It was already dark outside, and only an energy-saving lamp on the head shone on one area in the archives.

Zhou Ruocheng sat in this area and looked at it, so far he had finished reading a large part of the file, but he found nothing.

Zhang Qing watched from the side, already yawning, like Zhou Ruocheng, he hadn't had a good rest for a long time after running around these days.

"If you're tired, get some sleep." Zhou Ruocheng looked at Zhang Qing's depressed face.

"It's okay, young master, I can still hold on." Zhang Qing rubbed his eyes and shook his head to make himself sober, but his eyelids still slowly drooped.

Zhou Ruocheng also smiled bitterly, and when he wanted to say a few words, he heard someone coming over in the distance.

"Lord Zhou, are you still watching?" The old man came over with two bags of soy milk and two baked cakes in his hands, "You've been watching it for a while, eat something to warm up and rest?" ”

Sitting on the ground in the cold archive room without air conditioning, you must know that it is also the first lunar day, although the temperature is nothing compared to the north, but it is still cold, looking at the soy milk that seems to be steaming in this winter night, Zhou Ruocheng and see hope.

The old man poured the soy milk into a stainless steel cup, Zhang Qing held the stainless steel cup, the white hands had long been red from reading books, he just sat on the ground like Zhou Ruocheng, holding the soy milk cup, "Ah... It's so warm. ”

The old man also found a place to sit down, and took out a dry tobacco pipe from his pocket, "My lord, what kind of person's business makes you so concerned?" ”

Zhou Ruocheng, who was looking at the Sword Sect while pulling the baked cakes, didn't look at him, "A friend's thing, she lived in Jianghua when she was a child, and suddenly one day their parents suddenly jumped into the river and committed suicide, and she became an orphan all of a sudden, and then she was a thin horse and apprenticeship, and then it was not easy to climb and roll along the way, something happened recently, and I came to turn over the case." ”

"Oh, this is also a poor man, and may I ask your lord, what is the name of this friend of yours?" The old man lit a cigarette and asked when he heard Zhou Ruocheng say this.

"Su Wan'er, she is now quite famous in Jiangzhou, the one who plays the guzheng." Zhou Ruocheng said.

"Su Wan'er... Su Wan'er... The old man pouted on his pipe and thought for a while, "Well... My lord, if I remember correctly, but this is the granddaughter of Su Cheng, the bishop of the Nine Dragons Sect in Jiangzhou? ”

Zhou Ruocheng was also stunned, although he didn't know what Su Wan'er's grandfather's name was, but the granddaughter of the Bishop of the Nine Dragons Sect was still fitting, "Uncle, do you know?" ”

"Su Cheng was a big celebrity in our time, who didn't know him." The old man replied.

"And do you know his son?" Zhou Ruocheng asked again.

"Seriously, this Su Zheng is also a very poor person, originally such a good church was dragged down because the main god was too wasteful, plus at that time Yang Kaihui came to power, Jiangzhou gradually began to be chaotic, many people only have money in their eyes, before Lord Xu came, Jianghua was also very chaotic, the original church of the Kowloon Sect was here, and now it has been demolished and built into a department store, and the shares are still Yang Kaihui's!" The old man chatted about it.

Zhou Ruocheng also smiled bitterly, "So do you know his son's whereabouts?" Zhou Ruocheng asked again.

"His son? Oh.. I know, Su Fuxing, originally called Su Fuguo, and then because the church's capital turnover could not be opened, he looked for people to borrow money everywhere, and in the end the church was mortgaged, and in the end, he couldn't pay it off, so he took his wife and daughter to live in someone else's house, and he said that Su Fuxing was really a big fool, at that time, as a man, he should find a suitable errand to support his family, he didn't do it, he went to the street every day to preach the doctrine, and his wife went out to work for people to subsidize the family, and the days were still without a meal. The old man said.

"Old man, you are here to show others the warehouse, I didn't expect to know quite a lot of things." Zhou Ruocheng said.

"My lord won't tell you that the old man used to be an errand boy in the yamen of Jianghua Mansion, and he was in charge of this part of the matter, but now he is old enough to be transferred here

Come and see the warehouse. The old man said.

"Eh, according to your intentions, you should be quite familiar with the things at that time, do you know anything about Su Fuxing's suicide?" Zhou Ruocheng asked again.

"Did Su Fuxing commit suicide?" The old man puffed his pipe again, and thought for a while, "Oh! Right, right! I remember, it was indeed a suicide, and the husband and wife committed suicide by jumping into the river, just by Jianghua City. ”

"So did anything unusual happen on the day of the incident?" Zhou Ruocheng asked again.

"Something unusual? Probably not... The old man frowned and thought for a while, "At that time, Su Fuxing's family had a lot of evil debts, and someone beat him on the street at the end of three days, and it was not bad if he was not beaten to death, to be honest, he was in such a situation, and it would be better if he died soon." ”

"So the husband and wife just left their daughter and jumped into the river to commit suicide?" Zhou Ruocheng asked.

"I don't know about this, if I want to say that if I want to die, I should take my daughter with me, this is a lot of debt, and my daughter will be arrested by others to dig out her heart and lungs." The old man also sighed.

There was a brief silence for a while, and the story could only reflect the sorrow left by a small man in one era, even if he was born in the Great Church before, and ended up in this way.

Zhang Qing had already fallen asleep against the book next to him, making a slight snorting sound.

"Maybe they thought about a future for their daughter before they were going to kill themselves? Like sending it to a skinny horse school or something? Zhou Ruocheng asked.

"No, Lord Zhou." The old man said.

"How?" Zhou Ruocheng asked.

"This Skinny Horse School is different from other places, to put it bluntly, it is a place to sell daughters, and this household registration is going to fall into the school during the period from the time the daughter is sent in to the redemption, this Su Wan'er was sent in a month after her parents died, so it is definitely not her parents." The old man said.

"You know that again?" Zhou Ruocheng asked.

"How could I not know, the matter of changing the household registration was originally done by our yamen, and if you want to enter the Slender Horse School, you have to go through the formalities in our yamen first, I am so old and have no children, so I am somewhat concerned about the children who enter the Thin Horse School, and it is also the last time I went to work, and I remember this memory very well." The old man said.

"Do you have a copy of the documents that entered the Skinny Horse School at that time?" Zhou Ruocheng asked again.

"Of course, there is." The old man replied.

"Can you show me?" Zhou Ruocheng pointed and asked again.

"Okay, I have a number of this, I'll show you, maybe you still know." The old man extinguished the cigarette with the sole of his shoe, stood up slowly, and walked to the bookshelf on the side.

rummaging through the piles of boxes, pulled out a box of folders that were some years old, took out one of them, blew the ash on it, opened it and began to look for it, "Su Wan'er. Su Wan'er. Yes! Yes, Su Wan'er, yes, it's her, on September 11, the household registration was transferred to Jiangyang Slender Horse School, and I handled it single-handedly. The old man came over with a smile on his paperwork.

Zhou Ruocheng took the document and looked at it, because he was a little old, the signature on the guardian column on the yellowed paper was already a little blurred, and he didn't know whose name was written.

"Old man, do you have to sign this guardian column?" Zhou Ruocheng asked again.

"This visa must be signed, but no one said that it must be a guardian, at that time, there were more traffickers who resold children in the name of the Thin Horse School, and no one cared, and there were too many people who sold their daughters in a bad life." The old man replied.

"Even if the days are hard, Su Fuxing has no intention of selling his daughter, is he so relieved to leave his daughter alone in the world?" Zhou Ruocheng muttered.

"Then I don't know, it's been so long anyway." The old man said.

Zhou Ruocheng thought for a while and stood up, "Old man, I probably understand this matter, and I have to thank you." ”

"Nope

Yes I'm all about to fall into the coffin, so I can help some. The old man said that it was also true.

Zhou Ruocheng took a silver ingot and put it in the old man's hand, "Uncle, this is filial piety to you, you have to take it." ”

"Eh, sir, why are you so embarrassed?" The old man hadn't caught oil and water for a long time, and his eyes lit up when he saw this silver.

Zhou Ruocheng stood up and patted Zhang Qing, who was already asleep, and called him up.

"Ahh I'm sorry young master, I actually fell asleep! Zhang Qing didn't sleep too hard, and woke up immediately.

"Alright, we're leaving." Zhou Ruocheng said.

"Have you found a clue?" Zhang Qing asked.

"I found it, but it wasn't the answer I was looking for." Zhou Ruocheng put on his coat and walked out.

"So what do we do next?" Zhang Qing asked.

"Let's go to another place." Zhou Ruocheng said.

"Where to go?" Zhang Qing asked.

"Jiangyang Thin Horse School." Zhou Ruocheng said.

Zhou Ruocheng went non-stop, took a car to Jiangyang overnight, and arrived at the gate of the Slender Horse School early the next morning.

The doorman will never forget Zhou Ruocheng, a big customer who bought a car, and when he saw Zhou Ruocheng coming, he politely opened the door.

"Uncle, have you come to pick a girl again in less than half a year?" The old man asked.

"Help me contact your teacher in charge here, I have something to find her." Zhou Ruocheng said.

After a while, the teacher with glasses and a cold face came, and saw that Zhou Ruocheng was also respectful, no matter how he said it, he could be regarded as a big customer." ”

"Teacher, I just wanted you to do me a favor today." Zhou Ruocheng said.

"Mr. Zhou, please tell me if there is anything we can help with." The teacher said.

"Is there a record of the girls you sold in the past?" Zhou Ruocheng asked again.

"This is naturally there, we have a record of every girl's origin and birth, and we will not accept children of unknown origin." The teacher replied.

"So can you help me look up someone?" Zhou Ruocheng asked again.

"Wait a minute." The teacher turned on the computer on the side, "You say." ”

"Su Wan'er." Zhou Ruocheng said.

The teacher also glanced at Zhou Ruocheng, but he didn't ask too much, and checked the record, "I found it, I settled in our school for about fifteen years, and studied in our school until I was fifteen years old and left." ”

"This Su Wan'er is also powerful, she redeemed herself at a young age." Zhou Ruocheng muttered.

"Mr. Zhou, Su Wan'er didn't redeem herself, but someone paid her a ransom, and of course Su Wan'er herself paid a small part of it." The teacher said.

"Oh," Zhou Ruocheng's eyes lit up, "Who redeemed her body?" ”

"I'm sorry Mr. Zhou, this is a secret of our school, we can't disclose the customer's information to others at will, please understand." The teacher said.

"Teacher, let me tell you the truth, I am now Miss Su Wanren's agent, and now Miss Su Wan'er wants to enter the entertainment industry, her life experience must be polished, and we must revise her experience." Zhou Ruocheng suddenly changed his painting style, and took out a stack of money tickets from his pocket, "I'm going to buy out Miss Su Wan'er's file now, what do you think?" ”

The teacher glanced at the money on the table, and finally looked at Zhou Ruocheng, "Okay, Mr. Zhou, we can't lose our current customers because of a filing so long ago." ”

"Please tell me who ransomed Su Wan'er." Zhou Ruocheng asked again.

"It's not a person who ransomes Miss Su Wan'er, it's a company." The teacher said, "The other party ransomed Miss Su in the name of the company. ”

"What company?" Zhou Ruocheng asked.

"Tong's Building Materials Trading Co., Ltd., and the other party has repeatedly stated that they cannot disclose their relationship to Miss Su." The teacher replied.

The corners of Zhou Ruocheng's mouth rose, and he always felt that he was one step closer to the truth.