God Catch starts with adding points

It has to be said that the Customs Superintendent is very handy in squeezing money from these merchants. He knows the psychological bottom line of some merchant ships and cargo ships. Within the range that can be reluctantly parted.

At that time, the interrogation official was still in admiration, and marveled at how good the Guan Jiansi was to the businessman. As the old saying goes, it really is the naked hatred between colleagues.

Relying on this ability, although the Guan Jiansi made the passing businessman complain, but he still didn't kill him, he gritted his teeth and paid the money.

"As for the merchant ships and cargo ships of the rich and powerful families, the Customs Supervision Department is much more honest. He never only accepts what should be received, and never has too many hands, so he has not offended many people who cannot be offended—" Speaking of this, The investigating officer suddenly remembered something, "There is a surprise—"

"What!" Seeing that things had turned around, Lu Bai stared at the little official with bright eyes.

The investigating officer tried hard to recall.

That was about four or five months ago.

Guan Jiansi is in the raw silk business. He knows all the shopkeepers in the silk industry, and he is even more familiar and respectful to those famous shopkeepers. Among them is the shopkeeper Shen of Meiji Cloth.

Shopkeeper Shen is backed by Shen's family, so when ships come and go out of the city, the Customs Supervision Department will not let anyone stop them, most of the time they will be released smoothly, and occasionally they will not collect the commercial tax of the passing cargo ships of Meiji Buzhuang.

The Department of Customs Supervision and Shopkeeper Shen are also familiar with each other.

Occasionally, when waiting to pass the customs, shopkeeper Shen would disembark and chat with the customs supervisor for a while.

As for the content of the sky, it is no wonder that the silk business.

But half a year ago, when shopkeeper Shen's cargo ship returned to Beijing and was waiting in line in front of Shuiguan, the supervisor of the customs happened to have a jug of good wine in his hand. After the wine came out of the water, he boarded the boat of Meiji Buzhuang, and went to the shopkeeper Shen to drink.

They were full of interrogations, and the supervisor did not come out after entering the cabin, and drank slowly with shopkeeper Shen.

Later, when it was the turn of Meiji Buzhuang's cargo ship to enter the customs, the customs supervisor came out with an empty wine jar smiling, and shopkeeper Shen also left the cabin to bid farewell to the customs supervisor.

Unexpectedly, after the supervisor came ashore, he greeted shopkeeper Shen with a smile, and at the same time ordered the inspectors in a low voice to inspect the cargo ship of Meiji cloth village.

"This is very unusual." The interrogation officer said.

In the past, when encountering a cargo ship from Meiji Buzhuang, they usually chose to let it go directly. Even when shopkeeper Shen was not on board, they would let it go without careful inspection.

"But for some reason that day, the Customs Supervision Department pleaded guilty to shopkeeper Shen and explained their responsibilities, and at the same time asked them to check carefully, so as not to let go of any suspicious places." The interrogating officer said.

Lu Bai was thoughtful, but he didn't jump to conclusions, but chose to rule out other answers, "There was a boss here at the time, so the Supervisor of Customs asked you to put on airs?"

The interrogating officer shook his head, "Impossible."

The boss wasn't there at the time.

"What did you finally find out?" Lu Bai smiled and replied for him: "You must have found something, because Mei Ji Bu Zhuang has been engaged in smuggling business for a long time, and you all know that it is impossible not to find out something."

The interrogation official's eyes widened, then he shook his head dully, "Master Lu, how do you know that?"

Lu Bai chuckled, "Don't forget who I am? I am Jin Yiwei."

The interrogating officer shrank his neck.

Jin Yiwei's knife had been blunt for a long time, and he almost forgot how sharp Jin Yiwei's knife was. Now that Lu Bai said it, the interrogating officer immediately remembered the prestige of Jin Yiwei's supervision of all officials and random house raids a long time ago.

It seems that they really can't hide this little matter from Jin Yiwei.

"What happened after you found out?" Lu Bai asked.

The interrogation official smiled obsequiously, "Master Lu is wise, you really hit the mark. We really found contraband from the cargo ship of Meiji Buzhuang."

"What is it?" Lu Bai asked curiously.

"Salt." The interrogation officer knew everything.

He knew how powerful Lu Bai was, so he would rather offend the Shen family than Lu Bai.

However, he did not forget to add, "Master Lu, I told you this, please don't sell me out, if the Shen family finds me, you must come out to me."

Lu Bai reassured him that he, Lu Bai, would definitely cover him.

In the future, if he transports illegal salt or something, he will have to rely on the help of interrogation officials.

But then again, Lu Bai never imagined that Meiji Buzhuang was in the same company as him, and they both sold private salt.

The business of Meiji cloth shop is really good.

They smuggled silk fabrics when they went there, and salt when they came back. It is estimated that they can make a lot of money this time around.

"How did you dispose of the salt?" Lu Bai asked.

The interrogation official said that something even more strange came, "Although the careful interrogation is different from the past, the strange thing is that the customs supervision department turned a blind eye to these private salts, just quietly caught them, and then let people let them go as usual .”

"Let's go?" Lu Bai asked.

"Yes, it's been released. There is no difference except that the customs inspector inspected Meijibuzhuang's ship on a whim," said the inspector.

Lu Bai murmured, both intuition and reason told him that there was a trick in it, but he just couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Could it be that the Supervisory Department has turned against the Shen family?" Lu Bai muttered.

He raised his head and asked the interrogating officer, "What happened later, what happened to the Supervisory Department?"

"later--"

The interrogator said that another cargo ship from Meiji Buzhuang left the city the next day, because their cargo had always been back and forth for a month, so when the cargo came back, they had to send another cargo immediately.

"Shopkeeper Shen was not on board at the time, and the Customs Supervisor didn't let us check carefully, so he let us go directly as before." The interrogating officer said that there was nothing unusual about it.

"And then, how long after this incident did the Supervisory Department disappear?" Lu Bai asked.

"Hey, that will be two or three months later. When you entered the city, Mr. Lu, the supervisor had just disappeared for three or four days." The interrogating officer said that he didn't think this matter had anything to do with Meiji Buzhuang. .

As long as the interrogation officer is afraid that Lu Bai will go to the Shen family to cause trouble, and then let the Shen family know that he is talking too much, and in the end they will fight with the gods, and he, the fish in the pool, will suffer.

Lu Bai looked up at him, "Can you solve the case?"

The interrogating officer hastily waved his hands, "My lord is outrageous, I will not settle the case, I will collect some money."

"Then what are you making a fuss about here?" Lu Bai scolded, and then asked: "In the next few months, will shopkeeper Shen of Meiji Cloth Village leave the city?"

The interrogating officer shook his head, "No, no."

"Do you still have contact with him, the supervisory department?" Lu Bai asked again.

The clerk thought about it for a while, "Yes, I remember that one day Xiumu saw Guan Jiansi and the shopkeeper of Meiji Buzhuang heading towards the red building."

He added, "That was more than two months ago."

Lu Bai remembered that Miss Xiaocui, the old friend of the Guanjian Department in the Red Chamber, said that the Guanjian Department often went to him with the shopkeeper of Meiji Buzhuang.

From this point of view, at least on the surface, the death of Guan Jiansi has nothing to do with the shopkeeper Shen of Meiji Buzhuang.

Lu Bai asked Huang Junsheng again, "Do you know that the Department of Customs Supervision has a friend in Jinyiwei?"

"I know!" The interrogating official nodded.

This Jin Yiwei came to the Customs Supervision Department when he was on duty.

"This Jinyi guard is really evil. His name is Junsheng, but he has nothing to do with that Jun. I think he is called Xiesheng. He looks evil, and it looks like he is beating him." Evil idea." The interrogating officer said.

This Jin Yiwei used to come to Xishuiguan only once in a while to look for the supervisor.

But in the past few months, for some reason, they have come to the supervisor frequently, and the two of them would go to the distance to whisper something, and discuss some things from time to time.

"What's the matter?" Lu Bai asked.

The interrogating officer wasn't sure, he didn't hear clearly, and Jin Yiwei didn't dare to let him get close to him, so what he heard were vague words, "It's like whether it's true or not, drink, try it, cheat it Lie to him or something like that, oh, that’s right!” The inspector suddenly remembered, “They said they wanted to get more money the other day, but the Customs Supervision Department said that it would be a steady stream—”

Then other things, the interrogating officer didn't hear much clearly.

Chapter 392 The Pink Maid

Apparently, Huang Junsheng was plotting something with Guan Jiansi.

Lu Bai felt that this matter might have something to do with the deaths of the two of them.

But these gossips such as "true and false, drinking, cheating" can't be analyzed, but the latter sentence "get more money" and "slow water" made Lu Bai vaguely know something.

Eighty percent is extortion.

Hearing the meaning of Guan Jiansi, he still wanted to keep the water flowing and blackmail him a few more times.

So who to blackmail?

Obviously the person who blackmailed was the murderer who killed the two of them.

Thinking of this, Lu Bai suddenly remembered what the interrogation officer said, the supervisor had asked his subordinates to take a handful of salt from the cargo ship of Meiji Cloth Village. Could it be that he wanted to use this to blackmail the treasurer Shen of Meiji Cloth Village?

Lu Bai didn't think there was such a possibility.

Maybe it was because of the drinking on the boat, the shopkeeper Shen of Meiji Buzhuang somehow offended the Guan Supervisor, and made the Guan Supervisor feel resentful.The Shen family stood behind Meiji Buzhuang. The shopkeeper Shen saw that he had blackmailed him repeatedly, so he boldly became murderous, and then killed both of them.

Lu Bai thinks this guess is logical,

However, Lu Bai has no evidence, so he can't do anything to the shopkeeper Shen of Meiji Buzhuang.

However, since shopkeeper Shen is suspected, it's still okay for Lu Bai to meet him for a while, in case he blew himself up and showed his flaws.

Thinking of this, Lu Bai thanked the little official for interrogation.

As soon as he turned around, a small black spot fell from the sky, Lu Bai waved his hand, and the dog looked like it was about to become a meatloaf, but it was like stepping on a cloud under its feet, and slowly fell to the ground.

"This dog was raised by you, and you don't know any manners." Lu Bai left without saying a word.

"Yes, yes." The interrogating officer hurriedly nodded and bowed to send Lu Bai away.

After Lu Baiyuan left, he lowered his head and looked, good guy, this dog has been incontinent for a long time, and his legs are trembling at the moment, he doesn't have the viciousness and prestige just now.

Lu Bai walked east along the Qinhuai River for a certain distance, and then turned into an alley.

There are high walls and blue tiles on both sides of the alley, and the years have left traces on the white walls, and the bluestone slabs under the feet are covered with moss.

Lu Bai turned sideways, let a few laughing children pass by, looked up and saw a young girl standing in front of the window of the small building, arranging the porcelain vase by the window, putting flowers in it, after seeing Lu Bai passing by, smile slightly.

Lu Bai nodded to her, walked out of the alley for a certain distance, and finally arrived at the backyard of shopkeeper Shen's residence in Meiji Buzhuang.

After more than a month of guarding and inquiring by Erha and Hong Tailang, they had already found out that shopkeeper Shen lived behind Meiji Cloth Village, which belonged to the front shop and the back house, and there was a gate at the back.

It's just that there are few people walking on weekdays, so this door is closed.

Lu Bai lingered at the back door for a long time, then walked around the backyard and nodded silently.

This backyard faces the river.

It can be seen that shopkeeper Shen didn't treat him badly at all. The garden led a curved ditch from the Qinhuai River, leading the water from the Qinhuai River into the garden in the courtyard, and after a few bends, it led back to the Qinhuai River from other places.

In this way, although this house is not on the bank of the Qinhuai River, it still has water views to see.

Lu Bai measured the water flow again, the gully was wide and the water flow was fast, drowning a person would not be a problem.

After observing these, Lu Bai walked to the door of the backyard and knocked on the door.

After waiting for a while, someone from the door greeted, "Who is it?"

Lu Bai replied: "Jin Yiwei, I have something to ask to see your shopkeeper Shen."

"Jin Yiwei!" The people inside were surprised, and there was no sound for a while. When Lu Bai frowned and was about to knock on the door, another girl called out: "Come, come."

The greeter opened the door, and there was a maid in a pink silk shirt, and behind her stood a maid in green.

The pink maid took a look at Lu Bai, and said anxiously: "Oh, Mr. Jin Yiwei, I didn't expect you to come first, and we were going to find you."

Lu Bai was puzzled, "Why are you looking for me?"

"Report to the officer." The pink maid spat out the words like a cannonball, "Our shopkeeper was arrested by two people just after returning home yesterday, and he never returned home. We are waiting for news from the kidnappers and are planning to use money to redeem him, but who knows that the shopkeeper of our family has been kidnapped and there is no news about it, we are going to report to the police when we see something is wrong."

"What!" Lu Bai was surprised, "Your shopkeeper hasn't come back yet?"

The pink maid stopped talking, blinked and looked at Lu Bai, "Haven't come back yet? What do you mean, you saw our shopkeeper yesterday? No!"

The pink maid jumped back instantly, "You, you are a kidnapper!"

"Cough cough." Lu Bai coughed dryly, a little embarrassed, "No, I'm not, I'm the envoy Lu Zhen of Nanzhen Fusi."

Lu Bai took out the sign and let them take a look before continuing: "I mean, your shopkeeper hasn't returned after being kidnapped?"

The two maids nodded.

Lu Bai felt that this was a bit troublesome.

But he couldn't listen to what the two maids had to say, so he suggested: "Well, I'll go in and find out the situation, so as to help you track down the kidnappers and rescue your shopkeeper as soon as possible."

The pink maid opened the door, "That would be great."

Lu Bai walked in, "Who did your shopkeeper offend these few days?"