Da Song Private Investigator

Chapter 344 The gatekeeper.

In any dynasty, the status of guards was extremely low.

This was especially true in the Song Dynasty. The guards of the Song Dynasty had to engrave their faces to show their humble status. It was difficult for them to get promoted.

It is not very difficult to find the guards from ten years ago.

On the night when Hualang was looking for Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce found the gatekeeper in Tianchang County ten years ago, so they called Hualang and went to visit together, Wen Meng and Yin Wucuo They are waiting at home.

The doorman ten years ago was called Chen Lin. At that time, he was over 40 years old, and he had been waiting for the doorman for more than ten years. After working for a few years, he quit his job and now runs some small businesses at home.

Hwarang and others came to visit, which surprised Chen Lin. After all, he is a commoner who is not a servant, so he really can't think of why the county magistrate would visit.

At this time, Chen Lin was over 50 years old and looked like an old man. After saluting Bao Zheng, he asked, "I don't know why Mr. Bao came to hide the people's residence?"

Bao Zheng didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "After hearing that you were a guard in Tianchang County ten years ago, the county magistrate would like to know, when you checked the passers-by when the child was missing, did you ever see him holding a child?" The couple who left Tianchang County?"

When Chen Lin heard about this, his face changed slightly, and he quickly replied: "It is true."

"Then why did you let those people leave?" Hwarang asked first, because he thought the matter was strange. Since there is a case of missing children, the guards must be more careful when they encounter children. You have to make sure that the children are not the ones who disappeared before you can let them go.

Chen Lin was a little helpless, and said: "At that time, the case of missing children was raging in Tianchang County. Many parents were frightened, and they had to take their children with them wherever they went. Bring them all, we can meet more than a dozen couples like this in a day, and we really can't find out, and those children don't cry or make trouble, we really have no reason to doubt it!"

"Then what about sleeping children?"

"Of course there is."

After hearing Chen Lin's words, Hwarang and the others basically understood that the kidnappers used this to take the child out.

However, after taking the child out, where did they take the child? What is the purpose of kidnapping the child, for money?

If it's for money, wouldn't it be better to kidnap a younger child, because the younger the child, the less he knows, and he can sell it for a good price!

If they choose to kidnap four or five-year-old children, it means that they are not doing it for money, but if it is not for money, then what is it for?

When they left Chen Lin's house, it was already late, and the spring breeze was very pleasant, but the three of them looked sad.

When the three of them separated, Hua Lang said to Bao Zheng: "Now we only investigate the matter in Tianchang County, and ask Brother Bao to help investigate other counties."

Bao Zheng nodded: "Naturally."

It was late at night, Hwarang was sitting in the courtyard looking at the stars in the sky, Wen Feng didn’t go back to his room to sleep for some reason, he came to Hwarang’s side, snuggled up to Hwarang’s leg in his own unique way, Hwarang smiled Laughing, looking at Wen Feng, he said as if he was talking to himself: "Where do you come from, and how did you get rid of the kidnapper's guard?"

Wen Feng didn't understand what Hwarang said, but just snuggled up to Hwarang, as if snuggling up to Hwarang would give him peace of mind.

Hwarang can only laugh at Wen Feng's reaction.

After two days like this, all the yamen servants sent by Bao Zheng to the counties rushed back. After Gongsun Ce sorted out their news, he sent someone to call Hua Lang and others.

In the living room of the county yamen, Gongsun Ce looked at everyone and said, "The yamen servants have brought back the news. According to their investigation, half of the children were kidnapped by thieves because of their parents' negligence. Then their parents were lured by the thieves' companions, resulting in negligence of the children, which led to tragedy. In addition, there is another very strange thing, that is, in ** County, one month after the disappearance of the children Afterwards, another child disappeared, that is to say, among these children, a total of 20 people were missing."

After listening to Gongsun Ce's words, Hua Lang frowned. He felt that the matter was very strange. Why did those thieves deceive their parents and also deceive those children? In every place, there are many children aged four or five, and they can definitely Isn't it safer to find a lot of children who have been neglected by their parents, and they kidnap those children?

Are the children of those parents special than other children?

This made Hwarang think of some things in the fairy tales, for example, some monsters drink the blood of children born in the yin time in order to survive the catastrophe, and some have to eat the children born in the yang time. Is it possible that the disappearance of these children has something to do with these relation?

However, Hwarang absolutely does not believe that there are ghosts in the world, and even less that someone wants to arrest these children to practice kung fu. However, Hwarang still asked, "What do those missing children have in common?"

They hadn't considered this question before, but now that Hualang asked, Gongsun Ce quickly checked the news, and after reading it, he said: "There is nothing in common, their ages are less than two years apart, and their birthdays and birth times are also different. , but they're all boys."

The theory of eating children to practice martial arts is really unreliable, so why did the thieves kidnap these children?

"Is there any progress in the guard?"

Gongsun Ce nodded, and said: "We asked the guards in various counties, and almost all of them said that they had seen couples leaving with their children in their arms, but there was no such thing in ** County."

It was ** county again, Hua Lang frowned and asked, "Do you know the reason?"

Gongsun Ce shook his head: "There are quite a few missing children in ** County, but the guards there did not see the couple leaving with the child in their arms. No one was seen leaving with the child in their arms."

After listening to Gongsun Ce's words, everyone felt strange. If the thieves didn't use this method to transport the child out, how did they transport it?

Could it be that their destination is in ** County, so there is no need to transport them at all?

Hwarang thought so, and continued to ask: "Can someone carry a child into ** County from outside?"

Gongsun Ce shook his head: "I've already asked the guards about this, and they said no."

"Then who was the county magistrate of ** County at that time, and did you ask the guards there if they noticed anything unusual when the child disappeared?"