When Shen Haolin and Shen Cha returned to the small hall, they saw Yan Yuan, who was full of food and drink, half-slumped on the chair, burping with satisfaction, it seemed that the Liuzhou Mansion and his party had suffered a lot, and even the etiquette that a noble son should have completely thrown away.

Merlin stood by and looked at him with a disgusted face, he really couldn't figure out how the young master Yan, who was once invincible and clamoring at the gate of the Guogong Mansion, had not seen him for a few months, how could he become this virtuous, and sure enough, the scholars all had two faces.

Hearing the movement at the door of the small hall, Yan Yuan turned around lazily and saw Shen Haolin and Shen Cha walking in side by side, he quickly sat down, as if the guy who didn't sit just now was not him.

Shen Haolin and Shen Cha had a tacit understanding that they didn't see Yan Yuan's changes, so they walked directly in front of him and sat down, looking Yan Yuan up and down.

"Grandpa Guo, General, you are ......"

"Young Master, how many days did it take from the time you were caught until you escaped?"

"Three days." Yan Yuan replied directly without even thinking about it, "Don't hide it from the two of you, these three days are really like years, and I will never forget it in this life." ”

"Hmm!" Shen Cha nodded, and continued to ask, "So, the eldest young master can tell me, how did you escape?" Didn't Bao Gui send someone to guard you closely? ”

"Guard......" Yan Yuan shook his head slightly, "After I was arrested, I was thrown into their firewood room, without tying up or gagged, just locking the outside door, but three meals a day were still sent in." Bao Gui, this kid, has a good relationship with my wife, even if I break his story, he will not do anything to me, let alone kill me. He locked me up because he was afraid that I would hear something I shouldn't have heard and go to the government to report it. Although I don't have any official position, after all, I was born in an official family, and he is still very jealous of this. ”

"So, who took such a big risk and let you go?"

"It's a brother and sister."

"Brother and sister?" Shen Haolin and Shen Cha glanced at each other and raised their eyebrows at the same time, "Oh, Mrs. Bao." ”

"But......" Merlin crossed his arms and stood beside him and asked puzzled, "Why did Mrs. Bao let the eldest young master go?" Isn't she supposed to be with Bao Gui? ”

"I think so too, but ......" Yan Yuan raised his chin slightly and recalled carefully, "Their relationship doesn't seem to be particularly good, I haven't seen her appear in the past few days I've been at their house, except for the day I just arrived, and the day she let me go." I once inquired with Bao Gui, and he said that his younger siblings are very withdrawn, and they usually like to stay at home, and they don't like to go out very much, and they don't like to interact with people very much. ”

"Really?" Merlin thought for a moment, "How is Mrs. Bao doing?" ”

"It doesn't look particularly good, the whole person is very thin, and the face is not too good, very pale, as if he has been seriously ill for a long time." Yan Yuan sighed softly, "Moreover, the distance from the time she opened the door for me to the small door that led me to the backyard of the Bao family was not particularly far, but for her, it seemed to be a very difficult road." Before I left, the ghost messenger glanced back and saw her leaning against the wall, panting hard. But when he saw me turn around, he quickly waved me to hurry up. ”

"It doesn't look like he's doing well." Shen Cha nodded, "You said she gave you a money bag?" Can you show us? ”

"Absolutely." Yan Yuan agreed very happily, took out a money bag from his arms, and handed it to Merlin beside him. "There were more than seventy taels of silver in this before, which was enough for me to return to Xijing from Liuzhou Mansion. It's just that I'm worried that Bao Gui will find out that I'm missing and will send someone to chase me, I haven't stayed in an inn at all, and even if it's a guest house, my life is different from that of a normal person. ”

Merlin took the money bag, poured out all the silver ingots inside and examined the money bag, touched it, felt something abnormal, pulled out his knife from the boot, carefully cut the money bag, and fell out of it a piece of paper.

She looked at Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and then at Yan Yuan, who was full of surprise, and took a quick look at it, and handed it to Shen Haolin.

"Sure enough." Merlin sighed, "Lady Bao wants to denounce her husband for something wrong. ”

"What...... Meaning? Yan Yuan looked at Merlin with blank eyes, "They really ...... Didn't you do a good job? ”

"The eldest young master knows about the strange robbery case that happened in the Jiangnan area, right?" Seeing Yan Yuan nodding slightly, Merlin snorted coldly, "This brother-in-law of yours is one of the suspects in the strange robbery case, Mrs. Bao said that about a year and a half ago, Bao Gui's behavior began to become sneaky. ”

"A year and a half ago...... Shen Cha leaned over to look at the piece of paper in Shen Haolin's hand, "started planning so early?" Mrs. Bao said that a year and a half ago, Bao Gui, who had always been personally responsible for jade procurement, began to be unusual, and no longer participated in any purchase, but every day he went out early and returned late, and from time to time he brought some fox friends who did not know where he met to come to the house, and he tossed it all night until the early hours of the morning. ”

Mrs. Bao said that those fox friends of Bao Gui were very ignorant of the rules, and on a few occasions they got drunk and went directly to the backyard, if Bao Gui hadn't stopped them, they would have entered Mrs. Bao's house. Even though Bougwe had warned them, they ostensibly agreed, but they still went their own way. It's just that in the months that followed, they had less and less time to drink, and such things almost stopped happening. In the past month or so, their gatherings have been particularly frequent, gathering every five days, but rather than a party, it is better to treat the Bao family as a place similar to an inn, they all change their clothes and leave, and do not come back until dawn. Merlin clapped his hands and motioned for everyone to pay attention to themselves, "The point is, Mrs. Bao said that every time they came back, they would bring back some things of unknown origin, packages containing those things, and sometimes a little dirt. ”

"She suspects ......" Yan Yuanyi frowned, "Those thefts were committed by Bao Gui?" ”

"Nope." Merlin's expression was very helpless, "Mrs. Bao's idea is very peculiar, at least ordinary people don't think so, she doubts...... Those things are all Ming weapons, and Bao Gui went to steal some ancient tomb. ”

"It's not surprising that she thinks so." Shen Haolin threw the paper on the table, "There are indeed many ancient tombs in Liuzhou Mansion, and there are also many tomb robbers operating nearby. But we knew very well that Bao Gui was not a tomb robber, and he had nothing to do with that at all. ”

"That's right, even if he is not the thief himself, he is related to the thief, at least he helped the thief transfer the stolen goods." Shen Cha looked at Yan Yuan, "Mrs. Bao's denunciation, we took it, there is something to bother the eldest young master, help us draw a few portraits of Bao Gui, no problem, right?" ”

"Of course, happy to help!"