Yunxi got into the carriage in a very bad mood and leaned against the frame of the carriage with his eyes closed to meditate.
Li Shaer immediately noticed that Yun He was not in a good mood, stopped Xiyi's words, and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, are you going to Guangxiao Temple next?"
"I won't go. I just learned about a very terrible thing, and I have no intention of visiting Guangxiao Temple." Yunxi said.
"Your Majesty, what kind of thing is it?" This question was not asked by Li Shaer, but by Xiyi. She usually gets along with Yunxi more casually, and she feels that things that can be called 'terrible' should be treated with
It has nothing to do with politics, so I asked.
"Have you ever heard of 'picking and cutting'?" Yunxi said.
"I've heard that my mother told my concubine when I was a child that it was very scary." "'Collecting, cutting, and harvesting'? There are people in Guangzhou now who are 'collecting, cutting, and harvesting'?" Xiyi and Li Sha'er said one after another.
"Just now when the guards around me went to rescue a child, they found that something was not right with the gourd they were carrying. You two have also seen those guards who came from Wudang. They once learned about magic and sorcery in the master's sect.
It was discovered that the style of their gourds was used to collect souls, so it was inferred that they were collecting and cutting souls." Yunxi explained.
"Your Majesty, these people who engage in harvesting and cutting will not be able to atone for their sins unless they are cut into pieces." Xiyi said.
"Don't worry, Xiyi. From the 29th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1293 AD) onwards, harvesting and cutting off human beings was a capital crime. It was the same in the Ming Dynasty: Volume 19 of "Laws of the Ming Dynasty" "Criminal Law 2: Human Life: Harvesting and Cutting of Human Beings"
》: "Anyone who collects raw materials, cuts or mutilates people will be put to death, and his property will be cut off and paid to the family of the deceased. Even though his wife, son and family members do not know about it, they will travel two thousand miles away and be resettled. They will be beheaded by those who follow them." They will definitely be killed by a thousand swords.
Totally torn to pieces.”
Yunxi then said: "However, this can only be carried out if we can catch them. If they are allowed to escape, it will be impossible. I have already asked all the departments in Guangdong to mobilize to search for these people."
While the two of them were talking, Li Shaer had been thinking about something and only interjected occasionally. However, neither Yunxi nor Xiyi noticed.
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Before Yunxi returned to the palace, Song Qingshu and Zhang Wuji said: "Junior Brother Zhang, Your Majesty has asked me to send this captured prisoner to the Inspectorate. Please help my brother find out the home of this child and send him back."
"I know, don't worry, Senior Brother Song, I will definitely send him home safely." Zhang Wuji said.
He immediately turned around and said to the rescued child: "Little brother, what is your name? How old are you this year?"
Unexpectedly, as soon as he spoke, he heard the child cry loudly "Wow".
Zhang Wuji immediately became confused: "What's going on? Why did you have nothing to do with the kidnapper just now, and now you suddenly start crying?"
A Baihu who stayed here and was in charge of guarding today hurriedly came over to please him and said: "Guard Zhang, this child must have been drugged by the kidnapper just now, so he seems very calm; now that the drug has worn off, naturally he is crying because of fear.
Get up."
"Then what should we do? He keeps crying. How can we find out his home and send him back?" Zhang Wuji said.
"Look, Guard Zhang. Although his clothes are not very gorgeous, they are indeed of good quality. It shows that he must come from a good family. Such people usually carry items that only their own family members have on them. I found that item.
Then we can know which family he is from." said the hundred households.
"Then take a quick look to see if he has anything like this on his body." Zhang Wuji ordered.
Although Baihu was a little slanderous, he immediately started to touch it. After a while, he took out a kit from the child, opened it, looked at it, and said to Zhang Wuji very solemnly: "Guard Zhang, this person is from the Li family.
people."
"Li family, who is it? Is there someone who is a high-ranking official in the government, or is it a family of military generals in the guards?" Zhang Wuji heard from the stiffness of this hundred households that this Li family might have some background, so he said this.
"No," Baihu said with some embarrassment: "The Li family is one of the three most important merchants in Guangzhou. They run many businesses and are extremely wealthy."
"However, the head of their family, Li Jihu, married his daughter to the concubine of the Gao family in the south of the city as his official wife. He also helped the Gao family with their money from time to time, so we, the small guard house, did not dare to offend their family.
." He added.
"The Gao family you are talking about is the family of Gao Shunchen, who is currently serving as the Minister of Justice?" Zhang Wuji asked.
"This is the family. Some of their family members are ministers of the Ministry of Justice in the capital, and others are county magistrates in Sichuan. There are also several scholars in the family. We don't dare to offend their family, not even our close in-laws." Bai Bai
Hu said.
Zhang Wuji didn't care. As a bodyguard of the emperor, his hometown was near Wudang Mountain in Huguang, and his family had been lay disciples of the Wudang sect for two consecutive generations. Not to mention that Gao Shunchen was just a minister, he was not afraid of being the minister or the fourth assistant officer Zhang Wuji.
So he just said: "Now that you know which family it is, just send it back." He bent down and picked up the child, and asked Baihu to show the way to Li's house.
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At this time, the east side yard of the Li family was also in a state of chaos. Countless servants were walking around, shouting "Guangjun" or "Master", searching for someone.
Li Guangrui was also standing here at this time, scolding the people in front of him: "Why can't the fifteenth brother suddenly be found? What on earth do you do to eat!"
"Although tomorrow is the official day for grandpa's birthday, he must visit his grandchildren today. If grandpa can't find his fifteenth brother when he summons him, you yourselves know the consequences!"
The people in front of him were all in charge of the east courtyard where Li Guangjun could not be found. When they heard Li Guangrui's words, they became even more frightened.
You know, tomorrow is not only Mr. Li's birthday, but also his seventieth birthday! All the Li family members who are out of town have returned as long as they can, and everyone is nervously preparing, for fear that something will go wrong.
If the news that the fifteenth young master is missing is known to Mr. Li, even if Mr. Li is old and virtuous and does not deal with them, the current head of the family, Li Jihu, will not let them go.
Just as one of them was about to say something, a woman escorted a little maid whose clothes were in tatters and her face was red and swollen. She came over and said to Li Guangrui: "Young Master, please tell me clearly. The Fifteenth Young Master secretly had sex with several of his men today."
The young man slipped out of the house. This little bitch was covering up for the fifteenth young master at first, but he only confessed after being beaten to the point of defeat."
"In this case, there is no need to search inside the mansion. We will send more people to search outside the mansion. We must find the fifteenth brother before grandpa summons him." He had already suspected that Li Guangjun ran away from the mansion and had already sent people to search outside the mansion, but he couldn't find it.
There weren't many people there; now that we knew it was indeed outside the mansion, of course we had to send more people.
Li Guangrui glanced at the maid at this time and said: "All the maids and servants in his room will be expelled from the house."
"Young Master, you are wronged! This is what Master Fifteen forced us to do. We dare not not do it." The little maid, whose face was red and swollen, immediately started struggling and begged for mercy in a vague way.
"Of course I know that Shi Fifteen asked you to do it. If it weren't for the fact that you are still loyal to him, you would not only be expelled from the house, but your legs would be broken and then expelled from the house."
Li Guangrui said.
After explaining this, he stopped talking to them, turned around and left the east side courtyard and headed for the front hall. There was a big difference between the people in the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard of wealthy families. Since he had to go out to search, he could only send people from the outer courtyard to look for him.
And, "...we really can't raid the entire city of Guangzhou with our own people, we have to ask the police for help." Li Guangrui said to the steward of the front yard.
"But His Majesty is in Guangzhou City now." The front yard steward said: "Young Master, His Majesty's safety is the top priority. Twenty to three percent of the entire Guangzhou police force are guarding the palace day and night, and the rest are also out to maintain public order.
, I’m afraid it won’t be easy to ask the police to find Young Master Fifteen.”
"Fifteen Jing caused trouble on a day like this. When we find him, grandpa's birthday will also be over. He must be punished properly."
"But no matter what, we still need to ask the police to search together. Our family has to spend more money, even if we pay five or six hundred taels of silver, we have to call grandpa back before he can find him." Li Guangrui said.
The steward in the front yard agreed and would arrange for someone to go to the patrol branch and the nearby police station to find a familiar police leader.
But as soon as he turned around, he saw someone running in from outside very quickly. He ran up to him in a flash, took a breath and said, "Manager Zhang, someone at the door has sent Master Fifteen back!"
"What!" Manager Zhang and Li Guangrui said in unison: "Who sent him back?"
"They are some people from the Guangzhou Zuowei, including one from a hundred households, one from a trial hundred household, and a few soldiers. The concierge is entertaining them." The servant gasped.
Manager Zhang and Li Guangrui looked at each other again and realized something was wrong: If everything was normal, there should be several servants around Li Guangjun, and it was impossible for a person to be sent back alone.
Manager Zhang immediately walked quickly towards the door. Li Guangrui was stunned for a moment, and then followed him.
After a while, the two of them walked to the gate and saw that in addition to their own gatekeepers, there were five or six people in the concierge. These people all had the ability and discipline of soldiers and generals, and they were far away.
If you look at it from a distance, you can tell that it is different from ordinary people.
Of course, there is also their fifteenth young master. In fact, the first person to notice the two of them approaching was their fifteenth young master. This man named Li Guangjun seemed to have discovered his brother coming to the gate through his sense of smell.
, the moment Li Guangrui could be seen by him, he turned his head and ran towards him while shouting: "Brother!"