Although what Qian Minglin said made sense, Zhang Sanfeng always felt that something was wrong. However, he would not refute it. After thinking about it, he said: "I can't know much from these corpses alone, so I'd better ask you to take me there."
Take a look at the prisoners and let the poor man question them."
"If Mr. Zhang wants to see those prisoners, please follow me here." Qian Minglin said as he walked out of the place where the corpses were parked: "Because these prisoners are too important, and His Majesty also told not to allow any of them to die, so they did not
He is locked up in a normal prison, but in a very secluded place, where interrogations are usually nearby."
Zhang Sanfeng followed Qian Minglin and walked around the Guangzhou Police Headquarters several times before arriving at the entrance of a very inconspicuous small courtyard.
But when he walked into the yard, Zhang Sanfeng discovered that there was a cave inside. The yard was indeed not big, but in one of the rooms, there was a hole leading to the ground. When he walked from the hole to the ground, he found an extremely vast place.
"Zhenzhen Zhang, because of the decree of Emperor Taizu, both the capital and the local law offices were built outside the city; the newly established police headquarters and branch offices also followed this decree. This certainly made us go into the city to find officials from other yamen
It was very difficult, but later I discovered that Emperor Taizu's will was very reasonable."
"The Justice Department often needs to detain prisoners. If it is in the city, it is not easy to find a suitable place to build a prison; but it is much easier outside the city. In particular, you can also find some naturally formed places that are very suitable for detaining prisoners."
"Here is a place. When the Guangzhou Police Headquarters was built here, the craftsmen accidentally dug a big hole, and the craftsmen were about to fill it up. I happened to visit the construction site next time and saw this deep hole.
I was so moved when I saw the big hole at the bottom that I didn't let the craftsmen fill it up, so I went down to take a look myself."
"After I went down to take a look, I discovered that this is a natural cave, which is extremely wide and has natural ventilation."
"It happened that at that time everyone was discussing the establishment of a secret prison within the headquarters. I felt that this natural cave was very suitable for a prison, so I changed the original style of the headquarters and built it into what it is now; the cave was also renovated.
, changed into a prison style.”
Qian Minglin introduced Zhang Sanfeng as he walked.
After a while, the two of them came to an iron gate. The two men guarding the iron gate immediately stood up and saluted: "I have seen Lord Tongpan."
Qian Minglin agreed and ordered: "Go and bring Ning Cai out, I will interrogate him personally."
One of them agreed and immediately ran in to deliver the order.
Qian Minglin gave some instructions to another person and led Zhang Sanfeng into a room next to him.
Zhang Sanfeng observed carefully. Although this place is called a house, it is actually a cave. However, the 'doorway' of the cave happens to be the same as that of an ordinary house, so it is called a house.
Looking into the house from the door, the entire house is divided into two parts, with iron stakes as thick as a child's arm driven in the middle. There are several chairs and tables on one side, and only one strange-shaped chair on the other side.
"Zhenzhen Zhang, this is where prisoners are interrogated." Qian Minglin's voice sounded at the right time: "Because the people imprisoned here are all extremely vicious people, in order to prevent the prisoners from getting violent and hurting others, most of the things here are related to
Different.”
He immediately sat on the chair in the middle and asked Zhang Sanfeng to sit down. Zhang Sanfeng sat a chair away from him, lowered his head and recited the "Golden Light Mantra".
After a while, he heard a tinkling sound. At this time, he finished reciting the "Golden Light Mantra" again. He immediately raised his head and saw a man with handcuffs and shackles, and something in his mouth.
people walked in.
This man was tall and looked like he should have been very strong; but now he was emaciated and pale, and could hardly walk on his own before being dragged in, which showed how much hardship he had endured during this time.
The person named Ning Cai was 'put' on the chair. Qian Minglin first fed him a bowl of sugar water in case he couldn't support it, and then began to ask questions.
But Ning Cai just raised her head and glanced at him expressionlessly, then lowered her head again.
Qian Minglin was not surprised. Ning Cai's behavior had always been like this before, no matter how he was interrogated or what kind of torture was used, it was useless.
But today Qian Minglin had a trump card. He turned to Zhang Sanfeng and said, "Please use Taoist methods to get Mr. Zhang to confess."
"Well, the spells used to make prisoners speak are similar to evil spells. Not only that, they also cause great damage to prisoners." Zhang Sanfeng hesitated.
"Zhenzhen Zhang!" Qian Minglin said: "This person has done a lot of evil things by harvesting and cutting animals. It is a great merit for Zhenzhen Zhang to let him confess. Why should Zhenren hesitate?"
Zhang Sanfeng hesitated for a long time and then agreed: "That's fine, I'll just make an exception for this poor man."
When Qian Minglin saw Zhang Sanfeng agreed, he immediately turned to Ning Cai and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't want to confess. Now the world-famous Wudang Sect Master Zhang will personally take action and he will definitely be able to make you talk." He immediately ordered the police to fight.
Get him up and place the chair near the iron stake so that Zhang Sanfeng can cast the spell.
But at this moment, Ning Cai raised her head very quickly and said in a voiceless voice: "Zhenren Zhang of the Wudang Sect?"
"Why, have you heard of Master Zhang of the Wudang Sect?" Qian Minglin said.
"Zhenzhen Zhang of the Wudang Sect is famous all over the world, how could I not know? But this person is really Zhang Zhenren? Wudang Mountain is far away in the north of Huguang, near the river. How could Zhenren Zhang come to Guangzhou?" Ning Cai asked again.
"What did I lie to you for? What's the use?" Qian Minglin said.
Ning Cai turned to look at Zhang Sanfeng again, gritted her teeth and said: "If it is really Zhang Zhenren of the Wudang Sect who comes face to face, I am willing to confess. I only ask Zhenren Zhang to promise me one thing. In the next life, I will hold a grass knot in my hand to repay Zhenzhen Zhang."
."
"Pindao is indeed the Wudang Sect Zhang Sanfeng you mentioned. But if you want Pindao to prove it, Pindao doesn't have any means to prove it now," Zhang Sanfeng said.
"It seems that it is indeed Zhang Zhenren in person. The fake person will definitely not say such things. Zhenren Zhang, as long as the real person agrees to the villain, the villain will confess immediately." Ning Cai said.
"As long as you don't let Pindao perform evil spells or save your life, Pindao is willing to agree." Zhang Sanfeng and Qian Minglin said after discussion.
"Thank you, Master Zhang." Ning Cai said immediately. Looking at his excited expression, Qian Minglin was very curious: What exactly did he want Master Zhang to agree to?
However, things had to be prioritized. At this time, he also knew that it was important to ask for a confession about the birth-cutting case, so he put aside the matter and asked about the birth-cutting case.
Ning Cai drank another glass of water and said slowly.
It is difficult to verify when Ning Cai's family started harvesting raw materials. Anyway, when Ning Cai was a child and her grandfather was still alive, their family had been sailing on various tributaries of the Pearl River and abducting people.
Women and children harvested, cut, and cut babies. When Ning Cai grew up to be in her twenties, she inherited her father's business and started doing this business.
However, when he started doing this business, this 'business' was already in trouble. Fifty years ago, the Red Turban Uprising began and the world was in chaos. Although it was very easy to harvest and cut animals during the war, it was difficult to rely on raising deformed people to wander around.
The 'business' of professional beggars who beg for attention is also not easy to do. The demand for "strangers" is not as good as before, so it is natural for them to have a hard time.
When his father was doing business, the family was at its most prosperous. At that time, the world was stable, and people gradually had some money left in their hands and were willing to give alms to beggars. The family also came out of its most difficult period.
According to the usual practice, the Ming Dynasty always had one or two hundred years of peace, and their family should have better and better days in these two hundred years; but there are always exceptions: just two years ago, Yun Xi's "Edict forbidding Beggars and Refugees"
spread to Guangzhou.
With this decree, almost all professional beggars in Guangdong Province were wiped out and were exiled to the border. Only a few people escaped. Now, their family's 'business' was difficult to do again.
Ning Cai saw that her "business" was getting worse year by year, so she changed her "main business" from selling "human beings" to "combined medicines". "Combined medicines" can also be regarded as the "technique" in the industry, and they
It has always been spread in the family.
But their family can barely survive by using the 'mixed medicine'. Although these 'magic medicines' are expensive, the biggest benefit is taken away by the cheaters. They don't get much, they just don't starve to death.
.
Just when he felt that his life was going to be difficult and he wanted to try other 'businesses', someone came to him and told him that there was a big business in Guangzhou with huge rewards, and asked him if he was willing to do it.
Ning Cai's whole family was about to starve to death at that time, how could he not be willing? He agreed on the spot. According to the visitor's wishes, he also invited many colleagues to go to Guangzhou to "make a fortune".
As for the mastermind behind this 'business', Ning Cai didn't know the exact identities of those two people. He had only met them a few times and heard others calling one of them 'Master Gao' and the other 'Master Su'. He then
He roughly described the appearance of 'Master Gao'. As for 'Master Su', he had never seen his true face.
However, the two masters did not come forward on weekdays, but handed them over to Mei Yi, a big man in the Zhenhaimen area outside the city. One of Mei Yi's men opened a salted fish shop, and they hid in this salted fish shop.
shop.
Not many days later, Mr. Su's subordinates brought in a man who looked like a Taoist priest. It was said that he was a mage invited from Sichuan and Yunnan to "combine medicine" for a certain gentleman in the court. This man was very arrogant.
, even he was not very polite to 'Master Gao', and Ning Cai even yelled at him, just urging women and children to "refining medicine" every day. Ning Cai and the others had to collect "raw materials" for him every day
