"Second Master, I really found a woman in the ditch behind the pier. Do you think it's her?"
The store clerk pushed all the women with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes into the wine shop.
"Qin shopkeeper?" Li Tian shouted.
The woman raised her head suddenly, with bruises hanging from the corners of her mouth, and her sickly pale face was still beautiful. It was Qin Ruo.
"Uncle!" Qinruo's tears burst instantly, and she was about to pounce on her. Two men suddenly stood up and stopped her.
Song Che held back his anger and gave Hong Er a smile: "Second Master is indeed very capable at the dock. He found the person in less than half a quarter of an hour."
"When doing business, you have to be clean and tidy, hand over money with one hand and hand over to people with the other." Hong Er went to get the gold.
However, Song Che grabbed his wrist and said, "We are all businessmen, and what matters in business is evidence. These two hundred taels of gold are not a small amount. I can't prove it in vain, but I don't know what it is, so why don't I create a written certificate?"
Hong Er narrowed his eyes and laughed, "Sister Song is really a businessman." After that, he took out a pen and paper from the counter and handed it to Song Che: "Please?"
Song Che took up the pen and quickly wrote down the time, place, and content, "Today Song Che paid two hundred taels of gold to Hong Er in exchange for Qin Ruo, and I take this as evidence..." Then he wrote down his name, dipped his hand in ink and pressed it down. The seal, together with the two hundred taels of gold and the written evidence, were handed over to Hong Er.
Hong Er grabbed the gold and weighed it. His face almost broke out with laughter. He quickly picked up the pen and signed the payment. But just when he had just finished pressing his fingerprints, a man hurried into the wine shop and shouted:
"Second Master, it's not good! Xu Dutou led a group of government officials to the dock!"
Hong Er was suddenly startled and glared at Song Che who was sneering: "You are fucking plotting against me!"
Song Che threw his sleeves at Hong Er's face, "Zizzizi..." The voltage suddenly bloomed, and Hong Er immediately twitched and fell to the ground!
Li Tian, Zhang Hu and others overturned tables and chairs and knocked away a group of dock workers: "Brother, let's go quickly!"
Song Che grabbed Qin Ruo in the chaos and charged outside the store with all his strength.
Hong Er held up the counter and raised his head, tilted his mouth and shouted: "Don't... don't let them live!"
Dozens of helpers swarmed forward, and the two sides fought in a melee in the store. Unexpectedly, it was difficult for them to fight with two fists. Song Che and others were obviously at a disadvantage and received a lot of beatings.
"Stop it!"
"Shuashuashua..."
The white blade flashes, the sword is unsheathed!
A burly young man, holding a simple knife, led a dozen government officials into the wine shop and quickly contained the chaotic situation.
"Husband!" Shen Wenjun also rushed in with a group of dyehouse workers and quickly protected Song Che and others behind him.
"Miss..." Qin Ruo threw herself into Shen Wenjun's arms and cried loudly.
Hong Er supported the counter and smiled shamelessly at the yamen servant: "Xu Dutou, what kind of wind blew you to the pier tonight?"
Xu Dutou asked in a deep voice: "Hong Er, are you getting more and more courageous, and you don't even care about the Yamen?"
Hong Er hurriedly explained: "Don't misunderstand me, Du Tou. It's Mr. Song. He lost his shop assistant on the pier today. He asked me to help him find him overnight. But the price was not negotiated and there was some quarrel..."
Xu Du glanced at Song Che: "Is that really the case?"
Song Che snorted coldly, pointed at Hong Er and said, "This person is clearly abducting and selling women from good families!"
"You are so slanderous!" Hong Er shouted: "Dozens of pairs of eyes here have seen it. You clearly entrusted me to help you find the person. Now that the person has been found, you actually accuse me of human trafficking...Xu Dutou, you But you must not listen to his slander, he is clearly slandering me!"
"Ha..." Song Che sneered, took out the written note he had made earlier and handed it to Xu Dutou: "On it, in black and white, it clearly says that I exchanged two hundred taels of gold for Qin Ruo, and both parties have signed the payment. If this is not human trafficking, what is it? ?The proof is irrefutable even if you take it to the Yamen!"
Hong Erdun was so choked up that he probably understood why Song Che insisted on establishing a written document. "Hahaha..." He suddenly laughed loudly, "Trafficking, trafficking, without kidnapping, how can we sell it? It's obviously This woman accidentally slipped and fell into a ditch, why did I kidnap her again?"
"Qin Ruo, tell me boldly, did they abduct you?" Shen Wenjun asked.
Qin Ruo glanced at Hong Er and shook her head: "I don't know, it's very dark over there and I can't see clearly..."
Hong Er said coldly: "I didn't even see the person clearly, so I just slandered her. I think she was obviously stunned and talking nonsense."
"I'm not talking nonsense!" Qin Ruo yelled with tears in her eyes: "Someone clearly tricked me into custom-making clothes for him, took me into an alley, and then...then I was knocked unconscious——"
Hong Er retorted: "Then you should go find the liar to settle the score! What are your intentions in slandering me?!"
"Miss, uncle...I...I..." Qin Ruo was so angry that she bit her lip with blood.
"Now that the matter has come to this, what are your plans?" Xu Dutou looked at Song Che and Shen Wenjun.
"If you bully my clerk, of course he will go to jail! Let's go to the Yamen now -"
"Forget it," Song Che interrupted Shen Wenjun, "Now that the person is found, the matter is over."
Holding the papers under his arm, he walked up to Hong Er and stretched out his hand to ask for it.
Understand?
Anyone who understands understands.
Hong Erji gritted his teeth and reluctantly took out the four ingots of gold.
Song Che grabbed the gold, and when Hong Er tore the note into pieces, he said coldly: "You want to make money from me, Song Che, with your pig brain?"
He threw the scraps of paper at Hong Er's face, embraced the breeze with his big sleeves, turned around and walked out of the wine shop:
"Let's go home!"
…
On the way home, inside the carriage.
Qin Ruo huddled in Shen Wenjun's arms and cried, her eyes red and swollen from crying.
"He...he lied to me and said that my mother at home was handicapped, so I kindly followed him. Unexpectedly, he took me into the alley. When I realized something was wrong and wanted to leave, someone suddenly knocked me unconscious from behind.
When I woke up, I was lying in a small dark room, and then some evil women came in and took off my clothes without saying a word, and then...then...oooooooo..."
She cried again.
"Okay, if you can't bear to look back, don't think about it. Just be fine." Shen Wenjun gently stroked Qin Ruo's back like a child.
Song Che was quite interested and asked with a smile: "Shopkeeper Qin, are you sure these are some evil women, not some evil men?"
"It's an evil woman! She's an evil old woman with a wrinkled face who came from hell!" Qin Ruo held her head up in anger and whispered aggrievedly: "They forcibly examined me, and when I refused to resist, they beat me and took He pricked me with needles and said he would sell me to a foreign country..."
Song Che smiled and said: "It sounds like the Qin shopkeeper is lucky."
Shen Wenjun said: "It's been like this, are you still lucky?"
"Usually, according to the routine of chicken head, a good woman is kidnapped, and her body is first examined. If the body is found to be perfect, she will be sold to a distant place at a high price and used as a concubine or to fill a house; if the body is broken, If you don't meet the wall, you will be sent to a brothel as a dead flower;"
Song Che said with a smile: "Fortunately, the shopkeeper has maintained his integrity for more than twenty years. Otherwise, a beautiful woman like you would have been destroyed by someone's cruel hands, and her body would have been left intact."
Qin Ruo's delicate body trembled again.
"Alas..." Shen Wenjun sighed: "Look at Hong Er's ferocious look. I'm afraid he will be in trouble from now on. Although my Shen family is not afraid of trouble, after all, we are open for business. How can we have the energy to fight with local snakes?"
"I'm sorry, miss. It's all because I can't tell the difference between good and bad, so I was tricked and caused you so much trouble." Qin Ruo bit her lip in shame.
"How can I blame you? It's clear that evil people are too rampant to do such things in broad daylight," Shen Wenjun said indignantly, "This world is really unfair to good people!"
"As the saying goes: Heaven's way is reincarnation, who will God spare?" Song Che said coldly: "I remember every debt owed by these people. It won't take long to repay the price."
