Master in charge of the case: Our county magistrate has a black belly

Chapter 293 Xuanyuan Mo also visits brothels?
Han Quce took Han Xiang to the home of Liu Yue, the servant of the Ministry of Industry.

Before entering the door, I heard the voices of several women crying and making noise.

"My lord, you died a terrible death."

"You bitch, you just want the master to die, don't you..."

"You bitch."

"Enough." With a sharp shout, the lobby fell silent for an instant, stopping those crying voices, and the person who stopped them was Li Ying, the eldest wife of the servant of the Ministry of Industry.

As soon as Han Quce and Han Xiang entered the door, they saw several women pulling their hair and crying miserably.

But the housekeeper next to him looked familiar. It seemed that these women often fought. Although they cried and screamed every day, they were still afraid of Li Ying. Even Liu Yue was afraid of Li Ying. He is a senior member of the first rank, and his two elder brothers also have many achievements in the battlefield. Li Ying's father helped to promote him to the position of Minister of Industry. Naturally, Liu Yue is afraid of Li Ying.

However, Li Ying couldn't give birth to children. In ancient times, there were three kinds of unfilial piety, and having no offspring was the greatest. As soon as he closed his eyes, he found a few concubines for Liu Yue. Liu Yue was very happy, but these concubines were all in Li Ying is under Li Ying's control, so Li Ying is not afraid of what these concubines will do. These concubines all know Li Ying's power, but some concubines are out of control, and they are miserably punished by Li Ying. , other people will not dare to mess around.

In the noisy lobby, there was only a small sobbing sound.

The butler said respectfully, "Ma'am, this is Master Lu, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple who specializes in investigating disappearance cases."

Han Quce has no official or position, so it is always bad to take the liberty to visit, so he made up the name of Lu Yu, Shaoqing of Dali Temple.

Li Ying made a salute, and the other concubines followed suit, Li Ying said, "Our lord hasn't come back since last night, this is something that has never happened before, please lord, bring my husband back .” Li Ying wiped away tears while speaking.

Li Ying invited Han Quce to sit down and ordered his servants to serve tea.

Han Quce said, "Lord Liu came back last night, but disappeared again inexplicably. He hasn't come back this morning, has he?"

Li Ying nodded, "Yes, my lord stayed in late autumn's room last night." Li Ying pointed to a small and exquisite woman next to her.

When Wan Qiu heard the eldest lady calling her name, she stood up and knelt on the ground.

Li Ying said, "Lan Qiu, you and your lord should talk about it in detail."

"Yes." Wan Qiu nodded, biting her lips, "My lord did stay with me last night. I got up to drink water when I was thirsty around the fourth watch, and my lord was no longer by my side. I thought my lord was going to urinate. I probably At five and six o'clock, I got up to drink water again, but the lord hadn't come back, so I didn't take it to heart, but in the morning, the lord still didn't come back, I thought the lord was up, but the lord didn't ask me to get up to serve My lord didn't get up to drink tea until noon, and it wasn't until the eldest lady came to me and asked me why the master didn't go to court this morning, and the official uniform was still at home, that I didn't know that my lord hadn't come back since last night."

"You mean that after the third watch, your lord never came back?" Han Quce said.

Wan Qiu nodded, "I haven't seen it before."

"Could Mr. Liu be sleeping in another lady's room?" Xiao Han asked.

Li Ying shook her head, "I've already asked, no."

"Let's take a look at Lord Liu's study first," Han Quce said.

"Yes." After saying that, Li Ying took them to the study, and Han Quce asked those concubines to stay in the lobby and come back to ask questions later.

Han Quce looked at Liu Yue's study room. It was nothing special. It was the same as the study room of ordinary officials. There was nothing unusual. Han Quce looked at the two calligraphy and paintings on the book tube. Han Quce looked around for a week and couldn't find a pair of calligraphy and painting. It was obvious that Mr. Liu was not What an elegant person, but there are two calligraphy and paintings in the book tube, which is really strange.

Han Quce spread out the two calligraphy and paintings, but they are just ordinary landscape paintings, and there is nothing special about them.

Han Quce inadvertently put aside the signature, and the signature was actually Feng Yue?

Han Quce looked at the other picture, and it turned out to be Feng Yue. He had asked the housekeeper before, and Master Liu had never been to Huamanlou before.

After checking the study, they returned to the lobby.

Li Ying asked, "Do the adults have any clues?"

"Has your lord ever been to a brothel?" Han Quce asked.

"Why would your lord ask such a question?"

"This is also one of the clues."

Li Ying nodded and said, "Our adults never go to brothels."

"If Master Liu has never been to a brothel, how could Master Liu know Feng Yue?" Han Quce said.

"Feng Yue?"

Han Quce nodded, "The oiran is full of flowers."

Li Ying's face changed, "Our adults never go out at night, housekeeper, do you know?"

The housekeeper shook his head, "My lord has never been there."

Han Quce said, "Housekeeper, if you don't tell the truth, your family's life may be in danger."

The butler had no choice but to kneel down with a plop, "Sir, I really don't know, I only know that our lord sometimes goes out at night, but comes back in the morning."

"Going out at night?" Li Ying was a little surprised, "When did it happen?"

"Yes, it started last year."

Han Quce said, "I think I still need to thank some wives for their help, otherwise it would be difficult for Master Liu to explain."

As soon as Li Ying slapped the table, the concubines were startled. Li Ying pointed to a few people and said, "Who is it, stand up for me."

The concubines looked at each other without saying a word.

Li Ying said, "Don't tell me? Butler, give me the family law to take care of me."

As soon as they heard about the family law, two concubines knelt down with a plop, "Madam, please forgive me, the master asked us to do it."

"Late autumn? Qingxiao?" Li Ying narrowed her eyes, "What's going on?"

Wan Qiu said, "Master is afraid that Madam will know, so he dare not go to the brothel during the day, so last year he began to sleep with us and sneaked to the brothel. The master bought us a lot of jewelry and asked us to keep it secret."

Han Quce said, "So, you were not surprised that night. When you saw the jewelry on the table, you knew that the master had sneaked to the brothel, so you didn't care. But you didn't expect that your master has not come back today."

Wan Qiu wiped away tears, "So, it's really none of my business."

Han Quce asked, "Do you know where your master has gone?"

"I know, I'm going to Huamanlou."

"Who are you meeting?"

Wan Qiu shook her head, "Master never speaks."

"I heard the master said a name, what is his name, Feng, and said that he has a good literary talent."

Han Quce nodded, he knew in his heart that he should be talking about Fengyue, and the paintings and calligraphy of Fengyue in Master Liu's study, so it's not surprising that he said Fengyue.

"I see, ma'am, that's all for today, sorry for the trouble."

Li Ying nodded, showing all manner of courtesy, "Sir, go slowly."

Seeing Han Quce and the others walk away, and seeing the two women still kneeling in the lobby, Li Ying said, "Drag these two bitches to me and lock them into the firewood room."

"Yes." The powerful domestic servant dragged the two begging women to the woodshed.

Li Ying glanced at the other concubines, "You better be honest with me, and don't cause me any trouble before the master comes back."

"Yes."

When the three of Han Quce went back, Lu Yu and the others had already returned and were sitting in the lobby.

Xiao Han asked, "Xia Yan, what's the result? Did you find it?"

Xia Yan sighed, "Nothing."

"Didn't you hear last night that there is a secret room in Feng Yue's room?"

"How do I know? Maybe those two people are talking nonsense." Xia Yan said.

"Secret room?" Han thought, "Even the oiran's room has a secret room? I remember reading in a miscellaneous book that there used to be a secret room in the rooms of famous prostitutes, which were used to store some gold and silver jewelry."

"How much money can a famous prostitute have?" Xia Yan asked.

Han Quce smiled slightly, "Famous prostitutes, the so-called famous prostitutes are famous prostitutes. Since they are famous, of course people will come here to attract them. Those high-ranking officials and nobles will spend a lot of money to see them, let alone priceless jewels. There are many treasures. Yes, there will naturally be people who are jealous, so they will build a secret room."

Lu Yu said, "But I have checked carefully, and there is no trace of the secret room."

"You're not knocking on the wall, are you?" Han Quce said.

"Isn't looking at a secret room just like knocking on the wall? The sound of a secret room behind a wall is different from a wall behind a wall." Xia Yan said.

Han Quce said, "Then we have to ask about the thickness of the door of the secret room."

Lu Yu nodded, "A Qu, what do you mean, if the strength of this secret room is thick, then you can't feel the existence of the secret room just by knocking on the wall. Fengyue's next door is also a room, so we shouldn't judge from the wall , we should start to check from the floor, maybe there is a basement or not."

"Now the location of the secret room is uncertain, and the agency is also uncertain. Let's first find Xia Yan and heard the two women talking about it last night. Xia Yan, do you remember them?" Han Quce said.

Xia Yan shook his head, "I haven't seen their faces clearly at all, but I'm sure that one is called Cuiyu and the other is called Miaoren, and they are on the painting boat."

"Painted boat? Then it's easy to find." Lu Yu said, "But you have to wait until night to find it."

"We have to hurry. Now that we have lost another person, many people in the court know about it. It is hard to guarantee that someone will not have ulterior motives. Using this as an excuse to provoke trouble is not good." Han Quce said .

"En. This matter has been going on for a long time. It's better to settle it earlier. It can't be delayed any longer. If it is delayed, there will be a lot of people missing." Lu Yu said, and when will it be delayed to marry A Qu.

Han Quce said, "These people went out at night and then disappeared. There must be witnesses when they go out, so we still need to find some witnesses to provide us with clues."

"Xia Yan, Xiao Han, you two go to deal with this matter, and you must find it before night." Lu Yu said.

"Yes." Xia Yan and Xiao Han left without a word of nonsense.

Han Quce said, "The biggest suspect now is Feng Yue."

"But it doesn't seem to have anything to do with him."

"That's the trickiest part."

"My lord." The housekeeper came at this time, "There is a Mr. Song at the door asking to see him, saying that he is a colleague who works with your lord."

"Colleagues?" Lu Yu looked at Han Quce, but Han Quce shook his head, he didn't know what colleagues he was.

Lu Yu said, "Please."

"Yes."

"Ah Qu, do you know who it is?"

"I don't know." Han Quce shook his head, suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, "I know, it's Song Fan."

"Song Fan?"

"His father is the servant of the Ministry of Rites. He became the young minister of Dali Temple, and he and I have been partners since childhood."

Lu Yu nodded, "Then he is at the same level as me."

"Yes."

Gong and Han thought.

(End of this chapter)