"What's so good about antiques? Besides, if you want to see antiques, they are more available in the palace or at home than in an antique shop." Yunxi said. After the establishment of the new dynasty, most of the antiques would go to the dignitaries of the new dynasty.
In hand, it can't be compared to what you can find in an antique store.
"Uncle, I heard that there is a very novel antique in this store. It is said that it came from the Hanzhou continent and was originally a jade pendant in the Shang Dynasty style. Not only that, this jade pendant also has a history of thousands of years."
"Uncle, I have never seen a jade pendant in the style of the Shang Dynasty, let alone one sold from the Hanzhou continent. Let's take a look." Lan Siqi said.
Yunxi paused slightly when he heard her words. The so-called indigenous people on the Hanzhou continent were descendants of immigrants from the Shang Dynasty was completely made up by him, because even later generations only suspected it and had no evidence; and traveling from the Central Plains to Hanzhou was difficult.
To cross the Pacific, the Shang Dynasty did not have the navigation technology to directly cross the Pacific. They could only cross along the continental shelf. The possibility of successfully crossing such a long distance was extremely slim.
'There must be some soldiers who secretly brought back the unearthed jade pendants from the Hanzhou continent. After hearing the lie I made up, they used this as a gimmick to sell the jade pendants to this family in Suzhou. Anyway, there has never been a jade pendant with a style handed down from the Shang Dynasty.
Are you not just talking nonsense?' Yunxi thought.
But since it was his own fault, he couldn't expose it and could only advise: "Siqi, it's just a jade pendant, nothing interesting. There are various antiques handed down from the Zhou Dynasty in the palace, which are also different from those of the Shang Dynasty.
Not much."
But Lan Siqi insisted on going to see it, and Yunxi had no choice but to agree. He asked the guards carrying the bags containing the purchased jewelry to go out, and with only two guards, he walked into the other side of the shop selling antiques through the side door.
half of.
This time the Li family came to Beijing to open a store and spent a lot of money. They brought many treasures from the old store in Suzhou and displayed them on the counter. At this time, many people gathered in front of the counter to look at these antiques.
Siqi has no interest in these antiques. There are two antiques in her house that are not inferior to these. One is a porcelain vase from the Yuezhou kiln in the Tang Dynasty, and the other is a calligraphy sticker by Su Xun from the Song Dynasty. The value of future generations produced in Jingdezhen in the early years of this dynasty
Liancheng's porcelain was something she could break at will, so how could she care about it? But for some reason, she didn't walk very fast. While looking at the antiques on both sides, she casually said something to Yun Xi, and then turned to the pendulum.
Go to the counter where the jade pendants are placed.
After walking for a while, they walked to the counter where the jade pendant was placed. At this time, there happened to be seven or eight people surrounding it, watching and talking about something. A shop assistant lazily introduced them to them.
Yun He pulled Lan Siqi to a stop, planning to wait until they finished reading before going over. But at this moment, there were two children in the group of seven or eight people. One of the little girls took a look at the jade pendant and thought it was not interesting.
, looking around. She glanced to the right and saw Yunxi and Lan Siqi, and suddenly said: "His Majesty the Emperor!" Then she remembered something again, knelt down and said: "The daughter of the people has met His Majesty the Emperor."
"Your Majesty the Emperor!" After hearing these four words, everyone in the room turned to look at Yunxi. They were stunned for a moment before kneeling down and calling Long Live. But most people were a little confused the moment they knelt down: "Your Majesty."
Why are you so nervous that you even picked up the feather duster on the cabinet next to you?'
After seeing clearly the appearance of the little girl who shouted "Your Majesty the Emperor", Yunxi immediately arched his body like a cat in great danger and pushed Lan Siqi aside as quickly as possible.
, conveniently picked up the feather duster used by the waiter to clean the counter, and stared at the waist of the group behind the little girl. Because this little girl was the Tang Saier he had met once!
Tang Sai'er is just a little girl now. Of course she cannot go out alone, she must be accompanied by someone. Although Yunxi is not completely sure, there is at least a 50% chance that Tang Sai'er's family is a White Lotus believer and she came with Tang Jingyu.
There is a 50% chance that these families are White Lotus cultists. Even if Tang Saier was not brought out by his parents, he must be from those familiar families. In other words, there is a 50% chance that he is facing a group of White Lotus cultivators now.
Believer!
This is a person whose profession is rebellion! If he is really a White Lotus cultist, now that they know his identity, how can they not kill him? So Yunxi used his energy to the extreme to guard against possible assassination! At the same time, he was
I secretly regretted it in my heart: 'I shouldn't have been so careless! I will definitely not be so careless in the future.'
But then the seven or eight people knelt down like the others and called Long Live. Yunxi thought for a while: 'Maybe they are not White Lotus believers? But why are they from Shandong, and their daughter's nickname happens to be the same as the famous White Lotus goddaughter in history?
The leaders are the same?'
At this time, there was not much time for Yunxi to think about the matter. When he saw two belated guards standing in front of Yunxi, they became nervous and defensive. Yunxi smiled and put the feather duster in Lan Siqi's hand.
There, he also said to the kneeling waiter: "I see that you are a good feather duster, so I will buy it from you."
He then said to everyone present: "Everyone is in uniform. I don't want to disturb the people when I go on patrol, so I dress incognito. In this case, you don't need to pay me a big salute, just get up."
Then he called to Tang Sai'er: "Miss Tang, come to me."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Tang Saier agreed and walked to Yunxi. Yunxi squatted down, reached out to touch her head, smiled and said a few words, and asked her if she still had the jade pendant given by Min'er.
On the body.
"The common girl is still wearing the jade pendant given to her by the princess!" As she said that, Tang Saier took out the jade pendant from her body.
"Okay!" Yunxi smiled and said, "That's right. I will reward you with something more today. I don't have anything on hand now. You go back to the palace and tell Youxun that he will give you a piece of the best silk to make for the princess.
I will use the silk and satin for your clothes to make you new clothes.”
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward." Tang Saier said happily.
"Are those people also the guards of Prince Zhou's palace?" Yunxi pointed at those people and asked Tang Sai'er again.
"Well, Your Majesty, these are the father and mother of the girl. The other two families are also the guards of the mansion." Tang Saier pointed at them and said.
"Three guards, you usually guard the Zhou Palace and my brothers. You have also worked hard and performed well. You will receive an additional month's salary." Yunxi said again.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward!" said the three strong men. But only one of them had a look of ecstasy on his face, while the other two had somewhat complicated expressions.
They were still kneeling, and of course Yunxi couldn't see their expressions clearly; but no matter what their expressions were, Yunxi would not stay here any longer. He said a few more words, and then took Lan Siqi and left.
Not even Li Xiaoxing of the Li family in Suzhou, who heard that His Majesty had come to his store and came in a hurry, saw him.
After Yunxi left the store, he stopped riding. He carried Lan Siqi into the carriage and got into the carriage himself. Then he ordered the coachman to drive back to the palace.
Everyone felt very puzzled: "What is going on? Why is Your Majesty doing this?" After other guards asked the two people who followed Yunxi into the antique shop, they were even more confused: "Although letting outsiders know His Majesty's identity,
It's indeed a bit dangerous, but it's not so stressful, right?'
"Uncle, what is the reason for this?" Lan Siqi asked in the carriage with the same confusion.
Yunxi had returned to normal at this time. He glanced at Lan Siqi, thought for a while, and whispered to her: "Those people may be White Lotus cultists."
"What! White Lotus Cultist!" Lan Siqi suddenly shouted in surprise.
"Keep your voice down!" Yunxi said hurriedly.
Lan Siqi immediately reached out to cover his mouth. But after he recovered a little, he let go of his left hand, pulled Yunxi's clothes tightly and asked, "Uncle, why don't you arrest them and execute them?" As for the White Lotus cultists,
The Ming Dynasty has always made mistakes in killing people.
"My uncle is still not sure that they are the White Lotus cultists. Wouldn't it be a pity to kill innocent people? Moreover, even if they are really the White Lotus cultists, my uncle will not kill them."
Yunxi then gave a brief introduction to his arrangements, and finally said: "In the past, people in the government were infiltrated by the White Lotus cultists. This time, with great difficulty, they were able to use these people to pass false information to the White Lotus cultists, and even uncover clues to
The White Lotus Sect must be eradicated completely, but we must not scare the enemy away."
"But this is too dangerous." Lan Siqi said: "Uncle, you like to go out incognito in the capital again. This time, they remembered your uncle's appearance after being seen by them. It will not be safe for your uncle to leave the palace incognito in the future. They are completely
You can draw a picture of your uncle and give it to others to prepare for his assassination."
"Yes, it is indeed a bit dangerous. In the future, my uncle will not dare to go into a small shop on the roadside where it is difficult for guards to operate."
"And this time, the fact that I personally bought the jewelry will be leaked. If it doesn't work, I have to send someone to tell the owner of the store immediately. The fact that I personally selected the jewelry must not be leaked. I can only say that I sent my guards to surround you to buy jewelry.
." He added. It was a very unseemly act for the emperor to go out of the palace to buy jewelry in person. But it was impossible to hide the news that he appeared in the Li family store today, and he could only use Lan Siqi as an excuse.
Lan Siqi didn't care about it, but he noticed another thing: "Uncle, how could that little girl named Tang know my uncle?"
"After my uncle left the matter to Youxun, in order to prevent him from being dissatisfied, he went to Prince Zhou's Mansion twice and summoned Tang Sai'er, who had been selected as a maid in Prince Zhou's Mansion, to meet him."
"In other words, that little girl named Tang is also a White Lotus believer?"
"His parents were about."
"Uncle," Lan Siqi hurriedly added, "Then how can we let her get close to uncle? What if she assassinates him?"
"Don't worry about this." Yunxi said: "My uncle has sent the good tricksters in Jinyiwei to go to Prince Zhou's Mansion to trick her without leaving any trace. Even if her parents are White Lotus cultists, she doesn't know the purpose of her parents coming to the capital this time.
What. Unless a little girl has become a monster, it is impossible to hide it from Jinyiwei. Besides, I sent one person, and three people came to lie to her, and they all said that she didn't know anything."
"Then, uncle, to be on the safe side, it's better not to let such a person get close." Lan Siqi tightened his hand on Yunxi's clothes and said with pleading eyes.
"Okay." Yunxi patted her head gently and said with a smile.
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"Brother Tang, why didn't you just kill the dog emperor of the Ming Dynasty?" At this time, outside the Li family's shop, two of the people who just knelt down to Yunxi whispered secretly.
"Jing Yu, just now there are two guards around the Dog Emperor, and we are the only two who can assassinate the Dog Emperor. We have no weapons and the Dog Emperor's guards all carry swords. We may not be able to assassinate the Dog Emperor.
"Tang Jingyu said.
"Even if we don't have weapons, we have all practiced short-distance combat without weapons, and we may not be able to defeat two guards. Besides, we can break a porcelain bottle and use it as a close-quarters weapon, as long as we can get close to the Dog Emperor.
We can definitely kill him." Yuya Mukai whispered.
"The Dog Emperor is also a martial artist himself, and it is said that his martial arts skills are not bad. Moreover, as long as the two guards block us for a moment, he can escape, and the chance of our assassination being successful is extremely small. Moreover," Tang Jingyu finally said, "Palace Master Peng sent us
The purpose of coming to the capital is to gather information, not to assassinate the emperor. They must obey the orders of the hall master."
After hearing that Tang Jingyu had brought out all the orders from the hall master, Xiang Jingyu was still not satisfied, so he could only stop talking. As an organization whose main business is rebellion, the White Lotus Sect has already had hundreds of years of rebellion experience.
, having a very tight organization and strict regulations in this era, and one of them must not go against the orders of the superiors. So Mukai Yu didn't dare to say anything.
But although Tang Jingyu himself listed many reasons why the assassination was likely to fail, and even cited Peng Ju's orders, the reasons why he really didn't want to assassinate were not these.
He glanced sideways at Tang Sai'er, who was happily talking to several other children, and thought to himself: "No matter what, Sai'er, unless Hall Master Peng or Brother Xu gives us an order to die, dad will definitely not do it."
Will put you at risk.'
"What are you two secretly talking about here?" At this time, the other guard who came out with them came over and said with a smile. This person is not a White Lotus cultist, so Xiang Jingyu and Tang Jingyu just talked to exclude him.
"Tell me about the time I met His Majesty just now!" Tang Jingyu said with a smile: "We have met King Qi before, but His Highness King Qi cannot compare with His Majesty in terms of spirit or anything else."
"In particular, His Majesty is so approachable and kind to the people, which we never expected." (To be continued)