The Mid-Autumn Festival in Beijing is particularly lively, and it looks even more lively than the Spring Festival in Jinling. This may be related to the emperor's opening of Enke this year.

However, I heard Nan Ya say that the emperor has been ignoring the government for a long time, and now Wei Zhongxian is in charge, and I don't know if Enke is related to Wei Zhongxian this time.

There are a lot of people around, but most of them are young people, most of them are good men and women in their eighteen, nineteen, and early twenties, and there are many scholars dressed up.

Occasionally, I will see some ladies and girls, followed by maids, followed by many guards.

Although tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the celebration of the festival begins today, and for three consecutive days, people will stay up all night to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Since it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, guessing lantern riddles has become the main activity.

However, I usually don't participate in this kind of activity, mainly because I don't read much.

Fortunately, Miss Tang didn't say that they were going to guess the lantern riddles, otherwise I would have been embarrassed for a while.

Both sides of the street are full of people selling moon cakes, lanterns, and osmanthus wine. There are also those that sell symbols, but there are relatively few of them. The Mid-Autumn Festival charm is the simplest charm, buy some yellow paper cut into square strips, and draw a rabbit with cinnabar, which can be used to worship the Moon Palace.

This charm has been passed down for many years, so almost every household can draw it. Some rich and noble families will buy those paintings that are exquisite after all.

After all, the rabbits drawn by ordinary people basically belong to the level that can be seen to look like a rabbit.

There are also some scribbles, draw a circle, paint two dots, and then draw two or three lines at random as ears and tails, even if it is a rabbit.

As for whether it would be disrespectful to Chang'e to do so......

No one knows. No one knows whether there is such a thing as a god or not.

Before, I thought that the monsters in the demon world were gods to humans. But Mu Rong said that there are also legends about gods in the demon world, so she dispelled this idea.

Just as I was observing the people around me, I suddenly saw two acquaintances standing in front of a shop selling lanterns not far in front of me.

In fact, it is not an acquaintance, only a familiar face.

I have seen these two faces, one of them is Mrs. Cheng of Cheng's mansion, and the other is Mrs. Cheng's maid.

At that time, when the corpses were salvaged from the lake, I led Miss Tang to see them one by one.

The girl next to Mrs. Cheng was wearing a maid's costume, but she did appear in the group of corpses at that time.

I thought I was wrong, and touched Niu Meng's arm, "Mengzi, look at the two people in front of you, are you familiar?" ”

Niu Meng also sighed, "Isn't this Mrs. Cheng or her handmaid?" ”

Miss Tang also frowned slightly, "It seems that it is indeed Mrs. Cheng, I have seen the corpse at Uncle Shi before." ”

Since the three of us all think that it is Mrs. Cheng, it seems that it is right.

"Is it a youkai?" I asked.

Qin Yuetong shook his head, "It's definitely a human being, an ordinary human being." ”

"Could it be twins?" Niu Meng said.

"Even if it's twins, won't even the maid follow to find twins?" Qin Yuetong asked rhetorically.

I shook my head slightly, "This situation is not to say that there is no such situation, the Cheng family is not small, there are all over the country, and it is normal for twin sisters to exist in Beijing and Jinling." As for the maid, it is not uncommon for the two sisters to find twin maids by name.

But I always feel weird...... Regardless of the number of things for now, we will quietly follow them behind and see where they go. ”

So after the four of us discussed it, we decided to follow Mrs. Cheng while pretending to play.

At this time, I didn't have the heart to watch the Mid-Autumn Festival activities, such a big murder case in Chengfu, and finally found out that the Yinliang clan was the real murderer, and there were many things wrong in between.

Moreover, at that time, in the ancient tomb under the Cheng Mansion, I did meet the people of the Soul Burial Sect. And although the black-robed man at that time admitted to stealing the genealogy of Cheng Mansion, he didn't admit to killing people......

There is also the shadow of the nine-tailed demon fox in Cheng Mansion, the strange screams, and the way those people in Cheng Mansion were killed, anyway, I can't connect these together.

Now it is even stranger to meet someone exactly like Mrs. Cheng in the capital.

At this time, it would be good if Nan Ya was here, he should be able to figure out some clues.

We followed for a while, and found something abnormal, Mrs. Cheng took the maid to buy lanterns and talismans, and bought some moon cakes, and then stopped at the lantern riddle guessing to watch others guess the lantern riddle.

Niu Meng suddenly said to me, "Brother Jiu, it's not a way to follow them like this, why don't you go talk to them?" Let's see if you can ask something? ”

"How do you talk?"

"Pretend to be a god, just say that you can touch the bones and tell fortunes, and when you go up, you will say that she has a bad face, and there will be a bloody disaster in the near future. The yamen in Jinling doesn't write Mrs. Cheng's birthday, you just say that you can count her birthday. ”

After Niu Meng said this, it suddenly dawned on me that this was indeed a good idea.

If she is really Mrs. Cheng's twin, then she must also have the surname Cheng. If not...... Here's what happened. I don't believe that there are two people in this world who have nothing to do with each other and look exactly the same.

So I asked Miss Tang and the others to wait where they were now, and I went over to talk to Mrs. Cheng.

In order to make myself more like a magic stick, I also went to the clothes store next door to buy a square hat.

After a brief tidying up, I greeted him.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he shouted, "It's Mrs. Cheng......"

This is the usual routine of the god stick, ask what your surname is in advance. As long as you can call out your surname, the other party will feel that you know him.

This trick obviously worked, and Mrs. Cheng looked at me and asked, "Are you?" ”

"Mrs. Cheng, I am a fortune teller. After passing by Mrs. Cheng's side, he saw that Mrs. Cheng's pavilion was gloomy and the heavenly court had a bad aura, so he simply calculated it. I learned that my wife's surname is Cheng, and there will be a bloody disaster in the near future. ”

After I finished speaking, the maid next to Mrs. Cheng waved her hand, "Go, go, charlatan, don't believe him, madam, I've seen a lot of this kind of person." I don't know where I heard my wife's last name. ”

I smiled and continued: "Mrs. Cheng's real surname is Wang, yes or no? ”

The reason why Mrs. Cheng is called Mrs. Cheng is because Mr. Cheng's surname is Cheng. After a woman gets married, outsiders rarely use her own surname, and basically use her husband's surname.

If you marry someone surnamed Li like Wang, others generally call Li Wang, and if the family is older, you will be called Mrs. Li, not Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Cheng was obviously stunned, and nodded at the maid.

The maid snorted, glared at me maliciously, and then took out a piece of silver and handed it to me.

Well, I didn't do it for the money, but for the sake of pretense, I took the money.

"You just said that I will have a bloody disaster in the near future, so let's hear it."

I pretended to be serious and whispered, "Mrs. Cheng, what I calculated is not a trivial matter. If Mrs. Cheng doesn't find someone to crack it, it is very likely that she will be full of trouble! ”

As soon as I finished speaking, Mrs. Cheng's expression became a little complicated.

Then she pursed her lips and smiled again, and nodded, "Thank you for the reminder, the slave family will be careful." ”

After speaking, he pulled the maid and left in a hurry.

I think this Mrs. Cheng is very strange, why does she call herself a slave?

Cheng Fu is also a famous family, her identity is much more noble than ordinary people, and it is most reasonable to call herself a concubine. And this Mrs. Cheng does not have the temperament of a lady at all, let alone the majesty that a lady should have.

Niu Meng and the three of them came up to me and asked, "How is it?" ”

I shook my head, "It's a little strange, I didn't ask anything, but she seems to know about the Cheng Mansion murder case in Jinling." Let's go along and take a look, see where they live, and let Nan Ya check it out tomorrow. ”

So, the four of us followed.

After following for a while, I found that Mrs. Cheng did not mean to go home, but came to a restaurant, Jixiang Building.

Jixianglou is neither small nor too big, it is a medium-sized restaurant with two floors. The first floor is where to eat, and the second floor is where to live.

In order to prevent the two of them from finding out that we were following them, we didn't dare to get too close. I waited outside for a while before entering the restaurant.

But after entering, I found that there was no Mrs. Cheng on the first floor.

I called out to the shopkeeper, took out the silver and threw it to him, "Junior Er, ask you something." ”

Xiao Er happily took the silver, "Gotcha!" Childe, you ask. ”

"Which room does the lady and the maid who just come in live in?"

Xiao Er looked confused by the second monk, "Madame and maid?" There were two sons who had just come in, and they were sitting over there. ”

Xiao Er also pointed it to me.

I looked, and it was indeed the one who had just come in. After Mrs. Cheng took the maid into the restaurant, five more people entered, all of whom were men.

I was speechless, it seems that Xiao Er didn't understand what I meant.

"I said I wasn't really just now, I was asking just now, in front of a stick of incense."

"Childe, there is really no lady who comes in with a maid, let alone a stick of incense, not even an hour ago."

"Are you fooling me?"

"How dare you, the little one didn't tell a lie."

At this time, Miss Tang nodded on the side, "He didn't lie." ”

I almost forgot that Miss Tang can peek into people's hearts.

"Little Er, how is your memory?"

"Childe, it's not me who blows, I can remember what people who came to our store a month ago!"

"Before we came in, were there five people coming in, one dressed as a scholar, two who looked like wealthy businessmen, and two who were at the table you just pointed to."

Xiao Er thought about it and nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, yes, it's indeed the five of them." ”

"And what about before them? That's what I'm asking. ”

Xiao Er looked around the store and signaled to me, "It's the two over there, they look like father and son." ”

I looked and it was indeed two men, an elderly man and a middleman, and two people were drinking.

Qin Yuetong nodded at me, "Nothing abnormal." ”

This makes me wonder, Mrs. Cheng obviously walked in with the maid, but the shopkeeper didn't see it?

I was a little unwilling, so I went and asked the man sitting at the table at the door, and spent some silver. But the answers I got were all unseen.

Could it be that Mrs. Cheng took the maid and disappeared after stepping into the door of this restaurant?