Chapter 61: Distress at Sea
Thousands of miles of ice were blown away by the spring breeze in February, Luoyang City is located in the center of the Central Plains, the residual snow melted, the warm sun sprinkled on the body, and suddenly felt that the coolness of a cold winter had dissipated.
Because the distant uncle came late to have a child, and it was a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, he took this opportunity to send invitations to relatives and friends, inviting everyone to participate in the child's full moon wine.
He Mingshan had the idea of taking his family to Jiangnan to play, and after this invitation, he gladly accepted, so the He family began to prepare in a hurry in order to rush to Jiangnan before the child was full moon.
At this time, Jiang Cailing's courtyard, everyone is in full swing to prepare things, Jiang Cailing is also the first trip to Jiangnan in two lives, she has imagined the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan countless times in the poems, misty rain, green mountains and green waters, and now the long trip makes Jiang Cailing a little excited.
Everyone says that Jiangnan is good, and tourists only meet Jiangnan Lao.
"There are a lot of insects in the south, so you should bring more insect medicines."
"This dress is just enough to set off the scenery of smoke and rain, girl, you will look good in this dress."
Baihe kept thinking about it when he was packing up, which disturbed Jiang Cailing and couldn't help but put down the scroll in her hand, and said to Baihe with a smile on the corner of her lips, "You help me bring so many clothes, even if I wear three sets a day, I can't wear them all." β
Baihe packed up, walked to Jiang Cailing's side with a smile and said, "Girl, this is the first time I have been to Jiangnan, and I don't know if the beauties in Jiangnan are as gentle as the legend says, so gentle that they can pinch out the water!" When the time comes, you will represent our Luoyang women, and you will not be able to lose them! β
"You!" Jiang Cailing jokingly scratched Baihe's little nose, and then continued to look down at the scroll.
His eyes fell on the page, but his mind drifted somewhere.
Since they met in a hurry on Chinese New Year's Eve, they were assigned by the emperor to solve things. He couldn't give the explanation he wanted to say last time, but between the lines of the conversation with him, Jiang Cailing felt that Gu Jiming didn't seem to know the cause of her death, as if it wasn't him who stabbed her in the chest in the first place.
Clusters of doubts floated in front of her, Jiang Cailing felt confused, and simply stopped thinking about it.
When she comes back from Jiangnan this time, let's listen to Gu Jiming's explanation.
On the day of departure, the sky was slightly bright, the moon just woke up and climbed down, the dense dark blue of the sky seemed to have been washed by clear water, Jiang Cailing wore a simple and convenient blue narrow-sleeved Luo skirt, covered with a white jacket, a green silk half bundled on the top of the head, fixed with a silver hairpin, and the simplicity was luxurious and elegant.
The ship leading to the south of the Yangtze River is a large passenger ship carrying goods by merchants on weekdays, the hard sail is hung high, can accommodate 100 people, is divided into two layers, the first floor is reserved for ordinary people, the big shop, the price is the lowest, and the facilities are relatively simple; The second floor is spacious and clean, with a total of five rooms, which is relatively expensive.
Jiang Cailing's family lived on the second floor, and a family and a pair of young men and women who lived in the room on the second floor at the same time went to Jiangnan to buy goods.
One day, Jiang Cailing woke up in a haze, and heard a noisy scolding from the first floor.
As soon as I got downstairs, I heard an old woman's crying voice, "You girl, you smashed my ancestral porcelain, and you don't want to lose money!" Why is my life so miserable! β
The old woman sat on the ground, holding a box with broken porcelain pieces and sighing.
When I looked closely, the woman standing opposite the old woman was the little woman who lived in one of the young couples on the second floor, and now the little woman was so angry that she cried, "Obviously I didn't bump into you!" I don't know how your vase breaks! β
When the old woman heard this, she raised her voice and shouted, "Look, you still don't admit it! Someone, look, someone is bullying the old lady! β
A young man, about thirty years old, stood up from the onlookers next to him, "Little girl, you just saw you hit this aunt, I think you don't want to pay for it!" β
"I didn't, I didn't touch her!"
The little woman's husband appeared, but neither of them could talk to the old lady, and his husband finally had to speak, "Although it wasn't my lady who hit it, but we don't want to cause trouble, I'll pay you this vase, you say more money!" β
When the old woman heard this, she smiled and stretched out three fingers.
The man took out three taels of silver and put them in the old lady's hand, ready to help his wife, who was still crying, back to the room.
Unexpectedly, the old lady grabbed the two of them and said loudly: "This is a amphora glazed vase from the Tang Taizong period, and it costs three thousand taels!" Send away the flowers! β
Three thousand taels?
Everyone present gasped, and some began to question how to prove that the vase was worth three thousand taels of silver.
"I'm here to buy and sell antiques, let me identify it!" Speaking is a middle-aged man who is quite well-dressed, dressed in brocade clothes, holding two bead balls in his hands, like a connoisseur in the antique world.
The connoisseur took out a Western magnifying glass from his carry-on bag and looked at the vase, and after a while, he saw that the connoisseur suddenly straightened his waist, and then began to beat his chest, "What a pity!" This is really a treasure, the theme decoration is blue glaze and gold color, there are twelve pastels on the color ground, three thousand taels are low, and at least five thousand taels of silver will be on the market! β
Everyone was in an uproar, and they came forward to take a look at the five thousand taels of vase, after Jiang Cailing heard it, the corners of her lips raised a smile, Tang Taizong's amphora glazed vase is genuine in the palace, once Guo Ang lost his temper with her, and broke this vase by mistake, how could there be a real product in the hands of this old lady.
The young couple never expected this to happen, the man frowned, and took off the jade pendant hanging on his waist, "This jade pendant is made of fine Hetian jade, and the bottom is also inlaid with ten pieces of gold, which is enough for three thousand taels!" β
The young man who stood up just now said again, "This is worth at least five thousand taels, you can't bully the elderly!" The big guys are all old for a day, and when we are old, we haven't been bullied by young people like this, how sad it is! β
The people around them thought of themselves and nodded their heads.
The old lady, the middle-aged man and the young man are clearly in a group, Jiang Cailing didn't want to meddle in things, but when she saw that the three of them were playing tricks and deceiving people, and they were still defrauding such a large amount of money, after thinking about it again, she still stood up and said loudly: "This connoisseur, you said that this is genuine, and the market price is five thousand taels of silver?" β
When the middle-aged man turned around, he saw a noble girl with a gentle smile on her face, so he nodded.
"Huh!" Jiang Cailing chuckled at the corner of her lips, walked up to the old lady, took out a piece of porcelain and looked at the sun, only to see that the broken parts of the porcelain were round and round, obviously broken for a long time.
Jiang Cailing also learned the demeanor of the expert just now and paused her hands, like a hot potato, and hurriedly put the broken porcelain piece in her hand back into the box, "Is there anyone in charge of the ship?" β
The man in charge stood up from the crowd, it was an elderly man, "What's the matter with the girl?" β
"This old woman is a felony of the imperial court, if you let her go, you will be the one who loses her head!"
The words landed, and the onlookers looked at each other, what is this singing?
When the old lady heard this, she hurriedly asked, "You female doll, I, the old lady, have no grievances with you, why do you arrange me like this!" β
Jiang Cailing shook her head helplessly, and said to the old lady, "You said that this is a treasure handed down from your ancestors, but is it true?" β
The old lady nodded.
Then Jiang Cailing asked the connoisseur again, "You said that this is a vase from the Tang Taizong period, right?" β
The connoisseur nodded.
Jiang Cailing nodded, and then spoke, "The ears of this double-eared glazed vase are two real dragons carved with white jade, which can only be owned by a national saint, since this is a genuine product, it will be in your hands, is it possible that you want to be the emperor!" If you plot rebellion, shouldn't you be killed! Not only will you kill you, but even your nine clans will be killed together! β
"What!" The old lady's face changed suddenly, she looked down at the broken porcelain, and sure enough, she saw a fragment of the dragon's body, and then rolled her eyes and fainted.
"Mother-"
"Grandmaβ"
The middle-aged connoisseurs and young people just now shouted out one after another, helping the old lady, and everyone realized that this was a family, and this family was all touching porcelain!
After the steward took away the three people, the little woman walked up to Jiang Cailing and thanked: "Thank you girl for your help, if it weren't for the girl, I'm afraid I would be framed for nothing!" β
Jiang Cailing shook her head, "I'm just telling the truth, and I don't know that the three of them are actually a gang." β
"My name is Song Jiuniang, the age difference between the girl and me is not much, just call me Jiuniang."
All the way south, everyone also got acquainted, Jiang Cailing also became familiar with Song Jiuniang, one day the moonlight was bright, and tomorrow Jiuniang was about to arrive at the station.
As a farewell banquet, the two drank a little fruit wine, but Song Jiuniang seemed to be overwhelmed with wine, and just after a cup of stomach, she was a little drunk, pulling Jiang Cailing and suddenly crying, "I miss my mother so much......"
Jiang Cailing was not good at comforting others, so she could only pat Song Jiuniang's shoulder and persuade in a soft voice, "It's okay, you'll see you when you come back after you finish buying the goods." β
Song Jiuniang smiled wryly on her lips, "No, Dong Lang and I eloped." His father disliked me for being a peasant girl, and he wanted Dong Lang to find a good lady, and then we decided to elope. I heard that the boat passed through an island of Koto, and that it was a place where many couples went together, and that couples who were married could receive God's blessings. β
Jiang Cailing didn't know whether to say that she was brave or naΓ―ve, she had also met a lot of eloped men and women before, and she was so in love that she was rotten at the beginning, but in the end she lost to time.
At this time, when Song Jiuniang's Dong Lang came to look for Song Jiuniang, Jiang Cailing said goodbye and left.
When I arrived at the port the next day, it was already sunset, after saying goodbye to Jiuniang, Jiang Cailing returned to the room, looking at the endless sea outside the window, it was black, the sky was covered by dark clouds, and there was no moonlight.
Just when Jiang Cailing was wondering where this emotion came from, she suddenly felt that a figure flashed at the door, and then she heard the sound of sword fighting outside, and the fight was very fierce.
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