After Dali Temple registered the case of the theft of the grain shop of the Marquis of Wenchang, it arranged for people to go to the three grain shops to verify the information, and then took the witness confessions from Jiang Hu's investigation to Zhuangzi to find people to verify one by one.

In the end, the result is naturally that the statement of sealing the blue grapefruit is similar, according to the harvest of this year, the grain is indeed about seventy percent less;

And what is even more coincidental is that the day before Mrs. Jiang Shao came to report the case, a grain shop shopkeeper happened to find a grain merchant from other places and sold all the 10,000 stone of grain in the warehouse.

The sale was not recorded in the books, and the money sold was not handed over to the general ledger.

In order to sort out these accounts and verify Mrs. Jiang's statement, Lord Wang specially went to the household department and seconded two warehouse directors to help reconcile the accounts.

This pair is naturally full of mistakes and omissions.

Lord Wang personally interrogated the shopkeeper of the grain shop, and asked people to find the grain merchant from other places who bought the grain and bring it to the capital to confront him.

At first, the shopkeeper of the grain shop did not admit to his death, but after being identified by the grain merchant, he had to admit that he was indeed motivated by the desire for profit and resold the grain of the lord's family.

The king was angry and asked him, "Who told you to do this?" And for what purpose? Where does the money go? ”

The shopkeeper wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, smiled flatteringly, and said: "Master Qingtian, the little one has already said that this matter is a small momentary desire for profit, blinded by the money, and committed a stupid thing for a while, there is really no one to instruct it, let alone any other purpose, as for where the money and silver go, the small ones are hidden, it is better for the little ones to give the little ones half a day, and the small ones will immediately go and take the silver tickets." ”

Lord Wang's heart moved, and when it came to silver tickets, he suddenly remembered that the silver tickets of each money bank had a specific seal.

In front of the shopkeeper Wang, he said to his subordinates on the side: "Go and ask the grain merchant which money bank the silver ticket he used to buy grain belongs to, and it can have the seal of the money village and the logo of the shop." ”

After receiving the order, his subordinates immediately went down to do it.

When Shopkeeper Wang heard this, he couldn't help but feel nervous, yes, why didn't he think of this stubble?

He only resold 10,000 stones, converted into cash and more than 20,000 taels, he went to think of a way, and he could get it out if he got together, but when the time came, he would find the account manager surnamed He, and let him take out his part, but it was really not good, he could still go to the master's house.

But he gave all the silver tickets to the lord's house, and I don't know if they left them behind.

There should be, shopkeeper Wang thought while wiping his sweat, he just sent it over yesterday, and it is impossible to spend it today.

As long as he hurries up and has someone pass on the news, he will definitely be able to get the silver ticket back, and at that time, he will at most resell the master's grain and be expelled, and his sin will not lead to death.

The master had promised a long time ago that if something happened, he would help him protect his family, and he had saved enough silver taels, so he would not have to worry about life in the future.

Thinking like this, his heart settled a little.

Dali Temple is now only this month's account, now it is the end of the year, the account of the first half of the year has been too long, it is not easy to check, and in the first half of the year he did not resell a large amount of grain, are slowly consumed on weekdays, Dali Temple is not easy to check.

It's the first time to resell in large quantities like the day before yesterday, and I don't know why the owner's family is suddenly so short of money.

However, as long as no evidence falls on him, he is not afraid.

The more the shopkeeper Wang thought about it, the more relieved he became.

It's okay, he comforted himself in his heart, even if Mrs. Jiang went to Dali Temple to file a case? The lord was more worried than he was about it being exposed.

As long as he waits in peace, he may be able to go out in a few days.

The shopkeepers of the other two families also have this idea, since they have chosen to betray the Marquis of Wenchang, the only way to survive now is to hug the thigh of the second master.

If the person behind the mastermind is spoken, the Marquis of Wenchang Mansion will not leave them a way to live.

At this point, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and take the matter on themselves.

After the king interrogated these people, he finally relented and said, "It's not impossible to go back and get the money, but I will only give you an hour." ”

Shopkeeper Wang was happy, and then he was shocked, an hour, I'm afraid it is not enough.

Lord Wang kindly asked, "Do you want me to arrange for the guards to send you back in person, or do you arrange someone to help you get it?" ”

Shopkeeper Wang stretched out his hand to wipe his sweat, hesitated for a while, if he arranged for someone to pick it up, it must be someone from Dali Temple, and it was impossible for him to let someone from Dali Temple go to his second master to get money.

He had to go on his own.

The guards of Dali Temple escorted the shopkeeper Wang back to his home in Xicheng.

As soon as he returned home, Wang's wife and wife hugged him and cried, and even his young son ran over and cried loudly, and the whole house was miserable and gloomy, as if he was going to guillotine tomorrow.

Shopkeeper Wang felt unlucky, his face was dark, and the guards of Dali Temple were waiting on the side, not to say much, and because of the urgency of time, he impatiently pushed his wife away and scolded: "What are you crying and crying for?" I'm not dead yet! It's a joke to spread out! ”

His wife cried and red-eyed, and glared at him angrily and angrily: "You're all in prison, you're still afraid of making people laugh!" I said you at the beginning......"

"Shut up!" Shopkeeper Wang slapped him anxiously and beat his wife.

He pointed to the woman and said, "Shut your mouth!" The officials are all watching here, are you ashamed? ”

When the woman looked at the four guards standing at the door, she finally reacted, and this was not the time to argue, so she covered her cheeks and closed her mouth.

Shopkeeper Wang opened the curtain in the backyard and was about to go inside, but was stopped by a guard: "Shopkeeper Wang, where is he going?" ”

The shopkeeper Wang hurriedly smiled and said in a low voice: "I'll go to the backyard, and the silver is hidden in the backyard." ”

The guard said, "In that case, we will send you out." ”

As he spoke, the four guards immediately followed behind Mr. Wang, and Mr. Wang's face turned white.

went to the backyard, Manager Wang had no choice but to pretend to dig under the pomegranate tree in the backyard, but naturally he didn't dig anything.

He smiled awkwardly at the four guards and said, "That dead mother-in-law must have been poached by her in advance, and let me ask her." ”

With that, he hurried back to the antechamber.

The four guards looked at each other, looked at the hour, and before it arrived, they didn't say anything, and followed them to the antechamber.

Mr. Wang had already pulled his woman to muttering something at the door, and her tone was very anxious, and the woman looked reluctant at first, but then slowly her face changed.

Manager Wang urged her: "Go and get it back, the official can wait, you are faster, faster!" He pushed the woman irritably.

The woman was pushed by him, and her eyes were red again, but she didn't say anything, but squeezed out a smile, and said to the four guards: "Wait a minute, the officials, let's go and get it immediately, and ...... it immediately."

With that, he hurried out the door and ran away.

Manager Wang came back and explained to the guards: "The mother-in-law of the family is not sensible, and she has taken all the money back to her mother's house, and the four officials will wait for a while, she will be back soon." ”

The four guards nodded indispensably, the hour had not yet arrived, and as long as the prisoner did not leave, they would not care.

When the woman went out, she was relieved to see that the official had not come out, and turned to run to the most lively market.