Yingwu and Hongye came back very quickly and did not keep everyone waiting for too long. Jin Miaomiao checked the things they brought back and found that they were all what he needed, with just a little more. He looked towards His Highness Prince Ning and Shen Haolin. , Chen Cha and Xue Ruitian nodded.
"Is it time to go?" Shen Cha looked at Ying Wu and then at Mei Zhu, "Xiao Wu starts with Xiao Zhu and Hong Ye, please protect your highness."
According to Shen Cha's instructions, Ying Wu stood at the front, Jin Jing and Jin Miaomiao took a small step behind him, followed by Xue Ruitian, Shen Haolin, His Highness Prince Ning, Shen Cha, and finally Hong Ye and Mei. bamboo.
His Royal Highness Prince Ning, who was protected among everyone, held the candle lantern that Xue Ruitian had just given him in his hand and looked back and forth while walking.
"What's wrong, Your Highness, is there any problem?" Xue Ruitian felt his doubts and looked back, "Do you need to change something?"
"Have you rehearsed this many times?" His Highness Prince Ning waved his hand, indicating that he had no problems. "You look very skilled."
"Every time it is me or Hao Lin who is in His Highness's position, Xiaocha usually stands in my position." Xue Ruitian nodded, followed the three people in front, and led His Highness Prince Ning into the secret room, "Your Highness, be careful , there is a ramp here.”
His Highness Prince Ning nodded, illuminated his feet with the candle in his hand, and carefully walked through the ramp at the door of the secret room.
After passing the ramp, it suddenly opened up. Ying Wu, Jin Jing and Jin Miaomiao, who were walking in the front, had lit all the candles in the secret room, making the whole secret room as bright as day.
This secret room is about the size of two study rooms in the Wuding Marquis Mansion. The arrangement of the whole room looks very comfortable. In addition to desks, chairs, and bookcases, there are a row of ten large camphor wood boxes stacked against the west wall. The box can visually fit two adult men.
"Where are the withered bones?" Jin Miaomiao patted Yingwu, "Put everything else aside for now. I'll take a look at the condition of the withered bones first."
As she spoke, she took off the face towel, placed it on the desk, and took out two thicker ones from the tool box she was carrying.
"Here." Ying Wu guided Jin Miaomiao towards the south wall, took the face towel from Jin Miaomiao and replaced it on his face.
The dead bones were placed at the base of the south wall, with nothing to block them. Everyone looked at the damaged pieces of clothing beside the dead bones and sighed in unison.
"This..." Shen Cha squatted down, reached out to pick up the damaged pieces of clothing, and looked at them carefully, "Although it has been severely worn, the pattern and material can still be seen. This is very similar to what it was more than ten years ago. , a popular type of silk in the south of the Yangtze River. I remember my mother said that this kind of silk was very popular among the literati and students in the south of the Yangtze River during that time, especially those so-called nobles who liked to hold tea parties and flower banquets at every turn. , so that later on, there was a ridiculous scene where it was hard to find a piece of silk."
"It's hard to find a piece of silk?" Jin Miaomiao looked at her, "Is it very expensive?"
"It's expensive on the other hand, and demand exceeds supply on the other hand." Shen Cha picked up a few more pieces of clothing, "Look, even if it has been damaged to this extent, its texture is still very good, not like what we often see. The silk is so thin and light, and its drape is very good."
"Is it like this?" Jin Miaomiao looked curiously at the fragments in Shen Cha's hand, picked up a few pieces from the ground, and felt them carefully, "It is indeed like this, it is completely different from what we have seen. "
"Yes, it is said that the silk looks very elegant and elegant, so it is very popular. But my mother once said that such silk is not easy to come by. It is good and powerful, so the price is usually very high."
"High?" Jin Miaomiao turned around and looked at His Highness Prince Ning, who had a frosty look on his face. "Your Highness, you..."
"The wine and meat in the Zhumen are stinky, and there are people freezing to death on the road." His Highness Prince Ning sneered, "None of the generations of emperors in Daxia have ever had such a luxurious life, but the people in Jiangnan enjoyed it first."
"Your Highness knows this?"
"Of course." His Highness Prince Ning nodded, "This thing is called Thousand Gold Silk in the palace, and it is expressly prohibited by the palace. Do you know why?" He continued without waiting for the children to answer, "It's because it's a waste of manpower. Material resources are of no use at all.”
"A piece of silk worth a thousand gold?" Jin Miaomiao's eyes widened, "Such a piece of crap, a thousand taels of gold per piece?"
"One foot." His Highness Prince Ning was almost frightened when he saw Jin Miaomiao sitting on the ground, "One thousand taels of gold is one foot, don't you think it's incredible?" Seeing Jin Miaomiao nodding frequently, he continued, "Then Do you know how much this silk cost before it was sought after by those people in Jiangnan?"
"I don't know." Jin Miaomiao shook her head gently, "One or two or one horse?"
"Basically, it's almost the same." His Highness Prince Ning nodded, "And during that time, there were more than 20 murder cases in Jiangnan because of this broken silk, involving at least ten families and fifty lives."
"I have this impression." Shen Cha thought for a while, "It seems that at that time, Jiangnan literati and students were not worthy of entering the academy if they did not wear clothes made of silk. However, there were many children from poor families in the academy, because There was a fierce conflict over the clothes, and some students from poor families were injured or killed in the conflict, and many children from wealthy families also suffered, and various vicious incidents of revenge occurred."
"That's right." His Highness Prince Ning watched Shen Cha carefully put the silk cloths on a piece of paper. "Later, the matter turned out to be too big. The trouble was already brought to Lao Liu, who chopped it down directly. A few bosses and unscrupulous vendors who were driving up prices were able to suppress this evil trend. Later, because of the news from the palace that such extravagant things were banned, the trend subsided. "
"In this way, the fact that this person can wear such expensive clothes shows that his status is extraordinary. Moreover, this clothing material was only popular in Jiangnan for a while, and it did not spread to Xijing City, nor to other places. place, it means that this person is basically from the south of the Yangtze River." Xue Ruitian touched his chin, looked at Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and then at His Highness Prince Ning, "At that time, people who came from the south of the Yangtze River were specifically looking for Our family was killed by my father again, probably..." He smiled bitterly, "Besides the Liu family, there probably won't be anyone else. But..."
"If it's the Liu family..." Shen Cha frowned slightly, "Can even the housekeeper of his family and the confidant of the Liu family head afford such expensive clothes?"
"I have a guess." Xue Ruitian was the first to raise his hand.
"I also have a guess." Shen Haolin and Shen Cha said in unison.
"What a coincidence, I also have one." His Highness Prince Ning looked at them with a smile, "Why don't we write down our guesses and see if we can come up with the same idea, okay?"
Several children nodded, took out the paper and charcoal pens they were given before entering the secret room, and wrote down their guesses on the paper behind their backs.
"Have you finished writing?" His Highness Prince Ning looked at the children and nodded, "Let's show it together."
Everyone showed what they had written, and the same name was written on it - the head of the Liu family.
