Finally stayed up until dawn, Zhuang Rou asked Niu Dayong to find the box first, and now they must carefully search every corner of the Yanhong Courtyard, they just looked through it casually before, and now if necessary, they have to find the floor tiles, and they can't let go of the roof and cracks.

After instructing them, she first went back to the yamen and talked to the master, and asked the master to send someone over to find the box. Chu Xia hadn't gotten up yet, but he couldn't expect him to get up early in the morning to do errands, so it was better to talk to his master about being more convenient.

Master doesn't know what it is, but if it has something to do with a line of gray, it must be something very important. But the officials all went out to investigate the case, and there were not many people among the officials, so he called out all the scribes who were not busy and asked them to go to the Yanhong Courtyard to look for the boxes.

Zhuang Rou rode out of the city, came to the beggars' gathering place, found the place where Qin Qiu was found last time, and used a little broken silver to find the flower who followed Qin Qiu to block the door.

Looking at the dirty Hanako, she asked, "What about your head named Qin Qiu, where have you gone?" ”

"Didn't he listen to the adults and leave? The road is so far, maybe you will ask for food in the local area, anyway, you are asking for food, and it is the same everywhere. An old man rubbed the old mud on his body and said, "I just want a meal, as long as someone gives it to eat anywhere.

Zhuang Rou's gaze swept over their faces, and none of them showed a panicked expression, they were all depraved who had been asking for food for many years. If they were Qin Qiu's people, and they came to the door at this time, some people would seem to be panicked. The aura emanating from them is those who have been asking for food for many years.

She didn't say the murder directly, but said with a different excuse: "When did he become your head?" I usually deal with some decent people, what is the matter with blocking the door of the Qinglou. Then I asked him for something and wanted to reward him for doing decent work. ”

As soon as he heard this, the old Hanako showed their blackened dirty teeth and laughed, "My lord said that he was joking, who still wants to work when he is called Hanako." Stretching out your hand to beg for a day's rations, you can bask in the sun for a day under the corner, and work is boring. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, I'll get down to business. If you answer, I'll give you money to buy wine and meat, or I'll all go back and beg for swill." Zhuang Rou didn't bother to pay attention to their nonsense, said with a cold face, and by the way, took out the broken silver and shook it in his hand a few times.

Seeing the silver called the flowers, their eyes lit up, and they quickly started talking.

"The boss didn't come for long, only more than three months, and he was recognized as the boss because he was powerful, and he was a ruthless character in fighting."

"We don't know why, he just said to take us to get silver. Anyway, I used to block the door of the merchant and sing songs to please the money, and I didn't think it was any better, but let the adults drive you away. ”

"Boss Qin still has some means, and he often brings back some silver, and I don't know where it came from, but everyone eats much better than in previous years."

"I know, it must have been stolen, he went out for a spin and came back with something, it can't be anything other than stealing!"

"Don't talk nonsense, we are all innocent Hanako, who does this kind of thing of stealing chickens and touching dogs!"

"You just stole one of someone else's chickens last night, and everyone ate it together, so soon you forgot it?"

"Phew! You little bunny, talking nonsense in front of adults! ”

Zhuang Rou looked for useful things from their mouths, and said a lot of words, but not many useful ones. Although she could be sure from them that Qin Qiu was not a Hanako, she had already known that guy was a killer, and this bit of information was useless.

No one had ever seen him meet with a decent person, and it seemed that Qin Qiu was quite careful, so he couldn't find anything at all. If all these people are caught, it will not only waste rations but also pollute the cells.

After thinking about it, she asked: "The disaster relief department has been established, why don't you go over, in addition to providing food and lodging, it can also help you find your family and send it back, how can it be better than you messing around here." If you have injuries or illnesses, you can still go for treatment, and you don't have to worry about money at all, but I'm a serious place, as long as I don't make mistakes, I won't beat people. ”

The flowers looked at each other for a moment, and responded with a hippie smile: "My lord, it's not that we don't go, but everyone has hands and feet, and it's not good to go to the yamen for a leisurely meal." Everyone just wants to support themselves, and when we can't get anything in the winter and are going to freeze to death in the suburbs, we will go over. ”

"I dare you think that the weather is good now, and you can sleep anywhere on the street, so you don't want to go." Zhuang Rou said speechlessly, these Huazi must be afraid that they will not be free to stay inside, and they can buy wine if they get money outside, but they are afraid that they will not be so comfortable when they go to the yamen.

I really can't do anything about these people, I usually have to steal chickens and touch dogs, and it is not as comfortable as this kind of day to eat and drink in the yamen, and it is really beautiful to think about.

She threw the broken silver on hand to them, and while they were lying on the ground to pick up the silver, she said: "If you have children here, send them to the disaster relief department, and no children can be seen on the Hongzhou border who are homeless to ask for food." I know that someone is taking in children to beg for food, so you should die. ”

The person who asked for food didn't take her words seriously, but just grabbed the silver on the ground, and when he got it, he nodded and responded, "Yes, we all remember what my lord said." ”

Zhuang Rou knew that these people didn't listen, and when they went back, they would let the people from the Disaster Relief Department come out to investigate, and those children would be easily controlled by these old beggars. She mounted her horse and went straight back to the city to the Yanhong Courtyard.

The scribe who has always managed the copying of documents has always been much more careful in finding things than the servants, and when she came to the Yanhong Courtyard, she saw many scribes carefully rummaging everywhere, and even the porcelain pillows were smashed by them to find them. The box was not found, but many of the bounties hidden by the girl were revealed.

It doesn't usually look big, but it's hard to find something that has been hidden. At this time, it looks like looking for a needle in a haystack, and I am afraid that I will not be able to find it for a few days.

Zhuang Rou walked in the courtyard with his hands behind his back and remembered that the box was given directly to Tai Shufang, assuming that the thing was very precious, he could not give it to others, but hid it in a very safe place. For a person, the safest place is naturally the room he knows best, so the box must have been in his house at first.

But nothing was found in that room, Qin Qiu should have also gone to look for it, and he also didn't get anything. Tai Shufang is just an ordinary scholar, and it is impossible for him to bite the bullet when his life is threatened.

There is only one possibility, and that is that the box he hid has been moved!

Zhuang Rou stopped, looked at a mud pit dug out of the ground, and thought that when the box was dug out, it was not opened on the spot, and no one knew what was inside. If someone comes in the middle of the night and steals something, it's a bit mysterious.

After all, Tai Shufang opened the box, and after reading something, he would inevitably hide it. And the person who stole the box must have seen where he hid it, otherwise he would not have stolen it with such certainty.

This person who can see the hidden box so easily, only the people of Yanhong Courtyard are possible, but if it is any girl, it is impossible for Qin Qiu to ask when she still doesn't say it to save her life?

This made Zhuang Rou unable to figure it out, she thought about it and felt that she might have thought too much, the person who stole the box might be an outsider, and he had already run away with the box, so Qin Qiu killed everyone and didn't find the box.

Suddenly, she froze for a moment.

Qin Qiu is coercing others to make people confess, then he must have arrested someone first to threaten Tai Shufang, maybe the first person to be killed was the one who stole the box from Tai Shufang.

Therefore, Qin Qiu didn't find the box when he killed all the people, and the person who knew the box was killed at the beginning, because of this, he knew that the box was still in the Yanhong Courtyard, so he came to look for it again at night.

In this case, it must be a girl who hid something, and a woman wants to hide something......

Zhuang Rou herself is a woman, she looks up in the courtyard, the best place to hide things is in her room, and it is usually under the bed or in the closet. But if the contents were so precious that the woman feared being searched, there would be no better place to hide them in the room.

It will never be discovered, but it is convenient for her to take it out quietly later, and that is where everyone can see it, but no one touches it.

The ground is being dug and it is impossible to bury it in the mud, so you have to dig a pit if you want to take it out, which is also too conspicuous.

Rockery......

She looked at the rockery in the courtyard and walked over, and looked into the gap in the rockery, it was too low here, and the girls liked to play in these places, and it was easy to sit on it to rest, and if you were not careful, you would see the hidden box, which was too dangerous.

It's impossible to be in a pond, not to mention whether the contents of the box are resistant to water or not, and if you throw it down and want to pick it up, it's easy to get wet, so it's very conspicuous.

At this time, there was the chirping of birds above Zhuang Rou's head, and she looked up and found that a tree the size of a bucket next to her had not been removed. There are two nests in the canopy, and there are birds chirping there.

The bird's nest is too high, and to have such a good ability to climb trees, it has long been displayed to attract guests.

She counted five of these trees in the courtyard, and because they were too thick to move, she didn't move them when she moved the flowers and plants and planted the bamboo.

Two of them were planted where the girls lived, Zhuang Rou walked over, and there was a stone table under the other one to enjoy the coolness. She stepped on the stone bench and stood on the table, looked up at the tree, and found that there was an old hole in the pole, which she could reach by reaching only by reaching out while standing on the table.

She leaned on the pole and put her hand into the hollow of the tree, touching a lot of leaves. She smiled slightly, this is a tree hole, how can there be so many leaves in it, it is lucky to be able to float a few pieces in. Reaching down into the leaves, she touched something flat.

Got it!

Zhuang Rou grabbed the thing and took it out of the hole in the tree, saying that the box was actually a long wooden box, which looked a little narrow. I don't know if there was a lock before, but now it is only tied with a cotton rope.

She put the box on the table, pulled off the cotton rope, opened the lid and looked inside, and was stunned.

This is...... Divine decree?