reborn princess

Chapter 359 Uncle Song Disappears
Speaking of this, she paused for a moment, and lowered her voice, "Prince, after all, he is the crown prince. The emperor will always hand over the seat to him in the future. It would be a good thing if he could test the prince as soon as possible."

The emperor stared at her for a long time, and then he sighed faintly, "Xiaoyao, you ghost, you have a lot of ideas in your head!"

Bailiyao couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief. Hearing the emperor's tone, he knew that the emperor had already been persuaded by him, so he made an aggrieved expression, "This is also entrusted by the queen mother, so the minister's wife has the cheek to come to accompany you." For the emperor to say these things, it is good that the emperor does not blame the minister's wife for meddling in political affairs."

The emperor took a deep breath and said, "I have my own idea about this matter!"

……

This year passed without any disturbance, and spring began in a blink of an eye.

At the beginning of April, Ye Weilan's family received a letter from the capital, saying that Song Heng was selected as a Jinshi, No. 3 in the second class, and his ranking was quite good.

However, this is not an official document, but after Xuan Yu got the news, he used the news from the soldiers to make Ye Weilan and Song Hengzhi's family happy.

After receiving this news, Ye Weilan finally let go of a big stone in her heart.

Song Hengzhi became an official, and she, her mother, and younger brother had a small backer.

At the end of April, the official official document arrived, but at this time, Ye Weilan and his party had already entered the mountain to continue their special training.

When they came back from the mountains, they found that the couple Xuan Yu and Bai Liyao had come to Liaocheng again, and there were two rows of guards standing at the door of the big house opposite Ye's house.

"Miss, are you back?" Sui Zhongyi opened the courtyard door and was overjoyed to see everyone.

"Uncle Zhong, how is everything going at home these days?" Ye Weilan exchanged greetings with him, and led the horse into the yard.

"This... oh..." Sui Zhongyi suddenly showed a hesitant expression, and turned to look at Shen Luo. "Master Shen, you're back. Something happened at home, you...you can go in and have a look."

"What happened?" Shen Luo froze for a moment, and handed him the reins of the horse in his hand. "What happened?"

"Master Song is missing!" With Sui Zhongyi's words, everyone was stunned.

"What did you say? Uncle Zhong, you said my father is missing? How did my father disappear?" Song Jiayin squeezed out from the crowd, stretched out her hands to grab Sui Zhongyi's arm, and asked nervously.

"Good news!" Shen Luo reprimanded coldly. "Don't mess yourself up, put your luggage away, and come to my room to talk about it."

Song Jiayin didn't dare to disobey, so she let go of Sui Zhongyi crying, and went back to the house with Ye Weilan to pack the luggage.

Hearing the movement, Su Youran and Li Feng ran out from the backyard. Li Feng was as impulsive as Song Jiayin. When he saw Shen Luo, he rushed over, knelt down at Shen Luo's feet, and cried: "Master Shen, the child Father is missing, please, help me find the child's father."

Shen Luo said impatiently: "Get up first, boil some water for me, I want to take a bath, I'll talk about it later if I have anything to say."

"This..." Li Feng was stunned, a little at a loss.

Sui Youran helped her up, "Get up quickly, Big Brother Shen will definitely help, they must be tired after a long journey, first help them boil some water, let them wash off the dust, and then help They prepare some meals."

Li Feng had no choice but to go to the bathroom in the backyard to help him boil the bath water.

Sui Youran also wanted to help her boil the bath water, but Shen Luo grabbed her wrist, "Don't go!"

"Ah..." Sui Youran blushed, lowered her head and pulled her wrist out of his hand.

Shen Luo's expression was also a little unnatural, he didn't speak, and strode into his room.

Although he hasn't lived at home for several months, Sui Youran comes to help clean the house every day, so the room is very clean and spotless.

Shen Luo sat down on the edge of the Kang and asked, "What's going on? Why did Song Hengzhi disappear?"

He didn't want to listen to Li Feng's words, because Li Feng was crying all the time, and he felt that Li Feng would not be able to speak clearly.

Hearing his question, Su Youran also showed an anxious expression, "We don't know what's going on. Not long after you entered the mountain, we received a letter from Brother Song, saying that we got the vacancy of the magistrate of Yunshan County. .”

"Yunshan County? Yunshan County 180 miles west of Liaocheng?" Shen Luo interjected.

Sui Youran nodded, "Yes, this is Yunshan County."

Shen Luo thought for a while, and then asked: "What happened next?"

"Later, at the end of May, the two boys from the Fang family who followed him to the capital came back by themselves. After they came back, they said that Brother Song was gone." Sui Youran sighed softly as he spoke. "Feng'er and I are two wives, you are not at home, and there is no one who is in charge of the family. It happened that Brother Chen's parents came, so we went to ask the prince of the county, and the prince of the county sent someone out to help us find him. It’s been a few days, but there’s no news at all, these days, I’m really anxious to death.”

"Okay, don't worry, now that I'm back, don't worry about these things." Shen Luo said, turning his face and glanced at the string of little tails that came in behind him. "I finally came back, why don't you take a shower and eat something? Is there any money for standing here?"

Everyone looked at each other for a while, Song Jiayin cried with a "wow", Ye Weilan and Da Niu hurriedly dragged her out, and everyone settled down, Aunt Du and Du Xi Nuo helped them boil the bath water, and cooked for them. The group took a shower and ate again, Ye Weilan signaled the big girl to accompany Song Jiayin well, and came to Shen Luo's room by herself.

Shen Luo also took a bath, sitting on the kang with loose hair, eating, while Xuan Yu sat opposite him, with a sad expression on his face.

"Lan'er met Uncle Xuan!" Ye Weilan saluted Xuan Yu, then stood aside with her hands down, and asked. "Master, what happened to Uncle Song?"

Shen Luo picked up the wine glass and winked at Xuan Yu, "Tell this girl, what's going on?"

"Oh...that's how it happened." Xuan Yu didn't look down on Ye Weilan, a little girl, and said after taking a sip of tea. "Song Hengzhi did well in the exam this time. It happened that there was a vacancy in Yunshan County. I calculated that Yunshan County is also close to you, so I made a little trick and asked him to be the magistrate of Yunshan County. We are on the road together. Because There was an order from the imperial court that officials who were going to serve were not allowed to return home, so we parted at a fork in the road and did not let Song Hengzhi go home. But seven days later, his followers said that Song Hengzhi was missing."

Ye Weilan asked, "How did it disappear?"

"It is said that when they were fifty miles away from Yunshan County, they lived in an inn in the town. When they got up the next day, Song Hengzhi said that they would go for a walk, but they never came back. The two boys searched around for two days, but found nothing. When they found someone, they went to report to the officials in Yunshan County, only to remember that Song Hengzhi was the magistrate of Yunshan County, and the former magistrate had died of a sudden illness. Come back in a hurry to deliver the letter."

Ye Weilan pondered: "Uncle Song disappeared at the end of May, and now it is the beginning of August, that is to say, he has been missing for more than two months."

Xuan Yu nodded solemnly, "That's right! It has been more than two months since Song Hengzhi disappeared."

"Father, have you sent someone to search the neighborhood?" The one who spoke was Xuan Chen, who came in with Ye Weilan, and just happened to listen to everything his father said from beginning to end.

"Of course I searched. The county magistrate disappeared inexplicably. This is a big deal. I sent three thousand cavalry to search the fifty miles from the inn to Yunshan County like a sieve, but found nothing."

Xuan Chen murmured: "That is to say, Uncle Song can't see anyone alive or dead?"

Xuan Yu nodded, and said with deep eyes expressively: "Besides, this is definitely not an ordinary kidnapping!"

What did Ye Weilan understand, "So, no one came to extort money or anything?"

"No!" Xuan Yu shook his head and said. "A big living person just disappeared."

Ye Weilan stood aside, pondered for a while, and suddenly asked, "Is Uncle Song's disappearance the only one, or are there other disappearances in the local area?"

"Smart!" Xuan Yu praised with a smile. "This girl is smart, she hits the nail on the head!"

As he spoke, his expression became extremely serious again, "After our investigation, we learned that among the 23 county towns within a radius of 93 miles around Yancheng, there were unexpectedly many people missing before Song Hengzhi within ten years. There are 31 people, of which 62 are men and the remaining [-] are women."

Shen Luo frowned slightly, "So much?"

Ye Weilan asked: "What are the characteristics of the missing person?"

Xuan Yu answered every question, "The age of men is between fifteen and forty, and the age of women is between ten and twelve."

"That is to say, in these 23 counties, within ten years, more than 1000 people disappeared, and none of them were kidnapped?" Ye Weilan asked as if she was sure.

"Yes!" Xuan Yu gave her an affirmative answer, and then said again. "There were also cases of ransom, but they were all excluded. These cases were just kidnapping people, but no one came to ask for ransom, so it should not be kidnapping."

Ye Weilan's expression was unprecedentedly dignified, "Uncle Song's life and death are really unpredictable!"

Xuan Chen patted her on the shoulder lightly, "Don't worry, Uncle Song is auspicious, he will be fine!"

Shen Luo suddenly said, "Song Hengzhi is missing, so who is in charge of the affairs of Yunshan County?"

"Bailihui temporarily!"

"Bailihui?" Shen Luo frowned slightly. "Bailixiao's son?"

"Brother Hui is here too?" Xuan Chen was also surprised when he heard this. "Didn't he already win the exam, saying that he will be admitted to Jinshi for this subject? Did he pass the exam?"

(End of this chapter)