Chitose words

Ling You and Han Changsheng were out on business today and were not in Yitaluo Mansion at this time.

As for what they did, it was actually not a big deal.It was just to go to the street for her and buy some expensive paper with novel workmanship and elegant style.

This was also Xie Zhao's whim this morning.

Yesterday's banquet invitation from the head of the Qinshe family came so suddenly that she had no time to prepare anything in advance, so she could only deal with a few Qingci and make them all as gifts.

However, since we plan to use Southern Dynasties poems and poems in the style of Western Xinjiang as gifts in the future, and give them to the dignitary people of the nine high castes in Xinjiang, it would be better to just use some ordinary paper to deal with it. A bit too shabby.

Although there is no shortage of such precious and precious paper in the house of the head of the Yitaluo family.

But as a guest, it is a bit embarrassing to shamelessly ask the host for anything.

Secondly, after all, the gifts that will be given to other family members in the future will all be borrowed from paper bearing the Yitaluo family's mark. More or less, they will all be stamped with the Yitaluo family's label, so it will inevitably be a bit easy to do so. Misleading.

Therefore, Xie Zhao asked Ling You and Han Changsheng to leave the mansion today and go to the street to find some beautiful, elegant and unique papers for her to use as materials for writing poems and poems in the future, so they were not in the mansion at this time.

However, half an hour later, the two "horses" that she had sent out early in the morning and let out of the pen finally came back one after another.

So, Xie Zhao told them about today's unexpected discovery again in front of the two of them.

Sure enough, Ling You and Han Changsheng were not like Bo Xi who "had no desires and no demands" and didn't ask about everything. They had to ask clearly.

Ling You frowned and said, "Is there anything strange about that embroiderer?"

Xie Zhao smiled and replied slowly:
"The fact that she asked, 'Where did she learn the writing style and sentence fragmentation of Western Xinjiang?' is enough to explain the problem."

Several people were slightly startled when they heard this.

Han Changsheng didn't understand, so he took the lead in raising his doubts.

"Is there anything wrong with this sentence? I don't see any problem. Could it be that this embroiderer is just out of curiosity.

After all, the writing in Xijiang is difficult to write and read. It is recognized as the most difficult writing in the world besides Sanskrit. Only the full-time translators in the embassies and embassies of various countries can understand it.

In addition, the "Black Sailuo" of the Fenglan Dynasty in Western Xinjiang are illiterate, so she would be surprised that you know the characters in Xijiang. Isn't this surprising? "

Xie Zhao raised his eyebrows slightly and said calmly:

"It's really not surprising that I know Xijiang writing. But what surprised her was that I knew the writing system and sentence fragmentation of Xijiang. This is very extraordinary."

Ling You was reminded by Xie Zhao and instantly understood the inconsistency.

He frowned and thought for a while, then realized something and said bluntly:
"That's right, since she is a 'Black Sailuo' and is illiterate, then even if a steward who is literate and comes from the Qinshe family once dictated the meaning of the poem to her, would he still give it to her word for word? "Hei Sailuo" Xiu Niang, can you explain the literal fragmentation and writing style?

——After all, she only needs to embroider the backing for the poems and embed Xie Zhao's Qingci in it. Since it is enough to know what the Qingci roughly describes, how can the steward say such a thing? many? "

Han Changsheng suddenly realized.

"That's right! How did she know that the clear words written by Xie Zhao were written according to the writing system and sentence segmentation of Xijiang? Maybe Xie Zhao just arranged the Xijiang characters he knew in order, rather than following the strict Xijiang writing style. How about writing it in a standard format?
Since she knows that Xie Zhao understands the writing style and sentence fragmentation of Xijiang, it means that she not only sees it, but she also understands it! "

Xie Zhao nodded with a smile and murmured thoughtfully:
"A 'Black Sailuo' who has been disfigured but is also literate is quite interesting."

Ling You and Han Changsheng were slightly startled.

"Ruined appearance?"

The two looked at each other.

Do they have any indissoluble bond with "disfigurement"?

Naturally, they didn't know why Bo Xi was injured and disfigured by a knife.

But now they have known for a long time that the blue-black "birthmarks" all over Xie Zhao's face were most likely made by himself to cover up his appearance. In this case.
Ling You frowned and asked, "Is she trying to hide something? Could it be that she has provoked some enemies and is hiding her appearance for fear of being recognized?"

Xie Zhao hissed and said dissatisfied:
"What do you mean by 'ye'? You have your say, but don't fire map cannons to implicate me, an innocent and weak woman."

Ling or: "."

Han Changsheng: "."

There are too many grooves and no words to express, and the mood is complicated.

The two were suspiciously quiet for a while, and Ling You was the first to recover.

He was very serious and ignored Xie Zhao's positioning of himself as "innocent" and "simple", and continued to get back to business and asked:
"What do you think?"

Xie Zhao blinked and said something less serious:
"I think you are right."

Ling or: "."

He frowned and said helplessly: "Stop making trouble."

Xie Zhao burst into laughter upon hearing this. "I'm not making trouble, I'm serious, I really think what you said is right.

We cannot make a conclusion as to whether Mrs. Ning's face was disfigured by fire on purpose or accidentally.

But since she can understand Xijiang characters, there is no way she is really just an ordinary 'Black Sailuo' embroiderer. "

Xie Zhao gently pressed the ankle of his right hand with his left hand, smiled softly after thinking, and then continued:

"So it seems that when she came to tailor my clothes, she deliberately asked me what the Southern Dynasty flower 'Han Ying' in my poems looked like. That was secondary. She just wanted to use this as a topic to tease out the truth and find out why I knew that. Standard writing style."

When Han Changsheng heard this, he not only frowned and asked:
"Could it be that the head of the Qinshe family sent her here?"

Xie Zhao slowly shook his head.

"Probably not. When Baojia, the head of the Qinshe family, saw the style and format of my Qingci poems yesterday, there was nothing strange about them.

Moreover, if Qin Shebaojia really wanted to test me, why not ask me about Han Yinghua during the flower viewing party yesterday?This way you won't draw attention to yourself and you can observe my reaction yourself. "

Ling You frowned and asked:
"Is it possible that she didn't react at the time?"

Xie Zhao smiled, looked at them with slightly raised eyebrows, and said:

"Impossible. If Qinshe Baojia is really that powerful, she was able to completely hide it from my eyes yesterday, without leaking anything out of the ordinary. Then if she wants to test it later, she should send someone who is from her own family, knows her roots, and is knowledgeable. The steward of the Qinshe family came to inquire - why would he send a 'Black Sailuo' embroiderer from Xiujinfang to act? This is unreasonable."

Han Changsheng thought for a while and hesitated: "So, you mean that there is something wrong with this old embroiderer named Ning. She used the excuse of coming to tailor clothes for you to hide her selfish motives behind the owner's Qin She Baozhu?"

Xie Zhao nodded lightly and sighed:

"I think it's nine out of ten. Besides, don't forget it."

She looked at them calmly and said:

"A member of the upper caste in Western Xinjiang has the custom of tattooing the family emblem on one's body after the age of 13. She is illiterate and has a disfigured face. This makes it difficult for me not to think about whether Mrs. Ning, in addition to hiding her true appearance, also I want to use this scar to hide the tattoo that represents my clan’s identity.”

The tattoos of the upper castes in Western Xinjiang are mostly engraved on their faces, backs, waists and arms, and a very few are embroidered on their legs.

so.
Xie Zhao lowered his head and smiled, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes.

This embroiderer from Xiujinfang named Ning Po is really suspicious.

If Xie Zhao is really just a master of Nanchao Tianchen Xinglin, then it will naturally be difficult to detect Ning Po's abnormality.

After all, the border of Xijiang Fenglan is too mysterious, and most foreigners have very limited understanding of it.

Therefore, even if Ning Po asked about the writing system and clan sentence breaking symbols, ordinary people from the Southern Dynasties would naturally not think of so much.

But Po Ning was unlucky, and she met Xie Zhao, who was subtle and thoughtful.

If she used the words of her senior brother Nan Xu, the high priest of Shentai Palace, it would be a strange thing that would attract her attention even if a suspicious firefly flew by her.

Ling You was silent for a long time, slightly lost in thought and sighed:
"We have only been in Western Xinjiang for a few days, and someone came to us with such important clues. I almost couldn't believe it for a moment. Xie Zhao, it seems that many things have become much simpler when I work with you to investigate the case."

Xie Zhao smiled and shook his head, and said lightly:

"Actually, every clue is not easy to come by. Now every step is so easy to grasp, and it is inseparable from the methodical and step-by-step planning along the way. Opportunities are reserved for those who are always prepared."

In fact, strictly speaking, Ling He's journey to this point seems to have been easy, and all the mysteries have been solved layer by layer, but no step has been easy.

Either he studies mental arithmetic or he is good at ingenious thinking.

From knocking on the door of Shenfu Villa in Ruyang in the late summer; to the critical clues obtained from the near-danger in Zhaoge City and the escape from the hands of Grand Duke Zeng Yidu in the Evernight City; to the trip to Guangling in Hanyong in the Northern Dynasties Adventures in the city, solving puzzles at the Hulu Holy Altar; and even went to Fenglan in Western Xinjiang to design a way to get close to the head of the Yitaluo family, and then used this to appear in front of the nine high-caste nobles to attract interested people to watch.
——Which of the above does not seem to be relaxed and casual, but in fact, even a little slack or a mistake will lead to a huge difference in the results?
The noisy moon beach in the south of the Yangtze River is difficult for people in ancient times.

Don't hate it, your heart is as calm as water, and you can look at each other leisurely without a trace of ripples.

In fact, the human heart has been a mysterious and mysterious thing since ancient times.

And many strange things are actually wrapped up in layers of these unbreakable human calculations.

It's a pity that who dares to speak boldly and arrogantly to admit that he can really break the hearts of all people?
Didn't the "Thousand-year-old Sword Immortal" who claimed to be the most intelligent and enlightened man in the Southern Dynasties in the past also became a confused and "blind" when things were closely related to the people he cared about?

But fortunately, apart from that, Xie Zhao is always able to see things clearly and understands the subtleties of people's hearts.

After all, there was a time many years ago when the Shentai Palace's peerless mental skills, the Great Sanskrit Sound Technique and the Small Sanskrit Sound Technique, which were based on the Liangyi Zhouyi as its axis and the Tianzhu Buddhist scriptures as its guide, were also the special skills of the goddess.

Xie Zhao sighed in his heart.

The careful judgment of the Goddess of Shentai Palace, who was so wise and almost demonic, can now be used to clear away the clouds and become the key to find the answer, which is not a loss.

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