Although Feng Ziying has the title of cabinet bachelor, she has always done the work of Jin Yiwei, and she is best at catching people in silence. What's more, now she has the Liu brothers to help. That night, Sun Shaozu was eating wine at home and only had three or four cups.
He became drunk for no apparent reason. When he woke up, he was tied up in a room, and two young men in black clothes looked at him with smiles. Sun Shaozu would never ask questions such as "Where is this?" and "Who are you?"
While talking nonsense, he looked around and suddenly saw a portrait hanging on the wall. It was the same person Jia Cong showed him in the morning, but he was wearing ordinary civilian clothes.
A young man pointed out: "I know General Sun and this gentleman know each other."
Another said: "There are many interesting torture instruments next door. If General Sun doesn't recognize this person, he might as well go next door to identify the torture instruments."
Sun Shaozu had a strange look on his face, clearly knowing. It was just not worth suffering for this person, so he thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Why are you arresting me for such a trivial matter? Quickly untie the rope, I will tell you what to do."
The young man smiled and said: "It's easy to handle. You finish your words first and we listen. If they find you, they will let you go."
Sun Shaozu said: "This master is not a gentleman, but a monk who has learned the Dharma. He was a monk at Haiguang Temple in Tianjin earlier. He came to the capital six years ago and now lives in Wanshou Temple. Although he is young, he can be considered an eminent monk.
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"Oh? He turned out to be a monk. How did you recognize him?"
"I never had a hand in what he did."
"oh."
Sun Shaozu sighed: "I knew something would happen to him sooner or later."
It turns out that this Buddhist monk is a monk on the surface, but secretly eats meat and vegetables and sleeps with Liu Mianhua. In addition, he also does other things to help people find ways to sell stolen goods, and even pimps young monks and helps them hook up with wealthy people.
A widow or an unfavored wife or concubine. However, this man had a handsome appearance, superb Buddhist teachings, and excellent skills in bed. All the women he had an affair with were devoted to him. Sun Shaozu often competed with him on the art of dual cultivation, so he was quite familiar with it.
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The young man who was interrogating him laughed and said, "What kind of women has he been having an affair with?"
"There are too many." Sun Shaozu said with a smile, "Think about it, how many wealthy families are there in the capital? How many women are there in the backyard? There are at most two or three who are favored, and the rest are all out of favor. Even if they are favored, they cannot be favored until they are thirty years old, let alone a widow.
.Women in their thirties and forties are like wolves and tigers, but without the moisture of men’s rain and dew, the long nights are so unbearable. Why not go to a Taoist temple every ten days and a half to buy incense and practice quietness, and by the way, go in front of the Buddha?
Asking for rain and dew, he can be considered a rescuer."
The young man nodded: "It makes sense. Who did he hook up with? Who did he pimp for?"
"I don't know about that." Sun Shaozu said, "After all, this monk is a wonderful man, with great abilities and good work."
The young man smiled: "Even if you don't know everything, you must know a lot; even if it's not true, those who are chasing rumors will know some. Mr. Sun, I'd better tell it all, so that everyone can save trouble."
Although Sun Shaozu had a friendship with Monk Wenfa, he didn't want to get into trouble for him, so he told everything he knew. He counted more than twenty people at once, and finally mentioned the name of Grandma Zhu of Rong Guofu. Jia Cong also
Listening to the interrogation next door, I almost jumped up. Fortunately, Sun Shaozu said that the guy was drunk at the time, and he only said that he was ready to strike. I don’t know if he succeeded. Jia Cong smiled bitterly: I know why he lied - he was afraid that he would have an affair with Li Wan after hearing the law.
What happened gave the Rongguo Mansion a clue? You really can't blame him for this. Anyone else would probably pretend not to know.
After the interrogation inside, the two questioning people left Sun Shaozu and walked out. Feng Ziying and others next door looked at each other. After a long while, Feng Ziying said first: "I know that Monk Wenfa helps people find ways to sell stolen goods, but I don't know that he also has an affair with someone's backyard.
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Jia Cong first ordered people to invite Luo Tainiang, and then said: "There should be someone under you who is responsible for collecting information about the monks and Taoists. You don't know things that even Sun Shaozu knows. It can only be that your subordinates deliberately hide it from you. Since you have heard the Dharma
It’s King Yan’s trump card, and probably that of your subordinates is too.”
Feng Ziying sneered: "I know." He hesitated for a moment, "Grandma Zhu?"
"I understand Sister-in-law Zhu." Jia Cong said, "She is not a woman who is easy to deceive. In recent years, she has held power and has a son by her side. Lan'er even accompanied her out of Beijing for a visit." He thought for a while and said, "Go back.
I'll go find her and find out about this person."
"The origin of Wenfa is also interesting." Feng Ziying said, "This person is the concubine of Lu Dezhi, the commander-in-chief of Tianjin, but Mr. Lu is a confidant of King Yan."
Jia Cong asked: "King Yan also has bandits, right? Do you know who the leader is, Brother Feng?"
"The Yanshan bandit Zhanglu." Feng Ziying said, "I have not subdued this person."
Jia Cong nodded: "Then it is possible that the King of Yan hid his troops among the bandits, similar to what happened in Jinggangshan. It is considered that he kept a secret."
"I just got the news yesterday that Lu Dezhi is still in Tianjin, and he still doesn't know that King Yan in the capital is a substitute."
Jia Cong glanced at him: "Really?" Feng Ziying was startled.
Not long after, Luo Tainiang came over. She also knew about the matter, and she knew it better than Sun Shaozu. However, she said that Wen Dharma had not hooked up with Li Wan, and Li Wan was also mediocre in matters of monkhood. Jia Cong asked her if she had a list.
Luo Tainiang said with a smile: "I remember roughly." Then she also counted about twenty. Jia Cong and Feng Ziying were both shocked: they were exactly the same as what Sun Shaozu said.
Jia Cong couldn't help but stood up: "Such a perfect coincidence must be intentional."
Feng Ziying took the list Sun Shaozu mentioned and looked at it for a long time and said: "There is not a single family with real power here."
Jia Cong stretched his head over and scanned it all over again: "They are all really useless. Wow, the word "Rongguofu" seems so unexpected - I understand!" He glanced at the list a few more times and called the two men under Feng Ziying.
A young man said, "Go in and ask Sun Shaozu when Wenfa revealed that he wanted to hook up with Grandma Zhu of Rongguo Mansion, and the specific date."
The two went in and asked, and Sun Shaozu said: "Three years ago."
"What day?"
"I really can't remember this." Sun Shaozu said, "It was probably around March or April."
Jia Cong asked Feng Ziying next door: "When did he become the commander of the Beijing camp?"
"Three years ago in August." Feng Ziying glanced at him, "Do you think this matter has something to do with his promotion?"
Jia Cong hummed: "I always said that I was afraid that I would be too powerful to overshadow my master, but unknowingly I was already too powerful to overshadow my master. King Yan was still silently guarding me from behind. Think about it, if Sun Shaozu has even the slightest friendship with me,
Can you ignore it? This matter is a test for Sun Shaozu. From this point of view, there must be informants around the sister-in-law, or they have ways to know the daily life of the sister-in-law. For example, does anyone dissuade her from going to the temple?
Don’t meet a monk called Hearing the Dharma.”
Liu Xiaoqi, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked: "Aunt Luo, are you still staying at Wanshou Zen Temple after hearing the Dharma recently?"
Luo Tainiang said: "I never heard that he went elsewhere."
Liu Xiaoqi clasped her fists and said, "Thank you very much, I'll go look for it right now." Then she jumped out of the window and left.
Seeing that one day had passed, King Yan had not guessed the plan at all, so Feng Ziying and Luo Tainiang went to the Lin Mansion to discuss with Lin Daiyu.
Jia Cong returned to Rongguo Mansion from the gate of Lixiangyuan without disturbing Jia She. He changed his clothes and went out again. Smuggling Lane passed through the small door between the two houses and entered Xianguo Mansion, and went straight to Li Wan Courtyard.
Li Wan was reading the account book under the lamp. When he heard that he was coming, he hurriedly asked the maid to bring the tea. Jia Cong smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, there is no need to be busy. I have something to inquire with my sister-in-law, and I have to leave later."
." Li Wan hurriedly asked what was going on. Jia Cong asked everyone in the house to go out and ordered the guards to guard the front and back.
Li Wan was a little surprised: "Could something happen to Lan'er?"
"No." Jia Cong said, "There is something that happened three years ago. Please think about it carefully, sister-in-law."
"Three years ago?"
"Between March and April to August three years ago, has my sister-in-law ever heard of or seen a monk named Wenfa?"
Li Wan said: "Is he the Dharma Master from Wanshou Zen Temple?"
Jia Cong was surprised: "Sister-in-law, do you recognize him?"
Li Wan said: "I have met him a few times. This master has such profound spiritual practice, I admire him very much." Jia Cong took a breath of cold air and exhaled slowly. Seeing his ugly face, Li Wan was surprised and said, "Master Wenfa, what is there?"
Isn’t it appropriate?”
Jia Cong closed his eyes: "Help many families' disgraced female relatives find monks and Taoists lovers."
Li Wan was shocked: "What?!"
"Sister-in-law, don't worry, I know exactly who you are." Jia Cong said hurriedly, "It's just that we have to investigate this person now, which is not easy and is a great threat to our Jia family. Sister-in-law, please have a good memory."
Li Wan trembled slightly, thought for a long time, and said: "I really recognized him in April three years ago."
Jia Cong couldn't bear it. He gritted his teeth and asked, "Did he try to seduce you, or send a handsome little monk to walk around in front of you?"
After a long while, Li Wan shook his head and said softly: "That monk seemed to want to talk to me alone, but he had no other intention and was serious about preaching."
Jia Cong thought for a moment and said, "Sister-in-law, don't be embarrassed. You felt that Wenfa was intentionally talking to you alone, but he didn't take the opportunity to seduce you or send a young monk to seduce you. He just put on a show that would easily make people think.
Crooked posture, right?"
Li Wan nodded: "He has a great reputation, I thought I was overthinking it."
"Do you still remember who you brought with you? Why did you go to see him? Who recommended you to go to Wanshou Temple? Who recommended you to listen to the Dharma?"
Li Wan felt a little strange when he heard what he asked, but he still thought hard for a long time: "But I brought Qing Ping, Xue Xiao and the others. There was an event at Wanshou Temple that day, and a group of eminent monks from the capital were invited. Su Yun's
The man heard about it and wanted to pray for his dead parents, so Suyun came to ask for leave with me. Qingping encouraged me to go over and join in the fun."
Jia Cong nodded: "Then did Suyun accompany my sister-in-law there?"
"No. Since she took leave of absence, she naturally accompanied her man to pray for her parents-in-law."
"My sister-in-law's departure was not a last-minute decision, right?"
Li Wan thought for another long time: "No, it was decided more than ten days ago. Your nephew wanted to leave his official duties and accompany me at first. I said, serious business is more important, so I can go alone."
"So Lan'er didn't accompany my sister-in-law, she went there by herself." Jia Cong nodded, "I understand. Suyun's man raised his head, and Qingping encouraged him. Suyun's man is less suspicious."
Li Wan said hurriedly: "I watched Qingping grow up, so he doesn't have any bad intentions. He just has a more lively temper."
Jia Cong smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't say she must have bad intentions. I'm not sure she was taken advantage of."
Li Wan thought for a while: "She often goes to Wanshou Temple to offer incense. She makes wishes and fulfills them sometimes." Then he called Qingping in.
Qing Ping bowed her head and knelt in front of them. Jia Cong stared at her for a long time with half a smile but not a smile, which made Qing Ping feel cold all over. Jia Cong said slowly: "Do you like a monk or a Taoist priest?"
Qing Ping suddenly trembled: "Minion... I don't even like it."
"Do you have to choose one? Monk or Taoist priest, which one do you prefer?"
Qingping trembled for another half day: "The regent is the great god of the Santan Haihui, Linfan. Since the master is a Taoist, the slave naturally likes Taoism."
"Oh." Jia Cong said, "That's because I like the monk. You had a good relationship at Wanshou Temple, right?"
Qingping shouted: "No!"
Jia Cong smiled and said: "If there is no good monk there, and it is not close to our house, why do you always go there? Isn't there a temple elsewhere?"
"I just went to offer incense." Qingping cried, "I only went there to make a wish that was very effective."
Jia Cong curled his lips: "That's all, I'm not good at interrogating." Then he said to Li Wan, "This matter is important. I want to take her to be interrogated by someone who knows how to ask questions."
Qingping cried and climbed up to hug Li Wan's leg: "Grandma... I don't have any good friends... Grandma, save me..."
How could Li Wan dare to save her? He sighed: "If you are innocent, the regent will not make things difficult for you."
"Hmm," Jia Cong said leisurely, "I'm sure I won't accuse you unjustly. But if you crawl around and help the bald donkey Wenfa set a trap for our Jia family, I won't let you go."
Qingping cried: "I really have nothing to do with Master Wenfa! Master Wenfa is a Duansiu, and I am a daughter. What can I have to do with him..."
Jia Cong was startled: "Ha? Hearing the Dharma is a man with cut sleeves? Isn't he surrounded by countless noble ladies from the capital under his cassock?"
Qingping shouted: "He is Duan Xiu, and Yuan Yaofen is his best friend!"
Jia Cong felt a headache: "Who is Yuan Yaofen? Male?"
Li Wan hurriedly said: "You don't know? Among the opera troupes in Beijing, he is the one after Liu Aiyun. Liu Aiyun seldom sings operas nowadays, but Yuan Yaofen is the most popular one, singing the role of Dao Ma Dan."
"I'll go! Why did you get into trouble with an actor again!" Jia Cong frowned, "Can this person be comparable to Liu Aiyun?"
Li Wan said: "In terms of reputation, it is naturally inferior to that of Liu Aiyun, who saved the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and the empress and prince. But among the people, there are many people who like him."
Jia Cong scratched his chin: "Wen Fa himself is a romantic monk, and his lover is an actor. These two professions are very subtle and marginal professions. But Wen Fa himself is the illegitimate son of a high official in the imperial court."
Qingping was startled and lost his voice: "Is he the illegitimate son of a high official in the imperial court?"
Jia Cong glanced at her: "You seem to care about him very much?"
Qingping shook his head vigorously: "He really is Duanxiu, not a slave."
Jia Cong hummed: "This monk is really willing to take things easy. Well, it doesn't matter if you don't say it. There are ways to make you say it." He touched his chin, "Monk... actor. A monk seduces noble ladies, and an actor attracts common people.
I like it. Are they going to take the route of spreading rumors?"