Hidden in the court

Ji Mingshang only took a quick glance and knew there must be something wrong with him.

There is no other reason. He has seen this kind of thing many times. There must be someone behind this.

A city gate officer, seeing this, still wanted to open the gate, and used his power to pressure others in his words and deeds. All of these showed that there was something fishy going on...

"Hand it over to the government? Then let me ask you, the emperor has filed so many cases. Does His Majesty know about it? Or is the prefect also suppressing it and not daring to let His Majesty know?"

"This... I don't know either. Please, Lord, show some mercy and don't embarrass me."

"Okay, I'll take the person away. I'll go and embarrass the people above, not you. You must also go and inform them, otherwise they will embarrass you... But! You have to go tomorrow morning. If they find out tonight, I will have to embarrass you. I hope you won't embarrass me..."

As he spoke, he patted the man on the shoulder.

"Yes... I understand."

"Lend me two men, carry the child on your back, and follow me."

Ji Mingshang and Zhao Yao each held one in their arms and interrogated them as they walked.

"Tell me, who are you? How many times have you done this? Who is above you?"

silence……

“Bang bang——”

After two punches, his nose started bleeding and two men's teeth were knocked out.

"Speak! I hate people like you the most. You've done such a thing, and now you're trying to be a hero. It seems like you have a lot of guts, right?!"

But the two men didn't react after being hit twice. Instead, they closed their eyes and mouths, looking indifferent.

"Hahaha... OK, OK, very good..."

Ji Mingshang was so angry that he laughed. He blocked their mouths again and carried them away.

After sending the baby home, the two men took him to the Ministry of Justice.

"Li Yi! Take good care of these two human traffickers. There are many things going on behind their backs..."

Hearing this, Li Yi's eyes narrowed again. It was just a normal human trafficker who was sent to the government office. The fact that Ji Mingshang brought these two people here meant that there were court officials behind this!

In fact, she didn't know that there was an intention to drag the Ministry of Justice into this. Ji Mingshang always felt that the person behind the scenes must be in a high position and powerful. After all, the city gates were convenient for them, so it would be safer to have one more ally.

As for the guilt, just kidding, isn't this a great deed?

Eh... speaking of great deeds, how can Brother Su and Old Hu be missing in such a matter of punishing evil and promoting good? The Crown Prince and Old Man Hu are simply two “human golden medals of immunity from death”!

Moreover, with the addition of his father-in-law, with this lineup, he would dare to touch the emperor even if the mastermind behind the scenes was him.

Just when Ji Mingshang was immersed in his fantasy and grinning foolishly, he heard Li Yi's words.

"Hmm? Your method of gagging is too crude."

Ji Mingshang thought she was talking about gags, and explained: "This is to prevent them from biting their tongues to commit suicide. It's enough."

Li Yi shook his head and said, "Come here, knock out their teeth, be careful not to break them."

"understand!"

The people from the Ministry of Justice came forward immediately, one of them opened the mouth, and the other knocked. This thing is nothing more than a prevention of biting the tongue to commit suicide and hiding poison in the teeth, and they are also very skilled in this. It doesn't matter if you don't open your mouth, just clench your teeth, we will open your mouth and knock it faster than pulling it out.

Ji Mingshang called him an expert and waved his hand:

"Let's go. I'll leave the person to you. If you need any help, let me know. We'll go back first. After all, there's still a beautiful girl hidden in this golden house of Lao Zhao's."

Of course, his words only earned him a glare from Zhao Yao.

At night, there is no moon today, but the moonlight can be faintly seen shining through the corners of the dark clouds.

"Old Zhao, what do you think?"

"You've guessed it. Besides, your business has nothing to do with me, so I can't interfere."

"Shit! Give me some advice, help me. Who do you think these people are? How long have they been committing crimes? How many people have they kidnapped..."

As the two were talking, Zhao Yao suddenly stopped.

"No, hurry up!"

Zhao Yao didn't even turn his head back, but used his lightness skills to move quickly towards home.

Ji Mingshang was stunned at first, and then immediately followed.

Zhao Yao landed steadily in his own yard and looked around quickly, but there was no sign of Tan Heng.

"Tan Heng! Tan Heng——"

There was no response to his shouting, so he hurriedly opened several doors and even searched the kitchen.

At this time, Ji Mingshang just caught up, "What's going on? You're running so fast, you..."

Zhao Yao exhaled heavily, "Tan Heng is gone."

"What! Tan Heng was also kidnapped!"

Ji Mingshang reacted and shouted immediately.

"We're out to catch someone, our house has been robbed!"

“Stop yelling…”

Zhao Yao stopped Ji Mingshang from yelling. Ji Mingshang came to his senses and said, "Don't worry, Old Zhao. He won't dare to open the city gate tonight, and no one can carry someone up the city wall. He must still be in the city. Let's go find him."

Zhao Yao grabbed him and looked towards the door. The door was open with the bolt leaning to the side.

"When I came out, I didn't go through the main door, so the door should have been closed. Did she open it herself?"

The two men stood under the door and did not find anything unusual. There were just some shelves here that Zhao Yao had built himself. There were crops drying on them, but they were not dried well before he left, so they were moved below.

Now I only see a few dried chilies falling into the sieve covered with soybeans...

"wrong…"

Zhao Yao suddenly remembered that he should have separated the two things. How come they were mixed together?

The positions of these peppers are a dot, a horizontal line, and a section on each side, which looks like a "宀".

At this time, Ji Mingshang followed him and looked, and also discovered those different peppers.

"Could this be something left by Tan Heng? It's quite clever. But what does this thing mean?"

Zhao Yao ignored him and looked up at the sky. Who were these people? What were they doing? Where could they be found in such a huge city? She was also involved...

Seeing him like this, Ji Mingshang thought to himself that something was wrong and hurriedly said, "Don't be impulsive. I'm going to tell you the truth today. Most of my money over the years has been used to support more than 300 people, all of whom are good fighters. I'll send them to keep an eye on the entire city and will definitely find the people for you. Don't be impulsive... Lao Bai, come out when you're dead!"

After arranging the people, Ji Mingshang turned to look at Zhao Yao, but he never expected that he would speak first: "I want to go to the palace to see Nangong Lin, you help me."

Ji Mingshang said without hesitation, "Okay, okay, I'll help you. Let the emperor mobilize the entire city to look for him. Don't be impulsive."

"I'm not impulsive."

"I know, I know. You are not impulsive. You are steady... Let's go. The sooner the better. Let's go now... Let's go."

At that time, Nangong Lin, who was still asleep, would never have thought that the only thing he could fully control would soon disappear.

"Your Majesty...Marquis Jiangning is bringing Xihe and Longyao to see you outside the palace gate...He said...there are diplomatic matters..."