People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 616 Unlucky Xue Zhongzhang, Unlucky Pei Yan

A bunch of clear and chaotic footsteps stretched to one side of the courtyard wall, and Li Xuan was standing in front of the courtyard wall at this moment.

Lai Jingye, Lai Sui, Hu Yu and others all looked at the wall in front of them with ugly faces.

Behind everyone, Ku Cao joined the army and reported softly: "According to statistics, a total of eight thousand copper coins have been stolen, and two months' salary and military pay are all gone."

"Only eight thousand." Lai Jingye and Lai Sui relaxed a little.

Although the money is quite a lot, it can still be spent at home.

"Fortunately, the coins above are all copper coins. If they were exchanged for silver, the ones that were taken away would probably be 8000 taels of silver." Li Xuan couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion.

Although the imperial court does not use gold and silver as the main currency, copper coins, silk, and grain can all be used as daily transactions, and even salaries are distributed.

In the bustling city of Hangzhou, copper coins have already been used for tax transactions, but all the tax money turned over to the household department is in silver.

"Copper coins are very heavy, and they can't run very far with them." Lai Jingye clenched his fists tightly and said bitterly, "Even if you leave, you have to leave traces."

"Yeah!" Li Xuan nodded, looking towards the courtyard wall ahead, Wen Xu's group of footsteps disappeared completely when they reached here.

The courtyard wall of the Governor's Mansion was one foot high, and everyone subconsciously looked up at the top of the wall.

I just don't know why, but there is no trace of climbing on this courtyard wall.

"Did they hang the box out with a rope?" Lai Sui asked subconsciously.

Li Xuan smiled lightly, and then saw him stretch out his hand and press it on the courtyard wall. Under the surprised eyes of everyone, his strength suddenly exploded.

With a "boom", the courtyard wall in front of him suddenly collapsed, leaving a piece of space in the middle.

The people around subconsciously backed away, and at the same time looked at the collapsed wall in front of them in astonishment. It was empty. This...

"This is a false wall, Tianyin Sect's best method." Li Xuan turned around, looked at Jinglai and the others, and said softly: "Uncle Shi, they should have stolen the money through here."

Lai Jingye's face was very ugly, he turned to look at Chang Shi Hu Yu, and said in a deep voice: "Check, check the entire governor's mansion."

"Here!" Hu Yu turned around and left without any hesitation.

Li Xuan smiled slightly, nodded to Hu Yu, then turned around and entered the hole in the wall.

What appeared in front of Li Xuan was a dark and narrow alley.

One side of the alley is the backyard of the Governor's Mansion, and the other side is the backyard of another mansion.

The courtyard is two meters high, and there is a small gate not far in front.

The Governor's Mansion does not have a back door for safety, but this mansion has a back yard.

Usually, vehicles that pull dung go here, and there are two deep ruts on the ground.

"Go, chase!" Seeing these two ruts, Lai Sui immediately led many guards to catch up. However, at this time, he found that the crowd did not move, and most of them were looking at Li Xuan. .

Li Xuan stood there, looking at the mansion opposite, frowning slightly, as if there was some unsolvable mystery.

"27 Lang, what are you looking at?" Lai Sui waved his hands to the guards and came behind Li Xuan.

Li Xuan pointed to the small door of the big house not far away, and said softly: "It is said that at other times, everything is normal, but with this false wall, everything seems very wrong.

"What's wrong?" Lai Sui asked subconsciously.

Li Xuan pointed to the false wall on the side, and said softly: "Dudu Yuan is an extremely cautious person. He rarely went out when he was in the Governor's Mansion, so who on earth can do such a thing under the eyes of a shrewd person like him?" Hands and feet without being discovered?"

"A neighbor?" Lai Jingye immediately understood the meaning of Li Xuan's words, raised his head and stared fixedly at the opposite house.

Li Xuan nodded and continued: "Although Dongxingfang is where the Governor's Mansion is, the gate is still closed every day, and it is difficult for outsiders to enter and exit. At night, the defense of the Governor's Mansion will not be weakened, but because of the darkness, there will be Vulnerabilities, especially late at night."

Li Xuan didn't explain what she said, but the scene of someone quietly and carefully chiseling on the wall in the backyard of the Governor's Mansion in the dead of night still appeared in everyone's minds, and finally directly chiseled out a false wall.

Lai Jingye immediately turned to the side, and said coldly: "Xu Butou, go knock on the door!"

"Here!" Xu Butou immediately led his men to the backyard door of the mansion, which was locked with a thick iron lock.

Knock on the door, Lord Inspector said knocking is polite, do they use knocking on the door?
The most important thing is that in the eyes of these police officers, they don't remember who the owner of this mansion is.

With a "boom", the long knife slashed fiercely on the door lock, and the next moment, the door lock was directly chopped open.

Xu Butou was about to kick the door open immediately, but at this moment, the door was suddenly opened from the inside.

A [-]-year-old, stocky butler with a black pu cap on his head, a stubby beard, and a gray robe, appeared in front of the door, looking coldly at Xu Butou who raised his foot to kick the door in front of him. , coldly shouted unceremoniously: "What are you, what do you want to do, do you know where this is, you dare to mess around."

Xu Butou looked at the butler in front of him, and there was a sneer in front of him. He took a step forward unceremoniously, and while rushing in, he shouted loudly: "The state government arrests the head, and investigates the case..."

"The head of the state government?" The butler took a sudden step forward, pressing one hand directly on the threshold on one side, and his strong arm collided with the chest of Xu catcher. The next moment, it was surprising Yes, Xu Butou was hit directly by this blow and took several steps back.

The butler blocked the door again, frowning at Li Xuan, Lai Jingye and the others.

Finally, he looked at the people outside the door vigilantly, and said coldly: "Old slave, no matter who you are or what case you want to come in to investigate, no matter what you do, you must wait for my master to come back."

"Who is your master?" Xu Butou rubbed his chest, held the handle of the knife, and stared at the housekeeper
"Aren't you the head of the state government? Why don't you even know who my master is?" Your superior."

Xue Zhongzhang, at this moment, not only Xu Butou and other arresting officers present were stunned, but even Li Xuan and Lai Jingye were stunned.

This is actually Xue Zhongzhang's residence. Didn't he just come to Hangzhou for a few days? Why did he buy such a house so quickly?

Lai Jingye turned his head to look at Xu Butou, and waved his hand vigorously. Xu Butou immediately led the people forward and was about to rush in.

"What are you doing?" The butler grabbed the door violently and grabbed it out with a long knife. At the same time, he looked at the people outside the door with vigilance, and shouted unceremoniously: "This is the house where your Fa Cao joined the army. , he is still the nephew of the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, are you crazy?"

Hu Yu was about to step forward immediately, but at this time, Li Xuan grabbed Hu Yu and said with a look of dedication: "Uncle, no matter what, we always have to take care of Pei Shangshu's face, after all, we can't be careless. Let's label Pei Shangshu's nephew and our own colleagues as a conspiracy party, if something happens, it will not be at this moment."

Lai Jingye nodded slightly, and looked at Hu Yu who was on the side.

Hu Yu immediately understood, turned to look at the butler, and said solemnly: "Hurry up and inform your master, we can't wait long?"

The corner of the butler's mouth twitched slightly, but he raised his head and said, "Wait, I've sent someone to inform my master."

Li Xuan frowned slightly, looked at the housekeeper and asked, "Is your master not at home?"

With Li Xuan's words, everyone present immediately looked at the housekeeper.

The butler took a half step back, the long knife in his hand was raised horizontally, a little uneasy, but he still said uncompromisingly: "Whether my master is here or not, you are not allowed to come in."

Li Xuan turned to look at Chang Shi Hu Yu, and asked in a low voice, "Hu Chang Shi, haven't you seen Xue Canjun tonight?"

"Never." Hu Yu shook his head, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I didn't inform Xue Canjun about what happened tonight. After the officer was on duty yesterday, he saw Xue Canjun and Guan Canjun and went out together. No one knows where they went. where?"

Li Xuan nodded, then looked at Xiang Lai Jingye and said, "Xue Canjun probably won't come back tonight."

"Then!" Lai Jingye narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Uncle Shi, there's no need." Li Xuan hurriedly pulled him back to devote himself to his work.

It can be seen that Jingye wants to be strong, but they have already moved out of Pei Yan's name today, Li Xuan and Lai Jingye don't care, but the others, including Chang Shi Huyu, Xu Butou, and a group of arresters, have already changed their expressions A burst of uneasiness.

"Uncle Shi, we have other methods." Li Xuan nodded to Lai Jingye, then looked at the people in front of him and behind him, and shouted in a low voice: "Everyone spread out along the walls on both sides, and then hit the wall with the handle of the knife .”

"Nephew, do you mean that there is a false wall here too?" Lai Jingye was the first to react, and the others suddenly realized.

Li Xuan glanced at the butler at the door, nodded and said: "Actually, if it is said that Xue Canjun has hooked up with the king of the East China Sea, my nephew will not believe it. After all, he has Pei Shangshu behind him, and his future will be even brighter, unless there is some reason to fall into the trap. Otherwise, there is no need for him to seek refuge with the King of the East China Sea, so it is most likely that he was kept in the dark about everything."

"Well, not bad." Lai Jingye finally breathed a sigh of relief. Xue Zhongzhang was being taken advantage of in his confusion. That was Xue Zhongzhang's business, and it had nothing to do with Pei Yan.

Lai Jingye gave a look, and many police officers present immediately turned to the two sides.

Hearing the knocking sound of "bang bang bang" in his ear, the butler stood at the door, wanting to shout to prevent everyone from knocking, but he didn't know why he didn't speak.

Li Xuan glanced sideways at the housekeeper, shook her head, lowered her body, and carefully looked at the ruts under her feet with the help of a torch.

"How?" Lai Sui asked curiously.

"Although there are new car marks in the ruts, they are not deep, even a little too shallow. Maybe they left with empty cars." Li Xuan had just finished speaking, and Lai Sui immediately understood: "They still want to confuse us. it's here."

Li Xuan nodded slightly, at this moment, a "empty" sound came from the front clearly.

For a moment, everyone present looked in that direction.

(End of this chapter)