Chapter 1733

The prisoner Liu Youliang was dumbfounded, both blank and at a loss.

He didn't understand and didn't know.

"My lord, what is the Worshiping God Sect? I don't understand!"

"Are you playing dumb?" Chen Guanlou asked with a cold face.

Liu Youliang waved his hands and shook his head repeatedly, looking very anxious, "I really don't know about the Worshiping God Sect. May I ask what the Worshiping God Sect does?"

His innocence, his helplessness, and his ignorance all appeared very sincere.

Huang Ye couldn't help but suspect that perhaps Liu Youliang had been wronged.

This guy didn't look like he was working for a cult no matter how you looked at him.

"I don't know what the Worshiping God Sect does either. This matter has to be asked of you. Liu Youliang, you are knowledgeable and experienced; you tell me what the Worshiping God Sect does?"

"I... I don't know!" Liu Youliang was very innocent and very aggrieved.

Why was Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen staring at him? He clearly hadn't done anything.

Chen Guanlou laughed, patted Huang Ye on the shoulder, "Interrogate him well; perhaps there will be surprises."

Huang Ye was half-believing and half-doubting, asking quietly: "My lord, could it be a mistake? I see that the one surnamed Liu doesn't seem to be lying."

"If you could distinguish between ordinary prisoners and cult bandits at a glance, you wouldn't be a prison clerk now, but working in the Embroidered Uniform Guard."

"I wouldn't dare!" Huang Ye looked terrified.

"Since you wouldn't dare, handle the errand well."

"I understand!"

Huang Ye didn't dare to have any more objections. Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen had eyes like torches; even if Liu Youliang wasn't a cult bandit, he had other problems.

Chen Guanlou thought that if the mountain wouldn't come to him, he would go to the mountain.

He took the initiative to contact Zhang Daohe and set a time to meet.

This contact didn't get a response until the first month of the fourth year of Yuanding.

Zhang Daohe was not in the capital, and not even within the borders of the Great Gan. Sect Leader Zhang had been running around outside for the past two years; it was said that he had gone to sea, gone to foreign countries, and no one knew whether he was alive or dead. When he would return, no one knew.

Moreover, when Zhang Daohe went overseas, he took away the elites of the White Lotus Sect. This gave the Worshiping God Sect the opportunity to grow and cause the explosion case at the Directorate for Imperial Manufactories.

The White Lotus Sect gave news again that if they wanted to deal with the Worshiping God Sect, they could provide one or two leads. As a sincerity for cooperation, they provided an address, the earliest stronghold of the Worshiping God Sect in the capital, the Chengnan Charity Hall.

Chen Guanlou didn't rush to make a decision; he went to the Chengnan Charity Hall alone to take a look. On the surface, it was just a normal charity hall, adopting a dozen or twenty orphans and some women with nowhere to go. The funds mainly came from donations from big families!

The charity hall was not big, and the expenses were not much.

Ordinary!

After observing for a period of time, he discovered the abnormality of this charity hall.

The personnel flow was abnormal.

Women with nowhere to go disappeared from the charity hall after a month or two. When asked, they found out they had gone to big families to work as helpers.

Healthy and normal children, from the age of seven or eight, also went to big families to work as servants one after another. The only ones who could stay in the charity hall for a long time were disabled children. The disabled children were not idle either; they either begged or learned to read and write, learning a skill as much as possible to enter certain trades to work.

The charity hall was like a school, absorbing students who met the conditions, training them a little, and arranging them to suitable places to work and spy on intelligence.

Because of the packaging of the charity hall, outsiders wouldn't suspect that there was any problem with this move. They would also praise the charity hall for doing things, helping these people find errands, reducing the burden on the charity hall, and having funds to help more children and women in need of help.

He also discovered that the Marquis Pingjiang's mansion actually had people arranged by the charity hall.

It turns out that the big families in the capital had all been infiltrated.

He informed the Marquis's mansion of the news, not saying anything specific, just giving a list, telling the other party that the origins of the people on the list were problematic and that they were very likely spies planted in the Marquis's mansion by others.

"Who are the others? Who planted the spies, and where did you get the news?" Chen Guanfu asked repeatedly.

"Don't ask! Even if you ask, I won't say. I got this list with great difficulty; you handle it yourself."

Chen Guanlou didn't want to talk more!

Being able to fulfill the obligation of informing them was already for the sake of everyone having the surname Chen.

As for Sun Daooning, he didn't say a single word.

Not worth it!

The cult bandit case had nothing to do with him! He certainly couldn't rush to help solve the case.

However, Huang Ye took people to interrogate Liu Youliang and really interrogated something out. Liu Youliang was indeed a cult bandit; he used to be a White Lotus Sect cult bandit, later became a Worshiping God Sect cult bandit, and held the position of incense master in the sect, with a dozen or so people under him.

But...

Because of the explosion case at the Directorate for Imperial Manufactories, all the people under him were folded in. He was afraid of being investigated, so he deliberately offended his superiors, attempting to rape the master's female relatives, and entered the Heavenly Prison.

His original plan was to commit an offense and be locked in the county yamen prison. Spend some money to handle it, and after the wind calmed down, he could get out of prison.

Who would have thought that he was unlucky; the Ministry of Justice, in order to make the year-end data look good, snatched the case and locked him in the Heavenly Prison. Finally, Chen Guanlou's eyes like torches saw the abnormality. After tossing and turning in the torture room for two days, he finally couldn't hold on and confessed his identity and criminal facts.

This is a great merit!

Chen Guanlou didn't hide it, letting Huang Ye go to the Ministry of Justice to report to Minister Sun personally.

Sun Daooning had originally been completely disappointed with the Heavenly Prison's screening of cult bandits. He never expected that at the beginning of the fourth year of Yuanding, he would be given good news.

He brought people to the Heavenly Prison, interrogated Liu Youliang for the first time, and brought the person back to the Ministry of Justice for trial. He must eradicate the Worshiping God Sect's power in the capital by the roots.

When he left, he laughed and praised Chen Guanlou, "You really didn't let me down! I heard that you saw that the prisoner surnamed Liu had a problem at a glance?"

"Don't expect me to catch a second Liu Youliang!"

"One Liu Youliang is enough, no need for a second. For this matter, I will record a merit for the Heavenly Prison. After this case is closed, there will definitely be a thick reward."

"Don't just talk about rewards; at least give some real things. Silver, money, and grain are a hundred times better than drawing a big cake."

Chen Guanlou was very disgusted. Sun Daooning was very stingy; giving money was not straightforward at all.

"Another day, another day I will definitely allocate money and grain; don't urge me."

Sun Daooning ran away with the prisoner Liu Youliang like he was fleeing. He was worried that if he didn't run, Chen Guanlou would press him to approve the slip.

Huang Ye made a great merit, satisfied and high-spirited.

Chen Guanlou made the decision to give him a bonus, gave him ten days off, and let him go spend money and play.

Huang Ye wanted to perform, saying he didn't need a vacation; he loved this errand in the Heavenly Prison and just liked to patrol his territory in the C-block prison every day.

Chen Guanlou was very dissatisfied, "I let you take a vacation, why is your nonsense so much? Either take a vacation, or hand over the bonus; you choose yourself."

Huang Ye was dumbfounded; seeing Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen get angry, he hurriedly stated, "I will go home to rest today and will definitely take good care of my body."

He felt a little aggrieved inside.

He really wanted to work well and perform well. Why did he attract disgust instead!

Where exactly did the problem go wrong?

For a moment, he couldn't figure it out.

Afterward, he asked Qian Fugui for advice.

Qian Fugui told him quietly, "A big tree attracts the wind! The Heavenly Prison caught a cult bandit, which is eye-catching. Giving you a vacation at this time is actually to protect you. Don't forget, the Embroidered Uniform Guard next door is anxious and worried because of the cult bandit case."

"What does the Heavenly Prison's merit have to do with the Embroidered Uniform Guard?"

"Don't fear bad people thinking about it, fear dogs jumping over the wall in a hurry!" Qian Fugui said only this much, letting Huang Ye go home and figure it out himself.