Yang Qiuchi asked: "How much has Kuyin been stolen?"

Kang Huai had a bitter face: "More than two thousand taels of silver."

More than two thousand taels? Yang Qiuchi was surprised. Two thousand taels are equivalent to the current two million yuan. That is a considerable number.

It seems that Kang Huai is not like a corrupt official. If he only relies on his salary to fill this deficit, he can only make up for it in the Year of the Monkey and Horse Month. No wonder Kang Huai was happy and sad when he saw the generous gift he gave just now, because although the gift he gave was heavy, it was not enough to compensate for the huge deficit.

Speaking of this, Kang Huai suddenly felt aroused his heart, remembering what Gu Futing Gong said in Yingtian Prefecture that Yang Qiuchi solved the case as if he were a god. He used to think it was just a recommendation from Gu Futing Gong, and he didn't care much. Now he remembered that if this was true, he might be able to help him.

Even if the case cannot be solved, Yang Qiuchi's gift was so heavy. Although he had something to ask for, it could also show that his family was well-off. If he could borrow a sum of money to fill in the deficit, he would be fine if he would pay him back slowly in the future.

Kang Huai suddenly felt hope in his heart, and he hesitated and said this idea.

After hearing this, Yang Qiuchi thought to himself that it would be fine to lend him some money to help him fill the gap. Now he has received the property of three rich men in a row. The 3,000 taels of silver is just a piece of cake for himself. Just the travel funds he brought this time are 3,000 taels. However, judging from his clean looks, the money may not be paid back. Wouldn't it be my own payment for the thief? Let's check whether the case can be solved first.

Yang Qiuchi said: "Let's do this, Lord Kang please tell me the passage first and see if Xiaguan can help solve the case. If it cannot be solved, I will lend money to Lord Kang to fill the deficit. You can pay it back slowly in the future."

"That's great!" Kang Huai was so happy that he bowed his hands and thanked him repeatedly, and then said, "Half a month ago, around 4 o'clock in the evening, someone came to report that there was a rope on the transverse window outside the yamen warehouse, and the transverse window was also sawed off. The first thing he found was the updater who was working on the update."

"I hurried to check it out and found that the thief grabbed the iron railing of the air window with his flying claws, sawed the railing with a hacksaw, sneaked into the warehouse, and stole the warehouse. The warehouse was turned up in a mess. After counting, it was found that the total loss of warehouse silver was about two thousand taels."

Yang Qiuchi asked: "Where are the people guarding the warehouse?"

"There are four warehouse guards in total, and they take turns on duty, each shift. But the two people on duty that night said they didn't hear anything."

Yang Qiuchi thought about it and dared to steal Kuyin from the yamen of the heavily guarded Criminal Office. The man was too brave and asked, "Are these four guards reliable? Have you reviewed it? Could it be that they robbed themselves?"

Kang Huai shook his head: "The first thing I doubted was this. I conducted a detailed search of the residences of the four of them and the places where they might hide their money, but no clues were found. They were also interrogated strictly, and even used torture instruments, but no clues were found."

Yang Qiuchi asked, "Is the scene damaged?"

"It's still protected, not destroyed. I just changed the ventilation window."

"Can Mr. Kang take Beiye to the scene to see it?"

Kang Huai quickly stood up and said, "Okay, I'll take you there now, Lord Yang, please!"

The warehouse where the treasury silver is stored is in the Criminal Inspectorate, which contains the silver paid for the confiscation of the criminal case in various parts of the province and the financial operation costs of the yamen allocated by the court.

When I came outside the warehouse, the warehouse guard was still two of the four, but there was another team of fierce guards outside.

The warehouse is a thick iron door with two large iron locks hanging on it. Kang Huai introduced: "The two locks in the warehouse are controlled by two guards. The warehouse must be used to open the keys of both people. When their respective keys are handed over to a fixed guard, they never cross, and the accommodation is also separated. In other words, unless the two people conspire to steal from themselves, there is no way to open the warehouse door."

"When I came that night, the warehouse door was locked well. After waking the guards, the key was in their hands, and there were no signs of outsiders sneaking into the accommodation. So, I ruled out the possibility of the custodian stealing himself."

After the warehouse door opened, Yang Qiuchi was not in a hurry to go in and stood at the door to see the situation in the warehouse.

Warehouses in the Ming Dynasty were separated, warehouses were warehouses, warehouses were warehouses, warehouses were warehouses, grains, grasses, equipment and debris, and warehouses were specially used to store silver.

The local silver warehouse of the Criminal Office mainly stores fines and confiscations of silver and financial funds in the province, and the quantity is relatively small, so the warehouse is not large, only about 30 square meters. There are two rows of silver racks, more than one person high, and the silver warehouse is placed in the yamen. After the silver warehouse has melted into a saddle-shaped silver ingot of 50 taels and one ingot, it is neatly placed in the box. It is very convenient to open the lid and count it. It will take a short while to check it clearly.

Yang Qiuchi looked at the ground and frowned: "Have the floor of this warehouse been cleaned?"

The two warehouse guards next to him said, "Yes, adults and young people have to clean every day to keep the warehouse clean."

It was neat and tidy, with no trace at all. Yang Qiuchi sighed secretly and asked again: "Have the silver ingots been sorted out?"

The guard replied: "Yes, new silver ingots are delivered every day. The deposited silver ingots are sent away every few days, so they have to be sorted out once a few days later."

Yang Qiuchi smiled bitterly. The scene was almost destroyed, and he was just scouting.

I looked around and found that the warehouse was made of thick granite, and the ground was also the same. The roof was even covered with iron plates. In ancient times, this could be described as solid.

There is a statue of the God of Wealth on the wall in the warehouse. The God of Wealth is placed in the warehouse, not to attract wealth, but to protect these treasures.

Yang Qiuchi came to the God of Wealth and sneered, "You are lazy and do nothing. You don't do your best to protect Kuyin and lose your treasure. You should hit you on the floor!"

The God of Wealth was not afraid at all, but he still held Da Yuanbao and looked at him with a smile.

Yang Qiuchi continued to look around again. Apart from the gate, the only thing leading to the outside world was the small air window more than ten feet high near the roof. It was very small, but it could barely pass by a person. However, there were densely packed iron fences as thick as six thumbs on it.

Kang Huai pointed to the transverse window and said, "That's it, the thief sawed out the iron fence and got in from there, but the transverse window was changed that day."

"Where is the replaced transverse window?" Yang Qiuchi asked.

Kang Huai pointed to the corner of the wall: "There is there. The case has not been solved yet, I still keep this broken window."

Yang Qiuchi walked to the corner of the wall and squatted down to check. There were horizontal bars at the four corners of the air window so that they could be embedded in granite to fix it. Among the six vertical iron fences as thick as thumbs in the middle, five had been sawn off. The other one was tied with two long ropes, and there were five broken iron fences on the ground.

Kang Huai also squatted down and explained, "These five were found on the ground outside the wall. The rope was probably used by the thief to climb in and out of the wall."

Yang Qiuchi picked up the broken fences one by one and looked at the broken heads carefully, then looked at the broken heads on the fence frame, and then took an iron fence under his nose and smelled it, thinking about something.

He stood up, walked to the window, looked at the wall carefully, and asked, "Have the traces on the wall been wiped?"

The two guards following behind him replied: "No. The lord said that before the case was solved, no traces were allowed to be moved."

Yang Qiuchi looked at Kang Huai with appreciation. After all, this criminal censor has been engaged in criminal trials for many years and is still very evident.

Yang Qiuchi left the warehouse and went around the wall outside the window to check. There were also some shallow footprints on the wall. He squatted down and checked on the ground, stood up and thought about it, and asked Kang Huai: "Sir, is there any night patrol in our silver warehouse?"

"I haven't been stolen before, because there were guards and there were some fighting in the yamen. I visited them almost half an hour."

Yang Qiuchi looked up at the roof of the warehouse, thought for a while, and said to Kang Huai: "I already know who did it."

"Who?" Kang Huai asked, his voice trembling with excitement.

"You go and call the other two guards first."

"OK!"

The other two guards lived in the yamen and were called in a short while.

The four guards stood in a row and looked at Yang Qiuchi nervously.

"Stretch out your hands!" Yang Qiuchi ordered.

The four guards shrank and stretched out the twins.

Yang Qiuchi walked in front of them, and suddenly, he grabbed the hand of a guard, looked carefully, and said, "It's you! You and another guard who was on duty on the same day, you two are thieves who steal Kuyin!"

"It's unfair! Sir," the guard knelt down, "I didn't steal." Another guard next to him also knelt down, saying that he was unfair.

"How did the injury on your hand come from?"

"Yes...I accidentally fell and was cut by a stone."

"Nonsense!" Yang Qiuchi slapped his hand, "There are no other scratches next to the wound. The wound is narrow and deep, and the wound is very neat. Although it has been a few days, it can still be seen that the obvious sharp weapon injury in this matter cannot be scratched by a stone."

The guard quickly changed his words and said, "I remembered wrongly, it was because I was accidentally scratched by a knife."

Yang Qiuchi was too lazy to mess with him and asked, "Don't you admit it? Theft of Kuyin is a death sentence, and he stole so many. If you confess honestly and recover Kuyin, perhaps Lord Kang can give you lenient treatment!"

"I really don't!" The two guards kowtowed repeatedly.

Kang looked at Yang Qiuchi in confusion, but he still couldn't understand what Yang Qiuchi's determination was.
Chapter completed!