"And what is that furnace in your workshop for? Don't tell me you're not a carpenter but a blacksmith who melts molten iron, do you? There's still silver dust in there! Yang Qiuchi sneered.

"This ......"

"So, I'm afraid you didn't help him for a mere storage fee, did you?"

Carpenter Li didn't dare to look up: "The villain is indeed like this." ”

"You think you can carry it by denying it? Tell you, this big Han Huagang is a fake name, his real name is 'Wu Yangjun', it turned out to be a general under Bai Qian, the third thousandth household of the fourth guard of the Jingshi Yingtianfu Jingying, and the other general is named Deng Youlu, because he has been killed by us because he participated in the rebellion! Do you know why I'm telling you this? ”

Carpenter Li's body began to tremble.

Yang Qiuchi said slowly: "Because I want you to know that Wu Yangjun is a rebellious felon, and he was the one who led the troops to kidnap the emperor's concubine!" ――Do you know what will happen if you help such a rebellious recidivist? ”

Carpenter Li's body trembled even more.

Yang Qiuchi turned his head and asked Master Jin: "Sir, how does our Da Ming Law stipulate this crime of treason?" ”

Master Jin said: "All those who plot rebellion and great rebellion, but the conspirators, regardless of the leader, will be executed by Ling Chi. Fathers, fathers, sons, grandbrothers, and those who live together, and sons of uncles and brothers, regardless of nationality, who are of the same or different nationality, who are sixteen years of age or older, regardless of whether they are sick or disabled, shall be killed. Under fifteen, mothers and daughters, wives and concubines, and concubines, and wives and concubines of sons, are to be enslaved in the families of meritorious servants. Property into the official. ”

Yang Qiuchi nodded and asked Carpenter Li, "Do you understand?" That is to say, as long as you are involved in rebellion, regardless of the leader, you will be executed by Ling Chi, you know what Ling Chi is, right? It's a thousand cuts, and you can imagine whether it tastes good or not. By the way, it doesn't matter if you die, all the men in your family will die with you, and the women will be slaves and maids for others, and your seven aunts and eight aunts will be unlucky with you, and you will be the sinner of your Li family at that time. ”

Carpenter Li's body was already shaking like chaff, and he trembled: "But I, I really don't know that he is a thief." I don't know how to count me as a thief? ”

Yang Qiuchi sneered: "Some time ago, the political envoy and the prefect of Wuchang City died, and they were also used by the rebels without knowing it. Do you think you're bigger than their backstage and won't be executed? ”

The so-called good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, this kind of thing has already spread to Kunming, Yang Qiuchi They came from Guangxi on a detour, and they traveled all the way to the mountains and rivers, so before they arrived in Kunming, the news had already spread to Kunming, and Carpenter Li also heard about it. Now hearing Yang Qiuchi say this, he suddenly collapsed on the ground.

Yang Qiuchi struck while the iron was hot: "In that rebellion case, many people were executed by Ling Chi and exterminated the nine clans, but the political envoy and the prefect were only hanged and beheaded, not by Ling Chi, and their families were not connected, do you know the reason?" ”

Carpenter Li nodded miserably: "I can guess that they must have confessed something and made meritorious contributions, but I'm just a little minion, I don't know what the situation is, and it's useless to say it." ”

"How do you know it's useless if you don't say it?"

Carpenter Li lowered his head and pondered, and finally nodded: "Okay, I say." This Wu Yangjun is a distant relative of mine, I only know that he is an official in the capital, and he has no contacts. At the end of last year, he suddenly disguised himself and came to Kunming to find me, saying that he had embezzled some money in the capital and came to me to take refuge from the storm, and gave me a lot of silver to take him in. I was greedy for money and agreed. ”

"He kept telling me about his dissatisfaction with the court, saying that the emperor was ...... It is a usurper and seizure of power, not Ming orthodoxy. After talking a lot, I was scared at first, but then I felt that it made some sense. ”

Then he took the money out to expand my business and help my family, and finally told me that he led the army to rebel in the capital, and failed to kidnap the emperor's concubine, and broke through and fled here. I was frightened and thought about reporting to the government, but he hinted that I had taken him in for so long, and that even if I reported him, I would be complicit, and as long as I was involved in the rebellion, no one would be able to escape. ”

Then he gave me some silver, and said that as long as I joined them, Emperor Jianwen would regain the throne in the future, and we would all be meritorious ministers, high-ranking officials, honorable and rich, or something. I had no choice but to join them. This time he stole the silver from the Yamen, and the government checked it strictly at the city gate, so we came up with a way to use a big wood to hide the silver and transport the silver away. ”

Yang Qiuchi secretly rejoiced, if it was a little later, I was afraid that they would be confused. He said, "Where are you going to send this money?" ”

"Wu Yangjun just said that he didn't have to worry about helping him send the money out of the city, he would arrange it, and said that doing this headless thing is a one-line contact, so I don't have to inquire."

Yang Qiuchi secretly scolded in his heart, this Jianwen Yu Party really has a set of underground work. It seems that only by prying open Wu Yangjun's mouth can he find his next home.

Yang Qiuchi then interrogated several other helper apprentices, even tortured and coaxed, but still didn't find anything else, it seems that these people all listened to the divine knife Li, in order to be greedy for a few small money, the inside story is not known.

Yang Qiuchi ordered Wu Yangjun to be brought up.

After Wu Yangjun brought it, Yang Qiuchi was startled, this big man had been tortured by Jinyiwei to be insincere, and it was still good to have a face, and there was almost no piece of flesh and skin in other places that was not injured, and there was bloody flesh that had been peeled off everywhere on his back, chest, and thighs. The whole person is already dying. According to Nangong Xiong's report, despite exhausting the torture, this Wu Yangjun still refused to recruit him.

This reminded Yang Qiuchi of Widow Xie who would rather die than recruit, it seems that there are still some hard bones in this Jianwen Yu Party, no wonder Jinyiwei has been unable to take them for so many years. Yang Qiuchi ordered him to be woken up with cold water, and then asked: "You are a big deal, how can you be interested in this mere two thousand taels of silver, you can't be poor and crazy, right?" ”

Wu Yangjun raised his head slightly, tried to open his eyes, smiled bitterly, and did not speak.

Yang Qiuchi said again: "Of course you won't be so unproductive, let alone Jianwen, not to mention the gold, silver and jewelry he brought with him when he escaped from the palace, just relying on people who are willing to support him, such as Mi Yuanwai and the like, it is still very easy for him to live a rich life." But how could he be interested in this bit of silver? ”

Wu Yangjun raised his head hard, didn't say anything, and looked at Yang Qiuchi in a daze.

Yang Qiuchi said coldly: "Actually, it's easy to guess - because Jianwen is Jianwen, and the rest of the party is the rest of the party - I'm right, right?" ”

Wu Yangjun's expression darkened suddenly, like an oil lamp swaying in the cold wind, but he still didn't speak.

Since Jinyi Wei couldn't pry Wu Yangjun's mouth open, Yang Qiuchi decided to hand him over to Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Si and let them interrogate him slowly.

Yang Qiuchi asked Master Jin to write a secret report to the commander Ji Gang, saying that he had captured the rebellious felony Wu Yangjun, and focused on the fact that this case was solved, mainly because Bai Qianzong's wife and daughter saw through Wu Yangjun's disguise, and made the first contribution to the capture of this absconding rebellious felons and the dens of Jianwen Yu Party in Kunming City, and asked for atonement and pardon for their punishment. He attached the confession and asked Kang Huai to write a testimony and attach it.

After sealing the secret report, he handed it over to Nangong Xiong to lead people to escort Wu Yangjun, Li Carpenter and several apprentices, take Nangong Xiong's Jinyi Wei waist card of Fusi in Beizhen of Beijing, and send it to the Jinyi Wei Qianhu Office in Yunnan, so that they are responsible for escorting the prisoners to Fusi in Beizhen of Beijing and submit the secret report.

When Wu Yangjun was escorted out, Mrs. Bai and Bai Sumei saw his miserable appearance at the door of the living room, although they hated him to the core, but they couldn't help but feel sorry for him in this miserable situation.

That night, Kang Huai held a banquet in the yamen to greet Yang Qiuchi and expressed his gratitude.

After two days of repairs in Kunming, Master Long specially ordered a few sedan chairs for Yang Qiuchi to use when he took his female dependents to his appointment. After everything was ready, he officially set off for Qingxi County, Zhenyuan Prefecture.

Kang Huai had already sent a cronie to the prison and Yang Qiuchi to go to the exile center of Mrs. Bai's mother and daughter to handle the specific matters of redemption, and Kang Huai also personally wrote a letter to the officials in charge of the exile center, instructing them to deal with it flexibly, so that Mrs. Bai's mother and daughter could go to live in Yuanzhou, Huguang Town, with Yang Qiuchi, and then come back to eliminate the case after the three-year period.

After bidding farewell to Kang Huai, Yang Qiuchi and his entourage set off in a majestic manner.

With Kang Huai's handwritten letter, and Kang Huai's cronies and prisoners Jiupin Prison personally accompanied him to handle it, the relevant matters in the flow center were handled smoothly.

After finishing it, Yang Qiuchi rewarded the prison with some silver taels, and the prison went back happily.

At this point, the stone in the hearts of Mrs. Bai's mother and daughter has completely fallen to the ground, and her mother and daughter have now almost regained their freedom, and they have seen the enemy captured and handed over to justice, and they are angry in their hearts. Her mother and daughter are really grateful to Yang Qiuchi.

Bai Sumei was grateful, and when she took the time to find no one, she hugged Yang Qiuchi and gave him a fragrant kiss, expressing her infinite gratitude in her heart.

With Mrs. Bai's mother and daughter, the group continued to set off to Qingxi County, Zhenyuan Prefecture.

After entering the boundary of Qingxi County, Zhenyuan Prefecture, it is indeed green mountains and green waters, and the scenery is beautiful, but the people are very bitter.

This day, when he came to a small town three stations away from Qingxi County, Master Jin began to arrange specific matters for his appointment.

(To be continued)