The Golden Hairpin

Huang Zixian looked at Di Cui, and said in a gentle tone as much as possible: "Miss Lu, I believe Ziqin has also told you about it. There are a few small things to spend again, please tell us."

Di Cui stood up timidly and said in a low voice: "I...I have nothing to say, I have already said this in the morning..."

Seeing her panic and scared, Zhou Ziqin waved his hand and explained, "Don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong, Brother Zhang is our friend, so you are also our friend, just talk about it!"

Huang Zixia saw Di Cui's expression still hesitating, so she raised her hand to pat Zhang Xingying's back and said, "Miss Lu, trust us. Anyway, we will always stand by your side. If someone from Dali Temple comes over, I'm afraid of you. Will be more frightened."

Hearing what she said, Zhang Xingying hurriedly nodded and lowered her head to comfort Di Cui: "Don't worry, Daddy Yang is very powerful. There is no mystery in the world that she can't solve. I believe that as long as you tell the truth, Daddy Yang can definitely help you. !"

Di Cui raised his head and looked at him deeply. For a long time, he gave him an expression that barely pulled the corners of his lips: "But...I have nothing to say, I killed those two people."

"It's useless to lie to us." Huang Zixia interrupted her, looked at Zhou Ziqin, Zhou Ziqin understood, and immediately said: "Miss Lu, Sun Laizi's corpse was tested by me. The wound on the corpse, I Remember very clearly."

As he said, he turned around and broke a branch to her: "Miss Lu, you can treat me as Sun Laizi and show us the situation at that time. You said Sun Laizi was standing inside the door, so you held it up. Knife, stabbed him twice, right?"

"Yes..." Di Cui tremblingly replied, holding the branch in his hand.

"Then how did you stabbed it at the time?"

Di Cui hesitated, looking at Zhang Xingying and the branch in his hand, but finally he lifted it up and pierced Zhou Ziqin's chest.

Zhang Xingying was anxious and was about to stop. Zhou Ziqin had already grabbed her wrist quickly and blocked her hand in the air: "Miss Lu, if a person is stabbed in front of someone else, the wound must be from the top. It’s a pity that Sun Laizi’s wounds are from left to right. That is to say, he was stabbed by someone while lying on his right side. The wound was slightly inclined downward. We inferred that the person must have taken advantage of it. When Sun Leizi was sleeping, he squatted in front of the low bed and stabbed him with a knife instead of being stabbed by you when he came to open the door, as you said."

"So, if you insist that you killed Sun Laizi, please tell us how you sneaked into his iron cage-like house to kill Sun Laizi while he was sleeping? Come out of the locked room?"

Di Cui stood in front of them blankly, speechless.

Zhang Xingying stared at her with wide eyes, and asked in a trembling voice, "Adi? Why are you lying? Why are you lying about yourself as a murderer?"

"Of course it's for you, Brother Zhang." Huang Zixia said quietly, "You thought she was the murderer who killed Wei Ximin and Sun Laizi, but she thought you were the murderer who killed those two people to avenge her. So, after she discovered that you had become the object of suspicion and even really affected your future, she chose to sacrifice herself and surrendered to Dali Temple without hesitation, trying to replace your crime and keep you safe! "

Huang Zixia's words stunned both Zhang Xingying and Di Cui.

"Adi...you are too stupid!" Zhang Xingying suddenly grabbed her hand, such a big man, happy, annoyed, and sad, mixed together, and didn't know what his expression was, "You...you! Now! What can we do?"

Huang Zixia looked at the hands they shook with each other, feeling relieved and sad, and could only say: "Now that the princess is dead, Miss Lu was in the clean room of Dali Temple at that time. There is absolutely no suspicion. But for the first two, you have already confessed, for a while. It’s difficult to keep you out. I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until the real murderer is caught.”

Di Cui nodded sadly, and said softly: "I'm sorry, Brother Zhang, I...I don't believe you..."

"Don't blame you, blame me for hiding from you..." Zhang Xingying sighed.

"It's true that you guys have caused such a turmoil, and we have to go again now." Zhou Ziqin shook his head helplessly, carried the food box outside, arranged the tables and chairs, and sat in the chairs with Huang Zixia. Above, Zhang Xingying and Di Cui sat side by side on the empty low bed.

"Come on, you are one of the most recent witnesses to Jianfu Temple that day, Miss Lu, I hope you can untie the knot first and describe the scene that day to us in detail, okay?"

Di Cui bit her lower lip silently, her gaze looked at Zhang Xingying, Zhang Xingying nodded at her, she lowered her head and said silently, "But, I wore a veil at the beginning that day, and the situation outside is actually not very clear. , Afterwards, Brother Zhang helped me pick up my drapery hat, and I was afraid that people would recognize me, so I squatted on the ground with my face covered. I didn’t see anything, even... not even Wei Ximin in the crowd. It stands to reason that the eunuch’s red dress is very conspicuous in the crowd, but I really didn’t see it.”

Zhang Xingying also thought for a while, and said, "Yes, at that time, there were lots of people in Jianfu Temple. Wei Ximin was short and drowned in the crowd. I didn't even see him. Until the sky thunder broke down and the candle exploded, I saw it rolling on the ground. Wei Ximin of the United States found out that he was also at Jianfu Temple."

"So, do you think... was it possible that someone took the opportunity to attack him?"

"It's impossible!" Zhang Xingying resolutely shook her head, "It only takes a moment to explode the candle with a thunderbolt. Who can react in that instant to pull Wei Ximin out of the crowd and just hit the fire again?"

"Furthermore, he... his whole body was on fire, not one or two places with candlelight. Therefore, even if he rolled on the ground, he could not stop the fire." Di Cui said softly, "So I thought, It must be a scourge."

Huang Zixia nodded, and asked thoughtfully: "So, did you see Wei Ximin clearly at that time? Did you think he was abnormal?"

Zhang Xingying nodded and said, "Of course! I know he was the one who killed Di Cui, so I looked back at him a few times in the chaos. I saw him...it seemed to be scared and stupid. The fire should hurt him. , But he was still a little dazed at first. He lay on the ground for a while before screaming as he rolled on the ground and wanted to suppress the fire on his body."

"Well... I also remember... the way he woke up from a dream." Di Cui said.

As Zhou Ziqin recorded it, he tilted his head to look at Huang Zixian, "How about it, does it look like a scourge?"

Huang Zixian was noncommittal, turned to Di Cui, and asked, "Why did you want to take that painting away?"

When Di Cui heard her mention it, her body trembled slightly, and she looked up at Zhang Xingying.

Seeing that Zhang Xingying's face was the same and still staring at her tenderly, she bit her lower lip and said in a low voice: "I...My father found me..."

Zhang Xingying was stunned and asked, "When?"

"On... the day you played polo." She lowered her head and said timidly, "I wanted to make an ancient house for you, so I went to the West Market to buy lamb... When I passed my father’s shop, I, I couldn’t help but glanced inside..."

He obviously wore a hat, but after all, he was a father and daughter for more than ten years, and Lu Zhiyuan immediately recognized her. When she finished buying the mutton and arrived at the door of Zhang's house, she felt something was wrong, and when she turned around, she suddenly found her father who was following her far away.

Seeing that she had been discovered by her, Lu Zhiyuan simply walked up and said to her: "Yes, yes, I didn't expect you not only to be alive, but also to find a place to stay."

She was trembling with fright, fearing that the Zhang family would discover her true identity, so she could only beg her father to leave her as a daughter without her.

Lu Zhiyuan sneered and said, "I found a man and wanted to push me away? Are you worthy of me raising you for seventeen years? I tell you, if you leave me far away, don't stay in the capital and make me feel embarrassed; No, just let this family prepare me ten beauties, which is my reward for nurturing you for so many years!"

Zhou Ziqin listened, sighed, and asked, "So you took the painting for ten dollars and gave it to your father?"

Di Cui gritted his teeth and nodded silently, and said, "I...I really can't do it. I don't want to leave Brother Zhang, but I'm also afraid that he will know my past... I, I thought, there is no one in the world who would accept that. A woman with a bad past..."

She said, covering her face with a trembling hand, her voice getting lower and lower: "I am desperate. I originally thought that I could be rotten in that small yard for the rest of my life, where is my last hiding place. ...But my father forced me to sever my last hope in this life...Until I heard and heard Brother Zhang talk about this painting, and knew that it had such a source, I just... I gave it to my dad and said it was the Xiandi imperial pen, which is very valuable. After letting him take it, he would never come to me. My dad didn’t believe me, so I took it to the pawnshop, and it was really worth ten dollars. I took the money. Give it to him, saying, in the future, the Lu family will have no daughters, and in the future, it will be the Zhang family..."

Having said that, she finally couldn't speak anymore, only breathing violently because of excitement. After a long time, she choked up and said, "Second Brother Zhang, sorry...I, I'm a thief, I stole the most precious thing from your house..."

"No, don't say you are staying with me. Even if you sell all the things in the house or throw it away, it doesn't matter." Zhang Xingying gently held her hand and said softly, "I Father recovered from his illness, and I was out again. Now the family is all up to you. You are the mistress of this family! Isn’t it right for the master to take things?"

Di Cui didn't expect him to say this. She looked at him blankly, only tears slowly staying on her face. Zhang Xingying gently wiped her away, staring at her silently for a long time, couldn't help feeling sad, and said: "Adi, you are too stupid... Now, what can I do?"

"That's right, you think it’s really bad." Zhou Ziqin lowered his voice and said, seeing that there were no other people around. "But you don’t have to worry about the death of the princess. It is a great misfortune, but for Di Cui, it is a great blessing... Cui Shaoqing is a relatively open-minded person. As long as Di Cui can clarify the facts to him, we will ask a few princes to speak nice things-at least King Zhao and King E Having seen you, as long as we sincerely plead for it, it should be okay to speak. As for the emperor, I think that the only person who can change the emperor’s mind today is probably only King Kui. And King Kui has to rely on Chonggu... …"

The three hopeful eyes fell on Huang Zixia's body.

Huang Zixia hesitated, nodded, and said, "I will try my best."