Chapter 955

The capital, the district of the first good, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, this is a place where the relatives of the emperor and the country gather, and it is also a place where there are countless high-ranking officials of the six ministries, Fan Yao is just a mere imperial history, not to mention that the fourth master may not pay attention to him, even Chen Fu and Chen Gonggong may not notice such an inconspicuous imperial history.

It's not that the position of the imperial historian is humble, but that he is an alternate imperial historian.

The alternate is the alternate, he has an empty command from the fifth grade, but he has no real power, who can value him for half a point, and suddenly become rich, no wonder people outside the system like Lian Erfu will doubt it.

Chen Fu read the information sent by Erfu, and his face changed slightly, and he called Zhang Bao outside.

"This is some clues sent by Chang Fujin in the backyard, you take a look, arrange a few people to go to the vicinity of Fan's Mansion to watch, and then go to us to arrange under the investigation of the officials' eyeliner, how can this Fan Yao He De, there are people who are so heavily co-opted. He casually handed Zhang Bao the pamphlet sent by Erfu, and explained softly that he and Zhang Bao, one inside and one outside, jointly controlled the secret agent organization under the command of the fourth master, he was responsible for controlling the direction of the secret agent's investigation, and Zhang Bao was responsible for the specific implementation.

So, Zhang Bao took the booklet and walked out without even the slightest question.

Now that the time is pressing, every minute and second of delay may cause the mastermind behind the scenes to take the opportunity to remove the clues left inadvertently, the eyeliner under Chen Fu and Zhang Bao's hands here has moved, and Bai Jiao, who is not capable of placing eyeliner in various government offices, also ordered his subordinates to be busy.

There are 360 large and small alleys in the capital, and there are lazy people with big tea bowls in each alley, most of these people are singles who are full of food and the whole family is not hungry. Widowers, in the past, in addition to making money for themselves, they were all together in twos and threes to play tricks, those pairs of eyes are like ubiquitous monitors, as long as you can afford the price, you want to know who a mouse in the alley is, they can give accurate answers, and Bai Jiao's people are using these idlers to find out the news.

Dengshikou Street is definitely a lively street market, even if it is past noon, it is still crowded with people, and the cries of selling come and go, so a prosperous scene.

But often at the back of the bustling street market, there is a messy and cramped dark alley.

Behind the White Flag Dutong Mansion is a narrow alley where ordinary people gather, and Fan Yao's Fan Mansion is in the deepest part of this alley.

As an alternate imperial historian, living in such a place also means that he has no money left over to work around, which has caused him to firmly hold the title of alternate, and empty the official salary of eighty taels of silver from Wupin and eighty taels of Lu rice per year.

Maybe eighty taels of silver is a huge amount of money enough to spend a few years, or even more than ten years, in the family of an official eunuch like Fan Yao, this money is not money, and he can barely eat, drink and chew in the house, and he is already the daughter of Fan Yao's family who is diligent and thrifty, when Zhang Bao led three or five inconspicuous eyeliner with inconspicuous appearances and came to the mouth of this alley that did not even have a serious name, more than a dozen men with big shoulders and round waists were walking out with large bags and small bags.

"Brother, which house in this alley are you moving!" Zhang Bao waved his hand and sent away a few eyeliners behind him, picked up an old bucket that I don't know who put at the mouth of the alley, pulled the muslin robe that was quite neat, pretended to go home, and greeted a man who looked very kind, with a thick voice, very familiar and asked.

"Ah, the innermost Fan family ......" After speaking, he walked away with heavy steps.

"I have long heard that the master of the Fan family is a big official, and I used to brag about being a little lady of his family, but I didn't expect it to be true, but it's a pity that such a big man lives next to his house, but I even entered the door, but it's early, it's better to be in a hurry, I have to hurry over to give a hand, maybe I can get some reward!" Zhang Bao pretended to be very curious, looked into the depths of the alley, muttered to himself, put down the bucket he was carrying, and ran inside with a very anxious look.

Hearing him talking to himself, the man who raised his feet paused, looked Zhang Bao's somewhat thin little physique up and down, grinned, checked the heavy burden on his shoulders, and walked out faster.

It's no wonder that he would underestimate Zhang Bao, it's really that Zhang Bao is too delicate.

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

Here, Zhang Bao pretended to be a neighbor and infiltrated the gate of Fan's mansion, and on the side of the fourth master's mansion, Chen Fu took the secret letter sent by the eyeliner placed in the official's department, and came directly to the backyard to see Erfu.

In the inner room, Erfu, who was lying on the beauty couch on her side, holding a booklet to find clues, heard the news, and hurriedly asked Shilan to go out to greet Chen Fu, and she was also busy pulling on her shoes, tidying up her clothes in the mirror, and greeted her with a smile on her face, and let Chen Fu sit down and talk in the side room.

"Grandpa Chen came over at this time, but did he find any clues?" She had just sat down before she asked, because she knew that Chen Fu would not go into the backyard for no reason, and she didn't think that Chen Fu would have the patience to talk to her.

Sure enough, Chen Fu quickly took out a secret letter from his sleeve and handed it to Erfu.

Erfu took it easily, the vermilion lacquer fire seal of the envelope had been opened, and on a thin piece of letter paper inside, it was densely filled with handwriting that was not much bigger than a bean, and she was a little dizzy, but judging from the broken sentences and conciseness of the content, it should have been copied from some information document, and the whole text was an ancient text that she didn't quite understand, so she just glanced at it a few times, then fell on Chen Fu for help, and asked softly: "What the hell is this, I really don't understand." ”

"This is the official registration file of Lord Fan Yaofan since he entered the office, and behind it is the official registration file of some friends and fellow villagers who have a good relationship with Lord Fan Yaofan, and the old slave suspects that someone wants to win over someone through Lord Fan Yaofan, because Lord Fan Yaofan's official position and his position are really not worthy of the attention of the mastermind behind the scenes. Chen Fu didn't sell it, got up, pointed to the names of several people on the letterhead, and explained softly that the reason why he came here with this secret letter was to hope that Erfu could find something wrong from it, because sometimes, this woman's intuition is really terrifying.

For example, he found through investigation that Liu Zongcheng, the brother-in-law of Lord Fan Yaofan, actually served in the Zongren Mansion, although he was just a petty official of the sixth grade, in a place like the capital, he was not even qualified to attend a banquet that entered the stream, but at such a time, such a Zongren Mansion experience, if it had nothing to do with the violent death of the eighth master, it really made some sense.

Just as Chen Fu would notice the experience of this Zongren Mansion named Liu Zongcheng, Erfu also noticed this person, but she didn't know much about the ancient official name, rank and scope of functions, so she didn't make a rash judgment, but pointed to Liu Zongcheng's name and asked in a low voice: "What kind of official position is this Zongren Mansion experience, what is it mainly in charge of, why are there still outsiders in the Zongren Mansion?"

She asked, not out of pure curiosity, but out of surprise.

Because in Erfu's view, the Zongren Mansion is the clan symbol of the Aixin Jueluo family, up to the Zongren Order, down to the writing style of each division should be from the clan, if outsiders are in charge of the Zongren Mansion, how can those royal relatives who were born with gold be willing to obey orders!

As it turned out, what she found strange was also really strange.

Although not all official positions in the Zongren Mansion are from the clan, but the previous Zongren Mansion experience is the responsibility of the clan, and Liu Zongcheng is not only not a descendant of the Aixinjue Luo clan, but also a Han Chinese, and there is indeed something wrong with holding such a position, which is why Chen Fu will notice Liu Zongcheng.

"If you go back to Fujin, the experience of the Zongren Mansion, the official position of the six grades, and the transfer of the cashier, it has long been concluded that it is the clan to take this position, and Liu Zongcheng is indeed a very abnormal thing, but there have been Han people who have served in the Zongren Mansion before, maybe it is what the clan has to do with this Liu Zongcheng Liu. Speaking of this, Chen Fu was also a little confused, because as early as the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi, he had already ordered that the Zongren Mansion should no longer be held by Han people, but the Zongren Mansion has always been a place where even the emperor has to give three points of courtesy, so many things are difficult to explain clearly.

After getting Chen Fu's answer, Erfu was still confused.

Because she doesn't understand what the cashier Wen Yi means, obviously four words, she knows every word, but these four words are linked together, she is really not sure what the explanation is, if you open each word separately to explain, then out is the succession, and the acceptance refers to the concubine room in each house, Wen and Yi, I don't understand, and if you explain it in pairs, it is probably a department like a communication room, but it is a communication room, and it doesn't seem to be necessary for the clan to be appointed, but she understands one thing, that is, this Liu Zongcheng is very suspicious.

"Then look up this man, where does he live?" Erph commanded, scratching her head.

"The old slave has arranged for Zhang Bao to lead someone over to inquire about the news, and I believe that news will come soon, but according to the eyeliner report below, this Liu Zongcheng has been sick for a few days and has not been to Yadianmao, it is very likely that this person is dead, or is being controlled. Chen Fu replied with a bitter face, if he didn't have no way, he wouldn't have come to Erfu for help, although he has a lot of eyeliner under his hand, but most of the eyeliner is on an errand, and few people will notice that petty officials like Fan Yao and Liu Zongcheng are now suddenly trying to investigate, but in the end they can only find nothing, and Erfu's people are different, especially the convenience shop where ordinary people go out most often, it is better to find out the information of this kind of little person.

"Then I'll let someone send a message to Bai Jiao later, and let people find news about Liu Zongcheng. When Erfu heard this, she also understood Chen Fu's hint that she didn't break it, she scratched her head and replied with a sigh.

To be honest, she was also a little frustrated.

I thought it was about the officials of the DPRK and China, and it was not so easy for the mastermind behind the scenes to sweep the tail, so she was confident that she could find out some clues to prove the innocence and innocence of the fourth master, but she didn't expect the main envoy behind the scenes to be so ruthless.

However, in order to make the people below feel at ease, she still had to pretend to be confident, so when she sent Chen Fu out, she was still full of smiles, and she couldn't see the virtue of her sad face just now, she took the secret letter left by Chen Fu back to the upper room, and went directly to the study, holding the magnifying glass in the drawer, and rarely looked at the dense small words on the paper word by word.

Classical Chinese, although the words and sentences are very ink-saving, but it is really terrible to read.

Especially for a modern person with a low level of education, Erph, her whole person is like returning to the year when she was asked by the teacher to memorize the full text, her mouth is full of words, and her hand is a comparison and drawing, but it is just the content of a piece of paper, she has studied it for half an hour, but she has only read a small half of the article, and most of them can't understand it.

With a bitter face, she put down the magnifying glass in her hand, pinched her eyebrows, took a stack of ribbed paper in her hand, and began to transcribe word by word.

Hard work pays off.

When she re-copied the content on this piece of paper according to their names, at least she judged from the official positions of these people that most of the names had nothing to do with the violent death of Lao Ba, because these people had been released for many years, only Fan Yao's brother-in-law Liu Zongcheng and one of his fellow villagers were suspicious, because Liu Zongcheng had experience in Zongren's Mansion, and it was really easy to find out where Lao Ba was imprisoned.

And Fan Yao's fellow townsman worked as an errand in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, serving as the director of the Guangchu Division, and the Guangchu Division was in charge of the treasury of the Inner Government, receiving silver, leather, porcelain, satin, clothes, and tea.

Although the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not need to send these things over in person, and there are guards who go over on time every month to receive a share of silver, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will find out where Lao Ba is grounded, after all, a prince who has been deposed as a concubine is destined to have no chance of being in the big position, and no one will want to assassinate him, so although he said that he was secretly confined, no one took this matter too seriously, which also caused this secret confinement, in fact, it was not so secret. People who don't care about it will naturally not know where this prince is imprisoned, because there is no statement in the holy decree, but if someone wants to inquire, it is also too difficult.

However, this is not difficult, it means that the mastermind behind the scenes can find the right way to investigate, such as finding the Zongren Mansion, the Internal Affairs Office, etc., which are inextricably related to the royal government, to inquire about the news, and it is easy to find the location of the eighth child.

The other officials of the government office did not know where the eighth child was.

It is precisely because of this that Fan Yao's brother-in-law Liu Zongcheng and his fellow townsman will be noticed by Erfu and Chen Fu.

Of course, all these suspicions were judged based on Fan Yao's suspicion.

Erfu pinched her eyebrows, and put the official registration file that Liu Zongcheng experienced after entering the office into the envelope, compared to the relationship with her fellow villagers, she was more suspicious of Liu Zongcheng, so she raised her hand to greet Shilan, who was waiting outside, and commanded in a low voice: "Let someone send this letter to Bai Jiao." ”