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Chapter 963 Detective Gu Qingqiu!
Chapter 963 Detective Gu Qingqiu!
There were no electric lights in that era, so there was only an oil lamp lit in the room. The light was very dim, making the atmosphere of horror even more intense.
"what's your name?"
"How many people are in the family?"
"How many children?"
Gu Qingqiu began the interrogation.
She started with simple questions to lower Shen Caishen's vigilance, and at the same time used these questions to profile the master's personality.
Logically, Xia Hongyao should have left to preside over the interrogation, but she found that Gu Qingqiu was better at this kind of thing.
"Little Loach, have you ever studied torture techniques?"
Xia Hongyao muttered softly.
"I have read relevant books, but unfortunately I have never had the opportunity to put it into practice!"
Gu Qingqiu sat at the table and smiled: "Today I finally got what I wanted!"
Shen Caishen answered honestly, begged for mercy, promised money, and threatened, saying that he had connections in the government.
In short, what I mean is, let me go and give you a large sum of money, and I will let bygones be bygones. Otherwise, you won't be able to live to spend the money.
"My daughter?"
When asked about his daughter, Shen Caishen showed a sad expression and began to talk about the father-daughter relationship, but even Xia Hongyao felt that this was not true.
"Alumni, give me some masks!"
Gu Qingqiu waited for Lin Baici to take out a few masks and asked everyone to put them on. Then she tore off the paper bag on Shen Caishen's head.
"Hero, spare your life!"
The first thing Shen Caishen did was to lower his head.
If I saw the kidnapper's face, I would be afraid that my life would be in danger.
"We only seek wealth, not killing people!"
Gu Qingqiu put one leg on the stool and put on a very confident look: "I'll ask again, where did you hide your daughter?"
"My daughter is dead!"
Shen Caishen cried. He glanced around the room and found that everyone was wearing masks, which made him feel relieved.
"It seems you won't cry until you see the coffin!"
Gu Qingqiu snapped his fingers: "Alumni, it's up to you!"
"Torture me!"
"I'll be your assistant!"
Li Yintong was very angry. It was too embarrassing to tell others about the pollution of rules in her own territory. She had to purify it as soon as possible: "Should I pull out the nails? Or pull out the teeth?"
"You are too rude!"
Hua Yueyu didn't want to get bloody: "I heard that in ancient times there was a kind of punishment for promotion, which was to stick wet paper on the face. Shall we try it?"
"It's too troublesome, just bleed!"
Lin Baici placed a wooden basin that he had just prepared in front of Shen Caishen, and then grabbed his hand: "Hongyao, give me a knife!"
Swish!
Shen Caishen didn't even see how the big bear woman drew the knife, he just saw a flash of the knife and blood began to flow from his right index finger.
Gu Qingqiu moved the wooden basin with his foot and adjusted its position so that the blood could drip into it.
"Be careful, the blood will spill on the ground and leave traces!"
Gu Qingqiu seemed to be reminding Lin Baici, but he was actually speaking to Shen Caishen.
"How much blood do you think he has? Can this basin hold it?"
Hua Yueyu scares Shen Caishen.
There was water in the wooden basin, and blood was dripping into it, making a dripping sound.
"You'll find out later!"
Lin Baici put the paper bag on Shen Caishen's head again.
"If you tell me where your daughter is, I will stop your bleeding, otherwise you will die!"
"My daughter is dead!"
Shen Caishen was very tough: "What do you want me to say?"
Gu Qingqiu put his finger to his lips and made a gesture for silence, so everyone stopped talking. This way, the sound of blood dripping into the wooden basin became clearer.
Shen Caishen struggled subconsciously, but the rope that tied him was very tight.
This type of punishment is very famous and focuses more on mental pressure. People with weak wills will quickly collapse.
Listening to the dripping sound, Shen Caishen felt his blood was leaking out and he felt all kinds of discomfort all over his body. In addition, he was tied up and it was night time, which aggravated the feeling.
“My daughter was literally burned to death!”
Shen Caishen kept repeating this sentence, but when he felt dizzy and knew that he might be dying, his will to survive began to erupt.
"I'm telling you everything I know, and you guys stop the bleeding!"
Shen Caishen cried.
Hua Yueyu was cheered up, as if there was indeed a hidden story.
"Say it!"
Xia Hongyao pretended to stop Shen Caishen's bleeding, but in fact she had just stopped it. The dripping sounds were the mineral water dripped by Lin Baici.
"A mysterious person found me and said that many concubines could not be sent to the emperor, and were divided up by the princes and sons of the emperor. He has a way to let my daughter escape, but deceiving the emperor is a serious crime that will kill all the nine generations of the family. How dare I do it?"
Shen Caishen cried, "I only have this one precious jewel in my palm. I don't want her to enter the palace at all, but I can't disobey the emperor's order!"
"Who is that mysterious man?"
Gu Qingqiu asked.
"Do you think the other party will reveal his true face if he finds me?"
Shen Caishen laughed at himself.
"The subject of the picture you painted in your study was not sorrow!"
Lin Baici questioned: "Who, after losing their only daughter, would have the mood to paint a picture of a girl playing with her grandchildren?"
"The ship carrying the beautiful girl was burned. I know that the mysterious man must have done it. My daughter should have survived and didn't have to be abused by those princes and nobles, so I can't help but feel a little lucky."
Shen Caishen explained, without Lin Baici's questioning, and added: "I have seen those bodies, and they don't match my daughter's!"
"Isn't that right? I heard the ship was burned to ashes, and you could still recognize your daughter's body?"
Li Yintong frowned.
"Other concubines may die, but I am the famous Shen Caishen. Do you think my daughter is worth money?"
Shen Caishen's tone was very proud: "Wait a few months, when the limelight of this matter has passed, someone will definitely come to me and ask me to redeem my daughter!"
"What you think is quite beautiful!"
Although Xia Hongyao was being sarcastic, she felt that this was very likely.
"I do not believe!"
Gu Qingqiu narrowed his eyes and said, "Alumni, try another torture method and continue the interrogation!"
Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao tried two different punishments, and after an hour's work, the result was still the same.
Lin Baici knocked Shen Caishen unconscious and threw him onto the bed.
"There are two possibilities now. First, he really doesn't know the whereabouts of his daughter. Second, he knows, but he loves his daughter too much and would rather die than save her!"
Gu Qingqiu analyzed: "I think the first possibility is more likely!"
"What should I do?"
Li Yintong couldn't think of a solution: "We can't wait for a few months for the mysterious man to come find this rich man, then the opportunity will be gone!"
No one knows how long this rule pollution will last, but a few months is enough for them to die twice.
"Alumni, Hongyao, please go and tie up the madam of the brothel where that prostitute works!"
Gu Qingqiu arranged: "Yintong, throw this guy out of the city!"
With two masters, Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao, taking action, there was no possibility of any accidents happening. An hour later, Lin Baici returned to the courtyard carrying an old woman.
When the old woman wearing a hood woke up, she wanted to shout for help, but her mouth was stuffed.
"I ask, you answer, and if you lie, I'll chop off one of your fingers!"
Gu Qingqiu's voice was cold: "Did you hear clearly?"
"Um!"
The madam nodded hurriedly.
"Regarding your prostitute, has anyone come to you and said they have a way to save her?"
As Gu Qingqiu asked, he pulled the cloth out of the madam's mouth.
"No no!"
After the madam finished speaking, she began to beg for mercy, crying and sobbing: "I don't know anything, will you let me go?"
Gu Qingqiu asked all the questions he needed to ask and began to torture Lin Baici.
This madam's will was not as strong as Shen Caishen's. She confessed even before Lin Baici tortured her. However, in order to confirm the authenticity of the answer, "torture" was still used.
The madam was so frightened that she fainted.
"No mysterious person is looking for the madam. It seems that this prostitute is innocent!"
Analysis of Xia Hongyao.
"You're wrong. Although the madam said that she had a good relationship with the prostitute, they are not family after all, and most likely not a community of interests."
Gu Qingqiu corrected: "If the mysterious person is looking for someone, he should also look for a prostitute. But a prostitute has no value other than her beauty!"
"These beauties are to be given to the emperor, and they should all be pretty good-looking."
Hua Yueyu interjected.
"If the mysterious man found the prostitute, it would be difficult to investigate because a prostitute would come and go every day and come into contact with too many people!"
Jin Yingzhen frowned.
"The only thing that is certain is that there must be something wrong with the new judge!"
Gu Qingqiu analyzed.
She had just asked the madam, among all the guests received by the prostitutes in the period before the fire, who came the most and who came the least?
What special reactions did the prostitutes have after receiving these people?
This judge went there twice, which was not a lot of times, but as a newly appointed official, he knew that the emperor was selecting concubines, but he still went to meet the prostitutes. Wasn't this unreasonable?
And this chief judge is currently in charge of this case.
The prefect wanted to make it a fire case, saying that a young lady accidentally knocked over an oil lamp, resulting in a tragedy, but the judge insisted that there was a hidden story.
This person is determined to punish a group of people.
"This madam probably doesn't know anything."
Gu Qingqiu arranged: "Hongyao, Xiaoyu, Yintong, keep an eye on Shen Caishen's home and find out who his confidants are. Then, follow them when they leave the house!"
"Hongyao, go collect information about the judge and the prostitute. Not just what's on the surface or in the files, but also go from street to street and find out what their ancestors did for three generations!"
"Alumni, go check out the wealth of Shen Caishen, mainly his farm outside the city, as well as the temples and Taoist temples near this city... Check all the places where people can be hidden!"
In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient and a pass was required to travel long distances. It was impossible for a group of women to escape to a far place, so there was a high probability that they hid somewhere in the suburbs.
At daybreak, everyone moved to a new nest and started to move.
The next two days were very busy for everyone.
After Shen Caishen returned home, he fell ill and was bedridden.
The Shen family is a wealthy family with many people coming and going every day. Perhaps this kidnapping has made him more vigilant, and his several confidants have not gone out for the past three days.
Lin Baici rode a horse in the suburbs for two days, visited several temples and Taoist temples, and also went to several farms of Shen Caishen, but did not get much useful information.
Xia Hongyao tried her best to collect information.
The next night, Yudan Lao, who had gone out to collect clues, came back and reunited with Li Yintong. He was overjoyed to learn that Lin Baici had come.
Now I don’t have to rack my brain anymore.
Yudan Lao is not afraid of a fight to the death, but what he fears most is this kind of rule pollution that requires thinking.
After a brief greeting, everyone got down to business.
"Brother Yu, what did you get?"
Lin Baici made a cup of coffee for Yudan Lao.
To be honest, drinking this stuff in ancient times was a bit weird.
"The grandfather of the judicial officer and the grandfather of the courtesan were both candidates for the imperial examination in the same year."
Fishball has been thinking a lot these days: "The prostitute's father committed a crime, and his family fell into poverty, and the girl ended up in a brothel!"
"I think it was the judge who accidentally met the daughter of an old friend in Xiaoxiang Tower, so he planned the arson case for her!"
"Isn't this right?"
Jin Yingzhen disagreed: "Their relationship is as old as my grandfather's generation. Is it worth it to sacrifice everything for a prostitute in a brothel?"
If this is discovered, not only will he be dismissed from office, but his entire family will be executed.
"Actually, we don't need to figure out the whole story, just one point!"
Lin Baici raised his index finger: "Even if not all of those concubines are alive, the courtesan and the daughter of Shen Caishen should be alive. As long as we find them, the answer will be solved!"
"The question is how to find it?"
Xia Hongyao racked her brains.
"If it were you, I would kidnap the judge and torture him!"
Yudan Lao clenched his fists and said, "I don't believe he won't confess!"
"It's too unskilled to do this!"
Gu Qingqiu shook his head.
"Keep an eye on Shen Caishen's house!"
Gu Qingqiu arranged: "Also, go and kidnap the prefect!"
That night, Yudan Lao took action and kidnapped the prefect and brought him to the courtyard.
The first thing the prefect did when he woke up was to shout, "Who are you? Kidnapping an official of the imperial court is a capital crime!"
"I have a grudge against that judge, I want to see him die!"
Gu Qingqiu's first sentence calmed the prefect down.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
"what do you want to do?"
The prefect asked.
"Send out all the detectives and soldiers to conduct a city-wide search. We must make it as loud as possible."
Gu Qingqiu explained.
"You want to alert them and make them lose their composure and jump out on their own initiative?"
The prefect was not stupid and he immediately guessed Gu Qingqiu's purpose.
"Can't you?"
Hua Yueyu saw that the prefect seemed to be struggling.
"If I do this and there is no evidence, I will be impeached!"
The prefect smiled bitterly: "Besides, I am not qualified to search those mansions of the rich and powerful!"
The prefect's search directly offended the local tyrants and gentry, making it difficult for him to carry out future work.
Of course, this is not something that Gu Qingqiu and the others care about.
"You either do it or die!"
Gu Qingqiu's voice was cold.
Things will appear only when stagnant water starts to move.
Maybe those girls are also waiting for an opportunity. By doing this, I am giving them a chance to survive!
(End of this chapter)