The Golden Hairpin

The emperor leaned on the queen, and gradually recovered from that kind of malaise and decadence. Although his throat voice was low and difficult, he could barely speak. There was no need for Xu Fenghan to convey: "Fourth brother, I want to ask you something."

Li Shubai bowed his hands and saluted: "Please show me from above."

"Before, I detained you in Zongzheng Temple for the sake of the seventh brother. It is also a royal face, and I have never handed you over to Yusi for trial..." He said these few words, leaning on the Queen and taking a breather. Then he stopped again, until the Queen helped him caress his chest for a long time before he slowly continued to say, "Now I ask you about the seventh brother, you can think about how to give me, the court, and the world an account. ?"

Li Shubai put his hands down, stood before them, and said: "My official brother told his majesty when he was in Zongzheng Temple. You can investigate the strangeness of this matter as much as possible. From the perspective of today's matter, some people in the DPRK are trying to frame the minister. Brother, I have gone to any means, so please send your majesty to send the order to the third division for trial of this case, and all the ministers will cooperate."

"What if I don't?" The emperor interrupted him, his voice was too sharp, and he was panting. Queen Wang caressed the emperor's back and looked at Li Shubai and said: "This matter is after all about the face of the royal family. His Royal Highness King E has already ridiculed him, so why should King Kui get into prison again and be ashamed?"

Li Shubai looked at the emperor Dan, and asked slowly: "So your majesty meant that this matter should be closed without trial?"

The emperor did not speak, only closed his eyes.

Seeing him like this, Li Shubai couldn't help showing a smile on his lips, but the smile was cold and mocking, without any joy: "So, how are you going to deal with the courtier?"

"State-owned, national laws, and family rules. Even if King Kui has many reasons to kill King E, the court still cannot tolerate a murderer who slaughters brothers and relatives." Queen Wang sighed, turned to look at the emperor, and saw him nodding slightly. , Turned his head and looked at Li Shubai again, and said, "The royal face must not be lost. Your Majesty has prepared a parting glass of wine for King Kui, and will send His Royal Highness on the road."

She looked at Wang Zongshi, and the **** behind Wang Zongshi immediately handed out a bottle of wine that had already been prepared.

Li Shubai glanced at the bottle of wine, then looked at the emperor: "Thank you for your kindness. Your majesty's orders should not be too much for his ministers, but now he will resign forever. The courtiers just want to know how your majesty will tell his courtiers. ?"

Queen Wang slowly said: "Your Majesty is kind, King Kui accidentally injured King E, and he went crazy because of guilt."

"However, the minister has already written his statement. When he has an abnormality, he will spread the whole world and reveal the inside story. By then, everyone in the world will know that the minister is wronged, and the murderer is someone else— I am afraid that your Majesty cannot justify himself by saying this."

The queen was stunned and turned to look back at the emperor. However, the emperor also suddenly changed his color. He propped up, lowered his voice, and asked, "Self-reported?"

"It can't be counted as a legendary novel. The name of the person in it is slightly hidden, but the content is the same as reality. In the past ten years, there have been countless strange and strange things, from the charms and the little ones around the courtiers. The red fish began to talk about it until the real murderer was revealed behind the scenes. It was justified and well-founded, and anyone with a heart would be able to see through all of them at a glance."

The emperor's face was blue and gray, staring at him firmly, his throat was dry: "Then, who is the murderer behind the scenes you are referring to?"

Li Shubai turned his head and looked at Huang Zixia.

Huang Zixian nodded, opened the cage beside him, and said, "Your Majesty, Rong Slave and maidservant, please speak carefully."

Wang Zongshi, who had been standing still by his side, fixed his gaze on Huang Zixian, and finally said: "Admonish you two, you must know the severity. Under this circumstance, maybe everything has the truth, but not every truth can be said. of."

"Please forgive your ignorance. I only know that the truth is clear, good and evil are rewarded, no matter whether you are in a high position or in a lowly position, what you have done can never be covered." Huang Zixian's eyes are firm and clear, without flickering. Looking directly at him, he calmly confronted him, "Even if the falsehood in this world has deceived most people, even if it has been deceived for a while, the floating clouds cannot cover the sun after all. The beautiful jade in the quagmire will eventually wash away the silt."

"Why don't the princes worry? This king is just talking about the possibility we guessed for discussion. As for whether things are right or wrong, the person who has done everything is in the temple at this time, and naturally knows how to judge and how to explain it. "Li Shu Baiyun said lightly, not even looking at the people who were discolored in amazement, thinking for a moment, and said to Huang Zixia, "Then let's start with the death of His Royal Highness King E."

"Yes." Huang Zixian bowed his hands to the crowd and said, "Before the day was just breaking dawn, Zi Xian had replayed the scene of His Royal Highness E's disappearance in the dimness. There is no doubt about how E's King disappeared in full view. Nowadays, there is no doubt. Another problem we face is that King E knows that he has acted, and since then he has to stay away from the throne, and is more likely to remain anonymous and not reveal his true body. Why should he be so extreme and slander his Royal Highness Kui in front of everyone? "

"The king of E was the ancestor of the ancestor and the people of the world, and he gave up everything just to expose the ambition of the king of the wolf." Queen Wang said coldly.

"Is it true? I was there when King Kui met King E for the last time. At that time King E asked King Kui to investigate the cause of his mother's madness. Since then, he stayed behind closed doors, and only received two fake gifts from the King's Mansion. Things to go. How could he have such a big resentment towards King Kui during this short period of ten months without going out?"

"Naturally, what he received caused him to reverse his thoughts." Wang Zongshi said with his sleeves back.

"Exactly. I checked the people in the Royal Palace of E and learned what he had received at that time, and found these three things that had been destroyed in the incense burner in front of Queen E's concubine Chen Taifei."

Huang Zixian took out the broken dagger, burnt silk thread, and broken jade bracelet from the cage and placed it on the ground.

"Daggers, concentric knots, jade bracelets." Huang Zixian said slowly, "I have repeatedly searched for the connection, but there is no clue. Until one day I heard a storyteller on the street saying that Emperor Sui Yang gave it to Xuanhua. The Madam’s concentric knot finally understood the relationship between the three—the Emperor's dagger, and the concentric knot received by Mrs. Xuanhua represents both of them. And their similarities are..."

When she said this, she bit her lower lip, and it was inconvenient to continue.

However, everyone in the temple already knew what she meant. Emperor Zetian, who was once a talented person of Taizong, eventually became the empress of Gaozong; and Mrs. Xuanhua of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty received the concentric knot sent by Emperor Yang after Emperor Wen died.

Deathly silence shrouded the hall at this time. The emperor's complexion was pale, the queen was uncertain, Wang Zongshi and Wang Yun were aghast, even Li Shubai, who had been calm, took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

Only after Huang Zixian paused for a while, did he slowly say: "Just as after one and three, the consecutive number should be five. After one hundred and one thousand, it must be ten thousand. Naturally, the jade bracelet of Empress Empress also has this meaning, otherwise How could His Royal Highness King E be so angry that he smashed his mother’s favorite jade bracelet during his lifetime and dumped these two things into the incense burner at the same time? What hints did he receive at this time, and what was he induced?"

Speaking of this, even Xu Fenghan is already sweating from his back. The eunuchs and maids in the palace are sifting the chaff, and understanding the secrets they have heard today will put their lives at risk.

Queen Wang looked at Xu Fenghan and whispered: "You all go down first."

"Yes!" Xu Fenghan received a pardon, hurriedly bowed down the steps, led a group of palace people out of the temple immediately, and closed all the doors of the temple.

Seeing that there were only six of them left in the closed hall, Queen Wang slowly asked: "Huang Zixia, you mean, someone framed King Kui and accused him of being unscrupulous with Princess Chen?"

"Yes. King E and King Kui have always had the best relationship between brothers. It is not easy to provoke them. But for this reason, if they are used well, they will definitely be a fatal blow to King Kui and cause the greatest damage. The murderer is deliberate and knows. King E was weak and sensitive, and attached the most to his mother and concubine, so he did not hesitate to insult the deceased Concubine Chen. After all, King E made up his mind to take revenge on King Kui!" Huang Zixian said so far, she was also slightly agitated, and her voice trembled slightly. When King E jumped from the Xiangluan Pavilion, his testimony against King Kui contained the words'filthy chaotic Chaogang'. I was only a little weird at the time, but now I want to come...it turns out that everything has a trace to follow."

"Absurd..." The emperor's voice was hoarse and dry, and it was vague and gloomy because of exhaustion. "Under this world, who would dare to insult the concubine? Who would dare...to my seventh brother like this? Seventh brother...seventh brother was smart since childhood. Calm, think twice before acting on everything, how can you be so deceived and credulous?"

"Yes, the one that King E cares most is his mother and concubine; and the most respected, besides His Majesty, is probably King Kui. And why does he suspect his two most important people? I think it is because of this. "Huang Zixian opened the porcelain box he brought with him and showed it to everyone. "This thing is probably the most familiar to the princes."

What appeared in the porcelain box were two half-rotted small fishes, as thin as gnats, extremely terrifying.

Wang Zongshi looked at the fish corpse in the porcelain box, his originally pale face sighed at this moment, and finally had some vivid expressions: "Huang Zixia, the old man really has to admire you, such a small thing, you actually I can find it."

"This is what Zi Xia found in the glottis after dissecting the bodies of Zhang Xingying and his son in Yizhuang." Huang Zi Xia said lightly, "It's exactly the same fish, exactly the same place, exactly the same situation-the deceased. Before he died, his temperament changed drastically. The originally gentle and quiet people became extremely extreme. Before his death, Zhang Xingying pointed out that I was a torturer and wanted to get rid of me for the people of the world. Zhang's father climbed up the castle tower after his son died and went to Beijing. The people spread rumors about King Kui’s conspiracy, so the situation is exactly the same as His Royal Highness E King?"

The Queen Wang couldn't believe it. Although she tried her best to stay calm, the steps on her head still trembled uncontrollably: "You mean, the same is true for King E. A small fish was put in her body?"

"Yes, it is precisely because of Agachene that King E committed suicide when he had a frantic attack, but slandered everyone before his death. This was the hand of King Kui!"

Queen Wang coldly snorted and said: "Absurd! King E died at the hands of King Kui, and everyone in the world knows it. Before King E died, he personally said that King Kui killed him, and the princes and hundreds of gods were all personally connected. Heard and witnessed, you said at this moment that he committed suicide, who would believe it?"

"The slaves did not reverse the case based on what they said, but I have evidence in my hands." Huang Zixia took out an autopsy case file from the cage, held it in his hand, and said, "The king of E has passed away, Dali Temple, Zongzheng Temple, etc., please Zhou Ziqin went for an autopsy, and now the dossier has been signed and sealed, and the evidence is conclusive. And in my hand, there is a transcript, which clearly says that the wound on King E’s chest is diagonally to the lower right, that is, the autopsy is relative to the front. As far as the writer is concerned, it is biased to the lower left-that is, if King E had not committed suicide, the murderer could only be a left-handed."

The face of Queen Wang became more and more ugly, and she said nothing.

"However, people in the DPRK know that King Kui was assassinated a few years ago after the Pangxun Rebellion was put down. Now he can only do some daily movements with his left hand, and his dominant hand is the right hand. But killing requires sufficient strength and angle. How can he do it with his left hand now?"