Chapter 217: The Woman Who Jumped Into The River (1/3)
Chang'an City is located in Guanxi. As the capital of the Tang Dynasty, water transportation must be convenient.
Within a radius of a hundred miles with the city as the center, there are countless small rivers and only eight large rivers.
They are Wei, Jing, Feng, Lao, Hu, Pou, Chan and Bahe.
Among them, the Weishui River is the largest. Hundreds of thousands of grains are transported to Chang'an through the Weishui River every year. Most of the other rivers are tributaries of the Weishui River.
On this day, Di Renjie came to work on a case.
On my way back to the city, I passed by the Feng River and crossed the stone bridge when I suddenly caught a glimpse of a woman standing on the bank of the river in the distance.
The woman was standing on the shore, as if she was about to plunge into the water at any moment.
Di Renjie was startled and hurriedly reined in his horse and ran towards the woman.
After reaching a distance of ten feet, he turned over and dismounted, and leaped to the woman's side.
When the woman heard the noise, she jumped into the water without looking back. Di Renjie quickly reached out and grabbed her sleeve and pulled her back.
The woman was wearing light green sleeves and was in her early twenties. She was extremely beautiful. After being rescued, she squatted on the ground and cried.
Di Renjie looked at her a few times and said:
"Girl, there is no obstacle in this world that cannot be overcome. There are some things that you can't think about right now, but after a while, you may be able to think about them, so why seek death?"
The woman cried: "I have no shame to see anyone again, please let me die!"
Di Renjie frowned and said, "Girl, if you encounter any injustice, you can tell me, maybe I can help you."
The woman finally raised her head and glanced at him, then her voice stopped and she whispered: "No one can help me."
"You can tell me first. To be honest, I am a member of the government."
The woman was silent for a while, then started sobbing softly. While crying, she said: "I have lost my innocence, how can you help me...how can you help me..."
Di Renjie said nothing.
After the woman had cried for a while and had vented enough, she said softly: "What happened to you? Just tell me slowly and there will always be a way."
The woman stared at him with tearful eyes.
After a long while, he lowered his head and said, "I... I originally went to Beijing to look for him, but I searched all the medicine shops in Chang'an City and couldn't find him."
Di Renjie said patiently: "Who are you talking about? Does he work in a drug store?"
Mentioning "him", the woman's tone became more energetic and she said softly:
"He was originally a clerk in our drug store, and I... and I fell in love. Later, I asked him to propose marriage to my father, but my father refused.
He went to Chang'an in anger, saying that he was going to Chang'an City to open the largest medicine shop in the world, and then come back to marry me."
When Di Renjie heard this, he probably understood the cause and effect, and said, "So you ran away from home and came to Chang'an to find him, right?"
The woman sniffed and said:
"I...I didn't come to see him, I just wanted to see how he was doing in the capital, but I searched all the medicine shops, but I couldn't find him! And...he was...woo woo..."
"What else happened?"
The woman continued intermittently:
"When I was looking for him, my luggage was lost, so I had to... live on the street... Later... I thought I met a kind-hearted person, but I didn't know that he had a cruel heart and sold me to a brothel."
Di Renjie was silent for a long time. A weak and ignorant woman who came to Chang'an City alone would most likely end up like this.
"In what month did you come to Chang'an?"
"In March this year..."
"Then in what month were you sold to a brothel?"
"It was also March. I lived on the street for five days and then I met that evil man."
"What's the name of the villain you're talking about?"
The woman shook her head and said, "I only heard others call him Big Tou Ge."
Di Renjie's heart moved and he asked, "Is your name Wang Datou?"
The woman whispered: "It seems... someone called him that."
Di Renjie nodded slightly: "What's your name?"
"Chen...Bilian."
"Then what's the name of the person you're looking for?"
"His name is...Zhang Lin."
After returning to Chang'an City, the sky got dark early and looked hazy.
Di Renjie took the lead and walked with long strides. Chen Bilian followed behind with small steps, looking left and right.
After turning into a deep alley, she finally stopped and couldn't help but said: "Master, where are you taking me?"
Di Renjie said: "I will take you to a friend's house. Don't worry, she is also a woman."
"But...but I still have to go back to Zilanyuan, otherwise they will report me to the police..."
Chen Bilian lowered her head and touched her two index fingers lightly.
Di Renjie said: "I will help you solve your problem, and I will also help you find out the whereabouts of Zhang Lin. You just need to live in peace."
"You, why do you want to help me?"
Di Renjie smiled and said: "I am a member of the government, and it is my duty to help you. You don't have to worry about it."
After that, continue to move forward.
Chen Bilian stared blankly at Di Renjie's back for a long time before taking small steps to follow.
The two came to the door of a small courtyard, and Di Renjie was about to knock on the door.
Suddenly, he seemed to hear something, his face changed slightly, and he hurriedly said: "Find a place to hide and don't make any sound!"
After saying that, he came to the corner of the wall, jumped up, and landed on the top of the wall.
Looking towards the small courtyard, under the darkness, I saw several men in black in the courtyard besieging Zheng Lingxuan and another woman in black!
Di Renjie took a few glances and found that the woman in black was superior to Zheng Lingxuan in martial arts. The two of them were not in danger for a short period of time, so they did not immediately help.
He glanced around and soon discovered a low-lying black figure on another wall.
The black figure was so low that it would have been difficult to spot it if he hadn't had sharp eyesight.
Di Renjie quietly leaned towards the black figure.
When the black shadow noticed him, he had already come within a foot of the opponent. He unsheathed his long knife and hit the opponent's neck with the handle. The black shadow immediately fainted.
Di Renjie glanced again and saw that there were no hidden enemies around, so he jumped down.
Without saying much, he attacked the men in black.
After a while, all the men in black were defeated. Zheng Lingxuan said happily: "Brother Di, you came at the right time."
Di Renjie nodded, walked up to a man in black, and pulled the black scarf off the man's face, revealing a man in his thirties.
"Who are you?" Di Renjie asked coldly.
At this moment, the sound of sharp blades piercing the skin could be heard.
Zheng Lingxuan exclaimed, it turned out that all the men in black who fell to the ground stabbed themselves in the chest with daggers and committed suicide.
The man in black in front of Di Renjie also wanted to commit suicide, so he had no choice but to knock him unconscious.
After groping around on the other party, nothing was found.
Looking back at the movements of these men in black, although their martial arts skills were not top-notch, every move was aimed at killing each other. Di Renjie suspected that they were killers.
When he was about to ask the woman in black, the woman in black suddenly walked out of the door.
Zheng Lingxuan shouted hurriedly: "Junior Sister Zhou, where are you going?"
The woman in black turned her head, glanced at Di Renjie, and said, "Is he the Di Renjie you mentioned?"
"Yes, Junior Sister Zhou, if you have anything you can tell Brother Di, he will definitely help you."
The woman in black shook her head and said, "He can't help me. I'll come find you another day."
As soon as he finished speaking, he walked out of the small courtyard.
"Lingxuan, who is that woman?" Di Renjie frowned.
"Her name is Zhou Shang, she is my master's daughter."
Di Renjie nodded slightly. He knew that Zheng Lingxuan had studied martial arts with a Jianghu man for several years, and asked again:
"Then what's going on with these men in black?"
"I don't know either. Sister Zhou just came to me, and before she even said a few words, these people suddenly appeared."
"They should be killers." Di Renjie said in a deep voice.
Zheng Lingxuan was startled and worried: "Is it Master who got into some trouble?"
Di Renjie touched his chin and analyzed: "The capital is a forbidden area for Jianghu people. Ordinary killers will not come here to take action unless the person who hires them offers a price they cannot refuse. The person behind it must be either rich or noble.
"
Zheng Lingxuan was silent for a while and said: "When Junior Sister Zhou comes to see me next time, I will ask her about her situation."
Di Renjie started searching the other men in black again. Zheng Lingxuan came up behind him and asked in a low voice: "Brother Di, why did you come to me so late?"