Something that he had been waiting for for a long time suddenly came true. Fengming felt an unbelievable sense of falsehood.
But looking at the haggard man holding a sachet in front of him, Fengming was finally able to say to Qiuci in his heart: "We can finally avenge you."
It turned out that Mo Dong was extremely cunning. He was obviously a man of about 30 years old, but he disguised himself as a woman in her 40s or 50s. He applied for the job of a laundry nanny in the orphanage and hid safely in the orphanage.
The Ministry of Justice suspected brothels, inns, and ordinary people's homes, but they never imagined he would be in the Salesian. If a yamen runner from the Dali Temple hadn't seen him while accompanying his wife to the Salesian to deliver Chunri's old clothes, it's unknown how long it would have taken for him to be discovered.
The yamen runner had almost missed it. Usually, kind people who went to the orphanage to deliver clothes and other things would only stay in the front yard, play with the children for a while and then leave. Naturally, they would not go to the backyard.
The yamen runner had a stomachache because he ate an extra bowl of hot and sour noodles in the morning, so he went to the backyard to look for a toilet. He happened to stop the old woman played by Mo Dong and asked for directions.
The yamen runner was on his day off and was wearing his usual clothes. Mo Dong relaxed his guard, raised his head and boldly pointed the way for him. On the back of his raised right hand, there was a long scar extending to the sleeve.
The experienced yamen runner recognized it as a knife wound at a glance, and subconsciously took a closer look at the old woman's face. He saw that although she pretended to be old and her face was full of wrinkles and spots, the skin behind her ears and on the back of her hands was firm and youthful. He immediately became suspicious.
In order not to alert the enemy, the bailiff pretended not to know the way and deliberately asked Mo Dong to lead the way for him.
The yamen runner walking behind Mo Dong noticed the old woman limping. Although she herself explained that it was a congenital disability with different leg lengths, the yamen runner happened to have a relative with a congenitally disabled foot. The old woman's left leg was clearly injured, and he subconsciously recalled the recent internal reports about the flower-stealing thief Mo Dong appearing in the capital. Coincidentally, during the previous manhunt, Mo Dong had been injured in the left leg and right arm by his boss, Ye Xuwen...
The yamen runner couldn't help but pay more attention to the old woman's face, and actually found traces of a human skin mask curled up at the edge of her hair. Ordinary people would not notice that curled up spot, and he would not have known it if he hadn't deliberately observed it.
The yamen runner was careful not to alert the old woman, and went to the front yard again, using the excuse of thanking the old woman to ask the director of the orphanage about her background. It turned out that she had been in the capital for two months, and had happened to have gone out on the day Fuling saw her.
The yamen runner was already 80% certain in his mind, and immediately returned to the Ministry of Justice to inform Ye Xuwen. Ye Xuwen did not dare to delay at all. Although the yamen runner had been investigating very covertly, Mo Dong was suspicious by nature and might escape. There was no time to delay, so he immediately took his men to the orphanage.
Sure enough, when we arrived at the Salesian Home, the director said that the old woman had already left.
The yamen runners at the scene suddenly felt that their efforts had failed, but Ye Xuwen noticed that the director's expression was somewhat unnatural. Although he loudly said, "She left before you arrived. I don't know where she went. It looked like she went out of town...", his expression was tense, and he kept looking towards the backyard with worry.
Ye Xuwen understood that Mo Dong definitely did not leave.
He pretended to believe what the dean said, and answered loudly: "Thank you, dean, sorry to bother you, I will leave now", while secretly making gestures to his men to quietly go around to the backyard and surround it. The entire orphanage was surrounded like an iron barrel.
Rushing in at the command, Mo Dong was so cruel that he kidnapped more than a dozen children from the orphanage and threatened Ye Xuwen with the children's lives to let him go.
The two sides had been facing each other for most of the day, and when the tension was at its peak, Mo Dong suddenly screamed...
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