Chapter 143 Something happened again?
"The Emperor has arrived—"
Murong Che's procession came from Zicheng Palace, and everyone in Shuiyuexuan and Jinghua Pavilion knelt in the courtyard to welcome the emperor.
"Everyone, stand up."
Murong Che stepped into the yard, without even glancing at anyone else, he walked straight up to Xue Youli and helped her up from the ground.
"I have something to tell you, let's go."
He leaned close to Xue Youli's ear, whispered something, then took her hand and strode towards Shuiyuexuan's bedroom.
Murong Che didn't even glance at anyone else during the entire process.
After everyone left, Lu Luo walked up to Duan Cainv and helped her up, "Master."
Duan Cainv's eyes fell on her face and she asked softly, "Did you see it clearly just now?"
"Ah?" Lu Luo was confused for a moment, not understanding her nonsensical question, "Master, what do you want me to see clearly?"
Duan Cainu met her puzzled look and slowly replied, "Didn't you notice? From the moment the emperor appeared, there was no one else in his eyes except Concubine Xue."
Lu Luo had indeed not paid attention just now, but after hearing her words, she subconsciously looked up in the direction where Murong Che and Xue Youli left.
The two of them walking away hand in hand from behind did not look like an emperor and his concubine, but more like a loving young couple.
The setting sun cast its last rays of light on them, coating them in a warm golden halo.
At this time, the man slightly side-glanced, said something to Xue Youli, and then smiled. In the dim light, his exquisite and perfect profile seemed to be softened.
Seeing this scene, Lu Luo was really shocked.
In her impression, Murong Che was cold and majestic, and she had never seen the emperor smile.
It turns out that the emperor can also laugh, but his laugh is only for Concubine Xue.
No wonder Duan Cainü, although she lived in the most advantageous place, never thought of competing for favor.
Because Murong Che's feelings for Xue Youli are completely different from those for other concubines.
There was such a harmonious relationship between them that there was no room for a third person to come in.
…
Xue Youli was holding Murong Che's hand, and she was worried in her heart.
She thought over and over again, secretly guessing what Murong Che wanted to tell her.
After the two entered the house, she was about to ask a question, but Murong Che had already put away the smile on his lips and handed her the two memorials that he had kept in his sleeves.
"Look at this."
Xue Youli looked at the memorial, her eyelids twitched, and when she looked up at the man, her face was full of shock, "Your Majesty, the harem is not allowed to interfere in government affairs, what are you doing..."
She had never thought about interfering in politics, but Murong Che seemed to like sharing what happened in the court with her.
Murong Che replied, "One of these memorials was written by your father."
[Did my father make a mistake? It shouldn't be a big mistake that would affect the entire family, right?]
Xue Youli glanced at the man out of the corner of her eye, not missing any change in expression on his handsome face.
She pondered in her heart and asked carefully, "Your Majesty, maybe my father made a mistake in his official duties?"
Murong Che looked at the worried expression on her face and said bluntly, "Both the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice have reported to me several missing persons cases that have occurred in the capital recently. I suspect that these cases are related."
Missing case?
After listening to the man's words, Xue Youli reached out and took the two memorials.
One memorial was submitted by the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, and the other was submitted by her father Xue Huaiyuan.
Both memorials mentioned that several families had recently reported to the authorities that their children had mysteriously disappeared.
While she was reading the memorial, Murong Che said, "The Ministry of Justice received a total of five missing persons cases, and the Dali Temple received four. Two of the missing persons cases overlapped, which means that in just three days, seven children went missing in the capital."
After Xue Youli finished reading the contents of the memorial, he quietly checked the Book of Heavenly Secrets for information about seven missing persons cases in the capital.
The Book of Secrets quickly gave the answer: [The victims of the seven missing cases were all children under the age of thirteen, the oldest was twelve, and the youngest was less than five.]
Xue Youli asked: [Can we find out the murderer and motive? Oh, and I also need to know about the victim’s family situation.]
Secret Book: [The victims were all powerless ordinary people. There were seven perpetrators in the seven cases, and the mastermind behind these perpetrators was the same person.]
Xue Youli's eyes tightened: [Who is it? ]
Three bold and black characters immediately appeared on the Book of Heavenly Secrets: [Murong Ye.]
Is this his doing again?
Why did he arrest so many children?
Book of Secrets: [Host, you have used up all your rights to ask questions today. If you still have questions that have not been answered, please check again tomorrow.]
After this line of words appeared on the page, the Book of Heaven's Secrets disappeared from Xue Youli's sight.
Xue Youli curled her lips when she saw that Tianjishu was offline.
It seems that if we want to further uncover the truth, we need to conduct a deeper investigation.
She stared at the memorial in her hand and was silent for a moment before speaking, "Your Majesty, have the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple investigated the victims' information? I think the same as you, and I also think that these victims are related."
Murong Che replied, "We have checked. These victims are nothing special except that they are all civilians living in the capital."
Xue Youli frowned, looking thoughtful.
Suddenly, an idea came to her mind, "Your Majesty, is it possible that having nothing special is the key to solving this case?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Could it be that human traffickers kidnapped the child and planned to sell it to couples who are unable to have children?"
Whether here or in the real world, human traffickers are an existence that can never be killed off.
Therefore, Xue Youli believed that these people kidnapped the children most likely in order to sell them at a high price.
But Murong Ye is a prince after all. Isn't it a waste of his talent to use his connections to make such shady money?
Murong Che shook his head after hearing her words. "Actually, a few years ago, children were missing in the capital and many places around it. At first, I thought the same as you, that it was the human traffickers who did it, so I ordered the government to investigate the human traffickers, but they tracked for a long time and found no trace of the missing children being transported out of the capital."
Those children seemed to have disappeared into thin air.
Xue Youli's eyelids jumped. "You mean, the abducted child is still in the capital?"
Murong Che shook his head again. "Until those children are found, no one can be sure where they are."
Since ancient times, child abduction has been common.
During the reign of the previous emperor, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple received one or two missing cases every month.
At first, everyone thought it was done by human traffickers, and the late emperor did not take the matter seriously.
The Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court arrested many human traffickers and brought them back for questioning, but only after interrogation did they discover that these missing persons cases were not committed by human traffickers.
Afterwards, they investigated for a long time but could not find any other clues. The missing cases became unsolved cases, and the accumulated files piled up like a mountain.
After so many years, the cases of missing children had been almost forgotten. Until recently, when children went missing frequently, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple realized that these cases might have been committed by the same group of people as in the previous missing cases!
So they wrote a letter together and included this case in the memorial, hoping to attract Murong Che's attention and dispatch personnel to investigate these missing cases.
After listening to Murong Che's words, Xue Youli touched his chin and speculated, "Since the kidnapped children have not left Beijing, there are only two possibilities. Either they have all been killed, or they are hidden in some extremely secret place!"