The Golden Hairpin

"And the source of the second story comes from Lord Kui, who is now sitting here." She paused, looked at Li Shubai, and nodded slightly before she said, "Three years ago, Pang Xun rebelled and Wang Kui was ordered to go to Xuzhou. , United with the six major ambassadors to conquer. On the day when Xuzhou was breached, he rescued a pair of 13 or 14-year-old girls who had been taken captive by Pang Xun’s men. One of them, a girl surnamed Cheng, said that he had come to seek refuge in Gu Gulan. Dai’s, after arriving in Xuzhou, I heard that my aunt had moved to Yangzhou because of the Pang Xun rebellion. She gave King Kui a silver leaf-veined hairpin, but King Kui had no intentions with the two girls of unknown origin. After the girl surnamed Cheng left, she discarded the hairpins. From the beginning to the end, because they painted their faces so that they couldn't see their appearance, King Kui did not remember their faces."

She finished this paragraph and saw that everyone was thinking, Queen Wang only pressed her lips tightly without saying a word, and then said: "The above are two stories told by him, and in the next paragraph, there is no People prove that I guessed it based on the clues I have found so far. Of course, if I disagree, I can also dismiss it as speculation. A few months ago, the palace began to plan for King Kui to select the princess. At this time, Feng Yiniang, who was in Yunshaoyuan, received a letter asking her to help **** the deceased’s daughter to Beijing. This deceased’s daughter was Cheng Xuese. Feng Yiniang did not consider why the other party did not go to the old sisters such as Lauder. Escorting, because the other party was kind to her back then, she went north to Chang'an and escorted her to Beijing after receiving someone from Puzhou. However, at this time, she discovered that the deceased who entrusted her to do things is now nine days above. Identity. She may have been pleasantly surprised, but in the end, after the dust settled and the Queen Kui was selected, she quickly disappeared from the world. Originally, such an insignificant chess piece that knew the truth was destined to be Abandoned.

"At the same time, Feng Yiniang’s junior sister Chen Nianniang went to Beijing to find people. However, one was in the streets and alleys, and the other was in Gaoxuanhua House. Among the millions of people in the capital, the two always missed each other. Chen Nianniang fell on the street and met Jin Nu by chance. Jin Nu helped her get through the joints. She performed in front of the emperor, but she was not particularly appreciated in the end, so she retreated and entered the Royal Palace of Hubei. King E helped her to find someone in the household, and I learned that Feng Yiniang had been killed. Later, I handed over Feng Yiniang’s relics. With Chen Nianniang, she also agreed to help me find a painting that is now in Lauder's hands, and specifically requested that Xue Se send it to Chang'an. That painting was the cloud painted by the artist and husband of Mei Banzhi back then for the six of them. The picture of the six females of Shao. Like the small portrait in Chen Nianniang's hands, painter Cheng is extremely skilled, and all the people in the painting are lifelike and recognizable at a glance.

"Just the day before yesterday, Cheng Xuese, who received the letter, finally rushed to Chang'an City from Puzhou with the painting. However, she was killed because of this. After the portrait was taken, she became in the canal of Guangzhaifang. That nameless headless female corpse!"

Queen Wang also sneered: "This is the guesswork. You just said that the snow was brought to Chang'an by Feng Yiniang a few months ago, and now a few days ago, he went from Puzhou to Chang'an alone. Could there be two snows in the world?"

"There are exactly two." Huang Zixia looked at Queen Wang, her voice seemed pity and sorrow, "Ki Kui rescued two girls of similar age in Xuzhou. They met on the way to exile and supported each other. When they came to Xuzhou, they fell into the devil's claws after looking for their relatives. They did not hesitate to spare their lives for the other side. They really depended on life and death. Finally they came to Yangzhou together, and then moved to Puzhou with Lauder. That other woman, The name is Xiao Shi."

"So, which of the two people who came to Beijing one after the other is the real Cheng Xuese?" Huang Zixian stared at Queen Wang and said every word, "I will only talk about two trivial things. No. One, before Wang Ruo disappeared, I went to Wang Ruo's residence one day. She was still asleep. She seemed to have a nightmare, and she muttered a name in a daze-Xue Se, Xue Se!"

The Queen's body trembled in an instant. Her face turned into a very terrifying bruise, causing everyone who saw her to fight a cold war.

However, Huang Zixian suddenly took a deep breath and continued: "Secondly, when Jin Nu presented her skills in front of the queen, the moment she saw Wang Ruo, she said,'Impossible... if this is the case. , How could it be that Princess Kui would be her'. Look at the queen, even Jinnu knows who her master’s biological daughter is, but Mei Banzhi, who abandoned this daughter at the beginning, doesn’t know at all. It turns out that she is standing next to her. Yes, it is Xiao Shi who has nothing to do with her."

Queen Wang's whole body is like a clay sculpture and wood sculpture, and there is no reaction at all. She sat motionless on the chair, her face that once dumped all beings was now dead.

She seemed to be a dead person, as if her soul had been torn apart alive by a pair of demonic hands. She just sat there, without breathing, without expression, and without focus in her wide-open eyes.

The whole Yanji Hall was silent. Everyone looked at this usually dignified and dignified woman, she has now been completely defeated, only because of the two words of Huang Zixia in front of her.

"Queen Wang, you probably did not think that Feng Yiniang who was gently wiped out by you has a life-dependent Chen Nianniang. Jinnu once said that Cheng Xuese looks very similar to you. So when she saw Xue Se bring her At the moment of her painting, Chen Nianniang understood who was the daughter of the deceased, who was the deceased who let Feng Yiniang go to Beijing, and what was the cause of Feng Yiniang’s death in the end. So she did not bring Xue Lu to see me as agreed, she let Xue Xue She lives in Jinnu’s residence, and deliberately releases rumors of strange music and dance in the portraits of Yunshao’s six daughters, so as to use the mouth of King E and Jinnu’s sisters who often go to the Jiaofang. , Smoothly passed the matter of the painting into the palace. And you, absolutely must not let this painting be seen, because one of the people painted above is exactly what you look like.

"And Xue Lu, who was rescued by Prince Kui in Xuzhou, has such a stubborn and stubborn personality. She waited from 14 to 17 years old until the mother she thought was dead asked Feng Yiniang to take her into Beijing and said that she would arrange the best arrangements for her. She is still unwilling to give up waiting. At the same time, she may also blame her father’s early death and her own displacement on the mother who abandoned her since she was a child. In her heart, she actually hates her mother inexplicably. Discussed with Xiao Shi, anyway, her mother hadn’t seen her for twelve years, and she definitely didn’t know herself. How could Feng Yiniang, who had only met in a hurry when they fled to Yangzhou when they were fourteen years old, recognize Xiao Shi? Xiao Shi entered Beijing instead of herself. Perhaps, she also hoped that she would look for the general who saved the two of them back then. But what they never expected was that Xue Se’s mother is now like this. Xiao Shi was arranged to meet, and the one who pointed to her in the crowd was the same person who saved them back then and let Xue Se wait for three years!"

There was silence. Silence like death.

Huang Zixian raised her voice and finally revealed the last layer of scars: "Wang Empress, you let people kill the woman who was killed in the night of Chang'an and abandoned in the ditch to replace Jinnu. This is your biological daughter, Cheng Snowy!"

Queen Wang was still sitting motionless, and for a long time, big tears suddenly rolled down in her round eyes without focus. She inserted her hands into her temples, and trembling desperately pressed her head, as if otherwise, her whole brain would burst open.

She finally opened her mouth, her voice hoarse: "You lied...you...lied..."

Huang Zixia stood motionless in front of her, looking at the woman who was defeated by her own words, felt a complex emotion in her chest, compassion mixed with anger, like Jin slave, Feng Yiniang who died under the hand of the Queen, Xue Er And those beggars in Chongrenfang all whizzed out resentful screams in her blood, which made her unable to restrain and empathize.

And Queen Wang murmured, repeating those two words for a long time: "Lies...Lies!"

The few words she finally uttered made the emperor's face turn blue. His hands were on the armrests of the chair, too hard without knowing it, and even his knuckles were white.

Queen Wang's gorgeous face was already distorted, she pressed her head hard, she seemed to be crazy, gritted her teeth and sneered, but there were big tears rolling down on the strange smile that was forced out. At this moment, this woman who has always been dignified and self-sufficient is on the verge of collapse: "Nonsense, it's just... nonsense!"

Wang Lin was angrily attacking his heart, and his **** expressions signaled Xian Yun and Ran Yun to step forward and hold the queen, and then quickly pleaded guilty to the emperor, saying: "The emperor, I am afraid this **** Yang Chonggu gave the queen a nightmare, and the queen is so nonsense. What a gibberish! She is the long-term concubine of the Langya King's family, so how could she be born in a Kabuki theater..."

"Wang Lin." The emperor looked at the desperate and disorganized look of the queen, and his face was covered with coldness. He stared at Wang Lin in front of him and said slowly, "Tell the truth. What happened twelve years ago, You can say it clearly! If there is a word for me to verify that it is not true, I will let you Langya King's family have no official descendants in the Tang Dynasty!"

Wang Lin turned around and saw that the Queen Wang had gradually understood, and just sat there blankly, as if regretting the gaffe he had just made, and as if he was still trapped in that kind of sadness and frenzy, unable to extricate himself.

An inexplicable fear and despair surged in his heart, and he could only fall on the ground and tremble with a hoarse voice: "The emperor, the minister deserves ten thousand deaths, do not ask the emperor for forgiveness, but only ask the emperor to confess the crime to me. Don't harm the royal family. This matter was all planned and manipulated by the ministers, and even the queen... was forced by the ministers at that time!"

The emperor interrupted his words: "You don't need to excuse others, you just have to recruit them!"

"Yes..." Wang Lin pressed his forehead on the cold blue brick, his voice desperate and sad, "The emperor, after the Hou Jing chaos that year, the Wang family's vitality was greatly injured and the children withered. Twelve years ago, the Wang family There are only four or five male grandchildren. Among them, the only hopeful one is my Yun'er, and then, the princess Yun Wangfu who was by your side at that time..."

The emperor thought for a while before he said, "I remember, it's a pity that she died after being by my side for more than half a year."

"At that time, the emperor was still King Yun, and was moved out of the Sixteen House by the first emperor. After Wang Fu died, the Wang family was hurt and unwilling to lose the position of a princess, thinking that you might be able to treat her because of Wang Fu. My sisters had a good eye, so they invited the emperor to be a guest again, and let some of our royal girls meet you at the table."

The emperor nodded slightly, his gaze turned to the queen, and saw her sitting on a chair like a clay sculpture and wood carving, silent, looking at himself with a pair of vast but wide eyes. She was already sober, but knowing that the matter had been exposed, she couldn't do other things, so she only looked at the emperor, with humble begging and sadness in her eyes, tears filled her eyelashes, and she refused to speak.

The emperor looked at the empress who was at a loss at this time, and the woman who had accompanied him step by step for twelve years was like a white peony that had been crumpled with yellowish traces, which made him angry and hurt, but couldn't help it. He gritted his teeth and turned his face away, unwilling to look at her.

"On that day, my daughters, big and small, were in front of the emperor, but the emperor only looked normal and talked and laughed freely. We know that you have Guo Liangyuan next to you-the current Concubine Guo Shu, and apart from Wang Fu, there is nothing special in the Wang family. Excellent woman, so it is normal for you not to put other people in your eyes. At that time...the queen was introduced by someone, only to say that she was a good family from a poor family, and was teaching several girls in our house to learn pipa. We... let us... She came out to play a pipa for you to end the banquet." Wang Lin said bitterly, "But who knows, the emperor fell in love with her at first sight, and asked the minister which room is the girl in our royal family, the minister... I don’t know why I am so obsessed with my heart that it is our long house concubine Queen Shao..."

"However, when she entered my house, all household registration documents were complete, not like forgery." The emperor said coldly.

"Yes... In fact, the Wang family happened to have a daughter, Wang Shao, who was given up in Taoist temple because of poor health, but she passed away shortly before that day, but her household registration was still in Langya City and she had not been cancelled. Chen... See you The emperor loved her so much at the time, and just wanted to find an innocent identity to give it to you. It’s not a big deal, as long as a few daughters who have seen her and the people around him are sent back to Langya. And our Wang family may be able to come out again. A princess, for the declining royal family, is really an extremely urgent good thing... So the minister discussed with her, and the queen... she also agreed."

"It's not a big deal..." The emperor smirked, turning his head to look at the queen with a sneer, "It's just that you didn't expect that I should cherish her so much. In the past twelve years, she went from a royal palace to the palace. Wang Zhaoyi, to Wang Defei, finally gave birth to the prince and became the queen of the king!"