coobybook Chapter 377: The Mother of the Bomen Raises Her Stepson 44
Chapter 377: The Mother of the Bomen Raises Her Stepson 44
Sirong carefully asked Aunt Liu about the store she went to and the items she bought.
In the rouge shop, there is rose-red lip balm.
In the silk shop, there is light peach-colored fabric.
Upon closer inspection, these items were nothing special and were consistent with what my aunt usually wore.
However, it is a period of national mourning now.
According to the regulations of the Zhou Dynasty, private weddings were not allowed within one year of national mourning.
Banquets and drinking are not allowed, opera troupes are stopped, brothels are closed, and the public is not allowed to play music, sing, dance, or gamble. Violators will be punished.
Officials and nobles must wear white or black mourning clothes
Civilians are prohibited from wearing bright colors such as red, purple, and yellow, and must wear plain clothes instead.
Women are not allowed to wear gold or silver jewelry, rouge or powder, and must remove their makeup.
In other words, during this year, all the things that Aunt Liu bought could not be used.
Moreover, during this time, rouge shops and silk shops should not sell these things.
If they are found selling these things, they will be punished.
The silk and satin shop is pretty good. In addition to bright fabrics, there are also materials of other colors.
But this rouge shop?
Sirong asked Chunxing to go back and find a chance to replace the things bought by Aunt Liu and show them to her.
At the same time, arrange people to keep a close eye on the two shops.
At night, the stalker came back to report.
The silk shop has a lot of customers, but I haven't seen any clues yet.
The rouge shop did make some discoveries.
During the national mourning period, their shop should have been closed.
In order to operate normally, the owner of the rouge shop bought a batch of soaps and perfumed soaps from Sirong's shop at regular price and then sold them at a fair price.
As a result, their shop sells body soaps and bath beans, and business is normal.
However, the spies who were watching them discovered that there were always one or two regular customers who came to their shop every day. They would be invited into the inner room, and when they came out, they would be holding things in their hands, which should be rouge or something like that.
After Sirong ordered her people to leave, she carefully studied the rouge box that Chunxing had sent over, as well as the fabric they had bought that day.
Aunt Liu, every time you go out, you buy a piece of cloth.
There were so many similar materials that it would take more time than it took to finish them all. Chun Xing temporarily swapped out an old one for one night, which wasn't a big deal.
At first glance, the fabric looks no different from other fabrics.
After careful inspection, you will find that there is a certain pattern in the knotted threads at the edge of the fabric.
This not only reminded Sirong of a spy movie she had seen in the modern world.
In order to transmit information, the Red Party there also used the stitches when sewing clothes as Morse code.
However, Sirong is unable to decipher the pattern within these threads for the time being.
Xiao 5 and Muchen are in another world, loving and hating each other.
Sirong did not call her back urgently, but took a photo of the cloth and sent it to Xiao 5 to help her check.
As for the rouge box, Sirong gently scraped off some powder from it and sent it to the treatment room in the space for analysis. It was quickly confirmed that it contained arsenic.
There are some other unknown drugs, but it is certain that they are all highly toxic.
Sirong and Chunxing confirmed that the rouge that Aunt Liu bought this time was the same color as she bought every time, except that there were some minor differences in the pattern of the outer packaging box.
If you don't look carefully, most people won't be able to notice it.
Even if it is discovered, it can be attributed to a problem with the production batch and it is no big deal.
Sirong emptied all the poisonous powder in the rouge box, took out rouge of the same color from the space, ground it into powder, and pressed it into a cake again.
"Chun Xing, be careful when you put it back, don't let her notice."
Chun Xing nodded and whispered, "Yes!"
Sirong stood in front of the window, tapping the window frame with her fingertips, her eyes deep.
"The national mourning came so suddenly that they didn't have time to change their contact information..."
The fabrics from the silk shop and the lip balm from the rouge shop should have been ordinary items, but because of the national mourning ban, they became the most glaring flaws!
They had to take the risk and continue using it, which allowed Sirong to catch them!
"Master, do you want to seal off those two shops directly?" the secret guard asked in a low voice.
Si Rong shook her head: "No rush, keep a close eye on the women who go into the inner room to trade and see who they belong to."
The secret guard took the order and left.
Xiao 5 has powerful computing power, but the photo of a piece of fabric that Sirong gave her is still too few master copies.
It is certain that this is some kind of code, but we don't know what it means.
Sirong thought that some of the fabrics in Aunt Liu's place had already been made into clothes. Instead of relying on their own guesses, it would be faster to find someone who knew the truth and interrogate them.
Then he called his men to do this.
The answer was soon known. Even if it was a spy, as long as he was determined, he could find a breakthrough and give them something to hold against him.
One of Sirong's employees in the silk shop had a lover outside the city, and the woman had given birth to a son for him.
It can be seen that he treats this mother and son differently, and it is definitely not just a joke.
Not only did they arrange for the mother and daughter to live outside the city, but they also tried to minimize their contact.
He also handed over all his silver to the woman.
Sirong's men kidnapped the mother and daughter and threatened the servant with the child's life. They soon found out the answer.
Sirong's fingertips gently stroked the piece of cloth embroidered with special patterns, and her eyes gradually turned cold.
She finally understood that Aunt Liu was not an ordinary spy at all, but a "sleeping agent" carefully planted by the Northern Di in the official residence of the Great Zhou.
These women are no different from ordinary people in their daily lives, and some have even become beloved concubines in the palace. However, once the two countries go to war, they will immediately become the most deadly killers.
"Master, we have checked it out." The subordinate came quickly and handed over a secret report.
When Sirong unfolded it, she couldn't help but gasp.
The list clearly listed the favorite concubines of border generals and the dancers of important officials in the court. The most shocking thing was that even the second wife of the Minister of War was on it.
These seemingly weak women are actually the sharp swords buried in the heart of the Great Zhou by the Northern Di.
They were all spies from the Northern Di, who infiltrated the Great Zhou through various methods.
Under normal circumstances, they would not carry out activities such as transmitting intelligence or assassination.
There is another group of people to do that.
Their purpose of lurking in the Great Zhou was to cooperate and infiltrate the homes of various officials in the Great Zhou.
He came to the Great Zhou with only one mission: to assassinate the officials in the palace if the two countries were about to go to war. By then, the Northern Di would be strong and powerful, but the Great Zhou would have no generals to fight.
Normally, they would go to the rouge shop or silk shop regularly to buy things.
One is to report safety, and the other is to develop a habit of visiting the store frequently.
Because the things they usually buy are basically ordinary items, there is no information available. Even if someone becomes suspicious and wants to investigate them, their doubts will be eliminated.