The Golden Hairpin

The carriage went all the way west and stopped near Kaiyuanmen.

There was already a group of people there, all of them looked up at the city wall and talked a lot. Amidst the noise, Huang Zixia got out of the car and looked up at the tall city wall on Kaiyuanmen.

Wang Zongshi coldly watched her walk towards the city wall and pushed the car door.

Huang Zixia walked forward step by step. On the city wall next to the tower, there is an old man standing on it. As the cold wind howled, he stood on a high place and shouted hoarsely: "Kui King plots rebellion and slaughters brothers, heaven and earth are not tolerated!"

Huang Zixian slowly walked two steps closer, silently looking up at him behind the crowd. Although the old man's face was distorted and his voice was so hoarse that she couldn't bear to hear it, she could still clearly recognize that this was Zhang Xingying's father.

"My son Zhang Xingying, as a servant in the palace of Kui, has long been aware of the rebellious ambitions of King Kui! He refuses to help the king and abuses him, and categorically refuses to join forces with those frenzied ones! Now the thief of King Kui has been arrested, but there are still people in the palace trying to help him. , My son wants to be loyal to the country and capture the remnants of sins, but who knows that he fell short of his work, and was conspired by others. Now my death is the glory of my Zhang family! It is a matter of glorious lintels!"

Listening to his hysterical roar, Huang Zixia was motionless amidst the astonishment of the people around him, only feeling that the sunlight behind Zhang Weiyi made her almost unable to open her eyes.

She felt dizzy for a while, so she could only take back her gaze and stop looking at him.

She saw not far from the crowd, a person looked back at her, it was Zhou Ziqin. His face was full of consternation and disbelief. After seeing her, he hesitated and squeezed toward her. However, the people around him were too crowded and his steps were blocked, so he could only glance at her from a distance. Then quickly looked back at Zhang Weiyi on the city wall.

"The sky is open, and the sage is virtuous today, and the people of the world only want to eradicate the evildoers as soon as possible, and return me to the Tang Dynasty to be quiet and peaceful..." He said here, his voice was intermittently messy and inaudible. It turned out that the guard of the city wall saw him speaking more and more utterly, and had jammed his arms and wanted to drag him down.

Huang Zixian stared at the chaos above him motionless, as if it had appeared in front of him that day in the Xiangluan Pavilion, the king of Hubei Li Run scolded Li Shubai.

Different people, same words, almost exactly the same situation.

The surrounding discussions, like the roar of a swarm of bees, sounded chaotically in her ears—

"So, King Kui really wants to rebel?"

"Who would say no! King Kui killed King E first, and now there are guards in his mansion who risked death to stop him, but it was a pity that they fell short, alas..."

"I said that King Kui has been possessed by Pang Xun and he wants to overthrow the world of Tang Dynasty. You didn't believe it before!"

"Holy Master Mingjian, King Kui has been controlled, but who is the one who is still struggling in the mansion?"

"It's just those eunuchs and the like. It's a pity that King E and this family's father and son were so loyal to the country and the people, they were killed like this!"

"Let me say that the evidence for King Kui's massacre of his closest relatives is conclusive, and it is not a pity to die for those who are inferior to animals and beasts!"

"Hey, before Pang Xun was possessed by King Kui, he was good at Sheji. How can you kill him if you say that you are going to kill him?"

"Even if the death penalty is exempt, it must be punished, or abolished as a common man, or exiled or imprisoned, otherwise how to subdue the world?"

Listening to the public opinion around her, the cold sweat on her back faintly appeared. The whole person was in a daze for a moment, and he didn't know where he was, whether he was on the Qifeng Pavilion that day or under the Kaiyuan Gate Tower.

Hearing loudly, everyone around was screaming in unison, and the voices of some women and children were even harsher and miserable. Huang Zixia didn't seem to feel at all. She just widened her eyes and watched Zhang Weiyi on the city wall get rid of all the soldiers who tried to catch him, jumped into a frantic roar, and rushed towards the bottom without hesitation.

So fast, just a flash of lightning.

Huang Zixian's mind was blank for a long time.

The whole world flashed black at once, and then changed to white again. After a long time, a long grayish-yellow came up in front of me, dyeing back the color in front of me bit by bit.

She stood silently in the panicked crowd, motionless.

Some people leaned forward to watch the excitement, while others sprinted back in fright, seeming to be afraid of smelling blood. Some people yelled, "I'm dead, I'm so terribly dead, and my brain is out!" Others hugged the crying child and hurriedly comforted him softly.

Until the chaos basically ended, and there was nothing but a circle of people next to the corpse, Huang Zixia walked forward stiffly. Seeing her look terrifying, the crowd in a crowd gave way in terror, secretly guessing that the person inside should be someone she knew.

Huang Zixian walked into the crowd and found Zhou Ziqin Zheng squatting beside Zhang's father's body in a daze. Seeing her coming, he glanced at her blankly before taking off his coat, covering Zhang Weiyi's face, and then walking to her side and standing for a long time without saying a word.

Seeing this, the people around gradually dispersed.

People from Jingzhao Mansion finally came here, because Zhang Weiyi committed suicide by jumping off the tower in full view. The facts of the case were simple and everyone around him could testify, so the people in Jingzhao Mansion only briefly recorded the circumstantial evidence. The leader happened to have several connections with Zhou Ziqin before, so he pulled Zhou Ziqin over and asked in a low voice, "Zi Qin, I heard that this matter is related to King Kui?"

Zhou Ziqin was stunned for a moment, and finally nodded, and said, "Yes... before the death of Old Uncle Zhang, he really scolded King Kui."

"Say what?" he asked again.

Zhou Ziqin frowned and thought for a while, and finally shook his head, and said, "It was too sudden, and I was so emotional that I suddenly forgot the specific words... You can ask other bystanders around, after all, Hundreds of thousands of people have heard what Old Man Zhang said."

People in Jingzhao Mansion naturally knew that he didn't want to relay the evil words about King Kui, so they didn't force him, bowed their hands towards him, and said: "In this case, I will first ask other witnesses and so on."

The white cloth umbrellas have already been arranged in Jingzhao Mansion's Hao Zuo, and Zhang's body has been inspected on the spot.

"It's true that the fall from a height is correct." Wu came to a conclusion after a preliminary inspection, and asked Zhou Ziqin to inspect it. Zhou Ziqin suffered two drastic changes today, and was extremely silent. He hastily re-examined it again with him, and it was indeed a fall. The head was smashed into flesh and blood, the cervical spine was broken, and he died.

"So many people just watched him jump down. Is there any question about the cause of death?" Hezuo said, signing his name on the autopsy list.

Another said: "It's easy to tell the cause of death, but it's just the reason for jumping from the tower, but it's really hard to tell...Would you like to write on the list of submissions?"

The leader shook his head and said: "It's difficult to write, I think I will go back and ask for instructions before talking."

Zhou Ziqin turned to look at Huang Zixia in despair, but saw her face that was still in a trance before, calm down.

She slowly said: "Zi Qin, go and ask how old Uncle Zhang got on the tower."

Zhou Ziqin responded and turned and walked towards the steps of the tower. After a while, he turned back and spoke to the soldier who was searching for Zhang Weiyi's relics, then took one of the letters and showed them to Huang Zixia, and whispered: "I used this letter to go up."

Huang Zixia looked at it, and it turned out that it was a letter from the Wangfujun, naturally owned by Zhang Xingying.

She raised her hand to take the letter and looked at it, and whispered: "This thing, naturally, should have been carried by Brother Zhang... how could it be in the hands of Uncle Zhang?"

"Is it... Uncle Zhang got it when he went to Yizhuang to recognize the corpse?"

"This kind of public property, the Yizhuang must have been kept or sent to the palace, and will not be left on the corpse." Huang Zixia thought for a while, shook his head and said, "No, this short time is not enough for Mr. Zhang to go to Puning. Go to Yizhuang and return to Kaiyuanmen next to Puning Square."

Zhou Ziqin hesitated, and asked in a low voice: "What you mean is... Before Brother Zhang died, this Lingxin was already by Uncle Zhang's side?"

Huang Zixian nodded slightly, and said in a difficult voice: "Well, I am afraid it is already ready...If Brother Zhang missed and died, Old Uncle Zhang would go up to the tower to publicize this matter-in short, a storm must be set off. Not immune."

Zhou Ziqin couldn't help taking a step backwards in horror, but his throat seemed to be choked, and he couldn't say anything.

"I don't know how King Kui He De can be so ruthless... Mr. Zhang, what does it have to do with us? Why should he be involved?" She muttered, turning around slowly, and said , "Let's go, this is the end of the matter, step by step will only lead to a more desperate situation."

Zhou Ziqin couldn't help catching up with her, and asked, "Next, what are you going to do? Wang Ye...what are you going to do?"

Huang Zixian stopped, sighed, and said, "Don't ask, Ziqin. The forces we have to face are too terrifying. I am only worried now... everything I value will be drawn into this whirlpool. Among them, all the people I care about will involuntarily become pawns against me..."

Zhou Ziqin Moran stared at her, his hands clenched and loosened. In the end, with difficulty, but extremely solemn, he said every word: "But I will definitely be on your side. No matter the people in this world are there. Whatever you say, no matter how many people abandon you, Zhou Ziqin will always believe in Huang Zixia."

Huang Zixian's eyes instantly turned red, and the enthusiasm in it could not be suppressed, and the embankment was about to burst. She raised her head and breathed deeply. For a long time, she calmed down the rapid beating of her heart, tried to suppress the breath of her throat, and said in a low voice, "Thank you. Huang Zixia, I will never let Zhou Ziqin down."

In the streets outside the city wall, Wang Zongshi's car was still waiting for her.

He sat in the car, looked at her with his arms folded, and said nothing. When the carriage started, he asked slowly, "What do you think?"

Huang Zixian lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and asked: "The prince has already heard about this news. If he wanted to stop it at that time, maybe... it was too late?"

"What you didn't expect, how would I want to get it?" His lips curled up with a faint arc, glanced at her, and said, "What's more, what is the relationship between the Zhang family and me, if not for You, why should I bother?"

"Thank you Prince and Duke for your love, Zi Xia is grateful." She lowered her eyes and said.

The body undulated slightly as he walked, Huang Zixian saw the young man outside the window through the window, with a delicate profile, occasionally raising his hand to touch the drooping tree branch above his head innocently.

Seeing her looking outside, Wang Zongshi said, "His name is Aze. I found him ten years ago. At that time, I still loved arty and named him Yunmengze, but now I think it is Aze."

Huang Zixian asked: "Duke Duke is a lieutenant of the guardian army, Quan Qing is in the court, but there is only such a little boy by his side. Wouldn't it be inconvenient?"

"Everything is done by yourself, so what's the point?" He raised his eyelids and said, "What's the matter with me? Although he was ordered by the Holy Master to investigate the case of King E's murder, but now I don’t ask the Lord, and I can’t do anything about it. Everything falls on you.”

Huang Zi Xia listened to his slow and tidy words, looked at his calm expression, did not say anything, and took his gaze back from A Ze.

Wang Zongshi said suddenly, "Send the Buddha to the west, and it's okay to give you another big gift." He tapped the wall of the car and told the driver: "Go to Xiuzhengfang."

The coachman responded and immediately drove his horse around a turn and headed south.

Huang Zixia asked: "Duke Duke wants to take me to see King Kui?"