The heavy rain came quickly and quickly, and the passers-by on the road thought that today was a good day with a bright sun. They were caught off guard by the heavy rain and rushed to the shop to hide from the rain. The smart peddler brought out oiled paper umbrellas to sell. Make a small profit here.
"A few days ago, the Jiang family girl went out to play and didn't return that day. The Jiang family used their own power to search for the whole night, and they reported it to the officials in the early morning of the second day. When the news reached the emperor, it was noon on the second day." Xie Zhaoxue poured half a glass. Hot tea was handed to Wen Chan's table, and he continued, "Then the emperor ordered a thorough search of the capital, and ordered me to handle the matter. After searching in the past two days, I found that a family named Wu near the Heyue Building was also missing."
"It's the old woman kicked by Liang Yanbei today. She became a widow when she was young. She has a son named Wu Qi, who is thirty-one this year. After questioning the neighbors, we learned that he disappeared on the same day as the girl from the Jiang family. , have not returned for four days.”
"Could it be that the missing Jiang family girl is Jiang Yueying?" Wen Chan asked after thinking for a while.
"Exactly." Xie Zhaoxue sighed slightly, "This Miss Jiang was stepped on and broke her arm on the Lantern Festival, and she has been recuperating for a long time. A few days ago, she got bored at home and wanted to go out for a walk, but she disappeared. .”
Wen Chan thought in his heart, finally found someone who is more unlucky than me...
"Then do you know who the leader the old woman is talking about?" He was inexplicably nervous, and he gently rubbed the fingers hidden in his sleeve.
"I don't know. Liang Yanbei has already gone to interrogate, so he should be able to find out something." Xie Zhaoxue rubbed his eyes tiredly. In order to track down Jiang Yueying's disappearance, he didn't have a good rest these days.
Although the Jiang family is not very powerful, they are still third-rank officials. The disappearance of a prostitute's daughter in the capital is considered a major event, and the emperor will not allow such things to happen at the foot of the imperial city, so Xie Zhaoxue is under a lot of pressure.
Wen Chan didn't continue to ask, he sat upright on the chair, waiting anxiously for Liang Yanbei.
Liang Yanbei came slowly after the rain gradually became lighter and pattered. He was holding a sesame seed cake he didn't know when he went out to buy. As soon as he entered the door, he looked at Wen Chan expectantly and impatiently. Can't help but startled.
Seeing him, Wen Chan immediately stood up and walked towards him, "What did you find out during the interrogation?"
Liang Yanbei was still chewing the biscuits in his mouth, wondering why His Highness the Ninth Prince was so concerned about Miss Jiang's affairs
"Speak." Seeing him in a daze, Wen Chan couldn't help raising his voice, which shocked Liang Yanbei back to his senses. He looked at Wen Chan, smiled, and said vaguely, "No hurry, wait until I finish eating this biscuit .”
Seeing Wen Chan's anxious appearance, Liang Yanbei just dawdled and sat down next to Xie Zhaoxue, with one leg raised up, gnawing on sesame seeds comfortably.
Wen Chan knew that his small body was no match for Liang Yanbei, so he took a breath in his heart, turned around and went back to where he was sitting, cursing secretly, eat, eat, eat! Choke you to death!
Liang Yanbei saw that he was so angry that his mouth was pursed and he tried to pretend that nothing had happened. He was inexplicably amused, and lazily said, "That old woman is a tough one. No matter how I threaten her, she won't say a word. In the cell, I scolded my ancestors and descendants all over, without repeating a single sentence."
"This kind of stubborn and unreliable villain should let her suffer." Xie Zhaoxue said angrily.
"You didn't ask anything?" Wen Chan was disappointed, and he was already thinking about going to see the old woman by himself.
"Of course not. I still have some ways to deal with people like her." Liang Yanbei denied with a grin.
Wen Chan was so angry that he almost rolled his eyes, he raised his hand to slap the table, but he reacted in mid-air and turned his hand abruptly, picked up the hot tea on the table, and poured it into his mouth.
Little did they know that the water in this tea was scalding hot, even though it had been left for a while, it still couldn't be swallowed. Can't bear to squirt.
Xie Zhaoxue was startled, "Come here, serve herbal tea!"
Liang Yanbei couldn't help laughing out loud.
Wen Chan covered his mouth and raised his head to stare at him. His big eyes were covered with mist due to the pain, and he looked pitiful. Liang Yanbei was very innocent, "What are you doing staring at me? It's not the hot tea I let you drink."
Xie Zhaoxue quickly handed over the herbal tea, "Brother Yanbei, don't be rude!"
Wen Chan gave a small cold snort, took a sip of the herbal tea, and swallowed it, the place where it was wet just now began to tingle, he put the teacup on the table, looked at Liang Yanbei with his cheeks slightly puffed up, and beckoned him to continue talking .
Liang Yanbei finished his last bite, and clapped his hands in a leisurely manner, "In order for the old woman to stand trial obediently, I had someone knock out one of her teeth, and then she stopped scolding."
"It should be so." Xie Zhaoxue agreed.
Wen Chan, however, didn't want to hear the process of him battling wits with the old woman. He just wanted to know whether Liang Yanbei had found any useful information, but he couldn't help it, so he suppressed his temper and listened to him making jokes.
"However, even if one of her teeth was knocked out, she still put on a face that she would rather die than submit, and ignored me as if she was deaf, so I brought her little grandson to the prison, and put the knife on the small With a fight around her neck, she will do anything." Liang Yanbei sighed helplessly, "I really don't cry without seeing the coffin."
Wen Chan swallowed the water in his mouth and asked, "What did you recruit?"
Seeing that he was really in a hurry and asked the same question three times in a row, Liang Yanbei said slowly, "There are only three people in the old woman's family, she, her son, and a little grandson who is more than ten years old. Believers of God's conversion."
The word "Shen Guijiao" exploded next to Wen Chan's ear, and his heart "thumped" and fell suddenly. It really was God Guijiao!
Liang Yanbei saw that Wen Chan looked a little wrong, and continued, "They joined the sect three years ago. They said that they are God's Guidance. Every three years, they will hold an apprentice meeting in May Island, and they only need to pay one tael of silver per person. You can start teaching."
"What is this teaching for?" Xie Zhaoxue heard this teaching for the first time.
"The old woman said that the leader of God's Guidance is a god who returned from hell and will save the suffering believers in the world. As long as you pray with your heart, all wishes can be fulfilled." Liang Yanbei said disdainfully, he obviously did not believe these words.
"Fairy? Are there really gods in this world?" Xie Zhaoxue was confused.
"Yes." Wen Chan murmured in a daze. Of course there are gods in this world, but the leader of God's Guild is not. Wen Chan knows that the leader is a real monster, because he saw the leader transform into a huge monster. , The life-threatening claws pulled out Zhong Wenjin's hot heart.
Liang Yanbei and Xie Zhaoxue couldn't help being suspicious when they saw Wen Chan's distraught appearance, Liang Yanbei said, "Your Highness Ninth Prince, do you know something?"
Wen Chan's face gradually calmed down after he yelled back, "That's all she recruited?"
"Well, that's all." Liang Yanbei nodded, "Afterwards, no matter how much I asked her, she said no, and finally passed out from the pain."
It was enough to ask these questions, Wen Chan stood up and said to the two, "You two should investigate Miss Jiang's case carefully, I will go back to the palace first."
Wen Chan made an inexplicable request to come to the yamen, and asked some urgent questions. After asking, he left without stopping for a moment. The rest of Liang Yanbei and Xie Zhaoxue felt strange. After sending Wen Chan away, they had different thoughts and did other things up.
The rain outside didn't know when it stopped, so Wen Chan took the three subordinates waiting outside the door, went back to the carriage with a heavy heart, and ordered to go back to the palace.
As soon as the carriage moved, the sound of hawking on the side of the road reached Wen Chan's ears, interrupting his thoughts.
"Selling biscuits! Delicious biscuits!"
Wen Chan suddenly thought of the biscuits that Liang Yanbei was holding, and felt a lingering pain in his tongue. He opened the curtains, stretched his head out, and saw a middle-aged man yelling for his biscuits. There were a few beside the pot. Some are long, some are short, some are round and some are flat, and one of them is exactly the kind Liangyan eats in the north.
He pointed at the middle-aged man, "That biscuit seller over there! Now you are pushing your biscuit stand to the next street to sell! If next time I see you still in front of the yamen, I will smash your biscuit stall !"
The middle-aged man was terrified by this sudden threat. He looked at the other party sitting in a luxurious carriage. The driver's eyes were sharp, and he froze immediately, and stopped suddenly in the middle of shouting.
Seeing him in a daze, Wen Chan said fiercely, "Did you hear that?"
The middle-aged man immediately nodded and cleaned up the stall quickly.
Seeing him like this, Wen Chan felt angry, and sat back in the carriage, yelling for Shuhua to continue driving.
Ah Fu sat watching from the side, and said, "How did the sesame seed seller make His Highness angry? Why don't you let Qinqi find someone to teach you a lesson."
"No need." Wen Chan refused, how could a sesame seed seller offend him? The person who really pissed him off was probably busy having fun right now.
After being silent for a while, Wen Chan suddenly called to stop the carriage. He asked Ah Fu to open the curtain, and said to Qin Qi, "Go and buy me a piece of sesame seed cake. It's the stall where I just told people to get out."
After thinking about it, Wen Chan added, "The biscuits should be round."