The Golden Hairpin

The place where Li Shubai lives is called Jingyutang.

Huang Zixian flipped through the yellow calendar. Li Shubai sat beside and watched with cold eyes. She saw her from the seventeenth of the first month, to February 21, then to March 19, and then to today. The speed was very fast, and she almost put it down after a glance. Then he said: "If there are officers and soldiers patrolling tonight, you can focus on the southeast area of ​​the city, especially in the homes of pregnant women, they are likely to be targeted."

"Are you sure that the murderer's fourth goal is pregnancy?" Li Shubai asked with raised eyebrows.

"It's very likely." Huang Zi Xia said.

Li Shubai turned his head and called out, "Jingyou."

An **** came in at the door, with curvy eyebrows, very happy and lovely: "Lord."

"Go to Dali Temple and ask Cui Chunzhan to come over."

"Yes." Jing You responded, and did not even look at Huang Zi Xian who was standing in the hall in embarrassment. He bowed and went out. Li Shubai pointed to Huang Zixia again and said, "You take her down first, and arrange a proper place for her. Remember that she is a little eunuch."

"Yes, please rest assured, the prince."

The repeat offender Huang Zixian arrested by the Four Seas has thus become the **** of the Royal Palace of Kui.

Jingyou introduced her to the palace’s several routes along the way, and ordered a few things that need attention, and then took her to the Beisuo where the eunuchs lived, gave her a separate room, and asked people to bring everything. Daily necessities and three sets of **** clothes, and said to her: "Little father-in-law, you are here for the first time, so you will not be assigned your responsibilities, as long as you remember to go to the prince's place to ask for peace."

Huang Zixia thanked him again, and went to the **** next door to inquire about daily affairs, then went to the kitchen to get some food, brought two buckets of water, and washed his body and hair. She was exhausted after a day of running and changing, and she was so exhausted that she fell asleep next to the pillow.

When I woke up, it was three poles in the sun. When she went to fetch water from the well, the **** who was cleaning the courtyard said to her: "Grandpa Jingyou asked us to tell you that when you wake up, go to Yubing Pavilion."

She quickly drank a bowl of porridge, and after inquiring about the route, she changed into the eunuch's clothes and ran to Yubing Pavilion. Yubing Pavilion is the study room of the palace, surrounded by Shulang flowers and trees, and the doors and windows are also made of transparent screens.

When Huang Zixian entered the door through the carved window, he saw Li Shubai sitting inside, looking at the map of the capital.

Hearing her footsteps, he raised his head with a flat expression: "Come here."

Huang Zixia walked to him, pointed to the map, and said, "The murderer did not show up last night. But according to your idea, will the murderer show up to the northwest tonight?"

Huang Zixian was slightly surprised, and looked up at him: "The prince already knows what method I used to judge?"

"You can read the almanac, and so will I." He said calmly, and his white and slender fingers slid across the twelve squares in the northwest of the capital, and said, "I have asked people in the morning. Among these twelve squares, There are many pregnant women who are already pregnant. There are two pregnant women in Xiudefang for seven months; a pregnant woman in Puningfang is about to give birth at full term; there are four pregnant women in Judefang, all of whom are from June to August. ."

"Puning Fang." She pointed her finger on the courtyard and said affirmatively.

Li Shubai tilted the map over, looked at the detailed composition of Puning Square above, and said: "The pregnant woman's home is next to the former residence of Xu Maogong."

Huang Zixia looked at Puning Square, and suddenly remembered something, he hesitated for a moment, and finally resisted abruptly, planning to wait until the case was solved. But Li Shubai seemed to have thought about it, turned his head and glanced at her, and said, "Zhang Xingying's home is also in Puning Fang."

"Yeah." Since he took the initiative to say it, she took the topic and said, "If this case can be solved, will the prince consider letting Zhang Xingying return to the guard of honor?"

"Impossible." He said without hesitation.

Huang Zixia argued: "Zhang Xingying asked me to pretend to be him and enter the city with the prince's guard of honor. Although it is unreasonable, he is indeed a rare good man. Knowing grace is also a kind of gentleman virtue. Can you ask the prince to forgive him and let him? He will investigate this case with me first?"

"It's impossible." He rebuffed, "Although it is excusable, I don't need an emotional person by my side."

Huang Zixian bit her lower lip and whispered: "Please be kind to the prince..."

He interrupted her: "If the person who made the mistake can come back safe and sound in a few days, then what is the use of penalizing rules? How will I control my subordinates in the future?"

Huang Zixian bowed her head speechlessly, so she gave up her thoughts and asked, "Then what should I do next?"

"Go to bed again, and follow me to Puning Fang at night."

Puningfang, northwest of the capital.

As an example, after the second shift, all the squares in Chang'an City were closed, and no one was allowed to walk on the street outside. Therefore, Li Shubai pretended to be a playful scholar, and Huang Zixia was his book boy. The two of them wore ordinary clothes in the evening and stayed at the inn in Puning Fang.

One is a turbulent young man, and the other is a handsome and refined young man. Even the men have to look back a few times along the way. They lived in an inn, and the lady boss came four times under the pretext of sending water, and the boss did not worry so she came five times.

"Forget it, let me contact the people from the Criminal Ministry. I'll go out tonight." Huang Zixia tied her hair and prepared to go out, "As for you, it is estimated that you will be blocked in the house by the boss and the proprietress."

Li Shubai said coldly: "When I am not in peace, do you think you can go out?"

Huang Zixian was about to speak, and she looked at the window and the lady boss came over again with the teapot gracefully.

She looked back at Li Shubai, and Li Shubai also looked at her, with a smile on her face again, and said: "Give you a moment and send it away."

For a quarter of an hour, it seemed that the lady boss wouldn't give up so quickly if there was no less than strong medicine. And for a woman whose heart is rippling, the biggest potion is of course—

Huang Zixia stood in front of Li Shubai, took his hand and pressed it on his waist, and then pleaded with a voice that could just be heard outside the window, "Oh, son, we are outside, we should avoid others. Ears and eyes! Don’t touch here... Oh, it’s not good here, I hate it, it’s all men, what will others say when they see it..."

The graceful figure of the proprietress really stiffened.

Li Shubai's hand that was being pulled and pressed against her waist also froze in an instant. But just for a moment, he calmly opened her hand and turned his face to drink tea: "Okay, let you go first. The lady boss in this shop is very annoying, she always comes to stare, did she find that I only like men? ?"

Outside the window, the lady boss carried the teapot and ran away quickly. Huang Zixia seemed to hear the sound of her heart breaking all the way.

She couldn't bear to say: "Why add the word'very annoying'?"

"In order for you to complete the task faster." He put down his teacup blankly.

Huang Zixia hung up the door latch, opened the window and looked at the back, then turned over and jumped out of the window, beckoning to him: "Go."

The second alley next to Xu Maogong's old house, the sixth, the Wei family with pomegranate flowers in the courtyard.

In the capital, the Wei family is not very big. The so-called yard is actually just a small area with a square meter. There are two bungalows at the back of the garden, and the surrounding walls are no more than Huang Zixian's chest. They squatted quietly beside the bridge hole on the opposite side, hiding themselves with a few clusters of peony.

After the second shift, the voices of the people on the street were silent, and the lights went out silently.

Tonight, the clouds covered the moon, and the faint light of the moon was dim. After squatting with her for a while, Li Shubai simply sat under the peony flowers and admired the moon shadow in the water.

Huang Zixia lowered her voice, "Why are you here? Where are the people from Dali Temple and the Criminal Ministry?"

"No notice." He said leisurely, pulling down a budding peony next to it and looking at it, and said thoughtfully, "This year, the air is warm. Before the peony blooms, the peony is already in bud."

Huang Zixia suddenly understood that he was going to catch the perverted, cruel and mysterious murderer, but the only accomplice was the guy in front of him who didn't seem to be conscious at all. She had to ask feebly: "Why didn't you notify Dali Temple and the Criminal Ministry?"

"Cui Chunzhan from Dali Temple tried to persuade me that we must guard the east of the city strictly. The key to this case is definitely the Quartet point. I think since he is stubborn, he should respect his opinions-so he is now setting up a net in the east of the city. ."

"What about the Criminal Ministry?"

"The person in charge of this case in the Ministry of Criminal Affairs is Shang Shu Wang Lin, your fiancé Wang Yun's father, the former father-in-law-do you want to meet him?"

The water under the bridge reflected the sparkling moonlight on her face. For an instant, Li Shubai saw her expression fluctuate slightly, just like the surface of the water at this time, but disappeared in a blink of an eye, as if it was just moonlight on her face. Phantom cast on. She spoke lightly, and all emotions disappeared into the air silently: "Forget it, let them go to the east of the city."

It was the middle of the month when the Wei family was talking. Someone in the east part lit a lamp, and in a blink of an eye some people in the kitchen started to boil water. The whole family was busy in a hurry. A man opened the door in his cloak and walked out of the yard. Someone behind called him: "Poor Liu Wen lives in the fourth house in Chouhua Lane. Don't make a mistake!"

"Don't worry, mother!" Although the man walked anxiously, his voice was full of joy.

Huang Zixian stared upstairs motionlessly, and Li Shubai also let go of the peony branch and said, "It looks like it is about to give birth."

"Yeah." She responded, her eyes fixed on the courtyard wall. I saw a figure walking slowly in the dark, standing next to the pomegranate tree, the partition wall inwardly whispered twice: "Gu, Gu—"

In the dark night, this sharp and unclear voice was mixed with the groans/groans of pregnant women, which made people horrified to hear.

"Owl." Li Shubai thoughtfully, "It's really ominous."

An owl is an owl. The ancients said that when an owl hums at night outside the window, it counts people's eyebrows, and when they count it, they will take away their lives. The birth of a child is said to be a tumble on the back of the coffin, so after hearing the bird call, everyone in the house jumped up. An old woman ran out of the kitchen immediately and shouted: "I'll go to my wife first. Cover your eyebrows, his father, come and boil the water!"

The father-in-law hurried to the kitchen. The old woman covered her eyebrows, and heard the owl outside the window cooing twice. She quickly picked up the clothes rail next to her, ran to the yard, and slapped at the pomegranate tree, trying to drive the owl away.

And the moment she left the house, the person had already walked around behind the house.

Huang Zixian jumped up, but Li Shubai was faster than her. While holding her hand, he flew over the peony bush. Huang Zixian only felt the sound of the wind in his ears suddenly chaotic. After a few steps of ups and downs had reached the house, the dark shadow had flashed into the back door.

Li Shubai kicked open the door and pushed Huang Zixian in, but he didn't even go in.

Huang Zixia saw that a dagger of the murderer was being held up high, about to pierce the pregnant woman's belly. In shock, she was pushed by Li Shubai again, staggered a few steps, and suddenly fell heavily, hitting the murderer's side with her shoulder and slamming him to the side.

The murderer was exposed, clutching a dagger and trying to escape. Huang Zixia was lying on the ground, unable to stop him, so she could only grab the flower stand next to her and swept it towards the murderer's feet.

The flower pot on the flower stand fell to the ground with a loud bang, and then the murderer tripped over and fell to the ground with a mouth gnawing on the mud. Before he could stand up, Huang Zixia got up and kicked his wrist fiercely. The murderer suffered from a pain, and the dagger in his hand could not be grasped. Huang Zixia grabbed it and pressed it against his waist: " do not move!"

And Li Shubai kept standing at the door, looking at her with a lot of time, until she subdued the murderer, and said, "Yes, she has a good skill, but she has no rules."

Huang Zixia was speechless: "You won't come in and help me?" She was at this critical juncture, and he was still standing by and watching. Under the moonlight, he didn't even move his hair. He was bathed in the brilliance of the moon. Cents.

"There is a woman inside who wants to give birth. How can I be a man?" He silenced her voice with a single sentence, and looked up at the moon in the sky leisurely, "How is the pregnant woman's situation now?"

Huang Zixia hadn’t spoken yet, the child’s cries had reverberated throughout the room. The mother-in-law who heard the chaotic voices in the yard finally ran over tremblingly, and saw that there was a little book boy in the room where there was originally only a daughter-in-law. , A man in black who was pointed at by the book boy with a dagger, a weak daughter-in-law, a child wriggling and crying on her bed, and a man standing outside the back door looking at the moon, plus a flower that had just been broken A pot and a smashed flower stand immediately made her dumbfounded and terrified: "Oh my god, what's this...what's going on?"

The neighbors next to them heard the children's crying, and they opened their windows to ask questions, and the father-in-law came to the door with hot water. Amid the noise, Huang Zixian could only helplessly raise her head and squeeze a smile at them, saying, "Sorry, we are here to catch the robbers."

The parents-in-law looked at the dagger in her hand, then looked at each other, and then shouted to the outside: "Come on, help, a robber is coming to kill—"