After Wen Chaotian boasted about the beginning of the period, he was busy directing the inspection officers and soldiers and the officials to catch quickly, encircling and suppressing the rats on the ground that had not yet had time to evacuate.

When he saw that the cattle were in distress, even if he wanted to save it, it was too late.

Fortunately, Duan Chu is now clear-headed, his horizons are broadened, and he has discovered the situation.

He flipped over the ghost head knife, and with a loud sound, he used the back of the knife to block Ma Qianli's ring-headed knife.

Duan Chu's ghost head knife is heavier than Ma Qianli's ring head knife, and the young man is young and powerful.

Poor Ma Qianli, the tiger's mouth that had just healed, was shaken open for the third time.

There is something more pitiful than Ma Qianli.

Niu Inspector thought he was going to die, but when he heard the scream, he raised his hand and touched his neck.

It turned out to be intact!

When I opened my eyes, it turned out that it was my good brother Duan Chu who saved me.

He struggled to get up, holding a knife in one hand and covering his ass with the other, grief and indignation.

"The surname Ma, you are so vicious, you actually stabbed Pao Ze in the back on top of the battle array! It must be that on weekdays, you and I have too many grievances, so you want to take advantage of the chaos to assassinate me! ”

Niu Patrol also understood Ma Qianli's mistake as a premeditated assassination.

Ma Qianli endured the severe pain in the tiger's mouth and apologized to the cattle inspection:

"Lord Niu, I really didn't mean to do it this time, I lied to you and I was the turtle bastard!"

Duan Chu almost injured Wen Chaotian by mistake just now, but Wen Chaotian didn't blame Duan Chu.

Now that Ma Qianli almost killed the cow for inspection, Wen Chaotian can't be too harsh.

You can't deal with the same thing differently from person to person.

So Wen Chaotian stood up and stopped the cattle inspection scolding.

"Just now, everyone only cared about killing the enemy, and they were all red-eyed, Lord Niu, it's okay, forget it."

Niu Inspector stretched out the hand covering his buttocks in front of Wen Chaotian.

On that hand, blood was dripping.

"My lord, you see that the old cow is fine, so much blood, hey...... Hurt! ”

Wen Chaotian looked at Song Shisheng and said, "Master Song, don't hurry up and bandage Lord Niu's wounds!" ”

Niu Patrol was supported by two personal soldiers, and under the guidance of Song Shisheng, he went to bandage his wounds.

The ground was littered with rat carcasses and silver ingots.

This time the silver treasury was stolen, and if too much silver was lost, the emperor would definitely be furious.

At that time, it will definitely be widely implicated, and the people present, even if they are just small soldiers, will not be able to take responsibility.

So no one dared to put the silver secretly into his pocket.

After a while, everyone supervised each other, and soon all the silver on the ground was collected into the treasury.

The civil servants of the household also arrived.

Under the leadership of the household secretary, more than a dozen household wardens were busy re-checking the silver taels.

How bold a thief would dare to steal from the treasury of the government!

Wen Chaotian looked up at the stars and moon, and his heart was mixed.

Unexpectedly, since the government took office, it has been full of disasters and difficulties, and strange cases have occurred frequently.

Today, I don't know how much money has been lost in the silver treasury!

Wen Chaotian planned that this matter could not be concealed and must be truthfully reported to the imperial court.

If the court blames it, then use its own silver taels to fill the loophole of the loss.

The Wen family is in Hangzhou, and there are many industries.

After the death of Wen's father, he has been in charge of Wen Chaotian's brother.

Brother Wen Chaotian is also a sensible person.

Even if Wen Chaotian never asked about the Wen family's business, but his share was never less than a penny from him.

And the elder brother also knows that the smoother the younger brother is in the officialdom, the greater the benefit to the Wen family's industry.

There is a younger brother of the prefect of the real power faction, who supports him behind his back, and the brother of the Wen family also has the confidence to do things.

When Wen Chaotian thought of using his private wealth to subsidize the loss of public funds, he was actually very unwilling.

It's not that he feels sorry for money, but this incident makes him feel that it's really a wretch.

From the nine-grade teaching, to the seven-grade county order, to the five-grade Tongzhi, and now the four-grade prefect, the house has been seeing the tricks and demolishing the tricks all the way to save the day, and has never encountered this kind of setback.

Pengzhou Mansion Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger is far more than it seems on the surface, so simple!

Wen Chaotian couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed.

……

The knife wound on the buttocks of the cow patrol was very deep, and after being bandaged, he was sent home by his own soldiers to recuperate.

Ma Qianli's ring-headed knife has long been put into its sheath.

He held a torch and saw Wen Chaotian looking up at the night sky, and heard Wen Chaotian's long sigh.

Master Wen is actually a very good person, although he is short-tempered, but he is definitely a good official who is honest and honest, and has a clear distinction between public and private.

If you are a former corrupt official and prefect, if you dare to slap Lao Ma, Lao Ma will dare to break his hand and neck!

The cow patrol is not there, and the kid at Duan Chu is inexperienced, and now the old horse must go up!

Ma Qianli made up his mind, so he shouldered it on his own shoulders and shared his worries for Wen Chaotian.

Ma Qianli used torches to find a few holes where the rats had evacuated, and asked people to bring shovels and hoes, pointing to the holes and yelling: "Dig for Lao Tzu!" ”

Duan Chu had already learned about the search of the sesame oil shop in the sesame oil workshop from the book in the house.

He saw that Wen Chaotian was silent for a long time, and then came over and took away the pickaxe in Ma Qianli's hand.

"Ma catcher, the thief who stole the money, now his identity is unknown, you must find out his details first, you better continue to lead someone to search, this rough work of digging holes, just leave it to me."

Ma Qianli thinks about it, in case the thief's lair is in the sesame oil shop!

Then he will be able to catch the suspect, raid his lair, and retrieve the lost silver taels.

That's a big deal!

I didn't expect that my tiger son-in-law would have merit, and I would give it to his future father-in-law!

What a sensible and good boy!

Thinking of this, Ma Qianli took his subordinates and went to check the remaining suspicious locations.

After searching in the previous order, he finally made a discovery.

Standing at the door of the sesame oil shop next door to the Fan Niang makeup powder shop, Ma Qianli looked up at the makeup powder shop.

"There is such a big thing in the silver treasury, Mr. Wei even stayed in the makeup powder shop overnight, and he didn't go to give Master Wen an idea, it's just an old man who is greedy for beauty!"

His servants smashed the door of the sesame oil shop, but no one answered.

The officials kicked the door open and rushed in.

On the second floor of the makeup powder shop, it was dark, and Ma Qianli was still looking at the window:

"I must go to the makeup powder shop in the future, buy a few boxes of good powder, and give them to Miss Xiang'er, first, to repay her for helping me out tonight, and second, to take care of Mr. Wei's good business."

Ma Qianli was thinking about it, and a servant shouted: "Boss, there is a discovery!" ”

Ma Qianli hurriedly rushed in.

There are several small holes in the corner of the back wall of the sesame oil shop, close to the ground.

These small holes are connected to the Wangtang behind the sesame oil shop, and there are a lot of rat hair and mouse whiskers at the entrance of the small holes, as well as scattered copper coins and broken silver.

Ma Qianli is also a capable person.

As long as this ability is used in the right place, he is definitely a talent, which is also the reason why Wen Chaotian can reuse him even though he knows that he has a stain on him.

After some searching, a map was thrown away by the officials, and many footprints were stepped on on the ground.

Ma Qianli didn't ignore the map, picked up the map and opened it to see, it was the detailed explanation of the icon of the underground drainage built by Pengzhou Mansion five years ago.

He thought about it and immediately understood.

Leaving the official and continuing to fix the evidence, Ma Qianli rode on the fast horse of the head of the horse class and galloped all the way.

……

Wen Chaotian saw that Duan Chu was tired and sweating, and went up to grab the pickaxe in Duan Chu's hand.

The prefect has done it himself, and the officers and soldiers of the inspection are even harder, two people with a tool, one person rests and one digs, and the person rests the tool without stopping.

There was a sound of horses' hooves, and the horse galloped thousands of miles, turned over and dismounted, and handed over the map to Wen Chaotian.

Wen Chaotian used to suppress bandits, and he would arrange troops in formation, let alone look at the map.

Looking at the annotations on the map, he immediately understood that the thieves had to pass through the drainage pit and transport the treasury silver away!

Peeping through the back road hidden by the thief, Wen Chaotian immediately turned back confidently and calmly ordered:

"Master Duan, you lead a team to inspect and continue to guard a few holes here, so as to prevent thieves from killing back the carbines, and then attack the idea of the silver vault! Or the dog jumps over the wall and escapes from here! ”

"The rest of the patrol officers and soldiers are divided into four ways!"

"Be sure to backfill with all your strength and block all the four pipelines of the underground drainage network connected to the bank!"

"Horse catches the head, the sesame oil shop on the cross street, just leave a few steps to catch and stare at it, the thieves know that the sesame oil shop will be lost, and most of them will not go back!"

"The other officials have been called back, cooperated with the patrol officers and soldiers, and backfilled the four passages!"

"Master Song, this government will send a team of horses to catch you quickly, go to various temples in Pengzhou Mansion, collect lamp oil, the more the better, if the Taoist monks have complaints, let them come to this mansion!"

Wen Chaotian ordered his troops and generals, and after some proper arrangements, he took the lead and went straight to the position.

……

The Pengzhou Mansion was in a mess, and Jin Liuzi felt that the opportunity had finally come.

He decided to fish in troubled waters and kidnap Zhao Ruyi!

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