Chapter 234: Missing Child Case (Part )

At this time, Queen Chen turned to the King of Chu and asked, "Third Brother, is this true?"

Although she was asking about the Princess of Chu, her expression was still cold, as if she was just asking casually.

The King of Chu stood up, bowed and said, "Reporting to the Queen Mother, it is true. The missing child of the Wei family is the late son of Xier's uncle. Xier and the child have always had a deep relationship. His sudden disappearance and his brutal murder have dealt a great blow to Xier.

In a few days, it will be the child's funeral. Xier asked me today if she could go to see her aunt without going to the palace. She is currently in mourning and is afraid of disturbing the happiness of her second brother and second sister-in-law. So I agreed. It was Jingming's negligence that I didn't have time to tell my mother about this in advance."

After saying that, he turned to Su Liuyue, bowed and said, "Second sister-in-law, I apologize to you on behalf of Xier..."

Su Liuyue shook her head and said, "With such a big thing happening at home, it's only natural that Princess Chu can't come."

At this time, Concubine Feng sighed and said, "The child who had an accident recently is not just the Wei family's child. Along with the Wei family's child, there are also... two other children whose bodies were dug out. They are all children who have been missing for more than a month.

Sister You, I remember that among them, there are children from your You family..."

As she spoke, she was looking at the beautiful woman in an orange dress sitting in the first seat on the left.

Su Liuyue had noticed her just now. Although she had a smile on her face, it was a very stiff smile, as if someone had forcibly pulled up the corners of her mouth. In the entire Changchun Palace, she and the Queen had the ugliest expressions.

Just now, when she gave Su Liuyue a jade bracelet as a gift, there was even a hint of obvious hostility in her eyes.

Su Liuyue guessed at that time that she was Concubine You who gave birth to Prince Wei. She was the only one in the entire harem who had such a great grudge against her.

It seemed that Concubine You did not expect that Concubine Feng would suddenly turn the topic to her. Her face turned pale and blue, and she said in a bad tone: "How can they be considered as members of our You family? Previously, our You family and they were in the south and north, and we had no intersection at all.

It’s just that after the emperor ascended the throne, they saw that our You family was favored by the emperor, so they came to recognize us as relatives by force, hoping to get close to our You family!”

She said this so harshly, and although the others looked unhappy, they were not too surprised.

Concubine Feng said somewhat awkwardly: "You can't say that. After all, their family is surnamed You, and several men in their family are officials in the court. When the old man of the You family came to Beijing, they even held a family recognition banquet for several days with great fanfare.

You see, the other missing children all come from powerful families. Who knows, the murderer who kidnapped the child from the You family might actually be targeting the You family where Sister You is..."

As she spoke, seeing that Imperial Concubine You was about to explode, Imperial Concubine Feng quickly changed the subject and said, "I don't mean anything else by saying this, I just... I'm worried that someone is secretly trying to harm Sister You's family..."

Su Liuyue, who had been listening quietly, suddenly asked, "Is that the child from the You family the first one to go missing?"

Concubine Feng was startled and looked at Su Liuyue in surprise, "How did you know?"

Just now, she only said that three children's bodies were dug up in the same place, but she didn't say which child was the first to disappear, right?

Su Liuyue said: "Just now, everyone mentioned that there were four missing children in total. Among them, three children were clearly killed. The child of Concubine Sun's family should have disappeared not long ago. It is still unclear whether he was killed. Therefore, the child of the Sun family should be the last to disappear among the four children.

Among the three children who were killed, one was from the Princess of Chu's family, that is, the Wei family, and one was from the You family. But Concubine Feng just said that except for the You family's child, the other children were all from powerful families.

Although I am not familiar with the You family, I can boldly speculate that the members of the You family whose child was killed did not hold high official positions and could not be considered a big family.

In these cases with a distinct style of the same person, the murderer will have an obvious step-by-step process. Powerful families have many people assigned to look after the children, so it is not easy for the murderer to take the children away. In this case, he will usually choose a good family to attack first, which is also a way for the murderer to practice. "Everyone was stunned.

Especially the concubines in the harem, they would never analyze any murder case in such depth on a normal day. Such creepy things can only be talked about as after-dinner conversation at most.

They didn't even expect that this kind of thing could be analyzed from this perspective!
After Concubine Feng came back to her senses, she couldn't help but sigh with admiration, "I've heard before that the Crown Princess is smart and her ability to solve cases is better than that of the officials in Jingzhao Prefecture. Today I finally saw it! No wonder the Crown Princess was accepted as a student by Princess Changxi.

You are right! In the past month, four children have disappeared one after another. The first one to disappear was the child of the You family, and the child of the Wei family was confirmed missing three days ago!

Because these children were from powerful and wealthy families, this case caused a big stir and even spread to our harem.

It's really pitiful. Those children are around eight or nine years old, and they are all lively and healthy boys. I don't know which beast did such a cruel thing! "

Su Liuyue's eyes turned slightly.

Boys around eight or nine years old… People in ancient times matured precociously, and many children of this age are already very independent-minded.

She originally thought that the missing person might be a younger child.

Moreover, I don’t know if she is too sensitive, but the missing children are all related to the powerful people in the new dynasty...

The others had no idea that Su Liuyue had thought so much about this. While lamenting the brutality of the case, they all praised Su Liuyue's intelligence.

Suddenly, a female voice came from the side, trying to suppress the sharpness in the words, "My cousin's wife is indeed powerful, but to say that my cousin's wife is more powerful than the officials of Jingzhao Prefecture is still a bit exaggerated, right?

But now that my cousin is also the Jingzhao Yin, the people in Jingzhao Prefecture will give my cousin some face. My cousin must have heard a lot about the information of these cases from my cousin. I also want to try to be taken to investigate the case. Cousin, can you take me with you next time you go to Jingzhao Prefecture?"

Su Liuyue's eyes darkened slightly, and she turned to look at Chen Shiya, who was sitting to the lower left of the Queen.

When she came in just now, Empress Chen sent someone to add a seat to her lower left and let Chen Shiya sit there. From all the details, it can be seen that Empress Chen really loved her niece very much.

At this moment, Chen Shiya said such sarcastic words with a well-behaved face, and Queen Chen had no intention of stopping her. She just looked at Su Liuyue with cold eyes.

Upon hearing this, the others couldn't help but look at each other.

Yes, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the Jingzhao Yin, how could he not know the details of this missing case!
No way...the things that the Crown Princess just deduced were all told to her by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in advance, right?

They were actually very skeptical before, how could a girl in seclusion have such an ability to solve the case. But if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wanted to please his sweetheart, so he asked the people of Jingzhao Prefecture to take the Crown Princess to investigate the case and gave all the credit to her, it would make sense.

Su Liuyue naturally felt the strange looks from the people around her, and couldn't help but raise the corner of her mouth coldly.

Noticing that the man next to her had also become gloomy and seemed about to step forward and say something, Su Liuyue stopped him with her eyes.

There's no need for him to get involved in such a small matter.

Just as she was about to say something, a palace maid suddenly trotted in from outside, walked up to Empress Chen, leaned over and whispered something in her ear.

Empress Chen's expression, which had originally seemed very indifferent, suddenly changed.