Chapter 4 Four, with Jun Caiwei
Li Shubai was able to move around today, and he picked up a struggling pheasant to watch. Seeing Huang Zixia coming in, he asked, "Do you know how to kill a chicken?"
"King Kui, who is omnipotent, doesn't know how to kill chickens?" she asked.
"Too lazy to move," he said, threw the chicken to her, saw Yu Xuan behind her, paused, and then said, "Anyway, there is you."
"Well, that's right." She responded casually, grabbing the chicken wings and going to the back.
Li Shubai sat down in the shade under the porch, Yuxuan stood under the grass reeds in the courtyard and saluted him: "I have seen Prince Kui."
Li Shubai raised his hand, signaling that he doesn't need it.
The two of them had nothing to say, one was sitting and the other was standing in silence, when a pheasant screamed suddenly from behind, and then a colorful shadow flew out, jumping around with dripping blood.
Yuxuan, with quick hands and quick eyes, caught up with it and held it down firmly.Later, Huang Zixia ran out with the fish sausage sword, a little embarrassed: "It's the first time to kill, I have no experience..."
Li Shubai leaned against the corridor wall, and said: "Looking at you just now, it seems like you have a plan in your chest."
"I just watched it twice at the cook's place..." She said, sticking out her tongue, and grabbed the chicken in Yuxuan's hand again.The pheasant with strong vitality was dying. She turned the head of the pheasant and cut it again, squatting on the porch to drain the blood.
Li Shubai looked at the bloodstains in the front hall and the back hall, and suddenly said: "If Ziqin came to see it now, maybe he could deduce from it the bloody murder of all the monks in the temple."
Huang Zixia imagined Zhouzi Qin Mansi looking for blood, couldn't help but smile, and turned around with the chicken: "I'm going to boil the water and pluck the hair."
Yu Xuan hesitated for a moment, stood up and followed her to the back: "I'll help you."
Huang Zixia didn't refuse either, and asked him to watch the stove for her while she cooked.
The fire was extinguished, and according to Yu Xuan's face, the red, orange and gold slowly flowed on his face, which was dazzling.
When Huang Zixia looked up during the cooking time, seeing his face illuminated by the firelight, he couldn't help feeling a faint warmth in his heart.
Her best years were spent with such a person, so it's not a waste, but it's a pity...
And he looked up at her, and their eyes met for an instant.He paused before asking in a low voice, "Where are you going to start?"
Huang Zixia knew that what he was asking was how she would restart the investigation of the family murder case, so she said without hesitation: "Everyone in the palace."
"You suspect it's an inside thief?"
"It's always more convenient for insiders to commit crimes than outsiders, so we always have to investigate first," she said, looking up at him again, and said slowly, "When the time comes, everyone must be screened again, and you are one of them." one."
He nodded, looked at the fire in the hearth, and asked quietly: "What about you?"
Huang Zixia silently lowered her head to adjust the soup and said, "You still don't believe me."
He shook his head and said, "I can't let myself forget everything I saw that day."
Huang Zixia's heart trembled slightly, knowing that what he said was to herself. Before her parents died, she took out the bag of arsenic and looked at it with strange eyes.
She chopped the yams, threw them into the crock and covered them, and then said: "In this case, let's go over what we said and did that day."
Yu Xuan nodded, added two thick pine branches to the stove, patted the dust off his clothes, and stood up.
Huang Zixia raised her hand to touch her head.In such ups and downs, the hairpin that Li Shubai helped her make on her head was not lost, which surprised her for a moment, then pressed the curly grass pattern, and pulled out the jade hairpin inside.
"On the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, I settled the case of my daughter poisoning and killing the whole family. When I came back from Longzhou, it was getting late, so we didn't see each other that night, did we?"
Yu Xuan nodded affirmatively.
"On the twenty-sixth day, I slept until the end of the night when I heard you tapping on the window."
This is what they have been doing for years.Every time, after Yu Xuan tapped on her window, she would open the window a small gap, allowing him to pass in the flowers he had prepared for her from the outside.
On this day, what Yu Xuan sent her was a branch of green calyx plum.
Yuxuan looked at Maomo she drew on the gray ground, pointed to the open space above, and said, "At the beginning of Maochu on the 26th, I passed by Qingyuan, and gardener Feng cut that green calyx plum for me."
Huang Zixia drew a shallow dot in front, indicating Maochu.
"Mo, I knocked on the window, but you didn't respond. I waited for a while and knocked a few more times, but you still didn't respond, so I wondered if you had gotten up and gone out. At this time, I found that the window was not closed, so I Ask: "A Xia, are you in there? I opened the window", then opened a gap in the window and looked inside—" Yuxuan said, with suspicion in his eyes, "I found... You have already got up, and you are standing motionless in front of the dressing table, holding a package of things in your hands. I know the package of the package, it is the package of arsenic we bought together."
Huang Zixia made a cross at the end of the mouth, let out a long breath, and said: "Since the last time we met, I have thought about that day in my heart over and over again. My memory and Your memory doesn't match."
Yu Xuan nodded and asked, "What do you think of that day?"
"At the end of the day, I heard the sound of you tapping on the window lattice, so I put on my clothes and said to you, wait a moment. When I got dressed, you just knocked on the window for the second time. So I opened the window, Take the green calyx plum in your hand."
Yu Xuan frowned slightly, and asked, "How many flowers are there on that branch of green calyx plum?"
Huang Zixia was at a loss for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he said, "About four, or five...Because the flower branch was too long, I cut off the bottom one and put it in the bun."
"Four flowers, two buds. I remember it well," he said.
Because of his affirmation, Huang Zixia's face involuntarily revealed a hint of fear.
The castle in the air that had been preset for a long time suddenly collapsed in an instant.The memory that I thought was absolutely reliable, even myself became unreliable in an instant.Everything in this world seems to be illusory and distorted, unrecognizable.
She managed to calm down, drew a circle next to the fork with her hairpin, and said, "Then, I finished washing. On that day, I had a tortoiseshell hairpin and the green calyx plum you gave me on my hair." , wearing the Pisces jade bracelet that we designed together last year and asked someone to carve it. The clothes I wear are a set of Shu brocade jackets embroidered with begonia flowers in rosin color, and a honey color skirt underneath."
He thought about it for a while, nodded and said, "Yes, with a purple heart knot."
Huang Zixia affirmed: "Rose purple."
"Then Miwu delivered breakfast, but you said, anyway, this time is a bit embarrassing, so why don't you just grab more food, let's have lunch together."
"It's two quarters after the meal. We went to the garden to pick plum blossoms. At the end of the afternoon, my grandmother and uncle came over."
"Yes, I am an outsider after all, so I avoided it. Then when I passed by Qingyuan, I happened to meet a few friends and was dragged there to chat. In the evening, a group of people went to Xinghuazhuang for dinner and returned home It’s already the second watch, and the curfew has long been over. I was drunk too much, and met patrol soldiers, but fortunately, they all knew me and sent me home.”
Huang Zixia drew one by one in the dust on the ground, sorting out everything that happened that day.Yu Xuan sat in front of the stove, staring at her silently, just like so many times before, he sat in front of her, watching her carefully calculate the case.The slender eyelashes covered the bright eyes, but it was difficult to conceal the sharp and bright eyes.
The gaze suddenly turned to look at his face.Only then did Yu Xuan suddenly realize that this is not the past, not the past.After the upheaval that changed the trajectory of their lives forever, they sat at the back of this temple, vaguely as if it was still yesterday, but it was clear that they could not go back.
Huang Zixia used the hairpin to sift through all the itineraries for that day, then wiped the hairpin clean, slowly inserted it back into the silver hairpin, and said, "It seems that your itinerary for that day is much clearer than mine. And from noon to the morning of the next day, I was often alone, and it was difficult to find a witness." Yu Xuan lowered his eyes and said nothing. "It seems that my suspicion is really great..." She said silently, biting her lower lip and stood up, erasing everything drawn on the ground with her feet. Yu Xuan said slowly: "Among all the people, the biggest one." Huang Zixia looked at the ashes that had been wiped away by her on the ground, and remained silent for a long time before saying, "Even if all the evidence points to me, even if you believe that I am the murderer, but——I will prove it to you, no matter what, Huang Zixia is innocent. My father, mother, brother, grandmother, and uncle can all rest peacefully in the ground!"
A pot of Potato Herbal Chicken Soup has been stewed, full of aroma. She cleaned the wooden bowl, scooped up a full bowl, and brought it to the side hall. Yu Xuan said behind her: "I'll go back first." Huang Zixia looked back at him, silent. He stood in the dark kitchen and stared at her, while she stood in the bright porch, the sunlight made her unable to see his face clearly, only his eyes, just like back then, with two pills of obsidian in the quicksilver, clearly distinct . He said: "Now you have to take care of the injured King Kui. It's inconvenient for me to be around you, so don't bother me." She lowered her eyes and said, "Maybe we can go back together." Yu Xuan's eyes widened in shock, stepped out of the dark room a few steps, and asked, "You... are leaving with me now, don't you care about King Kui?" She silently held the bowl of soup and looked at him, and said, "I mean, do you want to wait for a few days, and when King Kui recovers, we... the three of us will go together." The light in his eyes disappeared, he turned his face away, looked at the rolling hills in the distance, and said: "I have never had anything to do with King Kui, and you also know that I came from a humble background, so I dare not compete with these people. " Huang Zixia didn't know why he suddenly reacted so violently, and was slightly taken aback. Seeing her surprised appearance, he suddenly recalled the previous events, hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "Princess Tongchang and I...have nothing to do with each other." Huang Zixia nodded, wanting to ask other questions, but in the end she closed her mouth, lowered her eyelashes and turned around. But he heard him whisper again: "It has nothing to do with you, him, or anyone else." She finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Where's Concubine Guo Shu?" Startled, he suddenly looked up at her. She had already spoken, and she was not upset, she just said: "At this time, we see each other but don't hear each other, and I hope that the moonlight will shine on you." Yu Xuan was extremely astonished, and after murmuring for a long time, he said, "Yes...she once wrote me a letter, which mentioned this poem. However, I really have nothing to do with her." Huang Zixia whispered: "I also believe that you will not associate with people casually." "At that time, I was temporarily hired as the Xuezheng of the Imperial College. I met Princess Tongchang and Concubine Guo Shu on March 3rd when the spring came. When the rain came suddenly, they couldn't shelter from the rain and didn't bring umbrellas. A few maids took off their coats. Protect them from the rain. I passed by at the time, and I didn’t know who they were, so I gave them the umbrella in my hand..." He said, sighing softly, "Who knows, a few days later, when I was giving a lecture , Princess Tongchang suddenly appeared..."
The guards lined up all the students. Princess Tongchang led a few maids and walked directly to the first row. They only glanced at the students sitting there, and they quickly packed up their books and ran to the back. But Princess Tongchang sat down in the front row as if no one was around. The guards and maids suddenly broke into the quiet school, and there was a princess sitting in the first row listening to the lecture with her chin resting on her shoulders. Yu Xuan inevitably stopped the class and asked, "Why do you come here without warning?" Princess Tongchang looked at him with a smile, and that smile contained indescribable meaning: "Yu Xuezheng, have you forgotten me?" He looked at the costumes of the maids behind her, and then remembered that she was the one who borrowed the umbrella. Guozijian Jijiu came in with a bitter face, apologizing to her: "Who in Guozijian offended His Royal Highness, please show Your Highness, I will make a fair and straightforward decision to satisfy the princess." "Really?" Princess Tongchang's sharp phoenix eyes moved away from Yu Xuan's body, turned to Gu Jijiu's body, but raised her hands, pointing directly at Yu Xuan, with a strange smile flashing on the corner of her lips, "That's right. This person is really annoying." Gu Jijiu was stunned, and said: "He is a member of the Chengdu government. He has just arrived in the capital, but he has only been a teacher for a few days, and he is giving lectures on "Zhou Li". When did he offend the princess?" "What do you think?" She stood up, walked around Yuxuan, looked at his upright body, and the smile on her face suddenly narrowed, "I also want to learn "Zhou Rituals" recently. There are a few pedants, all of them are old men, and people don't even bother to open the book when they see it. And you Guozijian, with such an amiable and approachable Xuezheng, who is good at explaining "Zhou Li", actually doesn't let him See me, you said that your Guozijian should be punished?" Gu Jijiu had a bitter face, but at this time it almost dripped with coptis juice, and he hurriedly agreed, and even persuaded Yuxuan to give her a lecture. But Yuxuan didn't know that she was Princess Tongchang, and wanted to reject her tough invitation, but Princess Tongchang messed up his life just a few times.Not only were all his courses in the Guozijian blocked by the guards of the Princess Mansion and no students were allowed to enter, even when he was offering wine and discussing matters with Jiancheng and the master, he was too noisy to speak.In the end, even the teachers and students of the Guozijian complained and asked him to quickly accept the job, so he had no choice but to pack up his books and enter the princess mansion. He also wondered why Concubine Guo Shu would always attend when he was giving lectures to Princess Tongchang, but later on, he was no longer surprised.Because one time at the gate of the mansion, he met the consort Wei Baoheng. Princess Tongchang forced him to go to the mansion to give lectures, and the whole capital was already buzzing. However, to his surprise, Wei Baoheng didn't care about him. As his knowledge improved, he almost couldn't understand what he was saying, so he asked him to clear up his doubts.He talked and laughed at Yan Yan, until someone from Zhijin Garden came to report that the princess had been waiting for him for a long time, then he hurriedly bid farewell to the son-in-law, and was taken by a maid from Suwei Garden. In Zhijin Garden, outside of Banana, and by the pond, he heard the whispers of Princess Tongchang and Concubine Guo Shu, vaguely.The winding bridge meanders, and he clearly heard the sound, but he kept walking on the bridge and did not reach the gate. "Mother and concubine, it's troublesome now, and the person in Tai Chi Palace hasn't been resolved yet, so why are you causing trouble at this time?" "What are you afraid of? Ever since that man entered the Taiji Palace, your father has been unhappy every day. These days, he has given up government affairs and gone to Jianbi Palace. It is said that there are 500 newly elected women from the people, all of whom are waiting for him. .” "Why are concubine mother worried? Don't say five hundred, even if there are fifty thousand, I'm afraid it won't be as beautiful as that person. But after all, emperor father still gave up on her, not on you." "Even you think that this matter is my means? In fact, I don't know what's going on. Why did the emperor suddenly send her to Taiji Palace to recuperate? I think... Could it be that she was really scared by the death of her niece?" sick?" "Anyway, it's always a good thing for mother. Perhaps, half of your life's expectation has just happened here." "Yeah...at such a critical moment, maybe I should concentrate on doing something in the palace. But Linghui, in fact, I don't have any extravagant hopes. There are many eyes and ears in and out of the palace, and the maids and guards around me are always following me. It's not right to see him, what else can I do? Besides, he's younger than you, so with my withered body, what do I expect?" She sighed softly at this point , the voice became even lower and hoarse, "Linghui, I have been with your father for more than 20 years, but I have always been a walking corpse. I know that I have no destiny with him. In this life, I am destined to see each other without hearing each other, but I just want to... ...It would be good to see him more and hear his voice more..." The maid who brought him all the way turned pale when she heard this, and realized that she had inadvertently heard too terrible a secret.She stopped, and looked back at him beggingly. He was also shocked to the point of insanity. Seeing that the curved bridge was gone and he was about to reach the door, he hurriedly nodded to the maid, signaling her to leave quickly. However, she left too hastily, and Princess Tongchang heard their voices.She stood up suddenly and walked to the door of the waterside pavilion, and immediately saw him standing on the bridge, and the maid who was walking back quickly. Princess Tongchang also turned pale all of a sudden, and shouted sharply: "Cardamom!" The maid, who was about thirty years old, was originally called Cardamom, a name that didn't match her age.But he didn't care too much, he just felt at a loss.He thought that Princess Tongchang would be difficult to deal with, but now he knew that it was Concubine Guo Shu who was interested in him, and he was shocked and confused. He stopped at the Quqiao, saw the pavilion under the shadow of plantains, and a note in front of the window. Concubine Guo Shu was just putting down her pen, crumpled a piece of paper in her hand into a ball, and threw it on the ground. He stood on the bridge and saluted them, then turned and left in silence. The maid named Dou Kou ran out quickly after him, and when he reached the door, Princess Tongchang followed him, and Dou Kou was taken back. The three of them tacitly agreed not to mention this matter any more.And after he went back that day, he submitted his resignation to the Imperial College and planned to return to Chengdu. Later, he heard at the Princess Mansion that Jin Garden was closed, and that it was because of a maid named Dou Kou who was murdered inside by a ghost. One of the things he regretted most in the capital was that he asked the maid Dou Kou to leave when he was not at the gate of Zhijin Garden.Although, this cardamom was a stranger to him, he was older, and his appearance was not outstanding.But he always felt that her death was his own fault. Later, when he was leaving the capital, he met the woman named Dicui.Her panicked expression made him suddenly think of Cardamom. So, he lied to the officers and soldiers and saved her. Dicui escaped, Princess Tongchang died, and he also left the capital.As if, everything is over.However, at this moment, the words in Huang Zixia's mouth let him know that this matter will never be resolved and will never pass.
He was in a state of confusion, looked at Huang Zixia in front of him, and after a long, long time, said in a low voice: "Whether you believe it or not, I will always..." But what, he didn't say it. He just slowly moved back into the dark kitchen, watching Huang Zixia, who was worried about the chicken soup getting cold, hurried away with the bowl of soup.
At the end of summer, the sun was hot, it was almost noon, and the hot wind blew across the green grass. Li Shubai closed the doors and windows and fell asleep. She knocked lightly on the door outside, went in and said to him: "Get up and have something to eat." Li Shubai's residual heat still persisted, he propped up half of his body and leaned against the head of the bed tiredly, squinted his eyes slightly to look at her, and asked, "What time is it?" "It's noon. My hands and feet are slow. I only got it now. Don't blame me, my lord." She smiled and held the bowl to him, and said, "It's a little hot, so blow it carefully." He took the reed chopsticks and looked at them, Huang Zixia hurriedly said, "I cleaned them before." He said "hmm", took a sip of the soup slowly, took a piece of potato medicine with reed chopsticks and ate it, and said, "It's nothing, am I still picky here? I just think you made this chic." "Really? I'm still worried that it's too slippery, and I'm afraid it won't be easy to clamp. But if I use a branch, I'm afraid it's too rough, so you can take care of it." She sat by the bed, helping him hold the bowl and said. He was a little confused in his illness, and he finished the bowl of chicken soup with her hand, very docile. When Huang Zixia packed up his things and was about to get up, he asked again: "Is Yuxuan still there?" Huang Zixia nodded and said, "Yes." He looked at her expression, trying to find something in her expression, but there was nothing.Her eyes were clear and clear, as calm as a spring in the forest. Li Shubai turned his eyes away, and his usual cold voice became gentle: "Does he still think you are a murderer?" "Well, we just checked what happened that day, but unfortunately there is no progress," she sighed, and said in a low voice, "But I already knew that this matter is not that simple, and there is no way." "Take it easy, anyway, the truth will come to light." He said, leaning on the head of the bed and looking at her, neither telling her to leave nor to stay. Huang Zixia hesitated holding the bowl, then asked: "What does the talisman of the prince indicate now?" Li Shubai took out the talisman, looked at the still bright red circle on it, and the circled word "waste", handed it to her and said, "Perhaps, I'm already a cripple now." Huang Zixia took it over and looked at it, and said, "My lord can move freely, and his skills are recovering. Where does the word 'useless' come from? It seems that the prophecy above is wrong." "Don't you know that in this world, besides living, there is another kind of life?" Li Shubai looked at the talisman and sighed lightly, "And my kind of life may have been cut off gone." Listening to his words, Huang Zixia felt horrified when he thought of the power behind this talisman that he had vaguely glimpsed.But when he looked up, he saw his expression was calm and cold. The right hand that was pressing on the talisman seemed to be frozen, motionless, but he never put it away. She stared at him silently for a long time, and then said softly: "Don't worry, whether it's a human or a ghost, we will always find out those forces hiding behind."
When she returned to the kitchen, she found that Yu Xuan had disappeared. Only on the ashes that she had wiped off on the ground, his handwriting was faintly discernible: "I'll be waiting for you in Chengdu Mansion." She scooped up a bowl of chicken soup and drank it, leaned on the stove and looked at the line of writing, and then said to herself: "Why didn't you go back and get some medicine or something? King Kui's illness, I don't know when it will be cured... ..." Having said that, I feel that I want too much.Yuxuan has nothing to do with King Kui, what position does he have to ask him to help? What's more, now, even she and him are enemies—or, strangers.
After Li Shubai's fever subsided, although the wound on his back hadn't healed, it had scabbed over anyway. After raising the general for several days, the soldiers who came to search the mountain were scattered, and some of them went to check near the ruined temple. Li Shubai and she are studying a freshly picked green grapefruit, discussing how to accurately judge whether the grapefruit is ripe, whether it should be judged by the color of the outer skin or by the degree of withering of the stalk. In the end, no discussion came to a conclusion, Huang Zixia looked at the sky, and simply split the grapefruit into eight petals: "My lord, I think the best way to check is to open it!" Grapefruit in late summer is naturally sour.Li Shubai was most afraid of acid, so he threw everything to Huang Zixia.Huang Zixia was sitting on the porch and eating slowly, when suddenly he heard a slight rustling of the grass outside the door. She jumped up and waved to Li Shubai. Although Li Shubai was just recovering from a serious illness, his reaction was faster than her, and he had already pulled up her sleeves, and the two of them turned to hide behind the house. The two people who came over were dressed as Xichuan soldiers, one old and one young, went in and searched every room, Li Shubai and Huang Zixia were the most alert people, they approached them several times, they took advantage of the corners of the walls and the bushes, They all escaped. Fortunately, they put Bi E to graze in the nearby woods, otherwise it would be troublesome if they saw him. The two sat in the front hall and ate dry food.Huang Zixia and Li Shubai leaned against the corner of the back room, seeing that they were unaware, they couldn't help looking at each other and smiling. Only then did she feel that she and Li Shubai were close together.In such a quiet summer day, the heat from his arm passed through her sleeve faintly to her skin.And this hot air penetrated into her blood again, rushed straight to her heart, and finally made her face suddenly red. She shifted her shoulders to one side and turned her face the other way. The surroundings are quiet, the cicadas chirp in late summer and stop for a while, the leaves above the head are blown by the wind, the sun gathers and disperses on them, and disperses and chaos. Huang Zixia involuntarily turned to look at Li Shubai again, looking at those scattered halos dancing around his body.He had just recovered from a serious illness, pale and slightly weak, which made her feel that his breathing was much lighter than before, only the curved profile on the side was still as beautiful and elegant as ink lines. And Li Shubai was also turning his head to look at her, and whispered: "Sorry, I forgot for a moment." She nodded, turned her head to look at the mountains in the distance, and said nothing. Hearing his voice, it rang in my ears again: "It seems that those two people should indeed be the Xichuan Army." "Hmm." Who would send such an old, weak, sick and disabled person to be an assassin? "Shall we go down the mountain with them?" Li Shubai leaned against the back wall, looked up at the sky, and said flatly: "I don't want to accept Fan Yingxi's love." Huang Zixia knew that this was not only a matter of affection, it could be said to be a great favor.How could Li Shubai, the king of Kui, who had always lived alone in the world, be willing. Watching the two soldiers leave, he straightened up and stopped leaning against the wall: "Let's go, let's go down the mountain by ourselves." Huang Zixia nodded, picked up some fruits picked yesterday, and hung them on Di E's back. Li Shubai got on the horse first and held out his hand to her. She and him have been in distress these few days, and they have already ridden together several times, so it is logical to hold his hand, get on the horse and sit behind him. She embraced him with both hands, and felt that his body seemed to be thinner than last time, and the line from shoulder to waist was tight and thin. These few days and nights were exhausting, and he was recovering from a serious injury. Obviously he could take the opportunity to be lazy and weak for a while, but he was still so unwilling to owe others a little bit of affection—— Then, he accompanied him all the way to Chengdu, probably because he helped him... Thinking like this, she looked at the continuous mountains in front of her, and suddenly felt that the road in front of her was also at a loss. Li Shubai felt that her arms holding his waist were stiff, so he turned to look at her.They were so close that the wind blew their temple hair, almost entangled and inseparable. Seeing her in a trance, he said, "Be careful." She nodded, and then looked at the fields that had gradually appeared in the distance, thinking, so what, no matter what he came here with her for, her only purpose was to serve her parents and family. Revenge.After everything comes to light, one is a helpless orphan girl, and the other is a nobleman, so what is the relationship between them. When they walked beyond the green hills and saw the flocks of sheep looking for food on the mountainside, the neat mountain fields, sparse human settlements, and the road that went along the river, the two breathed a sigh of relief. Going straight along the road, a small mountain village finally appeared in front of you.It was almost evening, and the curling smoke rose from the roofs of the houses, making it very quiet.Li Shu Baigui was a prince, so naturally he didn't have any money on him, while Huang Zixia was a poor man, so naturally he didn't have any money.Fortunately, they still had some money collected from the captives, so they went to the village to exchange some food and bought some old clothes to wear. This is already a village very close to Chengdu Mansion, and after a while, we finally arrived at Chengdu Mansion. When the two entered through the city gate, they found that there were many fast-moving horse teams gathering at the gate of the city, each of them looked in a state of distress, with leaves and grass clippings all over their heads and bodies, obviously they had just come down from the mountain. The people next to them looked at the groups of people who came back from the mountains and talked a lot.A well-informed man hurriedly said to the people around him: "I heard that Prince Kui disappeared on the way from Hanzhou to Chengdu Mansion! Some of the royal mansion's personal guards escaped yesterday morning, and it is said that they were assassinated on the way." , King Kui's whereabouts are unknown now!" The listeners immediately exploded: "What? Who is so bold that he dared to assassinate Prince Kui?" When the man saw people questioning him, he immediately became very proud: "I went to the envoy's mansion to deliver firewood the day before yesterday, and I heard the people in the kitchen talking, saying that the other party had a Xuzhou accent! Who else can have a Xuzhou accent? Of course it is Pang Xun !" "Pang Xun has long since died, and the few remaining parties have almost been wiped out. How could it be possible?" "Hehe, didn't you hear that in the capital a few months ago, Pang Xun's wronged soul reappeared and attacked the girl from the Langya Wang family? I heard that the girl disappeared from the Daming Palace inexplicably, and her dead body was in the Daming Palace inexplicably. It's extremely weird Ah!" There was another idler next to him, spitting, and combined with the sporadic news he had heard, he began to imagine wildly, "Do you know who the girl who was killed by Pang Xun's ghost is? It's King Kui's concubine!" Everyone expressed their disbelief: "Didn't the case already come to light? I heard that it was cracked by a eunuch of the Kui Palace, Eunuch Yang, and it was the maid next to the queen-to-be who committed the crime. What happened to Pang Xun's ghost?" When the other party heard that his words were being questioned, his neck suddenly became thick: "The Daming Palace is haunted, and it is the rebellious Pang Xun's ghost. How can this matter be spread? Those two maids must be scapegoats!" Huang Zixia and Li Shubai looked at each other, they both saw the complicated expressions in each other's eyes, wondering if they should praise him for his insight into the truth. Another person asked: "So, the assassination of King Kui this time was also caused by Pang Xun's ghost?" "Nonsense! King Kui is so brilliant and powerful that no one in the world can match him. How could an ordinary assassin touch him?" When the man saw that his statement was echoed, his eyebrows beamed with joy, as if he was actually there. "Of course it was Pang Xun's evil spirit who caused the disturbance. King Kui was caught off guard for a while, and that's why Pang Xun's remnants succeeded!" "Right now, people from the entire Chengdu Prefecture and the surrounding prefectures are searching for the forest where the accident occurred. The Jiedu Envoy has also sent thousands of people. It is said that the forest will be carefully combed. As long as King Kui still has a chance of survival, he should Will be back soon." While everyone was talking, some people shook their heads and sighed: "King Kui had an accident in our Chengdu border, not to mention the new envoy Zhou, I don't think the whole Chengdu can get away with it." "Let's not talk about Chengdu. The current situation in the court is entirely supported by King Kui, otherwise the court will be controlled by eunuchs. Now that something happened to King Kui, the only person who benefits is probably..." The man shrank his head when he said this, and said to him from left to right: "It's getting dark, it seems that we have to search all night." "I hope that there will be good news tomorrow morning... It will be great if King Kui returns unharmed." The group of people dispersed, Huang Zixia looked up at Li Shubai who was on the horse, and asked in a low voice: "Shall we go to Zhou Shijun's residence first?" Li Shubai shook his head and said, "I think someone must be happy to see me disappear. Let's find an inn to stay and let them be happy for a few days."
Huang Zixia used the hairpin to sift through all the itineraries for that day, then wiped the hairpin clean, slowly inserted it back into the silver hairpin, and said, "It seems that your itinerary for that day is much clearer than mine. And from noon to the morning of the next day, I was often alone, and it was difficult to find a witness." Yu Xuan lowered his eyes and said nothing. "It seems that my suspicion is really great..." She said silently, biting her lower lip and stood up, erasing everything drawn on the ground with her feet. Yu Xuan said slowly: "Among all the people, the biggest one." Huang Zixia looked at the ashes that had been wiped away by her on the ground, and remained silent for a long time before saying, "Even if all the evidence points to me, even if you believe that I am the murderer, but——I will prove it to you, no matter what, Huang Zixia is innocent. My father, mother, brother, grandmother, and uncle can all rest peacefully in the ground!"
A pot of Potato Herbal Chicken Soup has been stewed, full of aroma. She cleaned the wooden bowl, scooped up a full bowl, and brought it to the side hall. Yu Xuan said behind her: "I'll go back first." Huang Zixia looked back at him, silent. He stood in the dark kitchen and stared at her, while she stood in the bright porch, the sunlight made her unable to see his face clearly, only his eyes, just like back then, with two pills of obsidian in the quicksilver, clearly distinct . He said: "Now you have to take care of the injured King Kui. It's inconvenient for me to be around you, so don't bother me." She lowered her eyes and said, "Maybe we can go back together." Yu Xuan's eyes widened in shock, stepped out of the dark room a few steps, and asked, "You... are leaving with me now, don't you care about King Kui?" She silently held the bowl of soup and looked at him, and said, "I mean, do you want to wait for a few days, and when King Kui recovers, we... the three of us will go together." The light in his eyes disappeared, he turned his face away, looked at the rolling hills in the distance, and said: "I have never had anything to do with King Kui, and you also know that I came from a humble background, so I dare not compete with these people. " Huang Zixia didn't know why he suddenly reacted so violently, and was slightly taken aback. Seeing her surprised appearance, he suddenly recalled the previous events, hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "Princess Tongchang and I...have nothing to do with each other." Huang Zixia nodded, wanting to ask other questions, but in the end she closed her mouth, lowered her eyelashes and turned around. But he heard him whisper again: "It has nothing to do with you, him, or anyone else." She finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Where's Concubine Guo Shu?" Startled, he suddenly looked up at her. She had already spoken, and she was not upset, she just said: "At this time, we see each other but don't hear each other, and I hope that the moonlight will shine on you." Yu Xuan was extremely astonished, and after murmuring for a long time, he said, "Yes...she once wrote me a letter, which mentioned this poem. However, I really have nothing to do with her." Huang Zixia whispered: "I also believe that you will not associate with people casually." "At that time, I was temporarily hired as the Xuezheng of the Imperial College. I met Princess Tongchang and Concubine Guo Shu on March 3rd when the spring came. When the rain came suddenly, they couldn't shelter from the rain and didn't bring umbrellas. A few maids took off their coats. Protect them from the rain. I passed by at the time, and I didn’t know who they were, so I gave them the umbrella in my hand..." He said, sighing softly, "Who knows, a few days later, when I was giving a lecture , Princess Tongchang suddenly appeared..."
The guards lined up all the students. Princess Tongchang led a few maids and walked directly to the first row. They only glanced at the students sitting there, and they quickly packed up their books and ran to the back. But Princess Tongchang sat down in the front row as if no one was around. The guards and maids suddenly broke into the quiet school, and there was a princess sitting in the first row listening to the lecture with her chin resting on her shoulders. Yu Xuan inevitably stopped the class and asked, "Why do you come here without warning?" Princess Tongchang looked at him with a smile, and that smile contained indescribable meaning: "Yu Xuezheng, have you forgotten me?" He looked at the costumes of the maids behind her, and then remembered that she was the one who borrowed the umbrella. Guozijian Jijiu came in with a bitter face, apologizing to her: "Who in Guozijian offended His Royal Highness, please show Your Highness, I will make a fair and straightforward decision to satisfy the princess." "Really?" Princess Tongchang's sharp phoenix eyes moved away from Yu Xuan's body, turned to Gu Jijiu's body, but raised her hands, pointing directly at Yu Xuan, with a strange smile flashing on the corner of her lips, "That's right. This person is really annoying." Gu Jijiu was stunned, and said: "He is a member of the Chengdu government. He has just arrived in the capital, but he has only been a teacher for a few days, and he is giving lectures on "Zhou Li". When did he offend the princess?" "What do you think?" She stood up, walked around Yuxuan, looked at his upright body, and the smile on her face suddenly narrowed, "I also want to learn "Zhou Rituals" recently. There are a few pedants, all of them are old men, and people don't even bother to open the book when they see it. And you Guozijian, with such an amiable and approachable Xuezheng, who is good at explaining "Zhou Li", actually doesn't let him See me, you said that your Guozijian should be punished?" Gu Jijiu had a bitter face, but at this time it almost dripped with coptis juice, and he hurriedly agreed, and even persuaded Yuxuan to give her a lecture. But Yuxuan didn't know that she was Princess Tongchang, and wanted to reject her tough invitation, but Princess Tongchang messed up his life just a few times.Not only were all his courses in the Guozijian blocked by the guards of the Princess Mansion and no students were allowed to enter, even when he was offering wine and discussing matters with Jiancheng and the master, he was too noisy to speak.In the end, even the teachers and students of the Guozijian complained and asked him to quickly accept the job, so he had no choice but to pack up his books and enter the princess mansion. He also wondered why Concubine Guo Shu would always attend when he was giving lectures to Princess Tongchang, but later on, he was no longer surprised.Because one time at the gate of the mansion, he met the consort Wei Baoheng. Princess Tongchang forced him to go to the mansion to give lectures, and the whole capital was already buzzing. However, to his surprise, Wei Baoheng didn't care about him. As his knowledge improved, he almost couldn't understand what he was saying, so he asked him to clear up his doubts.He talked and laughed at Yan Yan, until someone from Zhijin Garden came to report that the princess had been waiting for him for a long time, then he hurriedly bid farewell to the son-in-law, and was taken by a maid from Suwei Garden. In Zhijin Garden, outside of Banana, and by the pond, he heard the whispers of Princess Tongchang and Concubine Guo Shu, vaguely.The winding bridge meanders, and he clearly heard the sound, but he kept walking on the bridge and did not reach the gate. "Mother and concubine, it's troublesome now, and the person in Tai Chi Palace hasn't been resolved yet, so why are you causing trouble at this time?" "What are you afraid of? Ever since that man entered the Taiji Palace, your father has been unhappy every day. These days, he has given up government affairs and gone to Jianbi Palace. It is said that there are 500 newly elected women from the people, all of whom are waiting for him. .” "Why are concubine mother worried? Don't say five hundred, even if there are fifty thousand, I'm afraid it won't be as beautiful as that person. But after all, emperor father still gave up on her, not on you." "Even you think that this matter is my means? In fact, I don't know what's going on. Why did the emperor suddenly send her to Taiji Palace to recuperate? I think... Could it be that she was really scared by the death of her niece?" sick?" "Anyway, it's always a good thing for mother. Perhaps, half of your life's expectation has just happened here." "Yeah...at such a critical moment, maybe I should concentrate on doing something in the palace. But Linghui, in fact, I don't have any extravagant hopes. There are many eyes and ears in and out of the palace, and the maids and guards around me are always following me. It's not right to see him, what else can I do? Besides, he's younger than you, so with my withered body, what do I expect?" She sighed softly at this point , the voice became even lower and hoarse, "Linghui, I have been with your father for more than 20 years, but I have always been a walking corpse. I know that I have no destiny with him. In this life, I am destined to see each other without hearing each other, but I just want to... ...It would be good to see him more and hear his voice more..." The maid who brought him all the way turned pale when she heard this, and realized that she had inadvertently heard too terrible a secret.She stopped, and looked back at him beggingly. He was also shocked to the point of insanity. Seeing that the curved bridge was gone and he was about to reach the door, he hurriedly nodded to the maid, signaling her to leave quickly. However, she left too hastily, and Princess Tongchang heard their voices.She stood up suddenly and walked to the door of the waterside pavilion, and immediately saw him standing on the bridge, and the maid who was walking back quickly. Princess Tongchang also turned pale all of a sudden, and shouted sharply: "Cardamom!" The maid, who was about thirty years old, was originally called Cardamom, a name that didn't match her age.But he didn't care too much, he just felt at a loss.He thought that Princess Tongchang would be difficult to deal with, but now he knew that it was Concubine Guo Shu who was interested in him, and he was shocked and confused. He stopped at the Quqiao, saw the pavilion under the shadow of plantains, and a note in front of the window. Concubine Guo Shu was just putting down her pen, crumpled a piece of paper in her hand into a ball, and threw it on the ground. He stood on the bridge and saluted them, then turned and left in silence. The maid named Dou Kou ran out quickly after him, and when he reached the door, Princess Tongchang followed him, and Dou Kou was taken back. The three of them tacitly agreed not to mention this matter any more.And after he went back that day, he submitted his resignation to the Imperial College and planned to return to Chengdu. Later, he heard at the Princess Mansion that Jin Garden was closed, and that it was because of a maid named Dou Kou who was murdered inside by a ghost. One of the things he regretted most in the capital was that he asked the maid Dou Kou to leave when he was not at the gate of Zhijin Garden.Although, this cardamom was a stranger to him, he was older, and his appearance was not outstanding.But he always felt that her death was his own fault. Later, when he was leaving the capital, he met the woman named Dicui.Her panicked expression made him suddenly think of Cardamom. So, he lied to the officers and soldiers and saved her. Dicui escaped, Princess Tongchang died, and he also left the capital.As if, everything is over.However, at this moment, the words in Huang Zixia's mouth let him know that this matter will never be resolved and will never pass.
He was in a state of confusion, looked at Huang Zixia in front of him, and after a long, long time, said in a low voice: "Whether you believe it or not, I will always..." But what, he didn't say it. He just slowly moved back into the dark kitchen, watching Huang Zixia, who was worried about the chicken soup getting cold, hurried away with the bowl of soup.
At the end of summer, the sun was hot, it was almost noon, and the hot wind blew across the green grass. Li Shubai closed the doors and windows and fell asleep. She knocked lightly on the door outside, went in and said to him: "Get up and have something to eat." Li Shubai's residual heat still persisted, he propped up half of his body and leaned against the head of the bed tiredly, squinted his eyes slightly to look at her, and asked, "What time is it?" "It's noon. My hands and feet are slow. I only got it now. Don't blame me, my lord." She smiled and held the bowl to him, and said, "It's a little hot, so blow it carefully." He took the reed chopsticks and looked at them, Huang Zixia hurriedly said, "I cleaned them before." He said "hmm", took a sip of the soup slowly, took a piece of potato medicine with reed chopsticks and ate it, and said, "It's nothing, am I still picky here? I just think you made this chic." "Really? I'm still worried that it's too slippery, and I'm afraid it won't be easy to clamp. But if I use a branch, I'm afraid it's too rough, so you can take care of it." She sat by the bed, helping him hold the bowl and said. He was a little confused in his illness, and he finished the bowl of chicken soup with her hand, very docile. When Huang Zixia packed up his things and was about to get up, he asked again: "Is Yuxuan still there?" Huang Zixia nodded and said, "Yes." He looked at her expression, trying to find something in her expression, but there was nothing.Her eyes were clear and clear, as calm as a spring in the forest. Li Shubai turned his eyes away, and his usual cold voice became gentle: "Does he still think you are a murderer?" "Well, we just checked what happened that day, but unfortunately there is no progress," she sighed, and said in a low voice, "But I already knew that this matter is not that simple, and there is no way." "Take it easy, anyway, the truth will come to light." He said, leaning on the head of the bed and looking at her, neither telling her to leave nor to stay. Huang Zixia hesitated holding the bowl, then asked: "What does the talisman of the prince indicate now?" Li Shubai took out the talisman, looked at the still bright red circle on it, and the circled word "waste", handed it to her and said, "Perhaps, I'm already a cripple now." Huang Zixia took it over and looked at it, and said, "My lord can move freely, and his skills are recovering. Where does the word 'useless' come from? It seems that the prophecy above is wrong." "Don't you know that in this world, besides living, there is another kind of life?" Li Shubai looked at the talisman and sighed lightly, "And my kind of life may have been cut off gone." Listening to his words, Huang Zixia felt horrified when he thought of the power behind this talisman that he had vaguely glimpsed.But when he looked up, he saw his expression was calm and cold. The right hand that was pressing on the talisman seemed to be frozen, motionless, but he never put it away. She stared at him silently for a long time, and then said softly: "Don't worry, whether it's a human or a ghost, we will always find out those forces hiding behind."
When she returned to the kitchen, she found that Yu Xuan had disappeared. Only on the ashes that she had wiped off on the ground, his handwriting was faintly discernible: "I'll be waiting for you in Chengdu Mansion." She scooped up a bowl of chicken soup and drank it, leaned on the stove and looked at the line of writing, and then said to herself: "Why didn't you go back and get some medicine or something? King Kui's illness, I don't know when it will be cured... ..." Having said that, I feel that I want too much.Yuxuan has nothing to do with King Kui, what position does he have to ask him to help? What's more, now, even she and him are enemies—or, strangers.
After Li Shubai's fever subsided, although the wound on his back hadn't healed, it had scabbed over anyway. After raising the general for several days, the soldiers who came to search the mountain were scattered, and some of them went to check near the ruined temple. Li Shubai and she are studying a freshly picked green grapefruit, discussing how to accurately judge whether the grapefruit is ripe, whether it should be judged by the color of the outer skin or by the degree of withering of the stalk. In the end, no discussion came to a conclusion, Huang Zixia looked at the sky, and simply split the grapefruit into eight petals: "My lord, I think the best way to check is to open it!" Grapefruit in late summer is naturally sour.Li Shubai was most afraid of acid, so he threw everything to Huang Zixia.Huang Zixia was sitting on the porch and eating slowly, when suddenly he heard a slight rustling of the grass outside the door. She jumped up and waved to Li Shubai. Although Li Shubai was just recovering from a serious illness, his reaction was faster than her, and he had already pulled up her sleeves, and the two of them turned to hide behind the house. The two people who came over were dressed as Xichuan soldiers, one old and one young, went in and searched every room, Li Shubai and Huang Zixia were the most alert people, they approached them several times, they took advantage of the corners of the walls and the bushes, They all escaped. Fortunately, they put Bi E to graze in the nearby woods, otherwise it would be troublesome if they saw him. The two sat in the front hall and ate dry food.Huang Zixia and Li Shubai leaned against the corner of the back room, seeing that they were unaware, they couldn't help looking at each other and smiling. Only then did she feel that she and Li Shubai were close together.In such a quiet summer day, the heat from his arm passed through her sleeve faintly to her skin.And this hot air penetrated into her blood again, rushed straight to her heart, and finally made her face suddenly red. She shifted her shoulders to one side and turned her face the other way. The surroundings are quiet, the cicadas chirp in late summer and stop for a while, the leaves above the head are blown by the wind, the sun gathers and disperses on them, and disperses and chaos. Huang Zixia involuntarily turned to look at Li Shubai again, looking at those scattered halos dancing around his body.He had just recovered from a serious illness, pale and slightly weak, which made her feel that his breathing was much lighter than before, only the curved profile on the side was still as beautiful and elegant as ink lines. And Li Shubai was also turning his head to look at her, and whispered: "Sorry, I forgot for a moment." She nodded, turned her head to look at the mountains in the distance, and said nothing. Hearing his voice, it rang in my ears again: "It seems that those two people should indeed be the Xichuan Army." "Hmm." Who would send such an old, weak, sick and disabled person to be an assassin? "Shall we go down the mountain with them?" Li Shubai leaned against the back wall, looked up at the sky, and said flatly: "I don't want to accept Fan Yingxi's love." Huang Zixia knew that this was not only a matter of affection, it could be said to be a great favor.How could Li Shubai, the king of Kui, who had always lived alone in the world, be willing. Watching the two soldiers leave, he straightened up and stopped leaning against the wall: "Let's go, let's go down the mountain by ourselves." Huang Zixia nodded, picked up some fruits picked yesterday, and hung them on Di E's back. Li Shubai got on the horse first and held out his hand to her. She and him have been in distress these few days, and they have already ridden together several times, so it is logical to hold his hand, get on the horse and sit behind him. She embraced him with both hands, and felt that his body seemed to be thinner than last time, and the line from shoulder to waist was tight and thin. These few days and nights were exhausting, and he was recovering from a serious injury. Obviously he could take the opportunity to be lazy and weak for a while, but he was still so unwilling to owe others a little bit of affection—— Then, he accompanied him all the way to Chengdu, probably because he helped him... Thinking like this, she looked at the continuous mountains in front of her, and suddenly felt that the road in front of her was also at a loss. Li Shubai felt that her arms holding his waist were stiff, so he turned to look at her.They were so close that the wind blew their temple hair, almost entangled and inseparable. Seeing her in a trance, he said, "Be careful." She nodded, and then looked at the fields that had gradually appeared in the distance, thinking, so what, no matter what he came here with her for, her only purpose was to serve her parents and family. Revenge.After everything comes to light, one is a helpless orphan girl, and the other is a nobleman, so what is the relationship between them. When they walked beyond the green hills and saw the flocks of sheep looking for food on the mountainside, the neat mountain fields, sparse human settlements, and the road that went along the river, the two breathed a sigh of relief. Going straight along the road, a small mountain village finally appeared in front of you.It was almost evening, and the curling smoke rose from the roofs of the houses, making it very quiet.Li Shu Baigui was a prince, so naturally he didn't have any money on him, while Huang Zixia was a poor man, so naturally he didn't have any money.Fortunately, they still had some money collected from the captives, so they went to the village to exchange some food and bought some old clothes to wear. This is already a village very close to Chengdu Mansion, and after a while, we finally arrived at Chengdu Mansion. When the two entered through the city gate, they found that there were many fast-moving horse teams gathering at the gate of the city, each of them looked in a state of distress, with leaves and grass clippings all over their heads and bodies, obviously they had just come down from the mountain. The people next to them looked at the groups of people who came back from the mountains and talked a lot.A well-informed man hurriedly said to the people around him: "I heard that Prince Kui disappeared on the way from Hanzhou to Chengdu Mansion! Some of the royal mansion's personal guards escaped yesterday morning, and it is said that they were assassinated on the way." , King Kui's whereabouts are unknown now!" The listeners immediately exploded: "What? Who is so bold that he dared to assassinate Prince Kui?" When the man saw people questioning him, he immediately became very proud: "I went to the envoy's mansion to deliver firewood the day before yesterday, and I heard the people in the kitchen talking, saying that the other party had a Xuzhou accent! Who else can have a Xuzhou accent? Of course it is Pang Xun !" "Pang Xun has long since died, and the few remaining parties have almost been wiped out. How could it be possible?" "Hehe, didn't you hear that in the capital a few months ago, Pang Xun's wronged soul reappeared and attacked the girl from the Langya Wang family? I heard that the girl disappeared from the Daming Palace inexplicably, and her dead body was in the Daming Palace inexplicably. It's extremely weird Ah!" There was another idler next to him, spitting, and combined with the sporadic news he had heard, he began to imagine wildly, "Do you know who the girl who was killed by Pang Xun's ghost is? It's King Kui's concubine!" Everyone expressed their disbelief: "Didn't the case already come to light? I heard that it was cracked by a eunuch of the Kui Palace, Eunuch Yang, and it was the maid next to the queen-to-be who committed the crime. What happened to Pang Xun's ghost?" When the other party heard that his words were being questioned, his neck suddenly became thick: "The Daming Palace is haunted, and it is the rebellious Pang Xun's ghost. How can this matter be spread? Those two maids must be scapegoats!" Huang Zixia and Li Shubai looked at each other, they both saw the complicated expressions in each other's eyes, wondering if they should praise him for his insight into the truth. Another person asked: "So, the assassination of King Kui this time was also caused by Pang Xun's ghost?" "Nonsense! King Kui is so brilliant and powerful that no one in the world can match him. How could an ordinary assassin touch him?" When the man saw that his statement was echoed, his eyebrows beamed with joy, as if he was actually there. "Of course it was Pang Xun's evil spirit who caused the disturbance. King Kui was caught off guard for a while, and that's why Pang Xun's remnants succeeded!" "Right now, people from the entire Chengdu Prefecture and the surrounding prefectures are searching for the forest where the accident occurred. The Jiedu Envoy has also sent thousands of people. It is said that the forest will be carefully combed. As long as King Kui still has a chance of survival, he should Will be back soon." While everyone was talking, some people shook their heads and sighed: "King Kui had an accident in our Chengdu border, not to mention the new envoy Zhou, I don't think the whole Chengdu can get away with it." "Let's not talk about Chengdu. The current situation in the court is entirely supported by King Kui, otherwise the court will be controlled by eunuchs. Now that something happened to King Kui, the only person who benefits is probably..." The man shrank his head when he said this, and said to him from left to right: "It's getting dark, it seems that we have to search all night." "I hope that there will be good news tomorrow morning... It will be great if King Kui returns unharmed." The group of people dispersed, Huang Zixia looked up at Li Shubai who was on the horse, and asked in a low voice: "Shall we go to Zhou Shijun's residence first?" Li Shubai shook his head and said, "I think someone must be happy to see me disappear. Let's find an inn to stay and let them be happy for a few days."