Tang Tianyuan fled in despair.

Tan Lingyin stood at the door, looking at his distant back, thoughtfully.

"Sister Lingyin, don't you like this son?" Xiaozhuang asked.

Tan Lingyin frowned, shook her head, touched her chin and said, "To be honest, I always feel that I will be unlucky when I meet him."

"But he's quite handsome." Another guy called Xiao Fang said with his mouth.

Lingyin pointed to her eyes, "It's not like you don't know, my eyes can't look far away, and people looking at two feet away are blurred. What is the difference between handsome and me?"

Xiao Zhuang nodded and asked again, "Sister Lingyin, what do you want to write recently?"

"I don't know, I actually have a plan."

Xiaozhuang and Xiaofang quickly asked what the plan was.

Tan Lingyin took out from her purse, took out something the size of a huáng bean, and opened her palm to show them.

"This is... gold?" Judging from the luster, it does look like gold, but it is not pure gold, and the surface is rough and contains many impurities.

Tan Lingyin nodded, "To be exact, this is a gold mine. This ore was found on Mount Tianmu."

"Isn't Tianmu Mountain haunted?"

From two or three years ago, there have been frequent murder cases in Tianmu Mountain, and the government could not solve the case, so they had to temporarily close the mountain. Since then, people on Tianmu Mountain have been cut off, and few people have gone there.

"What is haunted, it's just pretending to be a ghost to hide people's eyes and eyes," Tan Lingyin sneered, "If you want to mine gold mines privately, naturally you can't let idle people approach."

Xiao Zhuang said in shock, "You mean that someone mines gold mines privately? This is a serious crime, and if you don't know, you will be killed!" Once the gold mines are discovered, the Ministry of Housing will send people to mine and smelt them, and even the local officials can't help. .

Xiaofang didn't take it seriously, "So what, people die for wealth and birds die for food."

"That's right, but who has the ability and guts to mine gold mines privately?"

"No matter who they are, they are inseparable from the government." Tan Lingyin replied.

If the murder case could not be found, they also took this opportunity to seal the mountain. If the government did not know about it, the fool would not believe it. Moreover, the former magistrate of this county was impeached not long ago for corruption and perversion of law, and has been arrested. Such cases are usually interrogated by the Criminal Bureau in the capital, but unfortunately the criminal died unexpectedly on the way to the capital.

Why die? It must be because he knows too much.

Xiaozhuang and Xiaofang were both a little dizzy, "According to what you said, the county magistrate mixed and privately mined gold mines, but what does this have to do with us?"

"Stupid!" Tan Lingyin shook her head in disgust, "I specifically asked someone to inquire. When this county magistrate's house was raided, all copies were silver, and gold was only a mere hundred taels. He was a private collector. How could the mastermind or accomplice of Huáng Jin not keep some for himself? So there is only one answer—"

"He hid the gold?" Xiaozhuang replied quickly.

"clever!"

Xiao Fang questioned, "What if he exchanged gold into silver?"

"First, a large amount of gold is exchanged for silver, which will inevitably leave traces and be easily investigated; second, the value of one tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver, and the same weight of silver is nearly double the size of gold. You say, if you want to hide wealth, is it better to hide gold or silver?"

"Huáng gold."

"Right," Tan Lingyin snapped her fingers and concluded, "Anyway, the dead county magistrate hid the gold, and the gold was not found when they ransacked the house. Now, our chance has come." After she finished speaking, she was excited. to them.

"As expected of a novelist, Sister Lingyin's ability to make up stories is high!" Xiaozhuang said with admiration.

Xiao Fang also means this.

Tan Lingyin shook her head and sighed, "'Summer bugs can't speak ice.'"

In short, she made up her mind to sneak into the county office, but she didn't know when the new county magistrate would arrive and what route it would take.

The two guys couldn't persuade them, so they had to move out of the boss, "Sister Lingyin, have you discussed this with the boss?" The owner of this bookstore is Tan Lingyin's younger brother, who is only one year younger than her.

Just as Tan Lingyin was about to answer, someone happened to walk in outside the door. He was tall and long, wearing a half-old cyan robe, no crown on his head, only a square scarf of the same color. Although the dress is not conspicuous, the appearance is very eye-catching, the face is like a bright moon, the eyebrows are clear and handsome, and the corner of the mouth is habitually hung with a gentle smile.

Said Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, this person is the bookstore owner, Tan Lingyin's younger brother, Tan Qingchen.

Tan Qingchen has had a mute problem since he was a child and cannot speak. Everyone who saw him felt sorry for it, but he himself didn't care much.

When Tan Lingyin saw Tan Qingchen, she took the matter out and discussed it now.

After listening to Tan Qingchen, he frowned and shook his head. He picked up a pen and wrote on the paper: The water is deep, don't go.

"Don't worry, I have a measure."

Tan Qingchen knew her sister's stubborn temper, so she stopped persuading her, and only told her to retreat immediately when the situation was not good.

Tan Lingyin patted her chest and nodded.

☆, female teacher

In the inn, Tang Tianyuan stared at a piece of brocade spread out in front of him, in a daze. The brocade is covered with small letters, and the lower left corner is covered with a seal: the treasure of life and virtue. This is one of the twenty-four seals of the emperor.

That's right, it was a secret decree that was spread out in front of him.

On that day, when he returned from the Gutang Bookstore, he met Eunuch Sheng, the chief eunuch of the big inner city, who came to deliver the decree. Tang Tianyuan was very surprised. The second day he arrived in Tongling County, Eunuch Sheng arrived. The two were obviously on the front and back, and they didn't know what the emperor was in a hurry.

When he understood the imperial decree, Tang Tianyuan felt that he accidentally broke into a deep pit.

The secret decree explained the matter very clearly: according to the preliminary investigation, the emperor and his old man suspected that someone in Tongling County was stealing gold, and it was conservatively estimated that there were 100,000 taels. It happened that Tang Tianyuan was in Tongling County, so let him first investigate the matter in front of the magistrate. At the same time, in order to prevent Tang Tianyuan from being unable to use his hands and feet, the emperor secretly entrusted him with the post of imperial envoy, and when necessary, he would patrol for the sky and lead all affairs in Nanzhili Province. In addition, friends reminded that the case has a lot to do with the former magistrate of Tongling County.

You can come up with this without thinking, Tang Tianyuan thought silently, what kind of reminder is this.

One hundred thousand two feet of red gold is equivalent to one million taels of silver. This amount is so huge that it makes people doubt the truth of the matter. Tang Tianyuan felt that there was another possibility in this case: the emperor was crazy about money...

He shook his head, carefully put away the secret order, and opened another bag on the table. In the bag was the imperial envoy's large purple seal, as well as a citation issued by the Ministry of Personnel. The emperor is a thoughtful person. Considering Tang Tianyuan's reputation is too great and his identity is rather special, it would be too ostentatious to use his real name, so he forged an identity for him. Tang Pavilion is always the general manager of the Ministry of Personnel, and it is very convenient to forge official files. So Tang Tianyuan turned into an ordinary jinshi hanging in the bureau of officials, waiting to be dispatched. Jinshi will take hundreds of each subject, and no one can check them one by one, which is very good.

Tang Tianyuan opened the citation, and when he saw his new name, he felt a pain in the ass.

Tang Feilong...

He felt that the emperor must have done it on purpose. The emperor had long expected that he would slander him, so he deliberately made such a name to block him.

Tang Tianyuan wanted to crumple the piece of paper and throw it out, but in the end he held back. Having said that, it is precisely because the names Tang Tianyuan and Tang Feilong have a subtle connection, so probably no one in this world would believe that Tang Tianyuan would be stupid enough to swagger through the market under the pseudonym of Tang Feilong. The emperor also took advantage of this and did the opposite. Of course, more reasons lie in the emperor's bad taste.

Tang Tianyuan sorted everything out and lowered his head to think about the situation he was currently facing.

To be honest, if stealing gold is true, then the water in this case is too deep. How many people know about Huang Jin? How many people are involved? Who is the mastermind? How is it sealed? How did you divide the spoils? How to hide people's eyes? Will there be a Shangguan involved? how many?

Most importantly, where did the stolen gold go?

These are unknown.

The larger the amount of stolen money, the more people will be implicated. If so much gold was stolen, don't know how many people would be involved.

Tang Tianyuan is very self-aware. He had only been in the officialdom for two years, and the yamen he stayed in was still the leisurely and aloof Hanlin Academy, and he had very limited experience in fighting in the officialdom. In the capital, others were polite to him, mostly because of his father. When he arrived in Tongling, he was unfamiliar with the place he was born and had no foundation at all, and he couldn't bring out his father to scare people. Want to fight with those sly local snakes, easier said than done? There are many unknown situations to face, and it is very likely that a large number of people with intricate relationships will be brought in. Thinking about it will give you a headache.

In short, this pit is unfathomable.

It was a thousand and one mistakes, he shouldn't have rushed to Tongling impulsively, so that his father and the emperor logically spread such a big thing to him.

All kinds of strange, all blame that Miao Miaosheng.

The next day, Tang Tianyuan went to Chizhou Mansion, handed in an official letter from the Ministry of Personnel, went through the formalities, and officially became the magistrate of Tongling County.

The yamen are all ready-made, and they can be recruited again. Master is in a bit of trouble. Tang Tianyuan did not have a master, so he had to post a notice and openly recruit.

Recruitment, however, did not go well.

Thinking about it, also know that the last county magistrate died unexpectedly, and the master also ran away. It can be seen that the county government is an ominous place, and the new magistrate is unknown again. Qu is right here.

Therefore, most of the applicants who came to apply in the past two days are those who join in the fun and try their luck, and some people can't even memorize the three-character classics. When the eliminated people left the county government office, they began to promote how handsome and suave the county magistrate was, and attracted a group of people who looked at the county magistrate...

Tang Tianyuan was about to be ruined by them. He had to ask a few exam questions, extract some words from the Four Books and Five Classics, and let the yamen memorize them. If someone came to apply, the yamen first tested those people, and at least half of them answered correctly before they could see the county magistrate.

This trick worked well and blocked a lot of people.

On this day, the yamen came excitedly to report to Tang Tianyuan that someone had answered all the exam questions he gave correctly!

Tang Tianyuan was very happy. But what the yamen said next made him a little disappointed.

It was a girl.

Forget it, the girl is just a girl, let's take a look and then talk about it.

When he saw that girl, he was in a bad mood. The person in front of him left him a lot of not-so-good memories, and he didn't want to see her at all.

Tan Lingyin walked in and bowed respectfully to Tang Tianyuan, who was sitting in the seat.

"Fork out."

"..."

The two yamen were also a little puzzled. They came up to put Tan Lingyin's arm on their arms and wanted to take her out. Tan Lingyin kicked her legs vigorously, making Tang Tianyuan dazzled for a while, "Sir! You can't look down on women, Lingtang is also a woman!"

Dare qíng still don't know why he chased her. Tang Tianyuan waved his hand, "Stop."

The yamen immediately put Tan Lingyin down.

Tang Tianyuan looked at the embarrassed Tan Lingyin and felt better. He hooked his finger at her, "Come here."

Tan Lingyin got closer.

"Look who I am." Tang Tianyuan said.

Tan Lingyin couldn't see clearly, so she got closer and realized. So she let out a laughter similar to that day, which was very wretched in Tang Tianyuan's ears.

Tang Tianyuan's face sank, "come here, shoot out."

"Don't, don't, I'm a person with real skills!" Tan Lingyin hugged her head and ran around, but the two big men couldn't catch her for a while.

One of the yamen was somewhat similar to her. The girl didn't do anything wrong, why did the county magistrate prejudice her so deeply. He stopped and tentatively suggested to Tang Tianyuan, "Sir, why don't you first see what this girl is capable of?"