In the front yard of the Taoist temple, seeing He Qizhou going out to chase him, the guard whose knees were broken and wailing in the corner no longer pretended to be dead. He quickly tore off a sleeve, jumped on one leg, picked up two sword scabbards from the ground, and clamped them with the scabbards.
He broke off his legs and tied them tightly, then picked up a long sword and jumped quickly into the courtyard. He struck the people lying on the ground, dead or alive, with one sword in the heart... In a moment, more than ten people in the courtyard were only
There were only two left alive, him and the Persian.
"Can we still leave?" the guard asked coldly the exhausted Persian.
"Yes!" Of course the Persian understood what he would face if he couldn't walk. After spitting out a large mouthful of blood, he followed the guard out with difficulty and walked to the nearest carriage. He prayed in his heart that Tianyin had better run away before being caught.
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The guard with the broken leg had just untied the reins when he suddenly heard a series of heavy footsteps approaching quickly.
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Tianyin, who was in the shadow of the mountain, suddenly felt a strong wind blowing above his head. When he looked up, he saw a figure falling from the sky. It was not He Qizhou or someone else! In fright, he actually forgot to run away and kept shouting: "Master, please spare my life!"
Master, spare your life!"
When He Qizhou heard the horses below suddenly stop, he immediately realized that Tianyin wanted to abandon the horse and run away. Thinking of Tianyin's ruthlessness, he was afraid that he would escape, but he was not afraid of the danger. He dismounted from the hillside and jumped down to the place where the sound of horse hooves stopped.
Go, and from mid-air, you can see Tianyin kicking the horse hard.
"Do you think any of you can get out?" He Qizhou replied, imitating Tianyin's tone, but his men didn't stop, punching and kicking directly at Tianyin. The people above couldn't let them escape! They have to be early.
return.
Tian Yin, who had been frightened for a long time, saw He Qizhou's attack, and Julai squatted down with his head in his hands, unable to even muster the courage to resist. He Qizhou himself did not expect that he could capture a five-meridian master so easily, but
The force of the attack did not decrease at all. While kicking Tianyin's right knee joint, he hit Tianyin's Tanzhong and Qihai acupoints as usual, and then strangled Tianyin's throat to prevent him from crying out in pain.
, and then tore off a large piece of cloth from his body and stuffed it into his mouth. After completing these actions in an instant, He Qizhou did not stop, picked up the limp Tianyin, and ran up the mountain! The old Dahuang just thought that He Qizhou was practicing again, leisurely
He ran up the mountain leisurely behind him
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Seeing He Qizhou, who was five feet away, heavily throwing Tian Yin on his shoulders to the ground, the guard who had just untied the reins couldn't help but feel an unprecedented despair in his heart.
"Master He," the Persian who had climbed onto the carriage said in pure Luoyang Mandarin: "As long as you let me go, I can give you ten thousand taels... plus one thousand taels of gold! Two Persian beauties!
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"How many Daqi girls have you sold in total?" He Qizhou asked coldly.
The Persian thought that He Qizhou wanted to raise the price, so he suddenly gained hope and said: "I have some property in Chang'an and Luoyang, fifty thousand taels. If you add another fifty thousand taels, you can go to Chang'an to find the Persian Guild Hall with my handwritten letter."
Withdraw money! In addition, you can choose two more Persian beauties. In your capital, a pure and high-quality Persian beauty is worth at least ten thousand taels!"
"You haven't answered my question yet!" He Qizhou said coldly.
"Thousands of them," the Persian gasped, "I only make two or three hundred taels per person from this business, and the general has swallowed most of them..."
"Does 20% belong to the young Marquis?" He Qizhou continued to ask.
"Yes! Yes! If you still can't believe me, I can borrow money from the Marquis of Xihe first! He forged the deeds of sale of those women! He still owes me the payment for the furs!" The Persian did not want to let go of a chance of survival.
While they were talking, Zhang Scale and two head catchers came out of the gate holding torches and escorting two Quanzhen disciples. Zhang Scale excitedly said to He Qizhou: "There are four Hu girls and eight Han girls inside. I
My daughter has also been found!”
"I can also give money to the three of you, so that you will have enough to enjoy in your lifetime! I also brought the four bearded girls, which are worth at least 20,000 taels. I will give them all to you..." the Persian shouted with all his strength.
"Who is the general?" He Qizhou interrupted the Persian's cry and asked as he approached.
"This, I can't say this." The Persian hesitated.
"If you are willing to testify, I can find a way to save your life!" He Qizhou quickly weighed in his mind and found out that uncovering a big moth that was harming the country and the people was much more important than a human life.
"I don't believe you have this ability?" The Persian was still hesitating, but his eyes glanced at the guard standing next to the horse.
"I am the number one scholar chosen by the emperor, my uncle is the national master, and my master is the master of Quanzhen. I can also find a way to save the life of your guard." He Qizhou continued to slowly move closer to the carriage, and he was already less than three meters away from the carriage.
Husband.
"I still can't say, otherwise..." Just as the Persian was mid-sentence, a long sword suddenly penetrated from his chest to his back, stabbing the heart accurately, killing the Persian immediately.
He Qizhou shouted bad and rushed over immediately.
"Well said, but it's a pity that this life is not my own! Let's go first." The guard had no other internal injuries except a broken leg. He had already estimated the distance, and when he saw He Qizhou step into the range, he immediately stabbed him with his sword and seriously injured him.
The Persian businessman who was still alive then drew his sword and killed himself after saying the last words. Half of the blood sprayed from his neck sprayed on He Qizhou who flew over.
He Qizhou, who had already grasped the blade of the sword, slowly loosened his fingers and sighed. It was a pity that the other party had long been determined to die. He should have killed him first and then pursued Tianyin, but there was no regret medicine in the world.
"There are still these Taoist priests who can ask questions!" Zhang Sheng advised.
He Qizhou turned around and carried Tianyin back to the Taoist temple. When he saw the dead bodies on the ground, he felt even more upset.
Zhang Sheng and others also followed in and said: "I have long admired Mr. He's reputation, and as expected..."
"I didn't kill them, I just wounded them. It was the guard who did it..." He Qizhou wasn't sure whether they all deserved to die, and he didn't kill them when he made the move.
"No wonder..." Zhang Heng saw that everyone had a fatal sword wound on their chest, and he suddenly understood that these people were silenced by the guard. "I'm afraid those women will let them stay after seeing so many dead people."
It’s in the inner courtyard.”
"Oh." He Qizhou responded and pulled out the piece of cloth from Tianyin's mouth. The reason why Tianyin was not allowed to speak was because He Qizhou didn't want the Persians to judge his position. He was actually worried that someone would run towards the back mountain. The biggest problem
My mistake was that I didn't expect that the real master was the guard.
"Do you want to live?" He Qizhou asked after Tianyin screamed in pain several times.
"Think! Think!" Tianyin nodded hurriedly.
"Who is the general?" He Qizhou asked.
"I don't know either. I just know that he has a high position in Suzhou and they all call him that..."
"Who are they?" He Qizhou asked.
"Second Master! He is the one who committed suicide. He is a close confidant of the general. He not only serves as a bodyguard for the Persians, but also monitors the Persians to prevent him from embezzling and informing. The Persian also knows about it. He is the guest of the general.
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"Does anyone else know who the general is? Does the young marquis know?"
"I'm afraid, like me, we are all in contact with the second master..."
"Are you kidding me?" He Qizhou asked in a dark voice, looking at Tianyin's other leg that was not broken by the kick.
"No, please... Master, please spare your life, I really don't dare to tell lies..." Tianyin was so frightened that he burst into tears. The pain of having his joints broken by being kicked made his hair stand on end.
Zhang Sheng pondered for a while and said to He Qizhou: "Young hero, this matter is of great importance. The top priority is to catch the young marquis first. Let's interrogate him separately now and see how they operate."
"Okay, Mr. Zhang, tell me what to do next," He Qizhou said.
"Captain Zheng, you two go into the inner courtyard and ask how those little girls were captured; I'm here to interrogate the two Taoist priests who were guarding them. He Shaoxia, please continue to interrogate Tianyin. Then we will discuss the situation again.
, if someone lies, don’t blame me for torture to extract a confession!" Zhang Heng acted seasonedly and arranged.
"Okay, let's do it like this." He Qizhou grabbed Tianyin by the collar and dragged him into the doorman's hut. Tianyin and the two Taoist priests were already scared out of their wits, and the pen holder poured out what they knew like beans.
Everything was explained.
The arrested girls were grateful and would naturally not lie. The interrogation ended quickly. Zheng, Zhang Sheng, and He Qizhou returned to the front yard, while another agent was responsible for guarding Tianyin and others.
Zhang Heng wanted to kneel down and salute He Qizhou, but He Qizhou persuaded him to tell them his identity as the top scholar and the purpose of his trip. Zhang Heng stopped being polite, and the three of them understood the situation and roughly figured out the context of the trafficking of girls. Then
A Persian businessman named Shamuddin was the leader of the Persian Chamber of Commerce. He had colluded with the border guards and smuggled some private goods behind the normal business to evade part of the customs duties.
Eighty-nine years ago, the Persians discovered that Han girls could be sold at very high prices in the Western Regions, so they were no longer satisfied with selling sporadic brothel girls. After colluding with the general, they began to abduct and trap young girls from good families. In order to facilitate customs clearance, they also found girls who liked to abuse them.
The three parties hit it off with the young girl as Marquis of Xihe, and the general was responsible for leading the way and letting his men search for prey; the Persians took the Han girl out through the trade route, and of course they also kidnapped and trafficked girls from the Western Regions when they entered the customs;
The Marquis of Xihe massively forged the household registration documents of those girls and delivered them on the last journey. The Marquis' Mansion was also a transit point for harboring the girls.
Tianyin was not the temple owner here originally. Seeing that this place was in an excellent location and that it could echo the Marquis of Xihe, the Second Master he said colluded with Tianyin, who had an impure Taoist heart, and killed the previous temple owner and several others.
Taoist priests who are willing to collude with others. Now half of the Taoist priests in temples are fake. Tianyin said that there are several Taoist temples like theirs in Shaanxi and Gansu, which specialize in secretly arresting and harboring girls they like.
Among these eight girls, one is Zhang Sheng's daughter, who was just captured today. Most of the other seven were sent from the direction of Chang'an. I only know that the person escorting them is called Fourth Master, who is also a confidant of the general. Basically, everyone
Every month, one or two groups of people would be sent over. In the first two months, when passing by Xihe City, Zhang Sheng rescued two groups of people.
Mainly because there have been fewer people going west recently. Zhang Sheng became suspicious and pursued them closely. However, the main culprit, Fourth Master, was nowhere to be found, and his minions did not know any more details, so they were all accused of human trafficking by Zhang Sheng.
The charges were submitted to the magistrate for conviction.