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Volume 1, Chapter 63: The Fish Hooked

The shops in Yangjiafucheng, Hui'an, were not chosen in the bustling areas west of the city and north of the city, but were located near Luojiang Port on the east street. Because the wood is light and large in size, it is generally chosen for water transportation.

The Yang family’s shop in Fucheng is not very large. Although there are only two inches in front and back, it covers more than 20 acres. However, there are not many houses inside. Except for the shops facing the street in the front yard and the houses where workers are hired in the store, other places are basically flat ground paved with bluestone slabs, with various woods classified on them and piled up like mountains. I don’t know how many of them are.

That day, when Yang Jinfeng was dressed in a formal manner, he was patrolling the store. Two strong men in black suddenly rushed to the outside of the store in a carriage. After entering the store, they did not look at the wood. Instead, they held a sign and swayed in front of the shopkeeper, and then stood there coolly and stopped talking.

This means that the Chen family from Longxi sent to join the company. Seeing this, the shopkeeper hurriedly ordered someone to call Yang Jinfeng, and then respectfully invited the two of them into the quiet room behind the shop, and asked someone to offer fragrant tea, and then left them alone.

After a while, Yang Jinfeng came in with a wooden box about a ruler in a difficult situation.

He put the box on the table where the two of them were sitting, and then smiled and said with apologies: "You are here. I can't sleep or eat if I put so much money in my hands."

These two were Chen Wenjie's close friends. He had seen them when he accompanied Yang Yun to Tong'an, so naturally he would not doubt them.

If he had "dealed" with Chen Wenjie by Yang Cong, he would still know that one of the men in black was the one who hit Yang Cong in the past!

Of course, he didn't know this. He only knew that he would hand over the five hundred taels of silver to the people sent by Chen Wenjie, and then leave evidence that his task would be completed.

The two men in black were too lazy to talk to him. They opened the wooden box, roughly clicked the number of silver ingots inside, and then closed the wooden box, got up and prepared to leave.

Seeing this, Yang Jinfeng quickly raised his hand and said, "Two, wait, wait."

The black armor that knocked Yang Cong finally spoke. He frowned and said impatiently: "What's wrong?"

Yang Jinfeng quickly took out a piece of paper from his arms, spread it on the table, then nodded and bowed, "Please sign your name on it. After all, this is 500 taels of silver. If there is no handover certificate, I can't go back and explain it to the second master."

When I saw the black armor, I saw that there was nothing else on the paper, and it said: Take five hundred taels of silver.

This is a man without any end, and he didn't say he wanted to repay it. Logically speaking, it was nothing to sign an autograph on it, but the black armor deliberately said: "I can't write, why don't you?"

Yang Jinfeng was not angry, but instead took something out of his arms, opened it, spread it on the table, and smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if you can't write, it's the same for pressing a handprint. Please both old men, I really can't afford to take care of these five hundred taels of silver. Please help me and press a handprint."

Damn, even the red ink is ready. It seems that if you want to save trouble, you may not be able to leave.

Black-clothed A and Black-clothed B looked at each other, but they had no choice but to stretch out a hand, dipped it ink, pressed it on the paper, and then picked up the box and left.

Yang Jinfeng picked up the paper on the table, looked at the handprints on it, and a gloomy smile appeared on his face.

This is a confession in the court, and it is best to add something to it if you have no beginning or end. If you don’t think about it, just press your fingerprints up, idiot!

He carefully dropped the paper and stuffed it into his arms, then went to Yang Cong to seek credit.

The two men in black left the Yang family's shop, threw the box directly onto the carriage, then sat onto the shaft and drove the horse slowly towards the west of the city.

They didn't notice that two strong men dressed in coolies were following behind the carriage.

You can't gallop in this city. When there is no one, they can also ride in a carriage to save their footwork. When there are too many people, they have to get down and lead the horse forward carefully. Otherwise, it will be troublesome if they are caught by the inspector's personnel.

The two gangs slowly traveled through the city one after another for half an hour and finally arrived at their destination.

The destination of these two men in black is actually Chengtian Temple!

Nowadays, no one cares about entering and leaving the temple. No one cares about whether you come to burn incense or visiting. But if you need to stay, you have to find the monks in the temple.

However, at this time, there were many more runners from the government office in Chengtian Temple. Moreover, more than ten courtyards near the government office were not allowed to pass, because the government examination was about to begin four days later, and the supervisors sent by the academic officials would arrive three days in advance. In other words, the supervisors from the provincial capital will arrive tomorrow, so the place where they live should not be allowed to get close to them.

The two men in black did not go to find the monk. They walked around the temple for a while and soon moved into a yard.

At this time, in a corner not far from the yard, Li Jianlin suddenly poked his head out and looked carefully, waved his hand to let the two guards watch here, and then walked quickly to the courtyard where Yang Cong lived.

This is a three-entry courtyard. After two men in black entered the courtyard, they parked the carriage in the front yard and handed it over to other followers guarding here, and then entered the inner yard with a box in their arms.

At this time, Chen Wenjie, who was full of gloomy face, was sitting in the lobby of the inner courtyard frowned and pondering.

When he saw the two of them walking in with the box in their arms, he nodded slightly, then pointed to the study room next to him and signaled them to put the box in.

The reason why he came over this time was to avenge the humiliation of Yang Cong in Hui'an last time. He wanted to send Yang Cong to prison with his own hands and take a good look at Yang Cong's desperate appearance!

Yang Cong didn't know that Chen Wenjie had arrived at this moment. He was practicing essays in the study in the main house of the inner courtyard where he rented. After all, the mansion examination was about to begin in a few days, so he couldn't lose his studies.

After a while, Li Jianlin hurried in and bowed: "Master, the Chen family has taken away the money."

Upon hearing this, Yang Cong put down his brush and asked with interest: "Oh, how many people, have they found their place?"

Li Jianlin then reported: "We only saw two strong men in black. They rushed to this carriage to get the silver, and then came all the way to Chengtian Temple and entered a house in the temple."

These people actually moved into Chengtian Temple, and it became much more convenient to monitor. When Yang Cong heard this, he nodded repeatedly and said, "Very good, you can take someone to keep an eye on it first, keep a close eye. I'll send someone to take the turn in the afternoon."

Upon hearing this, Li Jianlin quickly bowed and obeyed the order, then turned around quickly and left.

Yang Cong looked at Li Jianlin's back and couldn't help but feel excited. He stood up and was about to go outside to arrange everything, but the guard suddenly came to report that Yang Jinfeng was here.

He suddenly remembered that Yang Jinfeng was responsible for a very important task, which was to obtain the "Course Examination". It seemed that this kid had obtained it.

He thought about it, but he still sat down, pretended to be calm and gentle, and sat there silently waiting.

Yang Jinfeng quickly walked in. As expected, he took out the "receipt" like a treasure, and asked for credit: "Young Master, the certificate you want is prepared for you."

Yang Cong nodded slightly, took it and saw that the above sentence was "take five hundred taels of silver", and then there were two light red handprints.

He looked carefully at the lines on the handprints and then asked, "Is this the handprints of the two men in black?"

Yang Jinfeng nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, it's theirs. They pretend to be illiterate and don't want to sign, but they didn't know that the young man had been on guard against them."

This kid is indeed quite clever. This handprint is more effective than a signature, because the signature can be imitated, but the handprint cannot be imitated. There is no way to copy the same handprint these days.
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