Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 883 Mrs. Bao's Report

When Shen Haolin and Shen Cha returned to the small hall, they saw Yan Yuan half-slumped on the chair after eating and drinking, belching contentedly. It seemed that the Liuzhou Mansion and his party had suffered a lot, even the etiquette that noble sons should have They were all thrown away.

Merlin stood aside and looked at him with a look of disgust. He really couldn't figure out how the arrogant Young Master Yan who was blocking the door of the Duke's mansion and shouting at the gate of the Duke's mansion had become such a virtuous man after a few months. It has two faces.

Hearing movement from the entrance of the small hall, Yan Yuan turned around lazily, and saw Shen Haolin and Shen Cha walking in side by side, he quickly sat down, as if the guy who was not sitting just now was not him.

Shen Haolin and Shen Cha had a tacit understanding when they didn't see Yan Yuan's change, they went directly to sit in front of him, and looked Yan Yuan up and down.

"Grandpa, General, you are..."

"Young master, how many days has it been since you were caught and you escaped?"

"Three days." Yan Yuan replied directly without even thinking about it, "To tell you the truth, these three days are really like a year, and I will never forget them in this life."

"En!" Shen Cha nodded, and continued to ask, "Then, can you tell me, Eldest Young Master, how did you escape? Didn't Bao Gui send someone to guard you closely?"

"Guard..." Yan Yuan shook his head lightly, "After I was arrested, I was thrown into their firewood shed. I wasn't tied up or gagged. I just locked the outside door. Three meals a day are still delivered on a regular basis. Bao Gui, a boy, has a very good relationship with my wife. Even if I broke his affairs, he would not do anything to me, let alone kill me. He put I was locked up because I was afraid that if I heard something I shouldn't hear, I would go to the government to report it. Although I don't have any official position, but after all, I came from an official family, so he is still very afraid of this."

"So, who took such a big risk to let you go?"

"It's siblings."

"Siblings?" Shen Haolin and Shen Cha glanced at each other and raised their eyebrows at the same time, "Oh, Mrs. Bao."

"But..." Merlin crossed his arms and asked puzzledly by the side, "Why did Mrs. Bao let the young master go? Shouldn't she be with Bao Gui?"

"I thought so too, but..." Yan Yuan raised his chin slightly, and recalled it carefully, "Their relationship doesn't seem to be particularly good. During the days I was at their house, except for the day when I first arrived, there was also The day she let me go, I didn't see her. I asked Bao Gui once, and he said that my brother and sister are very withdrawn. They usually like to stay at home, don't like to go out, and don't like to socialize with people. I have been to Liuzhou Mansion for many years, but I have not seen any close friends."

"Really?" Merlin thought for a while, "How is Mrs. Bao's condition?"

"It doesn't look particularly good. The whole person is very thin, and her complexion is not very good. She is very pale, as if she has been seriously ill for a long time." Yan Yuan sighed softly, "Besides, she never gave me The distance from opening the door to the small door leading me to the backyard of Bao’s house was not particularly far, but it seemed to be a very difficult road for her. Before I left, I glanced back and saw her leaning against the I was panting badly on the wall. But seeing me turn around, I quickly waved for me to leave quickly."

"It seems that your health is really not very good." Shen Cha nodded, "You said she gave you a purse? Can you show us?"

"Of course." Yan Yuan readily agreed, took out a money bag from his arms, and handed it to Mei Lin beside him. "Before, there were more than [-] taels of silver in it, which was enough for me to travel back to Xijing from Liuzhou Mansion. However, I was worried that Bao Gui would send someone to chase me after he found out that I was missing. I have never stayed in an inn much. Even if you live in a hotel, your daily life is different from normal people.”

Merlin took the money bag, poured out all the silver ingots inside, checked the money bag, touched it, felt something strange, took out his own knife from the boot, and carefully cut the money bag open, from the inside A piece of paper fell out.

She looked at Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and Yan Yuan who was full of surprise. She browsed quickly and handed it to Shen Haolin.

"Sure enough." Merlin sighed, "Mrs. Bao is going to report on her husband, intending to do something wrong."

"What... mean?" Yan Yuan looked at Mei Lin eagerly, "Did they really...do nothing good?"

"Young master, do you know about the strange robber case in the Jiangnan area?" Seeing Yan Yuan nod slightly, Mei Lin snorted coldly, "Your brother-in-law is one of the suspects in the strange thief case, Mrs. Bao said, about a year and a half ago , Bao Gui's behavior began to become furtive."

"A year and a half ago..." Shen Cha leaned over to look at the piece of paper in Shen Haolin's hand, "Have you started planning so early? Madam Bao said that a year and a half ago, Bao Gui, who was always in charge of purchasing jade wares in person, started acting uncharacteristically. I don’t participate in any shopping, but I go out early and return late every day, and from time to time, I bring some friends who I don’t know where I met to the house, and they go all night until we leave.”

"Mrs. Bao said that Bao Gui's cronies are very unruly. Several times they got drunk and broke into the backyard. If Bao Gui didn't stop them, they would enter Mrs. Bao's house. Even if Bao Gui warned They, they agreed on the surface, but they still went their own way. It’s just that in the next few months, they drank less and less time, and such things almost didn’t happen anymore. In the past month or so, their parties have been very frequent, and every day We get together every five days, but it's not so much a party, it's better to say that Bao's is a place like an inn, they all change their clothes and leave, and they don't come back until the sky is bright." Merlin clapped his hands, signaling everyone to pay attention to themselves "Here comes the important point. Mrs. Bao said that every time they come back, they will bring back some things of unknown origin. The packages containing those things are sometimes covered with a little dirt."

"She suspects..." Yan Yuan frowned, "These robberies were done by Bao Gui?"

"No." Merlin's expression was very helpless, "Madam Bao's idea is very strange, at least most people don't think so, she suspects... those things are artifacts, Bao Gui went to steal some ancient tomb."

"It's not unusual for her to think so." Shen Haolin threw the piece of paper on the table, "There are indeed many ancient tombs in Liuzhou Mansion, and there are also many tomb robbers operating nearby. But we know very well that Bao Gui is by no means a grave robber , has absolutely nothing to do with that."

"That's right, even if he's not the Phantom Thief himself, he's related to the Phantom Thief, at least he helped the Phantom Thief transport the stolen goods." Shen Cha looked at Yan Yuan, "We've accepted Mrs. Bao's report. I have to trouble the Eldest Young Master to draw some portraits of Bao Gui for us, is there any problem?"

"Of course, happy to help!"

(End of this chapter)