Chapter 446: Complexity
But in this world, we always try to be safe rather than unsafe.
No matter how much Lu Zhiheng didn't want to believe it, his subconscious had already betrayed him.
Emperor Qinglong's behavior in investigating the missing baby girl case was really too strange.
He was an emperor whose subjects suddenly disappeared in large numbers.
It is neither moral nor logical for him to sit idly by.
But Emperor Qinglong did just that.
Not only did he turn a blind eye to this, he even went out of his way to prevent others from investigating. Even the people from the Dali Temple who wanted to conduct a thorough investigation were stopped by him.
It's really too weird.
Just like what happened during the snow disaster in Yingzhou.
It was just that when Yingzhou suffered a snow disaster, Lu Zhiheng and Su Tan raised a huge amount of money on their own. They did not rely too much on the court's disaster relief grain, nor did they rely on the court for funding. Only then did Emperor Qinglong's expression improve a little and he was willing to look at them in a good light.
But now, in the case of the missing baby girl, Emperor Qinglong behaved in the same way again.
Lu Zhiheng was unwilling to doubt his father.
But he was just thinking that perhaps Emperor Qinglong, like before, just didn't want to spend too much manpower and material resources on this matter.
He might just be thinking that instead of investing so much money, he might as well buy some rare medicinal herbs to make his own pills.
Su Tan thought more than Lu Zhiheng.
Su Tan frowned quietly.
She reminded Lu Zhiheng: "Your Highness, you might as well ask your confidant to investigate that Master surnamed Ye and see if he has any unusual movements recently."
"It would be best to focus on investigating whether Master Ye's behavior was abnormal before and after the baby girls disappeared."
Like Su Tan and Lu Zhiheng, he did not immediately think about the strangeness of Emperor Qinglong.
To be precise, they did not think that the real murderer was Emperor Qinglong.
After all, a person in power, a supreme ruler, no matter how cruel he is, would not suddenly fall ill and start kidnapping and killing baby girls without restraint.
This really does not benefit Emperor Qinglong at all.
People will never do business at a loss.
Not to mention Emperor Qinglong, the almighty monarch.
Lu Zhiheng nodded slowly.
Whatever Su Tan said, he would do as she instructed.
He wasn't suspicious of Su Tan's sudden request to investigate Master Ye, but simply asked, "Do you think this matter is related to Master Ye?"
"Do you suspect he is the culprit behind the disappearance of those baby girls?"
Su Tan was silent for a moment, and finally said "hmm".
"I don't want to think this way, but what has happened recently has forced me to start doubting this so-called master."
Master Ye had just arrived in the town, and he had just bewitched Li Lanjuan and her family and tortured and killed Li Lanjuan's newborn child.
Later, the body of Li Lanjuan's child, who was killed at birth, was severely damaged and the internal organs in his stomach disappeared.
And Master Ye also happened to leave the town.
It just so happened that Emperor Qinglong also sent him to investigate the matter.
How could there be so many coincidences in all these things?
Although there are always coincidences in this world, Su Tan always feels that this coincidence is a bit deliberate.
Like Lu Zhiheng, she felt that Emperor Qinglong sat on the throne for too long, to the point of being annoying, so long that people wanted to pull him off the throne.
But she still felt that Emperor Qinglong was not as cruel as she and Lu Zhiheng thought.
A monarch at least would not be so cruel and kill his own people.
If he just wanted to satisfy his so-called perverted sadistic desires, there would be plenty of death row prisoners in the Dali Temple prison for Emperor Qinglong to torture.
The people imprisoned there included men, women, young and old, of all kinds.
but--
Su Tan felt that Emperor Qinglong must also know who the real murderer was.
She dropped her eyes.
"Your Majesty has great trust in the so-called Master Ye."
"No matter what the matter is, it is left to Master Ye to do. The dependence and favor towards Master Ye even exceeds that of the Queen."
Although the queen has fallen out of favor, she still has the dignity and respect of a queen.
But even when the Queen was in great favor, she could not be compared with Master Ye today.
Although this analogy is a bit strange, we have to admit that no concubine or prince has ever been trusted so much by Emperor Qinglong.
"Your Highness, don't you find it strange that His Majesty is so obstructive? But if—"
Su Tan's brows were furrowed tightly.
"But what if Your Majesty knew from the beginning that the culprit of this matter was that so-called Master Ye?"
Lu Zhiheng's expression suddenly changed again and again.
He knew that his father might not be able to do such a thing as to brutally kill his own people.
But if the emperor knew who the real murderer was, and if that murderer was extremely favored by the emperor, and even if the emperor couldn't leave that murderer——
Could it be that the emperor would really openly and selflessly push the murderer out?
Lu Zhiheng closed his eyes.
Based on his understanding of Emperor Qinglong, he knew that the other party would definitely not do this.
Although Emperor Qinglong was an emperor, to him, no one in the world could be compared with him.
Even though a large-scale snowstorm occurred in Yingzhou and countless people were displaced, for Emperor Qinglong, this was not as important as taking elixirs.
Lu Zhiheng smiled bitterly twice.
"Master Ye is extremely useful to my father. He cannot do without him. He still needs Master Ye to make some elixir of immortality for him. Even if he knows that the murderer might be Master Ye, he will turn a blind eye."
Even - even my father would help Master Ye clean up his mess and help him cover up his crime.
Sometimes, Qinglong might even try to confuse him and Su Tan, telling them not to trace the matter back to Master Ye no matter what.
wrong!
Lu Zhiheng suddenly realized that something was wrong.
"If Father wanted to protect Master from the beginning and didn't want us to suspect Master Ye, how could such a coincidence happen?"
"We happened to see a baby girl killed because of Master Ye's words."
Isn’t this all too much of a coincidence!
It shouldn't be like this!
"Could it be that we are mistaken? Master Ye might just be a cover. If Father really wanted to protect him, he wouldn't use such a stupid trick?"
After all, anyone with a discerning eye could see that there was something wrong with Master Ye, and then would associate the matter with Master Ye.
"But if—"
Lu Zhiheng couldn't help but frown again.
"But what if this was intentional?"
"What if they're deliberately playing dumb, trying to lead us to suspect Master Ye, and because their trick is so foolish, we subconsciously reject it and start suspecting someone else as the murderer?"
Lu Zhiheng's mind was in a mess, and suddenly he felt that this analysis made sense, and that analysis also made sense.
He had never investigated such a complicated case before, and he never imagined that the people in the Dali Temple were so anxious when handling cases.
Now he also realized the hard work of the people in Dali Temple.
Su Tan shook his head.
She frowned tightly.
His sight suddenly fell on Lu Zhiheng.
"Your Highness, there is something I'm not sure whether I should say."
Lu Zhiheng paused, a bad premonition suddenly rising in his heart. His heart skipped a beat, but he still closed his eyes: "What do you suspect? Just tell me."
"We have walked side by side for such a long time and have experienced many things together. We can be considered comrades-in-arms who have fought side by side."
"There are many things you don't need to hide, and don't worry, I'll get angry if I hear them."
Su Tan slowly exhaled a breath of foul air.
She looked at Lu Zhiheng quietly.
"I'm not worried that Your Highness will be angry after hearing this. I'm just afraid that after hearing what I said, Your Highness will suddenly be unable to accept it."
Lu Zhiheng's brows jumped violently.
His subconscious told him that he didn't want to listen to what Su Tan said.
Because, it is very likely that what Su Tan said would easily shatter his self-deception.
But at this moment, he still knocked his palm hard, forcing himself to speak: "It's okay, just say whatever you want to say."
"Now, what can this king not bear?"
He has been a lonely man for a long time.
He lost his mother and his brother.
He was growing and losing along the way.
The people I wanted to protect in the past, I failed to protect one by one.
If he continues to deceive himself and hide in his shell, he might not even know how he died in the future.
He lowered his eyes and said in a voice that only he and Su Tan could hear, "Since I have decided to fight for that position, there is nothing in this world that I cannot bear."
"Su Tan, just say whatever you want to say."
"Who are you suspecting?"
Su Tan lowered his eyes.
"Your Highness, I'm not suspecting anyone. It's just that what you just said suddenly made me think that maybe the other party isn't chasing me just to be stupid, nor is he doing it on purpose."
"But—"
"The real purpose of the person behind this is to make us suspect Master Ye of this matter, because no matter how we think about it, our focus is always on Master Ye."
I won't think about anyone else anymore.
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