The officers pulled up Miss Chang and the buried young ladies, and comforted them: “We have already chased them, don’t worry!”

But although they chased them, the officers were not prepared to take action. They just followed from a distance, watching the two “gentlemen” enter the city, and then walked through the alleys and streets to a tombstone shop and stopped. They looked back and looked around the empty streets. After confirming that no one was around, they went forward and knocked on the door of the tombstone shop.

The lanterns in front of the door were dim, and it was clear that they were closed. But after hearing the knock on the door, a rustling sound immediately came from the tombstone shop that had already closed. Someone inside whispered, “Who is it?” After hearing the voices of the two “gentlemen”, they opened the door and welcomed the two “gentlemen” in. They looked around again and closed the door after confirming that no one saw them.

This action of looking around again and again really showed the four words “a guilty conscience” to the fullest! Looking at the five characters “Yuanshi Tombstone Shop” on the plaque above the tombstone shop, the officer sneered, glanced at the tightly closed door, and said, “Go back!”

The orange lanterns in front of Linliu Manor were swaying, and the guards inside were still walking and patrolling, everything was normal. The dying owner of the manor, lying on the bed, opened his mouth wide, still holding his last breath, weakly but soberly listening to the conversation between Lin Fei and the officer outside the tent.

“What happened?”

The officer who came back from the trip reported: “We saw with our own eyes that the five young ladies were buried alive!”

It was not just buried alive…

“Buried alive, but the soil was very loose a thin layer. It was not deliberately pitying their lives or anything, but hoping that they would not die immediately. Little by little, like cutting meat with a blunt knife, slowly suffocating to death,” the officer said here, a trace of reluctance appearing on his face, “According to the ‘master’, this is called living sacrifice, to ensure that those young ladies can still be as energetic as when they were alive after going to hell, and can serve the owner of the manor well!”

At this point, the officer subconsciously glanced at the owner of the manor lying on the bed. The contrast between his rotting body and those lively young ladies was really so dazzling!

Lin Fei frowned, and a trace of anger flashed between his eyebrows, which had been calm a moment ago.

“The guards who did evil things in this manor have been caught. They probably knew that the owner of the manor would not survive, so they were too lazy to continue working for him after being caught and confessed all the evil things they had done for the owner!” said the officer, “The owner of the manor has been a rich and idle man since he was young, and he is surrounded by beautiful women.”

“But the fact is that not all beauties are willing to be with him. Besides, the beauties are not stupid. The owner of the manor will sell them for money after the beauties have passed their best years.” The officer said, “Many beauties are unwilling to marry. Wouldn’t it be better to find a wealthy family of the same age to marry and live in harmony with the couple for the rest of their lives? But the owner of the manor is very cruel. He will use some means on those whose families are unwilling. For some, he will first destroy the reputation of the person, and then go to the beauty’s family to pay some money to buy the person…”

They have seen a lot of such things. The women in the “Water Ghost Case” suffered such fate.

“If the beauty’s family refuses, and still wants to keep their daughter at home for life, then they will simply destroy the girl’s family. Anyway, he has money to bribe the neighbors and officials, and he also has thugs to do evil in private… In short, many beauties were forced to follow him, and then when they were older, they were sold to brothels…” At this point, the officer’s face became more and more indignant, “He really has a mountain of gold and silver to do evil!”

He had been doing evil all the time, even now that half of his foot had stepped into the coffin, he still wanted to go downstairs to enjoy a good life, collude with others, and sacrifice those young ladies alive!

The buyer of those young ladies and the owner of Linliu Manor were naturally both bad persons! After all, ordinary people couldn’t do such a bad thing as looking for someone to be buried with him!

The buyer was a bad person, and the seller was naturally more hateful!

The officer paused and continued, “We followed the two ‘gentlemen’ all the way and saw them enter the city and go directly to the Yuan Family Tombstone Shop. When they entered the door, they looked around and looked guilty. We remembered what Lin Shaoqing said, so we didn’t alert them and returned first!”

Hearing this, Lin Fei nodded and said, “Well done! Such evil deeds cannot be done by just the Yuan Family Tombstone Shop!” The Yuan Family Tombstone Shop was at best just a thug, and people were hiding behind.

“How are the young ladies who were rescued?” Lin Fei asked the officer.

“I was just about to say this!” the officer said, “The black-clad guards at Linliu Manor have already revealed where the young ladies are being held captive. Except for Madam Chen and Madam Chang who were tricked here, the rest were taken there during the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival!”

They already knew the area of the manor where the young ladies were being held captive, so they could rescue them at any time, but…

The officer said, “According to Madam Chen and Madam Chang, the two young ladies who were imprisoned first, when they were caught for ‘eloping’, the ‘bait’ for ‘saving the beauties’ was following two bearded men.”

After hearing the word ‘bearded men’ and thinking of the two ‘bearded men’ that Master Wen and General Liang had encountered, they immediately realized that the clues seemed to be connecting.

“But according to the two young ladies, the two bearded men never showed up again.” The officer said, “And listening to the conversation between the bearded man and the ‘bait’, it seems that they did this not only in Chang’an but also in many other places!”

When Lin Fei heard this, he immediately said, “Find someone to keep an eye on the farm, in case there are other buyers who buy those young ladies and bury them alive. Don’t alert the enemy now!”

The officer replied “Yes”!

“Let’s not interrogate Second Fang in the prison yet! Let Wei Fu reveal the clues we know now to him, and tell him that we have found the Chen family’s girl, the Chang lady, and the manor, as well as the Yuan family’s tombstone shop and the owner of Linliu Manor.” Lin Fei paused when he said this, and glanced at the owner of Linliu Manor in the tent, “Second Fang, a scoundrel, will not be afraid of people from the government. He is a bad guy himself, and he must know the methods of his own people best!”

Being locked up in prison and cut off from contact with his own people, being restricted and unable to go elsewhere, did not prevent the brain from continuing to work.

Second Fang would not know that the government had not alerted the enemy, he would only know that the government had done so many things, and he had been detained here all the time, and he could not contact his own people. So… wouldn’t the bearded man outside think that he had confessed?

What the bad guys really feared was often the methods of their own people!

(End of this chapter)

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