Chapter 76
Wang Yanqing nodded and wrote down silently: "That's right, the second brother is from Anlu, so naturally he likes light things."
"That's not the reason." Lu Heng took a sip of the soup and said slowly, "Because dishes with mild taste are not easy to be poisoned."
Hearing the helplessness, Wang Yanqing looked at Lu Heng angrily: "Second brother, you are joking again."
Lu Heng smiled at her, but did not refute. Wang Yanqing saw Lu Heng's expression, and the smile on his lips faded a little.
She realized that Lu Heng was telling the truth. Wang Yanqing knew that Lu Heng was suspicious, but he couldn't even be at ease in his own home?
Wang Yanqing did not continue this topic, and ate the rest of the meal in silence. The two put down the dishes one by one, Lu Heng waited for Wang Yanqing to wash his hands in the basin, wiped with a handkerchief, then got up and walked between the tips: "Qingqing, come with me, I have something to show you. "
Wang Yanqing responded and quickly followed behind Lu Heng. The two of them took their seats in the Luohan Chuáng, and they didn't need any orders. The maid in the room removed the cups on the table of the Eight Immortals, came in and turned on the lights. After Fushen saluted, they quietly retreated, and when they went out, they closed the doors and windows spontaneously. Seeing this battle, Wang Yanqing also felt a drum in his heart: "Second brother, is it a very confidential thing?"
"It doesn't count." Lu Heng said, "It's just some information. This is the biographical history of the civil servants suspected of corruption. This Zhao Huai is the leader. Come and take a look."
Wang Yanqing took the roster from Lu Heng. These booklets were temporarily bound, each with one person written on it, and "Zhao Huai" was written on the thickest title page. Wang Yanqing was the first to pick up Zhao Huai's and look at it. She flipped through it for a while and asked, "Why did he embezzle?"
Wang Yanqing lost her memory, and her knowledge of the officialdom was completely blank. Even so, she could see that Master Zhao was on a fast track and had a very smooth career. Why would such a proud official and promising person get involved in taking bribes?
Lu Heng said casually: "People die for wealth, birds die for food, and if the knife does not fall on their heads, everyone feels that they can be spared. The eunuchs Zhang Yong and Xiao Jing of the Zhengde Dynasty secretly gave the court a secret position for their own gain. The ministers give gifts so that they can open the door of convenience. Zhao Huai is one of the key officials who was bribed."
Wang Yanqing nodded slowly, so it was. She asked, "What is the approximate amount?"
Lu Heng stretched out his finger, Wang Yanqing saw it and asked tentatively, "Five thousand taels?"
Lu Heng smiled slightly: "It is indeed five thousand taels, but it is gold."
Wang Yanqing gasped: "So much?"
Lu Heng didn't agree, what is this, Zhao Huai is just an appetizer at best, the real fat sheep hasn't been served yet. Wang Yanqing flipped through the booklet in his hand again, and instantly felt that the paper was heavy.
After Wang Yanqing understood the nature of the case, she carefully studied Zhao Huai's life from the beginning. She read page by page and asked, "There is so much gold, and there will be no shortage of other silver and jewelry. These things are very important. I'm afraid it's not a good place to hide."
Lu Heng nodded slightly, with an unclear meaning on his face. This is what troubled them. The Jinyiwei inspected hundreds of officials, and there were spies everywhere. They knew the family background of the ministers in the court, and even knew what happened in their palaces. The emperor has always known that the people below are greedy, and when he is an official in the court, which one is not corrupt? Jinyiwei is the emperor's eyes and sword. When there is nothing to do, he holds the handle of the officials for the emperor. Once the emperor needs it, he will sweep the people in the way off the chessboard.
Zhao Huai is an outdated chess piece, but Zhang Yong sent it very secretly. Jinyi Weikong knew the amount, but he didn't know where Zhao Huai hid the money.
Corruption is the same as catching Jian, if you don't catch the righteous master, it is not a mistake. Lu Heng wasn't afraid to offend people, but he had to grasp the location of the stolen money before he could make an attack, otherwise, once he was out of the bag, he would be sent off.
Especially now that he is still at the forefront, Chen Yin, Fu Tingzhou, and Yang Yingning are all staring at him.
Lu Heng sighed softly and said, "That's right. Corrupt officials hide money, but there are several ways to hide money from ancient times to the present, such as building walls, sandwiching walls, and secret cellars. However, I sent dark piles into Zhao Huai's house to find them, in the bedroom, study, No gold and silver were found in the garden, and no mezzanine was found in the walls. People who went to Zhao Huai's hometown returned nothing."
If the money is not in your own home, and it has not been transported back to your hometown, where else can it be? Wang Yanqing fell into deep thought, Lu Heng waited for a while, and said slowly: "There are two possibilities now. First, there are other secret rooms or cellars in Zhao Huai's house, we don't know yet; second, he hid the money outside, we are there He looked around, naturally he couldn't find it."
Wang Yanqing looked at the volume in his hand, and slowly shook his head: "I don't think it's outside, I should be by his side, at least a place he can often see."
"Oh?" Lu Heng asked calmly, "Why did Qingqing say that?"
"Looking at his childhood experience, I guessed it." Wang Yanqing pointed out a page that recorded Zhao Huai's family to Lu Heng, and said, "He was young and lost his parents and was raised by his mother. He has two sisters on him. Although he is supported by his family, he still relies on his mother and sister to weave for his daily livelihood. People who grow up in this environment tend to be weak and tend to become dependent on female elders. Even if a smooth career in adulthood makes up for his self-confidence, he will never He will become a bold and decisive person who dares to take risks. He seems to be hard but is actually soft and cowardly, and he has a childhood experience of lack of money, and he will not worry about hiding money outside. It's a place that he can touch all the time."