Datang: Hiding private money, exposed by Xiao Sizi

A Bao looked at the invitation card in his hand and said, "Then, my lord, shall we... still reject them?"

Shen Lian's eyes flickered.

He took the invitation and said, "It's fine if you didn't know about Wang Wenru's situation before, but now that you know, there's absolutely no reason to let him go."

"Perhaps Wang Wenru can find out other clues about Beidouhui or Beichen, not to mention...he will cheat me once again. If I don't come back with revenge, then it's not my nature, Shen Lian, nor us. The style of Chu Palace."

Shen Lian said: "Abao, you go and reply to them, just say that I will be on time for the banquet tonight."

Ah Bao worried: "My lord, aren't you afraid that he has bad intentions?"

"Abao, be more confident and get rid of your doubts. That old fellow Wang Wenru must have bad intentions."

Shen Lian said indifferently: "But so what if he has bad intentions? I have good intentions? If he is obedient tonight, that's all. If he is not obedient, I don't mind counting them again."

"But you're right, I have to prepare some too."

Shen Lian waved to Ali, and whispered something in Si She's ear.

After hearing this, Ah Li looked at Shen Lian and said, "My lord, can this... have such a big harvest?"

Shen Lian laughed: "It depends on whether Wang Wenru and the others value me. If they think this is a good opportunity, they may have such a harvest."

"In short, you go to prepare, more preparations, there is no harm in the end."

"Yes!" Ali nodded and left immediately.

Shen Lian stretched, and looked out the window.

It's another fine day!
Really looking forward to what's going on tonight.

"Wang Wenru... Interesting, I took the initiative to send you to my door, because I think I can find you anyway, so I just stopped pretending, and have a showdown?"

Shen Lian's eyes flickered: "Then tonight, I, Jin Yiwei, will have fun with you."

Time passed quickly, and soon, it was evening.

As the sun set, the fiery red light shone down, as if the entire earth was dyed red.

As far as the eye can see, it is all red.

Dali Temple Yamen.

A Bao knocked on Shen Lian's door and walked into the office.

Seeing Shen Lian who was correcting the file, he cupped his hands and said, "My lord, it's almost time, we should set off."

Hearing this, Shen Lian raised his head and glanced at the sky outside. He had been dealing with official duties, but he didn't expect that it was at this time before he knew it.

Shen Lian put down the cinnabar pen and closed a file.

He stretched his waist slightly, and said: "I can't delay any longer. If this continues, I will die of exhaustion if I am not busy. I have to find a suitable time to investigate Li Wencheng thoroughly, and then return the power to Dali Temple and the others." Just do it."

Now Dali Temple has files about Li Wencheng, and Shen Lian is the only one who examines those files. This is equivalent to him doing the work of several departments directly, which is really exhausting.

Shen Lian sighed, and he suddenly said: "A Bao, by the way, have you found those people His Highness asked you to find?"

A Bao hurriedly said: "Xue Rengui is currently in the Hedong military camp, but he is just an ordinary Huotou army. We haven't contacted him yet."

"As for Chu Suiliang, last year he resigned and lived in seclusion. Now we only know roughly which mountain he lives in seclusion, but we haven't found out where he is. It will take some time."

Recluse?

Shen Lian remembered that his Royal Highness Chu Suiliang had mentioned about Chu Suiliang, recalling those things, why didn't he remember that Chu Suiliang resigned from office and lived in seclusion?

But after thinking about it, the history of the Tang Dynasty has been deflected a lot because of the existence of His Royal Highness, so some things that never happened happened, but it's nothing.

As long as those people are still those people, and they still have the skills recorded in the history books, that's fine.

As for whether to live in seclusion... Shen Lian was not worried.

According to historical records, Chu Suiliang was a prime minister.

After all, Chu Suiliang is the future prime minister. He doesn't believe that this guy will really be able to accept his ambition and live in seclusion.

However, Chu Suiliang's resignation should be due to his poor career or some setbacks, otherwise he would not have quit the officialdom so discouraged.

And the more it is at this time, the easier it is for someone to take advantage of it.

Shen Lian narrowed his eyes, and said: "Your Highness, he attaches great importance to this matter, so we need to continue to send people to search for Chu Suiliang's place, and at the same time ask the Intelligence Department to investigate. What is the reason why Chu Suiliang will resign from office and go back to hiding?" .”

"Do this matter seriously. If there is no accident, he will be our reliable partner."

Hearing that Shen Lian and His Highness both attached so much importance to Chu Suiliang, Ah Bao immediately paid attention in his heart.

Although he didn't know what skills Chu Suiliang had, but to make His Highness value him so much, he believed that there must be some skills.

After all, Your Highness has never misjudged anyone.

He nodded directly: "My lord, please rest assured, I will keep an eye on this matter."

"And Xue Rengui..."

Shen Lian thought for a while, and heard His Highness say that the reason why Xue Rengui joined the army was because his family was poor and could hardly support his wife, so he was short of money.

If you are short of money....
Shen Lian said: "Send someone to contact Xue Rengui and tell him that we are short of a commander of [-] soldiers in the palace of King Chu, and his salary is more than fifty times higher than his current salary. Ask him if he is willing to come."

A Bao was surprised, not because of the [-] soldiers, but because Shen Lian gave Xue Rengui such a large authority, and said: "My lord, this... this Xue Rengui is a firefighter, just a cook, My lord, you just let him be the leader, this... can he do it?"

No wonder Abao didn't believe Xue Rengui.

In fact, Xue Rengui is now at the darkest moment of his life.

One ability, nowhere to display.

But Abao didn't know Xue Rengui's ability, Shen Lian and King Chu were clear about it.

As the future military pillar of Datang, how could Xue Rengui fail?

He smiled and said, "This is also His Highness's arrangement, so don't worry, Xue Rengui is a piece of rough jade, and he will surprise us in the future."

"Ow."

Abao thought for a while, and finally nodded. He still didn't believe in the Huotou army, but he believed in Shen Lian and his highness.

They said that Xue Rengui can do it, so he can do it.

What should be explained was also explained, so Shen Lian didn't delay any longer, got up directly, and said, "Let's go, it's getting late, and it's time to go to the banquet."

The two left the Yamen of Dali Temple and walked straight to the palace.

When he arrived at the gate of the palace, Shen Lian gave A Bao a wink and said, "Call the door."

Ah Bao hurriedly nodded, walked quickly to the door, raised his hand, and knocked on the door.

Not long after, the door was opened.

A man in his 40s who looked like a housekeeper opened the door. After seeing Abao, he looked at Shen Lian behind Xugou without stopping his eyes.

"Is it Commander Shen Lian?"

the butler asked.

Shen Lian nodded slightly, took out the invitation card, and said, "I, Mr. Shen, come to the banquet."

The butler took the invitation, glanced at it, and then hurriedly said: "Commander Shen, please come in quickly, my master is waiting for Commander Shen."

Shen Lian nodded slightly, and then went directly into the palace with Ah Bao.

The area of ​​the palace is not too big, and the courtyards with two entrances and exits are at the middle level in the rank of gentry.

Through the front garden, came the back yard.

Shen Lian looked around, and suddenly said: "Housekeeper, why didn't you see the servants in your house? Why are you so quiet?"

The housekeeper hurriedly said: "Commander Hui Shen, there are not many servants in our house, and the master likes to be quiet, so everyone is very quiet."

Shen Lian narrowed his eyes and nodded suddenly.

At this time, the butler stopped in front of the hall door. He looked at Shen Lian and said respectfully, "Commander Shen, please wait a moment, I'll report to the master."

Shen Lian nodded slightly: "Please go ahead."

The butler opened the door and walked in quickly.

Abao stood in front of the door, looking around, he suddenly touched his arm, and said: "My lord, why do I feel that this mansion is a bit strangely quiet, even in Xijing, it is not so quiet no?"

"And isn't it a banquet? Why should there be servants to serve?"

Shen Lian narrowed his eyes slightly, and said calmly: "If it's not weird, it's not normal. We already knew that Wang Wenru didn't hold his fart well. He's normal, but it's not right."

"Anyway, be careful and don't get lost."

Abao nodded quickly, "The butler has been away for a long time, why hasn't he come back? Could it be that they deliberately want to show us off?"

"what!"

At this moment, Ah Bao hadn't finished speaking.

Suddenly, a shrill scream came from the room in front of them.

He directly interrupted A Bao's words.

Ah Bao was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously looked at Shen Lian: "My lord, this..."

Shen Lian also had a strange look on his face, and he said, "Wang Wenru is even more ruthless than I thought..."

After all, he lifted his foot directly, and kicked the closed door open in front of him with one kick.

And as soon as the door was kicked open, the situation inside was also in their sight.

Shen Lian raised his eyebrows.

Ah Bao simply shrank his pupils, and he froze instantly.

"My lord, this... this..."

Seeing the scene in front of him, Ah Bao was about to exclaim subconsciously. His eyes widened and his face was full of shock.

He subconsciously looked at Shen Lian, and seeing that Shen Lian was still calm and composed, he felt a little more at ease in his heart.

Abao couldn't help but said: "My lord, Wang Wenru... Is that, that person, Wang Wenru?"

Shen Lian narrowed his eyes and looked at the hall behind the door.

I saw that in the hall at this time, the tables and chairs were tilted to this side, and beside an overturned chair, a person was lying there.

At this time, a dagger was stuck behind this person.

Blood flowed to the ground, which looked shocking.

And in the hall, the butler who just came in to report, where can he see half a figure?
Hearing what A Bao said, he just said indifferently: "Go in and have a look and you'll know."

After saying that, Shen Lian stepped directly into the hall.

Seeing this, Ah Bao quickly followed in.

Shen Lian was observing the situation in the room as he approached the person who had been stabbed with a dagger.

The tables and chairs are tilted here and there, and there are still some scratch marks on the ground. It seems that there must have been a fight here.

But he and Abao were outside, but he didn't hear any sound of fighting inside.

So...these traces of struggle existed before?
While thinking about it, he came to this person's side.

Kneeling down and looking, he saw that the dagger had just pierced the back of the man's chest, and there was nothing beside the man that could be used to manipulate the dagger, so he should have been killed.

In this matter, Abao also checked the situation of this person. He looked at Shen Lian and said, "My lord, he is already dead. It is indeed Wang Wenru."

As he spoke, he touched the blood on Wang Wenru's wound again, his eyes widened suddenly, and he said, "It's still warm, he just died not long ago...the screams we heard just now seem...it was really him. of!"

"But...but this is wrong! Who killed him? We didn't see any suspicious people at all?"

"And what about the butler? Didn't he come in to send a message? Why did he disappear?"

Ah Bao is now full of doubts and puzzles.

He couldn't figure out what was going on at all.

As for Shen Lian, his eyes narrowed slightly, and there was a flash of light in his eyes, as if he understood something.

"Several officials, my master is inside."

"Huh? Why is the door open?"

At this moment, Shen Lian and Ah Bao suddenly heard some voices coming in from outside.

The sound came from far and near, and there were some footsteps.

And in the next moment.

"what!?"

"You... who are you? What happened to the master!?"

An exclamation suddenly sounded.

Then they saw a figure rushing directly towards them.

Shen Lian turned around, didn't let the figure pounce on her, and easily dodged the figure, and Ah Bao also frowned.

At this moment, he discovered that the person who rushed in was the butler who had just disappeared.

When did the housekeeper run outside?
Abao was very puzzled.

Just as he was about to ask, he heard a shrill voice: "Master, master, master, wake up! Master, wake up!"

The butler shook Wang Wenru for a long time, but seeing that Wang Wenru hadn't moved at all, he suddenly raised his head to look at Shen Lian and Abao, his eyes were red: "It's you...you killed the master! You must have killed our master! "

"Who are you? My master is such a good person, why did you kill him?"

"Come on! Come on, come on!"

The butler suddenly yelled.

Ah Bao frowned, and he said, "What nonsense are you talking about? We killed this person? We didn't kill this person at all!"

"Instead it was you, you just brought us here to meet Wang Wenru, but you told us to wait outside, and you came in by yourself." Jiucheng Literature

"As soon as you came in, we heard Wang Wenru's screams. After we rushed in, Wang Wenru was killed! But you disappeared!"

"So if you say murder, you should be the most suspect!"

Hearing what A Bao said, the housekeeper cried as if he had been wronged.

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(End of this chapter)