Chapter 32: Ropa
Mo Li, but felt a sore throat, and there was no strength in his body. The light and fluttering burden is like a thousand catties of boulder, locked on the body, stalked in the chest, I don't know how I moved back to the "tasteless" step by step. He sat in the room for a long time, and then finally got up and shook the rope to open the baggage.
In addition to the gourd, there are only a few patches of clothing left. When Mo Li took out the shirt, a Luo Pa fell out of the middle.
This is made of high-quality silk, soft to the hand, fine weavers, and not an ordinary object. The most striking feature is the multicolored embroidery along the Napa. The embroidery is two fingers wide and narrow, and the technique is unique, as if the silk thread is first braided into a braid, and then it is coiled into a pattern, and the gold thread is densely nailed to the napa. When you look closely, the pattern is actually a pair of cross-necked mandarin ducks connected from end to end.
"This embroidery is so delicate and exquisite, and the embroiderer doesn't know how much work it took to embroider it? "This embroidery method is very rare, and the pattern seems to be a boudoir. ”
A thought welled up in my heart, and I had to get up. I found that the moonlight outside the window was cold, and there was already a curfew in the city, so I had to sit down again and stare at the lights in a daze.
On the second day, he abandoned but saw no trace of the Yingxie.
Xiao Ganlin also helped him perfunctory, but refused to tell him where he went.
wanted to go out, but some temple people politely dissuaded: "Abandon the son, but you have a need, send the villain to do it." His Royal Highness has specially instructed that there are many rules in this palace and the road is difficult to find, so please do not walk around to avoid trouble. ”
"Isn't this kind of unfreedom a house arrest?"
I can't go anywhere else, so I abandon it and enter that Dao to cultivate the Yuan Shen and several supernatural powers. This West Pond Courtyard is very quiet, no one disturbs it, and it is quite beneficial in a few hours. It's just that when I was running the breath, I found that there was a slight stagnation between my chest and abdomen, and for some reason, I was surprised in my heart.
"Third Senior Brother, that house is just an empty house, Qi Wuxian has not been here for a long time, can I continue to defend it?" It was the young disciple who asked yesterday, and it seemed that the people of Kunlun had already quietly explored that house. "Several brothers and sisters in Dawei are not lightly injured, why don't I withdraw first to help take care of them?"
"Have you found any suspicious people in the past few days?" said Yu Qian, who looked at him and did not answer.
"But no-oh, by the way, a middle-aged man came to the tea shop yesterday to inquire about Qi Wuxian. He also mentioned a Miaojiang woman, saying that she was his friend. Listening to his description, the woman looked a little like the Shanka. ”
"What is the man's appearance, and what is his behavior?" was very attentive to his words.
The man claimed to be from Shu and was in the brocade business. Medium-sized, nothing special, just a crisp voice. The disciple spoke as he recalled, "He only inquired in the tea shop, sat down and drank a cup of tea and went straight away, without staying long." ”
Yu Wenwen searched in his mind, but he couldn't think of such a person. At this time, I suddenly heard the disciple say, "By the way, in that tea shop, he suddenly knocked over the tea bowl and almost wet my shoes and socks, but he was very attentive, helped me wipe and wiped, and insisted on paying for the tea for me." ”
"This is a little strange!" Yu asked to himself, "Are you still wearing yesterday's shoes and socks today?"
The disciple didn't know what he wanted to ask, and his face turned red: "I was very tired from taking care of the seventh junior brother yesterday, and I haven't had time to change my clothes yet." ”
"Very good!" Yu asked to urge Zhu to tears, and on his shoes and socks, there was a faint light.
"You've been followed by that man!" As soon as Yu asked, all the disciples were taken aback.
A ray of light was cast from the giant eye above his head, and Na Moli's every move in the tea shop was under the eyes of all the disciples.
As soon as he saw Mo Li, Yu Wen felt that this person seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while.
"This person has some means, whether he is friend or foe, but it is still difficult to judge. It is better to plan the plan, and take advantage of the fact that he thinks that we have not yet noticed, lead him in, and first find out his truth and truth. Yu Wenwen summoned all the disciples in a heap, whispered for a moment, and all the disciples nodded and went down to make arrangements.
"What is the relationship between this abandonment, Ying Xie, Qi Wuxian and that Shanka, and now with this man, what is the relationship between these people?" Yu Wen lowered his eyebrows and pondered, and suddenly remembered: "Yu Er has not seen her for a few days, I came to this imperial capital because of her, but I lost her - I don't know where she is now?"
Early in the morning, Mo Li came to the largest silk village in the imperial capital and asked someone to see Naropa.
This is Miao Jiang's braided embroidery. "That old man in the village actually knew," Miao Jiang women are good at embroidery, and when they get married, they all sew by themselves. You, Luopa, embroidered with great delicacy and heart, think it is a token used to set love. ”
Mo left to thank him, and thought in his heart: Why did the love token of the Miao Jiang woman fall into the hands of Lao Zhou? It's just that now that this old Zhou has died, Na Qi is uninjured and can't be seen, but where can I go to find the traces of Na Xiangka? Yesterday, those Kunlun disciples seemed to be tracking down this Qi and Xiang, but I don't know what clues they have?
As soon as he thought of this, Mo Li turned around and turned to the small inn yesterday, looking for an inconspicuous place and just pretending to be waiting for someone.
Not long after, two people hurried out, and they were the two young men I saw in the tea shop yesterday.
"Returned?" asked one man, and the other nodded, motioning for him to whisper.
Mo Li followed from afar.
The two of them went all the way south, walking through the streets and alleys, and looking at the direction, they went to Naqi Mansion again.
"Could it be that Qi showed up without injury?" Mo was secretly excited.
When they arrived at Deqi Mansion, the two men had long since disappeared, but the housekeeper and the note on the wall were still there.
"This Qi Wuxian is really shrewd. Mo Li bypassed the courtyard wall, just about to go to the small gate to have a look. Suddenly, my eyes were dark, and my nose was sweet, and I fainted.
"Why do you go around outside my yard all day long, but you want to steal?"
A stick of incense worked left and right, Mo Li woke up, moved his hands and feet, and was bound firmly, and his eyes were also blindfolded. I never thought that someone would catch him in broad daylight. The man who questioned seemed to be a member of the Qi family. The voice echoed slightly, thinking that they had taken him to a secluded and empty place.
"The villain is not a thief, but a foreign businessman, looking for Mr. Qi has business to discuss. ”
"If you want to talk about business, you only enter and exit through the gates, but you are going to be a thief and a thief to spy around? What kind of idea do you have, and you will get it from the truth, so that your flesh and skin will not suffer? The sound was already a little impatient, and there was a 'crackling' sound in the air, like the sound of a leather whip.
"Wronged. The villain came to this imperial capital from Shu to sell brocade, and he lived two lives, but he wanted Mr. Yang Qi to carry it, and he was definitely not the one who stole chickens and dogs. ”
"Can't you see the big letters posted in front of my house? Still quibbling, I see that you have itchy flesh. The whip brought a cool breeze in front of him.
"Wait!" The whip didn't fall on Mo Li's body, thinking that it was stopped by another person.
"Since you said that Mr. Yang Qi came to help, why didn't you have a gift? Since you are a Shu brocade merchant, can you bring a sample of brocade with you? If you put it in an inn, which inn do you live in? I will let someone pick it up. This man spoke sharply and aggressively, and Mo Li became more and more cautious:
"A friend of the villain is familiar with the Shankar girl of your firm, and she recommended me to Mr. Qi's house, and the sample has already been entrusted to her. Before the villain came, she also repeatedly told him, saying that Mr. Qi was the sparse and expansive person, and it was best to make friends, and never stick to those vulgar etiquette, so he came empty-handed. Indeed, this is the villain's confusion. ”
"Hmph!" the man sneered, "come empty-handed, what's in your arms? This green worm and insect meal are commonly used to stalk and explore the way and take things from the air. You still have to be hard-mouthed, and you will suffer from it. ”
They have searched for the frog in my bosom, and Naropa is afraid that it has also fallen into their hands.
"You can see that Naropa with the worm is a token given by the friend to the villain. If you know, it is the Miao family's 'braided embroidery', which shows the origin of the villain and the Shankar girl. As for the bug, it was bought at random by the villain a few days ago in the Yingzhang Daji, but he thought it was fun, but he never thought of using it to do that pickled thing. ”
"Something with a clever tongue, I don't kill your arrogance, I'm afraid you don't know the means of my Qi Mansion. ”
Mo Li only stiffened his neck and waited for the whip to fall on his head, but he didn't know that there was no movement for the past half a day. Listen closely, and the two are gone.
"How is it that they left me here somewhere?"
"Eh, is there anyone, is there anyone?" Mo Li called out loudly, but there was only an empty echo.
"Hey, there's a guy tied up here. But it was a child's voice. "yes, and blindfolded. ”
Mo Li heard it clearly, for fear of scaring the child away, and said softly: "Uncle is playing hide and seek with someone, that person only told Uncle to go and come, who knows that he has been going for a while, and he is no longer visible, but he is deceiving Uncle?"
"Uncle, you are an idiot, how can anyone be tied up to hide and seek, that person must be lying to you. ”
"But it turned out to be a lie. It's good for you to help Uncle untie it, Uncle will take you to buy candied fruit to eat. ”
"I'm going to eat osmanthus cake. "I'm going to eat water chestnut cake." "But I want to eat the cloud cake, and the cloud cake is the best." The children probably thought he was stupid, but they were not afraid, and they made a lot of noise.
"Okay, okay, buy whatever you want to eat, uncle. ”
The child uncovered Mo Li's blindfold, Mo Li looked around, and found himself in a dilapidated house, which was carved with beams and paintings, with shrines and altars, but now it was covered with dust and cobwebs, dilapidated, and looked like an abandoned family temple. The older boy brought some broken pottery shards, cut all the ropes on Mo Li's hands and feet, and rushed up and dragged his clothes to the pastry shop.
"You tap, tap, Uncle won't run. Uncle asked you, how far is it from here to Mr. Yuan Yifengqi's mansion?"
"Nu, there it is. All the children pointed in unison, but they still clung to Mo Li and did not let go.
Mo Li carefully identified it, it turned out that the temple was only a stone's throw away from Qi Mansion, but there was a half-human-high weed in the middle, and there was a crumbling earth wall outside, so he didn't pay attention. I think the two of them took themselves to the temple from the place where the earthen wall collapsed.
"They didn't take me into the courtyard, nor did they hurt me, but why did they blindfold me......?