When Qi Xuan heard what Shan Ying said, he still agreed, and for the sake of their daughter, just ask the routine question.

The noble concubine lives in Langhua Palace, the inside and outside of the palace are well-groomed, the flowers and plants are growing gratifyingly, it looks like a master who likes to take care of these things.

When the palace people saw them coming, they hurriedly went to look for the noble concubine.

The imperial concubine opened her eyes, her thin cheekbones were raised, and her eye sockets were sunken. She turned her head and asked, "Who's here?"

"It's the elders invited by the emperor."

The imperial concubine struggled to get up, "Immortal Elder?"

The maid nodded.

The imperial concubine took a breath and said, "Please come in."

Xie Congnan and the others went in, and when they saw the noble concubine lying on the bed, they lowered their eyes and cupped their hands.

The imperial concubine asked the maid to put a soft pillow for her to sit up, and asked eagerly: "But there is news from Zhaozhao of my palace?"

Several people shook their heads, and the light in the imperial concubine's eyes went out again.

"We came here to ask about the situation that day." Xie Congnan lowered his voice.

The imperial concubine pressed her temples and looked at them.

"That day Zhaozhao made a fuss about going out of the palace to watch a shadow puppet show, the emperor allowed Bengong to take her with her and sent many guards.

Before and after the opening of the shadow puppet show, Zhaozhao was by Bengong's side all the time, and Bengong kept watching, seeing that she was tired from standing, and even picked her up.

Bengong remembers that Zhao Zhao disappeared in Bengong's arms when the shadow puppetry came to the second scene. "

When the noble concubine spoke, her face was still pale, and she clasped her hands. She still couldn't believe that the person had really disappeared in her arms.

One second before, Qi Yunzhao was still turning his head and joking with her, and the next second he disappeared.

The maid next to her patted the imperial concubine on the back to comfort her. The imperial concubine coughed twice while pinching the handkerchief, her eyes flushed.

"Several elders, will my daughter come back safely?"

Xie Connan said with some difficulty: "We will try our best to find it back. Madam, take good care of your body."

The imperial concubine nodded with red eyes.

A few people went out from the imperial concubine's palace, and saw a few imperial doctors running over with their clothes on their heels.

"What happened?" Shan Ying asked.

The maid who led the way said, "It should be that His Royal Highness is ill."

The extra maid didn't say anything more.

Shan Ying remembered that Qi Xuan's son was born to Qi Xuan and Wen Yunsu, he was born with the root of the disease from his mother's womb, he had to take good care of him every day, he was a weak child.

Thinking about it, he should be ten years old now, the same age as Duan Lin.

Xue Jiaojiao glanced over there and then looked away.

Because they all came to the palace, Qi Xuan simply kept them and arranged special rooms for them.

Shan Ying found Qi Xuan, and picked the things on the fruit plate in front of him.

"The prince is still ill?" Shan Ying asked him.

Qi Xuan nodded.

"Things brought out of the womb are not so easy to get good."

"So many natural treasures can't be cured?" Shan Ying raised her eyebrows.

It was because of this that Qi Xuan was worried, no matter what treasures he used, there was no way to cure Qi Yunyu's illness.

"Yes, the queen and I have nothing to do with this matter."

Seeing this, Shan Ying didn't say anything anymore, she just came to ask about Qi Yunyu's situation, she was a sick child when she met a few years ago, and she is still the same now.

Seeing Shan Ying coming out from there, Xue Jiaojiao asked, "Why did you go?"

"I went to see the emperor and asked about the prince."

Xue Jiaojiao nodded and returned to the residence Qi Xuan arranged for them.

Xie Congnan said to Xu Youzhi: "How many families with four or five-year-old children are there in the imperial city?"

The corner of Xu Youzhi's mouth twitched, "There are quite a few. If you want people to guard from house to house, it should be impossible."

Xie Congnan patted her head, she thought that way before, but now there is nothing she can do about it.

"Did any children go missing yesterday?" Chu Ci suddenly asked.

Zhou Dongtan who was called shook his head.

"No such news has been received."

"How long did it take for the people who disappeared before?" Qi Xiao asked him.

Zhou Dongtan thought for a while and said: "There is no rule, sometimes it is four days, sometimes it is seven days, it is different every time, it seems to be just based on mood."

Xie Connan poured himself a cup of tea and sighed: "It's really a brain-intensive job. If I knew it, I would have asked Zhou Hanzhang and Song Shiwei to replace me."

At first, she thought that when it came to catching a monster, it was just catching a big monster, but she didn't expect it to be so complicated.

Not only Xie Congnan didn't expect it, but neither did the others.

"Then we can't do anything?" Xie Congnan spread his hands and looked at Qi Xiao.

Qi Xiao turned his face away, he is not suitable for this kind of brain work.

Qu Qingci and Xie Congnan, who were standing on the side, looked at each other, "Why don't we act alone? Everyone should bring a signal flare and search the inside and outside of the imperial city."

The room fell silent, Xue Jiaojiao looked at them, Xie Congnan nodded slowly, and glanced at Xu Youzhi.

Xu Youzhi was also worried, and when he heard what they said, he agreed.

"Be careful, don't be brave."

After dawn, several people moved separately, Xue Jiaojiao was wandering in the alleys of the imperial city, and several beggars looked at her with their heads poking around.

Xue Jiaojiao took out a few copper coins from the square inch ring and waved to them.

The beggars hesitated, Xue Jiaojiao smiled and walked forward, revealing the copper plate in her palm.

"Ask you something."

Among them, the oldest one came out, followed by a few, all of them were sallow and emaciated.

They saw that Xue Jiaojiao didn't take back her hand, and grabbed her to protect her in their arms.

"What's the matter?" the little beggar asked her.

"Do you know about the disappearance of four or five-year-old children in the city within a month?"

Several people got together and whispered a few words, the leader asked again: "Are you sent by the emperor?"

Xue Jiaojiao nodded.

"We don't know. We only know that they all said that the emperor disrespected the City God and angered the City God. Didn't they mean that even the princess was arrested recently?"

Xue Jiaojiao raised her eyebrows. Qi Xuan is a thousand-year-old Xuanwu, so he must not care about such illusory or even non-existent gods.

"That's it." Xue Jiaojiao took out a few more copper coins, "Are there any others?"

Several people shook their heads in unison.

Xue Jiaojiao took a silver ingot and told them: "There are four or five-year-old children nearby these few days, you can take a look for me, and if they are missing, come and tell me, go to catch the demon and tell me to find someone named Xue Jiaojiao's people, they will come to me."

Several people stared at the silver ingot with bright eyes, stretched out their hands to take it, and agreed repeatedly.

Leaving from the beggar, Xue Jiaojiao went to find someone to find out the location of the Town God's Temple.

The rumors outside seem to be really serious, and there are quite a few people who come to Chenghuang Temple to offer incense.

Xue Jiaojiao put away the black iron sword and walked straight inside. The City God who was sculpted in colored clay was smiling, and on the futon were devoutly praying pilgrims.

Xue Jiaojiao walked over, and also went to burn a stick of incense to worship.

The real body of the City God does not have a trace of aura or magic energy, it is just a normal statue.

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