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Chapter 90: The Case in the Temple 12

"Oh? Let me know what you think!" Li Tuiguan perked up. Could it be that Su Yizhao already knew the truth?

"Master! Uncle! This account is wrong!" Following the sudden voice, it was Jie Ai who came in a hurry.

He took two monks to carry the account book box from the temple, his face full of solemnity.

"Also, the agarwood in our warehouse is gone."

As he spoke, he took out a one-foot-square huanghuali box from the big box, "The agarwood was originally placed in the box, and only Junior Brother Jingshu and Junior Wu Neng have the key."

Su Yizhao stepped forward and found that the word "imperial gift" was engraved on the outside of the box.

It seemed that the box could not be handled, so I only took the incense inside.

"Master! Wu Neng never dares to touch this incense. Uncle Jingshu is always checking on him on weekdays. How dare Wu Neng touch it?"

When Wu Neng saw this, his face turned pale with fright. This was not an ordinary thing, but a gift from the emperor. Even though he had several heads, he couldn't cut it off.

"This evening, Uncle Jingshu came out of the warehouse with agarwood incense, saying that the two masters were exchanging incense. I watched him open the box, but he happened to be busy afterwards, so I didn't look at him

How much did you take?"

"Is it possible that it just ran out?" Su Yizhao asked.

Wu Neng immediately denied it, "It's impossible. The young monk saw a lot of them in the box last time!"

"Amitabha! These are all external things, nothing compared to human life. But tracing the whereabouts of this incense, it is probably related to the Pure Tree."

After the abbot shouted the Buddha's name, he analyzed.

"This is a gift from the emperor and is of great value. If it was really stolen by Junior Brother Jingshu, then he had the intention of running away with the Feng family."

Jie's face is extremely ugly, but he still has the wise eyes of Uncle Zhizhi!

"What's wrong with the accounts?" Su Yizhao asked in a deep voice.

"This account book has always been checked by the two of them, but it will be submitted to our Discipline Pavilion every month. It has been more than half a month since the account was handed in last month. The spices and the money sold do not match, and then

Including the purchased materials, there are a total of three hundred and sixty-four taels of discrepancies."

Jiehe sighed deeply, "I didn't expect that Junior Brother Jingshu would be so confused. It's really not worth it for that woman!"

"Have you searched Master Jingshu's Zen room?" Su Yizhao expected it to be good. In the end, it was because of money.

"People have been sent to search." Jiehe fell silent after finishing speaking, and the hall was silent for a moment.

Su Yizhao understood that this was a scandal, and these monks found it difficult to accept it for a while.

She glanced at the two eminent monks and found that they had already entered meditation and began to recite scriptures.

It didn't take long for a monk to report.

"Master Jie Ai! We searched the Zen room and found no money. We only found this."

Everyone turned around and saw that it was a small package.

Jie Hui stepped forward to open the package and found that inside was a set of short brown shorts of lake blue coarse cloth worn by ordinary people.

Taking the short brown away, everyone saw an exquisite wooden box with a piece of paper next to it.

"It's Lu Yin. He has actually reported it to the government." When Jie Ai saw the seal below, he immediately confirmed his guess.

Su Yizhao took out the handkerchief and opened the wooden box on the side.

"It's actually an accessory worn by women?" Jiang Captou exclaimed.

I saw a white jade hollow carved butterfly pattern lying inside the box, with pea green tassels hanging from the bottom. It was very pure and elegant, but it was really unreasonable to see this in a monk's house.

"Have all the money been used to please Mr. Feng?" Jiehe recited the Heart-Cleaning Mantra, not wanting to look at the small box again.

"Isn't this forbidden step worth more than three hundred taels?" Su Yizhao took a look at the quality of the jade and felt that it couldn't be so expensive.

"Of course it's impossible. It's of such fine quality that it's worth twenty taels at most." Jiang Captou came up to take a look and estimated.

"There is no agarwood in it. It was not in his house, so it must have been on his body at that time. But we did an autopsy later and found nothing."

Su Yizhao finally found the key point, which was probably to seek wealth and death.

"In other words, the murderer killed him for Chen Shuixiang or the money in his hand? What about Feng?"

Li Tuiguan's eyebrows relaxed a little. Now that he has found a lot of evidence, he feels that he is getting closer to the truth.

"We have analyzed before that the murderer of Feng and the murderer of Jingshu may not be the same!"

Su Yizhao felt that the two cases were related, and they were closely related, but they were two real cases.

"It's not that Yang Shan didn't have time to commit the crime. He said he was drunk in the afternoon and then rested at Yang Ding's house. Unless someone was watching him all the time when he was asleep, there is no guarantee that he would have been in Yangjiacun.

"

Su Yizhao expressed her suspicions. She felt that Yang Shan was a bit abnormal and somewhat suspicious.

"When ordinary people see the bodies of their loved ones, most of them will just be immersed in sadness and unable to extricate themselves. Who will immediately pay attention to the clothes and accessories?"

Everyone fell into deep thought after hearing this, and Su Yizhao added: "He mentioned the gilded hairpin as soon as he came up, and then mentioned it again, saying that the hairpin was gone, which would be too much concern."

"Then do you know why this is? Could it be that Yang Shan killed Junior Brother Jingshu and robbed him of his money and agarwood?" Li Tuiguan asked doubtfully.

"What about Feng? Could it be that Yang Shan also killed her? There is another person, but there are no other suspects at present. Jingshu has made it clear that he wants to elope with Feng, will he really kill Feng?"

Jiang Captou also asked.

"We don't know yet. When we meet Yang Ding's family tomorrow, there may be more clues."

As Su Yizhao spoke, he remembered that the people he had sent to Yangjia Village had turned back midway, and he couldn't help but feel a little worried.

Several people went over the existing clues again, and then Su Yizhao went back to the wing to rest.

Perhaps it was recognition of the bed, just like the first night after arriving in the Su Mansion, Su Yizhao tossed and turned and had difficulty falling asleep.

Just as he fell asleep, Su Yizhao was woken up by a knock on the door.

"Master Su, please wake up quickly, don't sleep, the situation has changed!"

The voice outside the door was urgent. Su Yizhao picked up the outer clothes beside the bed and put them on without saying a word.

He reluctantly tied his hair into a bun, casually scratched the hair half hanging behind his back, picked up Xiangsi who was still dreaming and put it in his sleeve, and Su Yizhao opened the door.

"What happened?" Su Yizhao asked as soon as he opened the door and saw a government servant.

"Let's go to the Discipline Pavilion quickly and talk as we go!"

"Early this morning, your Excellency sent us to the Yamen to call a few more Yamen servants to move the stones halfway to Yangjia Village. We set out before dawn and called several villagers from the village in front, and then we moved the stones blocking the way.

Move away."

When Su Yizhao heard this, he couldn't help but remind him: "Let's get to the point!"


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