Chapter 345: Shadows on the Sea
Xu Lianshan was staring at the man and answering, but he was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Niangniang, do you know who it is?"
"I don't know if I guessed right. Sheng Weiqiao frowned and said, "The cousin of Mizhen's foreign family is the fifth son of the Zhao family, the one named Zhao Li, who is very fond of Danqing, and even wasted his schoolwork for this. When I was in Chang'an before, I happened to talk at a banquet, and my mother collected some rare books and scrolls from the previous dynasty. He was very interested at the time, and at one point wanted to borrow it. ”
"At that time, I thought that Nanfeng County was thousands of miles away from Chang'an, and those rare books and painting scrolls were also my mother's favorite.
"In the end, the thing is hers, and I don't want to be in charge of it. ”
"That's why I didn't want to say yes to him. ”
Later, he offered to go south to visit the Sheng family and borrow books by the way. There's nothing wrong with that, my mother usually doesn't refuse the people who come to borrow books from Nanfeng County, so I agreed like this. ”
"But not long after that, we went to the western frontier. ”
"There is a long way between them, and I have never received a letter from him, and the letterhead given to me by my father and mother in Nanfeng County has never mentioned him...... Well, among the people I know, who have a relationship with Danqing, except for my father and mother and Mizhen, it seems to be him, right?"
Sheng Weiqiao said this, a little hesitant, "But...... He's a cousin of Mizhen, what is he doing painting my cousin-in-law? And even if he paints it, how can he be so wandered that this person has seen it? I haven't heard that any of the Zhao family's children have fallen into the hands of pirates?"
Xu Lianshan frowned and looked at the man.
The man hung his head and said: "My subordinates saw it in the place where the grass fell, and it was owned by a pirate who knew my subordinates at that time...... Say...... Say that the person in the painting is ...... It's his good friend who hides a beautiful house!...... subordinates."
Before he finished speaking, Xu Lianshan and Yi Shan were already furious, and asked in unison: "Where is that person!? Dare to humiliate the princess of the county like this, don't chop off the face of our Wuyi Battalion!"
Sheng Weiqiao also had a gloomy face.
I heard the man smile bitterly: "Captain Xu, this Aunt Yishan...... That bastard would have died a long time ago! Didn't the prince of Gaomi personally come to the sea to recruit the sea lords? Some people were willing and some were unwilling, and the prince's ship had not yet arrived, and because of differences of opinion, his own people had done it first! That man's life was not good, so he died in the melee!"
He hesitated, but in the end he couldn't help but say, "Because the princess of the county ...... Well, because the woman in the portrait was really the only one of these people in his life, and there were people who searched the man's house after his death, with the intention of finding him...... Well, he wants to see if it's true...... Is there really such a beauty...... Well...... There are no subordinates! There really are no subordinates!! there are absolutely no subordinates!!"
Sensing that Xu Lianshan and Yishan were both murderous, the man hurriedly explained, "If my subordinates have such dirty thoughts, they must have the idea to get their hands on that painting...... Captain, you don't believe in searching for your subordinates' things, absolutely not!"
"......" Sheng Weiqiao twitched the corners of his mouth, and asked Xu Lianshan, "Where was the place where he fell into the grass before, and what does it have to do with me?"
Xu Lianshan thought for a while, shook his head and said, "My subordinates think that it should be irrelevant!"
"Could it just be that it just happens to be like Niangniang?" Yi Shan guessed, "It's really unlikely that the portrait of our Niangniang will be left outside." Even if people like Zhao Wugongzi don't pay attention to the appearance of Niangniang, and draw a portrait to circulate it, it has nothing to do with the sea, right?"
As soon as she said this, Sheng Weiqiao frowned, and suddenly asked the man: "The accomplice you are talking about, is there really a golden house to hide Jiao?!"
The man was stunned, but shook his head and said, "Niangniang, my subordinates don't know!"
He recalled for a moment and added, "At that time, because the prince of Gaomi personally inspected the Seven Seas, the news of recruiting the sea lord was flying all over the sky, and those who were drunk today and drunk today still had the heart to think about what beauties...... At that time, the subordinates were full of thoughts about whether they could continue to do the bandit business? If they couldn't do it, should they choose the prince of Gaomi or the old boy from Meng's side...... Later, I felt that following the king of the county was promising, so I didn't mix it with the portrait at all......"
Sheng Weiqiao thought for a while when he heard this, and opened his mouth to ask Yi Shan, but before he opened his mouth, he realized it, sighed, and said, "Yi Shan, when you came to me, Xiao Qiao had already disappeared, and you hadn't seen her. ”
Yi Shan said: "Niangniang suspects, that portrait is not you, is it Miss Shen Family? But I haven't heard you say that Miss Shen looks like you?
"It's because the third sister looks like me, although Xiao Qiao didn't have many similarities with me before, but I thought, everyone was still young at that time, maybe after these two years, the eyebrows and eyes have grown, and it's like it?" Sheng Weiqiao groaned, "But it's just random speculation...... Alas, there have been so many things during this time that I always forget to ask. When the others were no longer in front of them, they realized that they had said irrelevant things when they had free time before. ”
She remembered the porcelain hairpin that was specially put away but disappeared when she left from the western frontier in a hurry before.
I always suspected that Rong Sleeping Crane secretly took it, and eighty percent of it was used as a voucher with Shen Jiuniang.
It's a pity that on the way from the west to the north of Xinjiang, she still remembers it very firmly, almost tossing and turning, thinking that when she meets with Rong Sleeping Crane, she must get to the bottom of it and not give him a chance to hide it.
As a result, I didn't expect the two to be separated for so long, and after the years, the trivial matters increased, and they forgot about it unconsciously.
Sheng Weiqiao sighed secretly and continued, "I don't think it should be, because Xiao Qiao's silhouette doesn't look like me...... Maybe it's really a coincidence?"
Because the man couldn't provide more information, Xu Lianshan said goodbye to Sheng Weiqiao and took him down.
Sheng Weiqiao turned around and planned to go back to the cabin, but at this time, Yi Shan quietly tugged at her sleeve: "Niangniang, you say, is it possible...... That portrait is the county lord of Fuchang?"
"Third sister?!" Sheng Weiqiao was stunned and said, "How can it be the third sister, she has always been ...... not going out"
Halfway through the words, his face changed, thinking of the past, and there was murder in his eyes, "You mean, the people before...... And the fish that slipped through the net?!"
Moreover, he also depicted Sheng Weirao's appearance and bragged to his companions......
"On that day, the sea lord of Gongsun personally went to battle and successfully avenged the old sea lord of Gongsun, but at that time, because the king of the county was seriously injured, he stayed on tortoiseshell island. Yi Shan said, "And the Wuyi battalion also suffered heavy casualties when it covered the breakthrough of the three fathers and sons of Gongsun Haizhu before!"
"It is the specific process of the late Gongsun Haizhu and the imperial court sailors joining forces to exterminate Han Pan, and the slaves and maids are not very clear. ”
"I know that none of Han Pan's VIPs escaped. ”
But the words of the people below...... The sea is vast, and if you want to say that there is no one alive, it may not be?"
Sheng Weiqiao had a calm face and said, "To be able to draw a lifelike portrait on paper, at least you have held a pen." This kind of person is among the pirates, not to mention how important it is, and it should have some status. If it was really the third sister at the beginning...... Who, then, can find out from him about Little Joe's traces?"
Yi Shan also thought so, and felt a little regretful: "It's a pity that people are dead, how can they have such a good life? If they are still alive, some of the skills that the slave and maid have worked hard to learn before will also have a place to use." ”
"You go and talk to Lian Shan later, and ask him to interrogate that person, his dead accomplice, and other companions, are they alive?" Sheng Weiqiao shook his hand, stood in the corridor for a while, and ordered, "There are still details, figure it out." Although it may be a coincidence, the clues sent to the door must always be carefully checked!"
Saying this, she was suddenly stunned for a moment, and muttered, "The clue sent to the door?"
Yi Shan was also stunned, and blurted out: "Such a coincidence...... Is it?"
"......" Sheng Weiqiao was silent, "Let's talk to Lian Shan about this possibility, he has been with Mi Zhen for the longest time, and he knows what to do on this sea." ”
Yi Shan's expression was solemn, and she bowed slightly: "The slave knows!"
…… At noon on that day, Rong Ruibin was tired and was taken by the nurse to the cabin where he lived.
Sheng Weiqiao's aunt and nephew had lunch with Wu Da's family, and they also went back to their rooms to rest.
Not long after entering the door, Xuan Yu Feng came over quietly, found an excuse to send Yishan away, and asked his niece alone: "Just in the morning, when we were playing with Ruibin, you seemed to have been called out by Xu Lianshan for a while?
"Troublesome!" Sheng Weiqiao sighed and told her about what had happened, "Now I'm waiting for Lianshan to reply!"
Xuan Yu Feng frowned and said, "I know that you have always been obsessed with the matter of the Shen family's girl and your cousin! However, it is not that my aunt deliberately ruined your interest, but as soon as I heard it, I thought that the three of us had helped to find something for so long and there was no news, why did you have news when you went to sea this time? Don't anyone deliberately set a trap for you to jump on, right?"
However, Mi Zhen's men have been in ambush in the north for some days, and Lian Shan said that they have always been cautious, and no one should know, let alone know their relationship with Mi Zhen. Sheng Weiqiao frowned and said, "If you think so, it shouldn't be a trap." But if it's a trap...... I estimate that eighty percent of it will be traced back to the time when the previous son of the world visited the seven seas. ”
Xuan Yu Feng's face changed: "King Gaomi, take advantage of the nails buried at that time?"
"Mi Zhen and my father-in-law don't trust each other, when the son of the world went on patrol, that was my father-in-law's heart, although I was forced to helplessly, I asked Mi Zhen's people to help assist, I think my father-in-law must not be able to fully trust Mi Zhen's people. Sheng Weiqiao groaned, "Therefore, there must be a confidant who is secretly eyeing the person who is secret." ”
Then Rong Sleeping Crane's subordinates did not live up to King Gaomi's thoughts, and sure enough, halfway through the serious thing, he began to do tricks, fish for deviations, and dig up the wall...... Even in the northern seas, where Rong Sleeping Crane originally had nothing, he was forced to get a decent fleet for him!
In this case, King Gaomi, who has never dealt with Rong Sleeping Crane, has never argued with Rong Sleeping Crane's theory...... Excluding this prince's unprecedented fatherly heart for Rong Sleeping Crane, Bacheng is that he has arranged it in the fleet, planning to catch cicadas and yellow finches in the back or something?
Xuan Yu Feng was suddenly on pins and needles: "Such an important matter, you actually waited for me to come to the door before saying it?! If it is true, we are really on the thief ship at this time...... Ruibin is still so young, you are really calm?!"