Chapter 11: The Truth About the Girl's Disappearance
Ye Shaochuan also hurriedly came over to check his pulse, and his face sank and sank. Everyone gathered around in a panic, Bai Ye pressed his wound to stop the bleeding, and looked at Ye Shaochuan with a nervous face. Ye Shaochuan checked the pulse, gently lowered his wrist, and sighed, "It's not the poison of the fairy world." The only one who can solve this poison is Bangjian Tower. ”
"So what are you waiting for? Kill it! Ye Minghuan said hurriedly. No, the origin of Bangjian Lou is unknown, and the forces behind it are not clear, and over the years, they are not afraid of the imperial power of the fairy world. If you kill it like this, it will be even more difficult for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to wake up. Ye Shaochuan stopped.
"So what?" Bai Ye was also anxious. "For today's plan, I will take the prince back to the palace first, and use medicine to hang his life. Although Bangjian Lou is not afraid of imperial power, but this time he participated in the matter of Jishilou, and it is difficult to escape the interference and punishment, so let's use this as a bargaining chip in exchange for an antidote. Ye Shaochuan said. As soon as he finished speaking, the rest of the soldiers found a carriage, and everyone carried the prince into the carriage and settled down. Ye Shaochuan said again, "Now that the prince is in a coma, I will temporarily search Jishilou on his behalf." Huan'er, you come with me. Bai Ye, you take your people to escort the prince back to the palace first. ”
After Bai Ye answered yes, he went back with the palace soldiers of the Imperial Palace. Ye Minghuan was dissatisfied, "Daddy, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here to save me, and I should go to take care of him." Ye Shaochuan pulled Ye Minghuan and said solemnly, "I have my own arrangements, you come with me." Don't run blindly. Ye Minghuan couldn't, so he gaged, so he had to search with his father.
On the second day, the news of the prince's poisoning spread throughout the court, and the emperor ordered Ye Shaochuan to take full responsibility for the matter and investigate it thoroughly. As soon as this news came out, some people rejoiced and some people worried. Rejoicing was the eldest prince Ling Xuanche. Yu Hou's matter will definitely not be just about Yu Hou alone, now, the emperor asked Ye Shaochuan to investigate, and Ye Shaochuan is an upright person, and he will not let go of any suspicious person. will inevitably make enemies in the government and the opposition, and if there are many enemies, it will be convenient for him to get rid of him. The worry is about Yu Hou, and the people related to this matter, Ye Shaochuan has been in the army for many years, and he has a lot of means, if the people below can't resist it and tell the whole story, he really can't keep it.
Yu Hou's trick really did not escape Ye Shaochuan's eyes, and under his torture, the person who took the blame for Yu Hou finally confessed to Yu Hou, and all the truth came out. It turned out that although the Yu family was on the throne, it had almost declined to his generation, and Yu Hou had spent extravagantly in the past, and the family's government money gradually bottomed out. There was no one in the family who was an official in the court, and the food and clothing of the entire Houfu relied on the monthly silver issued by this Hou and some land rents.
But Yu Hou was not satisfied with the status quo and wanted to live the luxurious life of his ancestors. But he is not good at business, and he has done some legitimate trading before, but he has not made money but has lost a lot. Later, I didn't know how to know the idea of abducting a girl and forcing her to become a prostitute. Because some of my own rented shops can be used as restaurants, it also saves costs.
But he was afraid that this deed would be known to outsiders, so he secretly carried out such transactions in the name of opening the Jishi Building and helping the poor people. The first is not suspicious, but can gain reputation, the second is that these taverns are separate, will not be noticeable, the third is that there is a name for their own position, no one rushes to make trouble here, and the fourth is convenient to find a girl, which one you see in the museum, you will send someone to follow it, and wait until the right time to start. After all, they are all daughters of poor families, and they won't bother to find it if they get lost, so they can suppress the momentum.
In order to abduct the girl, Yu Hou also used some means.
He ordered his right-hand men to disguise themselves as thin and poor old women and fathers, or wandering orphans with immortal methods, and their faces were different every time, so it was difficult to find clues in the investigation. After they deceived the sympathy of these girls, and then begged these girls for a bite to eat, they pretended to be very kind and didn't want the girls to spend more money, just said that it was enough for them to take them to Jishilou to order some food.
After the girls agreed, they used the colorless and odorless poison in the air that they had purchased from Bangjian Lou to calculate the time and start on the road. Just so that these girls passed out when they reached the hidden back door of Jishi Building, and then carried them into the building. Because these people took the antidote themselves, these poisons had no effect on them. And after these girls are sent upstairs, they will take another poison. If you don't take the antidote at noon every day, you will feel the pain in your heart and unbearable.
It is that the girl who goes in will give in and be obedient no matter how strong she is. And the managers in the building will beat and scold these girls at every turn, becoming a tool for them to vent their emotions. But at night, when serving guests, it will be repaired with immortal methods.
And the people who patronize this secret prostitution hall only know that the boss here is in charge of Yu Hou's rented venue in the name of opening a geisha museum, but they don't know that the real boss behind this is Yu Hou himself. Therefore, in the past few months, Yu Hou has been very safe, and no one has noticed what he has done.
Gradually, Yu Hou found that these poor girls did not understand anything, could not play the piano and recite poetry, and their skin had become rough and ugly because of long-term labor, which could only attract some rich and noble people, and could not make a lot of money. Then, he set his sights on the daughters of some ordinary people who lived on the edge of the capital. They don't have to work and are well maintained. Some are even knowledgeable and proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
In addition, these people live far away, very close to the suburbs of Beijing, if their daughter is missing, they should look for them in the suburbs or outside the city. In addition, most of the cases of missing people in the past were found outside the city or in other states and counties, and there have never been abducted people and put them in the imperial city. After abducting a few young girls, he found that some officials and wealthy businessmen from the court and China also began to patronize them. Most of them are strict wives in the family and are not allowed to accept concubines, and some of them feel fresh because they have never seen this type of jasper in a small family.
Yu Hou's business is getting better and better, and he is making a lot of money, but he has never had an accident. Then, he gradually set his sights on the city, taking advantage of the overcrowding of the morning market on Qingluan Street, and the crowds were mixed to cover it. Maybe he did too many bad things, God punished him, maybe the girl's life was good, and someone witnessed her disappearing on Qingluan Street. And Qingluan Street is the main road of the imperial city, and there are not necessarily too many girls recently, so the emperor was furious and ordered a thorough investigation.