The tunnel was about ten feet long. When they came out from the other end, they found themselves in a small courtyard.

Li Zhen looked at it for a moment and saw that the house here was completely different from the Yupinlong house before. It had mud walls, black tiles, and a small house with low doors. He said to Di Yan: "A Yan, do you find anything strange about this small courtyard?"

Di Yan nodded, "This... seems to be a private house!"

"It's an ordinary house. We are no longer in Yupinlong's house, but in the next house. It's really interesting. Is the next house also Yupinlong's house?"

At this time, the book boy just now jumped and ran from an aisle. When he saw them, he screamed in fear, turned around and ran away, "They are here, young master, they are here!"

"Come with him!"

Li Zhen and Di Yan pulled their feet to chase Shutong, and walked around two bends. Shutong was knocking on the door in front of a room, but they saw each other chasing him. Shutong was so scared that he squatted on the ground with his head in his arms, trembling all over.

At this time, a hoarse voice came from the room, "Yu Niang, open the door and let them in!"

The door creaked open, and a woman appeared in front of them. Under the moonlight, she was about twenty-seven or eight years old, wearing a cloth skirt and a silver hairpin, with no shiny skin, and a few white pockmarks on her face. She was very dry, black and thin, which reminded Li Zhen of the wind chicken that her eldest sister pickled in autumn every year.

She said to Li Zhen coldly: "Come in!"

Li Zhen looked at her in surprise and walked into the room quickly. The lights in the room were dim and there was a strong smell of medicine.

Li Zhen looked at the room and found that it was clean and there were ordinary willow furniture. There was a person lying on the bed, half supporting his body and looking at him. It was Yupinlong.

He was very thin, his face was pale, his hair was messy, his lips were covered with blisters, and he no longer looked handsome and handsome.

"Mr. Li, it's been a long time since I saw you!" Yu Pinlong smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth. He was not surprised by the surprise in Li Zhen's eyes.

Seeing that he seemed to be covered in wounds, Li Zhen couldn't help but ask strangely: "Brother Yu, what's going on?"

Yu Pinlong sighed, "I am responsible for it!"

He said to the woman again: "Yu Niang, go pour two glasses of water!"

It was obvious that the woman was very discomfortable to the two. She glared at them fiercely, turned around and went out, watching her back disappear, Yu Pinlong showed a bitter smile on his face, and said to Li Zhen: "This one was Zhu Jing just now!"

"Clean jing!"

Li Zhen and Di Yan looked at each other, and both of them showed surprise. Yu Pinlong actually had a wife.

Yu Pinlong smiled bitterly and said, "I am already thirty-five years old, so it's normal to have a wife! My two sons are both fourteen or fifteen years old, and they are in their hometown!"

Li Zhen immediately understood that Yu Pinlong lived in Wei Tuaner's mansion, but his wife lived in the house next door. The two dug an authentic tunnel to connect to each other. They met secretly every day without telling Wei Tuaner.

Thinking about the difficulty of digging the tunnel, I don’t know how much time it took, Li Zhen felt a little sympathetic to the man who was kept by Wei Tuaner. Needless to say, he secretly sold Wei Tuaner’s jewelry to support his wife and children.

Li Zhen smiled and said, "I really can't tell. I thought Brother Yu was only over 20 years old."

"Just young!"

Yu Pinlong pondered for a moment and said, "You are looking for me, are you doing Chang'an?"

Li Zhen shook his head, "The matter in Chang'an has nothing to do with us, I'm asking you for something else."

Psychology is sympathy, but you can’t miss the matter because of sympathy. Li Zhen took out the Cuiyu hairpin, “Brother Yu should know this thing!”

Yupinlong's face suddenly changed, his lips trembled, and his eyes stared at the hairpin in fear. After a while, he closed his eyes and sighed, "What do you want to know?"

At this time, the woman brought in water, put two bowls of water heavily on the table, and said to her husband gloomyly: "Don't talk nonsense, beware of the misfortune coming from the mouth!"

Di Yan, who was standing behind, was furious and pressed the hilt of the sword and glared at her. Yu Pinlong waved his hand, "You go down! I know what to say."

The woman glanced at Di Yan coldly, turned around and left, Li Zhen smiled, and said to Yu Pinlong again: "Brother Yu, please continue, where does this hairpin come from?"

Yu Pinlong pondered for a moment and said slowly: "I have heard of the Duantan case, and I really didn't expect them to be killed, but I tell you, they were not killed by me, that was Princess Si Teng, and I don't have such courage."

"I know, that was done by Wei Tuaner. Maybe it wasn't Brother Yu, but you are an insider."

"I am indeed an insider. I was on behalf of Wei Tuaner and contacted Princess Si Teng before, and promised to get her husband back. You know that her husband wrote letters from Lingnan every day and cried and said that if he didn't come back, he would die in Lingnan, forcing the princess to have no way out, and then he was fooled by Wei Tuaner."

Yu Pinlong sighed and said, "Wei Tuaner had known that Princess Si Teng had a lot of precious jewelry, so she spoke up and asked the princess to exchange all the jewelry. Princess Si Teng was forced to agree. I was the one who gave me a large bag of jewelry. I stole seven or eight pieces from it. This green feather hairpin was one of them. I didn't know what happened later."

Li Zhen looked at his gaze and saw that he didn't look like he was lying, so he asked in confusion: "Why is Brother Yu so happy today?"

Yu Pinlong's eyes showed a resentful look, "When she wanted to kill me, I wanted to cut off her head with a sword. I had a bright future, but it was ruined by this woman."

Li Zhen did not sympathize with him. This was the path he chose. When he relied on Wu Chengsi, he was destined to be the ending today. Moreover, when he relied on Wei Tuaner's power and power, he never heard him complain. Just as he said, he just took it upon himself.

Li Zhen asked again: "Where is her treasure hiding? Brother Yu should know!"

Yu Pinlong shook his head, "I don't want to hide it. The treasure hiding place is her biggest secret. She will never tell me that it is not only me, but even her most confidant palace maid, only she herself knows it."

Li Zhen showed no objection. Yupinlong didn't know that the treasure was hidden as he expected. Although he was Wei Tuaner's head, he was also Wu Chengsi's fake.

Moreover, he actually stole Wei Tuaner's jewelry to sell. Wei Tuaner would not believe him, nor would he tell him his biggest secret.

But Li Zhen was still unwilling to accept it and asked again: "Does no one really know Wei Tuaner's treasure hiding place?"

Yu Pinlong smiled bitterly and said, "Maybe there is, but I don't know. This is her most important secret and I will never let me participate. I just heard her personal maid complain about it by chance, saying that if something unexpected happens, her treasure will be buried deep in the ground. I infer that no one knows her treasure place."

At this time, I heard Yu Pinlong's wife shouting outside the door: "Don't be stupid, talking nonsense will kill you!"

Yu Pinlong apologized: "That's what she is, don't be surprised."

Li Zhen smiled and said that he would not care. Li Zhen pondered for a moment and asked again: "Have you ever thought about testifying to bring down Wei Tuaner?"

Yu Pinlong stared at Li Zhen for a moment and said, "Everything Wei Tuaner did was instructed by today, including her false accusation of Concubine Liu and Concubine Dou of the East Palace, because the emperor wanted to get rid of these two people. If the emperor did not want to eliminate Wei Tuaner, no one could defeat her, and Shangguan Wan'er would not do it."

Yu Pinlong's face was red and his eyes were filled with irrepressible excitement. He said to Li Zhen again: "Mr. Li, you are not afraid to touch you because you have Gao Yanfu behind you, so Wei Tuaner dared not touch you, otherwise you will be worse than me now."

Li Zhen had heard these words long ago. He had come to this point and no longer cared about this kind of "kind advice". He was not a three-year-old child. Don't he know his choice?

He stared at Yupinlong for a moment and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Yu Pinlong smiled bitterly and said, "First care for the injury, then go back to his hometown to see his son. Then I don't know anymore. Maybe I go to the Western Regions and Lingnan. Anyway, the farther you escape, the better. What else can I do? I can't afford to offend her, so I have to hide."

Seeing that Li Zhen could not ask any clues, he had no intention of staying there. He winked at Di Yan, and the two of them immediately said goodbye.

Just as the two left, Yu Pinlong's wife appeared in the room like a ghost. She glanced at two bowls of water that had never been drunk and complained: "I knew they wouldn't drink it, so I would pour some water and let me wash the dishes again!"

"Don't bother me!" Yu Pinlong was so upset by her endless complaints.

The woman asked viciously: "What did you say to them, did you say everything?"

Yu Pinlong closed his eyes and ignored her. The woman said to herself: "They know the truth about the Duantan case and will force you to come out to testify. The government will come to the door tomorrow. It's too dangerous. We must leave immediately."

When the woman said this to the heart of the fish stocking dragon, he felt it was inappropriate and had to leave immediately. He hesitated and asked, "It's dark outside now! How can I go?"

"It's good to be dark, but there's still some time before the city gate is closed, and it's still time!"

Yu Pinlong nodded, "Let Shutong rent a carriage first, you should pack up your things faster."

.........

After coming out of Yupinlong's house, it was already dark. Di Yan whispered: "I finally found a clue, but he still didn't know it. I said, "It's not that simple to find Wei Tuaner's secret. What are you going to do now?"

"The treasure hiding place has only another opportunity, and I can't come in a hurry, but I plan to tell Sun Li the truth about the Duantan case so that he can know it."

"Will he come to catch fish dragons?"

Li Zhen shook his head, "Yu Pinlong and Wei Tuaner have a big relationship. Catching Yu Pinlong is equivalent to announcing that the case of the severance of the pond was done by Wei Tuaner. Sun Li will not catch Yu Pinlong, and at most he will catch a few big thieves in the Yangtze River to take the blame, saying that they robbed money and killed their lives, and gave the royal family an explanation, so the female emperor turned a blind eye."

"Well! You know a little bit about officialdom now. It's good, and you've made progress!"

"Do you really think I'm that stupid?"

Li Zhen laughed. At this time, he heard his stomach screaming, and touched his stomach and said, "I'm a little hungry. Let's find a place to eat first, and I'll take you home."

Di Yan looked at the night scene. If she went back after dinner, the door would be closed. She smiled sweetly, "Why go to the old place in Anyefang for dinner, and then you stay at my house for one night. My room is very spacious and there is a beautiful maid to serve him. What do you think of Mr. Li?"

"Your last sentence makes me yearn for it, let's go!"

The two of them talked and laughed, and went to the inn to lead the horse, and turned over and ran towards Anyefang.

Not long after Li Zhen and the others left, a carriage slowly stopped in front of Yu Pinlong's house. The woman carried a big bag on her back and helped Yu Pinlong come out of the gate. The two got on the carriage. The carriage slowly started and drove towards the south gate.

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Chapter completed!