The Ming Dynasty took an unconventional approach

Chapter 430 How Much Do You Love Me

"Who would believe that? Did you guys get up last night to go to the bathroom? We all heard the door opening and closing."

"Yes, we got up at night and were beaten when we came back from the toilet."

Everyone looked in disbelief.

Seeing that the three heroes were still pestering about this matter, one of them said impatiently, "If you really got beaten, you deserved it. Maybe it wasn't the thieves who did it, but the people in our yard. You got up in the middle of the night, and you went to bed separately. Can't you go together? A door has to be opened and closed six times. Aren't you tired of it?"

"That's right. If we weren't members of the Wulin Alliance, I would have taken action long ago."

"I've been wanting to do it for a long time. Can you three please stop coughing before going to bed tonight? The whole yard is filled with your noises!"

"Could it really be someone from our yard who did this?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent and the atmosphere suddenly became a little subtle.

No way?
Was it really done by their own people?
Everyone looked at each other, their eyes sweeping over everyone.

Qu Le pondered and said, "If the three heroes are not lying, and someone really broke into their room and knocked them out last night, then..."

He glanced at them with a look of disapproval, "If you have any conflicts, you can talk them out and resolve them. Why do you have to do such a petty thing?"

Pan Jun ran home, leaving the mess behind.

She went back to her room, changed her blue cloth clothes, put on her Taoist robe, and went to the dining room with her hands swung.

Yin Song had just put down his chopsticks and raised his eyebrows when he saw her coming back, "Two quarters of an hour, that's pretty fast."

"It takes 25 minutes to eat breakfast, Second Brother, you are so slow."

Yin Song: "Are you going to write those posts yourself without me?"

Pan Yun immediately smiled and held the mutton soup in front of him, "Second Brother, do you want to taste it again? There are a lot of mutton offal in my bowl of soup."

Yin Song waved his hand in disdain and stood up, "Qingjun, we are running out of time, go get a car."

Yin Qingjun agreed and went out early to hail a taxi on the street.

Pan Yun blinked, "Second Brother, don't we have a carriage at home?"

Yin Song frowned and said, "I was just about to tell you that if you don't go out recently, you should rent out or sell the horse. It's too expensive to keep it at home."

He said, "What kind of family are we? How much do I get as a monthly stipend? How can we afford a horse?"

Officials in the capital are polarized: the rich are very rich, and the poor are really poor.

A sixth-rank official like Yin Song, who works in a low-paying office, usually has to go out to ask questions and see doctors in order to make his life a little easier.

For daily trips and personal matters, I rent a car on the street, and can travel all over the capital with about a hundred coins;
It is more convenient to handle official business by directly using the horses and carriages in the government office.

In addition, they can also rent cars and horses from post stations; they can also rent cars and horses from private businesses.

Anyway, the leasing business in Daming is quite developed.

Pan Jun used to think that they had a hard life, but now he no longer thought so and nodded, "Renting a car is good. Raising horses yourself is not only expensive, but also time-consuming."

Pan Yun turned around and asked Tao Yanbai: "Whose turn is it to clean the stables today?"

Everyone looked up at her.

"Oh," Pan Jun retracted his gaze and lowered his head to drink the soup, "It's my turn now. Oh, do I have to bathe the horse again?"

Miao He: "Wash them clean, Junior Master. They don't like cold showers. You have to wipe them gently with warm water."

Still light~~
Pan Yun said: "I think what Second Senior Brother said makes sense. Otherwise, we should find a good family and sell them both."

Wang Cong raised his head and asked, "Master Junior, when can I go out to do my work?"

Pan Yun thought for a moment and said, "Maybe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Okay, I'll keep the horse for you."

After the content of the post was ready, Pan Yun concentrated on practicing calligraphy at home. She flipped through the book Yin Song gave her and practiced according to the methods in the book, comparing it with the calligraphy written by Yin Song.

I don’t know if she was born with the talent of a calligrapher, or because she was a talisman painter with first-class imitation skills, she slowly found the trick, and her handwriting became more and more authentic.

Pan Yun put the two pieces of paper together for comparison. The more he looked at them, the happier he became. "Not bad, not bad. I am really a genius."

Unlike Pan Yun's joy, Wang Zhen felt like he was on fire at this moment. His heart had been hanging in the air since yesterday evening and had never calmed down.

After he hurried into the palace, the emperor did not see him or punish him. He just asked him to stay outside the door and listen to the announcement, but he did not see him until the afternoon, when the sun was setting.

The civil and military officials were already preparing to get off work, and those working in the palace were leaving the palace one after another, looking at him curiously as they passed by him.

These gazes were like knives cutting into him, making him feel more uncomfortable than if he were punished directly.

The little emperor and others were gone before he was allowed in to meet them. There was not much expression on his face, but Wang Zhen knew that he was angry.

He didn't get angry only because he still needed to use his status to fight against the civil and military officials in the court.

His wandering heart suddenly sank, and Wang Zhen, who had become more and more flamboyant during this period, instantly came back to his senses and recognized his position again.

He knew that if the emperor knew what was happening outside the palace but didn't get angry, it was because he had to suppress his anger.

After all, he now has to use his name as the eunuch to compete with the civil and military officials in the court.

But what if one day he no longer needs it, or his patience with him reaches its limit?

Wang Zhen was terrified and didn't dare to think about it any more. So when he entered the house in the evening, he immediately knelt down and apologized. He confessed all the bribes he had accepted during this period, but he said with tears and snot, "Your Majesty is worried about money every day, and I have no ability to make money, so I can only make money through this method."

He said, "I have asked people to record the source of each payment. Your Majesty has the evidence against these people and can arrest them at will. The money has also been stored in the treasury and was originally expected to be delivered to Your Majesty on his birthday..."

The emperor snorted coldly, "On my birthday, you're giving me bribes?"

Wang Zhen immediately bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, all the money in the world belongs to you. They gave you money as a token of filial respect. How can it be considered a bribe?"

Whether the emperor believed this reason of "taking bribes on behalf of the emperor" or not, his face looked much better.

Seeing this, Wang Zhen struck while the iron was hot. While condemning the thief who stole the emperor's property, he also said that there was another batch of property he had kept in a secret room that had not been stolen.

So the emperor sent the Jinyiwei and Wang Zhen out of the palace to bring all the treasures in the secret room into the palace.

Wang Zhen has made up his mind and plans to burn his bridges to win back the emperor's favor.

He knew that only if the emperor continued to trust him and rely on him could he continue to live a life of power and wealth;

Once the emperor's favor is gone, he will lose not only his money but even his life.

Over the years, he had offended many civil and military officials, and even many eunuchs in the palace wanted to kill him.

He must not lose power!
So Wang Zhen, with a serious face, solemnly led people to open the door of the secret room. When he saw the empty secret room, Wang Zhen's eyes went dark and he almost fainted.

He swayed twice, but finally stood firm with his strong psychological strength. Then he turned stiffly and asked the Jinyiwei guarding the door expressionlessly, "Who has entered this room since I left?"

No one has ever entered. The second unsolved case occurs in Wang Zhen’s house, and it is even more bizarre than the first one.

The first one can be inferred that the thief came to steal in the middle of the night, and there was no one guarding the courtyard at that time, so it is possible;

But this time, the Jinyiwei were guarding outside the door. Wang Zhen pointed it out once, and then he disappeared?
So many things were moved in and out without alarming anyone?

"Did you see a ghost?"

It was this sentence that made the emperor somewhat suspicious of Pan Yun.

That’s why Yun Yan brought people to search the house last night.

However, nothing was found.

Yesterday, there were even Jinyiwei watching Pan Yun. She sat in a teahouse in the east of the city for the whole morning.

Wang Cong's whereabouts were easy to find. He wandered all the way in the west of the city and occasionally went to the south. That area was far away from Wang Zhen's residence. Although his whereabouts were not found for a moment or two, he could not reach Wang Zhen's residence in such a short time.

Yin Song and Yin Qingjun had been in the palace all along, and their colleagues testified to this.

As for Miaozhen and Miaohe, they just hang around in the alleys near their home, telling people's fortunes and treating their illnesses, and there are always people around them.

After this investigation, all the people from Sanqing Temple were cleared of suspicion.

Except for the disappeared Hu Jing.

But An Chen said that Hu Jing seemed to be seriously injured and had been lying motionless.

Therefore, the palace suspected that Pan Yun noticed that the Jinyiwei had peeled off the roof and sent Hu Jing away.

But hiding a wanted criminal and stealing Wang Zhen's treasure are two different things.

Now the emperor only believed that Pan Yun and his gang were hiding Hu Jing, and his suspicion of them stealing treasures had been reduced to the lowest level.

Although the emperor was angry that Pan Yun hid Hu Jing, the impression that people in the underworld did not follow the rules was deeply rooted in his mind, so his anger was understandable.

They were a group of gangsters who valued loyalty and friendship. Coincidentally, he was also an emperor who valued friendship.

So he asked the Jinyiwei to keep an eye on the people in Yin's house, trying to find Hu Jing and uncover the treasure map, but he had no idea about what to do with Pan Yun and others.

He could understand Pan Yun and others, but he could not understand Wang Zhen.

In his opinion, Pan Yun and the others were outsiders, and it was understandable that they opposed him and stood on Hu Jing's side;

But what about Wang Zhen?

He trusted and looked up to him as a teacher and a father, but he treated him like this.

A night passed and there was no news of the missing treasure.

There was no trace left, so much so that the emperor was puzzled, "Sir, was the treasure in the secret room really stolen? Or did you move it in advance and use the name of the thief to deceive me?"

Wang Zhen fell to his knees and said, "Your Majesty, I guarantee with my life that the treasures in the secret room were stolen by thieves, just like the treasures in the study."

"Then tell me, how did they manage to steal the things without being noticed by so many Jinyiwei?"

Wang Zhen choked and said, "Your Majesty, there are extraordinary people in the world, and extraordinary things will naturally happen."

The emperor took out a yellow talisman and said, "I also want to try and see if something miraculous really happened. Sir, come up."

Wang Zhen looked up at the yellow talisman in the emperor's hand and was startled. He wondered what the yellow talisman did.

He walked forward tremblingly.

The emperor slapped the yellow talisman on his palm, then pulled him to the window, bathing him in the bright moonlight, staring at him and saying, "Moon, Moon, please tell me, how much do I occupy in his heart?"

　You asked me how much I love you, the moon represents my heart, the spells drawn by postmodern people are so down-to-earth, I don't know if spells are really needed

　　good night
　　
　
(End of this chapter)