that it is not easy for you to investigate the case, so I don't care about it this time, if there is a next time I will blame this king for not being polite!"
Yan Qinchang was not afraid at all, and said loudly: "Since this matter has nothing to do with the prince, why is the prince in a hurry to leave?" Why don't you stay and interrogate one or two together?"
Wei Jingqi was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, his eyes were cold and glanced at the silent monk Ran, who understood it and quietly lowered his eyes and said: "The old man is willing to confess to the mastermind behind the scenes, but the premise needs to be untied to the old man." ”