The flower table was burned, and everyone felt their chests were blocked.

Ge Qing took the servants and maids from the mansion to clean up the yard silently. Zhao Pu asked Ouyang to take people around to check, but the person who set the fire was very cunning and obviously had run away.

Long Qiaoguang jumped off the roof and whispered a few words to Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu frowned slightly, thought for a while, and nodded.

Long Qiaoguang went out.

Afterwards, Zhao Pu told Zhan Zhao, "The enemy is in the dark and I am in the bright spots. I can't take the initiative to attack."

Zhan Zhao also nodded, "What are your good suggestions?"

"The proposal was given by chatter, I think it's feasible." Zhao Pu said.

Zhan Zhao nodded, "As long as you think it's feasible."

Zhao Pu raised his eyebrows slightly. Zhan Zhao's expression was rare. Will he talk less after being angry...

Seeing that everyone was busy, Bai Yutang gently pulled Zhan Zhao and said, "I thought of something before I came, but I was interrupted by those sneak attacks."

Zhan Zhao looked at him, "What's the matter?"

Bai Yutang pointed to the back mountain of the Jin family’s old house not far away, “That Jin Tuo, the number of gold should be wrong!”

Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

Bai Yutang said, "There is no frame connected between the two snake heads of Jintuo, so the two snake heads next to them cannot be pure gold!"

Zhan Zhao was slightly puzzled, "Isn't it pure gold?"

"Gold is soft and heavy." Bai Yutang said, "According to the ratio of the snake head and the body, it is not impossible to create an identical one. However, if it is pure gold, something must be implicated between the three snake heads, otherwise it will crack on both sides, or it will not be able to hang two pure gold snake heads on both sides! But this Jin Tuo stood there intact, indicating that there must be a problem with the two snake heads on both sides! I want to take apart and take a look, and then weigh it!"

Zhan Zhao frowned and thought, "Do you think there is something wrong with the amount of gold?"

Bai Yutang nodded, "Yes."

Zhan Zhao found a craftsman, transferred hundreds of yamen runners from Kaifeng Prefecture, and pulled the three-headed golden tuo down overnight and took it apart.

Sure enough, after disassembling, everyone found that the left and right sides of the three-headed gold Tuo were hollow, and the gold was becoming more and more impure from the outside to the inside, and there were many other things filled in it. However, they were very careful when making it. If Bai Yutang had not seen a problem, most people would really not be able to find it.

After weighing the whole gold tuo, the total weight was 200,000 taels. The fake gold Buddha found from the underground of the Jin family was basically weighed at this weight. However, after taking out all the impurities in the gold tuo, the remaining pure gold was weighed, the total weight was only about 70,000 taels, which was more than half.

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, "More than 100,000 taels are missing."

Bai Yutang nodded.

"Strange." Zhan Zhao walked hard in the courtyard with his arms in his arms, as if he was thinking about something.

After a long time, Zhan Zhao suddenly said to Ouyang Shaozheng, "Can you help me demolish a house?"

Ouyang was slightly stunned, "Dropping the house? You have to find the Heavenly Lord to live."

Zhan Zhao waved his hand, "Take Zheying and Jiuzijun to Xie Yiting's house, dig three feet into the ground to find out if there is any gold!"

Ouyang nodded, signaled to wrap it around him, and left with Zhuying.

Zhan Zhao gently pulled Bai Yutang and asked him, "Yutang, have you recited the burned list of Taixue before?"

Bai Yutang nodded.

"What are the names of students who were expelled for stealing the test paper with Xie Yiting back then?"

Bai Yutang told Zhan Zhao all the names.

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, "I haven't heard of it... are you still in Kaifeng Prefecture?"

Bai Yutang said, "Bao Yan asked someone to investigate before, but there was no clue. After all, it was not a good reputation. Maybe he changed his name."

"Master Lin should know, right?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Bai Yutang nodded, "I guess I know."

"Go back to Kaifeng Mansion and ask." Zhan Zhao said, and returned to Kaifeng with Bai Yutang.

For Master Lin's safety, Master Lin and Lin Xiao lived in Kaifeng Mansion these days, and Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang came to knock on the door overnight.

In fact, there was no need to knock, Lin Xiao was awake, and the old man sat alone in the yard drinking a lot of wine. Lin Xiao was already asleep in the room.

When Master Lin saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang coming, he hurriedly asked, "The flower platform is really burned?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded helplessly.

Master Lin sighed, "The whole city was burned out in the sea of ​​fire and it was also left behind. I didn't expect that it is now peaceful and prosperous, but I have suffered this disaster."

Zhan Zhaohe Bai Yutang sat down at the table.

Master Lin was a little worried, "Is Ge Yuan okay?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head helplessly and signaled that there was nothing, it was just sad. Grandma Ge didn't know if she was still crying.

Lin Xiao felt angry, "It must be my enemy back then! Otherwise, I wouldn't have picked the place where the flesh hurts. It's really hateful. I dare not ask the young master what he is feeling right now."

"Does the Master think there is anyone who is suspicious?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Master Lin shook his head, "I don't sleep. I'm sitting here and thinking about it now, but I didn't think of anyone who hates the young master so much... Everyone likes him very much."

Zhan Zhao nodded. His little uncle was indeed quite likable. After thinking about it, he asked the clues about the classmates who were fired with Xie Yiting back then.

Master Lin thought about it, took out the paper and pen, wrote several names for Zhan Zhao, and said, "This is his real name. In addition to Xie Yiting, there are four other people, all of whom have been changed. I don't know what the whereabouts of three of them are, but there is one." As he said, Master Lin drew a name with a pen, "His current name is Liu Zheng."

"Liu Zheng..." Zhan Zhao was stunned, "It sounds familiar..."

"Criminal officer." Master Lin said slowly, "The head of the Heavenly Prison, Liu Zheng."

"Ah!" Zhan Zhao remembered, "Liu Zheng himself is also a royal relative, right?"

Master Lin nodded, "He is the uncle of Concubine Mei who died of illness before, and the son of General Liu. The Liu family is also a well-known family. After finally raising someone who can go to the Imperial College, he didn't expect to steal the test paper and get expelled... General Liu came to talk to me that year, and wanted to make things easier for Liu Zheng to stay in the Imperial College. I refused it all at once, which was quite unpleasant."

Zhan Zhao frowned, and Bai Yutang also remembered that Qiu Jian, who had died in the Kaifeng Prison, had escaped from prison before, was originally going to be sent to the Heaven Prison, but was robbed by Zhan Zhao halfway.

"No one knows what Liu Zheng has gone through." Mr. Lin said, "As for where the other few people went after changing their names, I really don't know. To be honest, I sent someone to inquire, but the three people seemed to have disappeared and did not return to their original hometowns. They also lost contact with their original friends, which is very strange."

Zhan Zhao nodded.

After leaving Master Lin, Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao, "The head of the Tianlao prison? Does he not belong to Dali Temple nor the Ministry of Justice?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head and said, "The prisons of the previous dynasty were divided into Tianzhu and dungeons. Tianzhu specifically confines the royal relatives, and the dungeons are all civilians. Therefore, the warden and prison chief of Tianzhu are all officials appointed by the royal family, and they are basically royal relatives. This official system has not been changed to this day. However, the Tianzhu and dungeons in our dynasty were also called upper prisons and lower prisons. They are not divided according to the identity of the prisoners, but according to the location of the cell. The underground is called dungeons, and the ground is called Tianzhu. Generally speaking, the custody and guarding of the dungeons are not so strict, and the prisoners are not imprisoned. The strict guards of the Tianzhu can be said to be a heavy army stationed, and the prisoners inside are all serious prisoners escorted to Beijing from all over the country. They have good martial arts skills and wear shackles and torture tools almost all year round."

Bai Yutang thought for a while and asked, "Is the specific location of the Tianzhuo located in the area of ​​the North City Gate?"

"Yeah!" Zhan Zhao nodded, "Tianlao divided into three dimensions, the outer central and inner circumferences, there were heavy troops stationed. They were not far from the Imperial City Army camp. They were built around them with city walls, which looked like independent fortresses. I have been in several times. I have heard of Liu Zheng's name, but I have never dealt with him."

"Is the prison chief very important?" Bai Yutang was curious, "Different from an ordinary prison chief?"

While they were talking, the two had already arrived at the front yard. At this time, Zhao Pu also came back. When he heard the two of them talking, he asked, "Prison?"

Zhan Zhao told Zhao Pu that Liu Zheng was one of the students who were fired with Xie Yiting.

"Liu Zheng..." Zhao Pu touched his chin.

"The head of the Tianzhuo is very different from the ordinary prison guards." Ouyang also walked in, "There are at least three thousand soldiers stationed in the Tianzhuo, and more than a thousand prisoners and various servants. In addition, thousands of prisoners, they all heard that the head of the prison was alone. Liu Zhengren is known as the number one prison chief of the Song Dynasty. He has taken over the affairs of the Tianzhuo for about fifteen years, and no prisoner has ever escaped. This person is quite not simple... It turns out that he has been through such a mess when he was young? I can't tell..."

"Are you familiar with him?" Zhan Zhao asked Ouyang, thinking that the Imperial City Army has been responsible for escorting prisoners all year round, so Ouyang should have more opportunities to deal with him.

Ouyang smiled and shook his head, "There is no one in this world who is familiar with Liu Zheng."

Bai Yutang wondered, "What does it mean?"

"Liu Zheng is a man who lives in a quiet place and looks as shameful as he is. The matter is handled by several prison officials under his command. When he shows up, he basically happens to something happens." Ouyang laughed dryly, "From my only few dealings, this person is very suitable for being a prison official! He is meticulous and sinister. He usually likes to stand in a place where shadows can cover half of his face. He is a little hunched and shady, but his kung fu is quite good."

"No matter how you look, you don't look like someone who has studied in Imperial College." Zhan Zhao felt a little magical.

"Well... I really didn't think he was a scholar." Ouyang said, touching his chin, "But I've been to his study room, and there were a lot of calligraphy and paintings hanging in the study room. I originally thought he liked to collect it, but once he was writing when he went there, and his calligraphy was pretty good. Now, thinking about it makes sense."

Everyone looked at each other and said that he was not suspicious. It did seem to have nothing to do with the case, but he said that he was suspicious... and he always felt a little strange.

When it was almost dawn, Zheying ran back in mud and said to Zhan Zhao as soon as she entered the door, "Sir Zhan, I have found something amazing!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other and asked in unison, "Golden?"

Zhu Ying nodded, "So many!"

...

Everyone came to Xie Yiting's house and saw that Zhe Ying really led people to dig the house to the sky. Under the ground, a cellar was dug out. Zhe Ying and the others lifted three large boxes from it. When they opened it, they saw that the three boxes were filled with gold. Bai Yutang looked at it and said, "Thirty thousand taels of gold."

Everyone saw Xie Yiting’s housekeeper and his wife and concubine.

Unexpectedly, none of the relatives of the Xie family knew where the money came from. They kept shaking their heads and saying that they didn't know what was going on, and they didn't know that the master hid so much gold at home.

Zhan Zhao took out a gold bar, looked at it, and handed it to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang took it and saw a mark on the gold bar - it was the mark of the Jin Family Gold Shop, the triangle mark.

"Is this gold from Jin Shan's family?" Bai Yutang frowned, "Why are you at Xie Yiting's house..."

"Xie Yiting was expelled from the Imperial Academy back then, and in a blink of an eye, he had his own business. Maybe this is the capital." Zhan Zhao said, "It was just speculation. Now that it has come true, it seems that it is necessary to talk to Liu Zheng."

"Do you suspect that the few people who participated in the first test paper were related to the Jin family's murder and the missing gold?" Zhao Pu asked.

Zhan Zhao said, "Don't you find it strange? It's not easy to get into the Taixue! Even if you get into the Taixue exam every year, you will have a bright future when you come out. Why do you have to take the risk of stealing test questions and do such a stupid thing?"

Everyone frowned—and right.
To be continued...