The Golden Hairpin

In the Daming Palace, the majestic palaces and pavilions were also lost in autumn by the palace.

Huang Zixia followed Li Shubai and stepped into the Zichen Palace again.

After Li Shubai gave a general report on the current situation in Shu, he presented tributes from various places. The emperor still had the same smile as before, but his plump chin was now a little thinner. After the death of Princess Tongchang, both he and Concubine Guo Shu were in grief, so they were relieved a lot.

"A few days ago on the Chongyang Ninth Festival, several brothers gathered in the palace to have a banquet. Only the fourth brother is not for you. The seventh brother also chanted You Cheng's phrase,'Put the cornus in one person every time.'" The emperor twisted his eighteenth son with a smile. , "My newly repaired Shuangque, you haven't seen it yet."

"Shuangque?" Li Shubai had heard about it a long time ago, but only asked calmly.

"Yes, the Shuangfeng Que of the Yunli Emperor City is the first building you saw after entering the Daming Palace, but now the Xiangluan and Qifeng pavilions in front of the Hanyuan Palace are all outdated, and we have ordered them to be renovated. Now that the hall is completely new, the fourth brother will definitely appreciate it when he visits it."

Li Shubai nodded, but did not speak. He had read the Di Bao as early as in Shu, and the reconstruction of the Hanyuan Palace and Shuangque this time greatly exceeded the previous shape. With agarwood as the beam and Jinsinan as the pillar, the gold and the lacquer shared the number of gold. Thousand taels, hundreds of pearls, rhino horns, gem pearls and so on. The post bureau and the Ministry of Industry demolished the east wall to make up the west wall, and it has still not been able to make up.

The emperor was excited and said: "After the winter solstice festival this year, we will be drinking here on the newly built Shuangque, while singing and dancing there. I believe it will definitely stay in the history and become a graceful affair in the Daming Palace."

Li Shubai said: "Your Majesty's statement is reasonable, but this project seems to be very costly. Yesterday the Ministry of Industry came to look for the courtiers and said that now there are 120 Buddha statues to be built, which seems to be embarrassing."

The emperor frowned, stroked his chin and thought for a while, and said: "Li Yonghe really can't do anything. With so much money and food dispatched by the Ministry of Industry, he can't even build 120 Buddhas?"

"There are a lot of projects this year. At the beginning of the year, the Bi Palace was built, and the princess tomb was built in the middle of the year. Now, the Shuangque has been rebuilt, and the construction of the Buddha is too stretched."

The emperor sighed: "Fourth brother, I have been feeling restless recently. Ling Hui was blessed to the soul, and the first word he said was "to live", but now she is damaged overnight. I am... a white-haired person. Send it to a black-haired person, like a candle in the wind, who knows where tomorrow and the next will be?"

Li Shubai said: "Your Majesty is in the prime of life, how can there be such a sigh of birth? The court has to rely on His Majesty, and hope for this lonely heart. From the eyes of his ministers, the Buddha's bones are not welcome."

"Buddha bones must be welcomed. I saw it when I was born, and died without hate." The emperor shook his head and refused, and then asked again, "Then...Fourth brother, you have a good view of the scriptures and history. NS?"

"Nine-nine-one, this number is also good." Li Shubai said, frowning, "But if your majesty insists on welcoming the bones of the Buddha, the minister thinks it is the most important thing. The Buddhist school has twelve causes and conditions. It’s enough for your Majesty to build twelve. Or you can build only three Buddha statues to show the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, which is also very suitable."

"The fourth brother really doesn't understand my pious heart. How can a few seats be suitable?" The emperor was displeased and waved to him to go out.

Li Shubai stood up and exited, and when he walked to the entrance of the temple, he heard the emperor say: "Seventy-two, there are seventy-two Buddhist incenses, which is not bad."

"The last time I met the Buddha bone was in the fourteenth year of Yuanhe, fifty years ago."

In the Mansion of King E, Li Run was very excited and poured tea to Li Shubai, saying: "It was said that it was an unprecedented grand occasion. This time it should be a great event. It is said that the people in the city have snapped up incense candles and are about to welcome Buddha bones."

Li Shubai held his freshly brewed tea and asked slowly: "You know that on the day the Buddha bone came out of Famen Temple, there was an old woman and a young girl who stood outside Famen Temple. When the Buddha bone came out of the pagoda, she gave it to her granddaughter. Pour a pot of mercury and use her body as an offering?"

Li Run took a breath of air and opened his eyes wide and said, "But... this is only the profoundness of the Dharma, and there are many good men and women. It is inevitable that some believers are fanatical, and they just ask for the blessing of the Dharma."

"The folks believe in Buddhism shouldn't be so, but the royal greets it personally, and the court acts as an example, it will become a disaster. What good is it to use the power of the country to make the foolish people frantic?" Li Shubai shook his head. He was demoted because of his bones, and now in the court, it seems that someone needs to be the first to come out to dissuade him."

"Brother Emperor, don't do stupid things!" Li Run said anxiously, "Your Majesty, after the death of Princess Tongchang, often nightmares, now only wants to welcome the Buddha bones to the palace to worship, so as to eliminate disasters. He The determination has been made, no one can persuade it!"

Li Shubai nodded, but did not answer.

Li Run drank half a cup of tea, and when he saw Li Shubai no longer talking, he calmed down. He raised his head and saw Huang Zixia in women's clothing. He whispered and asked, "Is there a maid next to the emperor?"

Huang Zi Xia bowed to him and nodded to him.

"I seem to have seen you somewhere..." At this point, he said "Ah" and slapped his head, "Yang Chonggu! Recently, there has been a legend in the capital that Huang Zixia pretended to be a young eunuch, and Wang Ye went south to solve the mystery. The storyteller in the public has already made up stories and sang them!"

Huang Zixian bowed his head and said, "I didn't dare to disclose my identity before, and I didn't deliberately deceive Prince E. I still hope to forgive me."

"Where, I accompanied Wang Yun to meet you in the palace three or four years ago. After many contacts, I didn't recognize it, and I didn't know the fairy." He said, motioning for her to sit down again, I personally ordered her tea, and then asked questioningly, "It's just that Wang Yun has also returned to Beijing? Why is Miss Huang still waiting by the emperor brother?"

Huang Zixia tastes tea without saying a word. Li Shubai said: "Yang Chonggu is the last **** who signed and painted in my mansion. No matter what status she becomes, as long as I don't speak, she will not be able to leave."

Huang Zixia gave him a "shameless" condemning look, but Li Run, who saw Li Shubai's side for the first time, was directly stunned, and even forgot to refill the tea in the furnace.

Huang Zixian took out a brocade bag from his sleeve, gently pushed it to Li Run on the table, and said, "Prince E, this thing belongs to the original owner."

"What?" Li Run was a little surprised, then took it and opened the mouth of the bag to take out the contents.

An extremely shiny jade bracelet, the surface of the jade is glowing with a layer of light, as if shrouded in a thin layer of smoke. He silently held the bracelet in his hand, and the color of the jade changed and flowed with his movements, transforming into countless brilliance.

He stared blankly for a long time before asking: "A Ruan... let you bring it back to me?"

Li Shubai nodded slowly and said, "Before she is dying, I will ask Mrs. Sun to return it to you."

"Dead...?" He suddenly raised his head, widening his bewildered eyes.

"Since you have heard about Huang Zixia solving the suspected case, you must have also heard the clues to this case, starting from the death of a Kauki?"

Li Run looked at him in a daze, as if finally understood. The cinnabar mole with red eyebrows also looked dim on his pale face, and the tea cup slid down from his hand and fell to pieces on the floor of blue bricks, leaving turquoise tea dust all over the place.

Li Shubai sighed lightly, and said, "Seventh brother, you should put it away first. After all, this is an old thing from the Toffee, so it should be returned to the original owner."

"Yes..." He stunned, holding the bracelet tightly in his hand.

Seeing his gloomy expression, Li Shubai got up and said, "I just returned to Beijing, and I still have a few things to do. Now that the bracelet has arrived, I will leave first."

"Brother Four Emperors..." Li Run subconsciously raised his hand and held his wrist.

Li Shubai looked back at him. He bit his lower lip and whispered: "I want to ask Brother Sihuang to do me a favor."

Li Shubai sat down again and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I doubt..." He stopped talking, and the hand holding the bracelet was so hard that the joints showed a strange blue color. He abruptly got up and looked out the open doors and windows for a while, until he was sure that there was no one, he breathed hard, barely calmed his mind, and said, "I suspect that my mother and concubine was harmed by others."

Li Shubai frowned slightly and turned to look at Huang Zixia.

Huang Zixia thought for a while, and asked calmly: "Did the prince notice anything? Why did he say that?"

He clenched his lower lip and nodded his head: "Please come with me, Brother Sihuang and Girl Huang."

Concubine Chen was originally the concubine of the first emperor, and as a rule, she should live in the Tai Chi Palace to maintain her life. But on the night that the first emperor passed away, she was grief and mad, and the maids in the Tai Chi Palace served inattentively. When Li Run, who was a teenager at the time, went to visit her mother and concubine, she found her unkempt and poorly clothed, so she knelt in Zichen Palace. Before, I begged the emperor to allow him to take his mother and concubine to the palace for support.

After Chen Taifei was taken back to the mansion by him, although she was also ill from time to time, after all, the palace was well served, and finally she was able to recover. Li Run's mother was pure filial piety, and she built a small hall behind the main hall of the palace for her to live close to her. Although she has passed away now, he still keeps the place she lived in during her lifetime, and everything is arranged the same as when her mother was alive, and has not been moved.

Li Run led Li Shubai and Huang Zixia into the small hall, where the spiritual seat of Princess Chen was displayed, and there were flowers and incense candles in front of the spirit, making the atmosphere in the hall a little depressed.

Li Shubai and Huang Zixia looked at Li Run after offering incense to Princess Chen.

Li Run put the bracelet in front of his mother's spirit, folded his hands together and prayed silently to the mother's spiritual position. With a solemn expression, he turned around for a long time, and said to them: "My mother and concubine had been sober once before she died. She told me that the Tang Dynasty is about to die."

Hearing this kind of words from him, Li Shubai and Huang Zixia immediately knew that the matter was not trivial, so they listened carefully to what he said next.

"The mother concubine's sanity has been unconscious for a long time, and I also know what her state is. But the time she was sober, she was really sanity, and in peace, it was completely different." He recalled the situation at the time, lightly. He sighed and said, "So, what she said at the time was definitely not crazy. I think she must have known something when her father was dying, that led to the madness-that is inevitable, it is extremely important. If not, how could she feel that it is related to the Tang Dynasty, Jiangshan Sheji?"

Huang Zixia asked: "What did your mother and concubine say at the time? Can the prince repeat it to us?"

Li Run opened the locked cabinet and took out a black lacquer makeup from the center. This makeup is inlaid with snails that have been cut into flowers. The color is old, and you can see that it is a long-term use at first glance. Li Run opened it carefully, and removed the dimly cloudy copper mirror, revealing the cracks behind the mirror.

He opened another small box next to him, took out the piece of tissue paper with three graffiti ink **** on it, folded it in the gap behind the mirror, and said, "My mother and concubine was from here at the time. I don’t know how long she hid the painting. She took out this piece of paper and gave it to me. She told me that she had painted and hid it all the hard work, so I must keep it away... But it is a major event that affects the survival of the world."

"It can be seen that the concubine's thoughts were very clear at the time, and it is indeed not in a state of madness." Huang Zixia chewed on the words "survival of the world" and looked sideways at Li Shubai.

Li Shubai nodded at her slightly, then asked Li Run, "What about the others?"

"The mother concubine has one more sentence..." Li Run hesitated a little, but after all he said it, "She told me not to get too close to Brother Sihuang."

Li Shubai looked down at the piece of tissue paper in his hand, studied the three black ink stains on it, and said nothing.

Huang Zixia felt a little embarrassed, and said, "However, Prince E still told us about this matter."