158. Chapter 158 Windfall
At this time, Li Zhen was not at home, but was in the official office of Guanshanfang. Although he used coercive means to force Hanoi Lao Ni to make concessions, Hanoi Lao Ni was Xue Huaiyi's man after all. Even if Hanoi Lao Ni admitted defeat, Xue Huaiyi might not be willing to give up. Maybe he would use this matter to make a fuss and say that he falsely accused Linzhi Temple, so he had to make some preparations.
The so-called preparation is to collect the fact that Hanoi Lao Ni used demons to make money. There are countless such things. Almost all people in Luoyang can tell how much money his relatives and friends XX was cheated by Hanoi Lao Ni?
In the past, the government would not ask about such things. Even if it was caused by Wu Zetian, it would be left alone. However, since the Weishi plan occurred, the situation has changed subtly. At least Li Zhen knew that he could turn Hanoi Lao Ni into the second Weishi side.
However, the only thing that made Li Zhen worried was his eldest sister. Hanoi Old Ni knew him and knew that he had become the commander of the inner guard. It can be seen that this person is very careful about him, and it is hard to guarantee that she would not know his eldest sister.
Li Zhen pasted the response plan he wrote to the wall, smiled proudly, revealing a row of snow-white teeth. In fact, he wanted to check the Hanoi Old Ni from the bottom of his heart. None of these people could stand the detailed investigation. As long as they were slightly checked, they would find a lot of interesting things.
Li Zhen's official room was cleaned up yesterday afternoon. It is located in the atrium and consists of two rooms inside and outside. There is no furniture in the room yet, only a table, with some paper, pen and ink on the table, which looks very empty, and thick wooden boards are laid on the ground, which makes Li Zhen very satisfied.
At this time, Zhao Qiuniang hurried in, "Commander, are you free?" She asked with a smile from the door.
"Come in now!"
Li Zhen quickly invited Zhao Qiuniang into the room, found a seat cushion, patted her and said, "Please sit down!"
Zhao Qiuniang sat down, looked at the room and asked with a smile: "Do you still like this place?"
"Yes, I like the wooden floors here, which make the room dry and warm. To be honest, I have been afraid of living in cold and humid places since I was a child."
Li Zhen smiled and asked again: "Have you talked to my eldest sister?"
"After the talk, she promised to arrange a warrior in the inner guard at the store and at home. But why don't you talk to her by yourself and insist on asking me to go?"
"Hey! My sister's temper, if I talk to her, she will question her to the end, and there are some things that are hard to say." Li Zhen smiled bitterly. When she went home tonight, she probably wouldn't let her go.
At this time, Zhao Qiuniang smiled again and said, "There is another unexpected thing."
"What?"
"I later talked to your Aunt Meng again. I wanted to comfort her, but she held my hand and cried, saying that a group of fierce monks forced them to write an IOU to donate money."
"Monk?" Li Zhen was stunned. There was actually a monk in the nun temple?
"I thought it was strange. I asked her if she had read it wrong. She said she was not wrong. There were about twenty monks, all of whom were very tall and tall, with swords, very fierce."
Speaking of this, Zhao Qiuniang lowered her voice and said, "Master, I guess it would be a monk from White Horse Temple."
"Very likely!"
Li Zhen's brows frowned again, "But why didn't these monks come out today? We don't have many people, and we may not be able to take advantage of it if we fight. It's really strange."
Seeing that Zhao Qiuniang was hesitant, he asked, "What does Sister Qiuniang want to say?"
Zhao Qiuniang stuttered: "I also think... something strange today."
Li Zhen became more interested and leaned forward and smiled, "Sister, can you tell me in detail?"
"The reason why I didn't go directly to the temple to ask for someone today is that I went to the temple to check for a missing girl a month ago. As a result, more than 20 yamen runners were beaten out by them. Finally, the county magistrate came to the door to apologize, but today they were as soft as sheep. Afterwards, they returned all the hundreds of stale money donated by Aunt Meng, which is very puzzling!"
"What do you think is the reason?"
"I think... the reason is that they know you. The old man from Hanoi was afraid that you would actually search the temple. I think there was something wrong with the temple. There must be some secrets that were not good for Xue Huaiyi."
Li Zhen pondered for a moment and said slowly: "How about we go and investigate tonight?"
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'Bang!' With a loud bang, a jade vase was smashed to the wall by Xue Huaiyi and smashed it to pieces. He was furious and shouted at the top of his throat: "Did that person named Li eat the courage of the leopard? How dare he go to check Linzhi Temple? He thought I, Xue Huaiyi, was a sick cat, would you deceive me if you want to?"
Hanoi's old man lowered his head and stood aside. She did not tell the truth to Xue Huaiyi. She hid the fact that they arrested Li Zhen's eldest sister first, and said that Li Zhen came to the door early in the morning to find trouble for Linzhi Temple. She knew that only in this way would arouse Xue Huaiyi's anger and make Xue Huaiyi willing to invest in protecting Linzhi Temple.
"General, should we transfer the things in Linzhi Temple first?" Hanoi Old Ni carefully observed Xue Huaiyi's face and said carefully: "What if... he really brings people to search?"
Xue Huaiyi paced back and forth in the Zen room with his hands on his back, and he was a little panicked. He was too careless in normal times, and even when things suddenly changed, he caught him off guard. Once Li Zhen was targeted, it would not be so easy to transfer it.
He pondered for a long time and said, "Don't move things for the time being. In addition, I will send another 100 monks to Linzhi Temple. I will ask them to protect the safety of the temple. Unless the emperor personally arrives, no one can search Linzhi Temple."
Hanoi Old Ni whispered again: "Do I want to go back to Hanoi and bring all the believers to Luoyang?"
"this...."
Of course, Xue Huaiyi also knew what it means to come to Luoyang, but now it is not time to turn against him. He shook his head, "Don't let them come here for the time being, wait a moment, I will try my best to make the emperor change his mind, and I will let that Li Zhen come to Linzhi Temple to kowtow to you, or...."
Xue Huaiyi's fist was clattering, and the words behind him were self-evident.
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As night fell, more than a dozen black shadows appeared around Linzhi Temple. They moved quickly and looked like ghosts. These were Li Zhen leading more than a dozen extremely agile inner guard soldiers.
Linzhi Temple had already aroused his great interest. He suspected that there were important items hidden in Linzhi Temple. Hanoi Lao Ni was so afraid that he would search.
Of course, he could also take people directly into the temple to search, but then he would turn against him. One was afraid of being shocked, and the other was that he could not find the evidence related to Xue Huaiyi, which would ruin the clue in vain.
Li Zhen turned over and climbed up a tree several feet tall. He stood on the top of the tree that was lush like an umbrella. From his position, he could clearly see the situation in the temple. Li Zhen stared at him for a moment and waved his hand gently to Zhao Qiuniang below.
Zhao Qiuniang immediately led five extremely skilled inner guard soldiers to jump onto the high wall and touched the temple. They were extremely agile and could see them running on the roof and jumping into a yard.
Li Zhen took the bow and took the arrow, staring at the movements in the temple with sharp eyes. So far, he had not seen anything abnormal.
At this time, more than a dozen covered carriages slowly drove towards Linzhi Temple, drove directly into the temple gate, and stopped in the yard behind the temple screen wall.
Li Zhen could see clearly in the tree. First, Hanoi Old Ni got out of the carriage led by the leader and ordered some nuns.
Then about a hundred young monks came out of the carriage behind. They were all strong and agile, all with swords and swords. It was obvious that the monks from White Horse Temple came to reinforce Linzhi Temple.
This situation was beyond Li Zhen's expectations, but it was reasonable, which shows that their inference was not wrong. There must be important items hidden in Linzhi Temple.
Hundreds of monks quickly lined up, and they divided into several groups and ran into the temple, which made Li Zhen feel a little worried. At this moment, several black shadows appeared on the wall, a total of six people, one of which was quite a few. They jumped off the high wall and ran quickly towards the big tree.
Li Zhen also quickly came down from the woods. Zhao Qiuniang was about to speak to him, but Li Zhen waved her hand and interrupted her, and said to everyone: "Let's talk about it when you go back to the office!"
Under the leadership of Li Zhen, more than a dozen inner guard soldiers quickly left Lidefang and retreated to the inner guard office.
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In the Inner Guard Office of the Public Shanfang, the lights in the Li Zhen official room were on. Zhao Qiuniang laid a piece of white paper on the table. She used a pen to draw several temple buildings and said to Li Zhen: "This is a bell tower, there are three monks here, and there are several people in the Sutra Tower behind it."
At this time, she drew a yard with a stroke, "This is a single courtyard on the east side of the temple. We brothers found that there were more than a dozen monks guarding the yard. I suspect there was something wrong with this yard."
Li Zhen looked at the courtyard tightly. He felt that the location of the courtyard seemed to be Wei Tuaner's treasure. There was an underground palace in the room of the courtyard. He immediately said: "Where are the brothers in this courtyard? Let him come to see me!"
Zhao Qiuniang walked out quickly, and for a moment she brought in a young inner guard fire chief. The fire chief knelt down on one knee and bowed, "See the commander!"
"Please get up!"
Li Zhen ordered him to get up, pointing to the sketch on the table and said, "There is a small courtyard on the east side. You said there are more than a dozen monks guarding you around, right?"
"That is, about fourteen or fifteen people, with tight defenses that prevented the low-ranking officials from entering the yard."
"Is there a pair of stone lions at the entrance of that yard, and a particularly lush apricot tree in the yard?"
The sergeant thought for a while and said, "There is indeed a pair of stone lions, and there are also lush trees in the yard, but because it is night, I don't know if it is an apricot tree, so I can't see clearly."
Although the soldiers could not give a positive answer, Li Zhen could already tell that it was the small courtyard where Wei Tuaner had treasures. However, Wei Tuaner's treasure palace was not big, so what could be placed inside? Could it be the gold transported from Songnan Temple?
There were only more than twenty monks on the other side, but more than half of the men were placed in this small yard, which only shows that the biggest secret of Hanoi Lao Ni was hidden in this yard, which forced Li Zhen to have a strong interest.
Li Zhen pondered for a long time, and he felt it was necessary to get the complete map of Linzhi Temple.
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