The Golden Hairpin

The Yongchun Temple is a small hall located in the southeast corner of the Daming Palace. It was originally used as a warehouse in the palace, so the walls are extremely high and thick, and it should be regarded as the tightest building in the palace.

Not far from the east and south of the hall is the outer palace wall more than five feet high, without a palace gate. There is a turret on the wall of the palace. The guard patrols it all the time. It is absolutely impossible for outsiders to enter since then.

The west is the key to defend, so it is close to the gate of Miyagi. If outsiders come in, it must be in this direction. However, the design of the Yongchun Hall is strict. On the west side is a three-person high wall, with only one corner door opened. Now that there are two hundred people, in addition to ordering the corner door to be locked so that no one can enter or leave, there are also four people inside and outside the corner door. Guarded, can be said to be solid.

The north faces the inner palace, but it is also strictly guarded. In addition to the two palace gates are closed, heavy soldiers are also stationed. Another point is that even those who are on patrol cannot enter or leave after the door is locked at night, lest anyone get into the patrol team.

According to the specific deployment, there are three lines of defense surrounding Wang Ruo - the innermost ones are the maids and eunuchs in the inner hall and the left and right attic, keeping an eye on Wang Ruo at all times. Next, there are 30 people in the outer hall, scattered in the veranda and pavilion of the outer hall, and people in and out of the inner hall and attic can be seen at any time. Thirty people are inside the palace wall, and 30 people are patrolling outside the palace wall. A group of one hundred people, two shifts in rotation. There are also eight team leaders and two responsible leaders, for a total of two hundred people.

The Yongchun Temple, which is not big in shape, is always guarded by two hundred people, and it almost feels like it is impenetrable.

"There has been a strict search in the hall, and no one has sneaked in, please don't worry, the princess!" The two leaders of the Imperial Guard and the Royal Army told Wang Ruo and Wang Yun.

Wang Yun stood up, said goodbye to Wang Ruo, and said, "It's going to be late at night. Let's rest early. I'll go to the front hall."

Wang Ruo and Huang Zixia escorted him to the door and watched him leave.

Huang Zixian stood at the entrance of the temple, watching the guards strewn across the veranda and rockery outside. The surrounding formation made her appear in front of her a birdcage in the hands of the mysterious man in Xianyou Temple. However, who would have thought that a purple bamboo bird cage that looks densely woven has an unknown mechanism. It only takes a small action to turn things around and turn a dragon into a phoenix.

And Wang Ruo was like a bird in a cage, sitting in the hall alone, watching the ladies light up, looking thoughtful.

Huang Zixia walked to her and asked, "What is the princess looking at?"

Wang Ruo's gaze slowly retracted from the lamp and looked up at her. There were faintly flashing lights in a pair of tearful eyes: "Chonggu, I..."

She choked in her throat, slightly dumb, and her voice was almost inaudible: "I feel like I have had a big dream in the past month... I have a situation that I never dreamed of, but everything Suddenly they will all be classified as phantom dreams, like a fleeting spring lantern, which will be extinguished in a blink of an eye."

Huang Zixia heard the endless sadness in her voice, and in that sadness, there seemed to be a deeper layer of grief hidden.

The wind passed by the gate of the palace slowly, and the palace lanterns slowly rotated in the wind, bright and dark.

The wind is blowing in the spring and the lights are dimmed, and the rain passing through the year hurts. Huang Zixian looked at Wang Ruo's drooping face, such a young girl who was in full bloom, she felt like she was facing the abyss, walking on thin ice.

Although she knew that she didn’t know what kind of souls existed in her heart, Huang Zixia still unconsciously developed a kind of pity, and said in a low voice, “Wang Hao, please relax. Now in the Daming Palace, there are so many soldiers. The guards are tight, even if a small bug can't fly in, how could something happen?"

Wang Ruo nodded, but still worried about it.

Huang Zixian also didn't know how to persuade him. He felt that the queen seemed to be paying too much attention to it, but Wang Ruo's pressure doubled. Thinking of comforting Wang Ruo, when he raised his head, he saw Li Shubai appear in the bright light outside.

He walked to the entrance of the hall and glanced inward, Xianyun Ranyun hurriedly saluted, Su Qi stood up with Wang Ruo and saluted him.

Under the light, she saw Wang Ruo's eyes looking at Li Shubai for an instant, as if a bright pearl were born and glowed with an unusually moving brilliance. However, her expression was shy and slightly sorrowful. Under the light of a palace lantern, she was half happy and half sad, and even her smile could not conceal the faint sadness between her brows.

Li Shubai glanced at her and nodded to her, but did not speak, only signaled Huang Zixia to come out.

Huang Zixian saluted Wang Ruo and went out, along with Li Shubai along the blue brick floor of the atrium, through the rockery, and walked into the veranda of the front hall. This place is only five feet away from the inner hall where Wang Ruo is located, and all the movements over there can be seen clearly.

Li Shubai looked over there and asked, "How do you plan tonight?"

"Su Qi, Xian Yun, Ran Yun accompany the princess to sleep in the left pavilion of the inner hall. An Fu and I are in the right pavilion. There is only one hall in the middle, so I can take care of anything at any time."

"Well, I don't believe that this Daming Palace is heavily guarded and all eyes are on. What big things will happen." Li Shubai said, frowning slightly, "It's just that it's only seven days since the arrival of the imperial concubine, and the queen is now so big. In a posture, it seems that this is a bit troublesome."

Huang Zixia was still thinking about what the so-called trouble is, only to hear Li Shubai say indifferently: "Originally, the Geng post should be taken out in these two days, after all, time is running out."

There was no emotion in his voice, as plain as he was talking about today's weather, no depression, no disgust, but even more ruthless.

Huang Zixia thought about Wang Ruo's faintly confused look, and couldn't help but whispered: "Could the prince want to reveal the truth at the moment when the princess is enrolled? In this case, the faces of the queen and the Wang family might not look good."

"I will solve it privately, how could I not give the face of the Langya King's family."

Huang Zixia didn't know what to say, but turned around to see Wang Ruo coming from the inner hall. The cool night breeze blew up her clothes and hair. She wore a yellow shirt, and she only held a fairy bun loosely on her head, and had a leaf vein condensed hairpin inserted by her sideburns. She took Ran Yun through the rockery in the garden and walked towards them.

She is a tall and slender figure, half a head taller than an ordinary woman, and she walks like a wind on the water, graceful and moving. When she came to them, she bowed down and said softly: "I have seen Lord Kui."

Li Shubai nodded and motioned for her to get up. She got up and looked up at Li Shubai, and whispered: "Thank you, Lord Wang, for asking, Wang Ruo is very grateful. It is expected that the Daming Palace is heavily guarded, and there are so many royal guards and imperial guards guarding it day and night. It is sure to be foolproof. ."

Saying this, her eyes widened when she looked up at Li Shubai, showing a look of sadness and fear like a frightened deer, and even a reluctant nostalgia. Huang Zixia can imagine how sad and disappointed she should be if Li Shubai really listened to her and left at this moment.

Fortunately, Li Shubai only smiled and said to her: "It must be so, don't worry. You go to rest first, and live in peace in the palace from tomorrow."

"Yes." Wang Ruojian bowed down.

Thick and long eyelashes covered her eyes, and a ray of light flashed in her eyes like water waves, and for a moment Huang Zixia thought it was a tear.

She stood up, said nothing, bowed her head and walked towards the inner hall.

Li Shubai and Huang Zixia watched her go around the rockery in the night breeze, slowly but step by step back to the temple. When she walked to the entrance of the hall, she seemed to be in a trance, kicked her foot on the threshold, and Ran Yun quickly supported her and helped her straighten out the skirt.

Li Shubai withdrew his gaze and said, "Since there are so many guards, then I will return to the house. You should pay more attention to it here."

"Okay." Huang Zi Xia responded, but his eyes were still in the inner hall. I saw Xianyun came out carrying the food box, all the way to the small kitchen behind, Ran Yun came out with the lamp to shine outside, while whispering something.

Huang Zixian asked loudly across the rockery, "What are you looking for?"

Ran Yun put his hand to his mouth and said loudly: "The hairpin with condensed veins in the veins of the princess is gone!"

Huang Zixian waved his hand to Li Shubai and said, "I'll go find them for them."

Li Shubai watched her walk quickly across the courtyard without saying a word.

When Huang Zixian walked through the rockery, he saw a little gold on the ground. The gold hollow leaf vein shape was decorated with two dew-like pearls. It was the leaf vein hairpin just inserted by Wang Ruo's temple.

She picked it up, walked quickly to Ran Yun, and handed it to her.

Ran Yun took it. When the three of them walked to the entrance of the hall, they met Xian Yun who came back carrying the food box. She opened the food box in distress and showed them: "The cook in the small dining room has been cleared away. Find some shortbread cookies in the cupboard. Can you eat them tonight?"

"Eat, eat, you know how to eat, do you see how much your waist is?" Ran Yun asked mockingly.

Xianyun returned his mouth: "Hmph, Concubine Yang was round and jade-run, and the country was all over the world."

"Just how do you compare with Concubine Yang? Besides, she is a hundred years ago, and now she is a fat beauty from time to time! Just look at the waist of our princess, it's beautiful!"

Standing in the hall, Huang Zixian heard nothing from the left pavilion, and could not help walking to the door of the pavilion quickly and looking inward.

In the small pavilion, a piece of silk brocade quilt on a bed of fringed Su Haitang is neatly folded; an overhead inlaid snail carved flower bed is quietly placed under the window; on a golden carpet covered with flowers and rain, there is a There are two short mats; a rosewood wardrobe with seasonal flowers is lined up in the corner.

The light of the palace was as cold and bright as mercury leaking to the ground, illuminating the entire small pavilion, without any figure.

Wang Ruo, who had just walked into the Zuo Pavilion under the gaze of so many people, disappeared into the Pavilion silently and silently in a short moment, as if a wisp of smoke was floating in the air.

When the people behind him were stunned, Huang Zixia had already strode forward, opened the closet and took a look inside, then leaned over to look at the bottom of the bed, and finally turned to the couch, opened the closed window, looked outside, and was seeing Two guards standing upright outside the window.

She looked up and saw Li Shubai in the front hall, talking to the people around her. It seemed that the corner of her eye noticed the movement of her, his gaze turned and took a look at her.

She waved to him to signal that something happened to him.

Li Shubai walked across the courtyard quickly, glanced at the empty pavilion, and immediately instructed everyone to look for it in the main hall and the left and right pavilions. However, the Yongchun Palace was such a big place, and after a while, all the corners were searched, and Wang Ruo had no trace.

Only heard the rapid footsteps outside, the female officer Yanling next to the queen hurried in with Su Qi and asked, "What's the matter?"

When she saw Li Shubai in the hall, she hurriedly saluted again, looking at Su Qi, Su Qi hurriedly said in a low voice: "The princess...I don't know where to go."

Trillium was shocked and said: "I am taking the order of the queen to count the flowers and clothes for the princess together with Su Qi, and send them, why... in just a few hours, so many people, why..."

Li Shubai said: "Go and report to the queen first, and I will look for the inside of the hall again. If I find someone, I will report to the queen as soon as possible."

"You leave a few to help find people, I'll go back to Penglai Temple first." Yanling said, and motioned to the court ladies holding clothes behind to put down the things quickly, and only took two or three people and hurried back first.

Li Shubai ordered to go down, and so many people in the Yongchun Temple had almost checked every inch of turf, every piece of green brick, and every piece of wood more than ten times, but there was no clue.

Really the same as in the prophecy, Wang Ruo disappeared before the wedding, and he was under such heavy defense, inside the Daming Palace.