The Golden Hairpin

Li Run walked up to them and asked Li Shubai with a smile: "Why is the fourth brother here?"

Li Shubai looked back at him and nodded slightly: "Seventh brother."

Seeing him alone, with only one Huang Zixia, Li Run nodded to her, then smiled and said to Li Shubai: "Today, the sky is clear and the street lights are like stars. It's no wonder that my fourth brother will also come out for a walk. But only a little one. The **** might be wrong, so you should find a few guards to bring it with you."

Li Shubai raised his hand to touch the tassel hanging from the street lamp, and said: "If there are too many people following, how can you see such a quiet night?"

Li Run looked around and saw the streets full of lights and few pedestrians. He couldn't help but nod his head, and said, "That's true. We grew up in the bustling scene since we were young, so how can we experience this kind of scenery?"

Li Shubai seemed unwilling to say more to him: "The curfew is about to come, so go back soon."

He nodded and said yes, and then remembered something, and said, "If the fourth brother is free, he can come to me for a gathering in the future. Now Dong Tinglan's disciple Chen Nianniang is in my house as a piano master."

"Isn't she going back to Yangzhou?"

"Before the nine brothers took her into the palace to give her skills to Princess Zhao, the emperor and the empress were there. But Princess Zhao liked the pipa, and the emperor was a lively person, and didn’t like the piano... As for the queen, she has always been pure and self-sufficient, and she doesn’t have a daily routine. Those who love singing, dancing, and feasting would never look at a piano master differently. I asked her what she meant. She said that she wanted to stay in Beijing for the time being, and she probably wanted to find Feng Yiniang."

Huang Zixia and Li Shubai looked at each other. Unexpectedly, Chen Nianniang would be at Li Run's house. A series of related things, seemingly under the guidance of something, slowly gathered together.

Li Shubai remained silent, and only said to Li Run, "That's it. I'll be free in a few days and I will go to your side."

"Okay, brother, I'll take care of it."

After Li Run's carriage was far away, Li Shubai turned his gaze to the lamp in front of him and asked slowly, "What do you think of E's Lord?"

She thought for a while and said: "If you want to disguise your identity, the best way is to pretend to be a person with obvious characteristics. I think this may be the reason why E's Lord was chosen as the smoke to confuse us."

"Is there another possibility?"

"There is also a possibility that the emperor E has a childlike heart, while controlling your princess candidates, while personally going to Xishi to learn tricks, and then coming back to ask others to frighten your princess." She leaned against the willow tree behind her, holding the wicker. He said casually, "No matter how you think about it, the first possibility is more reasonable."

"I'm different from you. I don't like to analyze these. But I don't need to analyze it. I know that he is not that person, because I don't believe that he can do anything in front of me." Li Shubai said slowly, "In this world, There are definitely not many people who dare to confront me head-on. I just want to know who wants to pull him in front of me and make me think he is doing his hands and feet."

The ninth day of May.

There are still seven days to go before King Kui’s wedding.

A drizzle hit overnight, and the entire capital was immersed in the misty rain. On the way to Wang's house, Huang Zixian looked through the thin bamboo curtains on the car windows and saw the rain-filled flower branches outside.

The peach and plum flowers have already bloomed, but the Sophora japonica flowers in Chang'an are blooming one after another, and the whole city is enveloped by a faint fragrance. Strings of pure white flowers hung on the branches, and the colors were so light as if they were there or not. Only when one or two hit the car window once in a while, she heard the slight noise and realized that it was not rain, but flowers.

The Wang family had already been waiting at the door with an umbrella. When they saw her coming, they hurried over to help her with an umbrella, and said, "Duke Yang, you can count it. The queen summoned the girl into the palace and asked you and Aunt Su Qi to follow. Let's go in and see you together."

"Well, I know." Huang Zixia nodded in response. The rumors in the capital became more and more intense, and it has reached the ears of the queen and the king who had been living in the palace for a long time. She called them into the palace today, and there must be many things to tell.

Huang Zixian thought as she took the umbrella and walked through the vestibule, along the corridor. After the two Zhumen, all the way to the west courtyard, where Wang Ruo lived. Her yard was overgrown with bluegrass, and the plantains in the yard were newly drawn with long leaves, concealing the transparent flower windows, showing a feeling of coldness and lack of warmth in such a rainy day.

Huang Zixia gently put away the umbrella and stood outside the window. A piece of plantain is planted under the corridor, and under the plantain is a large porcelain jar, which contains three or four koi carps, with bright red and white colors, swimming in the water.

She stood watching the rain hit Basho and the water splashed. In the silence, she heard the vague voice in the room, as if someone was whispering something.

Huang Zixia turned her head and saw the couch in front of the window through the leaked window. Wang Ruo, who was lying on the bed, was sleeping restlessly. During her sleep, her brows were also frowned, and her face was full of panic, and she held her hands tightly. He was horned, and his forehead was full of sweat, as if he was undergoing the most terrible torture.

Huang Zixia stood outside the window, looked at her for a while, still wondering whether to wake her up, but heard her murmur: "Blood...Blood..."

She was slightly surprised, and was bowing her head to listen. Suddenly, Wang Ruo's voice changed and turned into a pleading: "Feng Niang, don't blame me, you shouldn't know..."

Suddenly the wind and rain intensified, and it hit Huang Zixia's half of the body. She hurriedly avoided, and she woke up when she heard Wang Ruo's "Ah" scream.

Huang Zixia calmly brushed the drops of water on his clothes, walked to the door calmly as usual, knocked on the door, and whispered: "Wang Concubine."

There were originally two girls sitting in the room, one called Xianyun was extremely clever, and immediately came over and opened the door, saying, "Daddy Yang, you are here, the princess is having a nightmare."

"Well, I just heard it through the window." Huang Zixian brushed the raindrops off her body, and turned her head to see Wang Ruo had slowly sat up on the couch, looking up at her, there was still fear in her eyes, as if she was still Shen was unable to extricate himself from the nightmare just now.

Huang Zixian walked to the couch and asked in a low voice, "What did the princess dream of?"

"Chonggu..." Her autumnal eyes were full of tears at this time, and the water was looking at her full of waves. After a long time to talk, she turned her face away and said with a trembling, "I, I dreamed that I was true. It really disappeared from this world..."

Huang Zixia sat down on her couch and whispered: "Dreams are thoughts in my heart, and the princess has dreams day by day and night by night. As long as you don't think about that person's words, you will definitely not have such a dream."

"Really?" She trembled, grabbing Huang Zixia's sleeve weakly and trembling slightly, "Chonggu, the prince will protect me, won't you?"

"Yes." She said without hesitation, but remembered Li Shubai's words in her mind-no matter what the reason, if the fake Geng Tie was taken out, she was just fooling the monarch, and she would only end in a dead end.

However, her answer made Wang Ruo feel very relieved. She breathed a sigh of relief, then leaned on the soft cushion on the couch, and stayed silent for a while. Huang Zixia saw the corners of her lips, and a dreamlike smile slowly bloomed. She looked at a little bit of nothing in the sky, but as if she had seen something indestructible, she murmured: "Yes, Lord Kui will protect me. What am I afraid of."

Penglai Hall of Daming Palace.

The palace is on the base of the three-story palace and is the residence of the queen.

Huang Zixian followed the endless stream of palace people, along with Wang Ruo, Su Qi, and the maids of the Wang family, up the white jade steps and entered the gate of the nine halls.

On the front is a huge agarwood twelve floor-to-ceiling screens with twelve flower gods carved on it, among the clouds of fairy flowers, facing the Kunlun Mountain Yaochao Queen Mother. Following Wang Ruo, she stopped in front of the screen and stood with her head down, listening to no sound around her.

She stood there thinking about what Wang Ruomeng had just said. Feng Niang, it must be Feng Yi Niang, but what does the **** color in her mouth mean?

Just thinking about it, suddenly a piece of scarlet silk brocade flicked across the thick Persian carpet on the ground, and the people around had already knelt down one after another, not even daring to lift their heads.

Knowing that the emperor must be behind, she knelt down and looked down at the Yunxia pattern on the queen's clothes.

The Queen, surrounded by the court ladies, walked to the screen, and sat on the colored glaze Qibao agarwood couch, groaning for a long time while holding a secret-colored porcelain tea cup, before she spoke. Her voice is as clear as a stream, slow and quiet: "Aruo, you don't seem to look very good. There are only seven days before the wedding, so why is there no joy of coming out of the pavilion?"

Wang Ruo sat sideways on the couch with her, and whispered: "Going back to your Royal Highness the Queen, because of some trivial matters, I have been worried recently, and I have troubled the Queen to ask questions."

Wang Huang looked at her for a long time, holding her hand, but did not speak. Huang Zixia quietly raised her head and glanced at the face of Queen Wang. However, although her face still carries the indifference and alienation that the superiors are used to, but there is a kind of homely tenderness in her eyes.

This pair of cousins ​​did not look alike, and they were also ten years apart in age, but their relationship seemed really good.

"The capital is so big, there are so many idle people, etc. It's not enough to bother you, why bother to think about it." The Queen held Wang Ruo's right hand lightly and placed it in her palms, as gentle as comforting a young bird. Huang Zixian looked at it with an unspeakable feeling in her heart. She was slightly startled, but she heard the queen ask: "Who is the person sent by the Royal Palace of Kui to the princess?"

Su Qi and Huang Zixia hurriedly said: "It's slaves."

The queen looked at them and glanced at Huang Zixia deliberately, but only stayed for a moment, and said: "The princess is young, and you must take care of them in the palace in the future."

"Yes." They responded quickly.

Wang Ruo said: "Chonggu and Aunt Suqi have done their best to me, and I have been taken care of in recent days."

"Well, what's the dislike, you tell me." Queen Wang said, and then she took Wang Ruo's hand and stood up and said, "Seven days later, the day you leave the cabinet, I have something for you. You go to the inner temple to take a look."

A group of people waited outside, the inner hall was deep and wide, and their voices were low and inaudible. After a while, the female officials with the Queen Wang came out, and invited everyone to eat in the outer hall.

The meals in the palace are different from those in the outside world. They are made extremely delicately, but they are tasteless. Huang Zixia puts down his chopsticks after taking a few bites. The girl Xianyun next to her hurriedly touched her with her elbow, and asked, "Shall we go to the gate of the temple together to take a look? This seems to overlook the entire Taiye Pool. I heard that it is a view that many people will never see for a lifetime. ."

Although Huang Zixian is now an eunuch, he has a lot of contacts with Wang's family, and he is also familiar with Xianyun for the first time. Xianyun's twittering is quite noisy. People who know her too well don't like her, so they actually want to drag her.

She didn't want to eat this kind of food anymore, so she walked to the door with Xianyun and stood by the railing outside the hall, looking towards the north.

Today’s weather is fine, and the Taiye Pool is not far away. The islands in the lake are like Penglai Fairy Island, faintly dotted in the shimmering waves of the Taiye Pool.

"It's so beautiful, no wonder they all say that the palace is the most beautiful place in the world." Xian Yun opened his hand, as if he wanted to put the beautiful scenery in his arms.

Huang Zixia looked down at the Qianzhonglou Que below, and said, "Yes, it's so beautiful." It's just too solemn and gorgeous, but it doesn't look like the human world, but like the inaccessible Qionglou Yuyu, without the smell of human fireworks.