Cheng Qi's eyebrows moved slightly. He watched the man in front of him slowly leave his seat and stand up. He felt his throat was a little dry, and then he asked, "Why? Aren't you the head of the Ping An Escort Agency? Are you really doing this for fame and fortune?"
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The man changed his previous simple and honest look, his eyes sparkled, and he stared at him intently for a long time before relaxing his gaze: "Sir, I heard that you are going to take the imperial examination and become an official in the future. I want to remind you that it is better not to ask about things that you should not know. The less you know, the safer you are. I wonder if you have heard of this truth?"
He had no intention of arguing with these arrogant young people, but when he asked too many questions and went beyond the line, he had to remind him to prevent him from doing anything bad later.
Cheng Qi was frightened by him. He felt as if he could draw out a knife at any time. He could not help but shudder. After a moment, he realized belatedly that the man in front of him did not look like a real escort. Instead... he looked more like a veteran soldier who had killed people and seen blood on the battlefield!
That look...
He didn't dare to ask any more questions and just nodded randomly.
The man looked at him deeply, and soon walked out of the room, blended into the crowd, and disappeared without a trace.
Cheng Qi sat in the room. It took him a while to come back to his senses from the fear he had just experienced. He stood up in a daze.
Something is wrong. Something is wrong with this matter. Those bodyguards... ...seem not to be the same bodyguards as before.
This thought came to his mind, and he immediately had a guess - although the order was taken by the Ping An Escort Agency, these escorts might have died on the way! The rest were robbers!
Even those who came back might be robbers.
He swallowed, feeling a little dizzy, and walked out of the door holding the threshold. He glanced at the people coming and going on the second floor and in the hall. It took him a while to calm himself down, and he hurried back to the weaving office.
The street next to the weaving office was inhabited by textile workers and many workshops. There were many colorful cloths hanging near the river. He hurriedly walked around the street and returned to the weaving office. The first thing he did was to find those guards.
The guards hadn't come back yet, so he waited for a while until they came. Seeing that they all came with empty hands, he frowned and asked, "Where are the people? Didn't I tell you to go find the escort agency?"
The guards all had a somewhat frustrated and strange expression. They looked at him and then stammered, "Sir... those people are gone... when we went over there, except for an old man guarding the door, we didn't see anyone else... I guess they got wind of it and ran away..."
Cheng Qi's eyes widened, as if in disbelief: "Run away?!"
When the guards agreed, he suddenly pushed them away and hurriedly asked the clerk to inform Hong Xinyuan.
When Hong Xinyuan received the news, a letter had just been sent from Yingtian Prefecture, saying that many escort agencies in Jinling had lost escorts recently, and without exception, the victims were all young girls, and a strict investigation had been launched.
Hong Xinyuan's brows were tightly furrowed together, and he was a little at a loss.
If many escort agencies have lost their escorts and many young girls are missing, then is what happened to my daughter just an accident
Was she really kidnapped just because she happened to be a girl
He knew that many kidnappers specialized in kidnapping these young and beautiful girls and selling them.
Whenever he thought of this possibility, he wanted to kill someone.
Just as he was thinking about it, someone outside said that Cheng Qi had returned and had something urgent to see him about. He put down the letter in his hand, rubbed his brows and let him in.
As soon as Cheng Qi entered the room, he walked quickly to him, and then stood still, and told him breathlessly: "Sir, there is really a problem! All the people in the escort agency have left! When the guards arrived, the escort agency was already empty, and no one stayed. These people are obviously working together from inside and outside, and they have planned it all along!"
Hong Xinyuan was startled, and then he reacted: "They have all run away?!"
How did they do that?!
If there were no problems, the escorts would at most be charged with a crime of poor escort, and there was no need for them to run away like that. Hong Xinyuan didn't have time to say anything else, and immediately ordered him: "Go find some more people, and report to the authorities after you have gathered all the people!"
He thought for a moment, then asked someone to call the butler over: "Where are the escorts who returned from Jinling?"
The housekeeper knew that these people were important and did not dare to neglect them. He had already ordered people to keep a close eye on them. When he heard the question, he hurriedly said, "They are behind... ..."
"Go and interrogate them!" He suddenly sneered, "I want to see who they are and what they want to do!"
The housekeeper didn't understand and looked at Cheng Qi in confusion.
Cheng Qi briefly told him that the Ping An Escort Agency was now deserted, and at the end he said, "If you had done nothing wrong, you wouldn't have run away so quickly. Now it seems that these escorts are the only clues. We must interrogate them thoroughly and make them explain what happened and where they took the girl!"
Normally, the butler didn't pay attention to these staff members, but now the butler knew the urgency of the matter and couldn't care less about them. He hurriedly agreed and turned away.
The Weaving Bureau originally did not have the authority to interrogate people, but now that it has come to this, who would care about these things? Besides, even if it really came to the government, there was nothing to be afraid of. We were all wearing the same pants, so covering these things up was not a problem at all.
The butler showed no mercy and used ruthless methods right from the start. He used a branding iron to burn the thighs of the escorts until the skin was singed. He used many torture instruments throughout the afternoon and it was not until the evening that he was able to get some information out of them.
Cheng Qi has also returned and said that he has already reported the matter to the authorities, and the government is also pursuing those escorts who escaped.
And those people who had been sent out by the butler to inquire about the situation of Ping An Escort Agency had also returned and brought back a piece of news that made Hong Xinyuan shudder - his daughter was not the first one that Ping An Escort Agency had lost, nor was she the first girl to be kidnapped.
In fact, in the past six months, there have been more than twenty girls lost in the hands of the Ping An Escort Agency! What a terrible number! It means that basically all the girls escorted by the Ping An Escort Agency have been lost! Are these girls really lost? Where did the Ping An Escort Agency take these girls? Whenever Hong Xinyuan thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a chill on his back.