Chapter 324: Portrait
Pei Qingqing also saw the thick pile of records, seeing this, she couldn't help but be silent for a moment, and then said: "I've seen Miss Qiao read books or something, she is very smart and can read things quickly." People like her have finished reading things in the past few days, and when we finish reading them, we don't know when it will be. ”
"What I'm looking for isn't the books she's reading," Zhang explained, "but what she's doing." ”
"She's investigating!" Pei Qingqing muttered dissatisfiedly, "How many people don't know this?" ”
"I'm not talking about the investigation itself," Zhang Xie explained, "I'm talking about a lot of things related to the matter itself, what she was doing on the banks of the Lingqu River at the time." ”
Pei Qingqing thought for a while and said, "When I saw her, she said that she wanted to chat with the eldest lady there, and later when she passed by with Master Chen, them, and the Zhou family, she looked back for a while. ”
"So she investigated the root cause of this matter," Zhang Xie said, sighing, and seemed to regret that he didn't know about it earlier, "Actually, I also know a little about this matter." ”
Because of this incident, it was rumored that the river god appeared, and there was a dead official who was sacrificed to the river god Yunyun, which was really too evil. This kind of pretending to be a ghost, the Yin and Yang Division naturally has to intervene to find out.
"Qian Jin was an accident, this matter was recognized by Mr. Qian, who funded the construction of the bridge back then, and the officials of the Ministry of Officials have investigated the cause of Qian Jin's death in the past, and it is true that he drowned." Zhang Xie said, "As for the bridge repair, it is easy to collapse, and Eunuch Dong said it a long time ago. ”
Pei Qingqing suddenly said: "So this bridge will collapse even if it is repaired, isn't it the manifestation of the river god?" ”
Zhang Xie snorted and said, "There are no demons and monsters, everything has been expected a long time ago." ”
"And what are you looking for?" Pei Qingqing saw that he was still flipping through things, and said, "Didn't you just go through the information about Qian Jin in the Ministry of Officials?" ”
The person named Qian Jin had an accident only a few months after entering the ministry, but according to the comments of his Shangfeng Jiang and Zhou Daren, he probably also thought that he was a talent that could be created, so he grasped it tightly.
"It's a pity." Pei Qingqing held her cheeks and said, "Looking at the portrait, this person looks pretty good." ”
Of course, Zhang Xie was not interested in whether a man was good-looking or not, he took out a file from the corner of the warehouse, and then said: "It was not only Qian Jin who died because of this incident back then. ”
As he spoke, he unwrapped the paper bag and pulled it out, a thick pile of portraits.
"When the bridge was built, there was no basis for the river god, and the people of that generation believed in the manifestation of the river god so much was a Taoist priest." He said, "What the Taoist priest did did not match the judgment of my Yin and Yang Division, so that incident back then, whether it was Dali Temple or the Ministry of Officials, they were all concerned about Qian Jin's matter, and only we were watching how the Taoist priest was going to lie." ”
"We thought that this bridge could not be repaired back then," Zhang Xie said, "Eunuch Dong once mentioned that this bridge can be repaired, but if it is not a master of such construction methods, I am afraid that it cannot be repaired." Moreover, even if it is built, this bridge will not last for five years. ”
Pei Qingqing's eyes immediately widened: "I really said that he was right!" ”
The bridge collapsed in five years.
"This bridge can't be repaired without extremely high construction means," Zhang Xie snorted lightly, lowered his head and looked through the portrait, "Back then, the Great Heavenly Master understood the meaning of Dong Dajian's words, and specifically checked how the laborers at that time repaired the bridge, and later heard that it was the Taoist priest who dreamed of the drawings given by the river god Tuomeng, and asked everyone to build the bridge according to his drawings." ”
Hearing this, Pei Qingqing couldn't help but pout: "So where did this drawing come from?" Is it given by the craftsman? ”
Zhang Xie shook his head: "The craftsman supervisor now has the ability to draw that drawing, and no one has had contact with those related people. ”
So, obviously, the drawings were made by the Taoist priest himself.
"Eunuch Dong once had a junior brother with the same surname Lu, and later the two parted ways due to disagreements." Zhang Xie explained, "According to Eunuch Dong, his junior brother blindly pursues flashy creations. And Dong Dajian thought that the things they made were all for human use, and if they were just ornamental things, they would be broken, at most thanks to two money. But if something is like a house, if something goes wrong, it's going to kill someone. So there is a lot of ambiguity between the two. ”
Of course, judging from the final result, everyone is still on the side of Dong Dajian.
Hearing this, Pei Qingqing suddenly said: "You still missed the same thing, if the bridge collapses, it will also kill people." ”
"The younger brother surnamed Lu had been in the Jiangzuo prison for three months, because of his strange style, and later under a dispute with the same person, he mistakenly pushed his colleague down the upper floor, so that the colleague fell into a paralyzed man, and the matter was very big at the time, and later the man was robbed of his official status and sentenced to exile, and the matter ended there."
Zhang explained this, his hand stopped on a portrait in the dossier, and looked at Pei Qingqing: "This matter was taken over by Dali Temple back then, and that person looks like this." ”
Pei Qingqing took the portrait and looked at it for a while, and suddenly exclaimed: "If you let this person add some beard and let him have some wrinkles or something, isn't this a little similar to the portrait I saw in the Ministry of Officials before?" ”
The portrait of the Taoist priest was classified in the Ministry of Officials, while the portrait of the junior disciple of Dong Dajian was left in Dali Temple. There is not much news about the communication between the two yamen, and this person is not a very important person, and it has changed over the years, so it is normal for no one to find out that these two people are the same.
In other words, the Taoist priest back then was likely to be the junior brother of Dong Dajian. This also explains why the bridge was built in the first place, because the bridge builder himself is a master.
"You can watch flashy things, but if it is related to human life, I'm afraid not many people can still watch it." Zhang Xie looked at the portrait in his hand and frowned slightly, "I don't know how he returned to the capital from the place of exile, it's just that no matter how skilled he is, if he still acts like this, even if he is in the people, he will soon get into a life lawsuit." ”
Therefore, it is foreseeable that he will not have a good life, and even do some unpredictable things in order to escape a possible life lawsuit.
Such as...... Be a traveling Taoist.
So the identity of that You Fang Taoist can almost be confirmed.
But that's not the end of the story.
"Now we have started to build the bridge again," Zhang Xie said, "There were drawings from the senior brother of Eunuch Dong who could build it, but the bridge collapsed, so that the original place where the bridge was repaired was not managed, but rebuilt a few steps away." Eunuch Dong said that this bridge is repaired, but if the position is not right, something will happen, so who supervised the construction of the Shanyuan Bridge that is being repaired now? ”