With the Kong family issuing an apology, the public opinion caused by this incident slowly subsided, but the influence of the Kong family has obviously suffered a lot, and many scholars do not regard the Kong family as a model as before.

After Jiang Han temporarily handed over the compilation of "Ming Pao" to Xu Yuemian, he went to Taixue Mansion to find Zhong Fujun and took over the case.

According to that Lord Zhongli, this case is very bizarre, and no one person can investigate it, except for Jiang Han, several people will go with him.

There are only ten days to go back and forth and investigate, which can be regarded as a tight time.

So this is not only an investigation, but also a test.

After taking the file, Jiang Han opened it to check.

The content of the file is very simple, two months ago, there was a messy man who ran to the Taixue Mansion and knelt on the ground to shout grievances, after understanding, this man is a native of Guo County, Jingzhou, named Song Chengyong, his wife Chen went out a year ago, and there is no news, Song Chengyong reported the case to the local county government, but the report has been fruitless for several months.

Seeing that the county government was incompetent, Song Chengyong crossed the level to report to Jingzhou Assassin History, although Jingzhou Yamen took the case, but there was no news. After Song Chengyong stayed for many days, he had to return to Guo County because he was exhausted.

But he didn't want to return to Guo County, so he was arrested and beaten by the Yamen, and warned him not to report the case to the above.

Song Chengyong firmly believed that the disappearance of his wife must be related to the Yamen of Guo County, and went to Beijing angrily, hearing that the Taixue Mansion was clear and upright, so he knelt down in front of the Taixue Mansion and shouted grievances.

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The content of the file is very simple, that is, a case of missing persons, but when the Taixue Academy sent two masters to investigate secretly, it was found that there was not only one missing case in Guo County, and women often disappeared, and there were more than ten records in the file.

That's the number of people missing in half a year.

Of course, being missing does not necessarily mean that you are dead, maybe you ran away to no one knows, or you may have offended someone and fled incognito.

In this era, it is normal for some people to disappear in a county, but it is a little unusual for Guo County to disappear all women.

When the two masters wanted to investigate further, they were always invisibly hindered by all kinds of obstacles, and in the end they could only return in vain.

According to the master's report, the investigation of the case was repeatedly obstructed, and it was suspected that someone behind the case was obstructing them from finding out the case.

Jiang Han's first thought was that there was something wrong with Guo County's yamen.

There are 21 counties in Jingzhou, and Guo County is just one of the small counties, at best, it is a quasi-third-tier city in the previous life.

In such a small city, if the yamen did something bad, it would be difficult for the news to reach Kyoto.

"In the case of the disappearance of women, could it be that someone kidnapped women? What is kidnapped women for? Vend? If it is indeed trafficking in women, it is a small case and extremely serious in nature. ”

Jiang Han thought about it, and immediately asked a master to take him to see Song Chengyong.

Since Song Chengyong went to Taixue Mansion to report the case two months ago, he was placed in a room to recuperate, because of the long-term trekking through mountains and rivers, this man was skinny and skinny.

When Jiang Han walked into the house, he found that the window in the house was not open, it was dark, his eyes swept away, and he saw Song Chengyong on the bed.

The man was only about thirty years old, and he seemed to have not washed for a long time.

He lay on the edge of the bed, his face had lost the desire to live, his eyes were blank, numb, and lifeless.

After seeing Jiang Han walk in, he didn't even move.

For a moment, Jiang Han felt that this person was dead.

Jiang Han frowned and walked over and asked, "Song Chengyong?" ”

Song Chengyong only glanced up at him slightly.

Jiang Han said: "I came to you to ask you about some things about Guo County, as well as the details of your wife's disappearance. ”

Song Chengyong sneered, his numb eyes changed, full of despair and hatred, and his voice was hoarse: "Don't pretend, you people, officials protect each other, one is more evil than the other, I shouldn't believe you...... You won't let me leave, aren't you afraid that I will continue to sue me? Kill me! ”

"Are you putting people in prisoners?"

Jiang Han turned his head to look at the master who brought him and frowned.

The master smiled bitterly and said: "Young Master Jiang, you misunderstood, the Taixue Mansion didn't lock him up, just asked him not to leave the Taixue Mansion, he didn't know that the Taixue Mansion had sent someone to investigate the case, and suspected that the Taixue Mansion and Guo County were colluding." ”

"Isn't it? The crows in the world are as black as black, and the sages taught me to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, what kind of monarch to be loyal to, what country to serve, the monarch is not for the people, and the people are loyal to the monarch and serve the country...... Hurry up and kill Lao Tzu! I only hate myself for being a Great Xia person! Song Chengyong said hatefully.

Jiang Han raised his eyebrows: "I'm still a reader." ”

Song Chengyong glared at him and said, "What kind of dog officer are you?" Do you want to hit me too? Fight it, if you don't kill me, I'll still say it! ”

The master frowned and said, "Song Chengyong! Don't talk nonsense! In front of you, this is the son of the Duke of Great Xia Weiguo, Jiang Han, the commander of the horses. He's here to help you find out about your wife's disappearance! ”

Song Chengyong sneered again and again, still not believing it.

The master had no choice but to say, "If the Taixue Mansion really colluded with the kidnappers of your wife, they would have killed you a long time ago, and left you here to wait for delicious food and drink?" ”

Song Chengyong's face showed a look of disbelief: "Do you really want to investigate the case?" Not perfunctory to me? ”

Jiang Han looked at this man's face, saw expectation, apprehension, and suspicion on his face.

It seems that this man has hit a wall a lot in the past year, so that no one dares to believe it now.

Jiang Han sighed and said, "Of course not, I'm going to go to Guo County to find out this case now, if you don't believe me, you can go with me." ”

The man said coldly: "Okay, I'll go with you, if you perfunctory me, I won't let you go!" ”

Jiang Han said: "You tell me everything you know first." ”

Song Chengyong was silent for a while, as if he was ready to be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind and slowly spoke.

From his mouth, Jiang Han learned some things that were not in the file, such as that his wife frequently went to a wealthy merchant's mansion to do manual work before her disappearance, and on the day of her disappearance, she was going to work in the mansion of a wealthy merchant.

For example, Song Chengyong, a missing woman in Guo County, knows as many as twenty or thirty people.

The more Jiang Han listened, the more solemn his face became.

If what Song Chengyong said is true, then this disappearance case may be related to the abduction and trafficking of women, and there are still many people who are trafficked!

As a man of the 21st century, he hated women abductors and traffickers the most.

"Young master, the carriage is ready, and the others are already waiting for you outside."

At this time, Zhou Hu's voice sounded.

Jiang Han nodded: "Song Chengyong, you can go back to Guo County with me!" ”

Guo County himself is not familiar with the place, if Guo County's yamen is really problematic, it is really difficult to investigate, it is still useful to bring a Song Chengyong.

Song Chengyong nodded slowly, his voice hoarse: "Okay." ”

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