The Golden Hairpin

Before everyone could ask questions, the golden bell and jade bells rang in the hall, and the emperor was already in court.

Although Danbi and the curling incense were separated from the distance, the courtiers below were surprised when they saw the emperor's face. The three-day blessings did not benefit him at all. Instead, his face was ashamed, his steps faltered, almost relying on Xu Fenghan's body to move his steps. The trembling figure made everyone at a loss.

After the ceremony is completed, Shanhu long live. The scholar in the hall reported what had just happened in front of the hall, and the hall was quiet, and the emperor's unusually ugly expression was aggravated by a few points.

It took a long time before I heard the emperor's voice, so weak that only Xu Fenghan who was close at hand could hear it. He listened attentively, and then said loudly: "The sage means that the dead are already dead, and the living are cherished. The king of E has been stubborn, and I can't bear to hear it, so let's expose it."

The courtiers below were in an uproar, and they didn't expect such an important matter to be lightly exposed and ignored.

Even if you don't hear about King E's fault, can King Kui's injustice be eliminated?

Everyone is still speculating. Xu Fenghan heard the emperor’s edict and conveyed on his behalf: “The saint’s will, three days of prayers and blessings, sleep and food, so the strength is not enough, you do not need to worry about the family. Today, the Buddha bones are delivered out of the palace, From the temples in the capital to send blessings, immerse in the Buddha's light, seek the welfare of the community, and seek eternal stability for the Tang Dynasty.

The Buddha bone was brought into the palace by Li Shubai. At this time, the palace people held out the Buddha bone stupa, and naturally he got up and sent it out of the palace gate.

The stupa is very heavy. The silver box is a full square one foot square. Through the hollowed-out treasure-like flower on the silver box, you can vaguely see the gold inlaid coffin inside. Inside the gold coffin is the jade coffin, and inside the jade coffin is the Buddha. Bone relics.

All the ministers knelt to the ground and gave the Buddha bone relics.

As if welcoming the Buddha's bones three days ago, Li Shubai still held willow branches, dipped in the clean water, lightly supported the stupa with his left hand, and swiped nine times with his right hand.

Huang Zixian knelt behind the crowd, staring closely at the stupa with Yang Zhi's rain showers.

Then, Li Shubai took the stupa from the palace man, and under everyone's attention, he walked down the steps from the entrance of the temple and came to Li Jian.

Li Jianshen bowed deeply to the ground. After three kneelings and nine bows, he got up and took the stupa.

Just as the stupa moved away and Li Shubai was about to put down his hands, the palace people who were standing next to him all exclaimed "Ah" for a while.

It turned out that Li Shubai's hands had blood stains, which was terrible.

In the exclamation of the crowd, Li Jian raised the stupa and looked down. It was vaguely that there were two **** handprints, matching the hands of Li Shubai holding the stupa.

He was shocked and at a loss. The ministers were talking about it. Someone had already got up, rushed towards the temple, and bowed to the ground: "Your Majesty! Although King Kui has proved that King E was framed before his death, King E died in his hands at Xiangji Temple after all! After being exposed to the truth by King E, he was holding a grudge, so he became angry and slaughtered his brother. He was a man who lost his conscience. How could his majesty be blinded by it and let him stain the bones of Buddha? Right now...the bones of the Buddha show their spirits, and the hands of King Kui Stained with blood, it is the anger of the world!"

This person was Tian Lingzi next to the prince, and prince Li Yan listened to him the most, and immediately followed him to kneel in front of the temple. Seeing this situation, many other people also woke up one after another, and hurriedly squeezed to the front of the temple, all of them seconded: "The world is angry, and the Buddha's bones are alive. It is precisely for your Majesty to punish this unforgivable sin as soon as possible!"

Li Shubai frowned and looked at his hand, then turned to the palace man who gave him the stupa.

It was the age of the female officer next to the queen. When she saw Li Shubai looking at herself, she immediately knelt down and said in horror: "Lord for your life! When the slave and maid handed this thing to the prince, it was extremely clean! Don't believe it, if you don't believe it, look at my hand..."

She trembled and presented her hands in front of everyone, only to see that her hands were dry and white without any blood stains.

There was such an uproar in front of the hall, coupled with the prince and others attacking, the emperor had ordered Xu Fenghan to come out for questioning. Seeing this, Xu Fenghan hurriedly asked everyone to return to the hall.

Li Jian hugged the stupa and walked quickly into the temple. Longling was panicked and followed behind him. Li Shubai walked up the steps, and when he passed Huang Zixia, he motioned to her and she quickly followed.

Wang Yun raised his hand and grabbed her sleeve. Huang Zixia hurriedly turned her head and saw his desperate look in his eyes.

He said: "Huang Zixia, if you leave now, I can still help you."

Huang Zixian shook his head slowly, and took his sleeves away from his palm.

The clothes fluttered, and the golden ring on her wrist shook. The two red beans on it separated in the air for an instant, and then slid together along the destined trajectory, touching each other lightly.

She looked down at the red beans on the wrist that were close together, and said softly, "Thank you, but...I have to go."

The vast hall, which had just been empty, was now filled with people again.

Under His Majesty Dan, the places closest to the emperor are Li Shubai, Li Jian and Changling. Li Jian panicked and lifted the stupa to the emperor, and said, "Your Majesty, it was the same when the minister took it over. I don't know... I don't know what happened!"

The emperor's gaze swept over him, and he waved his hand. Xu Fenghan quickly took the towel to Li Jian, he wiped the blood contaminated under the stupa, and then returned the towel to Xu Fenghan.

Xu Fenghan naturally felt that the blood-stained towel was a little irritating, and he was still wondering whether to reach out and take it back. Huang Zixian was behind Li Jian, looking at Xu Fenghan and asked: "Xu Gonggong, can the slave and maid take a look at this blood stain?"

Xu Fenghan was stunned, and when he saw who she was, he hesitated. When he looked back at the emperor, he found that he was still staring at no one's place. Obviously, he was slow to react and had not noticed the abnormal movement here.

Before he asked the emperor to ask the emperor, Huang Zixia had taken the towel in Li Jian's hand, looked at the red blood stains on it, and when he saw the faint yellow color in the dry place, he carefully smelled the scent on the towel.

Xu Fenghan walked quickly to the emperor's side and spoke with his ears.

The emperor’s voice came faintly, but it was enough for the first few people to hear: "Fourth emperor, I know that you are obsessed with ghosts and killed the fourth brother... However, I still want you to pick up this Buddha bone for me. My intention is... The deeper you want to make the Buddha bone wash your mind, but...but..."

He was out of strength, and he couldn't say anything further.

Tian Lingzi immediately shouted: "Your Majesty Shengming! Although Wang Kui's wolf ambition is hidden from the world, the gods and Buddhas have known it! Now the stupa he held in his hand is bleeding, which is the warning of the Buddha bones. Such hands are stained with blood from their loved ones. People, what kind of brotherly affection does your Majesty want to talk about, and what kind of royal family do you care about?"

Li Shubai turned his face and glanced at him indifferently.

Tian Lingzi was so frightened that he knelt there, not daring to squeak again. Even the prince Li Yan by his side hugged Tian Lingzi's arm tightly, too scared to raise his head.

The emperor paused for a moment, then raised his hand slightly and moved it inch by inch. He saw a slight pause. When he was about to fall, Huang Zixian had already walked out and knelt in front of the steps, and said clearly: "Your Majesty, this blood stain was framed by King Kui. Please observe carefully!"

The emperor's hand paused, slowly put it down, and asked, "Who is this?"

Xu Fenghan immediately leaned to his ear and said softly: "Yang Chonggu."

The emperor's face changed suddenly, and a loud throat rang, which moved the muscles of the corners of his lips, revealing a strange expression that looked like resentment and sneer. Before Xu Fenghan had time to understand what he meant, Huang Zixia had already kowtowed to the emperor, then stood up and raised the towel in his hand, showing it to everyone: "On this towel, besides the bright red blood, there is also some light yellow powder. The maidservant just smelled it, and was sure it was turmeric."

"Turmeric?" Everyone was puzzled, and they were still guessing that Huang Zixia had already taken out another white silk towel next to him, placed it under the stupa with his hand, and then raised his hand and patted the stupa several times.

Li Jian, who was holding the stupa, suddenly paled and shouted, "Father-in-law, this...this is the bone of a Buddha!"

Huang Zixian ignored him, and walked to the palace man holding the clean water with a white towel. He took the willow branch on it, dipped the clean water and sprinkled the towel in his hand with clean water, and then lifted it up. Motioned to everyone.

Amidst the horrified voices of everyone, she saw that her towel, which had just turned white, was now covered with blood stains and a bright red.

"This is not purified water, but alkaline water." Huang Zixian pointed to the purified water held by the palace staff, and said loudly, "And between the hollow patterns of the stupa, there is a very fine turmeric powder hidden. This is the **** of the shop. The common trick of the goddess of sticks, when turmeric meets alkaline water, it will turn into blood red, which looks like bleeding water. Therefore, after King Kui sprinkled clean water, he lifted the stupa and he had it on his hands. These red'blood water'!"

There was a slight buzzing sound in the hall. Amidst the people's discussion, Huang Zixian bowed to the emperor sitting above, and said loudly: "Your Majesty will learn from it, this matter must be hindered by a villain. Under your eyes, your majesty is trying to deceive the saints and murder the king! I implore your majesty to observe this!"

In the panic of the whole hall, the emperor moved his lips to Xu Fenghan. Xu Fenghan understood, and immediately said to the following: "Your Majesty has an order. The Buddha bones can not be delayed. The stupa will be sent out as usual. King Kui and the palace staff will stay in the hall, and your Majesty will thoroughly investigate this matter. Other people, etc., can all be dispersed- —"

After the courtiers bowed and retreated in turn, Fengjia arrived behind, and the Queen, surrounded by many court ladies and eunuchs, walked into the hall.

It was Wang Yun and Wang Zongshi who followed her in.

The queen greeted the emperor, her eyes fell on Huang Zixia's body, and she glided thoughtfully.

After seeing the emperor, the emperor beckoned to her gently, and she stepped forward and sat beside him, half-supported and half leaning against him, and asked, "I wonder why your Majesty asked King Kui to stay?"

The emperor pointed to Changling and said: "The queen's female officer... is suspected of framed King Kui."

Queen Wang looked at Changling uncertainly, and asked, "What is going on?"

Longling repeatedly kowtow and cried: "The slave and maid had no idea why turmeric was hidden in the stupa, and then the purified water was replaced with alkaline water, which led to an abnormal situation-Empress Mingjian, the slave would never dare to do such a thing! "

Queen Wang's gaze fell on Huang Zixia again, knowing that she must have solved the mystery, and said to King Kui: "I have to talk to Kui Wangming about this matter. Longling is a close female official next to the palace, and she has been cautious for many years. , Never made a mistake. This time I just wanted to touch the stupa with my own hands, so I asked the palace to allow her to send her from the harem to the prince. She respects the Buddha bones so much, how dare to do anything in it. Water tricks, frame the prince?"

Li Shubai said lightly: "His Royal Highness is justified, but in fact, this king also knows that this matter is by no means a mere female official who dared to start."

Long-age now seemed to be alive, and breathing became smoother, kowtow to the empress and king Kui quickly, and then hurriedly retreated.

Wang Zongshi raised his head, put his hands in his sleeves, and remained silent.