Chapter 635 [Fishtail Ring](2/2)
Zhao Zhen was accompanying Xiangxiang to practice the piano in the yard... A while ago, the Grand Master found a small Yaoqin that Concubine Pang used when she was a child and gave it to her grandson's "daughter". It turned out that it was the "daughter" of the boudoir, and Xiangxiang would use it soon, so Zhao Zhen listened to the "daughter" of the boudoir playing the piano every day and smiled.
While watching the piano score and listening to the sound of the piano, Nangong walked in from outside and whispered to Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen was slightly stunned and looked up, "Is there such a thing?"
Nangong nodded.
"So did you lose anything?" Zhao Zhen asked.
Nangong shook his head, "I don't know yet. The warehouse is checking, but the most valuable ones have not been lost."
Zhao Zhen nodded and said to Nangong, "Go and call Bao Qing for me."
Nangong went out to find Bao Zheng.
Zhao Zhen asked Xiangxiang to go to the empress dowager to play the piano for the empress dowager, and he took Eunuch Chen and a few "suits" guards out of the "flower" garden and came to the warehouse where the palace stores tributes.
There are many warehouses, money warehouses, tribute warehouses, etc. There are separate warehouses for calligraphy and painting alone. The Heavenly Lord has visited these places, and Zhao Zhen rarely comes on weekdays.
What did Nangong tell him just now?
This morning, the Yinggu discovered that the roof tiles of a warehouse had been moved and suspected that they had entered the thief.
Zhao Zhen heard it all fresh. The warehouse was guarded tightly, and someone could come in without knowing it and steal something? What good kung fu is that?
When we arrived at the stolen warehouse door, we saw that the door was wide open. Several managers were carefully checking with a list. The guards and eunuchs helped to take out the checked tributes and sort them out.
Zhao Zhen arrived in front of him, and on the roof, Ge Qing jumped down and saluted him.
Zhao Zhen waved to him and asked Ge Qing, "Is it a thief?"
Ge Qing pointed to the roof and said, "The tiles were fine yesterday, but this morning I felt that it was inappropriate. It was obviously moved by people, and it could not be caused by wind or animals."
"Can you see this?" Zhao Zhen was surprised.
Ge Qing nodded, "All the tiles on the roof of the palace are made of double 'color' water-patterned patterns. They are clearly visible from the top and are checked every day."
"Oh..." Zhao Zhen nodded.
At this time, the eunuch in charge came back and forth. This warehouse stores "jade" instruments, and most of them are tributes paid by local tributes, with as many as thousands of pieces in stock, ranging from small "jade" pants to large "jade" carvings. So far, no one has found that they have lost. It is under verification and may take several hours.
"I haven't found anything I have lost yet, which means that the one I have lost is not a large item or the most valuable ones, right?" Zhao Zhen asked.
The manager nodded.
Zhao Zhen asked Ge Qing again, "Isn't it very difficult to come in without knowing it?"
Ge Qing nodded, "You need to have the little skill of Zhan Zhaobai's 'Yu' Hall."
"Take such a big risk and don't take the most valuable one... means coming with a purpose?" Zhao Zhen walked into the warehouse with his hands behind his back and "visited".
The "jade" instruments in the warehouse are well preserved, and most of them are stored in exquisite brocade boxes.
Zhao Zhen suddenly felt a little moved, "So there are so many..."
Ge Qing was not very careful and nodded.
Zhao Zhen smiled slightly and said to Ge Qing, "Take a few things and take a look."
Ge Qing took a few boxes for Zhao Zhen to show.
Zhao Zhen took a box and opened it. It was a pair of white jade bracelets, with exquisite carving skills.
Another one was opened, and there was a pair of ink jade's Pixiu... and another box was opened, and there was a string of yellow jade' bracelets.
Zhao Zhen asked the manager, "Does there be marks on these boxes?"
The manager nodded and turned the box over, only to see a number at the bottom of the box.
"Each tribute is numbered." The manager handed over a thick file to Zhao Zhen, "This is the details."
Zhao Zhen asked, "How many copies of this book are there? Where are you stored on weekdays?"
"One copy of Longtu Pavilion and the Imperial Palace Management Office, and the Ministry of Revenue has archives."
Zhao Zhen nodded, "If you don't have this book, running in to find something is like finding a needle in a haystack?"
The in charge of the matter was slightly stunned and nodded, "The emperor is wise."
Ge Qing also understood, "Before the thief came in, he must have found out which box he wanted to steal... so he must have read the file before."
Zhao Zhen looked at the busy guards and eunuchs outside the door and said lightly, "How many people can be like Zhan Zhaobai's Yu Hall in the world... The possibility of robbing the prison is even greater."
Ge Qing was going to investigate, but Zhao Zhen stopped him, "'Please' to Bao Zheng, just pretend you don't know anything."
Ge Qing nodded.
Zhao Zhen continued to visit with great interest, so that those in charge did not have to worry about themselves and then checked.
Zhao Zhen stopped in front of a 'jade' carved cabbage and looked at it with his head tilted.
Ge Qing also tilted his head and looked at it.
Zhao Zhen suddenly laughed, "This cabbage looks serious and 'quite' like."
Ge Qing glanced at him and looked disgusted.
Zhao Zhen asked him with a smile, "What's wrong? I don't think it looks good?"
Ge Qing pursed his lips and couldn't say it. His father had "handed" him and didn't talk "indiscriminately", especially in front of the emperor.
Zhao Zhen waved his hand and signaled——Say.
Ge Qing honestly answered, asking, "Is this very expensive?"
Zhao Zhen asked the manager, "How much does this cabbage cost?"
The manager checked the accounts and said, "It's worth 3,800 taels."
Zhao Zhen looked at Ge Qing.
Ge Qing kept shook his head, "It's no different from a frozen cabbage. It can't be eaten yet. It's so valuable!"
The manager's mouth was twitching, and Zhao Zhen made Ge Qing laugh, "I think so too. How many real cabbage can this 'jade' cabbage be exchanged for? It's probably enough for people in Kaifeng City to eat it for free."
Ge Qing nodded and was about to continue walking forward, but suddenly stretched out his hand to stop Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen was slightly stunned.
Ge Qing frowned, stared at a shelf, and then walked over.
Zhao Zhen walked to him.
Ge Qing pointed, "Here!"
Zhao Zhen looked over in the direction of Ge Qing's finger and saw a small, square mark on a shelf... There was a thin layer of gray around it, but the square in the middle did not accumulate dust.
Zhao Zhen frowned, "Has the things here been taken away?"
"There should be a box here!" Ge Qing said, lowered his head and lay on the ground to look carefully, then raised his face to look above. Finally, he found half of the footprints in the thin dust next to the shelf.
"Someone took a small box from here." Ge Qing pointed to the shoe print, "'Female'!"
Zhao Zhen looked at him, "Confirm?"
"Well! Men don't have such small feet. Looking at the shoe prints, they look like they were worn by the palace girl." Ge Qing frowned, "It turns out that he was a custodian."
Zhao Zhen patted Ge Qing and expressed his appreciation, "Bao Qing will come later, tell him."
Ge Qing nodded.
Zhao Zhen found a manager and calculated based on the order of the boxes, and roughly determined what was stolen - a green jade ring.
Zhao Zhen glanced at the name of the ring and frowned slightly - the fishtail ring...
Chapter completed!