Gu Qi asked unhurriedly, "You mean that all the previous prisoners ran away?" ”

The cell boss looked anxious: "Yes, Lord Qincha! When we got there, out of nowhere, a group of beggars burst out, there were fifty or sixty of them, and we were so few that we couldn't stop them! After they rushed in, they went on a rampage, and immediately scattered the group of prisoners, and we were also scattered by the chaotic crowd, and the group of beggars always blocked our view in front of us, so then the prisoners immediately started to heckle, ignoring the iron shackles on their hands and feet, and all ran away! ”

"Did you arrest them?"

"Yes, yes!" Something so big happened, the cell boss was afraid of being blamed from above, so he naturally talked hard about his own goodness, "At that time, the villain immediately dispersed the jailers and officials to arrest the group of prisoners!" ”

"Oh?" Gu Qi raised his eyebrows, picked up the teacup in his hand casually, and gently blew a sip of floating tea, before asking, "How many do you catch?" ”

The cell boss bowed his head and did not speak.

Gu Qi glanced at the other party out of the corner of his eye, the cell boss obviously didn't catch a single prisoner, so at this moment, he probably wanted to tell Feng Kejie that something was wrong, so that Feng Kejie could get an idea for him.

"Benchin cha knows." Gu Qi put down the teacup and waved his hand, "You go down first." ”

The cell boss was stunned for a moment: "Huh? This...... Villain...... The prisoner ......"

"How?" Gu Qi's face sank slightly.

"The book of the villain recording the prisoner was sent by the lord of the king...... The villain doesn't know how to catch people by name......" The cell boss had an expression of almost crying, and his voice became smaller and smaller, "Can Lord Qincha ......"

Gu Qi sneered, slapped the table with a "bang", his sword eyebrows were raised, and his face was gloomy: "What?!" You've made such a big mistake, why don't you think about how to get the prisoner back, and you still want Benchin to come up with an idea for you?! Benchin wants to cure you! ”

The cell boss was so frightened that he didn't dare to come out, but he couldn't speak.

"Get out!" Gu Qi waved his sleeves, and the cell head immediately rolled out.

As soon as the cell boss rolled out of everyone's sight, Gu Qi suddenly changed his expression, turned his head and looked at everyone with a smile.

"There's a good show to watch." Gu Qi stretched his waist and walked down the court refreshed.

Today's events can be said to have swept away the haze of the past few days, although the dark clouds overhead are still there, but the wind has risen, and I believe that soon we will be able to keep the clouds open and see the moon.

"Where are you now?" Xu Yihua asked with a smile.

"Go find Qin Xu." Gu Qi caged his sleeves.

Xu Yihua bowed: "It's okay." ”

Gu Qi stretched out his hand and took Hui Qi and the three of them to the officer's room.

When I arrived at the officer's room, before I entered, I saw Qin Xu sitting by the window with a book in his hand, looking at it with relish, his brows furrowed from time to time, as if he was immersed in it.

Gu Qixin walked in: "Qin Xu official." ”

Qin Xu didn't raise his head, and said directly: "Lord Qincha, sit down." ”

He looked like he had already guessed that the other party would come, so he was waiting here.

Gu Qi raised his eyebrows, glanced at Xu Yihua, and the two stepped into the officer's room and sat opposite Qin Xu.

"Lord Qincha is condescending to your dignity, I don't know what it is?" Qin Xu put aside the scroll in his hand casually, got up and saluted.

Gu Qi scratched his chin: "Don't you have something to say to me?" ”

"My lord thinks the lower official has something to say?" Qin Xu's eyes were calm, and he looked directly into Gu Qi's eyes.

"I just heard that a large group of beggars suddenly appeared on East Street, and it happened suddenly, and no one was prepared, and as a result, all the ninety-two prisoners who were arraigned by Ben Qin took advantage of the chaos to run away, I don't know if Qin Xu has ever heard of this?"

Qin Xu said with a smile: "Naturally, I heard about it, not only that, but the lower officials also heard that Lord Feng is now thundering." ”

"It's a pity that I don't know which hero helped, otherwise I would really like to thank him personally." Gu Qi looked at Qin Xu and said it meaningfully, and I am afraid that only the two of them can understand the meaning.

"That's a shame." Qin Xu smiled and said lightly, "The lower officials still don't know what Lord Qincha is doing here?" ”

Gu Qi's index finger couldn't help but tap a few times on the tabletop, and suddenly held his chin and looked at Qin Xu intently: "Feng Kejie came in a hurry before, I only had time to tell you about the intersection of Dongjie Road, if you don't want to be with me, you can pretend not to hear, why do you need to help us." ”

Qin Xu lowered his eyelashes, rubbed his fingers uncomfortably on the table a few times, and hesitated without speaking.

Gu Qi was not in a hurry, but still waited patiently with his chin in his hands.

After a while, Qin Xu finally made up his mind, raised his head and said, "How sure are you?" ”

At the same time, von Kojie study.

"Idiot!" Feng Kejie jumped like thunder, the expression on his face distorted, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Sun Youcai, his trembling fingers almost poked the other party's forehead, "Idiot! Idiot! ”

Sun Youcai bowed his head and hunched his waist, his face was extremely ugly.

"Who else! It must have been Gu Qi who stole him out! Feng Kejie was emotional, his face was red and his neck was thick, "Such an important thing, you actually let people steal him!" And those damn miners! Damn beggars! ”

"Your Excellency is angry." Sun Youcai hurriedly said, "The villain should be damned." ”

"You're damned, you're damned!" The more Feng Kejie spoke, the more angry he became, and kicked Sun Youcai's stomach hard, kicking the other party to the ground heavily, "This official will take your dog's life now!" ”

"Spare your life!" Sun Youcai's face turned pale with fright.

Feng Kejie knew that it was useless to beat him, so he could only turn around in a hurry: "Spare your life? The official spared you, who spared the official's life! Now that they've taken the roster, and the miners have all fled, if they find the place where the bodies were buried, or if they find any other evidence, we're all going to be doomed! ”

Sun Youcai's eyes turned, although his face was still a little pale, but it was obviously much better: "Adult, the villain has a plan, I don't know if to talk about it?" ”

Feng Kejie gave him a blank look: "It's time for you, don't tell this official soon!" ”

Sun Youcai gritted his teeth, raised his right hand, and made a gesture on his neck, clean and neat.

"Ten points."

Qin Xu Yan smiled: "Lord Qincha is too confident. ”

Gu Qi also smiled: "If I wasn't very sure, I guess you wouldn't have come over to add the icing on the cake." ”

"Lord Chincha is really smart." Qin Xu said in admiration.

Gu Qi smiled and didn't answer.

Qin Xu organized his language a little and asked, "Do you know which coal mine belongs to?" ”

Hearing this, Xu Yihua said: "Naturally, it belongs to the official family." ”

Qin Xu shook his head: "It's not the official family." ”

"Jeju City is located in the north, and the winter is long, and the weather like this one will be about half a month before the time of using charcoal, and at that time, the price of this charcoal will naturally rise slowly."

"Jeju City is already rich in coal, how much can the price rise?" Xu Yihua shook his head.

"I heard that Xu Gongzi was originally from the capital, but I don't know how much silver the charcoal pattern is in the capital?"

"At the most expensive time, the average color of charcoal was only ten copper plates a catty."

The corners of Qin Xu's mouth hooked up a sneer: "But in Jeju City, in winter, this charcoal will cost a hundred copper coins a pound if it is in poor condition, and if it is in average color, it will be one or two pounds of silver!" ”

Xu Yihua gasped.

Gu Qi was silent on the side and did not speak.

These things, which he had learned about as early as a year ago, were nothing new.

The price of this charcoal is really outrageously high, generally a family of three, one tael of silver a year is enough, and now this charcoal is actually one or two silver a catty, it is simply appalling.

How can ordinary people afford such expensive coal!

"There are so many coal mines in the official family, and they are mining all the time, why is the asking price so high." Xu Yihua frowned, "I remember that Daqian stipulated that the price of coal mined in the official coal mine should not exceed ten copper plates, except for carbon supply. ”

Qin Xu said: "The price of coal from the official family will naturally not exceed ten copper plates, but the coal sold to the people is not from the official family, and the price will not be determined by the official family." ”

Xu Yihua was a little confused: "The cheap coal of the official family can't compete with the expensive coal of other businessmen?" ”

Gu Qi sighed, looked at Xu Yihua with a look of hatred for iron and steel, and almost beat his chest: "I found that you are sometimes very smart, but sometimes you are very stupid." ”

Xu Yihua blinked.

"The coal mined from the official coal mines was sold to the merchants at a very low price, and in the winter, the merchants sold it to the people at a very high price, and a large amount of profits generated by the price difference in the middle also went into their pockets." Gu Qi explained, "Since the purchase and sale between the two parties seems to be legal and free on the surface, no one cares about it. ”

"So this time, the official's petition is the account book of the collusion between the officials and businessmen." Qin Xu reached out and picked up the scroll that was resting aside, closed it and gently pushed it in front of Gu Qi.

Gu Qi's face was strange, he opened the account book and looked at it a few times, and then handed it to Xu Yihua: "Where did you get it?" ”

"The second son of the merchant had some friendship with the lower official, so he helped the lower official steal it." Qin Xu lowered his voice and finished speaking very quickly.

Gu Qi held his chin and looked incredulous.

Qin Xu coughed: "The second son is a concubine, and his mother is also dead." ”

Gu Qi suddenly realized, and a sadistic family war had been sketched in his mind.

"Xia Guan is here to wish your lord success." Qin Xu got up and bent down and arched his hand, "When the time comes, please don't forget to say a few kind words for your subordinates." ”

Coming out of the officer's room, Gu Qi stood in the courtyard and looked at it stupidly for a while.

Xu Yihua followed him and looked at him for a while, and couldn't help asking, "What's so beautiful on this day." ”

Gu Qi still raised his head and looked at the clouds slowly drifting in the sky: "Maybe I won't be able to see tomorrow's sky, take a few more glances while I can still see it now." ”

Hui Qi snorted twice, and then stomped on the ground with his foot: "Bad luck." ”

Gu Qi was stunned: "Why are you stepping on yourself?" ”

Hui Qi gave him a blank look.

Gu Qi rubbed his shoulders: "There is one last thing to do now." ”

"What's the matter?"

"Go see the guy who was hiding from the cell boss." 166 Reading Network