The Golden Hairpin

Huang Zixian only felt a sudden jump in his heart, but then she thought that she had just seen Yu Xuan come out, and it seemed that the emperor had let him go.

"I really want to kill him." The emperor said, stunned for a while, then raised his head and let out a sigh of relief, and said, "After seeing people, but somehow, he dispelled this idea."

Li Shubai didn't speak, but turned his head slightly, his eyes fell on the princess's coffin.

"Perhaps I am old, and there is no way to cruelly destroy a jade tree." The emperor said, turning his head to look at Li Shubai, "Have you ever seen that Yu Xuan?"

"I've seen it, Qingyi and pretty, unparalleled in the world." Li Shubai said lightly.

Concubine Guo Shu sat there in a daze for a long time. For some reason, she suddenly stood up and walked quickly to Princess Tongchang's coffin, holding the coffin along the edge of the coffin and tearing down like rain.

Li Shubai calmed down as usual and said, "The emperor is right not to kill him. Otherwise, if he lays down with the princess, how can he behave himself?"

The emperor nodded, closed his eyes and looked tired.

Huang Zixia stood behind them, listening to them quietly. In the summer afternoon, cicadas sang. She heard the emperor’s voice, caught in the noisy cicadas, and she was slightly weak: "Tomorrow, Dali Temple will hear the case. I have already ordered that the prisoner be taken to the execution ground and executed soon after the trial is over."

Li Shubai pondered for a moment and asked, "Is this case confirmed?"

"Personal evidence and physical evidence are there."

"If the real murderer is caught, it will be enough to comfort the spirit of Tongchang in the sky." Li Shubai looked back at Huang Zixian, and said, "The minister will be suspended in Dali Temple, and he will go tomorrow."

"The weather is hot, and the spirit emblem can't stop for a long time. I have decided that after the murderer has put the law down, I will temporarily send her to her father's Zhenling tomb and park her. After her tomb is built, she will be put in the earth for safety."

"That's very good." Li Shubai said, but saw the emperor leaning on the back of his chair, looking up at the sky, never moving, not even turning his eyes, only his breathing became heavier.

He stopped for a long time, resigned to the emperor, and left the princess mansion with Huang Zixia.

In the summer afternoon, the capital was shrouded in a fiery atmosphere, and there were few pedestrians on the street.

In the ice bucket in the carriage, there are ice blocks carved into fairy mountains, which are only eroded by the heat. The melting iceberg can no longer see the appearance of immortals and flowers and trees, only the outline of the mountain remains.

Melted ice dripped on the water in the bucket, making a slight sound.

Even sitting next to the ice cube, Huang Zixia still felt hot, sweating from her back. She felt Li Shubai look closely at her, which made her feel extremely nervous.

In this kind of situation, it is simply a confidant who does not know the other, and there is no possibility of controlling the scene. So in order to avoid a fiasco, she gritted her teeth and spoke first: "The slave and maid would like to ask the prince a question."

There was a hint of surprise in his close eyes: "What?"

"Is there any way to make people hallucinate and see things that didn't happen in the first place?"

Li Shubai shook his head and said, "Impossible."

"However, I just met Yu Xuan, and he said that on the day of my parents' death, I had that pack of arsenic in my hand and looked weird."

Yu Xuan, these two words came out of her mouth, and there seemed to be waves in her heart.

Li Shubai thought for a while and said: "Perhaps, this can explain why he always insists that you are the murderer-because he saw you in his eyes and made some abnormal actions when the accident happened."

"But I really haven't done it!" she insisted.

"Did he remember it wrong, or did you forget?" Li Shubai asked again.

"He remembered it wrong." Huang Zixia did not hesitate.

"Perhaps there is another possibility. He was wrong-this is a lie."

"However...what is the point of lying in front of a client like me?" Huang Zixia asked blankly.

"You are the party involved, you don't know yet, how can I know?" Li Shubai's voice became cold, "Moreover, haven't you already made an appointment to meet in Yizhou? Then you will face each other again, and you won't understand. ."

Huang Zixia heard his cold tone and was silent. He heard the ice water "tick" down, and the carriage slowly stopped, and the palace of Kui had arrived.

When Huang Zixian got out of the carriage, she only felt a rush of heat, like a tangible wave, which made her stagger inadvertently.

Li Shubai was behind her, raising his hand to support her.

She stood firm and was about to thank him, but he had let go of her hand and walked inward across her.

She stood there, looking at his back for a while, then turned and walked towards the stable.

He didn't look back, but the back of his head looked like eyes, and a cold voice came: "Where to go?"

"Tai Chi Palace." She turned around and said, "I want to try to see if I can save the maids and eunuchs around the princess."

"Daddy Yang, don't come here unharmed?"

Queen Wang woke up from a nap, still with a sense of laziness. The hall was deep and deep, and the Queen and Queen had ice muscles and bones, surrounded by a gauze like a light cloud, as if she had not been affected by the heat.

Huang Zixian, who rushed all the way from the palace of Kui, was much worse. Her hair was stranded on her forehead, and there were tiny beads of sweat on her nose. The clothes that had just been hurriedly arranged outside the hall were not neat enough, look. It feels very embarrassed.

Queen Wang raised her hand to signal everyone around her to retreat first, and then took a piece of Jinpao to her and asked, "Is there anything wrong with coming to me in such a hurry?"

Huang Zixian took it, pressed the sweat on her nose, and whispered: "Congratulations to the queen, returning to the Daming Palace is just around the corner."

Queen Wang stared at her face for a moment, and when she saw her look so serious, she smiled and said, "The Penglai Temple is near the water, and it is indeed much cooler than here. It would be nice to go back as soon as possible."

Huang Zixian nodded and said: "The servant girl knows that the queen must be ready to return to the palace, but it is the servant's duty to help the queen go back as soon as possible."

"Tell me first, why are you in such a hurry to inform me of this." The Queen Wang leaned on the couch, holding a white ball fan painted with the goddess scattered flowers, and slapped it lightly.

"Concubine Guo Shu has a secret. It may be discovered by the close eunuchs and maids around Princess Tongchang. Now that the princess is dead, she wants to let all the eunuchs and maids close to the princess be buried."

Queen Wang covered her lips with a white ball fan, but couldn't hide her slightly curved eyes: "It seems that it is a very important secret."

"Actually... it's just a sentence." She whispered, "And I, there is one more thing, I want the queen to do it."

"what?"

"The other person involved in this matter, Guozijian Xuezheng Yuxuan, is my... old friend. I believe this secret can be used to admonish Concubine Guo Shu as long as the queen knows it, and there is no need to let this secret be made public."

Queen Wang smiled and said: "This is natural, this palace can tolerate Concubine Guo Shu in the palace for more than ten years, and naturally I will continue to let her be my right arm in the palace in the future."

Huang Zixia bowed her head silently, and said in a low voice: "Yes."

"So, what is the secret of Concubine Guo Shu?"

Huang Zixian’s eyes suddenly looked like dreams, flashing past the wind and lotus on the day when she and Yu Xuan first met. The stalks scattered in her arms floated quietly on the water, and the ripples disturbed the lake surface, and could no longer restore calm. .

When Yu Xuan moved to a house outside for the first time, Yu Xuan, who had been standing outside her house for half a night because of insomnia, melted the snowflakes on her eyelashes into water, dripping like teardrops.

On the day of her family's tragedy, he helped himself embrace the plum blossoms, and the burning red plum blossoms beside his smile, which was more beautiful than all the blood she had ever seen.

Also, those pieces of letter paper that he tossed in the incense burner of Xingtang Temple faded away in the fire, leaving only a piece of black ash.

She closed her eyes and whispered, and said softly: "I wish to illuminate the emperor every month."

The sunset glow is like brocade, laying on the city of Chang'an. Huang Zi Xia looked up and looked west, the sky was as low as her fingertips.

After the most brilliant glow, another day is about to pass.

Huang Zixia returned to the Prince Kui Mansion, sat down in his room, took off the hairpin from his head, unconsciously drew on the bed, and integrated all the clues.

After confirming that everything was correct, she inserted the hairpin back into the silver hairpin and the like, sat on the bed and thought for a while, and finally found out where the wrong feeling came from——

Li Shubai did not call her.

Usually, when she returns to the house, someone always tells her that the prince wants you to go.

But now, when she has made such significant progress, she doesn't know who to report the case to.

She sighed, lay down on the bed, and dumbfoundedly recounted what had happened in the alley next to the princess mansion.

Yu Xuan said that she had a strange look when she saw a pack of arsenic in her hand.

It was impossible—in her memory, after she bought Pishuang and came back, before she had time to make the bet with him, she heard of the case of extermination in Longzhou, so she rushed to Longzhou to investigate. After visiting, she found that it was Because her parents separated her from her lover, the daughter poisoned her food at home and went to Huangquan with herself and the whole family. She sighed and wrote a letter to him, and returned to Yizhou two days later. It was dusk when she went home because she was exhausted, and she fell asleep after eating. She slept so hard that night, she didn't even have a dream. The next morning, when Yu Xuan came over, she had just got up. He asked her what was written in the letter. He saw that she was the same, so he went to the backyard to see plum blossoms with her as usual. Later, because of her grandmother. Arrived with his uncle and left.

At that time, she hadn't even opened the cabinet with arsenic, how could she look at it while holding that bag of arsenic?

Is his memory wrong, or his own memory is wrong.

Is he lying? But his expression is definitely not fake, and what's the point of lying in front of him?

Huang Zixia felt extremely exhausted, lying back on the bed involuntarily, staring at the top of her head in a daze.

"Not moving, what are you thinking about?" A voice rang from the side.

She was in a trance as if she was in an illusion, and subconsciously muttered: "Yu Xuan..."

After these two words, she suddenly felt that her scalp was numb, and thin sweat oozes out of her back.

She quickly turned over and sat up, looking at Li Shubai who was standing at the door.

The slanting rays of the setting sun were already dim, and the sky was about to turn black. The bleak glow of the glow slightly rendered his outline, but it was not clear, let alone the expression on his face at this time.