When Yue Xian woke up, Aeon was already sitting on a chair in his room, playing with the dagger that Liu Shisan had made. Those who can quietly enter Yue Xian's room without being noticed, except for Eamon, may not be able to find a second person.

Yue Xian sighed and thought to himself, "It's good that Aemon is his own person. ”

Looking at the slightly smug look on Eamon's face, Yue Xian asked lightly, "It's done?"

Aemon snorted at the table, "Huh...... Here it is. ”

Yue Xian flipped through the scroll on the table, and in the painting was five wolves surrounding a scalper, the five wolves were in different shapes, one hunched his back in a threatening manner, one seemed to be attacking, one blocked the way in front, one blocked the way back, and one was looking around, as if he was afraid that someone would come. However, it seems that the wolves are not very hungry, because they show no signs of rushing to attack, and they seem to be waiting for something. The scalper trapped in the middle, through the picture scroll, does not seem to make people feel its frightened, but has a sense of calmness and leisure. In the upper right corner of the scroll, it is simply written "Five Wolves Playing with Ox Picture Bingshen Year in the Outer Ridge Water and Ink".

Yue Xian looked at it carefully for a long time, and then instructed the people outside: "Call Xiaotong to come." ”

After a while, the sleepy-eyed Xiao Tong walked in: "It's done?"

Yue Xian said while eating the pastry, "Take a look." ”

Xiao Tong looked up and down carefully, then looked at Eamon, who was full of pride, and then turned to Yue Xian: "Childe, do you see it?"

"Hmm" Yue Xian didn't say a word more.

Seeing the actions of the two, Eamon, who was puzzled, couldn't help it: "I said you two, I am inexplicable, what is going on?"

Xiaotong smiled bitterly: "Wrong, this is a fake." ”

"Fake?" Eamon's eyes widened suddenly: "How can it be a fake? I personally took it out from behind the emperor's old man's back, everyone in the world knows that the "Five Wolves Playing with Ox" is hanging in the imperial study, so the emperor can't hang a fake there, right?"

"How could it be," Yue Xian looked at Eamon.

"This ......" Eamong got up and grabbed the scroll, looked and looked, but couldn't see anything: "Childe, you won't regret it, you don't want to give me a dagger, do you say that on purpose?"

Yue Xian waved his hand: "You take the dagger, this painting is indeed fake, but I don't blame you." ”

"What's wrong with this painting?" asked Aemon, unconvinced.

Yue Xian: "Xiaotong".

Xiaotong took the painting from Eamon's hand and said slowly: "Shui Youmo was raised by his mother alone since he was a child, so he is the most filial to his old mother. The Shen character in this painting is written as usual. Very few people know about this habit of water and ink, and although this imitator's paintings are enough to be real, he has exposed his feet in this character. ”

"Huh?" said Eamon, but understood that the painting was indeed a fake.

Aemon was annoyed and said, "I'll go again tonight." ”

Yue Xian said: "You don't need to go, I was able to succeed last night, all because since the founding of Xiang Guo, the capital has always been very safe, and even the palace guards have relaxed their vigilance." But after tonight, the inner city will definitely be on guard, and I'm afraid there won't be such an opportunity in the future. Moreover, since the hanging in the imperial study is fake, the real painting may not be in the palace at all. Yue Xian paused: "Actually, it doesn't matter if it's true or false, as long as the painting in the imperial study is lost, we are done." Xiaotong, give this painting to Master Le. ”

Xiaotong rolled up the painting and walked out, leaving Aemon sitting there dejectedly. Yue Xian looked at Eamon's appearance, and couldn't bear it: "It's all said, I don't blame you for this, and I don't care if it's true or not, just take it out." This chaos was enough for the Dragoons to be busy for a while. During this time, I was instructed to exercise caution everywhere, and some actions were left to my arrangement. ”

Aemon didn't speak, and went out with his head down, leaving the dagger on the table and not taking it. Yue Xian looked at the dagger, knowing that if Aeon didn't get the real painting, he would definitely not get the reward, so he couldn't help but shake his head: "It's still that kid's temper." ”

As soon as Jiang Xinting was about to sleep, the eunuchs in the palace came to announce his entry into the palace. He is not on duty tonight, at this time the emperor has sent an order to enter the palace, there must be an emergency. While instructing his subordinates to go and reward the people who came with silver, he asked, "Does my father-in-law know what is the matter?"

The father-in-law said: "I heard that my father-in-law said that he had lost something important." ”

"What's that?"

"It's not clear to our family, adults will naturally know when they enter the palace. ”

Jiang Xinting got on the horse, turned around and ordered his subordinates: "Go to Master Lin's house and order him to mobilize five hundred dragoons to stand by outside the Wansheng Gate." ”

When Jiang Xinting rushed to the imperial study, Cun Xi was already waiting outside the door, and whispered to Jiang Xinting: "The Five Wolves Playing with the Cow is lost!"

Jiang Xinting's surprise is not trivial, the responsibility of the dragoon army is to protect the safety of the inner court, as the commander of the dragoon, but let the emperor's most cherished "Five Wolves Playing with Ox" disappear under his nose, if the purpose of the person who came is not to steal the painting but to assassinate, I am afraid that the head of his whole family will not be enough to cut off.

Jiang Xinting walked in tremblingly, and before he could kneel down to say goodbye, Emperor Xiang threw away a sentence: "Three days, people and paintings." Cun Xi, Yi'an Palace" turned around and left. Cun Xi threw a color at Jiang Xinting and left.

However, after a stick of incense, Jiang Xinting felt as if ten years had passed, and finally saw Cun Xi coming, and hurriedly stepped forward: "Father-in-law Cun, the emperor has fallen asleep?"

"I fell asleep. Commander Jiang, the emperor is really angry. ”

"Please save me. ”

"The old slave can't save the commander, and the commander needs to save himself. ”

"Ask my father-in-law to make it clear!"

"Don't you understand? Didn't the emperor just say it, three days, people, paintings. ”

"Ah!" Jiang Xinting was only anxious just now, and now he remembered what Emperor Xiang had said when he was leaving: "Yes, yes, yes, people and paintings, people and paintings...... Can...... Does my father-in-law have any clues?"

"Nope. ”

"Huh?"

"Tonight, Your Majesty is still reviewing the chapter as usual, and the Xijing Mansion sent someone to send His Majesty's favorite osmanthus cake. At this time, the old slave could be sure that the painting was still there. After the old slave went to fetch the osmanthus cake and brought it in, he found that the painting was missing. Cun Xi did not mention that Emperor Xiang was angry because of Lord Xu's performance, and he had served two emperors for more than 30 years, and Cun Xi knew what to say and what not to say.

Jiang Xinting was the leader of the army after all, and he had slowly calmed down at this moment, thanked Cun Xi, asked him to say a few kind words in front of the emperor, stuffed him with a silver ticket and left in a hurry.

Outside the Wansheng Gate, the deputy commander Lin Yize had already assembled five hundred dragoons to wait, and Jiang Xinting ordered: "Quickly order all the gates of the inner city and the outer city, and no one is allowed to leave the city without my hand." Ordered Shun Tianfu to send additional manpower to assist the dragoons in searching for idle people in the city. The mansion of officials above the fourth grade, you personally took the dragoon to be responsible for the search. I'm going to go to Commander Yan now and ask him to help search the outer city. ”

Lin Yize was puzzled when he heard his boss say this: "My lord, who are you looking for?"

"The "Five Wolves Playing with Cows" in the imperial study was stolen. ”

"Ah......h

(End of Chapter 3)