"Do you know any of the people who are staying in the Inspectorate now, who knows where Li Zhicha has gone?" Song Qingshu immediately asked.

"Lord Guard, how do we know this? But you go to the Guangzhou Police Headquarters not far away. Many police officers have been transferred, and even if the general sentence of the police officer in charge is not there, there are always officials who know where the transferred police officers have gone. Menzi was afraid not to say in detail.

"Thank you." Song Qingshu thought about it and understood that Menzi's words were right, so after thanking him like this, he hurriedly got on his horse and hurried to the police headquarters.

After a while, he came to the police headquarters, found the magistrate who had stayed in the yamen to assist in the sentence, asked where the incident had happened, and rode to the place. The magistrate was worried that he had gone a long way, so he arranged for a person to lead him there.

After a while, Song Qingshu left Guangzhou City and came to the 'sea skin' outside the Zhenhai Gate. 'Haipi' is the name of the people of Guangzhou on the Pearl River, at this time 'Haipi' is still a pure natural river beach, every summer flood will pour up the river to flood the low-lying streets, the history of the flooded streets until the early 90s, this is still the situation after the construction of the causeway. Now the shore around Haipi is full of boaters and people. The environment here is complicated, the locals are deeply estranged from the Tan households, and the Guangzhou government yamen basically has little management here, even after the abolition of the Xu officials, the establishment of the police, and the recruitment of some Tan people, there is not much change, but they have to start paying taxes.

After entering Haipi, Song Qingshu saw countless people in dark blue police clothes gathered around a house about one zhang high and covering an area of about one-tenth of an acre. This house is close to the Pearl River, and there seems to be some fish and shrimp drying on the roof. Although the distance was still far away, Song Qingshu could also see that they were all holding sticks in their hands and forming a formation around the house. Even if he couldn't see their faces clearly, he could feel that they were all nervous.

Soon their horses were already in front of the formation of the police, although the person who was the guide for Song Qingshu was dressed in police clothes, but the people who were guarding were still a little nervous, and one of them seemed to be the leader and shouted: "Who is coming!" ”

Song Qingshu and the guide stopped and got off their horses in front of the police formation, and the guide walked over and whispered something to the police leader, took out his ID and pointed at Song Qingshu. The leader immediately got out of the way and let Song Qingshu pass.

Song Qingshu looked back at the guide, and the guide said, "Lord Song, the small ones will send the adults here, and the smaller ones won't be able to enter." ”

"Thank you." Song Qingshu spoke, then took out a silver coin of more than one or two from his body and said: "It is very hard for you to come with me all the way, and this little money is used to drink tea to quench your thirst." ”

"Oh, Lord Song, sending the adult over is the responsibility of the small one, how can you ask for the adult's money?" The guide said. But his eyes kept drifting to the silver bill.

"If I tell you to take it, you can take it." Song Qingshu stuffed the silver coin in his hand.

"In that case, the little one will be taken. Adults can use the small ones to report to the palace? The guide clutched the silver coin tightly in his hand and said.

"Not necessarily." Song Qingshu said. He planned to wait until he had learned more about the matter before returning to the city to report it to Yun Xi.

The guide saluted, turned and rode away.

Song Qingshu walked inside, and immediately saw an official he knew, and hurriedly leaned over and said, "Qian Tongju!" ”

The person called Qian Tongju was talking to the people around him, but when he heard the voice, he immediately turned around, and when he saw Song Qingshu, he was stunned for a moment, and then reacted and said, "It turned out to be Song Guard." But Your Majesty asked you to come and ask how the Caisheng Torture case went? ”

"That's true, Your Majesty asked me to come over early in the morning and ask if there were any eyebrows. When I arrived at the door of the Yamen of the Inspectorate Division, I heard that I had a big eyebrow, so I hurriedly went to the police headquarters to ask for the place and rushed over. Song Qingshu approached and said after saluting Qian Tongju.

Before Qian Tongshu could answer, Song Qingshu's eyes were attracted by a table on the side. He walked over and looked carefully at the things on the table: wooden seals engraved with talismans, red and black ropes, various paper figures, Zhu Shu talismans, and eleven or twelve gourds of all sizes, with a red head rope tied to it, and a five-colored velvet wrapper.

"Guard Song knows what these things do?" The voice of the general judge named Qian Minglin sounded: "I have sent someone to find the Taoist priests in the city who know how to exorcise ghosts to identify these things, but they have not yet come." ”

"These eleven or twelve gourds are all used to harvest the souls of life; It can be seen from the shape of the plug at the mouth of the gourd that it has been filled with living souls. These Zhu Shu talismans are all ....... These people are not just cutting and making livestock, they are also harvesting. Song Qingshu tried to hold back his anger and introduced.

Qian Minglin was taken aback and said, "In addition to cutting, he is still harvesting the soul!" ”

Song Qingshu's gaze turned to other directions at this time. About two or three feet away from the table, there were four or five corpses, all of them children's corpses. The one closest to him, although covered in mud and sand, could still see the tragic situation when he was killed: his facial features, nose, mouth, lips, ears, and eyes were all cut off or dug out, his fingers and toes were also cut off, his chest and abdomen were cut open, and it was full of mud and sand, and it was unknown what organs were cut off.

Song Qingshu couldn't bear to look at it anymore after taking a look. Although he had heard of how to treat 'raw timber' before, it was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes. "It turned out to be so, it turned out to be so." He muttered.

It took him a while to come back to his senses, straighten his clothes, and say to Qian Minglin: "Qian Tongju, how did you find out that they were harvested and cut here?" ”

"Song Guard. The matter was reported to the General Police Department by this person. Qian Minglin pointed to a person beside him and said.

Song Qingshu looked over and saw a person in a dark blue police suit standing aside. The man had dark skin, thick and calloused joints on his hands, and a fishy smell on his body. When he saw Song Qingshu looking at him, he immediately bowed down and said, "Little Feng Delin has seen the guard. ”

"No need to be polite." Song Qingshu said: "Feng Delin, how did you find them? ”

"Lord Guard, the small one is the policeman here at the docks, who live around here on weekdays."

"Since more than ten days ago, the little one has noticed that something is wrong with this fish and shrimp shop: there are too many strangers coming in and out, and they are too diligent in carrying goods."

"Lord Guard, although we are a Tanhu here, we have a precise number of fish and shrimp that can be sold on weekdays, and we will not suddenly buy and sell several times better, and it is abnormal for so many strangers to suddenly come over every day; Moreover, the smell of fish on their cargo is not strong, unlike all fish and shrimp. ”

"Although this is a little strange, the little one didn't take it too seriously. It's not easy to manage here by the river, we are exhausted every day and don't have the heart to take care of superfluous things. ”

"But after the news came yesterday that someone was picking and cutting such a thing, the little one immediately thought of this shop that sells fish and shrimp, turned over on the bed and tossed it until dawn, and several familiar policemen came to call the little one to go on duty, and the little one decided to take these familiar people to the fish and shrimp shop to have a look. At that time, the little one still thought that if he guessed wrong, he would apologize to them, and the neighbors who had been in the neighborhood for several years would not be blamed for this. ”

"But as soon as I walked into their store and saw the neighbor's little one, I felt that something was wrong: his expression was so flustered, even if we policemen came, we wouldn't be so flustered, no one would take his rotten fish and shrimp."

The little one grabbed him at once, tied him up, and removed his jaw. Then the small one asked a few people to guard the front and back doors, and walked in with the rest of the people. It was just dawn, and most of the people in the room were still sleeping, so the younger one and a few brothers easily caught them. ”

"While searching, the little one saw a young woman and two girls, and when he inquired, he learned that they had been abducted by a kidnapper, and that there was a little boy who had been abducted on the same day."

"The little one saw that the soil in the next room seemed to be a little vain, so he beckoned his brothers to dig up the soil, and dug up the body of the child who was furthest to the north."

The little one immediately sent someone to the police station here at the dock to call someone. Soon, the guard officer in charge of the dock police station rushed over with people. Since then, the little one has been searching for corpses here, and I don't know anything else. Von der Lin said.

"You're good." After hearing this, Song Qingshu slowed down and said: "If you can keep in mind what you said above, and take the initiative to search for suspicious people, I will definitely show Your Majesty about this matter, and I will not let your credit be left behind." ”

"Little thank you, Lord Guard, for your grace." Von Delin immediately knelt down happily and said.

"What about the people caught?" Song Qingshu turned around and asked Qian Minglin again.

"They were all knocked out and handcuffed and shackled, and they were put on the sidelines. A total of nine people were arrested, and dozens of police officers were watching. ”

"Don't let any of them die."

"I know. Such a person is not guilty of a thousand swords, which is not enough to atone for his sins. ”

Then Qian Minglin said something to Song Qingshu, he turned around and asked Feng Delin again: "While you are guarding here, there is also a beggar here, called Mei or something, who sent someone to talk to you and let you kill people?" ”

Feng Delin said: "This is true, but the little one will never dare to accept his request." He added, "The little one knows the severity, what kind of case is this?" Don't say that such a thing can't be hidden at all, even if it can, the little one doesn't dare to accept his request. In such a big case as Caisheng and cutting, eating black and greedy ink in it, even if the yamen didn't see it, God couldn't let it go. ”

"Good." Song Qingshu praised again, and said to Qian Minglin: "Did you send someone to catch that beggar of Mei or something?" ”