Chapter 1741 I am a sharp knife 3
Lord Tang arrived soon, with Yin Huo and Liu Huan following him.
The three of them entered the house and looked at Manbao with concern. Lord Tang asked directly, "Manbao, what did Xu Yu say?"
Manbao looked around at everyone, then looked at Liu Huan.
Everyone followed her gaze.
Liu Huan felt uneasy when they looked at him, and asked tremblingly, "Is it related to me?"
Master Tang smiled, patted his shoulder and said, "You'd better not get involved in this kind of thing, so why don't you go out and play first?"
Liu Huan pointed at Yin Huo and asked, "It's OK for Bai Shan and Bai Cheng, but why can Yin Huo listen, but I can't?"
Manbao finally stopped crying. His body hadn't adjusted yet, so he sobbed a bit but still said bluntly, "Lord Yin is in charge of this case. You can listen if you want. Can you guarantee that Minister Liu will be involved in this matter?"
Liu Huan turned and tried to run, but was caught by Lord Tang, who warned him, "Don't tell anyone what happened in this room."
Liu Huan broke free and said, "I'm not stupid."
After saying that, he ran away.
Although he was very curious, he also knew that this was a troublesome matter. If his grandfather knew that he had caused him such a trouble, he would be furious, so he decided to give up.
Lord Tang saw that he had run away and there was no one else in the yard, so he closed the door and looked at Manbao, "Tell me, who is the person Xu Yu asked you to protect?"
He thought for a long time in the yard and finally remembered what was wrong. When he said that he could save her family, she did not move, but there was no extra expression on her face; but when he mentioned her parents, brothers and her aunt in the capital, her attitude suddenly turned cold.
At that time, his first thought was that she didn't like her family. After thinking for a long time, he realized that those people might not be her relatives.
Keke told Manbao: "Eunuch Wu is still investigating. Most people are gathered in the front. No one is near your house."
He continued, "Xu An is cleaning the courtyard with the newly transferred eunuchs. No one has come into contact with him so far, and he doesn't seem to be abnormal."
Manbao then looked up at Lord Tang and said, "It's Xu An, the eunuch who brought me food."
Lord Tang was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood, "Is it him?"
"Who is Xu An to her? Are they using Xu An to threaten her to commit suicide?"
Manbao nodded, "That should be the case. Xu An is her biological brother. She said he is her only relative in this world, but Xu An doesn't know her."
Manbao told her everything Xu Yu had said and his request. Even Bai Erlang was stunned and couldn't help but exclaimed, "How could such a vicious person exist in this world!"
Bai Shan's face turned ugly, and he couldn't help asking Master Tang, "Who is it that is so cruel?"
Lord Tang did not answer their questions, but stood up and said, "While everyone is being detained by Eunuch Wu, let's go and get everything from under the tree."
To get to Manbao's house, you have to go out of the yard first, then walk forward for a while and go around it. It's very inconvenient.
It was a small garden. In the past, girls who entered the palace to compete for the position of Crown Prince's Consort lived in the side courtyard. This garden was for them to play.
Xu Yu is also responsible for the flowers and plants in this area.
Manbao pulled out a small flower hoe from somewhere, and Lord Tang took it and handed it to Bai Shan, raising his chin and saying, "Go ahead."
Bai Shan glanced at him and silently went forward to dig the ground.
It was said to be under the plum tree, but the plum tree was not small and he didn't know where it was, so he just picked a spot and started digging.
Manbao was stunned for a moment before he reacted and asked Keke: "Where is it?"
Koko then replied in a serious tone, "It's near the first plum tree."
Manbao stepped forward, pointed to a spot with his foot and said, "Hoe here."
Bai Shan took over without hesitation. County Magistrate Tang thought this was not a good idea, as what if the plum tree was not there? It would be better to hoe around the plum tree.
As a result, Bai Shan had already dug the hoe twice in a row, and when he dug the hoe for the third time, everyone heard a collision.
County Magistrate Tang's eyes lit up, and he immediately stepped forward to take a look. He said to Bai Shan, "Hold on tight, be careful not to break the jar."
He also praised Manbao, "Manbao has really good luck, he always gets it right."
Manbao nodded. With Koko around, as long as he didn't break its rules, it would be as accurate as he wanted.
What a pity. Who would have thought that Xu Yu buried the things under the tree behind her house?
She and Koko couldn't just go down and investigate for no reason, right?
It's a pity that so many points are focused on her, but I have never seen her digging a hole or burying anything.
Bai Shan quickly dug a hole, revealing a small jar. Lord Tang took one look and said, "It looks like this jar has been buried for quite some time."
Bai Erlang volunteered to pick up the jar and opened it without waiting for Lord Tang to speak.
He took a look inside and reached out to take out something inside. There was a stack of paper wrapped in oilcloth, which he handed to County Magistrate Tang.
County Magistrate Tang immediately unwrapped the oilcloth and took a look.
Seeing the names listed above, their positions in the palace, and the notes, County Magistrate Tang couldn't help but breathe harder.
Bai Shan felt cold all over after just one look. "Who has the ability to place so many people in the palace?"
He asked, "Are these people adopted at a young age like Xu Yu and Xu An, and then sent to the palace after training?"
County Magistrate Tang folded up the lists expressionlessly and said, "Most likely."
"This isn't something you can do just by having money." Bai Shan said, "The palace's purchases are fixed, and how can they be sure that everyone sent to the palace will be obedient? If just one of them confesses..."
Man Bao said, "Even Xu Yu doesn't know who her master is. How much can a disobedient palace slave know?"
Bai Shan stopped talking.
Magistrate Tang stuffed the things into his sleeves and pointed to another tree, saying, "Dig up that tree too."
Bai Shan handed the hoe to Bai Erlang.
Bai Erlang stepped forward excitedly, but regretted it after a moment.
He covered his nose and asked with some disgust: "What is this?"
Manbao: "It's medicine residue."
County Magistrate Tang squatted down to take a look, then reached out and twisted it, puzzled, "Where did she make the medicine? The smell is so strong, it must be obvious to others. Eunuch Wu and I checked, and she hasn't made any medicine in the past two months."
Bai Erlang continued to dig somewhere else with disgust. After a while, the hoe hit something and made a "dong" sound.
Out of curiosity, he used a hoe to scrape away the mud on top. He found that the entire turf had been scraped away, and there were two wooden boards underneath.
Everyone looked at each other and immediately reached out to lift the wooden board. They all looked inside and saw two jars neatly placed inside. Manbao shrugged and said, "They look like pickle jars."
Lord Tang reached out and wiped the jar. "It's a pickle jar, but it doesn't necessarily contain pickles."
He picked up one and carefully opened the jar. A strong smell of medicine hit his nose. Everyone looked at it from a distance and saw that it was filled with black medicine.
County Magistrate Tang said, "I think I know where this poison needle came from."
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