Yipin County Magistrate: Start with invincibility

Chapter 259 Grind into charcoal powder for me
"Again? Why, who has wronged you?"

Qin Feng asked curiously.

The shop owner quickly covered his mouth and said with a sneer, "No, no..."

But from his appearance, it was obvious that Qu had something to say.

Qin Feng saw that the owner of the shop kept looking at his official uniform, understood his concerns, and said: "I am not an official in Bincheng Mansion, but just passing through here. The people in Bencheng Mansion here are just ordinary people. You have Don't hide anything from me."

"It looks like a face..."

The owner of the charcoal seller hesitated for a while, and then complained to Qin Feng with a bitter face: "The villain was in the army when he was young, and he was lucky enough to learn how to make kerosene. So besides selling charcoal, I also sell some kerosene here. However, they are all sold to ordinary people for lighting lamps, not for fire oil for war. Only when news came from the north last year that the barbarians were going to go south in large numbers, did the magistrate order some fire oil from the small people."

"Last night, there was an arson murder case. This morning, the arresting head of the yamen came to arrest me. He said that the fire was burning so fast and so big. He must have used kerosene. He wanted to arrest the villain as a murderer."

"Fortunately, only ten carts of charcoal fire arrived yesterday evening. The villain was busy asking his subordinates to unload the cargo. He almost stayed up all night. His subordinates could testify to the villain. The head catcher couldn't say anything, so the villain was not arrested back to the Yamen. Alas, if this is captured, I am afraid it will be close to death..."

"Oh? Chief Chen wants to arrest you?"

Qin Feng frowned. Could it be that Chen Butou committed the crime himself and wanted to catch a scapegoat to go back, but he failed?
The more he thought about it, the more likely it was.

It's just that the owner of the charcoal fire shop didn't know what Qin Feng was thinking. Seeing Qin Feng's expression was wrong, he hurriedly said: "My lord, didn't you just say that you are not a local official? How do you know that the local catcher's surname is Chen? You, you shouldn't?" Are you trying to trick me on purpose?"

The boss fell to his knees with a thump: "My lord, the villain is an honest and responsible businessman. It is not the villain's fault that he is not good-looking. You can't treat me as a prisoner just because of his vicious appearance! Although the villain is ugly, He's a rough person, but actually he's as weak as a woman in his heart, please let me go..."

As soon as the boss knelt down, several subordinates in the store who were busy weighing customers came over and spoke one after another.

"My lord, my boss is really not a murderer. We were busy last night until Jinmao... because we unloaded the goods in the middle of the night, and disturbed a few neighbors. If you don't believe us, you can ask those people..."

"Yes, you are an official from other places, so don't worry about local affairs."

"Chen Butou is incompetent, and he is used to dealing with things. He often finds someone to take the blame, just to cover up the case in his hand. Everyone in Bincheng knows..."

"That's right. Last year, there was a flower picker in Bincheng. Chen caught him in the first two days. He said with certainty that there was no mistake in catching the criminal. In the end, he took off his pants and committed suicide in court. Proof of innocence. He is a eunuch."

"Hahahaha...there is indeed such a thing. Everyone in Bincheng knows it. If this lord doesn't believe it, he can find anyone to ask about it."

Everyone said something to each other, and they were trying to excuse the shopkeeper, and they were complaining about Chen Butou of Bincheng Mansion, in a mess.

Qin Feng was thinking about Chen Butou and wanted to be quiet, so he said directly: "Quiet!"

Everyone immediately realized that they couldn't utter the words that reached their throats. It was extremely strange, and the shop suddenly became quiet.

"I have no intention of arresting him, so don't be nervous."

Qin Feng said lightly.

The shop owner has an alibi, and there are so many people testifying, so he is naturally innocent.

According to what these people said, with Chen Butou's urinating nature, even if there is even the slightest suspicion, he will definitely take the boss away. Presumably, there is really nothing wrong with it, so the boss can do business again safely. .

That being the case, there is no need for Qin Feng to think in the direction of the shop owner.

He was here to buy toner, so he could get fingerprints later.

Qin Feng walked to the edge of the coal pile and grabbed a handful of coal powder on the ground, looked at it and shook his head: "No, the particles are uneven and too thick."

"Shop."

"Hey, the villain is here."

"I need some toner, very finely ground toner. It's even finer than fine flour, and you don't need a lot of it. Just seven or eight taels is enough. Can you make it for me? I will give you ten times the price of raw charcoal."

Qin Feng rubbed the powder on the edge of the charcoal pile with his feet, and said to himself with his mouth curled up: "Sieve these with a sieve, and you can get some fine powder, but I'm afraid there will be a lot of dust mixed in it... "

When the shop owner heard that Qin Feng was really here to buy things and offered ten times the price, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and stepped forward, and said happily: "This is easy to handle. The villain finds some crushed charcoal and grinds it into pieces now." Fine powder, and then use a sieve to sieve it."

"How much time?"

"One or two cups of tea is enough time. Come, come, my lord, sit here for a while. Li Zi, show this lord some tea."

The shop owner enthusiastically asked Qin Feng to sit down and greeted him.

Qin Feng glanced at the man named Li Zi, whose hands were covered with soot, and hurriedly said: "It's free to watch the tea, let's do your work. I'll be here later."

That Li Zi was probably unwilling to make tea, so he glanced at Qin Feng gratefully, smiled and continued to work.

"thump".

When Qin Feng sat down, he heard the sound of something heavy falling to the ground. He looked down and saw that the official seal hidden in his sleeve pocket had fallen out.

Wan Kunming next to him immediately picked up the official seal, handed it to Qin Feng and said with a smile: "This thing can't be thrown away. Whoever picks it up will be the county magistrate of Ninghai."

"Heh, if someone knows that this official is going to the northern border, no one will pick it up. What do you pick it up for? Are you going to the northern border to die?"

Qin Feng laughed at himself.

Going to the border to fight and marry the princess, except for him, I guess everyone will choose the princess...

Chun Ri just had a head start, and it was still very cold in Chun Ri.

When the cold wind blows, the biting cold is even more severe than that in the further north inland, so there are extraordinarily many people who come to buy charcoal in the past two days.

The line to buy charcoal was long.

Rich families usually have charcoal ready in winter, so those who buy charcoal are ordinary people with little savings, so they can only buy piecemeal.

But not all, there are also one or two who look like servants, maybe the master is not favored at home and needs to line up here with a charcoal basket.

There was a manservant and a maidservant in the queue, each of them was their master but they knew each other well. They were still chatting at the queue, talking about the arson case last night, which happened to be overheard by Qin Feng.

"I heard that those who died in the fire last night were all charred. Tsk tsk..."

(End of this chapter)