The Lord who use immortals as food

Pei Ye thought he was getting familiar with the government's case files, but he was still surprised by the efficiency of the other two people. There were so many files in the file room, and there was no entry specifically titled "Taiping Cao Gang", but they only brought a few with them. The documents came over and dozens of files were screened out in two or three hours.

The senior officials of Dali Temple were obviously different from wild people like him. They had their own set of almost instinctive judgments. After Pei Ye tried to help the gang, he quit and stopped getting involved. He chose to fight some disappearance and murder cases by himself.

However, after a busy afternoon, the entire archives room was in an atmosphere of silence.

Jingzhao Mansion's records of this gang are completely superficial.

Pei Ye has never heard of the "Taiping Cao Gang". Dali Temple is the yamen that decides cases and sentences, and he is not very familiar with this gang. However, they spread out among hundreds of Chang'an squares, and they cannot escape the records of Jingzhao Mansion no matter what. and audit.

However, nowadays, these case files have either been tampered with or...

"There is no record at all." Li Zhao closed the case file in his hand and sighed.

In the past two or three years, there were only 78 cases involving the Taiping Cao Gang. They were either armed fights that did not hurt people, petty robberies, or industrial disputes—in half of them, the Taiping Cao Gang was still a victim.

Pei Ye now understands some aspects of this gang. As Xu Chuo said, it is actually the largest gang in Shenjing. Its industries involve dozens of restaurants, gambling houses, bodyguards, martial arts schools, etc., and they are gathered in East City and West City such as Pingkang. A prosperous area like Fangfang.

There is no number of gang members, but a rough estimate is that there are thousands. Including the loosely attached rangers and ruffians, there are probably nearly ten thousand, spreading among hundreds of Chang'an squares, with their tentacles everywhere.

In the face of such a powerful and solid force as the Forbidden Army, they can easily disperse and destroy everything, but for investigators, this is a very difficult object to deal with.

"There is no so-called 'general rudder' in Taiping Cao." Li Zhaodao, "Their distribution is huge and mixed. There are hundreds of known industries in Xicheng alone. We have no way to deal with such a range."

Yes, the scale of what the words "Taiping Cao" refers to exceeds Pei Ye's expectation.

The third division was established to investigate the carp dealer case.

Before this, Nanya had released a confirmed case file - Liguan secretly robbed people and prepared to sell them privately to the powerful, but the attempt was broken by Long Wujun.

This was the first time, it had never happened before, and of course the Taiping Cao Gang didn't know about it. As for the so-called "powerful people", there is no fact of buying and selling, so of course it is just groundless rumors. This is what is on the surface now.

Di Jiu came to the Third Division with the order "If the case is not solved, he will not be an official in this life."

They want to overturn this case file and reveal that selling perverted toys such as "human pens" is a mature business of the Taiping Cao Gang. There are no one knows how many victims' bones are hidden in the shadows, and no one knows how many transactions have been made with the powerful. .

Then of course they have to produce evidence and find this fact.

However, now faced with the Taiping Cao Gang that is spread all over the city, the settlement of this fact is really elusive. Maybe there are clues in this restaurant, maybe there is evidence in that gambling house that is difficult to cover up. But these are all guesses.

They couldn't search them one by one, as that would arouse too much resistance, not to mention they were handling the case under heavy pressure and isolation from Nanya, so they could only get the most limited cooperation. When the evidence is solid, the street envoys, patrol envoys, and Jinwu Guards may report it to Nanya, but they may not receive a timely response, let alone a city-wide search.

No one is available, exactly.

Therefore, they must first find a context and set precise goals.

Di Jiu personally took charge of Jingzhao Mansion for this matter. However, the former Jingzhao Mansion never investigated the Taiping Cao Gang. Where did they find the culprit?

Now that things have begun, everyone in Caogang must be shrinking their defenses. It will be even more difficult to catch them.

The strong sunshine at noon was cut into golden oblique squares by the window lattice and sprinkled on the table and floor. Pei Ye held the teacup in one hand and put down the case file he had read with the other. He took out the next one. He lowered his head and glanced at this. The case file is very new, almost a month old.

"But we have the people we caught that night." Pei Ye said, "These people should be able to provide some clues."

"The people of Liguan have been interrogated by Long Wujun for a round and are now handed over to Nanya." Di Jiu said. The man was sitting in the depths where the sun couldn't shine. His face was as dark as the light. "Long Wujun interrogated It turned out that they were working for the Taiping Cao Gang, but when Nanya took over, they confessed by beating them. As for the clues that could be traced back, only a few core members knew about them, but they were very strict about it. Long Wujun didn't have time to find out in one night. , so they all were killed.”

"There are also victims." Pei Ye said.

"Yes, these people are in our hands, but they have been deprived of their eyes and ears in the process, and they have not been able to provide much valuable information." Di Jiu said in a deep voice, "But I think there are still some things that can be seen, I’m not asking for details now, you can go and have a look later.”

Pei Ye nodded and lowered his eyes to look at the case file in his hand.

[The case of robbery and murder by Liu Dao and four others]

"On September 18, the Xinsi year of Suolin, Zhang Mengyuan and his wife left Beijing and returned home with their daughter. The gangsters Liu Dao, Wang Dayou, Miao Fan, and Mao Hongchun in the neighborhood were greedy for their property, blocked the road and committed murder. After taking away their property, they all killed them. , Zhang Mengyuan and his wife dumped their bodies outside the city, and his daughter Zhang Mingqin dumped her body in Longshou Canal.

Liu Dao and Wang Dayou confessed, and there was no doubt about the case. They were imprisoned to be executed. "

Pei Ye frowned. This case file was a bit short. It could be said that it only had the beginning and the end. The fate of Miao Fan and Mao Hongchun was not explained. Pei Ye subconsciously felt that it was a little strange, so he closed the file and stood up. Said: "Okay, Mr. Di, let me first go to the resettlement place of the victims - do you have anything to explain here?"

Di Jiu shook his head.

"Oh, I see you always look bad." Pei Ye said hesitantly.

"Because there are too many unjust cases." Di Jiu said.

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"I roughly checked 228 of them, and at least 21 of them were wrongly convicted. There were loopholes and the number of forced sentences was several times that many." Di Jiu lowered his head and said, after a moment of silence, he raised his head and said, "Okay. You go ahead, it has nothing to do with this case. We will investigate and interview one by one, and we will always find the tail that Taiping Cao cannot hide. "

"Okay, Master Di."

Pei Ye took the case file and turned around and went to the back office.

It was still shocking to see these people who had been brutally mutilated. Pei Ye had seen more serious injuries and more miserable bodies. The bloody appearance of being eaten by frost ghosts and having their bones chopped off and their organs broken was equally dazzling.

But even if he died in the mouth of the frost ghost and had his eyes beheaded by the soul-stealer, Pei Ye didn't feel too angry at this time.

Because no matter how dirty those evil deeds are, they still have a purpose.

The Immortal Lord wants to seize energy, and the Huansi Tower wants to collect sword souls. After all, they have their own goals that are out of this world. They must prefer to complete their plans quietly, but they must kill people to advance.

But why did such cruelty happen?

The word "pleasure" stuck in Pei Ye's ears like a thorn, and he still can't pull it out.

Are there really such a group of people who are so bored that they treat other people like pigs and dogs?

Many people here have lost the ability to think or speak, but most of the young women are still healthy. Pei Ye squatted down, came to a shrinking woman, and whispered: "Girl, where do you live?"

"No, no home, no home." The woman shook her head in panic, "This is my home, this is my home."

Pei Ye was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that she had not yet accepted the fact that she had been saved, or that she had lost the ability to believe in freedom.

He pursed his lower lip, stood up, and asked a dozen questions in a row without getting any effective answers. Until a girl with fear in her eyes was silent for a long time, gritted her teeth and answered him: "My family lives in Chongyefang. ”

Pei Ye was startled - he was from Shenjing?

But just this shock made the girl tremble and shrink, and Pei Ye immediately continued to ask: "How did you get kidnapped by them?"

The girl trembled for a moment, then stopped shaking. Her eyes regained some clarity, but she lowered her head again: "I don't know, they just broke into our house and said that daddy had committed some crime, and then they kidnapped us."

"Where are your parents?"

"I wonder if they separated us after we were tied up. They said they were going to jail my parents. Sir, please save my parents, too! One of their names is Cheng Kequan and the other is Li Jiayan."

"Okay, I will find them." Pei Ye comforted him. The word "go to jail" made him pay attention. "Can you tell me first, who are wearing official uniforms?"

"No, I don't know, but they seemed to show dad some kind of badge, and dad was very scared and didn't resist."

Pei Ye frowned and nodded: "Okay, it's okay. You can have a good rest - what's your name?"

".Cheng, Cheng Xiaozhu."

"Okay, I will tell your parents when I see them." Pei Ye took a breath of energy for her and stood up.

He asked some more people who could answer in turn, and the information he got was generally the same. To his surprise, most of them were from Shenjing, or at least temporarily living in Shenjing.

It is indeed different from the imagination. These sixty-seven people are either talented poets, knights with swords, or beautiful women. They are all outstanding among people and are by no means easy to come by. The Taiping Cao was supposed to be locked secretly, and then suddenly the evil hands were taken to kidnap people into a secret prison.

That's why Pei Ye checked the missing case, but found nothing.

This is raising two questions - where are these people's families? Their daughter was missing, why didn’t their family report it to the authorities?

Can Jingzhao Mansion press all the buttons?

But now when he asked, several people told him that his parents were also taken away. This indeed answered the above question, but it also made Pei Ye have other doubts.

Now that he walked out of here, the sky had reached the brightest afternoon, and the air was still cold. Pei Ye took a deep breath, straight to his heart. When they arrived at the archives room, Li Zhao was waiting at the door holding a sword, and Di Jiu was putting on his robe and walking out.

"Your Excellency said that he wanted to go out and visit some common people," Li Zhao said. "How is Pei Yan inspecting? Did you find anything?"

Pei Ye gave a brief explanation, and Di Jiu straightened his sleeves and walked out: "The time has come, let's go have a bowl of noodles together?"

Pei Ye shook his head: "No, Master Di. I'm about to say goodbye. I have to go to the Imperial College in the afternoon. I'll take this case with me."

He raised the case file in his hand.

Di Jiu was startled: "I see that Pei Yanjian is very young."

"Sir, I will be eighteen soon."

A rare smile appeared on Di Jiu's face. He turned back to look at Li Zhao and pointed, "Look."

Li Zhao only smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Okay, then Pei Yan can go and check himself." Di Jiu looked the young man up and down, and suddenly said in a deep voice, "Tell me to Mr. Tong that I don't want any favors in this case - there are many wrong cases in Jingzhao Mansion, and Di will definitely Anyway!"

".good."

Pei Ye got into the carriage thinking about the case. Not long after he closed his eyes to rest, the unique freshness of the Imperial College woke him up.

When he got off the car, it was still a bright afternoon. It was the time before class. Men and women in military uniforms came and went. The weather was cold, and many people put on thicker clothes.

Pei Ye then remembered that he had no winter clothes yet. Although he could not wear them, it was meaningless to always hold up his true energy like someone else. Just as he was thinking about it, a group of people next to him suddenly looked at him curiously.

Pei Ye looked back, but was startled, and nodded with a smile.

They were the classmates he had met in the last class. In fact, they did not even know each other's names, but they had met several times.

Pei Ye also learned in the last class that the so-called [Four-door School] was not all common people's children. In addition to the "eight hundred common people's children" mentioned by Fang Jidao, there were also "five hundred and seven rank and above and the sons of marquises and barons". It was a school with a very mixed background.

Xu Chuo was a "doctor", and he could actually teach [Guozixue] or [Taixue], but he came to the Four-door School to teach.

The Imperial College is a three-year course. In fact, there are only two or three hundred students who are in the same year and class as Pei Ye in the four schools. The students who came to Xu Chuo's class that day were from all schools and years. After being taken to the right place by Fang Jidao in the last class, Pei Ye found that his classmates were very familiar with each other.

It was not that no one noticed that he was one more person.

At this time, a freckled woman among the five or six people looked curiously at the carriage that Pei Ye came down. Seeing Pei Ye looking back and greeting, she smiled and said, "This classmate also has an extraordinary family background."

Pei Ye was slightly stunned: "What do you mean?"

"You can come by carriage, but we can only tire our feet. What do you mean?" The lady snorted and laughed.

Pei Ye wanted to say that he would take a car if he lived far away, but at this time he did notice that there were not many carriages in front of the Imperial College.

Another more elegant one also looked curious and explained with a smile: "You need to register before riding in the imperial city."

He turned his eyes to the center: "Here, only classmate Lin occasionally rides his father's carriage."

Pei Ye looked at the young man among the five or six people and nodded to him reservedly: "My father is Lin Daqin, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice. May I ask the name of this classmate?"

Pei Ye was stunned for a moment - wasn't that the one who was sick at home in the three departments?

He looked at him and didn't look very good: "No need to ask, Pei - your father should not need a carriage these two days, classmate Lin can ride."

Lin Wenyuan stared at him in astonishment.

Pei Ye didn't say much, took the case files and writing brushes from the carriage, and went into the school with them.