The Yangzhou Sanwan section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the place where Caoyin disappeared.

Chen Wangmo, the chief military officer of Pingjiang Bo Caoyun, came, Li Qiu, the right deputy governor of the imperial history and the commander of the military affairs Fengyang, and the deputy envoy Huang Gonggong and Huo Chonglou, the secretary of the Dongchang Division, also came, as well as the prefect of Yangzhou, Jiangdu County and other officials.

The seventh master of the Cao Gang, Jiatian, was also brought, and the scenery was very different from when Qin Lin first saw him, his hair was now scattered, his face was black, his clothes were torn, and he was obviously tortured.

As soon as he saw Qin Lin, Tian Qiye knelt down and cried: "General Qin defended for Zaixia, he was really wronged, 500,000 silver, how can the Cao Gang afford to pay for it......"

Qin Lin's brows furrowed.

Chen Wangmo was ashamed after all, avoiding Qin Lin's inquiring gaze, and the Bai Master beside him was always expressionless, even in the face of Qin Lin's sharp gaze, he didn't care.

Tian Qiye was obviously wronged, and deliberately tortured and framed for his own selfish interests like Chen Wangmo was Qin Lin's most disgusting behavior, so he walked up to Tian Qiye and helped him up with his own hands: "This official knows that Cao Yin was not stolen by you, and the official will clear your grievances for you later." ”

Tian Qiye was grateful, and kowtowed to Qin Lin before standing up.

Master Bai whispered a few words in Chen Wangmo's ear, and this Pingjiang Bo was not happy, and flicked his sleeves towards Qin Lin: "General Qin, you don't come to see it, but call Li Dutang and this official from afar, thinking that you are the case-handling officer of the Jinyi Liu Du Supervision Committee, and this official doesn't care about this etiquette, but if you blindly obstruct this official from chasing stolen money from the Cao Gang, and favoritism to protect someone, don't blame this official for turning his face and ruthlessly, and he wants to play a role in you!" ”

"Why bother, why bother? They all contribute to the court, regardless of each other. Huang Gonggong hurriedly persuaded softly.

With the delay in solving the case, Chen Wangmo's attitude is almost a 180-degree turn, the first task for him is to recover Cao Yin, everything else can be put aside, the front has an excellent attitude towards Qin Lin, just because he expects him to solve the case and recover Cao Yin, and now his attitude has completely changed, he has lost confidence in the recovery of stolen goods, and instead wants to force the Cao Gang to make up for the shortfall.

"Brother Qin!" Zhang Maoxiu's voice rang out, and he waved his hand at Qin Lin enthusiastically, leaving his eldest brother and sister behind him, and walked in a hurry.

"Brother Qin hasn't seen you for a long time, do you want to crack the mystery again this time?" Zhang Maoxiu said as he walked, and said with a smile: "Little brother can feast his eyes again, these twists and turns and bizarre cases, when I go back to Jinling and talk to Mr. Wang Shizhen Wang, it will be fun to make up a drama for you to sing." ”

When Chen Wangmo saw this scene, his heart was surprised, and his face changed slightly-as a martial nobleman, he was not very afraid of Zhang Juzheng's power, but now it is different, he has lost Caoyin, and it is expected that there have been countless imperial historians in the Beijing division who have been impeached, I heard that because it involves a whip law to offset the material tax with silver, Zhang Juzheng is very dissatisfied, if he offends his cronies again, it is really a man-made sword and I am a fish!

The dignified Pingjiang Bo and the chief military officer of Caoyun actually felt apprehensive in their hearts, regretting that they shouldn't have offended Qin Lin just now, and even thinking about how to make up for it.

Zhang Jingxiu and Zhang Zixuan, brothers and sisters, also came over, and the three of them surrounded Qin Lin in the middle like the stars holding the moon, and you and I spoke one sentence at a time.

"Don't say more, I heard that Brother Qin Shi has a good life in Jinling, and the foolish brothers are envious!" Zhang Jingxiu didn't say much, and when it came to this, it was already a very close expression.

Zhang Zixuan looked at Qin Lin with a smile, the distance was so close that she could even smell the fragrance of her daughter: "Brother Qin, the mystery of the disappearance of the silver two, the little sister can't figure it out, today Brother Qin will definitely show his skills and open the eyes of the little sister!" ”

Qin Lin smiled and said naturally, "I don't dare to guarantee anything else, the methods used by the White Lotus Sect are definitely unheard of by you." ”

Chen Wangmo, Li Qiu and others were very surprised, Qin Lin did not speak with the slightest flattery, it seems that he is not the status of Zhang Juzheng's henchman, but on an equal footing with Miss Gongzi of the Prime Minister's Mansion! Even, the three members of the Zhang family have a lot of admiration for him!

Maybe this Qin Deputy Qianhu is really a bit of a doorman...... Everybody thinks so.

Seeing that the people had arrived, Qin Lin clapped his palms: "Niu Dali, fish out the bottom of the river downstream of the big boat loaded with silver!" ”

I pour! The officials' eyes fell to the ground and shattered.

Since Cao Yin's disappearance, the first thing people suspect is that the White Lotus Sect used some unknown method to get the silver to the bottom of the river, so it has been salvaged many times with what rolling hooks and iron claws and thin bamboo claw fences have been salvaged many times, and it can be said that the bottom of the river has been turned over, and Chen Wangmo, who is the most responsible, even paid a lot of money to the coast to invite water ghosts to touch the bottom of the river, but found nothing.

Now Qin Lin wants to fish the bottom of the river again, isn't it extremely stupid?

Master Bai pursed his lips and said to Chen Wangmo in a voice that everyone could hear: "Dong Weng forgives the students for their ignorance, the bottom of this river has been fished countless times, what can General Qin fish out this time?" In the humble opinion of the students, it is better to go back and interrogate someone in Jiatian, the head of the Cao Gang, and chase the account money as soon as possible, so as to give an explanation to the imperial court. ”

"Yes, what Bai Fuzi said makes sense," Li Qiu, the governor of Caoyun, also nodded in agreement, his responsibility is smaller than Chen Wangmo, but if he can force the Cao Gang to return the silver, even if this great disaster is over, it would be good if the officialdom was safe.

Tian Qiye cried with a sad face, although the Cao Gang was rich, but 500,000 taels of silver was already the balance of the Ming Dynasty's treasury for more than half a year, afraid that he would not empty out the family funds of all the merchants of the Cao Gang, or apportioned them to all the Cao Workers? Besides, the silver is easy to compensate, who will admit the sin? Raid your house and kill your head!

Qin Lin was still so determined, and smiled at everyone: "Don't be impatient, there will be results in a while." ”

The ox vigorously rowed the dinghy to a little downstream of the big boat, tied the iron claws to the long bamboo pole, stretched into the river, dug and dig, dug hard, dug out, uh, a lump of mud?!

Poof, Master Bai burst out laughing, and arched his hand towards Chen Wangmo: "The student is foolish, Dong Weng can go back to Yangzhou City now." ”

"It stinks, it stinks!" Zhang Maoxiu fanned straight under his nose with his hand.

Zhang Zixuan opened her charming big eyes, her long eyelashes flickered, and she pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Third brother, what are you fanning?" ”

Zhang Maoxiu squeezed his eyebrows and made a disgusting look, and pointed at Master Bai: "Someone farted just now!" Doesn't it stink terribly? ”

Zhang Zixuan covered her small mouth and giggled.

Master Bai was blushing when he arrived, Chen Wangmo didn't say that he was leaving, and the other people wanted to laugh at Qin Lin, so they quickly swallowed the words that were about to be exported back into their stomachs.

Niu Dali took the silt and returned to the shore, Qin Lin asked Lu Fatzi to bring out the prepared iron pot, spatula, coal and other things, dug a hole in the ground, put the silt in the pot, and lit a fire to boil.

Master Bai's expression changed a few times, his lips moved slightly, he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it after all.

Other people are in awe of the power of the Zhang family, but Li Qiu, the governor of Caoyun, is an opponent of Wanli's new policy, and he doesn't mind the attitude of Miss Zhang's son, so he sneered: "Could it be that Chief Qin still wants to fry silver out of the sludge?" It's not that the official boasts, but he has also read a lot of books, and he has never seen a way to turn silver into mud! Unless the White Lotus Sect can really send gods to exorcise ghosts, the mud will not be able to refine silver. ”

What Li Qiu said was indeed reasonable, but it was a pity that no one dared to take the risk of offending Zhang Juzheng to echo him.

There is a lot of water in the silt, a big fire is lit under the iron pot, Lu Fatzi adds firewood, Niu vigorously fans the wind, it is the middle of winter, the water in the pot is steaming, and it gradually boils dry into a pot of dry sand and mud.

Qin Lin picked up the spatula and went up to fry it, flipped it for a while, his face was so hot that his face was red and sweat beads were rising, he simply opened the flying fish suit, and looked at Zhang Zixuan staring at the pot, this guy sang facelessly: "One is fried, the river sand is fragrant, the second is noisy, the girl sees the god, and the third is fried, it turns out to be a gluttonous girl, staring at the brother's osmanthus chestnut ......"

Zhang Zixuan's face turned red, her mouth pursed, and she glared at Qin Lin fiercely twice, not looking at him.

Zhang Maoxiu made a gesture of contempt for Qin Lin, and was about to help his sister scold Qin Lin a few words, when he suddenly rubbed his eyes in surprise and shouted: "Oh my God, right? Silver is stirred up in the river sand! ”

The officials could no longer care about the prestige of the imperial officials, and the swarm of bees rushed forward driven by curiosity, and stretched their necks to look at Qin Lin's pot.

I saw that in the dry sand and mud that had lost its moisture and turned gray, some silver shiny and shiny metal particles were rolling around, at first there were only a few scattered pieces, the more Qin Lin fried, the more they fryed, and after a while, the melted metal particles formed a piece as big as a finger.

Could this be the lost silver?

Qin Lin extinguished the fire and clamped the metal block with fire tongs.

Chen Wangmo was overjoyed, and rushed up to grab it and take a look, but Qin Lin turned the tongs and didn't let him get it.

"You!" Chen Wangmo was so anxious that his eyes were red.

"Uncle is not afraid of hot hands?" Qin Lin said something jokingly, and soaked the metal block into the snowdrift next to him, and a mist rose with a stinging sound, and then handed it to Chen Wangmo.

Unable to care about it, Chen Wangmo took the white and shiny thing into his mouth and bit it, and then his smile froze, stunned, frightened, and inexplicable.

"It's not silver," Qin Lin easily retrieved the piece of metal from the stunned Chen Wangmo's hand, "Actually, it's just tin, it's too cheap compared to silver." ”

Zhang Zixuan didn't care about Qin Linkou's flowers, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and her eyes were shining: "Brother Qin, in this way, the White Lotus Sect replaced the silver with tin, and then threw the tin at the bottom of the river here?" ”

"Ten points for the correct answer!" Qin Lin snapped his fingers.

The four of them will always unpack and inspect the silver ingots, and they will not bite one ingot at a time, and they are not even allowed to touch it, but they only open the box and take a cursory look, and the light of the secret cabin where the silver is shipped is very dim, and the tin and silver have a silvery-white luster.

But the size of the tin ingot is the same as the silver ingot, otherwise it is easy to be spotted when opening the box and looking at it, so how did it get out of the secret cabin through the lagoon hole or porthole? And why did it melt into the silt at the bottom of the river?

(To be continued)