Nanjing in September is very hot, and it is not as cool as autumn, probably because of the weather this year.

So Hu Ye got up early the next morning, and the first thing he did was not to brush his teeth and wash his face, but to take a shower first, it was just too hot.

"Damn God, when is it going to rain?" Hu Ye cursed while washing his face.

If such a drought continues, I don't know how many more refugees will be affected in the road. Hu Ye remembered that when he came to Nanjing, there were already refugees outside Beiping, and he didn't know if Zhu Di's food stock had run out for nearly two months.

It is estimated that the water of the two dams is about to dry up, and when it is completely thirsty, Beiping City will also fall into a desperate situation. At that time, there will be refugees in Beiping City, and no matter how powerful Zhu Di is, he will have nothing to do.

"Hey, these things are not what I should think about now, it's so far away, I can't help if I want to, so you can ask for more blessings." After washing his face, Hu Ye sighed, now it's better to solve the matter in front of him, Zhu Di is thousands of miles away, and he has more than enough heart but not enough strength.

After simply eating breakfast, he took Lao Qian to the warden's yamen, and when he went out, he saw blood stains in the courtyard, and Hu Ye knew that there must have been a fight here last night.

I don't know if Lu Dao was done by Lao Qian, or Zheng Da in the shadows. But when he saw Lao Qian's blank face, he knew that this thing must have slept to death last night.

Unexpectedly, he had just moved out, and those people were eyeing him again.

"Old Qian, when you come back today, you can set up some traps, otherwise it will be bad to dirty the yard." Hu Ye looked at the bloodstains and said.

"Yes. Master. Lao Qian felt a little ashamed, he was indeed a little tired last night, and there had been no attacks for some days, his alertness was a little lower, so he lay down and fell asleep.

Seeing those bloodstains today, Lao Qian realized that someone must have wanted to sneak attack last night. If it weren't for Zheng Da secretly solving it, the consequences would be unimaginable.

However, when he was in the Nameless Mansion before, Lao Qian learned a lot of ways to arrange traps like Gao Ren, and although the arrangement was not as powerful as that of the Nameless Mansion, it was more than enough to block some nameless juniors.

After instructing Saren to clean up the bloodstains. Hu Ye went out with the old money.

After moving. It was closer to the warden's yamen, and in less than a stick of incense, Hu Ye had already entered the yamen.

Before entering, Hu Ye also asked Lao Qian to buy two bottles of wine. You want a spirit that has a lot of alcohol.

Lao Qian didn't understand what Hu Ye was going to do. But it was done. If the young master's thoughts can be guessed by himself, he will not be called a son of a master.

As soon as he entered the yamen, Hu Ye first sent a bottle to Lu Shun and his party. Said it was a treat for them.

Then he sent another bottle to Ma Fei, and asked Lao Qian to accompany them to drink outside, while he pretended to be drunk and staggered into prison.

Ma Fei originally wanted to stop Hu Ye, no matter how bad it was, he had to follow in. But because the alcohol was very strong, Ma Fei was also a little drunk, coupled with Hu Ye's performance yesterday, and Lao Qian's strong persuasion to drink, he just let it go.

Hu Ye came to the front of the prisoner's cell yesterday and immediately came to his senses.

"What's your name?" Hu Ye asked the prisoner.

"Zou Kai."

"Didn't you use to be in Beiping, how did you come to Nanjing?" Hu Ye asked curiously.

"Looks like Childe has remembered me." Zou Kai straightened his hair and didn't look so sloppy anymore.

"You're the only one in the world who has eaten half of my pancakes, and you can't remember it." Hu Ye said with a smile.

"I was originally from Nanjing, and I followed the dart game to Beiping, and I didn't want to be hit by bandits on the road, so I would fall into such a field. Fortunately, thanks to the rescue of Gongzi with half a piece of baked cake and four copper coins, Zou Kai was not starved to death, and later returned to Nanjing. Zou Kai said with some embarrassment, after all, being a beggar is not a glorious thing.

"Since you're back in Nanjing, why don't you do something with this family?"

"Childe doesn't know, Zou Kai has no relatives, the old mother died three years ago, and the last bit of land was also occupied by corrupt officials. And I went to work at that wharf this time, because I liked the high salary they offered, who knew that Lu Dao would cause trouble because of this. Zou Kai said helplessly.

"I went to the pier you mentioned yesterday, and it was a bit boring. You are working in it, can you find anything wrong? Hu Ye asked curiously, he wanted to go in and have a look yesterday, but was rejected by the boss.

"It's a bit strange because every time the cargo is unloaded, there are people in the ship staring. And the ships there are large, but they don't carry much cargo. If it were just to carry these goods, there would be no need for such a large ship. And every time I walked in the boat, I felt some strange sounds, I heard it several times, and when I wanted to ask, I was scolded by the steward. Zou Kai thought back and said.

"When you walk on the boat, do you feel like it's empty under your feet, and there's still a lot of space underneath?" Hu Ye guessed.

Zou Kai listened to Hu Ye's words, and immediately thought about it, as if when he walked on the boat, he did feel much more empty than on other boats, combined with the strange sounds he heard, Zou Kai felt that he might have broken the boss's conspiracy and would be framed.

When Hu Ye saw that Zou Kai was silent, he knew that his guess was right. In addition to the cargo hold, there must have been a special compartment under the ship for the trafficked women.

They are abducted and trafficked here from other places, and they will be resold to various green buildings as Xinyue said. Those who are older and unable to learn poetry and poetry are more likely to be sold directly to those buildings that only do the skin and meat business, and they will not be seen for the rest of their lives.

Thinking of this, Hu Ye's face was covered with frost, I don't know how many years this kind of trick has existed, it turns out that this prosperous Qinhuai River is actually supported by this kind of trick.

Zou Kai saw Hu Ye's face change greatly, and hurriedly asked, "Did Childe find anything?" ”

"It's nothing, you stay inside first, and I'll do justice to you." After Hu Ye finished speaking, he walked out of the cell, now that the problem of the dock has been confirmed. All that's left is how to solve the amount.

However, Hu Ye's mind is a mess now, and there are more than a dozen people in this yamen, and he can't count on it at all, so if he asks them to go to the dock to check, he will definitely not be able to find out anything. But apart from these dozen people, he really can't command anyone.

Walking out of the cell, Ma Fei and the two jailers had been filled with old money, Hu Ye glanced at Lao Qian and walked out of the prison.

"Young Master, what have you discovered?" Old Qian asked cautiously. Because he also found that the young master's face was not good.

"What if you find out. Now this is not Beiping, let's go and meet Fu Yin first, maybe he has a way. Hu Ye's face was very bad, since his subordinates couldn't count on it. I had to go to my boss.

Because yesterday Hu Ye was very successful. So today there is no tail behind the butt. Lu Shun thought that Hu Ye continued to spend all his time drinking, so he didn't send anyone to monitor Hu Ye.

No one was watching, so Hu Ye walked directly towards Ying Tianfuya.

But what hurt Hu Ye was very much. I didn't even enter the Ying Tianfu Ya, let alone see the Fu Yin.

The gatekeeper said that Lord Fu Yin was very busy, where did he have time to meet a petty official who was not in the stream. For this reason, Lao Qian almost did something with them, but was stopped by Hu Ye.

Since Fu Yin can't see it, then go and meet Ti Xuebei, this person should give face, but Wang Wei has a lot of power in managing students, but if he wants to manage crime, it is estimated that he is a little out of reach.

However, he is the only Jingguan he is familiar with, so he will go and meet him first, and if he can't, he will only have to use the relationship of Yan Shenggong.

The Tixue Mansion is not far from the Yingtianfu Ya, and a cup of tea has already arrived at the door of the Tixue Mansion.

Today's Tixue is not as crowded as the last time I came, because it is not Wang Wei who can test the questions, and it can be said that it has nothing to do with Wang Wei, so those candidates don't use it here.

The servant was very impressed by Hu Ye, just because Hu Ye was the first candidate Wang Wei had seen before the township examination for so many years, so he directly took Hu Ye into the school.

A month has passed, and the osmanthus flowers in the school have lost the fragrance of the day, and many of them have fallen.

"Student Hu Ye, I've met Master Tixue." Hu Ye came to Wang Wei's room and said very respectfully.

"Alright, you go down." Wang Wei raised his head and said to the servant.

Then he got up, did the same as he did last time, and went to the little table by the window.

"You're a good kid." Wang Wei sat down slowly, poured tea by himself, and did not pour it for Hu Ye.

Hu Ye didn't know what Wang Wei meant by suddenly bursting out with such a sentence, but he still came to the table, "The student is unknown, please show me the student." ”

"How's that couplet I gave you? Is there a downlink? Wang Wei picked up the teacup and drank it, and asked slowly.

"When the adults go out of Shanglian, the students naturally have to come out." Hu Ye smiled, and then said, "Hard-working people, the sky is not worth it, lying on the salary and tasting the gall, three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu." What do you think of me? ”

"Ha Luha, not bad, it seems that you still have some ink in your stomach, no wonder you can be lifted." Wang Wei laughed.

Hu Ye rolled his eyes, and then picked up the teapot to pour tea for himself, but muttered in his heart, what ink did he have, this was just plagiarism.

"Boy, do you know that you almost lost your head last time?" Seeing Hu Ye pick up the teacup, Wang Wei suddenly asked in a low voice.

The tea that Hu Ye just drank in his mouth almost squirted out, which one did Wang Wei sing? After thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that this Wang Wei should be talking about his own exam paper.

"Speaking of which, students have to thank adults." Hu Ye put down the teacup, the tea was still osmanthus tea, but Hu Ye's mood now was different from last time.

"Thank you for what I did, I just think the scroll is very insightful, and I don't know that it is yours. To be honest, before this, I always thought that you went through the back door to let the teacher greet me, but I didn't expect you to be brave enough to dare to write such an article. Wang Wei said.

"The adults praised it falsely, and the students just said what they thought in their hearts, and they couldn't talk about any big insight." Hu Ye smiled lightly, and then suddenly asked, "Your Excellency was present at that time, what was the emperor's expression at that time?" ”

Wang Wei stroked his white beard, recalling Zhu Yuanzhang's anger at that time, and there were still some lingering palpitations in his heart. "At that time, the old man almost buried with you, if it weren't for watching the old man's old friends die one by one over the years, the old man really wouldn't dare to show the emperor your kind of article."

"But I don't know what Lu Dao is for the emperor The emperor later changed his mind, not only did not punish you, but also gave you an official. You are the first to be an official when you are lifted, although this warden is a little small, but it is also a gift from the emperor, this is a golden signboard, presumably you are mixed in the heavenly mansion. That's when I remembered that the old man came here to thank me? ”

"Ahem. The adults laughed, the student was just a petty official who didn't enter the stream, and he couldn't even discipline his own subordinates. Hu Ye smiled awkwardly. I'm not ready to talk to Wang Wei anymore. I'm going to get down to business today.

Wang Wei also saw that Hu Ye had something in his heart. His face also straightened, "What? Are you in trouble? What can stump you? ”

"By the way, do you know those green buildings by the Qinhuai River in Ludao?" Hu Ye asked suddenly.

Wang Wei listened. There was some embarrassment on his face, he had been in Nanjing City for most of his life, and it was nonsense to say that he had never been to Qinhuai River, but talking about those things with a thirteen or fourteen-year-old doll still made him, an old man, a little embarrassed.

"Ahem, know a little." Wang Wei said embarrassedly.

"Adults don't have to mind, even the Holy Father of Yan is in and out of the land of fireworks, so why should adults care. Besides, the celebrities there are all talented women, and it is reasonable to go in and talk about the world. Hu Ye said that visiting the Qinglou was reasonable, which made Wang Wei feel better.

"What! You said that the teacher ......," Wang Wei said in surprise.

"What's this, this time I followed Yan Shenggong south to Nanjing, and when I passed through Huai'an, Yan Shenggong and I stayed in the Piaoxiang Building there for an afternoon." Hu Ye said proudly, it seems that few people know about Yan Shenggong's visit to the Qinglou.

"What! Have you been in there too? Also with the teacher! Wang Wei was even more shocked, Yan Shenggong's visit to the Qinglou was a strange talk, and he also walked with a thirteen or fourteen-year-old doll, one was seventy or eighty, and the other was not dry, and it was really rare to see a visit to the Qinglou together.

"Ahem, it's true, adults can go and ask the Holy Father." Hu Ye said.

Wang Wei rolled his eyes, this kind of thing is rotten in his stomach, and asked him to ask Kong Ne to ensure that the dog blood sprayed by Kong Ne's scolding, so Zhengse said, "By the way, what's the use of you asking about this matter?" I guess it's trying to take me somewhere. I'm telling you, I don't have a teacher's hobby. ”

"Do you know how the girls in the Qinglou in Lu Dao came from?"

"It's nothing more than a daughter sold by a poor family." Wang Wei said.

"Ahem, as far as I know, most of them are sold from other places, and this kind of human trafficking has existed for many years." Hu Ye said very seriously.

If he hadn't gone to prison on a whim, he wouldn't have met Zou Kai, but fortunately, he met Zou Kai, if he had changed to someone else, he might not have believed them.

If this were not the case, I would not have gone to the dock to check, nor would I have gone to the Wanghuai Tower, let alone meet Xinyue, and I would not have heard such sensational deeds.

When I think about it, it's as if God was destined to do it myself.

"What you say is true?" Wang Wei saw that Hu Ye's face was very serious, and he also knew what was at stake, so he also asked seriously.

"Ninety percent sure."

"Even so, why don't you take someone to arrest those human traffickers, and then come to my school to do something, you are a pawn, there should be more than a dozen people under your command, right?" Wang Wei looked at Hu Ye curiously.

"Ahem, have you ever heard of the collusion between officials and businessmen?"

"You mean ......"

"Yes, a dozen of my men have been bought by those traffickers a long time ago, and since I entered, they have been guarding against me everywhere, asking me to take them to investigate, I am afraid that before I leave, the traffickers have already gotten the news. Besides, this kind of business has existed for so many years, and the stakes must be known to my immediate superiors. But they didn't take any action, which means that they may have also been bribed, and the students had no choice but to come to the adults for help. Hu Ye said helplessly.

"You don't believe that I was also bought by them?" Wang Wei looked at Hu Ye playfully.

"The adult is under the disciple of Yan Shenggong, and the students can be trusted. Besides, the adults have no stake in them, and they will definitely not come to buy them. Hu Ye said with certainty that if even this Wang Wei was bought, Hu Ye felt that the Ming Dynasty would really be finished.

"There's some truth to what you're saying, but I can't help it." Wang Wei sighed, "Haven't you thought about it?" There are so many Beijing officials in the capital, are they all stupid, and none of them know this kind of thing? ”

But none of them dared to care, because they knew that even if they gave up their lives, they would not be able to save those women who were suffering in the end. Besides, if those traffickers are solved, there will not be so many women in Qinglou, what are they going to visit? To put it bluntly, this is just window paper that no one else pierces. ”

"What? Don't adults want to care? Hu Ye's face changed, and listening to Wang Wei's tone, it seemed that he was persuading himself not to meddle in his affairs.

"It's not that I don't want to manage it, but I can't manage it, I don't have such a thing as a power officer at all. And do you know why they dare to do these things so blatantly at the feet of the Son of Heaven? Aren't they afraid to let the emperor know? Wang Wei shook his head and said, the meaning in his words was that Hu Ye was too naïve.

"They are just people in the court, as long as their relationship is broken and the truth is revealed to the world, won't the emperor know the truth?" Hu Ye said loudly, if no one cares, then this kind of thing will definitely get more and more serious in the future.

"Hehe, what if the emperor knows what to do? Do you think he's going to deal with the people behind them? Wang Wei sneered.

"What do you mean by an adult? Are they very great? Hu Ye faintly felt that something was wrong.

"Tell you, behind those people is not only the support of the cabinet, but also the shadow of the royal family behind them, you should weigh it yourself. It's a good thing that young people have a little blood, but they can't be brainless, don't wait until they hit the south wall and then turn back, because it is likely that they have already been killed on the wall, and there is no chance of turning back. Wang Wei persuaded Hu Ye.

Hearing that this matter might involve the royal family, Hu Ye felt that the matter was very tricky, as if it was far beyond his ability.

Hu Ye is now thinking about whether this south wall should be hit. (To be continued......)