Chapter 11: The Three Counties Case (5)
Di Renjie nodded slightly, so it seemed that it was understandable that the Three Yin Divine Mansion would come down to arrest people, but he asked again: "What kind of force was the Moon Demon Gate before, is it very powerful in Dongyue Kingdom?"
Li Yuandao, the head catcher: "It's okay, the Moon Demon Gate starts from the Yueque clan in the northwest of Dongyue Kingdom, this clan itself is a relatively closed nation, and it rarely interacts with other people, but it is good at fighting." However, the Yueque clan was wiped out as early as two hundred years ago in a demon invasion campaign, near the northwest, and further up is the demon realm area, like these marginal places, there are often some incidents of mountain demon captives, even if it is a warlike Yueque clan, after all, it can't resist the large-scale attack of the demon clan. β
Di Renjie: "Why did the imperial court sweep the Moon Demon Gate back then, and what kind of mistake did it make?"
Although he also wanted to help Li Yuan, the head catcher, he also had to learn more about the origin of these things.
Li Yuan shook his head: "I don't know about this layer, it's just that the imperial court has always hated the Demon Gate Demon Sect very much, and would rather kill the wrong person than let it go, and the people don't have anything to say about it. β
Di Renjie sat on the steps, and in this way, it became difficult for Wei Xiaoyue to escape.
After a while, Li Yuan couldn't help but ask, "Has Di Gongzi come up with any solutions?"
In Changping County, the only thing he can rely on now is Di Renjie, in fact, he didn't expect Di Renjie to come back so soon, but it was about this time, so he hid in Di Renjie's home, and he didn't dare to make any moves in the previous two days, mainly because he was worried that the officials would come to search, and the entire Changping County was not safe, even if it was his own home, the relatives were afraid that for their own safety and their safety, they would also hand over Xiaoyue, so Li Yuan simply did not go home, so it would not involve his relativesγ
He originally planned to fight to the death in the end, before they captured Xiaoyue, they must kill themselves first, so that he can explain to his best friend, in fact, it is also to give an explanation to his life beliefs, to be a man, you must keep your credit!
"It's not impossible. Di Renjie turned his head and said.
Li Yuan, the head catcher, was immediately pleasantly surprised, and the little girl on the side was also happy.
Di Renjie said solemnly at this time: "It's just that the success rate is not very high, and it is also very risky. β
"It doesn't hurt to say that. "The head catcher Li Yuandao, he will be a dead horse and a live horse doctor at this time, but if there is a little way, it is better than going to die head-on.
Di Renjie continued: "Isn't there a night shop in the lively old street of the West City Gate?"
Li Yuan, the head catcher, was slightly surprised: "Di Gongzi actually knows that?"
That building night shop is a spring night building, simply put, it is a brothel, it is famous in Changping County, but I didn't expect Di Renjie, a person who lives in a simple place, to know that place.
Di Renjie smiled slightly, in the past six months, he already knows Changping County very well, not to mention some markets, that is, he is very familiar with the household registration of some people.
However, Li Yuan immediately straightened up, he knew that Di Renjie would not go to these places, according to what the county magistrate Cui Gang said to him before, this young man looked quiet, but it gave people a sense of a hidden dragon, "Can Di Gongzi explain his words more clearly?
Di Renjie smiled again: "It has nothing to do with Lou Yefang, but it has something to do with the caravans that come and go from Lou Yefang." β
"The caravans that come and go in Lou Yefang? are the Taizhou people who buy and sell rouge powder?" Li Yuan frowned slightly.
Di Renjie nodded, "Among the nine prefectures in Dongyue, the one that is neighbored by Zhenjiang Mansion is Taizhou Mansion, and you can escape from Changping County by taking advantage of the caravans that come in and out." The caravan will leave the city in two days. β
Li Yuan, the head catcher, frowned, shook his head and said, "No, this caravan in and out usually has to be investigated, let alone at this time." I've thought about some ways to escape before, and this caravan from Taizhou Mansion is also in my plan. β
Di Renjie said: "Do you really think that it is just a caravan that simply buys and sells rouge? Have you ever seen a caravan that buys and sells rouge to go in and out three times a month? The rouge here is mostly made of the Banyue Jiao that is abundant in Taizhou Mansion, and the production of Banyue Jiao is made of March peach blossoms, gypsum, talc, mussel powder, wax grease and motherwort and other materials, and these March peach blossoms are not available every month, but only once a year. β
"What does Di Gongzi mean by this?" Li Yuan immediately asked.
Di Renjie continued: "When I followed the official mission to handle the case before, I found that the household registration of Changping County had been tampered with, and some couples obviously did not have daughters, but later they had more daughters, and every time there was tampering, it was after the caravan of the Taizhou Prefecture came and went. β
Li Yuan was shocked, "You mean, these caravans are doing some human trafficking?"
Di Renjie shook his head, "It's not just simple human trafficking, to be precise, the caravan captured young women out of nowhere, and then put them into brothels to make money, but for the sake of procedural justice, they gave these women of unknown origin to local household registration in the local brothels, and conspired with some local people." β
Li Yuan, the head catcher, was immediately angry, "I didn't expect these people to dare to do these things in my territory!"
"Let's not talk about that, you can't protect yourself now. Di Renjie waved his hand, and Li Yuan, the head catcher, only smiled bitterly.
Subsequently, Di Renjie said: "According to my observation, this matter should have been some days, at least half a year after I came here, it happened from time to time, and I just guessed that this was human trafficking in connection with the frequent caravan traffic and the sudden increase in household registration." β
Catch the head Li Yuan, "In other words, these caravans have not been investigated at the time of the investigation, it makes no sense, no matter who they are, they need to be checked when they enter a county and a city, unless they ......"
Hearing Li Yuan's suspicions, Di Renjie nodded, "That's right, unless there is a general order of the Nine Mansions, but this is unlikely, the people who can have the General Order of the Nine Governments are basically powerful people in Dongyue Kingdom, and it is impossible to do these indiscriminate human trafficking things." β
Li Yuan, the head catcher, also nodded: "Yes, for those people, it is difficult for ordinary gold, silver and jade to impress them. That is to say, for a long time, the people who have been checking have been colluding with the caravans that come and go to Lou Yefang, but these people who are checking are people from Lin'an City, and they didn't expect to hook up, so it can be seen that the forces behind the caravan have some origins. β
Di Renjie: "Let's not talk about this for the time being, if you want to escape now, you must use this caravan, and the caravan will leave the city in two days." β
Catch the head Li Yuan, "But, how are we going to contact this caravan? And the matter has come to this point, now that the Three Yin Divine Mansion is coming to arrest us, the people behind the caravan dare to offend the Three Yin Divine Mansion?"
Di Renjie: "It's okay if the people behind the caravan don't know, and even if they do, they will pretend not to know." β
Li Yuan: "Then how do you communicate with the people of these caravans?"
Di Renjie: "It's on me, you and Xiaoyue prepare and set off in two days." β
After that, Di Renjie got up and went back to the room to change clothes, Li Yuan, the head catcher, looked at Di Renjie's figure, and couldn't help but feel a little grateful, he knew that the most difficult thing at the moment was how to deal with this caravan, Di Renjie said that it was on him, but would the people in the caravan pay attention to him as a weak scholar? It's a big deal to kill him, isn't this okay? So Li Yuan knows that Di Renjie is really risking his life for himself and Xiaoyue now.
After changing into a fresh and clean clothes, Di Renjie's whole person seems to have changed, after months of martial arts practice, now he is already a martial artist, which is very different from the previous scholar's appearance, and he already has a heroic spirit.
He helped catch Li Yuan, partly because of friendship, but even more partly, because he adhered to a righteousness in his heart, it was this justice, and it was his bottom line criterion for being a person, although he knew the worries of the imperial court, but this was not the fundamental reason, he just didn't agree with the characterization of someone as a remnant of the demon sect by blood, so as to deprive others of their lives, that's all.
He believed that there is no good or evil after birth, and that the environment in which people grow up in the later years is more important, and if society does not even have such a tolerance, then problems are inevitable.
After he changed his clothes, he went out again, and at the same time asked Li Yuan, the head catcher, to be careful, now the entire Changping County is looking through him, but he has not been searched here for the time being, Di Renjie is also worried that those searching arresters will soon find his home.
Lou Yefang has been opened in Changping County for more than 10 years, during which there was an Oiran named Red Kite, famous throughout Lin'an City, it is said that many rich families in Lin'an City have spent a lot of silver taels on her, originally this Red Kite can be married to a decent big family as a concubine, but she did not do this, but when her reputation fell, she returned to Lou Yefang, made an old bustard, of course, said that it was an old bustard, but it was still charming, looking forward to the brilliance.
However, over the years, the customers who came to the door knew that this red kite bustard was not easy to deal with, no wonder many rich children in Lin'an City were confused, and they did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to fight for the wind and be jealous.
At this time, a few women at the door of Lou Yefang are flattering and waving at the men who come and go, entering this place, it is generally difficult to get out, on the one hand, these women are also women from ordinary families, and where can they escape to? It's not that no one has escaped, but in the end they will be caught back, and they will be tortured painfully, and the thugs of this Lou Yefang are not weaker than the catch in Changping County.
When Di Renjie came to the door of this nightfang, when a few strong men came over, for nearly a year, Di Renjie's reputation had already spread in Changping County, and the matter of the Snow Night Wolf Demon had also raised his status in the hearts of everyone.
One of the strong men said politely: "What is the reason why Di Gongzi came to my building's night shop?"
Di Renjie smiled slightly: "What else can a man do here?"
The strong man frowned, they are naturally very familiar with the local catchers and officials, and they are also very familiar with Di Renjie, who often helps the officials and errands, knowing that this is a master who is not easy to mess with, and there is a Cui County order behind this, so it is not convenient for them to offend too much.
In the end, the strong man's brows loosened slightly, and he made an invitation: "Since this is the case, then Di Gongzi will invite." β
In any case, he has to be a guest first, although the strong man was faintly worried in his heart, this Di Renjie had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and in the past, he had never heard of him going to any venue on a snowy night.
Di Renjie walked in generously, and at this time, the strong man also made a look, "Go and tell Sister Hong, that Di Renjie is here, be careful." β
The other man on the side nodded and left.
Although Di Renjie is not the fast catcher of Changping County at the moment, but the strong man and others all know that as early as a few months ago, Cui Gang, the county commander of Changping County, has made a promise, and Di Renjie will be the fast catcher of Changping County sooner or later, they know what they have done in their hearts, and those people in the past can not care, but for Di Renjie, they are attentive.
After Di Renjie stepped into this night shop, the wine was fragrant, singing and dancing, all of them came and went from the rich children of several surrounding counties, and those women were also dressed up in fancy clothes, smiling and smiling, during the period, there were also several glamorous women who wanted to entertain Di Renjie, but they were all rejected by Di Renjie with a smile, saying that he was waiting for someone.
He is indeed waiting for someone, waiting for the owner of the surface of this nightfang, the red kite.
Those women felt inexplicable, didn't they come to this place to find women?
Di Renjie just smiled and didn't respond too much, he knew that this red zither would definitely come to him first, after all, he might be about to take office and suddenly appear in this place, it would be strange for everyone to think that the delicate old bustard red zither was not a good stubble, so he would definitely come to him.
Sure enough, not even a quarter of an hour, I saw that on the second floor, a woman in a luxurious black pleated dress slowly walked down, looking only in her early thirties, quite charming, extremely beautiful, I have to say, the women around here can not be compared with this woman, and those guests are all excited and shouted.
"Sister Hongzheng, what kind of wind is this, it actually blew you out?"
"Yes, Sister Hongzheng, you are doing bad business, after seeing you, what are we interested in these rouge vulgar fans?"
"Hahaha! Reasonable! I'm not interested! Hahaha!"
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Although the red kite is the old bustard of Lou Yefang, in fact, it has long stopped picking up customers, and it does not need to pick up customers, and it rarely appears in normal times, so why did it suddenly appear at this time? Everyone was extremely interested.
Seeing the red zither walking in front of Di Renjie, he smiled gently: "Di Gongzi, please speak inside." β
Di Renjie nodded slightly, and at this time, others noticed that Sister Hongzheng actually appeared for such a kid, no, who is this person?
Some of them are familiar but recognize them, isn't this the Di Renjie who killed the Snow Night Wolf Demon with Li Yuan a few days ago?
"Di Renjie, why did this person appear here?"
"I usually live in a simple place, but I didn't expect to come to our place, after all, I am still a man!"
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Di Renjie was a little vigilant in his heart, in fact, the old bustard red kite could have called someone to summon him, which saved him so many meaningless things, but she didn't do this, but came down to pick her up in person, how noble is she? Absolutely not, Di Renjie knows that he is just a backup catcher who has been temporarily ordered by Cui County, and there is no need to work so himself.
Immediately, Di Renjie sorted out the logic, this seems to be a rather grand reception for himself, showing his solemnity, if this is replaced by other young people, I am afraid that he will really be complacent, after all, the red kite rarely appears, and it is actually to receive a man.
However, Di Renjie knew that he was obviously suspected by this red kite when he came here, and he already had some reputation for solving cases in Changping County, so these people, including red zither, may also have ghosts in their hearts, worried that they are here to investigate something, and deliberately appear in front of him with this kind of big battle, so as to let the people around him know that Di Renjie, who is about to become a fast catcher, is not so serious as rumored.
"Such a faint desire to grasp some of my handles can also prove that you are a thief in your heart. Di Renjie secretly said in his heart, but he knew what he was doing this time, and he would see this human trafficking later.
After a short time, Hongzheng led Di Renjie to an elegant and quiet room, some maids had already prepared some wine and food on the table, and Di Renjie also sat down to eat and drink generously, saying that he had not eaten a serious meal during this time.
The charm woman Hongzheng didn't speak, just quietly watched Di Renjie eat, and at the end, Di Renjie asked with a smile: "Red girl, don't you ask me what I'm doing here?"
Hearing Di Renjie call her a red girl, the red kite fluttered and smiled, giving people a sense of amazement, and then smiled gently: "The concubine has never come to this place, if Di Gongzi is interested, then let the concubine serve the child." β
Di Renjie smiled slightly, put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth at the same time, and said, "These are exempt, I'll get straight to the point, I came here to make a deal with you." β
Hongzheng smiled dignified and did not speak.
Di Renjie didn't care, this time he was indeed in danger, and then said: "I know, you often come and go in a caravan......
As soon as he said this, Hongzheng's face turned cold, but she still didn't speak.
Di Renjie noticed it, but he just smiled faintly, and continued to say calmly: "Don't think too much, in fact, I already knew, but why didn't I report it?" Because I know that even the Cui County Order may not be able to handle it, so I don't give myself so many things, I just want to make a deal this time." β
Hongzheng smiled slightly: "I wonder what Di Gongzi knows?"
Di Renjie also smiled: "Naturally, you smuggled Taizhou Mansion Rouge Banyuejiao, this Banyuejiao's annual output is very small, and there is a fixed amount of sales to various places, you don't want to know about this matter, right? β
Di Renjie didn't tell them about human trafficking, so he naturally had some truth in his heart.
Sure enough, Hongzheng said at this time: "Isn't Gongzi Di afraid that the concubine will leave you here?"
Di Renjie smiled casually: "It's useless to stay with me, because I have already told some friends about your smuggling of Banyuejiao, if I don't go back, my friends will naturally go to report to the state capital, you don't want to see such a thing happen, right?"
A cold look flashed in Hongzheng's eyes, and he didn't speak.
In fact, Di Renjie has his reasons for doing this, smuggling rouge is not a big crime, at most, this Lou Ye Fang, which has been open for more than ten years, must not be opened again, but Di Renjie knows that once the people in the government track it down, it is very likely that the human trafficking will also be involved, he knows that Hongzheng will definitely worry about this, and at that time, the just law of Dongyue will not let them go.
He grasped the worry in Hongzheng's heart, but he pretended not to know about it, because if this matter came out of his mouth, it would be difficult to guarantee that this nightclub would really be a killer against himself, because at that time, human trafficking and smuggling were completely different in nature.
After a long time, Hongzheng said coldly: "Are you trying to threaten me? I can torture you and make you tell your friends who you know, and none of you will be able to escape at that time." β
A hint of ridicule flashed on Di Renjie's face, and he said calmly: "What you can think of, will Di not think of it? If Di can't get out of here, tomorrow, Di will guarantee that everyone in Changping County will know about the crime of smuggling Half Moon Jiao in Lou Yefang, do you believe it or not? Do you think Di can do it?"
Hongzheng was furious, however, however, she finally restrained herself from calming down, staring at Di Renjie intently, she knew that this man was not simple, he had only been in Changping County for half a year, and he had helped Changping County crack many big cases, and even Cui County Ling was extremely optimistic about it, she was not afraid that someone would confront her head-on, the big deal was to kill, but in front of this man, she felt as if she had seen everything through, and Di Renjie could guess that her caravan was so secret, although he had not guessed the matter of human trafficking, no, if he had already guessed itοΌ
Thinking of this, Hongzheng suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart, could it be that the man in front of him had actually guessed that his group was trafficking in human beings, but he didn't say it? Hongzheng didn't dare to deny this hypothesis, if this was the case, then he would not be able to act impulsively against Di Ren.
Damn! Hongzheng felt completely caught in the hands of the man in front of him!
Di Renjie pressed step by step, "How about it, Sister Hong, I sincerely ask you to make a deal, after all, I will soon be able to become our Changping County's catcher, and when the time comes, everyone will still be able to communicate more." β
The so-called Duoduo exchanges, the implication is naturally to let Hongzheng know that they can still collude with each other in the future, this tightening and loosening, Di Renjie is very measured, he also knows that he can't force the other party too hard, and now throw out some thoughts, so that the other party can see the sincerity of his cooperation, the most important thing at the moment is to send the head catcher Li Yuan and Wei Xiaoyue out of Changping County.