The Golden Hairpin

Moon to Mid-Autumn Festival is very clear.

Gui Ying whirling, sweet fragrance floating. The sky just got a little dark, and countless gauze palace lanterns were lit on the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, and the shadows were reflected on the water, Yuyu Qionglou, the flowers and the wind were moving, and I didn't know the sky and the earth for a while.

In the small pavilion near the water, the singers sang in unison, and the singing near the water was clearer than that of silk and bamboo. On the platform, thirty young girls in brocade clothes are dancing together with their sleeves. The neon clothes and Xia zi, decorated with beads and jade, are splendid all over the place for a while.

Listening to the singing from the wind, Huang Zixian sat behind the curtain of the Xuanxie with a few female relatives and watched. This is the Xichuan Jiedu Mansion Garden. Today Mid-Autumn Festival, Jiedu Envoy Fan Yingxi hosted a banquet for King Kui Li Shubai in the mansion. And Huang Zixia was posted by Mrs. Fan, and together with the daughters of the Huang family, she was invited to watch the Neon Feather Dance.

This song has long been lost after the Anshi Rebellion, but now it has been re-arranged after a Yangzhou artist visited the old man in Dejiaofang. It is said to be full of subtleties.

The man is outside the front hall, while Huang Zixian and a couple of women are in the back hall. There is a layer of bamboo curtain between the inside and outside of the pavilion, and there is another layer of gauze curtain inside the bamboo curtain.

A group of women watched and chatted, admiring one by one.

"Sister Zi Xia, my brother often mentions you at home. Yesterday he said that you are a smart person comparable to him. I scolded him. Compared with you, he is also worthy?" Zhou Ziyan sat beside her. He looked at her and smiled, "I think, you must be the most perfect woman in the world!"

Huang Zixia felt a little embarrassed, so she had to bow her head and said, "Where."

Like Zhou Ziqin, Zhou Ziyan is good at talking to herself, and she will never be affected by others' joyful mood: "It's everywhere! You are beautiful, from a big family, and a talented woman well-known in the world. Your fiance It is the grandson of Wang Langya's family, and when you marry into the Wang's family in the future, you will be happy in your life, you can imagine to see you!"

Huang Zi Xia bowed her head silently, speechless, and only cast her gaze through the two curtains and cast it on Wang Yun, who was slightly vague outside the curtain. Although it is not particularly clear, the outstanding demeanor is enough to make thousands of women feel heartbroken.

She was engaged since she was a child, but this fiance, who has never been masked, comes from a family and is gentle and elegant, and her behavior and words are breathtaking. However, she knew she shouldn't, but still couldn't help herself, and had an undue affection with Yu Xuan, an orphan adopted by her parents.

The love letter she wrote to Yu Xuan became evidence of her poisonous killing of relatives. When she was forced to flee and went to Beijing to seek reversal, she encountered the most important turning point in her life——

Her gaze crossed Wang Yun and fell on the figure farther away.

Among the crowd surrounded by flattering and flattering, he was particularly cool, clean, and elegant. Kui Wang Li Shubai, the miracle in her life and the savior in despair, made her give up her previous plan without hesitation, and took the first mystery around him, in exchange, begging him to help her return to Shu. Turn over the case for her family and for her.

So far, he really took her back to Chengdu. The truth of her parents’ wrongdoing has also been revealed, but her fiancé, Wang Yun, secretly pursued and killed Li Shubai so far. What she never expected was that she After the relationship between Yu Xuan and Yu Xuan was upset, and after his identity as a killer was ruthlessly exposed by her, Wang Yun would actually go to her clan to mention the marriage contract again.

Is it possible for the two of them to bond?

The marriage that was set many years ago is now a matter of fact, do you really have to abide by it?

When Huang Zixian was in a trance, everyone's exclamation suddenly came from her ears. She looked back and saw that all the women on the court had become the background. Only one of the women with brilliant embroidery was spinning indulgently. The light gauze dances all over her body, like clouds and mist, surrounding her face, like a fairy in the palace, radiating light.

Everyone around was amazed, until Caiyun caught the moonlight, her figure was hidden by everyone, and everyone came back to their senses.

Someone asked: "Who is leading the dancer?"

"Who else? It's the maiko from Yangzhou... Some people say it's from Puzhou. In short, she should be the sister of Gongsun Auntie who murdered before. She flattered in front of Fan Jiedu. It is said that Fan Jiedu has promised to spare the two female prisoners."

Huang Zixia suddenly thought of someone, and couldn't help but ask: "Lauder?"

"Yes, it seems to be the name!"

Huang Zixia looked at the looming and fascinating Lauder in the crowd, and felt a little emotional. Lauder, who ranked third among Yunshao's six women, is the best at soft dance and the most loyal among the sisters. After Mei Wanzhi disappeared, she was tossed around in many ways to find Xue Se to raise; now aunt Gongsun and Fu Xinruan are involved, and she is also the one who traveled thousands of miles to save people.

The person next to her continued: "I heard that she is also a man with a husband and son, and she is so self-respectful. She dances with heavy makeup for fun in the public. Doesn't her husband care about it?"

Someone sneered again: "Businesswoman, don't know how to be ashamed? A man who marries such a woman home is certainly an inferior business."

The ladies finally found a common topic, their faces were full of brilliance, and they gathered together to whisper. However, Zhou Ziyan and other little girls looked at Lauder shyly and curiously, and they all looked attentively.

Huang Zixian sighed involuntarily, walked to the railing dazedly among the misty music of neon clothes and feathers, staring blankly at the full moon under the water.

The water and wind were gentle, and the ripples stretched and squashed the moon's shadow, making it turbulent. She leaned on the railing and heard a slightly cold voice sounding softly beside her: "Why are you depressed and unhappy?"

She turned her head and looked at Li Shubai through the gauze curtain. The people over there were also attracted by Lauder's dance, only he noticed her walking here alone.

Huang Zixia lowered his head and leaned on the railing, slowly moved two or three inches closer to him through the curtain, and whispered, "I just miss my family."

Li Shubai silently turned his head and stared at her. She saw his profile look beautiful in the moonlight, and those eyes that looked at her were faintly reflected in waves, as if bright stars were falling. His voice was low and gentle, and it sounded beside her: "The dead are already dead, the living should be encouraged. Your family must also hope you have a happy life in the world, and don't want to see you immersed in sadness for a long time."

She nodded slowly. With the breeze blowing, the gauze curtains slowly fluttered, tumbling up and down with the restlessness in her heart. And the full moon is on his left shoulder, casting his figure on her, long and tall, so stable and reliable.

She only felt an unspeakable emotion filled her heart, her chest was filled with rippling water vapor, and the world in front of her began to twist unsteadily, even more ethereal than the music sent by the wind at this time.

They stopped talking, just quietly watching the full moon rise in the east at this time, sprinkling brilliance everywhere on the roof of the pavilion. The ears are the piano, flute, and sheng tube, the neon clothes and feathers, the sound is rushing twelve times, the 30 dance dancers dance more and more urgently, and the 30 groups of splendor are spinning on the surface of the water, like a wind like a cloud.

The dance was in a mess, and the flute was in a hurry, but Li Shubai frowned slightly as he listened and gave a soft "Huh".

Huang Zixian asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Shubai thoughtfully said: "The second 箜篌 seems to have a golden noise."

Nishang Yuyi Music is a large-scale instrumental ensemble. This time, the official figures of the Chengdu government almost came out, including Pipa II, Guqin II, Huanghou II, Seyi, Zhengyi, and Ruan Xianyi. There are also Zang Zhen two, two flute pipes, two sheng pipes and one flute pipe, bells, drums, gongs, cymbals, chimes, etc. A team of more than 20 people sits on the stage and plays as usual.

Huang Zixia couldn't even see the people over there, let alone what he meant by the golden noise, so she glanced at it and said casually, "It's probably a mistake."

Li Shubai turned his head and smiled at her, and stopped talking.

The two leaned against the railing, watching the singing and dancing across the curtain. The lights illuminate the pavilions, the water is reflected in the spinning dance posture, and the upper and lower two flowers are in full bloom. Sparkling, cinnamon faint, Shengjing Shaohua. At this moment, I suddenly heard an exclamation from the lake, and someone shouted: "It's not good! Something went wrong!"

Huang Zixian looked towards the place where the sound was coming from, and found that it was coming from the calamus field on the shore of the water. A rough servant rushed over and shouted: "Help! Dead!"

When he heard the word "dead person", Zhou Ziqin reacted most quickly, already rushing to the water's edge.

The female family members in the water pavilion were already scared and stroking their chests, except for Huang Zixian and Zhou Ziyan, they were all panicked. Huang Zixian straightened up and glanced out of the curtain, but he heard Li Shubai's voice, calmly and slowly: "Let's go, go over and take a look."

She nodded, then raised the curtain and went down the steps.

The aunt who came with her behind was in a panic. She hurriedly asked her through the curtain, "Zixia, where are you going?"

"I'm going to see the dead." Huang Zi Xia bowed her slightly, then turned around and walked quickly towards the calamus.

The aunt paused behind: "You are a woman, what corpse is going to see..."

Huang Zixia ignored her and hurried to the scene.

Zhou Ziqin was squatting among the calamus, examining a prone female corpse. The head of the corpse was immersed in the water, the shoulders and chest were looming in the water, the waist was on the muddy ground, and the two hands were thrust forward in the muddy water, and they died in the water so awkwardly and strangely.

"Chonggu, come and take a look at this corpse!" Zhou Ziqin was at a loss when he saw her coming and waved quickly. He is still used to calling her Yang Chonggu, the fact that she is a woman, it seems that he has never been able to accept it.

Huang Zixian walked to the corpse's feet and found that there was already soft mud in front of her. The silk shoes and pleated skirts she was wearing were inconvenient, so she stopped, took the lantern in the hand of the catcher nearby, and illuminated the corpse.

The deceased was a slightly plump woman, with her hair combed into a lily bun, her hair covered with mud, and a dress full of mud was completely invisible.

Zhou Ziqin turned her over and pulled out the hands that were stuck in the mud, and washed them with water.

The woman was about ten years old, with fair skin and well-defined features, and she should have looked good before she was alive. Her hands were slender and slender, only making countless small scars in the silt, and there was a newly scratched scar extending from the back of the hand to the joint of the index finger.

Huang Zixian slowly moved the lantern up, and looked at the female corpse's face. Seeing that there were still traces of lead powder on her face, she said: "Zi Qin, go call the Lebanese manager tonight and let him recognize it. See if it’s from their side."

"Ah! Bitao! You died so miserably!"

The Lebanese manager's tears and nose came down together, and his face was distorted unbearably.

Zhou Ziqin asked: "Is she in your class?"

"Yeah, Bitao is from our side. After she arrived here with everyone, she said it was too early and went to the park for a round trip, but she didn't come back when she played! Fortunately, Yu Li, who came with her, also learned. Neon clothes and feathers, so we let Yu Li replace it."

Huang Zixia looked at that Yu Li and saw that she was petite, crying with her face covered, crying and wailing: "Master, Master..."

She was still looking at it, and Zhou Ziqin had come over and said, "Chonggu, this case is very difficult!"