Chapter 340: The Child Trafficking Case Has a Result
The provincial examination was held at the end of August. In the blink of an eye, it was early August. Liu Wenhuan and others who shared the same dormitory had to go home to prepare their documents and luggage, and then go directly to Guangzhou Prefecture to take part in the provincial examination.
Just a few days before I returned home, the child trafficking case that happened during the Dragon Boat Festival came to a conclusion.
Of course, this result is an internal result, but there are some rumors circulating among the public that seem to be true.
Li Xinyun hurried over from home, and when he saw Sun Shan, he immediately shouted, "Ashan, the matter of the human traffickers has come to a conclusion."
Everyone gathered around, eager to know the result.
Gui Ge'er was a competent servant, and he brought out two stools from the dormitory, one for Sun Shan and one for Li Xinyun.
As for the others, Gui Ge'er was helpless. There were only two stools in Sun Shan's dormitory, and he couldn't get any more even if he wanted to.
Li Xinjun actually sat on the stool, with excitement in his eyes.
Sun Shan sat on the stool obediently and looked at Li Xinjun with eager eyes, hoping that the answer would be revealed soon.
Jiang Qian was the most impatient person in the room, and asked anxiously, "Ayun, tell me quickly, what happened?"
Mr. Li said it was a big case, so everyone was very curious about how big the case was.
Three or four months have passed since the Dragon Boat Festival. The speed of solving the case is neither slow nor fast.
Liu Wenhuan also sat down on the stool that the servant brought out and asked anxiously, "Ayun, have all the traffickers been arrested? That would be great."
Zhang Chaoyang sat opposite Sun Shan, looking at Li Xinjun expectantly, but Li Xinjun looked mysterious and really deserved a beating.
Seeing that everyone's curiosity was piqued, Li Xinjun said, "Do you know? This matter is really huge, and it involves so many aspects that you can't imagine."
Sun Shan looked at Li Xinyun speechlessly. If they couldn’t imagine it, couldn’t they just say it?
Is it really good to whet people’s appetite?
Li Xinjun saw that everyone was staring at him fiercely, but he didn't care at all and continued, "That day, Ah Shan pointed at the hole in the wall and suspected that there was light inside. Later, the government mobilized enough people to go in and check."
Zhang Chaoyang rolled his eyes at Li Xinyun and said speechlessly: "Ayun, can you make it short?"
He had said too much nonsense before and he really couldn't stand it anymore. If Li Xinjun didn't say anything, Zhang Chaoyang might really let Sun Shan's servant Agui drag Li Xinjun out and beat him up.
Li Xinjun continued in his own way, "After all the personnel were mobilized, the officers went through the hole in the wall. Hey, tell me, what did you see when you went through it?"
Jiang Qian asked very politely: "What did you see?"
Li Xinjun nodded with satisfaction. The servant boy next door, Aping, couldn't stand his master's appearance, so he simply lowered his head and didn't want to do anything with his master.
Li Xinjun whispered, "I went in and saw a small alley."
Sun Shan, Jiang Qian, Zhang Chaoyang, and Liu Wenhuan looked at each other and felt like taking off their shoes and hitting each other.
Li Xinjun smiled smugly and continued, "The officer saw a small alley, a very ordinary alley, and at first he thought it was nothing special. He walked along the alley to the end, turned a corner, and saw an ordinary small courtyard."
Sun Shan interrupted Li Xinyun's nonsense and asked directly: "Are there many abducted children imprisoned in the small courtyard?"
According to the development of this plot, ordinary yards are often places favored by criminals, where they hide in the city.
Li Xinyun nodded and continued, "The officer noticed that there was only this small courtyard around the corner, so of course he had to go in and take a look."
Jiang Qian asked curiously, "How did you get in? Break in through the door, or climb over the wall? Will this alert the enemy?"
Jiang Qian is a scholar who likes to read storybooks. When a case is described in the storybooks, one must never break into the house, as this will disturb the criminals inside and allow them to escape.
Li Xinjun said calmly, "Of course we broke in. Who would climb over a wall? Why go through all that? We could just go in and catch them."
As soon as these words came out, Jiang Qian was extremely angry because the plot was completely different from the script he had read.
Li Xinjun added: "Those in the government office are all rough men, they don't care so much, just go in and take a look first, who would think so much."
Sun Shan agreed with this approach very much. There was no need to plan carefully before talking. Generally, one would just rush in and talk first.
As for the consequences, let God decide.
Liu Wenhuan asked: "After entering, what did you see?"
Everyone immediately turned their attention to Li Xinyun.
Let’s get to the point, quickly.
Li Xinjun said in a low voice with a hint of mystery: "The officers broke into the courtyard and found that this courtyard was not a small courtyard, but a middle courtyard, with two courtyards. The door they just broke into was a side door."
The servant boy Agui exclaimed "Wow", and everyone looked at him.
Ah Gui said embarrassedly: "I just thought wow, I have nothing to say."
Everyone laughed and continued to look at Li Xinjun.
Sun Shan could not have imagined that the human traffickers' lair was actually a two-story courtyard.
If you rent it, the cost is also quite high. If you buy it yourself, it is even more incredible.
The reason why Sun Shan was sure that the second courtyard was the lair of human traffickers was because of Li Xinyun's description. After passing through the hole in the wall, through the alley, and turning a corner, there was only this courtyard and this door.
The human traffickers must be going in here.
The place you can enter is naturally where they do their work, so it is not an exaggeration to call it their lair.
Li Xinyun whispered, "After the officers entered the yard, they searched everywhere. They found that there were only a few people guarding the yard. When those people saw the officers, they wanted to escape, but how could they escape? The officers quickly controlled them and asked them where the kidnapped child was."
Sun Shan thought: No need to ask, just search directly. What's the point of asking? Besides, how can a criminal honestly confess his crime?
Li Xinyun continued, "Those people cried out that they were wronged. They saw so many officials coming in and ran away out of fear. They were not human traffickers."
Sun Shan asked doubtfully, "Can't you find the kidnapped child?"
Li Xinjun nodded, then shook his head: "The officers searched all the rooms in the courtyard and found no children. But the government was not easy to deal with. Those people were obviously not good people, so of course they didn't believe them. They kept searching. After searching for a long time, they still didn't find a child."
Sun Shan asked again: "Didn't we catch two human traffickers? I saw him holding the little girl with my own eyes."
Li Xinjun nodded and said, "Yes, the government tortured the two human traffickers severely, but they only said that they kidnapped a little girl, and it was a spur-of-the-moment decision, and they did not kidnap other children."
Sun Shan wondered if the human traffickers had gotten off to a bad start and were encountered by him and Gui Ge'er just as they were committing a crime, and their plan to kidnap more children was aborted instantly?
Sun Shan also hoped for this result, so that there would be no other victims.