After dinner, Ji Mingxiu sat in the room and studied the longevity lock left by Yun Qing.
Qiao Wei took Wang Shu to take a bath.
Through the thick curtain, the sound of splashing water and the sonorous singing of mother and daughter can be heard.
Qiao Wei has a good singing voice, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is like the sound of nature.
Qiao Wei sang, and Wang Shu also sang along with her mother.
Qiao Wei raised her orchid fingers and sang very intoxicated: "...Jianmen Pass is your deepest miss for me~Mawei Poxia is willing to die for true love~Love and hate are in a flash~Raise a glass to the moon and love it like the sky ~"
Ji Mingxiu shook his head in enjoyment, picked up the teacup with one hand, and tapped his lap with the other.
Hearing this, Ji Mingxiu enjoyed it quite a bit, until the baby girl suddenly sang: "Love and hate are vague~ Ask Junhuo Silian~"
The Prime Minister couldn't hold it back, and choked out a mouthful of tea.
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After being "tortured" by her daughter's singing for half an hour, Ji Mingxiu's ears finally became clean.
He didn't know that he usually abused Yan Feijue in this way, and he was still wondering who his daughter had inherited, but it couldn't be him, after all, he sang so well.
Wang Shu also felt that he sang well, and after blaming his father, he decided to blaspheme Queen Yeluo again.
Her singing voice was so loud that even the ghost king who was retreating in the secret room could hear it.
The ghost king was so excited that he almost lost his mind!
The song sung by my daughter, I have to listen to it even when I cry...
It is said that this night, several birds in Fangcui Garden died.
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Ji Mingxiu still remembered that he was going to "graze grass" for Gang Leader Qiao. After they each took a bath, they turned off the lights and lay down on the soft bed.
He pressed against her vainly, kissing her lingeringly.
She returned his kiss.
Sweat dripped down from his forehead one by one, embellishing his delicate outline, adding a bit of temptation to his strength.
Qiao Wei looked at him bewilderedly.
Ji Mingxiu endured a little hard, felt her emotion, and slowly lowered his body.
The little prime minister was so suffocated that he was about to explode on the spot.
Little gang leader, I'm coming, I'm coming!
Just when the little prime minister was anxious to send troops, he suddenly—
"Love and hate are two hazy ~ Ask the king to live four loves—"
Xiaocheng was killed on the spot!
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It was an indescribable night.
Gang leader Qiao fell asleep in aggrieved state, and Ji Mingxiu wanted to take his daughter out and throw her back to Daliang.
Wang Shu was very energetic and sang most of the night.
After finally waiting for her to fall asleep, Ji Mingxiu didn't feel sleepy anymore.
Ji Mingxiu took a sip of herbal tea to reduce the fire.
When he finally calmed down, he still didn't feel sleepy.
He simply took out Yun Qing's clothes and continued to study the longevity lock and the purple jade safety buckle.
Ziyu looked at the lock for a long while, but didn't see anything, but when he picked up the longevity lock and shook it twice, he unexpectedly heard an elusive movement.
If it wasn't for the dead of night, I'm afraid I still wouldn't be able to hear it.
Ji Mingxiu found the blade and gently pried open the longevity lock.
A piece of fine obsidian is inlaid in the longevity lock.
Obsidian, also known as dragon crystal, has always been regarded as a thing to ward off evil spirits among the people, and many wealthy families have this gemstone in their amulets.
It is not surprising that this kind of thing is inlaid in the Longevity Lock. The strange thing is that this does not seem to be an ordinary obsidian, but a rainbow-eyed obsidian, which is extremely rare in obsidian.
There are usually colorful circles formed on the body of rainbow-eyed obsidian. There are as few as one or two colors, and as many as seven or eight kinds. However, this piece of obsidian clearly has dozens of kinds. The colorful light it refracts is amazingly beautiful.
Ji Mingxiu went to Cloud City overnight.
"Do you know where this kind of stone is sold?" Ji Mingxiu put the obsidian on the table in front of him in a guest room of an inn.
Gongsun Changli picked up the obsidian on the table, turned on the wick, and pointed it at the light: "Rainbow-eyed obsidian? Where did you get it?"
Ji Mingxiu said: "There is a longevity lock among Yun Qing's relics, and this thing is embedded in the longevity lock."
Gongsun Changli said with a hint of surprise: "Yeluo people like to inlay obsidian in longevity locks, but this is the first time I have seen such rare rainbow eyes."
Ji Mingxiu glanced at him and asked, "There aren't many places that can afford this kind of obsidian, right?"
"It's really not many, there is a time-honored jewelry store nearby..." Gongsun Changli said, looking at the sky outside the window, "It's almost dawn, let's go check it out after dawn."
The two sat quietly in the room for more than half an hour, and at dawn, they went to the nearby jewelry store.
Simply because the shop opened early, the two of them went in after a short wait.
After entering, I found out that this shop mainly sells gold, silver and jade, and there are not many obsidian, and the quality is not high.
But it’s not high now, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t high in the past, after all, it’s been decades, who knows what this shop has sold in these decades.
"Treasurer." Gongsun Changli walked to the counter and took out the longevity lock and obsidian from his arms, "Do you have the same one here? If so, I want to buy a set."
There was nothing special about the silver longevity lock. Although the workmanship was good and the style was novel, it was not impossible to make it with their craftsmanship, but the obsidian did not look like an ordinary treasure.
The shopkeeper picked up the obsidian, held it against the sunlight, and exclaimed, "Oh, we can't sell this thing."
"How to say?" Gongsun Changli asked.
The shopkeeper said with a smile: "I can't get in the goods, such a good stone has a price but no market."
Gongsun Changli turned his head and glanced at Ji Mingxiu. Ji Mingxiu nodded. Gongsun Changli understood, and asked the shopkeeper, "Then... do you know which shop sells it?"
The shopkeeper sighed: "My ancestors sold jewelry, and I have been selling it for decades. It's not that I don't want you to buy it from other stores, but this kind of stone is not available in the entire Yunzhong City. If you don't believe me, you can ask about it." Inquire, even Jubaozhai doesn’t have such good things!”
Jubaozhai, the largest jewelry store in Cloudsdale.
Gongsun Changli said again: "Has your shop never been sold? It was sold before, but now it's gone."
The shopkeeper said politely: "It has never been sold."
Gongsun Changli looked at Ji Mingxiu.
Ji Mingxiu nodded.
Gongsun Changli said to the shopkeeper, "Thank you very much."
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Go slowly."
…
After the two left the shop, they immediately went to Jubaozhai.
As the shopkeeper said, Jubaozhai had never sold this kind of obsidian.
Jubaozhai is the well-deserved leader of the jewelry store in Yunzhong City. If it has never been sold, then no one else will.
Gongsun Changli asked: "Do you still want to continue looking? There are many jewelry stores in Yunzhong City, and if you count the black market, the two of us may not be able to find them all within a few days."
Ji Mingxiu said thoughtfully, "It may not be in Cloud City."
Gongsun Changli was puzzled and said, "Why do you say that?"
Ji Mingxiu pondered: "Isn't it a child born in Yeliang City? Yunzhong City is the site of the Holy Cult, and the child is placed here. If Guardian Lian accidentally bumps into him one day, how will the drama continue?" What about acting? Yeliang City is not far from Yunzhong City, which is convenient for Yunqing to go back and forth, and will not be easily discovered by Guardian Lian. Yunqing has been able to hide the truth for so many years, which shows that he is a very cautious person. This longevity lock, In all likelihood, it was also custom-made in Yeliang City."
The two immediately set off for Yeliang City.
Ji Mingxiu didn't close his eyes for several nights, and Gongsun Changli ran around with him, and basically didn't sleep well.
The carriage was swaying, and Gongsun Changli felt sleepy.
Ji Mingxiu was studying the longevity lock when his right shoulder suddenly sank.
Ji Mingxiu turned his head and found that Gongsun Changli was so tired that he fell asleep.
Gongsun Changli didn't remember how he fell asleep, and when he opened his eyes, he found himself leaning on someone's shoulder, with a familiar masculine breath and fragrance on the tip of his nose, his eyebrows twitched, and he sat up!
"Are you awake?" Ji Mingxiu asked.
Gongsun Changli lowered his eyes, took a sip from the teacup, and said vaguely, "Yes."
Ji Mingxiu looked at him, with a hint of doubt in his eyes: "Gongsun Changli."
Gongsun Changli's heart skipped a beat: "Huh?"
"you… "
Just as Ji Mingxiu was about to speak, a man's voice came from outside the carriage.
This voice was no stranger to the two of them.
"Is this here?" the voice asked.
"Yes." The coachman replied.
"Help me down," the voice commanded.
The coachman stopped the carriage, and two young men dressed as warriors opened the back door of the carriage, laid wooden planks, and slowly pushed Yuehua's wheelchair down.
Ji Mingxiu signaled the little guard to park the carriage in a side alley, after which Ji Mingxiu jumped out of the carriage.
While feeling relieved, Gongsun Changli also chased after him.
The place where Yuehua parked was a jewelry store.
The two went to the tea house opposite the jewelry store, and on the window sill of the wing room on the second floor, they watched the movement here without blinking.
Although they didn't hear what Yuehua and the shopkeeper said, they saw that Yuehua took out a longevity lock that was exactly the same as theirs, and after opening the longevity lock, there was also an identical obsidian.
The two were a little confused at first, but after thinking about it, they understood.
Yun Qing asked for two pairs of longevity locks, one for his youngest son and one for Yun Su.
What puzzled Gongsun Changli was, how did they know that the child also had such a longevity lock
Ji Mingxiu said: "Guardian Lian and Yun Qing have been together for so long, and I didn't think there was anything wrong before. Now that something happened to Dong Chuang, I can always recall some clues."
"So, Yuehua is also looking for that child." Gongsun Changli said, "We can't let him find it first. If he finds it, he will definitely hide the child."
Ji Mingxiu smiled faintly: "He may not be able to find it first."
Yuehua soon came out of the jewelry store, looking a little disappointed.
In this way, there is no useful information in this shop.
Ji Mingxiu and Gongsun Changli got into the carriage and went to the next two jewelry stores before Yuehua.
…
But on this side, Ji Mingxiu was busy inquiring about the child's whereabouts, and on the other side, Qiao Wei was not idle either.
First, he made breakfast for the whole family, and fried a plate of jelly beans for the King of Ghosts. Finally, he went to clean up the house for Shi Qi.
Shiqi's room is full of Wangshu's small toys, and Qiao Wei laughs angrily while picking them up.
After cleaning up Seventeen, go to clean up the ghost king.
The ghost king's house is much tidier, without a single piece of extra paper.
Qiao Wei changed the mattress for him, and when he changed to the pillowcase, he felt a strange hard thing.
Qiao Wei took apart the pillow and took it out to see that it was a picture scroll.
"It's so hidden, didn't the little fat man draw it?"
Qiao Wei opened the picture scroll amusedly, but was surprised that it was not Wang Shu's graffiti, but a real painting.
The painting depicts an island. Judging from the buildings on the island, it looks like the Holy Church’s Silver Lake Island.
There was a group of people standing on the island, both men and women, and they were all pretty good looking. In the middle of this group of men and women stood a woman with a majestic look.
Qiao Wei immediately recognized her as Guardian Lian when she was young, she was not so young, she looked like thirty or forty years old, she still had charm and was very beautiful.
There is no signature on the painting, so I don't know who painted it.
Of course, Qiao Wei didn't care who painted it. What she cared more about was how could this painting be in the hands of the King of Ghosts
She vaguely remembered that when she and the ghost king first joined the holy religion, the ghost king stole a painting from the library of the holy religion, and it was because of the stolen painting that his identity was exposed.
Could it be that at that time... the ghost king stole this painting
Why did he steal paintings related to Guardian Lian
Qiao Wei was puzzled, took the scroll, and went to the secret room where the Ghost King retreated.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the room, she found that there was no shadow of the ghost king in the secret room.
Qiao Wei frowned puzzledly: "How could this be? They were still there when the jelly beans were delivered just now..."
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Ji Mingxiu and Gongsun Changli asked the biggest jewelry stores in Yeliang City over and over again, and Huang Tian paid off, and finally found clues about obsidian in the sixth jewelry store.
It was a young guy who received the two of them. His shopkeeper went to buy goods, and the accountant had something to do at home. He and a few guys looked at the shop.
The rest of the people are less experienced than him.
The little guy asked with a pleasant face: "You two, do you only buy longevity locks, obsidian, or all of them?"
Gongsun Changli said: "I need a complete set. Is there any ready-made one that is exactly the same as this one?"
The young man said: "Is there any ready-made ones? These are all old models from decades ago. If you want them, you have to customize them, but now we have better long-life locks."
Gongsun Changli's eyes moved: "This kind of longevity lock can be made in other shops besides your shop?"
The young man smiled proudly: "Longevity lock is easy to make, but this kind of obsidian is not available."
Gongsun Changli looked at the longevity lock on the table and said, "So, it's something in your shop?"
"Yes, my lord." Seeing the expressions of the two, the boy didn't look like they were shopping, so he asked tentatively, "Is there any problem with this set of longevity locks?"
Gongsun Changli said: "No..."
"No problem, can we come to the door?" Bandit Ji interrupted Gongsun Changli, and took out the token of Prince Mu's Mansion from his pocket.
When the young man saw the token, he almost lost his wits in fright.
Bandit Ji threatened: "There is a murder case related to this long-lived lock. Who was this lock sold to in the first place? If you are sensible, tell me the truth; if you don't tell me, you will be imprisoned for the rest of your life!"
Prince Mu's reputation in Yeliang City is very good, no matter whether it's the imperial guards or the people of the palace, they never do such things like bullying the weak with guns in public.
The young man faltered and said: "You...you..."
Bandit Ji drew out his saber and stabbed it on the cold counter.
The boy froze immediately.
Ji Ming corrected his expression and said: "On October 19th of Xinmao's year, and at the end of the first month of the second year, a customer bought two identical longevity locks, one of which was engraved with the horoscope of birth date as Xinmao, Ten. Month, nineteenth, Yinshi; the birth date on the other lock should be Xinmao, October, seventeenth, Maoshi."
The Longevity Lock is usually worn by the child a hundred years ago, that is to say, the time for Yun Qing to customize the Longevity Lock will not exceed the first month of the second year at the latest; and at the earliest, the second child will be born. After knowing the birth date of the two brothers.
The young man quickly dug out Xin Maonian's account books.
The silver longevity lock itself is not expensive, but the two pieces of obsidian are the most expensive, and I bought a pair at a time. The price can be said to be very touching.
The boy looked straight for the highest price, and soon he saw it.
The quantity, style, material, and birth date engraved are all exactly as described by Ji Mingxiu.
"Yes, yes, is this it?" The young man pointed to the yellowed page and asked tremblingly.
Ji Mingxiu glanced at it: "That's right, it's this one. Who did you sell the pair of longevity locks to?"
The young man turned to the annotation on the other side and said, "It's a young master surnamed Yun."
"Do you know where you live?" Ji Mingxiu asked seriously.
The young man said: "This young man went to the store to pick up the goods by himself, without leaving an address..."
Ji Mingxiu drew another knife.
"Ah, wait, wait!" said the young man, "the collar of a longevity lock was broken! They repaired it, and we sent it to the door when it was repaired!"
"Where did you send it?" Ji Mingxiu asked with a cold expression.
The young man's legs were shaking so badly that he couldn't even hold the booklet steady.
Ji Mingxiu snatched the brochure by himself, glanced at it, and said, "No. 33, Yufeng Street?"
Yufeng Street is an old street in Yeliang City, the people live there are ordinary people, not to mention the prosperity, but not to mention the poverty.
According to the store's records, it was the Longevity Lock in Ji Mingxiu's hand that was repaired about a year before Yun Qing's death, that is, twenty years ago.
After such a long time, no one can guarantee that there are still people living in that house.
The two came to a clean courtyard.
The paint on the door was a little off, and some weeds grew on the top of the wall, covered in white snow, only a section of grass stubbornly exposed.
Ji Mingxiu knocked on the wooden door.
Nothing happened.
Ji Mingxiu tapped again.
Still no sound.
Just when Ji Mingxiu thought that there was no one living here, the wooden door opened with a creak.