The Golden Hairpin

Against the ridicule of the whole street, Zhou Ziqin finally followed them to the inn and ran to the backyard to take a look. There was a casserole on a small stove. Zhang Xingying was sitting on a small bench, while gently fanning the fire, he opened the lid to face inside. Look at the decoction.

"Second Brother Zhang!" Zhou Ziqin yelled suddenly, rushing in almost without knocking the medicine furnace into the air, "Didn't you go to Hanzhou? Why are you here?"

Zhang Xingying was taken aback by him, so he hurriedly protected the casserole and said, "Be careful, and it will be better if you boil it for a while."

"What's the matter? Are you sick? Injured?"

Huang Zixia saw Zhang Xingying stammering and couldn't tell the ins and outs of the matter, so he said afterwards: "He and his friends were in danger on the road, so I brought him back first."

"What kind of friend? Brother Zhang seems to be on the road alone." Zhou Ziqin said, looking inside the house, and was shocked, "Jing Yu?"

"Master Zhou." Jing Yu lay on the bed, turned his head and smiled reluctantly at him, and said, "Oh, no, it's Zhou catching his head."

"Are you out of danger too? Why are you staying here?"

"I... of course it's better to stay with the prince." Jing Yu looked at Li Shubai and whispered: "It's just... now in this situation, I'm afraid it will drag the prince..."

"Don't say such a thing." Li Shubai interrupted him, "Heal his sorrow with peace of mind."

Jing Yu nodded with difficulty and gratitude. Zhang Xingying came in with a bowl of medicine outside and said, "When I was in Duanruitang, I learned to decoct medicine. The heat of this bowl of medicine should be about the same now. Drink it while it's hot."

Li Shubai took the medicine and sat down on Jing Yu's bed in person, blowing the medicine down.

Jing Yu leaned on the pillow and sat up quickly, lowered his head to take the medicine, not daring to let him feed himself the medicine. Zhou Ziqin sat down next to him and watched Jing Yu drink the medicine.

Huang Zixian pulled out the hosta from his head, sat at the table and drew carelessly, thinking about the clues he found today.

The sky is getting darker, and the evening light converges. Everyone ate together in the store, Zhou Ziqin was reluctant to leave, and talked about it until almost midnight.

Huang Zixian was helpless in the end, pulling up Zhou Ziqin and said: "You should let Father Yu rest early, don't disturb him."

"I'm not leaving, I'll sleep well here, lest I go back so late and come back early in the morning, so tired." Zhou Ziqin said, looking at her with bright eyes, "Chonggu, in your room Is the bed big? Take me in for the night, right?"

Huang Zixian's back was cold, and he was about to refuse, but Li Shubai's voice came from behind: "Not too big."

She hurriedly bowed her head and saluted Li Shubai.

Zhou Ziqin said frustratedly: "Well, I'll go to open a house."

"Remember to help us settle the room money from the previous few days." Huang Zixia hurriedly yelled at his back. This is of course, the money seized from the captives will almost be spent, so let Zhou Ziqin take it out.

After all, Zhou Ziqin settled down, and several people were quiet and rested.

In my sleep, I suddenly heard loud exclamations outside.

When Huang Zixian was startled, he just glanced at the fire on the window, and Li Shubai had knocked on the door outside: "It's on fire."

She immediately got up and put on her clothes, because she had to tie her breasts, which inevitably took a while. When she went out, Zhou Ziqin had already staggered over: "It's incredible, it's incredible!"

Li Shubai and Huang Zixia ignored him, and rushed to Jing Yu's room first.

There was already a strong smell of smoke in the air. Zhang Xingying was already in Jingyu's room, and the people in the inn store had already swarmed, all rushing to the small patio.

"This fire... this fire started too violently!"

I saw that there was already a big fire in front of the inn, and black smoke billowed into Jing Yu's room.

When Li Shubai and Huang Zixia were strolling around the night market in Chengdu Mansion, they talked about the best way for each other to start fire the inn. However, they have also observed this inn. When it catches fire, it is very easy to escape. Assassinations are to be carried out here, unless-

Huang Zixia immediately stood up and lifted the stool to hit the window. The window lattice fell in response, and they saw that there was already a raging fire outside the window, and all the courtyards, front and rear, left and right, caught fire almost at the same moment, and they were surrounded by the raging fire.

The other party actually ignited all the surrounding buildings in order to kill them, even the whole city was turned into scorched earth.

In the raging fire on all sides, they were trapped in the only place that hadn't been burned, but thick smoke surrounded them. It was already a Jedi, and it was almost impossible to escape.

Li Shubai frowned slightly and motioned to Zhang Xingying to lift up Jing Yu and said, "Let's go."

Before the words fell, there was an exclamation outside. It turned out that an old building next door that had been in disrepair had collapsed with a crash. Those burning beams and pillars were all smashed into the inn courtyard, and all the people who escaped from the front store were crowded here. At this moment, several people were smashed and screamed loudly.

The inn was in a cold alley, surrounded by abandoned old buildings. At this time, the surrounding buildings were all burning, flames seemed to be pressed down from all sides, and black smoke billowed over the inn in the middle.

Many people in the courtyard have been choked into coughing violently, and even old and weak women and children have been fainted to the ground.

Li Shubai directly tore off the quilt on the bed, Huang Zixian did not wait for him to speak, soaked the cloth with tea, and gave each person a piece.

They covered their faces with a damp cloth and left the room together. The fire is critical, and more critical than the fire is the billowing smoke.

"Smoke is going up, bend down and lower, it can be better underneath." Huang Zixia leaned down and led them to the door.

It was so smoky that everyone couldn't open their eyes. They closed their eyes and walked along the wall, but the wall was so hot that they couldn't fumble, they could only crawl around in the darkness.

"Oh..." Zhou Ziqin tripped over a body on the ground, got up with his hands and feet together. He didn't know whether the opponent was dead or alive. He hurriedly touched the place where he tripped him and said, "I'm sorry. sorry."

Huang Zixian also reminded him, but he felt a sharp pain in his throat with one mouth, and even his brain began to dizzy. When she weakened her knees, she was about to fall to the ground. Fortunately, someone grabbed her arm and held her back.

"I'll take you away." She heard Li Shubai's voice, close at hand in the chaos and darkness, which made her feel relieved suddenly. She covered her eyes, mouth and nose with a damp cloth, she didn't need to look at anything, she didn't need to think about anything, as long as he took him with him, he could keep walking.

It seems that behind him is the safest place for himself.

Li Shubai stopped suddenly. The front is the end of the courtyard wall, his sense of direction is very good, and he has successfully found the back door.

Zhang Xingying raised his foot and was about to kick the door, but Li Shubai grabbed his shoulder and whispered: "There are people outside."

The moon was black and the wind was high, and the fire burned not far from them, beeping and peeling. There was a fire on three sides, and outside the only exit left, there was a dead silence.

Zhang Xingying listened attentively, and said in amazement: "No...no human voice?"

"Such a big fire, the only exit, how can no one come around?" Li Shubai's voice also began to fluctuate slightly, "but now outside, there is no voice at all."

"Someone is guarding this door outside?" Zhou Ziqin couldn't help blurting out, "Could it be that as soon as we rush out, all arrows will be fired?"

"This is inside Chengdu Mansion, and there is no shelter outside. It is impossible to lay ambush many archers. But-if someone lays in ambush outside, they will be beheaded if they rush out."

There was cold sweat coming out of everyone's back.

At this moment, the people behind had already begun to rush over here, and someone shouted: "The door is there! Run away..."

In the chaos, the crowded crowd was in chaos. Amidst the hustle and bustle, there was a sudden bang, and the flames were everywhere—

The decayed pavilion next to it collapsed. The crowd behind was suddenly crowded and trampled. The people who fell down, injured, burned, and scalded, screamed and screamed endlessly.

Only the five of them were besieged in the fire. The scorching fire had surrounded them all, their clothes and hair were scorched, and the only way to survive was the front door. The walls on both sides were burning hot, and the trees next to them were burning, and the situation was critical.

Amidst the billowing smoke, when the smoke suddenly gathered and dispersed, Huang Zixian looked up and saw the female wall in front. Someone was peeping here and waving to the bottom.

She turned her head and said to Li Shubai: "They have already found us and are waiting for us to join the net!"

Li Shubai nodded slightly, and cast his eyes to the door again.

Jing Yu, who was supported by Zhang Xingying, had been clutching his mouth and nose and staggering after them. At this time, he suddenly took off the wet cloth, let go of Zhang Xingying and walked to the door, saying, "The prince...the servants will say goodbye."

Zhang Xingying was stunned, and subconsciously asked: "Where are you going?"

"As long as I go out, I won't be surrounded." He said hoarsely.

Li Shubai sternly said behind him: "Jing Yu, don't mess around!"

Jing Yu only looked back at him, a hasty smile appeared on his face, and then turned and banged against the door.

The door leaf that had been burnt through the fire immediately fell down along with the lock on the door, and he fell heavily on the bluestone slab outside with the door.

As soon as he landed, several blade lights pierced his fallen body.

Sure enough, as they expected, there was an ambush outside.

Just as the sword was added to his body, Jing Yu ignored it and shouted. In a dark night, this sharp whistle pierced through the thick smoke and chaotic voices, causing a wave of fluctuations around it.

The people behind him rushed out with the smoke. Those people only had time to attack Jing Yu who came out first. Li Shubai, Zhang Xingying, and Zhou Ziqin had all leaped out, avoiding the first wave of sharp edges, and then they were in the smoke billowing. , Won the weapon.

Several people hid their bodies with the help of thick smoke and darkness, and quickly bullied into the opponent's formation, brandishing knives and hacking.

Li Shubai blocked the offensive, Huang Zixia quickly dragged Jing Yu up and helped him to the entrance of the outer alley. The people guarding the alley wanted to come up and stop him, but Li Shubai directly killed him.

The fire became stronger, and the stars in the sky lost their light and looked dimmed in the shadow of the fire.

In the fierce flames, she saw several people around her quickly bullying and directly rushing into the group of assassins.

Is the elite of the Royal Army. In the few days she visited the case, they had already assembled in Chengdu Mansion and quickly gathered to Li Shubai's side. Jing Yu's whistle just pointed out for them the location of King Kui in the fire scene, and now there is no need to worry about everything.

She lowered her head and handed everything over to Li Shubai, only dragging Jing Yu away from the flame and fighting as far as possible so as not to be affected.

Someone outside the alley yelled: "Someone ran out here, put out the fire!"

The nearby people ran up with buckets. The ambushers had already lost the opportunity to kill King Kui in the fire. Now seeing the situation is not good, they can only leave a few corpses and turn around and run.

Li Shubai signaled them not to chase, just let the dark guards do it. After all, a few people are exhausted and suddenly out of trouble, how can they have the energy to wipe out these people.

They gathered around Jing Yu and saw that the wound he had already stopped was cracking again, and when he rushed out of the door, he had drawn several knives. At this time, the whole body was dripping with blood, and there was no hope of alive anymore.

Huang Zixia hurriedly handed him over to Zhang Xingying and said, "Hurry up, I'll run to call the doctor..."

She ran for two steps and heard Li Shubai whisper to her again: "No need."

She was stunned, then looked back at Jing Yu. He held Zhang Xingying's hand, looked at Li Shubai, and said in a low voice: "From now on, the lord's side...for the time being...maybe no one is waiting..."

Although many of the guards who were scattered on the mountain path have returned, Jing Yi and Jingyou have been separated and never returned. After all, there is no one close by Li Shubai to wait for them.

Zhang Xingying shook his hand, tears welled up in his eyes, and whispered: "I...I will be there."

Jing Yu turned his gaze to his face, smiled hard, and said: "You got expelled boy...can't you..."

Li Shubai walked to him, knelt down and watched him, and said softly: "Don't worry about me, you can go with peace of mind."

Jing Yu only held Zhang Xingying's hand, the pupils that had begun to collapse, turned to Li Shubai, and then to Zhang Xingying.

Huang Zixian and Zhou Ziqin hugged Jing Yu quickly.

Zhang Xingying's eyes were moist, and he bowed in front of Li Shubai.

Jing Yu's eyes kept looking at Li Shubai, his lips moaned, but he didn't say anything.

Li Shubai hesitated for a moment, raised his hand to support Zhang Xingying, and said: "You were also a member of my honor guard before, and now you come back to me again, it's a beginning and an end."

Zhang Xingying looked up at him, the layer of water vapor in his eyes finally turned into tears, and he trembled and said, "Thank you...Lord!"

There was a touch of relief on Jing Yu's face. He seemed to want to smile, but the smile just appeared, and then it distorted and dissipated.

The nearby door and wall collapsed, and the burned, fallen, and trampled people rushed out of it. Amidst the howls of ghosts and wolves, Jing Yu's hand fell silently.

Li Shubai took his hand and put it back in Zhang Xingying's arms.

Huang Zixia saw his tight lips and slightly trembling eyelashes. She stretched out her hand silently, gently covering the back of his hand.