Yun Xi, who was struggling with her thoughts, heard that Lu Qingfan was willing to take her with him, and her eyes suddenly brightened, "Is that okay?"

Lu Qingfan raised a faint smile at the corner of his mouth but quickly dissipated. He waved to her to follow her and left first.

Zhao Wu also quickly followed.

A group of three people got on the carriage and drove towards Gushan. On the way, they happened to meet Leng Chuan who was riding back to the teahouse with a file. Lu Qingfan asked Leng Chuan to get on the carriage and explain in detail.

"My subordinates found a few things wrong." Leng Chuan took out a map from the file, with several mountains clearly outlined on it. There were also several appendices with mountain information, which Leng Chuan should have copied carefully.

"Fengxian County is located in a plain. There has not been an earth dragon in the past few years, but there are many businessmen secretly mining the mountains. The mountains mined by my subordinates were collected eleven years ago, ten years ago, eight and a half years ago, and eight years ago.

There was something strange happening before; I also sent someone to ask the locals and confirmed that it is true."

Leng Chuan's behavior is impeccable.

Lu Qingfan picked up the map and looked at it carefully. Seeing this, Yun Xi took out a charcoal pen from his bag and handed it over.

"Thank you very much," Lu Qingfan stretched his handsome eyebrows and secretly sighed at Yun Xi's thoughtfulness and meticulousness.

"After you go back, let Sun County Prime Minister look for these mountain ranges to investigate more closely. Let's go to the Gushan Mountain in the southeast corner with Agent Zhao first." With that, Lu Qingfan returned the map.

The several places he marked are all the only routes from Fengxian County to Jiangnan and the capital.

"Yes, I'll take my leave." Leng Chuan clasped his fists and said goodbye.

Yun Xi looked out the window and watched Leng Wei's figure gradually disappear into the night. She couldn't help but admire: "The people around you are so capable."

"Yun Zuozuo is also someone close to me," Lu Qingfan added with a half-smile.

The implication is that she is also very capable.

Yun Xi coughed slightly and retracted her little head.

She quietly clasped her fingers together, not knowing whether to raise the question in her heart.

After a moment, Yun Xi seemed to have made up her mind. She raised her eyes and looked directly at Lu Qingfan: "Master Lu, I have a question."

"ask."

At this moment, the slender Lu Qingfan finally showed a hint of fatigue. He leaned against the window lattice with his shoulders and gently clasped his temples with his lazy knuckles, like a leopard ready to go.

"Your Excellency, you suspect that a huge sum of money was involved in the murder of Zhou Xi and others?"

Lu Qingfan said solemnly: "Have you ever heard of the 'Academic and Political Corruption Case' ten years ago?"

Yun Xi was startled, Lu Qingfan actually knew about it? Yet he said it so openly.

It has been more than ten years since the "Imperial Examination Corruption Case" broke out. Not to mention the entire Jiangnan students, even ordinary people have kept it secret and dare not say a single word.

"Bai Kun, an academician in Jiangnan, cheated in the imperial examination and accepted one hundred thousand taels of snowflake silver. He was sentenced by the Holy Emperor to behead the entire family." Lu Qingfan said concisely and concisely: "But after the Bai family was beheaded and the property was ransacked, the so-called huge amount of 'bribe money' received was not worth a penny."

See."

"My lord, I suspect..." Is it unjust to suspect her father?

Is there anyone in this world who firmly believes in her father's innocence like her?!

Yun Xi tensed up, trying hard to hide the turbulent emotions in her heart.

"Such a large bribe will never disappear out of thin air." Lu Qingfan continued: "Zhou Xi and others were registered in Lingnan, but suddenly disappeared ten years ago, and then hid in Fengxian County incognito. They did not dare to reveal their wealth. No matter how they looked, they looked like

There is something else hidden."

In the past ten years, neither the Ministry of Punishment nor the Department of Punishment, Procuratorate, and Procuratorate have seen any cases of losing large sums of "dirty money." It is very possible that Zhou Xi and his party obtained bribes from ten years ago.

Yun Xi suppressed the disappointment in her heart and pretended to suddenly say: "So, sir, you guess that Zhou Xi and others are the robbers who stole and bribed money back then?"

"It's possible. Whether they did it temporarily or was deliberately instigated by someone, we have to wait until the bribe money is found to confirm."

Lu Qingfan had been investigating for several years and never expected good luck to fall from the sky. What if Zhou Xi and the others hid something other than the bribe ten years ago... He didn't want Yun Xi to be disappointed too.

"Master Lu not only wants to be in the front, but also does it in the front. Yun Xi feels ashamed."

"There is still some distance to go, please rest for a while." Lu Qingfan sat up straight and looked deeply at Yun Xi with his dark eyes.

He didn't mention Yun Xi, but he didn't feel it until he mentioned her. Today, from afternoon to the end of the autopsy, Yun Xi not only didn't drink a drop of water, but also never closed her eyes. She was indeed a little tired.

"Yes." She leaned against the window lattice and fell asleep in a moment.

Lu Qingfan looked at Yun Xi's beautiful sleeping face with a complicated expression. He subconsciously extended his hand, then quickly retracted it, clenching it into a fist and placing it on his lap.

not the right time yet.

The Jiangnan academic and political corruption case has been closed for many years. If you want to be redressed, you must not make a single mistake.

After another half cup of tea, the carriage finally stopped.

"Master Lu, Yun Wuzuo, we're here." Zhao Wu smiled and prepared to lift the curtain...but it didn't move.

"Captain Zhao, wait a moment." Lu Qingfan's voice was as cold as ice, and Capt. Zhao was so frightened that he immediately retracted his hand.

"Yun Wuzuo, we're here." The magnetic deep voice revealed a bit of warmth.

Yun Xi sat upright in a daze and asked softly: "Are we here?"

"Yeah." Lu Qingfan got out of the car first, leaving Yunxi to wake up and take a nap for a while.

When someone opened the car curtain, Lu Qingfan instinctively stretched out his hand to help, but Yun Xi quickly jumped out of the car, pulling him with him.

She smiled at Lu Qingfan: "Thank you, Mr. Lu, I can do it."

"Let's go." Lu Qingfan nodded and walked away.

No matter how slow Zhao Wu was, he could see that Mr. Lu had an unusual attitude towards Yun Zuo. He hurriedly caught up and said, "Sir, over here!"

It was almost midnight, and it was pitch dark around Gushan, making it difficult for carriages to enter.

For safety reasons, Lu Qingfan, who was the most skilled in martial arts, took the lead, Yun Xi was in the middle, and Zhao Wu was behind.

It was difficult to see the path clearly underfoot, and Yun Xi walked very slowly.

Lu Qingfan stopped suddenly, causing her to almost bump into Lu Qingfan's back.

"grown ups?"

The cold touch of the scabbard accompanied Lu Qingfan's warm palm as it fell into Yun Xi's hand, "Hold it well."

She whispered: "Thank you, sir."

The two were separated at the first touch, and Lu Qingfan used the scabbard to lead Yun Xi forward.

Zhao Wu, who was behind, was completely unaware of the small movements of the two people in front, and still walked vigilantly while observing his surroundings.

It took us two cups of tea to reach the foot of the mountain after walking along a short path.

Zhao Wu pointed to the towering solitary mountain and said, "Master Lu, this is it."

Yun Xi took the initiative to loosen the scabbard of the sword. Lu Qingfan walked to the foot of the mountain and sharpened it with his sword for a long time. The hard mountain made a slight muffled sound.

"Huh?" The sound from the mountain was not quite right.

Yun Xi took two steps, rubbed the stone that Lu Qingfan had knocked down for a long time, then took out the fire stick and observed it for a moment, then relaxed her eyebrows and said, "It's not here."

Lu Qingfan paused: "How do you say that?"

"The texture of this mountain rock is too hard. If it were an ordinary mountain range, to hide a hundred thousand taels of silver would require blasting a small cave, and the gunpowder required would only be a few dozen kilograms."

But the rocks in the mountains here are extremely hard. Even if you use tons of explosives, you may not be able to create a cave to hide the silver.

"Let's go."

Lu Qingfan turned around to go back, but Zhao Wu, who had a confused look on his face, didn't understand: "No, sir, we won't be wandering around anymore? In case we are not here, there will be a cave nearby..."

"As long as it is this lonely mountain, it cannot be opened anywhere else."

Yun Xi explained dumbfoundedly: "Mr. Lu has been in the military and knows that explosives are hard to come by. It would be even more difficult for ordinary robbers to find a hundred kilograms of explosives, let alone to blow up mountains by the ton?"

Zhao Wu finally came to his senses. No wonder Master Lu had to leave as soon as Yun Zuozuo said that the rock was too hard.

"Does Yun Zuozuo understand mountains and rocks?"

Yun Xi smiled sheepishly: "Studying medicine is boring, and I occasionally read some miscellaneous books. This lonely mountain is different from ordinary stone mountains and earth mountains. The stones are white and shiny, all because they are made too much.

hard……"

The two of them walked and talked, followed Lu Qingfan out of the dense forest, got on the carriage and returned to the teahouse.

On the way, the three of them met Leng Chuan coming on horseback again.
Chapter completed!