Great Lawyer

Chapter 603 Shaoyang Slight Change ([-])

"In these three places, we found the contact point for King Huai to buy and sell young girls." King Gui said.

In the transactions, young girls and women are the main ones, and boys only account for one or two percent of the victims, and the number of victims is relatively small.

"After finding it, the people in several places became restless and demanded that King Huai and all those involved in the case be severely punished."

Du Jiuyan served tea and drank it.

Regarding the matter here in Ji'an, after calculating the time, the news will probably not be seen by Zhao Yu until tomorrow at the Jinluan Hall.

And now, they have already got the news of the riots of the people in Kaifeng and Guangping, and the other party even knew about King Huai's buying and selling of young girls earlier than the Holy One.

Was he so impatient because he was afraid that Zhao Yu would deal with King Huai just like King Anshan at that time, if he didn't kill him, he would just shut him down?

"Is this news delivered too quickly?" The King of Jiujiang looked at King Gui, "Right now, it's better to go back to Beijing first. The matter of King Huai is not over yet, and the riot may be difficult to resolve."

King Gui looked at Du Jiuyan, "What do you think?"

King Jiujiang was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect King Gui to trust and depend on Du Jiuyan so much.

King Gui's temperament looks like a child's temper, but in fact, he rarely tells everyone when he has concerns, and he is also very stubborn and independent. Even if he gets close to you and plays a rogue, he doesn't completely depend on anyone.

No wonder the outside world is saying that the two of them are broken sleeves.

"I want to go back, but I have to make arrangements here." Du Jiuyan frowned and said, "There are still many girls who haven't found a home."

The key part is that there is no family at all.

King Gui wrote a memorial and returned to Beijing to invite these people to settle in the mines in Xinhua. They were supported by the court until they were 15 years old, and each person was 20 taels of silver per year.

But what the Holy One meant, they still don't know.

If you leave now, you can only take the girls back first.

Putting it here, she is not at ease.

"Then take it back." King Gui said, "Let two boats and go by water."

Meng Jiao said: "I'll settle down within ten days, let's go by land." Then said: "To prevent riots and serious problems."

People who have bought and sold young girls in the past few years are still detained in the yamen.This matter will have to wait for the imperial court to send a new magistrate to take office.

If the circumstances are serious, they will be exiled into the army and exiled, and if they are less serious, they will be imprisoned for at least three years and eighty sticks.

Those parents who sell their sons and daughters will be dealt with slowly after a thorough investigation.

King Gui nodded, "Mengdu is thoughtful. I will leave Han Dang to you. He is safe to handle. If you have important matters, you can let him do them."

"Okay!" Meng Jiao said, and cupped hands with Han Dang, "Thank you, General Han."

Han Dang got up and saluted, "I don't dare to be the governor, thank you, I should."

"Since it's decided in this way, then we will make arrangements separately." King Gui said.

King Jiujiang said: "Then I will let the people I brought go back."

King Gui nodded.

Everyone went to work on their own, Du Jiuyan went to the inner courtyard, Princess Huai stood up to meet her, and asked calmly: "...What does Mr. Du mean, are you leaving tomorrow?"

"Yeah." Du Jiuyan said, "Things have changed."

Princess Huai didn't ask any further questions, "Understood, I'll go get ready now."

Du Jiuyan cupped his hands and went to the other side.

There are still forty girls living in the big courtyard. There were originally two boys, but they were taken back by their families yesterday.

Forty girls, the oldest is 17 years old, the youngest is only eight years old.

She went in, and the children who were sitting in the yard, like frightened little rabbits, fled back into the room one after another. Before she could speak, there was no one in the yard.

But I can see that there are many eyes and ears watching her and waiting for her to speak in the cracks in the windows, in the cracks in the door, and behind the wall.

"Tomorrow we are going back to Beijing." Du Jiuyan said in the courtyard: "Some of you can't remember your home, and some of you are homeless. So I decided to take you along."

"When you arrive in the capital, please ask the imperial court to settle you down."

"Do you have any objections?" Du Jiuyan asked: "If you really don't want to leave, or if you think of your own home again, you can come and tell me now, stay here and wait for your family to pick you up, or I will arrange someone to send you off." go back."

At the door, a head poked out. It was the oldest little girl. Although she was seventeen, but because she was small and very thin, she looked about fourteen or fifteen years old.

"How will the imperial court arrange for us?"

Du Jiuyan waved at her and said, "Taohong, what do you think?"

"Me?" Taohong stepped out with her hands and shoulders tucked in, "I, I just want to have enough food, a place to sleep, and no one to bully me."

After she finished speaking, countless small heads poked out from behind, nodded along with them, and said in unison: "We want to too."

"As long as no one bullies us, we have food to eat and clothes to wear."

Du Jiuyan looked at the child, with a slightly sore nose, and said with a smile: "The requirements are so low, even if the court can't accommodate you, I can."

"Isn't it just a few dozen of you little girls?" Du Jiuyan shook his head and said, "Is it enough for three steamed buns and one meat meal a day?"

Everyone ran out, staring at her with anticipation and joy, "Enough, enough."

"Enough." Taohong nodded and said, "I can eat two steamed buns a day. If it's more difficult, one steamed bun a day is fine."

They just want to have a safe place to stay, just to be alive.

Du Jiuyan patted Taohong's head and said with a smile, "Then come with me and feed the little rabbits with steamed buns every day."

"We are not rabbits," the youngest Yuzi shook her head and said, "Mr. Du, I am not a rabbit."

Du Jiuyan bent down and looked at her, "You are not a rabbit, are you a mouse?"

Yuzi nodded, "Yes, I belong to the mouse."

"Understood." Du Jiuyan did not dare to touch her head, and kept his hands behind his back to give her enough sense of security, "Then everyone sleep well tonight, we will have a long journey tomorrow."

Everyone nodded, "We dare not hurry, we can all take care of ourselves."

Du Jiuyan came out from the yard and sighed.

Little girls, don't know where to go, don't know what to do, can't control their own future, can't even do a little interference.

Cardamom's youth should be the most beautiful time, but for them, it is the most fearful time.

"What are you thinking?" The cripple patted her head, "Your face is so heavy."

Du Jiuyan said: "There is a long way to go!"

"It's okay," he said softly, "you can definitely."

Du Jiuyan smiled, "When I get it done, no matter how hard you praise me, I will be very proud at that time."

"Praise you when you succeed, and you will swell. Now it's just right to praise you."

Du Jiuyan waved his hand, "I'm different from others, why don't you ask me for the secular requirements."

……

Jiao San came in from the gate of the yamen with a dossier, and said to the frog as he walked, "Are you sure there was a riot in Kaifeng?"

"Yes, a merchant came to Shaoyang today and said."

"The riot started the day before yesterday, and the merchants have arrived in Shaoyang today?"

"The merchants also heard it from others on the road. It is a big deal to pass on one by one." Frog said: "Third Master, do you think Mr. Du already knows about it now? She should still be in Ji'an at this time, right?"

Jiao San nodded, "The matter was not settled so quickly, and she was probably still there. I thought she could find time to come back for a visit, but now it seems that she may not be able to."

"Yeah, Mr. Du has been away for almost a year, and everyone says she won't come back."

As he spoke, Jiao San went into the dossier room and shouted, "Lao Jiangtou, take the dossier of the case last month..." Before he could finish speaking, he realized that Jiang's scribe was not there.

"Isn't he in there all day?" Jiao San asked.

They usually don't come here for nothing, and the frog doesn't know very well, "I'll help you ask." After a while, he ran back and said, "Third Master, Huang Shuli said that he hasn't come for ten days."

"Didn't you go to his house to ask? Did you die at home?"

Frog replied: "I went to his house to ask, but his family didn't know about it. They thought it was sent by the yamen to do something."

"Strange." Jiao San muttered, looking for the files he wanted, and then he gave a strange gasp, "I remember the household registration is placed on this shelf, right? Why is it so messy?"

Frog was surprised, "Yes, it seems that someone has flipped through it. Jiang Shuli never likes others to flip through his files."

"Strange." Jiao San just felt strange and didn't think much about it.

In the evening, when he went to Deqing Building for dinner, Dong Deqing talked about Jiang Shuli, "I didn't pay for a meal, so I asked the boy to go. Why don't the yamen and the family say they don't know."

"I'm still looking for him today." Jiao San told the story again, Dong Deqing was taken aback, and asked in a low voice, "Has anyone turned over that shelf?"

Jiao San nodded, "What's the matter, do you have a secret inside?"

"It's not me, it's Jiuyan!" Dong Deqing told Jiao San what happened at that time, and Jiao San was very surprised, "There is still such a thing, so her household registration is fake?"

Dong Deqing nodded.

"Fame is also fake?"

Dong Deqing shook his head, "I don't know about that, anyway, the fame now belongs to someone else." He added: "For her, it doesn't matter if it's fame or not."

"Strange," Jiao San said, "Could it be that Jiuyan's opponent wanted to tease her, so he checked her background?"

Dong Deqing nodded, "Those litigators are evil, who knows?" He said again: "If you don't know, go talk to Mr. Chen right now."

"He must know more about Jiuyan than you and I."

Jiao San nodded, "This is not a trivial matter. If she is caught and killed by someone, we will be guilty of a serious crime."

After saying that, I went to Jimao Lane to find Chen Lang without even eating dinner.

"Why are you here?" Chen Lang was feeding the chicken in the yard. It was a chicken raised by Xiaoluo.

Jiao San told Chen Lang about his chat with Dong Deqing.

Chen Lang put down the things in his hands, wiped his hands, and said in a deep voice: "The visitor is not kind, Jiuyan may be in big trouble this time."

"Fame is fake, and people will definitely step on it." Jiao San said: "What should we do now, Mr. Chen, please think of a way."

Chen Lang said: "I see, let me think about it."

He frowned and sat down in the yard.

Jiao San saw that he was not in the mood to disturb him, so he went to the kitchen to cook noodles.

(End of this chapter)