Lin Dai'er thought for a while, shook her head and said, "Father didn't say how to contact the Daomen. Suddenly thinking of something, his brows tightened, and he said, "But...... My father left one thing behind. ”

Lu Tianyou's eyes lit up and said, "Is it related to Daomen?" ”

"I don't know." Lin Dai'er shook her head and said, "Father didn't mention it. ”

"What is it?" Lu Tianyou asked.

Lin Dai'er said: "It's a stone." ”

"Stones?"

"Yes!" Lin Dai'er nodded and said: "The red stone is a little weird, my father handed it to me before he left, let me keep it well, and don't fall into the hands of others." I stayed with me, but I couldn't see anything strange about the stone. ”

Lu Tianyou said: "Red stone? It's really weird. I'm afraid that it is really involved with the Daomen, maybe the way to find the Daomen is hidden on that stone. He asked, "Can the stone be on the body now?" ”

Lin Dai'er lowered her head, quickly raised her head, shook her head, and said, "Now...... It's no longer there. ”

Lu Tianyou frowned and said, "Not here?" ”

"Last time, we were going to kidnap Qiao Mingtang's wife in Jinghe and exchange her for you and the second uncle, but in the end, they escaped." Lin Dai'er looked a little annoyed, "At that time, I was so bent on rescuing you that I didn't pay attention to the stone, and I found out that the stone was gone that night, but I didn't know when I lost it." Then he blamed himself: "It was something that my father gave me before he left, and told me to keep it well, but I accidentally lost it, I ...... I'm sorry father. ”

Lu Tianyou sighed and comforted: "Since you lost it, it's also a helpless thing, don't think about it." ”

Lin Dai'er thought for a while, and suddenly said, "But I always suspected that it was taken by someone." ”

"Oh?" Lu Tianyou said: "Who is it?" ”

Lin Dai'er groaned slightly, shook her head and said, "Maybe I guessed wrong." Chu Huan's appearance appeared in his heart, and after finding that the stone was lost, Lin Daier also searched Chu Huan, but did not find the stone.

But then I thought about it, I was cautious on weekdays, and the stone was kept close to my body, and the only possibility of losing it was when Jiang and Chu Huan were entangled, that guy even ripped off his belly pocket, and she couldn't be sure whether the red stone was taken away by Chu Huan or fell into Jiang.

She only felt that the stone was mediocre, others might not be able to see it, and Chu Huan might not take the stone away, it was ten likely, it fell into the river, but she couldn't be completely sure that Chu Huan didn't take it.

In fact, Chu Huan was physically entangled with her in Jiang, although it was a mutual exchange, but although she was not young, she had never been touched by a man like that, and occasionally when she recalled it, she was also a little blushing and heartbeat.

Seeing that there was no longer the only clue, Lu Tianyou smiled bitterly: "It seems that if you want to find the Daomen, it will be extremely difficult." There are many masters in the government, they must also be looking for traces of the passage gate in Xishan Road, they are many and powerful, and there are no traces of the door with the eyes and ears of the government, and the two of us have no clues, and it is even more difficult to find. ”

Lin Dai'er shook her head and said, "That's not necessarily!" ”

Seeing Lin Dai'er's thoughtful appearance, Lu Tianyou asked, "Dai'er, do you think of anything?" ”

Lin Dai'er said: "Brother Tianyou, do you say that the Machiya Stone Farm is under the control of the government?" ”

Lu Tianyou was stunned.

"The Machiya Stone Field is in Chen County." Lin Dai'er said slowly: "Although it is in a remote location, it is impossible for the government not to know that there is a stone quarry there. Before Heishui Mountain was besieged, Hou Muxin got the news early and told us about the movements of the Praetorian Guard, but as far as I know, the Praetorian Guard sent troops to besiege Heishui Mountain, which is extremely secretive, how did Hou Muxin know? ”

Lu Tianyou obviously felt suspicious.

"Hou Muxin can know, maybe it is a notice from the Daomen, and the Daomen can know the movements of the Praetorian Guard, I suspect that the government or even the Praetorian Guard has people from the Daomen." Lin Dai'er's expression was serious, "Hou Muxin not only told the enemy the news of the siege of Heishui Mountain in advance, but even made the evacuation route very clear, let's retreat to the Machiya Stone Field, which is the location indicated by Hou Muxin, and before Qiu Ruxue appeared, we have always been safe in the Machiya Stone Field, and no one from the government even came to investigate." ”

Lu Tianyou was enlightened and asked, "Dai'er, do you mean that there are also people from the Tongzhou Mansion?" ”

"Hou Muxin once said that the disciples of the Heavenly Gate Dao are all over the world, and they are pervasive, and anyone can be a disciple of the Daomen." Lin Dai'er said: "When he said this, although it shows the omnipotence of Tianmendao, it also shows that the people of Tianmendao are not gathered in a certain place, but scattered in all corners, and they all have identities to cover. The people in the official uniform are also human beings, and they do not have no disciples. ”

"You're right." Lu Tianyou clapped his hands and said: "You are hiding in the Machiya Stone Field, but there is no government to track down, it can only be said that someone in the government has protected you, and that person's identity is definitely not low, at least there are means to hide the traces of the Machiya Stone Field." He asked, "Dai'er, do you say ...... Is it possible that the county order of Chen County is a disciple of the Daomen? ”

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The county commander of Chen County was kneeling at Wei Tianqing's feet at this time, kowtowed again and again, and said in a trembling voice: "Lord Commander, the lower officials are guilty, not all of the stone fields recorded above, some of them ...... Some of them are not recorded above. ”

Master Lin's list of stone fields had already burned, and he casually threw it in front of Chen Chong, just looking at Chen Chong very indifferently and not speaking.

The list burned, and the firelight shone on Chen Chong's face, making his face pale pale.

He figured out now that Fucheng sent someone to investigate the stone field, it seems that the favoritism and fraud in the stone field has been exposed, and when he saw Wei Tianqing looking at him coldly, he confessed: "Wei is in control, the lower officials are also forced to be helpless, the status of the lower officials is humble, and the things at the top are the lower officials...... The lower officials didn't dare to ask. ”

"What do you mean by above?" Wei Tianqing said slowly: "Chen Chong, if you invite you truthfully, I may ask the Governor to intercede for you, but if you still want to hide it, even the Heavenly King Lao Tzu will not be able to save you, whether you are dead or alive, you can choose it yourself." ”

Chen Chong immediately said: "What the lower officials know, they will never dare to hide it." Pointing to the list of stone fields, he said: "Two lords, this list is official, and it is a list to be presented to the governor and the imperial court. In fact, there are far more than 27 stone quarries in Chen County, how many are there, and the lower officials ...... Xia Guan actually can't say for sure. ”

"You are the leader of a county, don't you know about Chen County?" Wei Tianqing sneered.

Cold sweat was already flowing from Chen Chong's forehead and back: "The mob in Chen County is infested, and the officials are ...... Xiaguan's health has not been very good in the past year, so he rarely goes out, and many affairs are handled by the county. The lower officials knew that although several stone quarries in Chen County were being mined, they were not recorded in the case, let alone reported to the imperial court. ”

Wei Tianqing frowned and said, "You open a mine privately? ”

"It's not a lower official, and a lower official never has that guts." Chen Chong hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Although Xiaguan is the county order of Chen County, but the affairs of the quarry have never dared to interfere, the quarry has always been financed by the Quarry Bureau, and the Tongzhou Household Department is to send people to take care of the affairs of the quarry, the mining and management of the quarry, as well as the sale to the outside world, are all ...... They are all taken care of by people from the Department of Household Affairs, and people from the Quarry Department only inspect occasionally.

"You mean, those stone mines that are mined privately are the joint efforts of the Quarry and Mines Department and the Department of Households?" Wei Tianqing's face was grim.

Chen Chong did this part, and he didn't care about anything else, knowing that if he really had something to hide, it would be possible to lose his head, and replied: "The lower officials are not sure that they are doing it, but ...... But it always has nothing to do with them. Someone from the Department of Household Affairs once came to warn the lower officials that the county yamen should not be recorded in the case of private quarrying, and the details of the stone yards of the county yamen, the household department, and the three yamen of the Stone Mining Department must be unified, and if something goes wrong, the head of the lower official will be the first to move. Seeing that Wei Tianqing was still looking at him coldly, he hurriedly said: "The status of the subordinate is humble, how dare you disobey, and...... And every month, the household department will send a sum of silver to the lower officials, each time it is seventy or eighty taels of silver, and the lower officials ...... The lower officials are obsessed with money, and the second is ...... Second, I didn't dare to go against the Department of Household Affairs and the Quarry Department, so I ......! "I didn't dare to continue.

Lord Lin finally said lightly: "You can get seventy or eighty taels of silver a month, in their eyes, not even a fraction, a year, this fraction is not counted nearly a thousand taels of silver, private quarrying, a year's income, but I don't know how huge." ”

Wei Tianqing clenched his fists and said: "The Quarry Bureau is a yamen specially set up by the imperial court in order to supervise the locality, and it is originally to prevent local private mining and favoritism, but they can't imagine that they themselves are rolling into the ...... of troubled waters!" He looked solemn and angry.

"As long as it's a cat, it's hard to resist the temptation of fish." Lord Lin said lightly: "It's just a case of private quarrying, and Governor Qiao has sent someone to investigate it thoroughly, what we have to do is not to investigate the case of private quarrying." ”

When Chen Chong heard this, he was stunned.

These two adults are obviously investigating the case of illegal quarrying, why don't they admit it?

Wei Tianqing said: "Chen Chong, I have a group of prisoners in my hands, and I want to borrow your county government prison for one purpose first." ”

Chen Chong hurriedly said: "The lower officials are at the mercy of the dispatch. He thought to himself, "There is a group of criminals?" Could it be that the two adults have already taken action to arrest the people who exploit the illegal mines? ”

After Wei Tianqing finished speaking, he asked, "Do you know the situation in the Machiya Stone Field?" ”

Chen Chong shook his head and said: "Xiaguan doesn't know much, but Xiaguan knows that there will be mining on the side of Machiyama sooner or later, and he still guesses whether it is an official mine or a private mine, even now, Xiaguan doesn't know that Machiyama has opened a stone quarry." If it is a government mine, the household department will notify the county yamen to go through some procedures, since the mine has been opened without notice, it must be a private mine mined above. The recruitment of miners in private mines has always been the responsibility of the household department, and the recruitment of people in government mines and mines sometimes allows us to cooperate with the county government to help. ”

Wei Tianqing nodded, looked at Lord Lin, and said, "The chaotic party in the Machiya Stone Field seems to be related to the Household Division. ”

Chen Chong was secretly surprised, and said in his heart: "How did the mine open a chaotic party?" "Even more frightened, if you are implicated in a private mine, it is inevitable to be dismissed from office, and you will be able to save your own savings, maybe your life can be saved, but if you are implicated in the chaos of the party, it will be certain death.