Chapter 172 Gold and Silver Necklace
Tao Zi held her forehead helplessly and said, "What news do we want to find out?"
Han Yueshan touched his nose and changed his tone: "Then should I go to the brothel?"
She looked at him and said with some doubt: "Yueshan, you were not like this when you entered other towns before."
Han Yueshan smiled sheepishly and said, "Isn't this city called Liushuang City?"
"What's wrong with that?"
He said, "I had a sister who helped me when I was a child. I remember she moved to Liushuang City. I want to go find her."
Tao Zi suddenly realized what he was talking about and said, "Go ahead."
He nodded, then looked at Li Xiu hesitantly.
Li Xiu: "...This is the first time I've taken money to a brothel."
Han Yueshan smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. It's not you who will go anyway."
He took out the money with a frown on his face: "This is even weirder."
Tao Zi suddenly called out to her fellow apprentice who was about to leave: "It's early morning, and the place isn't open yet. Come with us to the inn first, or we'll get lost."
Han Yueshan said happily: "Okay."
On the way, Xi Jing asked, "Brother, who is that sister? Have we seen her before?"
He said, "That sister's name was Huanle. You were still young at the time, so you probably don't have any impression of her."
Xi Jing looked confused, obviously not knowing who she was.
Zhao Xue had an impression of her and blurted out, "The sister who sang a little song for the teacher?"
Han Yueshan nodded: "That's right."
Li Xiu and Hua Seng looked at Tao Zi blankly. Is teaching her to sing a little song considered helping?
She smiled and didn't intend to explain, after all, she didn't experience that time.
Seeing her like this, the two of them didn't ask any more questions.
Li Xiu was still generous and took them into the most famous inn in Liushuang City.
The inn waiter was about to greet them when he saw Tao Zi holding the fox, covered with gauze. He was stunned for a moment, but quickly recovered and said with a smile, "Would you like to have a meal or a snack?"
Li Xiu said, "Let's have a snack."
For various reasons, Tao Zi asked for a room alone instead of sharing it with Xi Jing.
After going upstairs and entering the room, Li Xiu knocked on her door: "Sister Tao."
She opened the door and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Your face...are you sure you don't need me to take a look?"
Tao Zi smiled and said, "No need."
He nodded and didn't ask any more questions, but she suddenly said, "Brother Li, can you help me with something?"
He looked over in confusion: "What?"
"Help me find some medicinal herbs." Tao Zi listed a series of medicinal herbs.
Li Xiu was more and more shocked. He could tell that these things were made into human skin masks.
After she finished speaking, she asked again: "Is it okay?"
Li Xiu was clearly hesitant. She asked, "What's wrong?"
"Are you really Tao Mei?"
Tao Zi changed her address: "Brother Xiu, what are you doubting?"
Hearing this familiar name, Li Xiu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'm sorry, but you should understand my concern."
"Of course, you can rest assured." Tao Zi paused and said, "Xi Jing and the others all know my true identity."
Li Xiu asked back, "Then why can't I know?"
She smiled and reminded him calmly, "Doctor Li, have you forgotten that Xi Jing and the others are my junior brothers and sisters, and you are just my employer. I have no obligation to reveal my true self to you."
Li Xiu was silent for a moment and said, "I thought we were already friends."
Tao Zi softened: "Of course, we can also say we are friends, but everyone has secrets."
He stopped asking about this matter and said directly: "I will find those herbs. If you encounter other problems in the process, you can also tell me."
"Thanks."
As soon as Li Xiu left, she closed the door. The little fox said, "Aside from being pretty, there's nothing special about your face."
She touched her face through the gauze and said seriously, "Being too beautiful is not a good thing."
The little fox was silent, unable to stand her shamelessness, and lay aside without saying a word.
Tao Zi smiled, sat on the bed, and took off the necklace around her neck.
But when she touched it, she realized belatedly that there were two necklaces around her neck.
One was given by the Palace Master of Xulan Palace, and the other was given by Grandma Huang when I left Nanya.
She took off both necklaces, both tied with red ropes, one with a gold ornament and the other with silver.
She put aside the silver necklace given by her grandmother and looked at the gold necklace.
No matter how she looked at it, Tao Zi felt that this was a very ordinary gold necklace. There was no spiritual energy attached to it, and even the material was the most ordinary gold. If she had to say there was anything special about it, it would be that the color of the gold was very good.
She thought about it and realized that this was only one-third of the key. She couldn't figure out anything, so she prepared to put it away.
At this moment, the little fox jumped over, took a quick look, and casually said, "Are these gold and silver necklaces a pair? They look pretty, but why is one gold and the other silver?"
Tao Zi glanced at it suddenly, and it took a step back in fear: "Why are you looking at me like that? What did I say wrong? These two necklaces really look like they were made by the same person."
She didn't answer, but put the two necklaces together, her eyes fixed.
Sure enough, one gold and one silver, although they have different shapes, they look extremely harmonious, and their patterns are also strangely similar.
She touched the patterns on it again, compared the sizes, and suddenly placed the smaller gold necklace on top of the silver necklace. Sure enough, the gold necklace perfectly blocked the gap of the silver necklace.
The little fox sighed, "It looks like a lotus, but the color isn't right, and it seems like something is missing."
Tao Zi pursed her lips and said nothing. If she remembered correctly, the Xuanyue royal family loved lotus very much and even used lotus as a symbol, engraving it on every carriage.
She had read many ancient books, and one of them had the lotus symbol of the Xuanyue royal family painted on it. As she recalled and compared them, she thought that if she guessed correctly, the flower should be gold and the leaves should be silver.
She murmured, "There's not enough water."
The little fox asked in confusion, "What?"
Tao Zi did not explain, but put away the two necklaces with extremely complicated feelings.
The original purpose of going to Xulan Palace was to test the undercover agent and see what she knew, but in the end, he failed to test her and instead got a necklace.
The three necklaces are keys, and now two of them have fallen into her hands, and the origin of one of them seems extremely strange.
Cheng Wuchou. She chewed on the name in her mind. This was the person that Grandma Huang had asked her to find.
If I remember correctly, the Cheng family where Grandma Huang lived back then was located in the central part of the mainland. I don't know if this trip was a coincidence or a design.
Tao Zi opened the window and looked at the sky outside with an uncertain expression.
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