Chapter 176 (?ˉωˉ?)
Chapter 176 (?ˉωˉ?)
Yuan Man lowered his head and wondered whether he should just kill the two secret guards and then go straight in through the main gate.
"It will be destroyed sooner or later anyway, it doesn't matter if it's early or late, so just destroy it." Thinking of this, he turned back to the main gate and knocked down the two secret guards silently.
After tying them up where they were, Yuanman sneaked into the study.
Then she found another secret room in the study, which contained twice as much gold and silver as the one in the bedroom secret room, but of course, not as much as the one in the cave.
Yuanman received all of them.
Then he carefully looked for evidence and found that Lin Jing was really careful. There was nothing here except gold, silver, jewelry and account books.
Then why did they send two secret guards to watch this place? Was it to lure the enemy into a trap?
Yuanman searched the study again and found a few letters among the books on the bookshelf. He put them away without reading them carefully.
Then she found another box under a shelf, but she knew that the box was smeared with poison, so she rolled it up with a cloth and put it away.
After making sure that nothing was left behind, he left the study, left the villa, and returned to his own courtyard.
Yuanman first took out the poisonous box, cut off the lock on it with a knife, and then picked it open with chopsticks.
Seeing the list of letters filled with lists, I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows. It turned out that there was nothing left for him.
However, these cannot be used as evidence, no wonder he put them in such an obvious place.
Then he picked up the three seals and looked at them. One was the seal of the second prince, one was his personal seal, and one was the seal of Prince Jing.
Did he carve this privately or did they give it to him?
It is possible that the Second Prince Yun Cheng gave him the seal and asked him to do things, but why did Prince Jing give it to him?
Could it be that the person who made the Lin family abandon Yun Cheng was Prince Jing, and this was his token of allegiance?
The small booklet placed together with the seal is the general ledger, which records where every penny of the silver in his hands came from. This booklet is the most important.
Then he looked at the letters again, which were letters between him and Prince Jing.
Tsk, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. He hides in quite scattered places.
There must be other evidence that we haven't found yet, what a pity, we should look for it again.
After putting away all the things, he washed up and went to bed. He was not afraid at all that his actions would turn the island upside down.
As long as Lin Jing entered the dark room, he would explode no matter which one it was, not to mention that both dark rooms were empty.
When Yuan Man entered the kitchen, he saw the woman washing vegetables happily talking to the woman cooking, and he knew that Lin Jing hadn't noticed yet. He probably thought he had a stiff neck because of the pain in his neck.
Yuanman blended into the kitchen as soon as he entered it. Gossip is the spice of life when you have nothing to do.
The cook lady knows the most gossip, all about the private matters of other people, and no one knows where she gets all the information from.
Suddenly, there was a commotion outside.
The woman washing vegetables immediately walked out, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Several soldiers walked towards them, grabbed Yuanman and left.
"Hey, what are you doing? My man is out on a mission. You can't bully me when my man is not around." Yuan Man pretended to struggle.
The soldier glanced at her and said, "Master Lin has something to ask you. Come with us."
"Ask me? Ask me what? What can I know?" Yuan Man howled immediately, trembling with fear.
The soldiers looked at each other, then carried her away.
The cooking lady was stunned for a while before she asked, "Did her husband commit a crime?"
The woman washing vegetables frowned and shook her head, "I don't know."
Yuan Man howled all the way to the villa and stopped under Lin Jing's cold gaze.
Lin Jing looked at her gloomily, "When did you get married to Su Xiaocheng, and where did you get married?"
"Ah?" Yuan Man was stunned. Seeing that his eyes were getting colder and colder, she told him the time and place she and Hui Chengyuan had agreed to meet.
"What, what happened, is there something wrong with my man?"
"Master Lin, we've only been married for a short time and we don't have a child yet. We can't let anything happen to him."
"Master Lin, please be kind and let my man come back. How can I live without him?"
"Shut up." Lin Jing scolded.
"Hiccup..." Yuan Man (?ˉwˉ?)
Lin Jing looked at her for a long while, then waved his hand and let her go.
What was he thinking? He thought there was something wrong with this woman.
Who was it that quietly took away all his money?
No ship left the island last night, and all the ships that left the island during the day were carefully searched, so all those things are still on the island, but where could they be?
No one knew this island better than him. He sent people to search all the places where things could be hidden, but nothing was found.
Lin Jing stood in the yard, listening to the sound of the waves, and was instantly awakened, "Come here, arrange for someone who is good at swimming to go into the sea and search around the coast."
"Yes."
Then the following scene appeared on Yuanyang Island: many of Lin Ye's personal soldiers went to the sea to salvage things on the beach, but they returned empty-handed after searching for a long time.
After seeing this, Yun Cheng asked Ling Feng who was standing beside him, "What are they fishing for?"
Ling Feng shook his head, "I don't know, I haven't heard any news."
"Yeah, if you're fishing for seafood, you can't come back empty-handed every time, so could there be some valuable treasure underneath?" Yun Cheng said with narrowed eyes.
It would be great if it really existed. If I presented it to my father, the queen might show leniency and exempt me from house arrest.
That's right, he is under house arrest now. After hearing the news here, he sneaked out.
Ling Feng's eyebrows moved slightly, "Maybe, I heard that Master Lin is very rich, maybe he made money by finding treasures."
"Who told you that he is very rich?" Yun Cheng looked at him.
Ling Feng shook his head. "I heard it when a group of people gathered together to chat. Besides, if Master Lin had money, why would he be so generous as to take in beggars and raise them on the island?"
"Beggar?" Yun Cheng frowned.
"Yeah, look at those guys, they are all skinny and weak." Ling Feng pointed with his chin.
Yun Cheng looked over and saw that it was indeed so weak that it would fall over if a gust of wind blew.
“Do you know how many beggars like this there are on the island?”
Ling Feng shook his head, "I don't know how many there are, but there are a lot. Some of the ones that came first can't be seen after they are well."
"These beggars will do anything you ask them to do as long as you feed them. They are free laborers. Master Lin is quite smart."
Yun Cheng narrowed his eyes and nodded, "It's quite clever."
"If these soldiers started fighting, I'm afraid they would feel uncomfortable even if they were used as scapegoats."
Ling Feng nodded, "That's true. If someone really attacks the island, these soldiers will be useless."
"The ones who are really useful are the people around Master Lin, who all know some martial arts."
"What about you? Are you a beggar too?" Yun Cheng looked at him.
Ling Feng shook his head. "I was sold here by someone. I paid ten taels of silver to buy it out, and I only need food."
Yun Cheng's eyelids twitched. "Is this how all the people on this island came from?"
Ling Feng shrugged, "Then I don't know. After all, I'm just a soldier. All I know is what I heard."
"What about you? How did you get to the island? Were you sold too?"
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