After a house full of cannon fodder read my voice, the whole family went crazy.

Qiao Zhongtian staggered when he was caught. Looking at the lock of hair in his daughter's hand, he couldn't help but grin.

"My son, your father almost became bald when you caught him."

Although he didn't know the reason why Qiao Wanshu insisted on following her, it was always right to bring her with her.

Qiao Wanshu also looked at the hair in her hands coquettishly, put her little hand on it, and touched Qiao Zhongtian's face flatteringly.

[I'm sorry, Dad, I was in a hurry and couldn't stop. 】

No matter what, Qiao Wanshu got into the carriage in her father's arms and drove quickly to the Ministry of Finance.

Before reaching the door, I saw my eldest brother being stopped outside and arguing with someone.

"General Qiao, you are now a relative of the suspect. According to the order of Dali Temple, you should avoid this case just like Qiao Shaoqing. Therefore, as the crime scene, the Ministry of Household Affairs cannot allow you to enter casually."

The person who stopped Qiao Jingchen was a junior official from the Ministry of Revenue.

It's not because of Qiao Jingchen's identity that he should be lenient.

"My third brother just walked into that gold shop accidentally, and he didn't even come back for a few days. How could he have time to commit the crime?"

Qiao Jingyue argued.

But the little official refused to let him in no matter what he said.

Qiao Zhongtian got off the carriage and pulled his eldest son behind him.

"I want to see the scene, do I need to avoid it?"

The junior official was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that even Qiao Zhongtian would come.

Who doesn't know that Mr. Qiao is very powerful, and he really doesn't want to become an enemy of the Qiao family and lose his reputation.

Qiao Zhongtian saw that he looked hesitant and lost the momentum of stopping the eldest son just now, and said again: "If you are really worried about what I will do, then just follow and watch."

"Otherwise, I can call a few more people to embolden you."

The junior official knew that he couldn't stop him. Even if the minister came, he couldn't stop Qiao Xiang.

He could only accept Qiao Zhongtian's proposal, and found a few more people to accompany Qiao Zhongtian and his son.

Although Qiao Wanshu had reminded him that the remaining gold was in the tunnel in the rockery, he couldn't just go there.

Qiao Zhongtian first went to the warehouse where the gold was stored in the Ministry of Revenue.

This place is heavily guarded, even worse than the Heavenly Prison.

He looked at the structure and structural drawings of the warehouse, as well as the location where the stolen gold had been placed.

The ground there seems to have been renovated. If you look closely, you can see that the color is slightly different from the surrounding areas.

If a whole box of gold is stolen, there will be traces of dragging on the ground.

The difference in color of the ground just confirmed Qiao Zhongtian's conjecture.

He did not remain calm, but said directly to Qiao Jingchen: "Bring two teams of people to protect the scene!"

Upon hearing this, several accompanying officials from the Ministry of Revenue suddenly changed their expressions. They all came out to stop him and said, "Xiang Qiao, this is against the rules! This case has been submitted to Dali Temple. Even if the Ministry of Household Affairs is to be reviewed, it should be someone from Dali Temple."

Qiao Zhongtian snorted coldly: "You can also call people from Dali Temple to come over. They want to protect the scene, and so does the truth."

"Evidence is needed to find criminals, but is it not necessary to prove one's innocence? The third son of the truth was unfairly wronged. Is it possible that the truth is guilty if I want to clear his grievances?"

Those officials had no choice but to let Qiao Jingchen leave.

Not long after, someone from Dali Temple came and met the private soldiers of the prime minister's office sent by Qiao Jingchen at the door.

The leader was a Shaoqing named Liu from Dali Temple.

Qiao Jingyue avoided suspicion and Liu Zhan was recovering from his injuries at home. This hot job fell to Liu Shaoqing.

Qiao Zhongtian didn't talk nonsense to him. He pointed directly at the marks on the ground and said, "Look, this place was obviously renovated in a later period. It was to cover up the drag marks."

"It is absolutely impossible for one person to move all 25 boxes of gold. Even if there are many people, there will inevitably be noise. It is impossible to do it without leaving any trace."

"So the gold must still be hidden somewhere in the household department, waiting for the limelight to subside before it can be slowly transferred."

As soon as he finished speaking, a doctor from the Ministry of Finance shouted excitedly: "Mr. Qiao, what do you mean by this? Are you saying that we are robbers?"

Qiao Zhongtian glanced at him and said coldly: "Why are you excited? The truth is analyzing the case. Is it possible that the truth has been told?"

Liu Shaoqing checked the ground and found that there were indeed traces of being covered up. It was really hard to detect without looking carefully.

Then he said to Qiao Zhongtian: "Where does Mr. Qiao think the gold should be hidden?"

This is tantamount to acquiescing to his speculation.

"Follow the traces. Even if the box is lifted behind, the footprints of the person carrying the box will be deeper than usual."

"Moreover, there may be spaces where gold can be hidden in some unexpected corners."

While he was speaking, he kept a close eye on the doctor from the household department.

Sure enough, we could see the panic in his eyes that he was eager to hide.

All the preparations have been made, and it is Qiao Jingchen's business to quietly lure the people from Dali Temple to the rockery.

As a young general who has experienced hundreds of battles, he is very good at conspiracies, so naturally he is not a problem.

Soon, there was an exclamation from the rockery.

"There's a tunnel here!"

The next thing is a matter of course.

A mountain of boxes were discovered in the tunnel, containing stolen gold!

Qiao Zhongtian hugged Qiao Wanshu and watched the people from Dali Temple carrying out the gold one by one. Suddenly, the junior official who had stopped Qiao Jingchen came over and bowed deeply to him: "Mr. Qiao, I was in a hurry just now. I didn't know you could really do this." Find the stolen gold.”

"I have another unkind request, I wonder if you can agree to it?"

His request was to help the Ministry of Household Affairs find out the real culprit of the theft. After all, in this way, Qiao Jinghan could truly get rid of his grievances, which was also in line with the Qiao family's original intention.

Qiao Wanshu hugged Qiao Zhongtian's neck and nodded.

[Dad, help him, help him! This man was a good official with little talent. It was only after Liu Zhan ascended the throne that he discovered this thousand-mile horse and promoted him to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. 】

[Now that you have helped him, maybe it can be used by our Qiao family! 】

When Qiao Zhongtian heard this, he pretended to be thoughtful and waited for a while before agreeing.

He ordered the Qiao family's private soldiers to watch the scene, and no one was allowed to approach these traces of "evidence" without permission.

Then he took his son and daughter back to Qiao Mansion.

"Dad, tell me, now that we have found the gold, we have alerted the enemy. How can we find the real culprit next?"

Both of them glanced at Qiao Wanshu in unison.

The little girl yawned without realizing it. She just listened to the question raised by her elder brother and responded in her mind.

[It’s simple. I forgot the person’s last name. It seems to be Fu. 】

[But I remember that he liked a girl named Qiu Yu in Tianxianglou. If you go quickly now, you might be able to catch him in action, and then you can torture him... it's up to you. 】

[However, we have to do it quickly before the news has spread. After all, he had never been caught before. 】