The Golden Hairpin

When the banquet was over, Huang Zixian deliberately fell to the end and asked Zhang Xingying, "Second Brother Zhang, I think you have been silent all the time, with a sad face. Are you worrying about anything?"

Zhang Xingying quickly said: "No, I just...I just thought of Father Yu's death, and wondered when those assassins would come to assassinate..."

"Don't worry, the prince won't let the assassins take advantage of it anymore." Huang Zixia comforted him, "If he can't cope with this, he won't be King Kui."

Zhang Xingying nodded silently, his expression relaxed a little: "Then... Then I'm relieved."

Huang Zixia watched him stand outside Li Shubai's door, and put on a posture ready to guard the whole night, and couldn't help but feel helpless: "Don't you say you are relieved?"

"Uh... don't worry."

Huang Zixia couldn't help being angry and funny, so she knocked on the door and asked Li Shubai: "Master, do you think the assassins will come tonight?"

Inside Li Shubai's voice came faintly: "Every time the other party organizes an assassination, they strive to kill me with one blow. Now I suddenly switch to this side. How could they start without planning."

Huang Zixian looked at Zhang Xingying confidently: "So, the most dangerous place is the safest place, and the most dangerous moment is also the safest. If you believe us, go back to sleep."

With the sound of footsteps inside, Li Shubai got up and opened the door.

"Now the guards by my side have disappeared and are in danger, but you are willing to choose to follow me at this time. It is Luyao who knows the horsepower." Li Shubai patted him on the shoulder and said, "Tonight you go and rest. I still need your help."

Zhang Xingying was frightened: "The subordinates will definitely go all out, after death!"

"It's not that serious." Li Shubai said lightly, "It's just a few fire-fighting moths."

I went to bed early in the morning and got up late in the morning, and I was really at ease. She was so calm that Huang Zixia opened her eyes and thought about it before remembering where she was.

Outside the window, the bamboo forest is cool, and the stream is gurgling. She got up and opened the window to see Li Shubai moving his muscles and bones in the bamboo forest.

She leaned against the window, with her right hand in front of her lips, blocking her slight cough-the fire yesterday made her chest dry and slightly painful: "Is healed?"

He stopped and looked at her: "Yeah."

"What do you want to eat at noon? I'll get you some first."

"You like it."

"It's good not to be picky about eating." She said, and at a glance she saw Zhang Xingying who was standing at the edge of the forest staring at them dumbfounded.

She remembered that she had spoken impolitely with Li Shubai just now, and realized that her face was slightly red, and then she asked him, "Second Brother Zhang, what do you want to eat?"

"I, I, I... I can do everything you want."

Several people ate the same breakfast, Zhou Ziqin came over with sleepy eyes: "Morning..."

Huang Zixia asked: "You didn't go back this morning?"

"Nonsense, go home early in the morning, I must have scolded again when my father found out. Just say I'm going to investigate the case outside." He said, clutching his head and thinking hard, "Oh, I slept so well. My mind seems to be blank-what are we going to do today? It seems that there are a lot of important things to do, but it seems like there is nothing?"

Huang Zixian reminded him: "Jiedu envoy General Fan is going to your house, so you have to help Aunt Gongsun prepare something."

Zhou Ziqin hurriedly touched his body, and he was relieved when he touched the piece of paper.

"Okay, go and prepare things." Huang Zixia stood up.

Zhou Ziqin asked quickly: "Where are you going?"

"Go to the street, go shopping."

The streets and alleys of Chengdu Mansion are still lively and bustling.

Li Shubai accompanied Huang Zixia through the streets and alleys to a pawnshop. The shopkeeper sat behind the high counter, raised his eyes and glanced at them, and asked, "What do you want to be?"

Huang Zixia asked him: "The shopkeeper, do you also have a branch in Longzhou?"

"Yes. But we can't control the Longzhou store."

Huang Zixian took out the sign that Zhou Ziqin had brought and knocked twice on the counter: "The government is investigating the case."

The shopkeeper glanced at it, and then he hurried out of the counter and invited them to the back to make tea and snacks: "I don't know how many people want to check... what is it?"

Huang Zixia understood what he looked like, and said, "Treasurer, please don't worry, there hasn't been a major incident recently, and it's not here to investigate the stolen goods."

The shopkeeper was obviously relieved, sat down beside them, and asked, "I don't know what happened to the three?"

"We are looking for something, it should be a job at your branch in Longzhou. As far as I know, it will be delivered to your head office after the date has passed and no one has redeemed it. And sell it, right?"

The shopkeeper nodded and said: "Exactly."

"I want to find a white jade bracelet from Pisces. The two fish bite each other's tails, and the middle is hollowed out. The shape is very unique. The shopkeeper will definitely remember it as long as he looks at it."

"Oh, I remember! There is indeed such a jade bracelet, which was delivered by the store in Longzhou after the redemption period in April this year."

"So, where is it now?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly flipped through the ledger, and then took it to them to see: "This bracelet has been sold, and it will be delivered soon. The buyer...has not left a name."

I saw the words "Pisces jade bracelet, full payment has been paid."

Huang Zixia asked: "Is the person who handled it at that time, is there still?"

"I'll ask." He hurried to the back and called someone to come over and ask. Every one of the shopkeepers shook their heads. Only a clever boy said: "This...the one sent from Longzhou at the time may be someone from Longzhou. I wrote it for help. You see, we didn’t write this word either. It's not guaranteed that someone from Longzhou wrote it."

"Hurry up and ask who was the person who brought the goods from Longzhou, and if he had the bracelet in his hands." The shopkeeper said, turning his head and smiling at them, "Three bad guys, or else, let's hurry up. Send someone to Longzhou to inquire, and you will be able to reply immediately on the matter of the past two days."

Huang Zixia nodded, and wrote him a note again, saying: "When the time comes, you must remember to bring someone to Zhou Shao to catch the head."

"Definitely, definitely! I'll take them as soon as they come!"

When the three of them went out of the pawnshop, Huang Zixia asked Li Shubai: "Where is the prince going next?"

Li Shubai said: "Jiedu Ambassador Mansion. Since the other party forced us to show our deeds, we naturally have to seize the opportunity to make trouble."

"Okay." Huang Zixia responded without hesitation, "but I have to wait. I guess the son of General Fan hasn't gotten up yet at this moment."

Zhang Xingying's face turned green as he listened to them: "Pick and provoke trouble?"

"Let's go." Huang Zixia smiled, "How can it be fun to find someone to help?"

Li Shubai gave her an admiring look and asked: "Are you sure that the two people who molested Aunt Gongsun in the inn a few days ago and were beaten to the ground by Zhang Xingying were the people next to Fan Yuanlong?"

"Yes. I used to train them." Huang Zixia said, feeling that Huo Liao's chest was still dry yesterday, so she had to cough and cough twice before turning around and walking towards Yunlai Inn. "Anyway, it's still early, let's take a look. Is Aunt Gongsun still in the inn? Ask her to do me a favor."

Before they reached the entrance of the inn, in a fruit shop on the street, they saw Gongsunyu and Yin Luyi who were buying sweets at a glance.

Gongsun Yuanzheng bought two large slabs of caramel. Because of the hot weather, the guy in the store wrapped several layers of glutinous rice paper, then wrapped it in a large piece of white cotton paper, and carried it in his hand.

Huang Zixia greeted them, looked at the candy in her hand in surprise, and asked, "Auntie likes to eat candy so much?"

Gongsun Yuan looked back and saw her with a look of surprise, but soon recovered, and smiled: "I don't like to eat candy. In fact, I have a loss of vitality and blood. I often feel dizzy and dizzy. I’ve eaten up my sugar, so I’m here to buy some."

Huang Zixia heard her talk about the loss of energy and blood, and she couldn't help but remember the bag of snow flake candy that Li Shubai threw to herself at the edge of the mountain. She couldn't help but look at him.

Li Shubai glanced at her, and the corners of her lips raised slightly.

"The weather is hot. Will it break if you can't eat such a two-sided lokum?" Huang Zixia asked again.

Yin Luyi was gentle and silent, only bowed her head in silence.

Gongsun Yuan said on her behalf: "It's okay. Luyi will carve sugar candy into various shapes. She is a trick. Even if she can't eat it, she can use it to practice finger flexibility."

"Oh, is caramelized sugar the same as caramelized tofu? It really tests your fingers." Huang Zixia was very interested.

Yin Luyi lowered her head and hid her mouth, and finally said: "Fortunately, it is more convenient than tofu. I will give you a copy when I'm ready."

When the three of them walked out of the store, they found that Li Shubai had not followed. Huang Zixia quickly turned around to look at him. It turned out that he also weighed a bag of candy and was a few steps behind.

She glanced at this person who didn't like desserts inexplicably, but he didn't change his face, and calmly handed her the bag of sugar in his hand.

She smelled the faint scent of pears, and when she opened it, it turned out that it was a pack of pear paste candy that moistened the throat and cleared the lungs.

She couldn't help feeling a slightly sweet warmth in her chest, as if the pear paste was saccharified on her chest, causing her to cover it involuntarily and cough slightly.

Li Shubai heard the cough and looked at her slightly.

She pretended to see the street scene, took a piece of pear candy and held it in her mouth. When I looked back, I found that Li Shubai had already walked three or four steps away, as if he had never looked back.

They came to the gate of Jiedu Mansion together with Gongsun Yuan and Yin Luyi. They just saw the side door of Jiedu Mansion open and a group of people led the horse out, but it happened that Master Fan came out.

Xichuan Jiedushi Fan Yingxi has two little overlords in his family. One is his nephew Fan Yuanhu, who was picked up by Huang Zixian last year because he did evil. The county guard Huang Min sentenced him to fifty sticks and exiled him for two thousand miles. Fan Yingxi dared not offend the anger, so he could only bear it. The second overlord is Fan Yingxi's biological son, Fan Yuanlong, who is still showing off his power in Chengdu's mansion and bullying men and women.

Gongsun Yuan frowned as soon as he saw the two people behind Fan Yuanlong. Wasn't this the two people who molested her in the inn and were beaten by Zhou Ziqin and Zhang Xingying?

Zhang Xingying also found out, and was stunned.

The two people looked here and said something to Fan Yuanlong. The group of people walked towards them. Zhang Xingying took a step back and found that Li Shubai and Huang Zixia were not far away, so they quickly told them: "Run..."

His behavior fell in Fan Yuanlong's eyes, but it was even worse-"Those two people are also accomplices! Humph, if you don't take the face of people around me, you just don't give me face, beat me!"

The group of people behind him triumphantly rolled up their sleeves and asked: "My son, how far have you been hitting?"

Fan Yuanlong saw Zhang Xingying's appearance that he was always ready to turn around and escape, and he raised the whip in his hand and said, "Break everyone's legs for me!"

"How is the feeling of a broken leg?"

Huang Zixia kicked the beater lying under her feet and asked with a smile.

Seeing everyone around him was beaten to the ground by Li Shubai and Zhang Xingying, only he was standing alone on the spot. Amidst the snickers of the people around, Fan Yuanlong turned and ran, shouting to the people inside the palace: "You Are you dead! The people around me have been beaten like this, and are you still motionless?"

What happened just now was so fast that the group of people broke their legs instead of being broken. The porter and the guards hadn't reacted at all. Hearing him shout like this, they suddenly realized that they picked up the guy at hand and ran towards them.

The group of people watching the excitement behind Huang Zixian suddenly disappeared, and some people ran and shouted: "Hurry up, you are dead!"

Huang Zixia retracted his feet. Before they came to the front, she took out a letter from her arms and shouted, "Emissary of the King's Palace, who dares to move?"