"It's a frame-up..."Shouwen was silent for a long time, his face turned pale, and he suddenly argued, "I know Senior Brother, he will never trade with that kind of person for just money!" ”

"Oh?" Bai Jian seized the loophole in Shouwen's words, "That kind of person... What kind of person is it? He smiled and flipped the stack of silver tickets in his hand, "Little Taoist, you seem to have something to say..."

"Me!" Shouwen consciously lost his words and was quite annoyed. "I don't know much..."

"I want to hear about it." Bai Jian leaned against the wall, and his tone was indifferent.

"One night a few months ago, a man in black with a hood went up the mountain." Shouwen remembered a little, "I was on duty that day. I saw that a guest went up the mountain late at night, so I went to inquire, but he shook the waist card in his hand and bypassed me to find Senior Brother Siwen. ”

Speaking of this, Shouwen untied a white jade plaque from his waist, spread it on the palm of his hand, and shook it at Bai Jian and them; "No, that's the brand. Everyone in our Baiyun Taoist Temple has a piece. ”

It's not a good material, it's just that the whole body is white, and the word "Shouwen" is engraved on it.

"Identity plate? That mysterious man took your brother's nameplate? Pretty eda came up with an appropriate name.

"Hmm... You can say the same thing. Shouwen tied the waist card back, "I was afraid that he would be unfavorable to my senior brother, so I quietly followed him." Then, I heard the man talking to my senior brother..."Bai Jian raised his eyes and looked at Qiao Zhi, his tone hesitant, as if he was thinking about how to phrase it.

"My surname is Yu, and my husband is Shi Yao." Looking into Shouwen's eyes, Qiaozhi slowly spoke.

"Yes, Shi Yao. They were discussing Shi Yao's well-dressed mound... But my brother didn't agree, and I only heard a fierce argument at the time, and it wasn't long before my brother said in a cold voice that he was sending off guests. Shouwen frowned, "I was afraid of being discovered, so I hurried back." After that, the man also returned. He looked at me, didn't say anything, and went down the mountain. ”

Shouwen was silent for a few seconds before continuing, "I never saw him again. So this pile of silver tickets should be a misunderstanding. He bowed respectfully in the direction of Qiaozhi, "My senior brother will never do such a thing, and I hope Miss Yu can rest assured." ”

Qiao Zhi didn't agree with this, she walked up to Bai Jian noncommittally and looked at the stack of silver tickets with him. The denominations on them are all fifty or one hundred taels, and there are about four or five sheets, neatly stacked together.

In Yanling, seventy taels is enough for an ordinary family to eat and drink for a year, but this thin pile of silver tickets is enough for three hundred taels. This Siwen is too rich.

If these silver tickets were just the mysterious man's reward for Siwen... At that time, Yao's well-dressed mound was really a little strange.

Thinking of this, Qiaozhi turned to look at the mahogany cabinet, and followed the example of Bai Jane and knocked around, hoping to knock out another dark compartment or drawer.

“... You're completely out of order..."Bai Jian was helpless, "There should only be one secret compartment in this cabinet, but." He opened the closet and put his hand in it to grope carefully, "There are three holes in the cunning rabbit, and sometimes things are not just hidden in the dark compartment. As he spoke, Bai Jian was groping with his hand, "Found it." ”

It was a package wrapped in oiled paper, and it was not large.

Qiaozhi stretched out his hand to take it, hesitated and opened the paper bag. Shouwen wanted to stop it, but he only opened his mouth and didn't say anything.

This, this is... Looking at the contents of the oiled paper bag, pretty edgies were stupid. Inside was a letter and a set of neatly stacked white clothes that exuded the fragrance of Chinese medicine.

If her memory was correct, this single dress was exactly the same as the one Shi Yao wore when she died, and it was soaked in the same herb smell from it.

Qiaozhi opened the envelope again, but the content of the letter was also decent, only writing "The matter has been done, this is a reward, don't read it." "A few big words. She thought about it, held the letter paper out into the sun, and examined it carefully, but found nothing suspicious.

It really seems to be just a letter announcing the payment. Can... What is the purpose of the clothes that are exactly the same as the mound? Qiaozhi thought of Siwen's death, although water and fire were ruthless, but was Siwen's death really just an accident? Just because Siwen was too unlucky and didn't run away?

But no matter what, there is no doubt that there is something wrong with Shi Yao's clothes and mound. But they stole Shi Yao's body... What are you going to do...

Seeing Qiaozhi staring at the two things in his hand, Bai Jian coughed lightly: "Shouwen Dao Chief, are you sure that the man in black you said has never gone up the mountain again?" Have you seen this oiled paper bag before? ”

Shouwen shook his head, but Shouli bit his finger and hesitated: "When I was playing in the back mountain, I seemed to have seen Senior Brother Siwen holding an oiled paper package, but it wasn't this... I'm not sure. I didn't pay much attention. ”

Shouwen also said: "I haven't seen the man in black go up the mountain again. But I don't understand something, my senior brother has already sternly rejected his request that day, if the man in black goes up the mountain again, will the senior brother directly agree? He shook his head as he spoke, "This is not in line with my brother's temperament. ”

"Oh? Your brother Siwen... What kind of temperament is it? Bai Jian smiled indifferently, and continued to grope in the cabinet, "This mahogany cabinet is probably also the reward for what he has done." ”

Shouwen's eyes darkened. Indeed, the senior brother Siwen in his impression is humble and polite, generous and gentle, the master went early, and Senior Brother Siwen is the most hard-working and the best disciple among their cadres, there is no one. So when he took control of the Taoist temple instead of his master, no one raised any questions, and Senior Brother Siwen took the initiative to ask Senior Brother Sili to share part of it for him.

However, the senior brother in his impression could not be associated with the mahogany cabinet in front of him with a large number of silver tickets and exquisite materials.

Before Shouwen could figure out how to answer this question, he saw Bai Jian take out a copy from the cabinet again, snorted, and handed it to Miss Yu beside him.

Qiaozhi calmly opened it, and just on the first page, a few silver tickets fell out. She raised an eyebrow, and simply picked up the spine of the book and shook it. Sure enough, a few more silver tickets fluttered down at his feet. Stooping down and picking up these silver tickets on the ground, the amount on them was a hundred taels.

Qiaozhi secretly calculated the total amount and smacked her lips, this Siwen looked poor and white, but he didn't expect to be so rich. It's almost a thousand taels, and it's rich enough to buy this Taoist temple, right? She looked at the two of them again, and they were also shocked.

This book is very thin, only a dozen pages, but the things recorded in it make Qiaozhi's eyes widen slightly-all the money recorded in it is the remuneration that Siwen has secretly received over the years.

Some are exorcism and healing, some are pretending to be ghosts, and some are watching the house... There are a lot of miscellaneous ones, some of them are low-paid, only a dozen taels of silver, and some are as high as dozens of taels. And the largest amount of silver is Shi Yao's clothes mound - five hundred taels.

It's just that five hundred taels are drawn in a circle, and it is written in small letters next to it that one hundred taels will be paid first, and the rest will be repaid next year.

It's quite advanced, pretty branches are speechless, and the installments are all out.... However, in this case, there must be almost nine hundred taels of silver, which this Siwen Taoist usually earns from private work. If this Taoist chief is lucky enough to live until next year and get the remaining four hundred taels, even if he can't be said to be the richest man in Yanling, he will not be far behind, right? Pity.. It's a pity

Bai Jian watched Qiaozhi stroking the pile of silver tickets back and forth, and there was a faint jealousy in her expression. Finally, he couldn't help but remind aloud: "The human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant, and this Siwen Daoist is considered to be defeated in the remaining four hundred taels." ”

Seeing Qiaozhi's doubts, Bai Jian cleared his throat, and was just about to speak, but immediately lowered his voice, leaned over to Qiaozhi's side and whispered: "It's still the same sentence, do you think that you or your husband are worth the other party's price of five hundred taels for a well-dressed mound?" ”

The hot breath exhaled by Bai Jian sprayed on Qiaozhi's ears, and it was a little itchy. She frowned and moved away quietly. But I kept thinking about Bai Jian's words in my mind.

"Then you still think that the purpose of this wildfire is not pure, right?"

"Let's take advantage of it." Bai Jian took the booklet and flipped through it page by page, "It should be that the third lady is in front of the bandits, and the people behind the scenes are calculating, and this Siwen Taoist..."

"It's cannon fodder." Qiaozhi lamented.

"Yes." Bai Jian nodded, although he didn't understand the specific meaning of cannon fodder, he could still know that it was not a good word.

Shouwen stood aside and watched the two of them muttering with their books in their hands, wanting to interrupt but not knowing how to speak, so they could only walk anxiously in place, hoping to be noticed.

"That, Shouwen Dao Chief." Seeing Shouwen pacing in place, Qiaozhi smiled embarrassedly, snatched the booklet from Bai Jian's hand and handed it to him: "I'm sorry, these relics... You should have seen it first. ”

In the end, it is the deceased who is the greatest, even if this Senior Brother Siwen was an accomplice in the "framing" Shi Yao's well-dressed mound, but now he has no breath at all, and he is about to be reduced to a piece of loess.

Shouwen silently flipped through the booklet, at first he was still doubting the authenticity of the booklet, carefully watching whether the handwriting on the paper was exactly the same as that of the senior brother, and then he was already shocked by the series of numbers on each page, those that represented silver.

To be sure, although the saints today pay more attention to Taoism and vigorously allocate funds to build Taoist temples, the money distributed to each Taoist priest is not much, and Taoism attaches more importance to casualness than to pilgrims... Not to mention anything else, let's just say that they are Baiyun Taoist Temple, everyone is used to being casual, and there are at most two Taoist priests in charge of pilgrims every day, and most of the others meditate in the room or cultivate on the mountain.

Whether the guests offer incense or not, for them, it is dispensable, far less comfortable than the clear spring on the side of the mountain and the birds in the forest. And serving a distinguished guest like the third lady is a headache for them and a job that they can't avoid.

Therefore, they Taoist temples... Actually, it's not that much.

What is recorded in Senior Brother Siwen's booklet, even if it is only one or two pages, can be worth the cost of their Baiyun Dao Temple for an entire month.

I have the impression that the senior brother who is poor and polite and gentle is actually such a face, how can he not make Shouwen shocked and heartbroken. The shou li beside him was still young, and he couldn't read and write, so he looked at the booklet in a daze, and the envy in his eyes could hardly be hidden.

"I'm so sorry." Shouwen put the booklet into his sleeve and looked at Bai Jian and the others with a serious expression, "I didn't know that Senior Brother had done so many wrong things. Although he is no longer there, I apologize to Miss Yu for him. Shouwen bowed solemnly and said bitterly, "Regarding the decision of his posthumous name, I will also discuss with the juniors and disciples in the Taoist temple and give you a satisfactory answer." ”

As soon as Bai Jian was about to nod, he saw Shen Yashi coming in from outside and invited the two of them to see Wang Ci and have a light meal.

Qiaozhi looked at Bai Jian, and said in her heart, the Hongmen banquet is finally here.