Chapter 162: Old Cases
The national teacher is really here, and he is still in person? The face of the Golden Lotus Dao is so big.......... Xu Qi'an sighed that the Golden Lotus Dao had a big face, and on the other hand, he was quite flattered.
"I've seen the national teacher. ”
When he examined Luo Yuheng again, he found some differences, the Luo Yuheng he saw in the Lingbao Temple was beautiful, but he was still flesh and blood.
And the female national teacher he saw in front of him exuded a holy glimmer all over her body, if she had to describe it, it was probably the best interpretation of "ice muscle and jade bones".
Luo Yuheng glanced at him and said lightly: "This is the Yang God." ”
Yang Shen ........ The Yang God of the Three Grades of Daomen? The Yang God Who is not afraid of wind and thunder and travels too void in the legend? Xu Qi'an's face was surprised, as if he was watching a giant panda, and he couldn't take his eyes off.
Luo Yuheng's eyebrows frowned slightly, her clear eyes flashed gloomy, and she said lightly: "What is the matter with me?"
Sensing that his gaze had inadvertently offended the national teacher, Xu Qi'an hurriedly sat upright, without squinting, and said in a deep voice: "There is something I want to tell the national teacher." ”
After a pause, he pondered and said: "In the Chuzhou Massacre case, Emperor Yuan Jing and King Huai conspired, one refining the Blood Pill and the other refining the Soul Pill. King Huai refined the blood pill in order to impact the Great Perfection of the Three Grades, and then devoured the princess's spiritual essence. ”
Now that he has turned his face, he will not pretend to call "Your Majesty". As for the princess's secret, Xu Qi'an doesn't believe in the second-grade Taoist head, and he won't know that the princess has a spiritual essence.
"What I want to know is, what is the use of Emperor Yuan Jing refining the Soul Pill?"
Hearing this, Luo Yuheng frowned, pondered for a few seconds, and said slowly: "Yuanjing has cultivated for twenty years, and it can reach the sixth-rank Yin God Realm. There is no end in sight. ”
This, this....... Twenty years of cultivation is still a six-grade, I don't know how to complain, the resources of the power of the country, even if it is a pig, it should also be a Dan!!
Emperor Yuanjing's talent for cultivation is equivalent to Xu Lingyin's talent for reading?
Xu Qi'an gathered his thoughts and said, "Could it be a disguise?"
Luo Yuheng glanced at him and didn't speak.
Xu Qi'an apologized again and again.
Such questioning is disrespectful to a second-grade powerhouse.
Luo Yuheng continued: "Yuan Jing's soul is naturally weak, which is the reason for his poor cultivation qualifications. ”
The Golden Lotus Daoist said that the Soul Pill can enhance the Yuan Shen, could it be that Emperor Yuan Jing is trying to make up for the congenital defects? Xu Qi'an thought in his heart, and listened to Luo Yuheng frowning and said:
"But there are many ways to enhance the Yuan Shen, meditation and bait can be eaten, and you don't have to refine the Soul Pill. ”
Xu Qi'an bowed: "In other words, the soul pill has another effect." ”
From a psychological point of view, only a madman is careless, but Emperor Yuan Jing is not a madman, on the contrary, he is a scheming king.
Before he does something, he will definitely weigh the consequences, and the benefits are rich enough before he will do it. If the Soul Pill was just to stabilize the foundation of the six grades, it was unlikely that he would take the initiative to plot to slaughter the city, and the price would be too great.
At most, it is just acquiescing to King Huai.
Luo Yuheng asked rhetorically, "What do you think?"
Xu Qi'an smiled bitterly: "There is no clue, there is no way to guess, I will try to check this matter." As for the national teacher, you can do it in your heart. ”
He believes that with the wisdom of a second-grade powerhouse, he doesn't need to do too much explanation and advice, just a reminder.
Luo Yuheng let out an "um" and asked, "Princess, she was really taken away by the barbarians, and then there was no news?"
Xu Qi'an sighed: "Yes, it's a pity that the first beauty of Dafeng, King Huai is dead, and the princess is probably ....... too."
He appropriately expressed some regrets, fully expressing a normal man's regret for the misfortune of a stunning beauty.
Luo Yuheng looked at him quietly, was silent for a moment, and asked casually: "Listen to Jin Lian, you once found the ancient house in the ancient tomb of the underground palace outside Yongzhou City?"
Why are you asking this? Xu Qi'an was stunned for a moment, and replied truthfully: "Yes." ”
"Do you have a thorough understanding?"
When asking, Luo Yuheng's beautiful eyes stared at him intently.
"This ...... I have never practiced, and I heard the Golden Lotus Daoist say that this technique can only be practiced by men and women who are proficient in the art of the room, and it is not that you can double cultivate by finding a woman. ”
Xu Qi'an is also an old fritter, and it is still a little embarrassing to talk about such private matters with a stunning beauty.
Luo Yuheng bowed slightly.
Xu Qi'an saw a trace of satisfaction in her eyes?
"The Chuzhou massacre case has come to an end for the time being, and Yuan Jing is now eager for this matter to pass immediately, and he will never retaliate against you in the short term. Luo Yuheng nodded:
"As for the follow-up, you should be more vigilant. As soon as he finds signs of revenge, he immediately asks his family to resign and wait for a later recovery. ”
Xu Qi'an nodded, this is the price of offending an emperor.
There is no sign of the mastermind behind the scenes for the time being, it is a distant trouble, and Emperor Yuan Jing is a near-term worry.
I have to improve my cultivation extremely quickly so that I can protect myself........
"This talisman sword is put away, and it is activated by qi at the moment of crisis, so I can barely count it as a blow. If you need to get in touch, you can just pour in your thoughts. ”
Luo Yuheng's yang god turned into golden light and fled.
Xu Qi'an put away the talisman sword and pinched his eyebrows: "Short-term goal, promotion to the fifth grade." Then check Emperor Yuan Jing, hey, I didn't think that I would also have a day to check the emperor. ”
..........
"Zhongli Zhongli ......."
Xu Qi'an walked out of the house and looked around.
"I'm here. Zhong Li hugged his knees, sat by the window, and responded weakly.
It's good that you didn't fall and hurt yourself....... Xu Qi'an breathed a sigh of relief.
He took Zhong Li to pass by Xu Erlang's study, and looked from the window, Xu Erlang and Chu Yuanzhen were drinking and talking, and the scholar was talking empty-handed, and it continued.
Well, with Brother Chu's sophistication of human feelings, on the premise of knowing that Erlang "does not want to reveal his identity", he will not rashly mention the fragments of the book from the ground.
Erlang can chat with Chu Yuanzhen for so long, he is worthy of being a Chunyu Huiyuan, a second-class jinshi, and his level is good.
All the way to the door of Li Miaozhen's room, I heard Su Su say crisply inside: "Dad, hey, hey, hey, hey........"
It's like a repeater, over and over again, and it's fun.
"Have you started practicing how to call me Daddy? Don't call Daddy, call Daddy. Xu Qi'an pushed open the door and entered the room.
Su Su was wearing a beautiful and complicated white dress, and giggled: "What's the matter with you, that stupid kid in your family is so funny, the master taught you to read and write, and wrote a "daddy", and the master said: Dad."
"Your stupid boy said, 'Oh!'"
Su Suxiao's soles slipped and he lay on the table, trembling with flowers.
Xu Qi'an: "........"
No wonder Li Miaozhen looked skeptical of life at that time.
Then why was Chu Yuanzhen so angry? He thought about it, but he couldn't help but ask, not wanting to reveal his companion's scars.
"I'm going to go out, if you're okay, come with me?" Xu Qi'an looked at the Holy Maiden of the Heavenly Sect.
The little face of the saint was full of the words "unhappy", and she said angrily: "If you have something, just say it, don't disturb my practice." ”
The tone is a little rushed, don't you take Xiao Douding's anger out on me.......... Xu Qi'an explained:
"I know that Cao Guogong's private house has something hidden in it, let's explore it together?"
As soon as you say that, I'm interested........ Li Miaozhen laughed: "Okay." ”
.............
Cao Guogong's private residence is a few miles away from the imperial city, in a small courtyard near the lake.
It is said that it is a small courtyard, but in fact it is not small, two entrances, the courtyard door is locked, and no one has lived in it for a long time.
Li Miaozhen squinted, looked at the mansion, and snorted coldly: "Such a private mansion, not far from the imperial city, has a good location, and is quiet, not to mention eight thousand taels of silver."
"And Cao Guogong has more than a dozen such private houses, which are used to hide the pampered outer room of the golden house, which is simply hateful and killable. ”
I'm sorry, but it wasn't long before I became the man who bought a private house........ Xu Qi'an teased silently, looking around, the martial artist's instinctive intuition of danger did not give feedback.
There is no ambush around, and Cao Guogong's private house is indeed hidden.
Seeing that there was no one around, Xu Qi'an, Li Miaozhen and Zhong Li jumped over the high wall and landed lightly in the courtyard.
The moment the soles of his feet landed, Xu Qi'an suddenly turned around, opened his arms, and the next moment, Zhong Li, whose toes were pulled when he climbed over the wall, plunged into his arms.
Senior Sister Zhong's delicate body is soft, and she can still feel the elasticity of her skin through the cloth robe.
"Thank you........" Zhong Li was a little pleased, originally this time, her face fell to the ground first.
"No thanks, practice makes perfect. Xu Qi'an said with a smile.
"........" Li Miaozhen opened her mouth and sighed pityingly.
Warlock Wupin, a prophet, I don't know how many days of pride have been stuck.
This yard has not been inhabited for a long time, but it is not depressed, I think it is Cao Guogong who regularly asks people to maintain and clean it.
Walking through the courtyard and entering the inner hall, the three of them groped around and found that this was a normal house, idle, and there were no too precious things.
"There should be a dark room. Li Miaozhen analyzed.
"It's not a dark room, it's a cellar. ”
Xu Qi'an met the surprised eyes of the Heavenly Sect Holy Maiden and explained: "The structure of the house and the size of the interior are not enough to hide a secret room. ”
Li Miaozhen suddenly, untied the sachet, patted it gently, and wisps of green smoke came out and burrowed into the ground.
In the past, a wisp of green smoke returned, telling ghost words in Li Miaozhen's ear.
Li Miaozhen listened for a moment and said, "Come with me." ”
She took Xu Qi'an and Zhong Li to the study that was connected to the master bedroom, pushed open the big chair behind the desk, and stepped hard.
"Boom ......."
The tiles crumbled, collapsing into a black hole. Steep stone steps lead to the cellar.
The three of them descended the stone steps into the cellar, and the dull air echoed with the sound of their footsteps.
The cellar is not deep, like the cellar used by the wealthy to store ice cubes and vegetables, except that Cao Guogong used it to hide treasures and antiques.
Li Miaozhen lit the oil lamps embedded in the walls, one after the other, bringing a fire-colored glow to the dark cellar.
In the cellar, there are rows and rows of Bogu shelves, filled with all kinds of antiques, porcelain vases, jade, bronze beasts, night pearls, and so on.
Those who look are dazzled.
There is no shortage of beauty in the world, but there is a lack of eyes to find it......... Xu Qi's heart spontaneously gave birth to this famous saying.
Then, he listened to Li Miaozhen say: "Every item here is worth a lot of money, and if you take it out and exchange it for silver, you can save many refugees who are homeless and hungry." ”
As she said this, her eyes lit up with excitement.
“?”
Xu Qi'an stiffened his neck and slowly turned his head to look at her.
Is this what I'm bringing you for? Believe it or not, I'm killing people and destroying my mouth....... He coughed:
"That's true, but you have to do what you can to do charity. Breaking the bank and doing charity is a fool's job. ”
"Aren't these ill-gotten gains?" Li Miaozhen squinted at him.
Are you sure you're too forgetful Li Miaozhen?
"When the time comes, we will draw 30% to do good deeds for you. Xu Qi'an waved his hand, unwilling to talk more, and instead said:
"These things are either corrupt and bribed, or other shady channels. ”
Zhong Li stretched out his little hand and picked up a blue ice bead, its texture was clear, as if it was hiding a blue ocean, and in the light of the oil lamp, it refracted a thrilling light.
"This is a shark pearl abundant in the South China Sea, which is very precious and a tribute. "Zhong Li, as a disciple of Si Tianjian, has a far better understanding of luxury goods than Xu Bai and the Holy Maiden of Tianzong.
Embezzling tribute?!
Xu Qi'an understood, no wonder Cao Guogong deliberately bought a private house to house these things.
Next, he took out the fragments of the book from the ground, and put these precious things into the mirror world one by one, such as the ones that are easily damaged, such as porcelain and the like, which are more headaches.
"There's a box here, get it in the box. Li Miaozhen pointed to the corner deep in the cellar.
With a snap, the box opened.
There was no addictive golden light, or silver light flickering, Xu Qi'an was a little disappointed.
There were stacks of secret letters in the box, Xu Qi'an opened them and read a few letters, and his breathing suddenly became short.
He flipped through the past one by one, and quickly browsed that these secret letters were recorded by Cao Guogong, a record of corruption and perversion of the law.
Some can even be traced back to more than ten or twenty years ago, embezzling tribute, greedy for silver and grain for disaster relief, and occupying military land........ Among the people who colluded with it were civil officials, nobles, and royal relatives.
If these secret letters are exposed, it will definitely cause turmoil in the court, and there are countless people who will be affected.
"To Duke Wei, give these secret letters to Duke Wei.........."
Xu Qi'an's subconscious, instinctive reaction was to hand it over to Wei Yuan, let him master these materials, and increase Wei Yuan's political capital.
After a few seconds, he calmed down.
Don't be in a hurry, even if you want to give it to Wei Gong, it's not in a hurry. No, you can't give it all to Wei Yuan, you have to leave some for Erlang, he also needs political capital.
With that in mind, he pulled out another secret letter from the bottom and began to read it.
"In the 15th year of Yuanjing, he has joined forces with Wang Dang, Yan Dang, Yuwang and other clan relatives and nobles to eradicate Su Hang and completely eliminate it....... The party, Su Hang asked and beheaded, the female dependents in the house were charged to the teaching department, and the men were exiled. Accepting bribes of 8,000 taels each from the Yan Party and the Wang Party........"
Su Hang, this name is so familiar......... Xu Qi'an's thought flashed in his heart, and he heard Li Miaozhen's face fade, and blurted out: "Su Su's father ......."
Xu Qi'anmeng's memory, Su Su's father is called Su Hang, Jinshi in the 29th year of Joan of Arc, 14 years in Yuanjing, for unknown reasons, he was demoted back to Jiangzhou as the prefect, and the following year he was beheaded on charges of bribery and corruption.
Did Su Su's father really die in a partisan dispute, or did so many parties join forces?
"It turned out that Susu's father was killed by them. Yan Party, Wang Party, and honorable princes. Li Miaozhen said indignantly.
"No, this letter is very problematic........ Xu Qi'an pointed to a blank place on the secret letter, frowned, and said: "Look, why is the front of the 'party' blank, and what party is completely eliminated?"
In front of the party word, there is a blank space, which is exactly the width of a word.
"Could it be that there is some reason why Cao Guogong is jealous and does not write about that party?" Li Miaozhen guessed.
If that's the reason, he might not have written it, or replaced it with a code name. Besides, everything has been cleared, what else do you need to be afraid of?" Xu Qi'an shook his head, denied Li Miaozhen's guess, pointed to the secret letter and said:
"It's more like it's written, as if it was forcibly erased by some force, leaving a blank. ”
Li Miaozhen frowned, made a gesture of trying to analyze, and after a long time, she erased the question mark from her brain, gave up thinking, and asked:
"What do you think?"
Since there is an experienced and capable reasoning expert by her side, why should she use her own brain.
"What can I say, this bit of information is not enough to allow me to build a hypothesis. Well, didn't you say that Su Su's father's file can't be found in Jiangzhou.
"Then let's find an opportunity to go to the Ministry of Officials and the Criminal Department to investigate, or Dali Temple. We'll wait until more clues are found. ”
Xu Qi'an sighed: "But one thing is certain, Su Su's father's death is not simple. It is by no means normal corruption and bribery, and there are probably many people involved in party struggles and people involved. I feel that along this line, I might be able to dig up a lot of things. ”
Immediately, they put the porcelain into the box, and then the box into the fragments of the book from the ground, and swept away all the valuable things in the private house.
Of course, Xu Qi'an did not forget to take away the title deed and house deed.
He planned to sell the mansion, and then buy a small courtyard near the Xu Mansion and raise the princess there.
............
The three of them returned to Xu's mansion, and Su Su was sitting on the roof looking at the scenery, holding a red and colorful paper umbrella.
In the courtyard, Xu Lingyin, who was full of food and drink, boxed like a decent person, tempering her qi and blood, and she didn't forget to dub herself: Hey, hey, hey!
Two small shallow eyebrows were raised in a fierce appearance.
Chu Caiwei and Lina chatted on the side, giving guidance by the way.
Su Su sat on the roof and watched the excitement, the wind lifted her hair and her skirt, like a fairy out of the dust, beautiful and beautiful.
Li Miaozhen stood in the courtyard, raised her head, and beckoned: "Su Su, come down, I have something to say to you." ”
"Okay!"
Su Su smiled and landed lightly.
Xiao Douding pointed at Su Su and said to Lina and Cai Wei, "I want to learn this too." ”
"You can't, you're too fat. Lina and Caiwei refused.
Xiao Douding ignored them angrily and ran to hug the eldest brother's leg.
"Big brother, am I fat?" Xu Lingyin tried to regain his confidence from his eldest brother.
"You're not fat, you're a fatty liver. Xu Qi'an touched her head.
"My mother is my father's careful liver, and I am my eldest brother's fatty liver, right. Xu Lingyin still remembers this conversation, which her eldest brother had told her before.
"Yes, yes, yes. ”
Xiao Douding ran back to Lina and Chu Caiwei and announced loudly: "My mother is my father's careful liver, and I am my eldest brother's fatty liver." ”
"Shut up!"
The aunt came out of the house, her face was red, her ears were red, she was carrying a feather duster, and chased Xu Lingyin all over the yard, but she couldn't catch up.........
Xu Qi'an and the others entered the house, Li Miaozhen pressed Su Su on the table, and said with a serious expression: "We, we have found clues about your father's questioning." ”
Su Su's delicate body trembled visibly, the corners of her mouth with a light smile slowly smoothed, her lively and agile eyes darkened, and then flashed sadness and confusion.
Her eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and she looked at Xu Qi'an stupidly: "You found it?"