When Lu Yi first entered the palace, he saw the floor covered with paintings, and they were all landscape paintings.
But that stroke...
It seems to be his wife's style.
"Your Majesty is so elegant that he still has time to appreciate paintings here." Lu Yi said, "You called me back because you have something urgent to discuss, didn't you?"
"An important thing happened in the capital recently." Fan Yuanxi said calmly, "You are so well-informed, you must have heard about it, right?"
"I heard that babies have been missing for several days in a row. Sometimes seven or eight babies were lost in one night, and at least three were lost. So far, there have been forty cases." Lu Yi said, "This is Dali Temple.
You can just leave the affairs of the Dark Law Department, even the Criminal Department, and the Procuratorate to them."
"I have handed over this case to Mr. Xiao Lu," Fan Yuanxi said, "but this case is so weird, and Mr. Xiao Lu is your son, Prime Minister Lu, so I have to let you come back and take charge."
"I believe in Shao Yu's ability. No matter how vicious the black hands in the dark are, my son can handle it. Rather than calling me back to look after this difficult case for him, it's better to let me go to Tongyang City to look at it.
Look at my wife who has been completely used." When Lu Yi mentioned this matter, his eyes were unkind.
"He who can do the hard work. Mrs. Lu is such a wonderful woman. It is really unfair for you to confine her to an ordinary woman in the back house. As the king of a country, for the sake of the people of the world, I will not hesitate to give a city to
Minister’s wife, Prime Minister Lu should be able to understand my good intentions.”
"It's not your daughter-in-law who is suffering, so of course you don't feel sorry for her," Lu Yi said.
Mentioning his wife, Fan Yuanxi's face didn't look good.
Lu Yi looked at him: "I just returned to the capital when I heard that the Queen had a miscarriage. Didn't you find out who was behind this?"
"You don't need to check, you can guess it." Fan Yuanxi said coldly, "King Xuan doesn't really think that all my pets are vegetarians, right?"
His son cannot survive, and neither can King Xuan's son.
"There are rumors outside that you have done too many evil things in the past few years, and now you have been punished by your own flesh and blood. Some people say that the reason why those babies disappeared is because you, the emperor, have made heaven and earth intolerable, and this is your punishment."
Lu Yi said, "It seems that the disappearance of the baby is a big conspiracy against you. If it continues to disappear, more lies will be made to deceive people."
"So, I am anxious to call you back because I want you to help supervise this case. I believe in Mr. Xiao Lu's ability, but with you here, I feel more at ease."
"Okay, I get it."
Lu Yi turned around to leave. Seeing the landscape paintings on the ground, he said, "Are these my wife's paintings?"
"This is the future Tongyang City." Fan Yuanxi looked at the paintings in front of him with admiration. "There are fifty paintings in total. Collect them all and put them together to see what Tongyang City will look like in the future. Do you know if you buy this set of paintings?
How much money did I spend?"
Speaking of this, Fan Yuanxi was so angry that he gritted his teeth.
He wrote to Mu Siyu and asked her to send a complete picture of the future development of Tongyang City, but she was furious. Fortunately, the people under her command had the intelligence to put this series together.
"The fact that the emperor is willing to spend this amount of money shows that it is worth this price."
Lu Yi took another look at the scenery of Tongyang City.
Fan Yuanxi is right when he says that his wife is such a wonderful woman, so she cannot stay in the back house and waste her time. There are so many people in this world who need her, and her existence is a gift from God.
The dark, dirty, and sinister things were all left to him to deal with. Madam just wanted to be a little sun, warming herself and illuminating others.
Lu Yi went to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and heard that Lu Shaoyu was interrogating those people who reported clues. He did not go to the interrogation hall to hear the interrogation, but waited in the study for his return.
An hour later, Lu Shaoyu came out of the interrogation hall.
"Master Xiao Lu, Prime Minister Lu is waiting for you in the study."
"My father is back?" Lu Shaoyu was surprised, "When did this happen? Why didn't I know?"
"I heard he just came back." Yi Jian said beside him, "Originally Mr. Lu was going to Tongyang City, and the emperor was anxious to summon him back. Eight horses died along the way. Mr. Lu must have also
Exhausted."
"It should be for this case." Lu Shaoyu understood clearly, "otherwise my father should go to accompany my mother instead of rushing back to the capital."
He opened the door with a sword, and after Lu Shaoyu entered, he closed the door again.
Lu Yi was looking at the record book of the case.
His eyes were all green, which reminded Lu Shaoyu of what Yi Jian said.
One sword was said to kill eight horses. Since even the horses couldn't bear it, let alone an ordinary person like Lu Yi. If he hadn't kept exercising, he would have fallen before the horses.
"Dad is back, why don't you take a rest first?" Lu Shaoyu poured some tea, "I can handle it here by myself. Dad should take good care of himself."
"Let's talk about the baby case first!" Lu Yi said, "I have learned from your booklet that the oldest of the missing babies is only eight months old, and the youngest is just three days old."
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"These babies are located in various places in the capital, some inside the city and some outside the city. There is the same smell in the homes of the missing babies. Is it supposed to be caused by smoke?"
"I sent people to investigate the scene, and it is indeed the smell of smoke. But so far, I haven't found out what kind of smoke it is. The imperial doctors are also experimenting, but no clues have been found." Lu Shaoyu said,
"Some of the families of the missing babies are ordinary people, some are rich, and there are several official families. Let's not mention the common people and the rich families. There are so many servants in the official families, and they are also stolen. But a watchman said
I accidentally saw a woman walking on the street with a child in her arms. Since the new emperor came to the throne, there has been no curfew in our capital, so he didn't take it seriously."
"The watchman saw a suspicious person. Let's follow this clue and investigate further."
"The watchman didn't see her clearly. He could vaguely tell that she was a woman in her early forties. She was quite tall and strong. Based on his description, I asked the painter to draw a portrait."
Lu Yi looked at the portrait handed over by Lu Shaoyu: "This is a man."
Lu Shaoyu took another closer look. In the portrait drawn based on the watchman's description, the man was wearing a headscarf, covering half of his face, and was hurriedly holding a child.
"The watchman didn't see it clearly. He only described a rough height and shape. Maybe it was wrong with what he saw. This will only be known if the murderer is caught. There was also a servant who discovered the suspicious person. But that person
He was carrying a bundle and disguised himself as an old woman in the house. Then something happened, and the servant finally revealed the matter."
