The Golden Hairpin

She raised her hand to touch the sideburns, and when she touched the wooden hairpin on her head, she stopped for a moment, obviously remembering the embarrassment of her hair falling apart last time. So she put down her hand, drew a "one" on the railing with her fingertips, and then said: "First, the appearance of this talisman paper can be done by the closest people around you. Therefore, it must be you. People around you have an idea, so quietly put this thing on the top of Xuzhou City where you plan to go."

As she said, her finger drew two horizontal lines on the railing: "Secondly, the red circle on the talisman paper suddenly changed when the talisman paper was next to you. Therefore, this person not only followed you Once you are on the tower, you can always come in contact with everything about you at any time. It should be the closest person to you, such as the attendant."

"Third, the disease diagnosed and treated by the military doctor coincides with this talisman. This shows that there is more than one around you, but two or more perpetrators lurking. At least, one is a military doctor and the other is your side. After speaking, she retracted her hand, blew her fingertips, and concluded, "Following the line of the military doctor, you should be able to find the right and left hiding in the dark."

Li Shubai was noncommittal and continued: "At that time, the military doctor committed suicide in the first place, and I will send all the guards I have cultivated over the years to various places in the future, and I will never recall them."

Huang Zixian's gaze fell on the piece of talisman paper: "But on that..." It seemed that the red circle on the residual character had faded again, leaving only a faint trace.

"My arm has been preserved after more than half a year of treatment, so the red circle on this residual character is gradually gone. But my left arm is now abolished. I can only do some daily things, writing, drawing and painting. It’s okay, but he can’t open a bow with a sword anymore.” He stretched out his left hand and moved his fingers in front of her, “Actually, I used to be left-handed.”

A left-handed person, after his dominant hand is abolished, quickly trains his right hand. It is estimated that most people will not understand the hardship.

Thinking of his abrupt skill in pulling himself out of the carriage, Huang Zixian deeply admired the man in front of him without realizing it. At least, she felt that she probably didn't have the will to start all over again and train her right hand, who hadn't been accustomed to it for more than 20 years, to be like this.

"Originally, I thought that after I dismissed the people around me, this incident was over, so I have always put this rune paper in a secret place, because I also hope to use this rune paper to help me The dark thread was pulled out. However, just a few days ago, when I heard that the emperor was going to choose a princess for me, I remembered the word'widow' on this talisman paper, and took it out to look at it, but it turned out It was discovered that a red circle suddenly appeared on this piece of talisman paper. This time, it fell on the word'Widow'." He picked up the talisman paper and pressed his finger on the “Widow” circled in scarlet. A ridiculous smile appeared on his face, "The man who lost his wife is called a widow. It seems that I might have suffered some unexpected changes in the matter of getting married."

Huang Zi Xia took this talisman paper from his hand and looked at it carefully. The vermilion on the top indeed looks newer than the one on "Gu", so the scarlet-like blood color is even more hideous.

"Unbelievable, it seems like a ghost, destined. After three or four years, this talisman suddenly has new blood." Li Shubai said slowly, "The people around me have changed. After many times, and when I hid this rune paper, I handled the important tasks of military aircraft better than I did, but I didn't expect that this rune paper, which should have been absolutely impossible to show up, finally showed an ominous omen."

Huang Zixian put down the talisman paper and said, "It seems that this talisman paper, perhaps, is much more complicated than we thought."

"Yeah." He responded, paused for a while, and then slowly said, "In short, this time, someone will definitely make trouble with my marriage. And the princess I chose, the daughter of the Langya family, seems to have something behind it. It's not a simple source. If my marriage is used by others, or because of this, someone wants to make trouble and make a fuss, such as—"

His gaze stayed on her for a long time before he said, "I suddenly remembered that Sun Wangyun, the long-term housekeeper of the Langya family, seems to be your fiancé. You are not willing to marry him, and even your family members are poisoned. , Is simply the greatest shame in his life. He can bear this kind of shame, but I cannot bear it."

"I didn't kill my parents and family." She bit her lower lip and said every word, "If you want me to help you, don't bring it up in front of me."

He glanced at her and said, "I am just relaying the opinions of others, not mine."

She bit her lower lip and asked in a low voice, "When did you start to believe that I didn't kill my family?"

He glanced at her with a smile, stood up, and walked across the winding bridge over the water, as if he didn't want to say anything to her anymore.

They walked along the faintly lighted path to the depths of the brightly lit pavilion. Huang Zixia followed him and heard him slowly say: "Yes, because I have looked at your palm and saw that you didn't kill anyone."

She was stunned, and then immediately picked out the omission in his words: "The last time you looked at my palm, you clearly said from my palm prints that I poisoned my relatives, so I inferred my identity! "

"Lied to you."

"Then how did you see my identity last time?"

"You don't need to worry about this." He stopped all topics with a single sentence, "You just need to help me uncover the mystery behind this rune paper, and your mission is over."

"Then, if you just check the palm prints of the people around you one by one, can't you find everything out?" She still asked nonchalantly.

"I'm not interested." He said without looking back, "Because, compared to looking at other people's palm prints, I still prefer to see others pretending to be eunuchs."

Therefore, the young **** Huang Zixia who was sadly reminded by the palace of Kui-no, it should be Yang Chonggu, followed the prince into the palace for the second time, went to the Penglai Pavilion of the Daming Palace, and participated in the selection process of the queen of Kui.

In the March weather, there is no sunshine, and the peaches and plums in full bloom in the imperial garden can't drive away the cold that shrouds the palace.

"It's weird, it's the Daming Palace, which is obviously built high in the sun, but why does it seem to be a little bit colder than the city?"

Li Shubai heard Huang Zixian muttering to herself and glanced at her next to her, saying, "Because this is the inner palace, the most noble place in the world, and the most prosperous place in the entire dynasty."

Huang Zixian looked at the waves below and said nothing. Because there are some things that some people can say, and some people can't.

At this time they were standing on the high platform of Penglai Hall, overlooking the Taiye Pool below. In the hunting wind, the flowers and trees around the Taiye Pool undulate like a huge sea of ​​flowers, and the blue Taiye Pool is surrounded by pink and white waves.

"The ladies from all walks of life are already here nine out of ten. Why don't you go into the hall to see what they are talking about?" Huang Zi Xia asked.

Li Shubai's face seemed to be smiling but not smiling. He glanced at her sideways and asked, "What's the hurry?"

Huang Zixia had to hold back his desire to see the beauties in Beijing, and waited for him to speak. But I heard him ask: "How about the token?"

"Very good." She opened the brocade box she had been holding in her arms and glanced at it. Everyone in the palace is speculating that the treasure Kui gave to the future princess does not know what precious gold or rare treasure is, but they don't know that what she holds in her arms is a peony flower blooming in the right way.

Huang Zixia stared at this beautiful crimson peony, and said: "This morning I followed the instructions of the lord to cut it out at the moment it opened. As a result, Liu Huajian jumped and cursed me for a long time without knowing it, saying that he was digging a tunnel. After more than two months of urging with warm charcoal, this peony finally bloomed. With a cut of this flower, the rare and rare Qiliu Li has no flowers to see this year."

Li Shubai's lips finally showed a smile, and said: "Liu Huajian is also a worthy minister."

"Using peony flowers as a token, the prince is really elegant." Huang Zixia closed the box again and held it in her hand. Seeing the rare happy expression on Li Shubai's face, she couldn't help thinking in her heart that the flowers didn't bloom often, and they faded for a while. How could a clever person like Kui Wang Li Shubai miss this level? It is probably just because other tokens can be kept properly. If you want to go back later, you must be ugly when you ask for the tokens again.

She held the peony in her arms, thinking about the charm she saw a few days ago, and couldn't help but feel deeply sympathetic to the woman who was about to be chosen as the princess.

Not long after, the female officials next to the queen came and said that the number was already there, and the prince please help yourself.

Li Shubai motioned to Huang Zixia to follow her into the inner hall.

It is customary in this dynasty that when the prince chooses his concubine, the general candidates are the daughters of the important ministers of the dynasty or the daughters of the family. They are all noble women, so naturally they will not be reviewed and selected one by one. Before choosing a concubine, although everyone knows it well, they will not say it by mouth. They only hold a banquet in the front hall. The prince secretly observes in the back hall through the screen. If there is something you like, you can tell others that the lady was invited. Entering the apse, I was given a token that the prince personally handed over. I asked my name and identity, and didn't say anything else, but everything was settled.

Huang Zixian followed Li Shubai into the side hall. I saw heavy curtains hanging in the hall, and the door between the front hall and the front hall was closed, but there were carved auspicious patterns on it, and the silver-red cicada wing gauze was pasted. He could clearly see everyone in the front hall at the door, but the front hall But the person can only see him in a shadowy way.

I probably felt that he was standing behind and watching. The movements of the ladies were a little unnatural. Only the young girl sitting on the right hand of the queen was calm and relaxed, without any formality.

Huang Zixia's gaze fell on Queen Wang. She wore a red dress decorated with clouds and clouds, her face was extremely beautiful, a pair of smart and clear phoenix eyes rose slightly, and there was a kind of radiance that seemed to shine from her body in Gu Pan, the real face illuminates people. She was the second queen of the Langya king's family. After her sister died, she was called into the palace by the emperor and became the queen. She should be twenty-five or sixteen years old, but she does not seem to be in her early twenties.

The women in the whole hall were all dressed deliberately, all dressed in brocade, surrounded by flowers like flowers, but no one could take away the slightest brilliance of the queen and queen. Huang Zixia exclaimed, thinking that when she entered the palace three years ago to meet the queen, she was just a kid who didn't know what a country and a country is like. Now that she gets older, she finally understands that the charm of a beautiful woman can be as good as it is. S.

And the girl next to Queen Wang should be her clan sister, the daughter of the Langya family named Wang Ruo. Wang Ruo and Queen Wang are sitting together, although they are cousins, they are not alike. As the name suggests, the Queen's name is Wang Shao, and the splendid robes, such as peony and peony, are indescribably gorgeous, and Wang Ruo wears a lotus and lotus colored skirt by comparison, which is like the fragrance of peaches and plums. The color and temperament of the queen, but after all, young and delicate, there is a kind of innocent and romantic cute and charming.

Except for these two people, although the other women are not bad, they are all overshadowed by comparison. Huang Zixian found a young girl in a dress of Xiang Fei's moonlight in the crowd. Her cheeks were slightly plump, and she had beautiful almond-shaped eyes, but her chin was always slightly raised, which made her look outstanding, which gave her a kind of charm. Natural arrogance—Huang Zi Xia thought, this must be the Princess Qi Le, who everyone in Beijing said to do everything possible to marry King Kui. Today, Princess Zhao is in charge of the palace. It is said that Princess Qi Le once bribed the palace people to help Princess Zhao copy the scriptures in the past, just to make Princess Zhao betroth herself to Prince Kui. Unfortunately, the matter was still unsuccessful.

Huang Zixia was thinking about it, but saw that Li Shubai had already waved to the female officer Changling to come over, pointed to Wang Ruo, and said, "It's her."

Huang Zixia was astonished. It would be too fast. How to choose the princess and such a lifelong event, he just glanced at it and settled it? But she can only say: "Wang Ye no longer think about it?"

Li Shubai's tone was flat: "It's just a selection from a group of people who I don't know about to spend my life with myself. Do I need to think about it?"

"But the woman that the prince can choose must be unique."

He turned his face and glanced at her, his lips raised slightly, as if he was smiling, but there was no joy in his eyes, and he said indifferently: "Yes, she is the most beautiful of all the candidates."