Taiping Inn

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

Mr. Zong showed hesitation. Although Niu Er was just a dilapidated house, he relied on his strength to be considered a domineering Jingzi Town. He was lazy and had to be thieves. He was thirty years old. After all, before getting married, I got into teasing women.

On weekdays, people in the town are always afraid of him, so they dare not come forward to provoke him. And his home is not a good place. Even if the Zong Lao is the elder of the clan of Jingzi Town, he is a little hesitant.

Seeing this, Shen Shuangmei took out a token from her sleeve and said, "I am the sixth-rank chief of the Ministry of Justice. I have the right to investigate cases in accordance with the laws of the Great Wei. You fellow villagers don't have to be afraid, I will make the decision for you."

For ordinary people, whether they have an official or not is a world of difference. Not to mention a sixth-rank chief, even a minor official without an official rank, he is also a person who cannot be easily provoked. At this time, there is a When Shen Shuangmei spoke, Mr. Zong became confident and brought his group to Niu Er's door.

From the outside, it is a very dilapidated yard with weeds and leaves everywhere. It is not far from the walls and houses collapse. 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 couldn't get a wife. Whose daughter would like to live in this place?

Shen Shuang frowned, and was not polite, so she pushed open the wooden door that had no need to lock it and walked into the yard.

She was born in the Xingming family and was influenced by how to handle the case since childhood. After walking around the yard, she went to the house to take a look and asked Mr. Zong who was following her, “Niu Er is this person What is his character? Are he greedy for money and gamble?”

Mr. Zong hurriedly said, "The headmaster is very eye-catching. Niu Er is idle and lazy on weekdays. He is also involved in the habit of playing money. He says he will lose if he gambles for a long time. Niu Er has owed a lot of foreign debts over the years and has all the things at home. He was sold almost the same, but his parents were so angry that they were so angry that they were still unrepentant and started to thieves. If he had a few dollars in his hand, he would immediately go to the gambling house in the county town to lose."

Shen Shuangmei nodded and walked into the adobe room again. Li Xuandu and others followed her in. Seeing that she was fumbled around regardless of the dust, a light sound came from the wall. She took a piece of adobe brick from her. After taking down and removing the earthen bricks, I didn’t see outside the wall, but there was a layer of wall - it turned out that there was a mezzanine in the wall.

Shen Shuangmei reached into the mezzanine and groped for a while. When she retracted her hand, there was an extra blue cloth bag in her hand.

Li Xuan couldn't help but exclaim, "I really have a specialty in my skills."

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

Yan Feiqing reached out to take the bag, frowned, and said, "This bag is a bit strange, and it can actually isolate my spiritual thoughts."

As he spoke, he reached out to open the bag. Sure enough, inside the bag was filled with ingots of snowflakes and silver, all of which were melted into the shape of ingots, and they were also official silver.

The so-called official silver is used to enter the treasury, which means that the taxes of each state must be engraved with the words or patterns of the official silver logo to facilitate the management of the treasury. The people are not allowed to use official silver privately, which is a serious crime of beheading.

The main purpose of official silver is military pay, official salary, palace use, embankment engineering, disaster relief and other expenses. After the court allocated official silver to local prefectures, local prefectures must dissolve the official silver again to refine new silver ingots. Or silver blocks, this is the main source of broken silver. This process is also called "fire consumption", which refers to the deduction when broken silver is melted and recasted into silver ingots, or the deduction when the silver ingot is dissolved into broken silver. Fire consumption is also the local government's office at all levels. The main means of greed. The "fire and waste" proposed in the new policy of the four ministers at that time was cut off the financial path of most officials, which made it even more difficult to implement the new policy.

As for the people, most of the silver used is broken silver, and most of the time it is mainly copper coins.

Mr. Zong is a knowledgeable person. After seeing the words "Da Weiku Silver" cast on the silver ingot, his legs became a little weak and he hurriedly said, "Catcher, the head catcher, Niu Er dared to privately hide the official silver. I, we didn't know anything about it."

Shen Shuang raised her eyebrows and signaled that Mr. Zong was silent.

Mr. Zong immediately did not dare to make a noise any more.

The female captain suddenly browed slightly, reached out and took a piece of official silver, flipped it over, and there were several lines of words engraved under the ingot of official silver: Jingzhou Maritime Warehouse, May Day of the fifth year of Tianbao, the palace used twenty taels of silver , craftsman Liu Ding.

Li Xuandu and Hu Liang looked at each other, and their faces were solemn, because the purpose of Shen Shuangmei's trip was to secretly investigate the corruption of the eunuchs of Jingzhou Maritime Warehouse. At this time, the Kuyin of Jingzhou Maritime Warehouse Warehouse appeared. , it has already explained the problem.

Yan Feiqing naturally understood what these official silver meant. After a moment of silence, he slowly said, "These ingots of silver look very ordinary, but there is indeed some yin energy left in it. These ingots of silver should be the medium for the use of magic."

Shen Shuangmei murmured, "The silver in the treasury is hidden in the treasury. Even if the soldiers guarding the treasury do something to steal the silver, they dare not spend it so openly. Most of them have to be re-smelted. What is Niu Er from? The place got this Kuyin?”

Mr. Zong, who was standing beside her, said carefully: "This Niu Er has to play with a little money on weekdays. He will not stop gambling until he has gambling. Now there is so much money hidden in his family, which is amazing."

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

Yan Feiqing suddenly remembered something and asked the elder: "Does the elder know the birth date of Niu Er and others?"

The elder was stunned for a moment, and nodded quickly: "Yes, our Jingzi Town is full of Niu and Tian surnames, and the genealogy is complete, which records everyone's birthday."

Yan Feiqing stretched out his palm, "Let me borrow it for a while."

At this time, there were ghosts and official silver, how could the elder dare to say no, and immediately asked someone to take it, and soon handed a thick file to Yan Feiqing.

Yan Feiqing immediately found the names of the three people. The other two were fine, but the key was Niu Er. This person was born under the fate of Tiansha and Guxing. He would punish his husband and wife, punish his sons and daughters, punish his relatives and friends, have no affinity with his relatives, have little strength from his brothers, and have difficulty in getting married. He would be miserable and lonely in his later years. In his early years, he would be rich, but in the middle years, he would sell his land and be punished. He would lose his sons and wife and his father. He would not be able to control the time and day, and would die alone.

This kind of fate is naturally not very desirable, but for many evil masters who are good at refining souls, the souls of people with this kind of fate are very useful. However, if they want to refine evil arts, they cannot take them by force, but let them give them voluntarily. In this way, they have to set up various traps, such as gold and silver, or beauty, to lure him into it. Niu Er is a gambler, so naturally he is lured with silver money.

After Yan Feiqing told the three of them his guess, Li Xuandu asked, "Since only Niu Er was going to be taken, why did he cover the entire town with Yin Qi?"

Yan Feiqing sighed lightly, "This is what I am worried about. Refining evil magic is like refining elixirs. In addition to the main ingredients, other auxiliary ingredients must be added. Niu Er, who has a destiny of heaven and earth, is the main ingredient, and that person obviously wants to use the living people in the entire town as auxiliary ingredients to help him complete his evil magic. I broke the Yin Qi in the town earlier, which has already alarmed him. I think he is not far from the town."

The other three people all looked solemn.

Li Xuandu said softly: "The evil ones treat living people as livestock, taking whatever they want, hurting the heaven and earth, and violating human ethics. It would be fine if we didn't encounter them, but since we have encountered them, there is no reason to just walk away."

Yan Feiqing said seriously: "Brother Zifu said that it is very kind, but there are also differences between unfair things and internal and external things. It does not mean that all the unfair things in the world should be taken care of by one person. I was born in Zhengyi and inherited the Taoist method of Tianshi. It is my duty to slay demons and eliminate evil. Brother Zifu's duty is to escort Junior Sister Zhou to Longmen Mansion. Why don't you leave first and let me handle this matter."

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. Taoism also says that when a thought arises in the human heart, heaven and earth know it all. If good and evil are not rewarded, the universe must be biased. There is no distinction between internal and external in this matter."