Sure enough, as Su Rong expected, although the road back to the city was difficult to walk in the heavy snow, it was very smooth.

After entering the city gate, King Ruian stopped the carriage in front of him, waiting for Su Rong's carriage to approach, he opened the curtain and asked: "Miss Su Qi, this king thinks that he should enter the palace directly, what do you say?" ”

Su Rong nodded, "Okay." ”

She turned to Ye Guixue, and just wanted to say that she would send him back to the Protector Mansion, but Ye Guixue said, "I am also involved in this matter, and I will also enter the palace with you." ”

When King Ruian heard Ye Guixue's words, he immediately said, "It's better this way, it's bothering the second son of the night." ”

Ye Guixue shook her head, "Don't bother." ”

So, King Ryan simply took the abbot and others with him and went to the palace.

In the palace, the emperor has already made an early dynasty, in the imperial study to review the folds, without Yu An's service, he feels that others are not satisfied, everywhere is unsatisfactory, but he can't let Yu An out, plus several big cases are implicated together, I don't know what King Ruian will find out, this morning the fourth prince Yan Shen has died and asked for the case of Li Concubine, which also makes the emperor feel that Li Concubine's case is really someone else, because he doesn't think that such a big case can be done by Li Concubine alone.

Hearing that King Ruian, Miss Su Qi, and the second prince of the night had entered the palace with the presiding monk of the Great Buddha Temple, the emperor immediately said, "Xuan." ”

Not long after, King Ryan and others came to the imperial study.

The royal golden silk charcoal baked the warmth of the entire imperial study, as soon as a few people walked into the door, they were greeted with heat and warmth, Su Rong shook the snow on his body, and the snow returned to the night to brush his sleeves, and at the same time helped Su Rong to straighten the hairpin that was crooked because she shook too much.

The emperor was already looking at the two of them, and when he saw the action of returning to the snow at night, his eyes were stunned.

King Ryan bowed his hand, "Your Majesty, the minister left Beijing last night and re-examined the ...... of the Big Buddha Temple."

King Ruian told the emperor in detail what happened after leaving Beijing last night, during which he mentioned that Su Rong and Ye Guixue found the place where the gold was hidden in the Eagle's Beak Cliff behind the Big Buddha Temple, and it was repeated to the emperor according to Su Rong's retelling to him, and it was mentioned that the abbot of the Big Buddha Temple and several hall masters were escorted back to Beijing for interrogation.

After hearing this, the emperor was shocked and angry, "The place where gold is hidden halfway up the mountain of the Eagle's Beak Cliff, two hundred boxes of gold? Was it done by the monks of the Great Buddha Temple? ”

King Ryan nodded and shook his head, "Back to Your Majesty, who did it, we have to take a closer step and investigate thoroughly, the abbot of the Big Buddha Temple has always denied it, saying that he doesn't know about it." ”

"How much is two hundred chests of gold?" The emperor asked.

"A box of fifty pounds of gold, two hundred boxes of a thousand pounds of gold." King Ryan said: "Equivalent to silver taels, it is about more than one million taels." ”

The emperor nodded, although it was more than one million taels, but for the emperor, he would not look at it in his eyes, and asked: "According to what you said, the place where the gold is hidden, it stands to reason that it is so big to dig so big, not only to hide this gold?" ”

King Ryan glanced at Su Rong and bowed his head, "Miss Seventh mentioned it to the minister, and the minister also felt so." ”

Su Rong also spoke at this time: "Back to Your Majesty, yes, so after Guixue and I found the place where the gold was hidden, we felt very strange and suspicious. ”

The emperor nodded, "You found the place where the gold is hidden because you first found the Great Buddha Temple, and according to the clues of the Great Buddha Temple?" ”

"That's right." Su Rong concealed that Yan Shen entered the East Palace to ask for Yan Echo, and naturally concealed the place where the gold was hidden from Yan Shen's mouth, and everything was based on the similarities between the case of Cheng Qin Yuan and the case of Li Concubine in the imperial history, as well as the suspicion of the Big Buddha Temple.

The Emperor suppressed his anger, "How can this be justified. Call me in the abbot of the Great Buddha Temple. ”

Someone immediately went, and after a while, escorted the abbot into the imperial study.

The abbot's face was pale at this time, and when he saw the emperor, he immediately knelt on the ground, "Amitabha, Your Majesty, the poor monk has been wronged." ”

The emperor looked angry, "I ask you, what do you mean when you say wronged?" The Big Buddha Temple, the place of the dignified Buddha Gate, found out that there are monks harboring evil intentions, hiding dirt and dirt, and now it is even found that there is a place to hide gold in the eagle's beak cliff in the back mountain? If you don't recruit truthfully, I will remember your feelings when the Queen Mother was alive, and if you don't recruit truthfully, I will let you die without a whole body, and I will also seal the Great Buddha Temple, a thousand-year-old temple. ”

The abbot trembled, "Your Majesty, the poor monk is really wronged, and the poor monk doesn't know how there is a place to hide gold in the Eagle Beak Cliff on the back mountain of the Great Buddha Temple." He defended with a gray face, "The poor monk has not set foot in the back mountain for many years. I've never been to Eagle's Beak Cliff. ”

"In the cave at the bottom of the eagle's beak cliff, the monks loaded the cart to carry the rocks in the middle of the night, what do you explain?" The emperor asked.

The abbot said: "It was eleven years ago, before the poor monk's uncle Puhui traveled, said that he wanted to build the Buddha sitting platform, and the poor monk supported it, so he selected the mountain stone from the eagle's beak cliff and polished it into a flat stone slab, and then stored it temporarily at the bottom of the eagle's beak cliff, chanting in front of the Buddha statue every day, it should have been built after three years, but the uncle has not returned from his travels, and this matter has been delayed again and again, and it has been dragged until now, recently the big Buddha temple is not peaceful, the poor monk panicked, and then remembered whether the Buddha blamed, the platform that should have been built long ago has not been repaired, Therefore, he hurriedly discussed with his senior brothers and sisters and put this matter on the agenda, but he didn't expect to catch up with yesterday, but he was misunderstood by the prince. ”

King Ryan said: "It doesn't matter if the king misunderstands or not, the important thing is the place where gold is hidden halfway up the Eagle's Beak Cliff, what do you say?" ”

The abbot shook his head with a white face, "The poor monk really doesn't know. ”

The emperor slapped the table and became angry, "You don't know? I've heard that the agency is located in the middle of the mountain, how time-consuming and laborious? How subtle? It's not a day and a half of hard work can be done, if it's work, the natural movement is not small, you don't hear the slightest movement in the Big Buddha Temple? How many years have you been an abbot? When the Queen Mother was here, you were the abbot for 20 years, right? ”

The abbot was speechless.

"It's better to recruit it truthfully!" The emperor was completely furious, "I will give you another chance, if you don't know again, then quibble, I will first cut off your head, and then cut off the heads of all the monks in the Great Buddha Temple, and seal the Great Buddha Temple." ”

The abbot opened his mouth, his face pale as if he was stunned, but he made no sound.

Su Rong said on the side: "Master Abbot, don't be confused, you'd better explain seriously, since Your Majesty has given you a chance, it is for you to invite you truthfully, and you will be punished lightly, if you commit confusion again, cover up someone, it is the crime of bullying the king, if the Great Buddha Temple is slaughtered all over the house, you are the eternal sinner of the thousand-year-old temple of the Great Buddha Temple." ”

The abbot's face became even more gray when he heard this, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Amitabha, Your Majesty forgives your sins, poor monk...... When the uncle suddenly mentioned building the Buddha's sitting platform, the poor monk did not agree, because he was too much to fight, so why should he rebuild the sitting platform? and still worked so hard, but Uncle Shi was very persistent. The uncle was highly respected, and the poor monk could only agree. Therefore, the construction was supervised by the uncle, and the poor monks did not interfere. At that time, the poor monk also had doubts, but later saw that it was indeed as the uncle said, the poor monk also relieved, half a year later, the uncle went out to travel, and he has not returned for ten years. Now the prince found out the gold hiding place in the middle of the eagle's beak cliff, the poor monk suddenly thought of the year, maybe it was the uncle who built the Buddha's platform, what did he do in the halfway of the eagle's beak cliff, because for so many years, only ten years ago, because the uncle dug a cave at the bottom of the eagle's beak cliff and forged the mountain stone, it was only moved for half a year, and the rest of the time, the whole back mountain was very quiet, as His Majesty said, there was no big movement, and the poor monk did not know the truth. ”

(End of chapter)