Lin Yehuo asked the guy who ran in, "Who is that person?"

The waiter said, "Oh, that's Fang Jingxiao, the great catcher of the Shaoxing Prefecture Yamen."

Lin Yehuo and Zou Liang had actually guessed whether it was this person just now. Sure enough, he was as good-tempered as Zhan Zhao and Gongsun described.

Zou Liang asked Lin Yehuo, "Marshal and the others seem to have followed the emperor to the Yang Mansion. What should we do? Eat or take a look?"

"Of course we're going to eat!" Huo Feng didn't even think about it, and took Zou Liang upstairs to order food.

…

Zhan Zhao and the others followed Yang Dalong and arrived in front of a large house.

There were four guards with swords standing at the door of the house. There were dogs in the yard, and guardrails were installed on the doors and windows of the house. It looked like the guards were quite tight.

Yang Dalong took out the key, opened the door, and invited a few people in.

This is a pretty standard treasure house.

There were a lot of gold, silver, antiques, calligraphy and paintings in the room, but they didn't seem to have been stolen.

Yang Dalong walked to the front and lifted up a painting. He saw a recessed wall hole behind the painting and a white jade vase inside.

Turning the vase to one side, a secret door appeared on the wall.

Zhan Zhao kept looking at Bai Yutang - did he see any mice? Most rich people's treasure houses have secret doors! You can make one at home too!

The fifth master looked at Zhan Zhao jokingly - the master doesn't have any priceless treasures at home, why don't we build a secret door in Miaomiao Building and hide you inside?

Zhan Zhao turned his face and felt a little embarrassed.

There is a fully enclosed room made of stone inside the secret door. There are four spaces on the four walls. There are four shelves in the shelf. There is an open brocade box on each shelf. The boxes are large and small, but they are all empty. Inside

Nothing.

There is an exquisite stone platform in the middle. There is a cover made of colored glass on the stone platform, but the cover is also empty, with nothing in it.

Judging from the arrangement of the four grids on the four sides, the right ones should be placed - a white jade finger ring, a yellow jade belt, a fan painted by Zhou Fang, and a dragon-shaped jade pendant.

However...what's in that cover?

Everyone's minds were spinning fast - Yang Dalong offered a huge reward and wanted to capture the yellow turtle dove alive. It turned out that it was because a treasure was stolen, and this one placed in the glass cover in the middle was the most important one.

pieces.

Everyone stared at the cover and wondered - what was inside?

Gongsun squinted his eyes and looked at the cover. Zhao Pu looked at him. Gongsun pointed at the cover and moved his mouth. The shape of his mouth was two words - human head?

Zhao Pu looked up at the sky and didn't understand why his bookworm was so cute but his mind was full of horrible things.

Zhao Zhen waved his fan and looked at Zhan Zhao, meaning - let me see what you are capable of.

Zhan Zhao sighed silently and looked at Bai Yutang.

Master Wu raised his eyebrows - Cat! Come on!

Zhan Zhao was a little speechless, thinking that at this time, he should scare Yang Dalong and see if he could trick out something else.

Just as he was about to speak, he saw the fourth child suddenly running forward, circling the stage, looking up at the cover, and said with some regret, "Butterfly."

Everyone was slightly stunned.

Yang Dalong was trembling.

"The butterfly flew away." Xiao Sizi said, pointing to the sky.

"Little... little one deserves to die." Yang Dalong knelt down with a grunt and said tremblingly, "Lingdie... Lingdie was also stolen!"

Everyone looked at Zhan Zhao - what is Spirit Butterfly?

Zhan Zhaowangtian - you see what use I have, I am not a half-immortal!

At this time, Zhao Zhen suddenly laughed, looked at Yang Dalong who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "You are very courageous..."

After all, he was the emperor, and a simple sentence from his mouth seemed particularly intimidating. Yang Dalong knelt on the ground and kept admitting his mistake, saying that he was incompetent and had lost the spirit butterfly that his lord had worked so hard to find.

, the crime deserves death, I hope that the merit will be reduced and the spirit butterfly will be recovered...

Everyone winked at Zhan Zhao - what a spiritual butterfly, you look at him with the devil's eyes again.

Zhan Zhao shook his head helplessly - he had just seen everything he could see. This Yang Dalong is just a idiot. His head is full of stuff about male thieves and female prostitutes. There are not many serious things. Zhan Zhao just looked around and felt it was a bit eye-catching.

.

But now that we have reached this point, we have to continue asking, at least to see what this "spiritual butterfly" looks like.

Thinking of this, Zhan Zhao reached out and patted the kneeling Yang Dalong on the shoulder.

Yang Dalong was shocked.

Zhan Zhao was slightly startled and suddenly retracted his hand.

Fifth Master quickly reached out and grabbed Zhan Zhao's hand to look at it, and found that he had not been pricked or burned... In other words...

Bai Yutang realized that his cat was startled by what he had just seen.

"cough."

Zhao Zhen coughed, interrupting the awkward moment.

Yang Dalong also raised his head.

Zhao Zhen asked him, "Do you have anything else to say?"

"Uh..." Yang Dalong apologized, "I would like to ask a few adults to say a few kind words for me in front of my lord... I'm very grateful, very grateful!"

Zhao Zhen was quite disgusted and thought, "Where did a lord come from? I have never called myself a lord!"

Zhao Zhen was too lazy to ask any more questions. He waved his hand and Nangong told Yang Dalong not to act without permission and to report anything he discovered immediately.

Yang Dalong asked where they lived. Nangong Ji rolled his eyes at him and said that someone would naturally contact him.

…

After coming out of Yang Mansion, several people walking on the road were thinking about what happened just now.

Zhao Pu picked up the fourth son and asked him, "What kind of butterfly did you see?"

The fourth son held up his two sleeves and fluttered them twice, saying, "It's very beautiful, very beautiful, a butterfly that emits colorful lights!"

Xiao Liangzi took Gongsun's hand and followed him. He was curious, "What kind of butterfly can emit colorful lights?"

Zhao Pu noticed that Gongsun was frowning and thinking, so he asked, "Lingdie Palace?"

Gongsun was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Zhao Pu to notice it, and said, "Yang Dalong mentioned Lingdie Palace and Lingdie just now...I know a little bit about this."

"Lingdie Palace?" Zhao Pu was curious, "Where?"

"A palace sunk at the bottom of Jinghu Lake." Gongsun said, "There were originally two palaces on Jinghu Lake, the Water Moon Palace and the Spirit Butterfly Palace. The Spirit Butterfly Palace sank twenty years ago. I don't know much about the specific Jianghu affairs, but

Lingdie Palace is related to Fang Jingxiao's origin. I heard Yue Lan mention it several times. Over the years, they have been investigating why Lingdie Palace sank back then..."

Zhao Pu thought for a while, "The palace sank? It wasn't that long ago twenty years ago. Many people must have seen it, right?"

Gongsun nodded, "I was still young at that time, but I remember hearing a loud noise at noon that day, as if something exploded, and then the entire Lingdie Palace sank into the Mirror Lake. There were many people watching at that time.

None of the people escaped, and they all sank to the bottom of the lake. Later, the government sent people to send boats to salvage, and they fished out the bodies of many Lingdie Palace disciples, and also fished out the only survivor, Fang Jingxiao, who was only three years old at the time.

.”

"Is Fang Jingxiao from Lingdie Palace?" Nangong Ji heard the general idea and knew that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were familiar with him, so he turned around and asked.

Zhan Zhao nodded, "Fang Jingxiao is the heir to Lingdie Palace, and Shen Lingdie, the princess of Lingdie Palace, should be his grandmother."

"Shen Lingdie and the current master of Shuiyue Palace, Shen Lingyue, are two sisters, and Shen Lingyue is the younger sister." Gongsun said, "Their mother is the founder of Shuiyue Lingdie, the famous witch Shen Ling. She and Bai Yueyun are also called Yun.

Lingshuangsha is a serious witch."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao both nodded.

"Shen Ling divided the sect between his two daughters. The Shen family always gave birth to daughters, and all their sons-in-laws were married, so the descendants were all named Shen. Only Fang Jingxiao's mother, Shen Qian, married Fang Xu, and then Husband's surname." Gongsun continued, "The Fang family is actually the richest man in Shaoxing. He, Yang Dalong, is far behind. Both Fang Xu and Shen Qian passed away in the incident of the Lingdie Palace sinking, and only Jingxiao was left, so Ling Xiao He alone will inherit all the properties of Butterfly Palace and the Fang family."

The Ninth Prince touched his chin, "Isn't that a young master? Why did you become a policeman?"

Gongsun pointed at Bai Yutang, that means - you know.

"Oh..." Zhao Pu nodded.

"The prefect of Shaoxing Prefecture when Lingdie Palace sank was the previous prefect, Lu Yuelan's father. Jingxiao didn't remember anything after he was fished out. He must have been hit on the head. Lu Yuelan was five years old at that time. The adults were busy, so he was responsible for taking care of Fang Jingxiao. The first thing Jingxiao saw when she woke up was Yue Lan. Maybe it was some kind of fate that broke the shell... just like the chicks and ducks hatched from the eggs. She follows anyone she sees at first sight. Jingxiao has only listened to Yue Lan's words since she was a child. Yue Lan was a troublemaker. When Jingxiao was a child, the Fang family looked at him very closely and wanted him to grow up safely and not worry about the past. Jingxiao refused, so Yuelan helped him run away from home to find an expert to learn martial arts. As a result, the two children fell into a ravine and almost died. By chance, they met an eminent monk who went into the mountains to pick herbs. Xuan Ning. As a result, Jingxiao stayed with Xuan Ning to learn kung fu, and Yue Lan came back to study. The two of them agreed since they were young that if they learn their skills well in both literature and martial arts, they must solve the case of the sinking of Lingdie Palace when they grow up."

"Although Fang Jingxiao doesn't remember anything." Zhan Zhao also added, "But after all, there is something strange about Lingdie Palace. His parents, grandparents, and hundreds of people in the palace still don't understand. It sank to the bottom of the lake, so even if I don’t remember it, there’s no reason not to check it out.”

Everyone nodded, so that's what happened. No wonder Xuan Ning said that Fang Jingxiao was carrying a blood feud. If the sinking of the Lingdie Palace was caused by man, it would be the revenge of the family.

Nangong Ji thought for a while and asked Zhao Zhen, "So Lu Yuelan refused to go to Kaifeng several times... is it because they can't leave until the case is clearly investigated?"

Zhao Zhen spread his hands helplessly, "Yes, when I asked Yue Lan to choose a position, he said he would run back to Shaoxing to be the prefect without even thinking about it. Alas... Who knows that I love talents and am a considerate subordinate? As a good emperor, for the sake of my beloved, I have no choice but to go to Jiangnan to investigate this case in person."

"Did you know the things you brought with you in advance?" Zhao Pu asked.

Zhao Zhen shrugged, "When the Lingdie Palace sank, a large amount of gold and silver treasures sank together, but these properties of the Lingdie Palace that were supposed to be at the bottom of the lake were secretly bought and sold. Yue Lan has tracked down a lot of them over the years, and gave me Made a list."

While talking, Zhao Zhen took out a letter from his waist and waved it to everyone.
To be continued...