In the Yin prison of Jingzhao Mansion, as soon as Chen Wenyuan and his master walked into the door of the cell, a middle-aged man with a slightly angry tone came from behind him, and Chen Wenyuan stood at the door of the prison and turned to look at him.

"Lord Chen, you... It's a bit unkind! The emperor asked me to host this case, but you didn't tell the official about the new developments. ”

Chen Wenyuan's face immediately turned to compliment, and he said with a smile.

"How dare you, the lower official is going to inquire about the situation and then report to the adult, so as not to disturb the adult's business, since Lord Leng has worked tirelessly to come, then it will be hard for the adult, please."

Chen Wenyuan walked behind Xue Hong and the three of them walked to the depths of the prison together, Chen Wenyuan, who was walking behind, looked at the master who was walking behind him, and instantly became a little darker, and the master met his fierce gaze, and also shook his head at him with palpitations, indicating that he did not notify the criminal department. As for how the news was revealed, it must be the informant who was arranged for them in the Yin prison of Jingzhao Mansion, and the person who came was none other than another person who was ordered by the emperor to host the Tianyang Mountain ambush case, and a second-grade official who was higher than Chen Wenyuan's rank.

The three of them walked along the straight passage of the prison door, at first there was a little sunlight refracted from the window, but when they walked for a while, the environment here was completely opposite to the world of sunshine and flowers outside, the dark prison was cold and humid on the prison floor, the bloody and dull breath of death rushed towards them, and the sluggish and numb prisoner did not change his mood when he saw someone coming in, and his pale and thin yellow face under the unkempt face looked at the people passing by outside the cell.

"Bring Xu Yonggui from the Tianzi cell up, and Lord Leng will interrogate him personally."

After receiving the news, the head of the jailer, who had been waiting outside the cell early, saw the two adults and hurriedly bowed and saluted, and when he heard Chen Wenyuan's order, he hurriedly got up and personally led the way in front, walked to the last cell at the end, and escorted the prisoner out of the cell door to the place dedicated to interrogating the prisoner, this is the best opportunity to perform in front of the adults, how can the head of the jailer not cherish it, serve tea and pour water, move chairs to wipe the dust before letting the adults sit down, do their best to please the two adults, if they are looked at, Is it still far away?

Leng Duyi sat in the center of the interrogation room, looking at Xu Yonggui, who was weak and had been frightened and couldn't stop trembling sitting on the ground, and said to him with a gentle expression.

"Xu Yonggui, I am Leng Duyi, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, I can guarantee your safety and give you wealth and glory. Tell me where you got the token and where the letter was hidden, and you'll be able to leave right away. ”

When he heard that he could be born soon and still be prosperous and rich, the thief's eyebrows and mouse eyes that were very messy and slightly narrowed instantly lit up, his thin yellow face showed a mouthful of yellow teeth, and his wry smile changed repeatedly, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, and hurriedly climbed a few steps in front of Leng Duyi, knelt down with a thousand thanks, and said incoherently excitedly:

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, I'll say... That is to say, the token and the letter were taken from a person. ”

Hearing this, Chen Wenyuan hurriedly asked, took a step forward with an excited expression, stared at him and asked sharply:

"Where did you steal it, do you remember what that person looked like?"

Leng Duyi turned his head sideways and glanced at Chen Wenyuan coldly, Chen Wenyuan hurriedly lowered his head, smiled embarrassedly, and then made a gesture of invitation and retreated to the same place.

Leng Duyi gently spit out a sentence at this time,

"Xu Yonggui, don't worry, my words count, you continue."

Xu Yonggui bowed and thanked him again and again, and then his eyes rose and continued to recall:

"I met this person in Wanhualou, a middle-aged man who was dressed in silk and satin, and was very generous to the girls, but I saw that this person was dressed in disguise, with a fake beard, by the way, and a fake mole, I took advantage of him when he hooked up with the girls, and he took the sheep, a token made of pure gold was originally going to go to the black market, but it was brought here by you not long after entering the pawnshop, and I tore open the letter and took a look, so scared that I didn't slow down for a day, I wanted to burn, but I thought about it in a blink of an eye, Maybe it's a way to make money, so I stayed and hid in one place, only I know. ”

Xu Yonggui shrank his body as he spoke, and looked at this dark prison full of death, if there was no token, I am afraid that he would have been unjustly killed. After listening to this, Leng Duyi suppressed a little excitement in his heart, stared at him and said:

"Very good, wait a minute, I will arrange for the painter to describe this person's appearance to him in detail, and then take me to find the letter, and you will be safe, and then I will give you another hundred taels of gold."

After Leng Duyi finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Chen Wenyuan, who was pondering in the back, and didn't react until the master touched him. Chen Wenyuan nodded hurriedly, and instructed the master beside him:

"Master, you go and arrange it."

The master nodded and asked the two jailers to take Xu Yonggui out of the prison and return to Yin Yamen in Jingzhao Mansion.

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"Lord Leng, do you think you need to report to the emperor first?"

After a while, Leng Duyi and Chen Wenyuan looked at the portraits described by Xu Yonggui, Chen Wenyuan looked at him and asked, Leng Duyi lowered his head in contemplation and shook his head, and replied in a low voice:

"This matter is related to the Marquis of Yongguan, before it is investigated, don't alarm the emperor, investigate secretly, and then send a few masters to get the letter with us, and we must protect the safety of this person, just in case."

"Don't worry, Lord Leng, I have already asked the master to arrange it, and they are all first-class masters in the house."

As soon as the two of them finished speaking in a whisper, they saw the master walking by, and Chen Wenyuan raised his eyes and asked him:

"Can it be arranged?"

The master cast a reassuring look, nodded, and after a while, Leng Duyi, Chen Wenyuan and the master plus a few masters who had been arranged, the group dressed as a rich businessman and followed Xu Yonggui to his residence in a sedan chair.

The sedan chair goes out from the gate of the government to the direction of Chengxi Street, which is a place where the fish and dragons of the capital city are mixed, and all kinds of people are gathered here, and various gray industries are also breeding in it.

"My lord, here we are, and the little house in front of me is where I live."

After the group walked from the entrance to his house on West Street and walked two incense sticks, Xu Yonggui, who was sitting in a sedan chair, bowed and pointed to the door of his dilapidated hut, and then stepped down from the sedan chair first, and the screeching sound of rotten wood rubbing against each other was released. The people walking on the side of the street cast curious eyes, and they all looked into the house in confusion, why a group of wealthy businessmen in fancy clothes came to Xu Yonggui's dilapidated house, but it was a pity that they were blocked in front of the door by his subordinates who looked bad.

Xu Yonggui led Leng Duyi and Chen Wenyuan into the courtyard full of dry grass, he pushed open the wooden door that was about to rot, and what caught his eye was the furnishings of the four walls of the house, exuding a cold and moldy smell, and only a wooden bed rested on the left side of the door. I saw Xu Yonggui walk to the bed and squat down, lift the bed legs, take out a yellow folded envelope in the crack of the floor tiles, trot in front of Leng Duyi, who was covering his mouth and nose, and respectfully handed it to him.

Leng Duyi took the letter and asked him to wait outside the door, and then unfolded the letter, there was no information on the envelope, he pulled out the letter inside, and a few neat lines of calligraphy came into view.

"Ambush in Tianyang Valley, attack the team, put on a big show, take away the second prince of the north, and after success, the gold thousand taels to express gratitude."

Chen Wenyuan stood beside Leng Duyi and looked at the letter, and its tail was still covered with the military seal of the general of Zhengbei, and he was suddenly shocked on the spot, and said in disbelief:

"The dignified general of the Northern Expedition, the invincible Nanzhao God of War, dares to ignore the interests of the Nanzhao country, why is this done?"

"Why?"

"It's not for the sake of military power."

Chen Wenyuan was shocked and didn't close his mouth for a long time, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and whispered.

"If this matter is not revealed, and Xie Feng, the second prince of Libei, who came to be a proton, disappears, I am afraid that our Nanzhao will lose benevolence and righteousness first, and the morale of the two countries will be low when they go to war.

Leng Duyi folded the letter into his arms with a blue face, and warned Chen Wenyuan solemnly:

"This matter is important, don't reveal the news, so as not to startle the snake, all the people who know about it, all of them will be escorted into our criminal department, and then we will immediately go to the Holy Shrine and wait for the Holy Judgment."

"The lower officials understand that everything is arranged by the adults."

Chen Wenyuan, who was only a fourth-grade person, bowed slightly and saluted, this is the person of the eldest prince, he can't afford to provoke him. Leng Duyi looked at such a sensible person, nodded with satisfaction, patted him on the shoulder, and then turned around and let Xu Yonggui, who was standing in the courtyard, call into the house and asked in a low voice:

"This matter is very important, if you are allowed to stay here alone, it is very likely that I will kill you, follow me back to the Criminal Department, send someone to protect you, you choose."

Xu Yonggui's feet trembled when he heard this, he thought that he would be prosperous and rich in the future, and he would not worry about eating and drinking, but his life was still in danger, so he hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged:

"My lord, my lord, you have to save me."

Leng Duyi looked at this person who could only wag his tail and beg for mercy, and his disdainful gaze flashed in his eyes, the reason why he told him this was because he was a witness and useful, otherwise he would not have looked at such a person.

There were more onlookers at the door, and many people might not have seen the Shangshu of the Second Grade Criminal Department, but Yin Chen Wenyuan of Jingzhao Mansion was the parent official of Shangjing, and some people had seen it, and whispered discussions came out for a while.

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"What is this Mansion Lord Yin Qiao doing in disguise and coming to Yonggui's house, did he commit an accident?"

"It's unlikely, if you commit a crime, you will be directly arrested in prison, and you will be brought home for a reason, but it is definitely not a good thing."

"Yes, yes, this guy is idle all day long, and he deserves it."

The people who lived in the neighborhoods and passed by guessed word by word, and it was not until the men brought by Leng Duyi dispersed the crowd that they reluctantly dispersed in all directions.