Seeing that the martial arts skills of the novice monk guarding outside the abbot's courtyard were very good, Shilang Lu hid himself far away for fear of being discovered.
If Yan Yan could evade these monks guarding the courtyard and sneak into the courtyard, then he must be able to escape his sight and leave the courtyard.
He didn't tell Yan Yan to wait for her outside the hospital.
So if he doesn't eat for a day, it can only be considered bad luck for him.
Minister Lu asked with a gentle expression, "Have you found the relic?"
"No." Yan Yan said honestly, lifting up the silk scarf on her body, "I sifted through all the ashes and found nothing."
"..." Lu Shilang looked away from the cloth.
"Go down the mountain and make some more clothes. Brocade Zhifang has recently released new clothes, so they should be ready-made." Shen Beizhu said, not feeling at all how outrageous Yan Yan's behavior of sifting through the ashes was.
"Could it be hidden somewhere else?" Lu Shilang asked cautiously.
"Then I went to look for it in the courtyard of the abbot of the Supreme Hall." Yan Yan took off the purse from his waist, "Take a look, does it look good?"
There were many gold and silver treasures in the purse, and the top one was a pale yellow bead the size of a pearl.
It looks simple among all the treasures, but makes people feel inexplicably precious.
"Shizi Shen gave it to you?" Lu Shilang glanced at it.
Subconsciously, he thought it was Shen Beizhu who gave it to Yan Yan. After all, he heard that Qingyun Mountain was full of poor people.
Shen Beizhu poked his head and took the purse, "Is this the relic?"
"Pfft-cough." Lu Shilang opened his eyes wide and almost choked on his food. He whispered, "Why did you steal the relics?!"
"I'll send it up later. I'm not thinking that you guys haven't seen it yet, just to let you know it."
"..." Now even Shen Beizhu felt helpless towards Yan Yan.
This is a Buddhist treasure!
"Then the abbot of Sanqian Palace did it?" Shen Beizhu didn't believe it, "I don't think the abbot is a bad person."
"I also discovered that there was a very strong incense in the Zen room where the former abbot's tablet was placed." Yan Yan took out the incense candle she stole from under the altar table.
Mr. Lu picked up the incense candle and smelled it. He choked on the powder on it and said, "It is indeed there."
"What's the powder on this?" Shen Beizhu asked.
Based on his understanding of Yan Yan during this period, and what she said before, he can understand the behavior of sifting ashes.
"I stirred the ashes a few times with the incense candle before sifting them. I felt that I was not careful enough so I sifted them."
Lu Shilang never breathed back the breath he exhaled.
——He was really unlucky when he met Yan Yu.
Seeing that Lu Shilang's face looked like pig liver after hearing her words, Yan Yan comforted him, "It's not poisonous, it just chokes."
"Then he is not the abbot. The Zen room belongs to the abbot, so why would he light incense?"
It can only be used by others to confuse or stun the abbot.
"I really can't believe that someone like the abbot could be so confused. It's been at least half a month since the relic was stolen, and it hasn't been discovered yet?"
Shen Beizhu's eyes fell lightly on Yan Yan, "It's very common. Such strong people don't have so many twists and turns in their hearts."
Only Lu Shilang heard the double meaning in his words and nodded in agreement, "Especially when there is a very smart person beside you."
"Who is that person?" Yan Yan looked at Lu Shilang, "Who is that shrewd person next to the abbot?"
Yan Yu has been on Wutou Mountain for a thousand years. He has not been exposed to outsiders and things for thousands of years. He cannot react to people and things at the moment. If you really want to talk about it, Shen Beizhu and Lu Shilang combined are not as sharp as Yan Yu.
Lu Shilang looked into Yan Yan's beautiful eyes and was in a daze for a moment. When he came back to his senses, he realized that he had just said the prisoner's name.
"Why is it him?" Yan Yan asked.
The trick she just used on Minister Lu was learned from the man in white in the vineyard.
She had been tricked, so she wanted to let others experience the feeling of losing control of their consciousness.
"This matter starts with Princess Jiamin..."
Princess Jiamin was often sick when she was young, suffering from serious and minor illnesses. In desperation, the imperial concubine sent her to live temporarily in Wanxiang Mountain.
That man happened to be abandoned that day and followed the abbot to Wanxiang Mountain.
One person was abandoned, the other was weak, and the two people who were hurt mentally and physically cherished each other after getting along.
"I found out that before Princess Jiamin was given the gift of marriage, he wanted to return to the secular world, and after Princess Jiamin got married, he refused to return to the secular world."
"Why did he return to secular life? Want to marry Princess Jiamin?" Yan Yan guessed and asked, "Then he resurrected Xu Niang to make the consort leave the princess?"
"This idea is very paranoid. How could you think of resurrecting a dead person?"
Lu Shilang said solemnly, "Before he came to Wanxiang Mountain, he saw his mother hack his father to death. Later, because of his ruthless and desireless training in Wanxiang Mountain, his paranoia is understandable."
"But Princess Jiamin and the Prince Consort have been married for two years, why do you think of breaking up the two of them now?" Yan Yan thought, could this person's reflex arc be longer than hers?
"Xu Niang and the consort have known each other since childhood. Why was it that Xu Niang's body was not buried until half a month ago?"
When Lu Shilang said this, Yan Yu understood.
In the final analysis, Jia Dashan is still to blame. Even after Xu Niang died, Jia Zimei was allowed to possess Xu Niang's body.
Jia Zimei was a public person. In the past, she stayed in the boudoir because of her looks. Now that Xu Niang was dead, she had to be more public.
The consort knew about this publicity, and so did the prisoner.
"Then it seems that he still loves the princess. If he hadn't thought that the consort was looking for Xu Niang, he wouldn't have done this."
"That's right, so he saw you entering the prince consort's room and thought you two were having an affair in the temple, so he killed the prince consort for the sake of the princess."
Yan Jie was stunned.
If she didn't go to find the prince-in-law, the prince-in-law wouldn't die, so the prince-in-law's death... was caused by her.
"Master Lu, as the Minister of Justice, can't you even see why the prisoner killed someone?" Shen Beizhu looked at Minister Lu with cold eyes.
Mr. Lu smiled slightly, "I was just trying to scare Miss Yan. After all, such a terrible thing happened, and Miss Yan didn't even show any panic."
Yan Yan looked expressionless and didn't know what he was thinking.
Lu Shilang's words changed her from carefree to lost.
"The prince-in-law didn't know that he had stolen the body, thinking it was the princess. He knew that the prince-in-law was going to question the princess. He didn't want the princess to get hurt, and he didn't want his resurrection of Xu Niang to be leaked."
Shen Beizhu said carefully, "The relic is a Buddhist treasure, and ordinary people would not be lenient if they stole it, let alone him who is a member of the temple."
"So this matter has nothing to do with Miss Yan at all." Shen Beizhu said coldly, "If you, the assistant minister, are so useless, you might as well resign and return home early."
Lu Shilang chuckled lightly, but there was no trace of smile in his eyes.
——He has still not found out the reason why several emperors could not tolerate the Shen family but could do nothing about them.