The Golden Hairpin

"If this is the case, how do you explain the painting of'Hydrangea Butterfly' on Fu Xin Ruanxin and the sentence'Send the sweet-scented osmanthus sac before the court'? Do you still remember that there happened to be one in front of the hall in the magistrate's house? An osmanthus tree.” Huang Zixian said here, was silent for a moment, and finally said, “Before, when Jiedu Mansion was invited to buy things at the pawnshop, there was a Pisces bracelet, which was given to someone by the pawnshop without a record. And at that time, not long after he was serving as the judge of Jiedu Mansion in Qi Teng, he would definitely be there-how dare his people beg for the bracelet in front of the chief in front of the pawnshop shopkeeper, and then take it away magnificently? I think the one who can take it away must be It is Judge Qi."

Speaking of the Pisces bracelet, she only felt her heart tremble, and some pain like a blunt knife cutting meat slowly spread across her chest. Her gaze couldn't help but looked at Yu Xuan behind the crowd, and he also looked at her from a distance through the light. In his eyes, there was something extremely vague, profound and dark.

She slowly turned her face away, and then raised her hand to pick up the dark blue purse on the table and said: "The biggest evidence that Qi Teng is Fu Xinruan's lover lies in this purse."

The dark blue old purse was inconspicuous in her hand, and it was even incompatible with the exquisite poems and scrolls around her.

"This purse, we got it from the waste paper basket in Qi Teng's study room, there was nothing in it at the time." As she said, she held the purse and gestured to a person standing behind the crowd, "Tang Sheng, do you remember you that day? When meeting your aunt Tang Zhuniang in Shuangxi Alley, did she take out the purse from her bag?"

Tang Sheng had been standing at the end of the crowd. He was thin and thin and described as wretched, and no one cared about him at all. At this time, Huang Zixia was spotted by Huang Zixia. He suddenly seemed helpless under everyone's eyes: "Ah? This...this purse. ?"

Huang Zixia nodded: "You said that day that your aunt wanted to take the purse from her purse and give it to you, but she stuffed it back again. Is there such a thing?"

"Yeah, I only took half of it and stuffed it back, saying something:'Let's take it to the city to get a pair of silver hairpins.' As a result, people died in the middle of the road. What kind of silver hairpins are not at all. I didn't see it!" Tang Sheng said badly, and took a close look at the purse in her hand, then came out in surprise, and said, "This purse in your hand...it seems to be half of what she took out at the time. What a purse!"

Huang Zixian asked back: "Are you sure? Did you make a mistake?"

"That's right, absolutely! I thought she was giving me a good thing at the time, so I stared at it. I watched it very carefully and I remember it very firmly!"

"Okay, so this purse that appeared in the wastepaper basket of judge Qi is the one that was not seen by Fu Xinruan's servant Tang Zhuniang after her death." Huang Zixia said, turning her eyes to Gongsun Yuan, "Aunt Gongsun once was there. After Fu Xinruan died, she stuffed Tang Zhuniang with money and asked her to take a bracelet for herself. Of course, Judge Qi could also ask Tang Zhuniang to help herself put some things in when Fu's house was closed in the government’s search, for example. , He quietly brought the handwritten script from Wen Yang. At the same time, because Tang Zhuniang is the only person around Fu Xinruan, even if Fu Xinruan stays in the simple, even if the judge Qi is cautious and careful, she can't hide it from others. Tang Zhuniang. Therefore, in order to hide his deeds, judge Qi designed a martyrdom case to cover people's eyes. The first thing he wanted to buy was Tang Zhuniang's tone. After receiving the money from the judge Qi, Tang Zhuniang packed his things and went back to her hometown. Live a stable life, but judge Qi will naturally not allow such a person to survive in the world, so he naturally chose to push her down the cliff on her way back to her hometown, so that she will never suffer from future troubles!"

Fan Yuanlong and Qi Teng had a good friendship at ordinary times. At this time, based on the indisputable facts, he weakly inserted: "Duke Yang, maybe... Did Tang Zhuniang slip and fall to the cliff and die? Or was he met a robber? Woolen cloth?"

"If she fell off the cliff, how could the purse on her body be discarded by judge Qi in the wastebasket? If it was a robber, why was her parcel neat and tidy during the post-mortem examination, and only one purse was missing? And don't forget Mr. Fan, at that time It was the few days when Lord Kui was in distress on the mountain road. The Xichuan Army blocked the entrance and exit. Few people were allowed to enter, and no one was allowed to enter on horseback. On that day, it was almost the moment when Tang Zhuniang fell off the cliff. The second brother Zhang, the guard next to King Kui, was also hit by a rider off the cliff at the edge of the cliff! At that time, most of the Xichuan army who went into the mountain to search for it were on foot. People who can enter inside on horseback, I think, The judge of Xichuan Jiedu Mansion should be one."

Fan Yingxi's face was very ugly, and he quickly confessed to King Kui, and then bowed his hand to Zhang Xingying who was standing behind him.

Zhang Xingying hurriedly returned the gift and did not dare to take it lightly.

"I've been thinking about why the murderer must take this purse away when he killed Tang Zhuniang? Then I thought of what Tang Sheng said, and finally understood it." Huang Zixia looked at Tang Sheng, "At that time, you The aunt stuffed her purse back into her own bag and said,'I should take it to Hanzhou first and give your daughter-in-law who hasn't passed the door a pair of silver hairpins', right?"

Tang Sheng nodded: "Yes, it's not bad at all!"

"First'bring' to Hanzhou,'fighting' a pair of silver hairpins-the judge Qi gave Tang Zhuniang not money, but silver." Huang Zixia said, pointing to this purse, "Little one. It may not be possible to hold half money, but because it is silver, you can stuff one or two ingots. If judge Qi wants to buy Tang Zhuniang, he naturally needs a lot of money. He handles all kinds of affairs in Jiedu Mansion daily, so he can naturally get in touch Ku Yin, it was naturally inconvenient to carry a few coins when buying Tang Zhuniang, so she directly gave Tang Zhuniang silver. However, every silver ingot is engraved with the origin. If he does not take it back, Fu Xinruan’s servant woman will appear on her body. The silver of the Dingjiedu Mansion might be set ablaze, so he must recover it and must not leave it out."

Seeing the conclusive evidence, Qi Teng's crime was irrefutable. Fan Yingxi finally took a sigh of relief and cursed: "Hateful! Annoying! This wolf-hearted thing has been in my house for many years. I didn't know that he was so serious and vicious! The murder and framing are so smoothly done, and the disappearance of the mouth is so understated!"

Zhou Ziqin also looked at the Bisha cupboard where his sister Zhou Ziyan was, sighed, and murmured, "Fortunately, my sister is not married yet."

Everyone just spurned the wicked and took luck for the Zhou family, but it seemed that they had completely forgotten Gongsun Yuan and Yin Luyi. Huang Zixia turned her head and looked at them, seeing that their faces were ashen as dead, but a kind of distorted pleasure was vaguely revealed in fear, she couldn't help but sighed softly in her heart, and said: "Auntie Gongsun, I first thought that Fu Xinruan shouldn't It was love, when she saw her closet—there were countless gorgeous dresses in her closet, but at the end she was wearing a half-old gray-purple dress...I think no matter which woman, she must join hands with her lover to go home. On the road, I always choose to dress up so that I can drink the poison instead of scribbling in such a hurry."

"Yes... A Ruan, she loves bright and bright clothes the most." Gongsun Yuan finally spoke slowly, her voice choked with hoarseness, and her body trembled slightly, completely losing the former sense of gracefulness. She pressed her chest, breathed hard, and finally managed to say what she wanted to say. "A Ruan... she has a personality like a child, unscrupulous and unscrupulous... She can refuse her best destination without hesitation, she refuses the glory and wealth at hand, just because we have never met before, Even she herself has only seen a few people who have never forgotten——Wen Yang...no, Qi Teng, the innocent A Ruan thought he was a soft red and soft hair, who knew he was wrapped around her arm. A venomous snake in the world is usually soft as boneless and wandering close to the skin, but when unprepared, it will show the most poisonous sharp teeth in the world..."

Huang Zixia looked at her in silence, but did not answer. But Zhou Ziqin couldn't help but asked, "It seems that you and Qi Teng have only one chance to meet. Why do you immediately become aware of the truth and retaliate?"

"A Ruan wrote to me and said annoyedly that there were six moles on the back of Wen Yang's left hand, which was quite ugly... So I taught her to use Eclipta prostrata to rub the moles with juice. It will be fine this time, but the Eclipta prostrata will leave black marks on the skin, which is very ugly, and it will take a few days to fade." Gongsun Yuan leaned on the railing and breathed for a long time, her voice still hoarse, her figure Although still trembling slightly, after all, he was calmer. "In Yizhuang, I saw A Ruan’s body and found the traces on her hand. However, I secretly looked at the autopsy file and found that Wen Yang’s hand was not mentioned. There were mouse moles on it. Later, when I was inquiring about the progress of the case at the Shangyamen, I suddenly discovered that the judge Qi, who was about to marry Zhou Junshou’s daughter, had exactly six small scars on the back of his left hand. It seemed, It’s the appearance of the mole just being wiped off. I secretly inquired about Qi Teng’s family background and found that it was exactly the same as A Ruan’s previous letter said, and in the wind and dust, we naturally know that many people will pretend to be other people’s names. Mianhua and Liuliu, so I took a chance and interrogated him directly..."

Speaking of this, Gongsun Yuan was suddenly excited, and his chest was up and down for a long time before he suppressed the frenzied breath, and said fiercely: "He not only admitted, but also laughed at A Ruan, saying that she is an idiot. He has more than a dozen outside. A good friend, she didn't even know, thinking that he would swear in front of her that he would never do the prodigal act again, and then he would be cut off if he really said it, and she didn't even have any suspicion..."

When she said this, she was so excited that her head touched the pillar, her tears drenched, and she choked: "My little sister, A Ruan, she became famous at the age of twelve, and her arranger and choreographer is unparalleled in the world. Musicians have to ask her for advice, calling her "Six Girls" before she can be moved! How could she not notice the strangeness of her lover for a smart person like A Ruan? Everyone knows why she endured all this, and He actually said that she was stupid...this should be a shattered bastard..."

Yin Luyi hugged her arm, pressed her face to her shoulder, closed her eyes and said nothing, only the tears in her eyes quickly seeped out, wet Gongsun Yuan's clothes.

Huang Zixian whispered: "Although I can understand your feelings, there is no reason in this world to kill enemies arbitrarily. The government will help you clear your grievances..."

"Huh...Qi Teng is a member of your government. Even if you find out the truth, will you really pursue him in the end?" Gongsun Yuan said, raising his chin, his face pale, but he said stubbornly and firmly, "Killing." Paying for life, debts and money, is justified! My younger sister was killed by him, so I will be my sister to recover it! Even if I lose my life, what is there to say, Gongsun Yuan lives in the world with a clear conscience , Die without regrets!"

Huang Zixia was speechless, and slowly stepped back behind Li Shubai, saying: "I only expose the truth, and the rest is beyond my ability."

The truth came to light, but everyone didn't say anything.

As the county guard, Zhou Xu coughed and said, "Although Gongsun Yuan killed Judge Qi, but...the Judge Qi had three lives in his hand, and even just to create the illusion of death, he killed the talented Wen Yang, the law. It's hard to forgive."

He was secretly rejoicing that his daughter had not married this wolf-hearted man, so he felt a little sympathetic to Gongsun Yuan.

And Wang Yun knew that Gongsun Yuan was Queen Wang’s eldest sister, and naturally smiled and said, "Aunt Gongsun can be regarded as revenge for her little sister. This passion, heroism and generosity seems to be quite ancient chivalrous style."

The two helped Gongsun Yuan to speak, but Fan Yingxi said angrily: "Since ancient times, murder pays for life, but the government has to come forward to pay for life. If everyone can avenge private vengeance, they can kill privately and wantonly enmity. Then, what is the law? Where is the official power?"

Seeing his awe-inspiring righteousness and full of court laws, everyone around him was speechless. They could only listen to his generous statement: "What's more, Qi Teng is the judge of my mansion. Now he is dead in full view. Isn't it a flagrant ignorance of my Xichuan army and let me The army suffered a great humiliation?"

Although he knew that Fan Yingxi was so angry, half of it was because Gongsun Yuan wiped the knife on Fan Yuanlong and blamed him on him, but as soon as the Xichuan army came out, everyone was silent.

Li Shubai didn't speak, but looked down at the tea in his hand, turning a deaf ear.

Seeing that everyone was quiet, waiting for him to make a decision, Li Shubai put the tea bowl in his hand on the table and said lightly: "According to Fan Jiedu, since this matter is so important, it can be decided after the initial trial by the Chengdu government office. Although this king is also a priest of Dali Temple, he is a sage, but he is not familiar with local affairs and is inconvenient to intervene."

Seeing that he said nothing, everyone just bowed their heads and said yes.

Gongsun Yuan and Yin Luyi were temporarily put into prison and taken away from the scene. Zhou Ziqin thoughtfully asked someone to set up a cleaner women's cell for them, and then let them pack up all the exhibits and prepare to seal them up for storage.

"Today's inferences are very exciting-Duke Yang, the strange case you solved in Chengdu Mansion is really wonderful." The night was dark, but Li Shubai did not get up, just sat in front of the water pavilion, and turned quietly. Looking at Huang Zixia next to her, she asked, "I don't know what other entertainment shows will be next?"

Zhou Xu suddenly showed a toothache expression-it was almost three shifts now, the candles in the lanterns had been changed, and two cases of hundreds of thousands of times had been solved. Wang Kui had no intention of taking a rest, he still had to watch the show. ?

"This...Please wait for King Kui, the next official will immediately arrange for official performers to come and dance to cheer..."

Li Shubai raised his hand to stop Zhou Xu's words, stood up, and said, "After this king arrived in Chengdu, he has always harassed Fan Jiedu and Zhou Junshou. Since Zhou Junshou has not prepared today, then this king will prepare an aftertaste for you tonight. The program, please watch it every step of the way."

Everyone was immediately stunned, and it was unexpected that King Kui would prepare a show and invite Fan Jiedu and Zhou Junshou to watch it. After arriving at the show, everyone was even more surprised-the location was actually in the West Garden where Zhou Ziqin lived.