"Big brother, are you in the room?" Since leaving Lord Liu's mansion that night and returning to the post house, Shen Lingshan has not seen Chen Wenqi's figure for several days. Early that morning, she came to the room where Chen Wenqi lived, wanting to stop Chen Wenqi and ask him what he was doing. But until the end of the day, Chen Wenqi's door was still closed. Could it be that the eldest brother didn't go back to the post house last night? Shen Lingshan thought, stepped forward and slapped the door a few times, and shouted.

Shen Lingshan turned around and was about to leave, when the door behind her squeaked, and then Chen Wenqi was heard: "Miss Shen, is there something wrong?"

"Big brother, are you in the room? You only got up so late, are you unwell?" Shen Lingshan turned around and asked. In her impression, Chen Wenqi has always been diligent, and now, despite his success, he still maintains the habit of "three watches and five watches", and has never seen him sleep lazy. She thought Chen Wenqi was sick, and was raising her hand to touch his forehead to see if it was hot, when she suddenly smelled a pungent strange smell escaping from the room.

"What smell? It stinks. Shen Lingshan subconsciously retracted her outstretched right hand, covered her mouth and nose, and frowned. At this time, she realized that Chen Wenqi had a scarf tied to his face, and he had already smelled this smell.

Shen Lingshan endured the discomfort in her abdomen and entered the room to find the source of the strange smell.

"Don't look for it, here it is. Chen Wenqi tore off the scarf, tied it to Shen Lingshan's face, pulled her to the corner of the room, and pointed to a huge ceramic basin and said.

In the ceramic basin, there is half a basin of colorless viscous oily liquid, and under the charcoal fire, some mist floats out of it, emitting a disgusting stench. On the edge of the basin, there is a notched saber, and the wet blade drips a drop of water from time to time, and it falls into the basin with a slight "ticking" sound. Apparently, it had just been fished out of that half-basin of foul-smelling liquid.

"Big brother, what are you...... Oh, could it be that you slept in this smelly room all night?"

Chen Wenqi took Shen Lingshan's hand and came to the door, exhaled a long breath, and raised his hand to fan his nose, then smiled: "If you sleep in it for one night, I'm afraid you won't be able to get up." ”

"So you...... Didn't you sleep all night?" Shen Lingshan asked in surprise.

"yes, it's not next to the edge of the bed yet. Chen Wenqi said mockingly.

"Oh, look at you—what are you doing?" Shen Lingshan was distressed.

Chen Wenqi looked at her with a mysterious smile and said, "The secret of heaven must not be revealed. ”

"That's it, that's it, if you don't say it, I don't want to hear it yet. Wait, wait until I bring out the stinky basin and light two sticks of incense and smoke it, and you can make up for a good night's sleep. "Then I raised my feet and went into the room.

Seeing that Shen Lingshan cared so much about herself, Chen Wenqi's heart was hot. He hurriedly grabbed Shen Lingshan's arm and said with a smile, "No need. I still have something to do today, so I want to go out immediately, so go back to my room and rest. With that, he turned back to his room and picked up the saber, and hurried out of the inn.

"Big brother, big brother—"

Shen Lingshan looked at Chen Wenqi's disappearing back and shook her head helplessly.

......

As soon as Mu Bin saw Chen Wenqi, he stuffed a note into his hand, and said in a solemn tone: "General Chen, there are three people with a saber tail number of three, and one person is eight. Could it be that the escaped suspect was really one of the four?"

Chen Wenqi unfolded the note in his hand, and saw four lines of text written on it, namely:

Qi Zhongliang, Qianhu, saber number: Jingong 29663

Chu Baichuan, deputy Qianhu, saber number: Jingong 41758

Liang De, the pacification envoy, saber number: Jingong 30213

Meng Chengping, Qianhu, Sabre No.: Jingong 47593

Sure enough, Liang De's name was impressively listed. Chen Wenqi is convinced of his speculation.

"Master Mu, I understand your feelings. But the facts are already very clear, the real culprit who escaped is among these four people, and this one also asks Master Mu to be mentally prepared. ”

Mu Bin sighed and said resolutely: "Thank you General Chen for your concern." No matter which one of them is, once it is verified, the official will not tolerate it. Just how do you find this person?"

"This, I have my own way to do it, and Lord Mu will summon it. "Chen Wenqi is confident.

"The matter involves the middle-level generals of the guard, I think it is better to interrogate with the Criminal Department, right?" Mu Bin said without concern.

"Lord Mu is extremely worried, and he listens to the respect. ”

Seeing that Chen Wenqi had no objections, Mu Bin came to the Criminal Department with Chen Wenqi.

"Lord Mu came to the Criminal Department in person, I don't know ......" He Qiaoxin, the secretary of the Criminal Department, saw Mu Bin coming to the Criminal Department in person, thinking that someone in the department had committed the crime, and he couldn't help but be a little nervous.

Mu Bin was accustomed to this kind of scene, and hurriedly explained his intention: "Don't misunderstand Lord He, the lower officials are here to ask Lord He to ask about the case." ”

"Ask the case? Lord Mu smiled. When He Qiaoxin heard this, his expression immediately relaxed, "If Jinyiwei can't solve the case, the criminal department may not be able to break it." "Jin Yiwei has independent powers to investigate, arrest, and interrogate, He Qiaoxin's words, although they have a sour taste, but they are also true.

"Lord Ho doesn't have to be presumptuous. That's right," Mou Bin pointed at Chen Wenqi and said: "Last year, General Chen was ordered to travel west and stay at the Nanguan Inn in Juyongguan, when he was assassinated by two masked men, and the assassins died and fled. The deceased was Wang Xi, a hundred households of the guard, and the one who escaped may also be the general of the guard. Because the matter involves the guard, it is inconvenient for the lower officials to deal with it, so I hereby invite Lord He to take charge of this case. ”

Since Lord Mu handed over this case to the Criminal Department, the Criminal Department is also duty-bound. He Qiaoxin was a "statement", and then he turned to Chen Wenqi and said: "Please General Chen move to the Arrest Department to record a confession, and the lower officials will arrange for them to quickly inspect and find out the suspects who escaped as soon as possible." ”

Before Chen Wenqi could speak, Mu Bin preemptively said: "There's no need to be so troublesome. The suspect has basically been locked, and Lord He only needs to be promoted to the court to question the case. ”

After speaking, Chen Wenqi motioned to He Qiaoxin to briefly introduce the case.

"This ......," He Qiaoxin was worried, "although the gold blacksmith can prove that he has repaired the embroidered spring knife, there is no evidence? If the suspect denies to death, what should he do? The verdict requires both human and physical evidence." ”

Mu Bin was a little impatient, and his tone was not as polite as before: "You just have to go to the court, everything is under the control of General Chen." ”

He Qiaoxin was unhappy when he heard the boss, he was a dignified scholar of the criminal department, could he not be promoted to the court and not be promoted to the court, and his cheeks were red for a while. was about to have an attack, and suddenly realized that Jinyiwei is not easy to mess with, and he offended Mu Bin today, maybe one day he will find a crime to put on his body, it is not a question of whether this official hat can be worn but whether he can wear it.

He Qiaoxin forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, his eyes flickered, and he suddenly had an idea: "Since this is the case, how about inviting General Chen to be the chief judge?"

"No, you can't. Chen Wenqi waved his hand and said: "If you are involved in this case, how can you be both a plaintiff and a judge?"

"This ......"

"Master He doesn't have to hesitate, let this official and you jointly interrogate. If the suspect is tried, you will be credited, and if the trial is not successful, the official will carry it for you. Mu Bin seemed to have great confidence in Chen Wenqi and volunteered.

"This ...... With Lord Mu sitting in the formation, the lower officials are naturally relieved. It's just that the lower officials don't know anything about this case, how will they interrogate them then?"

"Although Lord He asked the case according to the procedure, if there was a problem, it would be pushed to the next person. "Chen Wenqi is confident.

He Qiaoxin had no reason to shirk, so he led Mu Bin and Chen Wenqi to the punishment hall and went to the court to question the case.

"Come on, pass on Qi Zhongliang, Chu Baichuan, Liang De, and Meng Chengping to the court. ”

Qi Zhongliang, Chu Baichuan, Liang De, Meng Chengping and others have been walking in Jinyiwei for many years, and they are used to being arrogant and domineering, and now they have been detained by the Criminal Department, and they are already angry. In particular, Chu Baichuan, who has no city government and a fiery temperament, asks himself how he is willing to suffer such humiliation? Therefore, before he went to court, a murderous voice came in first: "He Qiaoxin, if Lao Tzu doesn't look for your bad luck, you dare to ......."

When I looked up, I saw Mu Bin sitting next to He Qiaoxin, and I couldn't help but have some scruples, so I swallowed the second half of the sentence into my stomach:

"Lord Mu, I don't know what crime we have committed, and we want to be detained in the Criminal Department?" Chu Baichuan held back his anger and asked his immediate boss.

Mu Bin said in a calm tone: "The day before yesterday in the conference hall of this guard, this commander has already said that everyone below the commander and above the deputy thousand households are all suspects in the assassination of Qincha. The day before yesterday, no suspicious points were found in the inspection, so further screening is required. Only when you find out the real culprit can you restore your innocence. Therefore, I hope that you will be safe and not impatient, and cooperate with the Criminal Department to solve the case. ”

"Master Mu, even if you want to screen it further, it should be forty-nine people, why just screen the four of us?" Meng Chengping couldn't help but question at this time. As everyone knows, among the forty-nine people, including Mu Bin, this means that Master Mu, you should also be among the screening, why did you become the one who asked the case?

Mu Bin knew that Meng Chengping was also a rough person, so he was too lazy to say it at the moment, so he only said lightly, "Why just screen Beier and the other four people, I will naturally understand later", then turned his head and said to He Qiaoxin: "Lord He, let's start." ”

He Qiaoxin didn't know anything about the case, and he didn't know where to start, so he coughed lightly and said to his subordinates: "Several generals, offended." This official knows that three of the four of you are indeed wronged, and before the suspects are found, I ask a few of you to cooperate and help find out the real culprit, so as to restore your innocence. After that, he shouted to the soap servants in the hall: "Come here, show a few generals." ”

This is also He Qiaoxin's sophistication, firstly, Jinyiwei's people really can't afford to offend, at best, only one of these people is a real criminal, and the other three are just suspected, once the suspicion is cleared, they are still the big and small leaders of Jinyiwei; second, they treat each other politely, which can calm their anger a little, so as to facilitate the investigation and questioning of the case.

Sure enough, after listening to He Qiaoxin's words, and giving the four of them a "looker", the anger of the four subsided slightly, and they heard Qi Zhongliang say: "Thank you Lord He for taking care of you." But I still don't understand, since everyone is suspicious, why just ask the four of us to pass through the hall?"

Although He Qiaoxin didn't know much about the case, Chen Wenqi also introduced the ins and outs of the case to him, and knew why the four people passed through the court, so he smiled slightly and shouted to the court: "Come, pass witnesses." ”

As soon as the words fell, a soap servant had already taken the gold blacksmith to the court.

"Grass people Jin Buhuan knocked to see the adults. ”

"Jin Buhuan, get up and answer. He Qiaoxin said gently.

"Yes, sir. The blacksmith stood up and walked to the left where Chen Wenqi was seated and stood with his head bowed.

He Qiaoxin picked up a saber from his father-in-law's case, held it in the air, and asked, "Jin Buhuan, have you ever seen this kind of waist knife?"

"Back to my lord, the grass people have seen it before. ”

"Time, place, why did you see this waist knife?"

"Back to my lord, it was a night in April and May last year (I can't remember exactly when the grass people) was about to go to bed to rest, and suddenly broke into a masked man in black, who was holding this kind of waist knife in his hand. ”

"What are the masked men in black doing in your room with a knife?"

He asked the grass people to mend the gaps in his waist knife for him. ”

He Qiaoxin pointed to the four people sitting on the right side of the public hall and asked, "Look, which of them is that masked man in black?"

The goldsmith looked up at the four of them for a long time, his face was confused, and finally he shook his head and said, "That person is dressed in black and masked, and the grass people can't recognize him." ”

He Qiaoxin reversed the saber, pointed to the handle and said, "This kind of waist knife, the handle is engraved with a number, do you remember the number of the saber of the masked man in black?"

Because Chen Wenqi had asked the same question, the gold blacksmith was not surprised at this time, and said: "Lord Hui, the saber of the black-clothed masked man is wrapped in strips of cloth, and the grass people don't see its number. However, on the edges of the strips of cloth, the grass people saw two semicircular marks. ”

During the dialogue between the gold blacksmith and He Qiaoxin, Chen Wenqi had been secretly observing the reactions of the four people. After the golden blacksmith finished saying this, Qi Zhongliang, Chu Baichuan, and Meng Chengping showed puzzled expressions, but Liang De listened to it, and the muscles on his face trembled slightly, but they quickly returned to normal.

He Qiaoxin picked up a piece of cloth from the public case, wrapped the handle of the saber in his hand, and motioned for the soap servant to show it to the gold blacksmith for identification.

The goldsmith only glanced at it, then nodded and said, "Yes, these are two semicircles. ”

He Qiaoxin nodded slightly, picked up an embroidered spring knife from the public case, and still wrapped a strip of cloth on the handle according to the previous method, so that the gold blacksmith could identify it again.

The blacksmith didn't know what he meant, looked at the hilt of the knife and said, "My lord, these two knives are exactly the same as the semicircle that the grass people saw that day. ”

He Qiaoxin motioned to the soap servant to give the two swords to Qi Zhongliang and the others for a look, and after the four of them saw it, He Qiaoxin asked, "A few generals, have you seen any clues?"

"What's the clue to this? It's just a number that hasn't been completely covered. What does this have to do with the fact that we and the other four people passed through the hall?"

"General Chu is right, it is indeed a number that is not completely covered, but it is not that any number appears two semicircles after covering half of the side. He Qiaoxin asked the soap servant to untie the strips of cloth on the two sabers, and continued: "Only three or eight have this characteristic. Now ask the four generals to untie their sabers, and we will examine them in the court. ”

Qi Zhongliang, Chu Baichuan, Liang De, and Meng Chengping were intimidated by Mu Bin's might, so they had to untie the embroidered spring knife at their waists and hand it over to the soap servants standing in the hall.

The soapman took the four swords and laid them on the scribe's table. One by one, the scribe of record took up his saber and reported:

"Jin Gong 29663, Jin Gong 41758, Jin Gong 30213, Jin Gong 47593. The inspection is complete. ”

"Generals, according to the inspection, there are a total of forty-nine officials with more than 1,000 households in Jinyiwei, and the number mantissa is three or eight, and there are only four generals in the hall, which is why only four people are invited to pass the hall today. Do the generals still have objections?"

"Even if General Ben's saber number is marked with a three, you can't decide that General Ben is a suspect in plotting to assassinate Qincha? What's more, the number of the four people here is either three or eight, can you say that they are all murderers who assassinated Qincha? Based on this alone, I'm afraid Lord He can't close the case, right?" Meng Chengping roared angrily.

He Qiaoxin was robbed of white by Meng Chengping, a little embarrassed, he paused and said:

"Yes, the end number of the sword alone cannot determine who the suspect is, but the tail number of these sabers is either three or eight, and one of them must have been a murder weapon repaired by a gold blacksmith. Ladies and gentlemen, the law of our dynasty stipulates that the 'ten evils', such as rebellion, rebellion, injustice, disrespect, filial piety, disharmony, injustice, and civil strife, are the felonies that cannot be forgiven, and that the heinous crimes of rebellion, rebellion, rebellion, and disrespect shall be executed according to the law, and grandfathers, fathers, sons, grandchildren, brothers, and cohabitants, regardless of their surnames and sons of uncles and brothers, regardless of nationality, shall be beheaded at the age of 16 or older." This official is compassionate and compassionate to the people, and hereby urges the suspect to turn himself in as soon as possible, and the sentence will be reduced in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty: although the suspect himself is guilty and cannot be pardoned, he can read his guilty plea and turn himself in, so that he will be spared the pain of Ling Chi and be sentenced to hanging instead; grandfathers, fathers, sons, grandchildren, brothers, and those who live together will be exempted from the death penalty and sentenced to exile. ”

"Lord He, I have received my kindness. General Ben also said this when he interrogated the prisoners on weekdays, but General Ben behaved upright, sat upright, and did not break the law or commit a crime, so there is no need for you to reduce the punishment. If you find out the murderer as soon as possible and return General Ben's innocence, General Ben will be grateful to you. Meng Chengping shouted half-justified and half-sarcastic.

"Yes, why are you talking so much nonsense? find out the real culprit as soon as possible, and return my innocence, so as not to suffer more bad luck here. Chu Baichuan agreed.

Since coming to the court, Qi Zhongliang didn't say a word, and at this time he also said: "Lord He, you don't have to go around the bend, we are wronged, how can we talk about turning ourselves in or not? It is only right to find out the suspect quickly." ”

"Liang Zhenfu, what do you mean?" He Qiaoxin asked by name.

He had said it unintentionally, but Liang De had heard it and his heart was struck, did they all know about it? Impossible! Although he didn't succeed that night, he didn't leave any trick for the man surnamed Chen; I met with the gold blacksmith several times, but he was dressed in black and masked, and he couldn't recognize me. Besides, catching thieves and stolen goods and catching traitors can see both sides, there is no evidence, empty words and no evidence, what can you do with me?

The calculation in his heart has been decided, and he said strongly: "Of course." Whoever is the suspect, please show evidence against him, so why bluff?"

He Qiaoxin wanted to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger and force the suspect to confess on his own, but the four of them had no fear, but they ridiculed themselves for a while. This...... How do you continue to ask?

was in a difficult situation, Chen Wenqi opened his mouth at the right time: "Lord He, Liang Zhenfu is right, there must be evidence to point out the suspect." ”

"Evidence? General Chen has evidence?" He Qiaoxin didn't know what Chen Wenqi meant, so he had to kick the ball back to him.

"There is no evidence in the hands. But Lord He, please think about it, the Jinyi Guard's saber is only replaced and not repaired, but why did someone privately force the gold blacksmith to repair the gap in the knife?"

"Why is this?" He Qiaoxin was confused.

Mu Bin said: "This is because this is because the health regulations stipulate that whenever you change your saber, you must explain the reason. How the knife was broken must be stated, when, where, with whom it was fought and the blade was damaged, otherwise, the guard will dispose of it as if the weapon was not properly kept. ”

"That means that this person's saber is damaged, and he doesn't replace it normally, but repairs it secretly, which means that he has no legitimate reason?" He Qiaoxin woke up.

"Not bad. As long as the sword, which the gold blacksmith repaired, was found, the thief could not be hidden. ”

He Qiaoxin heard this, and shouted to the gold blacksmith: "Jin Buhuan, take a closer look, among the four sabers, which one is your cultivation?"

"Lord He, don't embarrass the gold blacksmith. It took the blacksmith six days and six nights to fix the gap, which was the size of a grain of rice. Do you say it still has flaws?" Chen Wenqi said for the gold blacksmith.

"Then according to General Chen's opinion, how can I find that saber?" He Qiaoxin always remembered Chen Wenqi's promise before he was promoted, and pushed it to him if he had any questions.

"Since the owner of the saber does not want to speak, then torture the saber. Under the heavy punishment, are you afraid that it will not 'speak'?" Chen Wenqi said inscrutablely.

"I heard rumors that General Chen had broken a 'copper coin case' for Jiangxia County after the township test the year before last, and the method of judging the case was amazing, it was actually boiling money in boiling water, is that so?" He Qiaoxin heard that Chen Wenqi was going to "torture" the saber, and suddenly remembered Chen Wenqi's old incident.

"Yes, but it is blind. Why did Lord He ask such a question?" Chen Wenqi said lightly.

"It's nothing, the official is just a little curious. General Chen just said that he would torture the saber severely, so could it be that he had to do it again?" He Qiaoxin said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Who knew that Chen Wenqi smiled and said seriously: "It was really said by Lord He." is only shallow in the next learning, only this trick. However, today instead of using 'boiling water' knives, we will use 'bad water' knives instead. ”

"'Bad water' boiling knife?Is water also divided into good water and bad water?" He Qiaoxin was very surprised.

Chen Wenqi pursed his lips and didn't explain, but only said to him: "I have already prepared in advance, please ask Lord He to order someone to bring in the torture instrument of 'boiling knife'." ”

"Okay, this official needs to open his eyes today. Come on, bring in the torture instrument of the 'boiling knife'. ”

The soap servants in the hall agreed and carried the "torture instrument" prepared by Chen Wenqi in advance into the lobby. Everyone looked at it, and it turned out to be a ceramic tripod, which was filled with a colorless oily liquid and emitted a strong and pungent odor.

He Qiaoxin covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and asked angrily, "No wonder it's called 'bad water'? General Chen, how do you think 'torture' is used?"

"Throw the saber into the ding, light the firewood under the ding, no more and no less to cook half of the incense, the murder weapon can not be tortured, and naturally 'open' to confess. Chen Wenqi replied confidently.

He Qiaoxin was suspicious, ordered the soap servant to carry firewood to make a fire, and ordered someone to take a stick of incense, cut off half of it and light the timer.

Except for Liang De, who was secretly worried about the ghost in his heart, the rest of the people were fresh to this strange "boiling knife" case, and they didn't believe that the knife was like a person, "I can't survive the torture and confess", so I only kept my eyes on Dading, and the whole hall was silent.

Half of the incense stick burned out, and Chen Wenqi shouted: "Remove the firewood and take out the saber." ”

The soap servants withdrew the fire, the knife was removed, and the tripod was lifted, and the lobby was cleaned up in the blink of an eye. He Qiaoxin and Mu Bin took a look at it, and saw that one of the sabers really had a gap like a grain of rice on the blade, and the other three sabers were as normal and intact.

He Qiaoxin threw an admiring glance at Chen Wenqi, then pinched the notched saber blade, and brought the note with the number of the four sabers close to the hilt: Jingong 30213!

Mu Bin never expected that Liang De, who was one of the two major envoys of the Northern and Southern Towns, was actually a key criminal who plotted to assassinate Qincha, and he was shocked and hated at the moment, forgetting that the presiding judge was He Qiaoxin for a while, snatching the shocking wood on the case, and shouting: "Come on, remove Liang De's seat." ”

A trace of panic flashed in Liang De's eyes, and then he pretended to be calm, stood up and said, "My lord, why did you remove your subordinates' seats?"

"Pretending to be crazy and stupid. See for yourself, Jingong 30213, is it your saber. Mu Bin threw the notched embroidered spring knife in front of Liang De.

Liang De picked up the embroidered spring knife, took the opportunity to look at the number on the handle, thought about it nervously in his heart, gritted his teeth and said: "Yes, Jingong 30213, this is the waist knife rationed by the adult." But the subordinates don't understand, what's wrong with this knife?"

"Tell me, what's going on with this gap?"

"My lord, you shouldn't have asked your subordinates what you said. ”

"Scoundrel to the extreme! Your own saber is notched, who else do you ask?"

Liang De pointed the saber at Chen Wenqi and argued, "You should ask him." When his subordinate handed over the saber, he was fine, he put the sword in the foul-smelling big ding, and burned and boiled, it was gold, and he was afraid that it would be damaged, let alone a steel knife?"

"Nonsense. Mu Bin pointed at Qi Zhongliang and the other three, and said: "Their sabers are also boiled in the ding, and they are always intact, why is your saber the only one showing a gap?"

"My lord, last year's Qionglin Martial Arts Banquet, my subordinates asked two more questions when they entered Qionglin Yuan because of the slight beard on the face of this surnamed Chen. Presumably he held a grudge, so he secretly used his subordinates' sabers and planted them on his subordinates. After Liang De finished speaking, he was very proud in his heart, and secretly admired himself for being in a hurry and finding such a good "reason" to justify.

"You...... Quibble. General Chen sat there and didn't move, how can you use your saber and kick?"

"Just because he didn't do it doesn't mean that others didn't do it. The implication is that Chen Wenqi arranged the soap service in advance to secretly do it.

"Liang, you can be regarded as an iron-mouthed steel-toothed person. According to what you say, it was General Chen who colluded with the criminal department to frame you?" He Qiaoxin was also angry when he heard this.

"Otherwise, the saber that General Ben handed over to you is intact, and now making such a gap is clearly a frame-up. "When life is at stake, strong argument is better than no argument, Liang De is out of the way.

"Hahaha," He Qiaoxin laughed angrily, and pointed at Liang De and said: "Liang De, Liang De, you have also been in Jinyiwei for many years, why can't you dare to act like a scoundrel? ”

Liang De's "sophistry" was already expected by Chen Wenqi, and now it is time to speak for himself. He stood up, hugged his fists to Mu Bin and He Qiaoxin, and said:

That's what I mean. After speaking, he turned to the gold blacksmith standing aside and asked, "Master Jin, may I ask what materials you used to repair this gap?"

Chen Wenqi had already asked this question before, and when he asked it again, the gold blacksmith knew that he wanted everyone to know, so he replied: "The grass people use the full color of silver. ”

Chen Wenqi nodded and said, "On the day that Master Mu and I went to find Master Jin, Master Jin told us that he had indeed repaired a broken embroidered spring knife, and it was so seamless that even he himself could not see any traces of repair. At that time, I had been thinking about how to make the gap 'visible'? When I heard Master Jin say that the material for mending the knife was silver, I suddenly remembered something from my childhood, and I immediately had an idea. ”

"Wait, what happened to you when you were a child?" He Qiaoxin was in charge of the Criminal Department, and he paid special attention to the method of judging and questioning cases, and when he heard Chen Wenqi think of his childhood past to solve this case, he felt very fresh, so he interrupted Chen Wenqi and asked.

"It was when I was six years old, and my mother's silver bracelet was tainted by something, and I couldn't clean it off by many means. Later, my father led me to Huangzhou Mansion and found a silversmith to clean the bracelet. But the problem also came out, my father felt that the bracelet was 'thinner' than before cleaning, so he asked the silversmith to theorize, and the silversmith naturally denied it. Since it was not weighed in advance, it was impossible to prove that the silversmith had done anything, and in the end, he was not done. Speaking of this, Chen Wenqi smiled, and then said: "When I was a child, I liked to find out the roots, and I knew that my father was tolerant and generous. My family opened a pawnshop in Huangzhou City, and I often go to the pawnshop to do business in my spare time. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I went to some silver shops without having anything to do, and finally I discovered the secret. Originally, the foul-smelling thing was called 'bad water', and when it was heated, it not only washed away the dirt on the surface of the silverware, but also the silverware itself. When Master Jin talked about mending the saber with silver that day, I immediately remembered this incident. So last night, I got some bad water, put the embroidered spring knife that Master Jin repaired for me in it and boiled it, and burned incense for a time, only to know that the Wuzi steel is very hard and has a particularly strong acid resistance, and in a short period of time, the heated bad water has no effect on it. Therefore, I boldly tried this method today, and I saw miraculous results. ”

"I see. He Qiaoxin took a long breath and said to Liang De: "Liang De, what else do you have to say? Do you want this official to send someone to find a silversmith on the street to confront you? lest you rely on General Chen to open up the river again." ”

Liang De knew that it would be nothing more than humiliation to talk about this "knife cooking" thing. But he was unwilling to admit his guilt. He rolled his eyes and said: "Even if there is a gap in the general's saber, it can't be proved that it was damaged during the fight with General Chen, right? For no valid reason, he sought out a blacksmith to repair the gap. The so-called lesser of two evils, in order to save his life, he can only admit to "fighting". Even if the crime of "brawl" is confirmed, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, at most "send border guards to fill the army".

"Liang Zhenfu is really good at his mouth, and in a hurry, he can say something that is not true. Chen Wenqi let out a long laugh, pulled out the "Painted Shadow Sword" on his waist and said: "Although this is a fictitious word, you only need to go to your hometown to check, and the truth will be revealed." But there is a simpler way to do it, just put this 'Painted Shadow Sword' on that gap and try it, if the gap is completely consistent with the blade of the 'Painted Shadow Sword', everyone in this hall is an expert in dancing and playing swords, and they must know what is going on. ”

"Yes. The blade of a sword is thick and thin, and there is no one that is exactly the same. As long as the blade of the 'Shadow Sword' fits perfectly into this gap, then there is no need to say anything. I'll check it. Chu Baichuan jumped up, he was not affiliated with Liang De, and at the same time wanted to end this "unnecessary" passage earlier, so he volunteered, asked for Liang De's embroidered spring knife with his left hand, held the 'Painted Shadow Sword' with his right hand, put the blade on the gap of the blade, and then shouted: "Yes, there is no gap." You see, you see. ”

He maintained the shape of the intersection of the knife and the sword, and gave them to Mu Bin, He Qiaoxin, Chen Wenqi, Qi Zhongliang, Meng Chengping and others for inspection one by one.

He Qiaoxin looked at it, whispered a few words to Mu Bin, and then slapped the shocked wood and shouted: "Come on, lock up the rebel Liang De and put him in prison, and wait for Ming Sheng, and the sentence will be another one." ”

(Author's note: Bad water is concentrated sulfuric acid, hot concentrated sulfuric acid can dissolve silver, but whether it can dissolve Uzi steel is unknown. ）