Chapter 21 Twenty-one, scorching-eyed lotus

The truth came out, but everyone remained silent. As an envoy, Zhou Xiang coughed and said, "Although Gongsun Yuan killed the judge of Qi,...the judge of Qi had three lives in his hands, and even killed the famous scholar Wen Yang just to create the illusion of martyrdom. It's hard to forgive." He was secretly rejoicing that his daughter did not marry this wolf-hearted man, so he felt a little sympathetic to Gongsun Yuan. And Wang Yun knew that Gongsun Yuan was the eldest sister of Queen Wang, so he naturally smiled and said, "Aunt Gongsun can be regarded as avenging her younger sister. She is passionate, heroic and generous, and seems to be quite like an ancient chivalrous man."

These two people helped Gongsun Yuan to speak, but Fan Yingxi said angrily: "Since ancient times, it is true that killing people pays their lives, but paying for their lives requires the government to come forward. If everyone can kill in private to avenge their personal revenge, then what is the use of the law?" , where is the official authority?" Seeing that he is righteous and full of court laws, everyone around is silent, and can only listen to him continue to speak impassionedly: "What's more, Qi Teng is the judge in my mansion, and now he is dying in full view. Doesn't it mean that he is blatantly ignoring our Xichuan army and letting him go?" Our army suffered a great humiliation?"

Although they knew that Fan Yingxi was so angry, half of it was because Gongsun Yuan wiped the knife on Fan Yuanlong's body and blamed him, but when the Xichuan army was brought out, everyone fell silent. Li Shubai didn't speak, just looked down at the tea in his hand, and ignored it. Seeing that everyone was quiet and waiting for him to make a decision, Li Shubai put the tea bowl in his hand on the table, and said indifferently: "According to what Fan Jiedu said, since this matter is so important, we can make a decision after the preliminary trial by the Chengdu Government Yamen. .Although this king is also the Minister of Dali Temple to share the worries of the Holy One, but after all, he is not familiar with local affairs, so it is inconvenient to intervene."

Seeing that what he said was impeccable, everyone just bowed their heads and said yes. Gongsun Yuan and Yin Luyi were temporarily put in prison and taken away from the scene.Zhou Ziqin thoughtfully asked someone to set up a cleaner women's cell for them, and then asked someone to clean up all the evidence and prepare to seal it up for storage. "Today's deduction is very exciting-Eunuch Yang, this strange case you solved in Chengdu Mansion is really wonderful." The night was dark, but Li Shubai didn't get up, just sat in front of the waterside pavilion, turning around quietly. Looking at Huang Zixia beside him, he asked, "I don't know what sideshows are there next?"

Zhou Xiang suddenly showed a toothache expression - it is almost three o'clock, the candles in the lanterns have been changed, two cases that have been turned around have been solved, and King Kui has no intention of resting, and still wants to watch the show? "This...King Kui, please wait a moment, and I will immediately arrange for the officials to come and dance for fun..." Li Shubai raised his hand to stop Zhou Xiang's words, stood up, and said, "After I arrived in Chengdu, I have been bothering Fan Jiedu and Zhou Shijun. Since Zhou Shijun is not prepared today, then tonight, I will take care of you for you." We are preparing a sideshow, please watch it step by step."

Everyone was stunned, they didn't expect that King Kui would prepare a program and invite Fan Jiedu and Zhou Shijun to watch it.And when they arrived at the show, everyone was even more surprised—the location was actually in Xiyuan, where Zhou Ziqin lived. After Li Shubai walked into the West Garden with everyone, he looked back at the people who followed. Fan Yingxi looked around the small garden; Zhou Xiang looked puzzled; Master Mu Shan was sluggish, but still forced a smile; Wang Yun was pulling a newborn Xue Li to look at it casually; Yu Xuan revisited the old place, silent and peaceful.

Huang Zixia followed behind the crowd and slowly entered the garden, looking at the thin gleam of the lotus leaves in the darkness.The maids burned red candles high and lit up the thousands of candle holders in the corner to illuminate the hall.Li Shubai sat down and looked up at Zhou Ziqin. He nodded, although he was a little puzzled, he still said, "It's ready." In the corridor above the lotus pond, two high-hanging lamps were removed, and the lamp holder of the thousand-branched candle was moved to the corridor, and a gauze screen was placed in front. According to King Kui's instructions, everyone sat down on the chairs brought by the servants and looked at the gauze screen.Just as he was puzzled, he saw an old entertainer sitting beside the gauze screen, beating twice with a small drum in his hand.With the bright light of thousands of candles, he opened a small book in his hand and began to sing:

"Chang'an's old affairs are chaotic, and today I'm gossiping with you. There is a square named Guangde in the west of the city, and a case has been verified." As he sang, he displayed images of various squares in Chang'an on the white gauze screen. In a blink of an eye, he turned up red flowers, willows and greens, the gate of the small bridge, and then a group of people rode across the small bridge and arrived at the door of a house. Only then did everyone suddenly realize that this was a shadow puppet artist, and he was going to perform a play for them. Fan Yingxi, Zhou Xiang and the others didn't expect that King Kui would like this, and invited them to watch it in the middle of the night. They couldn't help laughing, thinking that maybe they had other intentions, so they concentrated on watching it carefully.

The door was wide open, and the guards on horseback got off their horses and entered.The door turned over to look like an inner hall, and there was a figure of a woman hanging on the beam. "A murder case occurred in Guangdefang, and the young daughter-in-law lost her life. The police and the police have completed all inspections, and the evidence is conclusive to close the case. Just because a word does not match, I am full of depression and have nowhere to put it. Tossing and turning, sleepless and secretly committing suicide, it is true to commit suicide sigh." An official in red walked slowly with square steps and sat down in the main room.Behind her was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl, wearing embroidered clothes and a pair of buns, very cute.

The old man imitated the child's voice with an old voice, and it was really naive: "Daddy, Daddy, wait for me." The red-clothed official looked back at her and flicked his sleeves: "Little girl, what are you doing here? Daddy is the servant of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and he is about to hear the closing statement!" Seeing this, Yu Xuan suddenly let out a low "ah". Wang Yun glanced at him, and then as if realizing something, he tapped his head lightly and said, "It turns out...it's that case." The shadow puppet old man turned the pages of the book and read the words in the book.And the little girl under him also turned around on the gauze screen and said, "Daddy, I don't like to be bored at home reading books, and I don't like to learn embroidery from my mother. If I want to learn, I will learn the great skills of seeing through life and death, and diagnosing yin and yang! "

"Hehehe, little girl, what a big tone!" Father beat the drums and waved his sleeves three times, "Go, go, go! Go and play with the little wild children on the side of the road! Wait for Daddy to finish this Case, I will take you home." The old man's kung fu was really good, and in a blink of an eye, several people who were watching the fun came out, each with a different voice, chattering and watching. A businessman holding a piece of cloth in his hand said: "I want to teach you that when this lady got married, she didn't buy the material for the wedding dress from my house, and the color of the wedding dress she wore when she got married was not the right color, which caused this disaster!" A businessman with a string of jewelry in his hand asked the sufferer: "Dalang, yesterday afternoon, your wife ordered a pair of silver hairpins in her shop. Now that she is dead, do you want more?" A fortune-teller holding a fortune-telling banner stroked his goatee and said, "Don't tell the secret! I've already figured out that your family will have weddings and weddings this year, but it's a pity you didn't come to see me earlier. Sure enough, you can't escape this tragedy... " Now even Zhou Xiang and the others could see that it was the first case that Huang Zixia solved when he was twelve years old. Sure enough, after the chaotic crowd receded, the red-clothed official took up a pen and said, "It seems that the case is closed, and he must have committed suicide—" Before he finished speaking, a little girl in a flowered jacket appeared beside him again, and shouted, "Wait a minute, Daddy!" Her father was taken aback for a moment, then turned to look at her, and asked, "Is my dear daughter hungry?" "no." "But thirsty?" "No." "But going home?" "Even less." "It's annoying, hurry up and play, don't disturb daddy's business here!" "Father, this lady definitely did not commit suicide, but was pretended to be suicide after her death—she was actually murdered to death!" The red-clothed official trembled suddenly: "Daughter! Why are you so young, why are you uttering lies? There are so many twists and turns between the trial and trial, how can you, a mere boy, find out?" "But Daddy, haven't you heard what this man said?" The little girl pointed to the side, where the jeweler just now appeared, "Daddy, when you were chatting with your colleagues at home, you mentioned that people are about to die. , the heart is ashamed, then, have you ever seen a person who is ashamed, who would go to a jewelry store to order a silver hairpin before committing suicide? Moreover, he only chose the style, but did not get it!" "Ah-ah!" The red-clothed official trembled exaggeratedly in front of the gauze curtain again, and the old man also began to sing: "One word awakens the dreamer, and one word can dissolve hatred. There is a daughter in the Huang family named Zi Xia. It is famous all over the world!" With the turn of the old man's hand, the little girl has grown into a demure girl, and she has traveled through thousands of mountains and rivers, and came to Chengdu, where hibiscus and hollyhocks bloom. Surrounded by flowers, the story ends.The old man put down the shadow puppets in his hands, stood up and bowed to everyone: "Everyone, this shadow play that the old man performed for everyone was circulated in Chang'an several years ago, but due to various reasons, most of them are no longer performed. Meng Zhou arrested the head Please, temporarily read the script and perform it again, if there is any unfamiliarity, please forgive me!" "Very good, very good." Zhou Xiang said with a smile. The thousand-stick candle lamp holder was moved back into the room. In the bright room, Li Shubai turned his head and looked coldly at the expressions of the spectators.No one could say anything good about the sideshow program that King Kui ordered, but Yu Xuan was the only one sitting on the chair, motionless, his eyes still fixed on the corridor, where the white gauze screen had already been torn down, and only the corridor was empty and dark. , deep and in a trance, it is frightening. His face was extremely pale, and even faintly revealed a terrifying color of iron blue, which made his handsome face look like a stone sculpture, lifeless. Everyone around felt that something was wrong with him, so Master Mu Shan, who was closest to him, stood up, patted him on the shoulder, and said in a low voice, "Master Yu, the movie is over, why don't you wake up?" Yu Xuan was dazed and in a trance, slowly raised his head, and was about to look at him, but was interrupted by Huang Zixia: "Master, the show is not over yet, why don't you sit and watch it? Why bother the prince's sideshow?" Master Mu Shan was shocked, knowing that she had seen through his intentions, so he softly proclaimed the Buddha's name, and had to back down. Li Shubai motioned to Huang Zixia, and nodded slightly at her. Huang Zixia looked at Yu Xuan under the bright light of a thousand candles, the warm golden candle light was like a layer of unsolidified gold, slowly flowing on his pale and handsome face, showing a strange and distorted beauty. Her heart, like that flowing color, gushed out an indescribable pain, which almost made her suffocate.This pain mixed with fear, confusion, resentment and melancholy burned her chest, almost making her unable to speak. But she still opened her mouth after all, with all her strength, she opened her lips. It's so strange, after she opened her mouth, it seemed as if there was a galaxy flowing out of her heart, gurgling and icy flowing through her throat, so the pain that was burning her heart disappeared, replaced by What is more is a kind of inexplicable excitement, a kind of power of sprouts that have finally broken out after being buried deep in the ground for a whole winter, making her desperate, just like looking directly at the noon sun, looking directly at everything in front of her bloody , even if his eyes would be stabbed blind, he would not hesitate. "Everyone, this is the first case that Huang Zixia solved in his life. A case ends and a criminal is punished. However, another story begins again," her voice was slightly hoarse, but very stable, almost calm. With a hint of coldness, "If Prince Kui hadn't read the file and told me the follow-up matters, I wouldn't have known about it—the newlywed husband who strangled his wife in a fit of rage lost his father when he was young. There was a younger brother. The mother was lonely and helpless. She carried the youngest son on her back day and night, and took the eldest son to weave. She was thin and dry in her thirties, and her gray hair grew prematurely. A widow brought up two children. Needless to say, she finally survived When the eldest son was eighteen years old, the fortunes turned around. The eldest son was very clever. He made some capital by selling needles and thread brains in the streets and alleys. He married a beautiful wife. Seeing that the whole family is suffering, but who knows that because of a quarrel, accidents happen, the son strangles his daughter-in-law to death, and then pretends to commit suicide. Naturally, the wine shop was chased by the creditors, who sold it to pay off the debt, and even ransacked all the things in the house. The widowed mother worked hard for more than ten years, and saw a few days of good life, but suddenly, overnight, her son died. The daughter-in-law died. She couldn't bear the blow, and fell into madness on the day her eldest son was executed..." When she said this, although she tried her best to restrain herself, she finally couldn't bear it and looked at Yuxuan. She saw his body trembling, the veins on his temples throbbing, almost even she could feel the feeling of blood flowing through her body desperately. But she gritted her teeth, turned her eyes fiercely, and continued almost cruelly: "The mother who went crazy, hanged herself in the house one night, where her daughter-in-law once hung her. The youngest son was fourteen years old at the time. After getting up in the morning, he saw his mother's body hanging on the beam in the empty house. He didn't know whether he was frightened or what, so he hugged his mother's body and guarded it for three days and three days. At night, he didn't say anything or move. If the neighbors hadn't noticed something was wrong and broke in, he would have died beside his mother without a sound." Master Mu Shan recited "Amitabha Buddha" lightly, then stood up silently, as if he couldn't bear to listen any longer, and wanted to leave. Zhou Ziqin standing in front raised his hand to stop him, and said: "Master, if you come, please be safe, and stay in Zen, how about leaving after listening?" Master Mu Shan was helpless, and sat down on the chair again with downcast eyes. Huang Zixia didn't pay attention to the movement below, she still told the story slowly, almost cruelly: "The neighbors sent the comatose youngest son to the hospital, and helped to bury his mother in the mass grave. The youngest son’s life was finally saved, but because he was dying, he was in a trance in the hospital, looking like a fool. One day, he left the hospital and disappeared without a trace—about , became one of thousands of street beggars." When she said this, she stopped and paused for a long time before saying: "This is what Prince Kui saw, all the records in the case file. And - after I recently arrived in Chengdu Mansion, I came across several other cases , suddenly, it seems to piece together the rest of the story." The room is quiet.Although Fan Yingxi and Zhou Xiang didn't quite understand why she was telling the case many years ago, they saw Li Shubai sitting on the chair, listening intently, so they didn't dare to move, they just sat around Li Shubai and listened carefully. . "What I'm going to say next is all guesswork, without any real evidence, so please listen to me." Huang Zixia said words like "guess" and "guess", but the expression on her face let everyone know that she That being said, it's a matter of great importance, an extremely important matter.So everyone held their breath, and no one let out the atmosphere. "The youngest son, perhaps in a famine a few years ago, went south with the hungry people. At that time, many people's footholds were in Chengdu Mansion. As time passed, he gradually came to his senses, but he was living in a foreign land, alone, After all, he was unable to return to Chang'an as a child, so he could only stay on the streets of Chengdu and beg for a living. However, he was extremely intelligent and devoted himself to learning. I eavesdropped on the teacher's lecture under the corner, and after a short while, she surpassed those students who were serious about studying, and the gentlemen were amazed, and won the name of child prodigy, so that..." At this point, her voice finally trembled involuntarily. After a while, "Even the new envoy Huang of Chengdu at that time heard his reputation. After meeting and chatting, he was shocked as a genius, so he was adopted as a foster son and brought back to the mansion." Hearing this, both Zhou Xiang and Fan Yingxi could not help but gasp.And Zhang Xingying, who had been standing behind Li Shubai like a javelin, couldn't help but let out an exclamation. Li Shubai listened quietly, staring at the lotus shadows outside. The fan in Wang Yun's hand had already been put down, and he was so focused on Huang Zixia that he almost forgot to blink. Only Yu Xuan, he still maintained that movement, sitting in the chair.The dancing candles cast a layer of distorted light on his face, making him flickering between bright and dark, extremely bleak, also, extremely terrifying. "An orphan, who has been carefully trained by the envoy, has had a completely different life since then. He entered the government school and received the most attentive teaching from the best teacher; he became a well-known talent in Chengdu and was sought after by everyone; he is gentle and caring. He loves Huang Shijun's daughter everywhere, making her forget everything and love him; three years later, he passed the Juren examination, proud of his success, and is about to embark on the road to success—he knows that he no longer needs to use his enemies. So he moved out of the envoy's mansion and gave Huang Zixia a hollowed-out Pisces jade bracelet." Zhou Ziqin was taken aback when he heard the word Pisces Jade Bracelet, then hurried to the next room to fetch it, put it on the table, and said, "Be careful, it's very poisonous." "One, a highly poisonous bracelet." Huang Zixia was not afraid, picked it up gently, and showed it to everyone. Refracted out, there are thousands of brilliance, which cannot be described. She took a deep breath, pointed to the eight words inside, and said, "The length of ten thousand trees, why not have a little flaw. This bracelet is designed according to the texture of that piece of jade, and the words are carved by him himself. Said, this bracelet is the only one in the world, there is no second. After Huang Zixia escaped, we found it from Fu Xinruan. Zhou Ziqin inspected and found that the poison used by Fu Xinruan and Wen Yang to die in love was by no means the same as that of the author at the time. The arsenic that was detected. Among them, it is extremely precious and rare, passed down from the deep palace, poisonous." This time, not only Zhou Xiang and Fan Yingxi breathed out, but even Wang Yun's face changed color and he frowned. "And from this, I thought of one thing, that is - when Huang Shijun's family died, Huang Zixia also wore the bracelet given by Yuxuan on his hand, and never left it for a moment. And this bracelet is also Fu Xinruan. It was worn before she died. And the people who died of poisoning at that time all showed the appearance of arsenic poisoning. Is there any connection between the two?" She slowly put down the bracelet and said in a low voice: "Therefore, Zhou They went to investigate the tomb of Huang Shijun's family, re-exhumed the autopsies, cut off the three people's hair and brought them back—as expected, they also died of the poison!" Her gaze fell on Yu Xuan through all the astonished crowd, and said word by word: "Huang Shijun's family and Fu Xinruan, it is absolutely impossible for two kinds of people to intersect, but they died in the end." Under the same kind of rare poison. Therefore, there is a great possibility that the poison came from this bracelet, which is the only thing they have in common—and this bracelet was personally handed by Huang Shijun’s adoptive son Yuxuan. The design was handed over to craftsmen for production, and it was given to Huang Zixia at the beginning." Yu Xuan's body trembled violently, he curled up involuntarily, raised his hands to cover his temples, and tried his best to maintain the posture of sitting there.But it was useless, the veins on his temples and the back of his hands were exposed, he bit his lower lip hard, but the lower lip was bitten blue, and he couldn't restrain his rapid moaning. Huang Zixia looked at his dying pain, but didn't say a word, just breathing hard, squeezing out the resentment and grief in his heart, bit by bit, out of his chest in trembling breaths, not letting his Consciousness is torn apart by those things. An undercurrent of turmoil. "Chonggu, I have doubts. You once let Fugui lick your hand that touched this bracelet. I also inspected the outside and inside of this bracelet. It turns out that it is non-toxic." Zhou Ziqin said, breaking the bracelet. The depressed atmosphere at this time was revealed: "Besides, Yuxuan gave Huang Zixia and Qi Teng gave Fu Xinruan this bracelet several months before the accident. I want to ask, if this bracelet was really poisoned, then what happened to this bracelet?" Is the poison on the bracelet sometimes present and sometimes not? Or, can you adjust when the bracelet is poisoned?" "Yes, the poison of this bracelet can indeed be controlled. It only needs a small movement." Huang Zixia said, slowly picked up the bracelet, put it in front of her eyes, and stared at it. The two transparent and hollowed-out small fish are lively and affectionately biting each other's tails, chasing and playing.Tiny waves circle and flow around them, and they appear extremely transparent and bright because of the hollowing out. She looked at the two fish and said softly: "Because the quality of the jade is not good, in order to increase the transparency, the middle is hollowed out. There are countless carvings and holes, and it is difficult for people to see one by one. At this time, as long as the A little bit of poisonous poison is sealed in the hollow inside the bracelet. After it dries up a little bit, paste it with thin wax so that it will not leak at all. If there is no accident, maybe this bit of poisonous poison will accompany the owner for a lifetime, and there will be no one there. know." She lowered her eyelashes and looked away from the bracelet. The thorn in her heart that had been pierced in her heart for more than half a year, in the bloody pain, made her thoughts clearer, and even became cold, and her whole body was terrified. Tension, supporting her body, making her stand more straight and stable. "On the day when Huang Shijun's house had an accident, spring snow fell and plum blossoms were in full bloom. "Yuxuan came to look for her in the afternoon and gave her a branch of green calyx plum. When she took the plum blossoms with a smile, or when she picked plum blossoms with him in the backyard, or maybe, when she held flowers and held hands with him Sometimes, he scraped the bracelet lightly with his nails or flower branches, the wax block fell off, and the poison hidden in the bracelet was completely exposed. "Afterwards, Yuxuan left, and the Huang family gathered in the hall to have an intimate meal. As the most beloved daughter in the family, she always made soup for everyone one by one, and delivered the soup bowls to the guests. "And that day, because she was having a bad time, she listened to her mother's advice, went to the kitchen herself, and brought the bowl of yokotsu from the kitchen to the living room. "Out of the kitchen door, across the loquat tree in front of the court, through the cracked wooden door, in front of you is a very smooth blue brick floor, and a long corridor. "The sea bowl is heavy, and if the lid is added, it is really impossible to carry it all the way, so she discarded the bowl lid and carried it all the way. "In the midst of steaming hot soup in winter, the bracelet on her hand was smoky and moist. Occasionally, it collided with the soup bowl, making a light ding—— "The moist water vapor dripped down, carrying a poison that no one can escape and no medicine can cure, and merged into the whole bowl of yogurt soup. "As he wished, she gave everyone a soup to make amends, and the poison spread in every bowl. "What he didn't want was that she didn't scoop up the slightly fishy yam soup because of her pent-up sadness. "He used her as a sharp blade, and used her hands to avenge the destruction of his family, and also made her, like him back then, alone and wandering around the world." After Huang Zixia finished speaking, the room was also completely silent. All eyes were on Yu Xuan. His cold sweat had already soaked the skirt of his clothes, and because he pressed his temples hard, a few strands of messy hair fell down on his forehead, and was drenched with sweat, sticking to his pale face, which was shockingly black and white. Huang Zixia didn't look at him.Her gaze was fixed in the air, and only the words in her mouth were soft and slow, but unquestionable: "And there are so many holes on the bracelet. Just to be on the safe side, you are afraid that it will be difficult to find the poisonous place for a while, so you will definitely use it." There are many places on the wax seal. On that day, you may have opened one, maybe two. But there must be one or two more left—because, when Qi Teng saved you, he probably knew about it from you. When he made up his mind to kill Fu Xinruan to marry Zhou Shijun's daughter, he thought of this method, so he asked for the bracelet from the pawnshop, and then tricked Wen Yang to Fu Xinruan. At home, I used the same method to scrape off a poison seal, let Fu Xinruan mix the poison soup himself, and died. And I also opened the last one during the experiment yesterday." Zhou Ziqin nodded immediately, and suddenly realized: "Yes! No wonder you used your nails to pick it inside. If you didn't mention it now, I don't even know what it is for!" And Yuxuan was panting heavily, staring straight at Huang Zixia, for a long, long time, before slowly uttering a few words in a hoarse voice: "Impossible..." Huang Zixia raised her chin slightly, waiting for his explanation. He bit his lower lip tightly, and asked in a hoarse voice: "If... If it is really me who killed someone, then tell me, what is that confession letter that appeared in my room?" Everyone didn't know what the so-called confession letter was, but when they saw the sad and bewildered expression on Yu Xuan's face, they all felt that he probably didn't know what was going on, and they couldn't help whispering. Li Shubai raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said, "I remember that letter." He took a pen and paper, and wrote the letter in Mrs. Wei's small script. The exact same characters, even the two horizontal lines between the two "pages", are as written in that letter, one horizontal line occupies half a frame, and the remaining horizontal line is divided into the remaining half frame, like adding a pen . He showed the picture to everyone, and Fan Yingxi immediately said, "This...this is written by Huang Shijun's daughter! Could this be her confession?" Zhou Xiang nodded and said: "That's right, look at the content, her parents have raised her for more than ten years, and she was the only one left overnight, with blood on her hands again, all because of love - isn't this Huang Shijun?" daughter, Huang Zixia's confession?" Yu Xuan nodded silently and said: "Besides, Huang Zixia and I are often together, and I am very familiar with her handwriting. This... is undoubtedly written by her." "Are you sure?" Huang Zixia took a deep breath and took the confession book in his hand, "May I ask when did you get this confession book?" Yuxuan looked at her firm eyes, and there was no hesitation in that expression, which made the idea he had been holding on to finally start to waver: "On the day when... Huang Shijun's tomb was built, on April 10th this year six." "Then when you got that so-called 'confession letter', was it when you committed suicide in front of the grave and were rescued by Qi Teng?" She asked back. Yu Xuan nodded. At this moment, because of the word "suicide" in her mouth, he suddenly felt his back stiffen, and there was an extremely cold and sharp pain, which went up his spine, and finally stabbed hard into his chest. In the head— A panic he had never felt before made his breathing suddenly quicken. "So, how did that letter appear? You said that it suddenly appeared on the desk after you were rescued home. But in the house that is no different, who will sneak in, do nothing, just give You sent such a letter?" Yu Xuan's breath was heavy and rapid, like a beast on the verge of death.He saw what he was most afraid of, advancing step by step, relentlessly, descending, until it completely destroyed him. Huang Zixia's voice was clear and decisive, word by word, passed into his ears: "Since he fled from the Chengdu Mansion, he arrived in Beijing in March, and Huang Zixia was in the capital in April, hiding his name and assisting the prince to solve the case of the princess' disappearance. Opportunity to send you a letter?" Her gaze slowly turned to Master Mu Shan, and she said lightly: "Master's name is praised by everyone in Chengdu. Everyone knows that your Buddha Dharma is boundless and can change people's thoughts. So I was thinking, why did Yu Xuan come here? Suicide, why did Qi Teng invite you to the side of Yu Xuan who was rescued just now, and what you did to Yu Xuan, I can also guess one or two." Master Mu Shan clasped his hands together, looked at King Kui's expression, his eyebrows hung upside down, and looked miserable: "Amitabha... Lord Qi invited me to come to the door that day, saying that a friend wanted to find short-sightedness, and asked me to save his life. In the past, benefactor Yu really had a fierce temper, which was hard to contain, and saving a life was better than building a seven-level pagoda, how could I just sit back and watch, so he made him forget the most terrifying past event." The lamp holders of the thousand-branched candles are incomparably brilliant, and thousands of chaotic shadows are swaying in the night wind at this time. Everyone looked at Yu Xuan, but they couldn't make a sound, they just looked at his face.He looked at Master Mu Shan, the little hope left on his face gradually melted away like spring snow, leaving only despair and pain that ate away all the colors on his face bit by bit, leaving a ghastly pale. Yu Xuan's complexion was pale with bruises mixed in, and the little bit of hope left in his eyes gradually dimmed, like the last candle flame swaying hopelessly in the wind, finally completely covered by the heavy night at this moment , reduced to ashes. He followed Huang Zixia, following the murderer's footsteps step by step until now, but he never expected that he himself was the murderer he wanted to find out and make public. In the dead silence, Huang Zixia looked at Yuxuan in front of her, and felt a pain in her heart, a hatred in a daze, but it made her feel more hopeless than a daze. She looked at Yuxuan, at the man she had loved desperately when she was a young girl, and suddenly she felt so sad because of the despair in her heart, her almost frenzied emotions made her grab the confession letter written by Li Shubai, and turned to Yuxuan. Throwing it over fiercely: "Yeah, you forgot, even all the evil deeds you have done!" Her body was trembling, her thoughts were confused, her throat was humming, and she could hardly utter a complete voice: "You wrote a confession, put it in your own room and committed suicide, but you still want to preserve your reputation. You only dare to use Huang Zixia's Handwriting! This is clearly the confession written by you yourself, but after you forgot everything, it will be another evidence of Huang Zixia's crime, and you will keep it in your heart!" Everyone didn't know why she was so excited, and they were shocked for a while. Li Shubai stood up, patted her on the shoulder lightly, but said nothing, just turned around and said to the crowd: "Huang Shijun and his wife are very kind to Chonggu." Everyone nodded one after another, and hurriedly made expressions of sighing. Only Yu Xuan was staring at Huang Zixia in a daze, his dark eyes had no light on that pale face.After a long time, he slowly shook his head and said in a hoarse voice, "No." Listening to her trembling breathing, Huang Zixia opened her mouth wide to say something, but couldn't utter a single word.She could only stare at him fiercely, breathing heavily. "I didn't mean to pretend to be Huang Zixia's words...At that time, I wanted to follow Shi Jun's family, and my heart was so excited that I didn't know what I was doing...Writing that kind of handwriting was completely unconscious...It was also Maybe, I was thinking about her in my heart, all the time, all the time. In this world, no one is more familiar with her words than me. I have copied articles for her countless times, and I can even make mistakes like hers. The same..." he said, the difficult voice, although still dry, became clearer, "Also, you said before that I no longer need to use my enemy Huang Shijun's family, so I moved out of the Shijun's mansion... ...Actually, no. At that time, I didn't know...that little girl who ruined my family with one sentence was Huang Zixia..."
He was a beggar, and followed the refugees all the way to the south. Later, he was helped by several gentlemen in the Shushu in Chengdu Mansion, and was introduced to the envoy Huang Min. Huang Min loved him very much, and seeing that he couldn't even remember his own name clearly during his exile, he named him Yuxuan and brought him back home. In the bloody sunset, he saw Huang Zixia for the first time. The moss growing in the shade meets the flowers blooming in the sun for the first time.He was fascinated by the young Huang Zixia, and he could hardly look directly at her brilliance.He knelt on the ground to help her pick up the hanju that fell from her arms, and when he touched the corner of her skirt that was stained with the mud of the lotus pond, he couldn't help but hold it, and looked up at her. His face was reflected in her eyes, as clear as a mirror.From then on, he made up his mind that he wanted to live in her eyes staring at him for the rest of his life. The happiest time in his life was only three years.Although the day when his mother committed suicide by hanging from the beam still appeared in his dreams, he had new parents and an older brother, a life full of food and clothing, a roof that could shelter from the wind and rain, and a house full of sedges. Li's courtyard. Also, the girl he admired wholeheartedly, Huang Zixia. Three years later, he passed the Juren examination, and returned to his adoptive parents proudly. He thought that he might finally have a chance, so tentatively, he raised the possibility of wanting to be with Huang Zixia to his adoptive parents. However, he did not expect that overnight, his adoptive parents made a decision to let him move out of the envoy's mansion and go to the house bought for him in Chengdu. Compared to Huang Zixia who argued with his parents warmly and clearly, he respected and appreciated his adoptive parents, so he had to move out of the envoy's mansion and go to his own small mansion. When celebrating his move to a new home, a group of people he knew invited him out for a drink, and they made a fuss until nightfall.The snow outside began to fall thinly, he left his friends who were staggering drunk, and walked home alone. He purposely took a long detour to the outside of the envoy's mansion, on top of the bustling market, looked up at Huang Zixia's small building. The lights on the small pavilion went out. The woman he adores has already rested. 他含着笑，站在雪地里，回头看着街市。雪夜寒冷，少人出行，做买卖的人也都收拾了东西回家了。唯有街边一个唱皮影戏的老人，还在纱屏之前，演着小短戏。 他本已经走过去了，又怜惜老人不易，转回来在纱屏之前放上了一些钱。他听到老人唱到“长安光德坊”，记忆中那些遥远的东西，被微微触动了。 于是他站在雪中，抬头看完了整出戏。 大雪纷纷压在他的发上、肩上，他却毫无知觉。 他看着自己家破人亡的这一场血泪，成为了街上的一出戏，成为别人口中一个消遣的故事，只落得所有人都赞叹一声“黄梓瑕年少聪慧”。 黄梓瑕。 他遇到的，日光下肆意绽放的夺目花朵。 他的兄长杀妻案，本已经要结案了。他的一家，苦尽甘来，终于看到了未来的曙光—— 可为什么，十二岁的她在旁边喊了一声“爹爹”。 他的母亲悬挂在横梁之上，似乎还在轻轻晃荡。窗外初升的朝阳斜斜地从窗棂外照进来，染得他母亲的整个身子、他家整个破败的屋子、他所处的整个天地，都是一片血红。 他刚从梦中醒来，还迷茫的脑子，只余得一片空白。他站在母亲的身前，呆呆地抱着她的腿，发现她已经完全冰冷僵硬了。 父亲死后，没日没夜织布操劳，终于将他们两人养大的母亲；虽然家境贫苦，可依然能在回家时从自己的怀中拿出一个桃子、一把枣子给他的母亲；曾笑着对他说，我们一家人以后团圆美满，开心过日子的母亲；在哥哥被处斩之后疯癫狂乱，无声无息地吊死在他睡梦之中的母亲，没有了。 他没有家了。 他把母亲从梁上搬下来，把她拖到床上，仔细妥帖盖好被子。他把眼睛闭上，靠在她的身边，想着，就像睡着一样，永远也不要睁开了。 然而这一夜的雪，沉沉压在他的身上，让他仿佛又感觉到了，自己那时冰凉得仿佛全身血液都停止的感受。 他不知道自己在使君府外站了多久。直到天亮，有人开门出来，看见他之后吓了一跳，赶紧给他拍去身上的雪，却发现下面的雪已经化了，又重新冻成冰，和他的衣服皮肤深深地冻在了一处。 他在眼前恍惚的黑暗之中，模模糊糊看见她的面容。 他倾慕的女子，他荒芜人生中最灼眼的花，他的黄梓瑕。 他的至仇，他的至恨，他的至爱。
那一夜的寒冷，让他病了许久。 他不想再见黄梓瑕。她过来探病的时候，他将书本压在自己的脸上，任凭她叽叽喳喳怎么逗弄他，他也依然没和她说一句话。 她自然也察觉到了他的变化，于是沮丧地坐在他的榻边，问，到底怎么了，为什么一搬出去就疏远了，不理我？ 他闭上眼，沉沉地说，阿瑕，你要是不会查案就好了。 她生气地离开了，因为他一句话就抹杀了她的所有骄傲。而他也第一次没有挽留，任由那道裂隙存在他们之间。 因为他想，这辈子，可能就这样了。 身体稍好一些之后，他到明月山广度寺，去聆听佛法。 在那里，他遇见了齐腾，为他引见了沐善法师。不知为什么，在心里藏了那么久，原本打算一直腐烂在心里的那些东西，却在沐善法师的笑容之中，全都倾诉了出来。他说到黄梓瑕，说到黄使君，说到自己的母亲。 最后沐善法师问，你心里有一条毒龙，既然无法抑制，何不让它大显神威，以求终得内心安息？ 他茫然起身，走出沐善法师的禅房，走过粉墙游廊。 他看见碑刻上清清楚楚的那一句诗—— 然而，他已经没有办法。他心里那条剧毒的龙，已经夭矫地冲出他的身体，叫嚣着激荡他全身的血脉，迫不及待要去迎接那鲜血淋漓的快意。 禹宣讲述到这里时，众人的目光都不由自主聚集到沐善法师身上。 “阿弥陀佛……禹施主自己未能定性。老衲还望以毒攻毒，一举摧毁心魔，谁知你竟会错了意，如今徒惹出一场大祸！”沐善法师垂目低头，合十道，“当初在齐施主家中看见禹施主，老衲还以为你是还未忘却之前仇恨，所以才自寻短见，却不知你竟是心生歹意，毒杀恩重如山的义父母了！” 李舒白见他立即将自己摘得干干净净，知道他必定早已准备好说辞，其中也必定有内情。但此时禹宣案件尚未完结，他也不说破，只冷眼旁观。 禹宣此时只觉胸口冰凉彻骨，又觉沸热如煎，在极冷与极热之间，整个人已经行将崩溃，他盯着面前的沐善法师，良久良久，那苍白的面容上却终于还是浮出一丝绝望的笑意，乌青的唇形状依然美好，只是令每一个看见他的人都觉惨淡。 “事到如今，牵涉他人又有何益……都不过是，我挣脱不开旧日冤仇，终于毒杀待我恩重如山的黄使君全家……仅此而已。”
他离开了广度寺，买了一块玉，又重去讨好她。在与她商量设计玉镯的时候，他的眼前，在一瞬间闪过齐腾随身携带的那一条阿伽什涅。 鲜红如血，飘忽如烟。 阿伽什涅，龙女一念飘忽所化，往往出现在死于非命的人身边。 “就两条鱼吧，”他在纸上画了两条圆转的小鱼，慢慢地说，“你和我就像这两条小鱼一样，互相衔着对方的尾巴，转成一个循环，逃不了你，也逃不了我，永生永世，在一起。” 永生永世。 他从齐腾的手中拿到了鸩毒，点在了镯子内部的三个小凹处，将蜡烛滴上，削平，似有若无的三点微黄，完美地融合在白玉的颜色之中。 这不祥的镯子，便就此戴在了她的腕上。 在听说黄家有意将她与王蕴的婚事提上日程之时，他与她打赌，诱使她如往常般买了一包砒霜。在雪后梅开的那一日，他看见了她的叔叔和祖母来访，猜测他们必定是来催促婚事的，于是他在帮她抱过满怀的梅花之时，捏一捏她手上的镯子，不动声色地找到鱼眼，用花枝挑开了那一处的蜡。 她与祖母携手同去，亲亲热热，笑颜如花。 他抱着满怀的梅花，从她家的花园中走出，走过他曾长久凝望的她常住的小阁，走过他们初见时的枯残荷塘，走出使君府。 在寂落无人的后巷，他伫立在长空之下。初春的雪风涤荡他的整个身体，他感觉到寒冷，却并未移动脚步。 他只一动不动地站在那里，仰头看着天空。 她与他一起剪下的梅花，在他的怀中松脱，顺着他无力垂下的双臂坠落于地。红色粉色，鲜血与胭脂，俱堕泥泞，暗香陨落。 仿佛又回到那一日，他趴在母亲冰冷的尸体旁，一动不动。 他去晴园参加诗会，又是清谈又是喝酒，真奇怪，他觉得自己几乎支撑不住了，却居然没有一个人看得出他的异样。他其实没有喝醉，只是再也装不下去了，于是癫狂地挣脱所有人，回去一动不动地躺下，在自己的宅邸之中，等候着报丧的消息传来。 到第二日早上，他的义父母死了，而黄梓瑕，他们说，成为了黄家唯一幸存的人。 他收拾了她数日前写给他的情书，前往西川节度府，上交给对黄梓瑕深怀宿怨的范应锡。他的儿子多次被黄梓瑕揭发，因为他竭力救护才幸免于难，而他的侄子正是因为黄梓瑕，流放不毛之地，回归无期。 如他所料，接管了川蜀政务的范应锡，不必通过朝廷便能处置川蜀一切事务，他立即坐实了黄梓瑕毒杀亲人之名，并在她出逃之后，上报朝廷，请求四海缉捕毒杀成都府尹黄敏兼四位亲人的黄梓瑕。 他心愿已了，在奔走筹措，替黄使君一家修建好坟墓之后，写了一纸遗书，于坟前自尽。
“那封遗书，就是你以为是黄梓瑕自白信的，那第二封信，是吗？” 黄梓瑕声音喑哑，缓缓问。 禹宣闭上眼，用力点一点头，说道：“是。我本以为自己已经必死，谁知却被齐腾救回，他劝我既然已经除掉黄使君，便为范节度所用，必将前途无限，我拒绝了他，只想就此而去。而后，我陷入昏沉，再度醒来，已经忘却了自己所做的一切恶行。也许是我自己下意识要保护自己，于是我不停地说服自己，一切都是黄梓瑕做的，证据确凿——我越来越固执地认为她杀了父母，甚至觉得自己曾亲眼见到她手握砒霜，还比如……” 他咬牙，慢慢地，艰难无比地说：“我回到家中，看到放在我桌上的遗书。那里面的内容，让我以为，写的是你自己。” 十数年教养，一夕间波澜，满门孤身，一手鲜血。所爱非人，种种孽缘…… 是他，也是她。 一样的人生，同样的际遇，轮回循环，如那玉镯上两条小鱼，相互衔着彼此的尾巴，纠缠往复，永难分离。 他语气逐渐飘忽，已经完全不顾得在别人面前遮掩她的身份，只直直地盯着她，说：“我忘却了自己所做的一切，分不出这是你写给我的，还是我写给你的。却没想到，我们都是学卫夫人的小楷，我一直偷偷帮你抄书，模仿惯了你的字，连那个错别字都一模一样了……” 他的声音，嘶哑哽咽，与平时那种清越温柔，已经迥异。他慢慢地站起来，那一双蒙着薄薄水汽的眼睛，凝望着她。 他苍白的面容如同冰雪，白色肌肤上唯有两点黑色的眼眸，一痕淡青的唇色。就像是描绘于粉壁上的人物，徒具了完美无缺的线条形状，却失却所有的颜色，没有任何活人气息。 他那一双眼睛深深凝视着她，就像多年前他们第一次见面时，他跪在她的面前帮她捡拾菡萏时，抬头看她，迷了双眼。 那时擦过他们耳畔的蜻蜓都已死去，所有荷花都已不复存在，唯有这一双眼睛，这眼中含着的一切，永不改变。 时光这么成全，让沦落的乞儿变成倾绝天下的男子，让天真无邪的她变成惊才绝艳的少女。 命运如此残酷，让这一生一世之中的两个人，成为互相命运的翻云覆雨手，成为彼此命里最大的仇敌。 “阿瑕……”他轻轻说着，向她伸出手。 旁边的李舒白和王蕴，虽然知道黄梓瑕的身份，但周子秦等人却一概不知，见他忽然叫杨崇古为“阿瑕”，都是诧异无比。 而黄梓瑕站在他的面前，一动不动，没有抬手去碰他伸过来的手。 他那苍白无比的面容上，居然露出了淡淡的笑意，轻声说：“是，我永远也……触碰不到你了。”