Chapter 26 Joe's Investigation
August 18, 1379.
It's noon.
Located in the southernmost part of the empire, it is on the verge of storm. Tulun Port is hot all year round and very humid. In mid-autumn, at noon, the scorching sun burns Tulun Port, brushing his fanatical power over and over to everyone.
"The terrible weather. Praising the great Mu, the generous Mu is really too generous." Qiao was wearing a black police uniform and sweating all over, like a sled dog who had unfortunately come from the northern border to the south, panting, moving step by step.
The copper high-top police helmet had long been thrown to Billy who was following him.
Billy, who was not as tall as Joe, but more round, was also breathing, holding two police helmets in his hand, sweat flowing down his forehead and neck, and his upper uniform was already wet.
"Not that, terrible weather." Billy touched the bandage tied to his forehead and followed Joe with difficulty: "But, wise boss, can return to you, no matter how bad the weather is, it will be great."
Joe nodded vigorously, reached out and patted Billy on the shoulder: "Of course, following me will have your benefits."
In the Zhongqiu bloody case, although all the five police officers under Qiao survived, the other four were seriously injured and were still lying in the hospital of Yingui Church. They were unable to move without half a year.
Only Billy, the lucky guy, had just a little skin on his forehead and some hearing damage.
As soon as Joe greeted him, Billy returned to Joe's side as soon as possible.
There are few people on the streets, and the richer people are more afraid of death. In extraordinary times, the citizens of Tulun Port have fewer outings. On the streets, there are only some people dressed in servants, hurriedly carrying various daily necessities.
There were more than twenty more guards from the Vitu family, both sides and left.
They held cigarettes in their mouths and pretended to be ordinary passers-by, separated from Qiao for a certain distance, and followed Qiao slowly.
Looking at these loyal and reliable guards, Qiao subconsciously touched the wound where he was pierced by the pointed iron rod of the Highlander on the evening of the fifteenth.
If he had followed these loyal and reliable family guards that night, the four damn Highlanders would have been chopped into meat sauce as soon as possible, and the next day they would have been made into bait and taken to the sea to fish for sharks.
He wiped his nose in disappointment, and Qiao lowered his head and asked Billy: "Billy, if you have time, you will ask. When is the police station recruiting auxiliary police officers from outside this year? I lack people and reliable people at my hands. Do you understand?"
Billy nodded busyly: "Don't worry, wise boss, I understand."
He looked at the guards of the Vitu family who pretended to be passers-by and followed without saying a word. Billy murmured: "Boss, it is the grace of the kind Muteste who can follow you. I am so lucky."
Qiao laughed "hahaha" and he took a breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and continued to move forward in a mess.
The second old pier, the intersection of Feiyu Street and Sardine Street, Lily House.
This is a three-storey building with an ambiguous pink exterior wall, surrounded by bars, restaurants and small hotels of not very high grades. The alleys here are intertwined, the terrain is complex, and the flow of people is huge. Those who appear here on weekdays are sailors, fishermen, porters, and all kinds of people who come to Tulun Port to make a living.
Lily House is the highest-end prostitute around Feiyu Street.
The wine here is not mixed with water; the bed here is very spacious; the girls here are hot, direct, and never shy.
So Lily's House's business is very good. More sailors who traveled to the ocean would come to Lily's House as soon as they returned to Tulun Port. They would not be able to remember the last silver coin on their body, and they would leave reluctantly.
Walking into the small yard in front of Lily's house and bypassing a small fountain, Billy put on his tin-plate police helmet, and the oak baton in his hand stumbling on the door a few times.
"Open the door in the name of the law!" Billy scolded loudly.
The young woman's scream came from the door, and then there was a slight chaos.
Soon, a fierce voice floated out through the door: "Police, what's the terrible thing about the police? Our Lily House operates legally and pays taxes according to law. Not to mention the police, the mayor of Tulun Port is here..."
Amid the fierce scolding, the door was opened with a 'rattle'. A beautiful woman in her forties dressed up in a big red dress, probably could have a beautiful woman in her forties holding her head up and suddenly poking her head out of the door.
"Police...Police..." The woman who widened her eyes, tense her face, was about to tear Billy like a cockfighting, saw Joe at first glance, and her voice suddenly lowered several times.
"Ah, great Mu, it's incredible. The noble Master Qiao, how could you come to the poor Lily House? Oh, am I dreaming? Is the radiance of the kind Muteste shining on Lily House?"
The beautiful woman held her hands on her chest, and the expression on her face was even more pious, affectionate, warm and full of love than the nuns of Yingui Church.
Lily House is not afraid of a little policeman like Billy. He can be the leader in the Fengyue industry around Feiyu Street. Who doesn’t have three or five backers or five or six friends?
But Joe...
The beautiful woman Lily remembered the terrible scene when she first met Joe.
It was five years ago, a sailor from the Ritto House of Rose Chamber of Commerce was jealous of Lily House and a sailor from the Turing House. The two sides fought. The sailor from the Ritto House was less likely to suffer losses and his collarbone was broken.
A quarter of an hour later, Qiao surrounded Lily House with hundreds of sailors from Vitu family. The sailors of the Turing family and more than a dozen sailors were directly interrupted [Biqudao.xyz] and threw their limbs into the sea. If it weren't for the timely rescue of the water police force in Tulun Port, it would have caused a life.
Lily smiled, smiled extremely gently, and carefully welcomed Joe, Billy, and more than twenty Vitu's guards into Lily's House.
Two little maids curled up in the corner of the first-floor lobby, pulling a rope as thick as a thumb.
In the middle of the hall, a huge fan was stirred by the little maid, causing a cool breeze to the hall.
Qiao let go of several buttons of his uniform and sat on a sofa with a 'bang' sound.
He fanned his face with his palm, staring straight at Lily, who was standing in front of Jin Xiaoshenwei, smiling and unable to move: "Ah, let it go, Mrs. Lily, many great guys from the Rose Chamber of Commerce have said good things about you, don't worry, I'm not here to make trouble."
Lily's expression suddenly became much more relaxed. She had a lot of experience and could see that Joe was indeed not here to make trouble.
After taking the blue and white porcelain cup handed over by the maid, he carefully placed a cup of black tea with sugar and milk on the small round table beside Qiao. Lili smiled charmingly and said, "Oh, noble Master Qiao, with your identity, how could you come to trouble the little Lili's House?"
With a smile of 'hee', Lily slipped out a playful word professionally: "If you want to make trouble, you have to find pink mermaids, right?"
Joe and Billy's faces froze.
Lily's smile suddenly froze, and she trembled. I'm afraid that this was slap on the horse's leg?
Billy touched the gauze wrapped around his head and laughed dryly: "Mrs. Lily, I heard that No. 13 and No. 14, two consecutive nights, a group of Highlanders came to you?"
Mrs. Lily turned her eyes and said instinctively: "Highlanders? What kind of Highlanders? Haha, how is it possible here..."
This is the professional instinct developed by Mrs. Lily and her colleagues. If you meet a policeman, no matter what the police say or ask, her answers are all - "I don't know", "I don't know", "I haven't heard of", "Haha, you must be joking"!
But today, she met Joe.
The police in Tulun Port would not be too out of style for a beauty like Mrs. Lily who has a certain background and still has charm.
But Joe, he is not a serious policeman!
Qiao pulled out the double-tube flintlock gun from his waist and aimed at the crystal chandelier in the middle of the roof of the hall, which cost at least three thousand gold coins.
Standing on both sides of the sofa, more than twenty guards of the Vitu family pulled out the swords at their waists and put on a fierce look, ready to help Lili's house renovate for the second time.
"Yesterday, our respected Chief Stein shot and shattered their large chandelier at the Navy Club. Dear Chief, he is a model for all police officers in the Tulum Port Police Station... I must learn from him well!"
Qiao Wei shook the musket in his hand slightly.
Mrs. Lily immediately put away her smiling face, raised her hands quickly, and said extremely serious, "That's right, No. 13 and No. 14, a group of highlanders, dirty, smelly, full of sheep smell, and bargained, forcing me to give them 20% off, and forced me to give me a bottle of silver label rum!"
"Poor, stingy, and fierce. Moreover, they probably have never seen a girl in their lifetime. The Tris and the others who entertained them have been tortured and have not yet gotten up yet!"
Mrs. Lily said angrily: "Mr. Qiao, this deal, Lily's House has... lost a lot of money!"
She gritted her teeth and quickly glanced over the black uniforms of Joe and Billy: "Did they commit a crime? Ah, I knew at a glance that they were just a group of short-lived ghosts who should be on the gallows. What did they do?"
In a sudden moment, Mrs. Lily remembered the source of all the chaos in Tulun Port these two days.
She was so scared that she thrust all over and thrust her whole body, and she slammed on Qiao's knees with a bang: "Dear Mr. Qiao, Lily's House is innocent... We have nothing to do with them..."
Mrs. Lily's impulse scared Joe. With a "bang", he subconsciously pulled the trigger, and the crystal chandelier on the ceiling was beaten to pieces.
There was a 'crash' sound, and seven or eight muskets stood on Mrs. Lily's head at the same time, and more than a dozen swords were placed on her neck.
‘Hire’…
Chapter completed!