The Golden Hairpin

Tang Zhuniang lost her husband in her early years, and now only her nephew and two or three neighbors have been found.

A neighbor was a neatly packed skinny monkey with a gold ring on his hand. He smiled ugly: "The villain is Lizheng in Songhua. Tang Zhuniang was originally from Chengdu. She was 17 years old. Married to Hanzhou. My mother-in-law and her grew up together. She said that her husband died early and life was very difficult. She had to work part-time in five gangs to earn some money. Later, the lady Fu spoke out and said to find someone Waiting, I said to my mother-in-law, that lady looks good, she should be easy to serve, she has a lot of monthly money, and there are few things. You can ask Tang Zhuniang, if you want to go, I will introduce you."

"So, Tang Zhuniang was introduced to Fu Xinruan by you?"

"Exactly. But I didn't expect it to be a year later, why something happened... Well, my wife and I are also regretful about this. Everyone said that there was a problem with the house, and even the two of them died. Now, Even Tang Zhuniang died outside. Isn't this wicked!"

Huang Zixia looked at the people behind him again. The woman was short, fat and rich, drooping her head and pulling the handkerchief in her hand. "This is your family?"

The thin man nodded quickly: "My mother-in-law, Tang Zhuniang is her former neighbor."

Huang Zixia asked her: "Tang Zhuniang works as a servant girl over there. Have you mentioned anything to you?"

The woman was obviously frightened by Tang Zhuniang's body. She wiped her eyes with her handkerchief and her voice was not smooth: "No, she often comes to see us with something during New Years and holidays, saying thank you for introducing us. Such a good place. It is said that...it is said that Lady Fu has a very mild temperament, and Tang Zhuniang is counted as a portion for all her food and clothing, she never deducts money, and there is nothing to do at home, just daily cleaning and three meals a day. "

"Have she ever mentioned that the guests of Fu Niangzi's house come and go?"

"No...At that time, Niang Fu asked us to find someone, so she said she must have a strict mouth. Presumably Zhu Niang was also her admonishment, so she never said this. Besides... let's talk about her as a happy girl, who is going with us at home, and what about us Is it good to ask?"

Huang Zixia sent the couple away and asked the next one.

This was a middle-aged woman with a sallow complexion, wearing a blue cloth apron, a hairpin on her head, and a dusty silver hairpin inserted. Obviously she rarely sees such a scene. She is so embarrassed that she doesn't know where to put it: "I...I am from Tianjia Alley, Hanzhou, living in Zhuniang diagonally opposite the door. She married there when she was seventeen. We are about the same age and live close to each other. Counting it all up, I have to call Lady Zhu's sister-in-law."

"Did Mother Zhu go back to Tianjia Alley recently? What did you say to you?"

"She came back a month ago, and she was beaming and said that the lady she was serving was about to get married. I casually said that kind of person can marry a serious person, but she said it was the best marriage. Although the other party had been married once, she had no children. There is no woman, the person is young, and the family background is good. It is really a blessing for a lady to marry him in a previous life."

"Did she mention the other person's situation?"

"No... Who is Zhu Niang serving, me, what do I care about her? And we didn't say a few words, Zhu Niang's maiden nephew came over, I rushed home to cook, but I didn't think... this is Mother Zhu, I'm the last one..."

Seeing that she couldn't speak smoothly in a panic, Zhou Ziqin motioned her to go down first and let Tang Zhuniang's nephew come over.

Tang Zhuniang’s nephew was named Tang Sheng, who was in her early twenties, and she looked like an idiot. The smile on her face was like facial cramps, how disgusting it looked.

"My aunt? That's right, I met her a month ago and told her that I was going to get married and asked her to give me more money. In the end, she only touched me two thousand dollars, tut..." Tang Sheng Shaking her purse in her hand, she looked contemptuous, "It doesn't sound good to be a servant in a serious house, and now she is still serving a prostitute from Yangzhou, and she's embarrassed! If it weren't for the fact that she said she wanted to give me unsuccessful For the sake of my daughter-in-law playing a pair of silver hairpins, I don't want to meet her."

Huang Zixia asked: "What is going on with a pair of silver hairpins?"

"Just yesterday, didn't the prostitute she was with died? When she packed her things and went out, I was going home. I just met at the entrance of the alley-my house is right next to Shuangxi Alley."

Huang Zixia nodded, knowing that it was Tang Zhuniang's family.

"She saw me, so she stopped me, took something from her package, and said that there was something for me. I still wondered why it was a good thing, so I stopped and waited. As a result, she took it for a long time and I I saw that she took out half of her purse and stuffed it back, saying, I’d better take it to Hanzhou first and give your daughter-in-law a pair of silver hairpins. I thought it was true. Thinking, isn’t this telling me? There are hundreds of silversmith shops in Chengdu Prefecture. Why does she go to Hanzhou to fight when she has the money? She made it clear that she was reluctant to coax me."

Huang Zixia stopped writing, read what she had written down again, and asked, "What your aunt Tang Zhuniang said at the time was, ‘I’ll take it to Hanzhou and give you a pair of silver hairpins for your unexperienced daughter-in-law’?"

"Yes, that's right." Tang Sheng nodded. "After I came back, I thought about it hundreds of times, and it was correct for a word! The more I chewed, the more fake it became."

Huang Zixia nodded and asked, "Did your aunt usually talk to you? For example, the people that Lady Fu associates with, her daily life, etc.?"

"No, she has been married for decades, and when she goes back to her family's house, she just sees my grandmother. Now my grandmother is old, like a clay sculpture and wood sculpture, and she can't hear anything. She also stuffs her grandmother a little money every month. Other than that, what are you doing home?"

Tang Zhuniang didn't seem to be doing very well. The other relatives didn't even recognize the body, so my nephew looked at the body carelessly and said, "It's probably so. Hey, is there no one in her husband's house? Why do you want us Do you collect the corpse in your family?"

"If there is someone in her husband's house, let alone anything else, the house would have been taken away long ago. How about waiting for the present?" Zhou Ziqin said.

Tang Sheng's eyes lit up and he asked, "No one has taken the property?"

Huang Zixian said blankly: "If you have no children and no daughters, if your nephew does the funeral for her, you can inherit the property."

Tang Sheng said immediately: "She is my aunt, and as her nephew, it is incumbent to organize a funeral for her!"

"Well, you prepare the coffin and choose a good cemetery. After going out of the funeral and burial, go to the yamen to get the title deed."

After sending Tang Sheng out, Zhou Ziqin asked Huang Zixia: "Do I have such a law?"

"No." Huang Zixia shook her head, "but did you see that, as soon as you heard that there was still a real estate, "My Aunt" became "Auntie"."

Zhou Ziqin said depressed: "Think of a way to get him to play the best."

"Come on, a broken house in a small alley in Hanzhou. After removing the funeral expenses, it will probably be worth a pair of silver hairpins." Huang Zixia said, reading what everyone said today.

Zhou Ziqin was already impatient, and asked, "Are you free now? Tell me quickly, how is Brother Zhang?"

"Don't worry, don't you know if you just take you to see it?" Huang Zixia said, tidying up the files written in her hands, and closing them.

Li Shubai stretched out his hand and took it over at this moment, and opened it to look at her words carefully.

It is a familiar character, small letters with hairpins, beautiful and beautiful, but because he is always eager for speed, there is a hasty writing and ending when he writes.

Li Shubai frowned slightly, and when his eyes scanned the handwriting, he could not help revealing a sense of coldness.

Huang Zixian asked in a low voice: "What?"

He handed the file to her and said in a low voice: "Caring is messy. If your relatives are involved, you won't be able to stay calm."

Huang Zixian frowned, opened his notebook and looked at it again.

And Zhou Ziqin was already there and asked: "What? Whose relatives are involved in this case? Isn't that Tang Sheng's?"

Li Shubai nodded, and said casually: "Exactly."

Huang Zi Xia was still looking at what she had written, suppressing her shock, but she couldn't believe it in her eyes, and it finally leaked out.

She slowed down.

Li Shubai looked back at her, stopped for a moment, and finally walked to her side, patted her on the shoulder lightly, and whispered: "When you arrive at the prefecture, you will have another pair."

She nodded reluctantly, closing the booklet in her hand as if evading.

When a few people walked out of the Yizhuang, the dirty and thin ugly dog ​​at the door lifted up and barked at them when he jumped up.

Huang Zixia looked at the sky, then at the dog, a little surprised.

Li Shubai whispered in her ear: "I didn't expect it, you might also expect something wrong."

Huang Zixia gave him a white look and said, "I said, I just raise a dog to help me investigate the case, that's all!"

Several catchers rode horses and led an ugly dog ​​to swagger across the city. People looked sideways. Some people looked at the dog and snickered secretly. Others laughed at Zhou Ziqin: "Zhou Shao catches his head, this What's wrong with the dog? You want to be arrested by a group of you and parade around the street?"

"Cut, catch my head and raise a fine dog to help solve the case. What winks are you?"

"It turns out that the fine dog that catches the head looks exactly like a native dog?"

"Hahaha... Looking at the mud all over the body, can you see the real face? Maybe it's really a fine dog after washing it?"

"If this is a fine dog, I will swallow the whole dog alive!"

At the corner of the street, the second girl was selling mutton, and when she saw the dog, she lost a small rib. The ugly dog ​​was overwhelmed with joy and rushed directly, and Zhou Ziqin, who was holding it, almost didn't overturn it. A few staggers were dragged by it to the mutton case, and he couldn't stop his feet, and suddenly slammed into the meat case. , The whole person knelt down.

The second girl was holding a cleaver in her hand and looked at him amusedly: "Shao Zhou is catching his head, why do you need to give such a big gift?"

Zhou Ziqin held his sore nose, tears almost fell: "Second girl, didn't you tell you earlier, don't you want to sell lamb on the street? Anyway...Don't be so close to the center of the road anyway!"

The second girl didn't change her face, pulled up the wheelbarrow and moved two or three feet to the side of the road, and then asked mockingly: "Even if I avoid this side, won't you fall in front of me?"

Zhou Ziqin said with a bitter face, "At least... I won't kneel under your pomegranate skirt so affectionately."

The second girl pulled at the corners of her shabby skirt, rolled his eyes, grabbed a larger bone and threw it in front: "Go!"

The ugly dog ​​was immediately overwhelmed with joy, and rushed forward madly. Zhou Ziqin, who had been lying on the ground, was dragged by it. He slid down on the street for a full two feet before finally hugged a tree. It stopped running wildly.

Amidst the laughter of the people in the street, Zhou Ziqin angrily untied the dog leash in his hand, touched his worn elbows and knees, rushed to the second girl, and slapped the meat case fiercely: "You!"

The second girl copied the cleaver and looked at him indifferently: "Me?"

Zhou Ziqin looked at the knife, and then at the fair complexion of the second girl's fair skin, her mouth opened, and then she raised her hand uneasily, and took a step back: "I...I just want to say that in the future you sell mutton, just put it. It’s great here, it won’t block pedestrians, carriages and horses."