The Golden Hairpin

When the clan elders dispersed, she bid farewell to her parents, brothers, uncles and grandmothers, and rode the sand slowly along the mountain road to the city.

Li Shubai walked side by side with her, turning his head to look at her in the oncoming wind.

"Zixia..." He whispered her name.

This seems to be the first time he called her like this.

Huang Zixia turned her head and looked at his face.

He didn't say anything yet, Di E had already jumped to Na Fusha, and the distance between the two was less than half a foot apart.

Breathe each other.

Huang Zixian turned away embarrassedly, but he whispered in her ear: "Don't worry, everything has me."

Huang Zixia's heart throbbed suddenly.

Those worries and sorrows that came and went like clouds, because of his eight words, suddenly disappeared completely.

She lowered her head and remembered that when she had just come to him, as a young eunuch, she had worried that someone would doubt her identity, and he said, I will help you solve it.

Sure enough, apart from Wang Yun, her identity has never been questioned.

She didn't know what method he used. But she believes that what he has said can definitely be done. Because he is the king of Tang Kui, Li Shubai.

Zhou Ziqin followed them, riding "Xiao Xia" strolling to catch up, and asked: "Chonggu, why are you laughing at the prince?"

Huang Zixia turned her face away and ignored him.

"Oh...In short, I'm not used to the fact that you are a woman. I still can't help but think that you are ancient." As Zhou Ziqin said, she kept turning around before and after her, saying, "You Look, now you don’t even wear the hairpin you used to, and you’re a bit uncomfortable if you change it to something else."

Huang Zixia caressed her sideburns silently, then turned to look at Li Shubai, and slowly took out a hairpin from her arms.

On the shiny hosta, the hairpin has a curly pattern on the head, and the silver hairpin on the bottom. If you hold down the curly pattern, you can pull out the hosta without loosening your hair.

She whispered: "I'm afraid I will throw it away in the county keeper's house, so I take it with me."

Li Shubai smiled slightly. Zhou Ziqin really didn't understand why they were laughing, and in the end he could only say: "Well, Chonggu...If you are really Huang Zixia, then I can think of one thing, it is very serious!"

Huang Zixia looked at her questioningly.

Zhou Ziqin looked worried: "You are Wang Yun's fiancée, but you have always been the **** next to the prince. This... After returning to the capital, if someone asks me, where did Yang Chonggu go? If I say Yang Chonggu is married to Wang Yun, so what do you think about the marriage of a young eunuch?"

Both Li Shubai and Huang Zixia were shocked by his different thinking directions, and they couldn't answer for a while.

"Right? So we must fully consider the problem. I think the solution to this problem is very important. First of all, we have to hold a meeting to reveal Yang Chonggu's identity..."

"Ziqin." Li Shubai couldn't help asking him, "Do you know that your father has asked someone to propose you a marriage recently?"

"Huh? Really? Which girl is the other party?" Zhou Ziqin was immediately distracted, "Looks like Huang Zi...Oh, not to mention this. Does it look good? Is it smart? What about character?"

"I don't know. I only heard that but was rejected again."

"Hahaha...I'm used to it." Zhou Ziqin waved his hand freely, "I don't know why, I only came to Shu County for a few days, everyone knows that I like to touch corpses! Some people say that I sleep in the pile of corpses every day— —I think it’s okay. It’s convenient for an autopsy, but in fact, the Yizhuang in Chengdu is very cold. I must be unable to sleep, right? It’s strange that everyone believed it, so my father was going to lie to his daughter. It must be impossible to deceive..."

Although Zhou Ziqin and Qin Nian talked endlessly, they did not involve them anyhow, so Huang Zixia and Li Shubai were also casual.

Entering the city, walking along the stone road, Zhou Ziqin saw the second girl at a glance, and her mutton case was placed in the middle of the road again.

"Is it tolerable or unbearable! Second girl, how many times have I told you, the wheelbarrow pushed aside!" Zhou Ziqin jumped off Xiao Xia, akimbo, shouting at her.

The second girl was slicing meat with a knife, only glanced at him, calmly: "Oh, catch your head, haven't you been out on the street very often recently? Why are you here again."

Upon hearing her words, I don’t know why, Zhou Ziqin showed a little nervousness and joy on his face: "Recently... a terrible case has been solved recently, haven't you heard of it?"

"I heard that Duke Yang, who was next to King Kui, rushed to Chengdu from the capital and solved three major cases overnight. These three cases are related to each other, but they are scattered separately. There are hundreds of threads, and the inside story is amazing-our Shu County's head-catcher is helpless, it depends on others."

As the second girl said, she pushed her wheelbarrow to the side and chopped the ribs again.

Zhou Ziqin buried his head in despair, and yelled again in order to find the place, "Okay, it seems that you haven't forgotten the line I drew you last time! Just over there, you are not allowed to come out even an inch!"

The second girl gave him a smile, "I see, catch my head!"

Zhou Ziqin's face again showed a mixture of tension and joy, urging the horse to move forward. Huang Zixia looked at his appearance and couldn't help asking: "What's the matter?"

Zhou Ziqin's face was a little red, and he stammered: "She... she told me to catch my head in public. This title sounds a bit embarrassing..."

Huang Zixian couldn't help but smiled, holding his forehead, "Ha, catch my head!"

"What... isn't it good to catch the head?" He understood now, and was stunned. Seeing Huang Zixia was still smiling, he had to grab her by the rein and asked, "What does it mean to catch the head?"

Huang Zixia looked at him and smiled, before she had time to say, an aunt who passed by said: "In our Sichuan-Shu dialect,'ha' means silly."

Upon hearing this, even Li Shubai couldn't help laughing. Zhou Ziqin suddenly became angry, and dropped a sentence of "You go first!"

Huang Zixian and Li Shubai looked at Zhou Ziqin who had jumped off the horse and squatted in the corner of the wall with a few words sprayed by the second girl, and couldn't help but smile and look at each other.

Huang Zixia smiled and said, "It seems that this sturdy second girl is definitely not afraid of corpses."

Li Shubai nodded.

"Why? Ask me to quarrel? A big man, who has gone so far, still quarreled with me for a word?" The second girl's voice came from afar.

Zhou Ziqin roared: "No! I'm here...I'm back to buy fish!"

In order to prove his own words, he pointed to the fish stall next to him and said angrily: "Boss, I want it all. Send me to the Yamen!"

Huang Zixian looked at the fishmonger pouring all kinds of small fishes happily, and his expression gradually became serious.

Li Shubai asked: "Think of the little red fish Qi Teng?"

"Yes..." Huang Zixia thought silently, "According to all the signs, the fish was still there when Master Mu Shan was instigated to kill my family for the first time. But when Yu Xuan committed suicide in front of my parents' grave, he forgot. After everything, the fish was gone."

"I think something must have happened in this, otherwise, when Qi Teng mentioned the fish, Yu Xuan's face would not become so ugly. Even if he can't remember it, the fish is in his unconsciousness. It’s very profound."

"Where is Master Mu Shan? Should we ask him as soon as possible?" Huang Zixia asked.

"Passed." Li Shubai said.

She opened her eyes wide in amazement.

"In the early hours of this morning, when he returned to Guangdu Temple, the Xichuan Army sent him to the gate of the temple. His meditation house was on the mountain, so he walked up the steps. The road was slippery at night, and he was old and fell off the steps. Coming down and passed away." Li Shubai frowned, "I only found out about it when I ordered someone to look for him this morning."

Huang Zixia whispered: "I don't know if Qi Teng's little red fish is related to this one in your hand. Is it related to Wang Zongshi?"

"All the puzzles have not been solved yet, but the clues that have emerged are quickly broken. One has to wonder whether there is a huge, invisible hand behind all these things. . We can’t see it, but we can clearly feel its existence.”

He looked back at her, and finally did not tell her that the charm in his secret box had quietly changed color again.

They stood on the streets of Chengdu Mansion at the back of their horses, looking at the bustling city under the long sky.

The hibiscus flowers blooming all over the city are splendid, and large groups are laid among thousands of families. The secular landscapes flow in front of them, the lively life, the secret past, the divergent destiny, they are inevitable, they can only face everything.

The small fish lurking quietly in the glass cup, lightly jumped out of the water, and started rippling endlessly.

[Fourth Hairpin: Tianhe Pours]