Chapter 10: Wearing the Stars and the Moon Tower

Gongsun Yi still didn't go to the Imperial Governor.

Li Xianmin left the Tsing Yi scribe Xu Baishui, and sent some more henchmen to guard the Shangshu Mansion.

But Gongsun Yi is not at ease, no matter how you say it, it is safer for the Governor, but if you really live in the Governor's Division, you will be laughed at by your colleagues.

But now, none of this matters, the most important thing is to call the baby son back, in case the murderer's next target is really himself, then his son will not be safe.

arranged for the servants in the house to go out to summon him, the place where the unsuccessful son often haunts, as a father, of course he knows in his heart that gambling houses, green buildings, and ghost markets are nothing more than these messy places.

Xu Baishui led dozens of experts from the Criminal Department, set up organs in the house, checked the omissions, and looked like he was exhausted, but he really had the style of Li Xianmin of the Criminal Department.

Gongsun Yi has been an official for more than 30 years, since he hit the royal capital, he is also accustomed to seeing mediocre high-ranking officials, like Li Xianmin who is so dedicated, and there are only a handful of civil and military forces in the Manchu Dynasty, such as the elders of the Three Dynasties, the right minister Zheng Zhi, such as Li Changlin, the doctor of Zhilu, and Zhuo Zhenggong, probably because of these people, this rotten court did not decay rapidly, he admired them from the bottom of his heart, but no matter what, he couldn't do it. Those people either have extraordinary talents, or have extraordinary identities, and they are not afraid of future troubles, and people like him, step by step, climbed to today's position, it is not easy to be careful not to make mistakes, where do you dare to leave a good reputation in the history books.

In this court, most of them are people like themselves.

"My lord, I didn't find my son in the West Market!" The servants sweated on their foreheads and hurriedly returned.

"My lord, I didn't find my son in Beishi!" The servant got down on one knee and reciprocated truthfully.

"My lord, I didn't find my son in Dongshi!" Servants return.

"Let's go down." Gongsun Yi waved his hand to retire the servants, muttering in his heart, there is still a South City that has not come back, but most of the South City are Wang Sun Chongchen, famous families in Zhongzhou, and there are few of those gold caves that spend all day and wine, this kid doesn't know where to go, at this time, the ghost market in North City has not yet opened, Gongsun Yi smiled bitterly, but he was helpless.

"Yilang, why are you in such a hurry to call Mo'er back?" Mrs. Gongsun changed into a plain tassel skirt, and when she saw Lang Jun's unusual appearance, she was also worried.

"Ahem, ma'am, don't worry." Gongsun Yi has a hard time, he always can't do this kind of thing to his family, and when he has to find his son, he still has to let his wife and son go back to his parents' house to avoid the limelight, which is always better than following him in Shangshu Mansion and facing a lot of danger.

"Yilang, you and I have been husband and wife for more than 30 years, if there is anything, we will bear it together." Mrs. Gongsun looked at Gongsun Yi, took his hand with both hands, and looked at each other speechlessly.

"Madame has been smart since she was a child, I ......" Gongsun Yi wanted to say goodbye, looking at the woman who had been with her for more than 30 years, time left traces on her face, and the former smile became silent now, he knew that he couldn't hide it from Mrs., "Madame can know the matter of Yan Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, Lord Xu of the Jilu Pavilion, and Lord Wu of the Ministry of Industry." ”

Mrs. Gongsun nodded, and guessed a thing or two, first the third prince of the Divine Arrest Division visited, and then Lord Li of the Criminal Department came to the door, and they have always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, Lang Jun was cautious, thinking that it would not be a crime, even if she was a woman, she could still see some clues.

"That's right, that's exactly what Madame thought." has been on the pillow for many years, and from the look of his wife, Gongsun Yi knows that everything can't be hidden from the person in front of him, "The Divine Arrest Division and the Criminal Department have all received news that the next target of the murderer is likely to be me!" ”

Finally speaking, Gongsun Yi let out a long sigh, "Madam, when Mo'er comes back, you can take him back to the Ningguo Mansion." ”

"I'll send Mo'er over." Mrs. Gongsun's hand unconsciously clenched the vigorous hand of Shang Shu, who was over half a hundred years old, and her eyes flashed with gentle light.

"Madame......" Gongsun Yi understood what Madame meant, knew that he couldn't beat her, and stretched out his hand to hug the woman who was more than half a hundred years old, and she also wrapped her arms around Langjun's waist, and the old couple hugged each other speechlessly.

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Liu Shuang forcibly pulled Chu Qingqing to accompany him to Nanshi to play.

The reason was that they were not familiar with the royal capital, and Zhuo Sidian gave them half a day off because of the intervention of the criminal department. Although Liu Shuang knew that Lord Zhuo wanted Chu Qingqing to stay away from that man.

"What's so rare in Nanshi!" Chu Qingqing grimaced, looking uninterested, "Beishi is the most fun!" ”

"Nanshi is the most prosperous place!" Liu Shuang's face was full of curiosity, although he also entered the royal capital from Nanshi that day, but he was summoned by the king's order, where did he have the heart to look at the surrounding scenery, "I have been on the mountain for more than ten years, and the place where I went down the mountain is in Lizhou, how can I compare with the royal capital!" ”

I was also curious here, and I wanted to touch it there, Liu was dancing with both hands, and he didn't even have time to take care of Chu Qingqing on the side.

The atmosphere is contagious, and the originally chaotic Seventh Prince was also driven by Liu Shuang to enjoy the fun.

Wangdu Jingcheng is divided into four cities, southeast and northwest, and the beginning is based on the north market, which also leads to the messy and old buildings of the north city, and most of the people who live in the north are people, because of this, the north city has become the place with the strongest taste of the market, so the people of the six countries of the north and the south often say that if you don't get to the north city, it is equivalent to not coming to the country of Chen.

Xishi is more ordinary, there are many officials and masters, and there are many people, but there is a flower building fun-finding field that the whole Chenguo knows, Yan Yulou, Liu Shuang wants to go, but when he thinks of that guy, tsk, he can imagine her squeezing her eyebrows and laughing at herself, forget it.

The East City is much more elegant, the best medical officer in the whole Zhongzhou, Xinglin Xue's family is in the East City, there are countless theaters, singing troupes, extremely elegant, even the Zhengfa Temple that specializes in the trial of Wang Sun Guiqi, the Guangming Temple for the people to avenge grievances and review all unjust, false and wrongful cases are located in the East City, Liu Shuang feels that he is not elegant enough to go there.

Nanshi is the first place to build civil engineering after the establishment of Dongchen Kingdom by King Longwu, most of them are divided into meritorious generals, nearly a hundred years, Nanshi has become the richest place, clever businessmen, sweet hawkers, are particularly fond of here, maybe which is the official, which one is the dignitary, just enjoy a bite, it is enough to eat for half a year.

But those wooden guys don't like it here, and if they offend anyone, they will be uncomfortable.

"Stupid, Nanshi is prosperous, but there are not many places suitable for us." Chu Qingqing glanced at his colleague who was on the rise, and put down the extremely beautifully crafted small insect specimen in his hand.

"The guest officer has good eyesight, this is a 'leech' that only exists in the North Hidden Forest!" When the stall owner saw a customer, he recommended it with a smile on his face.

"It's a pity that these little guys hid for a winter, and only exchanged for a day's life." Liu Shuang picked up a specimen and couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the transparent wings, white fluff, and brilliant colors.

"At least they've been gorgeous." Chu Qingqing lowered his eyebrows, as if he seemed to stroke the corpses of those insects that had long since died.

"Sister Chu, why do you say that Nanshi is not suitable for us?" Liu Shuang diverted from the conversation and looked at the strange things on the street.

"Nanshi is extravagant, but it's ......" Chu Qingqing raised his eyes, raised his eyebrows and said: "I'll take you to see the world's number one beauty!" ”

All women in the world love beauty, and those who love beauty love clothes. Wearing stars and wearing the moon building is such a place that all women yearn for.

Jiancheng is the most prosperous place in Dongchen Kingdom, and Nanshi is the most extravagant place in Jiancheng, and the Star and Moon Tower is the gold cave of Nanshi. The noble lady is generous here, and the son spends a lot of money for the woman he loves.

She selected the most precious materials from the entire Jingyue land, hired the best tailors and craftsmen from all over Zhongzhou, and selected natural dyes from the ancient "Orchid Eyes", and finally made the Phi Xinglou the best clothing store in the world. From the queen of heaven to the common people, everyone knows it.

Despite this preciousness, the old shopkeeper has specially opened their own clothes for the common people, the Phi Xinglou is divided into three floors from bottom to top, the first floor is full of cheap clothing, the people of the imperial capital celebrate the New Year or the marriage of their children, most of them choose the right dress here.

Chu Qingqing took Liu Shuang to stand at the door of the Wearing Star and Moon Tower.

"Wearing the stars and wearing the moon building!" Liu Shuang looked at the gold-lettered signboard, and couldn't open his eyes because of the dazzling light reflected by the sun.

"I know it's not here." Chu Qingqing held his hands and asked. This person from Lizhou has seen a lot of things, and even she has some admiration for her from a famous family.

"I've heard of it." Liu Shuang shook his head, he only knew that this was the best tailoring shop in the whole Chenguo, as for the rest, it was not very clear.

"Hehe, there's something you don't know!" Chu Qingqing was proud, "Thirty years ago, the old shopkeeper created this place, tailor-made for the people of the world, the old shopkeeper has excellent craftsmanship and fair price, so his fame is getting bigger and bigger." ”

"Oh?" Liu Shuang nodded and responded to Chu Qingqing.

"However, what made it famous all over the world was six years ago, when the old shopkeeper handed over the Phi Xinglou to the current person, known as the big shopkeeper, the first beauty in the world."

"Qiao Chuyun?" Liu Shuang blurted out.

Men in this world love beauties, if you want to ask the most prestigious beautiful woman in the world, I am afraid that I can't escape the name Qiao Chuyun.

"You know again?" Chu Qingqing snorted, sure enough, there is no man who does not love beauty, the name of the first beauty in the world, it is difficult to think about it.

Qiao Chuyun was raised by the old shopkeeper since he was a child, and he began to be graceful and graceful since he was thirteen years old, and there was an endless stream of famous sons and dignitaries. And since six years ago, she took over the succession of the Shopkeeper after the addition of the [Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremony, Sixteen Years Old], more appearances in front of people, and the dignitaries who have seen the world are also like seeing fairies, and those storytellers who are not in the stream in order to attract visitors, they have compiled a list of beauties, probably because of different aesthetics, but it is quite controversial after the second place, but this Qiao Duyun is undisputed in the first place.

"Is Sister Chu beautiful?" Liu Shuang had a "flattering" smile on his face.

"Go aside!" Chu Qingqing feigned anger and grabbed Liu Shuang's collar and entered the door.

"Oh, Sister Chu, you won't be able to marry if you're so violent!" Liu Shuang was 'dragged' into the door, and his eyes were full of a layer of Tianxiang Pavilion of young girls and beauties who chose clothes and accessories, and Liu Shuang was smoky with the faint fat powder in the hall.

In a trance, he remembered the incense in front of the ancient Buddha in Chengyin Temple, the white smoke all year round and the pious people on their faces, the sound of wooden fish echoed in the hall for a long time, those unintelligible scriptures made him drowsy like hypnosis, and the ingot, which still looked like a girl, knelt on the futon next to him and tilted his head slightly, and had fallen asleep, and the white-haired master took the ring ruler and gently patted her shoulder.

"But people aren't what you want to see." Chu Qingqing was not angry.

"Wasn't that a trip for nothing?" Liu Shuang looked around, a pair of eyes were too busy to work, in the end, it was the royal capital of Jiancheng, and there were countless beautiful young ladies and handsome sons.

"Stupid, what do you think!" Chu Qingqing hammered the head of this guy who had never seen the world, "Buy a dress for me." ”

"Yes, yes, Sister Chu is the most beautiful!" Liu Shuang laughed like a dog, complimenting the violent colleague.

In front of me is a list of Cuiyun costumes, most of which are women's, tassels, silk produced in Barnyard Prefecture, and the moire embroidery skills of old craftsmen in Yaozhou, all of which are the best materials for clothing, and these hard-to-find things are actually lined up in several rows here.

The noble son accompanied the delicate companions to pick and choose, and Chu Qingqing's fingers swept across a row of clothes, feeling the feel of the fabric.

"Yo, who should I be, it turns out to be the seventh son of the Divine Catcher! No wonder my eyelids are pounding today. It was a young man in brocade clothes who spoke, with a natural smile like a spring breeze, "Xiaosheng is fortunate to meet the Seventh Prince here!" ”

"Humph!" Chu Qingqing snorted coldly, disdainfully agreed, turned around, and beckoned Liu Shuangdao, "Stupid, come here." ”

"The seventh prince is free, tonight in the East Market Hege Building, the seventh prince will enjoy a face!" The young man refused to give up, and was gracious in his invitation.

"Sorry, I made an appointment!" Chu Qingqing wrapped his arms around Liu Shuang, and the little bird leaned on Liu Shuang's shoulder.

Happiness came too suddenly, Liu Shuang was stunned, then understood, turned his head, and looked at the strange man laughing cheaply, leaving a dumbfounded noble son.

Ignoring the attentive guy, Chu Qingqing hugged Liu Shuang's arm and picked up his clothes affectionately.

"Who's that guy?" Liu Shuang touched the soft fabric and asked in a low voice.

"Gongsun Mo is the only son of the military department Shangshu yesterday." Chu Qingqing looked disdainful and picked up a pink long skirt stroke.

"What!?" Liu Shuang's eyes widened, he couldn't believe that Gongsun Yi, a person who looked so cautious, actually had such a son?

"No need to work, the division has a dossier of Lord Gongsun." Chu Qingqing compared the long skirt to her body, "How is it, is it appropriate?" ”

"Suitable, suitable!" Liu Shuang hurriedly replied with a smile, for fear that he would offend Miss Chu again if he was slow, and muttered silently in his heart, where is the skirt suitable for you, my irritable eldest lady. He has more concerns than Gongsun.

"Humph! Not careful. Chu Qingqing snorted coldly, looking at the fake smile of his colleague, and didn't mind, "The third brother is the same, it's better to be the second sister, you men, hey!" ”

Chu Qingqing and Liu Shuangzheng were picking them up, and in the crowd next to them, it seemed that someone was in trouble.

"Childe, it turns out that you are here, and the master is calling you back!" The two servants were trying to persuade their masters, and their faces were anxious.

The son's face was full of indifference, and he didn't plan to obey the elder's summons at all: "Okay, okay, you go back, tell my father, I will go to my uncle's house to live today, and I won't go back!" ”

Through the gap in the crowd, Liu Shuangding looked at it, isn't that Gongsun Mo that Gongzi brother!

"It seems that Gongsun is worried about his son." Chu Qingqing frowned slightly and said in a low voice.

"Childe, you can go home with the little one, the master blames it, the little ones can't afford it!" The servants were helpless, they thought they had an idle errand, the least time the son usually came to Nanshi, they thought they could walk around, go home, and don't have to wait for this difficult young master, it was really a beautiful thing, but they didn't expect to meet here.

arranged for their peers to report home, and the two of them had to follow the young master until they persuaded the young master to go back.

"Oh, if you don't go back, if you don't go back, don't follow me!" Gongsun Mo was impatient and waved his hand to signal the servants to hurry back.

"No, young master, if you don't go back, the little ones won't dare to go back!" The servant had a bitter melon face, accompanied by an awkward smile, and followed the young boy brother closely.

"I'm annoyed!" Gongsun Mo saw that he couldn't get rid of them, his eyebrows raised, and he was about to go upstairs.

"Hey! Son! Seeing that the master had gone upstairs, the servant stomped his feet, but did not dare to follow, so he had to turn around silently, one went back to the house to pray, and the other stayed to keep an eye on it.

"Why don't they go up?" Liu Shuang was curious, and the two people who followed like a dog skin plaster actually gave up at this time.

"You're still nosy?" Chu Qingqing glanced at Liu Shuang, "There are unwritten rules in the Wearing the Stars and Wearing the Moon Tower, but the second floor is not something that ordinary people can enter casually, not to mention that they are just servants." ”

"However, your sister Chu is a seven-god catcher, and she is a fourth-grade official rank, so she can go up to the second floor." Chu Qingqing raised her eyebrows, beaming proudly, "Stupid, you are a little pawn, but you are not even a seventh grade!" ”

"Yes, Sister Chu's talent and beauty coexist!" Liu Shuang's earnest praise made Chu Qingqing laugh out loud.

"Let's go, follow along!" Chu Qingqing was rare in curiosity, so he brought Liu Shuang here, and it was good to go to the second floor to see and understand.

The two turned around and were about to go upstairs, when they saw a man in red standing in front of them.

"Two distinguished guests, but you want to go upstairs?" The young maid in red raised her eyebrows, with a swaggering attitude.

is a young beauty, who has never worn heavy makeup, but just sets off her handsome cheeks with youthful charm.

"Red clay?" Chu Qingqing just glanced at it, expecting that the red-clothed maid in front of him, who was about the same age as himself, must be the red mud who often wore a red shirt among the two personal maids who wore the big shopkeeper of the Star Tower.

The beautiful maid who was called out did not give in, and the people of the king's capital, who did not know her name of red clay, it was not unusual for the two people in front of her to recognize her.

"Little sister, we're going upstairs!" Liu Shuangjian was stopped, and said cheaply flattering.

"Flim tongue and ignorance of the rules." Red Clay stared at him, not wanting to pay attention to the frivolous guy in front of him.

The Gongsun Mo who just went upstairs is a well-known prodigal child, relying on the fact that his father is Lord Shangshu and his uncle is Ning Guogong, so he shows mercy everywhere, but he is quite handsome again, and he is also a celebrity in the royal capital, but it is just notoriety.

This strange guy doesn't know whose son-in-law it is, looking at this frivolous appearance, it is estimated that he is not much better than that Gongsun Mo.

"Divine Capture Division, Chu Qingqing." Chu Qingqing didn't want to bother talking, even if the maid didn't know herself, she didn't want to be idle, but if she was laughed at by the stupid Liu Shuang, she was very unwilling.

"Seventh Son!" The red-clothed maid heard the name, but she didn't dare to slack off, the Seven Divine Catchers have always been low-key, and it's not a fault if they don't know each other, and the big shopkeeper won't punish himself......

"Seventh son, upstairs, please!" Red Clay hurriedly got out of the way and bowed, a professional smile blooming on his face.

"No, I suddenly don't want to go up." Chu Qingqing waved his hand, turned around and went downstairs, "Stupid, let's go." ”

"Huh? Sister Chu, what's wrong? Liu Shuang was confused, and kept up with Chu Qingqing.

Through the private room on the second floor, a pair of slender jade hands like mutton fat jade opened the curtain, and the woman with a black veil looked at the noisy crowd downstairs silently.

However, even if she only showed half of her face, it was difficult to hide the posture of the country and the city, green silk like a waterfall, eyebrows with green mountains, autumn water in her eyes, and the beautiful color under the veil loomed.

The young girl standing behind her was dressed in a dark green and cypress tasseled shirt, with a light powder, delicate eyebrows, very youthful and lovely, and whispered softly in the veiled woman's ear.

- "That person is Liu Shuanggongzi." ”