Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2725 The Capital (79)

"How is he doing on weekdays?"

"Originally, he had a lot of money. He spent two thousand dans of silver on his mother." Sister Rui seemed a little proud. "Later, he wanted to comb his slaves, and he spent more than 1000 dans of silver." She sighed. His tone was, "It's just that I feel a little stingy after combing my hair! Not to mention that the monthly salary is only six taels, and the family I've been given is comparable to yours! It's hard to lose an extra penny."

Min Zhanlian was secretly amused, thinking how could he be so generous when he had already obtained it.Then he asked: "Isn't it strange that he is so rich for a face-to-face person?"

"Look at what you said, old man," Sister Rui said coyly, seeing that he was kind-hearted and handsome, and she felt a little bolder, "In our Lehu family, as long as it is real money and silver, we don't care whether he comes here in a strange way or not."

Min Zhanlian asked more about Liu Zhen's daily activities.Sister Rui didn't know much. She only knew that he would come to Tongzhou once or twice a month and stay for three or four days each time.It's just that I stayed there for a long time.

As for the people he meets in daily life, the three religions and nine streams are very complicated, including those who are officials and those who are "on poles" on the street.Considering his profession and activities, this is not surprising.However, their conversations were very secretive, mostly in the study room in the front yard, and they never talked in front of her.

"This old guy plays tricks all day long and avoids people when he talks." Sister Rui said angrily.

Min Zhanlian focused on the murder incident yesterday.However, Sister Rui didn’t know much.All I know is that the visitor came to visit in the evening. The two of them talked for a while in the study, and then somehow ended up in the backyard, and asked themselves to go to the west wing first.Later, I heard a commotion in the main room and rushed over. It turned out that the person was dead, but Liu Zhen was injured.

Sister Rui was so frightened that she lost her mind, but Liu Zheng was calm. She first asked him to help him go to the side room to bandage the wound, and then took out the money and rewarded everyone, asking them to clean up the traces and hide the body.

When a life lawsuit broke out, even though Liu Zhen was the murderer, none of the servants, his wife, and Sister Rui who lived together during the lawsuit could escape. Not to mention the loss of money, just having to be tortured in court over and over again was frightening.If you encounter a comatose official, he will be beaten as an accomplice, and the accomplices will also be exiled to the borderland.Since he was a grasshopper on a rope, Liu Zheng took out the silver again, and the three of them had no objection.

However, the blood splattered on the wall could not be cleaned, so Sister Rui was asked to go out and buy lime so that she could paint the wall and prevent the body from rotting and smelling.As soon as Liu Zhen recovered from his injuries, the body was buried.

"Did the visitor bring anything? For example, letters, documents, etc."

"He only had a luggage bag with him. I opened it for the master. It only contained a change of clothes and some scattered silver coins. He had a book protector on him, but he threw it into the brazier and burned it under the care of the master."

"Where's his stuff?"

"It's all burned, nothing is left."

Min Zhanlian felt slightly disappointed, but then he thought, since this person's surname was Wang, he should be a member of Wang Yehao's family.

At this moment, Xiao Wu came to report: The study has been searched and nothing important was found.

"They are all ordinary correspondence and books on fortune-telling. They are being sorted and packaged. Do you want to take a look, team leader?"

"See you later." As soon as Min Zhanlian finished speaking, Sister Rui suddenly said: "Master! I have some news, but after you tell me, can you give me a reward?"

"Oh? What's the news?" Min Zhanlian became interested.

"The east wing of this courtyard. We are not allowed to come in or out on weekdays and it is locked tightly. But one time, the slave woke up in the middle of the night and saw him lighting a lamp in the east wing. I wonder if there is some secret?"

They had opened the east wing just now. There were three rooms, one light and two dark. The south room was a sleeping pavilion, and the north room was a small study. There was nothing special about it.Since there were almost no signs of use inside and there was a lock on the door, I thought it was used as a guest room.Therefore, the team members were not the focus of the search.Now that Sister Rui said this, it aroused his interest.He said: "This is good news from you. Whether you find out or not, it will be of great benefit to you. Please think more about it. If something happens to this old guy, if he remembers it, just report it to him."

So the team focused on searching the east wing.This search really turned up a lot of things.There is no ceiling under the bed, where things are often hidden, and there is no wall between them, but the furniture has been tampered with.There are hidden compartments on the bed, desk, and cupboards, and money and documents are hidden in them.

"Team leader, look, this old guy still trusts Delong." The team member handed him a stack of Delong banknotes that they had found.Min Zhanlian looked through it and estimated that there were as many as two to three thousand taels.Most of them are bearer fixed-amount banknotes issued by Delong, with each face value fixed.There are 3000 taels, 50 taels and 100 taels.Just get Delong and the corresponding exchange code and you can exchange it into silver.It is most convenient for giving bribes.Therefore, a large number of them were issued in the capital.

Money is not rare, but a book with a letter was found in the secret room.There are five volumes in total, all made of fine cotton paper, written in fine regular script, with fine and clear handwriting.The title of the book is "A Survey of Australia".

This was nothing unusual.Ever since the Australians attacked the city of Guangzhou, there has been the "Guidelines for Love".As the Senate became more and more powerful and became more and more famous in the Ming Dynasty, literati became more and more interested in this new "barbarian".Kun thieves are different from Jiannu or Mongolia - most of the time they only have an impact on the frontier.But Kun Thief has an unprecedented impact on all aspects of society. In addition to the large influx of "Australian goods", there are also various "Australian pictures", "Australian illustrated magazines" and "Australian storybooks" that follow... Despite repeated bans by the government, it could not be restrained from being widely spread, especially various storybooks that were reprinted and sold in large quantities.In the market, thieves and thieves are one of the hot topics that citizens talk about.As a result, there are more and more various notes targeting "Kun Thieves", some of which are written by people who have been to Lingao who have experienced it; some are written by hearsay and collected various rumors; and some are made up and are sensational.Min Zhanlian saw some such books when he was studying at the "Farm".

It was normal for Liu Zheng to possess such a book. Min Zhanlian flipped through a few pages, but his expression became serious.

Xiao Wu asked curiously: "Why, what's weird about this note?"

"It's important to carry it." Min Zhanlian took a deep breath, "This book must be sent to the contact point and sent back to Guangzhou as soon as possible."

But the most important hidden compartment is behind a brick in the corner. If there hadn't been a lone thief in the group who had been there for many years, he noticed that the edge of the brick was a little smooth, and he probably wouldn't have found it even after searching a few times.

Here is a packet of letters.He read several letters, but they all had no signature, only monograms.But judging from the content of the letter, I can roughly guess who the other party is.Several of them talked about matters in the palace, and even mentioned "adopted father" many times.This is probably Yang Tianliang's letter.

He immediately found all the letters with the same monogram, arranged them by date, and read them one by one.The earliest of these letters can be traced back to four or five years ago. The contents of the letters are mostly instructions for things assigned by Yang Tianliang, and there are also replies from Liu Zhen asking Eunuch Yang to do things.It seems that Liu Zheng and his boss Wang Yehao have been connected with Eunuch Yang since then.

But these have nothing to do with the Leng Ningyun case.It wasn't until the two letters half a year ago that Min Zhanlian's attention was caught.The first letter stated that he had arranged for Eunuch Cao to be the eunuch in charge of Nanyuan in accordance with Liu Zheng's entrustment.

"Eunuch Cao" is a relative of Cao Sheng in Zhangjiawan.Now he is the eunuch in charge of Nanyuan.I didn’t expect that this eunuch in charge was actually Liu Wei who asked Mr. Yang to take care of things!What’s even more strange is that there is not a single word about money in this letter!You must know that in the previous letters, whenever anyone mentions entrusting things to be done, they have to ask for money.Sometimes he would complain that the money given was too little, just enough to honor his adoptive father, and he himself would not be left behind.

Could it be that little Eunuch Yang has changed his temper?
Looking further down, the letters exchanged became more and more dense. Letters that originally only came in a few months now come once every five or six days.Several of these were to urge him to raise funds.From the tone in the letter, it seemed that he was eager to get attached to a big shot and needed to prepare a very expensive Australian product.He also specifically mentioned that Leng Ningyun was a "stingy little person". Not only was he unwilling to be filial to this item, he was even willing to give it a [-]% discount on the price.Therefore, "death is not a pity" and "it is one's own fault".He also told Liu Zhen that "this opportunity is not to be missed" and it was a good opportunity to "borrow flowers and offer them to Buddha".

Min Zhanlian thought to himself, this is wrong.Three or four months ago, Leng Ningyun was fine in Delong in front of his boss. How could he say that "it is not a pity to die" and "it is his own fault"?Is it possible that little Eunuch Yang has no idea?Does this "opportunity not to be missed" mean that Wang Yehao planned to kidnap Leng Ningyun?
It seems that little Eunuch Yang was not only involved in the kidnapping, but also deeply involved.

Next, the letter mentioned that there are currently tens of thousands of eunuchs living in Nanyuan, among whom there are quite a few who are powerful and powerful, but they just need time to select the right people.The key is to have enough money and food.Liu Zheng was asked to "try to make preparations."

Moreover, it can be seen from these correspondence that Liu Wei did not tell the truth.He had a deep connection with the eunuchs of Nanyuan.It is possible that the eunuchs in Nanyuan were used to organize armed forces.Liu Xiaobian and several eunuchs were probably part of this armed force.I probably went to the scene to see He Liansheng's strength.

He continued to read through the letters. The following letters contained very little content and were mostly coded in code.But Min Zhanlian probably guessed that the letter was all about arrangements after the kidnapping.The letter also stated that "we have our own arrangements" regarding how to deal with Wang Yehao, and Liu Zheng's concern that Zhuangzi in Haidian with Liansheng was well fortified and unable to attack by force.

I turned to the next letter, and after reading a few lines, my eyes suddenly widened, and I stared at the letter, reading it several times.A smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he murmured to himself: "Okay, okay, I really caught you."

(End of this chapter)