393. Collusion between officials and thieves
So after Du Buyi and Zhu Qi left the yamen, they came to a broken temple in the city at night, and finally found the turtle button gold seal that Fu Xiaoer said under a Buddha statue in the broken temple.
I saw that the golden seal had a few big characters written on it, "Dali Chuan Guo Jade Seal", Du did not forget to think at this time, hasn't this Dali Chuan Guo Jade Seal been hidden in the Five Poisons Sect? How did it get here?
Thinking of this, Du Yi couldn't help but feel that it was very strange at this time, but unfortunately Xian'er was not here, so he couldn't ask her, so he took the gold seal and went back to the inn with Zhu Qi first.
At this time, Lingqi was already waiting for him in the room, so naturally he had to linger with Lingqi.
After Fu Xiaoer drew the portrait of the beggar for two days, Du did not forget to take the two daughters to inquire about the whereabouts of the beggar, and by the way, he also investigated several rich families who were stolen.
In the end, when Du Buyi sneaked into one of the mansions surnamed Tang, he suddenly found that when Mrs. Tang and a few maids in this mansion entered a side room together, her expression seemed to be a little weird, and she immediately secretly followed, and looked out the window, only to see countless boxes of all sizes in this room.
I only heard Mrs. Tang say to a few maids:
"This is all your master's hard work in the past few years, you should hurry up and check it again, tomorrow night the prefect will send someone to pull these things away!"
I heard one of the maids ask:
"Madam, is the lord really willing to give all these treasures to the prefect?"
Mrs. Tang then said:
"Don't ask too much about this, the master has his own plan, you can check it carefully!"
The maids opened the boxes one after another, and Du Yi was stunned when he saw them, only to see that these boxes were full of valuable things such as gold and jade jewelry and antiques, calligraphy and paintings.
Seeing this, Du Yi couldn't help but understand, it turned out that the prefect united the Tang family to commit the crime together, and took the opportunity to frame and extort foreign merchants to make a windfall, but he didn't expect this Lin'an prefect Li Jin to be so bold.
Du Buyi quietly left the Tang Mansion, and then returned to the inn with Lingqi and Zhu Qi to discuss the matter.
I only heard Zhu Qi say:
"I think it's better to report this matter to the imperial court as soon as possible, and let the imperial court punish this Lin'an prefect Li Jin!"
Lingqi also said:
"But we still have to catch him!"
Du Cheng said:
"What you said is right, but this Yunnan Mansion is far away from the emperor Tiangao, and the imperial court can't manage it at all, it is almost Mu Shaoxun's world, presumably this Li Jin must also be stammering with Mu Shaoxun, otherwise it will definitely not have the guts!"
Zhu Qi immediately asked again:
"Then Brother Du, what should we do?"
Du did not forget to slow down and said:
"We came here just to find Meng Yidao, since we have encountered this kind of thing, it seems that the matter of finding Meng Yidao has to be slowed down, I want to find someone!"
Zhu Qi asked:
"Who are you going to?"
Du Cheng Cheng said:
"An old friend named Yunluo, she is the leader of the Bai clan here in Yunnan, she should be able to help us!"
Zhu Qi asked again:
"Do you want us to come with you?"
Lingqi looked at Du Yiyi's expression, then pulled Zhu Qi and said:
"I think it's better to let Brother Du go by himself, let's just wait for him to come back here!"
Then whispered a few words in Zhu Qi's ear, and Zhu Qi broke off the idea of going with Du Yi.
So after the two of them sent Du Buyi out of the inn, Du Buyi went all the way to the northeast to the place where Yunluo's father Bai Sheng was stationed in the army.
After seeing Bai Shengjin at Yun Luo's father's garrison, Du Bu Bu first asked Yun Luo for news, and Bai Shengjin told Du Bu Bu Fu:
"Yunluo has been a monk a few years ago!"
When Du did not forget to see Yun Luo in a nunnery, Yun Luo was beating the wooden fish at this time, and when he saw that Du did not forget to come, the expression master said calmly:
"I didn't expect that Du Gongzi hadn't seen him for many years, and he would actually think of coming to see me Yunluo!"
Du didn't forget to reply:
"How can I forget the friendship with Yunluo at the beginning!"
Yun Luo then invited Du Buyi to a room next door, and after entering the house, he hugged Du Buyi tightly.
Du Bu did not forget to kiss Yun Luo, Yun Luo responded, the two of them were like dry wood fire after a while, after a cloud and rain, Du Bucai found that Yun Luo was leading the practice, so he held Yun Luo in his arms and asked:
"Yunluo, why do you want to become a monk?"
Yun Luo replied:
"It's not because I don't want to be disturbed by Mu Shaoxun, I have to do this!"
Du didn't forget to touch Yunluo's long hair and said:
"I've suffered you all these years!"
Yun Luo replied:
"I'm not bitter, haven't I waited for you again? Du Lang!"
Du did not forget to say:
"Yunluo, if you don't want to go with me in the future, don't suffer in this nunnery!"
Yun Luo looked at Du Buyi's eyes, touched Du Buyi's face, and said:
"I feel that life is very good in this nunnery, every day with the ancient Buddha of the green lantern, chanting scriptures, and time flies quickly!"
Du did not forget to sigh and said:
"Time does fly so fast, I'm thirty now!"
Yun Luo smiled and said:
"Aren't I all thirty-one?"
Yun Luo turned over and pressed on Du Buzhi's body again, and said:
"Du Lang, let's cherish the time we have together now!"
Du did not forget to reply:
"Good!"
Then his hand roamed over Yunluo's body, and he said:
"Yunluo, you are still feminine!"
Yun Luo replied:
"Aren't you getting more and more masculine?"
Then he whispered in Du Zhi's ear:
"I'm getting happier with you now!"
Du did not forget to reply with a smile:
"Okay, then let's see how I make you happier tonight!"
Turning over, he pressed Yunluo onto the bed.
Naturally, the two of them fought several times again.
Early the next morning, Yun Luo boiled a bowl of porridge for Du Buyi and sent it over, and then personally fed Du Buyi and drank the porridge.
Du did not forget to lie on the bed and asked Yun Luo:
"Was it okay last night?"
Yun Luo said a little shyly at this time:
"You know why you ask people!"
After a while, after feeding Du and finishing drinking the porridge, Yun Luo suddenly changed the topic and said:
"Du Lang, you must have something to do when you came to me, right?"
Du did not forget to reply:
"Yes, I'm in trouble in Lin'an Mansion!"
He told Yunluo what he encountered in Lin'an Mansion and what he took Lingqi to find the antidote to tobacco poison.
After listening to this, Yun Luo said:
"I know Meng Yidao, this person is a little ruthless, but he is quite righteous, and you said that the prefect Li Jin seems to have been a clerk under Mu Shaoxun before, and he is very trusted by Mu Shaoxun, I heard you say this, it seems that Mu Shaoxun must have instructed it to collect money for himself!"
Du did not forget to ask immediately:
"Yunluo, what do you think I should do?"
Yun Luo sighed and said:
"It seems that I have to leave this nunnery to help you, but you must find conclusive evidence that Li Jin colluded with the thieves to steal those treasures, and I can help you!"
Du did not forget to say immediately:
"Okay, then I'll go back and prepare the evidence now, and I'll keep you informed!"
Yun Luo asked with concern at this time:
"You were so tired last night, don't you need to rest more now before leaving?"
Du did not forget to reply:
"Because I have to rush back now, I first know where the prefect transported the gold and jade jewelry, so that I can feel at ease!"
Yun Luo said:
"Well, I knew you were going to leave in a hurry, I've got the best horses for you outside, and it should be too late for you to ride back now!"
So Du did not forget to say goodbye to Yunluo, and rode a fast horse to Lin'an Mansion and galloped away.
I just rushed back to Lin'an City before dark, ate two mouthfuls of dry food casually, went back to the inn and said hello to Zhu Qi and Lingqi, then changed into black clothes, and sneaked into the Tang Mansion again.
At this time, several ox carts had been parked at the back of the Tang Mansion, and Du did not forget that Ye finally saw the figure of the prefect Liu Jin, who was a little old man with a short stature and a gray beard.
And Tang Duyi, the owner of the Tang Mansion, didn't expect it to be a big man with a long beard on his face and dressed like a mountain man.
At this time, Du Buyi suddenly saw the beggar in Fu Xiaoer's painting in the crowd, and it turned out that he was an entourage by Tang Duyi's side.
I only heard that the entourage in the painting seemed to be whispering something to Tang Duyi, and I didn't forget to listen carefully, it turned out that this entourage was asking Tang Duyi why he let him give the golden seal of the emperor of Dali to a foreign businessman.
I only heard Tang Duyi reply:
"It's also the prefect's intention for me to let you do this, after all, it's been so long, I've arrested a bunch of suspects, and I haven't found out the whereabouts of a single stolen item, which can't help but make the people suspicious, anyway, the gold seal is useless to us, and it can also let the people know that the gold seal is stolen, and it's not better to be secretly hidden by that reselling merchant!"
The attendant immediately said:
"Then we get it!"
The attendant asked:
"Master, who was the gold seal stolen?"
Tang Duyi said:
"It's a family surnamed Duan in the west of the city, I heard that they are the descendants of the Duan family in Dali before!"
When Du didn't forget to hear this, he couldn't help but wonder, if the family surnamed Duan they were talking about, if it was really the descendants of the surname Duan, then why hadn't they heard of Xian'er coming to them, and this golden seal was obviously hidden in the Five Poisons Sect many years ago!
After a while, the people carried the boxes one by one into the bullock carts outside, and the carts were all filled.
Du Bu Bu quietly followed the ox cart and walked with the prefect Li Jin and others, and walked to the bottom of a mountain cliff outside the city.
I saw that the prefect Li Jin and others ordered someone to unload all the gold and jade jewels on the ox cart, open all the boxes, and divide them into two parts, in fact, one was transported to the north, and it seems that it was given to Mu Shaoxun.
The other part removed a boulder under the cliff, revealing a cave inside, and then the men carried the box and its contents into the cave, and after a while, they moved the boulder back and blocked the entrance to the cave.
At this time, I only heard the prefect Li Jin say to Tang Duyi:
"Don't worry, this official won't swallow these things privately, you just need to go back and inform your master!"
Then he said:
"In a few days, I will execute a group of suspects, count them as substitutes, and next month you tell your master and just continue to act!"
Tang Duyi immediately said:
"I'll definitely inform my master, my lord, go back and rest!"
The prefect then took everyone and left with an ox cart, leaving only Tang Duyi and his entourage on the portrait.
I only heard Tang Duyi say to this entourage:
"Mengqi, now I order you to rush back to Mengjiazhai at night to inform the master of this matter, and then remind the master that he has been in the limelight lately tonight, try not to come out and make trouble!"
It turned out that the entourage who pretended to be a beggar and sold gold seals to Fu Xiaoer's name was Meng Qi, and Tang Duyi was actually just a housekeeper.
Meng Qi immediately replied:
"Steward Tang, okay, I'll go riding a horse now, and hurry back to inform the master!"
Then walked quickly to the forest path, and Du Buyi immediately followed this Mengqi.
After a while, this Mengqi entered a remote courtyard, and then led a horse out of it, and after riding, he ran south.