Chapter Twenty-Three: Clues
On the branches of the moon, Wutong Street is full of traffic, and men and women who come out to play can be seen everywhere.
Night Terror Hall is dressed as an ordinary ranger, with a hat on his head, like a foreigner who has never seen the market, looking left and right at the pavilions along the street.
Wutong Street is the most prosperous street in the capital, famous for Fengyuechang, but the long street is not full of green buildings, the largest number is luxury shops, as well as restaurants and teahouses for normal entertainment, and there are many young ladies and ladies who come here to hang out at night, but they will not stop at the door of the two green buildings in the center.
The owner of Longyinlou has a lot of business in Beijing, there is more than one shop under his command, there is another Sifang Zhai on the street, the chef in charge of the family has been called the chef for generations, and is respected as the chef by the good deeds, and it can also be said that the cooking immortals, a common vinegar fish in Jiangzhou, it has become one of the eight major dishes in Yunzhou, and the East banquet guest in Sifang Zhai, which is similar to the wine in Jinping Tower, and it is a fixed treatment in the capital, for which the seat usually has to line up, and whether you can eat it all depends on luck.
Night terror hall in the street leisurely stroll, not long before the square in front of the square, it can be seen that the building is noisy, but there are two people dressed as two little two standing at the door, every time a diner comes to the door, will smile and say two sentences:
"I'm sorry for a few guest officials, Sifangzhai was contracted by the prince of Liang Guogong Mansion today, let's come back tomorrow......"
Seeing this, the night terror hall did not approach the door, but first walked around the perimeter twice, and after making sure that there were no suspicious birds and beasts on the eaves, he silently hid in the dark place of the side alley, and then flew up, hanging upside down under the eaves of the three-story building, found a vacant private room, entered it through the window, and came to the door to look at the hall.
"Li Gongzi is a good literary ......"
"Come, let's toast Li Gongzi for a ......"
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The center of the three-storey building is the hall, there is a shadow wall at the door to block the scene in the hall, there are eight large tables inside, which are full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and the people sitting around are all young people, eighty percent are the sons and daughters of wealthy families, and two percent are young ladies from famous families.
Because of the presence of female guests, the atmosphere in the hall is much more serious, and the Liu Gongzi who touched the sword in the Night Terror Hall was still in the Longyin Building yesterday, but today he changed into a literary robe, and his demeanor was steady and elegant, looking like a shy scholar who had never even touched the girl's hand since he was a child.
Night Terror looked at the table in the center of the hall, and it could be seen that there were six men and one woman sitting on it, and the stupid eldest cousin Wang Chihu was also among them.
Although Wang Chihu is only the general banner of the black ya, but the background is amazing, the two cousins are one emperor and one is the king, and his father is still in command of the Yazhou army.
Night Terror Hall looked carefully, and it could be seen that the person on the right was a boy in his thirties, with a tall figure and a handsome and easy-going face, giving people a sense of cynical idleness.
Night Terror Hall carefully observed Dongfang Shuoyue's speech and demeanor, although it was not as unbearable as rumored, but it was not anything special, there was no superior shelf between pushing cups and changing lamps, he looked like a normal son, and Fang Shijie was not at the banquet.
After two quarters of an hour of secretly staring at the Night Terror Hall, the following had already been drunk for three rounds, and still did not find anything unusual, but was attracted by a few conversations outside the Quartet:
"I'm sorry for the girls, Sifangzhai was ...... by the Liang Guogong Mansion today"
"Huh? It's a pity, forget it, let's go to the next ......"
"Sister Xiuhe, the Liang Guogong Mansion is very powerful?"
"That's nature, Liang Guogong is the founder of the country......"
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Night Terror heard who the three girls were who they were, and they couldn't help but be surprised, and quietly jumped out of the window and came to the cornices to check the street.
The bustling street outside the Sifangzhai Gate was full of cars and horses, and several families led the carriage to follow slowly, and in front of them were three beautifully dressed girls.
Zhi Yunli is wearing a skirt and holding a fan, just like the scholarly lady who comes out to shop with a wealthy family nearby, and it seems that Si Swen does not have the slightest bit of Jianghu atmosphere; And Ping'er, who was dressed as a maid, followed behind, because it was the first time to come to Wutong Street, she was really surprised by the prosperity of this place, and asked questions along the way.
Xiuhe walked in front to lead the way, explaining various problems along the way, and when leaving Sifangzhai, he also glanced at the cars and horses parked on the side of Sifangzhai, and then took the two girls into the Xianzhifang next door.
When Night Terror Hall saw this scene, he knew that it was a shrewd and capable Xiao Xiuhe, following his orders, and inquiring about the movements of the prince of Yanwang, and it would definitely arouse suspicion when he walked around and asked questions about the west, so he pulled Yunli and Ping'er on board, and went shopping by the way.
The Night Terror Hall watched here for a long time, and didn't see anything unusual, and after thinking about it, he floated down in the corridor between the two tall buildings to look at it.
Xianzhi Fang is mainly engaged in jewelry and rouge gouache, and the goods are mainly pure and smart, which is deeply loved by the big ladies who have not yet come out of the cabinet, and all of them are girls' homes.
At this time, in the hall of the shop, three girls stood outside the counter, with a tray in front of them, and inside were several open rouge boxes. The proprietress may have recognized Xiuhe, personally received at the counter, and were communicating with each other:
"The girl is a rare guest, she hasn't been here for half a month......"
"I'm busy at home, I can't help it, I was going to go to Sifangzhai for dinner, but I didn't expect to be wrapped...... I heard that the prince of Yan Wang is also in Sifangzhai? ”
"Yes, I still have a head card from Longyinlou with me, and I just bought a few pieces of jewelry here, so I am really generous."
"Really......"
After a few words between the two, the proprietress found that Zhe Yunli was picking lip grease, and asked:
"How old is the girl?"
"Sixteen."
"Yo~ This age is just right, you look at this, the color is strong but not strong, bright but not flattering......"
"Huh~ Isn't this a little too glamorous? Sister Xiuhe, what do you think? ”
"I think it's a good fit."
"Girl, you can try it first, my shop has been open for 20 years, it is expensive but I never make black money, if the makeup is not good-looking, I will not accept you if you pay......"
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Luo Ning's makeup has always been light, and she is also strict with the young Zheyunli, who definitely didn't dare to buy this kind of vermilion lip balm that is a little seductive before.
But now that they are sixteen years old, Zhe Yunli likes it very much in his heart, and under the recommendation of several people, he still pulled up the rouge flower piece from the box and put it in front of the bronze mirror.
As the lips parted, the lips, which were originally very light, became visible to the naked eye, so that the whole face became a little brighter.
"Huh~"
"Miss is so good-looking."
"This color does match, the proprietress has good eyesight......"
Zhe Yunli was obviously a little unaccustomed, her face was a little red, she bit her lower lip and looked carefully in the mirror, but she faintly found that something was wrong - outside the window on the side, there was a familiar figure wearing a hat on her head, who seemed to be looking at her in the mirror and snickering.
Shocking cousin?
Zhe Yunli was stunned for a moment, and looked back, but saw that the window in the distance was empty, and there was no one.
Zhe Yunli didn't think that he would think that men would hallucinate, and after exchanging a few words with the two, he quietly walked out of the door while Xiuhe was picking rouge and came to the side aisle.
The aisle was empty, and after a glance, Zheyunli walked down the aisle to the back alley, checked left and right, and thought that Night Terror was playing peek-a-boo with her, so she wanted to open her mouth and shout.
But as soon as she opened her movements, she noticed a familiar black shadow emerging from the cornice, which landed in front of her in the blink of an eye, covered her mouth, and dragged her directly into the dark alley.
?!
Miss Jiaojiao's dressed Zhi Yunli, who was held by one hand and covered her mouth, her eyes suddenly widened a little, but she did not struggle, but held her breath and condensed, did not make any more sounds, leaned on the man's chest and listened.
Hoof, hoof......
There was the sound of horses' hooves in the back alley from far and near, trotting towards the side of Sifangzhai, and slowing down when they were about to arrive.
Zhi Yunli blinked, understanding that the Night Terror Hall should be squatting, and raised his eyes slightly, wanting to see how the Night Terror Hall reacted, and was ready to move the glove sack or hold still.
Night Terror Hall had already seen a horse coming, at this time covering Yunli's mouth, frowning and listening carefully, and found that the horse man had arrived at the back of the Sifangzhai, and a small servant in the restaurant came out to greet him:
"Elder Fang, please."
"Li Gongzi's birthday banquet has begun?"
"It didn't take long to get started......
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The person who spoke was Fang Shijie, the conversation was very normal, and he didn't notice the movement around the corner, Night Terror Hall secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and lowered his head to signal not to make a sound.
Zhe Yunli has been holding back in the capital for a few months, and he is about to suffocate to death, and when he encounters this kind of drama of the enemy and the enemy, his eyes are burning, and he waited until the footsteps sounded from the back alley and gradually moved away, before he blinked, and then together with the night terrors, he probed from the corner of the wall.
There was no one in the back alley, and only the guys from the restaurant were left behind the fence to feed the horses in the stables.
Night Terror Hall found that Fang Shijie left the side of Yan Wang Shizi at night and his whereabouts were unknown, so he was naturally suspicious in his heart, and was about to let Yunli go back, he went to eavesdrop, but before he could speak, he heard Xiao Yunli in his arms whispering:
"It seems to be Fang Shijie."
"Huh?" Night Terror Hall was stunned for a moment, and looked down at Xiao Yunli: "How do you know?" ”
Zhe Yunli's eyes were full of pride: "I've been wandering around the capital for half a year, and you can't hang out every day when I'm outside?" I even figured out how many people there were in the black ya, and when the shift was changed every day, not to mention this kind of open-faced character. Fang Shijie is the guard of the prince of Yan Wang, and the prince of Yan Wang is here, so who else can he have if this old man surnamed Fang is not him?
"I used to come to Wutong Street and saw it once on the road, I heard that this person turned out to be a Yanzhou ranger, mixed 'half-fingered green', good at swordsmanship and boxing, martial arts are extremely high, and sixty years old is still a sword, and also raised an outer room in the hexagonal alley in the south of the city, I go every few days, half an hour at a time, and I will rub my waist when I go out......"
??
Night Terror's eyes showed a different color: "Who did you listen to?"
"Listening to what the idlers in the teahouse said, as the saying goes, there is no wind and no waves, this old man may really have a small one outside. Cousin is helping the outer room? Let's go, I'll show you the way. ”
"Grab what the outer chamber."
Night Terror Hall shook his head secretly, came to the middle of the aisle, stuck it on the wall, and listened carefully to the movement of the hall behind the wall, only to find that Fang Shijie sat down directly in the banquet, talking all about the scene, and it seemed unlikely that he would plot loudly.
Zhe Yunli was obviously a little curious, and did not go back to the shop directly, but quietly hung on the wall, looked at the horses in the courtyard, and then gestured to the night terror.
Seeing this, the Night Terror Hall came to him again, and looked into the courtyard from the wall:
"What's wrong?"
Zheyunli hung his feet in the air, hanging himself on the wall, as high as the night terrors, and his eyes gestured to the horses eating grass in the stables:
"The horse didn't sweat much, and it didn't go far, but there was mud on its hooves, which hit the horse's belly, and it looked like it had run through a muddy road; These days the capital is the big sun, there is no such a bad road in the city, there are river embankments near the capital, there are not many places where horses can go down, let's go to the river to look for it now, it is possible to find horseshoe prints. ”
Night Terror Hall looked at the horse's hooves with a surprised look:
"Today, the empress went to the upstream Yutan Villa, more than ten miles along the way, the ships will be strictly inspected when they dock, and the downstream is not restricted, and the large and small merchant ships have gone to the downstream for convenience, and the port has to stop at the riverside if it can't be squeezed in...... If you go to the river to do something, it is more likely to come back from downstream. ”
Zhe Yunli showed an admiring look of 'heroes cherish heroes', and pulled the sleeves of the night terror:
"Then let's go, where it can become muddy, it will definitely be flooded. I didn't find it before the high tide in the middle of the night, and when the water level came up, everything was submerged. ”
Seeing that Xiao Yunli was quite clever, Night Terror Hall didn't say anything, and after letting her go and say hello, they set off quickly and went out of the city together......
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Jiang'an Wharf outside the city.
With Yang Guan's return to his hometown to buy a house, the Qinglian Gang dispersed, and now Jiang'an Wharf has been acquired by other land snakes in the city.
And with the Night Terror Hall becoming the leader of the sword, this group of town snakes who had the idea of doing business on Dyefang Street obviously knew that they had offended the wrong people, and recently they were cowardly like their grandsons, not to mention taking care of business, and they didn't even know where they were hiding, and they only relied on a group of younger brothers to maintain order.
The wharf is the place where the three religions and nine streams converge, there is no one to support the scene to watch, it is naturally a mess, coinciding with the surge of upstream control and downstream ships to the post, the riverbank wharf directly talks about the state that the inside can not get out, the outside can not enter, the late ships can only temporarily moor at the riverside, waiting for the port to dredge into the port to unload.
The moon is bright and the stars are scarce, a big ship from the upstream, docked alone near the river beach that is still two miles away from the wharf, most of the guests on the ship have disembarked and walked into Beijing, but the goods on the ship can not be unloaded, so there are still a few people walking around on the boat, looking at the movement on the wharf.
In a courtyard by the river to escape the summer, a son dressed in green clothes stood on the observation tower and looked at the afterglow of the lights of the capital.
In a tea house at the back of the house, several figures sat in it, among which the old man in a brocade robe wearing a cloak sat in the middle of the upper seat.
On the right is the sturdy Teng Tianyou, Zhong Sun Yan sits on the left, and on the small table in front of him is a gold bowl with a lid, the edge is sealed by a wax seal, and the surface of the lid is quite delicate, engraved with an ancient emblem.
Zhong Sun Yan's behavior has always been casual, but at this time, his face was solemn, and he didn't dare to touch the golden bowl, but he looked at it carefully and sighed:
"Back then, in order to restrict the strange people who practiced the Minglong Diagram, the Northwest Royal Court asked the wizards of various departments to study the imprisoned dragon miasma, but the result was that the Minglong Diagram was more subtle, and the body was forcibly reshaped, and it was not poisonous at all, so it could only play a short-term limiting role, and the practice of the Fire Bath Diagram was directly ignored. And the ordinary people who don't have the Minglong figure by their side are terrible disasters, no matter how high their martial arts are, they have to become wasted on the spot if they are stained with the imprisoned dragon miasma, and they can't be solved and die, and they suffer from the hearts of ten thousand ants every day, which is even more difficult to endure than killing them directly......"
Teng Tianyou is also a native of Northern Liang, and after hearing the famous murderous name of the imprisoned dragon miasma, he thought about it;
"Xuanji Zhenren and Night Terror Hall are both die-hard loyalists of the imperial court, and it stands to reason that they have both practiced the jade bone diagram hidden in the palace, if this thing is useless to them......"
The old man in the brocade robe who was sitting on the top responded flatly:
"The domineering nature of the dragon miasma lies in destroying the foundation of people and disintegrating their bodies by themselves; If you can't hurt the bones after practicing the jade bone diagram, the skin and flesh will still rot slowly. Even if the muscles and bones and skin of the practice are three pictures, the poison has been on the body, and the body is constantly injured and healed, even if it continues to consume the essence and spirit, no matter how high the martial arts are, it is difficult to exert much strength. ”
Teng Tianyou asked again: "As long as this thing touches the empress, it will definitely die?" ”
The old man in the brocade robe thought for a while and shook his head: "This thing should not have any effect on the empress, and can only be used to deal with Xuanji Zhenren or Night Terror." There is only one poison, as for how to transfer the tiger from the mountain and how to use the poison, you will find your own way. ”
Teng Tianyou frowned, glanced at Zhong Sunyan, didn't say anything more, and seriously pondered the specific plan......
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