I am a living immortal.

In the outer city, people in Wei Mansion were also extremely anxious.

The maids outside the delivery room were in a panic, their steps hurried and hurried.

An old lady was waiting anxiously outside the door. She was Wei Ming's mother. Since Wei Ming became rich, she brought his mother to Shengjing.

The servants, under the constant urging of the steward, carried the buckets forward. From outside the porch, they heard painful screams from inside the house, followed by the anxious and panicked voice of the midwife.

"Push harder, Madam! Push harder!"

“Ah…wu…ah…”

"It's coming out soon, come on!"

“Ah… I have no strength… Ah…”

The old lady paced back and forth with a pale face.

Until Wei Ming came striding over, without even wiping the sweat off his forehead, he held his mother's hand and comforted her, "Don't worry, everything will be fine."

Wei Ming's appearance is like a backbone.

He continued to ask everyone to bring more hot water and towels, while instructing the kitchen to stew a nourishing soup, and asked people to rush to call a doctor.

Orders were issued one after another in an orderly manner, calming everyone's panic.

I don’t know whether it was the sound of Wei Ming’s voice or the midwife’s encouragement that worked.

When the scream of pain reached its peak, it stopped abruptly.

Wei Ming's hands clenched involuntarily, and the sweat that had just been wiped off his forehead appeared again.

Fortunately, God bless Mrs. Wei.

Within a few breaths, the sound of a baby crying "Wa...wa...wa..." was heard from the delivery room.

The midwife shouted joyfully, "It's born, Madam, it's born."

Wei Ming felt relieved and stepped forward immediately.

"Congratulations, Lord Wei. Congratulations, Lord Wei, your wife has given birth to a boy."

"Reward!! Huge rewards!"

After saying that, he looked at his wife with an apologetic look in his eyes. It is said that giving birth to a child is like walking through the gates of hell. Even if you have experienced it once, it will still be thrilling to experience it again.

"It's really hard on you."

"What nonsense are you talking about..." The pale-faced woman punched Wei Ming lightly.

“Look…” Then she held the child in her arms and showed it to Wei Ming. Wei Ming did not dislike the wrinkled child in his arms. He teased the child for a few words and then handed the child to the wet nurse.

The entire Wei Mansion was filled with a festive atmosphere.

But because it is an important case in Beijing, it is not advisable to publicize it too much.

The Ministry of Justice has invested countless manpower and resources in this major case, even alarming the commander of the Demon Slaying Division. However, no good news has been received so far... No, it can't even be called good news, but bad news. Right before our noses, another village has disappeared quietly...

The emperor was furious.

The atmosphere in the capital became increasingly gloomy.

The first to bear the brunt are the Ministry of Justice and the Demon Slayer Bureau. The pressure they are under is increasing. Wei Ming is one of them, so why would they start a war?

Wei Ming returned to the Ministry of Justice the next day because some news had finally come back, but it was somewhat ambiguous. It was certain that it was done by evildoers, but no one knew how they did it.

The reason why it takes so long is that these disappeared villages are not close to each other, and some are even far away, spanning several states and seven or eight counties. There may even be some that have not been reported, which is a big trouble.

It takes quite a while just to travel through these counties.

And during this period, another village disappeared out of thin air.

The Ministry of Justice and the Demon-Slaying Bureau had acted as quickly as possible. When they arrived, the firewood used for cooking was still warm. It was no more than two hours later, but the people had disappeared without a trace. The Ministry of Justice also discovered that not only people, but also chickens, ducks, pigs and other animals had disappeared, which was completely puzzling.

After that, they continued to visit.

Some either keep silent about it, are extremely secretive about it, or are completely unaware of it.

The Ministry of Justice has arrested those who are unwilling or afraid to speak, hoping to get some useful information from their mouths. Their characteristic is that they have all studied some unorthodox methods of sorcerers.

There must be someone among them who knows something.

This is a clue.

This is all the content. There is a lot of miscellaneous information, some true and some false, that needs to be identified. Also, the crime scene is very far away, and even with the help of the Demon Slayer Bureau, it is still impossible to collect all the information in a short time.

Each of these things increases the difficulty.

There might even be more than one monster. There is not much useful information. The whole article only wants to express one meaning, that is, to get people. The people they sent are like looking for a needle in a haystack, and they can't even make a splash.

Shen Yan felt a bit of a headache sitting in the main seat. This was personally appointed by His Majesty. With such a large area, no matter how many people were sent, it would be useless. Moreover, this was not the only case in the Ministry of Justice.

It seems that this is not something that can be solved in a short time.

But the problem is that the longer the time goes on, the greater the pressure from above will be. The worst thing is that some villages may disappear for no reason during the investigation, and that could mean one or two thousand people disappearing at a time.

The Ministry of Justice has been shrouded in gloom recently.

It is said in Shengjing that it is better to offend the devil than to offend the Minister of Justice.

Everyone took this case to heart, but they were in Shengjing and could do nothing about it.

The days passed one by one.

The Ministry of Justice now feels like going to the grave every day when attending court. Every now and then, the emperor will spit on its face. At the beginning, the political opponents added fuel to the fire, but later even the political opponents were ignored. They will fight to the death with anyone who mentions the Ministry of Justice, and they really fight to the death.

News kept coming in, but they were all irrelevant and there was no clue.

At first, the evildoers were a little afraid and stayed quiet for half a month.

But the longer the time went on, the more unscrupulous the monster became, as if mocking their uselessness, and a few more villages were destroyed.

But even so, it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the population of several states.

Even the panic did not spread except to a few neighboring villages. If the garrison of nearly a thousand people had not disappeared, no one would have investigated.

If you don’t check, you won’t know. If you check, you will be shocked.

The number of people gathered scared the investigators so much that they reported it.

Now time is passing by little by little.

In the blink of an eye, more than two months have passed.

However, Wei Ming had no other choice. The Hundred Days Banquet was approaching and could not be delayed any longer. The invitations had been sent out more than a month ago.

The Wei family was cautious, especially at this time. The emperor was furious a few days ago and ordered the Ministry of Justice to dismiss all officials and send them home if they could not find the truth.

Of course, this was just a rant, but it was enough to show that His Majesty's patience had reached its limit.

So not many invitations were sent out, they were all to relatives and friends.

Wei Ming was embarrassed to ask for leave at first, but Shen Yan waved his hand and said, "Go, everyone, it's a good opportunity to share in the good times and relax your tense demeanor."

As a result, a few more colleagues from the Ministry of Justice attended the banquet, and it became lively behind closed doors.