I thought that I would have to wait for half an hour to do this, but I didn't think that it would take a while for the monk to run up from the secret room.

"Madam, the master at the bottom will let you go down."

"Where's our grandfather?" Jiang Li cautiously asked the monk while motioning for Yun Fei to go to the secret room to take a look.

Gu Yunfei nodded, and jumped into the secret room at once, and in less than two mouthfuls of food, his head poked out of the entrance of the secret room: "It's okay, it's okay, this fake monk is not lying, the master and Shen Jiu are all down well." I don't know what this secret room is for, it's empty, but it doesn't smell good. The master said that Mrs. was meticulously observant, and asked Mrs. to come down and take a look, maybe she could see what was boring. Oh, by the way, Ye also explained, let you and me leave one of them on top. Since I've already come down, I'll trouble you to stay on top, Miss Jiang. ”

"Nonsense!"

"Nonsense is also talk, now I think I'm verbose, I'm afraid you want to hear it in the future, I don't want to talk about it yet. Madame, please, it's a little dark in here. ”

Yan Suwen nodded, walked to the entrance of the secret room, looked inside, and put his foot in.

The fake monk was about to follow up, but was stopped by Jiang Li with a sword: "You don't have to go down." ”

"Yes, if you don't go down, there's nothing to look at at it at that point." The fake monk secretly glanced at Jiang Li's face, and said that this girl is very good-looking, but she is a little fierce.

The secret room is as Yunfei said, empty, and at a glance, it is almost all of it. Hearing the sound of footsteps, Gu Changfeng turned around and walked over to Yan Suwen, "How does Madam feel?" ”

"Is the husband asking about the air quality here?" Yan Suwen deliberately took two deep breaths and followed the choking sound: "As Yunfei said, it smells a little unpleasant." ”

After speaking, he inhaled it lightly twice: "This smell is very similar to the smell of dried corpses." ”

"The smell of dried corpses." Gu Changfeng also took two sips: "Isn't it smelly?" ”

"It's a smell, but there's a difference between a smell and a smell. The husband was born in a wealthy family, and the living environment has always been clean, and he has never seen the kind of dead rat that was dried by the air. The smell of dead rats that have been dried is the smell of the secret room, but there are many of them. ”

"I've never seen a dead rat either." Shen Jiu got up from the ground: "It seems that the family I was born in is not bad. ”

"It's not bad, it's pretty good." Gu Yunfei took over the conversation: "I've seen dead rats and smelled the smell of dead mice, but my nose is not as good as my wife's, so I can't smell any similarity between the smell in this secret room and the smell of dead mice, or how different it is." Anyway, it's all stinky. ”

"Let's not talk about the dead rat, when I just came down, I saw that you were looking at that wall, but what was strange about that wall?"

"It's something, but it's not weird." Gu Changfeng took Yan Suwen's hand and brought her to the wall: "It just so happens that Madame is here, so let Madame help me take a look." Madame, see how you got these seals. ”

"These—" Yan Suwen reached out and touched it, feeling a little damp on the wall.

Shen Jiu found some rut marks, which only came in, but not out. What I found were the marks on the walls, some of which were indistinguishable, some of which looked like wheels, and some of which looked like they had been burned by fire. ”

"Don't worry, let me take a closer look." Yan Suwen approached the wall and observed carefully. After a while, she stepped back and said to Gu Yunfei, who was strolling around the secret room, "Yunfei, do me a favor, use your sword to open up these walls for Mrs. Ben." ”

"Walls? Madame, is this planning to demolish this secret room and rebuild it? Gu Yunfei was begging for a bargain, but he didn't delay at all, he directly pulled a sword and spent it, and put a whole piece of the wall down. This wall is too ...... Is it that the wall is not thick enough, or that my sword has become sharper. ”

"It's that the walls are too thin." Yan Su asked the money on the wall and gently picked it off with his hand: "This wall skin is very thin, and it is deliberately used to cover things." ”

"Yunfei!"

"Got it, look at me." Gu Yunfei raised his foot and kicked at the wall, and behind the wall, there was another space. "Madame is right, this wall is a trick. Chests, a lot of boxes. ”

"These boxes are supposed to have been salvaged from the water, and the boxes were moldy, and there were dried or rotting aquatic plants in the cracks. The metal pieces at the corners of the box were also worn and rusted. If you guess correctly, this should be the disaster relief silver that the imperial court lost. ”400

"Disaster relief silver?" Gu Yunfei put away his sword, walked to a box, and opened the lid of the box: "Empty, no silver." ”

"You fool, of course there is no silver now, and all the money has been taken away by those who stole official silver." Yan Suwen shook his head: "Husband, look, what's on the ground over there?" ”

"Fishing nets? Could it be that the fishermen in the vicinity found the relief silver that had sunk to the bottom of the water and salvaged it. Because he was a fisherman, he had never seen so much silver, so he became selfish and greedily gave all this silver. Gu Yunfei analyzed it in a matter-of-fact manner.

"Ordinary fishermen don't have such a skill." Gu Changfeng looked at those boxes, and his face changed: "And ordinary fishermen don't have such courage." Embezzling the disaster relief silver of the imperial court, once discovered, is a major crime of the nine clans. ”

"Ye also knew that this was disaster relief silver, and when the money was allocated, those victims were in a life-and-death situation. This embezzled the disaster relief silver, and it was death. This is death if it is not swallowed privately. If you want me, I'll swallow it and see it, in case the others can't find out, then I can not only live, but also live well. On the other hand, I might have died, starved to death because I didn't have money to eat, medicine to eat, and starved to death. Gu Yunfei touched his chin and said.

"If there is only one box here, maybe it will be made by a nearby fisherman, but Yunfei, look at how many boxes there are here. I'm afraid that the 100,000 taels of silver allocated by the imperial court are all here. What kind of fisherman would have such good luck to suddenly find 100,000 taels of disaster relief silver that fell into the water after the imperial court capsized the boat. Fishing nets can not only catch fish, but also silver.

Also, if it is just an ordinary fisherman who accidentally finds the disaster relief silver, he only needs to take out the silver, why hide it in this Guanyin Temple, and why build a wall to hide these boxes? ”

"yes, why?"

"Because it's not a civil thief, it's an official thief."

"Official? What official thief? Gu Yunfei looked at Gu Changfeng puzzled: "Master, do you understand what Mrs. said this?" ”

"Gaoyi County Order." Gu Changfeng threw out these five words coldly.

"I see." Shen Jiu walked over, "To be precise, this is neither a civil theft nor an official theft, but a conspiracy between thieves and thieves." The mayor of Wuliu Town, the shopkeeper of Xinyue Inn, Zongli, and the county magistrate of Gaoyi County, these three people are in a group. ”

Gu Yunfei looked at Gu Changfeng, then at Shen Jiu, and finally looked at Yan Suwen's face and stretched out his three fingers.

"The disaster relief silver was lost in Fogwillow Town, and the place where the shipwreck took place was very close to the mansion of the mayor of Fogwillow Town. In addition, as the mayor of Wuliu Town, he must be very familiar with the situation along the river basin. ”

"It's not just familiar, this section of the Wei River is revised every few years, and it is the mayor of this town who is in charge." Gu Changfeng added.

"That's even more wrong. At that time, under the mastermind of the county order of Gaoyi County, the mayor of Wuliu Town and the shopkeeper of Xinyue Inn were in the same stream, taking advantage of the complexity of this section of the Wei River Basin, using the flood as a cover, and deliberately creating the capsizing case of the silver boat for disaster relief. Those officials of the six departments of the imperial court were not fools, and they insisted on letting the disaster relief bank take the water road instead of the dry road when they knew that the flood had not been eliminated and the water situation was serious. The reason why the 100,000 taels of silver were allowed to go by water was because they were sure that there would be no problem with this water route. In fact, if someone hadn't done it on purpose, the 100,000 taels of silver would have already reached the victims. ”

"Xiangye, is that so?" Shen Jiu asked.

"That's right. The first batch of relief money allocated by the imperial court went on a dry road, and there were no problems along the way. The second batch of disaster relief silver was large in quantity, and it took some time to raise it, and it was about a month later than the first batch of disaster relief silver. Because he received an excerpt from a local official, saying that the flood had disappeared and the water situation of the Wei River was stable, he arranged for an official boat to go down the Wei River to transport disaster relief silver. Another reason why the county magistrate chose to take the waterway is that the county magistrate of Gaoyi County said in the excerpt submitted that the previous silver was about to run out, and if the second batch of disaster relief money was not delivered, it would cause panic among the victims and lead to large-scale protests in Gaoyi County and Guangping County. At that time, the emperor had just ascended the throne, and what he needed most was stability, so that the people could live and work in peace and contentment, so without careful checking, he arranged for the household officials to distribute the 100,000 taels of disaster relief silver. ”

"This silver was lost, but the county order of Gaoyi County was not involved, why is this?"

Gu Changfeng shook his head: "I don't know, it's probably because his official position is too small, even if the emperor is angry because of the loss of disaster relief silver, it won't affect him." ”

"What Shen Jiu knows is slightly different from what you just guessed, Xiangye." Shen Jiu arched his hand and said: "The reason why the county order of Gaoyi County was not involved is because he has made meritorious service, and in front of the emperor, it belongs to the merit and demerit. ”

"Meritorious?" Yan Su asked, her eyes full of doubts.

"Yes, I heard that he found the reason for the capsizing of the official ship." Shen Jiu gently pulled the corners of his mouth: "It is said that the local people secretly cut the material when they were trimming the barrage, which caused the sediment to sink where the official ships docked, resulting in the appearance of culverts in the river and the undercurrent surging, and those who participated in the construction of the embankment were arrested and sentenced to death by the Gaoyi County County Order at the first time of the incident." ”

"Yes, people are throwing the burden on the temporary workers, and this Gaoyi County county order directly slapped the pot on the backs of the people. He really can! He was greedy for money, and he was rewarded with riches, but the innocent people were guilty of this crime. He must not let me find any evidence, and if I do, I will let my husband pick ten layers of skin from him. ”

Yan Su asked, rolling up both sleeves.