Four Lifetimes Dream

Meanwhile, in the palace dungeon:

"My Lord, I have said everything I need to say. This is all I know. I really don't know anything else!"

The bandit leader knelt on the ground and was almost scared to death when he saw the various torture instruments!

"You said the person who ordered you to do this was someone from the palace. Do you have any evidence?"

Li Yin looked at the bandit leader who was kneeling on the ground and trembling with disgust.

With such courage, he still wants to be a bandit. Aren’t you afraid that you will do too many bad things and be scared to death in the middle of the night?

"Evidence..." The bandit leader thought for a moment, then quickly replied, "The reward... The reward is the evidence!"

"Reward money?" Li Yin motioned him to continue!

"According to the rules of the Li Kingdom, the patterns on the silver coins held by people of different classes are different. If you are a royal noble, all the money you control will be engraved with colorful auspicious clouds around the silver, which means that wealth and honor will come from heaven!"

The bandit leader answered quickly, as if he was afraid that the torture instruments would fall on him in the next second.

"Officials, ministers and ordinary people of all ranks will have colorful auspicious clouds engraved on their silver coins, symbolizing a good harvest!" the bandit leader continued to explain.

Li Yin picked up the reward money handed over by the bandit leader and looked at it: "Isn't this the colorful auspicious cloud?"

Li Yin couldn't figure out any clues from the silver.

This silver was just ordinary silver, not the silver with the colorful auspicious cloud pattern that the bandit leader said could only be used by royal nobles.

"Whether it is colorful or not, we will know after burning it!"

Luo Ci Yan on the side was not as patient as Li Yin, and directly threw a silver ingot into the brazier.

“True gold is not afraid of fire?” It’s not gold, it’s silver!

Li Yin said she couldn’t understand!

What can this burn?

And there was one thing he couldn't understand even more. If it was really done by someone in the royal family, then why would he use silver, which symbolized his royal status, as a reward?

Isn't this a self-inflicted trap?

Ordinary people cannot use the royal family’s seven-colored silver, but that doesn’t mean that the royal family cannot use ordinary people’s five-colored silver!

There are some people in the royal family who pretend to be ordinary people, and many of them are holding colorful silver!

If the mastermind behind this was someone from the royal family, then why didn't he just use five-colored silver, but disguise the seven-colored silver as five-colored silver?

Isn't this very troublesome?

Or is that person stupid and has no brains?

Then, the bandit leader's words continued:

"Your Excellency may not know that the silver used in this palace and the silver used by ordinary people have the same value and are similar in shape, but the seven-color auspicious clouds are difficult to draw, and there are more steps than the five-color auspicious clouds. It is precisely because of these extra steps that there is a huge difference between the two!"

"If the silver is covered with real seven-colored clouds, or real five-colored clouds, their shapes will not change no matter how long they are burned!"

Then the bandit leader changed the subject.

"But if it has been processed later, even if it has seven-colored clouds on the surface, it will become five-colored after being burned. The same is true. Five-colored silver will become seven-colored after being processed, but once burned, it will return to its original state!"

"It's turned into seven colors!" After about an incense stick of time, Luo Ci Yan picked up the silver in the brazier with tweezers.

He looked at it for a while and then spoke slowly.

Li Yin took a look and found that it was true!

The silver that originally had only five lines on it became seven lines after being burned.

"Someone actually counterfeited silver!" Li Yin really didn't expect that there would be such a person in the palace!

"Strictly speaking, it is not a counterfeit. It is just a layer of coating on the surface of the colorful silver, and then painted with colorful auspicious clouds."

Its essence has not changed, it is still real silver, not fake!

"Then how did you find out that there was something wrong with the reward money?"

Generally speaking, any normal person would not burn the money after getting it. How did this bandit know about this?

"Actually, I discovered this by accident!" the bandit leader said, and then he slowly explained the reason.

"More than a decade ago, a fire broke out in a wealthy family. My mother was seriously ill at the time and needed money for treatment. Just when I was worrying about how to raise money, an old woman gave me a silver ingot, saying it was a deposit, and the condition was that I could bring a child out of the fire. There was really no other way at the time, so I could only take a risk!"

"But when I rushed into the fire, the silver ingot accidentally fell. I spent a lot of effort to pick it up. After that, I found that the silver that the woman gave me was all colorful. The only silver ingot that fell into the fire and was burned by the fire turned into seven colors. Out of curiosity, I burned another silver ingot, and found that it turned into seven colors again. So after that, I discovered this secret..."

After finishing his story, the bandit leader kowtowed to Li Yin:

"My Lord, this is all I know. Please be merciful...forgive me! I was just confused for a moment and was blinded by money..."

"Since you said that it was a wealthy family, why did the old woman only ask you to take the child out instead of spending money to hire more people to put out the fire?"

Li Yin couldn't understand this. If she were an ordinary old woman, she would definitely not be acquainted with the people from that wealthy family.

If she really knew that wealthy family, the relationship must be complicated.

Then why did she ignore others and only let someone take the child away?

But if they don’t know each other, it doesn’t make sense!

No matter how you think about it, there is no reason for that old woman to spend money to bring out a child from a wealthy family during a fire!

"This... this kid really doesn't know!" The bandit leader hesitated for a while before continuing.

"But in my opinion, even if the fire is put out, the people inside probably won't survive!"

Who could survive that scene?

"Why?" Li Yin felt that there must be something fishy going on here!

"At that time... there were a bunch of people in black. They were like crazy, hacking at anyone they saw. That night, it snowed heavily, and the ground was white, but the blood dyed it red!"

"I also disguised myself as them at the time and took advantage of the chaos to successfully bring the child out!"

He still feels frightened when he thinks of that scene now. Those men in black hacked people down as if they were chopping cabbages!

"The night you are talking about...is it New Year's Eve?" After hearing this, Li Yin's expression seemed a little strange.

His hands tightly grasped the edge of the wheelchair, and his voice became deep, even a little trembling!

His eyes were red and he looked very angry!

This scene is so similar to the one ten years ago!

Could it be a coincidence?

"...Ah..." The bandit leader screamed before he could answer.

As a wailing sound was heard, Li Yin and Luo Ci Yan reacted and found that the bandit leader had fallen in a pool of blood!

"Dead!" Luo Ci Yan stepped forward and sniffed the bandit leader's breath and found that he was no longer breathing!

Then Luo Ci Yan immediately chased after him.

"Qu Zhi, chase!" The person who can sneak into the dungeon silently and kill people in front of so many guards must be no simple person!

In this way, it can be basically confirmed that the person who wants to kill Qi Ran this time is a member of the royal family!