The daily life of Dali Siqing

Chapter 496 The Secret of the Silver Box
The next morning, Yang Qingyuan and Liu Wangshu also left.

But last night, Zhan Lu and Fuyao's Ou Ye, who studied all night, finally let out a long sigh when the first ray of sunlight shone into the sword furnace in the morning, feeling extremely helpless.

Although he is the contemporary Ouye, he cannot forge a famous sword that is better than Zhanlu and Fuyao.

Zhanlu was forged by Ou Yezi in ancient times, and it is barely acceptable to beat him, after all, the sword casting method of the ancient Yue people has always been unique in the world.

But this Fuyao was cast by a craftsman in the former Tang Dynasty, and it was even higher than him, which made the old blacksmith unwilling!

However, Mr. Ou was not without gains from this night's research.

Although it is temporarily impossible to forge famous swords that are better than Zhanlu and Fuyao, they have benefited a lot from it.

And the casting of famous swords is not just a test of a swordsmith's casting skills.

The right time, place and people are indispensable!

If he could have such an opportunity, he would also have the opportunity to forge a famous sword that is not inferior.

When parting, Ou Ye took out two scabbards.

"Brother Yang, this is one of my treasures for many years. It is a scabbard made of thousands of years of black crystal. It can not only preserve the sword body, but also remove rust and dust. It is a must-have weapon for a famous sword. The most important thing is that it is very compatible with Zhanlu... Don't refuse, if you like it, you like it, don't be like those Dazhou people outside, pay money, give a gift, and even make excuses! It's not giving way!"

The old man is a man from the mountains, he does not think he is under the rule of the Great Zhou, and he doesn't have much respect for the Emperor of Zhou.

However, what the old man said made Yang Qingyuan feel embarrassed to refuse!

After all, he still really likes this scabbard, but he is just ashamed to receive such generous gifts.

"Besides, you two borrowed my famous sword to observe it, which is no less than the grace of enlightenment. What's the point of a mere scabbard?!"

Then he took out a green scabbard, "Miss Liu, this is for you. The Fuyao Sword is different from Zhanlu in that its edge is cold and sharp. This emerald green scabbard can nourish the blade and preserve the sword energy."

Liu Wangshu was much more direct than Yang Qingyuan, "Thank you, Mr. Ou, this matter is considered my favor! If there is something to trust in the future, Liu Wangshu will definitely do his best!"

As soon as Ou Ye heard it, he said to Yang Qingyuan, "Look at Miss Liu, you don't need to be so bold?!"

"..."

Yang Qingyuan sneered, slightly embarrassed.

"Okay! This old man won't send you off! When you have free time, just bring a few more famous swords to see this old man!"

Although they got along very well, Ou Ye didn't miss him much, waved his hand, and walked towards Jianlu.

Yang Qingyuan was so free and easy that he envied him.
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Afterwards, Yang Qingyuan and Liu Wangshu returned to Shanyin Mansion.

As soon as the imperial envoy was on his way, Di Zhiyuan immediately came to see Yang Qingyuan, "Master Yang, the problem with these boxes is not only that they are of low quality, but that the producer specially made them like this."

Here comes the evidence that Yang Qingyuan wants!
"Although these boxes seem to be of poor quality, the bumps along the way caused the boxes to break, but I checked every silver box and found that there were cracks on the top of every box, and then I visited many carpentry shops , I got a conclusion from the mouths of the carpenters, if the local wood of Yuezhou is used, no matter how bad the wood is, all the wooden boxes will not be broken due to the bumps. In such a situation, there must be someone with a heart who needs the boxes to be broken like this!"

"Sure enough!" Yang Qing said from Yuyu.

"Brother Zhiyuan, keep talking!"

"Yes! Then I asked them to make wooden boxes out of various pine woods and transport them on bumpy mountain roads many times, but nothing like this happened. This can be thoroughly confirmed."

Di Zhiyuan also told the bank Cao Wangli and the treasurer Li Da to skip the bidding and privately decide the supplier of the Yuezhou Bank.
"At first I thought this case was just an ordinary case of dereliction of duty and corruption, so I handed it over to my colleagues in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. But after discovering something strange about the silver box, I immediately sent people to arrest Bank Cao Wangli and Treasurer Li Up to Li Da's brother-in-law Niu Wu."

"It's just that although Yincao Wangli is still being arrested in Yuezhou Governor's Mansion, Li Da, the treasurer, is nowhere to be found, and Li Da's younger sister Li Juan and brother-in-law Niu Wu live in Shengxian County outside Shanyinfu City. Send people to arrest them, but there is no return yet!"

"So this silver box is probably also a very important part of this case." Yang Qingyuan, who had been silently listening to Di Zhiyuan's description, said, "You think so?!"

"Yes! I thought that there were not so many coincidences in this world, and the man-made traces of this matter are too obvious! It's a pity that there is no way to link this inferior silver box with this case."

"No, we've already connected!" Di Zhiyuan's puzzled smile appeared on Yang Qingyuan's face.

In the past three years, Yang Qingyuan has grown from a quick-thinking novice to a mature criminal investigator, and he can already compete with Di Zhiyuan.

"When I went to the Ancient Yue tribe, I not only solved the mystery of the Yin soldiers robbing wages, but also had clues as to who was behind the scenes and how the Yinliang disappeared."

In Di Zhiyuan's expectant eyes, Yang Qingyuan asked a question.

"Brother Zhiyuan, do you know about Shuixiaojin?!"

Yang Qingyuan didn't read much of Blue Star's Nine Songs in the Sky, and only remembered some sporadic fragments.But I can only remember clearly the matter of the ghost soldiers borrowing money at the beginning of the chapter.

That situation is different from that of the ghost soldiers robbing wages in this case.

Di Zhiyuan can be regarded as a person who reads well, but he has never heard of "Shui Xiao Jin".

"You don't need to recall it, because there is no book about it, not even in the Hanlin Academy, and I just heard about it."

"My lord, could it be that Shuixiaojin is..."

Although he doesn't know exactly what Shuixiaojin is, as the name suggests, Di Zhiyuan has a rough guess.

"A metal that is no different from ordinary gold at ordinary times, but when it encounters a large amount of open water, it will immediately dissolve in the water."

Di Zhiyuan was silent for a few breaths, "What is clear water?!"

Yang Qingyuan always likes to come up with strange nouns.

"..." This is a concept proposed by Yang Qingyuan. Water has three states. When it is cold, it turns into ice, and when it is hot, it turns into vapor. "To see the water is to taste the water you see."

"What do you mean, my lord?!"

"This Shuixiaojin is something that the Yin Yang family accidentally refined when they were refining alchemy. What if they also refined Shuixiaoyin?! Then these things can all be connected in series!"

The robbers knew the transfer date of the silver in advance, and took advantage of the rainy season and the cracks in the box to let rainwater seep into the box, and then the silver ingots in the box disappeared without a trace!

Di Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, "My lord, regardless of whether this miraculous "meritic silver" exists or not, if the box was filled with quicksilver from the beginning, why would there be sand and stone bricks in the box?" ?!"

"..."

Yang Qingyuan hasn't figured this out yet. If there is really mercury, then it would be good to replace all silver ingots with mercury. Why do we need to put a lot of sand and stone bricks? What reason.

"But if the adult's deduction is true, it proves another thing!"

Yang Qingyuan also thought that if these inferences are true, it means that when these boxes left the Yuezhou Bank, they probably contained no silver ingots, and what Lixue saw at the time was Miosiaoyin.

"Where is that Yincao Wangli now!?"

"He is being detained in the prison of the Shanyin government office!"

"go!"

The two left as soon as they said they would, and immediately rushed from the imperial envoy to the government office of Shanyin Mansion.

At this moment, the Shanyin government office has been taken over by the Imperial Forest Army guarding Yang Qingyuan and his party.

The loss of salary due to the three thousand Shenwu army made Emperor Zhou and the cabinet begin to distrust the inside of the Shenwu army. At least in this matter, there must be a problem within the Shenwu army.

Therefore, for the safety of the entourage of the imperial envoy, Emperor Zhou transferred the entourage of Yang Qingyuan's entourage to guard Yang Qingyuan's entourage with a thousand elites of the Imperial Forest Army from central Beijing, focusing on the entourage.

As for Yang Qingyuan, Emperor Zhou and the cabinet were not worried. Only a few top masters at the Profound Realm could pose a threat to Yang Qingyuan. The weaker Profound Realm couldn't even keep up with Yang Qingyuan's body skills.

"Wang Li, my lord wants to see you!"

A policeman from Dali Temple brought Wang Li to an interrogation room. The room was full of instruments of torture, which made Wang Li's legs slightly weak.

Not long after, a man in a scholar's robe and a fifth-rank official's robe came in.

The man in official robes, Wang Li knew, was Di Zhiyuan who investigated and dealt with his bribery before. Di Zhiyuan also thought that he accepted less bribes and was not severely punished, and even let him temporarily serve as the silver cao.

"This is the Minister of Dali Temple, Lord Yang Qingyuan, the deposed emissary of Yuezhou!"

"Humble post, Governor of Yuezhou Governor's Office Cao Wangli has a meeting with Master Yang!"

Seeing Yang Qingyuan, Wang Li didn't even dare to call himself an official.

Di Zhiyuan, the fifth-rank Dali Temple Chancellor, and the Deputy Envoy of the Yuezhou Ducha, although his authority is large, Wang Li still dared to call himself a subordinate official.

But Yang Qingyuan is the Minister of Dali Temple, with the official rank of the third rank, and he is already an important minister in charge of one department alone. Wang Li is a junior official of the seventh rank, and dare not be rude in the slightest.

Yang Qingyuan looked Wang Yincao up and down, no, the suspect Wang should be called now.

This person was arrested and imprisoned by the police of Dali Temple last night, so apart from disheveled hair, bloodshot eyes, and tired face, there is nothing like a prisoner.

"Wang Li, I want to ask you, Li Da initiated the construction of the silver box?!"

"That's right! My lord! Corruption is strictly prohibited in the imperial court, and the humble officials are cowardly. They have worked hard all these years and dare not violate the law; this is the first time that the humble officials have misunderstood that the left and right are just a few dogs. The silver box was transported to the Shenwu Army anyway. The road was bumpy. Even if the quality was poor, it would not be blamed on the humble official. It was no problem! That's why I was deceived by the lard and accepted the ten boxes. Two silver coins!"

Wang Li cried a lot, which was very touching.

It's a pity that in front of him is a trial machine that two people can only protect their feelings.

"Besides these, what else?!"

After Wang Li thought about it for a while, he knew, "Oh?! I put the ten taels of silver in the bookcase under the couch at home. Lord Yang, Lord Di, I really am! I dare not spend a penny!"

Yang Qingyuan: ...

Your line is wrong!
"Who asked this! I mean, about the 1 taels of silver that is missing from the silver treasury of Yuezhou governor's mansion, how do you, Yuezhou Yincao, explain!?"

"One... 1 taels?!"

Wang Li was stunned, and shut down on the spot, "...Master Yang, this matter has nothing to do with the humble official, it is 1 taels, even if the humble official has the courage to lie to Mr. Yang! There is no problem with the account book kept by the humble official. what!"

Neither Yang Qingyuan nor Di Zhiyuan saw any flaws in this performance, and what he said was correct, there were indeed no flaws in the books of Yuezhou Governor's Mansion.

This fact was discovered when checking the account books of the Yuezhou Bank Treasury.

"Let's press this matter for now, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will continue to investigate. Wang Li, I want to ask you, how is the treasurer Li Da's relationship with you?"

When Li Da was mentioned, Wang Li obviously hesitated.

"Humble job... I'm not familiar with Li Da!"

At this time, Wang Li's expression and tone were obviously different from before.

Yang Qingyuan winked at Di Zhiyuan, and Di Zhiyuan understood, Yang Qingyuan immediately got up and scolded, "Wang Li, you tricky and cunning person, this officer and Master Di gave you a chance to confess, you don't cherish it , but deceived each other with lies, don’t you think Master Di and this official can’t be deceived?! Someone, drag Wang Li out and give him eighty lashes! Make him sober and sober!”

This time, Wang Li was stunned. He didn't expect that Yang Qingyuan, who had a pleasant face one second, would turn his back on him the next moment!
The two guards outside the door were old actors from Dali Temple, and they were threatening. This move is commonly used in Dali Temple, and it all depends on the user's acting skills.

The two police officers cooperated to drag Wang Li to the door.

"Master Yang, tell me the truth, tell me the truth, give me another chance!...Master Yang!"

The two detectives dragged on purposely, leaving a chance for Di Zhiyuan to speak.

"Master Yang, please listen to the officer's words!"

Yang Qingyuan raised his left hand slightly, and the two police officers stopped in their tracks.

"Although Wang Li has dereliction of duty, but at present, it seems that he is not a treacherous person, maybe he was confused for a while, why not give him a chance!"

"Mmm!" Yang Qingyuan said "Mmm", and with a wave of his hand, the two guards quickly brought Wang Li back to his original position.

At this time, Wang Li's original location has been lost.

Not so! ... Isn't it just a caning? !As for being so gaffe? !
Yang Qingyuan frowned slightly, and then asked, "I'll ask again, how is your personal relationship with Li Da, the treasurer's treasurer?!"

With the lesson just learned, Wang Li seemed to be very cooperative, "The humble official and the treasurer Li Da worked together all the year round, and the bank's entry and exit from the bank had to go through Li Da. Over the years, the two of us had a very close personal relationship! Therefore, Li Da As for the request in the matter, I agreed to him!"

Di Zhiyuan asked, "Then I would like to ask you, when the payment was released from the treasury, was it you or Li Da who counted the money?"

"This……"

Wang Li hesitated for a moment.

"It's not true!" Yang Qingyuan shouted again seeing his hesitation.

Wang Li thought of Yang Qingyuan's attempt to shake up the punishment just now, and he was all excited, and immediately replied, "My lords, I went to the humble post a little late that day, and when I arrived, Li Da had already packed the box, because he was in charge of the treasury." For many years, there has never been a mistake, and the humble position did not open the count again, and was carried out in a short time, and the seal was affixed in front of the Shenwu Army."

Yang Qingyuan and Di Zhiyuan looked at each other and continued to interrogate...

(End of this chapter)