And after Xu Li received the mysterious letter, he did not rush to believe it, but inquired in many ways, and after confirming that the two people in the prison did have a slight reputation on this road, he decided to put down his body and let the two of them out first.

After all, the tribute is not trivial, if he does not recover the tribute in the end, then he has lost the trust of the third son, not to mention, I am afraid that there will be more sins.

Now that the left and right squires are no longer reliable, there is another choice, Xu Li naturally wants to give it a try, after seeing the two of them being brought, Xu Li looked at the two of them, and then spoke. "You two, who is Xu Xianggong?"

Xu Yao immediately responded when he heard this, Xu Li looked Xu Yao up and down again, and saw that Xu Yao was born with an unattractive appearance, an ordinary face, a thin body, a thin body, and a collar shirt, which belonged to the kind that was inconspicuous in the crowd, and there was a trace of doubt in his eyes, "Let me ask you, are you the Xu Xianggong who has been passed down by word of mouth in this Shangyong City, and has both poetry and books?"

Xu Yao said, "Books, I've skimmed a few books, and the case has been broken", Xu Li asked again, "Have you ever written an article?", Xu Yao smiled when he heard the words and said, "No, I gag every day, and I have fun chatting with two pairs"

Xu Li suddenly showed a look of disappointment on his face when he heard this, as if he didn't believe that Xu Yao's appearance would have any real talent and learning, and after being silent for a long time, he still reluctantly said, "I originally had one thing, I wanted to send you to do it, but this matter is a big matter, and people who are not knowledgeable in their hearts can't do it, now I am interested in you, but I also want to test you in advance, are you willing?"

Xu Yao nodded when he heard the words and said, "I don't dare to ask for ears", Xu Li knocked a few rhythmically on the table with his hand, and then said, "Didn't you say that you would be right?

"My lord, please!" After Xu Yao finished speaking, he stood in place, his face relaxed and freehand, as if he was strolling in the back garden.

Hearing Xu Yao say this, he immediately looked around and saw a box of half-eaten pastries on the table, and then secretly said yes in his heart, so he said to Xu Yao, "The box cake is sad for three people, are you right?"

Xu Yao said loudly, "A glass of wine can dispel eternal sorrows, my lord, you don't want to make it" Xu Li's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he knew in his heart that he was judging people by his appearance just now, and he underestimated Xu Yao, but after all, he was in the top position, and before he could breathe, he was taken out by Xu Yao, and he couldn't save face at this time.

Therefore, Xu Li rolled his eyes, saw the rooster tattooed on the beam, and immediately said, "I have another good one." You look at the pair again, the slope

The rooster crows. You're right!"

After hearing this, Xu Yao replied without thinking: "Phoenix tour on the Phoenix Stage." When Xu Li heard this, he sighed and said, "Xianggong's knowledge and subordinates have been taught in the next, if the imperial court opens a branch to take scholars, isn't Xianggong the character on the phoenix platform?"

This Xu Li opened his mouth to compliment, Xu Yao didn't even dare to say in his mouth, this Xu Li now looked like he was in a low voice, all because he was forced to have no choice, and in his heart, he asked Xu Yao again,

If Xu Yao is really complacent about this, then it is estimated that Xu Li will turn his face and deny his eyes in the blink of an eye, Xu Yao can naturally see how clearly he is.

After Xu Yao faced these two pairs, it could be regarded as a temporary pass in Xu Li's place, so under Xu Li's personal check, Xu Yao and Jiang Wenlun started their own investigation work together.

Originally, Xu Li also hoped that Xu Yao's handling of this case would be different from others, but Xu Yao and Jiang Wenlun were busy for two days, and they were just like those wastes before, walking around, and then bringing all the people who were involved in the beginning up for interrogation.

Although Xu Li can't find anything wrong with it, this step-by-step investigation method is not what Xu Li is looking forward to, thinking about how Xu Xianggong has heard about how to solve the case like a god before, and when I look at it today, I don't seem to see each other, and there seems to be nothing too brilliant.

This Xu Li was full of disappointment, but Xu Yao was still there, and he and Jiang Wenlun were slowly handling the affairs in their hands. After three days of this, Xu Yao and Jiang Wenlun went out to hang out all day, going out on time in the morning and coming back on time in the evening, and from time to time they brought some good things to Pei Zhizhou in prison, and their lives were actually nourished.

Just when Xu Li couldn't bear it anymore, Xu Yao suddenly announced that he had cracked the inside story of the case, and he needed to summon all the people involved in the case and the squires to confront them one by one.

Xu Li was overjoyed when he heard this, and he didn't care about the "passive sabotage" of Xu Yao and Jiang Wenlun before, and immediately summoned everyone here, trying to find out the case.

After everyone arrived, Xu Yao put the information and evidence of the case on the table one by one, then picked up a document, and then said to Pei Zhizhou, "Master Pei, please count the situation of the treasury before and explain it to the princes present."

Pei Zhizhou nodded when he heard this, and then said, "On the day Kujin arrived, he should have made an inventory, and I sent someone to invite a group of squires, and they all excused themselves on the grounds that it was dark."

"In desperation, I had to seal the county treasury in person, and when all the princes gathered in the early morning of the next day, I would take inventory, and we would take out the gold bars and count them together

There are two hundred and fifty-three pieces, one is about two catties, and after the counting, it is put back into the urn and withdrawn from the county treasury together."

Xu Yao nodded when he heard this, picked up another document, and asked the other two porters who were called here, "That night, it was the two of you who picked this urn of gold into the treasury under the escort of the officials and monks?"

The two porters hurriedly replied when they heard this, "Hui Yu Lord, it is the small one, the two small ones received the official order, and a group of officials, waiting for the shift in the Xiangyun Temple outside the city, after the tribute gold arrived that night, because the sky was dark, it was inconvenient to hurry, I waited for the two to rest with the official in Xiangyun Temple for a night, the second morning, only picked this Weng gold, and arrived at the county government in the evening."

Xu Yao nodded when he heard this, and then pointed to the big man on the ground and said, "But this?", the two porters took a closer look, and then said yes, Xu Yao immediately opened his mouth and asked the two of them to try to provoke in this hall.

The faces of everyone present suddenly changed, "This is the clod of soil that I asked people to fill in the urn at will, just five hundred catties into it, about the same weight as the gold in the warehouse, these two porters are ordinary people who have no martial arts, and they are not born with divine power, how can they afford such a heavy burden and walk for a day, so when this gold is on the road, it has already been tampered with."

"Hmph, it's just nonsense, if this gold has been dropped halfway, then what is it that I waited for that morning in the county treasury to take inventory? Could it be that all the princes present at that time were blind?" The person who spoke was a burly middle-aged man in a brocade robe, who was undoubtedly Song Guang, who had a gap with Xu Yao.

Xu Yao smiled slightly when he heard this, and then said, "What you saw that day, of course, is genuine, and it is a lot of real gold, but it is really not necessarily what you picked before."

After speaking, Xu Yao put down his Chinese book and said to several monks dressed as monks on the other side, "These are the senior monks of Xiangyun Temple?"

Xu Yao then spoke up again, "According to the previous practice of handing over tribute, after the tribute arrives at Xiangyun Temple, the Guisi will come forward to count it with the escort personnel in person, and then put it in front of the Buddha hall to take care of it together, and then it will be taken over by the official messenger who came to hand over from the county government on the second day, I don't know if this is the case?"

The monks of Xiangyun Temple suddenly said yes, Xu Yao smiled slightly when he heard this, and then ordered to take these monks to different rooms left and right, and after a while, when these monks were brought back, these monks were already full of blood on their faces, and they looked trembling.

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