Chapter 413: A bloody case caused by a piece of jade

When Zhao Ji heard Chen Ao say good things about Cai Jing, he nodded repeatedly: "Yes, I am very happy that you can think like this. Speaking of which, Cai Jing's calligraphy and painting are also excellent, but he is old and cannot compare to you."

Zhao Ji thought about it and then smiled again: "Now I think about it, my peace is not enough to marry, but don't be proud, as the empress dowager cannot get through, it will still be impossible."

Chen Ao nodded and said yes.

He had a conversation with Zhao Ji. Zhao Ji was in great spirits and energetic. However, Chen Ao had been tired long ago when he saw him in a sleepy look. Seeing that he was tired, Zhao Ji waved his hand and let him go to the inn to open a room to sleep.

Early the next morning, Zhao Zong came to wake up Chen Ao in person and said enthusiastically: "Chen Ao, Your Majesty asked me to wake you up, we are going to set off."

Chen Ao drove the ducks on the shelves and had to wear clothes. The group of people dressed as a long-distance merchant. Zhao Ji was wearing a round neck shirt and a rich man. Zhao Zong was the second master, and his clothes were similar to Zhao Ji. Chen Ao was dressed as a scholar, and the rest were mostly dressed as porters.

Everyone rushed along the official road. Zhao Ji was in high spirits. He looked at the scenery along the way, sometimes stopped and painted. For the first time, he enjoyed this strange "freedom". He became a little childish. He even put down his airs and had a fight with Zhao Zong for a while. When he arrived in Duchang, everyone boarded the dock and booked a large ship, crossed Poyang Lake through the water to Hongzhou.

Hongzhou is the most important city on Jiangxi Road. It has a rich literary style and is very lively. After a day of walking around the street, everyone found an inn to stay. That night, Zhao Ji asked Chen Ao to appreciate his paintings along the way. Chen Ao tasted it, and some were not. In terms of exchanging paintings, Zhao Ji was very humble. After listening to Chen Ao’s teachings all night, he did not go to bed until dawn.

In the afternoon, Chen Ao got up, washed up, walked out of the room, and ran into Zhao Zong and came back with a few imperial guards, and talked enthusiastically about the interesting things on the street market just now.

Zhao Ji also got up, didn't sleep last night, and was still very tired when he woke up today, so he dispelled the interest of going out for a trip. After using the meal, he called Chen Ao and said, "This Hongzhou is a big city, but there are many places to go. I heard that there is a rope tower in Hongzhou and I want to go and see it. Why don't we go with dinner?"

Chen Ao smiled and said, "It's not fun to ask God and worship Buddha. If you don't go over and take a look, your Majesty has made the decision anyway, and I'm just following the will."

Zhao Ji also smiled: "Even if you are like this, you obviously want to go, but you also want to say you don't want to go, it's like I'm asking you."

"I am wronged." Chen Ao, Dou E, wished shed tears immediately to argue for herself.

"But this time, you don't have to bring too many people. Just ask two people to follow me. Don't tell Zhao Zong about this later, he has a very whispered personality."

Chen Ao responded and went back to the bedroom to rest. After dinner, Zhao Ji deliberately said to Chen Ao: "Chen Ao, follow me to the back garden for a walk, and we will see the night view there." Then he took two imperial guards and came to the back garden of the inn with Chen Ao. He went out from the back door, asked the direction of the rope gold tower, and walked all the way.

The Rope Gold Tower was first built during the Tianyou period of the Tang Dynasty. It is a typical brick-wood-structured pavilion-style tower in Jiangnan. The tower is more than 20 meters high. The tower is seven floors and eight sides. It has red railings and green tiles, ink corners and clean walls and gold-shaped gourd-shaped roofs.

From a distance, the elegant eaves, the copper bells hanging under the eaves, and the red railings and green tiles all over the body, and the simple and unpretentious quiet walls all contain a sense of vicissitudes.

This place is not far from Jinxian Gate, so it is even more lively at night. Not far away is the night market. Although it is night, it is brightly lit, juggling, performing, and selling goods. It is coming in a crowd. Chen Ao and Zhao Ji are wandering around the crowd. Zhao Ji is quite interested in looking left and right, and then stopping at an antique stall. After looking at the antiques on the stall for a while, he can't help but say to Chen Ao: "It's all fakes, and the old craftsmanship is poor. Fortunately, some people are fooled."

Chen Ao just smiled and thought to himself, you are the emperor, you have seen countless treasures, even if you are fake, they are all exquisitely crafted. It would be strange if this kind of old and bad craftsmanship in the market can catch your eyes.

Chen Ao pulled Zhao Ji's sleeve and whispered: "You... Cough cough... Wang Gong, no matter whether it is true or false, you can't say these words here. You have ruined other people's jobs. Be careful that the peddler will try his best to find us."

Zhao Ji whispered: "So what?"

How? Chen Ao felt that this guy was unreasonable, so he had to say, "Forget it, pretend I didn't say it."

He walked towards the rope golden tower, and cried faintly from afar. He saw a woman kneeling on the ground in a mourning clothes. Taotao cried loudly, saying, "The little woman came to Hongzhou to join her husband... Her husband died... I asked all kind-hearted people to give me some money..."

She cried very seriously, and occasionally a few of them threw one or two copper coins for her in pieces. Zhao Ji was quite unbearable. He took out a piece of money from his bag and was about to let him go. Chen Ao grabbed him and whispered to him, "Let's take a look first."

Zhao Ji was hanging in the air with the money in his hand. He was about to take it back, but behind the woman were several men from Kong Wu. His eyes shone. When Chen Ao saw that Chen Ao was blocking Zhao Ji, he glared at Chen Ao hated.

Chen Ao took Zhao Ji away as if no one was around, and Zhao Ji asked, "What's the reason?"

"Those are liars."

"A liar? That woman is miserable and miserable. She doesn't look like a liar."

Chen Ao was speechless to Zhao Ji. This guy had no experience in the market at all. He didn't know that all the scammers were vivid. If they were not detailed in their performance, how could they make money? In fact, if the other party was a scammer, you just need to see if there were any accomplices around you. If you were ordinary tourists, you would naturally look at the woman curiously, show sympathy, or fall into deep thoughts. However, the scammer's accomplices would not focus on the scammers, but instead glanced around and looked at the tourists' every move.

Chen Ao said these words to Zhao Ji, and Zhao Ji smiled bitterly and kept silent.

He went to the rope gold tower, and the gate of the rope gold tower was closed. It turned out that there were no pilgrims at night. Zhao Ji seemed a little disappointed and said to Chen Ao: "Since you are here, you have to go around."

Chen Aohe nodded, and the two returned to the crowd. With the lesson they had just learned, Zhao Ji also learned his lesson and stopped talking casually. Just then, when he heard someone laughing heartily, Zhao Ji looked over and saw a young man with a few servants shouting at a ***, "So what about the Lu family? Do you know who I am? Humph, I really have the courage to take away what I am looking for, you can grab?"

The other party was a little displeased: "I have paid the money, so this thing is mine."

The young master shook his folding fan and shouted: "You are so brave! Come and show him how powerful this young master is."

Several servants behind him agreed, surrounded the man in the middle, rolled up his sleeves and rubbed his hands.

Zhao Ji couldn't bear to look on and pulled Chen Ao over, but Chen Ao didn't have much chivalrous and soft heart. This kind of big fish eats small fish every day. Chen Ao believed that he was not a dynamic superman and did not have to bear the responsibility of saving humanity. However, Zhao Ji's pull almost staggered. He had to take a few steps to balance his body and followed him reluctantly. Zhao Ji was already shouting: "How can he hit someone in broad daylight?"

Chen Ao approached and saw the young master's face clearly. The young master was quite handsome, shaking the fan, with a bit of a handsome young master's style, but he had a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and his face became more ferocious, destroying his facial features. When he went to see it, he was completely like a yamen.

As for the man opposite the young master, he was wearing a round-necked shirt and a small jacket inside. He was about twenty years old and had a bookish look. He could not see cowardice in his eyes, but instead had a bit of unwillingness to bow his head.

When Zhao Ji called for a broad daylight, how could he hit someone? Chen Ao couldn't help but look at the dark sky, and he couldn't see that there was a sun coming. The young master was furious. Seeing that Zhao Ji pulled Chen Ao over, he saw that the two of them were dressed in merchants and sneered again: "Hmph, what are you? How dare you come and take care of my affairs? Get out of here!"

Chen Ao stepped forward and said with a smile: "Brother, please calm down. I don't know what's causing everyone to be unhappy."

The young master looked at Chen Ao in disgust and said, "You should ask this?"

Chen Ao pursed his lips and glanced at Zhao Ji, who was dark, and thought to himself that if he had revealed his identity at this time, it would be bad, so it would be better not to cause trouble. After making up his mind, Chen Ao smiled and said, "Just ask, it's fine if the young master doesn't want to say it." Then he said to the person opposite the young master: "Brother, listen to me. Since this young master wants to buy that thing, just give it to him. I don't know what it is."

The young man sniffed in anger and said politely to Chen Ao: "It's a jade pendant. I bought it first, but the young master of Ma Tai insisted that he wanted it. The student was angry and argued with him, so he caused trouble."

Seeing the other party take out the jade pendant, Chen Ao said, "Can you show it to me?"

After taking the jade pendant, Chen Ao looked up and down. This jade pendant was not a rare thing. It was very common, but when I looked carefully, I saw the clues. The style of this jade pendant was simple and there was dust and mud in the gaps. It should be an antique. Although the manufacturing process was not exquisite, it was a long time ago. I couldn't help but say: "Is this the ritual jade from the Shang and Zhou dynasties? It's rare, really rare. The ritual jade was a kind of jade that nobles gave each other gifts to each other during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. This jade was very common during the Qin and Han dynasties, and the quality of jade used was not necessarily good and was not worth much money. But now it has a very different meaning. No wonder you are quarreling about this jade."

When the young man saw Chen Ao, he could not help but look at Chen Ao deeply: "I took a full half an hour to recognize the origin of this jade. Just as I was about to pay the bill, Mr. Ma came and insisted that he wanted to buy it, the dispute that happened."

Mr. Ma cursed: "Hmph, the surname Lu is not a school here, and there is no teacher to protect you. If you know each other today, give me jade, otherwise I will not give up with you today."
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