Chapter 144: A secret visit to the pleasure house!
Murong Che put his hands behind his back and was silent for a long time before he whispered his guess, "If these children are not dead, they should find ways to escape. But in the past few years, the government has never received any reports of children escaping, and none of the people who lost their children have found their children, so I think the possibility of them being alive is very small."
"If the perpetrator just wanted to kill these children, wouldn't it be better to kill them on the spot? Why go to all the trouble to kidnap them first?" Xue Youli thought about it and was more inclined to the latter guess. "I think it's more likely that the children are alive."
[Since Murong Ye is the man behind this, he must have a bigger plan for arresting these children! But what exactly is his plan? ]
[He doesn't want to lock these children together and let them kill each other, so that only one person can walk out alive? And the living child will become the most loyal knife in his hand, assassinating those who stand on the opposite side of him. ]
No!
Xue Youli changed his mind and rejected his own guess on the spot.
[The age range of the missing children is quite large. If a teenager were to fight with a teenager, the teenager would probably not be able to withstand even one move. Moreover, it is too late to start training a killer now.]
[To train a child from a helpless chicken to a murder tool, not only does it take a lot of effort to train them, but it also takes a huge amount of time. Murong Ye probably doesn't have the patience to wait for ten or eight years.]
[Besides this, there is only one possibility left. Could it be that he took those children... No! Impossible! Murong Ye is the male protagonist after all, he shouldn't do such a cruel and disgusting thing! ]
Xue Youli suddenly remembered that before she entered the novel, Chu Xinyue had told her about a piece of news from abroad that shocked the world.
No, no, no! She must be overthinking it!
No matter how bad the protagonist in a novel is, he would never do such a crazy thing!
Murong Che listened to her tangled and contradictory thoughts and couldn't help but be curious. What was the plot she was talking about? What was this crazy thing?
"Ali, why do you think the child is more likely to be alive?"
Xue Youli hesitated for a moment and did not answer his question directly. Instead, he thought of the key point that could prove his conjecture, "Your Majesty, tomorrow I will trouble you to ask the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple to see if they have the portraits of the missing children."
Murong Che raised his eyebrows and asked her in confusion, "What do you want a portrait of the child for?"
Xue Youli replied, "Only after I have seen the portrait can I be sure whether my guess is correct."
[I hope my guess is wrong, and I also hope those children don’t look too good. ]
When Murong Che heard her inner thoughts, his expression changed.
He vaguely guessed what Murong Ye wanted to do with these children.
During the reign of the previous emperor, princes and nobles lived a luxurious life, and many of them kept male paramours in their homes in pursuit of excitement.
After he ascended the throne, he severely punished this gang of people and thought that the evil tendencies had been eradicated. However, he did not expect that some people were still doing these shameful activities behind the scenes!
"Tomorrow I will ask the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple for a collection of portraits of missing children."
"Okay." Xue Youli responded, paused, and looked up at the man again, "Does the emperor want hypnosis today?"
Murong Che shook his head, "No, you've been working hard these past few days, go to bed early today."
During the autumn hunting trip to Longshou Mountain, he knew that Xue Youli was very particular about her bed and didn't sleep well every night, so he wanted her to have a good rest tonight.
"Your Majesty, in addition to entertaining Nanzhao envoys every day, you also have to deal with state affairs. You are the one who is really hard-working. I cannot share your worries, and of course I cannot hold you back."
Xue Youli was not sleepy at all. Instead, she thought of another thing, "By the way, have the two princesses of Nanzhao Kingdom not chosen their ideal husbands yet?"
Murong Che replied, "Not yet. After all, this is a life-long event. Both princesses want to be cautious, so I promised to give them another half a month. Maybe someone among the princes and ministers in the capital will be able to catch their eye."
"Your Majesty is wise."
After half a month, the puppet dragon started to attack.
Once the puppet dragon invades Lan Zheng's brain, she will be a living dead.
It is better not to harm the young talents of Jiuzhou.
"The two princesses of Nanzhao have high standards. If they can find a satisfactory husband, I will help them find a husband. If they don't like the men of Jiuzhou, I will not force them to stay."
"It's because of the emperor's benevolence, otherwise Lan Zheng and Lan Luo, as princesses of the defeated country, would have no choice. It's the king of Nanzhao who didn't teach his two daughters well about the marriage. He wasn't sincere at all." After muttering, Xue Youli climbed directly onto the bed.
However, after she lay down, she was still thinking about Murong Ye and the missing child.
Murong Che listened to her noisy thoughts and simply pulled her into his arms, "Okay, I'm tired, let's go to sleep."
"Um."
Xue Youli agreed verbally, but in fact she couldn't sleep at all.
She stayed up until the early morning, then quickly summoned the Book of Heaven's Secrets.
[Where were those children imprisoned by Murong Ye? ]
When she was chatting with Murong Che, she didn't dare to think about the worst, but when she was lying on the bed, the more she thought about it, the clearer her mind became, and she came to a conclusion in her heart.
After the Secret Book came online again, four large characters were written on the page: [In the Pleasure House. ]
Looking for a pleasure house?
Just from the name, it doesn't sound like a serious place.
Xue Youli asked again: [Where is the Xunhuan Building? What kind of place is it? ]
The Secret Book: [The Xunhuanlou is located in the most bustling fireworks street in the capital. It is a well-known den of money. It is owned by Tang Renyi, a minister in the court. However, most of the money earned by the Xunhuanlou went into Murong Ye's pocket.]
Xue Youli: [What about those missing children? What did Murong Ye do to them?]
The Secret Book: [They all became Murong Ye's tools to make money. ]
It is indeed like that!
Even though Xue Youli had guessed the result long ago, when she saw the answer in the Book of Heaven's Secrets, she was still so angry that she wanted to tear Murong Ye apart with her bare hands.
This scumbag!
We must get him offline as soon as possible!
She was angrily thinking in her heart how to tell Murong Che the whereabouts of the missing child tomorrow.
As she got more and more angry, her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and she slowly fell asleep.
Murong Che, who was lying on the side of the big bed, listened to the light and steady breathing of the person in his arms and gently poked her arm twice, "Ali? Ali?"
Seeing that she was sleeping soundly, Murong Che lifted the quilt and got out of bed quietly.
After he put on his clothes, he walked out of the bedroom, bypassed the eunuch who was patrolling the courtyard, and entered the empty side hall.
Knock knock knock!
Murong Che walked to the window of the side hall and knocked three times on the windowsill, neither light nor heavy.
Soon, a black figure appeared outside the window as fast as lightning.
When the black shadow landed on the ground, there was not even any sound, which shows how exquisite his lightness skill was.
"emperor!"
The visitor Xuan Ming bowed his head immediately after meeting Murong Che's gaze.
"Do something for me."
Murong Che said succinctly, "I need you to go to a pleasure house tonight."
"Pleasure House?" Xuan Ming thought he had heard wrongly.
In the capital, every man knows about brothels.
The girls there are prettier and more charming than those in other brothels.
However, not just anyone can enter the brothel. If you want to enter the brothel, you have to pay fifty taels of wine first.
"I'm not asking you to go in and have fun. Recently, many children in the capital have gone missing for no reason. Some people suspect that those children are hidden in pleasure houses. You should secretly investigate whether the missing children are locked up in pleasure houses."
"yes!"