Shen Shuangmei immediately said, "Go to Niu Er's house." ”

Zong Lao showed hesitation, although the Niu Er was just a broken household, but relying on his own strength, he could be regarded as a tyrant who was rampant in Jingzi Town, he was lazy to do it on weekdays, and petty theft was indispensable, seeing that he was thirty years old, he had not yet found a daughter-in-law, and he was infected with the problem of molesting women.

On weekdays, the people in the town avoid him, where do they dare to come forward to provoke. And his home is not a good place to go, even if the sect elder is the head of the Jingzi Town clan, he is a little hesitant.

Seeing this, Shen Shuangmei took out a token from his sleeve and said: "I am the head of the six products of the Criminal Department, and I have the right to investigate the case in accordance with the laws of the Great Wei, you folks don't have to be afraid, I am the master for you." ”

For ordinary people, whether they have an official body or not, it is a world of difference, not to mention a dignified six-grade principal, that is, a small official without official qualities, that is also a character that cannot be easily provoked, at this time, with Shen Shuangmei speaking, the elder of the sect has the confidence to take a group of people to Niu Er's door.

From the outside, this is a very dilapidated yard, overgrown with wild grass, fallen leaves, not far from the collapse of the wall, it seems that no one has lived in it for a long time, but according to the residents of the town, Niu Er lives here on weekdays, no wonder he can't get a daughter-in-law, whose daughter wants to live in such a place?

Shen Shuangmei frowned, and he was not polite, he directly pushed open the firewood door that was not necessary to be locked at all, and walked into the courtyard.

She was born in a family of criminal names, and she has been familiar with how to handle cases since she was a child, and after she walked around the courtyard, she went to the house to take a look, and asked the sect elder who followed her: "What is the character of Niu Er, is he greedy for money and gambling?"

Zong Lao hurriedly said: "Lord Catcher has good eyesight, Niu Er, this kid is idle on weekdays, lazy to eat, and also contaminated with the problem of playing money, they all say that they will lose if they gamble for a long time, Niu Er owes a lot of foreign debts over the years, and the things at home are almost sold, and his father and mother are angry with him, but he still does not repent, and begins to steal, but whenever there is a few silver coins in his hand, he will immediately go to the gambling house in the county town to lose." ”

Shen Shuangmei nodded, and walked into the adobe house again, Li Xuandu and others also followed, seeing that she was groping around regardless of the dust, and after a while, there was a soft sound, and a brick was taken down from the wall by her, and after removing the adobe brick, she did not see the outside of the wall, but there was another layer of wall, and it turned out that there was a mezzanine in the wall.

Shen Shuangmei reached into the mezzanine and groped for a while, and when he retracted his hand, there was already a blue cloth burden in his hand.

Li Xuandu couldn't help but admire: "It's really a specialization in the art industry." ”

"It seems to be silver. Shen Shuangmei weighed the weight of the burden and handed it to Yan Feiqing.

Yan Feiqing stretched out his hand to take the burden, frowned, and said, "This burden is a bit strange, it can actually isolate the divine thoughts of the poor Dao. ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to open the furoshi, and sure enough, inside the furoshi were ingots of snowflake silver, all of which were melted into the shape of ingots, and they were also official silver.

The so-called official silver is used for storage, that is, the tax revenue of each state, must be engraved with the words or patterns of the official silver logo, which is convenient for the management of the treasury, and the people are not allowed to use the official silver privately, which is a major crime of killing the head.

The main use of official silver is military salary, official salary, palace use, dam engineering, disaster relief and other expenditures, after the imperial court allocated the official silver to the state capitals, the state capitals will melt the official silver again, refining new silver ingots or silver nuggets, this is the main source of broken silver, this process is also known as "fire consumption", refers to the depreciation of broken silver when it is melted and recast into silver ingots, or the depreciation of silver ingots dissolved into broken silver, fire consumption is also the main means of local yamen at all levels to be greedy for ink. The "return of fire to the public" proposed in the new policy of the four ministers at that time cut off the financial route of the vast majority of officials, which made the implementation of the new policy doubly difficult.

As for the common people, most of the silver used is broken silver, and most of the time copper coins are the main ones.

Zong Lao is a knowledgeable person, after seeing the words "Da Wei Kuyin" smelted on the silver ingot, his legs became a little weak, and he hurriedly said: "Catch and catch the head, Lord Niu, Niu Er dares to hide the official silver privately, I, we don't know it." ”

Shen Shuangmei raised his hand and motioned for the sect elder to silence.

Zong Lao immediately didn't dare to make any more noise.

The female catcher frowned slightly, reached out and took an official silver, flipped it over, and engraved a few lines of words under the ingot of official silver: Jingzhou City Bo Si, Tianbao five years of May Day, twenty taels of silver for the palace, craftsman Liu Ding.

Li Xuandu and Hu Liang glanced at each other, and their faces were solemn, because the purpose of Shen Shuangmei's trip was to secretly investigate the greed of the eunuchs of Jingzhou City.

Yan Feiqing naturally understood what these official silver meant, and after a moment of silence, he said slowly: "These ingots of silver look very ordinary, but there is indeed a little yin qi residue in them, and these ingots of silver should be the medium for casting spells." ”

Shen Shuangmei muttered: "The treasury silver is hidden in the treasury, even if the treasury guards have the act of stealing silver, they don't dare to spend it so openly, most of them still have to be re-smelted, where did Niu Er get this treasury silver?"

The elder of the sect standing beside her said cautiously: "This Niu Er has to play with a little money on weekdays, and he refuses to stop gambling without losing all his money, and now there is still so much silver hidden in the house, which is strange." ”

Shen Shuangmei said softly: "In this way, these ingots of silver may be a windfall, Niu Er has not had time to spend it, and the other two are also involved in this matter, and now the two of them have become the living dead, the key is to find Niu Er, but I don't know if Niu Er has also fallen into such a situation." ”

Yan Feiqing suddenly remembered something and asked the sect elder, "Does the sect elder know the birth dates of Niu Er and the others?"

Zong Lao was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly nodded: "Yes, our Jingzi Town is surnamed Niu and Tian, and the genealogy is complete, and everyone's birthday is recorded on it. ”

Yan Feiqing stretched out his palm, "Take a look for the time being." ”

At this time, it was haunted again, and it was official silver, how dare the sect elder say a word, he immediately asked people to pick it up, and after a short time, he handed a thick dossier to Yan Feiqing's hand.

Yan Feiqing immediately found out the names of the three people, and the other two were just the other two, the key was Niu Er, this person was actually the one who committed the crime of Tiansha, the two pillars of the lone star, the husband and wife, the son and daughter, the relatives and friends, the six relatives were not related, the brothers were weak, the marriage was difficult, the old age was miserable, and he was lonely. In the early years, the main family will be rich, the middle lord will sell the land and punish the body, lose his son and wife, and return to his father.

This kind of life is naturally not very desirable, but for many evil masters who are proficient in the method of refining souls, the soul of this kind of life character is of great use, just want to refine evil arts, you can't take it hard, but let him voluntarily give it, so that all kinds of traps will be set, or gold and silver, or beauty, to lure him into it, Niu Er is a good gambler, so he is naturally tempted by money.

After Yan Feiqing informed the three of them of his guesses, Li Xuandu asked, "Since you only take Niu Er alone, why do you want to envelop the entire town with yin qi?"

Yan Feiqing sighed lightly: "This is what Poor Dao is worried about, refining evil spells and evil arts, just like refining pills, in addition to the main ingredients, other auxiliary materials must be added, Niu Er, who has the character of Heavenly Evil, is the main material, and that person obviously wants to use the whole town as auxiliary materials to help him complete the evil law." Poor Dao had already alarmed him by breaking the yin qi in the town before, and he thought that he was not far from the town. ”

The faces of the other three were all grim.

Li Xuandu said softly: "People in the evil way regard the living as livestock, take them away, hurt the heavens and reason, and violate human ethics. ”

Yan Feiqing said with a straight face: "What Brother Zifu said is good, but there is a difference between injustices and injustices, not all injustices in the world have to be taken care of by one hand, the poor Dao is born in the right, and the inheritance of the Heavenly Master's Taoism, it is the duty of the demon to eliminate the evil, but the duty of Brother Zifu is to escort Senior Sister Zhou to Longmen Mansion, it is better for you to leave first, and this matter will be handled by the poor Dao." ”

Li Xuandu shook his head and said: "Confucianism says that heaven and earth have righteousness, and there is a distinction between right and wrong, black and white. Taoists also say that when a person has a thought, heaven and earth know everything, and if there is no retribution for good and evil, there will be selfishness. There is no distinction between inside and outside. ”

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