Immediately, Nature drove the carriage and pretended to leave the city and return to Stone Village.

Xue Yan and Jiang Yue didn't come to the vicinity of the mansion until the middle of the night, when the people on duty in the mansion were somewhat dozing off.

Jiang Yue was pregnant, Xue Yan naturally wouldn't let her do it himself, but let her stay in a corner, where it was dark enough to completely cover her, and he would knock people unconscious.

During this time, he would come to the government office every night. He was very familiar with the government office, and he was very familiar with the people inside, which rooms they lived in, and who were the servants and servants who were on duty in turn. He was very good at getting on, so it didn't take a quarter of an hour before he knocked everyone unconscious.

In the end, it was naturally the two yamen guarding the gate of the government office. The gate of the government office was closed. The two yamen servants were sitting on the steps behind the gate of the government palace and dozing off with their spears. People, without any back door, directly opened the gate of the mansion and let his Yuebao come in.

Jiang Yue was in the corner, when she saw that the gate of the government office was open from the inside, and it was still quiet, she knew that it was her family's Xue Yan who knocked everyone unconscious, and she came out of the darkness.

In the middle of the night, almost no one would pass in front of the government office. However, after Jiang Yue entered the government office, Xue Yan still closed the door of the government office from the inside.

In this way, even if someone passes by the government office, as long as they don't knock on the door and let the people from the government office answer their voices to come in, basically no one will find out that there is something wrong with the government office.

As soon as the door was closed, Xue Yan took Jiang Yue directly to Fan Jianxi's room at the back, and said as he went, "He probably doesn't feel safe, even if he has a wife and a concubine, I haven't seen him during this time. In which room I live, I live alone, and when I came to visit again the night before yesterday, I also heard two servants chatting, talking about this matter, it seems that it has always been the case."

Jiang Yuedao: "For such an insecure person, there must be something on him and in the room."

Xue Yan nodded, he also thought so.

The guard at the door of Fan Jianxi's room had been knocked out and knocked down. In the room, Fan Jianxi, who was sleeping, was also knocked out. Xue Yan pushed open the door and walked in with his Yuebao.

Although there is moonlight pouring in, I can see it to some extent, but after all, I can't see it clearly. I saw Xue Yan took out the fire book, blew it, and lit the two lamps on the lampstand in this room, waiting for the lampshade. After putting it on again, he went to the bedside and searched Fan Jianxi's body.

Fan Jianxi was in his forties and had a mustache. Judging from his appearance, he really couldn't tell that he was not a good official.

The layout of the room is really simple and unusual, even simpler than other rooms, and even the tea cups on the table have two gaps.

When Xue Yan searched Fan Jianxi's body, Jiang Yue was looking at the room to see if there was anything wrong with it.

She always felt that there was really something in this room, but before she took her eyes off her, Xue Yan of her family had already found three keys from Fan Jianxi while she was still looking at it.

The key was still in the innermost clothes in his arms.

In the innermost clothes, where the flesh is attached, a pocket is sewn, and the key is placed in it, and the body can clearly feel it.

But now that Fan Jianxi was knocked out, naturally he couldn't find out immediately.

However, it shows the importance of these three keys.

I searched Fan Jianxi again, but found nothing else.

Xue Yan handed the key to his Yuebao.

Jiang Yue took it over and looked at it. Except for the two big and one small, the keys were nothing special.

Then she said, "Let's look for it in this room. Maybe the key is to open somewhere in this room. After all, he lived in this room alone, and he never let anyone else come to live in this room."

"Yeah." Xue Yan responded, and then carefully searched the room.

Jiang Yue stopped looking at it, and began to look carefully.

No matter what was in this room, they all looked at it bit by bit, knocking from time to time to see if there was a secret room in this room.

But even the outer room of this room was carefully looked at little by little, but nothing was found.

Xue Yan frowned: "It's impossible. How could this room be completely different." After speaking, he pondered.

Jiang Yue also felt that it was impossible, "If there is nothing in this room, why does he keep living in this room alone? Obviously there is something." After looking around the room, he saw that the door next door was open. Yes, she asked, "Who lives next door?"

Xue Yan said: "No one lives, it's just an empty room." Immediately, he remembered something: "By the way, every time I come here during this time, I have never seen the door next door closed. Maybe it's a cover to make people think it's nothing. But what's the matter? Besides, it's just next door to this room. If there's any sound next door, he can usually hear it in the room."

"What's the matter, this Fan Jianxi is cunning enough." Jiang Yue said. "Let's go, let's go and see next door."

"Yeah." Xue Yan nodded.

After entering the next room, Xue Yan also lit the lamp in the room, and the room was immediately illuminated.

During this time, he had actually entered this room, but it was difficult to light the lights and look carefully. After all, there were people on duty and even servants sitting at the door next door, which was the room where Fan Jianxi lived. It was Fan Jianxi who lived there. If he turned on the lights, wouldn't it be easy for people to find him?

At that time, the lights were dark, and even if he wanted to take a closer look at every part of the room, he couldn't do it.

Now, it's different, everyone is knocked unconscious, don't be afraid of making any noise, and the lights are lit, so naturally you can check the room carefully and little by little.

Especially the wall between this room and the next room.

As long as there is any change in this wall, the next door will hear it the most. If there is any noise elsewhere in this room, if it is small, the next door may not be able to hear it. Therefore, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan both feel that if there is any problem in this room, the problem is probably in this block. this side of the wall.

There is a Bogu shelf on this side of the wall, and some things are scattered in the grids on the Bogu shelf, and the things are very simple.

Jiang Yue and Xue Yan carefully inspected the ancient shelf and the contents in the grid, and found nothing unusual. He pushed the Bogu frame away again, and took a closer look at the wall, but found nothing out of the ordinary.

Because they thought it was probably near the wall, and there was no problem with the wall and the Bogu frame, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan both squatted down, lowered their heads, checked the ground near the wall, and tapped them with their fingers.

Immediately, after finding that a square plank brick was knocked, it was not solid, it seemed to be hollow, and if the Bogu frame had not been removed, almost the entire board would have been pressed by the Bogu frame, located in the Bogu frame. under.

"It should be here." Jiang Yue tapped the board.

Xue Yan nodded.

This piece of wood can only be found when the Bogu shelf is removed. It makes some noise when the Bogu shelf is removed. The Bogu shelf is adjacent to this wall, so the next door can be clearly heard.

Since it was certain that it was under this board, then this board could obviously be removed. Jiang Yue and Xue Yan only lifted it casually, so they lifted the board and moved it to one side.

Then, about ten centimeters away, an iron plate was exposed. The iron plate was locked with a lock. Only when the lock was opened, the iron plate could be pushed inward.

"It should be one of these three keys." Jiang Yue said, according to the size of the lock, first tried one of the two big keys, if it didn't open, then tried the other big key, Then it clicked open.

Take off the lock, push the iron plate inside, and push it down, and then see a downward wooden ladder below. Obviously, there is a secret room below, and you can go down through this wooden ladder.

And whether you open the lock or open the iron plate, there will be a clicking sound. If you have just removed the bogu frame and removed the wooden plank, and the sound is too heavy to sleep next door, then open the lock and the iron plate, and the next door can also hear the sound. , which is equivalent to double insurance.

Knowing that Fan Jianxi was cunning, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan were not surprised.

It was dark below, so Xue Yan took a lamp in his hand, "I'll go down first." Maybe there was some mechanism below, and he couldn't let his Yuebao walk in the front.

After speaking, Xue Yan stepped down first, stepped on the wooden stairs, and went down step by step. There was also an oil lamp on the wall next to the bottom of the stairs, which could be lit, and Xue Yan lit it.

The bottom is even brighter.

It can be seen that the bottom is actually quite open, but there is another iron door, which is taller than the person, and there is a lock on the door.

With the key, it doesn't take any manpower to break it open. Xue Yan naturally didn't take care of the lock first, but raised his head and said to his Yuebao, who was still standing at the entrance of the wooden board, "You can come down."

Jiang Yue just came down.

Xue Yan stretched out her hands subconsciously, and if she could help his Yuebao down, she would help his Yuebao down.

Jiang Yue didn't say anything at all without his help. Even if she said it was useless, her family Xue Yan would still take care of her subconsciously. It was like this when she was not pregnant before, not to mention she is pregnant now.

The key is in Jiang Yue's hand, and the lock is still quite large. It should be the other big key. Jiang Yue used this other big key to open it.

Sure enough, with a click, the lock also opened.

Seeing that his family Yuebao had taken the lock off, Xue Yan pushed open the iron door that was taller than him.

It was naturally dark inside, but the iron door was opened, and the light from outside the iron door was sprinkled in, illuminating the scene near the iron door to some extent. It can be seen that there are bookshelves inside, and there are stacks of things on the bookshelves, among which there are I couldn't see what the document-like things were, so Xue Yan went in first and lit the lamp inside.

There is a square table inside, a stool in front of the table, and a lamp above the table.

And because it was lit, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan were able to see the secret room for real.

This secret room is about 20 to 30 square meters. Except for a table, a stool, and a lamp in the middle, there are bookshelves next to the four surrounding walls.

There are a lot of documents on the shelves, and there seem to be account books and other thick things.

In the two inner corners, in fact, next to the two innermost bookshelves, there are also many large wooden boxes.

Xue Yan first opened the big wooden boxes and found that there were rare treasures inside, including gold and silver, as well as a lot of antiques, calligraphy and paintings. Obviously, this Fan Jianxi was not at all honest and honest. Multi-asset, these are people's fat and people's cream.

Then, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan flipped through the books on the four sides.

There is a record of how much tax each county in Lizhou area has actually collected from the people in the past two years, and Diankui County is naturally included. This record is a general record, at most detailed to each village, which is equivalent to a village is a unit. It is not detailed to every person in every household.

The details are definitely in the county magistrates.

However, this alone can prove that the tax that is actually reported to the imperial capital and turned over to the treasury is much lower than this.

This is of course hard evidence.

Although it is not hard evidence of an umbrella.

On the bookshelf, there are also records of the Lizhou area that had previously lied about a famine here, that the state treasury had allocated money, and then the people below had divided it up.

There are also many real account books, all of which are evidence that many officials in Lizhou have enriched their personal pockets.

There is also evidence that officials of various sizes in the Lizhou area were bribed.

There are also many letters that can also be used as evidence.

Some letters even stated that some county magistrates were disobedient and unwilling to join forces, but they were casually convicted by a party in the Lizhou area, except for their own people. Then all the officials in the Lizhou area are naturally a group of people.

It's really thanks to Fan Jianxi's lack of security, otherwise there would be no such ironclad evidence here, and all the officials in the Lizhou area could be taken away.

but……

"It's a little strange," Jiang Yue also frowned, "how can they all prove the criminal evidence of the officials in the Lizhou area, what else... the one with the protective umbrella... He is so insecure that he has left so much criminal evidence. , being clever is mistaken by cleverness, it is impossible to have no umbrella, but in so many things, no one has mentioned the names of suspicious high-ranking people..."

"It's weird." Xue Yan nodded. After a pause, he added: "Isn't there still a key? It's this much smaller key. There should be a lock that needs to be opened. It is estimated that the lock corresponding to this key contains iron evidence that points directly to the protective umbrella."

"It's very possible." Jiang Yue also nodded and agreed. "There are so many criminal evidences here, and the three keys are also put together. I feel that it is unlikely that the iron evidence pointing to the umbrella is placed elsewhere. It should be in this secret room. Let's look for it and see if there is any need to unlock it The place."

"Um."

Then I started to look for it in this secret room.

I even removed the bookshelf and the big wooden box. I also removed the table and stool in the middle and looked at it. I also looked at the ground. Naturally, I also knocked on it. Naturally, I also looked at the four walls little by little. Nothing was found, nothing out of the ordinary.

There is no difference in these, so there is only one place left, which is the top of this secret room.

Xue Yan stood on the table and began to check the top of the secret room one by one.

Later, he moved the table to its original position, which is in the middle of the secret room. When he stood up to check the top carefully, he found that there was a slate on the top to hold it up.

As soon as they can hold it up, the two immediately know that they have found it, and this is it!

This slate cannot be taken off. The upper edge is wider and the lower edge is slightly narrower. Then the slate can be hung in the opening and will not fall off. It is the same as other slates, and it looks the same as the inlay there. .

He could only lift it up, Xue Yan lifted it up carefully, and found that the opening was exposed, and there was more space inside. You could put the slate to the side, in fact, move it to the side.

After removing it, there is an iron plate inside. This iron plate is also square, but the iron plate without talent is bigger and much smaller, and it cannot allow people to enter. There is also a button on the iron plate, and there is a lock on the button. It's locked, the lock is quite small, don't think about it, you know it's opened with the small key.

"Here." Jiang Yue stood by the table and handed the key to her family Xue Yan.

Xue Yan took it and opened the lock with a slight click. After taking off the small lock, I pushed open the iron plate and found a small wooden box inside.

Then, Xue Yan took out the small wooden box, and immediately got off the table and opened the small wooden box to see.

Then Jiang Yue and Xue Yan saw that in the small wooden box, there was a roster and an account book, and the rest were letters, and the letters were naturally secret letters. It is different, obviously not from the same person.

When they opened the roster first, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan found out that the roster was compiled by Fan Jianxi himself and the names of the people he had honored.

The first name is 'Qiu Pusheng'.

Jiang Yue and Xue Yan didn't have to think about it, they knew that this Qiu Pusheng should be the general Qiu who grew up with Emperor Dachen and is currently the Marshal of Dachen's army.

Obviously, General Qiu is the umbrella.

Other names, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan don't know, but since they are people whom Fan Jianxi has filial piety, it is obvious that the official position is higher than that of Fan Jianxi.

He opened the account book in the small wooden box, and the account book clearly recorded who was honored when, and how much, and who else knew about it. It even stated that the honored thing at that time was exactly. It is clear who sent it to those who are honored.

There are naturally names in this account book. Jiang Yue and Xue Yan briefly glanced at them and found that the honored names in the account book were the same as the names in the roster.

Fan Jianxi was really trying to save himself the backhand. If something happened, he would rather hold him back than let him go. In this case, the person who has been honored will know that he has these in his hand when he has an accident, and he will not dare to give up his chess piece at all, but will find a way to save him.

So, it's okay if nothing happens, if something happens, if he can be saved, it's okay, but if he can't survive, then I'm sorry, let's all die together.

He is cunning and clever, yet still has this mentality... Fan Jianxi is actually no different from a poisonous snake.

Jiang Yue and Xue Yan didn't have to think about the secret letter in the small wooden box. They must be handwritten letters to Fan Jianxi from people whom Fan Jianxi had honored.

Quite a thick stack.

But Jiang Yue and Xue Yan still opened a few letters and looked at them. Among them, there happened to be a secret letter written by Qiu Pusheng, saying that someone else had sued God, and the complaint was about the heavy taxation in Lizhou and other places. The two levels of tax reduction are different. If it wasn't for Dali Siqing being his cousin, and the fact that he had the handle of the current prime minister, this matter could not be suppressed at all.

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