Chapter 1375 Bandit
Hearing the words Chunshen Lake, the boss’s face became even more ugly, and he begged for mercy with a grimace: "Sir, I... I am just a small businessman, what can I know? , it’s all just gossip from hearsay. "
"Don't want to tell me?"
"No, I really don't know." The boss waved his hands quickly. He was just thinking about how to send this god of plague away quickly. , people from the Zhennan Hou Mansion don’t dare to provoke them.
The boss looked at the young man in front of him carefully, and made up his mind to close the shop immediately after seeing him off and go home to avoid the limelight.
"Well, since you don't want to say it, I won't make it difficult for you." Jiang Cheng picked up the pen under the boss's grateful eyes, wrote some words on the white paper on the side, and then handed the pen to the boss.
The boss blinked, "Sir, what are you doing..."
"Sign the pledge, and I'm done with it." Jiang Cheng gave the boss a reassuring look.
The boss came as close as possible. When he saw the words on the white paper clearly, he was stunned, and then almost cried. The black and white words on the paper said: It has been found out, Qianji Gubaozhaitong The bandit never forgot the former thief General Guo. After interrogation, shopkeeper Qian confessed to the matter.
My legs were shaking like a sieve, and finally Shopkeeper Qian knelt on the ground with a plop, "Sir, people in the Marquis Mansion must not say stupid things, I am a good person!"
"What? The people in the Hou Mansion are all fools, and you have killed someone?!" Jiang Cheng was shocked, and then he picked up the pen and continued writing on the paper. While writing, he said: "Shopkeeper Qian said, the people in the Hou Mansion They are all fools. He even killed someone and left his body in Spring God Lake... I have to remember these things, because promotion and fortune depend on them."
"Sir, please don't forget it. I said, can't I tell you everything I know?" Mr. Qian said. He stretched out two chubby hands, grabbed Jiang Cheng's pen, and begged.
Hearing this, Jiang Cheng released his pen in a considerate manner and patted Shopkeeper Qian's hand, "It's great that you had been like this earlier. It would have saved you and me trouble. Look, it hurts our feelings to be in such trouble now. "
Jiang Cheng knew that he had found the right person as early as when Shopkeeper Qian recognized the fragment of armor. Ordinary antique shop owners would not know such details, as well as the patterns on the armor, and Things like General Guo taking personal soldiers with him.
Shopkeeper Qian stood in front of Jiang Cheng like a prisoner and told him everything he knew.
According to Shopkeeper Qian, people in the Hou Mansion seem to have been paying special attention to Chunshen Lake. In the past few years, fishermen have been missing mysteriously and reported them to the officials. In the end, nothing happened. It made people panic for a while, and everyone was worried. It is said privately that he offended the Water Dragon King at the bottom of the lake and suffered this disaster.
"But...but then, late one night, an old fisherman who had been missing for almost a month suddenly ran back home. This frightened the family, and they thought it was a water ghost who had possessed him. I went to look for a substitute, but after a closer look, I found that there was nothing sparse about this person. Latishui, although her face looks bad, her eyes are still clear, but there are traces of being tied up and beaten..."
At this point, Shopkeeper Qian seemed to realize something and suddenly shut up. , and then looked at Jiang Cheng with a look of belated fear.
Jiang Cheng gave Shopkeeper Qian a look that made me understand. He leaned back in his chair and said calmly: "It's not the Water Dragon King, but he was captured by people from the Hou Mansion. Right Isn’t that right?”
Shopkeeper Qian’s pupils shrank suddenly, his legs became weak, and he was about to kneel on the ground and kowtow. He was so confused that he accidentally said such a thing. Can he say this? ?
After all, is there still a way to survive?
But Jiang Cheng waved his hands indifferently, "You are not the only one who knows about this. Many people in the city know it. As long as you don't spread it, our Marquis Mansion will not cause trouble for you, but I want to listen to the truth. , you should understand. "
Shopkeeper Qian stretched out his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, and nodded vigorously, "Understood, sir, I understand everything, and I promise to tell you everything."
"Go on."
"Yes, sir." Shopkeeper Qian brewed his emotions for a moment and lowered his voice: "The old fisherman was shaking all over after returning home and told what happened to him. He was on his way home late from fishing one day. In a secluded location, surrounded by a group of He was captured by a group of people dressed like ordinary people. Then they blindfolded him and took him around for a long time. Finally, they came to a mountainside mountain village and imprisoned him in a "In the cave."
"There were many people in the cave, and it was completely dark. When he took a look, he was surprised to find that he knew many of these people. They were all nearby fishermen. It turned out that the so-called missing people were all caught here."
“There were people guarding outside, and they didn’t dare to speak loudly, so they could only lower their heads. , communicated in a low voice, the experiences of these people were basically similar to his own, they were all captured, it seems they encountered bandits."
"But he couldn't figure out what the bandits were doing to catch them, these fishermen. Every family has extra money to redeem themselves. Men like them are the backbone of the family. How can it be difficult? No... Could it be that you want them to join the gang?"
"But at this time, a short and stout man with a slight limp in his legs told them in a hoarse voice that these people outside were not bandits, but officers and soldiers, that was them. The officers and soldiers of Luo'an City."
"The short and sturdy man said himself. He had cooked in the barracks before and was familiar with the habits of these soldiers. He had noticed that the people outside got up on time at five o'clock to cook rice. After the third watch, the people were tired and the horses were exhausted, so it was changed to every half an hour. "
"The long-lasting peace and the ability to maintain such strict military discipline shows that this group of people are not only officers and soldiers, but also elite troops. We are the elite troops of Luo'an City..."
Shopkeeper Qian did not dare to continue talking at this point. He kept testing Jiang Cheng’s attitude with his peripheral vision. Jiang Cheng nodded thoughtfully. The head said, "Then only the Hou Mansion is eligible for transfer."
"These elite officers and soldiers did not wear official uniforms. They obviously did not want to reveal their identities, and they also created such a grand scene in this mountain. Old fisherman I can tell with my feet that there is something going on here, and it is a big deal," Shopkeeper Qian continued.
“At this time, someone came over and quietly told him that they were not the first group of people to be arrested. There was a group of people before, who were also fishermen, but they were taken out blindfolded some time ago. , and never came back.”
“Every once in a while, someone will be blindfolded and taken out, and soon after, new people will come in one after another, and everyone is used to it. ”
"In the next few days, the old fisherman couldn't eat well and couldn't sleep. Whenever he dreamed at night, he would be taken out. He had a strange premonition, as if being taken out would be more terrifying than death. "(End of this chapter)