Chapter 39: Punishment
"You stinky girl who doesn't let your mother worry about it, but you're back! It's really worried about my mother to death! In case something happens to you, how can you live as a mother? Woo woo woo~".
Cheng Siyi, who was on the side, saw this scene and was a little moved for some reason.
If his mother knew that he was involved in such a dangerous operation, she would have been as worried day and night as her aunt, right?
Cheng Xiangjin and Mama Lan carefully comforted for a long time, and then Mrs. Cheng greeted the old lady with red eyes.
The old lady knew that she had been worried all these days, and did not reproach her for her gaffe.
Mrs. Cheng was just about to sit down, and when she saw Cheng Siyi standing pitifully on the side, her heart suddenly softened.
"Yi'er, come over and let your aunt see, how are you doing these days? Have you suffered any hardships? β
Mrs. Cheng's heartfelt concern warmed Cheng Siyi's heart a lot, and she felt that standing beside Mrs. Cheng made her look at it enough, and then she smiled and said: "My nephew is very good, but it makes my aunt worry, it's all nephew's!" β
Mrs. Cheng saw that although he had lost some weight, he didn't look like he had been injured, so she relieved herself.
"Seeing that you are all right, my aunt is relieved. In a moment, I will tell the kitchen to make a table of dishes, and I will definitely make up for a few of you! β
When Cheng Siyi heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.
As soon as Yan Mochen and Cheng Chuyang arrived at the study, they handed over all the evidence they had collected in the past few days to the hands of Cheng Chang'an.
Cheng Changan frowned and looked at them one by one, and the more he looked at them, the more gloomy his face became. Tsk, pitiful, pitiful, so many people have lost their children.
He shook his head as he looked at it, and every time he looked at a few photos, he couldn't bear to sigh one after another.
just looked at it, and suddenly saw Cheng Siyi's name on a piece of paper. He curiously took a closer look and saw that Cheng Siyi had bribed Liu Sheng with five hundred taels to test him.
Cheng Changan thought that he had seen it wrong, his eyes couldn't help but widen a little, he looked at the numbers on it several times in disbelief, and finally found that he was not mistaken, it was indeed five hundred taels. Suddenly, he slammed the paper on the table in anger.
Just to test Liu Sheng, he actually took out five hundred taels as bait?
Isn't this kid stupid? Yes?
Cheng Changan suddenly felt a little stomach pain.
What a stupid boy! Does he know that these five hundred taels are enough for the salaries of all the yamen servants for a year! Ah, just contributed for nothing?
Cheng Changan didn't sleep well all night after he went back, and all he thought about was the five hundred taels of silver. No, he must find a way to make those people spit out!
When he went to the court early the next morning, he was the first to report the matter to the court.
The emperor, who was over sixty years old, heard that in two or three years, thousands of women had been sold to unknown places due to the greed and connivance of Hu Xianling, and they did not know whether they were alive or dead. Suddenly coughed angrily! The frightened courtiers suddenly changed their faces.
"The emperor takes care of the dragon's body!"
The old emperor coughed for a long time, and his face turned red. After a pause, he pointed to Cheng Chang'an, and said very majestically: "In addition to these, have you found any other clues related to this case?" β
Cheng Changan thought of the small wooden card that Yan Mochen handed over, hesitated, and handed it over along with Liu Er's confession.
"This thing was searched from Liu Er's mansion, and it is said that the person with this wooden sign once went to the county government to find Hu Wei sneakily. According to Liu Er, the money that Hu Wei obtained every year from looting the people and abducting and selling people was finally honored to a certain official in the DPRK and China. Huang Yapo's confession also mentioned that in the process of buying and selling women in recent years, there is always a person with strong martial arts who silently escorts her. As a result, there have been no surprises in her business in recent years. It's just that the lower officials are incompetent, and I really can't think of any official in Chang'an City who will have this object. It is also impossible to find out whether the master who secretly helped Huang Yapo is related to this official. The lower officials are incompetent, and please ask the emperor to forgive him! β
The old emperor took the wooden card and looked at it carefully, and immediately ordered Dali Temple to go to Wannian County to get people.
Cheng Chang'an was relieved when he saw that the task of taking people was handed over to Dali Temple. I thought it would be easy for a while, but I didn't expect that before I could catch my breath, the old emperor spoke again. The task of searching and rescuing the abducted girl was handed back to him.
Get! The old emperor has spoken, what else can he say? I can only swallow the bitter water and receive the decree of gratitude!
However, there is one good thing about being a Fu Yin, that is, you don't have to run errands!
No matter how far away he goes, no matter how heavy the task, there are people below to do it for him anyway, he just needs to check the progress of the task on time!
It's just that I didn't expect that as soon as the case was received, it would be busy until winter.
No way, the amount of work is too much. Although there are details confessed by Liu Er, Huang Pozi and others, they can be traced one by one, but they find that some girls have been resold many times for individual reasons, and some have already passed away because they can't stand the abuse and beatings, as well as various illnesses. Very few can be recovered intact. There are even a few women who felt shameless to go back to face their parents because they were sold to the Qinglou, and finally chose to stay or commit suicide.
In the end, there were only a few dozen girls who confirmed their identities and were willing to follow the officials home.
And the man who stayed in Chang'an and waited for his daughter Wang Lan never waited for his daughter to come back. According to Gan Lin, as early as the first day when Wang Lan was sold to the Qinglou by Huang Pozi, she was beaten to death by the thugs inside because she refused to obey.
Although he had thought about such a result, it was still unacceptable to learn from the official that his daughter was no longer alive. Wang Fu cried for a long time in the rented courtyard, and early the next morning, someone saw him carrying the package he came and left Chang'an silently.
After Hu Wei, Liu Sheng, and others were arrested and taken to Dali Temple, due to sufficient evidence, the amount of crime and the amount of silver squeezed were too large, and they were soon sentenced to beheading.
Liu Er has been a little delirious since he saw the ghost, and in order to prevent him from harming the world again after he sobers up, he and Huang Yapo were sentenced to be executed together. As for the dogs and thugs under them, the exiles and the confiscations of the army have all been duly punished.
As for the person who secretly contacted Hu Wei, although Hu Wei did not confess until his death, the final identity was easily found out by the procuratorate in the hands of the emperor. On the day that Hu Wei and others were beheaded, an official's entire family was sentenced to exile by secret order. After inquiry, I learned that it was a military attachΓ©, and his official position was not low, and he was the general of the Left Guard. One of his young generals with good martial arts was also sentenced to exile because he was involved in that case.
Afterwards, someone quietly broke the news that this Left Guard General had always been the head of the Left Guard General Chen Zhaoran, and the Left Guard General was the younger brother of Chen Guifei today and the uncle of King Anping. Therefore, the real culprits behind the ordering of Hu Xianling to loot money were once believed to be the two uncles and nephews.