The Golden Hairpin

With a slight voice and a flowing breath, she suddenly became extremely nervous. The feeling that made her nervous and blushing reappeared in her heart.

The two walked out of the store, and the night was deep. When they were walking on the lonely street where the crowd had dispersed, Huang Zixia finally couldn't help but said: "The lord... must have already thought of this, right?"

He whispered a low "um", and those clear and dark eyes turned slightly under his eyelashes and looked at her.

She hesitated, and finally asked: "Why... are you telling me now?"

"Because we are different now," he said.

She was slightly confused and looked up at him.

The bright moon came out in the east, and the sky was dark blue. Before the moonlight, under the night sky, he stared at her deeply. He didn't say a word, but he had already made her clear what he wanted to say.

Yes, it's different.

She remembers hugging his hot body tightly and pressing her face to his neck in the dark; remembering that she had cut his clothes and bandaged him by his naked skin; remembered to stay by his side all night After that, he opened his eyes in a daze, and saw his extremely clear eyes staring at her quietly in the dawn light——

As if he was staring at her now.

And now he let her know the secret, and involved her in a conspiracy around him again. After that, even if it was Xixue, her family's unjust case, she regained her innocence, I am afraid she can only go on side by side with him, and can never leave him again.

Because everything is different.

She is different from him.

"Kui...Brother Wang! Brother Yang!"

When they walked to the entrance of the inn, a hurried voice suddenly sounded, interrupting the silence between the two of them.

Huang Zixian turned his head and looked. Zhou Ziqin held a small bottle in his hand and rushed towards them. The expressions on his face were triumphant, elated, and panicked. They were mixed together and looked strange.

She couldn't help asking: "Is it tested so soon?"

"Yeah, because I never expected..." He said here, turning his eyes, looking around, and then mysteriously pulling them inside, "This is not right, hurry up, I Let me show you!"

Zhou Ziqin used to hang people's appetites. After closing the doors and windows, he had to carefully check the crevices next to him. He placed the bottle on the table until he was sure that he was safe, and asked in a low voice, "Do you know what this is?"

Huang Zixian took it and took a look. Inside was a plain bottle of liquid, colorless, tasteless, and water-like.

"Be careful! This is very poisonous!" Zhou Ziqin said quickly.

Huang Zixia asked again: "What is it? Where did it come from?"

"Naturally it came from the lock of hair. Although she drank the poison and died, the gas still reached the tips of her hair. I burned a little bit of hair and dissolved it in water, and after filtering it, I got such a bottle of poison. Zhou Ziqin showed them triumphantly, "But be careful. I placed the head of a chopstick in the water and poisoned a tank of fish."

Huang Zixia couldn't help but mourned for his fish.

Li Shubai frowned slightly, took the small bottle over, and after looking at it for a long time, he asked thoughtfully, "Poisonous?"

"Yeah! It's the poisonous poison!" Zhou Ziqin felt uncontrollable joy, but couldn't speak loudly, and it was almost suffocating him. Poison!"

"That's a rumor." Li Shubai said faintly, "There is no bird in the world. It's just that after being killed by this kind of poison, the body and skin of the deceased will be very poisonous. After the bird is poisoned, the feathers will also be poisonous. Hold it. The hair or feathers of the deceased can be made highly poisonous again, so this is the reason."

Zhou Ziqin stuck out his tongue and said, "This is highly poisonous. Fortunately, the world does not know what the formula is, otherwise the world is in chaos?"

Li Shubai nodded and said: "This poison is found in the palace. It was originally made by the previous dynasty. It is said to be mainly made of arsenic, with aconitum, acacia, guttata, gelatin, and throat as a supplement. After the death of Emperor Yang of Sui, Yu Wenhua and his residence in Yangzhou, later passed on to Emperor Taizong. Taizong was too poisonous, so he burned the formula and left only a small bottle of medicine. It’s almost gone today."

"No, since after it poisons a person, that person's body, hair and skin become poison, wouldn't you get another bottle if you made that person's hair into medicine?"

Li Shubai shook his head and said: "Although poisonous poison is powerful, it will gradually be lost during use. When the poisonous poison is used for the first time after it is made, it will work on the lips, and it will never survive. The second poisonous poison from the blood of the deceased killed by the poison or the hair of the second poisonous poison will have a slower attack. It may not happen until one or two hours after taking it, but once it happens, it will cause the other person to die in a moment, or even possibly There is no chance to even call for help or respond. And although the poison from the dead is still highly toxic, it is slow to take effect. The painful struggle of the dead may take several hours, and the poison can no longer be extracted from the dead. It’s no different from ordinary poison."

Zhou Ziqin asked again: "So, is the method of death of poisonous poison very similar to that of arsenic?"

"Naturally, after all, it is the main one, and the others are auxiliary. But the toxicity is not the same. It is usually fine to take a small amount of arsenic by mistake, but a drop of poison is enough to kill a hundred people." Li Shubai said, and looked at the bottle again. The poison extracted by Zhou Ziqin said, "It seems that Fu Xinruan and Wen Yang died under the poison of the second extraction."

Huang Zixian asked: "Now our question is that a woman of music who lives in Sichuan and Sichuan died of love with a lover who had not been an official, why did she use only poison from the palace?"

"Furthermore, according to Prince Kui, poisonous poison is now even a rare thing in the palace. Where did they get it?" Zhou Ziqin's eyes brightened, staring at Huang Zixian brightly." Chonggu! Maybe this time, we have encountered another terrifying mystery!"

Huang Zixia nodded silently and said, "Well, it seems...There must be other truth behind that we haven't noticed."

After sending away Zhou Ziqin who was so excited by the big case, Huang Zixia also got up to say goodbye to Li Shubai.

As she walked to the door, she looked at the hollyhocks swaying in front of her eyes. The gorgeous colors under the moonlight suddenly fascinated her eyes. She stood in front of the flowers in a trance for a long time, and suddenly thought of something, her heart felt cold and her face was cold. Suddenly pale.

At the end of summer, the night breeze gradually felt cool. Li Shubai stood behind her and saw her body suddenly tremble slightly. He asked in a low voice: "What's the matter?"

She slowly turned her head to look at him, her mouth opened, but she didn't speak.

Li Shubai saw someone coming and going in the courtyard of the inn, so he took her hand, pulled her into the house, closed the door, and asked, "What did you think of?"

"My parents, and brother...grandmother..." Her lips trembled and there was almost no sound.

Li Shubai naturally understood, and whispered in her ear: "Do you suspect that your parents also died under the poison?"

She bit her lower lip severely, forcing herself to wake up a little bit. She grasped the corner of the table with too much force, and even her joints turned white and purple: "Yes...I think, please confirm..."

"You drink saliva first." Li Shubai poured her a cup of tea, stood in front of her, stared at her unblinkingly and asked, "Are you really, want to confirm?"

She looked up at him, those eyes were gradually covered with tears under the light, and when the light was illuminated, her eyes were blank but trance, as crystal clear.

She bit her lower lip, nodded, and said, "Yes."

He didn't say anything anymore, raised his hand and pressed it lightly on her shoulder, then hurried out of the inn and ran to the entrance of the alley.

Far away in the moonlight, Zhou Ziqin didn't ride a horse, but was leading him bounced towards the county guard mansion. The three-step-one-hop, five-step and one-hop look, for fear that others would not know the joy in his heart.

He shouted from behind: "Zhou Ziqin!"

In the dead of night, on the empty road, Zhou Ziqin heard the voice and quickly ran back with Xiao Xia: "Brother Wang! Is there anything else?"

Li Shubai whispered: "Let's go out for a walk."

Zhou Ziqin was immediately excited: "Great, I also call Chonggu, I will take you to eat the most delicious fish in Shu County! The peppercorns are so fragrant..."

"She's not going." Li Shubai said.

Zhou Ziqin said "Huh" and asked, "Then where shall we go...?"

"Digging the grave."

Zhou Ziqin was surprised and delighted: "I like this! I and Chonggu cooperate very well! We are definitely two masters of grave digging and corpse digging, and the coordination is perfect..."

"Be quiet." Li Shubai reminded him.

Zhou Ziqin hurriedly covered his mouth.

Li Shubai said again: "She was tired a few days ago and has to rest tonight."

"At such a stimulating moment, he actually chose to take a rest... I really don't have the ethics of being a detective." Zhou Ziqin pouted, and then remembered something, and quickly asked, "The prince is seriously injured and healed, this kind of thing... Let me do it alone, and make sure to do it meticulously and flawlessly!"

Li Shubai looked at the deep night. All the roads in Chengdu Mansion were paved with bluestone. They were worn down with age, and the moon was shrouded in it, reflecting a slightly cold light.

He slowly said: "This may be the first evidence in her favor in this case. I can't help but go."

Zhou Ziqin was a little surprised, and asked, "She? Which one?"

Li Shubai did not speak, but only asked, "Can you get out of the city?"

"This is absolutely no problem. Although I have been here not long ago, everyone at the gate of the city is my buddy. I will go out to investigate the case at night and promise to open the door for us." He said, and quietly approached Li Shubai's ear and asked softly. "Where to dig?"

Li Shubai turned his head and looked at the mountain outside the city, his eyes reflecting the moonlight, cold and quiet.

He said: "On the tomb of Huang Shijun's family."