Twelve Mirrors

There has been no war in Dasheng for more than ten years. Except that Xijiang has been unable to negotiate a peace, Dasheng and other foreign countries have always been enjoying themselves in harmony.

In the past, all the kingdoms paid tribute every year, and young and beautiful women were indispensable, but in Emperor Gongsu's generation, no one paid tribute anymore.

Yuan Ming tongue tied: "Maybe you bought it yourself?"

Emperor Gongsu snorted coldly through his nose: "The laws of Dasheng strictly forbid buying and selling the population of foreign countries, are you blind or am I blind?"

Yuan Ming said seriously: "The Holy One is clear, of course I am blind."

Emperor Gongsu pondered: "Does General Xu have two sons at home?"

"Exactly." Yuan Ming answered: "The eldest son Xu Yu replaced General Xu to guard the western border three years ago, and the second son Xu Jiang Shangxiao is on duty in the capital, and he is a fifth-rank guard."

"Xu Jiang just married Zuo Yi's youngest daughter the year before last."

"Xie Ting, what do you think it should be?"

Xie Ting was wandering in the sky, and was suddenly called out for a smart call: "I think the most urgent thing is to find the murderer, as for other things, we should discuss it later."

"You're right."

Emperor Gongsu said: "You go down first, Yuan Ming and I have two things to say."

Xie Ting stepped back and squatted in the garden tens of meters outside the council hall, staring at the peonies in a daze.

The peonies were brought in from Luoyang, and they were in full bloom, piled up in a hurry.

Brilliantly annoying.

This time it seems that it is not so simple.

If the murderer was from Xijiang, why did he have to kill General Xu?

If it was the grievances forged in Xijiang back then, General Xu would never have invited that person to Hualou, and Hongxiu also said that General Xu often took different barbarians there.

He held his head: "It's a mess, it's a mess..."

"Thank you sir, what are you doing here?"

Xie Ting was engrossed in his thoughts, when he heard such a sentence, he almost fell into the pool.He looked back, and it turned out to be Li Desheng, the great eunuch next to Emperor Gongsu.

Desheng was wearing a thin coat at the end of summer, holding a basket of grapes in his hand: "The old slave sees that your lord is a little irritable, is it too hot?"

As he spoke, he took out a bunch of grapes from the basket and handed them to Xie Ting: "My lord, these are grapes that have just been chilled. They are very crunchy and sweet. They are for you to cool off from the summer heat."

Xie Ting hastily declined, but Desheng stuffed it into his hand and walked away.

Xie Ting stayed where he was, looking at Desheng's back: This?This is beyond the rules.

It happened that Yuan Ming came out, looked at Xie Ting in a daze holding a bunch of grapes and asked, "What are you doing? Oh? There are grapes."

He pulled two particles and stuffed them into his mouth: "Who gave this to you? Why don't you eat it?"

"Given by Eunuch Li, it is said that he is going to give it to the emperor, right?" Xie Ting still carried it.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming tore off a few more, and pulled Xie Ting to eat while walking, with an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth: "Since he gave it to you, you can just eat it, don't worry about him."

On the carriage, Yuan Ming looked at Xie Ting and said, "Brother Xie Ting, you have caught up with a good time this time, others can't catch up once in a hundred years."

Xie Ting snorted coldly: "Really, then shouldn't I say, the original young master blesses my official career?"

Yuan Ming stopped talking.

Xie Ting found the best painter in all of Kyoto and took them to Hualou. When he opened the door, Hongxiu was resting with his head on his head. Seeing someone come in and tidy up his clothes, he returned to his original cold look.

"What's the matter?" She looked at her nails.

Xie Ting said: "Miss Hongxiu, please tell me about the appearance of that person yesterday, so that we can find someone accordingly."

"What kind of barbarians can look like, but they have high noses, blue eyes, and beards. They all look the same. Who remembers what they look like?" Hong Xiu said indifferently.

Well, this one is still face blind.

The painter interrupted Hongxiu's speech: "This girl, the length and face shape of people are all unique, if you can't tell, just follow me."

"What's the shape of that person's face? Is it sharp or round? Is it round or long? Has the chin been noticeable?"

"What about the eyes? Are they upturned or drooping? Are the two eyes the same size? Are there more whites than eyeballs?"

Hongxiu followed the painter's train of thought bit by bit, telling the character of that person.

Mrs. General Xu knocked on the wooden door, Xie Ting went out to see, "Madam, what's the matter?"

Mrs. Xu wiped her red eyes: "This is Mr. Xie, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple."

Xie Ting nodded: "Exactly."

Mrs. Xu half-kneeled, Xie Ting picked her up, Mrs. Xu had orders, Xie Ting couldn't stand her kneeling.

Mrs. Xu gritted her teeth and said, "My lord, please catch that barbarian and cut him into pieces. My master is an important minister of the imperial court... Who would have thought that he would just go like this..."

The headhunter over there is still arguing with Qingyao: "I think it's the ghosts, if it weren't for the ghosts, how could ordinary people do this... Listen to me and talk to you carefully."

What should I do if I catch the barbarians?

Xie Ting walked up to the second floor and looked at the dirty blood on the ground. The weather is still hot, and several police officers wrapped the pieces of General Xu's body in bedding and prepared to carry them back.

Xie Ting stepped aside, thinking: I never heard that this barbarian has a habit of eating people's hearts, why did General Xu lose his heart?

Yuan Ming covered his nose with a fan and stood behind Xie Ting: "I'm going to die of exhaustion, but you are here to see the scenery."

"What did you do?" Xie Ting paced around the room.

"You kiss me once and I'll tell you." Yuan Ming put his face in front of Xie Ting: "Otherwise I won't tell you."

Xie Ting spat: "Bah, if you don't say it, don't say it, then you will be tired if you are tired."

Yuan Ming smiled and said: "Before dawn tomorrow, all the barbarians in the city will appear in the prison, so please invite Brother Xie Ting to go and have a look with me."

The whole of Kyoto.

The sun is almost setting.

When Xie Ting got the portrait, it showed a fat man with a bulbous nose, three white eyes and a beard.

He pointed at Hong Xiu, who yawned long and long: "That's right, that's right, that's the guy. After making a fuss all day, I'm trapped to death. It's all your fault. I can't take customers today and I can't make money."

"Let's not talk about you, your flower building won't be able to take customers in just this month. Besides, someone just died, who dares to come." Yuan Ming said sadly: "Miss Hongxiu, you are not afraid that General Xu will come to ask you Life?"

Hongxiu patted her skirt: "Young master is not afraid, so I am even more afraid."

While talking, the two of them were about to get entangled in one place, Yuan Ming acted like a shrew and wanted to fight with Hong Xiu, Xie Ting had no choice but to pull the two of them apart.

Why does this Yuanming always like to fight with women, Cuixiang is, and so is Hongxiu this time.

Yuan Ming wiped his face: "This red sleeve can be regarded as unique among the Huaniangs. Others see guests sticking to it, but she is fine. She is so fierce that she is about to die."

"Brother Xie Ting is better, you never dislike me." Yuan Ming rubbed against Xie Ting while speaking.

Xie Ting pushed him away: "Get lost."

Then he said to the head hunter: "I would like to trouble my lord to stay and inspect this flower building carefully. If there is anything to report to me at Dali Temple, I will go back first."

The head catcher said: "Yes."

Yuan Ming stuck behind Xie Ting: "Brother Xie Ting, it's almost five o'clock now, what are you going to do?"

"Go back to Dali Temple." Xie Ting took a step back: "Young Lord Hou should go back too, I think the ingots, gold bars and copper plates are already waiting for you with people."

Yuan Ming ran into the room and stretched out his head. Sure enough, there was a group of people below. Yuan Bao, the leader, was driving in a carriage. Fifteen, come down quickly, let's go to the palace for dinner."

Yuan Ming's face turned green after hearing this: "If you don't go, you just say I'm dead today."

Xie Ting said coolly: "It is rumored in the capital that the Young Master has the best relationship with his mother. Why did I look at it like this today? The rumors are wrong."

After hearing this, Yuan Ming straightened his clothes and said, "I was joking just now, how could I not want to see my mother? Yuan Bao, let's go now."

Seeing the carriage going away, Xie Ting heaved a sigh of relief, and walked towards Dali Temple on foot.

He slowly took out a jade pendant from his sleeve. The jade pendant was rough carved and hung with red threads, but it was made of high-quality material.

The jade pendant glowed in the dark, Xie Ting used to put it in the innermost clothes so that the light would not shine through.He went home like this, changed his clothes, and turned into a pawnshop when he came out.

The first time he entered the room, he didn't find it, but the second time he entered, he found that there was such a thing under General Xu's body, so he secretly picked it out.

"Is there anything you want to be a guest? Or if there is anything you want to identify, you can take it out and have a look."

The accountant put down his pen: "The boss is not here today, but I can take a look..."

Xie Ting threw the jade pendant out of his sleeve nonchalantly and said: "A few days ago, I bet with someone, and that person lost everything and put this thing here, saying that it will be redeemed in two days. It has been a few days, and it has not yet return."

"Is this thing worthless?"

The accountant took it, and carefully looked at it several times with a candle: "Jade is good jade, but the engraving is a bit rough now, and needs to be polished carefully. This pattern is..."

It's a sand fox.

The sand fox treading the clouds is the totem of Western Xinjiang.

Even the barbarians who came to the capital for business had this kind of pattern embroidered on their sleeves. In their eyes, this fox was like a god.

It can bless those who are outside to travel safely.

The accountant looked at the troops coming and going outside, and they were searching for foreign barbarians.

He shook his head and returned the jade pendant to Xie Ting: "Master, the limelight is on the rise, I really can't accept this thing, I also advise you not to lose your life for money, find a place to throw it away. "

Xie Ting hid the jade pendant in his sleeve and walked out slowly, just in time to see some big soldiers pulling a barbarian.

That Hu blew his beard and stared angrily: "You...you...I was ordered to do business...let me go...you."

Does the emperor really want to find the murderer?

Xie Ting stood in the middle of the road, the gates of the bustling market in the past were closed today, no one took the initiative to join in the fun, for fear of implicating himself if he was not careful.