Chapter 68: Beasts Are Not as Good as Beasts (2nd Update)
"Sister Qi, ...... you" Chen Mo was like being poured a scoop of cold water on his head, his thoughts disappeared without a trace, and his mind suddenly became clear: "Listen to my sister's meaning, I seem to have seen those numbers?" He didn't answer the rhetorical question, kicked the ball back, and his mind was not idle, turning quickly, pondering how to answer when Siqi asked later.
"We did see it from the Queen Mother, where did you get it?" Siqi confessed frankly and did not hide anything.
"Where is the Queen Mother?" Chen Mo originally closed his eyes, but at this moment, his mind suddenly opened, and he asked, "Sister, do you remember Gao Lei in Gaofu?" ”
"Gao Lei?" Si Qidai's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and the corners of her mouth twitched: "Isn't it Gao Zhong's godson?" I used to go to Ciqing Palace often, but later I heard that I made a mistake...... Ask you about numbers, how did it get to him? ”
"Does he have a chance to meet the Queen Mother? My sister said that she had seen those numbers in the Queen Mother, where could Gao Lei touch them? Chen Mo ignored Siqi's complaints and continued to ask.
"With his identity, he can't touch such a secret thing...... No," Siqi had an idea, followed Chen Mo's question, and asked in surprise, "Could it be that you got those numbers from Gao Lei?" ”
"Almost!" Chen Mo sat up, put the pillow upright on the head of the bed, and roughly talked about the fact that he was "wronged" for stealing Gao Zhong's prison seal, and later found out that it was Gao Lei's "betrayal", focusing on the strange reaction of seeing Gao Lei in the toilet, but he refused to admit it, and finally Zhao Pengcheng found the silver ticket and the brown paper full of secret words to find his own experience and tell the story, and finally said: "Zhao Pengcheng is our third brother, shrewd, but we believe that he will not lie to us, that brown paper must be hidden by Gao Lei." , but you said that he couldn't reach it at all, could it be that in addition to the Queen Mother, there are other places where there are these code words? ”
After a pause, he added, "What do those code words mean?" ”
Women's curiosity is stronger than that of men, Chen Mo is curious, and Siqi is even more curious. also sat at the head of the bed like Chen Mo, his face was no longer cold, he frowned and pondered, and said slowly: "The number of the Queen Mother's mother, written on a piece of yellow silk, is hidden in the belly of the white jade Guanyin statue...... As for Gao Lei, it is impossible to contact him at all, he is slippery and does not leave his hands, and he has a thief's heart, just because he has a good relationship with Li Guizhu, the godson of Father-in-law Hua, he often goes in and out of Ciqing Palace, and as for Niangniang's warm pavilion, he is not qualified to enter at all. ”
"Are you familiar with those handwritings? Is it the handwriting of the Queen Mother? Chen Mo thought of another question.
Siqi shook her head: "No, we know the handwriting of the Queen Mother, Juan Xiu is elegant and domineering, very easy to recognize, and the handwriting on the silk is graceful and bold, obviously a man's pen, but it is not the handwriting of the current long live or the former emperor and others, as if I have seen it somewhere, but I can't remember it...... We didn't take it seriously at the time, but I saw you here again tonight, so I was curious. You said that those numbers represent some kind of code word, and now that you think about it, that's really the case. But what do they really mean? ”
At the beginning, Chen Mo thought that he could solve the mystery from Siqi, but now that he heard her say so much, he couldn't help but sigh in disappointment: "We also want to know, let's guess, there must be either an indication of the location of a certain treasure, or there is a shocking secret hidden, but unfortunately I can't find a way to crack it, so what's the matter!" ”
"Do you want to find a chance to ask the Queen Mother another day?"
"Forget it, if the Queen Mother gets angry and blames you, it's not good, this kind of matter is in vain, let's visit slowly...... By the way, do you know who gave the white jade Guanyin to the Queen Mother? Chen Mo suddenly thought of a possibility.
"It was sent by Taishi Zhang!"
"Zhang Juzheng?" Chen Mo chuckled in his heart, and suddenly thought of some rumors about Zhang Juzheng and Li Tianhou that he had seen in later generations, nodded secretly, and said in his heart, Could it be that Zhang Juzheng wrote it to Empress Dowager Li? What does that mean exactly? It can't be a love letter, right?
The idea of love letters is naturally a joke, Chen Mo is more inclined to the idea of gold and silver treasures, but he doesn't dare to ask Empress Dowager Li, and he can't be sure whether the silk in the Guanyin statue is really Zhang Juzheng's doing, and it is still a dog biting a hedgehog and nowhere to put his mouth.
But fortunately, with the clue of Empress Dowager Li, I finally had a clue in the fog.
"Why don't you speak?" Siqi asked.
Chen Mo suddenly got up, blew out the candle, and lay back on the bed: "I'm tired, go to sleep!" ”
"You ——?" Siqi was angry, turned over and ignored Chen Mo, and the room suddenly quieted down. The cold wind blew the window paper, and the glimmer of the window paper was reflected by the snow, Chen Mo tried his best to stare at Siqi Linglong's waist with wide eyes, and his mind was mixed, and he didn't know how long it took before he was confused.
Empress Dowager Li dictated and asked Siqi to take care of Chen Mo, but she didn't give any deadline, even if she took care of him for a few more days, it would be fine. Who knew that after Chen Mo got up the next day, he found that there was no figure on the opposite bed, and at first he thought that Siqi was going out to do something else, but who knew that he soon got the news from Chen You, and they actually returned to Ciqing Palace without saying a word.
"Our big Yin Gong, how did you kid make other girls angry? Such a beautiful little lady, or the queen mother's celebrity, resting on others, is afraid of melting in her mouth, and is afraid of flashing on her head...... No, you kid shouldn't have been ...... last night? ”
"Wouldn't it be a fart?" Chen Mo couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, looking at the neatly packed bed and feeling a little stunned.
"And who's right?" Chen You didn't notice Chen Mo's abnormality, he was still long-winded, and he was not idle, untied Chen Mo's bandaged wound and looked at it, and said something in his mouth: "The recovery is good, at this rate, it will be able to scab in a few days...... You endure a little pain, let's change the medicine for you, Father-in-law Hua of Ciqing Palace sent someone to send a lot of good gold sore medicine last night, it smells extraordinary, and the price is expensive......"
"Let's tell you a story," Chen Mo suddenly interrupted Chen You, smelling the faint fragrance remaining in the air, and said slowly: "Once upon a time, there was a man who went to Beijing to take the exam, and he stayed at a beautiful widow's house halfway. The widow put a kitchen knife between them and said, 'You are a man of learning, you must be a humble gentleman, and this knife is the boundary, and if you cross the line, you are a beast.......'"
"What kind of humble gentleman, that move must have crossed the line in the middle of the night, right?" Chen You interjected and asked, and at the same time, he quickly poured the gold sore medicine on Chen Mo's wound.
Chen Mo gasped, gritted his teeth and said, "Wrong, that man is really a gentleman, lying in his clothes, and he has never crossed the line all night." ”
"Is there anyone like that in the world?" Although Chen You is a eunuch, he has long understood the affairs of men and women, and he couldn't believe it when he heard it, but also admired it, and praised Chen Mo while bandaging his wounds: "That gentleman really has the style of a benevolent man in ancient times...... The widow must have looked the other way at him, right? ”
"The widow gave him four words." Chen Mo stopped his mouth and deliberately sold the guanzi, until he satisfied Chen You's appetite, and then said word by word: "'Birds and beasts are not as good'!" After saying that, he sighed for a long time, his heart was empty, and he wanted to slap himself in the mouth.