The Golden Hairpin

She stood up and saw that the assassin was confused, but her eyes were still on her. She pretended not to see it, turned her back and went to the river to wash her hands, only to find that her messy hair had been scattered, her thick black hair was set against a pale face, where could she hide the appearance of a woman.

She could only pull up her hair quickly, then took off the two arrows left on the horse, walked into the mountain stream, and stood there waiting.

The mountain stream is clear and shallow, and the fish in it are also very thin, but there are still more, and they are stupid and don't know how to avoid people. Huang Zixian moved the stone, surrounded a small weir, and gradually moved the stone to shrink the surrounding, and finally blocked a few fishes on the shallow shore, and then stabbed them down with an arrow, and found two palm-sized fish in one fell swoop. Fly around on the arrow shaft.

She trudged to the shore with the fish, and suddenly remembered that this method of catching fish was taught to her by her brother when she was very young.

At that time, she was a follower behind her elder brother, and her elder brother was still a little child. To this day, she is still using the method her brother taught her to fish, but her brother is already under the yellow spring, and the flesh and blood are sold out.

She was in a moment of grief and stood by the water in a daze. Then she raised her elbow and pressed it to her eyes, so that all the tears from the corners of her eyes were sucked by her clothes.

The deceased is gone, how can she still have time to immerse herself in grief now?

She took the fish to the shore, cleaned it with a fish intestine sword, cut it into slices, and removed the fish bones.

She didn't dare to make a fire because she was afraid of attracting a killer, but Datang had always liked to eat raw fish and didn't need fire. But before, she had mustard when she ate fish meat, and she felt very fishy and greasy when she ate it on empty stutter.

She took out the salt found by the assassin, rubbed a bit on the fish, and then took it to the assassin, pointed at him with a dagger, took out the mask from his mouth again, and said, "Hungry, right? Give it to you." Order something, no barking."

The assassin looked at her in surprise, until she squeezed his chin and stuffed a piece of fish in it. He didn't realize that he was really feeding him. Seeing her staring at her, her eyes were bright as stars. Chewing the fish in his mouth for a while, and didn't even know the taste.

Huang Zixia asked him, "Is it delicious?"

He recollected and said: "A fishy smell..."

"The salt you brought over is rubbed on it. Doesn't it taste good?"

"It's barely enough to eat," he said.

Huang Zixia fed him another piece, carefully examining his expression.

He did not avoid her gaze, looked at her, and asked in a low voice: "Why are you so good to me?"

Huang Zixian ignored him. Seeing that he had eaten both pieces of fish, he took up a mask and blocked his mouth again, saying, "It seems that your salt is not poisonous."

He was dumbfounded, looking at her leaving figure, couldn't help but smile wryly.

Huang Zixian ate half of the fish, then took the remaining half to Li Shubai's side, knelt down, held his hand, and pressed his cheek against the back of his hand, testing the temperature.

The antidote was finally effective. Although he was too late to wake up, at least the dim black air on his face had subsided, and the swelling of his left elbow had also subsided.

She breathed a sigh of relief. The exhaustion and panic of the night had been entangled with her. At this moment, she suddenly retreated. She suddenly collapsed and fell on the ground. She felt that her eyes were dark, and she couldn't help holding her head, leaning on her knees, closing her eyes and breathing for a long time. .

When the fainting passed and she opened her eyes again, she realized that Li Shubai had already woken up. His slightly opened eyes kept looking at her without moving away for a moment.

Seeing her open her eyes, the two eyes met in an instant.

Huang Zi Xia saw his clear and clear eyes, and all the bewilderment that night suddenly disappeared in an instant. She involuntarily leaned down to look at him, tears pouring out in a controlled manner: "You...you finally woke up..."

Li Shubai saw the tears in the corner of her eyes, and a faint smile suddenly appeared on her extremely weak face.

He said, "Well, I woke up."

Huang Zixia looked at his sudden smile, and suddenly felt that something hit her chest suddenly, blooming like a flower.

It's like seeing a child whose spring snow melts for the first time, a mayfly falling on a flower for the first time, a cicada crawling out of a dark cave and looking at the clear sky for the first time, seeing something new and unknown, ignorant of the unknown, but deep Deeply attracted by it, unable to look away.

The big branches above the head are dense with leaves, and the sunlight sifts down from the leaves, like golden-red silk threads. The breeze came slowly, and the branches swayed lightly, and the golden light spots circulated on their faces, a little brighter.

In such a trance of light, the painful rush all night suddenly subsided. They looked at each other as if they were rebirth, and they all looked at each other for a long time without realizing it.

She raised her hand and touched his forehead lightly, feeling hot, but after all he woke up, although there was still a hint of mist in her eyes, there was a smile on her lips, and she said with a trembling voice: "You Woke up... that's great."

He looked at her smiling face and wanted to raise his hand to touch her when he was in such a difficult situation, but found that his whole body was numb, and it was more difficult to lift a hand than to lift a huge burden, and he could only do it again. Looking at her with a smile, he hummed.

"Are you hungry? Do you want to drink water?" She asked, seeing him blink, she got up and fetched water, and fed him two sips.

He was lying on the ground with difficulty swallowing, and a stream of water ran down the corners of his lips.

She thought for a while, picked up his head, leaned on her lap, and then handed the rolled leaf to his lips, carefully controlled her hand, and let him drink slowly.

When he finished drinking the water, she broke two branches and fed him some fish fillets.

He ate very slowly, very hard and painful, but after all he looked up at her and ate half of it in one bite.

Huang Zixian explained in a low voice: "Don't dare to make a fire, for fear of attracting the assassins of last night, please bear with me."

He didn't speak, he was resting on her lap, looking at her quietly.

She realized that the postures of the two were a bit too intimate, but under such circumstances, there was no other way but to open up the topic, saying: "I know that the prince has a habit of cleanliness, but now he is in such a place. ......After you are out of danger, I will help you find a way to clean it."

She put Li Shubai’s head carefully on the ground again, pulled some grasses to cushion him, and then took his leftover fish to the stream. When she looked up, she found that the captive **** by herself was still leaning against. Looking at her under the tree, her eyes were full of complicated and profound meanings.

She couldn't help but stunned, thinking that she was so close to Li Shubai just now, wouldn't it all fall into his eyes?

But thinking about it again, the other party is just a murderer who came to assassinate, even if he recognizes that he is a woman, even if he misunderstands the relationship between them, what does it matter?

Therefore, she turned her eyes away blindly, as if the other party was just a grass, a flower, or a tree, and she didn't care.

She washed her hands, walked to the prisoner and squatted down, put a dagger against his neck, took out the cloth towel from his mouth, and asked, "What's the name?"

The other party turned his eyes fixed on her to the mountain stream next to her: "You don't know you even after you said it."

"Actually, I don't want to know." She patted him on the shoulder with a dagger, because Li Shubai woke up, her tone was obviously lighter than before, "I just want to know who the person behind you is and who dared to stab him. King Kui."

He did not hesitate to say: "My king Pang Xun has recruited millions of Yin soldiers underground, and he must take revenge and take the life of King Kui."

Huang Zixia sneered and asked, "What did you take your life for? Go to the ground and let King Kui shoot him with another arrow?"

He was at a loss for words and "hummed" angrily.

Huang Zixian looked at him with interest and said: "You are from a good background, and you don't know the vulgar language of the Riba people. There are very few people who can maintain such a personality in the army. And Pang Xun's subordinates were all refugees. Guardsman, it is absolutely impossible to have someone like you."

He gritted his teeth without speaking, but stared at her fiercely.

And Huang Zixia didn’t care about his direct gaze. She sat down on the grass in front of him when she was tired, with a dagger in her hand but not leaving his neck for a moment: "Or behave and recruit, who are you, send you to assassinate King Kui." Who is it?"

He listened to her intimidation, but suddenly laughed, and said, "It's better for me to tell you one thing-you don't know who I am or where I came from, but I know who you are."

Huang Zixia gestured around his neck with a dagger, and asked, "What do you think?"

"You lie in ambush in the grass in the middle of the night. I think your surname should be Caotou. You and I met Yu Yin Shizhong, and the word Yin is removed and the head is yellow, and your surname is Huang."

"It's a good demolition." She said, turning the dagger and patted him on the shoulder, "It's just that I think you already knew my true identity, so you came back, didn't you?"

He smiled, but his face was stiff and his smile was very ugly.

"It seems that you have been thinking a little bit about King Kui. Even the insignificant me beside him has been identified by you." She sneered and asked the captive again, "Say, the person who sent you, what who is it?"

He replied: "What do you think?"

"You are from Beijing, and Princess Qi Le is cooperating with you. Obviously, you are a member of the imperial power. But if you can ignore Princess Qi Le in this way, you probably don’t care about the face of the royal family, not the royal clan. Dear……"

"You guessed it wrong. The one who sent me is the number one person in the world." He said casually.

Huang Zixian looked back at Li Shubai and saw that he was still lying there quietly before glaring at him: "Tell the truth!"

"I'm telling the truth, why don't you believe it?" His tone was relaxed and natural, and there was even a playful brilliance in his eyes.

Huang Zixian frowned, and the dagger pressed against his neck tightened: "The emperor wants to balance the power in the court and restrict Wang Zongshi. How can he destroy the Great Wall now?"

"Oh, because father-in-law Wang Zongshi is terminally ill, and time is running out-you, as the **** next to Wang Kui, don't even know this?" He didn't care about the sharp dagger she was resting on his neck. , Was still amazed, "Like you, you don't know anything about political enemies, is it really good?"

"Is it really okay to talk nonsense like you and provoke King Kui and the court?" She frowned, but no longer asked, knowing that there was no result, so she gagged him again and turned back to the bushes. At the same time, I saw Li Shubai open his eyes, listening to them all the time.

She sighed and said, "I don't know how to extract a confession by torture."

"Don't ask, even if you kill him, he won't say it... what he wants to protect is something more important than himself." Li Shubai said, slowly closing his eyes, "Go to him Say, let him play three short and one long four whistles for me. If he refuses, you can tell him a word—Longyou, Baiyuxia, Guanshan is flying in snow, and the flames break without smoke."