Zhao Mingde was shocked, the little girl brought from Yuzhou City? Yuzhou is where the Mu family army is stationed in the southern border. Is this lady from the General's Mansion real or fake?
He couldn't make up his mind, so he thought for a while and said to the officer: "Put him in jail first."
Zhao Mingde hurried out of the door with the letter in his hand and came to Huang's Mansion.
When the steward of the Huang Mansion saw the magistrate coming, he took the person in directly without warning.
Huang Yanqing, the master of the Huang Mansion, is the largest wealthy gentry in Yangzhou City. It can be said that he dominates the sky in Yangzhou. With the protection of the government, he has become more and more prosperous in recent years.
When Zhao Mingde came in, he saw Huang Yanqing smashing a tea cup, and with an angry face he said to the servant: "Look, dig it out for me even if you dig three feet in the ground."
Zhao Mingde frowned and said, "Why is Mr. Huang so angry?"
Upon seeing this, Huang Yanqing stood up and cupped his hands towards Zhao Mingde and said, "Why are you here, Mr. Zhao? Please sit down quickly."
Zhao Mingde and he were old acquaintances, so he asked him straight to the point without being polite: "Did you recently buy a little girl from a man with a scar on his face?"
Huang Yanqing was stunned for a moment: "How did Master Zhao know? Is there something wrong with the child I bought?"
Zhao Mingde said: "You may be in trouble, read this letter."
He handed the cloth note written in blood to Huang Yanqing and said: "This morning, the man with the scarred face was left in front of the government office with this letter in his mouth. I only found out after asking him
I brought a child from Yuzhou City and sold it to you. The letter said that the girl was from the General's Mansion. If what is said is true, it would be a big trouble."
Huang Yanqing read the letter and asked: "Who wrote this letter?"
Zhao Mingde said: "According to the man with the scarred face, two teenagers found him and stabbed him, and those two boys came to see my sister."
Huang Yanqing was stunned: "Two teenagers?" He narrowed his eyes and said, "Last night there was a fire in Jifeng Tower. It is reported that two teenagers were responsible."
He snorted, threw the cloth strip in his hand on the ground and said: "Master Zhao, I think you are a warrior, right?
If the young lady from the General's Mansion was really missing, would the court send two teenagers to look for the child without even a hint of news?
I would say that those two young men were obviously using the name of the General's Mansion to threaten us into handing over his sister.
They burned down my Jifeng Building, causing me heavy losses, and I haven’t even settled the accounts with them yet.”
His Jifeng Building is making a lot of money every day, but a fire last night burned down the entire building.
The servants had just come to report, and he was almost angry to death. He was about to dig deep in the ground to find the two teenagers, but they happened to appear.
Zhao Mingde was worried, he asked: "But what if it's true?"
Huang Yanqing said: "Master Zhao, don't scare yourself all day long. The court cannot know about you and me. Finding those two young men is the most important thing right now."
Zhao Mingde asked: "What does the child you bought look like? Take me to have a look, and I'll see if I can get any clues."
Huang Yanqing knew that he was cautious, so he agreed to him. He turned around and took him to the study, and then opened the door of the secret room.
There is a secret passage in this secret room, and when you walk in, you can hear the cries of children, and these are things that have not been taken action yet.
When I came to one of the rooms, I saw a little girl locked inside. The little girl was lying on the ground, curled up.
Zhao Mingde walked over, stretched out his hand and touched it. His hand was very hot. He was startled and said to Huang Yanqing: "The child has a fever."