The collection of more than 70 missing person notices shows that many of the relatives of the missing woman are influential figures in the capital, and it is not surprising that this case can have such influence in the capital.

Maybe there are many women from poor families who are implicated, but because of their family background, they can't report to the official to find them.

Xiang Yeyan and Tang Yun groped together until the second half of the night, and finally found three familiar faces of Tang Yun, she was very sure: "Chen Jiazhen!" I remember very well that those people said that they wanted to sell the three of them to Chenjia Town, and I should have been one of them, but I was lucky enough to meet Brother Wang, so I had a chance to escape. ”

"Master Hou's luck is quite interesting."

Bo Zhaoxu looked at the three missing person notices, and his index finger tapped meaningfully on the corner of one of them. On this notice, the woman's surname is "Xu Huayan".

Xiang Yeqi can vaguely see that this girl's notice is a little different from other notices, other notices are mostly soul paintings with a few strokes, and it is somewhat difficult to recognize people according to the paintings, but this one is different, even if it is sent to participate in the art exhibition, I am afraid there is no problem, and it is also colorful, and the painting is very detailed, it is like I have walked into the words.

Qiu Ming's eyes lit up even more, and her eyes stared at the portrait like a torch: "This, this is the lost only daughter of Mrs. Xu's family!" Miss Tangyun, if you take advantage of this to play with your heart, you will also have a temper. ”

Tang Yun shook his hands disdainfully, and glanced at him: "Believe it or not, it's up to you, anyway, you have already helped me, even if you believe it, I won't lose anything, right?" ”

What she said made sense, and Xiang Yeqi couldn't refute it.

In order to save his face, Qiu Ming pretended to be indifferent: "Do you think you can't hear that you are using the agitation method?" It's a pity that your trick is useless for this purpose. ”

Xiang Yeqi stared at Qiu Ming for a long time with caring eyes for the mentally retarded, and said that the good agitation method was useless to him? Who was the one who dragged everyone to Chenjiazhen early in the morning?

Isn't this the clarity of being stimulated?

Wujian yawned and said, "Master Hou, I just went to inquire below, this Chenjia Town is not small, where do we start?" ”

"Master Hou can go to the local order." Bo Zhaoxu replied casually, "If only the foreign population of unknown origin is checked, it should be very fast." ”

Qiu Ming was hard-mouthed: "Ben Hou naturally knows, this matter can be handed over to Ben Hou alone, the fourth prince will take her to find a place to rest and walk around." ”

Chenjia Town can still be called a "town", and there are many places where you can rest and settle, but it is a little simpler.

Bo Zhaoxu entrusted the time of resettlement of the inn to Nan Chen, and he walked around the town with Xiang Yeqi.

What made Xiang Yeqi feel the most strange was that there were many strangely shaped stone monuments in the town, and there were also some billboards with a piece of paper that had been beaten by the wind and wrinkled yellow, with the words "Don't be tired of women" and "I will drown a woman and lose a woman", to the effect that the people of the town should not be drowned in women.

It's just that after reading a few lines, Xiang Yeqi shivered with discomfort, this town should have drowned many girls and babies, so the government was forced to admonish everywhere.

"Is it cold?" Bo Zhaoxu glanced at the sky, "It's cold at night in Western Summer, if you feel cold, let's go back to the inn to rest first, and then discuss other things tomorrow." ”

Xiang Yeqi shook his head: "It's not cold, just walk again." ”

Having said that, this Chenjia Town is really only the size of a palm, and there is only such a street in the Communist Party, and it took a few steps to come to the end, and then go down to the barren mountains and forests that you can't see.

Xiang Yeqi had no choice but to turn back the same way with Bo Zhaoxu, and she also happened to have the opportunity to stay outside the inn and carefully look at the stone monument erected outside the inn.

The content on the stele is roughly similar to that on the billboard, which is to exhort the people of Chenjiazhen not to spoil women, but this stele should more clearly write the good deeds that the Xiang woman has done for Chenjiazhen.

This Xiang woman is not very old, and she came to Chenjia Town only through this, but in the few months she lived in the town, she paid great attention to promoting the idea of quitting drowning, not only to sponsor young people from poor families to get married, but even to help those poor families who had given birth to daughters out of her own pocket, so that they knew that having daughters was not a burden.

Because of being moved by this Xiang woman, Chen Jiazhen's habit of drowning women has indeed improved.

Xiang Yeqi caressed the stone tablet, and suddenly felt a burst of electricity from her fingertips, which was an irrepressible joy in her heart—the name of the Xiang woman was written on the stone tablet.

It was the mother of the "original owner".

She had spent a while trying to sort out her relationship with the "original owner", and although she still had to ponder, the connection must be not small.

"This is my mother." Xiang Yeqi paused, "This is the first time I know who she is, so thinking about it, this trip is quite worthwhile." ”

Bo Zhaoxu stared at the "mother-in-law" engraved on the stone tablet, and quietly arranged the itinerary of sending someone to repair all the stone tablets in Chenjia Town.

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At dinnertime, Qiu Ming hurried back with a scolding: "I'm afraid that this Chenjiazhen's order is not a fool, if it bites to death Chenjiazhen has no foreign population, let Ben Hou find out?" If it hadn't been for the self-declaration from the beginning, he would have almost been kicked out by this short-sighted thing! ”

He was worried about Qiu Ming, and said: "Master Hou, you don't know how much the imperial court manages these petty officials below, if you are angry because of this matter, it is really not worth it...... It's getting dark at this time, why don't you go down and give him a beating for you? ”

Xiang Yeyan choked on the hot soup in his mouth, is it that the people around Qiu Ming are more or less stained, what's unreliable?

Bo Zhaoxu patted the back of the coughing Xiang Yeqi, and glanced sideways: "According to your skills, I'm afraid he won't be able to withstand tonight." ”

Qiu Ming snorted coldly, subconsciously sniffed the fragrance in the air, and her stomach gurgled twice.

"What's going to eat tonight?"

He thought that there were so many things on the table that would have such an attractive aroma, but if he looked closely, there were only two bowls of wontons in front of Bo Zhaoxu and Xiang Yeqi.

As a result, Qiu Ming still couldn't help but swallow his saliva quietly and sat down honestly.

There are only a few rooms in this inn, and only the innkeeper is busy working everywhere from beginning to end, and when serving food for Qiu Ming, he couldn't help but interject: "There are a lot of outsiders in the town, why did you come here?" If you want to buy a girl, it's better to change to another place......"

The innkeeper scrutinized Xiang Yeqi from head to toe and said with a smile: "It's easy to say, but in this poor and remote place, if you want to sell that beautiful top, you may not be able to make it - they don't have the money." ”

Bo Zhaoxu's face immediately changed, and the little master he spoiled by his side turned out to be the "property" they used to trade?

"It's an insider."

He took Xiang Yeqi into his arms with a bewildered expression, and warned the innkeeper not to look at him with such uncomfortable eyes again.

Looking at the embarrassed and embarrassed face of the innkeeper, Xiang Yeqi looked for another topic: "Boss, are there many people buying and selling women here?" ”

"It's more than a lot, it's just the norm!"

The innkeeper smiled weirdly: "There are few girls in the town, and one by one they want to drown the girls, can you not buy them from other places?" At first, I still bought some girls in the neighboring town that people couldn't afford to raise, and after a long time, some outsiders came to the town to sell their daughters, but who knows if it was his daughter or not? But this price is really high, even if it is a little worse, it will cost more than 70 taels of silver! ”

His righteous attitude really annoyed Xiang Yeqi so much that he couldn't speak.

No wonder the local guards refused to let Qiu Ming check how many outsiders there were in Chenjia Town, first, many girls came from unknown places, and second, they really wanted to dig deeper, most of the women in Chenjia Town were outsiders.

Even if you check, you have to have traces to follow, and there are no clues at all, so is it possible to conduct a census in Chenjia Town?

Xiang Yeqi rubbed the corners of his forehead in annoyance, this is the real "long way to go".

"What about your wife? Also bought? Qiu Ming asked coldly.

The innkeeper was as frightened as if he had stepped on a landmine, and almost jumped up from the ground: "How dare I, this is going to be punished!" This thing. Anyone with a little conscience won't do it, or I'd be embarrassed to look down on the men in town! ”

Xiang Yeqi suddenly felt that the innkeeper looked much more pleasing to the eye.

"But...... "But," the innkeeper said, "you're not going to arrest me, are you?" As soon as I heard what you meant, it was sent by the imperial court to arrest people! ”

Xiang Yeqi actually reflected on his outfit very seriously - there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.

But she took a closer look at the two men beside her, one called himself "Ben Wang", and the other called himself "Ben Hou", unless the innkeeper was a disabled person, what else could she not see.

Next time, I should educate Bo Zhaoxu well, don't be so swaggering when you go out!

"You're right, we're either here to arrest people, or we just happened to be passing by here, and we just wanted to inquire!" Xiang Yeqi began to exert his serious nonsense skills, "After all, this kind of thing is rare in other places, so it's inevitable to be curious." ”

The innkeeper really believed Xiang Ye's words, and became interested for no reason: "This is true, the dowry in ordinary places is only ten taels or twenty taels of silver, how can it be like here...... Boss Cao's family alone has married seven or eight people, and we can't envy it if we want to! However, I remember that Boss Cao bought a concubine who looks like a fairy four or five years ago, and he has never accepted a new one since! ”

Qiu Ming slapped the missing person notice of Xu Huayan, the only daughter of Taifu, on the table, and asked sharply: "Is this it?" ”

The innkeeper glanced at it seriously, and nodded his head again and again, but he shuddered unexpectedly, and reacted to the fact that what was in front of him was a missing person notice stamped with the official stamp of the imperial court - then isn't this still here to arrest people?