Jiapingguan Chronicle

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Yingwu and Hongye came back very quickly, without making everyone wait too long, Jin Miaomiao checked the things they brought back, they were all what they needed, just a little more, and turned towards His Royal Highness King Ning, Shen Haolin, Shen Cha and Xue Ruitian nodded.

"Can we go?" Shen Cha looked at Ying Wu, and then at Mei Zhu, "Starting with Xiao Wu, Xiao Zhu and Hong Ye are queens, you should protect Your Highness."

According to Shen Cha's instructions, Ying Wu stood at the front, Jin Jing and Jin Miaomiao took a small step behind him, followed by Xue Ruitian, Shen Haolin, His Highness King Ning, Shen Cha, and finally Hongye and Plum Bamboo.

His Highness King Ning, who was protected among everyone, held the candle that Xue Ruitian had just given him in his hand, and looked back, forth, left, and right as he walked.

"What's the matter, Your Highness, is there any problem?" Xue Ruitian sensed his doubts, and looked back, "Do you need to change something?"

"Have you rehearsed this many times?" His Royal Highness Ning waved his hands, indicating that he has no problem, "It looks very skilled."

"Every time I or Hao Lin is in the position of His Highness, Xiaocha usually stands in my position." Xue Ruitian nodded, followed the three people in front, and led His Highness King Ning into the secret room, "Be careful, Your Highness , there's a ramp here."

His Royal Highness Ning Wang nodded, illuminated his feet with the candle lamp in his hand, and walked carefully through the ramp at the door of the secret room.

After passing the ramp, it suddenly became clear that Ying Wu, Jin Jing and Jin Miaomiao who were walking in the front had already lit all the candles in the secret room, and the whole secret room was as bright as day.

This secret room is about the size of two study rooms in Marquis Wuding's mansion. The whole room looks very comfortable, except for the table, chairs, bookcases, and a row of ten large camphorwood boxes on the west wall. According to visual inspection, the box can hold two adult men.

"Where's the dry bone?" Jin Miaomiao patted Ying Wu, "Leave everything else aside, I'll take a look at the dry bone first."

While talking, she took off the face towel, put it on the desk, and took out two thicker ones from the toolbox she was carrying.

"Here." Ying Wu guided Jin Miaomiao to the wall on the south side, took the face towel that Jin Miaomiao handed over, and replaced the one on his face.

The dead bones were placed at the bottom of the south wall, and there was nothing around them to cover them. Everyone sighed in unison as they looked at the torn pieces of clothing beside the dead bones.

"This..." Shen Cha squatted down, reached out to pick up the torn pieces of clothing, and looked carefully, "Although it has been severely worn, the pattern and material can still be seen, which is very similar to that of ten years ago. , a kind of silk that is more popular in Jiangnan. I remember my mother said that this kind of silk was very popular among Jiangnan literati and students at that time, especially those so-called nobles who like to hold tea banquets and flower banquets at every turn. , so that in the end, there was a ridiculous scene that was hard to find."

"It's hard to find a piece of silk?" Jin Miaomiao looked at her, "Is it very expensive?"

"Expensive is another aspect, and the other aspect is that supply exceeds demand." Shen Cha picked up a few pieces of clothing, "You see, even if it has been damaged to this extent, its texture is still very good, not like what we often see. It is as light and thin as silk, and its sag is very good."

"Is that so?" Jin Miaomiao looked curiously at the fragments in Shen Cha's hand, picked up a few pieces from the ground, and felt them carefully, "It's true, it's completely different from what we've seen. "

"Yes, it is said that it looks like Mr. Zhuo Shijia, so it is very popular. But my mother also said that this kind of silk is not easy to come by, and it is good when it is good, so the price is usually very high."

"High?" Jin Miaomiao turned around and looked at His Highness King Ning, whose face had turned frosty at some point, "Your Highness, you..."

"The wine and meat of Zhumen stinks, and the road is frozen to death." His Royal Highness Prince Ning sneered, "The emperors of the Great Xia have never lived such a luxurious life, and the gang in Jiangnan enjoyed it first."

"Your Highness knows this?"

"Naturally." His Royal Highness Ning nodded, "This thing is called Qianjin Silk in the palace, and it is banned in the palace. Do you know why?" He didn't wait for the children to answer, and continued, "It's because of this waste of manpower. Material resources, and useless."

"Thousand gold silk, a piece of silk needs a thousand gold?" Jin Miaomiao's eyes widened, "Such a broken thing, 1000 taels of gold?"

"One foot." His Royal Highness Ning saw Jin Miaomiao almost sitting on the ground in fright, "1000 taels of gold is one foot, don't you think it's incredible?" Seeing Jin Miaomiao nodding frequently, he continued, "Then you Do you know how much this silk was before being sought after by those people in Jiangnan?"

"I don't know." Jin Miaomiao shook his head lightly, "One or two?"

"Basically the same." His Royal Highness Ning nodded, "And during that time, there were more than [-] murder cases in Jiangnan because of this broken silk, involving at least ten families and fifty people."

"I have this impression." Shen Cha thought for a while, "It seems that if the literati and students in the south of the Yangtze River did not wear this kind of silk clothes, they were not worthy of entering the academy, but there were still many children from poor families in the academy, because There was a fierce conflict over a piece of clothing, some poor students were injured and died in the conflict, and many children from rich families also suffered, and then there were various vicious incidents of revenge.”

"That's right." His Highness King Ning watched Shen Cha carefully put all the silk cloths on a piece of paper, "Later, the incident really got too big, and it went to Lao Liu, who chopped it up directly. A few bosses and unscrupulous traders who drove up prices were able to suppress this unhealthy trend. Later, because of the news from the palace, this extravagant stuff was banned, so this wave went down."

"In this way, the fact that this person can wear such expensive clothes shows that he has an unusual status. Moreover, this clothing material was only popular in the south of the Yangtze River for a while, and it did not spread to Xijing City, nor did it spread to other places. It means that this person is basically from Jiangnan." Xue Ruitian rubbed his chin, looked at Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and at His Royal Highness Ning Wang, "At that time, he came from Jiangnan and came to our house specifically. Yes, it was killed by my father again, probably..." He smiled wryly, "Except for the Liu family, there probably won't be anyone else. But..."

"If it's the Liu family..." Shen Cha frowned slightly, "Even if he is the housekeeper of his family and the confidant of the head of the Liu family, can he afford such expensive clothes?"

"I have a guess." Xue Ruitian was the first to raise his hand.

"I also have a guess." Shen Haolin and Shen Cha said in unison.

"What a coincidence, this king also has one." His Royal Highness Ning Wang looked at them with a smile, "Why don't we write down our guesses and see if we think of going together, okay?"

The children nodded, took out the paper and charcoal pens they had been given before entering the secret room, and wrote their guesses on the paper behind their backs.

"Is it all finished?" His Royal Highness Ning looked at the children and nodded, "Let's light up together."

All the people showed what they had written, and the same name was written on it-Master Liu.

(End of this chapter)