Great Lawyer

Chapter 592 Midnight Business (Part [-])

"My lord," Du Jiuyan said, "Didn't you drift on the sea for several years?"

"Now is the time to show your skills." Du Jiuyan said.

King Gui cast a glance at her, and curled his mouth, "Does it embody the 72 style?"

Du Jiuyan sat cross-legged on the ground, and glanced at him from the corner of the eye, "It's just a matter of paper, so you can blow it off."

"Is it bragging, come and try?"

Du Jiuyan snorted, ignored him, and looked back to see that the deck was clean. She simply lay down, looked at the blue sky and white clouds, and the sea breeze. It would be great if she could have a swimsuit.

King Gui also lay down.

"My lord, how many days do we have to go?" Du Jiuyan yawned.

"Look at the direction of the wind, six or seven days." King Gui said.

Du Jiuyan didn't speak, half-closed his eyes and was drowsy. Seeing her falling asleep, King Gui moved to her side, and fell asleep with his long legs raised high.

The lame man was leaning on the other side, his eyes were shallow. After a long time, he turned back, took a blanket and put it on Du Jiuyan's body, while he sat down not far from her, watching her gradually let go, looking into the distance .

Meng Jiao came out of the bed cabin with the teapot in hand, and was slightly taken aback when he saw the picture on the splint.

Both Du Jiuyan and King Gui put their legs on the railing, and they lay side by side with their heads next to each other, as if they were asleep. At Du Jiuyan's side, the cripple leaned on one side with one leg bent, expressionless. looked at them.

The sea breeze was blowing, and the surrounding area was very clean, except for the sound of waves lapping against the bottom of the bed.

Meng Jiao took a few steps back and turned back to the cabin.

"Sunset," the cripple touched Du Jiuyan's foot, "Do you want to watch it?"

Du Jiuyan opened her eyes and looked at the cripple, "Sunset?" She sat up and saw the sun, like a poached egg, sticking above the sea and below the blue sky.

"Beautiful!" Du Jiuyan was surprised.

King Gui said: "There is nothing surprising, if you watch it for a month, you will find that it is a poached egg."

Du Jiuyan gave him a blank look.

"Why do you have a blanket?" King Gui shivered, "It's so cold!"

The lame man said, "I took it."

King Gui snorted, and ran back to get a blanket to wrap himself in.

"Let's play the horse crane tonight." Du Jiuyan looked at the beauty of the sunset intoxicatedly, King Gui nodded, "Is there a horse crane?"

The lame man said, "Yes!"

"Let's go!" Du Jiuyan greeted the two people, "I invite Governor Meng!"

After dinner in the evening, under Qiao Yiguang's anxious gaze, the four of them started playing the horse crane. He could still hear the sound of the three of them patting the table until late at night.

In this way, it was noisy for six nights, and the ship docked on the morning of the seventh day.

He thought they would at least disembark in Zhejiang for supplies and rest, but not only did they not disembark, they didn't even show any signs of wandering around.

"Mr. Du," Qiao Yiguang carried the burden for Du Jiuyan to lead the horse, "Didn't you say you were going to Zhejiang for fun?"

Du Jiuyan looked at Qiao Yiguang, "Why are you so full of fun? We have to do things."

Qiao Yiguang was stunned, and the corners of his mouth twitched quickly, "Hehe, yes."

After disembarking and landing, everyone did not rest, and a group of people rode on the road. Five days later, the gate of Ji'an City was in sight.

We found an inn on the side of the road to live in.

"What should we do next?" Meng Jiao asked Du Jiuyan.

Du Jiuyan took out Ji'an's map, looked at Qiao Yiguang and his companions, "Tell me about the situation in the city."

"Yes!" Qiao Yiguang pointed to the location in the city, "This is Prince Huai's Mansion. I have never entered it, but I walked around the mansion. It is very big and there are many guards."

"But King Huai did not raise soldiers. I heard that he only raised 1000 people according to the requirements of the court. But there are not so many guards in the palace, and most of them are camped in the west of the city." He pointed to an open space outside the west city, "That's right. here."

"These soldiers are self-sufficient, and they usually farm and raise chickens. They are very disciplined and never deal with the people around them."

This surprised Du Jiuyan, he did not expect King Huai to be so cautious in raising troops.

"He took the girl back, where did he commit the crime?" Meng Jiao asked, "Where is Princess Huai?"

As long as it is a normal couple, it is impossible to turn a blind eye.

"I don't know." Qiao Yiguang said: "I have been observing for a long time, and I haven't found anything suspicious, but you believe me, I am absolutely not telling lies."

Meng Jiao frowned.

"Where was the body found?" Du Jiuyan asked.

Qiao Yiguang pointed to the place where the camp was just now and went further west, "There is Maoshan Mountain, which is inside this mountain. My daughter and niece are both... But not all the bodies of missing girls can be found, and some of them have no news at all. "

"You mean, after some people disappeared, they have never been whereabouts?"

Joe nodded.

"Then why are you sure it's King Huai?"

"Because someone saw the guards of King Huai's Mansion driving a carriage out of the city and discarding the corpses. All the people in Ji'an knew about it, but we dared not speak out, so we had to hide our daughter at home." Qiao Yiguang said.

Gui Wang frowned and said: "Other than that, there is no evidence?"

"Prince Gui, for four years, there have been a mountain of disappearance cases reported in the yamen, but they have never investigated them. Even if someone reported it later, they would detain the person who reported it to the official. No one dares to report."

"Two years ago, there was a litigation firm in Ji'an that dared to help find someone. Later, the lawyers in that litigation firm disappeared overnight. After that, no lawyer in Ji'an dared to come again."

"What we ordinary people can do, except to take good care of our daughter, there is nothing we can do." Qiao Yiguang clenched his fists, trembling all over.

Du Jiuyan patted him on the shoulder and comforted him, "Now that Prince Gui is here, he will make the decision for you."

"Yes, yes!" Qiao Yiguang kowtowed to King Gui, "I beg your lord to be the master for us."

King Gui said: "Get up and talk." After finishing speaking, he looked at the map and knocked on Prince Huai's mansion, "Let's find the way first."

"Going like this will definitely scare the snake away. Qiao Yiguang has been observing for so long, but he still hasn't found where King Huai committed the crime. Let's go like this, and he will definitely hide it better." Du Jiuyan said: "Come into the city in disguise first, goodbye Think of another way to act."

"Okay." King Gui took out the mask, which belonged to County Magistrate Liu, and looked at Meng Jiao again, "He knows you, go and change the face."

Meng Jiao should be, touched his beard and came out, "My lord, this officer brought this."

As he spoke, he put his beard on his face.

Everyone looked at the lame man.

"He doesn't know me," said the lame man, "I don't care."

Everyone prepared for themselves and went to the city together in the afternoon.

The documents were prepared before boarding the ship. Because the documents in the capital were too eye-catching, all they took out were from Shandong.

Getting into town went smoothly.

There is harmony in the city, hawkers on the road, the voice of storytellers in the teahouse, and the voice of a girl singing a ditty and the applause of the audience coming from nowhere.

This is an ordinary small town, no different from other places.

Qiao Yiguang was wearing a jacket in his pocket, his face was smeared in pitch black, and he didn't recognize him when he met acquaintances on the road, so he was relieved and led the group of them to find an inn.

After packing up, Du Jiuyan and King Gui went to the street.

King Gui was wearing a half-worn gown, and bent over to be supported by Du Jiuyan. From a distance, he really looked like an old man in his 50s.Du Jiuyan said: "My lord, if you had pretended to be County Magistrate Liu like this, you wouldn't have been discovered so quickly."

"It doesn't look like this," King Gui's back was sore, he couldn't help pointing to the restaurant diagonally opposite to Prince Huai's mansion, "Go ahead and sit down for a while, I'm too tired."

The two sat down at the window facing the street, ordered four dishes, and looked at the opposite side while eating.

After eating a meal and drinking two cups of tea, the main gate of the palace was never opened, not to mention King Huai, not even a servant was seen.

"It seems that we have to use some extraordinary means." Du Jiuyan added tea to King Gui.

"What means?"

"I'm not good at this kind of thing, my lord, think about it." Du Jiuyan said.

King Gui gave her a blank look.

The two of them went to the alley, went to the peddler who sold groceries to pick up the pick, and gave him ten taels of silver, "The burden is given to us, you can go and save a new one yourself."

The peddler looked at them like a fool, fearing that they would repent, turned around and disappeared into the alley.

"You pick it up and sell it." King Gui said, "I'll find a way to go to the government office."

Du Jiuyan staggered into the street carrying the salesman's burden. After walking two streets, she found that, as Qiao Yiguang said, there were hardly any girls on the street.

"Brother shopkeeper," suddenly, a door deep in the alley opened a crack, revealing a little girl's face, and said cautiously: "Do you have silver thread for sale here?"

Du Jiuyan didn't know what a silver thread was, so he laughed, "I sold it to my dad, why don't you come and find it yourself?"

The door slammed shut, and Du Jiuyan heard voices coming from inside the door, "Didn't I tell you not to open the door, who knows who that shopper is."

"Mother, I understand." The little girl whispered back.

Du Jiuyan stood for a while, but found that the door was not opened again, so she sighed and left.

As the sky gradually darkened, lanterns were hung at the door of every house. Du Jiuyan stood on the street, gnawed sesame seed cakes, and looked at the passers-by.

"Hurry up," a carriage passed in front of her, and someone in the carriage urged, "I'll be late in a while, and the good stuff will be sold out."

The driver of the carriage should be, while yelling at people with his whip towards the street, while urging the horse, the carriage turned and disappeared at the corner of the street after a while.

"It's so late, where does the business start?" Du Jiuyan borrowed the load at the door of a grain and oil store, trotted and followed the carriage, and after running two streets, he saw the carriage that had just passed parked in a small building Front.

There were a few semi-dark lanterns hanging upstairs and downstairs, and there was a mess of laughter from inside the building. She raised her eyebrows and looked at the plaque, which read: Mingyuefang
"Are you in such a hurry to go shopping in a brothel?" Du Jiuyan walked around the outside and found that Mingyuefang is very big. The second floor in front is nothing more than a very large yard behind. It is estimated that the size is at least three into the yard.

She walked to the back corner door and stopped. Suddenly, in the darkness, someone stuck out a head and a shining knife from the wall, and shouted: "Sneaky, what are you doing?"

"I'm lost, may I ask how to get to Cotton Lane?"

The man looked at him and pointed to the other side, "Go that way. Hurry up and let me see you wandering around. Don't blame me for being rude." As he spoke, the man disappeared over the wall.

"A brothel so powerful?" Du Jiuyan circled around, walked to the front again, squatted in the dark and stared at the gate.

For half an hour, there were five or six cars parked, and the people who got out of them were all men in rich clothes. From getting out of the car to opening the door to go in, everyone was familiar with the road.

(End of this chapter)