The Golden Hairpin

Although Yongchangfang is near the Daming Palace, it is now at dusk, and every family is late with smoke, and every household is closed. For a while, the shops seem to be in the cold.

Wang Zongshi sent Huang Zixia to the door of Wang's house, but when the carriage stopped, Wang Yun came out of it. It turned out that he had been waiting for her inside for a long time.

When Wang Yun saw Wang Zongshi, he felt a little embarrassed and greeted him: "Duke Duke."

"Yeah." He pushed the door up, and walked away without even saying hello.

Wang Yun looked at his carriage and smiled at Huang Zixia: "I said it earlier, the world is so big, the prince only admires you, and I don't even care about it everyday."

Huang Zixia lowered her head, smiled wearily, did not answer his words.

The people in the house are attentive and have already prepared dinner for two people. Wang Yun naturally ate with her.

The sky was falling like a fire, and they were shining back in Xiaoxuan, and they were all red. Wang Yun looked at her golden face invaded by the sun's rays, and could hardly look away.

Feeling his gaze, Huang Zixia turned her face away and ordered people to get the lamp.

Xiaguang gradually dimmed, and the blue night began to fall on this world. They sat opposite each other under the candlelight and the glow. Or she couldn't help it, and asked, "I don't know if I'm coming over today, can I have something important?"

Wang Yun smiled slightly, put down the silver chopsticks in his hand, and said: "One, congratulations, you have been cleared of the crime, you have successfully accused you of being serious and fierce, and you will get out of jail."

Huang Zixia lowered his eyelashes and said, "It's all about the Prince... Yunzhi helps me, otherwise how can I get out of Dali Temple?"

"I wanted to go directly to Zhang Xingying and dig out the truth, but the prince said, you will be able to handle this matter properly, because I will leave it to you to handle it." Wang Yun said, fingers clasped and looked at her. He added, "Secondly, if everything goes well, King Kui can return to the mansion unharmed in one or two months, and be his prince as usual, and may even be more prestigious."

Huang Zixia suddenly opened her eyes in amazement, and asked in disbelief, "Is this true?"

"Of course, how could I lie to you?" He looked at her face with mixed surprises and doubts, his expression became complicated, and the eyes staring at her also showed indescribable emotions, "third... …Zixia, as the spring is approaching, the atmosphere of the earth has gradually warmed up. If I accompany you back to Shu, you see… Is the time right?"

He smiled lightly, the corners of his lips were so gentle, staring at her gaze cautiously and slightly unnaturally shy, and the clasped hands revealed the tension in his heart that could not be completely concealed.

Huang Zixian's eyes opened slightly in amazement, but then she lowered her head again. She lowered her eyelashes to cover her gaze, and also concealed the way he stared at her.

When she heard Wang Yun's voice, it was still soft, but with an inexplicable sense of coldness: "In this way, when you and I come back, King Kui will just be able to return to the house. Isn't this a good thing? In pairs?"

Her hand couldn't help shaking slightly. She subconsciously stretched out her hand and held the two red beans tightly on her wrist. The two bright red acacia beans that naturally gathered together in the arc were round and crystal clear, with a slight warmth.

She understood what he meant. She went back to Shu with Wang Yun, naturally going back to pay homage to her parents and brother, and then the Huang clan elders came forward to marry her, and the Wang family would officially marry her.

When the emperor went to see Li Shubai today, he was obviously murderous. I'm afraid it won't be long, he must put Li Shubai to death. Now the situation is so critical, they have been pushed to a place where there is no way to retreat. And since Wang Yun said this to her, I believe it must be certain that when they got married and returned, it was the moment when Li Shubai got out of trouble. Now they are facing a situation like this, she doesn't know what the Langya King's family can do, but since he promises this way, he is absolutely sure of it, and it is impossible to miss it.

Good things come in pairs—her life and his freedom are only between her thoughts.

However, she was holding the two red beans tightly, and in this beautiful glow, she couldn't say a word.

Wang Yun watched her hesitation and confusion, and for a moment only felt that uncontrollable resentment flashed in his heart, but then he turned his face away, worried that he would not be able to control it and let her see what was in his eyes.

He remembered what Li Shubai said to himself. After his failed mission to assassinate Li Shubai, when he was deeply worried that he would be implicated in the family, Li Shubai smiled and agitated him and said: "Yunzhi, are you not confident in yourself? Do you think if Without the constraint of the marriage paper, Zi Xia would not choose you?"

In fact, he already knew at that time that if he really complied with his words, once he wrote his dissolution of marriage, he would never have the opportunity to be with Huang Zixia again in this life. However, he was still pretended to be fooled. In order to protect himself and his family, he exchanged a piece of marriage dissolution for Li Shubai's promise to return to Beijing.

Therefore, when he met Huang Zixia, who was faint and faint, at Anguo Temple and brought her back to the Wang's house, he was almost thanking God for giving him this opportunity. She stubbornly wanted to solve the mystery of Li Shubai, how could he not know that she wanted to use the power of the Langya King's family. However, she insisted on helping Li Shubai, so he had no choice but to pretend that he didn't know anything. After all, he comforted himself by saying that he had used her before, so he should be even.

In fact, both of them know their hearts well, and both know that the other person knows their own thoughts. It's just that there is a layer of paper separated like this, and no one is willing to puncture it, deliberately maintaining this unbreakable layer of window paper.

Until now, in her silence, he finally couldn't bear it anymore. Looking at the last trace of dark purple glow outside the window, he opened his mouth: "There is a fourth thing, you will definitely want to hear it."

"No... don't listen." Huang Zixia interrupted him. She looked up at him, revealing a smile that was dimmer than the glow of the sun at this time, "Spring is blooming, and it's a good time to go south to Shu."

Wang Yun didn't expect that she would answer, but was stunned for a while.

And she had already said it, as if relieved, and slowly, as if talking to herself: "Yes, we always have to get married earlier and later, what does it matter? ?? And King Kui, if you can help him out of this trouble, you can be regarded as paying back the favor for me. From then on, we are... nothing owes each other, nothing else."

Seeing her in a daze, Wang Yun kept looking at the sunset outside the window. Those words didn't seem to be for him, but for her own. There was a strange pain in his heart, but he still showed her a gentle smile on his face. He stretched out his hand to hold her weakly dangling wrist in his arms, pulled her right hand away from the two red beans, and whispered "Fourth, the eagerness of the various government officials is a good time for us. There will be public opinion in the capital in the near future to clarify the fact that the princes of the towns will be difficult to suppress after the death of King Kui. At that time, only the sage will oppose King Kui. If you start, it is tantamount to destroying the Great Wall yourself. I believe that your Majesty will not be afraid of this."

In Huang Zixian's mind, what Li Shubai had said to her flashed in an instant. Li Shubai seems to disagree with this move. But he is mainly afraid that if his side releases the wind, people will follow this to find the source, but it is easy to catch fire. Since this is the royal family that has nothing to do with Prince Kui's mansion, it is naturally unclear and difficult to trace back.

So she just nodded and didn't speak.

When Wang Yun saw her nodding, he lowered his head and smiled. He folded his hands, put her hands in his palms, and held her hands quietly for a long time.

The color of the last setting sun was golden and purple, so gorgeous that it was about to dissipate. He held her hand and looked at the sunset outside the window, feeling her hand cold and weak, lying quietly in his palm, as if she had no strength anymore.

That night, Huang Zixian sat under the candlelight, took off the golden red beans from his wrist and put it in the bag.

She put the kit under her pillow, leaning on the bed and staring at the night outside the window. The first month was severely cold, and the breath turned into frost, and the Xingyue outside the window, immersed in the cold air, seemed more and more shining.

Her eyes slid aimlessly across the room, and stopped on the pair of little red fishes on the table. The two fishes that were extremely quiet in the past are swimming in the water excitedly today, surrounding a red bean at the bottom of the water.

The same bright red as the two red beans that she just took off from her hand, and the same round shape, made her heart jump.

She stood up and walked to the table to take a close look at the red spot.

It turned out that countless small fish eggs were neatly gathered into a mass, and they were glued to the bottom of the crystal bottle, half a grain of rice, like a small drop of blood sinking to the bottom of the water.

She stayed for a while, put her hand into the water and touched the ball of fish roe. Agashne has only the knuckle length, and the fish roe is extremely small, scattered like dust, and it is even more difficult to find after it is dispersed, just like a blood stain in the water, like there is nothing, it seems to be scattered and scattered. .

She remembered that when Wang Zongshi gave this pair of fish to her, he said to her that this fish is extremely difficult to reproduce. It's just that fish eggs are rare, and you don't know how to do it. You can tell me when you lay eggs and I will collect them myself.

She lifted the crystal bottle and looked carefully at the fish eggs deposited below, flashing through her mind what Qi Teng had said to Yu Xuan overheard when she was in Shudi. He said, do you remember, where did my little red fish go?

Inadvertent words at that time made her horrified at this moment. At this moment, this seemingly ignorant, self-defeating little fish seemed to be formed by condensing fresh blood. The ghastly and terrible place in it made her involuntarily put down the crystal bottle and retreated several steps.

After a long time, she blew out the lamp on the table, and retreated to the bed by the faint moonlight outside the window. But the little fish in the crystal bottle was still very excited, and the water in the bottle was stirred so that the light was scattered in the room, and a layer of weird light fluctuations made people more uneasy.

Huang Zixian got up again and moved the crystal bottle to a corner where the moonlight was invisible, and then lay down in peace.

She thought of the death of her parents, of Yu Xuan, of poison, and of Li Shubai's charms, slowly curled up and closed her eyes. She reached under the pillow to hold the kit and pressed it to her face. The soft brocade lined her skin, and she could hardly feel anything in it.

She thought in her heart, choose the easiest way, because too many people she can't bear have been involved, and it's too tired.

Anyway, no matter how you walk in your life, you will be finished.

Who is the person who is with you, and what is important? As long as Li Shubai can have a different life, as long as the important people around her no longer suffer tragedies because of her, what does everything have to do?

She lay quietly on the pillow and closed her eyes.

In a trance, she heard a soft voice calling her: "Zixia, Zi Xia..."

She opened her eyes and saw Li Shubai standing in front of the bed. He was leaning over and staring at her, the backlight of the moon shining from behind him, reflecting his silhouette deeply in her eyes.