Ruoshui's "Downtown" is located in the most remote part of the northeastern part of the city. There are eighteen lanes in total. The lanes are separated by lane walls. The main street is dilapidated and very muddy. However, because it is connected in all directions, some of them can be directly connected. The few buildings near Changchun Street have become the shortest way for the Criminal Department to handle cases.
Most of the people living here do not have a serious job, and the only way to make money is small business. They buy items sold at low prices outside the busy city, and then sell them to foreign businessmen, or exchange them at a similar price in the busy city. There is another kind of business, Using gambling houses and taverns as cover, they secretly bought and sold children and women, or peddled palace news, the latter being the most profitable.
The person who ran this most profitable business eventually became a wealthy businessman in the bustling city. This wealthy businessman started a serious business again, and his shopkeepers were all over the bustling city. In fact, it was just to hide his true face.
At the entrance to the downtown area, there stands a dilapidated archway, with the archway as the boundary. Outside are well-organized houses and shops, and further to the west or south are prosperous areas. However, inside the archway, it is chaotic and dirty, making it difficult to enter. Head.
After passing the archway and walking a hundred or so steps, you will reach the main street of the downtown area.
Su Yan walked in front with a dog's tail grass in her mouth, striding like a star, with a charlatanic air, which was extremely conflicting with the bright dress. The two young men in neatly dressed tails following her were full of complaints. They thought they had just After joining the Ministry of Criminal Justice, he was given a high priority, but in the end, he accompanied a woman to this poor place. It was like bullying a newcomer!
These two are brothers. They are only two years apart, but they look like they are seven or eight years apart. The mature one is old-fashioned, while the young one has a childish look on his face. He calls each other brother, and the elder brother frowns at his younger brother. Eyes, extremely dissatisfied. They say that beating is a sign of kissing and scolding, but it seems that this elder brother is not so close to his younger brother.
During the chat, Su Yan learned that his elder brother's name was 'Wang Yan', but his younger brother's name was 'Yang Lian'. After questioning, Wang Yan had no choice but to reveal that he had taken his mother's surname since he was born. Yang Lian then said that although his brother was different from himself, Although he had a surname, he had always been the eldest son in the family. Su Yan had a vague feeling that her brother still had many secrets that he had not revealed. She wanted to ask more about it, but in the end she didn't ask.
Although the main street is chaotic and dirty, there are no less people than Changchun Street. There are many shops on both sides of the street, and the vendors do a variety of businesses. The most important thing is that the prices are very affordable! Su Yan sighed: Ruoshui is so damn humane!
"Sir, where are you going?" Wang Yan held it in for a while and finally couldn't help asking.
"Investigating the case, you adults didn't explain it?"
"Investigating the case? You are leading us around here like headless flies. How on earth are you going to investigate?!"
Su Yan stopped and looked back at him. Yang Lian felt that the situation was serious and quickly stepped forward to apologize: "My brother is impatient. Sir, please don't blame me."
Su Yan said to Wang Yan: "You are just too impatient. Don't you know that you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry?"
"I know!" He said angrily with a straight face, "But we need to have a clue when investigating the case. Can you find clues by leading us around? Don't be ridiculous! There are specialties in the art, you..." He couldn't say the last few words, and his younger brother took the lead and said: "We have just joined the Criminal Department and have no experience. We need you, sir, to teach us more. You are much more professional than us!"
Professional? I'm afraid your brother doesn't think so. Han Chuang has studied hard for more than ten years, and once he joins the Ministry of Punishments, he has to work as a subordinate for a teacher. How can he be willing to do so? But he is indeed a teacher with rich experience!
Su Yan happily accepted his praise and said cheerfully: "Since you want to learn, then watch more and listen more!"
Wang Yan whispered contemptuously: Where does this confidence come from! Su Yan heard this and didn't bother to refute. Wang Yan had a cold temperament and refused to accept others. Since he already had a prejudice against himself, he could only convince him with practical actions.
oral.
The three of them said nothing more and stepped into the busiest center of the busy city - the Octagon Building.
The Octagonal Tower is not a building, but an alley extending from the main street. It is winding and has many branches, just like the thousand-year-old tree, with many messy old vines hanging on it, some coiled on the trunk.
Some penetrate into the soil and extend far away.
These vines are the branches, and the people and the messy shacks are the parasites on the vines.
"What are you bringing us here for?" Wang Yan looked up at the plaque hanging on the top of the three-story tavern. Everything here made him feel strange. Even this plaque was different from the one on Changchang Street, dark and irregular.
On the wood, three big characters "Heavenly Water" were painted with blood-red paint, hanging high, with the three red characters facing the ground, as if three blood-red eyeballs were about to fall down at any time.
He staggered in fright, wondering what the hell kind of place this was!
The younger brother also looked horrified. He looked back at the noisy and chaotic scene around him. He hurriedly approached Su Yan, pulled her sleeves and asked, "Sir, why is it so weird here? Look at the common people, their shabby clothes, and the shops.
It doesn’t look like a serious business, and look at this alley, it’s dirty and smelly, how do they live here?!”
Su Yan also found it strange that deep in the bustling city, there was such an isolated place, strangely like hell.
It would attract onlookers, so the three of them did not dare to stay any longer. After clearing their shocked faces, they immediately got into the restaurant.
As soon as she entered the door, Su Yan felt that there were many pairs of eyes looking at her, but when she looked around, she found nothing unusual. The sparse drinkers were all immersed in drinking and eating meat, and did not care about the sudden appearance of three more costumes.
A bright young man.
The three of them didn't dare to raise their heads and immediately went up to the second floor. As soon as they turned the corner, a waiter suddenly jumped out of nowhere and blocked the way. He greeted with a smile on his face: "Do you want the three guests to drink wine or tea?"
"Drink...drink!" Yang Lian said stumblingly.
The waiter looked at Su Yan casually and said to him with a smile: "We are drinking on the first floor. Let me tell you what you want to drink."
"cocoa……"
"What's wrong!" Su Yan pushed Yang Lian aside and told the waiter: "In the wing on the second floor, prepare the best wine and meat. Don't disturb me unless you give me orders." After saying that, he didn't give him any room to refuse and went in first.
Walk.
The waiter was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly followed them, led them to the innermost room, then closed the door and exited.
Su Yan carefully opened the window and discovered that the location was just below the plaque, offering a sweeping view of the Octagon Tower.
"That guy has a problem." Wang Yan said.
"Not only are there problems, everyone here is weird." The younger brother said while tinkering with the bottles and jars on the table.
Su Yan looked at the two of them, raised his eyebrows and said, "You guys are quite discerning. Now trust me. I'm not leading you around."
"How do you know there is a problem here?" Wang Yan seemed to have thought of something and asked hurriedly: "Do you have a hidden stake here?"
"How can I, a teacher, get the money to lay hidden stakes? I just summed up the methods of solving crimes based on my experience in solving crimes several times." Su Yan saw that they were quite interested, so he explained to them, "Investigating cases"
Now, there are three steps, one is to look, the other is to touch, and the third is to go deep."
The two people were both confused. Su Yan continued to patiently explain to them: "The first look is to look for suspicious things and look at the situation. The second touch is to find out the details from these situations. Only when you find the details can you make a breakthrough. The third step is to go deep.
Of course, through these breakthroughs, we need to find out the enemy behind the scenes, and all the people involved must be thoroughly investigated one by one. Just now I wandered all the way, and it was this first step: look! Now it is the second step: touch!
"
The two of them suddenly understood and nodded like garlic.
"I thought..."
"What do you think?" Su Yan gave them both an angry look, "The more pure your thoughts, the faster you can handle the case. Do you want to make some achievements?"
"think!"
"Then try harder and work harder. That guy might be able to figure something out!"
"How to set it up?"
"Just wait and see!"
The waiter served the food as fast as lightning. As soon as the three of them finished speaking, the door opened and they were so frightened that they immediately fell silent.
"The three guests all come from wealthy families, why do they come to such a poor place to drink?" the waiter asked them respectfully.
"How do you choose a place to drink?" Su Yan was dressed as a man at this time and spoke in a lowered voice. Then he imitated the tone of those idle official officials and said to the waiter, "You are a little boy who pours your tea conscientiously.
Serve your food, who gave you the courage to talk to me like this!"
"No, no, no, that's not what I mean. What I mean is that no matter how good the wine in a poor place is, it's not as good as that of Yun Lai Pavilion and Heng Xiang Yuan. Don't blame us for not treating you three well when the time comes!"
"Is it because my family is very tight-knit and I have sent people to keep an eye on those taverns, so the three of us wouldn't come to this shabby place! Even if you bring out the best things, you can't give the wine to those poor people, otherwise I won't pay.
Money!" Wang Yan folded his arms and leaned on the back of his chair, as if he didn't want to touch anything here.
The waiter nodded and bowed, not even saying no.
Su Yan saw the right opportunity and interjected: "Although the downtown environment is not good, things are cheap. Don't you two dislike it. Let's go shopping after dinner later. Maybe we can get a lot of good things. That's it.
The spices from Caixiangzhai are said to have come from the palace and are not available on the market, but they are still sold here!"
"The spices are indeed good and the price is fair, but the rumors circulating in the palace are actually false." The waiter found that although the three gentlemen had a bad attitude, they seemed to be more playful than the other, and he thought he would try to trick them more.
The suit was almost in good condition, so he put the serving plate under his arm and continued, "The three of you are from a wealthy family. You have never been here before. Let me introduce it to you. In this busy market, the products sold by officials and people are not needed.
You can buy things at a low price and sell them to outside merchants at a high price. It doesn’t matter if you can’t sell them. There are so many people in the bustling city and you can digest them yourself. But the things you just mentioned flowing out of the palace have been living here for many years.
, I know a little bit. There are indeed some fine items flowing out of the palace, but they are not flowing out from our Rongguo palace, but from other countries. The spices you mentioned are from Linguo. The exotic fragrance is very precious.
, even in the palace, there are very few of them, so people in the market think that this incense comes from Rong Palace."
"Oh? That's how it came about. It seems that we bumped into each other by mistake and came to the right place?!" Su Yan waved his hand and ordered him to go down.
As soon as the guy left, Yang Lian became anxious, "Why did you let him go? We haven't asked important questions yet!"
Wang Yan suddenly laughed briefly, and Yang Lian stared at him displeasedly, always feeling that the two people were laughing at him. Su Yan explained to him: "We are familiar with each other here, we have acquaintances."
Now, are you still afraid that you won’t be able to find any clues in the future?”
"What do you mean?" Yang Lian still didn't understand.
"Put a long line to catch big fish, don't be too hasty!" Wang Yan said with a helpless smile on his face.
Yang Lian seemed to understand, holding his head and scratching his hair vigorously. Wang Yan patted his head and said: "Brother, you have to learn to use your brain more in the future so that you can gain a position in the Ministry of Justice. Otherwise, you can only follow others."
Doing hard work behind your butt!"
Yang Lian brushed his hand away and said angrily, "Brother, you are smart, but I am stupid. You are still behind Mr. Su like me!"
"Stop being so talkative," Su Yan stood up and opened the door a crack, "I'm afraid I won't find anything here. Please finish the food quickly and let the waiter serve it. Then ask where there is a brothel nearby."
"Brother?" Wang Yan couldn't understand it now.
"You are stupid. Since you want to investigate the human trafficking case, you have to investigate the origin of those women. Zuo Qing pointed out to me this suspicious line in the downtown area, so I have to investigate from the place where women gather. There may be clues."
Wang Yan was dubious, but he still stuffed vegetables into his mouth seriously. Seeing Yang Lian's hesitation, he grabbed a handful of vegetables and stuffed them into his mouth.