The Lord who use immortals as food

"If you had told me when you were in prison, I would have asked Li Zhao to give you some in the first two days," Pei Ye said.

Xie Chuantang paused for a moment, still sipping porridge, but raised his eyes to look at him.

"What's wrong?"

"It's okay, let's recognize you again." Xie Chuantang retracted his gaze and lowered his head to eat vegetables, and said vaguely, "Don't you feel that you are not so handsome anymore and you are a little shorter?"

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Xie Chuantang took a bite of the bun.

"If you're not handsome, how can you be short by just one fingernail?"

"Sorry, I have been working as a police officer for a long time and I am more sensitive to height and appearance." Xie Chuantang said casually, "If you care, don't say anything."

Pei Ye rolled her eyes and picked the two buns toward her.

Just now, he was standing at the intersection of a busy street, watching the woman come out of the alley in a daze, and he took out two small red jade lotuses from his hands before he finally recognized her.

"You rescued me? What did you use me for?" Xie Chuantang asked.

Pei Ye paused and told her the whole story from beginning to end.

Xie Chuantang slowed down his eating speed and looked at the table.

"Because you are the only person in the entire Jingzhao Mansion who has investigated the Taiping Cao Gang." Pei Ye said, "Now it is on tight guard, but you have been to its heart before."

Xie Chuantang put a bun into his mouth three times and swallowed it with a sip of water: "Tell me what you know."

"On the surface, we know that the Taiping Cao Gang secretly banned human trafficking and the carp shop has been sealed, but we can't find the fact that they are doing this on a larger scale." Pei Ye said, "As for Zhang Mingqin's case, It provides us with a line from bottom to top. We know that they persecute good families, kill their parents, and then send their children to the fantasy building."

"Now we know what we are investigating, but it is still unclear how the 'persecution of good families' is implicated in the entire Taiping Cao Gang, and what is the inextricable connection between Huan Lou and the Taiping Cao Gang," he said.

Xie Chuantang continued to eat the buns with his head down, and said slowly: "Zhang Mengyuan and his wife died later."

Pei Ye was startled: "What?"

"It is true that Zhang Mengyuan and his wife did not die at the same time as Zhang Mingqin, but Zhang Mengyuan and his wife died behind Zhang Mingqin."

Pei Ye was stunned for a moment.

"You mean that Zhang Mengyuan and his wife died after Zhang Mingqin was thrown into Longshou Canal?" Pei Ye frowned and processed this information off guard, "How is it possible? Then where have they been these days?"

"I want to know too."

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"I have been thinking about this in prison, even if I close my eyes and open my eyes." Xie Chuantang finished the last bun and looked up at him, "I first found Zhang Mingqin's body, and then found the scene where she was robbed and killed - —There wasn’t any blood there.”

Pei Ye listened intently.

"There wasn't even much fighting or resistance. It was more of coercion than robbery." Xie Chuantang whispered, "Zhang Mengyuan and his wife were not killed on the spot."

"Zhang Mingqin was kidnapped on the 18th and saw the body on the 22nd. After that, I spent four days to find those four people. When I threw them into prison, they pointed me to the place where Zhang Mengyuan and his wife dumped their bodies."

Xie Chuantang looked at the young man opposite: "You can't see these two corpses now, but I saw them with my own eyes at the time - they must not have been dead for more than three days."

Pei Ye's face became serious.

"Since they want Zhang Mingqin, why did they imprison the couple for so long?" Xie Chuantang looked at him, "If you want to investigate the secret activities of the Taiping Cao Gang, this is the entrance I provide."

Pei Ye tapped the table gently, and after a moment of silence, she took a breath and stood up: "Let's go back to the government office first and check the news with Mr. Di."

Jingzhao Mansion.

The night was dark and it was almost dawn. The candle that had been burning all night was replaced with a new one.

Xie Chuantang took a quick shower, put on neat casual clothes, and took out the case files one by one to answer Di Jiu's questions. The file room was like her home at this time, with the details of the entire case and the appearance of the Taiping Cao Gang. The woman's story gradually became clearer.

Finally she closed the last page and drank a large glass of water.

Di Jiu nodded slowly with a condensed face, and moved his eyes towards Pei Ye: "Pei Yanjian was able to find this detective in two days, and the case was indeed clear immediately."

He frowned and looked back at the case file in front of him: "In other words, the problem became clear immediately."

"I actually feel the same way about the question raised by the two of them about why Zhang Mengyuan and his wife were imprisoned." Di Jiu looked at them and said, "For the past two days, Li Zhao and I have been investigating cases with the 'Carp House' as the center of the circle. The waiter and singer who investigated the case traced the case very far and found no signs of abduction. "

"The sixty-seven people rescued by this carp museum seemed to come out of thin air, as if they were sent directly from somewhere, rather than the intersection of lines."

Pei Ye frowned: "Master Di, I'm stupid - but where is the 'sameness' between these two things?"

Di Jiu lightly knocked on the desk twice: "Because they are all phenomena that deviate from the 'crime of human trafficking'."

Xie Chuantang's eyes suddenly sharpened.

"Because I have handled many cases of human trafficking, and I have read a lot of them carefully in the past two days. The main cases of human trafficking are abduction and rape of people. The focus of the Taiping Cao Gang should be on these people, and they will be the center of the circle afterwards. Leaving traces. The knights, scholars, and women transported from one place to another are the traces that can be traced." Di Jiu leaned on the chair. This man had no cultivation, and he could not hide his fatigue from two days of hard work. , "But not the case of Liguan. I didn't find these lines."

But a pair of sharp eyes still looked at the three people who were listening quietly: "At the same time, Pei Yanjian said that Zhang Mengyuan and his wife died after Zhang Mingqin; in the confession, the victim women all lived in Shenjing for a long time, but most of the knights and scholars lived alone in Shenjing; There are facts about human trafficking, but there are no relatives or friends who reported the crime; several valid confessions said that the perpetrators broke in brazenly, but claimed that the victims were guilty; the Taiping Cao Gang has risen to such a scale in just a few years."

Pei Ye had been holding on to a line and digging deeply. At this moment, his eyes suddenly lifted up after hearing this, and he took an overview of these unusual features.

"So I think that the carp museum incident may not be a case of human trafficking, but a by-product of some greater crime." Di Jiu closed his eyes and said slowly.

Pei Ye was stunned for a moment. He suddenly remembered Cheng Xiaozhu's timid confession:

"I don't know. They just broke into our house. They said Dad had committed some crime and kidnapped us."

"They seemed to show me some kind of waist card, and he was very scared. He didn't resist."

".What's illegal?" he asked.

"It's not a certain case, but a certain pattern, a certain process, covered under a dragnet. Because they are killing such people, no one can ever expose it." Di Jiu said.

"This was originally a bold idea of ​​mine, but now that Detective Xie is here, I'm willing to call it a guess." He looked up at Pei Ye and the two of them, "Pei Yanjian also listened to the girl Cheng Xiaozhu's confession. Passed, now I want you two to verify a simple thing - Miss Cheng is polite in conversation and has delicate hands. She must be from a well-off family. Please find out what kind of family business their family had and what it is now. How to dispose of it.”

Pei Ye was shocked, and Di Jiu continued: "This is also one of the two questions I was thinking about just now - how much money does a trafficker make?"

At dawn, Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang walked silently on the streets of Yong'anfang.

This kind of work is indeed as simple as Mr. Di said. Two hours ago, they followed the instructions and came to Cheng Xiaozhu's deserted and vacant house and knocked on the doors of several neighbors.

"It's their home. We don't know what happened to them. They said they were taken away noisily at night a while ago. We don't know what's going on now."

"Family business? Boss Cheng runs a cloth shop. He is a very kind person and always gives us some. When people are down-to-earth, business is booming. Look, this is not the house we just bought. In addition to this one, I heard that there is another one in Yong'anfang. Woolen cloth!"

"I don't know where it is. I do know about the cloth shop. It's three streets away with a sign saying 'Ping An'. But although it's open again these days, the owner seems to have changed."

".Thank you."

As expected, Ping'an Cloth Shop is very open and prosperous.

The two-story, three-door street-facing facade has a lot of people coming and going, and the waiter's skillful appearance doesn't seem to have changed. Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang walked in as usual and put their badges in front of the shopkeeper: "Excuse me, who is the boss here?"

"Ah, Mr. Guan, it's Mr. Qi from Baiweilou!"

"Is Mr. Qi from the Taiping Cao Gang?"

"Yes, yes, you recognize it?"

"I don't recognize you." Pei Ye looked up at the store, "How is business lately?"

"It's a lot better, but now as long as I tell Master Qi's name, those gangsters won't dare to go rogue. Hehe, there will be less deductions." The shopkeeper smiled, "Master, do you want anything?"

"No."

Pei Ye nodded and walked out.

Cheng Xiaozhu, Hao Xiaofang, Yan Wan, and Yu Yueqiu spent one morning checking the family properties of all the victims who could still testify, and none of them fell into the hands of the Taiping Cao Gang. There is no need to deliberately look for wealth, because as long as you live in Shenjing, a house costs several hundred taels of silver. It is much easier than struggling to find a scholar and then transform and domesticate it.

How could there be such an easy business in the world?

Why can they and why do they dare to be so rampant?

This kind of behavior is beyond the boy's consciousness. Now he knows what the tip of the iceberg is, and all he has to offer along the way is silence.

"Then adding what Li Zhao and I found out, the case will be clear." As expected, Di Jiu took the results they reported back and said, "The law enforcement officers of Jingzhao Mansion and Chang'an and Wannian counties nine years ago The space was squeezed, and they were replaced by Jinwu Guard street patrols. These days, I have always felt that there is a large shortage of cases in Jingzhao Mansion. Many cases that I have chased to the end have been handled by Jinwu Guard. The security needs of Shenjing City will not be If not, then the responsibility can only be transferred to other yamen.”

"The Taiping Cao Gang and the Jinwu Guards are in harmony with each other, the Jinwu Guards are the backers, and the Taiping Cao Gang are the murderers. Looking for a rich and helpless family in the square, they weave accusations and record their family wealth. The scholars and knights living alone in Shenjing have little wealth. The Yin people were also persecuted." Di Jiu said, "After that, they were either killed, sold, or exiled, and their entire family was wiped out, so they had no complaints. However, those who refused could not appeal to the Jingzhao Palace, Jinwu Guards, or the Ministry of Punishment, and they were often easily killed. ”

Pei Ye was silent for a long time: "...I still can't believe it."

"Shenjing has both civilized and barbaric sides, and each side is the ultimate in the human world." The cold-faced Shaoqing wrote the case, "Be careful when committing crimes in other places, because you don't know what to do with your head. There will always be a "Shangguan comes to investigate". But it won't happen in Shenjing. If you master the ultimate power, you can do whatever you want with a certain area of ​​innocence. "

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"But at least we can see the cloud covering the sky now." Di Jiu put down his pen and looked up at the three people in the room. "Very good, Pei Ye, I put down my official hat in the Dali Temple not to solve a case, but to purge the entire Shenjing from the poisonous mud. This case is the day for us to break the cloud."

"How to solve it?"

"Evidence."

"Where is the evidence?"

"The person captured by Liguan alone should have nearly a hundred family members. They must have a private prison to fabricate charges and frame innocent people on such a large scale. This private prison is not supervised by the government, but controlled by the Taiping Cao Gang, and it cannot be destroyed or hidden."

"Is there such a private prison?"

"The records found by Li Zhao this morning-nine years ago, the Jinwu Guards were unable to place the lawbreakers they arrested because of the chaos in the Shenjing security. , because of the request to set up a temporary "winter prison" outside the Southern Court, the Southern Court quickly approved it. "Di Jiu said, "This process is not noticed by people, and no one knows where this "winter prison" is located. Today, nine years later, there is even less trace."

". Then how do we find it?"

"I'll find it." Di Jiu said in a calm voice, "Li Zhao and I are good at tracing the petty tricks of these yamen."

"Three days." He looked at Pei Ye and said, "This matter is kept secret. Within three days, I will take out the location of this prison, report it to the court, and ask the imperial guards to seal it up."

This is the conversation that just happened in the government office. Now Pei Ye and Xie Chuantang stopped, and the streets of Yong'anfang did not seem so prosperous. In front of them was Ding Yukang's courtyard, and everything was still the same as when they left that day.

"Old Ding told me the other day: Your skin and knife were given to you by someone, and you still want to take them back to investigate them?" Xie Chuantang said, "I think it makes sense. After the case is closed, you will be in plain clothes."

"No need now," Pei Ye said, "We are following public orders."

"Yes, so thank you very much. Without you, I can't investigate this case." Xie Chuantang took two stacks of yellow paper bought on the street, put them in the bowl and lit them, and the ashes and flames surged into the sky.

Pei Ye watched this scene quietly, and handed in his own stack: ". When I first came to Shenjing, I understood a truth that power plus evidence is a threat, but I never thought about it the other way around - since there is no threat, why not do whatever you want."

"Then you have just arrived in Shenjing not long ago."

"Yes."

Xie Chuantang looked up at the flying smoke gradually dissipating, pursed his lips and said softly: "In three days, Old Ding, the former Jingzhao Prefecture will be back."