Young Master Wu was determined to do it.
Without further delay, he immediately ordered: “Kill all the people here without leaving a single one alive!”
“Yes!”
The thugs immediately attacked the Yamen Officials Xiao Hanzheng and others.
Shi Qingluo pulled Xiao Baili behind her: “Don’t be afraid, your brother and I are here, just hide behind me.”
Xiao Baili had never seen such a battle before.
She was really scared and nervous just now.
But when she heard her sister-in-law’s words and the way she protected her, she felt warm in her heart.
She didn’t know why, but she suddenly felt less scared and nervous: “Okay.”
She would not drag down her brother and sister-in-law.
When the knife came, Shi Qingluo kicked it and pulled and broke the man’s arm.
Then she snatched the opponent’s knife instead.
Soon she faced off against several other people who were slashing at her.
Xiao Hanzheng knew that his young wife was very skilled. He had taught her a lot these days, so she should have no problem dealing with these people.
Sure enough, he was relieved to see that she was fine against several people alone.
He also snatched a knife from the attacker and joined the battle.
He also helped several yamen officials who were almost chopped.
Mo Qingling was born in the Marquis’ Mansion. Although his father didn’t care about him since he was a child, his mother’s family hired someone to train him.
Especially after he changed his temperament, he also gritted his teeth and learned martial arts for a long time.
Although his skills were not as strong as Xiao Hanzheng’s, they were not weak either.
He also knocked down two thugs who were slashing at him, took the knife away, and kept fighting back.
He even rushed to the side of those yamen officials and saved several people.
Young Master Wu was completely stunned as he watched the three people with excellent skills.
“How is this possible?”
Weren’t the county magistrate, the scholar, and the village woman supposed to be weak?
How can they fight like this?
These three were too shameless, they were hiding so deeply.
They were even better than these desperate criminals, he couldn’t understand it at all.
Especially when even a woman like Shi Qingluo can fight three people, and even has someone to protect her. He felt like it was a dream, not real at all.
The three have high martial arts value, and they fight methodically, unlike these desperate criminals who mainly fight with ruthlessness.
With the resistance of more than a dozen yamen officials, more than 30 thugs were quickly subdued.
Young Master Wu couldn’t help but panic when he saw this and immediately ran towards the gate of the yard.
He had to inform his father quickly, he didn’t know what to do now.
But how could a few people let him run away?
Xiao Hanzheng kicked two stones from the ground with his feet, and they flew towards Young Master Wu’s legs.
“Ah!” Then Young Master Wu’s legs were hit by a stone respectively, and he fell forward heavily and screamed.
The sharp-eyed yamen officials hurriedly ran up and tied him up.
The dead thugs on the ground were ignored, and the injured or knocked unconscious were all tied together with ropes.
The Wu Family raised so many desperate criminals. It seems that what they found before was probably just the tip of the iceberg.
Mo Qingling was even more curious about what was down there: “Let’s go down and take a look.”
Xiao Hanzheng pulled Shi Qingluo, “Okay!”
Shi Qingluo took Xiao Baili with her.
Leaving half of the yamen officials behind, the remaining half followed down to the basement.
Because people were living there, oil lamps were lit on the walls around them.
Through a corridor, a place similar to a prison cell came into view.
There were several rooms in the front and several cages in the back.
There were children ranging from three to ten years old and teenage girls imprisoned in them.
There was also a cage with several handsome boys imprisoned.
Seeing Mo Qingling in official uniform and the yamen officials, some light finally appeared in the numb and desperate eyes of these people.
“Sir, are you here to save us?”
Mo Qingling saw these people and showed a gentle look: “Yes, I am here to save you.”
Then he ordered the yamen officials to cut off the locks of the cages and rescue the people first.
He and Xiao Hanzheng walked to the front and looked at several rooms carefully.
There was a room similar to a study, and the other rooms were where those desperate people lived.
In the study, Mo Qingling asked the yamen officials to search for it.
Only some not-very important account books were found.
He turned to Xiao Hanzheng and said, “Jinyu, I need your help to find out if there is any mechanism in this room.”
He had never thought that Xiao Hanzheng and his wife were not only good at martial arts but also had a high level of martial arts.
Xiao Hanzheng seemed to be more proficient in mechanical arts.
Xiao Hanzheng nodded, “Okay!”
When he dealt with the Wu Family in his previous life, the Wu Family had already moved to the capital city, so this underground secret room under the rockery should have been abandoned long ago.
He didn’t know where the account book was hidden, but he believed that he could find it.
Looked around carefully and touched it again.
No hidden mechanism was found in this room.
He thought about it and said, “I’ll go to other rooms to take a look.”
This study room was probably deliberately set up as a cover.
Mo Qingling had the same idea: “Okay!”
Xiao Hanzheng went to check other rooms.
Sure enough, in one of the most inconspicuous rooms, he found something wrong and cracked the mechanism.
Suddenly, a secret compartment popped out from the wall at the head of the bed.
There was a closed wooden box in the secret compartment, and he took it out.
Found that there was a mechanical lock on it.
If something was used to forcibly destroy it, the things inside would also be destroyed.
He told Mo Qingling the truth.
Mo Qingling found that the Wu Family was very careful and had made so many mechanical devices. The things inside must be extraordinary.
He clasped his fists: “Jinyu, I have to trouble you to crack the mechanical lock again.”
Xiao Hanzheng smiled, “I’ll try.”
After studying and cracking it for half an hour.
The wooden box made a “click” sound.
Everyone looked over.
Xiao Hanzheng stretched out his hand and lifted it, and the lid on it was opened.
Then he scanned it and found that there were not only some letters and account books inside but also a thick stack of banknotes.
He didn’t look through it, and directly handed the wooden box to Mo Qingling.
After Mo Qingling took it, he bypassed the banknotes and picked up the account books and letters inside to look through them.
The more he looked, the uglier his expression became: “Damn it, the Wu Family has done so many unscrupulous things.”
“They are worse than bullies.”
Seeing Shi Qingluo’s eyes full of curiosity, Xiao Hanzheng asked Mo Qingling: “Besides human trafficking, what else did they do?”
Mo Qingling did not hide it: “Lending money at high interest, human trafficking, hiring assassins to take over the business, and a brothel business.”
He whispered again: “What’s more serious is that they also smuggled salt and iron, and they may have shipped them out of Daliang to sell.”
“We have to investigate the details carefully.”
Xiao Hanzheng frowned: “The Wu Family is bold.”
He reminded: “This matter must be caught in one fell swoop before taking any action, otherwise it will be very troublesome.”
Mo Qingling’s eyes deepened and nodded: “Well, I’m going to report it. I’ll ask the Emperor to send someone to investigate thoroughly.”
The account book records the whereabouts of a lot of profit and money, as well as some letters.
It was not just the prefect’s case but also involved many officials above the seventh rank in the court.
Although the Emperor was his uncle, he was only a seventh-rank county magistrate after all and was not qualified to thoroughly investigate these.
He doesn’t have enough people to do it.
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