【Father-in-law Chapter 37】Who is plotting against whom?

Maitreya Buddha is always shown with his breasts exposed, holding a cloth bag, and smiling.

It is said that Maitreya Buddha is fat, with wrinkled eyebrows and a big belly, speaks incoherently, and lies anywhere. He goes to the market with a cloth bag and begs for anything he sees. He puts everything others offer into the cloth bag, but no one has ever seen him pour the things out, and the cloth bag is empty.

This Maitreya Buddha has a kind smile and a big belly, sitting upright, but the cloth bag in his hand is not tightly held, but opened. This is slightly different from the usual shape of Maitreya Buddha statues, and if you don't pay attention, you really can't see it.

Although Chu Jiao was not proficient in the mechanism when she was in the world of cultivation, she also had some experience. She walked forward and carefully observed the surroundings of the Buddha's altar. She found that there was some space under the base of Maitreya, connected to the cloth bag.

Chu Jiao reached out to Shen Zhen and asked, "Quick, give me a piece of silver~"

Shen Zhen did not ask Chu Jiao what she wanted to do. He took out a piece of silver from his waist and handed it to her. "Here."

Chu Jiao tried to throw the silver into the cloth bag in Maitreya's hand. With a "clang", the cloth bag seemed to have no bottom and fell into a deeper space.

"Huh?" Shen Zhen also felt something was wrong when he heard the sound. He walked to Chu Jiao's side and happened to see Maitreya's belly slowly opening up! !

In Maitreya's big belly, a book was lying quietly.

"This county magistrate..." Chu Jiao looked at the setting of this agency and exclaimed, "He really loves money..."

"Yes," Shen Zhen walked up and picked up the thin booklet.

"It's really... After searching everywhere for something, I finally got it without any effort..." Shen Zhen took it and flipped through it. He happily held Chu Jiao's face and kissed her, "Jiao'er, you are awesome!"

That booklet was the black account book that Shen Zhen had always wanted to get, which recorded the collusion between officials and businessmen in Wu County!

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The two of them escaped from the secret room smoothly. Before leaving, Shen Zhen used his internal force to pinch the open mouth of the silver-carved cloth bag in Mi Le's hand tightly into a bundle, making this agency completely scrapped.

Chu Jiao followed suit and maliciously used the gold ingots in the treasure chest to spell "I was here". It is conceivable how upset Zhang Feng would be when he came in again.

"Naughty boy." Shen Zhen laughed.

Chu Jiao wrinkled her nose, "This is called "A red plum near a red plum becomes red, and a black plum near a black plum becomes black~"

Shen Zhen was choked.

The county governor's mansion has always been calm, but there are undercurrents under this calm.

Zhang Feng soon discovered the abnormality in the secret room, but he did not dare to make it public. He could only arrange for his family soldiers to investigate privately. He was furious and anxious.

At the same time, he had to notify several wealthy businessmen who had traded with him in the account book and asked them to clean up their tails quickly, including Lin Wenyue's uncle Lin Tao.

Lin Tao arranged for his wife to take Lin Wenyue back three days ago. He had planned to stay in Huai'an for a while longer, but after receiving the news from the county governor, he had to change his schedule and immediately set off back to Wu County.

But before going back, he also made a special trip to entertain Shen Zhen.

Originally, Lin Tao only planned to take Lin Wenyue back to the Lin family for the sake of his brother and find a suitable person to marry her, but when he heard from his niece that the family that took her in was the son of the famous Beijing official Shen Shilang, Lin Tao began to think again.

He was able to build such wealth in just over ten years, which was not unrelated to his smooth way of dealing with people and his flexible mind.

The new governor took office immediately. Although Zhang Feng, who had always been filial, was the county governor, he was not necessarily stable. A cunning rabbit has three burrows, so it is necessary to find a way out.

Although his niece is a little stupid, she has a good appearance. Although "Shen Zhongxing" only donated a small official position, if he can become a brother-in-law with a fourth-rank official in Beijing, then this "business" will not be a loss.

Lin Tao was targeting Shen Zhen, but he didn't know that Shen Zhen was also targeting him.

Now that he has the account book and physical evidence, he only needs witnesses.

He went to the party as scheduled, and talked and laughed with Lin Tao during the meal. After three rounds of wine, he was drunk.

Seeing this, Lin Tao smiled.

He got up and walked into the inner room.

In the inner room, a woman was fidgeting.

"Wenyue, uncle can only help you up to this point," Lin Tao said to the woman in front of him meaningfully, "some opportunities, you have to learn to seize them yourself."

"I know, uncle." Lin Wenyue looked shy.