In the afternoon, Yanhu sat in the house with his youngest son and taught him to tear paper. Yue'er was still young and was not suitable for using scissors. "Yue'er, look, does this look like a puppy?"

"Mom teaches Yue'er to tear the puppy." Yue'er stuffed a piece of wrinkled piece of paper he had kneaded into his mother's hand.

"Okay, mom teaches Yue'er." Yan Huo taught him to tear all kinds of simple little animals.

Yue'er happily tore up one puppy after another and arranged it in a row.

Honeysuckle walked in, "Mrs.

Seeing this, Yan Huo knew she had something to report, "Help me down and let us talk outside." Her body was so heavy that she was unable to move, but for the sake of success, she had to walk more.

Honeysuckle and Maique helped her down from the couch, "You guys look at the second young master."

"Yes, young lady." The wet nurse and Tsaimei answered several times.

With the help of honeysuckle and Maique, Yan Hu walked slowly in the corridor, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

"The Bao family is going to hold a wedding." said Honeysuckle.

Yan Hu stopped, "Bao family? Is Old Master Bao going to renew his marriage?"

Honeysuckle nodded.

"It's normal for him to renew his marriage in his fifties." Yan Hu continued to move forward, and the old men in their seventies and eighties were still taking concubines.

Honeysuckle then said, "The woman he wants to marry is surnamed You."

"Submitted to You?" Yan Huo frowned, "The concubine sister of the Minister of Works?" The young widow who had wanted to be adopted as the second wife?

Honeysuckle nodded again.

Yan Huo raised his hand and rubbed his forehead. A young woman was willing to marry an old man who had no official position as her second wife. What was the reason? Yan Huo didn't have the energy to think about it carefully. After returning to the room, he wrote a letter to Yu Qingqing and put it behind his mind.

A few days later, Tang Hu, Tang Hai and Min Zichang visited together and after holding the maid back, the three of them hurriedly said, "Xiaoxiao, we discovered something amazing."

"Let me tell me what's going on." Yan Huo laughed, just thinking they were fussing.

Tang Hu said slowly: "This matter starts from the day we sent Tang Zhi to Beijing..."

Yan Huoyue's expression became more and more serious when he heard this, "Do you suspect that the five pregnant women were locked in that farm?"

"It's not doubt, but affirmation. We asked someone to sneak in and found that there were seven or eight pregnant women inside, which means that in addition to the five we know, there were three more pregnant women." Tang Hu replied.

Yan Huo frowned, "Whose farm is Zhuangzi? You don't dare to act rashly."

"It's the village of Princess Qi's mother's house." Tang Hai interrupted. They were not afraid of offending the King of Qi and the Qiu family, but they didn't want to be caught by the King of Qi.

Yan Hu was stunned, "What do you want to do when the Qiu family caught so many pregnant women in the village?"

The three of them shook their heads, they didn't find out.

"No matter what the Qiu family wants to do, the five pregnant women must be rescued." Yan Huo rubbed his forehead. The three guys told her the matter, and wanted to ask her for advice. "You ask the family of the missing pregnant women to go to Jingzhao Mansion to complain, and the government will come forward to rescue them."

"I'm afraid that the government will not investigate the power of the Qi Palace." Tang Hu said in a deep voice.

Yan Huo smiled lightly and said, "Then make the matter big. The government dares not investigate it, and the Prince Qi's mansion dares to bully others with its power. You should know how to do this, right?"

"I know." The three of them smiled.

Yan Huo originally wanted to tell Fu Zhixing about this and ask him to help him secretly, but after three years of pregnancy, Fu Zhixing came back with the Xuexia Potion from Xihua Pavilion, she went to eat it and forgot about it.

Fortunately, the three Tanghu and the other two had good skills in doing business. A few days later, a big drum outside Jingzhao Mansion was blown by a hammer, and the yamen run into the inner hall, "Grand, sir, someone beats the drum and makes accusations."

The prefect of Jingzhao frowned and said that the people who beat drums and complained about the wrongs were thorns, and the case was also troublesome, but even though he knew this, he had to go out to court to try the case. He sat down in front of the case, picked up the awakening wood and slapped it, and "bring the drum beaters to court."

The yamen runner brought an old man in. Looking at the old man's dress, you can tell that it was a village household. The prefect of Jingzhao frowned again. Could it be that the mansion occupied the fertile land? This matter is too ordinary. Is it necessary to beat the drum and make a fuss?

However, the matter was even more serious than he had imagined. The old man kowtowed and said, "Master Qingtian, the little old man is from Wujia Village, the little old man's little daughter-in-law disappeared a few months ago. When she disappeared, she was pregnant with my family's grandson who had three generations of single-handed grandson in her belly."

Missing? To put it nicely, maybe he had elopement with a wild man. The old man had the face to come and complain, and his mind was sick. The prefect was disdainful, but he asked, "Have you ever looked for it elsewhere?"

"Sir, the old man is still from a good family. The young daughter-in-law and the child have grown up together and have a very good relationship. The day before his disappearance, the young daughter-in-law was still sewing clothes for her unborn child. She would never disappear for no reason. The child has been looking for his wife for many days, but there is no news. He is now lying in bed sick and dying." The old man could hear that the prefect did not care about this matter.

The prefect stroked his beard and pondered silently.

"The little old man knows that it is indeed a trivial matter for the disappearance of his little old man's daughter-in-law, but adults, not only the little old man's daughter-in-law are missing, but the little old man knows that there are two pregnant women in Wujia Village, and two pregnant women in Lianjia Village next door have disappeared. As the saying goes, you have to see people alive and die to see the corpse. Please ask the big master of Qingtian to help us investigate this matter clearly, so that they can't be lost." The old man kowtowed three times again.

The old man said this and burst into tears. The people who were watching the fun showed sympathy. The young daughter-in-law disappeared, the child was terminally ill, and the family was about to be destroyed.

Five pregnant women have disappeared, and this matter is really a bit strange. If you ignore it, it will harm his name as the Grand Master Qingtian. The prefect said in a deep voice: "I will send someone to help you find it, don't worry."

"Thank you, Master Qingtian." The old man said gratefully.

"No need to be polite, you should step down." Although the prefect found that the matter was strange, he did not pay too much attention. He just sent a few yamen runners to investigate.

The yamen runners went out of the city and walked around casually, then returned to the city to report: "Sir, no suspicious person was found."

The case was stranded by the prefect, but he did not expect that in the next few days, people would come to beat the drum every day and say that the pregnant woman in his family was missing, and rumors spread in the city.

"I heard that demons appeared in the villages fifty miles outside the city, and they specialized in catching pregnant women to practice evil skills."

"What you are wrong is that there are demons who want to eat the baby's brain to prolong their life."

The rumors were messy, causing panic. Those who had pregnant women at home were even more likely to be facing a great enemy. After hearing this, Yan Huo was stunned, "This is too outrageous!"

However, this was just as Yan Hu said. The matter was very big, so the government did not dare not investigate. Even the prince heard about it and sent someone to tell the prefect of Jingzhao to go to the East Palace for a question.

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Chapter completed!