"What's going on?" Li Yan was shocked when he heard this, and then asked Taimin, "Taimin, tell me, what is going on!?"
"Sir... Your Majesty..." Tai Min slid down from the chair and said to Li Yan, "No... it's not that exaggerated, no..."
"Asshole!" Li Yan was furious, "17 women have disappeared in three years. Isn't it an exaggeration? Then how many women do you think is missing enough to be an exaggeration?"
"Sir, you deserve to die for your humble job!" Taimin knelt down on the ground, shaking like chaff, "This humble job is incompetent. After receiving so many reports, this humble job... I couldn't find my humble job, I couldn't... find..."
"Master Tai," Yuan Xingtai was also surprised when he saw the scene in front of him. He couldn't help but said to Tai Min, "It seems that it's not that you can't find it, but that such a case has come out. You shouldn't
Concealing the truth?
"Why don't you inform our garrison and help search together?"
"What Lieutenant Yuan said is absolutely true," Li Yan said angrily, "After such a major case, you dared to conceal it. It's really an extra crime! You, the county guard, don't want to be a county guard anymore?"
"Sir," Taimin argued bitterly, "it's not that I want to conceal the report due to my humble position, but there are really no clues to the investigation of these cases. We have tried our best!"
"You still dare to quibble?" Li Yan shouted angrily, "Now even the Marquis's daughter has disappeared, so you are satisfied?
"Let me tell you, if Miss Lu can be found safely, that's all. If she can't be found, just wait and hand over the head on your neck!
"Come here," he shouted outside, "take Taimin to my prison and wait for his release!"
"My lord, my lord..." Taimin crouched on the ground, trembling, "Please forgive me, my lord, please forgive me..."
"Master Li," Xu Zun stopped Li Yan at this time and advised, "Although Master Tai is at fault, this serial disappearance case is weird. Maybe there is a hidden secret in it. It is better to wait until it is clarified before making any accusations!
"
"Yes, yes..." Yuan Xingtai echoed, "Master Li, the most urgent thing is to find the daughter of the Hou family first. If you want to punish the crime, you should not be in a hurry."
"Well..." Li Yan came to his senses and said to Taimin, "Since the two adults have interceded for you, I will give you a chance to make up for your mistakes. Quickly take out the files of these missing women and give them to Xu Ti
Let’s do some research!”
"This..." Taimin's face turned pale and he broke into a cold sweat.
"Humph, he got the case, where is the file?" Zhao Yu hugged his shoulders and stabbed him from the side.
Upon hearing this, Tai Min lowered his head, as if he wanted to crawl into the cracks in the ground.
"What an incompetent person, the ultimate bastard!" Li Yan cursed.
The so-called case taking means that the victim's family comes to report the case. In order to maintain the detection rate, the government openly says that it will accept the case, but secretly does not open the case for investigation and muddles through the case.
This is a common thing in feudal yamen. It is not serious at first, but if you have to eat it after a major case, the nature will be different!
Taimin was trembling and ashamed.
"It doesn't matter," Xu Zun calmly held up the blue book and said, "Sir Taimin, please give us an overview of what happened to these missing women, right?"
"Well..." Taimin lay on the ground and didn't dare to raise his head, "Three years ago, we received reports of missing girls one after another..."
"Get up, get up and talk!" Li Yan yelled because he thought he couldn't explain clearly.
Taimin then stood up and explained in detail:
"At first, we didn't take it seriously and left it all to the police.
“Unexpectedly, one case followed another, until several cases of missing girls occurred one after another, which attracted our attention.
"At that time, we felt that the situation was not right, and we really wanted to report it, but... Ju Ran was known as the magic catcher, and I was also obsessed with it. I was afraid of punishment from above. In order to maintain Shangyuan City's detection rate, I covered up the case.
Come down...
"Sir," Taimin said with a grimace, "we have really tried our best to find them, but these girls just disappeared without a trace, leaving not a single clue.
"Later on, many more cases happened. We knew we couldn't solve it, so we just... we just..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw Ju Ran entering the room holding a large cardboard box.
"Okay, he came just in time!" Taimin simply pointed at Ju Ran, "He knows these things better than me, so let him speak!"
"Say?" Ju Ran smiled in confusion, "What are you talking about, sir?"
…
After a while, Ju Ran knelt on the ground, his face turned pale, he was sweating profusely, and he said in a trembling voice:
"I say, I say all, please forgive me, adults!" He bowed to all the officials and said, "The first person to disappear was Chen Jiao from the store, who was only 9 years old at the time.
“Because it was in a rural field like Lidian, it was first treated as human trafficking.
"We posted notices and searched nearby towns, but in the end we did not find Chen Jiao's whereabouts.
"However, it didn't take long for us to realize that something was wrong!" Ju Ran said, "Missing cases broke out one after another in Shangyuan County, and the missing persons were all beautiful girls ranging in age from 9 to 14 years old!
"We then paid attention to it and started investigating with all our strength, but... no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't find any clues.
"These girls..." Ju Ran raised his head, "They disappeared very strangely, and there were even a few who disappeared with their whole families!"
"What!?"
Xu Zun was shocked and suddenly thought of Lu Xiaofeng who disappeared mysteriously.
Lu Xiaofeng, a 14-year-old girl, also disappeared with her whole family, and even the Lu Family Bookstore was destroyed.
"Look," Li Yan clapped his hands and shouted, "how serious things have become, look at the good things you have done!
“If it had attracted attention earlier, would it still be where it is today?
"Xu Tixing, there is no doubt about it," Li Yan faced Xu Zun, "The daughter of the Hou family is also one of the serial missing girls! Who are this group of people? They are so bold and lawless!"
this……
Xu Zun looked at the blue book in his hand, but he was thinking about something else.
"Anu," he asked Huo Anu in a low voice, "where did this book come from?"
"Didn't I tell you?" Huo Anu said, "I don't know who put it in my schoolbag!"
"You..." Xu Zun asked again, "Tell me, what exactly did you see in the academy?"
"It was just a few elderly Taoist nuns who taught us some mystical scriptures and moral principles. They were dry, difficult to understand, and very boring.
"But... they said that the next class will teach calligraphy and painting..."
"Tell me the important ones," Xu Zun reminded, "Did you encounter anything special?"
"No?" Huo Anu said, "It's normal. Those little girls thought it was strange that I was a foreigner, and they asked me this and that..."
"What did I ask you?" Zhao Yu realized something and interrupted.
"Aren't you just asking me where I come from and why I go to school there!" Huo Anu said, "I just told them honestly that I am a guard from Tangzhou Tixing and I am here to investigate the disappearance of Miss Lu..."
"Oh," Zhao Yu grinned, "Are you not telling a lie in this?"
"Hey?" Huo Anu looked at Xu Zun, "Isn't this what Mr. Xu taught me to say?"
"Yes!" Xu Zun gave a thumbs up, "That's very good. Now, I seem to have understood more than half of it!
"It is precisely because Huo Anu revealed her purpose of going to Qinglan Academy that this book was stuffed into her schoolbag," Xu Zun smiled mysteriously, "This shows that there are people in Qinglan Academy who are helping
