The Golden Hairpin

On the first day of the new year, Chang'an streets were deserted. Except for the temples and Taoist temples, the people of Chang'an stay at home and don't go anywhere. It was not until the beginning of the third day that the families began to entertain each other and visit relatives and friends.

Huang Zixia walked towards Yongchangfang alone. In the lonely alley, she walked towards Wang's house, only to find a pretty young boy playing with two children in the alley with a shuttlecock. One side triumphantly counted: "One hundred twenty-one, one hundred twenty-two..."

The children next to him were anxious and said: "Hurry up, we are all waiting to play!"

"Don't you understand? Kick the shuttlecock. You can't play until others stop..."

Huang Zixia couldn't help but laughed, calling him: "Jing Heng, you are such a big person, and you still grab a child's shuttlecock to play with?"

"Ah, Ms. Huang, you can count as coming back." Jing Heng stopped then, and threw the shuttlecock on toe back to the children, and then walked towards her, "Why don't any of the people in the king's house speak? It looks weird."

"I don't want to be a deaf and mute person. I can't help it if I can't speak." Huang Zixia said, seeing that he had walked under the locust tree next to him and untied the two horses tied there. One was the chestnut horse, and the other was the Frost. As soon as he untied the reins, he ran towards her happily, rubbing her raised hand with her wet nose.

Huang Zixia stroked Fusha's neck and asked, "Where to go?"

"Chengnan Chuhe."

The Pu River and Pu River are in the south of Chang'an, and the place where they meet is Xiangji Temple.

In winter, the Fuhe River is gentle and shallow, the leaves of the smoked willows on both sides of the river have already fallen, and the bare branches are floating on the bank of the frozen thin ice. Huang Zixia saw the figure standing under Shu Lang's long branches, and the breeze blew his white clothes, upright and elegant, like a yushu with the wind, and it was Li Shubai.

She galloped up to him, then immediately jumped off, looked up at him, and asked, "Is the prince looking for me?"

Li Shubai walked two steps towards her, then stopped again, frowning for a long time without speaking.

Huang Zixia looked at his appearance and suddenly understood the reason for his hesitation. She looked at the Xiangji Temple behind, and asked in a low voice, "Have you found King E?"

Li Shubai nodded.

"Let's go." Huang Zixian took the rein of the horse, and without hesitation, turned on the horse again.

Naturally, Li Shubai refused to follow behind Na Fusha, passing it a few steps, and squinting his nose obliquely.

Huang Zixian patted the head to cleanse the evil, and looked up at Li Shubai: "The speed of the prince is really fast. We just discussed it last night, and today I found the trace of King E."

"Well, I have so many people." Li Shubai raised his head to look at Xiangji Temple, and said in a deep voice, "Also, although Chang'an is big, there are only a few places he can go to."

Huang Zixia looked at him thoughtfully, a trace of doubt flashed in his heart, but there was no sound.

He saw her hesitation and said, "I... don't want to see him alone."

She turned to look at him, and clearly saw the hesitation on his face. She understood that before everything came to light, he and Li Run, the king of E, did not know how to meet alone.

"I don't know, what exactly should I do when I meet the seventh brother, and what should I say..." Li Shubai sighed lightly and looked at the Cangcang distant mountain. Huang Zixian saw the outline of his profile, as clear and beautiful as distant mountains and rivers, but such a beautiful face was covered with a layer of hesitation that seemed to be absent, as if mist shrouded in mist and rain. "I...I'm really a little scared, afraid to hear the truth, afraid that he really hates me, afraid that he is controlled by others, afraid of the truth behind the black hands..."

"Didn't you tell me?" Huang Zixia slowed down that Fusha, staring at him, "If you should come, you will have nowhere to escape. It is better to face everything that is coming, at least--"

She immediately stretched out her hand, gently covering the back of his hand, her voice was clear and gentle: "I'm always by your side."

He had said this to her countless times, and at this time, she said it, causing him to turn his palm involuntarily and hold her hand tightly.

The two headed towards Xiangji Temple together, and pilgrims gathered along the way. Dismounted at the gate of the mountain, and they followed the flow of people along the steps towards the mountain.

Xiangji Temple is a famous temple in Chang'an, with towering towers and solemn pavilions. Today is the first day of the New Year. Pilgrims are like weaving and cigarettes are shrouded in the temples. The voices of the people are full of excitement.

Li Shubai took Huang Zixia through the lively halls to the back mountain of Xiangji Temple. There is no one on the trail, and there are fallen leaves and branches along the way. At the end of the trail, a man was holding a broom, slowly sweeping the branches and leaves on the road.

Li Shubai looked at the man in the commoner who was sweeping the floor wholeheartedly, and stopped in Panasonic.

Huang Zixian followed his gaze and looked at that person. This man with his head down, dressed in coarse cloth monk clothes, but not yet shaved, looks like his twenties, his skin is white and pure, and his facial features are very beautiful. In the center of his forehead, a cinnabar mole grew unbiased, against his snow-white skin and jet black hair, showing an unusually ethereal breath of dust.

I usually see him wearing silk satin and vermilion clothes, but now he is dressed in plain cloth without decoration, but it seems to bring out his temperament even more.

He swept the floor, one step and one step, sweeping down seriously and almost reverently.

And they didn't say anything, they just stood quietly on the other side of the path, looking at him on the opposite side.

The leaves had already fallen, and the cold wind brought down a few withered twigs, which fell on the place that Li Run had swept away. He looked back, then walked back with the broomstick.

After two steps, he finally noticed something, and slowly turned his head to look at the place where Li Shubai and Huang Zixia were.

His gaze was fixed on Li Shubai's body, and the muscles on his face twitched slightly because of extreme shock and fear. He stood there, with a slight "slap" of the broom in his hand, and fell on the bluestone steps.

The bells in the distance came from a long distance, faintly echoing in the gully mountains and forests, and the echoes of the lofty mountains rippling in their ears for a long time.

Li Shubai walked towards him, walking slightly heavy, but he walked step by step without hesitation. He walked towards Li Run, Li Run finally recovered and turned around subconsciously, trying to escape.

And Li Shubai had already walked to his side, and faintly said: "There is no one in the ancient woods, where is the bell in the deep mountains. The spring is swallowing the rocks, and the sun is cold and green pine—"

Li Run's body softened involuntarily, leaning weakly on the pine tree behind him, closing his eyes, Li Shubai looked at him directly, and slowly said: "Seventh brother's favorite Wang Mojie verse. Now you You got what you wanted and lived in Wang Wei's poetry. Shouldn't the fourth brother congratulate you?"

Li Run leaned against the pine tree behind him, bit his lower lip hard, and tried to control his emotions, but no matter how hard he tried, the sudden muscles on his face and the opening and widening eyes still revealed the fear in his heart. resentment.

Li Shubai looked at the completely unfamiliar brother in front of him, only to feel a dull pain in his heart, which made his throat choke for a while, and he could not speak anymore.

Huang Zixia walked behind him and saluted Li Run: "I have seen Lord E."

Li Shubai calmed down and asked, "Why did the seventh brother live in seclusion here alone? That day you disappeared from Xiangluan Pavilion, shocking the government and the public, and making my fourth brother question me. It was not until yesterday that the fourth brother inquired about it. In a cold and secluded place in the back mountain of Xiangji Temple, a layman came one day after the winter solstice. There were quite a few samurai with ability to protect--I think maybe you are the seventh brother, so I came to visit."

Huang Zixian looked around, but did not see the samurai protecting Li Run. He should have been dispatched by Li Shubai to solve it.

Li Run gritted his teeth and stood in front of them, always refusing to speak, only staring at Li Shubai with a pair of sorrowful eyes.

Seeing him like this, Li Shubai sighed, and said, "Seventh brother, today the fourth brother just wants to ask you, have I ever done something sorry for you over the years?"

Li Run's eyes were like sharp blades and ice, with infinite resentment. This gaze reminded Huang Zixian of Wang Zongshi, his icy viper-like gaze was exactly the same.

"Who is...your seventh brother?"

Li Run finally opened his mouth, his voice harsh and bleak, word by word squeezed out of his throat, extremely bitter.

Li Shubai stood motionless in front of him, staring directly at him, but did not speak.

Li Run breathed hard, trying to suppress the anger in his chest, but his breathing trembled, and the thin mist from his mouth and nose covered his face. It was not clear whether he was more afraid or resentful.

He said vaguely: "In this life, Li Run only wants to find a quiet place to study the Buddha's Tibetan...but he didn't expect that...he didn't expect that just because he wanted to leave a look at the Buddha bone, he lost the opportunity to escape... "

Li Shubai heard him lose the tune, and his speech was broken, so he interrupted him and said, "Seventh brother, let's go, no matter what prejudice you have against the fourth brother, no matter what you fear or fear, please go back with me. , To return my innocence, or to explain clearly what the fourth brother is guilty of, so that you can be prejudiced against me."

"Go back with you?" Li Run smiled sorrowfully, took a step back, and asked in a low voice, "Can I still go back?"

Huang Zixian stood quietly behind him, lest he turn around and flee and startle others.

But Li Run did not look back, and did not look to run away. He just stared at Li Shubai, and stepped back slowly, his voice was dry and difficult, hoarse as if he was not himself: "Four...no, Li Shubai, you have deceived everyone in the ruling and the opposition by various means, but you finally showed your feet and deceived. But I!"

Li Shubai saw that he was so obsessed and didn't know what to do, so he could only walk to him and said, "Seventh brother, you don't have to accuse me one by one, first make everything clear!"

"Don't come here!" Li Run flipped his right hand, and a slender dagger with a cold light was already on his neck.

Behind him, Huang Zi Xia saw Li Shubai's face, which instantly turned green. He stopped and didn't dare to go over again, only infinite fear was in his eyes. He gritted his teeth to control the violent fear in his chest, and said every word: "Seventh brother, let go!"

He pointed at his heart with a dagger in one hand, pointed at Li Shubai with one hand, and shouted hysterically: "Li Shubai, in this life and this life, you will always get retribution!"

Before he finished his words, the dagger in his hand had already pierced into his own heart.

Li Shubai rushed over and grabbed his hand. However, the dagger was extremely sharp, and he was so cruel to himself, the dagger had been deeply inserted into his chest.

Li Shubai held Li Run's fallen body frantically, and asked frantically, "Why? Why? Is there something worthy of your death?"

Huang Zixian could only hear the sound of footsteps, and someone had already ran from the other side of the mountain trail. Although she was extremely shocked, she ran to Li Shubai in a hurry, and said anxiously: "Lord, go! Someone is coming!"

Li Shubai was horrified at this time, there were already people around, and they were still a team of well-trained guards. He was an extremely alert person, but at this moment his heart was agitated, but he didn't even notice that he was surrounded by others. He gritted his teeth and hugged Li Run's body and stood up.

Huang Zixian said anxiously: "The prince E's stabbed the heart, and he won't survive!"