The abbess was a nun in her fifties. She wanted to stop him but couldn't. In the end, she simply gave up and sat on the quilt outside, gasping for breath, looking extremely pitiful.
There were only a few nuns in the nunnery, and they all looked timid, so no one came to help the abbot. But when the abbot fell under the quilt, a nun came over and tried to help her up.
The abbot didn't want to get up. He shook his head, sat on the quilt, and glared at the scoundrel who was still searching inside.
Basically everything inside had been turned out, even the mattress, leaving only an empty bed board, and there was nothing underneath, so you could see the bottom of the bed at a glance.
Wang Wu checked other places, even the corner of the bed and behind the wall, but still found nothing. This was different from what Wang Wu had expected. Even though he had received so much money from his aunt, it was impossible for her to spend it all lavishly.
Wang Wu knew how frugal the nuns in the nunnery were. It was obvious that the nunnery owner had colluded with others to plot against the official's wife. To be able to do such a thing, she must have made a lot of money. Even if there was no other evidence, wasn't this money the evidence
It is impossible for a nunnery in such a remote place to have so much money.
Wang Wu also calculated that even after so many years, considering the living conditions of this poor nunnery, the old nun would not have spent much money, so it must have been hidden in secret.
But now, there is none!
Wang Wu was a little panicked for a moment. After walking around the room several times, he found nothing and then looked out the window.
The abbot was still sitting outside the window, watching Wang Wu's actions coldly.
"Have you checked? Have you found any evidence? If there is anything, please report to the police immediately!" Seeing that Wang Wu looked a little panicked, the abbot scolded him harshly.
He helped the nun stand up and pointed at Wang Wu: "Let's go, let's go report to the police now."
Seeing him do this, Wang Wu was really panicked. He looked around the room, which seemed to be innocent, and walked out in a panic, even with a smile on his face: "Master, this is a misunderstanding. I also heard that my aunt was harmed by you, so I came to see you. Now that nothing is wrong..."
His eyes darted around and he wanted to run to a place with fewer people.
How could he dare to go see the official? Not to mention seeing the official, if the people in the casino found out that he was here, he would be half dead if not dead.
"This quilt is quite new, and looks like it was newly sewn, but the stitching is not very good, and the thread ends are too thick." A low voice suddenly came into the ears of Wang Wu who was trying to escape, and stopped Wang Wu's feet.
"The abbot seems to care a lot about this quilt. He has been sitting on it just now, and even now that he has stood up, his feet don't leave it." Someone else seemed to be talking to himself.
The sound was not loud, but several people present heard it.
Wang Wu was stunned, and suddenly lowered his head to look at the quilt at the feet of the abbot. It was the quilt he had thrown out before, and now it was piled haphazardly at the feet of the abbot.
Compared with other things in the room, this quilt does look much newer. As for whether the stitching is good or not, Wang Wu can't tell.
But this did not prevent him from subconsciously looking up at the abbot's face again. What he saw was not the stern face just now, but a moment of stiffness.
Wang Wu is a rogue. He has met many people before, and he is not completely stupid. Sometimes he can even be said to react very quickly without even having to think too much.
He took a few steps forward and reached out to pull the quilt.
The abbot subconsciously reached out to grab the corner of the quilt, and the expression on his face had become flustered, completely different from the anger and resentment he had just shown.
Needless to say, many people can see that there is something else going on.
Both of them reached out to grab a corner of the quilt. After all, Wang Wu was strong and a man, so he pulled the quilt cover with his backhand and tore it hard. Immediately, several banknotes fell down.
The abbot's face turned pale. It was too late for him to reach out his hand. His body swayed and he fell to his seat, precariously.
"Sure enough, he actually hid so many silver bills. He was really planning to take my aunt's property." Wang Wu picked up a silver bill and shook it proudly.
One bill is worth one hundred taels, and there are several of them here, enough for him to live comfortably for the rest of his life.
He stretched out his hand and grabbed all the silver bills he could get. As for the rest, he didn't care at all. He threw the quilt to the ground and was about to leave. He thought that the old nun would not dare to do anything.
He glared at the abbess threateningly, turned around and was about to leave. The old nun didn't dare to report to the police. This time she really made a windfall.
"In broad daylight, there are such lawless criminals! Come, arrest them!" A sharp voice suddenly came from outside the crowd.
The crowds on both sides were pushed aside, and several yamen runners rushed in. They stretched out their hands on both sides and forced Wang Wu, who was trying to escape, to his knees.
Everyone then turned around and saw Yue Wenhan, surrounded by several guards, walking in with a cold face. He was accompanied not only by guards, but also by runners from the Dali Temple.
Although the villagers and pilgrims did not know who the person in front of them was, this did not prevent them from knowing that the person in front of them was an official from the yamen, and they knelt down one by one.
"Greetings, sir!"
"Hello, Master!"...
The villagers in the remote area had never seen such a scene before, and they were all in a panic. Hailan originally wanted to slip away, but everyone at the scene knelt down, and if she slipped away, it would be very obvious. She could only kneel down with them, bit her lip hard, and felt inexplicably bad in her heart.
She was just watching the fun, but when the abbess's quilt was torn, she suddenly felt that this matter had something to do with her. Could it be that those banknotes were given to the abbess by her many years ago? In addition to many years ago, she had also given them recently, so the seal was new
"What happened here?" After Yue Wenhan came in, he looked at the messy room, then looked at the people present, and asked slowly.
It's clear what's going on in this scene.
"Sir, nothing... nothing, just... just want to settle some old accounts." Wang Wu panicked. He never expected that someone from the government office would suddenly appear at this time. In a place like this, not to mention a sir with such a powerful aura, even a small official would not be able to see it.
What a coincidence, we actually meet in this city.
He didn't plan to report it to the police, he really didn't plan to report it to the police, but... why were there officials here, and why did they happen to meet him
"You say!" Yue Wenhan looked at the abbot whose face was pale and whose lips were trembling, and ignored Wang Wu.
“Sir…” Wang Wu wanted to speak more, but was blocked by a yamen runner with a piece of cloth.
"Speak!" The accompanying yamen runner shouted at the abbot.
"Sir, it's nothing. He is the nephew of our old nunnery master. I was saved by the old nunnery master. Even if there is something wrong now...
...It won't be a problem. After all, he is the nephew of my benefactor. If he needs some money, it's okay for me to give him all my savings!"
The abbot calmed himself down and began to speak fluently.
The pilgrims who heard this nodded repeatedly, thinking that the abbot was a good person. Even at this time, he was still defending the rogue Wang Wu. Everyone could see that Wang Wu came here deliberately to cause trouble today.
Remembering the kindness of the old abbot, the current abbot is nostalgic.
"Don't you plan to report to the police?" Yue Wenhan asked grimly.
"I don't plan to... He's the old nunnery abbess's nephew, so I'll consider this money as repayment of a favor." The nunnery abbess lowered her head and wiped her eyes. Her eye sockets were red.
"Just let him go like that?" Yue Wenhan asked again.
"Let him go, and take the money too. It's all my savings over the years." The nunnery head lowered and sighed, "I just hope that this kind of thing won't happen again in the future. You have to be a good person. The nunnery nunnery is such a good person, she definitely doesn't want to see her nephew become like this."
The compassion in these words made the pilgrims around nod their heads secretly, and some even wanted to say a few words to help the abbot.
As for Wang Wu, if everyone he knows thinks he is a good person, then he is a real scoundrel!
"You can let the person go." Yue Wenhan said.
The nunnery abbess breathed a sigh of relief, and her expression improved slightly, but the next moment, her face suddenly became stiff, revealing a somewhat embarrassing paleness.
"There is no way that people in your nunnery can get so many banknotes even if they don't eat or drink for twenty years. Can you ask the abbot whether the murder for money you just mentioned really happened?"
Yue Wenhan took the banknote handed to him by the guard and shook it, "To commit murder for money is a capital crime, and you can't get away with it with just a few words."
“No… No, I… I don’t…” The nunnery abbess couldn’t control her pretended calmness for a moment and said in a hurry.
"I need to explain this banknote, do I need to explain this medicine too?" Yue Wenhan took a small medicine bag from another guard and waved it in front of the abbot. "This looks like a deadly poison. You have to think about how to answer, otherwise... The criminal law is unforgiving. I am the Junior Official of the Dali Temple, and I specialize in handling cases like this."
The nunnery abbess's whole body froze, her lips trembling and she couldn't utter a word. Of course, the medicine bag was also placed inside the quilt, sandwiched among the silver bills. She had never used it in all these years. The reason she kept it was that she was deliberately keeping an eye on it. Who knew it would be suddenly found today.
“As for this silver note, I have to check where it came from. As for who it originally belonged to, it’s actually not difficult to find out!” Yue Wenhan seemed not to notice the bulging of the abbot’s eyes and shook the silver note again.
There are both new and old banknotes with considerable denominations. Given the government's ability, a careful investigation should have yielded records.
It would be better to confess it myself than to let the lord in front of me find out. After making a dilemma, the nunnery abbot resolutely decided to choose the latter. She pointed at Hai Lan who was kneeling in the crowd and said, "Sir, the banknote was given to me by their wife. As for the others, I really don't know anything."
Hailan had been looking for an opportunity to escape. When she heard the abbot's words, she was so shocked that she could hardly believe it. She raised her eyes to look at the abbot, but met Yue Wenhan's cold eyes. Then Yue Wenhan smiled slightly, and she was so cold that she couldn't help but collapse.
"Come here, bring this servant and her wife back to the government office!"