"What did the eldest lady say?" Wu Dabao's mind was a little stuck.
"My elder sister said that it wasn't that family that had children, but Ping'an had brothers, so they had children. Now Ping'an has left their home, so their children had an accident, right?" Shen Qinglei remembered it clearly.
"Their family has enslaved Ping'an for so many years, and finally you, his biological father, want to take Ping'an away, but they actually want money. Now they have the nerve to come here and make trouble." Shen Mingzhe spat at the people outside the door.
"It's all my fault. In order to get them to release the person quickly, I used the name of the General's Mansion, but I didn't expect that it would bring such a disaster to the mansion." Wu Dabao hung his head in shame.
Wu Ping'an held his father's hand a little tighter.
Outside the door, Liu Qiang, a stranger, went up to ask someone and soon found out the whole story. He then ran to the car to tell Shen Qingwu.
"They're gone so soon?" Shen Qingwu looked out the car window in disbelief at the couple rolling around on the ground.
"Wu Dabao has been back in Beijing for a while, but he returned home late." Shen Qingfeng also entered the carriage and said softly.
"Second brother, go report to the police and tell them there are kidnappers here." Shen Qingwu and Shen Qinghe said.
She looked at the farce at the door and gently felt the magic power circulating in her body. Her Tao heart was stable enough. Even though she had committed murder, she still felt improved because of what happened in the past two days.
God approves of what I do, right?
The officers from the Lieutenant's Mansion arrived quickly and went straight forward to arrest the man without much explanation.
"Here at the feet of the emperor, you are arresting people without any reason!" The fat black woman struggled frantically. Although she was very strong, she could not fight four hands with two fists.
"The disappearance of Wu Dabao's son is recorded in every county and prefecture government office. After he found his son, he also reported the whole story to the Lieutenant's Office. How can you say that he stole your son?"
"Wu Dabao is now suing you for extortion and kidnapping!"
The commander of the troops in the Lieutenant's Mansion said sternly, not taking this moral kidnapping seriously at all.
He had sufficient and sound evidence in his hands and would never frame the two people in front of him.
"This is the general's mansion. If you make trouble again, you will be executed at Caishikou!" The commander was very majestic and despised such scoundrels.
The laws of Daxia did not have clear legal provisions for scoundrels, but everyone in the Lieutenant's Office had a tacit understanding, and the emperor also acquiesced to their practices.
To deal with this kind of scoundrel who refuses to change his ways and cannot be reconciled, Jiuqing will do his utmost to resolve the issue in the shortest possible time. After confirming that the evidence is correct and everyone agrees, he can execute this kind of person at Caishikou to serve as a warning to others!
Although there are some drawbacks under the deterrent system over the years, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages and it is very useful. After all, most people still don't want to die, and it is not worth risking their lives for a little profit.
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Lieutenant's prison.
"If you can tell me the appearance of the person who kidnapped Wu Ping'an, you may be able to redeem yourself from the crime and avoid the death penalty!" Shen Qingwu followed him to the Lieutenant's Mansion.
Looking at the couple who were so frightened by the room full of torture instruments that they dared not breathe, he kindly showed them a way to survive.
Her statement coincided with that of Lieutenant Lang Luqiu.
“Ms. Shen, many children and women have disappeared in the suburbs of Beijing in the past two years. We have been investigating this matter, but we still have no clue. We also wonder if this is a good opportunity to start.” Lu Qiu said with some respect in his tone.
He already knew that Shen Qingwu was good at fortune-telling, and he was hoping that Shen Qingwu could give him some clues.
If he couldn't find even one of his children, he might not be able to keep his position as a lieutenant for long.
"So many years have passed, I've forgotten everything." The fat dark woman said shiveringly.
"Is there any other child in your village who was bought? Has anyone bought any more in recent years?" Shen Qingwu opened the prison door and walked in.
"I can't say this. If I say it, I can never go back." The fat dark woman was very scared, but she also insisted.
If they cannot return to the village, they will become refugees, and the fate of refugees is worse than death.
"You can't go back anyway." Shen Qingwu played with the torture instruments with interest.
"You wanted a son, so you sent someone to buy him, and that person set his sights on Wu Ping'an. You bought him back, but you refused to treat him well. He's been working like a slave in your family for so many years, and now Wu Dabao came looking for him, and you're trying to extort money from him. How can there be such greedy people in this world?"
"I took him in out of kindness. If we hadn't taken him in, he wouldn't know where to beg for food. If someone had broken his legs and thrown him on the street, he would have starved to death."
The fat, dark woman was very confident and always felt that she owed Wu Dabao a life-saving debt.
"Oh, quibbling." Shen Qingwu sneered, and the red-hot iron fell on the woman's shoulder without warning.
Even Lu Qiu, who was watching outside, was dumbfounded. Why would he use torture just for a disagreement?
The woman screamed like a pig being slaughtered, her body trembling with cold sweat, but there was nowhere to escape.
"In the past few years, Wu Dabao and others have been looking for the child everywhere, and they have already wiped out the whole group. Even if the person was intact before, the money he earned would be more than what he could get if he was beaten and became a beggar. How could we dare to let the stolen child go out to beg easily!" Shen Qingwu said coldly.
"Wu Dabao spared your lives that day because you gave Wu Ping'an a place to stay. He also paid you the money you asked for. You are ungrateful and yet you still dare to come to my house."
"It's because of parents like you that your children accidentally drowned and chose to leave this world early to be reborn."
Shen Qingwu slowly put the soldering iron back into the stove.
"Miss Shen." Seeing her put down the torture instruments, Lu Qiu dared to step forward to dissuade her, whispering, "If it is not necessary, torture should not be used."
"Why can't people like these be tortured for the sake of having someone to take care of them in their old age and see them to the end of their lives?" Shen Qingwu raised an eyebrow. "Do you know what kind of torture they would suffer if they went to hell?"
Lu Qiu smiled awkwardly and shook his head.
"Send your painter in."
Just now, through the contact of the branding iron, Shen Qingwu saw the past of the fat black woman. From her memory, he saw the appearance of the man who sold Wu Ping'an, as well as the appearance of the kidnapper the fat black woman had seen in recent years.
"Oh, and you too. Husband and wife share the same hardships." After Shen Qingwu finished describing a person's appearance, he suddenly saw a dark and thin man. Even though Lu Qiu shouted "no", the red-hot iron still fell on the man's shoulder.
"It's symmetrical." Shen Qingwu handed the soldering iron to Lu Qiu, whose hands were shaking. He then looked at the painting the artist had already traced and nodded. "Not bad, it's quite similar, but the person is dead."
God is watching what people do. How can a kidnapper have a good ending? Dying on the street is the retribution from God, but there are still many who are at large.
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Imperial Palace.
"Did Shen Qingwu intervene in the missing population incident?" When the emperor heard the news, his face changed slightly and his expression became complicated.
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