From the end of the world to ancient times with the writer system

Ji Xuanhe quickly figured out the situation, and asked Zhouquan to lift the cellar cover, and the entrance of the cellar was illuminated red by the torches burning around.

I thought there would be resistance, but I didn't expect the police to go down cautiously. The only targets were a few whimpering children whose mouths were stuffed with cloth strips. The traffickers didn't see any of them.

Ji Xuanhe asked people to bring the children up, not many children, only six, the youngest was only two or three years old, and the oldest was seven or eight years old.The younger the child, the greater the proportion of boys. The two two- and three-year-old children are all boys. Of the six children, only the two oldest are girls.

The two youngest couldn't even speak clearly. When they asked where their family was and who their parents were, they couldn't explain clearly for a long time. When they asked urgently, they cried for their parents.Ji Xuanhe had a bit of a headache, so he ignored the two for now, let someone coax them, and turned his attention to the two biggest girls.

Zhou Quan was in charge of the questioning, Ji Xuanhe didn't intervene, and listened quietly from the side.

Among the six children, there was no Xiaoqiu. I learned from the girls that they were not from Xilin County. One of the four or five-year-old boys joined in Pingzhen and belonged to Xilin County. It is not clear where he came from. .

The six children were all abducted, and the two girls were from border counties. They didn't know the way, but they knew the name of the village where they grew up.With a specific address, it is very easy to return home.

This group of traffickers seems to be going from the border to the inland. Every time they go to a place, they abduct a few children, regardless of gender. As long as the young boys are not ugly, they will be included in their selection list. Get started when you get the chance.The older ones, whether they are boys or girls, have outstanding looks.

The Jin Dynasty allowed marriage between men and women, and there are a lot of small men's houses all over the place, only a part less than brothels.Where there is demand, there are business opportunities, which greatly increases the chances of boys being abducted.

There are a lot of traffickers in this group, and it is not easy to bring children into the city. Half of them camped outside the city along the way, and all the formalities and certificates are complete. At first glance, they are no different from the people allowed by the government.As long as they are not suspicious and guilty, no one will doubt them.

Human traffickers are very obedient. They usually choose their targets near the villages. They seldom do anything in the city. Once they do, the selected children must be good-looking, and they will be taken out of the city immediately.Several people in Zhang Ji's old house are going to be sold in Xilin County, and the traffickers are looking for someone to take over.It wasn't just this group that was brought into the city, but the children didn't know how many there were. There were two traffickers watching them, a man and a woman, pretending to be a couple.

The two girls are very precocious, which Ji Xuanhe summed up from the information revealed by the two.Every time they pass through a county, there will be fewer children who were abducted before, and they must have been sold by them.

Ji Xuanhe didn't stay long, and asked Wang Wei to send the child to the county government office, leaving the two of them squatting to guard, and the rest went back to the center of the county to wait.

The waiting time was extremely long, but Ji Xuanhe was not impatient at all.Hunting in the last days, he sometimes nests in one place and remains motionless for hours, how can he wait leisurely like now?

"Xuanhe, I missed something just now." Shao Yunchen rode on Longan's back with a heroic posture, followed by Shen Qing.

"Let's go, you lead the way." As soon as Ji Xuan finished speaking, Shao Yunchen pulled the reins and took the lead to run forward.Zhou Quan had his own horse, and the other two police officers who were not assigned horses happened to be left in Zhang Ji's old house to guard them.Ji Xuan and his group had horses to travel, but they were very efficient, and soon came to the place Shao Yunchen said.

Yunlai Inn is not the most high-end inn in Xilin County, but there are quite a few guests who come to be top-notch. There is only one reason. From general shops to upper rooms, this inn has everything you expect.The first floor is a shop, the second floor is a single room, and the backyard is an independent small yard.

Due to the complexity of the guests, Yunlai Inn didn't want to lower the grade, so it set up another door for the guests who lived in the whole shop and a room for dining alone.

As soon as they arrived at Yunlai Inn, the government officials quickly blocked all the entrances and exits of the inn.

"Yo, it's Catcher Zhou, what's your business here? Xiaodong, quickly invite Catcher Zhou to take a seat." Shopkeeper Yun took a break after dinner, seeing that it was not early, so he came over to have a look, unexpectedly He bumped into Zhouquan, and he hurried forward to meet him.

"Shopkeeper Yun, I'm here on business. Is Huang San there? He's your resident, call him out." Zhou Quan responded without continuing the greetings, and directly stated his intention.

"Huang San? Wait a minute, I'll check." Shopkeeper Yun turned back to the counter, took the guest registration booklet from the accountant, and looked through it himself.

Due to the variety of residents, Zhou Butou did not say the exact date of Huang San's stay, so Shopkeeper Yun looked forward from the back, and after searching for a while, he raised his head and said: "Zhou Butou, the person is on the second floor C Time, please follow me."

Shopkeeper Yun opened the room C, and there was only a woman, a boy and a girl inside.When the woman saw someone barging in, she said angrily, "Shopkeeper, what do you mean, you came in without knocking, who dares to live in your inn?"

The woman still wanted to speak, but the arrester quickly arrested her.

"You, what are you going to do? I am a good citizen who abides by the law. You can't arrest people casually." The woman didn't realize her situation at all, and struggled desperately.

"Take the two children to another room, one for each, and ask them separately." Ji Xuanhe gave Zhou Quan instructions.

Shopkeeper Yun noticed just now that Zhou Butou, whom he knew among the group, would ask the young man in front of him every time he took action, and the other party did not respond before moving on to the next step.Ji Xuanhe didn't wear an official uniform, and he was young. Shopkeeper Yun didn't know him well, but considering that the new county magistrate was about the same age, eight to nine out of ten of this person was the county magistrate.

Thinking of this, shopkeeper Yun became even more attentive.As soon as he heard Ji Xuanhe speak, he took the initiative to bring the two children into the empty single room next to him.

Asking questions is not Ji Xuanhe's forte, so he listened on the sidelines, and Shao Yunchen sat next to him.

The information provided by the group of children just now did not include this woman.If the average person has no characteristics, it is difficult to describe. At most, they can only provide an approximate age, gender, clothing, etc. The appearance can only indicate the shape of the face, and the facial features are difficult to describe.Especially for children, it is extremely rare to be able to tell the above information, and no matter how much they ask, it will be difficult for them.

This group of traffickers is very careful, because the number of people is too obvious, they usually don't get together, only a few people in charge meet regularly, and I think Xilin County is one of the places where they meet, and they sell a group of children by the way.

Because of this, the personnel are very scattered, and not all of them are walking around as human teeth.This is the case with the woman who was caught at the moment. She and another man pretended to be a couple.

The woman was obviously a dead duck with a hard mouth, she didn't shed tears when she saw the coffin, she kept shouting for injustice, and she shouted loudly.When Ji Xuanhe saw her doing this, he signaled Zhou Quan to silence her and bring her back to the county government office.It's not that Ji Xuanhe is indiscriminate and acts arbitrarily.Although he is not good at interrogation, he can tell whether a person is lying or not by eight or nine points.Based on the woman's behavior just now, Ji Xuanhe dared to conclude that even if she was not a human trafficker, she must have committed other crimes, so she must be arrested.

The two yamen servants who were questioning the child hadn't asked much before they received an order from Catcher Zhou and escorted the three of them to the county yamen.

Ji Xuanhe left a few people at the Yunlai Inn, and arrested anyone acting suspiciously when he saw them.Shopkeeper Yun was very cooperative. From the moment Ji Xuan and them stepped into the gate, Yunlai Inn could only enter or not, and the ban could only be lifted after the official mission was done.

As soon as Ji Xuanhe arrived at the waiting place, the yamen servants came to report, and several other places have been checked, and the suspects have been brought to the county yamen.

Everyone went straight to the county government.

The county government office is not far from the center of the county seat. After a while, Ji Xuanhe arrived in front of the county government office, and naturally got off his horse and entered.

The lobby, which was originally very spacious, is now a bit crowded, and only a little more than half of the people are police officers. The rest are either children or suspects.At first glance, it was full of people, and it was extremely noisy. There were cries of children and suspects yelling wronged. It was not much different from a vegetable market.

Ji Xuanhe didn't care about them, and carefully looked through the confessions handed over by the yamen servant.Most of these people are very hard-spoken, and they have not been tortured, and none of them gave up.

The oldest of the children sent over was not over ten years old, the younger ones were ignored, but the older ones provided some information.

"Xia Xiancheng, you and Zhou Butou will bring these people down together. I don't need to teach you how to do it?" Ji Xuanhe pointed to a few of them, and the yamen guard pressed them into the torture room of the prison.

The county magistrate is in charge of the prison, and Ji Xuanhe personally takes the lead, which is the highest standard. Usually, the county magistrate is in charge of public security, and the police officers implement it.This is different from modern times. Although the position of the county magistrate is higher than that of the head of the county public security bureau, he can give instructions, but he cannot directly control them.In the Jin Dynasty, the highest official of a county could directly control all county affairs. Once the magistrate intervened, the subordinate officials must take the order of the magistrate as the highest instruction.

For others who were suspected but had no evidence, Ji Xuanhe didn't touch them for the time being, and only asked the yamen servants to take them to the next room to continue guarding.

The rest of the people had already finished their preliminary questioning, only the three people from Yunlai Inn were still there, Xia Xiancheng and Zhouquan were not there, so Ji Xuanhe asked Wang Yuan to take action, and the yamen servants cooperated and brought them into the side rooms for questioning.

Looking at the several confessions in his hand, Ji Xuanhe felt a little troubled.Among the people caught, there were not only human traffickers, but also some locals who had nothing to do with human traffickers. They were all arrested after seeing officials and acting suspiciously.These people were rather soft-boned, and the yamen servants took the initiative to confess what they had committed as soon as they were threatened.Only people with such a character will be arrested, otherwise, if it is a person with a strong character who is easily unmoved, the yamen servant will not notice the abnormality.

Many people were caught, but Xiaoqiu was not found.This was expected by Ji Xuanhe, he knew from the mouth of the children in Zhang Ji's old house that the chance of finding him in the city was slim, and he hoped that Xia Xiancheng and Zhou Butou could make a breakthrough.

The traffickers are very cunning. Even the few people who confessed only admitted that they trafficked people, but they didn't mention that there were accomplices outside the city at all. The children didn't know where they lived outside the city, only they knew that they were not the only children.

The county government has only a small amount of manpower, which is enough for the county town, and sending them outside the city is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.Ji Xuanhe read the confession in his hand several times, trying to find some clues but failed.

Ji Xuanhe originally wanted Shao Yunchen to take a look, but when he was looking for someone, he remembered that Yunchen had already returned to Ji's residence.This is the lobby of the county government office, it is not good for Shao Yunchen to appear here.

"My lord, this is the confession of those three people." Wang Yuan's voice was not loud, but he brought Ji Xuanhe back to his thoughts.

That woman really has some status, Wang Yuan couldn't pry her open during interrogation, and now she has been taken to the cell for interrogation, the two children have some clues.

"Call Xiaxian Cheng and Zhou Butou back. All the arresters and yamen servants are ready to set off as soon as everyone is ready." After Ji Xuanhe finished speaking, he turned back to Ji's mansion and called Shang Ji's family Lian Jiang. All the horses from the seven nursing homes including Qing were brought along.

With the convenience of his second uncle's business, Ji Xuanhe bought a few more good horses a few years ago, each of the nurses rides one, and there are several horses for pulling carts. Counting the red dates and longan, the whole season The government has no fewer than ten horses, which are just in use right now.

With the support of Ji's horses, the number is still not enough, and those who have no means of transportation have to ride together.

Seeing Ji Xuanhe was out on the field, Shao Yunchen didn't say much, but silently handed him a bow, the other weapons were equipped in the Yamen, and the quality was not bad, so Ji Xuanhe didn't need to use his own.

Everyone in the yamen was fairly well-trained, and when Ji Xuanhe returned to the lobby, everyone was ready.Seeing Ji Xuanhe and the nursing staff behind him holding a bow, many officials were a little envious.The bow that Ji Xuanhe took was not out of bounds, it looked like a hunting bow, but it didn't arouse everyone's suspicion.

Officials at the level of the county government can only be equipped with a few bows. Now Zhou Butou and a few of the best catches have no other officials, and they can only make them themselves if they want to.

"Let's go, Zhou Butou leads the way, and the target is the Yue'an Inn ten miles away." Ji Xuanhe stepped out of the yamen, got on his horse and gave the order. As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Butou rushed out from behind him, taking the lead, and the others The people circled Ji Xuan and Tongxia county magistrate in the middle, and the group quickly drove to the north of the city.

The guards at the gate immediately opened the gate and let them go after receiving the token from Xia Xiancheng.

Bing is very fast, Xiaoqiu has been taken away for several hours, I hope the traffickers are still in Yue'an Inn.Ji Xuanhe felt a bit bitter in his heart, if Xiao Qiu was still a little beggar, the traffickers probably wouldn't even take a look at it, but he didn't expect his kindness to make Xiao Qiu angry.Sighs are sighs, but Ji Xuanhe is not the kind of person who looks forward and backward. If he is asked to choose again, he will still do the same, but he will teach the children the experience of preventing kidnappers.

The night is dark, only the lonely moon hangs high in the sky alone, and there are not even a single star around.

Ji Xuan and a group of people hurried on the road under the moonlight. No one spoke along the way, except for the sound of horseshoes stamping on the road.The official road is well maintained, otherwise Ji Xuanhe would not dare to gallop his horse when traveling at night.

After driving for less than half an hour, not far from Yue'an Inn, Ji Xuanhe ordered everyone to slow down, take it easy, and keep in the best condition before setting off.

The Yue'an Inn is not on the side of the official road, it is near a nearby village, it is called an inn, but it is actually a half-joy place, which was fully informed before departure.

It was already late at this time, but when Ji Xuan and the others arrived, the inn was still brightly lit.

What to do next, Ji Xuanhe didn't intervene, everything was arranged by Zhou Butou.

Zhou Butou has been a head hunter for many years, and he is very familiar with the Yue'an Inn. He divided the policemen and yamen servants into three groups. The two groups with a small number of people blocked the front and back doors, and those with a large number entered the inn directly.

"Bang bang", the yamen servant knocked on the door on the ground.

"Who, in the middle of the night, didn't he sneak out?" As soon as the door opened, what greeted him was the scabbard, glowing silver blade, which made him lose his voice instantly.

Zhou Quan didn't talk nonsense with him, he detained him, and led the Yamen's servants to stride inward.

After all, Yue'an Inn is still an inn on the surface, and it is outside the city, unlike the brothels in the city that open their doors to welcome customers. Relatively speaking, there are a lot fewer prostitutes, but the lobby of the inn is very lively at the moment.Ji Xuanhe glanced at it, most of them were girls accompanying guests, and there were quite a few guests drinking and having fun.

"Ah, ah, Catcher Zhou, you are so excited to come to the door in the middle of the night, Xiaohong, Xiaolan, come and greet the guests." Knowing nothing, he warmly greeted Ji Xuan and his party, and hinted to a few maidservants to go to the backyard.

Ji Xuanhe kept paying attention, and seeing that the old bustard was about to make a moth, he hurriedly detained a few people who had made a change, leaving some people around the lobby, and sent the yamen to take all the people on the second floor down. go to the backyard.

"Zhou Butou, why are you doing this?" the old bustard asked loudly, and stretched out his hand to stop him.

The sound was so loud that it probably spread throughout the entire inn, and the guests must have sensed something was wrong, so Ji Xuan and Tong Zhou Butou ignored the people in the lobby and went straight to the backyard.

"Officer Bi, there seems to be a policeman coming outside, should we avoid it first?" The room was pitch black, and the only light had already been turned off when the bustard was yelling loudly.

Steward Bi glanced out the window, and retreated decisively: "Let's go, avoid the limelight first. In the middle of the night, these policemen don't know why they came to the door, so it's better to be careful."

Looking at the disheveled clients and prostitutes, Ji Xuanhe felt that his eyes were polluted.His eyes only swept over these people, focusing on a group of children.

Qi Shan was the only person who knew Xiao Qiu, before he could find someone, Xiao Qiu spoke first, his voice choked up: "Uncle Qi, I thought I would never see you again."

Qi Shan hurriedly stepped forward to comfort, Xiao Qiu hugged his uncle Qi tightly, Qi Shan couldn't break it apart.

"Mother Cui, what's the matter with these children? Don't play tricks on me, think it over before you speak." Zhou Quan didn't show face to the old bustard, seeing how she acted, she wasn't the one who directly dealt with it, and she couldn't get away with the traffickers.

"Hey, Catcher Zhou, what's the point of explaining this? I'm an inn. I have guests staying here. How can I refuse to come?" Seeing that the situation could not be stopped, the old man calmed down and kept his words tight.

Zhou Butou didn't say much, and gathered everyone in the lobby, and asked the older children to identify them one by one, but finally found that the number of people did not match, and several were missing.

"Boss Zhou, go and find out if there is any secret passage and dark room. Check it carefully." The cellar has been searched, and there are people watching at the front and rear doors. It is impossible for people to fly with wings. There must be a secret passage and dark room in Yue'an Inn. Besides, Ji Xuanhe couldn't think of any other way to escape.

"The target seems to be us, let's go." Steward Bi didn't care about anything, and hurriedly led the way.

The entrance to the secret passage is usually on the ground and on the kang, and the secret room may be opened on the wall.Zhou Butou and his group of subordinates are not easy to eat. With a clear goal, it is much easier to find them.Maybe there are secret passages on the first floor of the inn, but Ji Xuanhe can't control many of them. It is more likely that the entrance is located in the backyard, and there are only so many government offices, so it is not easy to find them scattered.

Seeing how the officials behaved like this, the madam simply stopped talking and didn't see her doing anything, just like a bystander, as if all this had nothing to do with her.

Xiaoqiu was considered older among children, if he hadn't been good-looking, the traffickers wouldn't have done anything in the city.Qi Shan waited for him to calm down, and then began to ask him about what had happened to him during the past half day.

Xiaoqiu was very at a loss: "Uncle Qi, I don't know what happened. I was walking on the road and my mouth was covered with a handkerchief. I didn't know anything. After that, I stayed in the cellar all the time, even doing bad things. No one has seen it."

Seeing that there was nothing to ask, Qi Shan gave up and just let Xiaoqiu hold his hand.

There were a lot of people in the lobby, Zhou Butou was afraid that someone would violently hurt others, so he only took away Ji Xuan and the five nursing homes, and Jiang Qing and Qi Shan stayed beside Ji Xuanhe to protect them.

"My lord, I found two secret passages. One is underground, and the other is located in the middle of the wall, connecting each room. My subordinates have sent many people down." Zhou Quan has also seen secret passages, and the underground secret passages are still in his knowledge. Within the range, the secret passage connecting the rooms was somewhat beyond his expectation.If every inn and brothel were designed like this, there would be no privacy at all, just thinking about it would make one's scalp tingle.

"Which direction does the secret road lead to?" Ji Xuanhe frowned slightly. Such a handwriting must have a lot of involvement behind it, and there is no need to go to war for human trafficking.

Zhou Butou didn't answer directly, until he saw Wang Wei entered the hall, he said: "Wang Wei, tell me the general direction of the secret way."

"My lord, the secret passage I went down leads to the northwest of the inn, but I don't know where it will go after that." Wang Wei received Zhou Butou's order to walk for a while and then return to report the situation to the lord.

"Zhou Butou, you take some people to chase from the ground as Wang Wei said. No matter who you meet, bring them here first." Ji Xuanhe gave the order based on the idea that he would rather catch the wrong one than let him go. The leader didn't object, and directly led a group of people to set off.

Thanks to Ji Xuanhe's attention to this operation, he brought out almost all the people in the county government. Otherwise, according to his arrangement, the personnel would not be able to be allocated in this way.

The lobby was very quiet, and there were many whores from rich officials and officials. Xia Xiancheng and Yachai recognized several of them, and sighed that their children and grandchildren were absurd. The city was enough for them to have fun, and they even came here to embarrass themselves.Those people didn't come forward to make fun of themselves, and tried to shrink their bodies as much as possible to reduce their sense of existence.

Ji Xuanhe didn't know the rich family's children, but those few officials' children, Ji Xuanhe was a little familiar with.The Jin dynasty is different from modern times. The brothels are allowed by the imperial court. Although prostitution is despicable, no one will say anything.Ji Xuanhe disagreed, but he would not criticize him. As long as it is not forced, others can't control what you like.