Chapter 22 Twenty-two, eternal life
Yu Xuan died in the early morning of that day.
Because he is a wanted criminal, when he was escorted to prison, the jailer first took him home to pack his things, and then came to put him in prison.
He had already remembered everything, and naturally he also remembered the place where he hid the poison.He took it out and ate it calmly, and silently followed the guards to the prison as if nothing had happened.
He sat in the dark prison, using the same death method as Huang Zixia's parents, waiting quietly, feeling the incurable poison eroding his body.
Thousands of chaotic blades stabbed straight into his abdomen, his internal organs were churned into a ball, the pain was so extreme that he couldn't even move his fingers, and he couldn't even make a sound.
But it was only for a moment, and there was no consciousness at all.Death came to him, like the warm spring water of that year, and like the soft snowflakes of the past.In the blood red in front of his eyes, he curled up in the prison, looked up blankly, and saw the phantom in front of him.
It was the first time in his life that he saw a wanton and proud flower.
The bright moon shone on his pale smiling face through the narrow iron window, and also shone on Huang Zixia's body through the window lattice carved with five bats.
The exhaustion of running around for half a year has been unloaded, and all the nerves that have been tensed day and night have also been relaxed.She slept under the window, calm and soothing, breathing lightly. She had a dream. In the dream she saw her parents and elder brother, uncle and grandmother.They were drinking osmanthus wine under the osmanthus tree, smiling and waving at her. She lifted the corner of her skirt, and ran towards them on the tip of the furry grass that was as green as blue silk. The sun was bright and golden.Osmanthus flowers fell on the bodies and heads of their family, and spread a layer on the table.The thick honey-like sweetness lingered around them, like a slowly rotating vortex. She looked at the smiles of her family members in it, a little dizzy, and felt that she had never been so happy. She wondered a little, how could she be drunk before drinking the sweet-scented osmanthus wine. But it doesn't matter, the sun is so warm, the fragrance is so sweet, and the breeze is so soft.She rested her chin and looked at everyone.They say things that don't matter, don't know what they're talking about, but as long as everyone is happy. Huang Zixia was still that sixteen-year-old girl.Wearing a light-colored shirt with light and narrow sleeves, he was born in a family with a beautiful appearance, famous all over the world, and a perfect life. She laughed with everyone in the sunshine and the fragrance of flowers, but suddenly felt lonely and empty in her heart. For some reason, she stood up slowly, turned around and walked forward silently.Walked out of this place where sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant, and walked out of this warm and comfortable sky. The summer lotus wind blew, and she saw Yu Xuan standing opposite.Under the strong wind, before the overturned lotus cover, his body was covered with a layer of watery light. Soft silver light, pure brilliance.He is like a branch of green bamboo that has just peeled off its bamboo shoots in spring, and still contains a thin layer of white fresh powder. He looked at her with a smile, reached out his hand in front of her, and called her in a low voice: "A Xia." The breeze came slowly, blowing the corners of his clothes and her temple hair. This is her frozen dream, the wind and rain will never invade this corner, and the future seems to never come. The corners of her lips raised slightly, revealing a shallow smile. She reached out and took the palm he held in front of her. Fingers intertwined, hearts intertwined. She looked down at his hands. This slender palm, well-proportioned joints, and the right strength when holding her hand are so familiar.Gentle, but not slack; tolerant, but not forceful. She smiled, looked up at him who was smiling, looked at this man who illuminated her best girlhood, smiled and shook her head. She let go of his hand, and slowly, tightly clenched the empty right hand she had withdrawn into a fist. She said, "Goodbye." In front of the lotus pond, in the long wind, she looked up at Yu Xuan's face, moistened her eyes with a smile: "No, I will live forever, never see you again."
It was already afternoon when she woke up, the sun was slanting towards the west and shone on her body from the window, the summer heat had not dissipated yet, but the golden wind was blowing slowly. The whole world is transparent and bright.She is still in the small building where she lived in the past, in the garden of the Shijun Mansion. She got up and walked to the window, opened the window and looked outside. The lotus pond is still there, and the Fuli is thick green.An early-blooming sweet-scented osmanthus tree has burst into bloom.It is not as thick as in the dream, and it is sent far away by the breeze, exuding a faint sweet fragrance. She thought about it, but found that she couldn't remember what she was doing today last year.The small building was sealed for half a year, everything inside was intact, and time seemed to stay in the original place. She washed herself with the water left in yesterday's pot, opened the closet, picked out a plain silk dress, and plain silk shoes without any decoration.She has been used to corset for a long time, but now that she has untied it, she is a little uncomfortable. Then she opened her dressing table, set up the rusted bronze mirror, and combed a simple bun.Without Miwu and the others, she would not be very good at taking care of herself.In the past, when I went out, I always wore men's clothing, which saved me a lot of trouble. Her fingers slid over the hairpins in the make-up dowry, and paused for a long time on the silver hairpin Li Shubai gave her. Finally, she took a pair of simple white jade hairpins and put them on for herself, and put on another pair. Tiny South Sea Pearl Earrings. She came out of the small pavilion and stood on the platform in front of the door as before, looking at the small garden in front of her. The back garden of Shi Jun's mansion, where she has lived for many years, every stone, every flower and plant is familiar to her.But now, no one can walk with her hand in hand. She stepped on the corridor and walked forward in the early autumn wind.The thin clothes were blown up by the wind, echoing like blue waves, drooping like fine willows. Turning around the corridor, she saw Li Shubai facing the chessboard alone in the small pavilion on the rockery ahead.Zhang Xingying stood beside him, while Zhou Ziqin was lying on the railing with a depressed face. Obviously, he was not Li Shubai's opponent at all, and had completely given up the idea of playing chess with him. Zhou Ziqin's eyes fell on her, and he couldn't look away. His mouth opened wider and wider, and his eyes also stared wider and wider. He watched her getting closer and closer in a daze, until she walked up the rockery and bowed down to them in front of the pavilion. Not collapsed. Li Shubai's eyes stopped on her, his face was calm and unwavering, only a gentle curve appeared on the corner of his lips.It's like turning around a mountain road in the barren mountains, and suddenly seeing the expression of a flower that is just blooming. Holding his chin that was about to fall, Zhou Ziqin stammered and asked, "Chong... Chonggu?" Huang Zixia tilted her head slightly, nodded and smiled at him. "You, you, you... You are such a good eunuch, why did you dress up as a woman?" Zhou Ziqin put his right fist on his chest, his face blushed with a frightened and rapid heartbeat, "Don't...don't leave me like this Close! You, you...you look so good as a woman, I...I can't stand it..." She could only ask him: "Didn't you hear when Yuxuan called me 'A Xia' last night?" "I, I... I thought he had an illusion in front of his eyes again, and he was reaching out to Huang Zixia in his dream." Zhou Ziqin didn't have any vision to open any pot, and he didn't have any vision, "Besides, you were not Ignore him... didn't you reach out your hand?" Huang Zixia had no choice but to give up the idea of communicating with him, lifted the corner of her skirt and walked into the pavilion, to the side of the chessboard. Li Shubai held the chess pieces in his hand, looked up at her for a long time, then gave up the game, reached out to get the chess box, took back the chess pieces one by one, and motioned her to sit down: "Sleep well?" "Hmm...very good." Sitting opposite him, she replied softly. Zhou Ziqin came over slowly with great care, looking overly frightened, looking at her from left to right, back and forth, and only poked her with a little finger to see if she was alive. Huang Zixia sighed helplessly: "Don't look at it. Yang Chonggu is Huang Zixia." When Zhou Ziqin heard this, he looked up at the careless Li Shubai, and then turned his head to look at Zhang Xingying, who had a strange expression on his face. He immediately pursed his lips and shouted depressedly: "You are like this, always exclude me! You all know The truth is out, even Zhang Xingying knows it, so just keep it from me! Can we still be good friends happily?" "I'm sorry, Ziqin," Huang Zixia sighed, and said, "Because of arrests all over the world, the prince helped me hide my name and pretend to be an eunuch. In fact, I was also worried that if my identity was revealed, I would cause trouble for you, and I didn't intend to hide it from you." "You are really...really..." He muttered, and then jumped up again, his depression was swept away, and he exclaimed excitedly, "It's so good!" The other three people in the booth looked at him speechlessly. He jumped up and down in the booth, overjoyed: "Great! The biggest trouble in my life has finally been completely solved!" Zhang Xingying couldn't help asking: "What is the biggest trouble in your life?" "That's right, I've been thinking, in my world of Tang Dynasty, in the field of investigation and reasoning, is Huang Zixia better or Yang Chonggu better? If they meet one day, who will prevail?" Zhou Zi Qin stared at Huang Zixia with sparkling eyes, with a look of relief, "This problem has been haunting me! I've been so entangled with it that I've been going crazy lately. I can't sleep well without thinking about food or tea! Now I know that you are With the same person, I feel like I can eat three big bowls of rice and sleep until noon!" Huang Zixia and Li Shubai looked at each other speechlessly, feeling relieved. "However, even if it is for my own good that you don't tell me your real identity, there is one more thing—" Zhou Ziqin came back to his senses, and began to lose his temper again, "If nothing else, just say that Yuxuan was In that case, King Kui only said that he remembered his palm print last time, and didn’t say anything else, but you were able to discover his identity immediately, so you must have communicated a lot later, and you didn’t bring me with you!” "I really haven't communicated again. Is this still necessary?" Huang Zixia sighed, "Five years ago, Guangdefang, the first case I solved in my life, I naturally remember it very clearly. The person involved must not be Yuxuan, and he was not sentenced, but he left his handprint on the file and sealed it. If he was a witness, he would not be collected in the final file, so he must be the family member of the prisoner. Recalling the relatives of the murderer in that case back then, everything It's all clear." "...Why does everything seem so simple when you analyze it?" Zhou Ziqin sat down beside them in frustration, thought for a while, and then asked Li Shubai: "My lord, let's discuss it, what about Aunt Gongsun and Siniang Yin? " Li Shubai said flatly: "Ask your father. Everything is punished according to the court's laws and regulations. Why do we need to discuss it?" "But, they are all beauties, and killing people is justifiable, and they are all so outstanding. If she dies, "Sword Dance" might be discontinued..." "Haven't you heard about the murder of Luo Cheng by the first emperor?" he asked. "Okay... okay." Zhou Ziqin lowered his head in frustration again, and said, "But... but is it really necessary to follow the law so strictly?" "I will remind Fan Yingxi to not put pressure on your father and deal with everything fairly. But for the rest, we can only look at the law." "The law...the law is nothing more than human feelings..." Zhou Ziqin muttered. Seeing his appearance, Huang Zixia immediately asked, "Did you do something that violated the regulations again?" "Hush...Actually, I'm not here for you." He said, looking back and forth, seeing no one around, he took out a round and flat object wrapped in white cloth from his arms, which was mysterious He handed it to her with an expression of wanting to take credit. Huang Zixia knew what it was at a glance.She slowly reached out to take it, and opened the white cloth outside.Inside is a bracelet, shiny and transparent, carved with two small fish biting each other's tails, affectionate, sweet and lovely. Holding the bracelet in her hand, she remained silent. "As usual, this is going to be sealed and put into storage... But, last night I thought this belonged to Huang Zixia, and I might be able to find her in Chengdu in the future, so I'd better give this to her as a meeting gift, so I Just..." He put his finger on his lips, and said carefully, "Anyway, no one will check it after decades of storage, and no one should find out!" Huang Zixia slowly turned the bracelet, letting its brilliance slide over her face. Seeing that she was silent, Li Shubai said, "Last night, Yuxuan committed suicide in prison and took poison." She gave a soft "oh", as if she didn't hear it, her expression was calm. However, her eyes suddenly darkened. The clouds in the distance and the flowers and trees nearby all blurred into one piece in an instant, and she could no longer see clearly.Only the bracelet in front of her was shining brightly under the sunlight, making her eyes burn. She raised her left hand and hastily blocked her eyes with her elbow, allowing the things that hadn't flowed out of her eyes to be quickly sucked away by her clothes.She forced herself to suppress her breath, and let out a low "hmm". Li Shubai sat opposite her, looked at her silently, but said nothing. She covered her eyes, and no one could see her expression.Even Li Shubai, who was close at hand, could only hear her breathing, which was long, depressing and forceful. After an unknown amount of time, she put down her hand, her face had calmed down, and even her eyes were slightly red.She looked at Li Shubai, and slowly said in a dry voice, "I'm going to pay homage to my relatives." "I'll accompany you." Li Shubai stood up as if nothing had happened. She walked out of the pavilion, and slowly stretched out her right hand on the highest cliff of the rockery. Gently release the five fingers, and there is a slight crisp sound.The jade bracelet she had been holding in her hand shattered on the stone below. The hollowed out thin and crispy fish turned into a piece of crystal clear powder, which can never be collected again. Zhou Ziqin rushed to the edge of the cliff to have a look, and was about to cry: "Chonggu...I stole this..." Li Shubai patted him on the shoulder and said, "If anyone asks, just say I took it." Zhou Ziqin breathed a sigh of relief, thought about it and said: "But it's okay, this bracelet is not expensive. Doesn't Fu Xinruan have a very good jade bracelet? That has also been sealed. Just take it out and top it off." Li Shubai thought for a while, and said, "Stealing one is stealing, stealing two is also stealing, why don't you take it out too." Zhou Ziqin was stunned: "Why... why?" "Fu Xinruan's last wish is to return this bracelet to the original owner," Li Shubai said lightly, "and I happen to know that person." She rejected the wealth and splendor that was within easy reach, and was going to wash away all her lead and become an ordinary housewife.But in the end, she couldn't get this down-to-earth dream. Seeing what he said, Zhou Ziqin nodded and said, "No problem, leave it to me—but in fact, if you want, my lord, you can just tell my father..." Li Shubai shook his head and said, "The less people know about it, the better." Zhou Ziqin looked at him pitifully: "Okay...then if it leaks out, when my father wants to kill me, the prince must remember to collect my body..." "Don't worry," Li Shubai said lightly, "I will write the eulogy for you myself."
In the deserted forest, facing south, the setting sun shone warmly on the cemetery. The tomb was very tidy, except for a few fallen leaves, it was as clean as a courtyard.The ashes in the stone incense burner are still there, and the stone tripod is filled with clean water. Yuxuan made everything very appropriate, so their sacrificial sweep was just a show, and then it was placed on the desk. Huang Zixia kowtowed deeply in front of her parents' grave, praying silently. Li Shubai stood beside her, staring at her drooping profile. She is not an all-powerful beauty, but she has a light and clear temperament, and a stubborn and stubborn expression, which makes her very different from all the women he has ever seen. There are thousands of women in this world.However, he looked at her and thought in his heart that maybe he would never meet anyone similar to her in his life. When she got up, Li Shubai asked her, "What are your plans next?" She looked at her parents' tombstones, and before she could speak, Zhou Ziqin jumped out and said, "Of course I came to the yamen, and we will be the head arrester in Chengdu! Chonggu...ah no, Miss Huang! As long as you are willing to come, I will Immediately give up the position of arresting head to you, and I will follow you in the future, and all the cases in Chengdu will be handed over to you, just like before, the people of Chengdu need you!" Huang Zixia shook her head speechlessly: "There is no female captor in the world." "Hey, how do you know? As a woman, Emperor Zetian can ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor. What's wrong with you being a female captor?" Zhou Ziqin said, and also dragged Li Shubai into the water, "not to mention that there is King Kui. Isn’t it easy to set up a female headhunter here in Chengdu? Absolutely no problem!” Li Shubai didn't answer his words. Huang Zixia remained silent, and turned to look at Li Shubai. Li Shubai was also looking at her, their eyes met each other impartially, and they both saw each other's hesitation. The world of the Tang Dynasty is so vast, but where is the future that belongs to a woman? Zhou Ziqin asked again: "Now that the truth is revealed, do you want to go back to King Kui's mansion and become a low-ranking eunuch?" "I..." She opened her mouth slightly, but hesitated to speak. He could only hear footsteps beside him, and several old people came from the side road. Huang Zixia recognized a few elders from the side branch of the Huang clan on the Sichuan side, and hurried forward to meet them.They are all Huang Zixia's grandfathers and uncles. After meeting King Kui first, they said to Huang Zixia: "Your parents are both dead, and your elder brother is also dead. Now you are alone in the family. After all, women can't use his surname, so we should go back first." Within the Huang clan. There are many things that are inconvenient for you, but the elders of the clan will naturally arrange everything for you." Huang Zixia was silent, bowed her head and said nothing. Seeing that she didn't answer, the one with the longest seniority said: "You are the best of my Huang family's descendants, so the family will naturally treat you well. Your father has been an official for many years, and the family has also counted his assets. Your age It's grown up, and I can take it to my husband's house when the time comes." Huang Zixia murmured, "Husband's family?" "Yes, didn't the Langya Wang family have a marriage contract with you? You were wronged and arrested before, but the Wang family was so sincere that they never came to us to mention the divorce. This morning, it was your fiancé Wang Yun who came here in person. , Said that you have cleared your grievances, let us settle you down as soon as possible, the Huang family and the Wang family will always be good." Huang Zixia suddenly remembered that her engagement with him had not yet been broken.In fact, they are still unmarried couples. Wang Yun's movements are really awe-inspiring. "Now Shijun Zhou has moved into the Shijun's mansion. It's really inappropriate for you to be wandering away as a woman. You should pack up your things as soon as possible and return to the clan." Huang Zixia nodded indiscriminately, feeling confused and not knowing what to do. The elders of the clan flocked in front of Li Shubai, looking up at the emperor's relatives, all smiling like chrysanthemums. Huang Zixia walked to the tomb silently alone, sat down on the blue stone, and looked at Li Shubai who was surrounded by the crowd blankly. What is the relationship between them? She used to be an eunuch in the palace, but now that her identity has been revealed, she can no longer be that lowly eunuch who follows him every day. He had promised that after she exposed Wang Ruo's case, he would help her clear up her grievances.But now, she has cleared her stigma, and the cooperation between the two has been cleared up. They once depended on each other in the dark mountains and forests, embraced each other and fell asleep, and also walked hand in hand under the sunlight. He told her that the sky and the earth are too far away. She told him that I will definitely be by your side. However, the words that have been said are dissipated in the air like a cloud of smoke; the things that have been done are left behind like passing water, can they really be counted?
After the elders of the clan dispersed, she bid farewell to her parents, brothers, uncles and grandmothers, and rode on the brush sand slowly along the mountain road towards the city. Li Shubai walked side by side with her, turned to look at her in the oncoming wind. "Zi Xia..." He called her name in a low voice. It seemed that this was the first time he called her that. Huang Zixia turned her head and looked at his face. Before he said anything, Di E had already jumped to Fusha's side, and the distance between the two of them was less than half a foot. Breathe and hear each other. Huang Zixia turned her face away in embarrassment, but he whispered in her ear: "Don't worry, everything is up to me." Huang Zixia's heart throbbed suddenly. Those troubles and sorrows that came and went like floating clouds suddenly disappeared completely because of his eight words. She lowered her head, remembering that when she first came to him as a young eunuch, she was worried that someone would doubt her identity, but he said, I will help you solve it. Sure enough, except for Wang Yun, her identity has never been questioned. She didn't know what method he used.But she believed that what he said would be done.Because he is King Kui of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shubai.
Following them, Zhou Ziqin rode Xiaoxia to catch up and asked, "Chonggu, why are you laughing at the prince?" Huang Zixia turned her face away and ignored him. "Oh... Anyway, I'm not used to the fact that you are a woman, and I still can't help but feel that you are Chonggu," Zhou Ziqin kept turning her horse and back as he spoke, saying, "You Look, now you don't even wear the hairpin you used to wear, and you're not used to it anymore." Huang Zixia stroked her temples silently, then turned to look at Li Shubai, and slowly took out a hairpin from her bosom. On the shiny jade hairpin, the head of the hairpin is curly grass pattern, and the bottom is the silver hairpin body.Press and hold the curly grass pattern, and the hosta inside can be pulled out without loosening the hair. She said softly: "I'm afraid I might lose it in the envoy's residence, so I keep it with me." Li Shubai smiled slightly.Zhou Ziqin really didn't understand why they were laughing, and finally he could only say: "Okay, Chonggu... If you are really Huang Zixia, then I can think of one thing, it's very serious!" Huang Zixia looked at her questioningly. Zhou Ziqin was full of worry: "You are Wang Yun's fiancée, but you have always been the little eunuch next to the prince. This...after returning to the capital, if someone asks me, where is Yang Chonggu? If I say Yang Chonggu Chonggu is married to Wang Yun, so what do you think about Langya Wang's eldest grandson marrying a young eunuch?" Both Li Shubai and Huang Zixia were shocked by his unusual way of thinking, and couldn't answer for a while. "Is it? So consider the problem fully. I think the solution to this problem is very important. First, we will hold a Yang Chonggu identity revealing conference in Chang'an..." "Zi Qin," Li Shubai couldn't help asking him, "Did you know that your father asked someone to propose marriage to you recently?" "Huh? Really? Which girl is the other party?" Zhou Ziqin immediately threw the identity revealing meeting out of the blue, "Looks like Huang Zi... Oh, I won't mention that. Is it good-looking? Smart? What about her personality?" "I don't know. I only heard that it was rejected again." "Hahaha... I'm used to it," Zhou Ziqin waved his hand, "I don't know why, I've only been in Chengdu for a few days, and everyone knows that I like to touch corpses! There are also rumors that I sleep in piles of corpses every day—— I think it's okay, it's convenient for autopsy, but in fact, the Yizhuang in Chengdu is very cold, you must not be able to sleep, right? The strange thing is that everyone believes it, so my father is going to lie to his daughter, for sure It can't be fooled either..." Although Zhou Ziqin talked about it endlessly, they were not involved anyway, so Huang Zixia and Li Shubai were also free to do so. Entering the city, walking straight along the stone road, Zhou Ziqin saw the second girl at a glance, and her mutton case was placed in the middle of the road again. "Is it tolerable or unbearable! Second girl, how many times have I told you to push the unicycle aside!" Zhou Ziqin jumped off Xiaoxia, put his hips on the street, and yelled at her. The second girl was chopping meat with a knife, she just glanced at him, calmly said: "Oh, Ha catcher, don't you rarely go out on the street recently, why are you here again?" Hearing her words, for some reason, Zhou Ziqin showed a little nervousness and joy on his face: "Recently...a shocking case has been solved recently, haven't you heard about it?" "I heard that Eunuch Yang, who is next to King Kui, rushed from the capital to the Chengdu mansion. After many days of investigation, three major cases were solved overnight. These three cases are related to each other and separate, so it can be called a case within a case. Mysteries within mysteries, thousands of clues, amazing inside story - our headhunters in Chengdu can't do anything, it all depends on others." As the second girl said, she pushed her wheelbarrow to the side and went to chop the ribs again. Zhou Ziqin put his head down on the horse in desperation, and roared again in order to save face: "Okay, it seems that you haven't forgotten the line I drew for you last time! From now on, the meat case will be placed there, and it is not allowed to come out even an inch Already!" The second girl rolled his eyes at him with a half-smile: "Understood, catch the head!" Zhou Ziqin's expression of mixed tension and joy appeared on his face again, urging the horse to move forward quickly.Seeing his appearance, Huang Zixia couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?" Zhou Ziqin's face was a little red, and he stammered, "She...she called me a good arrester in public, this title sounds a bit embarrassing..." Huang Zixia couldn't help holding his forehead and laughing: "Ha catch the head!" "What... isn't it easy to catch the head?" He finally understood, and was stunned.Seeing that Huang Zixia was still smiling, he had no choice but to hold her by the rein and ask, "What does Ha catch head mean?" Huang Zixia looked at him and smiled, before he could say anything, an old lady passing by said, "In our Sichuan dialect, 'ha' means stupid." Hearing this, even Li Shubai couldn't help laughing.Zhou Ziqin became angry immediately, and said, "You guys go first!" He turned around and galloped towards the second girl. Huang Zixia and Li Shubai looked at Zhou Ziqin who had jumped off the horse and squatted in the corner limply after being sprayed by the second girl's three or two words, and couldn't help but smile and look at each other. Huang Zixia smiled and said: "It seems that this sturdy second girl is definitely not afraid of corpses." Li Shubai nodded his head. "Why? Are you arguing with me? A big man, who has gone so far, is still arguing with me over a single word?" The second girl's voice came from afar. Zhou Ziqin yelled: "No! I'm here...I'm here to buy fish!" In order to prove his words, he pointed to the fish stall next to him and said angrily: "Boss, I want everything, and send it to the yamen!" Huang Zixia looked at the fishmonger happily pouring all kinds of small miscellaneous fish, and his face gradually became serious. Li Shubai asked: "Remember Qi Teng's little red fish?" "Yes..." Huang Zixia thought silently, "according to all signs, when Yuxuan was instigated by Master Mu Shan to kill my family for the first time, the fish was still there. But when Yuxuan committed suicide in front of my parents' grave, he forgot After all that, the fish was gone." "I think something must have happened, otherwise, when Qi Teng mentioned the fish, Yu Xuan's face would not have become so ugly. Even if he couldn't remember, the fish was in his unconscious. extremely profound.” "And where did Qi Teng get the poison? And, where is Master Mu Shan? Should we ask him as soon as possible?" Huang Zixia asked. "Passed away." Li Shubai said. Her eyes widened in astonishment. "In the early morning of this morning, when he was returning to Guangdu Temple, the Xichuan army sent him to the gate of the temple. His meditation room was on the mountain, so he walked up the steps. The road was slippery in the dark night. He was already old and fell from the steps. He came down and passed away," Li Shubai said with a frown, "I only found out about this when I ordered someone to look for him this morning." Huang Zixia whispered: "I don't know if Qi Teng's little red fish has anything to do with the one in your hand, and whether it has anything to do with Wang Zongshi." "All the mysteries have not yet been solved, but the clues that came out were quickly cut off. One has to wonder whether there is a huge hand that is invisible to us behind all these things. .We can't see it, but we can clearly feel its presence." He looked back at her, but in the end he still didn't tell her that the charm in his secret box had quietly changed color again. They reined in their horses and stood on the streets of Chengdu, looking at the bustling city under the long sky. The hibiscus flowers all over the city are blooming beautifully, and large clusters are laid among thousands of households.Scenes of secular scenery flow in front of them, vivid life, mysterious past, and divergent destinies, they can't avoid it, they can only face everything. The small fish quietly lurking in the glass cup lightly jumped out of the water, causing turbulent ripples.
The exhaustion of running around for half a year has been unloaded, and all the nerves that have been tensed day and night have also been relaxed.She slept under the window, calm and soothing, breathing lightly. She had a dream. In the dream she saw her parents and elder brother, uncle and grandmother.They were drinking osmanthus wine under the osmanthus tree, smiling and waving at her. She lifted the corner of her skirt, and ran towards them on the tip of the furry grass that was as green as blue silk. The sun was bright and golden.Osmanthus flowers fell on the bodies and heads of their family, and spread a layer on the table.The thick honey-like sweetness lingered around them, like a slowly rotating vortex. She looked at the smiles of her family members in it, a little dizzy, and felt that she had never been so happy. She wondered a little, how could she be drunk before drinking the sweet-scented osmanthus wine. But it doesn't matter, the sun is so warm, the fragrance is so sweet, and the breeze is so soft.She rested her chin and looked at everyone.They say things that don't matter, don't know what they're talking about, but as long as everyone is happy. Huang Zixia was still that sixteen-year-old girl.Wearing a light-colored shirt with light and narrow sleeves, he was born in a family with a beautiful appearance, famous all over the world, and a perfect life. She laughed with everyone in the sunshine and the fragrance of flowers, but suddenly felt lonely and empty in her heart. For some reason, she stood up slowly, turned around and walked forward silently.Walked out of this place where sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant, and walked out of this warm and comfortable sky. The summer lotus wind blew, and she saw Yu Xuan standing opposite.Under the strong wind, before the overturned lotus cover, his body was covered with a layer of watery light. Soft silver light, pure brilliance.He is like a branch of green bamboo that has just peeled off its bamboo shoots in spring, and still contains a thin layer of white fresh powder. He looked at her with a smile, reached out his hand in front of her, and called her in a low voice: "A Xia." The breeze came slowly, blowing the corners of his clothes and her temple hair. This is her frozen dream, the wind and rain will never invade this corner, and the future seems to never come. The corners of her lips raised slightly, revealing a shallow smile. She reached out and took the palm he held in front of her. Fingers intertwined, hearts intertwined. She looked down at his hands. This slender palm, well-proportioned joints, and the right strength when holding her hand are so familiar.Gentle, but not slack; tolerant, but not forceful. She smiled, looked up at him who was smiling, looked at this man who illuminated her best girlhood, smiled and shook her head. She let go of his hand, and slowly, tightly clenched the empty right hand she had withdrawn into a fist. She said, "Goodbye." In front of the lotus pond, in the long wind, she looked up at Yu Xuan's face, moistened her eyes with a smile: "No, I will live forever, never see you again."
It was already afternoon when she woke up, the sun was slanting towards the west and shone on her body from the window, the summer heat had not dissipated yet, but the golden wind was blowing slowly. The whole world is transparent and bright.She is still in the small building where she lived in the past, in the garden of the Shijun Mansion. She got up and walked to the window, opened the window and looked outside. The lotus pond is still there, and the Fuli is thick green.An early-blooming sweet-scented osmanthus tree has burst into bloom.It is not as thick as in the dream, and it is sent far away by the breeze, exuding a faint sweet fragrance. She thought about it, but found that she couldn't remember what she was doing today last year.The small building was sealed for half a year, everything inside was intact, and time seemed to stay in the original place. She washed herself with the water left in yesterday's pot, opened the closet, picked out a plain silk dress, and plain silk shoes without any decoration.She has been used to corset for a long time, but now that she has untied it, she is a little uncomfortable. Then she opened her dressing table, set up the rusted bronze mirror, and combed a simple bun.Without Miwu and the others, she would not be very good at taking care of herself.In the past, when I went out, I always wore men's clothing, which saved me a lot of trouble. Her fingers slid over the hairpins in the make-up dowry, and paused for a long time on the silver hairpin Li Shubai gave her. Finally, she took a pair of simple white jade hairpins and put them on for herself, and put on another pair. Tiny South Sea Pearl Earrings. She came out of the small pavilion and stood on the platform in front of the door as before, looking at the small garden in front of her. The back garden of Shi Jun's mansion, where she has lived for many years, every stone, every flower and plant is familiar to her.But now, no one can walk with her hand in hand. She stepped on the corridor and walked forward in the early autumn wind.The thin clothes were blown up by the wind, echoing like blue waves, drooping like fine willows. Turning around the corridor, she saw Li Shubai facing the chessboard alone in the small pavilion on the rockery ahead.Zhang Xingying stood beside him, while Zhou Ziqin was lying on the railing with a depressed face. Obviously, he was not Li Shubai's opponent at all, and had completely given up the idea of playing chess with him. Zhou Ziqin's eyes fell on her, and he couldn't look away. His mouth opened wider and wider, and his eyes also stared wider and wider. He watched her getting closer and closer in a daze, until she walked up the rockery and bowed down to them in front of the pavilion. Not collapsed. Li Shubai's eyes stopped on her, his face was calm and unwavering, only a gentle curve appeared on the corner of his lips.It's like turning around a mountain road in the barren mountains, and suddenly seeing the expression of a flower that is just blooming. Holding his chin that was about to fall, Zhou Ziqin stammered and asked, "Chong... Chonggu?" Huang Zixia tilted her head slightly, nodded and smiled at him. "You, you, you... You are such a good eunuch, why did you dress up as a woman?" Zhou Ziqin put his right fist on his chest, his face blushed with a frightened and rapid heartbeat, "Don't...don't leave me like this Close! You, you...you look so good as a woman, I...I can't stand it..." She could only ask him: "Didn't you hear when Yuxuan called me 'A Xia' last night?" "I, I... I thought he had an illusion in front of his eyes again, and he was reaching out to Huang Zixia in his dream." Zhou Ziqin didn't have any vision to open any pot, and he didn't have any vision, "Besides, you were not Ignore him... didn't you reach out your hand?" Huang Zixia had no choice but to give up the idea of communicating with him, lifted the corner of her skirt and walked into the pavilion, to the side of the chessboard. Li Shubai held the chess pieces in his hand, looked up at her for a long time, then gave up the game, reached out to get the chess box, took back the chess pieces one by one, and motioned her to sit down: "Sleep well?" "Hmm...very good." Sitting opposite him, she replied softly. Zhou Ziqin came over slowly with great care, looking overly frightened, looking at her from left to right, back and forth, and only poked her with a little finger to see if she was alive. Huang Zixia sighed helplessly: "Don't look at it. Yang Chonggu is Huang Zixia." When Zhou Ziqin heard this, he looked up at the careless Li Shubai, and then turned his head to look at Zhang Xingying, who had a strange expression on his face. He immediately pursed his lips and shouted depressedly: "You are like this, always exclude me! You all know The truth is out, even Zhang Xingying knows it, so just keep it from me! Can we still be good friends happily?" "I'm sorry, Ziqin," Huang Zixia sighed, and said, "Because of arrests all over the world, the prince helped me hide my name and pretend to be an eunuch. In fact, I was also worried that if my identity was revealed, I would cause trouble for you, and I didn't intend to hide it from you." "You are really...really..." He muttered, and then jumped up again, his depression was swept away, and he exclaimed excitedly, "It's so good!" The other three people in the booth looked at him speechlessly. He jumped up and down in the booth, overjoyed: "Great! The biggest trouble in my life has finally been completely solved!" Zhang Xingying couldn't help asking: "What is the biggest trouble in your life?" "That's right, I've been thinking, in my world of Tang Dynasty, in the field of investigation and reasoning, is Huang Zixia better or Yang Chonggu better? If they meet one day, who will prevail?" Zhou Zi Qin stared at Huang Zixia with sparkling eyes, with a look of relief, "This problem has been haunting me! I've been so entangled with it that I've been going crazy lately. I can't sleep well without thinking about food or tea! Now I know that you are With the same person, I feel like I can eat three big bowls of rice and sleep until noon!" Huang Zixia and Li Shubai looked at each other speechlessly, feeling relieved. "However, even if it is for my own good that you don't tell me your real identity, there is one more thing—" Zhou Ziqin came back to his senses, and began to lose his temper again, "If nothing else, just say that Yuxuan was In that case, King Kui only said that he remembered his palm print last time, and didn’t say anything else, but you were able to discover his identity immediately, so you must have communicated a lot later, and you didn’t bring me with you!” "I really haven't communicated again. Is this still necessary?" Huang Zixia sighed, "Five years ago, Guangdefang, the first case I solved in my life, I naturally remember it very clearly. The person involved must not be Yuxuan, and he was not sentenced, but he left his handprint on the file and sealed it. If he was a witness, he would not be collected in the final file, so he must be the family member of the prisoner. Recalling the relatives of the murderer in that case back then, everything It's all clear." "...Why does everything seem so simple when you analyze it?" Zhou Ziqin sat down beside them in frustration, thought for a while, and then asked Li Shubai: "My lord, let's discuss it, what about Aunt Gongsun and Siniang Yin? " Li Shubai said flatly: "Ask your father. Everything is punished according to the court's laws and regulations. Why do we need to discuss it?" "But, they are all beauties, and killing people is justifiable, and they are all so outstanding. If she dies, "Sword Dance" might be discontinued..." "Haven't you heard about the murder of Luo Cheng by the first emperor?" he asked. "Okay... okay." Zhou Ziqin lowered his head in frustration again, and said, "But... but is it really necessary to follow the law so strictly?" "I will remind Fan Yingxi to not put pressure on your father and deal with everything fairly. But for the rest, we can only look at the law." "The law...the law is nothing more than human feelings..." Zhou Ziqin muttered. Seeing his appearance, Huang Zixia immediately asked, "Did you do something that violated the regulations again?" "Hush...Actually, I'm not here for you." He said, looking back and forth, seeing no one around, he took out a round and flat object wrapped in white cloth from his arms, which was mysterious He handed it to her with an expression of wanting to take credit. Huang Zixia knew what it was at a glance.She slowly reached out to take it, and opened the white cloth outside.Inside is a bracelet, shiny and transparent, carved with two small fish biting each other's tails, affectionate, sweet and lovely. Holding the bracelet in her hand, she remained silent. "As usual, this is going to be sealed and put into storage... But, last night I thought this belonged to Huang Zixia, and I might be able to find her in Chengdu in the future, so I'd better give this to her as a meeting gift, so I Just..." He put his finger on his lips, and said carefully, "Anyway, no one will check it after decades of storage, and no one should find out!" Huang Zixia slowly turned the bracelet, letting its brilliance slide over her face. Seeing that she was silent, Li Shubai said, "Last night, Yuxuan committed suicide in prison and took poison." She gave a soft "oh", as if she didn't hear it, her expression was calm. However, her eyes suddenly darkened. The clouds in the distance and the flowers and trees nearby all blurred into one piece in an instant, and she could no longer see clearly.Only the bracelet in front of her was shining brightly under the sunlight, making her eyes burn. She raised her left hand and hastily blocked her eyes with her elbow, allowing the things that hadn't flowed out of her eyes to be quickly sucked away by her clothes.She forced herself to suppress her breath, and let out a low "hmm". Li Shubai sat opposite her, looked at her silently, but said nothing. She covered her eyes, and no one could see her expression.Even Li Shubai, who was close at hand, could only hear her breathing, which was long, depressing and forceful. After an unknown amount of time, she put down her hand, her face had calmed down, and even her eyes were slightly red.She looked at Li Shubai, and slowly said in a dry voice, "I'm going to pay homage to my relatives." "I'll accompany you." Li Shubai stood up as if nothing had happened. She walked out of the pavilion, and slowly stretched out her right hand on the highest cliff of the rockery. Gently release the five fingers, and there is a slight crisp sound.The jade bracelet she had been holding in her hand shattered on the stone below. The hollowed out thin and crispy fish turned into a piece of crystal clear powder, which can never be collected again. Zhou Ziqin rushed to the edge of the cliff to have a look, and was about to cry: "Chonggu...I stole this..." Li Shubai patted him on the shoulder and said, "If anyone asks, just say I took it." Zhou Ziqin breathed a sigh of relief, thought about it and said: "But it's okay, this bracelet is not expensive. Doesn't Fu Xinruan have a very good jade bracelet? That has also been sealed. Just take it out and top it off." Li Shubai thought for a while, and said, "Stealing one is stealing, stealing two is also stealing, why don't you take it out too." Zhou Ziqin was stunned: "Why... why?" "Fu Xinruan's last wish is to return this bracelet to the original owner," Li Shubai said lightly, "and I happen to know that person." She rejected the wealth and splendor that was within easy reach, and was going to wash away all her lead and become an ordinary housewife.But in the end, she couldn't get this down-to-earth dream. Seeing what he said, Zhou Ziqin nodded and said, "No problem, leave it to me—but in fact, if you want, my lord, you can just tell my father..." Li Shubai shook his head and said, "The less people know about it, the better." Zhou Ziqin looked at him pitifully: "Okay...then if it leaks out, when my father wants to kill me, the prince must remember to collect my body..." "Don't worry," Li Shubai said lightly, "I will write the eulogy for you myself."
In the deserted forest, facing south, the setting sun shone warmly on the cemetery. The tomb was very tidy, except for a few fallen leaves, it was as clean as a courtyard.The ashes in the stone incense burner are still there, and the stone tripod is filled with clean water. Yuxuan made everything very appropriate, so their sacrificial sweep was just a show, and then it was placed on the desk. Huang Zixia kowtowed deeply in front of her parents' grave, praying silently. Li Shubai stood beside her, staring at her drooping profile. She is not an all-powerful beauty, but she has a light and clear temperament, and a stubborn and stubborn expression, which makes her very different from all the women he has ever seen. There are thousands of women in this world.However, he looked at her and thought in his heart that maybe he would never meet anyone similar to her in his life. When she got up, Li Shubai asked her, "What are your plans next?" She looked at her parents' tombstones, and before she could speak, Zhou Ziqin jumped out and said, "Of course I came to the yamen, and we will be the head arrester in Chengdu! Chonggu...ah no, Miss Huang! As long as you are willing to come, I will Immediately give up the position of arresting head to you, and I will follow you in the future, and all the cases in Chengdu will be handed over to you, just like before, the people of Chengdu need you!" Huang Zixia shook her head speechlessly: "There is no female captor in the world." "Hey, how do you know? As a woman, Emperor Zetian can ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor. What's wrong with you being a female captor?" Zhou Ziqin said, and also dragged Li Shubai into the water, "not to mention that there is King Kui. Isn’t it easy to set up a female headhunter here in Chengdu? Absolutely no problem!” Li Shubai didn't answer his words. Huang Zixia remained silent, and turned to look at Li Shubai. Li Shubai was also looking at her, their eyes met each other impartially, and they both saw each other's hesitation. The world of the Tang Dynasty is so vast, but where is the future that belongs to a woman? Zhou Ziqin asked again: "Now that the truth is revealed, do you want to go back to King Kui's mansion and become a low-ranking eunuch?" "I..." She opened her mouth slightly, but hesitated to speak. He could only hear footsteps beside him, and several old people came from the side road. Huang Zixia recognized a few elders from the side branch of the Huang clan on the Sichuan side, and hurried forward to meet them.They are all Huang Zixia's grandfathers and uncles. After meeting King Kui first, they said to Huang Zixia: "Your parents are both dead, and your elder brother is also dead. Now you are alone in the family. After all, women can't use his surname, so we should go back first." Within the Huang clan. There are many things that are inconvenient for you, but the elders of the clan will naturally arrange everything for you." Huang Zixia was silent, bowed her head and said nothing. Seeing that she didn't answer, the one with the longest seniority said: "You are the best of my Huang family's descendants, so the family will naturally treat you well. Your father has been an official for many years, and the family has also counted his assets. Your age It's grown up, and I can take it to my husband's house when the time comes." Huang Zixia murmured, "Husband's family?" "Yes, didn't the Langya Wang family have a marriage contract with you? You were wronged and arrested before, but the Wang family was so sincere that they never came to us to mention the divorce. This morning, it was your fiancé Wang Yun who came here in person. , Said that you have cleared your grievances, let us settle you down as soon as possible, the Huang family and the Wang family will always be good." Huang Zixia suddenly remembered that her engagement with him had not yet been broken.In fact, they are still unmarried couples. Wang Yun's movements are really awe-inspiring. "Now Shijun Zhou has moved into the Shijun's mansion. It's really inappropriate for you to be wandering away as a woman. You should pack up your things as soon as possible and return to the clan." Huang Zixia nodded indiscriminately, feeling confused and not knowing what to do. The elders of the clan flocked in front of Li Shubai, looking up at the emperor's relatives, all smiling like chrysanthemums. Huang Zixia walked to the tomb silently alone, sat down on the blue stone, and looked at Li Shubai who was surrounded by the crowd blankly. What is the relationship between them? She used to be an eunuch in the palace, but now that her identity has been revealed, she can no longer be that lowly eunuch who follows him every day. He had promised that after she exposed Wang Ruo's case, he would help her clear up her grievances.But now, she has cleared her stigma, and the cooperation between the two has been cleared up. They once depended on each other in the dark mountains and forests, embraced each other and fell asleep, and also walked hand in hand under the sunlight. He told her that the sky and the earth are too far away. She told him that I will definitely be by your side. However, the words that have been said are dissipated in the air like a cloud of smoke; the things that have been done are left behind like passing water, can they really be counted?
After the elders of the clan dispersed, she bid farewell to her parents, brothers, uncles and grandmothers, and rode on the brush sand slowly along the mountain road towards the city. Li Shubai walked side by side with her, turned to look at her in the oncoming wind. "Zi Xia..." He called her name in a low voice. It seemed that this was the first time he called her that. Huang Zixia turned her head and looked at his face. Before he said anything, Di E had already jumped to Fusha's side, and the distance between the two of them was less than half a foot. Breathe and hear each other. Huang Zixia turned her face away in embarrassment, but he whispered in her ear: "Don't worry, everything is up to me." Huang Zixia's heart throbbed suddenly. Those troubles and sorrows that came and went like floating clouds suddenly disappeared completely because of his eight words. She lowered her head, remembering that when she first came to him as a young eunuch, she was worried that someone would doubt her identity, but he said, I will help you solve it. Sure enough, except for Wang Yun, her identity has never been questioned. She didn't know what method he used.But she believed that what he said would be done.Because he is King Kui of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shubai.
Following them, Zhou Ziqin rode Xiaoxia to catch up and asked, "Chonggu, why are you laughing at the prince?" Huang Zixia turned her face away and ignored him. "Oh... Anyway, I'm not used to the fact that you are a woman, and I still can't help but feel that you are Chonggu," Zhou Ziqin kept turning her horse and back as he spoke, saying, "You Look, now you don't even wear the hairpin you used to wear, and you're not used to it anymore." Huang Zixia stroked her temples silently, then turned to look at Li Shubai, and slowly took out a hairpin from her bosom. On the shiny jade hairpin, the head of the hairpin is curly grass pattern, and the bottom is the silver hairpin body.Press and hold the curly grass pattern, and the hosta inside can be pulled out without loosening the hair. She said softly: "I'm afraid I might lose it in the envoy's residence, so I keep it with me." Li Shubai smiled slightly.Zhou Ziqin really didn't understand why they were laughing, and finally he could only say: "Okay, Chonggu... If you are really Huang Zixia, then I can think of one thing, it's very serious!" Huang Zixia looked at her questioningly. Zhou Ziqin was full of worry: "You are Wang Yun's fiancée, but you have always been the little eunuch next to the prince. This...after returning to the capital, if someone asks me, where is Yang Chonggu? If I say Yang Chonggu Chonggu is married to Wang Yun, so what do you think about Langya Wang's eldest grandson marrying a young eunuch?" Both Li Shubai and Huang Zixia were shocked by his unusual way of thinking, and couldn't answer for a while. "Is it? So consider the problem fully. I think the solution to this problem is very important. First, we will hold a Yang Chonggu identity revealing conference in Chang'an..." "Zi Qin," Li Shubai couldn't help asking him, "Did you know that your father asked someone to propose marriage to you recently?" "Huh? Really? Which girl is the other party?" Zhou Ziqin immediately threw the identity revealing meeting out of the blue, "Looks like Huang Zi... Oh, I won't mention that. Is it good-looking? Smart? What about her personality?" "I don't know. I only heard that it was rejected again." "Hahaha... I'm used to it," Zhou Ziqin waved his hand, "I don't know why, I've only been in Chengdu for a few days, and everyone knows that I like to touch corpses! There are also rumors that I sleep in piles of corpses every day—— I think it's okay, it's convenient for autopsy, but in fact, the Yizhuang in Chengdu is very cold, you must not be able to sleep, right? The strange thing is that everyone believes it, so my father is going to lie to his daughter, for sure It can't be fooled either..." Although Zhou Ziqin talked about it endlessly, they were not involved anyway, so Huang Zixia and Li Shubai were also free to do so. Entering the city, walking straight along the stone road, Zhou Ziqin saw the second girl at a glance, and her mutton case was placed in the middle of the road again. "Is it tolerable or unbearable! Second girl, how many times have I told you to push the unicycle aside!" Zhou Ziqin jumped off Xiaoxia, put his hips on the street, and yelled at her. The second girl was chopping meat with a knife, she just glanced at him, calmly said: "Oh, Ha catcher, don't you rarely go out on the street recently, why are you here again?" Hearing her words, for some reason, Zhou Ziqin showed a little nervousness and joy on his face: "Recently...a shocking case has been solved recently, haven't you heard about it?" "I heard that Eunuch Yang, who is next to King Kui, rushed from the capital to the Chengdu mansion. After many days of investigation, three major cases were solved overnight. These three cases are related to each other and separate, so it can be called a case within a case. Mysteries within mysteries, thousands of clues, amazing inside story - our headhunters in Chengdu can't do anything, it all depends on others." As the second girl said, she pushed her wheelbarrow to the side and went to chop the ribs again. Zhou Ziqin put his head down on the horse in desperation, and roared again in order to save face: "Okay, it seems that you haven't forgotten the line I drew for you last time! From now on, the meat case will be placed there, and it is not allowed to come out even an inch Already!" The second girl rolled his eyes at him with a half-smile: "Understood, catch the head!" Zhou Ziqin's expression of mixed tension and joy appeared on his face again, urging the horse to move forward quickly.Seeing his appearance, Huang Zixia couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?" Zhou Ziqin's face was a little red, and he stammered, "She...she called me a good arrester in public, this title sounds a bit embarrassing..." Huang Zixia couldn't help holding his forehead and laughing: "Ha catch the head!" "What... isn't it easy to catch the head?" He finally understood, and was stunned.Seeing that Huang Zixia was still smiling, he had no choice but to hold her by the rein and ask, "What does Ha catch head mean?" Huang Zixia looked at him and smiled, before he could say anything, an old lady passing by said, "In our Sichuan dialect, 'ha' means stupid." Hearing this, even Li Shubai couldn't help laughing.Zhou Ziqin became angry immediately, and said, "You guys go first!" He turned around and galloped towards the second girl. Huang Zixia and Li Shubai looked at Zhou Ziqin who had jumped off the horse and squatted in the corner limply after being sprayed by the second girl's three or two words, and couldn't help but smile and look at each other. Huang Zixia smiled and said: "It seems that this sturdy second girl is definitely not afraid of corpses." Li Shubai nodded his head. "Why? Are you arguing with me? A big man, who has gone so far, is still arguing with me over a single word?" The second girl's voice came from afar. Zhou Ziqin yelled: "No! I'm here...I'm here to buy fish!" In order to prove his words, he pointed to the fish stall next to him and said angrily: "Boss, I want everything, and send it to the yamen!" Huang Zixia looked at the fishmonger happily pouring all kinds of small miscellaneous fish, and his face gradually became serious. Li Shubai asked: "Remember Qi Teng's little red fish?" "Yes..." Huang Zixia thought silently, "according to all signs, when Yuxuan was instigated by Master Mu Shan to kill my family for the first time, the fish was still there. But when Yuxuan committed suicide in front of my parents' grave, he forgot After all that, the fish was gone." "I think something must have happened, otherwise, when Qi Teng mentioned the fish, Yu Xuan's face would not have become so ugly. Even if he couldn't remember, the fish was in his unconscious. extremely profound.” "And where did Qi Teng get the poison? And, where is Master Mu Shan? Should we ask him as soon as possible?" Huang Zixia asked. "Passed away." Li Shubai said. Her eyes widened in astonishment. "In the early morning of this morning, when he was returning to Guangdu Temple, the Xichuan army sent him to the gate of the temple. His meditation room was on the mountain, so he walked up the steps. The road was slippery in the dark night. He was already old and fell from the steps. He came down and passed away," Li Shubai said with a frown, "I only found out about this when I ordered someone to look for him this morning." Huang Zixia whispered: "I don't know if Qi Teng's little red fish has anything to do with the one in your hand, and whether it has anything to do with Wang Zongshi." "All the mysteries have not yet been solved, but the clues that came out were quickly cut off. One has to wonder whether there is a huge hand that is invisible to us behind all these things. .We can't see it, but we can clearly feel its presence." He looked back at her, but in the end he still didn't tell her that the charm in his secret box had quietly changed color again. They reined in their horses and stood on the streets of Chengdu, looking at the bustling city under the long sky. The hibiscus flowers all over the city are blooming beautifully, and large clusters are laid among thousands of households.Scenes of secular scenery flow in front of them, vivid life, mysterious past, and divergent destinies, they can't avoid it, they can only face everything. The small fish quietly lurking in the glass cup lightly jumped out of the water, causing turbulent ripples.