Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

The Fan family and the Qi family are across the street from each other.

Both businesses occupy most of Shangyang Street.

Fu Jiu has already accompanied Wang Cong to sneak into the Fan family.

In the darkness, the capable men of the Ding and Ren families who had participated in the siege of the Gu family two hours ago, together with the robbers who had just surrendered, were silently and quickly forming a siege on the Fan and Qi families under the command of Li Tianliu.

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Chen Shao waited silently in the shadows at the corner at the end of Shangyang Street.

It was not the first time for Chan Yi to participate in such an encirclement and suppression operation, but it was the first time for her to personally be at the scene where Li Tianliu was commanding the operation. She carefully pulled the curtain of the car, and although she could not see anything, she still tried to open her eyes wide to watch the shadows floating. Quan Shuyu was definitely participating for the first time, and she leaned against Chan Yi's side, her eyes were even wider than hers.

Chen Shao sat still, looking at the evidence of the crimes of the Fan and Qi families.

Time passes by silently like flowing water.

at last.

The sound of footsteps as light as a cicada's wings was heard. It was Li Tianliu.

Li Tianliu emerged from the darkness, deftly stepped on the shadows and walked to the carriage. He leaned against the carriage, glanced at Chan Yi and Quan Shuyu, and said to Chen Shao, "It's OK."

Chen Shao didn't even raise his head: "They haven't come out yet?"

Li Tianliu glanced at the Qi family and said, "I came out, but I went to the Qi family again."

Chen Shao still didn't raise his head: "What are you going to do at Qi's house?"

"Contact Liu Dazhuang's brothers and plan to cooperate with them." Li Tianliu said with interest, "Fu Jiu said that the Fan family was discussing yesterday to distribute some of the robbers to the second and third branches. They didn't expect you to act so quickly. Now they are celebrating that the robbers have not been distributed, while discussing a secret escape. It is said that the moment before they sneaked into the Fan family, the Fan family had arranged people to go to the dock to prepare the merchant ship for departure. If nothing unexpected happens, they will escape back to Qiantang County in the next two days."

Chen Shao also asked with great interest: "Does the Qi family know that they are going to escape?"

Li Tianliu mocked: "Not only do they not know, but it is said that the Fan family is planning to use the Qi family as a cover. Waterways are not land routes. If they really succeed, by the time you have dealt with the Qi family, they will probably be thousands of miles away."

Chen Shao sighed, motioned for Chan Yi to lift the curtain, and looked at the Qi family through the night and said, "Those robbers from the Fan and Qi families also brought people back from Wujun, right?"

"Fu Jiu was in a hurry, so she didn't say that much." The wind blew Chan Yi's hair out of the carriage. Two strands of hair brushed Li Tianliu's nose lightly, causing his voice to pause for a moment.

Chen Shao did not notice the strangeness in his voice. He retracted his gaze, picked out a few pieces of evidence that were particularly targeted from the box of evidence at the Qi family's house, handed them to Chan Yi and said, "Make a copy of each of these pieces."

Chan Yi took the evidence and changed her position. The hair that fell on the window immediately shrank back. Li Tianliu's eyes followed the hair to the carriage and asked casually, "Why did you copy this?"

Chen Shao answered casually: "Of course it's to sow discord."

With Quan Shuyu's help in grinding the ink, Chan Yi quickly copied the evidence. While waiting for the ink to dry, Fu Jiu and Wang Cong came out of Qi's house like bats that hibernate during the day and come out at night. When they landed, they quickly glanced around and arrived in front of the carriage in two jumps.

Without waiting for them to ask, Fu Jiu quickly said, "Everything has been arranged. Liu Dazhuang and his men not only agreed to surrender, but are also willing to cooperate with us from inside and outside."

"Is the Fan family planning to escape?" Chen Shao asked Wang Cong.

"We are planning to escape," Fu Jiu answered immediately, "We have sent people to the dock to prepare the merchant ship."

"Did the group of robbers recruited by the Fan and Qi families also have people brought from their own families, just like the Gu and Zhu families?" Chen Shao continued to ask Wang Cong.

This time, Fu Jiu had no way to answer, so Wang Cong had to answer, "Yes. Just like the Gu family and the Zhu family, there are also three. After those three came to Hongyuan County, they also recruited a group of people, and most of them were also hooligans."

Chen Shao asked curiously, "Why are most of the people they recruited ruffians?"

Wang Cong said disdainfully but with a certain amount of complacency: "Although I and Liu Zizhuang are both robbers, we both set the same rule when we founded our gangs, that is, we will never take a single needle or thread from the common people. This is one of the reasons why our two gangs were able to grow rapidly and gather heroes and heroes. However, not all robbers have principles and bottom lines like us. Before our two gangs accepted the amnesty, our two gangs had made some names in Jiannan Road. Those robbers without principles and bottom lines may not be unwilling to accept their amnesty. Most of them knew that our two gangs had once said that we would kill as many robbers without principles and bottom lines as we encountered, so they did not dare to accept the amnesty."

Chan Yi asked: "Didn't the Gu family and the Zhu family persuade you?"

"They don't dare," Wang Cong said. "Before we accepted the amnesty, we had already agreed that they must abide by our gang rules, otherwise we could leave at any time."

Chen Shao asked thoughtfully: "When did you accept the Gu and Zhu families' offer of amnesty?"

Without thinking, Wang Cong said, "At the end of the fifteenth year of Yuanhe."

Chen Shao asked again: "When did the Gu and Zhu families bring those three people back from Wujun?"

Wang Cong said: "October of the sixteenth year of Yuanhe."

Chen Shao thought for a moment, then asked, "When did those three people recruit those ruffians?"

Wang Cong thought for a while before answering, "It should be April or May of the seventeenth year of Yuanhe."

To prove his guess, Chen Shao continued to ask: "Before they recruited those hooligans, could the Gu family or the Zhu family let those three people directly manage you, or arrange other tasks for you and let those three people manage your brothers?"

Wang Cong's eyes darkened again and again before he said discouragedly, "Yes, but I rejected it, and my brothers also rejected it."

Sure enough. The reason why the Gu and Zhu families recruited him was not because of his bottom line and principles, but more because of his appeal or the "heroes" gathered under his command. The Gu and Zhu families' idea was most likely to recruit him back under a cover, then slowly develop him into one of their own, and then, when necessary, let him lead his brothers to lead all the robbers in Jiannan Road. Perhaps he was too unruly, so they set up a routine to seize power. After failing, it was probably to create a control group, so that his brothers would see that it was better to follow them than to follow him, and thus instigate the relationship between him and his brothers.

Judging from the current results, the plans of the Gu and Zhu families have obviously failed again.

As for Wang Cong's harmless concealment... Chen Shao could understand his thoughts, so he didn't delve too much into it. After sorting out their relationship with the Gu and Zhu families, he got back to the point and asked, "Who went to prepare the merchant ship? Was it Liu Zizhuang's people, or someone brought from the family?"

Wang Cong's anxiety slowly subsided as she changed the topic. "They were a few hooligans recruited by the people brought over from our family. One of them was from the same village as one of Liu Zizhuang's brothers. Before going to the dock, the hooligans secretly passed the news to his brother. His brother just passed the news to him, and we found him too."

Chen Shao looked at Li Tianliu and said, "Immediately arrange for someone to take down those hooligans."

Li Tianliu snorted, "Do I need your orders?"

Chen Shao handed Wang Cong the evidence copied by Chan Yi and the note that Second Master Fan gave to Ding Lisheng without any concern, and then said to Fu Jiu, "Take Wang Dangjia to the Qi family again and give these to Liu Zizhuang, and ask him to find a way to send them to Master Qi and Third Master Qi. Also, tell the Qi family that the Fan family is planning to escape secretly without their knowledge."