Seeing that his daughter disappeared at night, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot to sentence Liu Tongju in Chengdu Mansion, and immediately took the case, and loudly ordered the left and right to hurry up and notify the doorman on duty at the gatehouse not to open the city.

Then Mr. Liu hurriedly changed to the official mansion, rushed to the Yamen, threw down the water and fire sticks in the court, and urged the officials of No. 780 to go to the street to investigate, and the deadline was two days to arrest the wicked person who abducted the human being and bring it to justice.

According to the rules of the time, once the master threw the water and fire sticks in the court, and the arrester could not solve the case within the time limit, then the head catcher headed by him would be demerited, and he would not be promoted within one year.

However, this is not the end of the matter, and after the demerit, the case will be graced for one period.

If the case is not solved after two days, then the head catcher and his subordinates will be scolded by the master, called the 'limited staff', and then the grace period will be given.

If the case can't be solved as scheduled after hitting the board, then the head catcher may be issued by the master for the crime of negligence.

In order not to suffer lawsuits, when the headhunters at that time encountered more tricky cases and it was difficult to solve them within the time limit, most of them did not rack their brains to find a way to solve the case, but tried their best to push their own responsibilities outward.

For example, he lied that on the barren mountain fifteen miles outside the city, a group of thieves who occupied the mountains and grasses had recently arrived, and the bandit chieftain headed by him was called 'Yuncheng Tiger Zhang San', and there were 100 little minions gathered in his hands.

These bandits killed people, set fires, blocked roads, and committed all kinds of evil things.

"They did this case in our city, sir, you hurry up and deliver the official document to the superior yamen, and ask the governor to send troops to the mountains to clean up."

At this point, the matter can only be stopped, and a master who has no soldiers in his hands will definitely not dare to go up the mountain to inspect the truth in person.

In addition, most of the lords did not dare to deliver official documents to the higher-level yamen, for fear of being labeled as ineffective in governing the local area and forcing the people to rebel.

In this way, everyone tacitly knows each other, and in this way, they are so confused that a case of financial robbery is fooled over, so that the real murderer can get away with it.

Ignoring the fact that the so-called bandits who went up to the mountains and fell to the grass were in fact just hungry people who had been displaced by the loss of their land and had to hide in the mountains to open up the wasteland, and had never done anything to block the road and rob the land.

However, this time the case is not as easy to fool as it used to be.

In order to save his daughter, Master Liu was really able to go out to the superior yamen to deliver the official document inviting the imperial army to go up the mountain to clear the bandits.

At that time, once Liu Sujin cannot be found in the cottage, those arresters who mislead the master to clear the army will definitely lie about the military situation and will not be forgiven.

Second, it is flat and open near Chengdu Prefecture, and there are thousands of miles of fertile fields irrigated by abundant river water, which has been a blessed land for the prosperity of five grains and six animals since ancient times.

It's not easy to find robbers on this piece of land!

(In the twenties and thirties of the last century, a group of warlords entrenched in Sichuan actually collected taxes on their territory seventy years later, that is, around the second millennium AD!) There is a vivid description of this scene in the movie "Let the Bullets Fly".

That is to say, Sichuan is rich in natural resources, and the common people live a rich life, and they can still eat a life after being so exploited by the warlords and gentry.

If it were another province, he would have slapped the table against his mother. ）

Under the repeated urging of Liu Tong's sentence, dozens of arresters up and down the city of Chengdu Prefecture were all red-eyed, carrying chains and searching for suspects everywhere along the streets.

As long as they bumped into unfamiliar faces, they would come forward to search and interrogate, and once the person who came could not come up with a road guide that could prove their identity, they would lock it with a chain without saying a word and bring it back to the Yamen prison of Tongju.

But in a blink of an eye, two days have passed, and the 'suspects' who were caught on the street are almost filling the Yamen prison, but Miss Liu Sujin is still nowhere to be found.

To make matters worse, the gates of Chengdu had been closed for two days, and none of the vendors who had entered the city to sell chickens, ducks, vegetables and vegetables could enter the city.

It's okay to say that this wealthy family with surplus wealth has already run out of food and vegetables because of this.

These people come to the prefect's gate every day to complain about grievances, and if the city gate continues to be confined, I am afraid that the people in this city will be provoked.

Under the strict words of the prefect, Liu Tongju had to pinch his nose and order the opening of the city, and at the same time screen the suspects in the prison one by one, and release those unlucky people who suffered from the pond fish to go home.

At this moment, it happened that the Qingyang Dao Changxin, who had traveled to Chengdu Prefecture, stepped into the city to stay and stay at the tip.

As soon as he entered the city gate, the Qingyang Daoist found that the people in the city were very unusually gathered together, and they were talking in groups.

After a little inquiry, Daoist Qingyang inquired about the ins and outs of the whole matter.

However, the Qingyang Daoist was very dissatisfied with the local people's statement that 'Miss Liu's mysterious disappearance was done by the animal monsters'.

"This old man, you have never seen the old woman who entered Liu's mansion to hire cats, why do you insist that this matter must be done by the beast maker?"

"Oh, Master Dao, you don't know, that Master Liu's daughter, Miss Liu Sujin, is a weak female streamer who doesn't go out of the door.

On weekdays, Miss Liu has never even burned incense and worshiped the Buddha, and has always been incense in the Great Sage Ci'en Temple in the city.

The little old man often goes to deliver food to the big monks in the temple, and it is common for the female relatives of the Liu Mansion to come here to offer incense.

If it weren't for being taken captive, how could a young lady who didn't even know where the city gate was open could get out of Chengdu Mansion unknowingly?

If it weren't for the mysterious beast-making demon, how could an ordinary thief be born into the heavily guarded General Judgment Mansion? ”

Although the head of Qingyang felt that the old man who sold vegetables had some truth in what he said, he still felt that it was too far-fetched to attribute the whole case to the section of animal production just by relying on a basket of four-eared cats that disappeared.

"At that time, the tutor felt that the old cat woman did not look like an ordinary animal demon, and the most important point was that the old cat woman in this case did not swallow medicine cakes for the victim like other animal monsters, but just took out a box of 'wound medicine' for Miss Liu to apply slightly.

If this medicine alone can make people turn into livestock without realizing it, then the opportunity to accidentally bump into someone on the street can also cause harm to the other person.

Isn't that an entire street of people made into cattle? ”

Listening to Yang Congxun, when the Qingyang Daoist learned about Liu Sujin's mysterious disappearance, he decided to take care of this idle matter, so he found an inn in the city to rest.

It was the third watch of the night, and the head of Qingyang specially changed into a night dress, pushed open the window of the inn, pulled the brick joint on the exterior wall of the inn, and gently climbed down with his hands and feet.

After landing, Qingyang took advantage of the moonlight in the sky to discern the direction a little, and then quietly touched Liu Tong's mansion according to the instructions of the old man who sold vegetables during the day.

As the old vegetable seller said during the day, Qingyang Daoist didn't think that a young lady who had never been out of the city gate could sneak out of the confined Chengdu Mansion without being thought by others.

In addition, in the past two days, the officials who have been forced to red-eyed by the deadline have visited and arrested criminals all over the city, and all the horns and corners in the city that can hide people have been arrested, and the leader has led a large group of arresters to search and inspect them.

Even the humble shacks on the edge of the city walls for beggars were searched one by one.

Even if the demon who made the animal didn't take Miss Liu with him, he had to take the livestock that the big living person turned into after feeding the medicine with him firmly by his side.

If an animal is not crowded together with other animals in the barn, but is uncharacteristically inseparable from a large living person, how can this be hidden from the eyes of the public men?

However, the fact that the catchers found nothing in Chengdu City does not mean that there is nothing strange in it, because there is a place in this city where the missing Liu Sujin can hide quietly and will not alarm anyone at all!

This place is the mansion of Liu Tongju's own family!