Lian Shangshu's sweat was like rain, his head was lowered, and his old face was indescribably depressed.

"Later, someone found something and reported it to Dali Temple—at this time, Xie Yunyan and Qi Chengan had already rushed to the shore of Jinshui Lake—"

"Xie Yunyan!" Duan Wang closed his eyes deeply, leaned back, and leaned on the back of the chair, "Hehe, it's Xie Yunyan again!" ”

Lian Shangshu hurriedly said: "Yes, it's a coincidence, today Xie Yunyan took his wife to visit the Qi Mansion, so he happened to know about it at the first time." ”

"Does it matter?" King Duan's eyelids lifted and looked at Lian Shangshu faintly.

Even if Xie Yunyan is closed in the mansion today, as long as Qi Chengan knows about it, he will know sooner or later.

Besides, now it is no longer a problem for Xie Yunyan alone, and all the officials in the DPRK and China must know about today's events.

Even the father!

Duan Wang exhaled a breath of turbidity and pinched his eyebrows in annoyance, "Is there enough evidence related to Lian Shangshu?" ”

"This-as long as Liu Shilang bears it with all his strength and doesn't point out the subordinates, he should be able to escape-"

King Duan slowly opened his eyes and sighed faintly: "This king remembers that he has two sons-in-law? ”

Lian Shangshu nodded again and again, "Yes, His Highness wants to promote his two sons?" ”

King Duan looked at Lian Shangshu indescribably, "Arrest people and threaten them with their lives!" ”

Lian Shangshu was like an initiation, "Yes! ”

……

"Only so much found?"

Qi Chengan looked at the silver ingots wrapped in the mud and sand in front of him and asked the officials.

The official nodded, "So far, I have only found so many, about three or four thousand taels." ”

Xie Yunyan asked, "In which body of water did you find it?" ”

The official pointed to the position a little east of the center of the lake and said, "Go back to your lordship, this is the place." ”

Xie Yunyan and Qi Chengan looked at the water in unison.

The water of Jinshui Lake is extremely deep, and it is usually fine, but in previous years, when the water level rises during the rainy season, there are often whirlpools in the central area.

When they searched a few days ago, they started from the periphery first, and they didn't have any suspicions about the central area at all.

"Are there any casualties?" Xie Yunyan retracted his gaze and asked the officer,

The official shook his head, "It's just a false alarm." ”

"Whoever saves people knows water?"

In that water, they found many young men who were very good in the water, but they did not dare to approach easily.

I heard that there was more than one person who went into the water today, and they were all right?

The official scratched his head, "This needs to be asked." ”

As he spoke, he looked around and said in surprise, "Huh? What about people? Why are they all gone? It was clear that the two adults were still here before they arrived—"

Xie Yunyan also half-squinted his eyes and looked around at the lively people.

There was a lot of doubt in my heart.

Qi Chengan also said in a low voice: "Such a coincidence? We searched for so long and didn't find it, and it was discovered so easily? ”

Xie Yunyan also pondered: "There is something strange. ”

On the day of King Duan's wedding, the letter he read wrote that there was a large amount of official silver buried at the bottom of Jinshui Lake.

After Xie Yunyan discussed it with Qi Chengan, he felt that it was not appropriate to make a public announcement on this matter when no definite evidence was found.

The two quietly took their men at night and searched in Jinshui Lake.

There was no harvest for a few days, and there was a sudden heavy rain yesterday, and both of them were speculating whether someone was deliberately teasing them, and today the official bank "surfaced".

Qi Chengan picked up a silver ingot, picked up the dirt on it with his bare hands, looked at it fixedly, and said in a deep voice: "Sure enough, it's that batch of official silver!" ”

Xie Yunyan clenched his fists, he had long expected that the silver must be the disaster relief official silver from Yuzhou three years ago.

It's just that someone secretly knows everything about this matter.

This greatly humiliated his strong self-esteem.

Qi Chengan was very casual, "I said, Brother Xie, have you done anything good?" How do you feel that there is a noble person who has been secretly helping you? ”

Xie Yunyan didn't think that this was something to be happy about, and asked, "Brother Qi thinks that as a person from the government, he still has to be led by the nose in everything, does this feel good?" ”

"Although it is not very good, it is undeniable that we did find the official bank." Qi Chengan smiled slyly, "Or is it that Brother Xie has already found Guanyin and deliberately made such a scene?" ”

"Childish." After Xie Yunyan sneered, he turned around and walked towards Jinshui Lake, deploying to the officials gathered there.

"Gather more people, from now on, block Jinshui Lake, no one is allowed to approach!"

"Yes!"

After Xie Yunyan stared at the water area where the official silver was hidden, he waved his sleeves without hesitation, turned around and pulled Qi Chengan and said, "Let's go, enter the palace and face the saint!" ”

Qi Chengan casually picked up two more ingots of silver, and hurriedly rushed to the palace with Xie Yunyan.

In the huge Xuanyi Hall, there are only the emperor on the high platform and Liu Shilang kneeling in the center of the hall.

The thin figure is humble and full of fear.

In the empty hall, it was even more helpless and pitiful.

The emperor looked at Liu Shilang angrily and said nothing.

Even so, the coercion of the Son of Heaven emanating from his body made Liu Shilang, who was kowtowing in the hall, tremble slightly.

Father-in-law Su walked in from outside, hurriedly walked to the high platform, and whispered in the emperor's ear: "Your Majesty, Lord Xie and Lord Qi have urgent matters to see. ”

The emperor stared at the top of Liu Shilang's head with a blink, and said calmly: "Xuan! ”

Gonggong Su swept the dust in his hand and shouted outside the hall: "Xuan, Lord Xie and Lord Qi are here!" ”

Xie Yunyan and Qi Chengan strode into the Xuanyi Palace, and when they saw Liu Shilang's figure, they were both stunned in confusion.

"Wechen—"

"Excuse me! Let's talk about it! The emperor kept looking at Liu Shilang, thinking about how to convict Liu Shilang, and stopped the two of them from saluting.

Qi Cheng'an took a step forward and raised the silver ingot in his hand above his head, "Your Majesty, we found some official silver under Jinshui Lake, and the serial number on the official silver shows that it was the official silver of disaster relief in Yuzhou that year. ”

Gonggong Su hurriedly stepped down and took the silver, and respectfully handed it to the emperor.

The emperor's gaze finally left Liu Shilang and turned to the official silver on the dragon case.

He snorted coldly, "Hmph, okay, it turned out that someone found out?" ”

Liu Shilang shrank in shock, and no one could see his face clinging to the ground, which was already full of tears.

The emperor was furious, picked up the official silver suddenly, smashed it on Liu Shilang's head impartially, and shouted angrily: "Is it that Xie Aiqing and Qi Aiqing didn't find out about this batch of official silver today, and you will never tell the truth?" ”

Liu Shilang's head was smashed out of an egg-sized bag by a silver ingot, and blood flowed.

Xie Yunyan and Qi Chengan knelt on the ground.

"Your Majesty is angry."

The doubts in Xie Yunyan's heart deepened.

Liu Shilang next to him is the mastermind of the private collection of official silver?

Can a mere chamberlain of the Ministry of Rites get the news after they have just discovered the official silver and enter the palace to ask for guilt?

He couldn't help but glance at Liu Shilang with a suspicious look.