Zhan Zhao jumped off Yaoyao's back, landed on the roof, squatted down and looked, and saw many bones scattered on the roof.

Zhan Zhao picked one up, looked at it, frowned and put it down. He took a few steps forward and kicked half of a skeleton at his feet.

Zhan Zhao felt a little nauseous, and waved his hand to Bai Yutang, who was still looking down, signaling him not to come down.

Zhan Zhao returned to Yaoyao's back.

Bai Yutang asked, "What is it?"

"Someone threw something on the roof to feed the crows." Zhan Zhao hesitated and looked at Bai Yutang.

Fifth Master also frowned, thought for a while, and asked, "Could it be..."

Zhan Zhao nodded, "I just saw a finger and a skull with unshaven flesh."

"Someone feeds the crows with human flesh?" Mr. Wu frowned, "Are there other dead people?"

"They must have been dead for a long time." Zhan Zhao thought for a while and said, "I heard from Jiuniang before that some human traffickers would throw people who died of illness or were killed on the roof to feed the crows. The crows would eat the corpses.

Only the bones are left. The bones will become very brittle after being exposed to the sun and rain. They are collected once every six months, broken into pieces and sprinkled on the ground to make fertilizer."

Bai Yutang was horrified after hearing this, "Xiang Zhuang has a great business and is very low-key. I don't know what kind of business he does... Could it be that he buys and sells people?"

"Maybe." Zhan Zhao felt that this case was not that simple, and that there was such a large nest of personal traffickers in the imperial city. They had no idea! How could they hide it? It was simply unbelievable.

Zhan Zhao pressed Yaoyao's head and dropped it into the yard.

At this moment, Ouyang Shaozheng was arranging guards. After he was ready to assign them, he put a seal on the door and went back, waiting for Kaifeng Mansion to come again tomorrow morning.

When Zhan Zhao told him about the situation on the roof, Huo Qilin almost exploded, "What?! Human traffickers?"

Did the Pioneer Officer think this was okay? He asked the Imperial City Army to search the courtyards one by one, and also sent someone to ask Zou Liang for some dogs.

Zou Liang personally came with fifty wolf dogs and set them free to search the mansion...

Finally, the dogs gathered in the empty stable in the backyard and began to dig the ground.

Zou Liang knelt down and groped for a while, and found a locked secret door. He broke the chain, opened the cellar door, and saw a long tunnel.

The imperial army held torches and followed Zhan Zhao down to the cellar.

After a while, Zhan Zhao ran up and said, "There's someone down there! They all seem to have been drugged. Find Gongsun quickly."

Bai Yutang sat with Yaoyao going to Yuelian Pavilion to find Gongsun.

By the time Zhao Pu Gongsun and Bai Yutang arrived at Xiangzhuang, Zhan Zhao and the others had already brought up all the people in the dungeon. There were nine people in total, six men and three women, all of whom were quite old.

Gongsun stretched out his hand to feel his pulse and frowned, "They are all drugged."

The Ninth Prince asked, "Didn't you say that we found the den of human traffickers? Are these kidnappers or abductees?"

"It doesn't look like he was kidnapped." Ouyang Shaozheng observed, "He is dressed like a servant who works at home."

"But the dungeon below is very large." Zhan Zhao said, "It can be seen that hundreds of people can be locked up."

Everyone was surprised.

Zhao Pu felt it was unreasonable, "Isn't the Imperial City always very strict about inspections? If the business is not in Kaifeng, the bookkeeping, household registration, and taxes must be done at least twice a year. If the business is in Kaifeng, big business like Taibai Jumanji is almost every

We will check every month, and people from the Ministry of Revenue will suddenly come to your door. How did you hide such a large den of thieves?"

"Is there anyone in the court?" Zhan Zhao asked, "Every time before the Yamen goes to investigate, the news is reported in advance?"

"Maybe."

…

In Kaifeng Mansion, Tianzun and Yin Hou, who had been awakened by the noise, had just laid down when they heard a large number of government officials coming in and out, rushing back and forth.

Being too good at martial arts also has a disadvantage, that is, having too good ears.

"Haha~" Tianzun yawned, "Can it still be better?"

"It's better than my Demon Palace." Yin Hou was also very dissatisfied, "It's still noisy at night."

"After listening to that sound for a long time, it doesn't sound like pounding on the wall." Tianzun leaned his face on the pillow, feeling a little hungry, "It sounds like pounding rice cakes..."

Tianzun said casually because he wanted to eat some rice cakes. The Silver Demon King, who was lying peacefully, suddenly sat up.

Tianzun smacked his lips, "Shall we go to the kitchen to fry some rice cakes?"

Yin Hou thought it would be good to fry some sugar glutinous rice cakes, so they both went to see the Silver Demon King.

The Silver Demon King suddenly turned his head and asked them, "You two loved eating rice cakes when you were young, right?"

Tianzun and Yin Hou both nodded. The Demon King always cooked glutinous rice cakes and fried rice cakes for them to eat, which was sweet and glutinous.

The Silver Demon King sat cross-legged on the bed, leaning on the bedpost to think, and said to himself, "I heard a saying before that human traffickers would pretend to be vendors who make rice cakes and sell snacks, and go from village to village. They were the first to

When they arrive, the pounded sugar rice cakes will be given to the local children for free. A few days later, at midnight, the traffickers will knock a special wooden stick at the door of the house with children, and the sound will be like pounding rice cakes. Some

Children would wake up in the middle of the night and run out following the noise. Bad guys would hide in the alleys and wave to the children... As long as the children ran into the alleys, they would be arrested."

Tianzun frowned when he heard this, "Why is it so scary!"

"It used to be said by some old ladies to scare children who were noisy at night and couldn't sleep." The Silver Demon King leaned against the bedpost in a daze, "Ziwu Lane..."

"Zi refers to children, and Wuxiang refers to the alley at midnight?" Yin Hou asked, "Is this what you mean?"

"Isn't it a bit far-fetched?" Tianzun crossed his arms and thought, "It seems to make sense with this knocking sound..."

The three of them were discussing when they heard the sound of Master Bao banging the table from the yard next door. "This is unreasonable! There are actually traffickers in our imperial city of Kaifeng!"

The three people here looked at each other - really?

Tianzun listened carefully and said, "Little Baozi is quite angry."

Yin Hou nodded, "Isn't it..."
Chapter completed!