Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 264

When the anti-bandit operation began, Zhong Ruyi knew that it would not be so easy to succeed.

really.

Two days later, Chen Dongzhi told her with a heavy face that General Jiang had led a thousand elite soldiers to attack yesterday, and the villagers in the surrounding villages were dispersed early.

Only the county magistrate, the legal advisor and General Jiang knew about this operation.

But when I went up, I saw that the village was empty and there was no one inside.

Jiang sent people in to check. Several soldiers went in and looked around but didn't see anyone.

After coming down the mountain, General Jiang looked solemn and called a meeting with the county magistrate overnight.

Someone must have leaked the news, otherwise why would they always get away with it?

Jiang Ying looked at the county magistrate and the legal advisor with a scrutinizing look, "If you say there is no insider, I will never believe it! Why didn't you succeed before I came? Every time you went up, you were run away, and when the limelight passed, they came back again? Is there such a thing in the world?"

The county magistrate and the legal advisor were sweating profusely, they also felt wronged!

Each bandit suppression operation was planned in advance and the village chiefs of several villages were informed to avoid being caught by people in the village who went out to drink or gamble in the middle of the night.

They were asked to inform the villagers not to run around at night during the next few days, but they did not specify the exact time.

It’s just that during that period, the villages were always quieter than before.

Could it be that this is why the news leaked?

General Jiang touched his chin and asked, "Which village is the closest?"

The master thought for a moment and said, "It's Dahe Village."

"Last time you said which village was wiped out?" Two families were wiped out, one with six people and the other with seven people, all died at the hands of the bandits.

"General, it's Jiangjia Village." The lawyer said it quickly, mainly because he also went to see the scene at that time and remembered it very clearly.

It's really strange.

General Jiang kept touching his chin as various thoughts flashed through his mind. He had been stabbed by a soldier he led on the battlefield before. That time, the soldier had colluded with several officials in the court who disliked him and wanted to use the war to bury him and prevent him from ever returning.

What about this time?

Could it be that someone colluded with the bandits to tip them off?

Did the two parties reach some invisible agreement?

So that's why this person would take such a big risk to inform them?

I really can’t figure it out.

He had only been here for a few days and didn't know much about the villagers here.

"Why didn't the bandits go to the nearest Dahe Village, but went to Jiangjia Village instead?" General Jiang turned around and asked them.

Seeing that they were hesitant and unable to explain clearly, he immediately became furious, "What should we do? Aren't you going to investigate these things thoroughly?"

The county magistrate had a bitter face and was spitted on by Jiang Ying. "General, it's not that we don't want to investigate it thoroughly. We have checked it several times. The two families who were wiped out didn't know the bandits at all. There was no grudge between them, so we really can't find out why."

The lawyer suddenly thought of something and said casually, "Those two families have reported to the authorities before, saying that several children in the family were missing at the same time."

Lost your child?

Jiang Ying frowned, "Did they find it in the end or not?"

The lawyer shook his head honestly, "No, they didn't find it. When they reported to the police, it was already the third day. They looked for it themselves but couldn't find it, so they thought of reporting to the police. The adults sent people out to see if there were any strangers during that time, but the villagers said they didn't notice anything, so in the end, it was left unresolved."

He suddenly thought of something. "Oh, right, I remember that a family in Jiangjia Village was sued by the waiter and the cook of a newly opened restaurant in town. They were accused of human trafficking."

"It's strange to say about Jiangjia Village. Over the past few years, people have come to the authorities to report that their children have gone missing and they can't find them."

Jiang Ying looked serious, "So many children were lost in Jiangjia Village, but not a single one was found?"

The county magistrate felt very miserable. It was not that he did not want to look for the child, but he just could not find him. Every time a child was lost, he had to send more than a dozen people out to look for him. He also had to set up checkpoints and draw portraits of the lost children so that they could be identified one by one.

But no matter how hard they tried, the final result was in vain. They just couldn't find it.

At this point, the county magistrate and the legal advisor both had worried faces. Over the years, there were more families whose children were missing than just the few who came to report to the authorities.

According to the information they heard, some families had many children and did not think it was a big deal if they lost one or two. Instead, they felt the pressure was relieved, so they never thought of reporting to the police to look for their children.

General Jiang sighed and turned the topic to the bandits, "Don't the bandits on Baba Mountain have family members? Or call their families to persuade them to make peace."

"We tried, but it was useless." The county magistrate shook his head. "The leader of that group of bandits was a young man named Linzai. When we first suppressed the bandits, we asked his parents to go up and persuade them, but Linzai was so cruel and merciless that he didn't care about his parents at all. He threatened that it was better for the two old guys to die than to be caught and threatened."

What a cold-blooded person he is. He can actually say such things to his own parents who gave birth to him.

Jiang Ying felt that suppressing bandits was much more difficult than fighting a war, at least in a war both sides had to fight openly.

This group of bandits were complete scoundrels. They would run away when they were chased, and then come back when they stopped chasing.

Just like the cockroach that can't be killed.

By the time Zhong Ruyi found out, General Jiang had already led his men to attack twice, but the enemy escaped both times.

She frowned, wondering why this group of bandits got the news so quickly.

Chen Dongzhi sat next to her. "It's not a solution to keep doing this. The court has given us a month. If the general doesn't finish handling this matter within a month, he might be scolded."

Both of them were worried. Normally, they would hold hands and kiss each other when they got together, but now they were not in the mood.

"Why don't you tell the general not to tell the village chiefs before you do anything, and let them go on with their lives as usual. Otherwise, it will be hard to guarantee that some people won't let it slip after knowing about it."

Chen Dongzhi nodded, "I'll tell the general later. He told me yesterday that he felt there was something wrong with Jiangjia Village, but he couldn't find out what the problem was."

When General Jiang came over, he told the two of them about the frequent disappearance of children in Jiangjia Village.

Jiang Rong, who was pouring water, suddenly interrupted and said, "The missing children of the two families that were exterminated were only three years old. There was a boy and a girl in each family. I was there at the time. They cried and went to the village chief and said they wanted to report to the police and asked the police to help find them. The village chief asked them to look for them first, and they might have fallen asleep somewhere, so they waited until the third day to report to the police."

She didn't know whether this matter was related to the bandits, but she just said a few words when she remembered it.

After pouring the water, she went downstairs, leaving Jiang Ying and the others in deep thought.