Chapter 196 Mooncake (10)

Meeting the girl's gaze, Lin Fei said: "After the Yuan family's lantern business declined, there are two businesses they switched to."

"Jiangling is a water city. One way is to take advantage of Jiangling's advantageous location with waterways extending in all directions to operate a fleet and do water transportation business." Lin Fei paused for a moment when he said this, and frowned, "It's just these few days. There were many floods in various places in the year, and the water business was not as good as before. The Yuan family was also unlucky. When transporting valuable goods, they encountered several storms and damaged a lot of goods, so they lost a lot of money!"

The Yuan family's misfortunes don't end there!

"Last year, many people who were engaged in fleet business went to sea and made a lot of money. The Yuan family was jealous, so they followed the merchant ships out to sea. As a result, they got lost and had waves. I heard that they lost all their money!"

After all this trouble... Wen Mingtang couldn't help but be silent when he heard this, and said: "The person who runs the Yuan family's merchant ship business is either really unlucky or not suitable for business!"

When Lin Fei heard this, he glanced at her and said, "It is said that it was the idea of ​​gouging out the eyes!"

Wen Mingtang: "... With such a descendant, the ancestors of the Yuan family would be so angry that they would get up and drag him away!"

It’s really better to be a wealthy and idle person and stop messing around!

In response to Wen Mingtang's emotion, Lin Fei seemed to twitch the corners of his lips slightly, but before anyone could see clearly, he returned to his previous appearance and continued: "The other kind of business has always been very good..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Fei suddenly stopped.

Facing the urging eyes of Wen Mingtang and others, Lin Fei paused and said, "This business is a bit special. It is the business of making tombstones for the deceased!"

This business, like the coffin shop and the paper money shop, is somewhat taboo.

"The business of the Yuan family has always been good, but because this business is quite taboo, some fortune-telling masters often say that this business will harm the younger generations of the clan, causing them to be in poor health and become weak and sick!" Lin Fei said, "The Miss Yuan San wrapped in the cloak is a disease brought from her mother's womb. Many people in the Yuan family believe that it was because of this business that they defeated Miss Yuan San."

Because it was believed that Miss Yuan San had been tricked, the ill-tempered one, who I heard Lin Feidao was the second son of the Yuan family, came to the capital with his sister to see if there was any "expert" who could help resolve the matter.

As for why Lin Fei targeted the Yuan family, it was all thanks to Liang Hongjin.

"A few days ago, when Zhao You and I were out, we happened to meet your friend General Liang outside the city. She was holding a Taoist priest in one hand and shaking it like a chicken!" Lin Fei said.

The passers-by who saw this situation looked sideways, thinking that Liang Hongjin was a female bully.

Fortunately, Lin Fei and Zhao You knew Liang Hongjin, and after asking around, they found out what the Taoist priest with the mustache in Liang Hongjin's hand had done.

"The Taoist priest in Lin Yuanguan pretended to be a magician, and he was known as an expert outside the world. There were many bachelors in the guard of Ganzhi, the general of Liang Nu. Some people were in a hurry to get a wife, so they thought of praying to the gods and Buddhas. By accident, they bumped into Lin. Yuanguanli." Lin Fei said, "The Taoist priest defrauded him of a large sum of money, and he was originally planning to run away. But later, when he learned about his identity as a guard, he was probably a little scared and did not dare to mess with the government. Not long after, he actually brought a young woman, saying that she was given to him by gods and Buddhas."

"The boy didn't know why, and was very happy. When he took the person back, he saw that the woman was shrinking and scared, and her eyes were evasive. After questioning, he found out that the woman was given to a Taoist priest. The Taoist priest was a lustful ghost. He wanted to attack her, but because he was afraid of the government officials, he gave her to him and threatened her not to talk nonsense, otherwise she would be tortured to death by the 'official'!" After saying this, Lin Fei shook his head. "After General Liang knew about it, she naturally went to find him."

Just when Liang Hongjin was facing the Taoist priest, Lin Fei came over. Since Lin Fei bumped into him, he naturally wouldn't let it go, so he and the Taoist priest cleared all the ledgers on him.

Only then did I realize that this Taoist priest was just pretending to be a ghost and cheating people out of money. If the person being deceived is a woman, and she has a good appearance, he will deceive money and people, claiming that gods will come down to earth and ask them to sacrifice themselves. Most people realized something was wrong and turned around and ran away, but there were also some who came to their senses after being deceived. Perhaps due to good luck, the women who were deceived wanted to save face and did not speak out, which allowed these villains to continue to be arrogant until now.

Later, according to the Taoist priest's confession, he had recently met a group of generous foreign wealthy people. The young master was rich but brainless. He was so fooled that he actually went to help him find a young woman. . The person who gave it to Liang Hongjin's guard was one of the people who was found.

"I found two others in the Taoist priest's cellar. Including that one, there are three in total." After Lin Fei said this, his eyes turned to Wen Mingtang and others, especially after pausing for a moment on the thoughtful Wen Mingtang. He continued, "The accents of those young women did not sound like the locals of Chang'an. I inquired about their origins and found out that they were sold to Chang'an."

Hearing this, Wen Mingtang and others couldn't help but be disappointed, and Tang Yuan couldn't help but sigh: "In this case, although Yuan Erlang is a bad guy, the lost ladies must have nothing to do with him."

Listening to what Lin Fei said, Yuan Erlang indeed had nothing to do with the missing little lady, but how could a person like Lin Fei arrest an unrelated person for no reason?

"I didn't think much about it at first, but I had nothing to do, so I went to Renyazi with the men from the Qianzhiwei." Lin Fei said this and glanced at Wen Mingtang, "Your friend Liang The female general said that a friend of hers was in need of maidservants, and she wanted to spend some money to buy a few, so that she could save one by one."

These women who have fallen into the hands of Ren Yazi are considered good if they can be sold to decent people as maids. Many of them are like those three women, who are sold to unknown evil spirits in human skins. Tortured.

As a result, when the three women pointed the way to where Ren Yazi had gone, they came up empty-handed. It turned out that the house Ren Yazi had originally settled in was rented, but he had already canceled the rent and no one knew where he had gone.

Due to habit, Lin Fei also doubted whether the three women were lying, but what they said was consistent with what the landlord said. Everyone said that the tenant called himself Renyazi, and he had indeed seen a lot of people in the house. The woman who is rarely found is in her prime, and her appearance is not ugly.

Naturally, the homeowner doesn’t know much about what happens behind closed doors. On the other hand, the three women who were also locked inside said that they had heard the man Yazi say, "There should be new goods in a while, but there are some problems with the way here, so we need to do it at night."

Although the three of them were also sold, they were brought in during the day. Naturally, they knew that there must be problems with doing things at night.

Although I didn't know if it would be useful, I told Lin Fei everything.

Lin Fei felt that something was not right at that time, so he asked the three of them to talk more and think about whether there was anything unusual about it.

The three women who were sold thought about it and felt that this person was not following the right path, because they did not seem to be bought in the daytime.

Once or twice may be a coincidence, but these women have been in Ren Yazi's hands for the longest time for five months, and then I realized that it seemed to be like this every time.

Could this be a coincidence? have no idea.

However, every time this includes Yuan Erlang's time, it is natural to take Yuan Erlang away and question him.