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Wang Renyou said furiously: "Where's the gold? Where's the old man's gold? It's impossible. Keep digging for the old man. If you can't dig out the gold, watch your heads carefully!"
Zheng Yuanshou waved his horsewhip furiously, and slapped the leader of his trilogy fiercely: "Where did the gold go? You tell me the truth!"
The leader of the Zheng family didn't care about the filth and filth on the ground, so he knelt down and replied with a mournful face: "Lang Jun, I don't know how humble. Before I walked into the water, I looked through the window. The gold is all in the side hall. If you don’t believe me, you can summon the trilogy of Wang, Li, Cui, and Lu to inquire about it. Even if you are humble, you dare not do anything in it, and you are really wronged.”
Cui Xin, Wang Renyou and the others all looked extremely gloomy at this moment, and they summoned their own trilogy to inquire, and sure enough, they all said the same thing.
With a furious expression, Cheng Yaojin pointed at Zheng Yuanshou and the others and started cursing: "You guys surnamed Zheng, you are so courageous! Don't talk such ignorant nonsense! If the gold is still there before, how can it still be given away by the fire?" Is it impossible to burn it? You five surnames Qiwang are so brave, you dare to do such a thing, I want to see, you even dared to take away the saint's gold, what can you give for it!"
Only then did Zheng Yuanshou realize that the gold that had disappeared was not only owned by their family, but also 40 taels of gold belonging to Li Er, Cheng Yaojin, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and Li Wangyou.
Now that the gold has disappeared under the care of the family trilogy, Zheng Yuanshou couldn't help but his eyes darkened when he thought of the terrible consequences, and he fainted directly.
Zheng Yuanshou fainted, which naturally caused another commotion, and Bu Qu, a servant of the Zheng family, rushed forward to rescue him.
At this moment, Wang Renyou, Cui Xin and the others all became red-eyed, panting heavily, and didn't care to look at Zheng Yuanshou's condition, and roared at their family: "Go ahead and move all the bricks and wood in this side hall. To move away is to dig three feet into the ground and find the gold for the old man! Then send people to search around the Xingguo Temple, the old man doesn't believe that the gold can run on his own!"
Facing their own lord who was in a rage, the tributaries did not dare to say much, and immediately began to clean up and carry the ruins of the burned side hall.
Zheng Yuanshou was finally rescued by his servants, and his face was full of ashes.
At this time, there was another sound of horseshoes outside Xingguo Temple. It was Li Er who got the news, and led Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and a large number of palace guards to rush over.
Li Er strode into the temple, and asked with an angry face: "My lords, what is going on? Why is there water in the temple? Is the gold all safe?"
Zheng Yuanshou and the others looked at each other, but they didn't know how to answer.
Li Wangyou said with a wry smile: "Uncle, all the side halls where the gold was stored were burned down. After the fire was extinguished, Buqu was cleaning up the fire site, but now there is no trace of gold."
Li Er seemed to be stunned for a while, and then said angrily: "How is this possible? The gold is not wood, so how can it be burned? Let me continue digging! I want to see who is doing the tricks!"
Zheng Yuanshou and the others naturally didn't dare to speak too much, they could only continue to urge their family to clear the scene of the fire.
An hour later, the ruins of the small side hall were finally cleaned up, revealing the original blue floor tiles in the side hall.
Although the floor tiles were scorched black by the flames, there was no trace of gold on them at all.
Cheng Yaojin said angrily: "Zhiniang thief, can all this gold be burned and flow underground?"
"Dig for me, dig down, I don't believe that this gold can grow legs!" Li Er's face became more and more livid.
So, hundreds of trilogy, the imperial guards in the palace, each found tools, and began to dig the ground three feet according to Li Er's instructions.
But this is still a futile waste of effort. Naturally, it is impossible for so much gold to be burned and flow into the ground.The ground of the side hall was dug down several feet, but there was still no sign of gold.
Li Er glared at Zheng Yuanshou and the others, his tone was cold and chilly: "My lords, please explain to me, where did the gold go?"
"My minister is dead!" Zheng Yuanshou, Wang Renyou and the others looked at each other without any excuses, and knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to Li Er.
"If you want to talk about death, I will ask you, where is the gold?"
"I really don't know...the ministers have inquired about the part of the palace, and they all claimed that the gold was in the side hall before the fire broke out..." Zheng Yuanshou couldn't continue speaking, even he himself didn't believe what he said.
How could the gold disappear because of a fire, unless it was a hell of a thing?
That was a whole million taels, more than 30 tons of gold, how could it somehow disappear without a trace?
When Zheng Yuanshou, Wang Renyou and the others were at a loss as to how to explain, they saw another trilogy coming to Tong Bing. After the fire in the Daxiong Palace was extinguished, they went inside to investigate, but they saw two charred corpses, presumably they had disappeared before. The orthodox monk and his lay disciple...
696 Inexcusable
Li Er's face was livid, and he gave several orders one after another.
"Let people surround this Xingguo Temple, and no one is allowed to let go. Then go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice immediately, and find Li Daozong, Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and ask him to send all the veteran criminal cases of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. We must find out today. where it goes!"
Immediately, the guards in the palace took orders, and frantically rode their horses towards Chang'an City.
Today's incident was really too big. Someone had the audacity to steal away a whole million taels of gold, including the saint's gold. It was really a shocking case.
Those more than 100 trilogy with five surnames and Qiwang were all disarmed by the palace guards brought by Li Er at this moment, and they were escorted to an open place in Xingguo Temple and knelt down, waiting to be released.
As for Zheng Yuanshou, Wang Renyou, Cui Xin and other seven aristocratic patriarchs, they all looked dazed and uneasy.
At the moment, their heads are all confused, and they don't know what happened.
If it is said that the seven of their series are all because of gold, they conspired to hide the gold, and then set fire to destroy and cover up the evidence, even they themselves do not believe it.
There is so much gold, and there are seven ministries guarding here. For twelve hours, there are dozens of armed men guarding around the side hall at any time. How did this gold disappear?
When they shipped it, it took more than 30 carriages to get it.So how did the disappearing gold get out of Xingguo Temple?
Moreover, all the trilogy in the middle of their mansion are unequivocal. Before the fire, the gold was still in the side hall, so what happened?
Zheng Yuanshou and the others couldn't think of the reason even if they tried their best.
Li Daozong, Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, was also taken aback when he learned that such a shocking case occurred in Xingguo Temple in Duqu County. Without delay, he hurriedly summoned his men and led the Ministry of Criminal Justice brigade to rush here.
After seeing Li Daozong, Li Er immediately ordered someone to interrogate those aristocratic families, check the situation on the scene, and make sure to get to the bottom of the matter and find out the whereabouts of the gold.
"Daozong, you can send someone to interrogate anyone in this case. Remember, it's anyone! I don't care what method you use, but you must get the gold back for me!"
"No, I obey the order." Li Daozong answered bravely.
Li Daozong already had a general understanding of the case, and he also felt that it was strange. Naturally, he did not dare to neglect Li Er's order. After nodding in response, he immediately directed the criminal case veterans of the Criminal Department to take over everything in Xingguo Temple and start investigating the case.
Those criminal case veterans of the criminal department interrogated the aristocratic families separately, took confessions, and checked around in the fire scene of the side hall.
But because Zheng Yuanshou and the others asked Buqu to remove all the wreckage on the side hall, and Li Er ordered people to dig three feet into the ground, but no valuable clues could be found in the ruins of the side hall.
As for the two charred corpses in the Daxiong Palace, after a careful inspection, the foreman of the Ministry of Punishment found out.
"Your Majesty, after inspecting the two corpses, I found that they were not burned to death, but died by the sword. That is to say, they were killed and then burned by flames." Li Daozong Come to report.
Li Er frowned: "This is strange. Before the Zheng family and the Wang family's trilogy, they kept saying that they saw Master Zhengdao with their own eyes, and the fire started after entering the Daxiong Palace with his disciples. Since people have been killed, Then who set the fire? Who killed the master?"
"I don't know this minister. Someone must be lying." Li Daozong didn't believe what those trilogy said.
He has repeatedly confirmed that, ten days ago, when the aristocratic family came to take over Xingguo Temple, the gold was absolutely in the side hall.Moreover, Zheng Yuanshou, Wang Renyou and others also saw it with their own eyes, and the stewards of the aristocratic family even went in to check the amount of gold.
And for the next ten days, in Xingguo Temple, apart from the more than a hundred family members, only Master Zhengdao, his disciples, and craftsmen recruited by the monks of Zhengdao to cast the golden Buddha were in the temple.
And those craftsmen only come to work in the temple during the day.Moreover, they are working in the Great Hall of the Great Hero, and they are supervised and searched by the family members when they come in and out, so it is absolutely impossible for them to come into contact with gold.
These craftsmen were also asked by the Ministry of Justice to make sure that it was impossible for them to steal gold under the eyes of more than a hundred families.
What's even more bizarre is that no matter how the veterans of the Ministry of Criminal Justice interrogate, the aristocratic family always insists that before the fire in the side hall, they also confirmed with their own eyes from the windows on the gable wall that there is gold in the hall.
The more the officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice interrogated, the more they felt that the case was full of fog and completely incomprehensible.