The Golden Hairpin

"In that case, everything is up to the prince to decide."

Wang Zongshi saluted again, turned around and left without hesitation.

Only Li Shubai and Huang Zixia were left in the room. Li Shubai raised his hand to indicate the seat in front of her and asked her to sit down.

Huang Zixian sat in front of him nervously, silently looking down at her fingers twisted together. She was confused and didn't know how to explain. In dazed hesitation, she finally heard Li Shubai ask: "Why?"

"I... didn't agree." She quickly explained, "He told me to reconsider the marriage with Wang Yun, so that I can intervene in the case. I was asking him to see if it was a friend or an enemy. , How can I refuse it all at once? So I said perfunctorily what I would consider-but who knew he actually misinterpreted my words in front of the prince."

"Then, why are you arrogantly advocating and rushing to see Wang Zongshi?" Li Shubai frowned slightly, thinking of another thing, and his voice became cold. "You can't see Wang Zongshi, unless it's Wang Zongshi. Yun will take you there."

She moved her lips slightly and whispered, but she couldn't speak.

"Then you don't believe me or question my ability? I, Li Shubai, need a woman to help?" He asked coldly, his voice implied anger.

Huang Zixian pursed her lips and shook her head, looking up at him steadily. Although her voice was low, she explained, "Although you are trying your best to protect me, you don't want the wind and rain to invade me, but I can't just watch you take everything alone. I am. Don't be the flower that adds to the cake in your life, I only intend to be a catalpa tree that stands hand in hand with you. When the wind and rain come, we can shield each other from the wind and rain."

He slowly shook his head and said, "It's better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes."

"But even though I live alone and face the prosperity of the entire world, but can't forget you, what can I do?" She looked up at him and asked softly, "Don't you think that the current situation, the Wang family Is it our best partner?"

Under her slender eyelashes, her eyes were as bright as the spring dew, staring at him non-stop. His figure was clearly reflected there. At this moment, he didn't need to ask to know that in her eyes, he was more important than the whole world behind him.

He just felt that a certain string in his heart trembled abruptly, and he could hardly control his hands. He wanted to hold her tightly in his arms, and never to be separated from her in this life.

However, she is the light smoke in the wind, the snowflakes on the hot springs, and the fragile orchid.

With a light touch, it will disappear, and it will be so weak.

What Wang Yun said to him that day reverberated faintly in his ears—

"How does the prince prepare for the next step? Have you ever thought about what will happen to Huang Zixia by your side? Do you think you can really protect her in such a situation? Although the prince is talented and strategizing, but at home In the past, human life was like grass and mustard, not to mention just a mere unhappy girl. Sometimes, the slightest difference may damage a bunch of orchids."

In his life, he has never protected anyone. In the past few years of wind and rain, the people around him have suffered countless deaths and injuries, and everything is normal. But now, those assassinations, assassins, poisons, mechanisms, dementors...are all likely to be on her, even though she is famous all over the world. Very intelligent, but she is still just a slender and weak seventeen-year-old girl. Even if she wants to be a lush catalpa tree, how can she withstand the thunder and the anger and the fire?

After all, he turned his face away, avoiding her clear eyes like spring dew, got up and walked to the door, looking at the cypresses in front of the court.

They didn't notice that the snow outside had already started to fall. The gloomy sky, heavy snow with goose feathers, fell recklessly, spreading all over the ground with broken jade.

He looked at the heavy snow outside, suddenly spoke, and said in a deep voice, "You go."

Huang Zixia stood up slowly, and asked in a daze, "What?"

"If you go to the Wang family for help, what's the point even if you help me? You think it's helping me, but it's actually making me the laughingstock of others." His gaze was fixed on the heavy snow, seeing A piece of white snow spread across the entire courtyard, "I put pressure on the royal family, and finally got you free. Why are you ruining my plan now, and there are branches?"

"But I think that the power we are facing today is probably beyond our imagination. Therefore, for us to retreat, even if you use your disdainful means, even if you can't afford the Wang family, I will be willing Do it, and I will do well!" She pressed her chest, which was slightly up and down because of excitement, and forced her breathing to calm down, "Because I believe that this is the best for the Wang family, for you, and for me. The choice. Even if we use some means, as long as we finally reach the other side we want to reach, isn’t it the best choice?"

"A gentleman has something to do, something not to do." Li Shubai's voice was deep and alienated, and it sounded coldly: "The only thing I need you to do is to leave. You are here, but it is my weakness."

"Why do you feel that I will be your weakness? As long as you want, I can also accompany you to gallop and catch up with you." She bit her lower lip and said, "You don't have to deliberately agitate me, and I will not be your negative. tired."

He took a breath and looked at the wind and snow outside. The eaves cut off the frost and snow, but they could not suppress the chill.

"I said, you go." He turned around, walked to the front of the case, spread a piece of white paper, and held it down with a jade ruler. "Beijing is cold in winter and the weather is bad. But now Nanzhao is still full of flowers and the climate is like spring. The garrisons over there are people who can trust you. You can take my letter and the letter from the King's Mansion to go south to admire the flowers first, and then wait. I'm back."

Huang Zixia didn't say a word, but pushed the jade ruler away. The white paper suddenly curled up, making him unable to write.

But he only glanced at her, silently flattened the paper again with a jade ruler, and said indifferently: "Shudi, Jiangnan, or even Longyou, where do you like it?"

"Don't drive me away." She pressed her hand on the case, her voice trembling slightly, "I just want to be with you, we are all safe."

He put the pen in his hand and looked at her directly: "Zi Xia, do you think they would not know that you are the best way to hit me? Now I send you away for your good and also for my good. So, You must leave as soon as possible."

"I will not leave without solving the case of King E." She shook her head and stared at him firmly, "As long as I get Wang Zongshi's permission to participate in the investigation of this case, I will definitely be able to solve King E and disappear. The mystery can also help you clear your stigma, and know the truth about the spell and the little red fish!"

"Impossible. I won't let you risk it." He cut off all her possibilities.

"Why? For me, or for your ridiculous self-esteem?!" Huang Zixia saw his persistence, and his anger surged. She couldn't help but grabbed the jade ruler on the table and slapped him **** the edge of the paper. Unexpectedly, the jade ruler was so fragile that it broke into two pieces when she shot it. And the broken upper part flew out directly, and suddenly fell to pieces on the floor tiles, and a crisp sound suddenly sounded in the hall.

This sharp sound seemed to make a sharp hole in their hearts. Li Shubai threw away the pen and asked coldly, "Ridiculous self-esteem?"

"Yes, it's what you call the dignity of a man. It feels as if you have accepted my help and you have no face! Can you help me in this way, can you help the situation today?" Huang Zixia breathed hard. Endure and endure, finally couldn't help but blurt out: "Don't you understand, I just want to do something for you?"

He sneered and said: "You don't need to do anything for me. If you are willing to obediently obey my words, stay in Shu County obediently, and stay in the mansion obediently, I would be much more relieved."

She couldn't believe it, couldn't believe that he would be so angry with herself. She shook her head, took a step back slowly, and asked in a trembling voice, "What do you mean...Is all this my fault?"

Li Shubai saw her pale face and blue lips. He didn't know whether it was the cold weather or the sadness of her emotions. Although he was brilliant and peerless, he didn't understand women after all, so he didn't know how to deal with it. Seeing her look like this, she only felt a pain in her heart, but she had to harden her heart and said: "Zixia, you know you, don't make me regret meeting you."

A bleak smile appeared on Huang Zixian's face, and she murmured, "So, even if we met once, will it become a mistake?"

Li Shubai shook his head and just said: "Go and clean up, and when the snow stops, go to Nanzhao."

"Okay... I will leave you." She finally dropped this sentence, without looking back at him, she went out, walked through the heavy snow in the courtyard, and walked outside.

Without looking back, he walked quickly across the courtyard, almost running away.

Li Shubai looked up at her as she walked away in the snow, only feeling that there were so many confusions in her mind. He only wrote two characters when he lifted the pen, and felt unable to write.

He sighed and looked in the direction of her departure. The traces of her footprints have long been covered by snow, and the pine and cypress have only their shape, and the verdant color underneath has not been leaked. There was only a vast expanse of whiteness left in the entire court, as empty as his heart.

Huang Zixian walked quickly through the courtyards and ran towards the gate.

His eyes were scorching hot, and the contents in them could no longer be stored, and they slid down sternly.

The wind was biting, but she didn't seem to feel it at all.

The scene in front of me was only a blur in the wind and snow. She just thought of the last word she threw to him, and walked step by step.