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Chapter 54 Ledgers, Registers, and Their Whereabouts

Do you really need to teach me this?
Peng Dingqiu didn't come here to listen to this nonsense: "I'm confused because I can't find any other interests besides the Green Bamboo Gang, so I've come to seek Wu Lao's help!"

Old Wu was slightly displeased by the subtle rebuke.

in silence.

In fact.

Even the person involved doesn't know who he offended, or who is targeting him besides the Green Bamboo Gang. How could an outsider like him know?
Again.

Menglou has repeatedly run into trouble. After closing down and reopening, it has run into trouble again, completely ruining its reputation and making it difficult to recover.

Meng Lou!

That's all!

Old Wu offered advice: "The enemy is in the dark while you are in the light, so you are bound to be on the defensive. In that case, you might as well take the opportunity to completely shut down Menglou. You have money and manpower, so you can break it down into smaller parts, split the entire Menglou into multiple industries, and start over with a fresh look."

Maybe.

At that time, the person behind the scenes will naturally come to the surface.

After Mr. Wu finished speaking,

This time, it was Peng Dingqiu who remained silent.

Should Menglou be closed?

A complete makeover?

It's easy for him to say, but does this old man even know how much loss there is?
And then there are Meng Lou's 'shareholders'.

Rice rises and rice grudges fight rice and hatred.

If the dividends keep increasing, that's good.

But if we reduce it, the first person to object will be the one who doesn't want to.

They don't care about any difficulties; if they don't receive enough, they get upset.

How could Peng Dingqiu possibly handle such a huge mess all by himself?
Peng Dingqiu could only plead: "Master Wu, please have mercy and send your elite disciples down the mountain with me to hunt down the murderers in the city. No matter who those people are, they will need manpower to take action. If I capture and kill all those thugs, the deadlock can be broken and Meng Lou can be saved."

"You!"

"Those involved are often blinded by their own perspective!"

Old Wu chuckled: "When Menglou reopened, everyone thought that the previous issues had been resolved. Only those who were adventurous and daring dared to enter Menglou again, but its popularity was bound to be much lower than before. Now that it hasn't recovered its original popularity and this incident has happened, do you think anyone will still dare to go to Menglou?"

Peng Dingqiu's expression changed.

Old Wu pointed out: "Only if those people continue to make moves will you have a chance to retaliate. But those people have been targeting the guests of Menglou from beginning to end, not Menglou itself. Can you persuade those valuable guests to cooperate with your act and lure out the thugs to commit the crime again?"

Of course, you can't convince them.

Then.

"Now Menglou's reputation has collapsed, and no customers visit anymore."

Do you think those thugs will strike again?

Old Wu's words were all heart-wrenching.

Peng Dingqiu was devastated, as if he had lost his parents!

however.

When he returned to Menglou, a piece of news even worse than the death of his parents hit him hard—

"Master!"

"The ledgers and registers are lost!"

……

The Zuo family originally had six siblings—

The eldest sister, Zuo Rong, is 24 years old.

The eldest brother, Zuo Sheng, is 22 years old.

Second brother Zuo Jing, 18 years old.

The third brother, Zuo Du, is 16 years old.

My younger brother, Zuo Cheng, is 14 years old.

The younger sister, Zuo Huai, is 12 years old.

About ten years ago.

The Zuo family was in dire straits. His parents worked away from home, and his older brother and sister took eight-year-old Zuo Jing out of the city to dig for wild vegetables, leaving only the three younger children at home.

Zuo Huai, who was 2 years old at the time, fell ill.

Six-year-old Zuo Du carried his younger sister out to find a doctor.

The brother and sister were both taken away by a kidnapper and have not been heard from since.

now.

Zuo Jing knew: "Menglou has been buying and selling people for many years, and perhaps Zuo Du and Zuo Huai were kidnapped by them."

He was targeting Meng Lou.

They also recruited many assassins and Zheng Shiba into Menglou, in order to take advantage of the chaos to find out which channels Menglou had transferred the victims they had kidnapped or bought from various sources to.

just.

Menglou maintains an extremely high level of secrecy regarding this business. Those assassins who have joined Menglou for less than two or three months have no access to these core operations; they are too far removed from it.

Fortunately.

Zheng Shiba, a special talent, overtook others by taking shortcuts and quickly rose to a higher position through his technical skills.

Originally, he wanted to seduce the flirtatious Hua Jie.

As it turned out, it was actually the seemingly serious but actually incredibly sassy Hong Gu who took a liking to him first.

Zuo Jing successfully broke the deadlock.

in fact.

Zuo Jing could understand the existence of the 'ledger'.

Many corrupt officials and their cronies engage in such practices to leave themselves an escape route; it's understandable.

But it's strange that human traffickers specifically record the people they sell into a register.

Zuo Jing didn't understand at first. But...

After he opened it, everything became clear—

……

"The Lei family, the Fu family, and the Lü family."

"Danyang, Iron Body, Tongtian".

Zuo Jing frowned slightly.

The roster records that the vast majority of the people Menglou has acquired through various channels over the years have been taken away by the three families and three factions of Shangyang Prefecture.

It wasn't an open acceptance.

Instead, they kept it hidden.

What these six families didn't know was that Peng Dingqiu was a master of lightness skills and an expert in tracking. He had tracked down all the buyers and found that they were all connected to the three families and three factions.

Peng Dingqiu pretended not to know.

He silently recorded everything, keeping it hidden, treating it as his trump card for a final comeback.

Now they're all in Zuo Jing's hands.

"Three."

"Three factions".

"Their need for population is for the development of this blessed land."

"A blessed land, yet no one is blessed; the deaths and injuries are heavy."

"A large number of people need to be added."

"If we don't have enough at home, we'll make up for it with buying and selling."

“Even the Lei family, through mines and other channels, would use the excuse of accidents to report the deaths of miners, but in reality, they would send those miners to the ‘blessed land’ to be used as slaves and cannon fodder.”

Zuo Jing's expression was not good.

Through the Lei family.

Through miners.

He realized: "Menglou is just one of the channels through which the Lei family buys people. Besides that, there may be more than just the mines in private."

Two or more channels.

A steady stream of manpower is being gathered.

These people are then thrown into a blessed land, euphemistically called "exploration" or "development," and promised a large reward. In reality, this is no different from treating human life as worthless.

"The Lei family invested thousands of people in the Blessed Land of Yellow Sands, and thousands of them died."

"What about the others?"

"almost?"

"Or more?"

How many more people would die?
Tens of thousands?

One hundred thousand?

Or more?

OK.

I shudder to think about it.

Zuo Jing flipped to ten years ago, to the ninth year of Renshou. The brother and sister went missing in April. Zuo Jing looked through the records of that whole year, especially those after April, according to the dates.

He both feared and longed to turn the page.

suddenly.

Zuo Jing, possessing the spirit of Zhao Er Er Er, found one of the columns—

[On the 19th day of the fourth month of the ninth year of Renshou, in the Left Capital of Shangyang City, a six-year-old boy, with a yellowish complexion, no obvious illness, and a mole at the corner of his eye. Buyer: Tongtian Sect.]

[On the 19th day of the fourth month of the ninth year of Renshou, a two-year-old boy was born on the left locust tree in Shangyang City. He had tiger teeth and a bluish birthmark on the sole of his foot. Buyer: Danyang School.]

……

"Danyang!"

"Tongtian!"

good good!
These two factions have already found a way to die!
Zuo Jing felt sad in his heart.

What a beautiful family, now—

The fate of his parents is unknown, but they are most likely dead.

My elder brother is at the border, and we haven't been able to find him yet.

Zuo Cheng is lame.

Zuo Rong married a 40-year-old man who had been married before.

Zuo Du and Zuo Huai were abducted as children. They thought they would never find them again, but then a glimmer of hope appeared, and they learned where they had gone.

But then I thought about where this place was.

Zuo Jing's heart jumped again.

He can only hope that the brother and sister have not yet entered the blessed land.

"Zuo Du Zuo Huai was so small back then, and it's still not big now."

"Perhaps they haven't been sent to the blessed land yet."

That would be even better.

Ideally, the Danyang Sect and the Tongtian Sect would buy two children and raise them from a young age. That way, their values ​​might become distorted, but at least they would live a good life.

That's not bad either.

In the worst-case scenario, even if one enters the blessed land, they will already be dead.

"However, compared to being mutilated and cut up, dying cleanly in a blessed land is not necessarily a bad thing."

……

(End of this chapter)