My father is a Confucian sage, but the system forces me to be a crude warrior

Chapter 370: How the hell did my dad get involved again?!
"Oh."

Zeng Anmin nodded lightly, then waved his hand casually.

He then took Guanglingzi back into his sea of ​​consciousness.

"Let me look at the moon a little longer..."

Guanglingzi had been holding back for far too long.

But before he could finish speaking, Zeng Anmin had already put it away.

……

Zeng Anmin was left alone in the courtyard again.

"So, does that mean the person behind this child trafficking case has a very close relationship with the Taoist sect?"

Zeng Anmin narrowed his eyes slightly.

Guang Lingzi is a Taoist master of talismans.

But there is more than just one Taoist sect in this world: the Fu Sect.

There's also... the Sword Sect.

"Sword Sect..."

Zeng Anmin's eyes gleamed with a sharp light.

"It really is a case of one act ending and another beginning."

“All sorts of oxen, snakes, ghosts, and gods have come.”

He slowly raised his head, his gaze fixed on the moon, then his expression stiffened slightly:
"How did you come?"

Directly in front of him stood a figure in flowing white robes.

The sword at his waist was incomparably sharp.

Her golden hair danced in the wind.

A strong smell of cheapness hit me.

Who else could it be but Bai Ziqing?

"Didn't you ask me to come?"

Bai Ziqing glanced at Zeng Anmin, then lightly leaped off the roof.

“Pada~”

It then gently landed in front of Zeng Anmin.

Stop showing off, I can do that too.

Zeng Anmin couldn't help but mutter a complaint to himself.

But he knew he was on business and didn't say anything discouraging.

"How's the check going?"

Zeng Anmin raised an eyebrow and looked at Bai Ziqing.

He hadn't forgotten that when they parted, he had asked him to investigate the case of the missing children on the tenth of the week.

"promise."

Bai Ziqing handed over a thick book:
"All the child abduction cases over the years are here."

"There are only records of the capital city and the surrounding prefectures and counties."

"I must say we're pretty lucky. The Court of Judicial Review and the Ministry of Justice just came to the Imperial City Guard to deliver the case files the day before yesterday. This is the latest one."

"Okay, you can sit down and have some tea first."

After Zeng Anmin took the book, he opened it by the moonlight and examined it carefully.

"Where's the tea?" Bai Ziqing rolled his eyes speechlessly, sat down opposite Zeng Anmin, and crossed his legs.

Zeng Anmin didn't have time to pay attention to him; he was busy flipping through the records.

"Ten Spirit Days..."

Zeng Anmin flipped through it bit by bit:

"More than twenty years ago..."

This thick book records a 20-year-long case of missing children.

Zeng Anmin was, after all, a Confucian scholar, and he read books extremely quickly.

"Swish, swish, swish~" The only sound in the courtyard was the sound of Zeng Anmin turning the pages of a book.

After a long while, Zeng Anmin put down the records in his hand.

He looked up at Bai Ziqing.

"How about it?"

When Bai Ziqing saw the sound of turning pages stop, he quickly looked up and gazed at Zeng Anmin with great anticipation.

"From more than 20 years ago to this year."

"There was no pattern to the missing children cases in the first eleven years."

“But starting nine years ago, the missing children began to follow a pattern…” Zeng Anmin’s eyes gleamed with a sharp light:
"What pattern?" Bai Ziqing was overjoyed and stared intently at Zeng Anmin, afraid of missing any useful information.

"In the first four years, twelve to thirteen children of the tenth day of the week would go missing each year, and the pattern was once a month."

"For some unknown reason, the pattern was disrupted for a year in the middle, and only one of the ten Souls' Day children was lost." "Then, after four years, the pattern was restored, occurring once a month."

Zeng Anmin squinted: "I speculate that some special event must have occurred in that middle year, causing the mastermind behind it to stop trafficking children from the Ten Souls' Days."

"Bai Zihua said in his confession that he was paid 500 taels of silver by the mastermind behind the abduction of a child."

"This proves from another angle that the person behind the child trafficking is definitely not after money, because he has money in his hands!"

"In the capital, money often means power."

"Moreover, Bai Zihua has the backing of the Bai family. Although he is a collateral branch of the family, the government is generally unwilling to investigate him, and it is difficult for the Bai family to notice him. Therefore, he is the most suitable candidate."

"This means that the mastermind behind the scenes knows the Bai family very well."

"Such a deep understanding of the Bai family also proves that the person behind the scenes wields considerable power."

“Ordinary families could never possibly know so much about the Bai family.”

At this point, Zeng Anmin slowly stood up, a glint of shrewdness in his eyes:
"Now, all we need to do is investigate what happened five years ago, the year the pattern of missing children became so erratic, and which powerful figures were affected. That will give us a high probability of identifying the mastermind behind it all!"

After this analysis...

Reasonable and well-founded.

Be methodical.

Bai Ziqing was thrilled by what he heard.

He stood up abruptly: "Tell me how you want to investigate! I'm happy to do the legwork!"

Bai Ziqing has a clear understanding of his own position.

He's never been one to use his brain.

Especially after listening to Zeng Anmin's analysis, he knew that he would never be able to use his own brain in this lifetime.

The gap is really too big.

"Two directions."

Zeng Anmin stopped hesitating and directly held up two fingers:

"First, investigate the personnel changes of Beijing officials five years ago."

"Second, investigate what major events related to the unrest occurred five years ago."

"As long as we can find out the truth about these two things, we can follow the clues to find out who's behind it all..."

"And this person is very likely the murderer who killed Xiang Wangxian!"

Zeng Anmin squinted his eyes:
"Xiang Wangxian was the Imperial City's Chief Compass Officer, no fool. He must have also investigated this far, which is why he was silenced!"

"I'll go check right now!"

Bai Ziqing was already impatient!
He felt a bit excited.

Even a little eager to try.

"I will go with you."

Without any hesitation, Zeng Anmin followed Bai Ziqing, and the two traveled together towards the Imperial City Division.

……

Imperial City Bureau of Secret Documents.

As the two sat down and slowly flipped through the pile of records on the table, the sky was already beginning to lighten.

Neither of them showed any impatience, and they flipped through the pages extremely quickly.

Time passed little by little.

The oil lamp on the table slowly went out.

Suddenly, the rooster crowed!
The sky was getting bright.

The moonlight transformed into sunlight, streaming through the windows of the secret archive.

"call!"

"Five years ago, His Majesty's power was extremely stable."

"With the assistance of Grand Secretary Li Zhen, the court was purged, the Jiang Kingdom was established in the south, and the demon tribes were defended in the north."

Zeng Anmin slowly organized the records he had read through, bit by bit.

"Send Ji Qing, the head of the Imperial City Guard, and the dean of Qilin Academy to the north to fight the demons."

"Zeng Shilin, the former Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, has been assigned to Fengqi Road..."

"Some officials have been dismissed from their posts, while others have been sent out of Beijing."

"But let's not talk about these fallen officials; they didn't have the ability to continue the human trafficking case for another four years."

"Of the officials sent out of the capital... there were seven. Three have already passed away, and the remaining four... their official ranks are too low to fit the clue that they know the Bai family very well..."

Zeng Anmin's lips twitched slightly:

"So now, it's just Ji Qing, Dean Shi, and my father..."

These three people...

Why is my dad being dragged into this again?

(End of this chapter)