As soon as Zhuang Rou returned to the yamen, she began to sort out all the information she got in the room, and she tossed for a long time, and finally figured out some clues.

According to the homeless people, the two men also usually took people away, and there were fewer women and more men.

The man said that he hired a worker to give one or two hundred yuan and voluntarily followed, and if there is a place to work and eat at such a time, it is simply a rebirth of parents, who will have complaints.

It was the girls who made everyone hate them, and when they saw that a teenage girl was good-looking, they would come and buy them for a tael or two of silver. It is said that it is a middle-aged woman who is going to cook for the worker, but he doesn't want a capable middle-aged woman, but he only needs these little girls, which is really unreassuring.

And if they don't go, they will throw down the money and rob it, or take advantage of the elders' absence to abduct them.

After many times, everyone didn't believe that these girls were taken to cook. How many people are needed in this workshop, so many people need to cook, and they can finish eating!

Everyone speculated that the girls were sold to places like Qinglou. The homeless people who had daughters at home were terrified, afraid that their daughters would be robbed by force.

After all, there is really no food to eat, and if you bring your daughter to the city to give people a tooth or a green building, you can also give three or four taels, which is much better than what they give.

This kind of separating other people's mothers and daughters, and paying back less money, is naturally hateful.

Zhuang Rou wrote on the paper while reading: "Young and strong men are the majority, and women should be good-looking, and there are not many of them. Will give money to gag and go west. ”

The purpose of giving the silver is to appease people's hearts, so that the elders of the people who are taken away will not make trouble, and maybe it will attract many people to take the initiative to come to the door.

Men want a lot, they don't have skills or they don't have skillful hands, the stronger the body, the better, but there are thin people who take the initiative to find it. Someone mentioned that there was a family of Han'er, but Mu Ran was obedient and was also brought over.

She thought for a moment, in this case, the work they did must not be a coincidence, otherwise could a fool do a delicate job?

You can only dig the soil for farming, not to mention that it's winter, where can you plant the fields?

Don't be dexterous, don't be literate, don't want to be old and young, nothing but the elderly. In this way, what you do is hard work, just work hard.

Zhuang Rou frowned, there is really no place in Hongzhou where so many people are required to do coolies. It's not that the imperial court has anything like repairing river embankments, and many people can be asked to work.

Ordinary merchants can't afford to support so many people, and it doesn't look like a serious place, so there must be something wrong with acting so quietly.

Zhuang Rou didn't guess the woman's words, the light looks good, and the use of forcible robbery shows that these girls must have been sold to a bad place. If you find it later, you can rescue them, and the best result is that they are all in one place.

If the sale is scattered, it will not be found even if you look for a needle in a haystack.

However, the Qinglou in Hongzhou City, she still has to check it tomorrow to see if there are any disobedient girls who dare to buy abducted girls. It's best to buy them all by the Qinglou in the city, so it's easy to save, and it's troublesome to sell them to other places.

Other state capitals can ignore her, and if they want to save people, they don't have the manpower to do this.

The more I thought about it, the more troublesome I felt, Zhuang Rou sighed, and started from the Qinglou tomorrow. In the western direction, now there is no manpower assigned to her, and she will all go to find the two grandchildren, so she can only check it herself.

However, there is such a large area in the west, I don't know where they are going, why hasn't anyone come back!

She put down the paper, felt unusually tired, and went to rest early.

In a mountain range to the west of Hongzhou, there is no access to any prefecture or county, and there are only paths for medicine pickers and hunters to tread in the mountains. Farther away, there were no paths, and only the most daring hunters dared to come in company.

But in recent years, even hunters have not dared to come here, and I heard that there are white-fronted tigers here, and many hunters have been bitten to death.

If you climb another mountain, you will see a huge valley. The valley had been dug up to reveal a large expanse of black ore, surrounded by thick wooden pillars, and guarded by men with knives and sticks.

There is a road at the other end of this valley, and it leaves in other directions along the foot of the mountain, which looks more like other states and counties are built here, but it is obviously the boundary of Hongzhou.

The valley was dotted with shacks and huts, and countless ragged coolies worked lifelessly under the light of torches.

Among them was a small two-story building that looked out of place and was well repaired.

It was already night, the lights were lit in the small building, and there were five people sitting around the table in a room on the second floor, their faces looking particularly gloomy in the candlelight.

"Are the two people in King An's Mansion honest?" The bearded man sitting in the right seat asked in a deep voice.

A white-faced scholar said helplessly: "I've been hungry for two days, and now I don't make any noise." I was scared before, but we just killed the guards, and after we didn't kill them, we made a fuss. It's really noisy, it's annoying. ”

"If you want me to say that you can't kill it, bury it in the mountains, even the emperor Lao'er can't find the body! Lao Wu actually said that he would treat them preferentially, saying that it was not good to be hungry. Bah! What's so bad, it's just useless waste! The black and thin man couldn't help it for a long time, and he interjected and scolded.

He hates these sons and brothers the most, and just wants to kill them to save trouble.

The fifth child who was scolded by him was the most handsome person among the five, although it was only slightly better to drag it out, but it was much more refreshing than the four. He combed his hair in a neat bun and glanced at the thin black man who spoke.

"Fourth brother, don't forget, we are no longer bandits. This is the son of King An's Mansion, and Prince An is also the person of that lord, and they are all his own people. We killed the people of King An's Mansion here, how can we explain to the people above? ”

The white-faced scholar asked, "It's not a way to tie it back!" You can't put it down, and you can't keep it for a lifetime. ”

"Second brother, the eldest brother has already sent a letter to the capital. It's best not to let the people in the guard know about this, or I'm afraid they will come and blame us. The man surnamed Yang has long been unpleasant to look at us, and it is better to watch out for him, the stakes are very high, so it is better to wait for a letter from the capital to make a decision. "It was a fat woman who spoke, with a lot of makeup, and a fierce face, and she was not a good talker.

Lao Wu was still firm in his thoughts, "It's better not to starve them, after you save it later, you will offend Prince An for nothing." Anyway, it's not bad to have such a mouthful of food, and if we send two women to accompany us, we will be able to climb a little bit of royal relatives in the future. ”

The bearded boss and the woman in the third row both nodded, feeling that it was no good to offend Prince An for no reason. But the fourth snorted with a calm face, he was not so kind.

The white-faced scholar said hesitantly: "You said that the capital will be willing to protect the two grandsons of King Baoan?" I heard that those people are cruel and much more ruthless than we are. ”

"Impossible, even if the capital doesn't care about Prince An's grandson, but Prince An cares. It's impossible to kill someone for such a trivial matter, and there is no outsider to mix, isn't this a revenge? ”

Seeing that everyone was still hesitant for this little thing, Lao Wu slapped the board directly, "It's up to the younger brother to appease them, we can't rely on the surname Yang to contact the above, if it weren't for the money this time, we wouldn't have a way to send a letter to the capital." ”

Thinking about it, the bearded boss nodded, "Okay, I'll leave this matter to you." Old Five, you must appease them and change to a better room to live in. ”

"Big brother, this matter is wrapped up in the little brother. It's just that the son of the same knowledge is a little tricky for them to keep. After appeasing them, I will find an opportunity to kill him, so as to save the trouble of not letting them go in the future. Lao Wu wiped his neck and said, at this time he also became hideous.

The black and thin fourth finally shouted, "Kill him, get him to mine, if he dies, it's cheap!" ”

The fifth brother didn't want to go against him, so he flattered him and said, "Okay, what the fourth brother says is what it is, and the younger brother listens to you." ”

"Hmph, I said kill them, and I don't see you listening to me!" The fourth snorted dissatisfiedly.

The boss shouted, "Okay, that's it, let's all go back." ”

Only then did a few people get up and go out.