After seeing the barrage, the princess quit her job

Chapter 231

Shen Xingjun's family was watched over by Xie Miao and Xie Ling, and Dong Zhongyuan and Wang He didn't dare to make any small moves. Yan Suizhi and Shen Jiayu got a good night's sleep and felt refreshed the next day.

"Your second uncle said that he has a fixed number of counts every day. He didn't find anything wrong in the past. On the day of the accident, he was called to drink by some colleagues. He has always been restrained, and he was thinking about the ore in the warehouse. I mean, I didn't drink much."

"When it was time to count, he left first. His colleagues all knew that he had done his best and did not force him to stay. They readily said that we would meet again at another time."

"As a result, when he returned to the government office, it was still brightly lit, but it felt quiet. You must know that minerals are the most important thing in Chenzhou, and many government officials would be sent to guard them. As a result, the government officials stood at the door, but the inside was empty. gone."

Shen Xingjun's astonishment and panic couldn't be concealed. He grabbed a yamen servant by the collar and asked him if there was any movement inside.

"In this way, my second uncle has an alibi. Before the incident happened, he was drinking with his colleagues, and then returned directly from the restaurant to the government office. Where are his colleagues?"

"They are all being held in their respective mansions. We can visit them one by one after investigating the places where the incident happened."

Yan Suizhi and Shen Jiayu reached a consensus, and Dong Zhongyuan waited at their door early, with a look of resignation: "The prince said yesterday that he would go to the treasury to have a look, and the lower official has already asked the manager for the key. Let's go."

Wang He also accompanied him, he seldom spoke, and his attitude towards the prince Yan Suizhi was also average, neither flattering nor too alienated.

There are two corridors between the warehouse and where they live, because the inside is already empty, and the yamen servants are all lazily sitting on the ground chatting. Seeing Dong Zhongyuan bringing the big man over, he quickly stood up straight and hurriedly salute.

Dong Zhongyuan scolded, put on a show, took out the key and opened the door of the warehouse.

"It's really clean, not even a little dross left."

The warehouse has a large space, and there are many iron shelves. The ore is packed in boxes and then arranged. Now only the iron shelves are left, but not the boxes.

"My lord doesn't know that the ores that can be placed in the treasury are all of the highest grade. They are not easy to break in pieces. There is no dross in the first place. The dregs will be discarded in the veins, or they will be gathered together. Heap it up and sell it to blacksmiths at a low price."

Shen Jiayu and Yan Suizhi quickly went around the room, Dong Zhongyuan followed behind them and occasionally answered questions.

"I also ask Zhizhou to find the yamen servant who was on duty at night at that time. This king has something to ask."

Yan Suizhi sent Dong Zhongyuan away, Shen Jiayu knocked on the iron frame, and then on the wall, all of them were solid.

"Do you suspect that there is a secret room here?"

Yan Suizhi asked.

Shen Jiayu nodded: "Second uncle said that every month except for the ore shipped to the capital, all the rest are here, even if there are only one or two boxes left at a time, it has been eight months now, and there is no ash on this shelf, and many of them are still there. There are traces of boxes."

"I took a rough look and found that there were more than a dozen boxes. If there were no other passages, thieves could only pass through the main entrance. No matter how careful they were when moving, there would inevitably be collisions, especially iron shelves. there's noise."

"But the yamen servants didn't hear anything. Either they were lying and got away with it from the beginning, or the thieves came in from other places and didn't meet them, or they were insiders and they were covering up. .”

Yan Suizhi agrees with her opinion: "After all, it's actually the yamen servants who are the most suspected, and they can't escape the responsibility."

Shen Jiayu snapped his fingers: "Right."

Soon, Dong Zhongyuan came back, almost rolling and crawling, with obvious panic on his face: "It's not good, my lord, those two yamen servants died in my room!"

Yan Suizhi and Shen Jiayu looked at each other.

"Take this king quickly!"

　Go detective

　　
　
(End of this chapter)