Li Baiyi nodded with satisfaction: "I saw it when I came here. You did a good job. I also trust you two very much, so I let you do things."
"I believe that you two will not disappoint me. I am right."
Gongsun Long and his two men's eyes suddenly shone, and they said with moved faces: "To be able to gain such trust from the Lord, our efforts are not in vain."
Li Baiyi took out a few taels of silver from his pocket and handed it to the two of them. He said with some reluctance: "This is the money I gave you personally to buy wine. You can save some money. The money in this county does not come from the strong wind. My father No more money is given to me now.”
"This money was saved from my daily food and clothing expenses. Although it is not much, it can be regarded as an expression of the county's gratitude to the two of you for their hard work."
When Gongsun Long and Baotou heard this, they immediately declined and said, "Master Li, we can't accept this money from you. Wouldn't that be a disservice to us?"
"Sir, you can make the contribution to the county city better and better. It's too late for us to be grateful, so how can we accept any more money from you? What's more, the salary given to us by the court is enough for us to spend. We dare not accept this money."
When Li Baiyi heard this, his face became serious, and he stared at the two of them and said, "You must accept this money. I am not giving it to you, but to enable you to better serve the people, you know."
As soon as these words came out, Gongsun Long and Gong Sunlong looked at each other, both of them were very moved, but in the end they still waved their hands towards Li Baiyi.
"Sir, you'd better take back this money. We can't charge you this money. If we charge this money, then we are not worthy of sitting in this position."
Li Baiyi said resolutely: "That won't work. You must accept the money. If anyone doesn't accept it, I will suspend him from his job for three days."
As soon as these words came out, the two of them were extremely entangled, and finally accepted the money: "Your Excellency is so kind to me, I will sacrifice my life to repay you."
The two of them said with serious faces.
Li Baiyi nodded with satisfaction and said: "I believe in your guarantee, and it must be from the bottom of my heart. I feel most at ease when you are here to watch and dedicate the county for me."
Seeing Gongsun Long and the head catcher, their eyes were red with emotion, and they sighed innocently. They didn't expect that it was so easy for Li Baiyi to win over people's hearts. He only had to spend some money to do it.
These two people don't look like people who are short of such a small amount of money. Could it be that Li Baiyi is really a monster who can be so convincing casually.
Li Baiyi saw that the heat was almost over and it was time to get down to business, so he immediately said to the two of them: "You two, we've almost finished talking about the digression. Now let's talk about work."
Both Gongsun Long and Gong Sunlong nodded, their expressions gradually becoming serious, and they sat upright and listened to Li Baiyi's speech.
"Although I interrogated Zhang Ergou this time and made him confess easily, this is just the beginning."
Gongsun Long said doubtfully: "Isn't the interrogation completed, sir? Are there any doubts that have not been clarified?"
Li Baiyi shook his head: "The matter of Zhang Ergou himself has been investigated, but don't forget that Zhang Ergou's wife was a dangerous person involved in the abduction and trafficking of women and children. She is dead, but the matter is still there. It’s not over.”
"Zhang Ergou's family is completely bare. It doesn't look like a family that often has extra money."
"So, where did the money his wife earned over the years go?"
"The whereabouts of the money is a problem. In addition to this, judging from everyone's descriptions, this woman is probably not as illiterate as Zhang Ergou said. Otherwise, she would not work in an organization that abducts women and children. So many years.”
"Zhang Ergou's wife is probably an educated person. Although she only knows a few words, she is also smart and knows that she is doing such things with her head on her shoulders."
Gongsun Long nodded and said thoughtfully: "My lord, what you mean is that she will leave a way out for herself."
Li Baiyi nodded and said with a smile: "It seems that Mr. Gongsun understands that this woman probably left a ledger for herself. For example, she keeps track of where the money she earned from abducting women and children went."
The catcher on the side suddenly looked admiring and said: "Sir, you are really thoughtful. If you hadn't reminded me, I might have just ignored this person."
"When we investigated before, we had no clue at all. The few people we found who might provide clues were also murdered by Li Haonan one after another."
Li Baiyi frowned: "Is this Li Haonan so vicious? If I had known, I should have beaten him more in the hook fence."
"By the way, after you find the account book, make a few more copies so that no one finds out. Losing the account book will be very detrimental to our investigation of this case."
"Apart from this, we can't alert the enemy. This case is so intricate that we don't know when and to what extent it will be dug up. But it is conceivable that there must be support from people with deep backgrounds behind this case."
Gongsun Long nodded: "What you are saying is that if this were not the case, such a case would not have happened here in the capital. After all, this is the emperor's feet."
Li Baiyi glanced at him and said with a smile: "What's wrong under the emperor's feet? There are so many moths under the emperor's feet. Their strength is not small."
"There is a word called darkness under the lamp. I wonder if you have heard of it."
Gongsun Long shook his head and looked at the catcher on the side: "Have you heard of it?"
The catcher also shook his head and looked at Li Baiyi with a confused face: "Sir, what does this word mean?"
Li Baiyi looked around and said helplessly: "Originally, I wanted to let you see what I believe, but now I don't have to light up the lamp. It is dark under the lamp. As the name suggests, it is the darkest under the lamp."
"Think about it, it's darkest under the lit candle because the candle can't shine at all."
"Just like this case of abduction of women and children, I believe there must be cases in other places, but when something like this happens in the capital, the people who are abducted are people from around the capital."
"None of them are related to the capital, but this kind of case can still happen, and it has been concealed until now."
"This shows that the background behind this case must be more terrifying than we imagined."
Gongsun Long nodded and said: "What the adults said is true, and the villain understands."
Li Baiyi then thought of a few more things that needed to be asked and explained them to the two of them. Both of them felt that they had benefited a lot.
Zhen Zhen, who was waiting nearby, felt increasingly unable to see through Li Baiyi.
This guy really knows everything. With his big head, is he really a goblin?
