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Chapter 964 Case solved!

Chapter 964 Case solved!

"Do you think I don't want to?"

The prefect was not panicked. Although he didn't know why these people were looking for those beautiful girls, he knew that if they wanted to achieve this goal, they had to cooperate with him.

"If I lose those concubines, I will be impeached, and the lightest sentence I will receive is exile!"

"I want to find those beauties as soon as possible more than you do!"

The prefect looked stern, but he had an air of being calm and composed: "After the incident, I sealed off the city and arranged for my trusted men to guard the city gates."

"If a group of women were hiding in the city, it would be impossible not to be discovered!"

The prefect was furious this time and arrested all the leaders of the city foxes and rats. After a good beating, many of them chose to cooperate.

These people have many and diverse channels for obtaining information, but none of them have found any clues.

After the prefect finished explaining the situation, Gu Qingqiu frowned slightly and then ordered: "Untie the prefect!"

Xia Hongyao swung her dagger and the hemp rope tied to the prefect broke.

"Did you send anyone to monitor the homes of Shen Caishen and the judge during this period?"

Lin Baici asked.

"Have!"

The prefect glanced at Lin Baici and thought that anyone who was not a fool would do such a thing.

"Bring the people you sent here. I want to question them!"

Gu Qingqiu urged.

"Now?"

The prefect saw Gu Qingqiu nod, thought for a moment, and suggested: "Why don't you come back to the government office with me? It's more convenient to work there!"

"it is good!"

Gu Qingqiu did not refuse. She was not afraid of walking into a tiger's den. With the fighting power of Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao, they were enough to kill their way through the entire county.

At daybreak, the group returned to the government office, and the prefect called back all the trusted confidants he had sent out.

In the side hall, Gu Qingqiu looked at these servants and began to question them.

The biggest suspects must be Shen Caishen and the Chief Inspector.

Xia Hongyao listened carefully, but the servant said that apart from the fact that Shen Caishen fell ill due to excessive worry and simply closed the door to visitors, nothing unusual had happened during that period.

As for the Chief Justice, he went out early and came back late, devoting all his efforts to investigating the case.

"Has the judge been to Shen Caishen's house?"

Gu Qingqiu asked.

“I’ve been there once!”

The servant bowed and answered.

"From this point of view, the judge is more suspicious!"

Xia Hongyao inferred.

"Wrong, I can be sure that Shen Caishen must have been involved in this matter!"

Gu Qingqiu looked calm.

"what?"

Xia Hongyao was startled: "What's the reason?"

"Alumni?"

Gu Qingqiu looked at Lin Baici, wanting him to explain.

"We have inquired about it. Shen Caishen is well-known for his love for his daughter. So if such a person loses his daughter, even if there is a slight chance to prove that she is not dead, he will definitely go all out to find her!"

Lin Baici reasoned: "Even if he was sick, he had to find all the connections he could, but Shen Caishen didn't go!"

"Didn't he say that? Shen Caishen sent his servants out to look for him!"

Xia Hongyao objected.

"Yes, I saw it with my own eyes!"

Slave certificate.

"Where can I find a group of servants? With the wisdom of Shen Caishen who made a fortune, he wouldn't not understand this, right?"

Lin Baici laughed: "If the direction is wrong, no matter how much effort and money you spend, it will be useless!"

"So this proves that there is something wrong with Shen Caishen?"

Xia Hongyao frowned.

"The biggest reason why Shen Caishen didn't go out to look for connections is because he knew his daughter was not dead and he was not sick. If he went out to look for connections like this, others would be able to see it!"

Lin Baici explained: "So he used the excuse of being sick to close the door to visitors!"

“I think I understand a little bit!”

Xia Hongyao nodded and sorted out the cause and effect.

"What should we do now? Capture that Shen Caishen and continue to torture him?"

Jin Yingzhen felt that this plan would not work.

"I'll send someone to capture Shen Caishen right now!"

The prefect was furious. Generally speaking, if you touch a local tyrant like this, you will get into a lot of trouble. But for the sake of his future, the prefect did not care about the consequences.

"Cai Shen loves his daughter so much that he won't tell anyone even if he is tortured!"

Gu Qingqiu picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea: "We can only do it ourselves!"

"What's the plan?"

The prefect couldn't wait to ask more questions, and his attitude was much more respectful. He felt that these strangers might really be able to solve the case.

Gu Qingqiu didn't answer in a hurry, but looked at the servant who was responsible for monitoring Shen Caishen's family: "Is Shen Caishen's family's expenses normal?"

"For example, did you buy more rice and flour? Are there more trucks carrying manure than usual?"

"No, everything is normal!"

The servant shook his head.

"That means the missing beauties are not hiding in the house of God of Wealth Shen!"

If there were more people, eating, drinking, defecating and urinating would reveal their flaws: "Who are Shen Caishen's confidants? Are they all at home?"

The servant said several names in succession, and then confirmed: "They are all at home!"

"What about the families of these trusted ones?"

Gu Qingqiu asked again.

The servant was silent and sweating, so he didn't notice.

"Stupid, check it out!"

The prefect cursed loudly.

The servant immediately left and called his followers back. After asking around, he found out what was going on and hurried back to report: "The second housekeeper's son has returned to visit his relatives!"

When the prefect heard this, he immediately slammed the table and said, "Come here, catch this man!"

"Mr. Prefect, please be patient!"

Lin Baici comforted.

"No matter if he has any problems or not, we have to catch him back, right?"

The prefect didn't understand why Lin Baici stopped him.

"My companion hasn't finished asking questions yet, and I think this person might have been deliberately thrown out by the other party to mislead our vision!"

Lin Baici questioned: "If we can think of investigating the family members of our confidants, there is no reason why the other party can't think of it!"

"That's right!"

Gu Qingqiu agreed with Lin Baici's judgment.

"..."

The prefect looked dejected.

"Then according to this statement, isn't it a waste of effort for us to go through all this trouble?"

Xia Hongyao couldn't figure it out.

"No, these are all evidences that prove there is something wrong with Shen Caishen!"

Gu Qingqiu smiled slightly and looked at the servant: "Who discovered that the second housekeeper's son returned to visit his relatives?"

The servant said that he was a distant cousin of his and followed him around as a hanger-on.

Gu Qingqiu asked the servant to bring the cousin in.

This kind of people are usually very meticulous.

When a young man followed the servants in, he knelt on the ground from a distance.

"Get up and talk!"

Gu Qingqiu looked at the young man and said, "What happened in Shen Caishen's family recently? Tell me about it!"

The young servant began to narrate.

The only daughter died, and some people in the backyard were thinking about taking a concubine for Mr. Shen and having a son, while others were celebrating. In short, it was a mess with all the family gossip.

Because of this, a servant boy angered Mr. Shen, and was beaten and kicked out of the house.

When Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu heard this, their eyebrows immediately raised and they looked at each other.

"Tell me about having a child in this family!"

Gu Qingqiu made a request.

"It was just gossiping about the eldest lady's death, and Master Shen heard it."

The young servant took the opportunity to express his loyalty: "People who speak ill of their master behind his back should be beaten to death on the spot. It's too easy for him to just be kicked out of the house!"

"Where did this child go?"

Hua Yueyu asked.

"Where else can we go? Back to the countryside!"

The young servant thought the beautiful woman's question was childish.

"Which country?"

Xia Hongyao asked.

"I have no idea!"

The young servant shook his head.

"So you said he went back to the countryside?"

Xia Hongyao questioned.

"..."

The young servant was depressed: "Where else can I go if I don't go back to the countryside?"

As the saying goes, a person is despised when he leaves his hometown. In ancient times, if you went out without a travel permit, you would be arrested by the government. Moreover, public security in ancient times was not good. If a person left his hometown to make a living, the probability of death was very high.

"You guys get out!"

After Gu Qingqiu asked the servants to leave, he looked at the prefect and said, "Sir, this afternoon, you should give an order to the soldiers to prepare to leave the city tomorrow to search the farms of Shen Caishen."

"Among them, the farm where this child lives is the key target!"

"Are you trying to alert them? Let them reveal themselves?"

The prefect was worried that Gu Qingqiu and the others would not be able to handle it: "The risk is too great. Speed ​​is of the essence in war. Why don't I mobilize the troops now and raid that manor!"

"What if the person is not hiding in the manor?"

Lin Baici asked back.

"..."

The prefect was speechless.

"Sir, I leave the matters here to you!"

Gu Qingqiu stood up and said, "Prepare a few fast horses, we are going to that farm now!"

"it is good!"

The prefect agreed because the foreign woman and the young man were calm and composed, and they looked like masters.

Worthy of the trust.

"My family's life and property are in the hands of you two!"

The prefect stood up and bowed to Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu.

……

With the help of servants and local people arranged by the prefect as guides, Lin Baici and his party arrived at the small village called Shenjiaao in the afternoon.

Lin Baici pretended to be a scholar going to Beijing to take an imperial examination. He entered the village and bowed politely when he saw a young woman weeding a vegetable garden in the yard.

"I am going to Beijing to take the imperial examination. I passed by here and was extremely hungry and thirsty. I beg for a bowl of water!"

As Lin Baici spoke, he took out a dozen copper coins and handed them over.

"You are too polite, sir. It's just a bowl of water. No money is needed."

The young woman lowered her head and bowed to Lin Baici: "Sir, wait a moment!"

After saying that, the young woman went back to the house and quickly came out with a bowl of water and even two cakes in her hand.

"If you don't mind, I can fill your stomach."

The young woman did not let Lin Baici into the yard. After all, in those days, men and women were strictly separated.

"Thank you, young lady!"

Lin Baici put away the copper coins, exchanged them for a tael of silver, and placed them by the fence.

When the young woman saw this scene, she had a very good impression of the young man and became less wary.

Lin Baici took the opportunity to strike up a conversation, and before they knew it, the topic began to inquire about the recent situation at Zhuangzi.

……

Outside the village, Xia Hongyao hid behind a tree and watched Lin Baici chatting with the young woman from afar.

"Xiao Linzi is really a sharp weapon against women!"

Xia Hongyao laughed out loud.

"Oppa is so handsome that foreigners think he is a handsome guy. What's more, it would be strange if a young woman like this who has never been away from home since she was a child is not dazzled by him!"

Jin Yingzhen thought that it might be better not to alert the enemy, because once Oppa used his handsome trick, the woman would confess everything.

Lin Baici did not come back immediately, but had a meal at the young woman's house and took a walk around the village before coming back.

"How about it?"

Gu Qingqiu joked: "Is the farmhouse food delicious?"

"It should be right here!"

Lin Baici ignored Gu Qingqiu's teasing: "The ancestral hall in the village has been under renovation recently, and many people have come here. During this process, we can quietly bring in some women."

"Of course, the most important point is that the threshing ground is similar to the one in the painting by Shen Caishen, so he must know that his daughter is hiding here!"

When everyone heard this, they were cheered up.

"The question now is, where are those showgirls hiding?"

Xia Hongyao was ready to dig the village three feet deep.

"How about arresting and torturing everyone in the village?"

Kim Young-jin likes things simple and rough.

"Catch that bastard. He must have been sent by Shen Caishen to take charge of the situation."

Yudan guy is not stupid.

It seems like being kicked out of the home, but in fact, this is the only way to reduce other people's attention and suspicion.

"Not urgent!"

Lin Baici looked at the sky and said, "Wait for the follow-up plan!"

Gu Qingqiu and Xia Hongyao stayed behind to wait, while the others went to search around the village or town.

In the evening, a fast horse rushed into the village and entered a farmer's house.

"coming!"

This time, even Xia Hongyao knew that she had made the right choice.

That was the home of the married man.

About ten minutes later, the person who brought the news left. When it got dark, Jiashengzi went out, knocked on a few houses, gathered seven or eight strong men, and quietly left the village.

……

The ancestral hall at the back mountain.

cellar.

When the housewife entered, she smelled a mixture of sweat and powder.

After so many days, everyone didn't wash carefully and was naturally a bit sloppy.

"Ladies, the prefect will search Shenjiaao tomorrow. Let's go to the mountains and hide first!"

Although Jiashengzi spoke in a negotiating tone, his attitude was beyond doubt. After he finished speaking, he began to urge everyone to hurry up.

"Don't be afraid, my master has already taken this into consideration and has a hiding place in the mountains!"

Soon, more than twenty girls came out of the cellar and walked out of the ancestral hall.

They didn't see that in the fields far away, Lin Baici and his companions were lying beside the ridges, watching them quietly, like beasts hunting.

“Haha, I finally found these women!”

Yudan Lao was overjoyed and couldn't help but pat Lin Baici on the shoulder.

If it were me, I don’t know how long it would take, but as soon as Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu arrived, it was done.

So strong!

"What should we do now?"

Xia Hongyao asked: "Do we want to bring them to justice?"

"If we catch them, will they be sent to the palace?"

Hua Yueyu frowned: "From what I see, they seem to be very cooperative with that family child. Do they not want to enter the palace?"

"Why do you care what they think?"

Yudan Lao felt that Hua Yueyu was too sentimental: "This is a violation of the rules. Put away your kindness!"

"Rule pollution does not occur without reason. The content depicted in that antique painting may be something that actually happened in history!"

Xia Hongyao looked at those girls and said, "In history, we don't know what their final fate was."

"Follow me, wait for my command, then start!"

Lin Baici was the first to lurk over.