Chapter 22: Miss Tao Fu is gone
Ling Bingche slept until noon before getting up, Ling Bingche got up one step earlier, got dressed, sat on the stool and looked at the woman who was still lying in bed
"Princess, how long is this going to sleep?"
The voice sounded in her ears, Nangong Yue turned her head and looked at each other, Nangong Yue turned around and said, "Lord Wang, please don't turn around, I want to change clothes."
"The princess has seen every place on her body, what are you still shy, let's eat after changing" After speaking, Ling Bingche handed her a set of white dresses.
A white gauze robe, giving people a clear and transparent feeling, a light purple gauze belt on both shoulders, a gust of wind blowing, giving people an elegant feeling, like a fairy descending to earth, no wind day, gauze ribbon, close to the body, delicate and delicate figure, vividly reflected, delicate black long hair, often draped on the shoulders, slightly coquettish and enchanting, sometimes loosely counting the long hair, showing a different style.
At this time, Qinglan's voice came from outside the door, "Lord Wang, something happened to the Tao Mansion, and the steward of the Tao Mansion has just come."
"Got it, this king will deal with it in a minute"
After Ling Bingche finished speaking at the door, he first looked at Nangong Yue, and then said, "This king is going to go there in a while, I have asked someone to prepare lunch, you can eat first."
Nangong Yue nodded, then got up and went out, with Lu Zhi leading the way in front.
"What's wrong with Mo Xiaotao's Mansion?"
"Lord Wang, there have been a hundred girls missing in the west of the city recently, all of whom are about fifteen years old, and the young lady of Taofu is also one of them."
"Mo Xiao, when the princess finishes lunch, you can go and call the princess to go to Taofu with this king."
Half an hour later, Mo Xiao came over with Nangong Yue.
Chengxi - Tao Fu
"Master, the young lady said a few days ago that she was going to eat at the painting boat, and she disappeared at noon," said the poor maid crying on the side.
This man had a rectangular face, a slight beard under his chin, gray hair, thick hands and feet, fine silk and satin, seven feet tall, and kept walking around.
"What if this child can't be found, sir, I'm just such a daughter," cried Mrs. Tao. The maid next to her gently patted her shoulder.
Master Tao turned around and continued to ask, "Sister, do you mean that the young lady went to Dongning to have dinner and disappeared?" ”
"The day before yesterday, Miss took Sister to the market, I wanted to buy some beautiful hairpins and fabrics, Miss suddenly hungry, there happened to be a painting boat next to it, we went, on the way Miss said to go to the toilet, who knows...... Woowoo woo ......"
"That's how you take care of Miss? Still crying, I don't know that nearly a hundred girls have disappeared in the past ten days, you still can't give birth to a good miss, come on"
"Master, my sister grew up with Miss since she was a child, don't blame her" Mrs. Tao pulled Sister Tao on the side and said to the master.
When Master Tao saw that she was haggard, he ordered someone to take Mrs. Tao down to rest, and he was thinking about how to find Tao Xin's .......
"Master, master, the prince is here" Steward Zhang ran in in a panic.
"Oh, hurry up and follow me to meet you," Master Tao hurriedly walked out
"Lord Wang, you can count it as coming," Master Tao saluted when he saw this.
"This king heard that Tao Xin is missing, so he specially came to check" Ling Bingche walked to the side and sat down.
"Exactly, alas, the prince wants to help the ministers?"
"If you don't help, why should this king come to your house in person" Ling Bingche looked at him and said, if it weren't for his kindness to the Tao family, otherwise he wouldn't be too lazy to care about these trivial matters.
After listening to Master Tao's words, Ling Bingche probably guessed something.
"In this way, Tao Xin must have been taken away, go to the Dongning Painting Boat" After speaking, before Master Tao could speak, he pulled Nangong Yue away.
Master Tao found out that the prince actually pulled the princess's hand personally, isn't the prince not close to women? Isn't the rumor false? Everyone is confused, everyone looks at me, I look at you, with a question mark on their faces.
The streets of the bazaar are lined with teahouses, taverns, pawnshops, workshops. There are also many small vendors with large umbrellas in the open spaces on both sides of the street. The streets stretch east and west to the quieter suburbs outside the city, but there are still pedestrians on the streets: some carrying burdens, some driving ox carts to deliver goods, some driving donkeys to pull wagons, and some stopping to enjoy the scenery of the Bianhe River. With the tall castle tower as the center, the houses on both sides are lined up, and there are tea houses, wine shops, foot shops, butcher shops, temples, public houses, and so on.
On both sides of the alley are dilapidated and quaint moss-covered courtyard walls close to civilian courtyards, some of which are also covered with dense green creeper vines, which seem to sweep away the sultry heat of Luoyang in summer under the narrow shadow, and have a little cool feeling.
(Dongning Painting Boat) four big characters appeared, this is Miss Tao. Let's go missing that shop. Nangong Yue was about to go over, but Ling Bingche stopped her, "Be careful"
Nangong Yue had a question mark on her face, and then looked at the painting boat, the vendor at the door of the store was a woman, and she came with a smile, "Yo, two guest officers, do you want to try our signboard?" Today's fish tasted superb."
Ling Bingche and Nangong Yue walked in and sat down at random.
The interior of the store is not bad, with tables and chairs made of nanmu, the curtains are lilac, and the walls are covered with various paintings and poems. It seems that this boss likes painting and poetry very much, and a woman is dancing in the center of the dance floor, next to two girls, one playing the piano and the other singing.
Several Xiao Si walked back and forth, pouring tea and serving food.
"The shopkeeper is here," I don't know who shouted, and a woman came down from upstairs. She was about thirty years old, she was wearing a blue and gold makeup satin jacket, her little face was as white as jade, holding a fan, she was walking down, and asked Xiao Er, who went upstairs to serve food, "How is your business today?" ”
"It's the same as before, no more, no less," Xiao Er said.
"Oh, by the way, why haven't I seen the two by the window?" Ling Bingche asked again.
"Just came here today," Xiao Er said, looking in that direction.
"Well, okay, you can get busy," said the proprietress of the painting boat, and walked towards this direction.
"Two, I'm the shopkeeper of this painting boat, and the food is to your taste?" The proprietress looked at them and asked.
Ling Bingche and Nangong Yue simply put down their chopsticks and smiled politely, and then Nangong Yue said, "Boss, I came here today to ask about the missing Miss Tao."
The proprietress on the side heard that she was looking for someone, smiled for a moment, and then smiled and said, "There are many people who haven't seen me these days, what does it have to do with my store?"
"It's not a secret, the day before yesterday, the daughter of Tao Mansion came to you for dinner, and she disappeared."
"Oh, I said girl, I don't know about this, if you come to me to look for someone, then go back" The proprietress said and wanted to drive them away.
The proprietress of the painting boat had a posture of sending off guests, and Ling Bingche had already been impatient and simply put the jade pendant on the table, "Do you recognize?" ”
The proprietress picked it up and looked at it, "Oh, it turned out to be the prince, I'm sorry I ......"
"Hmph, if you know this king, just tell the truth" Ling Bingche said coldly.
"Folk woman, I don't know, if you don't believe it, you can check out my painting boat" The proprietress was frightened, and her voice changed.
"If you let this king know that you are lying, this king will kill you," Ling Bingche said and walked out.
And Nangong Yue walked to the shopkeeper, picked up the proprietress who was kneeling on the ground and trembling, and asked, "What do you call you?" ”
"My surname is Chen, and everyone calls me Aunt Chen, but it really has nothing to do with me, girl."
"Well, okay, Aunt Chen, I know, this is today's meal money" After speaking, Nangong Yue handed her a string of money. After they left, Aunt Chen hurriedly ran to a room on the right side of the second floor, pushed open the door, she skillfully twisted the switch under the table, as soon as it was opened, it was a dark grid, and the entrance to the cave could be lowered, Aunt Chen carefully climbed down, and after going down was a room, the room sat a woman, with a black veil on her head, and she couldn't see her face clearly, and when she saw Aunt Chen coming, she said coldly, "Steward Chen, why are you here?" ”
"Just ...... Lord Ling came here and asked me about the disappearance of the Tao family's daughter, and I was uneasy, could it be that he found out that we had kidnapped those girls? ”
"What? The prince came to check? What can you say? ”
"No, my mother's mouth is tight, he can't get my words out at the moment"
"That's good, you quickly grab a few women and send them to this place tonight" The black gauze girl handed Aunt Chen a piece of paper with Wanfu written on it.
After the black gauze woman finished speaking, she turned around and left the dark grid, she still had a few women's skins to complete a very good painting, and now she could only speed up her pace.
The black gauze girl came out of the dark grid and came to a bamboo forest, next to the bamboo forest, there was a tombstone, engraved with (four big characters of the tomb of Dong Lang)
"Dong Lang, I'm coming to see you, what you haven't finished, I'm about to finish it for you, when it's ready, I'll go and accompany you, okay? Hahahahahaha