Shen Cha asked Shadow to drag the young master Yan Yuan into the Duke's mansion, who was about to cry, so that he would not be embarrassed in front of the mansion.
Although there weren't many families living in their neighborhood, it was quite scary to howl so loudly in the middle of the night.
Therefore, even though they were very unhappy, they let Yan Yuan enter the Duke's Mansion, but did not go inside. They dragged him directly to the small hall closest to the main door, and asked someone to light the lamp and bring a charcoal basin over. Just make do with it.
After lighting the lamp, Shen Haolin and Shen Cha discovered that the once-famous young master Yan Yuan was in a particularly embarrassed state at this moment, with his face covered in oil and stains, and his clothes in tatters, as if he were They had seen the refugees fleeing the disaster.
After receiving the hot tea from Mei Lin, Yan Yuan thanked him, drank it all in one gulp, and then handed the tea cup to Mei Lin, indicating that he wanted another bowl.
"Long time no see, the young master seems to be a different person." Ying Thirteen stood in front of Merlin and took the tea cup from Yan Yuan's hand, "Where have you been? Have you ended up like this?"
"General Thirteen, don't make fun of me." Yan Yuan waved his hands feebly and looked up at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, "I risked my life and managed to escape. I just came back to Beijing. I'm looking for you two, please help me!"
"Back to the capital?" Shen Haolin and Shen Cha looked at each other, "The young master has been out of the capital these days? Where have he been?"
"It's a long story. My lord and general, can you give me a reward for your stutter? To be honest, I haven't eaten for a day."
Shen Cha nodded towards Ying Shisan, who handed the refill of tea to Yan Yuan and sighed softly.
"Young master, why bother putting yourself in this state?"
Yan Yuan smiled bitterly, watched Ying Thirteen leave, turned his head and looked at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha again, took two deep breaths, and then recounted everything he had experienced these days.
"Because I owed a lot of money to the casino and the Jiaofang Division, and I couldn't pay it back, the Duke and the General repeatedly rejected my request, and the Prince's Palace threatened me, not allowing me to mess around. I was really desperate at that time and wanted to go out. Avoid the limelight, avoid the Jiaofangsi and the casino...especially the thugs in the casino. It happened that my wife's brother was doing business in Liuzhou Prefecture, so I went to him."
"Liuzhou Mansion?"
"Yes, Liuzhou Mansion is a relatively prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River. I want to hide away for two days and come back after the storm has passed."
Shen Haolin and Shen Cha looked at each other, and then exchanged glances with Mei Lin and others. Their expressions became very serious.
As one of the most prosperous state capitals in the Jiangnan region, Liuzhou Prefecture is also the one most severely affected by the strange thief case. At least half of the shops in several prosperous markets are frequently visited by abductees. Shopkeepers and bosses are afraid to open their doors normally.
However, Shen Haolin and Shen Cha had suspected that the Tianxing Sect's home base should be in Liuzhou Mansion. The closer it would be, the easier it would be to attack.
After listening to what Yan Yuan said today, they subconsciously thought that their guess was most likely accurate. Shen Cha winked at Ying Wu who was leaning at the door and signaled him to go to the palace to invite Bai Meng who was on duty. Come, maybe they can find the Tianxing Sect's lair and catch them all.
Yan Yuan looked at Shen Cha and then at Ying Wu. He didn't know what kind of riddle they were trying to solve, so he simply threw it away and continued to talk about his own experience.
"When I arrived in Liuzhou Mansion, I looked for it according to the address given by my wife, and I indeed found her brother's shop."
"What is the surname of your brother, Madam? What kind of business does he do?"
"The surname is Bao, the single character is Gui, and he is engaged in the jade business in Liuzhou Prefecture. Before, my wife only talked about small business, but when I saw it with my own eyes, I realized that it is not a small business at all, the scale is quite large."
Shen Haolin and Shen Cha frowned at the same time. They quickly recalled the list submitted by the Liuzhou government office. Among the jade shops visited by the strange thieves, there was no shopkeeper named Bao or boss named Bao.
"How big is it? What's the standard locally? Is the business good?"
"In my opinion, the scale is not small. If you are in Liuzhou Prefecture..." Yan Yuan shook his head gently, "It can be considered a medium level. The business is okay and reasonable. If you ask me, this scale is quite good. It is far away from other places. That shop is not far away, only three shops away, and it is also a jade shop. It is quite large, it must be as big as more than two of my wife's brother's shops. As a result, it was stolen several times."
"That's right!" Shen Cha nodded slightly, "You continue."
"But..." Yan Yuan thought about his words, "I stayed with Bao Gui for a while. It was okay the first few days. He walked around with me, but then he started to get busy for some reason. I woke up and saw no one the whole day. I observed carefully and found that he went out early almost every day and came back especially late at night. In the days before the accident, he brought different people to the house every night. Sometimes there are five or six, sometimes there are more than a dozen, and every time they go to the Bao family's greenhouse to gather, sometimes it ends at midnight, and sometimes it lasts until dawn the next day."
"You found something, so you were locked up by them, right?"
"The general is wise!" Yan Yuan sighed heavily, "Although I have not learned anything since I was a child, I am from a noble family. All those twists and turns and scheming things can't be hidden from me. After two days of observation, I found that There’s something particularly wrong with them.”
"What's wrong?"
"Those people said they were having a party in the Fan Pavilion, but it was just a cover-up. They pretended that the Fan Pavilion was very lively, but in fact there were not many people inside. The other people had changed their clothes for the night and sneaked out. I bumped into him once. He just came back in the early morning, carrying a big package on his back, I don’t know what it’s for.”
"Why are you locked up?"
"Aren't you too curious? You just wanted to see what was wrong with them, so you eavesdropped on their conversation."
"What did you hear?"
"They said that if you collect everything this time and hand it over to the boss, the mission is over and you can rest for a while." Yan Yuan sighed softly, "I didn't hear the rest because I was discovered by them accidentally. He ran away as soon as he was discovered, but he really couldn't outrun them. Before he could run very far, he was caught by them, tied up and thrown into the woodshed."
"Your brother-in-law doesn't care?" Shen Cha frowned slightly, "Or is he actually the mastermind?"
"He is the mastermind, the leader of those people." Yan Yuan shook his head helplessly, "I don't know how he became like this. He is completely different from the person I met before. He made I have never seen the cold look on someone's face when they arrested and tied me up. In my impression, he is the same kind of person as Madam, who is very gentle and soft-spoken."
"How long has it been since you last seen each other?"
"Probably..." Yan Yuan calculated, "It's been three or four years, right? Just give each other New Year gifts during the Chinese New Year."
"Then have you ever thought about a question?" Shen Cha touched his chin, "Your brother-in-law is no longer your brother-in-law?"
"That's impossible!" Yan Yuan waved his hand, "But..." He paused, "Think about it carefully, this meeting is indeed different. He has become more mature and smooth, and he seems to have become a believer. We built a small Buddhist hall and enshrined a jade Buddha."
"Jade Buddha?" Shen Cha sat up straight, "Do you still remember what it looks like?"
"Remember."
"Merlin, please give the pen, ink, paper and inkstone to the young master." Shen Cha's expression was very serious. "Master, please draw the appearance of the Jade Buddha. The more detailed the better."
When Ying Shisan and Bai Meng came back together, Yan Yuan's Jade Buddha had also been painted.
Several people held the picture drawn by Yan Yuan and sneered at the same time.
"Oh, what a coincidence. Didn't this just come to your door?"
