Song Dynasty female artist

"You are talking nonsense."

The one who spoke was the child who was at the county government office just now. He pointed at the fat steward and said, "You treat us very badly. You don't feed us, don't give us warm clothes, and you beat us at every turn. Some of your friends were even beaten." You sold it."

Zhao Rui was furious this time: "The imperial court established the Salesian Hospital in order to allow those orphans of soldiers and children who have lost their loved ones a good life. For this purpose, the imperial court allocates huge sums of money every year. Not only do you embezzle the imperial court's child care funds, but you also do this The treatment of these children is simply deserving of death.”

"you."

The steward was extremely frightened.

They looked at Magistrate Tong, who shouted: "What are you looking at? He is His Majesty. No one can save you."

The fat steward fainted when he heard the word "Your Majesty".

Fang Mengfu ordered Long Wei: "Bring a bucket of cold water, splash them awake, and make them faint. It will be easier for them."

"no, I'm fine."

I thought I could escape everything temporarily by pretending to be faint.

"Your Majesty, please spare your life, we, we have nothing we can do."

"Still making excuses."

From the moment he entered the house, Zeng Shengji, led by another child, went to search the yard of the two stewards and found a large amount of jewelry.

Zeng Shengji asked Long Wei to carry two large boxes of jewelry to the living room. When the boxes were put down, because the jewelry still had its own importance, the dust in the living room was shaken up.

"Cough, cough, cough."

"Come, look, whose thing is this?"

When the fat steward saw the box where he kept his silver being carried out, his heart was bleeding. He wanted to rush over to protect his property.

I could endure this without saying a word.

It’s not easy for two stewards!

But they think too simply. Even if they say nothing, selling the children in the Salesian Home is enough to put them in jail.

If the investigation reveals that someone is dead, there is no hope of saving that life.

Zeng Shengji brought not only two large boxes of gold and silver jewelry, but also a list of orphans he had adopted over the years.

"There are two copies?"

Zhao Rui opened the list and quickly saw the problem. The fake list was thrown directly into the face of the fat steward: "You guys have made so many tricks out of a Salesian Home. You can even imagine the fake list. Gu Qing, this You will personally verify the children on the list and find out their whereabouts. If there is anything unclear, you can interrogate them regardless of whether they are alive or dead."

"Yes."

This time the steward was completely frightened and fainted.

The officers took all the people from the Salesian Hospital to the county government office to wait for their fate.

Gu Qingjue checked the list non-stop. Fortunately, the Salesian Hospital was only established in the past three years. Because of the unification of Dali in Xixia, there were inevitably casualties among soldiers. There were indeed more orphans than in previous years. For the sake of these children, the imperial court decided to establish it locally. The Salesian Home adopts these orphans and hopes that they can grow up healthy and safe in the Salesian Home. If they can learn a trade, they can support themselves in the future.

"There are hundreds of orphans on this list, but when I went to count them just now, there were only seventy-six of them."

Gu Qingjue nodded: "I checked the roster. Eleven people were adopted, seven died of illness, and six were missing. Including the two who were found, the total is one hundred and two." Su Yixin calculated: " Then there are five more!”

Five children, no matter what, they are all living lives.

The two of them did not go to the county jail immediately, but first asked the children in the Salesian Home one by one to see if any of them were familiar with these children and knew their whereabouts.

The two went to ask about the child. Unexpectedly, the first thing the child said was: "Are you good people?"

"Don't be afraid, sister Xiaogu, they are good people, and I was brought back by them."

Xiao Gu looked to be only about four or five years old, thin and thin. She was obviously in the Salesian Home, but her little face was dirty and no part of her clothes was clean.

"One scoop brother, one day brother, where have you been? I haven't seen you for many days. Xiaogu misses you so much."

"I went out with Yi Yi, thinking if we could meet some kindhearted people who would give us something to eat, but we fainted for some reason. When we woke up, we were locked in a room and we were not allowed to go out."

When Xiao Gu heard Yi Bo's words, he cried "Wow": "Brother Yi Bo, brother Yi Yi, I thought you and Brother Yi Shu were like that, leaving and never coming back."

"It's okay, it's okay."

Yibao was eight years old, but he already looked mature, and he quickly comforted Xiaogu.

This is also due to the care they take for Xiao Gu on weekdays, otherwise he wouldn't be so dependent on them.

"Now you believe that we are good people. Here, let me treat you to some candy."

Just now, Su Yixin gave Xiaogu a candy to ask questions. As a child, and a child in the Salesian Home, it was very rare for him to get candy under such circumstances.

I thought she would be very happy to take it, but I didn't expect that she would be so defensive.

Xiao Gu nodded, then took the candy, tore open the sugar coating, and happily held it in his mouth: "It's so sweet."

When Xiaogu's childish voice said the words "so sweet", Su Yixin's eyes suddenly turned red. There are still many children in this world for whom even eating a piece of candy is a luxury.

There was a lot of food in the storage bag. After giving it to them, the dragon guards were asked to make food for the children.

Next, Feng and Wang from the county government began to question the five children who had disappeared from the list in batches.

The five children were all boys, all seven years old. From the information gathered from the headhunting inquiry, Su Yixin was keenly aware that the birth dates of these five children were very special.

The reason why I know the birthdays and horoscopes of the five people is that these five people are children of normal families. Their birthdates and horoscopes are all registered with the government. The children are not only four or five years old, but are all twelve years old, two years old. When they came to the Salesian Home, that means they were already ten years old when they came. Even if they came to the Salesian Home at this age and did not have their horoscopes carefully checked by the government, they still knew their birth date and horoscope to a large extent.

"The five children are so similar to the time more than 20 years ago!"

Gu Qingjue held Su Yixin's hand. He knew which time Su Yixin was talking about, which was the murder case she helped Zhu Fuming and Yan Renxu solve not long after she arrived at the Gu family.

There were also five victims, but those five victims were all women, and this time the five children who were neither alive nor dead were all boys.

Back at the county government office, Su Yixin remained silent. She still couldn't figure out the connection yet.

Wang Xiaotian used sorcery at that time. He used the special birth dates of five women to obtain their blood. He should have performed a ritual to obtain a mysterious power and change his face.

However, because of her intervention, Wang Xiaotian failed. (End of chapter)