"Could it be that coincidental?"

Jin Tuan blinked his big wet eyes, feeling a little scared in his heart.

"I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of just in case."

Tang Jingruo added a sentence next to him.

The sound of footsteps was not light or heavy, and the two of them and the beast had a tacit understanding not to speak.

Ma Anshan knocked on the door and replied, "My lord, that person has woken up." ”

"Take it for arraignment." Song Yiyao replied loudly, thought for a while, and asked, "Is the little marquis willing to go together?" ”

Tang Jingruo smiled and agreed.

How can you laugh so good! Song Yiyao came back to his senses, and his expression was unnatural.

In the interrogation room, the owner of the troupe was looking nervously around, and the torture instruments were listed beside him, looking gloomy and scary.

He shook in fright when he heard the door open. Goosebumps popped up all over my body. Don't dare to look back. I am afraid that the person who comes will be a fierce servant, and I will punish him when I come up.

"Awake?" Song Yiyao asked coolly, as if it was a homely gossip. But his natural attitude made the troupe owner even more afraid.

Especially when he saw the handsome man behind him who kicked himself unconscious. I felt a dull pain in my sternum. He hurriedly said:

"Adult, it's a small one who has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, so you can spare the little one!"

Tang Jingruo sat down with a straight face on his face, like a hell Shura and a black-faced Hades against the background of the torture instruments around him.

Song Yiyao smiled and asked:

"You don't even understand why you were caught?"

"I don't know if it's small!" The troupe owner shook his head with a bitter face.

Don't know what to run at the time? Song Yiyao said solemnly:

"I will behead anyone who abducts and abuses young children, according to the four hundred and thirty-ninth articles of the law."

The boss of the troupe turned pale, and a pair of mouse eyes swirled:

"It's just that the small troupe can't go on, so I set up a performing arts team. But there was no abduction to abuse them! ”

Song Yiyao saw that he still refused to confess honestly, and deliberately dug a tunnel:

"These children are the original apprentices of your troupe?"

"Ahh The troupe boss didn't expect her to ask like this, thinking that they hadn't noticed the abnormality of those children, so they should say this sentence.

With a thud, a sharp blade grazed his cheek and slammed into the wall behind him.

A lock of hair fell slowly to the ground.

Tang Jingruo withdrew his hand and took another one.

Playing with it in your hand over and over again.

The boss was already weak-hearted, and he was almost incontinent when he was frightened like this, and he was afraid that he would rush up for a while.

The little marquis is mighty! Song Yiyao seized the opportunity and sneered:

"Are you fooling around here? A group of opera apprentices who can't speak, don't hurry up and explain honestly! Where did these children come from? ”

"Your Excellency has wronged! They really weren't kidnapped by me, yes, I bought them, five dollars a piece, and they all said that these children were very obedient.

When my troupe dispersed, I wanted to find some livelihood, originally to pick some good seedlings, but when I saw these children, I had a crooked mind. I think the juggling class is also good, and I want to make money from them. I was wrong! My lord, I shouldn't have enslaved them! ”

"Tell me how you met these children at the time, and don't miss a single detail."

"Yes, I said, I said both."

There was a prepared pen, ink, paper and inkstone in the interrogation room, and Song Yiyao pulled Tang Jingruo to the desk to signal.

Tang Jingruo picked up his sleeve with one hand, put down the pen with the other, and moved his wrist lightly, and a line of small letters appeared on the paper. The font is moderate, and the style is good.

Good word! Song Yiyao silently praised in his heart, came back to his senses, cleared his throat and said, "Say it." ”

"It was half a year ago just after the New Year's Festival, my troupe offended the old staff of Jinchang when singing, and that old guy said that he had lost something and framed our troupe.

I was arrested by the government, and my wife had no choice but to disperse the troupe to avoid trouble and raise money, so she rescued me from the government.

I came out, but the people in the troupe were gone. Didn't I still have to live, so I went to the dental store to find a few cheap and good seedlings to see if I could get back to my old business.

As a result, I went and found that the people there were too expensive. With the little money I had at the time, let alone putting together a team, even three people couldn't buy it.

That afternoon, I visited several dental stores, either I couldn't meet good seedlings or couldn't afford them, and just as I was frowning, a man wearing a white lacquered face mask and a big black robe covered from head to toe suddenly appeared from the alley and dragged me over.

He said there was a place where it was cheaper. I agreed to go. He blindfolded me and stuffed me into a sedan chair with curtains on both sides. Took me to that place. ”

The sedan chair was quickly lifted, and the troupe owner sat in the sedan chair, scared and nervous.

At that time, he didn't care about what he was going to buy at all, and the rest of his worries were all about his own safety.

"Don't worry, we just haven't been through the official face, so we're cautious."

The black-robed man lifted the curtain and comforted him. He nodded in understanding.

Then I felt that the sedan chair was being lifted.

He kept his eyes closed, and he was sleepy, and he fell asleep unconsciously.

When I woke up, the sedan chair was still walking.

It seems like an hour of hard work, maybe longer.

The person carrying the sedan chair went from walking like flying to staggering, as if he had walked to a difficult road. It seems to be too tired.

Anyway, by the time he came out of a small dark room, it was already dark outside.

What kind of place is that? The people inside were all wearing masks and black robes, and they were all exactly the same. Standing together is like a person splitting into two people.

The dim candle flame kept jumping, there was a damp feeling in the air, a smell of blood, and the screams and cries from time to time made the troupe owner even more timid.

"You're going to buy a child, right, what are you going to do with it?"

"I just want to buy some apprentices to make money, the obedient ones are the best, I don't have much money."

"Before, it was a theater troupe?"

The black-robed man glanced at his face and asked with great certainty.

"I opened a drama troupe before, but later, it broke up."

"There are a batch of singing dramas that can't be sung," Speaking of this, the black-robed man laughed to himself, the laughter was very permeating, and the cold air was radiating from his bones.

"But you can try acrobatics, and they're pretty good at acrobatics."

The boss of the troupe suddenly had a premonition that this might be a hot potato, and said cowardly: "I don't have much money,"

"It's okay, five dollars a piece. Ten in all, and buy one for a tael of silver. You can beat gongs and drums and shout. ”

The black-robed man ping-pong the jade abacus with his gloved hand.

Halfway through his speech, he suddenly raised his head, stared at the troupe boss with a pair of sharp eyes, and said:

"However, you can't say where you bought them when you took them out to perform, and those who dare to reveal us have only one end. If you don't want to be skinned with a lantern, take them to another place and don't go back here. The farther you go, the better. ”

At first glance, when he heard the price, the boss of the troupe laughed and was frightened by the words in the back. I can only promise to come down.

The black-robed man counted the money several times, and finally advised, "Go and pack your luggage, and when you pack up for the winter solstice and are ready to go, we will send the child over." ”

Is this a money scam? Although the owner of the troupe was suspicious, he couldn't wait to go back for his own safety.

Later, he was stuffed into a sedan chair again and fell asleep. When I woke up, I was in that alley again.

Only the wooden sign in his hand and the empty money bag reminded him that this was not a dream.

"I originally wanted to give it a try, and the money was all spent, but I really didn't have the face to see my wife, so I packed my bags and said that I was going out to recruit people to resume my old business. Who knew that the carriage left the town, and when it was half an hour, it was stopped. Then I met the eleven children. At that time, they were even thinner than they are now, and I didn't treat them badly when I asked myself. ”

The boss of the drama troupe, who talked too much, forgot what the situation was around him for a while, and complained to himself.

The troupe boss who didn't have a long heart and was bent on going farther away was a great deal, and he arrived in the imperial city, wanting to make more money in this place full of powerful and wealthy businessmen. But I didn't expect to be bumped into by Song Yiyao and them on the first day.

Song Yiyao had a complicated mood after hearing this, the boss of the troupe had a guilty black spirit, but not to the point of killing people. It doesn't seem to be the culprit behind these children. But he didn't do much better with these children.

Tang Jingruo wrote down the time and place, put down the pen, and asked lightly: "No disadvantage?" Why don't you do what you do to them in the Criminal Department in the future? ”

The troupe owner immediately shut his mouth.

After leaving the interrogation room, the two went to the places where the children were temporarily staying.

The children were eating with gusto, Guan Yu felt sorry for them, but was afraid that they would choke, so he kept adding soup to them.

"My lord, little marquis." Shen Yuezhi nodded at them and gave a brief salute. I went to fetch food for the children again, and there was no more to say.

After the children finished eating, they regained their restraint.

Song Yiyao smiled and made them relaxed, and said:

"I'm here to tell you that you don't have to worry about it anymore. The bad guys will be caught, and you're safe. But my brother needs you to provide some clues, and everything you remember, you can draw it for me. Or lip lips to tell me. ”

"Brother, what if they find us again?"

Song Yiyao pretended to be proud and smiled:

"Don't worry, where do you think this is, this is the Criminal Department, our Da Zhou is dedicated to taking care of bad guys! My brother is also a big official who specializes in catching bad guys, and no bad guy is not afraid of my brother! ”

The children were immediately attracted by her words.

Tang Jingruo looked at her high-spirited, and she only felt that her heart was full, and the corners of her mouth also rose.

Song Yiyao raised his head, and happened to bump into him laughing, and immediately pulled Tang Jingruo in front of the children in annoyance:

"And this one. You don't know him, but you've certainly heard of him. He is the hero of our Great Zhou. General Mingyuan! That's amazing! ”

Wow! There is hardly any child who does not admire the title of general, let alone the most brave and warlike general Mingyuan in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Tang Jingruo, who was surrounded by children, was neither angry nor annoyed, his eyebrows were gentle: "You are absolutely safe in the Criminal Department, don't worry." ”