Chapter 175: Betrayal
This leather paper is very thin, almost transparent when lifted, and the top is smooth and clean, delicate like a baby's skin. I looked left and right for a long time to study, but I didn't find anything unusual.
It's so tightly hidden, it's not a secret letter or a family secret, it shouldn't be a piece of plain paper.
I didn't give up, I put it under the lamp again, and rubbed it with something, and after tossing for a long time, I finally found some clues. Although this parchment paper is delicate, there are many flesh-colored lines on it, and if you lay the parchment paper flat and look at the level of the paper, you can see the fine outline on it.
I thought about it, and when I looked closely, I found that the parchment paper was crisscrossed with thick and thin lines, and it seemed to be a map, but if it was a map, it would look too laborious, so small, and the lines were so densely drawn, that I couldn't tell where it was drawn!
After looking at it for a while, my eyes widened, but the more I looked at it, the more I looked at it, the more I looked at it, I simply gave up, made the leather paper, stuffed it back into the outer membrane, and threw it back into the box.
"Dada...... Miss, Prince Dongmu asks to see you. "Midori knocked at the door.
I glanced at it, and although it was already dark when I was just now, I replied, "Say I slept, but I don't see it." ”
"But......" Luzhu hesitated, "Miss, let's meet, the prince is next to you." ”
I frowned slightly, put the box back in its place, took out the cloak and draped it, put on the hat, and then banged on the door.
Since the beginning of the month, when the snow starts to fall outside the door, large flakes of goose feathers and snowflakes dance in the wind, fluttering and sprinkling.
"Miss." Lu Zhu's face was self-reproachful, and he approached me and whispered, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince insists on coming over, but the slave and maid can't stop it." ”
"Don't blame him, I insisted on coming in." Baili Tianqi suddenly turned around.
Today, he wore a black fur-rimmed collar and stood sideways in the courtyard. The moon hangs overhead, and the snow falls on the shoulders. He tilted his head slightly, letting the falling snowflakes fall, like a young man under the yellow flower tree.
"Don't blame the county lord, it's Tianqi who is abrupt." He let out a shallow call.
I bowed slightly, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came to visit late at night, but is there something?" ”
He glanced at me and smiled, "Tianqi and the county lord are also old friends, I heard that my old friend is back, come and have a look, do you need any other reasons?" ”
Old friends, count it up, they can be regarded as old friends.........
I sneered in my heart, and said with a flat face, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that he laughed, and he didn't dare to take it." ”
He also said, "The county lord has been away for a few months, Tianqi is very worried, and now he sees that the county lord looks good, and he can be regarded as relieved to be less." ”
I bowed my head, and he waved his hand, and the guard behind him brought a plate of things. He lifted the brocade cover on it and said, "Xiqi is cold in winter, and it is easier to get wet in snow, this is a rare sable fox in Dongmu, with thick fur and extremely warm."
Although your body is well, don't be careless, and wearing it when you go out in the future will drive away a lot of cold. ”
After saying that, the guard hurried over and hung his head to carry the tray.
The moonlight was just right, and the snow petals fell on the purple fox fur cloak that was glowing red by the moonlight, which was a shocking beauty.
I looked at the sable fox and suddenly smiled.
Born deep in the mountains, the sable fox is only the size of a fist, which is extremely rare and precious. Dongmu is gentle and good in all seasons, but Feng Qingluan likes this fur thing the most, and asked him twice and twice to ask for it, and finally he was annoyed, so he got a rabbit fur collar for me, saying that he sent someone to find a lot of mountains, and there is no shadow of the sable fox at all, I am afraid that it is extinct, so I don't like such shadowless things in the future.
The coat color of this exhibition is uniform, the color is bright, I don't know how many sable foxes need to be caught to spell it out.
It's ironic that he didn't have what he coaxed to ask for before, but now, he actually sent the best.
I suddenly thought, if I told him that in Su Tianmu's body, there lived Feng Qingluan, who was abandoned like an ant, I don't know what he would look like......
Baili Tianqi stared at my smile for a moment, and even laughed along, "Purple is the most graceful, the county lord has a noble temperament, and when you wear it on your body, it will definitely have more charm." ”
Grace, temperament?
Baili Tianqi will also praise people.
I slowly put away my smile, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness." Purple is graceful, but unfortunately, the least favorite thing is purple. Please take the gift back to Your Highness. ”
Baili Tianqi nodded and said with a smile, "It's okay, Tianqi has made an extra white one, since the county lord doesn't like purple, I will order someone to send the white over." ”
"Don't bother, I don't like the smell of animal fur." I said again.
His expression froze, as if he had thought of something, and said, "The county lord is afraid that this cloak has a taste?" This rest assured, this fur has already been soaked in medicinal materials, and it has been smoked with sandalwood, and there is no fishy smell. ”
I still refused, "I'm sorry, even if it doesn't smell, I don't like it." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's good intentions were appreciated in my heart. Your Highness should take it back. It was getting late, and I was tired and tired, and if I had nothing else to do, I had to rest. ”
After saying that, I bowed my head and turned around to let the green beads send off the guests.
"Wait." He suddenly stopped me.
"Is there anything else going on with His Royal Highness the Prince?"
He pondered for a moment and said, "Today's snow-colored beauty, Tianqi was born in Dongmu, I have never seen such heavy snow, I have long heard that the garden of the county lord's mansion is unique, can the county lord take Tianqi to visit one or two?" ”
Visit? All right.
I nodded and said, "Since the prince is so Yaxing, it is naturally not good to pour Mu, Luzhu." ”
"The slave is here."
"Go and call Mama Chen."
"Yes, slave and maid will go." Lu Zhu answered, turned around and walked quickly, and after a while, he brought the yellow-faced Mama Chen over.
I smiled slightly, and said to Baili Tianqi, "His Royal Highness the Prince, Mama Chen is an old man in the mansion and is very familiar with the garden, so let her take the prince to visit it." ”
"His Royal Highness the Prince, please come here, the old slave will show you around." Mama Chen smiled and asked for a gift.
Baili Tianqi's face sank, and he looked at Mama Chen, who had a mouthful of buckteeth, and her face, which had always been waveless, slowly changed color.
I smiled and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, please visit slowly, I am a little tired today, so I will not accompany you." "With a shallow bow, I turned around and closed the door......
Unbuttoned his cloak, went to the table and poured himself a cup of tea, just now after two sips, Lu Zhu couldn't help but laugh and reported, saying that Prince Dongmu walked a few steps to the garden, and remembered that there was something in the house, so he hurried away.
I answered, and then asked her, "Over there is a red hall, but there is news?" ”
Lu Zhu hesitated for a moment and said, "Miss Hui, I have already found out, but the situation is a little complicated." ”
She said that after I left, several dark spots were suppressed one after another, and this time the losses were more serious, and many people were broken.
And those who were originally interfered by the official uniform, spent silver money to fish out some of them, and the remaining part was very strict-mouthed, biting to death and not saying anything, some of them were convicted of capital crimes and have been executed, and some of the other women in the dust, the government couldn't do anything about them, so they made a trumped-up crime, beat the board, and fined some silver, and the matter was over.
After this incident, several dark spots were also abolished, and those sisters who were released, Li Jiu was afraid that they would be released from the secret letter, so he gave them a lot of money and dismissed them all.
The situation was too strange, Li Jiu suspected that there was a traitor among us, so he paid more attention to it, and investigated it carefully, and in the end, he really found a traitor.
That woman was also picked up by Li Jiu from the street, and she was caught by mistake, and in order to survive, she betrayed us.
I asked, "What about the traitors?" ”
Lu Zhu replied, "I am consciously sorry for my sister, after being caught, I explained the situation, and I committed suicide by hitting the pillar." ”
"Have you found her to do things for whom?"
Lu Zhu nodded, "There is a box under her bed, which contains some jewels and two unsigned letters, according to the paper, ink and other clues, the person behind the eyes has been found, it is the original second prince, the current King Zeen, Helian Yunqi." ”
Helian Yunqi, that smiling tiger?
I'm really a little surprised, although my Red Pavilion is a miscellaneous net, but it hasn't provoked him all these years, how could he reach out to the Red Pavilion?
Could it be that he's starting to pay attention to me?
That's not supposed to be, I've been very low-key in Shengjing over the years, and I can count the number of times I've met him. He had no reason to pay attention to me.
Lu Zhu saw that my expression was wrong, and hurriedly said, "Miss, that traitor is just a small layer of letters, according to her later confession, the other party didn't know that we were a big net, but by accident found out that we arranged the letter in the second prince Cao Gang, and then found her to rebel and report the news." The real problem is someone else. ”
She hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "Miss, she is the seventh day of the first month...... There is a problem. ”
My eyes narrowed, "What's going on, tell me more." ”
Lu Zhu said, "The Ninth Master has long suspected the seventh day of the first month, because, our Red Pavilion is not continuous, and everyone is only responsible for the news of one area, even if there are two similar dark spots, they are all aware of each other's existence, and it happens that the seventh day of the first month is responsible for contacting these places." ”
With a push on my hand, the thin porcelain teacup shattered.
No matter how you think about it, you can't imagine that it will be the seventh day of the first month.
I really didn't expect that the little girl who was by my side and had a sister would betray me one day.
It feels ......
It's like a docile rabbit that has been raised for five years, and one day, the rabbit becomes a dog, and the unsuspecting bite hurts even the flesh of the belt.
Since she was a child, she was picked up by her side, since she called me sister, I really treated her, sent her to Emei to learn art for three years, and never treated her badly, I heard that she was going to get married, I was afraid that I would treat her badly, and I prepared a generous gift.
I thought I treated her well, but I couldn't think of why she betrayed.
"She's the other." I asked.
Lu Zhu whispered back, "Miss, I have already caught Lu Zhu and his Zhang Gongzi, and now they are locked up in the dark room of Jingxuan, you haven't come back, and we don't know how to deal with it." ”
I nodded, "Prepare the carriage, let's go over and have a look." ”
Green beads answered, and after a while, I took the men's clothes back, and after I put them on, I put on the black canopy, and then I went out through the back door, and I found a hot restaurant to go in, took off my cloak, strode out, crossed a few streets, entered a private house and came out through the back door, and then I arrived at the Jingxuan.
This is a pen and ink shop that I bought last year, and I don't have much money on weekdays, but I deliberately built a few darkrooms when I was decorating, and I thought that there would be some accidents that would be used, but I didn't expect it to become a prison cell, and I was originally the most trusted in the seventh year of the first month.
"Childe, but do you want to buy the four treasures of the study?" The shopkeeper greeted him with a smile.
Lu Zhu said, "My son-in-law wants to buy Zongwolf's brush, Zixuan bamboo inkstone, and also wants to buy paper thinner than silk rolls, but the shopkeeper is here?" ”
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "The first two things are not, but our store has a new batch of fine lines, the paper is very delicate, why don't you go in with the small one to see if it is satisfactory?" ”
"It's fine." I nodded. The shopkeeper led me to the back hall, and only stepped back to the left and right to salute, "Master Chuanpeng." ”
I answered, and he immediately led me to the pen and ink storeroom, and after a few knocks on a secret compartment, a secret door appeared beside it. He slapped again behind a book, and another tunnel appeared on the ground next to the secret door.
"Master, there are stairs down here, and the third room around the corner is. Chuan Peng is here for you to guard. ”
I answered, and I started with green beads, and I was in the darkroom.
Turn on the mechanism, open the door, and at a glance, I saw the seventh day of the first month with an embarrassed face.
"Sister......" She raised her head, her watery eyes instantly welled up with tears.