The Xisu River is very lively at night. There are more than fifty painting boats on the river. It stretches all the way, and there are flat boats parked at the ferry. This is a special purpose for sending guests to the painting boats for ten cents.
Ten cents of money can't last about ten meters, so this is definitely a gold cave.
The larger painting boats here are the same as the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion such as Shaotou Zui. Guests can come here to buy drunk, there are girls playing piano, poetry and painting, warm up, say some earthy love words, sigh life, coquettish, beautiful faces , Wenrou Township.
And the small painting boats, such as Chun Niang Mei Niang, said that they were painted boats, but they were actually decorated boats, with only one or two girls on it. They usually greet the rich men and the lords, and the guests are mostly literati. Mo guest, sour talent.
The fee is relatively cheap, but there can be further actions, of course, further money must be given.
Chunniang died, and her mother found a girl to replace Chunniang, named Liuer.
King Qi found this Liuer, and his mother was also on the painting boat. Because of the dim lights and the fact that King Qi did not wear an official mansion, he changed into a brocade after returning to the mansion. He looked very rich and handsome, but his mother did not recognize it. .
Seeing Wang Qi's wealthy appearance, he was so overjoyed that he hurriedly greeted him, calling Liuer to come out to greet the guests.
King Qi looked at the Liuer as just sixteen or seventeen. It didn't have a dusty atmosphere. He was wearing a satin coat and an apricot cloak. His head was full of pearls and green, but he looked like it was not expensive.
With a good appearance, the eyes under Liu Ye's eyebrows slightly raised, and the amorous feelings stepped forward and smiled, showing his teeth, "The slave Liuer has seen the son."
King Qi looked at her and said, "Girls don't need to be polite, sit down!"
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his mother winking at Liuer, as if he wanted her to hold the son tightly.
The painting boat was in the river, and the water was pushed by the current, and there would be a slight sway. The Liuer seemed to be unstable, and with a whisper, he fell to the side of King Qi.
She shyly said: "Hey, the slave family could not stand firmly for a while and offended the son. No wonder the son."
When she said that the son is not strange, her lips were close to King Qi's ears, her breath was blue, her bright eyes opened slowly, her eyes were a bit lazy, and she was doing her best to be charming.
Wang Qi supported her, his eyes clear and clear: "Sit down, girl."
The mother naturally withdrew at this time. After a while, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman came in to serve tea.
She dressed relatively plain and simple, came in steadily, put the tea, water, melon and fruit snacks on the table, and asked Wang Qi softly, "My son, what wine do you drink?"
"Come to a pot of sweet-scented osmanthus Chen." King Qi didn't want to drink too strong wine, took out an ingot of silver from his sleeve and placed it on the maid's tea tray.
This ingot weighed a full twelve. Liu'er and the maid were taken aback when they saw it. The maid hurriedly hid in her sleeve pocket and said with a full smile: "Good, son, you wait. "
King Qi had never been to these places. He didn't know the price. He just thought that he would need so much for a regular drink.
How did he know that it only cost two taels of silver to buy this painting a night, and it also included the following in it.
After the maid left, King Qi stood up, looked at the small painting boat, and asked Liuer, "Ben...Can I look around? It's the first time I've been here, so curious."
Liuer guessed that he should be the son of a wealthy family. He came here to learn more, and said: "You son, just look at it."
The space for entertaining guests is not big, it can be seen at a glance, a table, a few chairs, and an old carved wooden cabinet on the side. The cabinet is ajar, with some powder inside.
The board of the ship is of natural wood color, varnished, and many places are completely white. King Qi carefully looked at the floor, and finally found a smear of blood under the chair facing the direction of the curtain.
He knelt down and reached out and touched it. It was completely dry, and he took the tea on the table and poured it over, let the blood stains dissolve and touched it on his hand to smell it, leaving a bloody smell.
It seems that the murderer that day was sitting in the direction facing the curtain, and the curtain was not completely concealed, so he could always watch the situation outside vigilantly while sitting in this direction.
Seeing him looking around with a suspicious look, Liuer felt a little strange, and asked, "Master, what are you looking for?"
Wang Qi had already thought of an excuse, and said: "That's it. A friend of mine came here a few days ago and accidentally left something. He knew I was coming over tonight, so he asked me to find it for him. Find."
It just so happened that the maid came in with the wine, heard the words, and hurriedly said: "I found it, but you are talking about the grandfather of the eighth day?"
King Qi slowly straightened his waist and looked at the maid, "It was the eighth day of the eighth day. Are you here that night?"
The maid put down the wine and said with a smile: "Yes, Chunniang's maid was ill that day. The slave's servant was here to serve him. When the master came before it was time for Hai, he thought he was going to drink for a long time. When the wine came out, the others disappeared. Girl Chunniang said that he suddenly had something important, and left a couple of silver, but she didn't know that she was left with a brand."
"Yes, it's a sign!" Wang Qi was overjoyed. Skynet was so sparse and not leaking. The gangster dropped a sign, and he didn't expect Chunniang's maid to be sick that night and changed someone to serve.
The maid took out the sign from the drawer. When King Qi saw this sign, he snorted in his heart, and he suddenly had difficulty breathing.
This brand is neither gold nor jade. It is just an ordinary black brand, which is not usually in the eyes of anyone with greed.
Therefore, the maid and the mother of the painting boat saw this brand and did not have the heart to claim it for themselves. It was really not worth a few dollars.
But if they knew what this brand meant, they wouldn't think so.
The girl Liu'er looked at it curiously, and said, "Is this brand important? There is nothing on it."
King Qi held this icy brand in his hand. There was nothing on it, but it was a symbol of status. This material was actually not ordinary, but it was made of mysterious iron. Since the beginning of the dynasty, this kind of mysterious iron brand has only been given five times. Zhang, each one has a number, engraved on the edge, he touched his fingertips, and touched a three-character.
"Are there any pens and inks?" King Qi took a deep breath and asked Miss Liuer with a solemn expression.
Miss Liuer hurriedly asked the maid to prepare pen and ink. Although she was young, she was accustomed to seeing the world. A son like him could see the dignity at a glance. Only then did she deliberately dump him and remain unmoved, which shows that she was not for fun. Coming.
No matter what, as long as you give enough money, you can tell her to do anything.
After the Four Treasures of the Study came up, King Qi immediately drew a portrait with a brush, and then asked the maid, "Is this the guest you saw that night?"
The maid looked at it carefully, "It looks like it is, but I'm not sure if it is, because when he came that night, he was dressed relatively thinly and his hair was messed up by the wind, and the hair on the left was drooping. Covering the small half of the face, the slave family couldn't see clearly either."