The Golden Hairpin

At the end of summer, the sun was hot, and it was almost noon, and the hot wind was blowing over the green grass. Li Shubai closed the doors and windows and fell asleep.

She knocked gently on the door outside, went in and said to him: "Get up and eat something."

The residual heat on Li Shubai's body has not subsided, and he leaned against the bed with half of his body wearily supported, squinted at her slightly, and asked, "When is it?"

"It's noon. I'm slow in my hands and feet. Only now, don't blame the prince." She smiled and held the bowl to him, and then said, "It's a bit hot, be careful."

He took the reed chopsticks and looked at it. Huang Zixia said quickly, "I washed it before."

He gave an "um", took a sip of the soup, and took a piece of potato medicine with reed chopsticks, and said, "Nothing, am I still picky here? I just think you made this unique."

"Really? I'm still worried that it's too slippery, and I'm afraid it's not easy to clip. But if you use branches, you're afraid that it's too rough, so bear with it." She sat on the edge of the bed, helping him hold the bowl and said.

He was a little confused during his illness, so he drank the bowl of chicken soup with her hands, very docile.

When Huang Zixian packed up his things and was about to get up, he asked again, "Is Yu Xuan still there?"

Huang Zixia nodded and said, "Yes."

He looked at her expression, trying to find out something in her expression, but he didn't. Her eyes were clear and clear, as calm as a spring in the forest.

Li Shubai turned away his eyes, and his always cold voice became gentle: "Does he still think you are a murderer?"

"Well, we were just right about what happened that day, but unfortunately there was no progress." She sighed and whispered, "But I knew it was not that simple and there was no way."

"Come slowly, it will come to the end anyway." He said, leaning on the bedside and looking at her, without telling her to go, nor to ask her to stay.

Huang Zixia hesitated while holding the bowl, and then asked, "What is the sign of the charm of the prince?"

Li Shubai took out the charm, looked at the circle that was still bright red on it, and the word "waste" that was circled, and handed it to her, "Perhaps, I'm already a waste now."

Huang Zixian took it and looked at it, and said, "The prince is moving freely, and his skills are recovering. Where do you start with the word "waste"? It seems that the above predictions are wrong."

"Don't you know, in this world, besides being alive, there is another kind of life?" Li Shubai looked at the charm and sighed indifferently, "And my kind of life may have been cut off. ."

Huang Zixia listened to his words, thinking of the power behind this spell vaguely glimpsed, only to feel terrified. But when he looked up, he saw his expression calm and cold. The right hand that was pressing on the charm seemed to be frozen, motionless, but he never put it away.

She looked at him in silence for a long time, and then said softly: "Don't worry, whether it is a man or a ghost, we will always pick out the forces hiding behind."

When she returned to the stove, she found that Yu Xuan had disappeared.

Only on the dust on the ground that was wiped off by her, his handwriting was on it, vaguely discernible: "I'm waiting for you in Chengdu Mansion."

She took a bowl of chicken soup and drank it, leaned on the stove and looked at the line of words, and then said to herself: "Why don't you go back and get some medicine or something? King Kui's disease, I don't know when it will be cured... …"

Speaking of this, I feel that I want too much. Yu Xuan has nothing to do with King Kui, what position does he have for him to help?

Besides, now, even she and him are enemies-or strangers.

After Li Shubai's fever subsided, although the injury on his back was not healed, it was scabs somehow.

After being raised for a few days, the soldiers who came to search the mountain were scattered, and several of them went to check around the ruined temple.

Li Shubai and she are studying a freshly picked green grapefruit, discussing how to accurately judge whether the grapefruit is mature, whether it should be judged according to the color of the outer skin or the degree of withering of the stem.

In the end, no results were discussed. Huang Zixian looked at the sky and cut the grapefruit directly into eight halves: "My lord, I think, the best way to check is to open it!"

Grapefruit in late summer is naturally sour and astringent. Li Shubai was most afraid of acid and threw it all to Huang Zixia. Huang Zixia sat down on the porch and ate slowly, and suddenly heard a slight rustling from the grass outside the door.

She jumped up and waved to Li Shubai. Although Li Shubai recovered from a serious illness, he reacted faster than her. He had already pulled up her sleeves, and the two turned to avoid behind the house.

Two people who were in uniform by Xichuan Sergeant, the old and the young, went in and searched all the rooms. Li Shubai and Huang Zixia were both very alert people. They approached them several times. They used the corners and the bushes. , Have avoided.

Fortunately, they were put to graze in the woods nearby to cleanse the evil, otherwise it would be troublesome to be seen by them.

The two people sat in the front hall to eat dry food. Huang Zixia and Li Shubai leaned against the corner of the back room, seeing that they were unaware, they couldn't help but laugh at each other.

Only then did she feel that she and Li Shubai were close together. In such a quiet summer day, the heat of his arm faintly passed through her sleeves to her skin. And this heat penetrated into her blood again, rushed to her heart and chest, and finally made her face suddenly red.

She moved her shoulders aside, her face turned to the other side.

The surrounding area was quiet, the cicadas in the late summer cried tightly and stopped for a while, the leaves above their heads hula lala were blown by the wind, and the sunlight gathered and scattered on them, scattered and chaotic.

Huang Zixian couldn't help but turned to Li Shubai again, watching the scattered halos, jumping erratically on his body. He recovered from a serious illness, pale and slightly weak, which made her feel that his breathing was much lighter than before. Only the curved outline of the side was still as graceful and elegant as ink lines.

And Li Shubai was also turning his head to look at her, and said in a low voice, "Sorry, I forgot."

She nodded, turned her head to look at the mountains in the distance, and said nothing.

Hearing his voice, it sounded in my ear again: "It seems that those two people should indeed be Xichuan Army."

"Yeah." Who would send such an old, weak, sick and disabled as an assassin? "Are we going down the mountain with them?"

Li Shubai leaned against the back wall, looked up at the sky, and said lightly: "I don't want to accept Fan Yingxi's love."

Huang Zixian knew that this was not only a confession, it could be said to be a great favor. Kui Wang Li Shubai, who has always been lonely in the world, how could he be willing.

Watching the two soldiers leave, he straightened up and no longer leaned against the wall: "Let's go, let's go down the mountain by ourselves."

Huang Zixia nodded, gathered up some of the fruits he picked yesterday, and hung them on the back of Di Evil.

Li Shubai got on the horse first and reached out to her.

She and him have been in distress these few days, and they have rode together several times, so they took his hand in a logical way and got on the horse and sat behind him.

She embraced him with her hands, feeling that his body seemed to be thinner than last time, and the lines from shoulders to waist were tight and thin.

These days and nights were exhausted, and he had recovered from serious injuries. He was obviously able to take the opportunity to be lazy and weak, but he was still so reluctant to owe others a little love——

Then, he accompanied him all the way to Shu County, probably because he had helped him...

Thinking like this, she looked at the endless mountains in front of her, and suddenly felt that the road in front of her was also at a loss.

Li Shubai felt her arm holding her waist stiff, and turned to look at her. They were so close, the wind blew their temples, almost tangled together, inseparable.

Seeing her in a trance, he said, "Be careful."

She nodded, and then looked at the field ridges that have gradually appeared in the distance, thinking, so what, no matter what he came here with her, her only purpose is to serve her parents and family. Revenge revenge. After all the water came to light, one was the unreliable orphan, the other was the Heavenly Lake nobleman, and what could be the connection?

When they walked beyond the green hills of Diezhang, they saw the sheep feeding on the mountainside, the neat mountain fields, the sparse human settlements, and the road going smoothly, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Walking along the road, a small mountain village finally appeared ahead. It was in the evening when the curling smoke rose from the roofs of each house, making it extremely quiet. Li Shubaigui is a prince, so naturally he doesn't carry money, and Huang Zixia is a pauper and naturally has no money. Fortunately, they still had the money collected from the captives. They went to the village to change food and bought some old clothes to put on.

This is already a village very close to Chengdu Mansion. After another half-day trip, I finally arrived at Chengdu Mansion.

When the two entered through the city gate, they found that there were many fast-catching horse squads gathering at the city gate, all of them looked embarrassed, with leaves and grass clippings on their heads, apparently just coming down from the mountain.

The people next to each other looked at the group of people coming back from the mountain and talked a lot. A well-informed man hurriedly said to the people around him: "I heard that Prince Kui disappeared on the way from Hanzhou to Chengdu Mansion! Several of the close guards of the mansion had escaped back yesterday morning. It is said that they were assassinated on the road. Now, the whereabouts of King Kui is unknown!"

The listeners suddenly exploded into the pan: "What? Who is so bold to assassinate Lord Kui?"

When the man saw the people asking, he was immediately proud: "I went to the monarch's mansion to deliver firewood the day before, and heard the people in the kitchen talking about the other party's Xuzhou accent! Who else can you say, Xuzhou accent? Of course it is Pang Xun. !"

"Pang Xun is already dead, and the remaining remnants of the party have been almost wiped out. What kind of climate can it become?"

"Hehe, don't you know that in the capital a few months ago, Pang Xun's grievances reappeared, and he attacked the girl of the Langya King family? I heard that the girl disappeared from the Daming Palace inexplicably, and the corpse was in the Daming Palace inexplicably, very strange. Ah!" There was another idler nearby, spitting wildly, combined with the sporadic news he heard, and began to indulge in imagination, "Do you know who the girl killed by Pang Xun's ghost is? It is the princess of King Kui!"

Everyone expressed their disbelief: "Isn't the case already cleared out? I heard that it was the **** of the Royal Palace Yang Gonggong who cracked it. It was the maid beside the prospective princess who committed the crime. What happened to the ghost of Guan Pangxun?"

When the other party was questioned when he heard his words, his neck suddenly became thick: "Daming Palace is haunted, and it is the ghost of Pang Xun who is rebellious. How can this be spread? Those two maids must be scapegoats!"

Huang Zixia and Li Shubai glanced at each other, and they both saw the complex expressions in each other's eyes, not knowing whether they should praise him for insight into the truth.

Someone asked, "So, this time King Kui was assassinated, and it was Pang Xun's ghost that caused him?"

"Nonsense! Kui Wang Yingming is a martial artist, no one in the world can match him. How can an ordinary assassin move him?" When the man saw his statement, his excitement was almost as if he was on the scene. , "Of course it was Pang Xun evil spirits who made trouble, and King Kui overlooked it for a while, so he was succeeded by Pang Xun's reigning evil!"