The Golden Hairpin

"Sister, why are you standing here with Yang Chonggu?"

Someone behind them was calling them. It was Wang Yun who was waiting for them at the bottom of the mountain. Seeing that they hadn't come back for a long time, he walked up to find them in person.

Seeing an empty birdcage on the ground, he asked, "Why does anyone put this kind of thing here?"

Huang Zixia looked at Wang Ruo, and he realized that something was wrong, and quickly asked, "What's wrong with my sister?"

"Brother...Brother." Wang Ruo's voice trembled, and he looked up at him, tears of horror in his eyes.

Wang Yun frowned slightly and asked, "What happened?"

"Just... there was a strange man, he, he said..." Wang Ruo's voice was trembling and messy, and it was out of tone.

Huang Zixian took the topic and said, "Just before the son came up, a man showed up with a birdcage. He didn't know what moves he made the bird in the cage disappear, and said that the princess might also disappear out of thin air like a bird in a cage. ."

"Man?" Wang Yun looked back around in amazement, "I have cleaned up the people in the temple before. Since you entered, the soldiers mobilized by the palace and I have been there all the time. It shouldn't be possible for anyone to show up in the temple. Come in?"

"That person must have not escaped. It is in Xianyou Temple. My brother will send someone to search and he can find it." Wang Ruo said with a trembling voice.

Wang Yun nodded and saw that she was so frightened, he comforted and said: "It's just a few words from someone of unknown origin. Why are you taking it seriously? Don't worry, how could the daughter of the Langya family and the princess of the Kui family be out of thin air? Disappear? Don't believe in such nonsense."

"Yeah." She nodded tearfully, and said timidly, "Perhaps, maybe I was overthinking. As the wedding day is approaching, I always feel that I have trouble sleeping and eating, I..."

Wang Yun nodded clearly and smiled: "I know, I heard that women often have such worries before marrying. Although I don't understand it, maybe it is because of the changes in fate in the subsequent life that I feel anxious."

Wang Ruo nodded slightly and bit his lower lip lightly.

"Stupid sister, such a good person like King Kui, are you still afraid that you will be unhappy in the future?" Wang Yun said, patted her shoulder and said, "Let's go, don't believe in such nonsense. "

Wang Ruo bowed his head and followed Wang Yun down the steps, towards the Great Hall of the Great Heroes on the mountainside. Huang Zixia was one step behind her and heard her low voice: "Chonggu."

"Yes." She replied.

"Do you also think... I'm really anxious and nervous lately?" She asked anxiously.

Huang Zixia thought for a while and said, "The princess cares about the prince too much, so she becomes more nervous. If you didn't care, how could this be?"

Wang Ruo flattened his mouth, looked at her with tears, and whispered, "Perhaps."

Evening classes among the monks continued, and the evening Zhong Fan singing lingered around them. Huang Zixia listened to those Buddhist scriptures, and suddenly remembered the sentence that grandmother once said--

"All kindness will be impermanence. It is rare for a long time. From love to worry, from love to fear."

She meditated in her heart, turned her head to look at Wang Ruo's downcast face, and wondered if she really wanted to love Li Shubai, that's why she did this?

Wang Yun was a very meticulous person. He discussed with Xu Zhiwei, the guard of the palace, and immediately divided the soldiers into two parts. One part went to various halls, meditation houses and corners of the temple to search, and the other part went to investigate the monks in the temple. However, at the time of the incident, everyone was doing evening classes. There was no shortage of monks in the temple, all gathered in the main hall, and no one was likely to appear in the temple of the ancient Buddha.

When it was dark, the teams searching everywhere also responded one by one. They divided the temple into fifty areas, and a team of ten people searched carefully. Even if a lice hides in the temple, it will definitely be there. After repeated combing, he was found out-but no, no trace of anyone was found. Apart from Huang Zixia and Suqi who followed Wang Ruo in the temple, they were the girls and servants of the Wang family, there was no one else in the temple.

The only thing that can be considered to be found is that someone found a cluster of rusty arrows placed in front of the Buddha in the Landeng Ancient Buddha Hall.

The arrow cluster was engraved with four faintly discernible characters, Datang Kui Wang.

When Huang Zixian returned to the Royal Palace Kui, Li Shubai was alone in the flower hall for dinner. Seeing her coming, he motioned to the maids to go out, and then raised his finger to a chair next to him.

Huang Zixia knew what he meant, so she pulled the chair and sat down. Li Shubai handed her a pair of ivory chopsticks and pushed a small bowl to her.

She looked around and saw that only the shadows of the flowers on the partition wall moved around, and there was no one else. She picked up a golden cream pastry and drank some clove drenched glutinous rice in her bowl to eat.

Li Shubai asked nonchalantly: "Today I went to the incense, I heard that someone changed a very wonderful trick in front of you?"

It is said that Kui Wang Li Shubai's information is the most informed, not to mention that he ordered his guard to **** them this time, so it is naturally clear.

So Huang Zixia was not surprised, only said: "Well, it's wonderful, but I personally think that the response of the princess is even more wonderful."

"The future princess." Li Shubai corrected the title of princess Kui by adding two words to the front.

Huang Zixian said nothing: "The emperor personally gave the marriage, the queen's clan sister, is there any change?"

"No matter what the reason is, if you take out the fake Geng Tie, she is deceiving the monarch, and she will only end up indefinitely." Li Shubai said, turning the subject and asking, "Is she worried that her identity will be exposed?"

"It seems to be more than that. There seems to be some hidden secret in her past. The man who suddenly appeared vaguely mentioned that she was so scared that she couldn't hide it."

"Have you noticed how that man appeared and disappeared?"

"I can't tell at all. Moreover, I can't find any clues about how he came in under the heavy guards of the palace, and how he disappeared." Huang Zixia bit the ivory chopsticks and frowned, "After he disappeared. Wang Yun led a group of people to search the temple for a long time, but there was no trace. It seemed that he had turned into a bird and flew away over the wall."

Li Shubai asked slowly: "Have you seen Huangfu's "Yuanhua Ji"?"

Huang Zixia shook his head: "What is it?"

"It's a book that records a stunt'Jiaxing Rope Skill'. It means that during the Kaiyuan reign of Emperor Xuanzong, the imperial edict and Jiaxing County played juggling with the supervisors, and the supervisors searched for people with special skills among the prisoners. A prisoner said he could rope skills. So the jailer took him to the clearing and handed him a rope that was a hundred feet long. He took it and threw the rope into the sky, and the rope went straight into the air, as if someone was on it. Pulling the same. He put the rope while drilling into the sky, and when the end of the rope was invisible, he climbed up the rope, then disappeared into the air and fled."

"No matter how you look at it from any angle, no matter how you imagine it..." Huang Zixia thought for a long time and said, "It's impossible."

"Why not? Isn't there too many incredible things in the world?" Li Shubai's lips raised slightly, "For example, it is said that my future princess will disappear in full view."

"It seems that you also care about that person's words, prince?"

"I believe there must be a reason for the empty wind." Li Shubai leaned back in his chair, looking at the flower shadows slowly shaking on the window, and suddenly asked, "Huang Zixia, when you were young in Chang'an, where is your favorite place?"

"Huh?" Huang Zixia was caught off guard, with a mouthful of golden milk crisp still in her mouth. She stared at Li Shubai with wide eyes, and then said vaguely: "It should be... Xishi."

"Well, West Market. I liked it the most when I was a kid." He said slowly, thoughtfully, "Who can't like it? This is the most lively place in Beijing, even in the whole world."

Chang'an West City.

Persian jewelry, Tianzhu's spices, Dawan's BMW, Jiangnan's tea, Shu's brocade, Saibei's fur...

All shops are open, fish shops, pen shops, wine shops, tea houses and so on, all of them are noisy and lively. Businessmen and passersby rubbing shoulders, food stalls walking the street, flower girls with flowers, and Orchid with a slender waist in the restaurant form a very lively scene.

This is the West City of Chang'an, and it is a bustle that can't even be forbidden by a curfew. Since Kaiyuan and Tianbao, the development here has become more and more prosperous, and the surrounding Chongrenfang has also been driven, singing and singing every night, noisy.

In late spring and early summer, the sun shines on the locust trees and elm trees all over the street, and the first leaves are as green as jasper. Li Shubai and Huang Zixia walked one after another in the shade of the trees. Because Li Shubai was wearing micro-clothes, Huang Zixia also changed the clothes of the **** today and put on a men's clothing, looking like an underdeveloped teenager.

They walked casually in the West Market, flipping through the contents of the shop. It's a pity that Li Shubai has taken care of herself since she was a child, and she couldn't afford to make crude things in Fang City. Huang Zixiagen himself has no money. Li Shubai hasn't paid her a salary. She can't buy anything except for watching.

Only when he went to a shop selling koi, Li Shubai bought a small bag of fish food, then looked at the rather unique porcelain fish tank inside, and seemed to be thinking about something.

Huang Zixian, who can't buy things on her own, naturally stuns others: "It's pretty good-looking, and the small fish can be moved a little bit in the porcelain tank."

He picked up the fish tank and looked at it, then put it back again, and said, "Keep it in the big one. If you are used to swimming in the wild, you will not be used to the small one."

Huang Zixian muttered to herself: "Isn't it enough to make it easy for a day?"

"It's easy to change from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to change from luxury to frugality. Since it will fall into that situation anyway, why make it so happy in the first place?"

"..." Huang Zi Xia was really speechless to the man who put the big deal on Xiaoyu.

It's still early, and the jugglers haven't come out yet. Huang Zixia asked the passers-by, knowing that the artists usually come out after noon, when the street is the busiest.

Seeing that it was about noon, Li Shubai finally pityed Huang Zixia, took her into a restaurant on the roadside, sat down in the cubicle, and ordered a few dishes that were not seen in the palace.

The restaurant is quite elegant, but there are too many people to eat, which makes it noisy. Just when Li Shubai frowned slightly, he heard a wake-up call, and the restaurant fell silent.

It was a storyteller in the store. He brought a tambourine and sang while knocking. He first came to a small tune "Flower Butterfly". Then he took the drumsticks, cleared his throat, and said, "Everyone, little old man today. Tell everyone about the weird things in all directions in Kyushu."

Huang Zixian recognized this sound. He was the storyteller who was in the short pavilion outside Chang'an at that time. At that time, a group of people took shelter from the rain. It was he who talked about his case and talked about anecdotes. It should be the most suitable.

Sure enough, he said: "Chang'an City, Daming Palace, Daming Palace, the emperor sits in the middle. There are other kings outside the palace, and one of them is Prince Kui, whose name is Li Zi and Li Shubai."

Someone booed below and said, "I love the story of Lord Kui. Let's start with a story about King Kui leading the six great ambassadors to fight Pang Xun!"

"Don't be busy, this guest officer, let me talk about the current situation first. The occurrence of this incident has a lot to do with the shooting and killing of Pang Xun by King Kui in the army!"

There was a hustle and bustle outside. Li Shubai sat in the leaky carved compartment, but seemed to turn a deaf ear. He only ate slowly, looking at the pedestrian outside the window with a calm expression.

Huang Zixia supported his chin and listened to the sound outside—"Hey, everyone knows that Lord Kui has been very busy recently. No, I heard that there is a new trouble."

"Prince Kui just broke the four plans for the capital and wants to marry the princess again. It's when the spring breeze is proud, how can there be any trouble?" It was the guest just now, singing with him again.

"Do you know that the prospective princess of the Kui Palace, the girl from the Langya family went to Xianyou Temple for incense yesterday afternoon?"