Chapter 1909: 1906: So That's How It Is

Chapter 1909: Chapter 1906: So That’s How It Is

“Originally this matter shouldn’t bother the Ministry of Personnel, but there are several victims, who seem to be the government officials’ children.”

Minister Qi’s eyes flickered upon hearing this.

Actually, he had heard somewhat about it, knowing Chu Heng was recently helping Emperor Xuanming investigate a case.

However, the content of this case involved the Southern Border; how come there are victims?

Is there some connection between the two?

Chu Heng wasn’t worried about him overthinking; on the contrary, he hoped he would have a bigger imagination, then he would step in to help.

“Great Minister Qi, will it bother you?”

“No, it’s just a minor issue, Lord Chu can just send over the list; I guarantee you I’ll identify these people’s identities within a day.”

“Thank you.” Chu Heng smiled, “Sorry to trouble Great Minister Qi.”

After leaving the palace, he saw Chu Heng departing in a carriage.

Minister Qi squinted his eyes, somewhat puzzled by Chu Heng’s actions today. After all, usually Chu Heng never spoke kindly, he was a tough opponent, moreover, their relationship had never been good in the past.

It would be absolutely impossible for Chu Heng to want to help him.

“My Lord…”

After several calls from the servant boy beside him, Minister Qi finally came back to his senses.

Impatiently squinted his eyes, “Take me to the yamen.”

“Have people wait at the entrance of the yamen; if Chu Heng sends someone over to build ties, remember to inform me immediately.”

“Yes, my lord.”

Minister Qi received the list sent by Chu Heng’s men after an hour.

He immediately dispatched his trusted subordinates to investigate the identities of these people and ascertain their locations.

In the afternoon.

His subordinate who was handling the matter rushed back.

Upon seeing Minister Qi, he quickly handed over the investigation results.

Minister Qi couldn’t wait to open and look, only to discover that of the people on the list Chu Heng gave him, eighty percent were already dead, and some possibly couldn’t even be found anymore.

Some couldn’t be identified due to the lack of concrete portraits, leaving their life or death unknown.

The remaining twenty percent stayed in the capital, barely surviving, and of these, sixty percent shared a common trait; they had once entered the Marquis of Ande’s Mansion, and their deaths seemed to be related to the Marquis of Ande’s Mansion.

Besides, the rest associated loosely with the residences of a few infamous libertines in the capital.

Considering that the Marquis of Ande personally indulged throughout his life, even now at over sixty, he daily lost himself amidst women, without preference; and his only son, the Young Marquis, had an eccentric nature, rumored to have peculiar tastes, just that he only played outside and never brought anything back to the mansion, barely more respectable than his father.

After reviewing all, where could Minister Qi not understand?

It must be that romances led to deaths, and the ones entangled in these deaths, as per Chu Heng’s account, might be children from minor government families.

If normally taken into the mansion, it would be fine.

But the Marquis of Ande had been rumored to enjoy a playful nature in such matters long ago.

Bodies were often carried out.

For years, good family girls seldom were sent to Ande Residence.

The reason was simple: with so many nobility in the capital, a fading Marquis’s Mansion like Ande, maybe some small officials would be tempted, but anyone slightly sensible wouldn’t get involved.

The Marquis of Ande had no real power.

Furthermore, there was a scarcity of offspring; visibly, in the next generation, hereditary titles would only fade further.

Then, there must be issues with the girls who met trouble.