Chapter 57 Chapter 18 Feiqian, Scholar

"If all the money that flew away was paper money, where did the money in the library go?" Sun Xian was frustrated and unwilling. "Gu Family Bank." Feng Saidao. "Gu Family Silver Shop?!" "Well. Wang Shi actually made two deals with the Gu family brothers. The first one was to exchange the 50,000 guan real money of Guangning Supervisor for 100,000 guan fake money; the second was to sell the 100,000 guan fake money to Gu Kun." "What?" Sun Xian was a little confused. "Let's start with why Lan Meng created the illusion of flying money. From the beginning to the end, Lan Meng actually didn't get involved in the 100,000 treasury money."

"how come?" "Didn't you find out after checking the money? Lan Wei died in prison. Lan Meng pretended to be his brother and asked someone to pawn the wine shop. At that time, he was only willing to sell the winery for three hundred guan. Until then You went to ask him, he panicked, no longer cared about bargaining, sold the wine shop, and fled overnight. If he got his hands on the one hundred thousand treasury money, no matter the real money or fake money, he would never care These three hundred strings." "Then why would he do that?" "He discovered that the cash boxes in the treasury were empty, and there was no money in them."

"No money?" Sun Xian leaned back in his chair violently, becoming anxious. "I just thought of it from another incident you mentioned." "What's up?" "Lan Meng often goes to Qin's house to borrow money from the treasury. I asked again that day, and every time Lan Meng borrowed the new money of the year. The excuse was that the new money was prosperous, but when I thought about it carefully, he was probably stealing left money from time to time. The money from the treasury is used to gamble. If you lose the bet, you can go to the Jie treasury to borrow new money;

"The money in the left treasury is not only locked by three doors, but also sealed with iron box seals. How did he steal it?" "The other two things you mentioned can be used as evidence. One is that Zuo Zangku's warehouse has been in disrepair for a long time, and there are holes in the roof. He can lift the tiles, hang a rope from the roof, and steal the money. Then cover the tiles; secondly, the father of one of his guards was a blacksmith, and that guard probably learned some skills, knowing how to pry open the rivets on the bottom plate of the iron cash box, and steal money from underneath without moving the seal. And then riveted back on again."

"Stealing money from the treasury is a felony, why should he take the risk?" "Once a person becomes addicted to gambling, he can do anything. What's more, you also asked, Lan Meng and his ten guards teamed up to play a game. This way, there will be more chances of winning, and the courage will be stronger." Occasionally, if you lose your hand, first steal some treasury money as capital, and then return it when you win. There is no interest, which is better than borrowing. Only when there is no capital, will you go to the treasury to borrow.” "You just said that he found all the cash boxes in the money vault empty?"

"Well, and it was Wang Shi who forced him to find out." "Forcing him to find out?!" Sun Xian suddenly raised his voice. "Well. That's why Wang Shi pays attention to inquire about Lan Meng's details. If you can find out that Lan Meng often goes to Qin's house to borrow money to gamble, Wang Shi can naturally find out. Therefore, he set a trap and spent money to buy off Lan Meng's subordinates Those ten guards first let Lan Meng win seven or eight thousand guan, which aroused his interest in gambling, and then made him lose three thousand guan. This forced Lan Meng to steal money from Curry again, and let him discover the The cash boxes are all empty."

"Wang Shi knows that those cash boxes are empty?" "Of course. He did it all." "Ah? This..." The more Sun Xian listened, the more confused he became, his face full of depression.Zhou Changqing and Cui Hao were also very puzzled. Feng Sai continued: "Even if the brothers of the Gu family can make 100,000 counterfeit money in Jiangxi, there are many obstacles along the way, and there is absolutely no way to transport it to the capital. Wang Shi borrowed the ship of the chariot transport department to do it for them. When he arrived in Kaocheng, Wang Shi stole the 100,000 counterfeit money and sold another one to Gu Kun."

"The gang boat has dozens of soldiers and hundreds of boatmen. How did he rob it?" "The boatmen of the Chariot Transport Division are all hired in Jiangzhou. To ensure safety, meals are cooked on board, and there are special cooks. I guess Wang Shi bribed the Jiangzhou Yaren and was recruited as a cook. Wang Shi When I first met, he grilled meat for me to eat with his own hands. He was used to cooking, so it was easy to get past him, and he followed the gang boat all the way north. "Gang Chuan is moving slowly. The scholar who went to Jiangxi with Wang Shi probably brought tens of thousands of pennies with him. He returned to Bianjing with those four accomplices first, and then designed to seduce my younger brother Feng Bao. Together with him, he went to Shaanxi to buy money and government documents, and returned to the capital to exchange for salt money and tea. When they came back from Jiangxi, Fang La had just had an incident. He probably expected that Fang La's power would grow rapidly, and the southeast waterway would be blocked at that time. The price of silk would rise sharply. Therefore, he immediately rushed to Hebei and Shandong to exchange salt money and tea for grain silk, and transported it to the capital to stock up.

"At this time, it was approaching the end of the year, and Qian Gang was about to arrive in the capital. He instigated Feng Bao to go to Kaocheng to rent the manor house in advance, bribed the tax collector in Kaocheng, and let the tax collector pass the customs two miles away. Waiting for an ice-cutting boat on the shore, pretending to be a coincidence, and leading Du Shuicheng to go ashore to drink. When the gang boat followed up, it was already late, so I had to moor the boat to rest. And the rented manor house was nearby , I asked, how many boats sailed into the manor near the end of the year, and they were naturally Wang Shi's accomplices, waiting there in advance.

"Wang Shi is the cook on the boat, so it's easy to put medicine in the meal. After overturning the guards and boatmen on the gang boat, his accomplices rowed over in the middle of the night, replaced the money box on the gang boat with a fake money box, and secretly transported it there. In the yard. Wait until the first month, then mix boxes with other goods, transport them to the capital, hand them over to Gu Kun, and try to get them into the market." "No, no!" Sun Xian shook his head loudly, "My father and I personally watched and moved the gang money into Zuo Zangku."

"When Wang Shi threatened Su Jing, the treasury supervisor, in Jiangzhou, he probably also asked for the official seal of the Guangning prison cash box. The fake cash box with the official seal on it was transported into the Zuo Zang warehouse." "Didn't you just say that the cash boxes brought into the warehouse are all empty? Even if it is a fake cash box, I watched Li Fu carry it with my own eyes, and it is definitely not empty." "It's ice in there." "Ice?!" Sun Xian shouted loudly. Zhou Changqing and Cui Hao were also shocked. "Did you forget that when your father entered the warehouse that day, the ground was slippery and he fell?" "It rained two times before." "How big is the spring rain in February? It will dry up in a few days. Bianjing is not so humid. The reason why the floor of the warehouse is so slippery is that all the ice in the cash box has melted in the warm spring season. It leaked to the ground through the seam of the box." "It's still wrong!" Sun Xian retorted loudly, "A box of copper coins is much heavier than a box of ice. Why didn't anyone notice it when they were carrying it?" "I have thought of this too, but you have said that when the hired laborers carry the cash box, in order to prevent robbery and robbery, they are not allowed to know what they are carrying, and they are not allowed to speak along the way. Therefore, No one would have noticed how much lighter those cash boxes were." Sun Xian lowered his head and remained silent, his expression extremely depressed. Zhou Changqing asked from the side: "Why did Wang Shi and the others put ice in?" "One is fooling around, and the other is probably teasing. From the beginning to the end, these things are full of teasing. Teasing the court, teasing the rich and powerful." "You just said that Wang Shi planned to force Lan Meng to find out that the cash box in the treasury was empty. What's the reason?" "They have an important date—Qingming. Wang Shi's four accomplices mentioned Qingming several times in the Cao Sanlang Winery, and Mr. Zhang Zeduan saw Tan Li hiding in a boat on the Bian River on Qingming. They seem to have An extremely important matter must wait until the day of Qingming, and it must be completed in the Bianhe area. However, an accident occurred in Zuozangku during the first month..." "What accident?" "According to the original opening sequence of the salary bank, the 100,000 empty boxes will not be opened until a few months later, but Prime Minister Wang Fu violated the old court regulations and dedicated the 1 million coins from the salary bank to the emperor. In this way, the empty warehouse will have to be opened in February. Once the matter is revealed, the Guangning prison will naturally be traced. If it is exposed, Wang Shi and his gang will probably be found out too. They will not be able to wait until the day of Qingming. In order to delay the time, they designed to make Lan Meng owe three thousand gambling debts. Lan Meng was forced to go to Zuo Zangku to steal Money. Wang Shi may have bribed a certain guard to lure Lan Meng to steal the warehouse on purpose. It turned out that the cash box was empty. I'm afraid this trick was not thought up by Lan Meng himself, but by Wang Shi and his gang—no, not Wang Shi, it should be the scholar who went to Jiangxi with him, Li Erlang." "Oh?" "Before that, Wang Shi had already been killed in Fanlou." "Why was Wang Shi killed?" "I think Wang Shi is a person. After he borrowed the 'mother's money' trick to get the one million yuan from Taifu Temple, he might want to do some heroic deeds to relieve the poor, but that scholar doesn't seem to be such a person. The two I'm afraid there was a dispute. The scholar threatened and instigated Brother Lan Meng to kill Wang Shi in Fan Lou." "Who is that scholar?" "I'm afraid it is Mr. Liu who borrowed the Huo Heng Manor and hoarded grain and silk at Wuzhang River." "Master Liu?" "Well, Mr. Liu and Li Erlang should be the same person..." Feng Sai muttered in a low voice, his heart suddenly shook, and he suddenly thought of a person——him? His mind seemed to be split open suddenly by a knife, and his feet suddenly collapsed. He was startled for a while and couldn't believe it, but many evidences came one after another, and he couldn't help but not believe it. ——Liu Erlang.
Feng Sai was so startled that he completely forgot everything, he raised his legs and ran out the door, knocked the table and knocked over the teacup without noticing it, and before he had time to tell Zhou Changqing and others, he hurried downstairs to the stable in the backyard to fetch the horse. Flying on the horse, he rushed to the prison of Dali Temple. That scholar is Liu Erlang. The first time Wang Shi and Zhu Shiwu, who sold charcoal, came to me was the Gu family silver shop that Liu Erlang took them to, but the Gu family did not employ Wang Shi. Last autumn, Feng Bao was supposed to go back to his hometown to give money, but Feng Bao suddenly disappeared. It was Liu Erlang who offered to go to Jiangxi. In November, I went to Shaanxi to buy some money, but Feng Bao couldn't find anyone, so it was Liu Erlang who volunteered to accompany him! In Hezhong Mansion, Shaanxi Province, Liu Erlang stayed in the inn due to unacceptable conditions, but later said that he met Feng Bao.Feng Baoruo really went to Shaanxi with Wang Shi, and bought 50,000 guan for the money. This was the first time in his life that he had done a big business alone. Not only was it not a bad thing, but it was a great joy. Already bragging about it.However, when I came back and asked Feng Bao, Feng Bao hesitated to say anything, probably because he did other things that were neither embarrassing nor embarrassing, instead of going to Shaanxi.It was Liu Erlang who lied. Selling love notes in the first month, logically speaking, if that Fan Tai wanted to buy love notes, he didn't know that the love notes were handed over to Liu Erlang, so naturally he should come to me first.However, he quickly found Liu Erlang directly and bought the love note. On the day of Qingming, Liu Erlang rushed to report that Qiu Han's mother and son had been kidnapped. I asked him to accompany Hu merchants to the shore to pick up the goods. He agreed without hesitation.Naturally, it has been premeditated to lure me to the western suburbs to find Qiu Han's mother and son, so that he can meet Tan Li and others on the boat on the Bian River. As for the farmhouse where Wuzhanghe hoards grain and silk, the owner is Huo Heng, a Fujian tea merchant. I knew Bi Fu because he introduced him, and Liu Erlang naturally knew him too.In order to please Liu Bifu, Huo Heng would naturally treat Liu Erlang kindly, and promised that the manor would be used by him.The person watching the courtyard said that he was "Mr. Liu", so he probably mistook "Liu" for "Liu". In all these incidents, Feng Bao appeared repeatedly, probably not Feng Bao himself, but Liu Erlang borrowed his name to hide himself.Feng Bao has never done a few serious things, how could he suddenly become so sophisticated? As for the kidnapping of Qiu Han's mother and daughter and Bi Fu, Feng Bao was trapped in the plum boat and never showed up, so it was naturally a lie made by Liu Erlang. But why did Liu Erlang kidnap Qiu Han's mother, daughter and Bi Fu? On the day of Qingming, Liu Erlang must have something very important to go to Bianhe, so he used this method to distract me, so he sent the bearers to the western suburbs. Fortunately, Wu Meng from Charcoal Bank suddenly appeared, disrupting Liu Erlang's plan and taking Liu Erlang as a hostage.Then the incident of Wang Shi's million-dollar government loan happened, and Liu Erlang was detained in Dali Temple Prison.These two accidents were beyond his expectation, that's why his accomplice did not let go of Qiu Han's mother and daughter and Bi Fu, but it should not hurt them.Thinking of this, Feng Sai felt a little relieved. He ran all the way to Dali Temple Prison, hurriedly got off his horse, untied the money bag at his waist, there were about ten pieces of silver and copper coins in it, and handed the whole money bag to the gatekeeper. "Brother, can you let me meet someone in prison?" "Who are you seeing?" "Liu Erlang was detained here because of Wang Shi's official loan case." "Liu Erlang? Take the money back." "how?" "He has been released." "when?" "It's been more than an hour."
Qiu Qian bought another large basket of early-blooming fresh peonies, and brought them to Fangming Courtyard. The excuse he came up with was to thank Gu Pan'er for informing Feng Bao of the message. Seeing that it was him, the little girl smiled and said, "My sister is meeting guests." Qiu Qian's heart sank. "But you are also considered a family, come in." Qiu Qian was a little puzzled, followed the little girl into the yard, Xiao Ming was coming out with a soup bottle in his arms, when seeing Qiu Qian, he hurriedly asked, "Qiu Xianggong, have you returned from Yingtian Mansion? Have you found Sanxianggong?" What about the ladies?" Qiu Qian shook his head apologetically. "Hey, how can this be good? Sister Gu has been thinking about you these two days. She is upstairs in the flower pavilion. You can go up by yourself." When Qiu Qian heard this, his heart jumped again.He carried the basket of peonies and walked into the front hall. The stairs were on the east side of the front hall. He walked over and looked up. There was a crystal curtain hanging at the entrance of the building, which swayed slightly in the sunlight, making it blurry and bright.It was very quiet inside, and a faint fragrance wafted out. He couldn't help but feel a little timid. After a little relief, he raised his legs and went upstairs. After walking a few steps, there was a sound of footsteps above, a little heavy, not like a woman's footsteps.Then, the crystal curtain shattered, and a man came down, his face could not be seen clearly against the light, but he was a young man. The man was taken aback when he saw Qiu Qian, and then walked down.When approaching, Qiu Qian recognized that it was Liu Bifu's younger brother Liu Erlang. "Qiu Qian, are you here too?" Qiu Qian was a little embarrassed when he was bumped into here, so he forced a smile and nodded. "Go up, Pan'er is on top." Liu Erlang said as he turned sideways and walked out. Only then did Qiu Qian realize that Liu Erlang was imprisoned in the Dali Temple Prison, how could he be released?Did my brother-in-law do it?Without thinking about it, he went up the stairs and opened the crystal curtain. In front of him was a flower pavilion with only a roof, and three sides were open. Such flowers and plants, green branches and leaves, and strange flowers, Qiu Qian has never seen most of them.There is a rattan table and several rattan chairs in the hall. On the table are two black porcelain teacups and several plates of fruit. Qiu Qian looked to the left again, there was a narrow road with four rooms, and he didn't know which one Gu Pan'er was in.He called softly, "Miss Gu." He called three times, but there was no response.He walked over carefully, the first door was open, there was no one inside, and there was a smell of wine.He poked his head around and saw a set of red sandalwood tables and chairs, and a antique rack, which were filled with various wine bottles, wine bottles, and wine cups.The second and third doors are closed, only the last door is ajar. Qiu Qian walked to the last door, knocked lightly, and called twice in a low voice, but there was no sound from inside.He bravely opened the door carefully, and a strong fragrance came to his nostrils. Inside was an embroidery room, with a carved bed, dressing mirror, and sandalwood cabinet, all very elegant and luxurious.The Qiangsha curtain on the carved bed was put down, and there was a person vaguely lying inside, with a petite figure, it should be Gu Pan'er. Qiu Qian called twice more, but there was still no response from the bed.Qiu Qian's back felt cold, and he felt ominous immediately. He hesitated for a moment, but still bravely walked in, opened the curtain lightly, and when he saw it, he couldn't help trembling and exclaimed. Gu Pan'er lay on his back on the bed, motionless, his eyes were wide open, his face was blue and hard, and he was dead.
Qiu Han's heart was cut off in its entirety, but half of it came back. She didn't know whether to be happy or sad, grateful or afraid. Especially after hearing Ling'er's words, she was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a while. The words of sister Qiugui "earning a lot of money in one night" were undoubtedly talking about prostitutes. Could it be that this is a brothel?What do they want to do with our mother and daughter?Where is Longer? She couldn't help hugging Ling'er tightly in her arms, and looked at Liu Bifu, who was also looking at their mother and daughter with a look of sadness and envy.Qiu Han heard that most of the prostitutes bought young girls and taught them since childhood. Liu Bifu became an orphan since he was young. I am afraid that it was because of being bought by prostitutes that he became his later identity. Longer!Do they?Qiu Han was frightened for a while, and couldn't help but burst into tears. At this time, there was a noise outside the door, and the old woman came in with food again. Qiu Han waited for her to put the food away, and quickly grabbed the old woman's sleeve: "Where is my Long'er? What did you do to her? " The old woman looked a little scared and sympathetic, but she didn't answer, she tried her best to break away from Qiu Han's hand, and hurried out. "Wait a minute." Liu Bifu suddenly stood up. When the old woman heard this, she stood still and looked back. But Liu Bifu turned her head to look at Qiu Han: "Sister, I'm leaving. You have to give birth to Da Ling'er, don't let her suffer from my suffering. If the husband can find you, you will be united and peaceful." .” After Liu Bifu finished speaking, she walked towards the door. When she turned her head, Qiu Han saw tears in her eyes. Qiu Han didn't know why she said these words, and stared blankly at Liu Bifu going out the door, the door was closed immediately, only the sound of footsteps going up...