Three days later, the Su family went deep into the house.

In the evening, when Su Xiaozhou rushed home, the eldest brother, the younger sister, Zheng Feng and Li Yu were already waiting at home.

In the past three days, she has been very difficult.

In order to prevent Lu Ji from returning to Xishi to find Yu Pei, he dragged him to do official business for a few days in a row, and handled the official affairs that had been accumulated for a long time in the left and right leading mansions.

If she continues to be so "diligent", she will arouse suspicion.

"How's the West Market going?"

Panting, she asked anxiously before she had time to sit down.

Li Yu pushed her a glass of water and said, "The Chang'an County Ya did not find the white jade pendant lost by Brother Lu, nor did it find the female thief who matched the characteristics, and it has been reported to the Jingzhao Yin Mansion for the record, and the search has been temporarily stopped. I asked people to send the jade pendant samples given by Brother Lu to the pawn shops and jewelry shops in various markets, and told them that the matter was serious, and once anyone was found to have betrayed him, he would immediately report it to the government and bring it to justice. However, there is a large box of such a pattern in every store, and the chances of finding it are very small. ”

"Good ......"

Su Xiaozhou sighed, "I'll try my best to hold him back." Before the theft of the Imperial Tomb......"

"Don't worry, there's still time."

Li Yu was relieved and continued: "When I was looking for the jade pendant, I checked by the way, there are two black and white roads in Chang'an City, and there are no royal instruments flowing out recently. It shows that the thieves have not sold the burial goods in the imperial tomb in large quantities, and the only painting in our hands is still ...... for the time being Safe. ”

This is also good news, Su Xiaozhou breathed a sigh of relief, "The file recording the funeral items of His Majesty Gaozu has been destroyed, but fortunately, it was the Wailang of the Ministry of Rites who handled this back then, Lord Weng Tonglun. He later became the prince and the prince, and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and I accompanied His Royal Highness the prince to study with him. Now that he has returned to his hometown and returned to his hometown in Huizhou, I wrote a letter to him, saying that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would write a memorial message on the occasion of His Majesty's birthday to express his sorrow, and ask him to recall the important items that were buried with him. Master Weng is old and strong, and he believes that there will be an echo soon. ”

"Good thief......" Li Yu muttered.

Su Xiaozhou glanced at him, turned around and asked, "Big brother, Sister Zheng, how are you doing here?" ”

"Sort of...... Small gains. The old man and the young man not only betrayed the two of you as soon as they opened their mouths, but also confessed to the person who made the scroll and painted a portrait under the great torture. Su Pocang said calmly.

Su Xiaozhou couldn't help but feel strange, since he got the portrait of the person who sold the paintings, he was already very close to the thief who stole the imperial tomb. Which is this "small gain"? It's almost done! Why is the eldest brother not happy at all?

At this time, Su Bocang took out the portrait from his sleeve and spread it in front of her with a solemn expression.

The portrait is very fine, the hairstyle, face shape, and facial features are all vividly outlined, it seems that what Sister Zheng said is right, this person in this industry is really not to be underestimated.

"The drawing is good, and the brushwork is first-class!" Su Xiaozhou nodded.

Su Pocang sighed, "The painting is good, the painting of the two of you is more similar." Take a closer look—"

"Huh?"

After taking a closer look, Su Xiaozhou found that the facial features of the person in the painting were very compact, and it seemed to be a childish child's face.

"It's a child?!" She almost screamed.

Zheng Feng covered his head sadly, "That's right." It's a little boy of eight or nine years old. The owner of the pharmacy said that three months ago, the child came to the pharmacy and said that his mother was sick and had no money to get medicine, and wanted to exchange the painting for some medicinal herbs. They knew at first glance that the painting was fake, but the boy was so pitiful that he had to take the painting, give him a pill, and never see him again. ”

Young boys at this age generally do not have a livelihood to earn, and it is much more difficult to find them than adults. The key is not to casually post notices of arrest all over the city on charges of a crime.

They were tired for days, and the identity of the thief seemed to be close at hand, but it was actually far away.

"Don't want money, just change the medicine ......"

Su Xiaozhou's eyes lit up, "Then he must live near the pharmacy!" ”

Li Yu shook his head, "That's what we thought at first. However, after gathering the mayors of the streets of the West Market, none of them said that they had seen this child. Therefore, he did not live in Xishi permanently, but made a special trip to change medicinal materials. ”

"A little kid, far away from home, went to change medicinal herbs, and found a black gold shop disguised as a drugstore...... Why not go to a pawnshop? Wouldn't it be more convenient to exchange the painting for money, and then use it to buy medicine? ”

Su Xiaozhou held his chin, puzzled.

Zheng Feng's eyes moved, "It means that he knows that this painting is stolen and cannot be taken to a pawnshop." ”

Su Xiaozhou nodded, "Since this is the case, the scroll was not picked up by chance." As long as you find him, there is a chance that you will catch the thief. ”

The crux of the matter is back to the question of how to find a child based on a portrait. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City, and trying to find an unknown child is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"This kid can find this black gold shop, or someone to show the way, maybe he has been to the adults in the family, and he can only find someone with a relevant case record while looking for it."

After Zheng Feng finished speaking, his gaze turned to Li Yu.

There are two lines in this case: black gold shop and tomb robber.

Along the line of the black gold shop, they found the child who sold the painting; The line of tomb robbers was discussed early in the morning, and Li Yu entered the file room of Jingzhao Yin Mansion to find a suspect with a criminal record.

On the first day, she and Su Bocang sneaked to the vicinity of the imperial tomb to see, and there was no trace of damage to the sealed soil of the cemetery, indicating that the tomb robbers deliberately covered it up, on the one hand, they were neat and thoughtful, and on the other hand, they had plenty of time to commit crimes. In addition, Gaozu Xian Mausoleum is a mound of earth mausoleum, the mausoleum is shaped like a covered bucket, there is quicksand under the sealed soil, and there are many organs in the tomb, and it is definitely not an ordinary thief who can enter.

From this point of view, the tomb robbers must be masters, so they set their sights on the tomb robber family with a deep accumulation.

"I read the file all night last night, and I almost went blind."

Li Yu took out a piece of paper and placed it in front of them, on which were written several ranking words, several of which were painted with red circles.

"Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, there have been many families who robbed tombs and found gold in troubled times. By the time of this dynasty, Taiping Qinghua, most of them had been whitewashed, and the descendants of later generations rarely continued to do this work, and the family education had long been lost. There are three remaining families, which have left a case record in the past 30 years, namely the Longxi Zhang family, the Xiangnan Wu family and the Yizhou Chen family. I checked from the household department, and there were 68 people in these three families, ranging from 15 to 50 years old, who were able to dig pits and go to the ground. ”

"So much! When do you have to find out? ”

Su Xiaozhou's scalp tingled for a while.

Li Yu disagreed, "Don't be too much, this is just the main branch, if you add the side branches, how can you get three or five hundred." Thinking that the family's stunts would not be passed lightly, that part was excluded. ”