The Golden Hairpin

"Anyway, whatever you want, it's better than just being a promise in this life and crowning a'so-and-so consort', right?"

"You don't like it, naturally there are a lot of people squeezing their heads, what are you worried about?" Huang Zixia despised him.

The following storyteller’s voice came over again: "Everyone, speaking of Princess Tongchang, do you know that yesterday in Jianfu Temple, there was a retribution of a sky thunder that smashed people to death?"

The people below were in an uproar, and someone asked loudly: "Is the person who was struck by thunder at Jianfu Temple yesterday related to Princess Tongchang?"

"Exactly! Master Cui of Dali Temple has ordered someone to find out that this person is the **** Wei Ximin of the princess's mansion. This person is one of the princess's close attendants. This time she was struck to death by thunder. Princess Tongchang was also surprised and inexplicable, I don't know. How could there be such a wicked person around him who was so guilty that he was struck to death by the sky thunder."

"This storyteller's news is so well-informed." Huang Zi Xia muttered to herself.

Zhou Zi Qin Yang said triumphantly: "Of course, the storytellers in the market are the most informed, and how many mouths are on the streets and alleys are their sources of information. But I am not bad, and I have a good relationship with the people of Dali Temple. Let me tell you, I dug up inside information on this matter last night!"

Although Huang Zixian is worried now, she still asks: "What privacy?"

"This Wei Ximin, who has been assigned to Princess Tongchang since he was a child, is a loyal dog to Princess Tongchang. It is a loyal dog that the princess refers to. So knowing that he was struck to death by lightning, Princess Tongchang was furious. Last night, I personally went to Master Cui’s mansion and said it was asking about the cause of Wei Ximin’s death. In fact, he was putting pressure on Master Cui to resolve the case as soon as possible."

"How to solve it? Judging from the various situations on the scene yesterday, it is not impossible that a thunderbolt happened to hurt people."

"That's right, so Princess Tongchang has another request. Now the entire capital city is saying that the people around her are guilty of wickedness and suffering from heaven, so she asks Master Cui to give an explanation as soon as possible, so as not to humiliate the reputation of the princess mansion."

"It's no wonder that Master Cui had that kind of grief on his face when he heard that it was related to Princess Tongchang yesterday." Huang Zixian frowned slightly. Princess, can you control what the people in Beijing like to say?"

"Look, isn't this already making the city full of storms?" Zhou Ziqin shrugged, "I have set out a case that cannot be investigated, but there is a princess who must clear the charge for the **** next to her. Who is responsible for this? It's all a hot potato."

Huang Zixia was noncommittal and changed the subject and asked: "I said last time about my friend Zhang Xingying, is it true now?"

"Um... don't be so horrible, let's talk about it after eating, otherwise it seems that you invited me to dinner to ask me to do things."

"It's weird. As the last eunuch, my salary for a month is only two taels of silver. If it wasn't for you to do things, I would forcibly take out a tael of silver to invite you to Zhujinlou for dinner?" Huang Zixia frowned. "This matter must be fast, and it must be fast! Because I will go to Shu with the prince in two or three days."

At that time, she will be involved in the unjust case of her family, how can there be time to manage Zhang Xingying?

Zhou Ziqin slapped his chest boldly: "Well, let's put it this way, Xu Congyun, captain of the Third Horse Team of the Beijing Defense Department, my iron man, he asked me to take Zhang Xingying to his report this afternoon. I can guarantee that as long as Zhang Xingying passes by, absolutely no problem!"

Huang Zixian breathed a sigh of relief: "Well, if this is done, I will invite you to dinner again when we meet in Shudi."

"What if it fails?"

"Spit out today's meal and return it to me!"

Duanruitang, a famous medical center in the capital, even the place where the medicine is dried is extraordinary. On the vast open space, bamboo plaques followed by bamboo plaques were densely packed, like fish scales. The plaque is covered with various cut medicinal materials.

Zhang Xingying was standing in the middle among the bamboo plaques that were all over the ground, holding a seven-foot-diameter bamboo plaque and shaking it so that the medicinal materials were more evenly exposed to the sun. He is tall, with strong arms, and the bamboo plaque is raised and lowered high, and the medicinal fragrance on it immediately dissipates.

He turned over the bamboo plaques one by one, walking row by row. Seeing that he went further and further away, Huang Zixia hurriedly called him: "Second Brother Zhang!"

Zhang Xingying turned around to see them both with a puzzled look on his face: "The two are...?"

Huang Zixia lowered her voice and called him: "Brother Zhang."

Zhang Xingying looked at her appearance for a long time, then said "Ah" and stammer pointed at her: "You, you are Huang..."

"Yes, I'm here to pay back the favor." Huang Zixian put the accent on the word "return", interrupted him quickly, and said, "Fortunately, the second brother Zhang helped me enter the city last month, but it also caused you now. I've fallen to this point. So I came here today because I want to reciprocate and introduce you to something to do."

Zhang Xingying was still dumbfounded: "You..."

"I'm Yang Chonggu! Don't say you helped me and forget me!" Huang Zixia winked at him desperately.

Zhang Xingying just woke up. She is now a wanted criminal from all over the world, and of course she can't reveal her true identity. But he was still a little unacceptable, so he could only stare at her blankly and replied mechanically: "Oh, Yang Chonggu...You are now..."

"I'm working under Lord Kui now, I can't think of it." Huang Zixian said quickly, looking at his shocked expression, and immediately brought the topic to others and pointed to Zhou Ziqin. "This is Zhou Zi, the little son of Zhou Shi Lang of the Criminal Department. Qin."

Zhou Ziqin has always been enthusiastic, and hurriedly bowed his hand to him: "Second Brother Zhang! Although I have never met before, I heard Chonggu mention you many times! He said that Brother Zhang is righteous, loyal, loyal, loyal, filial, and enthusiastic... !"

The last two words are because he was stepped on by Huang Zixia. However, Zhou Ziqin obviously didn't stick to the trivial matter, and continued to mutter there: "Don't worry, the things that honor the ancients are my business. This is my responsibility, and I am obliged to..."

Before he could finish talking, the door of the cabin next to the drying yard opened, and an old man yelled at them, "What is the noise! ​​Zhang Xingying, why don't you go and turn over the medicine? These medicines won't be dried early, so what is the use in the cabinet? ?"

Zhang Xingying hurriedly responded, then leaned over and picked up the next bamboo plaque, and began to flip the medicinal materials.

Zhou Ziqin looked at the vast ocean of bamboo plaques around him in disbelief, and asked, "Second Brother Zhang, you are the only one here? Does one person turn over all these bamboo plaques once a day?"

Zhang Xingying shook his head, put down the bamboo plaque in his hand, picked up the other one, and said, "No, four times. Twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon."

"Then you don't need to do anything else all day, just turn the medicine!"

"No." Zhang Xingying said vacantly, "I have to cut medicine, grind medicine, pound medicine, decocting medicine, gun medicine, honey refining... You have to get up earlier and go to bed later at night."

"Your father is also a doctor, why doesn't he take you?"

Zhang Xingying shook his head discouragedly and said, "My father is too old to come to the hall for consultation. Now Duan Ruitang is willing to accept me and give me a job."

While he was talking, his men kept turning over three or four bamboo plaques while he was talking.

Zhou Ziqin couldn't help but pulled up his hand: "Don't turn over, let's go! Even I can't stand it anymore, this side Ruitang can squeeze people so much!"

Zhang Xingying quickly grabbed the bamboo plaque that was almost overturned: "Where to...?"

Seeing that they ignored him, the old man was furious: "Zhang Xingying! Give me some careful work! Don't blame me for driving you away if you can't finish it!"

"What are you going to do? Tell you, don't do it!" Zhou Ziqin pulled Zhang Xingying up and turned away. "The Beijing Defense Department is waiting for him. Who is free to listen to you here?"

The old man blew his beard and stared: "Beijing Defense Department? Are you kidding! Those who can get in there are either rich or expensive. Why is this kid?"

"Beijing Defense Department wants him, can you control it?" Zhou Ziqin dropped a sentence and looked at him disdainfully, "Wait for two or three years until the second brother Zhang gets mixed up, turn to the Shence Army, I will be mad at you!"

The old man was really furious: "Idiot people say dreams! Zhang Xingying, don't come back when you leave!"

Zhang Xingying hesitated, but Huang Zixia saw his eyes light up, and the bamboo plaque in his hand was finally lost.

"Well, in a word, do you want to go?" Zhou Ziqin patted him on the shoulder, as if he was already his brother, "Just your figure, your domineering body, not going to the Shence Army is a loss for them. !"

"I go!"

Xu Congyun, the captain of the Beijing Defense Sima Team, was bold and cheerful. He and Zhou Ziqin had known each other since childhood, and their feelings were naturally extraordinary.

He chatted with Zhang Xingying, knowing that he was in the guard of honor in the palace of Kui before, he asked: "Ki Kui is surrounded by thousands of people who are chosen. Since you can be selected, you must be excellent, but how come you come out now? Is it?"

Zhang Xingying hesitated for a while. Huang Zixian said quickly: "Second Brother Zhang was out of luck. He happened to have a stomachache when he was obeying, but he fell behind and was discovered again by accident, so he was sent out."

Xu Congyun looked at Huang Zixia and asked, "Who is this father-in-law?"

"It's Yang Chonggu from Prince Kui's Mansion, Duke Yang, and now the close attendant next to Prince Kui." Zhou Ziqin said.

Xu Congyun was surprised and delighted at once: "What! Could it be the father-in-law Yang who broke the original four plans? What a disrespect, disrespect!"

Zhang Xingying nodded vigorously and looked at Huang Zixia in admiration.

Zhou Ziqin also said affirmatively: "Yes, Chonggu is very powerful, second only to Huang Zixia, who I admire most."

Huang Zixia looked up at Zhang Xingying, and saw clearly that his smiling face had become stiff. She had no choice but to say humbly: "Where is it, it's just a coincidence."

Xu Congyun raised his hand and patted Zhang Xingying's back vigorously. Zhang Xingying, who had been standing upright, was slapped with his giant palm and almost spit out his lungs.

"Since there are two guarantees, and he was able to enter the Kui Palace at the beginning, I believe there should be no problems with his body and family background. Then, the third horse team has the least people. You should be included there first, and you will follow everyone in the past two months. Walk around and see, if there is no problem, next month, after I have taken the photo of Wang Duwei, he will be formally included in the roster, and the matter will be settled."

Zhang Xingying was willing to spit out his heart, liver, stomach, and kidney even if he was photographed. He was speechless with excitement, he would just stand there and giggle.

Huang Zixia also took a sigh of relief. She always felt that she was sorry for Zhang Xingying. Now that Zhang Xingying's situation has improved, she finally feels that she can go to Shu with peace of mind and no longer owe her to others.

After discussing the important matter, Zhou Ziqin called his friends, and several captains of the Department of Defense of the Capital were called in, let him take the lead, and went straight to the restaurant.

Being poor, Huang Zixian and Zhang Xingying didn't dare to compete with this dude, lest they have to sell themselves to raise money for this table of banquets.

Not knowing whether luck was good or bad, the group met Wang Yun as soon as they left the house.

"Brother Wang!"

"Lieutenant Wang!"

Everyone hurriedly greeted him, and saw that there was a handsome-looking man behind him, it was Wei Baoheng, the prince, and he hurriedly came up to see him again, some yelling princes, and the minister of Wei, all of a sudden, the yamen was very lively.

Wei Baoheng had a good temper, and smiled and nodded to everyone. Wang Yun glanced at Huang Zixian and asked with a deep smile, "Zi Qin brought Duke Yang over, what's the matter?"

Zhou Ziqin hurriedly pulled Zhang Xingying and said, "I heard that Big Brother Xu’s horse team is short of people, so I recommended one. This is Zhang Xingying, with a clean family and good skills. Very familiar, definitely possible. Brother Xu said to try for a month first, and then report to you if possible, and I would like to ask Brother Wang to take care of you at that time!"

"Introduced by Yang Chonggu?" Wang Yun grasped the point at once.

Zhou Ziqin was ignorant of the grievances between them, and smiled and nodded.

Zhang Xingying was even nervously saluting to Wang Yun.

Wang Yun raised his hand to stop, and said: "Zi Qin, the Xu team had promised him to stay. I can't say anything. Before all the brothers of the horse team came in and out, I usually don't interfere. But this brother, I'm afraid it won't happen. ."