The Golden Hairpin

Huang Zixia was stunned for a while. And Xiao Shi silently bent down and bowed to them, her soft skirt blowing silently across the ground, silent like a flower that fell by the wind.

"Xiao Shi thanked Prince Kui for his life-saving grace."

Li Shubai nodded slightly and said nothing.

Xiao Shi has been kneeling, only looking at him with a pair of quiet and sad eyes. There seemed to be thousands of thoughts in those eyes, but he couldn't say anything.

After a long time, she said in a hoarse voice: "I have been staying in the Tai Chi Palace...it has been abandoned, almost no outsiders pass by, and no one knows who I am... Until today, the Queen came and told me, if not I, Xue Lu may not die."

Xiao Shi said quietly, kneeling on the ground with his head down, silent as if he didn't even breathe.

Huang Zixian slowly said: "Everything is a blunder, snowy death...you are not a murderer."

On Xiao Shi's plain face, there was no rouge embellishment, and a layer of icy paleness floated. She looked at her with a pair of lifeless and dying eyes, and whispered: "But I think Her Royal Highness is right. If there is no me, Xue Lu will not die..."

Huang Zixia said, "However, without you, Xue Se would have been gone three years ago."

Xiao Shi was not relieved, her head lowered and lowered, and finally she almost fell to the ground. She put her forehead on the back of her hand close to the ground, and her voice choked and dimmed: "If there were no snowy colors, I would no longer be in this world... We were dependent on each other in the chaotic army, and we went to Yangzhou together and Puzhou... Lan Aunt Dai treats us like her own, and I also learn piano and dance with her like Xue Se. Although we did not learn very well, we have had a very good life in the past three years. If...if Feng Niang does not appear In front of us, we are still so good until now..."

Li Shubai looked on with cold eyes and did not speak.

"The queen scolded me today, saying that I was greedy for vanity and took the place of Xue Se, so that now I made a big mistake... But in fact, Xue Se and I didn’t know who she was now, and even Feng Niang came to pick us up. At that time, she didn't know..." Xiao Shi covered her face and said with a trembling voice, tears streaming down between her fingers, dripping and dripping, uncontrollable, "At that time, Aunt Lauder and uncle went to Zhangye together... Xue The concierge said that her mother had asked her to come and pick her up for marriage in Beijing, so she discussed with me that she now has no intention of marrying. Besides, it was her mother who was greedy for Ronghua and left their father and daughter behind. My father became ill because of this, and died young in her early thirties... Therefore, she did not want to see her mother! But I persuaded her that we are now on Aunt Lauder's side, although she is also anxious to help us, but we From her background, it’s not easy to find a sweetheart. If her mother can really find a good home for her, it’s not a bad thing...

"Xue Se grabbed my hand and said, it's better to be like this. Anyway, my mother left me at the age of five. Feng Niang only saw us in Yangzhou when we were thirteen or fourteen. Who knows how I am now? What does it look like? You just say that you are me and follow Feng Niang to Beijing. If you are really good, you will be lucky to be able to marry a good person. Then...then...

"Then she took out the silver ingot that Prince Kui asked us to take away from her side, divided it into half and gave it to me, saying, as a proof, I hope you can help me inquire about that person in the capital and take a look. Where is he now. It has been three years, why didn't he come to me with a hairpin? Even if he goes to Yangzhou, the people in Yunshaoyuan will tell him that Aunt Lauder is in Puzhou...

"I wanted to tell her that her leaf-veined hairpin was thrown away when she turned her head. I quietly helped her hide it for three years, and wanted to return it to her when she got married. But I know that, Xue Xue Lulu will be very embarrassed, so I thought again, don't tell her, just take it to the capital and return it to her mother."

When Xiao Shi said this, he was dazed for a long time before biting his lower lip and saying: "However, when I came to Wang's house, when I saw the queen, I knew that Xue Lu and I had already been cast. Big mistake. We don’t know that her mother is now in the Nine Heavens. We thought... we thought she was just married to a rich businessman or a small official... However, I didn’t dare to speak! I knew her. After knowing this important secret matter of the palace, if I say that I am just posing as an impersonator, wouldn’t it be a plea for death? I gave the queen a leaf vein hairpin, and she has no doubt about my identity, so I’m right. I said that Wang Kui was about to choose a concubine. There is currently no outstanding girl in the royal family, so I can choose as a girl in the fourth room. At that time, I was very happy and thought that if I became a princess, I would be rich and prosperous. Yes, we must be able to use the power of the palace to find our benefactor and Snowy sweetheart. However, when I was led to the apse and saw Lord Kui standing in front of me..."

Her lips trembled violently, her throat was choked, and she could not speak for a long time. It took a long time before she covered her face and whimpered: "I know, God's will tricks people, everything is over."

Her voice was very difficult before she squeezed her throat, and in such a quiet night, it sounded very sad. The night breeze was abruptly violent, and the light of the palace lantern shook sharply, fainting layer by layer on her face, causing her face to show a strange distortion, which was shocking.

"I can’t tell the secret I’m carrying. I have nightmares every night, dreaming that I can’t die if I take away the snowy sweetheart... But I can’t control myself with a sense of guilt in my heart and imagine that I will fly to the branch and become The enviable Princess Kui..." She lay on the ground, her nails pinched on the blue brick floor, and she broke, but she didn't seem to feel anything. "I also thought that after marrying King Kui, I would not let Xue Se and King Kui. Just meet, and then we must find her the best and best man in the world..."

Huang Zixian looked at Li Shubai's side, and saw that he was just looking at the palace lantern under the corridor that was spinning in the wind, without any expression on his face.

She couldn't help thinking in her heart, is there any point in this kind of suffering and attachment, but wasted on a man who has no feeling for you at all?

Just as the lamps near and far in the garden at this time, no matter how brilliant and brilliant, who would know that it has been overlaid on which beautiful flower that blooms late at night?

"I had trouble sleeping and eating for the past few days, and finally leaked the secret in my dream. I don't know if Feng Niang was really aware of it, but she must be suspicious. And I know that once this matter is leaked, my life... The ruin was in Chang'an. At this time, Queen Wang asked me privately whether Feng Niang seemed to be reliable. I...I don't know why I shook my head in a mysterious manner..."

Sure enough, it was the queen who sent someone to poison her, killing Feng Yiniang, and then discarding it among the refugees in Youzhou, pretending to die from a disease.

"Then Queen Wang poisoned Feng Yiniang for you and disposed of the corpse again?"

Xiao Shi almost fainted from crying, she couldn't speak, she could only nod her head reluctantly.

Huang Zixian sighed secretly in her heart, and stepped forward to pull up Xiao Shi who was crying on the ground, and whispered: "Get up, your Royal Highness has left you for your life. It is already your great fortune."

Li Shubai finally asked: "How does she let you deal with yourself in the future?"

Xiao Shi opened the package next to him and held out a small jar with trembling hands. She hugged the jar in her arms and stroked it gently for a long time, then looked up at them and said, "This is snow-colored ashes. I will take her back to Liuzhou and bury her by her father's side. From now on, I will stay in front of her tomb until I die, the sun is shining, and I will never be separated."

Huang Zixian stood in front of her, and saw the loose hair on her cheeks. At this moment, the night breeze leaked from the window trembling slightly, like rootless grass, there was no way back and no way back.

Li Shubai took out two silver ingots from the drawer beside him, put them in front of her, and said, "Take them back."

Xiao Shi looked at the two silver ingots of about the same size and said in a low voice: "Xue Se often tells me that if one day, if I can see you again, she will take it when you take out the veined hairpin. This silver ingot can be regarded as your token of love. When I was in the Yongchun Temple, I knew that I could no longer be with you anymore, and even the snow color... I guess there would never be a way. So I took it I stayed there, thinking, if you really remember us, if you see it, maybe you can still leave a trace in your heart..."

Huang Zixia sighed, picked up the other half, and said, "And this half is the woman who came to the foreign education workshop, which is the evidence of Xue Lu. Maybe she was hurriedly attacked in that room and left me. When I rushed past, but for a moment, I missed it."

"All of this is fate." Xiao Shi murmured, holding the silver ingot, "My fate, her fate, twelve years ago, it was predestined."

Because a woman has tampered with her own destiny, the trajectory of life that has deviated since then has changed the destiny of many people.

After Xiao Shi was sent away, Huang Zixian watched the palace cart walk outside Chang'an City in the quiet night after the curfew, towards the unknowable future.

She turned around and walked to the gate of the mansion, but found that Yongji and Changqing, who had followed Xiao Shi, were standing at the gate, and gestured to her to get in the car: "Duke Yang, the queen said, no matter how late, no matter how you are. , No matter whether you fell into the water and caught the wind chill, you will be summoned."

Here comes, this is a sign that we are about to start.

Empress Wang knew that Xiao Shi, the key person in this case, came to ask for a meeting, and she would definitely meet, so she was buried here later!

With a bitter face, she looked at Li Shubai subconsciously.

Li Shubai nodded calmly and motioned for her to follow.

She opened her eyes slightly, looked at him speechlessly, and gestured at him with her eyes—the queen is about to let me disappear into this world!

He only gave her a "quiet and calm" look, which made Huang Zi Xia speechless and helpless. Life is unfortunate and the world is very cold. He just helped him solve the difficult case of the princess, how come he crosses the river and demolishes the bridge now, this person actually wants to watch the queen do him?

Yongji and Changqing are still staring at her. She could only bite the bullet, let go of Xiao Shi, and walked out.

The moment she passed Li Shubai's side, she heard Li Shubai's low voice, saying: "True body."

Ah? She thought she had heard it wrong, and looked at him, but he was still indifferent. He didn't even look at her again, only spit out an understatement: "The night is heavy, beware of colds."