Yang Qiuchi looked around the room, although there were some wooden planks piled up in the room, he didn't see the long wooden horse doing carpentry, nor did he see the semi-finished carpentry being done, and asked a little strangely: "His carpentry skills are good, why is there no carpentry work in the room?" Could he have had another place to do carpentry? ”

Li Zheng pouted: "He doesn't have any carpentry skills, people ask him to install a door nail and a table or something simple carpentry work, he can't do it well for a long time, people say he, he still loses his temper, and there is no business to come to the door." ”

"That's not right," Song Yun'er interjected, "The God of Wealth we saw him making in the warehouse just now is very good, the workmanship is fine, and the carving looks like a real person." ”

Li Zheng couldn't refute, just smiled with a red face, but looked very disapproving.

Yang Qiuchi's head flashed, and he turned around and asked Kang Huai: "Master Kang, how many of our Kunming City Wood Workshop are there?" ”

"This ......" Kang Huai is a criminal envoy, how can he have the leisure to pay attention to how many carpentry workshops there are in Kunming City. There was a chise: "There are more than a dozen, not many of them are good, it's okay to make a cabinet, a chair or something, if you do this kind of delicate work of carving gods, then there are really no two who can do it." ”

Yang Qiuchi heard that he was doing it, and asked with some curiosity: "Why, Master Lizheng, you also know carpenter?" ”

Here is grinning, showing a mouthful of big yellow teeth: "This lord, I won't tell you that I worked as a carpenter when I was young, and as soon as the so-called connoisseur stretched out his hand, I knew if there were any, and there were really two carpenter workshops in Kunming City that could make me look at them." ”

"Then which one do you think is the best workshop for this kind of carving carpenter for gods?"

"Divine Sword Li Carpenter's Workshop!"

"Divine Sword Lee?" Yang Qiuchi is a little funny, how can he be like Xiao Li's flying knife, don't be a martial arts master who lives in seclusion here.

"Yes, this carpenter Li has a carving knife, what does it look like, not to mention this kind of idol, let him carve a small grasshopper, and even the hair and beard can be carved clearly for you."

Yang Qiuchi said to Kang Huai: "Since this Chinese carpenter's craftsmanship is not very good, but the statue of the God of Wealth in the Yamen Treasury is beautifully made and lifelike, it should have been bought by him from someone else, most likely, it was bought from this magic knife Li carpenter's workshop." Let's go to them to check and there is no clue about Huagang. ”

Kang Huai nodded and asked there: "Do you know where he lives?" ”

Li Zheng had already heard the conversation between the two of them, and said in a loud voice: "I know, I know, I will take the two adults to Xicheng." ”

Under the leadership of here, Yang Qiuchi and Kang Huai rushed to the Xicheng Shendao Li Carpenter's Workshop with their respective guards and catchers, and quickly surrounded the workshop.

Carpenter Li, the owner of the workshop, came to ask something with a smile on his face. Kang Huai ordered him to be arrested, and ordered all the panting people in the workshop to be brought out.

A group of hunters rushed in like tigers and wolves with waist knives in their hands, and after a while, several people who looked like carpenters' apprentices were pulled out of it, and then went in to search.

At this moment, suddenly, there was a series of screams inside, several catchers flew out of the room upside down and fell to the ground, two were already in different places, and the other few were also injured separately, and one of the catchers who was stabbed in the thigh screamed: "There is a big man inside who resists arrest!" ”

The other catchers shouted loudly, but no one dared to rush in again.

Nangong Xiong sneered, pulled out his waist knife and was about to rush in, but Yang Qiuchi stopped him: "The enemy is dark and I am clear, there is no need to take risks," waved his hand, and shouted: "Set fire to burn him out!" ”

Nangong Xiong nodded and ordered to set fire. The workshop was quickly ignited, and the fire raged, and the brocade guards and trappers who surrounded it were on guard to prevent thieves from forcibly breaking through.

At this moment, there was an angry roar from inside, and a burly man like a bear rushed out of it with a golden-backed chopping knife, and flames were rising from his clothes, shoulders, and hair. The injured catchers shouted: "It's this robber who resists arrest and hurts people!" Everyone, pay attention, thieves are powerful! ”

Song Yun'er pulled out her short sword and protected it in front of Yang Qiuchi.

At the same time, Nangong Xiong waved his hand, and all the brocade guards had already surrounded the man with their blades, and they were fighting together.

Yang Qiuchi said: "Keep your mouth alive, don't hurt his surname!" ”

The great Han martial arts are very good, and Jinyiwei has Yang Qiuchi's request not to hurt his surname, so he has been restrained to a certain extent, and he can't help it for a while.

Nangong Xiong shouted: "Give me a retreat and sweep the formation, and wait for me to capture him!" ”

After the brocade guards retreated, Nangong Xiong pulled out his waist knife and rushed forward, and the two fought for dozens of rounds. That person was not an opponent in the first place, and he was already surrounded by a lot, so he was already in chaos, but although Nangong Xiong had the upper hand, it was difficult to subdue him for a while.

The little black dog kept pricking up his ears and followed Yang Qiuchi's side, staring at the field. Yang Qiuchi squatted down and patted the little black dog's buttocks, and pointed at the big man in the field.

The little black dog already knew what its owner wanted it to do, so it quietly turned behind the big man, pounced on it like a sharp arrow, and bit the big man on the calf and stomach.

Dahan was trying his best to deal with Nangong Xiong, and when he noticed that a puppy would come up and bite it, he screamed in pain. At this moment of distraction, Nangong Xiong took advantage of the situation to slash his right shoulder with a palm, the big man screamed, and the golden-backed chopping knife in his hand fell to the ground, Nangong Xiong immediately flew up with a kick, kicked him upside down and flew out a few steps, and fell to the ground.

All the brocade guards rushed up and held him down, tied him up with a cowhide rope, and the four brocade guards who were also tall and strong pushed him down in front of Yang Qiuchi, kicked him down and knelt on the ground, holding it firmly. The officials and the people hurriedly extinguished the fire in the carpenter's shop.

The little black dog ran back triumphantly wagging his little tail. Yang Qiuchi touched the little black dog's head to express his praise, and then looked at the kneeling big man: "You are a carpenter Huagang, a native of Zhejiang, right?" Turning his head to look at Li Zheng, Li Zheng nodded to indicate that it was him. Yang Qiuchi was very happy, thinking that this was really a nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it took no effort to get it.

"So what?" The big man looked at Yang Qiuchi sideways.

Kang Huai, who was on the side, was most concerned about the matter of silver, and asked urgently: "You stole the silver treasury of the Yamen of the Prosecutor's Office, right?" What about the silver? ”

"Phew!" The big man turned his head and spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm to Kang Huai, but fortunately Kang Huai flashed so fast that he didn't vomit, and he was immediately furious and shouted: "The thief is unreasonable, give me torture!" ”

The four brocade-clothed guards looked at Yang Qiuchi, and when they saw Yang Qiuchi nodding slightly, they flipped the big man to the ground and beat him with a crack. Jin Yiwei is the best at beating people, ruthless and accurate, but it won't hurt the vital point. The big man screamed loudly.

was beaten to death, but he still refused to speak.

Yang Qiuchi saw that the fire in the carpenter's shop had been extinguished, and he didn't bother to watch them torture to extract a confession, so he waved his hand and said, "Let me go in and search, can I hide so much silver, it should be in here." ”

The brocade guards and the servants agreed, rushed into the carpenter shop that was still smoking, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, searched for a long time, and only found more than ten taels of silver.

Yang Qiuchi took Song Yun'er to follow the officials to watch them search, came to the backyard, and found a few pieces of wood, of course there will be wood in the carpenter shop, and the catchers kicked a few times, and left without finding anything unusual.

Yang Qiuchi stopped, he went up to carefully inspect one by one, nodded, then rolled up his sleeves, hugged one end of one of the waist-thick woods, and did not lift it up after exhausting his strength to feed.

Shaking his head and scolding with a wry smile: "Why am I so bad, I can't lift it, let alone carry it." He turned his head to look at Song Yun'er.

Song Yun'er was a little puzzled by Yang Qiuchi's sudden run to the backyard of the carpenter's shop to carry the wood, listening to his words, she stepped forward with a slight smile, hugged the wood with one hand, and the wood only got up a little, Song Yun'er sighed, her face was slightly red, she sat down and said crisply: "Get up!" ”

This time, the wood was lifted more than half a person high in response, and Song Yun'er immediately put the wood down.

Yang Qiuchi looked at Song Yun'er's flushed face and praised: "Yun'er is so powerful!" ”

Song Yun'er smiled a little proudly, then looked at the wood strangely and said, "What kind of wood is this, why is it so heavy." ”

Yang Qiuchi smiled: "Yes, how can a piece of wood be rebuilt like this?" ”

Song Yun'er was stunned, looked down at the wood and then looked up at Yang Qiuchi, and said, "Brother, are you saying that there is a problem with this wood?" ”

Kang Huai had been following behind Yang Qiuchi, and when he heard this, he was overjoyed: "Could it be that the silver is hidden in this big log?" Then he turned and shouted, "Split the wood for me!" ”

Yang Qiuchi waved his hand: "You don't need to split." He squatted down, looked carefully at the cross-section on the side of the wood, and stretched out his hand: "Yun'er, give me your short sword." ”

Song Yun'er flipped her wrist, and there was already a short sword in her hand that was shining with cold light, and she turned the hilt of the sword and handed it over.

Yang Qiuchi took the short sword and slammed it into the cross-section of the wood, and the short sword snorted softly, and half of it had already pierced into the cross-section. Yang Qiuchi grabbed the hilt of the sword and walked back, and a round piece of wood was pulled out on the tip of the sword, revealing a large hole.

Sure enough, it's famous! Kang Huai was happy and nervous at the same time, ran up and squatted down, reached in and touched it, and suddenly said with joy on his face: "There is something!" He shouted to the officials who gathered around, "Come here, pour out the contents for me!" ”

The officials agreed in unison, and a strong man came over, shouted and lifted the big log on his shoulder, and slowly tilted it down.

Then he heard a loud bang, and a long silver rod slid out of the big log. The servants slowly stepped back and poured out the long silver sticks whole.

When Kang Huai saw this long big silver stick, he jumped three feet high with excitement, laughed, and shouted when he touched it, "That's right! It's silver! It's the money that my yamen lost! Laughing so much that he couldn't close his mouth, he hurriedly walked up to Yang Qiuchi and bowed: "Thank you Lord Yang for your help, thank you!" ”

He is a dignified and high-ranking official of the third grade, and he bows to a seven-grade sesame official, which shows that he is overjoyed and grateful.

(To be continued)