Chapter 276: Secrets of the Imperial City
"Staying in the hotel, serving a good meal. Jiang Changan said, "Before that, let's serve a pot of tea-"
"Guest officer, I'm going to recommend it to you, we have a signature dessert dish in our store, called 'Four Treasures Yingfu'. ”
"Four treasures to welcome blessings?" Jiang Changan heard such a strange dish name for the first time, and even the little girl Ruoruo heard that there was a delicious dessert, so she chirped a few times and blinked her eyes in anticipation.
The shopkeeper introduced: "These four treasures are four candied sweets, longan sweet crisp, pure milk peach, rock sugar green plum, juice honey hawthorn." It all means sweet and sour, so it is called the Four Treasures to welcome blessings. There is only one family in the whole capital, that is, some concubines and ladies in the palace want to eat, and they have to buy it from me. ”
The shopkeeper is proud, and it is precisely because of this that he can open the door to welcome guests during this special period.
Sure enough, when he heard that there was something in the sugar gourd like hawthorn, Ruoruo's eyes immediately lit up, pulling Jiang Changan's sleeves.
Jiang Changan smiled: "Then come up and try it, do you have any other desserts in the store to order them together......
"Okay. The shopkeeper answered, turned his head and shouted to the back kitchen: "Aji, stinky boy, hurry up and have a guest coming!"
Before the words fell, the young man dressed as a junior and a second limped out, the young man was dressed ordinary, that is, the usual subordinate clothes, brown coarse linen clothes, lame left leg, a cripple, but he looked cheerful, in his early twenties.
The young man walked up to the two of them, smiled, and said, "Come on, the shopkeeper's ......."
"Grinding, hurry up and give this son a good pot of tea......"
"Hey. The young man named Aggie picked up the teapot on the table and hobbled back to the backyard.
Jiang Changan asked, "Shopkeeper, there is something I want to ask." ”
"The guest officer wants to ask why this street is so deserted?" the shopkeeper smiled, "Childe is a foreigner, right?
Jiang Changan smiled: "Yes, I am here to visit relatives in the capital, as far as I know, this Jingzhou used to be more prosperous than Yingzhou, but now it seems that this ......"
"Hey, Childe, don't you know, the capital has not been peaceful recently. ”
"It's not peaceful, how can you say it?"
The shopkeeper pouted in the direction of the palace and whispered: "It's not a matter of the palace, Childe, it's better to ask less about this kind of thing, don't you know, someone said a word on the street a while ago, and was arrested, I don't think it's a ...... come back."
Jiang Changan was even more curious, what caused the people in the city to be frightened one by one, and they couldn't live in panic.
As if seeing Jiang Chang'an's thoughts, the shopkeeper chuckled and said: "Guest officer, I advise you to leave as soon as possible after visiting your relatives, everything in this capital has nothing to do with you, and it also affects a small shop like ours, in fact, you people from other places always envy us where we live at the feet of the Son ......of Heaven, but seriously, it is not easy at the feet of the Son of Heaven, all the breaths and breaths are tightly linked to the gold bricks and glazed tiles, and even do business today, when you wake up, you will be in the prison when you wake up."
Jiang Changan was dumbfounded, and wanted to ask a few more words, but the shopkeeper was no longer willing to say more.
"It's really strange, could it be that the emperor in this palace is dead. Isn't it a loss of my son?" said nonsense, no one in this inn could see and hear her except Jiang Chang'an, where is she like a person who has lived for thousands of years, at this moment she is like a little girl who has liberated her nature, running around freely, even Ruoruo was dumbfounded.
It's no wonder that she has been sealed in the stone, and later escaped from Fairy An and stayed at the bottom of Fengyue Lake in Jiangzhou, now Jiang Changan has taken the mirage into her bag, she only needs to follow Jiang Changan, in other words, she is not in a hurry to find the person she wants to find, the first thing to do for today's plan is to play enough, and make up for the missing thousands of years of not playing and eating.
Tired of running for a while, he ran to Jiang Chang'an's side at night and said: "Jiang Chang'an, if you don't follow me, we can completely take advantage of the chaos to get into the imperial city, anyway, you have your purpose, I also have my purpose, you want to find the person who is called, Xia Ji, and I am looking for Gu Xinian, this big bastard, we are busy with our own duties, it can also be said that we have our own duties, and then we will meet here after we have achieved our goals, how about it?"
"Sounds good. Jiang Changan said seriously.
I didn't expect Jiang Changan to admit it, and laughed excitedly: "How is it, Miss Ben's wisdom is superb, right?"
Jiang Changan asked one after another: "Then please tell the wise Miss Xiye, do you know where Gu Xinian is?"
Xi Ye was stunned for a moment, and shook his head in embarrassment.
"Then do you know where the Nine Emperor Princes are?"
"I don't know. ”
"Then you know where the entrance to the palace is?"
Xi Ye was completely frustrated, and his face fell: "Okay, it's me who didn't think it through, okay?"
"No, no...... Jiang Changan said with a smile, "From the point of view of the purpose of suicide, this plan of yours is quite perfect and feasible." ”
"Hmph, I won't tell you......" Xiye looked at Ruoruo and said, "Little girl, let's ignore him." ”
Unexpectedly, Ruoruo quietly moved like Jiang Chang'an, and set aside a little distance from Xiye.
Jiang Chang'an said happily: "Look, even Ruoruo is smart enough to know that he didn't even know that he was abducted and ran away with you, haha......"
"Jiang Chang'an-" The night is vicious, and his eyes are eager to strangle this eloquent person to death.
At this time, the young man Aji came over with a pot of hot tea, poured a cup for Jiang Chang'an, and said with a smile: "Slow use, the vegetable shop you want has been handed over to the back kitchen to cook, and it will be served in a while, you wait." ”
Jiang Changan glanced at the counter, and the shopkeeper went to the backyard at some point, and there were only him and Aji in the lobby.
Jiang Changan asked, "Little brother, let me ask you a question." ”
"Childe wants to ask why Jingzhou is closed to guests? It's not that there is an accident in the imperial city, it's really unfortunate that you came, this happened just two days ago, and you just caught up. If you had come here two days ago, you would have been able to see it."
Sure enough, it was the head and man of an inn, and even this answer was not a few points off.
The shopkeeper commanded again, and he was not allowed to say anything about this matter. Aji looked extremely difficult to choose, and said after a while: "You have to add money!"
Ha?
Jiang Changan was stunned and took out two taels of silver, and the young man immediately smiled and put it into his arms, and whispered: "Before this matter, guest officer, I don't know if you have heard of the 'ban on words'?"
"Ban words?" Jiang Changan shook his head.
Aji said: "Actually, it's nothing, it's just because of a person's name or the number in the ranking, after the death of this person, the whole family will ban this word." Five years ago, after Jiang Lingfeng, the third son of the Jiang family, entered the capital and died mysteriously, the Jiang family banned the appearance of the words 'Ling' and 'Feng' in the entire Jiang Mansion, and anything else related to the number 'three' had to disappear. This is actually to go to a bad luck, just like when there is a fire, people don't shout about the fire, but shout 'go to the water'. Guest, guest?"
Jiang Changan came back to his senses, calmed down his inner fluctuations, and said with a smile: "You go on, what does this forbidden word order have to do with what happened in the palace?"
Within the walls of this palace is intrigue and intrigue every day, and since the emperors of several dynasties, there are countless princes who have died in the struggle for power, and if they are all counted according to the prohibition order, they can be counted from one row to twenty.
"Don't worry, listen to me tell you slowly. It is not surprising that the prince died in this Xiao wall, and it is naturally not enough to ban words. Aji said: "But there is also a taboo number in this palace - the word 'ten'." ”
"Ten?" Jiang Changan thought for a while and said, "I heard that the tenth prince died of illness less than half a month after he was born, and there is nothing special about it. ”
"Sick and dying? This is also a deception to you people from other places. Aji said proudly, "These things are very clear to the people in the capital, but no one dares to say it." ”
"Oh, then I really want to hear why?"