Kujo-ri
North Street.
This is the northernmost area of Kujo-ri. It may not be as prosperous as the streets in the center of Kujo-ri, but it is closer to the inner city, so it is also a place where some rich and powerful people live.
As night falls, walking along this wide North Street, you can see high-walled compounds on both sides. Some of the courtyards are brightly lit, which seems to be two completely different worlds from the dark slums.
The roads here are smooth and the bluestone courtyard walls are clean.
In one of the courtyards.
There were several burly men, one of whom was holding a sack in his hand. The sack was twisting constantly, and there seemed to be some kind of living thing inside. He carried it easily with one hand, and all the way to the inner courtyard, he knocked on the inner courtyard. The door of the courtyard.
The door was opened, and a young master in his twenties or thirties, wearing silk brocade, was standing there. He said calmly: “Did you bring it?”
“Coming.”
The strong man under his command grinned, placed the sack on the ground, and opened it.
What emerged from it was not an animal like a wild boar, but a frightened girl, about thirteen or fourteen years old. The girl’s clothes were shabby and mended. She obviously came from a commoner’s family, and her skin tone was slightly dull. Huang is not very beautiful, but in this kind of world and poor families, there are very few of them.
“Well, it’s okay. It looks better than last time.”
Wei Lun forcibly held the girl’s chin, looked at it with a somewhat scrutinizing look, then let go, his tone seemed satisfied, and he nodded.
The strong men under him laughed and said: “We have been looking for this for a long time, mainly because it is really difficult to raise any good ones in those mud-legged families.”
“Sure, I’ll give you a credit.”
Wei Lun chuckled and said: “I’ll give it to you after I finish playing, but please be gentle with me. If you kill someone like last time and have no chance to sell it to Dongcheng for money, the money will have to come from you.” Deductions from your monthly salary!”
“That’s right, we must be careful this time.”
The strong men under his command all laughed together and rubbed their hands, showing a bit of anticipation.
As for the girl whose hands and feet were bound and her mouth was stuffed with white cloth, her frightened eyes gradually turned into despair as she listened to the conversation between Wei Lun and several guards.
Wei Lun stretched out his hand and pulled the girl up by the rope and carried her into the house. The girl struggled desperately and kicked her feet hard, but she couldn’t compare with Wei Lun’s strength. Soon He was dragged into the house.
Bang! The door suddenly closed.
The guards outside laughed and walked away, chatting some dirty words, waiting for their rewards later.
However.
What happened in the room at this moment was not the erotic scene that the guards thought.
Wei Lun carried the girl into the house and just closed the door. Just as he was about to say something, his words stopped suddenly because an iron sword was placed on his neck at some point.
In an instant, he broke out in a cold sweat, and involuntarily let go of his hand. He didn’t even dare to raise his voice: “Sir…Sir, what do you want? If you want money, I’ll give it to you right away…”
Wei Lun was terrified.
There were obviously so many guards outside, but when he just opened the door, there was a masked gangster in the room, and he put a sword directly on his neck. How could the security in the outer city be so bad! “Bring it here.”
Standing behind Wei Lun was a man wearing a black cloak and a mask, who spoke in a cold tone.
“Yes, yes.”
Wei Lun responded repeatedly, walked carefully to the back room, opened a box, and took out about thirty gold leaves and about one hundred taels of silver from the box.
The man in the black cloak said coldly: “That’s it?”
Wei Lun said with a mournful face: “That’s it. The old guy only cares about his own enjoyment. He didn’t leave me a few money when he died. This is what I saved by frugality. Other family members go to Hua Street to play there every day. I But I’m reluctant to go…”
“oh.”
Wei Lun obviously didn’t expect that even though he had already taken out all the money, the robber still wanted to kill someone. He couldn’t help but show a look of reluctance, and made a whooshing sound in his mouth. He wanted to call the guards outside, but he could no longer make a sound. .
Plop! The whole person fell to the ground. After twisting and struggling for a few times, he gradually became motionless.
The kidnapped girl next to her looked at this scene in horror. She did not show any joy because of this scene. To her, both Wei Lun and the robber in front of her who was killing people and robbing money were terrifying. Villain.
“……”
The man in the black cloak did not look at the girl next to him. He just collected the silver and gold leaves bit by bit, weighed them up, and calculated them all together. When converted into silver, the value was about four to five hundred taels.
It wasn’t until he put away all the money that he glanced at the girl next to him, but that was all, and then ignored her. He picked up the iron sword, opened the window on the side, and climbed out of the window.
Only the girl whose hands and feet were bound was left paralyzed next to Weilun’s body, breathing heavily.
It only takes about a cup of tea.
There was a chaotic movement outside, as if there was a fight, but it lasted only a short time, probably only a dozen breaths, before everything fell silent again, and no one could even shout.
The girl huddled there in horror and fear, staying next to Wei Lun’s body all night, until dawn the next day, when the door was kicked open with a bang, and a team of guards walked in from outside.
“Hey, there’s still one alive!”
Liu Song showed a look of surprise.
Li Tie looked at the situation in the room with a thoughtful expression, walked over and opened the linen in the girl’s mouth with a knife.
At this time, the girl who had spent the whole night in panic and fear looked at the officials in front of her and suddenly burst into tears, crying loudly.
……
After a while.
City Guards Department.
In Chen Mu’s office, Liu Song and Li Tie reported the matter in a low voice.
“…It was the daughter of a family named Zhao on Xiahe Street. Wei Lun had his servants kidnapped her at night. When she was about to do something evil, she was attacked by bandits at night, and a dozen or so nursing staff were killed. It’s clean.”
“Lord Chaosi also went there in person. He examined the body and said that it was all sword wounds. However, the swordsmanship did not seem to be very good, but the strength was amazing. It was different from the incidents in the past few days. It should have been done by the same person. “Because, it is estimated that it is either a gangster with a bad reputation, or someone from the inner city who comes to do justice, punish rape and eliminate evil, let’s put an end to this matter.”
Liu Song and Li Tie explained the matter in detail.
Chen Mu listened calmly, waved his hands at the two of them, and said, “Okay, I understand.”
This incident has actually been decided by Min Baoyi. There is no further investigation so far, and there is no need to tell him. However, the most important work Liu Song and Li Tie do on weekdays is to report what happened when he was not in the City Guards Department. Tell him everything big and small.
“If there’s nothing else to do, I’ll leave first and wait until everything goes as usual.”
Chen Mu stood up and walked out.
Liu Song and Li Tie both saluted.
soon.
Chen Mu returned home alone and went to his bedroom. From the bottom of the box on the bed and under a few floor tiles, he took out a baggage. Inside the baggage were about sixty or seventy gold leaves and two to three hundred taels of silver.
There was also a rough iron sword without a scabbard, stuck vertically into the ground.
“I’m finally rich. Well, it’s time to send some more money to Yue’er. She also needs to spend money now.”
(End of chapter)