Catching Monsters

Chapter 16 Confiscating the house
Seeing Xu Suwen's embarrassed look, Qian Buchou quickly changed the subject and looked into the dungeon: "Brother Jiang, where are my subordinates?"

"There." Jiang Yun pointed to the pile of charcoal on the ground.

"Hey, why didn't I see it?"

Looking in the direction he pointed, he did not see those subordinates. Qian Buchou's smile gradually froze and his eyes were fixed on the burnt charcoal on the ground.

"He, they..."

Jiang Yun sighed helplessly: "When we arrived, they were all dead..."

Afterwards, Jiang Yun briefly recounted what had happened. After listening, Qian Buchou did not speak for a long time. He just clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

After a long while, he finally exhaled a breath of foul air and said, "It's lucky that only a few people died when encountering a monster."

"I heard that a monster broke out in Qingyun County two months ago, and dozens of detectives were sent to help hunt it down, but they all died."

"Only seven people died..."

boom.

Qian Buchou suddenly punched the wall hard, and a crack appeared on the wall. Blood began to flow from his already scabbed fist.

But Qian Buchu seemed to feel no pain.

Jiang Yun first sent Xu Suwen back to the inn where she was staying to rest, and then went directly to Xia Mansion.

The Xia Mansion is located in the most prosperous area of the entire Nanzhou Prefecture. Originally, it was the residence of a wealthy businessman. More than ten years ago, when Xia Lingxian had just arrived in Nanzhou Prefecture and was appointed as the prefect, he praised the mansion as having good feng shui when he passed by.

Then, the rich businessman sold it to him at a low price of one hundred taels of silver.

Although he was no longer an official, Xia Lingxian's former status was still there. At the gate of the government office, there were several young and strong men standing there guarding the door.

If ordinary people passed by the Xia Mansion and looked at the door for even a second, they would be verbally abused by these young men.

At this time, hundreds of constables had gathered at the gate of Xia Mansion.

Among them, more than fifty people surrounded the Xia Mansion to prevent anyone from escaping.

Another forty or so people were waiting at the main gate for something.

Qian Buchou held a steel knife in his hand with a stern expression.

"Boss, this is Mr. Xia's residence. What happened?"

"Boss, are we going to arrest Master Xia?"

Qian Buchou glared at him and cursed, "Shut up, what's the master or not?"

"He has no official position, he is just an old man from a wealthy family. We are the official detectives of the yamen, he should call us Master!"

Seeing Qian Buchou full of anger, the constables did not dare to persuade him anymore. After all, Qian Buchou had an arrest warrant for Xia Lingxian.

It is legal to do so.

The strange thing is that Qian Buchou never gave the order to go in.

As if waiting for something.

Finally, on the street in the distance, Jiang Yun, wearing a scholar's robe, jogged all the way and came to Qian Buchou, panting.

"Has everything been arranged, Lord Xu?" Qian Buchou asked.

"Yeah." Jiang Yun panted for a long time before looking up at Xia Mansion.

Qian Buchou was still a little scared when he thought about the fate of the seven detectives. Before he went in, he whispered, "Brother Jiang, you have to protect me at all times."

Then, he said loudly: "Come in!"

The young man standing at the door usually showed off his might, but when he saw a group of ferocious constables, he did not dare to act arrogantly.

Seeing that these constables were about to force their way in, he hurried forward and said to Qian Buchou, "Captain, this is Master Xia's residence. Don't blame me for not reminding you."

Qian Buchou slapped the young man to the ground and said, "Catch them. Don't let any of them go."

The young man who was pinned to the ground cursed loudly: "Qian Buchou, don't think you are that capable, you are just a captain, Master Xia can get you out of the government office with just one word."

At this time, many onlookers standing on both sides of the street were looking at the scene in confusion.

Qian Buchou took out the arrest warrant and said loudly: "Xia Lingxian is suspected of colluding with demons. I have been ordered to arrest him and bring him back to the government office for investigation!"

“Hahahaha, you think you can commit such a small crime…” The young man on the ground laughed loudly, but after listening carefully to the accusation, he hurriedly shouted: “Master Qian, Master Qian, I’m just a gatekeeper, I don’t know anything.”

More than forty constables rushed into the mansion like wolves and tigers and tied up everyone in the house, regardless of gender or age.

All the gold, silver and jewelry were also moved to the front yard and assembled.

Boxes of jewels and groups of beauties were brought to the front yard.

At a rough glance, there were probably thirty or forty servants.

There were groups of beautiful ladies numbering seventy or eighty in number.

Among them, there were more than a dozen women who were pregnant and looked as pale as death.

"Hiss." "This old thief is still strong despite his age."

When Qian Buchou saw the scene before him, he thought of his one wife and seven concubines at home, and he felt that he could no longer cope with it.

I didn't expect this guy to be so fierce.

There were more than fifty boxes of gold, silver and jewelry. At this moment, the constable who was carrying the gold, silver and jewelry almost fell down when he was walking down the stairs. Qian Buchou hurried forward to help him up: "Be careful."

Then a noise was heard.

Several silver coins fell from the constable's body.

"Boss..." The constable was a little embarrassed. Qian Buchou picked up the silver and stuffed it into his pocket: "It's reasonable to bring some silver for breakfast when you go out on business."

Bang, the box was put down, and a pearl bracelet fell from another constable.

"Old Chen, why did you bring your bracelet back?"

"Old Liu, I told you last time not to bring the gold ingot passed down from your great grandfather. It's too conspicuous..."

As this group of detectives walked along, gold, silver and jewelry were scattered all over the place.

The main reason is that I put too much in and I want to put more in even though it’s full.

Qian Buchou turned a blind eye to this.

Jiang Yun was standing nearby and couldn't help but open one of the boxes. It contained either gold, silver, or jewelry, or valuable calligraphy and paintings.

How much money did this guy make?

Qian Buchou also came over and couldn't help but cursed with gnashing teeth: "This guy is really a piece of shit. No wonder he despised the five hundred taels of silver I gave him."

A constable next to him kindly reminded him, "Captain, why don't you grab a handful and put it on yourself?"

Normally, Qian Buchou was very active in looting, but unexpectedly, today he just stood there and didn't make any money.

If the captain doesn't take the money, they won't feel safe.

Qian Buchou glared at the constable and thought, how could he be the same as these guys?
After a pause, he said loudly to the detective: "These are all evidence of the crime. Send a box to my house later and I will investigate it thoroughly."

"Yes, my lord."

"We'll also send four boxes to the prefect. Everyone knows that the prefect is a master at solving cases. With his help in the investigation, we'll be even more powerful."

"Master Tongzhi also knows a little bit, three boxes."

"Go to the magistrate and get two boxes."

"Okay, everyone did a great job today. We found these forty boxes of evidence."

At this moment, a constable came running over and said anxiously, "Captain, we've caught the man. He's in the cellar."

"Cellar?" Captain Qian's eyes lit up and he looked at Jiang Yun beside him.

After seeing the miserable conditions in the dungeon, he almost had some psychological trauma towards such places.

"Let's go." Jiang Yun had been standing nearby without saying anything. When he heard that Xia Lingxian had finally been found, the two of them quickly followed the constable and rushed to a cellar.

The entrance to the cellar was quite spacious. The constable led the way with a torch, and the two of them followed.

The cellar was dimly lit and there was a broken door, but it had been smashed open.

I guess Xia Ling had hidden inside before, and was discovered and smashed by the bailiffs.

In the dim cellar, there were five constables holding knives at Xia Lingxian's neck.

Xia Lingxian's hair was a little disheveled at this moment. He sat on the ground, but he was not panicked. The housekeeper Hu next to him was trembling slightly.

Jiang Yun frowned and heard the baby crying.

In this spacious cellar, there were dozens of baby beds arranged in layers.

"There are five or six children inside."

How could there be a child in the cellar?
"It's a frame-up. I will definitely go to the capital to file a complaint!" Xia Lingxian said calmly, "The Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue is my classmate and friend. He will definitely not sit idly by and watch this happen."

"The Doctor of the Ministry of Rites was once my student..."

"..."

As he talked about the relationships one by one, I felt a little scared and it seemed difficult.

Subconsciously, he looked at Jiang Yun for help, his eyes seemed to be asking what to do.

Jiang Yun whispered in his ear, and his words woke him up.

"If he doesn't die, I'm afraid we will all end up in trouble."

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