Chapter 12: Nineteen Hours in Kyoto
Rong Fei's head buzzed, and his body shook.
Ji Rouer hurriedly held him up and touched his forehead with concern.
"I'm fine, what time is it?"
Since he followed Liu Yong as a helper, Rong Fei had never taken on a case that was so out of his control, and when he saw that Yu Qingzhi was still happy, he couldn't help but feel angry.
This guy is obviously very anxious in his heart, otherwise he would not have spent a huge amount of money to use the teleportation circle, but he still looks unhurried and calm, and I don't know if he is pretending to be or if he is a chronic son himself.
"It's probably time."
Ji Rouer tilted her head and thought for a moment and replied.
"A moment."
Yu Qingzhi took out a strange-looking thing from his sleeve and said after taking a look at it.
At 7:15 p.m., less than two days before 11 p.m. the day after tomorrow.
To find a jade seal the size of a fist from Kyoto, a city of millions of people, in such a short period of time, the difficulty of this case can be called hellish level.
Rong Fei couldn't help but think of a TV series he once watched.
If I have the opportunity in the future, I must write this case into a novel, and the title of the book will be "Nineteen Hours in Kyoto".
"Hurry up and go to the scene, my reputation for solving cases 100% can't be ruined here."
Rong Fei forcibly suppressed his anger and said to Yu Qingzhi.
Dangdangdang.
There was a knock on the door outside, and a high-pitched voice came in.
"But Mr. Yu has been caught back?"
"It's me, Duke Wei, please come in."
The door was pushed open a crack, and an old eunuch came in and let out a sigh of relief after seeing Yu Qing, squeezed in through the crack in the door, turned around and closed the door, and trotted in front of Yu Qingzhi and whispered.
"Oh, my Mr. Yu is arrested, you can be regarded as back, Your Majesty has asked the miscellaneous family three times. Recently, monks from all walks of life have gathered in Kyoto, and the Five Absolute Great Array lacks your eyes, and His Majesty will not be able to sleep steadily. ”
After speaking, he looked at Rong Fei and Ji Rou'er, and after looking the two of them up and down, left and right, his eyes showed suspicion.
"These two are the helpers you found? Looking at the milky sample that has not dried, is it reliable? ”
"I am not ambitious, but at the age of eight, I assisted my master in handling cases, and so far I have solved a total of 932 unsolved and doubtful cases, and there has been no unjust, false or wrongful case. Fencheng Rongfei has seen Wei Gong. ”
Faced with the old eunuch's questioning, Rong Fei replied with neither humility nor arrogance.
"It's articulate, but I just hope that Mo is a silver-like wax gun head, and it doesn't work."
After Gonggong Wei finished pouting, he pulled Yu Qingzhi and urged.
"Let's go and guard the formation quickly, just leave it to the old slave here."
"Okay, okay, Wei Gong don't urge, I'll go over here."
Yu Qingzhi nodded slowly and reasonably, and then explained to Rong Fei.
"The loss of the jade seal is very important, and there are very few people in the palace who know about it, so don't act cautiously and don't leak the news. Duke Wei is the eunuch who is the manager and supervisor of the seal, and he will tell you the details and the rules and taboos of walking in the palace, and you can talk to Duke Wei if you have any needs.
Miss Rou'er is not suitable for staying in the palace for a long time, so it is convenient for me to go to Jinyan for a stroll, and I also happen to see the prosperity of Kyoto. ”
"Then it's troublesome for Brother Yu."
Rong Fei quietly stabbed Ji Rou'er in the back behind him, Ji Rou'er understood, nodded and agreed.
Eggs can't be put in the same basket, this is the tacit understanding and consensus reached by the two since childhood.
The two were blocked in the alley by Guo Xiao, and Ji Rouer ran alone without hesitation.
Although Yu Qingzhi promised that even if he couldn't find the jade seal, he wouldn't do anything about Rong Fei, but this Kyoto is the center of power in Dayan.
The assurances of the Immortal Division's general arrest were not too convincing.
Ji Rouer left the palace with Yu Qingzhi on foot, and kept telling herself in her heart along the way that she should be calm and not embarrass Rong Fei, but she still couldn't control her beautiful eyes, and looked around from time to time.
Whether it is his hometown of Danzhou or Fencheng, which he settled in later, it can only be regarded as a rural place.
The majestic Dayan Palace, the forbidden army with bright armor and neat formations, the seemingly endless shops and the crowds of people on the long streets.
Ji Rou'er felt that her eyes were about to run out.
When passing by a gouache rouge shop, the shopkeeper inside was selling newly arrived goods to a noblewoman, and when she heard that a small box of rouge cost one hundred and twenty taels, Ji Rou'er's heart was sudden.
When they were in Fencheng, Rong Fei and Ji Rouer were very frugal because they had to save money to buy exercises and elixirs, and their annual expenses were about a dozen taels.
But even so, in Fencheng, it is already much more decent than most people's families.
But in Kyoto, such a small box of rouge is enough to cover the needs of two people for ten years.
Rong Fei is right, Kyoto rice is expensive, and it is not easy to live for a long time.
Calculating the remaining hundreds of taels of silver after purchasing exercises and elixirs, enough for how long the two of them would live in Kyoto, Ji Rouer followed Yu Qingzhi into a house with a heavy expression and was surrounded by forbidden soldiers and guarded by the forbidden army.
The courtyard was heavily guarded outside, but there was nothing surprising inside. The courtyard of Sanjin covers a wide area, the pavilions and pavilions are properly arranged, and the environment is beautiful and quiet.
came to the second courtyard, found a room for Ji Rouer to place the bags she brought, and then beckoned her to sit in the pavilion in the courtyard.
"When Miss Rou'er first arrived in Kyoto, how did she feel?"
Yu Qingzhi waved his sleeves on the stone table in the center of the pavilion, and a pot of tea, two teacups, a plate of fresh fruits, and a plate of delicately shaped pastries appeared out of thin air.
"Hmm... Rich and charming, with a lot of shyness in the bag. ”
Ji Rouer remembered what Rong Fei had said, and said it with a slight change.
"Hehehe, the price of Kyoto is indeed more expensive, and in what Miss Rou'er said, it is really a good blue heart."
Nothing to offer is either a traitor or a thief, which is also a sentence that Rong is very concerned about.
When Ji Rou'er heard this, she immediately became alert, and her palm retracted into her sleeve and clenched the firecracker.
"Brother Yu, do you have something to tell me?"
"Haha, I really can't hide anything from the two of you. Now that you've guessed it, I'm not going to beat around the bush, two things. ”
Yu Qingzhi reached into his sleeve and took out a jade bottle and a roll of plain cotton cloth and put them in front of Ji Rou'er.
"The first thing is that I agreed with Rong Fei before, to cure the old sores on your hands. This is Ice Skin Lotion, just apply it to the scar, wrap it tightly in a cotton cloth, and the scar will disappear and recover after three days. There's nothing left or right to do now, so you can apply it yourself. ”
The old sores on her hands have always been Ji Rouer's heart disease, and she needs to wear gloves all year round to cause criticism, not to mention that when it rains on a cloudy day, there seem to be thousands of ants gnawing on the bones, which is very unbearable.
And every time I see the old sores on my hands, I will recall the picture of myself being eaten by wild dogs that day.
Since it was an agreed matter, Ji Rouer didn't need to be polite, and held the jade bottle in her hand.
"What about the second thing?"
"The second thing is my impromptu idea. I wonder if Miss Rou'er is interested in practicing? ”
"Practice? Me? ”
"Yes, I happen to have a cultivation method here, which is especially suitable for Rou'er girl."
Yu Qingzhi said, took out a book of exercise cheats from his sleeve and handed it over.
"Zhuxian Arrow!"
Ji Rouer read out the name of the exercise written on the cover.
"Eight hundred years ago, the God Hunter was able to stand at the pinnacle of the cultivation world, and it relied on three things. I have already promised to give Rong Fei the trick of catching gods, and if I hand over this immortal arrow to you, it can be regarded as complementing each other. ”
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In the Dayan Palace, after Rong Fei saw Ji Rouer and Yu Qingzhi go away, he followed Gonggong Wei towards the imperial study.
After taking a few steps, Rong Fei felt something, turned his head and glanced behind him, only to see that the door of the room where the four of them had just come out had turned into a red wall at this time.
"Hehe, it's just a trick. The teleportation circle is located in an important place, and it is necessary to prevent some people with ulterior motives from infiltrating and destroying it. ”
Gonggong Wei explained.
At this time, a little waiter hurriedly ran over and whispered a few words in Gonggong Wei's ear.
After listening to this, Father-in-law Wei pulled Xiao Nei to the side and muttered for a long time, and Xiao Nei Shi trotted away all the way.
"It just so happens that Your Majesty is not in the imperial study at this time, so let's hurry up and go over."
There were four burly guards of the forbidden army in front of the door of the imperial study, and they hurriedly saluted when they saw Gonggong Wei.
"The cubs are tired after standing all day, so go to the guard room to eat something and rest. There's a miscellaneous family watching here, and I'll come back when I'm called to you. ”
On duty in the palace, one looks at the loyalty of the family, and the other depends on whether the mind is smart.
The family history is loyal and easy to understand, and it is necessary to have three generations of innocent white family children with no bad deeds, so that the emperor and his concubines can sleep peacefully at night without worrying about their heads moving.
The mind is clever but it is to protect themselves, to be obedient and listening, to be informed and interesting in order to live a long-term life.
The guards didn't ask much, thanked them and left.
The two pushed the door and entered the imperial study, Rong Fei scanned the whole room and found that it was similar to what he saw on TV.
Father-in-law Wei closed the door tightly, and after carefully checking every corner of the room to confirm that there was no one, he told the story of the loss of the jade seal.
"Your Majesty usually uses private seals, and only on the folds handed over by the cabinet for major state affairs or official appointments and dismissals will the jade seals be used, so the jade seals are usually kept by special guards in the Jiaotai Palace.
Seven days ago, around the clock, the cabinet handed over a batch of excerpts, and His Majesty asked the miscellaneous family to go to the Taidian Hall to get the jade seal. Halfway through noon, His Majesty had lunch in the Imperial Study after approving some of the recitals, and then went for a walk in the Imperial Garden. The miscellaneous family and Ma Gonggong accompanied His Majesty to the trip, and there was a team of forbidden army guards outside the imperial study.
When he came back with His Majesty at the right time, the jade seal that was originally placed on the table was gone. The miscellaneous family and Ma Gonggong searched the entire imperial study, and they all wanted to dig three feet into the ground, but they still couldn't find the jade seal.
His Majesty told the miscellaneous family and Ma Gonggong not to make a noise, and secretly found Mr. Yu to arrest him and hand him over to be responsible for finding the whereabouts of the jade seal. As a result, Mr. Yu searched for three whole days and still found nothing, and now he can only pin his only hope on you, the little guy.
The day after tomorrow is the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens, the four absolute holy places, large and small cultivation sects, vassal kings from all over the country, feudal officials, and even the southwestern barbarians have sent envoys to Beijing to watch the ceremony. If it is known that the jade seal of the country has been lost, His Majesty's loss of face is small, and the damage to the majesty of the court is also small, and some people with ulterior motives take the opportunity to rebel. ”
"Dare to ask Duke Wei, can you clearly say who the ulterior motives are?"
"Yongwang Zhu Cheng."
Gonggong Wei gritted his teeth and said.