Chapter 174: House search

The mist was rippling on the Wansui Mountain. Standing halfway up the mountain, looking down, the misty rain was hazy under the mountain, and the scenery was faintly visible; the cold wind blew, bringing a hint of coldness. Zhao Ji couldn't help but look at the sky and murmured: "The wind and rain are coming, and it seems that it is going to rain again."

Yang Jian pursed his lips and stood silently. Recently, the official family's temperament has become more and more strange. He secretly glanced at the official family and finally his eyes fell on the officials kneeling outside the pavilion.

The officials kneeling on the ground were covered in the mist and wet, but their faces were ashes, with some hatred in their sorrow.

Zhao Ji sat down, took a sip of tea slowly, and said leisurely: "You are here just for this?"

Suddenly someone crawled and gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, you can't punish the doctor. Chen Aoyi was a supervisor and gave him golden arrows, but he wanted to humiliate the ministers in the name of the official family. The hundred-year-old law of ancestors is destroyed, and your Majesty must observe it."

The others also echoed: "Mr. Chen was arrested into Dali Temple, humiliated and tortured in all kinds of ways. Even if he was guilty, why did he do this?"

Zhao Ji pursed his lips, but his heart was trembling, his face turned pale, but he was so angry that he couldn't speak. After a while, he called Yang Jian aside and said, "What's the case?"

Yang Jian said: "The greedy grain has been found in Yuetai. He took the profiteer Jingtai. Jingtai pilled Chen Yuan. Chen Yuan refused to confess and was still on trial. Dali Temple has sent people to take many officials from the Ministry of Revenue to prepare for a retrial of the criminal trial. According to Chen Ao's intention, there is a big fish above Chen Yuan. If you give him another day, the whole case will definitely be revealed."

Zhao Ji sneered: "I'm afraid there are more than one big fish above Chen Yuan? Humph!"

Yang Jian exchanged greetings and pursed his lips and said, "As the official said, this case involves too much, I am afraid that it cannot be retried." Yang Jian didn't know that Chen Ao found the real murderer so quickly. If this case continues to be retried, there will be too many officials involved. Unless the official has made up his mind, the case will only be too big.

"Chen Ao, Chen Ao, this is for your own good. If you really want to cause earth-shaking events, you must be careful at that time." Yang Jian smiled bitterly in his heart.

Zhao Ji seemed to be hesitating, his face changed, he closed his eyes and fell into deep thoughts, and finally raised his eyes and said, "Yang Jian, you go to issue the order, Chen Ao has solved the major case. I feel so comforted, I will remember his first merit. Jingtai and Chen Yuan colluded with officials and businessmen, and the crimes are unforgivable. The sentence is executed immediately, and all their property is confiscated. Yang Jian, you will join Chen Ao to copy Jingtai's property, reset the grain warehouse, release the news, and stabilize the price of grain."

"Abide by the order."

Zhao Ji's eyes fell on the officials kneeling outside the pavilion, and said disgustingly: "Get all down."

"Abide by the order."

Chen Yuan’s mansion is extremely majestic, covering an area of ​​100 acres, with pavilions and pavilions connected into one, carved beams and painted buildings, which are extremely luxurious.

Once the grain was loaded into the car and taken away directly, it was reported that this person had seven or eight granaries, all of which were piled up. Once the grain was put into storage, there was no shortage of any grain in Bianjing City. As for the family property, it was even more incenseful. There were as many as a thousand ingots of yellow and white items.

As a senior official of the family search, Chen Ao is selfless and has a clear distinction between public and private affairs. Not only does he not embezzle and deduct it himself, but he is also a strict order that the servants are not allowed to be taken privately. Although he is in power, he is honest.

Yang Jian sat next to Shen Ao, speechless in the back hall of Jingtai family. The two officials and tutors were in charge of confiscation, but in fact they had the intention of rewarding them. They taught them to deduct some money from it. However, this Chen Ao was a stubborn mind and didn't even understand this.

"Scholars are scholars. They are too stubborn, which really makes the miscellaneous family embarrassed. If he doesn't mention this matter, how can the miscellaneous family be easy to mention?" Yang Jian sighed, drank tea slowly, and told Shen Ao a few jokes casually.

Chen Ao was in a very good mood. One by one, he came to report the amount of confiscated, such as 46,000 taels of silver, 700 ingots of gold, and 32,000 dan of grain...

As for the officials' orders to teach him not to investigate again, he didn't mind. If he knew about this, he would not even be able to take care of the emperor. This would be the best way for him to finally take the burden off.

After a while, a group of servants came in with porcelain bottles and Pan Yu and said, "Eunuch Yang, Mr. Chen, there are many rare antiques in this mansion. How should we deal with it?"

Chen Ao waved: "Pick it up and let me see."

The officer first came up with a blue and white porcelain vase and said, "It is said that Mr. Chen has unparalleled eyesight, please take a look."

Chen Ao only glanced at it and sneered: "This blue and white porcelain vase was originally an antique from the Middle Tang Dynasty. It is very valuable. It has to be sold for at least 700 to 800 jin. Unfortunately, it is a pity. It is actually a fake. It is worth three to five cents. It is not necessary to copy such a thing into the treasury, just throw it away."

Yang Jian seemed to hear a little voice-over and said, "Although this porcelain bottle is a fake, the family members like it very much. Mr. Chen, if he doesn't use it, he will send it to the family members for the family members to play with?"

Chen Ao looked quite embarrassed: "It's not good. If someone knows, he still thinks that Eunuch Yang wants a porcelain bottle of three or five liters. This young master is law-abiding, honest and honest, as clear as water and as bright as a mirror. He hates people taking up property from the public the most. If Eunuch Yang likes it, then take three or five big money and buy the porcelain bottle. In this way, no one has anything to say."

Yang Jian said seriously: "Young Master Chen is right. The family is serving the official family and sets an example. The porcelain bottle was bought by the family. I asked for money from the family after that."

Chen Ao raised his thumbs up: "Eunuch Yang's ethics is really unspeakable. The students admire it very much."

Yang Jian smiled and told people to put the porcelain bottle aside. After a while, a man came over with a flawless plate of jade. The plate of jade was as big as a bowl, finely crafted, mild in color, and flawless.

Chen Ao looked at it and said, "What a piece of Han jade. If this jade is genuine, the market value will be at least over a thousand guan. Unfortunately, Jingtai doesn't know the goods and is actually a fake. Alas, it's a pity. It's a pity. It's a pity that it's only sold for a few dozen dollars at most. Come and throw him away."

Yang Jian hurriedly stopped and said, "Young Master Chen, it's a pity to throw it away. Why don't you just take it to Mr. Chen for fun, anyway, it's not worth a lot of money."

Chen Ao thought for a moment and said seriously: "That's right, okay, I bought it." He took out a lot of copper coins from the treasure bag, put it on the table, picked out more than a dozen dollars, and handed it to the servants: "On the registration, some people saved that this young master would be greedy for fakes of more than a dozen dollars, and this young master was very honest."

The officer was speechless, put Pan Yu on Chen Ao's side, collected the money, and hurriedly said, "Yes."

There are countless treasures in this mansion. As a treasure appraisal, Chen Ao had no choice but to work hard to identify them. After this appraisal, he couldn't help but curse. Jingtai was really hateful. Seven out of ten antiques were fakes. How could it be so unreasonable?

Since it was a fake, it was a pity to throw it away, so Shen Ao and Yang Jian had to pay for it. After the calculation, they each paid ten cents and bought dozens of antiques.

He was busy until late at night, and the confiscation was only half done. Yang Jian smiled and asked someone to load all the "fakes" into the car and send them to the mansion. He said to Chen Ao: "Young Master Chen, the Za Family is worthy of his mission. Today, Mr. Chen's fairness, selflessness, integrity and clarity have opened his eyes. Hehe, if you work with Mr. Shen, you will feel at ease with me. It's a pleasure."

Chen Ao laughed and waved his hand quickly and said, "As ministers, we are our duty to do things for Your Majesty. Your Majesty respectfully teaches us to be obedient and law-abiding. How can we forget? I admire Eunuch Yang's moral integrity."

The two of them said something and ordered the officers to seal the house and go home on their own; Chen Ao rode on his horse, and behind him was a big cart, Deng Long followed him.

It was late at night and the streets were deserted. Chen Ao called Deng Long over and said to Deng Long: "You will take the things in the car to Suiyashan Room overnight. Tell Manager Wu that he would sell all these things. By the way, I will give you a inkstone in the car."

Deng Long understood it and laughed: "Young Master, are the things in the car fakes?"

Chen Ao said with a stern face: "What are you talking nonsense? Even this young master's eyesight is not trusted?"

Deng Long laughed and said, "I understand, I understand."

When he returned to his house, it was already midnight. Deng Long was escorting his carriage to Suiyashan House. It was rare to be very quiet tonight. Chen Ao lit a candle and breathed a sigh of relief. This big case finally ended successfully, and Chen Ao finally did not disappoint his mission.

As for those rare antiques, if they are sold, they can at least exchange for a large amount of 7,000 or 8,000 guan. The business of Suiyashanfang can continue to expand.

After sleeping that night, when Chen Ao got up the next morning, he suddenly realized that he still went to the scene of confiscation. Eunuch Yang had already arrived and greeted Chen Ao with a smile. I believe that when he went back last night, the fakes he brought had been specially identified, so he was in a very happy mood. He said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, when this matter is finished, you are a great achievement. The miscellaneous family will definitely say a few good words to you in front of the official family."

Chen Ao laughed and said, "With Eunuch Yang in front of the official family, he naturally won't say bad things about students, so students are relieved."
Chapter completed!