When Duan Qianqiu arrived at Qingluan Palace, it was already a sparse moon. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Empress Dowager Huayi's Ronghe Palace is the quietest, most magnificent, and most livable in the harem, but the place where she stays most often is not Ronghe Palace, but the Qingluan Palace of Gaoyang Princess Yang Yuxin.

Because she is already an old man in her nineties, she is bored at night, and she especially wants to talk to someone, especially when she sees things and thinks about people.

Yang Yaxin is the most favored by her among so many princesses and princes, and she is also the person she is most willing to confide in.

Yang Yixin doesn't talk much on weekdays, and she is not a very patient person, if she doesn't have an appetite for one thing, when she hears half of it, even if she doesn't brush her sleeves away, she will probably wander out of the world.

But for the Empress Dowager Huayi's chatter, no matter how long-winded and boring she was, she seemed extremely patient.

It's not that she wants to deliberately please the Queen Mother, so she will do this flattering thing, but because she lost her mother since she was a child, in this harem, only the Queen Mother Huayi regards her as a pearl in her hand, and she has a very natural sense of closeness to the Queen Mother.

When she was young, Yang Heng had all the opportunities, sometimes it was rare to come and see it for a month, and Yang Yuxin's big and small matters in the harem were handled by the Empress Dowager Huayi, from the matching of headdresses and clothes, to the arrangement of poetry and calligraphy, to the width of each step required of the ladies when learning the etiquette in the palace, Huayi took care of it like a meticulous mother to the extreme.

Yang Yixin's lack of family affection after the loss of her mother has all been compensated by the Empress Dowager Huayi, so her feelings for the Empress Dowager Huayi are as irreplaceable as she is for her mother Wan Yanrong, who has been lost since she was a child.

When he walked along the brightly lit stone steps of the palace into Qingluan Palace, Duan Qianqiu saw that the Empress Dowager Huayi was crying!

Yang Heng is a filial son, and when he saw his mother grieving, he stayed aside and persuaded him for a while, but the Empress Dowager Huayi cried even more, and Yang Heng was at a loss for a while, so he paced in the hall. A worried look.

Yang Yuxin sat next to the Queen Mother, put her arm around her shoulder, and patted her gently, as if coaxing a child.

Duan Qianqiu entered the palace. was about to step forward and kneel down to worship Yang Heng, but saw Yang Heng wave his hand and said, "Excuse me, excuse me, you came just in time for a thousand hatreds." I'll see you do it. Just right. ”

Before Duan Qianqiu's words of "Long live, long live, long live" were not spoken, when he heard Yang Heng's words, his heart began to beat the drum, and he knelt down and asked, "Weichen dares to ask the emperor, what is it?"

Yang Heng waved his hand at Zhou Dunyu beside him and said, "You come and talk to Duan Qianqiu." Then he took his hands behind his back and continued to pac the temple.

Yang Yuxin, who was sitting on the couch and supporting the Empress Dowager Huayi, spoke at this time, only to hear her say to the Empress Dowager Huayi: "Grandma, don't cry, my father is looking for someone to investigate this case, don't worry, Sister Xiaoyi and Xia He can be recovered!"

Duan Qianqiu heard a string of women's names. Hearing the sad cry of the Queen Mother, her head became a little bigger.

Zhou Dunyu said to him in his usual indifferent tone: "Lord Duan, here's how it ......."

It turns out that in the past few months, there have been many cases of missing girls in Yehuang City, and unlike other daily cases, once these girls disappeared, there was no kidnapping and blackmail information, just like a stone sinking into the sea, evaporating from the world, and there was no news.

These girls are famous. They are all the pearls in the palm of some powerful eunuchs, and their status is respected. Therefore, so many people disappeared in a short period of time, and the impact was extremely bad, so that everyone in the court who had daughters in the court was in danger.

This is the case. Just like the case of the prince of Jiuyou and the murder of Yan Song in the capital at that time, the pressure of psychological level and public opinion was even more terrifying.

The three law divisions plus the Southern Guards failed to solve the case within Yang Heng's limited date. All three officers have now been demoted and retained. If the case cannot be solved again, it will be punished for dereliction of duty and imprisoned in the Criminal Department.

Tang Xiaoyi, the sister of Xiaoyi that Yang Yuxin said, is a famous beauty in Yehuang City, and she is also the granddaughter of Mrs. Huayang, the queen mother's own sister.

The relationship between the two families is very strong, often contacted, Mrs. Huayang will live in Ronghe Palace when she is free, eat fasting and chant Buddha with the Empress Dowager Huayi, and talk about family life, and the Empress Dowager Huayi will often ask her personal maid Xia He to send some food in the palace to the Tang Mansion.

Sometimes, Xia He is greedy for fun, and even plays in the Tang Mansion for a day or two before returning to the palace, and every time Tang Xiaoyi will personally send him back to the palace.

This time too. Tang Xiaoyi personally sent Xia He back to Ronghe Palace. However, after the two came out of the Tang Mansion, they never returned to Ronghe Palace, but disappeared halfway. It has been a month since this happened, and when she heard that her granddaughter had an accident, Mrs. Huayang was sad after hearing the news, and she almost wanted to commit suicide, and came to the Ronghe Palace of the Empress Dowager Huayi many times to cry, and the Empress Dowager Huayi cried every time, and she came and went, and gave birth to a serious illness.

If the previous case of the disappearance of the ladies can be regarded as an ordinary robbery case, then this time even the emperor's relatives and the women in the palace dared to do it, which is a matter of the dignity of the imperial court and the honor and disgrace of the Son of Heaven.

So this time, even Yang Heng couldn't sit still.

Originally, Li Cunxu, the general of the Southern Guard, was the best person to handle such cases, but he is now helping Dou Jiande collect enemy intelligence in the counterinsurgency battle in Jiannan Province, and the stakes are so important that he cannot leave.

Zhou Dunyu is shrewd and capable, and his martial arts are outstanding, but what he is good at is the responsibility of guarding the guards, which is not suitable.

Yang Heng examined all the people available in the court, but felt that Duan Qianqiu, who had the least qualifications, was the most suitable candidate.

Duan Qianqiu's errand of maritime appeasement in Dengzhou Mansion was only to borrow grain from local grain merchants on the surface, but in fact to recruit pirates, Duan Qianqiu was still able to accurately judge the main point of the problem in a complex environment where various forces were intricate and mutually contained, and his performance was amazing. Zheng Yangwang, Zhou Dunyu, and Wang Xiaojie, who went to Dengzhou Mansion with him on an errand, spoke highly of Duan Qianqiu.

When Yang Heng asked Zhou Dunyu for advice, he immediately recommended Duan Qianqiu to investigate the case.

Zhou Dunyu's proposal is against Yang Heng, because at present, in Yehuang City, there are people who are capable and courageous, act informally, and are not bound by the rules, in Yang Heng's opinion, there is only Duan Qianqiu.

This kind of mystery that seems to have no clues can only be solved by finding people who are not eclectic.

Duan Qianqiu could only smile bitterly at Yang Heng's "love", and he thought to himself: "You also think too highly of me." When I came back from Dengzhou Mansion, I didn't even breathe, and I pushed a bunch of tricky things to me so quickly!"

After Zhou Dunyu finished introducing the case, Yang Heng walked to the bottom of the stairs, looked at Duan Qianqiu and said, "Duan Aiqing, are you sure about this case?"

"No!" Duan Qianqiu said truthfully.

Yang Heng frowned and said, "Not at all?"

"Not at all!"

Hearing Duan Qianqiu say this, Yang Yuxin also looked at his side.

"Why?"

"First of all, if it is handled as a disappearance case, presumably the Three Law Divisions and the Criminal Arrest Division of Yehuang City have already checked all kinds of clues, but there is still nothing, then there are only two explanations for the whereabouts of the victims?"

Seeing that Duan Qianqiu began to analyze the case, the Queen Mother also stopped crying and began to listen attentively.

"What are the two explanations?" Yang Heng asked. (To be continued.) )