The Golden Hairpin

Huang Zixia used the hairpin to sift through all the itinerary on that day, then wiped the hairpin clean, slowly inserting it back into the silver hairpin, and said: "From this point of view, your itinerary on that day is much clearer than I am. . And I am often alone from noon to the morning of the next day, and it is difficult to find a prover."

Yu Xuan lowered his eyes and said nothing.

"It seems that my suspicion is really great..." She said silently, biting her lower lip and standing up, and erased everything drawn on the ground with her feet.

Yu Xuan said slowly: "Among all people, the biggest one."

Huang Zixia looked at the ashes that she had erased on the ground, and was silent for a long time before saying: "Even if all the evidence points to me, even you think I am the murderer, but-I will prove it to you, anyway, Huang Zixia is innocent and innocent. My parents, brothers, grandmothers, and uncles can all look at the ground with peace of mind!"

A pot of potato medicine chicken soup has been simmered, and the aroma is overflowing.

She cleaned the wooden bowl, scooped a full bowl, and carried it to the side hall.

Yu Xuan said behind her: "I will go back first."

Huang Zixia looked back at him, silent.

He stared at her. He was standing in the dark stove, and she was standing under the bright corridor. The sunlight pierced her so that she couldn't see his face. He only saw his eyes. Just like back then, there were two pills of obsidian in the mercury. Clear and distinct.

He said: "You still have to take care of the injured King Kui. I am inconvenient around you, so I won't bother too much."

She lowered her eyes and said, "Maybe we can go back together."

Yu Xuan opened his eyes wide in amazement, stepped out of the dark room a few steps, and asked: "You... are leaving with me now, you don't care about King Kui?"

She silently held the bowl of soup and looked at him, and said, "I mean, would you like to wait a few days and wait for King Kui to get better, we...the three will go together."

The bright spot in his eyes disappeared, he turned his face away, looked at the undulating mountains in the distance, and said: "I have nothing to do with King Kui, and you also know that I was born humble and dare not climb with these people. "

Huang Zixia didn't know why he suddenly reacted so intensely, she was slightly startled.

He looked at her astonished, and suddenly remembered what had happened before. After hesitating for a long time, he finally spoke and said, "I and Princess Tongchang... nothing."

Huang Zixian nodded and wanted to ask about the others, but after all she closed her mouth, lowered her eyelashes and turned around.

But I heard him whisper again: "I have nothing to do with you, him, or anyone."

She finally couldn't help but asked: "Where is Concubine Guo Shu?"

He was stunned, and suddenly raised his head to look at her.

She had already spoken, and she was not upset, she only said: "At this time, I don't hear each other, and I am willing to follow you month by month."

Yu Xuan was shocked and wailed for a long time before he said, "Yes... She once wrote me a letter that mentioned this poem. However, I really have nothing to do with her."

Huang Zixia whispered: "I also believe that you don't associate with people casually."

"I was temporarily hired as the Imperial College Xuezheng, and I met Princess Tongchang and Concubine Guo Shu on March 3 when the spring began. Suddenly, when the rain came, they couldn't take shelter in time, and they didn't bring umbrellas, so several maids took off their coats. Protect them from the rain. I was passing by and didn’t know who they were, so I gave them the umbrella in my hand..." He said, sighing softly, "Who knows a few days later, when I was teaching , Princess Tongchang suddenly appeared..."

The guards lined up all the students. Princess Tongchang took a few maids and walked directly to the first row. They only glanced at the students sitting there, and they hurriedly packed up the books and ran to the back.

Princess Tongchang sat down in the first row without anybody beside her.

Suddenly broke into the guard maid in the quiet school hall, and there was a princess sitting in the first row with her cheeks sitting in the first row. Yu Xuan inevitably stopped the lecture and asked: "You guys come here without notice.

Princess Tongchang looked at him with a smile. The smile was unspeakable and meaningful: "Yu Xuezheng, have you forgotten me?"

He looked at the costumes of the maids behind her, and then he remembered the woman who had borrowed the umbrella.

Guozijian Jijiu came in with a bitter face, and said to her: "Someone in the Guozijian has offended His Royal Highness the princess, please show her, I will be fair and straightforward to satisfy the princess."

"Really?" Princess Tongchang had a pair of sharp phoenix eyes on Yu Xuan's body and turned to Gu Jijiu's body, but raised her hands and pointed at Yu Xuan with a strange smile on her lips. "That's it. People, ooh is annoying."

Gu Jijiu was stunned and said, "He is a Shujun Juren and he has just arrived in the capital, but for a few days as a student, the speaker of the "Zhou Li" said, when did he offend the princess?"

"What do you mean?" She stood up, walked around Yu Xuan, and looked at his upright body. The smile on her face suddenly narrowed. "I also want to learn Zhou Li recently. I hate it. After a few scholars, all of them are old men, and people can see that they don’t even bother to open the book. And your Imperial College, with such an approachable Xuezheng, and good at "Zhou Li", actually did not let him. See me, you said that your Imperial College and this elementary school teacher should be punished?"

Gu Jijiu's already bitter face, at this time, almost dripped huanglian juice, and hurriedly responded, and persuaded Yu Xuan to give her a lecture.

But Yu Xuan didn't know that she was Princess Tong Chang, and wanted to refuse her tough invitation. Who knew that Princess Tong Chang would mess up his life with just a few strokes. Not only did all his courses in the Imperial College be blocked by the guards of the princess mansion and no students were allowed to enter, but he was also so noisy that he could not speak up when discussing matters such as the wine ceremony, the prison guard, and the master book. In the end, even the teachers and students of the Imperial College had complained, and asked him to quickly answer the task, so he had to pack up his books and enter the princess mansion.

He once wondered why Concubine Guo Shu always appeared in the audience when he lectured to Princess Tongchang, but later, he was not surprised. Only because one time at the gate of the mansion, he met Ma Wei Baoheng.

Princess Tongchang forced him to give lectures in the mansion, and the whole capital has already been raged. However, to his surprise, Wei Baoheng didn't care about him. He also asked him some Zhou Li's scriptures, saying that the princess has recently grown in knowledge. , I almost couldn't understand what he said, and asked him to explain his doubts. He said with a smile to Yan Yan, until the people from Zhijinyuan came to report that the princess had been waiting for him for a long time, so he hurriedly bid farewell to the consort and was taken by a maid from Su Weiyuan.

In Zhijin Garden, outside Basho, beside the pond. The curved bridge was winding, and he heard the whispers of Princess Tongchang and Concubine Guo Shu, vaguely. The curved bridge bends and twists, he clearly heard the sound, but he has been walking on the bridge without reaching the door.

"Mother concubine, it's troubled times now, and the person in Tai Chi Palace hasn't settled yet. Why are you having troubles at this time?"

"What are you afraid of? Since that person entered the Taiji Palace, your father has been unhappy day by day. In the past few days, he has stopped the government and went to Jianbi Palace. It is said that there are five hundred new folk women who are waiting for him. Woolen cloth."

"What is the mother and concubine worried about? Not to mention five hundred, even fifty thousand, I am afraid that it will not be as beautiful as that person. But after all, the father gave her and did not give you."

"Even you thought this was my method? In fact, I don't know what happened. Why suddenly the emperor sent her to Tai Chi Palace to recover from illness, I thought... Could it be that she was really scared by her niece's death sick?"

"Anyway, it is always a good thing for my mother. Perhaps, your half-life expectation, is this."

"Yeah...for such a critical moment, maybe I should meditate in the palace. But the spirit emblem, in fact, I don't have any luxury. There are many ears and eyes in the palace and the palace maids by my side. Seeing him is wrong, what else can he do? Besides, he is younger than you, what can I expect from my withered body?" At this point, she sighed softly. , The voice became more and more muffled, "Ling Hui, I have been with your father for more than 20 years, but I have always been a zombie. I know that I have no relationship with him, and in this life and this life, I am destined to see each other and not hear each other, but I just want to... …It’s good to be able to look at him more and hear his voice more..."

When the maid who had brought him along heard this, her face suddenly turned pale, and she realized that she had inadvertently heard a terrible secret. She stopped and looked back at him beggingly.

He was also shocked to the point of being out of order. Seeing that the Quqiao was dead and about to reach the door, he nodded to the maid and motioned her to leave.

However, she left too hastily, so that Princess Tongchang could hear their voices. Suddenly she stood up and walked to the door of Shuixie. At a glance, she saw him standing on the bridge and the maid who was walking back quickly.

Princess Tongchang also turned pale suddenly, and sternly shouted: "Cardamom!"

The maid who was in her thirties was originally called Cardamom, a name that did not match her age. But he didn't care much anymore, he just felt at a loss. Originally thought that Princess Tongchang would be difficult to deal with, but at this time, knowing that Concubine Guo Shu was interested in him, he was shocked and confused.

He stopped at Quqiao, and saw the Xuanxie hidden by Basho and the records in front of the window. Concubine Guo Shu was putting her pen down, crumpled a piece of paper in her hand into a ball, and threw it on the ground.

He stood on the bridge and saluted them, then turned and left in silence.

The maid named Cardamom ran out swiftly following him. When she walked to the door, Princess Tongchang followed him, and Cardamom was taken back.

All three of them tacitly didn't mention it again. But after he went back that day, he submitted his resignation to the Imperial College and prepared to go back to Shu County.

Later, he heard in the princess mansion that Zhijin Garden was closed, and he heard that it was because of a maid named Cardamom who had been killed in it.

One of the things he regretted most in Beijing was that when he was not at the gate of Zhijin Garden, he asked the maid Doukou to leave. Although this cardamom did not know him before, he was older and his appearance was not outstanding. But he always felt that she was killed by herself.

Later, when leaving the capital, he once met the woman named Di Cui. Her panicked expression made him suddenly think of cardamom.

Therefore, he deceived the officers and soldiers and saved her.

Di Cui escaped, Princess Tongchang died, and he also stayed away from the capital. It seems that everything is over. However, at this moment, Huang Zixian's words let him know that this matter will never be resolved and will not pass.

He was confused, looking at Huang Zixia in front of him, and for a long time, he said in a low voice, "Whether you believe it or not, I always..."

But what always happened, he didn't say it.

He just moved slowly back into the dark kitchen room, watching Huang Zi Xian, who was worried about the chicken soup getting cold, holding the bowl of soup and leaving hurriedly.