Chapter 12 Twelve, Suwei Rose
Under Luo Pei's guidance, Huang Zixia went to the kitchen to look for calamus.
Calamus is making the menu for tomorrow's mansion again, and is instructing a few cooks and handymen: "The princess is not feeling well, the taste must be light, the chicken, duck and fish must be reduced, and there must be four kinds of blood and Qi - the princess said the day before yesterday I love wolfberry buds, why haven't you guys gone to buy them?"
The handymen were obedient, and some people were annoyed: "Godberry buds are only delicious in season, but now they are old, and it is hard to find for a while."
Calamus sighed, patted the table and said, "I don't care, if you can't get what the princess wants, I'll scalp you one by one tomorrow!"
Luo Pei called her outside: "Aunt Changpu."
When she turned around and saw them, she waved her hand to signal for them to leave. She stood up with a forced smile on her face: "Eunuch Yang, do you have anything to do with me?"
Huang Zixia walked into the room, sat down opposite her, and said, "I came here last time to ask my aunt about a few things, and now I still have a few questions, so please clarify my doubts."
Calamus looked depressed: "Is it Wei Ximin's matter? I really only had a quarrel with him at the time, and I am not the only one who quarreled with him in the mansion. Didn't Zhuiyu have a big fight with him the month before last..."
Huang Zixia smiled and said, "No, I'm not here to ask about this."
"Then... I don't know what my father-in-law wants to ask this time?"
Huang Zixia looked at her squarely and asked, "Auntie, can you tell me about the origin of Linglingxiang from the beginning to the end?"
Calamus was stunned and asked, "What does it have to do with that Linglingxiang...?"
"It's not convenient for me to say this, I was also ordered by Cui Shaoqing, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, to come here to ask questions." Huang Zixia said grandly.
Calamus could only bow his head and say, "Yes...it was given to me by a person outside the princess' mansion."
"I don't know who it is?" Huang Zixia asked.
Calamus bit his lip, but finally said: "Qian Guansuo, the owner of Qianji Chariot and Horse Shop."
Huang Zixia didn't expect that the chunky boss, Qian Guansuo, was related to the cook in the palace, and his brows frowned.
Wei Ximin quarreled with Changpu, the cook, for begging for Linglingxiang; in the house where Sun Laizi died, Wang Yun smelled Linglingxiang; The man who made the black horse fall and hurt the son-in-law...
What is it that connects all of this?What is that clue that is still invisible now?
She asked again: "Aunt Calamus, please forgive me for inquiring about your privacy, you are in charge of the princess's house, and Qian Guansuo is in the chariot and horse shop, it seems irrelevant..."
"Yeah...we also met at the beginning of the year." She lowered her head and drew on the table with her fingers, looking a little embarrassed. "At that time, a group of his men were repairing the sewers in the Princess Mansion. Because the kitchen had the most water channels, I and him After discussing the distribution of water channels, we got to know each other. He... he was a little fatter and a little shorter, but he was a very nice person. When they were working here, I accidentally walked and got stuck in the mud He is the one who recited me, and even fetched water to help me wash my shoes and send them back..."
Huang Zixia looked at the slight blush on her face, and couldn't help reminding her: "Boss Qian should have a wife and son at home at his age."
"Yes, he has a wife, a concubine, and three sons in his family."
Huang Zixia didn't say anything anymore, just asked: "Boss Qian gave you Linglingxiang, and then according to the rules of the mansion, you first presented it to the princess for review, but who knew that the princess gave it to Wei Ximin?"
"Yeah, that Wei Ximin turned out to be greedy. I only had this little in total, but he thought I must have some left for him, so he came to ask for it. When I said no, he asked me for the address of the money boss, saying... It’s the same for finding my girlfriend!” Chang Pu’s face was still flushed with anger when he said this, “What kind of nonsense is this! Those who don’t know will think that Boss Qian and I have some shameful business!”
"Aunt Calamus, don't be too angry. In fact... I think Eunuch Wei's guess is also reasonable," Huang Zixia explained, "Linglingxiang is very precious. Who would have known that Boss Qian would be so generous that he would give you such a precious gift?" things."
"Nonsense, I've helped him so many times, and I'm taking the risk myself..." At this point, she got stuck in her throat, as if she felt that she shouldn't have said this, but she couldn't take it back after she had said it , I had to sit there annoyed and stopped talking.
Huang Zixia looked into her eyes, didn't speak, but kept looking at her.
Under her gaze, Calamus sighed, and had no choice but to say, "Boss Qian once told me that he had a daughter in the early years, and if she was still alive, she would be seventeen or eighteen years old. It's a pity that he brought her with her back then. When his wife and children fled famine to the outskirts of Chang'an, the family suffered from hunger and cold, so they had no choice but to sell their eldest daughter, who was only seven years old at the time, for five mins. With this five mins, his family lived To survive, he also started his business by selling fodder, and then met noble people, and contacted several big racecourses outside the customs. Now the business is getting bigger and bigger, and his three sons have grown up one after another. Unfortunately...he said that the most he owes in his life is My daughter, but I am afraid I will never find it again."
Huang Zixia nodded, and asked again: "I should go to the household department to inquire about this matter, how did I find you?"
"At the beginning, the buyer of his daughter was a father-in-law. It is said that he came out of the palace to buy maids. He thought about it, and the daughter was probably in the palace or in the palaces of the princes. It's a pity that he is a merchant, and he can have a relationship with the palace and the palace. What kind of intersection? But I am from the princess mansion anyway, and I can talk to the maids around the princess. They sometimes go to the palace or visit the princes' homes, and maybe they can get some news. Although the hope is slim, it is also possible There's always one way."
Huang Zixia asked with a smile: "My aunt is keen to help others, I think she must have asked for him?"
Calamus showed a strange embarrassment, and said: "This matter... it just so happened that he wanted to find his daughter, but it just so happened... that he found it in the princess' mansion."
Huang Zixia was also surprised. In the palace, in the mansions of the kings and princesses, there are as many maids and maids as there are ten thousand people. How could it be such a coincidence that someone from the princess mansion was just asked to look for them, and this person is in the mansion?
"Perhaps this is also... his sincerity leads to success, and his fate is predestined, so it's just a coincidence." Calamus said.
"Then who is his daughter in the princess mansion?"
Calamus's expression became even more strange, and his eyes wandered for a long time before he finally said, "I think it might be...it's the pendulum."
"Plumbing beads? How did you identify them?"
"Oh...Chuizhu is seventeen years old this year. She was bought into the palace when she was seven years old. It is said that there are two younger brothers in her family, and there is a...mark on her right wrist, which is exactly the same as what Boss Qian described. .”
"Two younger brothers?"
"Yes, Boss Qian has three sons, and one of them was born after selling his daughter's fortune."
"What a coincidence. Boss Qian must be very happy, right?"
"Yes, this is a good thing from heaven, and I'm happy for them. But please keep this matter a secret, Mr. Yang, and don't mention it to others if it is not necessary," Calamus sighed and said, "After all, this is me. Taking other people's belongings privately, and doing things for others in the mansion without telling the princess, as a rule, you will be expelled from the princess mansion."
"Don't worry, aunt, this is your good deed. As long as it is not involved in this case, I will never mention it!" Huang Zixia promised.
Calamus just nodded, but the worried expression was still on his face.
Huang Zixia thought for a while, and then asked: "Auntie is the family brought here by the son-in-law, right?"
Calamus quickly said: "Oh, we are all from the Princess Mansion now, how can there be people here and there."
"That's not what I mean," Huang Zixia said with a smile, "I just think the name of aunt is very elegant, and I heard that there are cardamom, iris, etc. in the mansion, so I think you are all sisters."
"Yes, we are all about the same age. When the son-in-law was young, we have been working in his house. Mrs. Meng valued it. I took care of the meals, the iris took care of the daily life, and the Yuzhu took care of the pens and books... At that time, how many people were in love with each other. It's all good."
"Where's the cardamom?" she asked.
Speaking of cardamom, Calamus's face was covered with sorrow again, and he sighed: "Duamom is a bit distant from us, she was the first to go to the side of the son-in-law. The son-in-law was three or four years old at that time, and she was thirteen years old. This year... Cardamom Thirty-three."
"Where is she now?"
"Just a month ago, I fell into the water in Zhijin Garden...and died."
Huang Zixia suddenly remembered the haunted legend in Zhijin Garden that Chuizhu had said.She tentatively asked Calamus: "I heard that Jinyuan was closed by the princess?"
"That's right... I heard that after Cardamom's death, some people cried in the Zhijin Garden in the middle of the night, and Taoist methods were useless, so the princess ordered people to seal the Zhijin Garden and never open it again."
"Is the cry male or female?" Huang Zixia asked.
"I don't know about this. It was the princess who said there was crying. Since she heard it, can there be any fault?"
Huang Zixia nodded, and asked again: "Then... did Cardamom live there before?"
Calamus shook his head and said, "No, she lives in Suwei Garden. When the son-in-law got married, the old lady said that she would help Dou Kou find a good family to marry, but the son-in-law insisted that she was used to taking care of her since she was a child, so she must come over. Later, I was in charge of the Suwei Garden where the son-in-law lived. I was very busy in the dining room. Although Yuanwei was more leisurely, there were a dozen or so embroiderers under him who had to supervise the embroidery work every day, and Yuzhu was also busy in the study. The four of us Everyone has their own affairs, and occasionally I can't say a few words when I meet them. Later, I suddenly heard that Doumao passed away. The ghost in Zhijin Garden was fascinated, so it must have dragged her into it. Otherwise, Su Weiyuan is not close to Zhijin Garden, so why did she die in it?"
Huang Zixia was thoughtful, and asked: "So...the son-in-law has a deep affection for cardamom?"
"Yes, Cardamom is ten years older than the son-in-law, and has taken care of him since he was a child, so the son-in-law has always loved her very much. Sometimes the wife jokes that Cardamom has been around the son-in-law for many years, and she is closer than her mother."
Huang Zixia nodded and said, "I see."
Seeing that she didn't ask any more questions, Calamus opened the account book and checked the accounts again.
Huang Zixia saw that her fingering was a little slow when she was planning the abacus, and knowing that she felt uncomfortable being around, she stood up and said, "In that case, I will bid farewell to aunt first."
"Elder-in-law, go slowly." She breathed a sigh of relief, and said casually, "Why don't you leave after dinner, I'll ask someone to prepare some dishes that Eunuch likes."
"No, Prince Kui is still waiting for me at the son-in-law's side."
The crape myrtle in Suwei Garden is still in full bloom, and the strings of crape myrtle flowers in full bloom show a strong sense of summer under the scorching sun that has just risen. The son-in-law Wei Baoheng was complaining to Li Shubai: "My lord, you know that it's not that I don't go to serve the princess, it's just that my husband is weak. If the princess doesn't call me over, how can I go there? I'd like to serve you with tea and water. But the princess would rather listen to the "Zhou Rituals" lectured by Imperial Supervisor Yu Xuezheng!" When he said this, he saw the eunuch leading Huang Zixia in, with an embarrassed wry smile on his face, he raised his hand to her: "Eunuch Yang." "I've seen Consort Wei." After saluting, she stood behind Li Shubai. Li Shubai gently put aside that topic, and only said: "Recently, there seems to be a lot of strange things happening in the princess' mansion." "That's right...Wei Ximin died. I had an accident playing polo, and now...the princess's most cherished Jiuluanchai has mysteriously disappeared." Yes, there is something stirring up trouble in the mansion..." Li Shubai asked: "What?" "It's just...about Zhijin Garden," he looked at Huang Zixia and asked, "Did Eunuch Yang hear the rumors in the mansion?" Huang Zixia nodded, and asked, "Does it mean that the cardamom next to the son-in-law drowned in the Zhijin Garden for no reason?" "Hmm..." He nodded silently, an almost imperceptible sadness flashed in his eyes, but he immediately turned his head out of the window, looking at the crape myrtle flowers blooming in the sun, his voice was still calm, " Since then, Zhijin Garden has been closed because of Devil May Cry at Night, but it seems that since then, strange things have always happened in the mansion... For example, the princess dreamed that her Jiuluan hairpin disappeared, and her Jiuluan hairpin ended up missing. Chai really disappeared, you said, isn't it weird that such an important thing can disappear under such strict guards?" Huang Zixia nodded and said, "Indeed, it should be impossible no matter how you look at it." "So... I'm also wondering if it's because the ghost of cardamom is causing trouble," Wei Baoheng said thoughtfully, "Maybe only ghosts can make Jiuluanchai disappear suddenly under such circumstances." "Concubine Wei thinks that Cardamom, who has served you for nearly twenty years, will be sad knowing that he will be called a ghost by you after death?" Huang Zixia asked. Wei Baoheng was stunned for a moment, then said softly: "Perhaps...if she died unjustly and in pain." Huang Zixia lowered her eyelashes and remained silent. Li Shubai said: "Leave aside the matter of strange power and chaos for now, I want to ask my son-in-law one thing first, where were you at noon yesterday?" Wei Baoheng was slightly taken aback, and then replied: "I was at Daning Fang at noon." "I don't know what the son-in-law is going to Daningfang?" "Wu Yin, the abbot of Xingtang Temple in Daningfang, is a great virtuous monk. Because something happened in the mansion recently, I went to ask him to chant scriptures for salvation," he recalled, and said clearly, "I made an appointment with Wu Yin After a few days, I walked around the temple a few times, but I didn't realize it was too late. When I came out, I heard that there was a murder case in the workshop, so I went to have a look, and saw that Dali Temple had already been investigated, so I went back to the house by myself." Huang Zixia asked: "I don't know who the son-in-law met when he wandered around the temple?" Wei Baoheng shook his head and said, "It's not the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, and there are few pilgrims. I walked around the backyard for a while, but I didn't meet anyone." "What about after that?" Li Shubai asked slowly, "Before you leave Daning Fang and return to your residence." Wei Baoheng looked at him in astonishment, and asked, "What does the lord mean..." "I saw you in Daningfang when I returned from the Yamen yesterday." Li Shubai didn't hide anything, and said softly, "You and that Lu Dicui are talking." Wei Baoheng's face finally changed, he didn't expect that he would fall into their eyes when he talked with Dicui in Daningfang. His face turned red and pale, but he finally nodded and admitted, "Yes... I met her once before when I went to settle this matter." "But your behavior and words towards her don't seem like you've only met her once." Li Shubai's tone was still cold, but merciless. Wei Baoheng heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Yes... After all, the Princess Mansion owes her a debt. I want to treat her as well as possible." Li Shubai looked at him coldly and didn't speak. "Could it be that just because I appeared in Daning Fang and said a few words to Lu Dicui, the lord thinks that I have something to do with the death of that grandson?" He finally couldn't help it, and hurriedly opened his mouth to defend himself, "My lord, you Do you think that I will go to Daningfang alone to kill a sick ghost covered in sores? I only need to give orders, and that grandson will have a hundred ways to die, don’t you think so?” Li Shubai leaned on the chair, looked at Wei Baoheng who jumped up and tried to defend himself, without even moving his eyebrows: "Wei Concubine, you are overthinking, I just want to say, after all, you are Tongchang's concubine, and you have a relationship with a young man at night." Meeting women seems to be ill-advised." Wei Baoheng was stunned for a moment, then sat down again with no effort, and said in a low voice: "Yes... remember the teaching of the prince."
After lingering in the princess mansion for a long time, the sky is full of colorful clouds again. The son-in-law personally sent them to the outside of Suwei Garden, and then said a little anxiously: "My lord, go slowly, I'll go and see if the princess needs me first." Li Shubai nodded and said: "Go, there have been so many things happening in the mansion recently, you must take good care of the princess, and make it best for her not to go out or meet outsiders." "Yes." Wei Baoheng responded respectfully, one by one. Huang Zixia followed behind Li Shubai and walked along the path to the corner gate. Yongjiafang, where King Kui's Mansion is located, is not far from Princess Mansion, just pass through Xingningfang.The sixteen king's mansion in the northeast corner of Chang'an, the princess mansion, exits from the gate in the southwest corner, leading to the various squares of Chang'an city. Seeing the brilliant sunset glow in the sky, the two couldn't help but slow down their pace, regardless of the carriages and horses waiting for them in Prince Kui's mansion, they walked slowly in the princess' mansion. In the afterglow of the setting sun, the most famous rich and noble mansion in Chang'an City, the colors of gold, green, green and purple complement each other. The high terraces, small pavilions, and curved corridors and halls are like the blurred and illusory Penglai fairy mountains, Yingzhou islands, where immortals live. However, the people who live in it seem to be suffering from uncontrollable pain and regret. So, is such a gorgeous pavilion a waste? Huang Zixia was thinking about it, when Li Shubai said in a low voice: "Yesterday, Daningfang was indeed very lively, as the son-in-law said." When Huang Zixia heard him suddenly mention yesterday's incident, she couldn't help turning her head to look at him and nodded. "When Sun Laizi died, all the relevant people gathered in Daning Fang - Zhang Xingying, Lu Dicui, Lu Zhiyuan, Qian Guansuo, and... Concubine Wei." "What's even more rare is that everyone has a reason to kill." Huang Zixia said. "Well, but I think you must have noticed that from the very beginning, the son-in-law seemed to draw our attention to cardamom. What do you think his intention is?" Huang Zixia nodded and said: "The first time I came to the princess mansion, the son-in-law deliberately looked at the cardamom paintings and poems on the wall in front of me and Cui Shaoqing, which caught my attention. thing." "But I have asked people to find out that there is indeed a maid next to the son-in-law, ten years older than him, named Dou Kou." Li Shubai stopped, stopped on the deserted bluestone path, and whispered, "Raising the son-in-law since childhood Growing up, moreover, the son-in-law insisted not to let her get married, even if he went to the princess mansion, he would take her with him—and last month, she drowned in the small pond of Zhijin Garden." Huang Zixia thoughtfully, nodded and said, "Calamus also said the same to me." "One more thing, maybe you don't know," Li Shubai looked at the lush grass in front of him, where the small summer flowers bloomed brilliantly, but withered one by one under the scorching sun, and no one paid attention to them, "There is a brother in the cardamom family. There are more than ten sisters, because her elder brother couldn't afford the dowry, so she sold herself to the Wei Mansion when she was twelve years old. She was smart and well-behaved, and came to Wei Concubine's side the next year to take care of Wei Concubine, who was only three years old at the time. Twenty years later, She has become the most important person around the son-in-law from a lowly girl, but she has no savings, because she has seven brothers who are like blood-sucking insects, and she has to support each family." Huang Zixia nodded silently, and heard Li Shubai say again: "Her eldest sister is more than 20 years older than her. After she entered the Wei Mansion as a girl, the eldest sister died of dystocia, leaving only one daughter, named Lu Dicui." Huang Zixia looked up at him in astonishment, and asked, "So are they in contact?" "Probably very few. Cardamom has raised her brothers for so many years. She has always believed that the brothers are her family members, and the married sister is already a person with a different surname—not to mention, the eldest sister is so much older than her. The eldest sister was already married to Lu Zhiyuan, and they didn't even have many chances to meet each other. After Lu Dicui's mother died of dystocia, those uncles themselves were lazy eaters, so they didn't care about the orphan girl left behind by the eldest sister. Moreover, when Lu Zhiyuan or Lu Dicui went to the Princess Mansion to send incense candles, they never met Dou Kou, and no one in the house knew that Dou Kou had such relatives. Lu Zhiyuan contracted candles to the Princess Mansion, and it had nothing to do with Dou Kou. Like For a person like him, do you think if he knew, he would not come to seek benefits from Cardamom?" Huang Zixia nodded, thoughtfully: "Dicui's mother and Dou Kou are sisters, maybe this niece and aunt look a bit alike. This is why the princess suddenly felt uncomfortable when she saw her, and someone beat her out. s reason." "So Cardamom's death must have something to do with the princess." "Well, Cui Shaoqing was beside me the first time I mentioned cardamom, so the son-in-law purposely told an easily exposed lie and only gave me a hint." Huang Zixia frowned. Li Shubai stared at her, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and said: "The relationship between people is worth pondering, isn't it?" Huang Zixia nodded silently, the two stopped talking and walked out of the princess mansion slowly.Seeing that there is the corner gate in front of him, outside are the residences of the kings and senior officials, the courtyard with deep walls, and there is no one in it. Just when they reached the corner near the corner door, they saw a person passing by the side door. Yu Xuan. She thought he had already left, but who knew that he didn't leave until now, and appeared in front of her impartially. Unconsciously, her footsteps stopped for a moment, and she landed behind Li Shubai. Yu Xuan didn't notice them, his expression was in a trance, and his slender figure like a jade tree was also weakened by his sloppy footsteps. Li Shubai looked back at her, and found that she was staring at Yuxuan blankly, with an expression on her face that she didn't know whether it was shock or sadness. "Aren't you curious?" Li Shubai paused, and then said, "Go and see, what is in his hand." Huang Zixia complied, and then came back to his senses, and looked up at him in astonishment. But Li Shubai had already walked towards the carriage waiting at the door, and said, "We'll talk about it when we go back home." Huang Zixia stood there for a while, and finally raised her foot to follow in the direction Yu Xuan left. When she was in Shuzhong, she had followed the prisoner before, and although her steps were a little chaotic, Yu Xuan in front of her seemed to be in a more complicated state of mind, and she didn't have the energy to pay attention to the situation around her at all. At the corner of the street at dusk, when there was no one there, he was walking on the street between Daningfang and Xingningfang. She followed him not far or near, and saw what he was holding in his hand. letter. The letter paper was a faint crimson color, occasionally sunlight flashed on it, and there was a trace of golden pattern flowing on the corners, it was extremely beautiful, and it looked like it belonged to a woman's boudoir.But Huang Zixia was too far away to see what was written on it. Walking to Xingtang Temple in Daningfang, he finally stopped in front of the incense burner, opened the letter in his hand, and took a look. With just one glance, he squeezed his lips with perfect outline and lip color, and slowly raised his hand to tear off the letter in his hand. Then, he put the scraps of letter paper in his hand into the censer, and stood in front of the censer again. Seeing that the scraps of paper were completely reduced to ashes, he turned around and walked along Anxing Square towards Wuben, where the Imperial College is located. Went away without looking back. When Yuxuan disappeared around the corner, Huang Zixia ran to the censer and looked inside on the empty street.The letter paper was very thick and had gold patterns painted on it. Even if it was melted into fly ash, it would not be considered light and thin. It only fluttered a few times slowly with the airflow of the incense. For some reason, Huang Zixia raised her hands, like catching a butterfly, and gathered the largest piece in her palm. The paper was still slightly hot, and she carefully pulled down her sleeves, covered her hands with the sleeves to keep the sweat out of her hands, and then closed her hands covered by the sleeves. She wrapped this warm secret in her palm through a thin crimson gauze, not daring to move her hands, fearing that a slight movement of her palm would destroy the integrity of the paper ash. She clasped her palms and ran towards Chongrenfang.
The concierge of the Zhou Mansion was already familiar with her, so he invited her in directly. Zhou Ziqin, who was still in the secluded courtyard today, was still tinkering with corpses. When he saw Huang Zixia running towards him with his palms folded, he was startled: "Chonggu, what happened to your hand? Was it pinned down?" She carefully opened her palm, revealing the piece of paper inside: "Find something for me." "...Paper dust?" Zhou Ziqin was puzzled, "Where did it come from?" "In the incense burner of Xingtang Temple." Zhou Ziqin showed a serious and serious expression, and said to her: "Chonggu, let me tell you one thing. If you are sick, you have to go to see a doctor. Don't you never believe in ghosts and gods? Tell you, when you are sick, you will be arrested." You must not do such absurd things as pouring incense ash into water and drinking it! If you do it, I will definitely despise you!" "This is a letter." Huang Zixia handed the paper ashes in front of him helplessly, "There are clues in it that I urgently need to know. If you can reveal the words on it, I will... treat you to dinner." "Who hasn't eaten yet?" Zhou Ziqin scorned, and gently inserted a piece of paper between her palm and the ashes, then lifted it gently, and moved the ashes onto the paper. "Then tell yourself what you want." "From now on, you can't leave me behind like today at noon, and then investigate the case yourself!" He made a condition. Huang Zixia explained: "I went to the princess mansion at noon, and the princess didn't say anything, how can I bring others there?" "Hmph, can't you say that I am your assistant sent by Dali Temple?" He glared at her. Huang Zixia was helpless: "Okay...as long as there are no special circumstances, I will call you in the future." "Great!" Zhou Ziqin smiled, and patted Huang Zixia's shoulder vigorously, "I like following you the most, Chonggu! Follow you, there is a corpse!" Huang Zixia pretended not to hear: "The writing on the ashes..." "Don't worry, leave it to me!"
Zhou Ziqin fetched a basin of water, gently placed the paper on the surface of the water, and then pulled the paper below out of the water with the slightest movement. The paper ash floated lightly on the water, and Zhou Ziqin rummaged through the shelf next to it for a long time, found a small bottle, carefully poured the light green liquid inside along the edge of the paper ash, and said: " According to the ancient method, I used hundreds of catties of spinach to repeatedly torment and filter before refining it, and I am usually reluctant to use it.” The liquid slowly spread out, seeping into the paper ash.Under the invasion of the liquid, the whole piece of paper ash suddenly gradually revealed writing on the black ash, which means that the remaining ink color on the paper ash is disappearing rapidly, a little faster than the paper ash, so it shows a trace of light color . The handwriting disappeared only for a moment, as if it was just a flash of gray color on the black words, although it was not clear, it was barely recognizable. Zhou Ziqin carefully looked at the words on it, trying to identify: "What do you mean?" Huang Zixia stared blankly at the five white characters on the piece of paper ashes disappearing quickly, and the whole piece of paper ashes finally dissolved in the water. She whispered slowly and with difficulty: "I think the third character is the character Liu which has been torn off in half, and the fifth character should be the character Jun which has been torn off in half..." "Yuehua Liuzhaojun..." Zhou Ziqin suddenly realized, "A line from Zhang Ruoxu's "Moonlight Night on the Spring River"!" He looked up at her and asked, "Love letter?" Huang Zixia nodded, then shook her head again.She couldn't speak, and just sat down blankly, looking at the ashes. Under the erosion of the green liquid, the entire piece of paper ash had been reduced to ashes, half submerged and half floating. Those remaining few words finally disappeared forever. Zhou Ziqin was still complacent: "Not bad? I found that the juice of spinach can remove the ink stains on clothes, and then I found a way to extract the juice from ancient books. After using this special juice, the ink stains on paper ash The color will be faded by the spinach juice in an instant before the paper ash dissolves—although there is only such a slight time difference, it is enough for us to see the writing clearly. I am really too good, right?" Huang Zixia reluctantly nodded and said, "Yes." Only then did Zhou Ziqin realize that something was wrong with her, and hurriedly asked, "Chong Gu, what's wrong with you? Your face looks... so ugly." "No... nothing." She whispered, glanced at the basin of sewage that had turned gray-green, took a long, deep breath, and managed to calm herself down. Zhou Ziqin was still looking at her worriedly.She avoided his gaze, looked at the sky outside, stood up and said, "Thank you for your help, I... Let's go first." "Let's go after eating, you are running around every day, have you eaten well?" "There is no time, the prince is still waiting for me."
Back at Kui Wang's mansion, Huang Zixia felt physically and mentally exhausted. She cheered up, went to see Li Shubai first as usual, and told him the contents of the letter. Li Shubai listened casually, playing with the glazed cup in his hand.The small fish in the glazed cup floated back and forth along the slowly reverberating water, unable to help themselves, they could only wag their tails in vain to keep them calm. "It's confirmed the rumors in the market, isn't it?" Li Shubai looked at the little fish in the water, his voice was like this, and there were only a few gentle waves in the water. "Yes..." she replied in a low voice. He finally turned his gaze to look at her, for the first time there was a look of hesitation and thought in his eyes, he seemed to want to say something, but after a long time, he finally moved his gaze away, as if he was comforting her, or talking to himself Said: "Rumors often only reflect a part of the truth, or simply a false smoke." Huang Zixia didn't know the meaning of his words, and stood in front of him for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so he changed the subject and asked, "I wonder if Dali Temple got that painting from Zhang Xingying?" "No." She looked up at Li Shubai in surprise. "When Dali Temple went to check, Zhang Xingying opened the cabinet, but found that the painting was gone." "Missing?" She recalled the scene when Zhang Xingying put away the scroll and put it back, frowning slightly, "The Zhang family's father cherishes this painting very much, and only takes it out for important things to hang up for worship, and it is usually locked in the cabinet... Why did it suddenly disappear?" "The people in Dali Temple thought that he was determined not to hand it over and hindered the investigation, so they searched his house, but they didn't find it." Li Shubai said, "Originally, it could be said to be a coincidence, but now it seems that, Maybe there is a problem." A trace of uneasiness flashed across Huang Zixia's heart, and he asked, "I don't know what Dali Temple is going to do with it?" Li Shubai knew that she cared about Zhang Xingying, so he glanced at her and said, "Today, Dali Temple has directly summoned Zhang Xingying to the Zuo Jinwu Guard. It is estimated that Yingmao was called away on the first day, and there will be rumors in the Zuo Jinwu Guard." .Now Zuo Jinwuwei has sent a message to ask him to find the painting first, and then go to the Yamen. In my opinion, if he can't hand over the painting in the near future, he will probably be in a bit of trouble." Huang Zixia sighed secretly in her heart, and said, "Yes, I will pay attention to this matter." Li Shubai picked up a stack of papers next to her, handed it to her and said, "This is given to you by Dali Temple. It is said that it is something you asked them to investigate last time." Huang Zixia took it, and naturally knew that it was mentioned to Zhou Ziqin last time, when did Zhang Xingying know about Dicui and the Princess Mansion. He said at the time that he did not know about this and did not know Wei Ximin. But the investigation of Dali Temple, in black and white, completely overturned Zhang Xingying's statement. Huang Zixia pursed her lips tightly, put away the investigation book, and said, "Since this is the case, I'm afraid I have to go to Zhang's house now." Li Shubai waved his hand and said, "Go, I guess everyone in Zuojinwuwei already knows you, so I don't need my handwriting." "It's really not possible, and there is a letter from the palace." She forced a smile, and when she stood up to go out, she suddenly felt a darkness in front of her eyes, and fell down involuntarily. Li Shubai, who was sitting across from her, was quick-eyed, pushed away the desks in front of her with one hand, hugged her fainted with the other, supported her, and half-sat on the carpet on the floor to avoid knocking on the desks. Huang Zixia waited for the darkness in front of her to gradually recede, looked at Li Shubai who was supporting her, and flicked her hand, wanting to stand up from his arms, but she didn't have any strength in her body, there was nothing to do, so she could only whisper: " Thank you, my lord... I may be tired, just rest for a while and I'll be fine." Li Shubai looked down at her who was pale but still stubborn, without saying a word, he picked her up horizontally, strode to the couch, and gently placed her on it. Seeing him looking down at her all the time, Huang Zixia couldn't help but feel nervous and embarrassed when he stared at her with such deep eyes, so she could only turn her eyes to the side and whispered: "I'm sorry... I was rude in front of the prince... " "It's my fault." He interrupted her with a gloomy voice. Huang Zixia heard that there were many things in his voice that she couldn't distinguish, and she couldn't help being surprised, and looked at his face. And he said in a low voice, "I forgot...you are a woman." She stared at him in astonishment for a long time before whispering, "It's okay, even I myself have already forgotten about it." Hearing her words, he couldn't help being in a daze for a moment, standing in front of her, looking at her appearance, without moving for a long time. Her slender body was lying sideways on the couch, she was dressed in red with a black belt, and was dressed as an eunuch.There were three or two strands of hair scattered around her neck, winding into her collar.The black hair is extremely conspicuous on top of her white skin, making people involuntarily look down, undulating along her sinuous curves. Suddenly, a faint scorching heat surged up in his chest, faintly fluctuating.He understood in an instant, turned around immediately, and sat back in front of the case without saying a word. And Huang Zixia looked at him puzzled, not knowing why this King Kui, who had always been calm and calm, suddenly acted abnormally. She leaned against it for a while, and felt that the dizziness had passed, so she quickly sat up and said to Li Shubai: "Don't dare to disturb the prince anymore, this servant will leave." He looked at her slightly vain footsteps, hesitated to speak, but when she walked to the door, he finally said: "Don't go looking for Zhang Xingying tonight." She looked back at him in surprise. “就你这飘忽的样子，怕明天要在街头把你捡回来。” 黄梓瑕不由得笑了笑，然后又说：“那么，我明日早起过去。” “嗯。”他站起来，与她一起走出枕流榭。 黄梓瑕不知他要去哪里，跟在他的身后慢慢走着。 岸边的垂杨一枝枝拂过他们的肩膀与手臂，远远近近的荷花在月光下绽放，他始终在她身前半步之遥，保持着随时可以伸手拉住她的距离。 黄梓瑕忽然明白了，他是要陪着自己走回去。 在这样寂静的黑暗中，刚刚入夜便迫不及待高升的月亮即将圆满，光华明亮。 那明亮的银光，流泻在她的身上，也流泻在他的身上。 她看着面前半步之遥的人，在触手可及的他身后，心中脑中却一遍一遍地想着那一句诗—— 不知不觉，因为对自己的深深厌弃，心口痛得不能自已。 她只能握紧双拳，深深呼吸着，强迫自己把那些记忆，一点一点挤出思绪。 她对自己说，黄梓瑕，把那些过往全都摒弃吧。父母亲人全都已经死去，若自己连最后能为他们做的事情都不能做好，只能落得，天诛地灭！
The crape myrtle in Suwei Garden is still in full bloom, and the strings of crape myrtle flowers in full bloom show a strong sense of summer under the scorching sun that has just risen. The son-in-law Wei Baoheng was complaining to Li Shubai: "My lord, you know that it's not that I don't go to serve the princess, it's just that my husband is weak. If the princess doesn't call me over, how can I go there? I'd like to serve you with tea and water. But the princess would rather listen to the "Zhou Rituals" lectured by Imperial Supervisor Yu Xuezheng!" When he said this, he saw the eunuch leading Huang Zixia in, with an embarrassed wry smile on his face, he raised his hand to her: "Eunuch Yang." "I've seen Consort Wei." After saluting, she stood behind Li Shubai. Li Shubai gently put aside that topic, and only said: "Recently, there seems to be a lot of strange things happening in the princess' mansion." "That's right...Wei Ximin died. I had an accident playing polo, and now...the princess's most cherished Jiuluanchai has mysteriously disappeared." Yes, there is something stirring up trouble in the mansion..." Li Shubai asked: "What?" "It's just...about Zhijin Garden," he looked at Huang Zixia and asked, "Did Eunuch Yang hear the rumors in the mansion?" Huang Zixia nodded, and asked, "Does it mean that the cardamom next to the son-in-law drowned in the Zhijin Garden for no reason?" "Hmm..." He nodded silently, an almost imperceptible sadness flashed in his eyes, but he immediately turned his head out of the window, looking at the crape myrtle flowers blooming in the sun, his voice was still calm, " Since then, Zhijin Garden has been closed because of Devil May Cry at Night, but it seems that since then, strange things have always happened in the mansion... For example, the princess dreamed that her Jiuluan hairpin disappeared, and her Jiuluan hairpin ended up missing. Chai really disappeared, you said, isn't it weird that such an important thing can disappear under such strict guards?" Huang Zixia nodded and said, "Indeed, it should be impossible no matter how you look at it." "So... I'm also wondering if it's because the ghost of cardamom is causing trouble," Wei Baoheng said thoughtfully, "Maybe only ghosts can make Jiuluanchai disappear suddenly under such circumstances." "Concubine Wei thinks that Cardamom, who has served you for nearly twenty years, will be sad knowing that he will be called a ghost by you after death?" Huang Zixia asked. Wei Baoheng was stunned for a moment, then said softly: "Perhaps...if she died unjustly and in pain." Huang Zixia lowered her eyelashes and remained silent. Li Shubai said: "Leave aside the matter of strange power and chaos for now, I want to ask my son-in-law one thing first, where were you at noon yesterday?" Wei Baoheng was slightly taken aback, and then replied: "I was at Daning Fang at noon." "I don't know what the son-in-law is going to Daningfang?" "Wu Yin, the abbot of Xingtang Temple in Daningfang, is a great virtuous monk. Because something happened in the mansion recently, I went to ask him to chant scriptures for salvation," he recalled, and said clearly, "I made an appointment with Wu Yin After a few days, I walked around the temple a few times, but I didn't realize it was too late. When I came out, I heard that there was a murder case in the workshop, so I went to have a look, and saw that Dali Temple had already been investigated, so I went back to the house by myself." Huang Zixia asked: "I don't know who the son-in-law met when he wandered around the temple?" Wei Baoheng shook his head and said, "It's not the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, and there are few pilgrims. I walked around the backyard for a while, but I didn't meet anyone." "What about after that?" Li Shubai asked slowly, "Before you leave Daning Fang and return to your residence." Wei Baoheng looked at him in astonishment, and asked, "What does the lord mean..." "I saw you in Daningfang when I returned from the Yamen yesterday." Li Shubai didn't hide anything, and said softly, "You and that Lu Dicui are talking." Wei Baoheng's face finally changed, he didn't expect that he would fall into their eyes when he talked with Dicui in Daningfang. His face turned red and pale, but he finally nodded and admitted, "Yes... I met her once before when I went to settle this matter." "But your behavior and words towards her don't seem like you've only met her once." Li Shubai's tone was still cold, but merciless. Wei Baoheng heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Yes... After all, the Princess Mansion owes her a debt. I want to treat her as well as possible." Li Shubai looked at him coldly and didn't speak. "Could it be that just because I appeared in Daning Fang and said a few words to Lu Dicui, the lord thinks that I have something to do with the death of that grandson?" He finally couldn't help it, and hurriedly opened his mouth to defend himself, "My lord, you Do you think that I will go to Daningfang alone to kill a sick ghost covered in sores? I only need to give orders, and that grandson will have a hundred ways to die, don’t you think so?” Li Shubai leaned on the chair, looked at Wei Baoheng who jumped up and tried to defend himself, without even moving his eyebrows: "Wei Concubine, you are overthinking, I just want to say, after all, you are Tongchang's concubine, and you have a relationship with a young man at night." Meeting women seems to be ill-advised." Wei Baoheng was stunned for a moment, then sat down again with no effort, and said in a low voice: "Yes... remember the teaching of the prince."
After lingering in the princess mansion for a long time, the sky is full of colorful clouds again. The son-in-law personally sent them to the outside of Suwei Garden, and then said a little anxiously: "My lord, go slowly, I'll go and see if the princess needs me first." Li Shubai nodded and said: "Go, there have been so many things happening in the mansion recently, you must take good care of the princess, and make it best for her not to go out or meet outsiders." "Yes." Wei Baoheng responded respectfully, one by one. Huang Zixia followed behind Li Shubai and walked along the path to the corner gate. Yongjiafang, where King Kui's Mansion is located, is not far from Princess Mansion, just pass through Xingningfang.The sixteen king's mansion in the northeast corner of Chang'an, the princess mansion, exits from the gate in the southwest corner, leading to the various squares of Chang'an city. Seeing the brilliant sunset glow in the sky, the two couldn't help but slow down their pace, regardless of the carriages and horses waiting for them in Prince Kui's mansion, they walked slowly in the princess' mansion. In the afterglow of the setting sun, the most famous rich and noble mansion in Chang'an City, the colors of gold, green, green and purple complement each other. The high terraces, small pavilions, and curved corridors and halls are like the blurred and illusory Penglai fairy mountains, Yingzhou islands, where immortals live. However, the people who live in it seem to be suffering from uncontrollable pain and regret. So, is such a gorgeous pavilion a waste? Huang Zixia was thinking about it, when Li Shubai said in a low voice: "Yesterday, Daningfang was indeed very lively, as the son-in-law said." When Huang Zixia heard him suddenly mention yesterday's incident, she couldn't help turning her head to look at him and nodded. "When Sun Laizi died, all the relevant people gathered in Daning Fang - Zhang Xingying, Lu Dicui, Lu Zhiyuan, Qian Guansuo, and... Concubine Wei." "What's even more rare is that everyone has a reason to kill." Huang Zixia said. "Well, but I think you must have noticed that from the very beginning, the son-in-law seemed to draw our attention to cardamom. What do you think his intention is?" Huang Zixia nodded and said: "The first time I came to the princess mansion, the son-in-law deliberately looked at the cardamom paintings and poems on the wall in front of me and Cui Shaoqing, which caught my attention. thing." "But I have asked people to find out that there is indeed a maid next to the son-in-law, ten years older than him, named Dou Kou." Li Shubai stopped, stopped on the deserted bluestone path, and whispered, "Raising the son-in-law since childhood Growing up, moreover, the son-in-law insisted not to let her get married, even if he went to the princess mansion, he would take her with him—and last month, she drowned in the small pond of Zhijin Garden." Huang Zixia thoughtfully, nodded and said, "Calamus also said the same to me." "One more thing, maybe you don't know," Li Shubai looked at the lush grass in front of him, where the small summer flowers bloomed brilliantly, but withered one by one under the scorching sun, and no one paid attention to them, "There is a brother in the cardamom family. There are more than ten sisters, because her elder brother couldn't afford the dowry, so she sold herself to the Wei Mansion when she was twelve years old. She was smart and well-behaved, and came to Wei Concubine's side the next year to take care of Wei Concubine, who was only three years old at the time. Twenty years later, She has become the most important person around the son-in-law from a lowly girl, but she has no savings, because she has seven brothers who are like blood-sucking insects, and she has to support each family." Huang Zixia nodded silently, and heard Li Shubai say again: "Her eldest sister is more than 20 years older than her. After she entered the Wei Mansion as a girl, the eldest sister died of dystocia, leaving only one daughter, named Lu Dicui." Huang Zixia looked up at him in astonishment, and asked, "So are they in contact?" "Probably very few. Cardamom has raised her brothers for so many years. She has always believed that the brothers are her family members, and the married sister is already a person with a different surname—not to mention, the eldest sister is so much older than her. The eldest sister was already married to Lu Zhiyuan, and they didn't even have many chances to meet each other. After Lu Dicui's mother died of dystocia, those uncles themselves were lazy eaters, so they didn't care about the orphan girl left behind by the eldest sister. Moreover, when Lu Zhiyuan or Lu Dicui went to the Princess Mansion to send incense candles, they never met Dou Kou, and no one in the house knew that Dou Kou had such relatives. Lu Zhiyuan contracted candles to the Princess Mansion, and it had nothing to do with Dou Kou. Like For a person like him, do you think if he knew, he would not come to seek benefits from Cardamom?" Huang Zixia nodded, thoughtfully: "Dicui's mother and Dou Kou are sisters, maybe this niece and aunt look a bit alike. This is why the princess suddenly felt uncomfortable when she saw her, and someone beat her out. s reason." "So Cardamom's death must have something to do with the princess." "Well, Cui Shaoqing was beside me the first time I mentioned cardamom, so the son-in-law purposely told an easily exposed lie and only gave me a hint." Huang Zixia frowned. Li Shubai stared at her, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and said: "The relationship between people is worth pondering, isn't it?" Huang Zixia nodded silently, the two stopped talking and walked out of the princess mansion slowly.Seeing that there is the corner gate in front of him, outside are the residences of the kings and senior officials, the courtyard with deep walls, and there is no one in it. Just when they reached the corner near the corner door, they saw a person passing by the side door. Yu Xuan. She thought he had already left, but who knew that he didn't leave until now, and appeared in front of her impartially. Unconsciously, her footsteps stopped for a moment, and she landed behind Li Shubai. Yu Xuan didn't notice them, his expression was in a trance, and his slender figure like a jade tree was also weakened by his sloppy footsteps. Li Shubai looked back at her, and found that she was staring at Yuxuan blankly, with an expression on her face that she didn't know whether it was shock or sadness. "Aren't you curious?" Li Shubai paused, and then said, "Go and see, what is in his hand." Huang Zixia complied, and then came back to his senses, and looked up at him in astonishment. But Li Shubai had already walked towards the carriage waiting at the door, and said, "We'll talk about it when we go back home." Huang Zixia stood there for a while, and finally raised her foot to follow in the direction Yu Xuan left. When she was in Shuzhong, she had followed the prisoner before, and although her steps were a little chaotic, Yu Xuan in front of her seemed to be in a more complicated state of mind, and she didn't have the energy to pay attention to the situation around her at all. At the corner of the street at dusk, when there was no one there, he was walking on the street between Daningfang and Xingningfang. She followed him not far or near, and saw what he was holding in his hand. letter. The letter paper was a faint crimson color, occasionally sunlight flashed on it, and there was a trace of golden pattern flowing on the corners, it was extremely beautiful, and it looked like it belonged to a woman's boudoir.But Huang Zixia was too far away to see what was written on it. Walking to Xingtang Temple in Daningfang, he finally stopped in front of the incense burner, opened the letter in his hand, and took a look. With just one glance, he squeezed his lips with perfect outline and lip color, and slowly raised his hand to tear off the letter in his hand. Then, he put the scraps of letter paper in his hand into the censer, and stood in front of the censer again. Seeing that the scraps of paper were completely reduced to ashes, he turned around and walked along Anxing Square towards Wuben, where the Imperial College is located. Went away without looking back. When Yuxuan disappeared around the corner, Huang Zixia ran to the censer and looked inside on the empty street.The letter paper was very thick and had gold patterns painted on it. Even if it was melted into fly ash, it would not be considered light and thin. It only fluttered a few times slowly with the airflow of the incense. For some reason, Huang Zixia raised her hands, like catching a butterfly, and gathered the largest piece in her palm. The paper was still slightly hot, and she carefully pulled down her sleeves, covered her hands with the sleeves to keep the sweat out of her hands, and then closed her hands covered by the sleeves. She wrapped this warm secret in her palm through a thin crimson gauze, not daring to move her hands, fearing that a slight movement of her palm would destroy the integrity of the paper ash. She clasped her palms and ran towards Chongrenfang.
The concierge of the Zhou Mansion was already familiar with her, so he invited her in directly. Zhou Ziqin, who was still in the secluded courtyard today, was still tinkering with corpses. When he saw Huang Zixia running towards him with his palms folded, he was startled: "Chonggu, what happened to your hand? Was it pinned down?" She carefully opened her palm, revealing the piece of paper inside: "Find something for me." "...Paper dust?" Zhou Ziqin was puzzled, "Where did it come from?" "In the incense burner of Xingtang Temple." Zhou Ziqin showed a serious and serious expression, and said to her: "Chonggu, let me tell you one thing. If you are sick, you have to go to see a doctor. Don't you never believe in ghosts and gods? Tell you, when you are sick, you will be arrested." You must not do such absurd things as pouring incense ash into water and drinking it! If you do it, I will definitely despise you!" "This is a letter." Huang Zixia handed the paper ashes in front of him helplessly, "There are clues in it that I urgently need to know. If you can reveal the words on it, I will... treat you to dinner." "Who hasn't eaten yet?" Zhou Ziqin scorned, and gently inserted a piece of paper between her palm and the ashes, then lifted it gently, and moved the ashes onto the paper. "Then tell yourself what you want." "From now on, you can't leave me behind like today at noon, and then investigate the case yourself!" He made a condition. Huang Zixia explained: "I went to the princess mansion at noon, and the princess didn't say anything, how can I bring others there?" "Hmph, can't you say that I am your assistant sent by Dali Temple?" He glared at her. Huang Zixia was helpless: "Okay...as long as there are no special circumstances, I will call you in the future." "Great!" Zhou Ziqin smiled, and patted Huang Zixia's shoulder vigorously, "I like following you the most, Chonggu! Follow you, there is a corpse!" Huang Zixia pretended not to hear: "The writing on the ashes..." "Don't worry, leave it to me!"
Zhou Ziqin fetched a basin of water, gently placed the paper on the surface of the water, and then pulled the paper below out of the water with the slightest movement. The paper ash floated lightly on the water, and Zhou Ziqin rummaged through the shelf next to it for a long time, found a small bottle, carefully poured the light green liquid inside along the edge of the paper ash, and said: " According to the ancient method, I used hundreds of catties of spinach to repeatedly torment and filter before refining it, and I am usually reluctant to use it.” The liquid slowly spread out, seeping into the paper ash.Under the invasion of the liquid, the whole piece of paper ash suddenly gradually revealed writing on the black ash, which means that the remaining ink color on the paper ash is disappearing rapidly, a little faster than the paper ash, so it shows a trace of light color . The handwriting disappeared only for a moment, as if it was just a flash of gray color on the black words, although it was not clear, it was barely recognizable. Zhou Ziqin carefully looked at the words on it, trying to identify: "What do you mean?" Huang Zixia stared blankly at the five white characters on the piece of paper ashes disappearing quickly, and the whole piece of paper ashes finally dissolved in the water. She whispered slowly and with difficulty: "I think the third character is the character Liu which has been torn off in half, and the fifth character should be the character Jun which has been torn off in half..." "Yuehua Liuzhaojun..." Zhou Ziqin suddenly realized, "A line from Zhang Ruoxu's "Moonlight Night on the Spring River"!" He looked up at her and asked, "Love letter?" Huang Zixia nodded, then shook her head again.She couldn't speak, and just sat down blankly, looking at the ashes. Under the erosion of the green liquid, the entire piece of paper ash had been reduced to ashes, half submerged and half floating. Those remaining few words finally disappeared forever. Zhou Ziqin was still complacent: "Not bad? I found that the juice of spinach can remove the ink stains on clothes, and then I found a way to extract the juice from ancient books. After using this special juice, the ink stains on paper ash The color will be faded by the spinach juice in an instant before the paper ash dissolves—although there is only such a slight time difference, it is enough for us to see the writing clearly. I am really too good, right?" Huang Zixia reluctantly nodded and said, "Yes." Only then did Zhou Ziqin realize that something was wrong with her, and hurriedly asked, "Chong Gu, what's wrong with you? Your face looks... so ugly." "No... nothing." She whispered, glanced at the basin of sewage that had turned gray-green, took a long, deep breath, and managed to calm herself down. Zhou Ziqin was still looking at her worriedly.She avoided his gaze, looked at the sky outside, stood up and said, "Thank you for your help, I... Let's go first." "Let's go after eating, you are running around every day, have you eaten well?" "There is no time, the prince is still waiting for me."
Back at Kui Wang's mansion, Huang Zixia felt physically and mentally exhausted. She cheered up, went to see Li Shubai first as usual, and told him the contents of the letter. Li Shubai listened casually, playing with the glazed cup in his hand.The small fish in the glazed cup floated back and forth along the slowly reverberating water, unable to help themselves, they could only wag their tails in vain to keep them calm. "It's confirmed the rumors in the market, isn't it?" Li Shubai looked at the little fish in the water, his voice was like this, and there were only a few gentle waves in the water. "Yes..." she replied in a low voice. He finally turned his gaze to look at her, for the first time there was a look of hesitation and thought in his eyes, he seemed to want to say something, but after a long time, he finally moved his gaze away, as if he was comforting her, or talking to himself Said: "Rumors often only reflect a part of the truth, or simply a false smoke." Huang Zixia didn't know the meaning of his words, and stood in front of him for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so he changed the subject and asked, "I wonder if Dali Temple got that painting from Zhang Xingying?" "No." She looked up at Li Shubai in surprise. "When Dali Temple went to check, Zhang Xingying opened the cabinet, but found that the painting was gone." "Missing?" She recalled the scene when Zhang Xingying put away the scroll and put it back, frowning slightly, "The Zhang family's father cherishes this painting very much, and only takes it out for important things to hang up for worship, and it is usually locked in the cabinet... Why did it suddenly disappear?" "The people in Dali Temple thought that he was determined not to hand it over and hindered the investigation, so they searched his house, but they didn't find it." Li Shubai said, "Originally, it could be said to be a coincidence, but now it seems that, Maybe there is a problem." A trace of uneasiness flashed across Huang Zixia's heart, and he asked, "I don't know what Dali Temple is going to do with it?" Li Shubai knew that she cared about Zhang Xingying, so he glanced at her and said, "Today, Dali Temple has directly summoned Zhang Xingying to the Zuo Jinwu Guard. It is estimated that Yingmao was called away on the first day, and there will be rumors in the Zuo Jinwu Guard." .Now Zuo Jinwuwei has sent a message to ask him to find the painting first, and then go to the Yamen. In my opinion, if he can't hand over the painting in the near future, he will probably be in a bit of trouble." Huang Zixia sighed secretly in her heart, and said, "Yes, I will pay attention to this matter." Li Shubai picked up a stack of papers next to her, handed it to her and said, "This is given to you by Dali Temple. It is said that it is something you asked them to investigate last time." Huang Zixia took it, and naturally knew that it was mentioned to Zhou Ziqin last time, when did Zhang Xingying know about Dicui and the Princess Mansion. He said at the time that he did not know about this and did not know Wei Ximin. But the investigation of Dali Temple, in black and white, completely overturned Zhang Xingying's statement. Huang Zixia pursed her lips tightly, put away the investigation book, and said, "Since this is the case, I'm afraid I have to go to Zhang's house now." Li Shubai waved his hand and said, "Go, I guess everyone in Zuojinwuwei already knows you, so I don't need my handwriting." "It's really not possible, and there is a letter from the palace." She forced a smile, and when she stood up to go out, she suddenly felt a darkness in front of her eyes, and fell down involuntarily. Li Shubai, who was sitting across from her, was quick-eyed, pushed away the desks in front of her with one hand, hugged her fainted with the other, supported her, and half-sat on the carpet on the floor to avoid knocking on the desks. Huang Zixia waited for the darkness in front of her to gradually recede, looked at Li Shubai who was supporting her, and flicked her hand, wanting to stand up from his arms, but she didn't have any strength in her body, there was nothing to do, so she could only whisper: " Thank you, my lord... I may be tired, just rest for a while and I'll be fine." Li Shubai looked down at her who was pale but still stubborn, without saying a word, he picked her up horizontally, strode to the couch, and gently placed her on it. Seeing him looking down at her all the time, Huang Zixia couldn't help but feel nervous and embarrassed when he stared at her with such deep eyes, so she could only turn her eyes to the side and whispered: "I'm sorry... I was rude in front of the prince... " "It's my fault." He interrupted her with a gloomy voice. Huang Zixia heard that there were many things in his voice that she couldn't distinguish, and she couldn't help being surprised, and looked at his face. And he said in a low voice, "I forgot...you are a woman." She stared at him in astonishment for a long time before whispering, "It's okay, even I myself have already forgotten about it." Hearing her words, he couldn't help being in a daze for a moment, standing in front of her, looking at her appearance, without moving for a long time. Her slender body was lying sideways on the couch, she was dressed in red with a black belt, and was dressed as an eunuch.There were three or two strands of hair scattered around her neck, winding into her collar.The black hair is extremely conspicuous on top of her white skin, making people involuntarily look down, undulating along her sinuous curves. Suddenly, a faint scorching heat surged up in his chest, faintly fluctuating.He understood in an instant, turned around immediately, and sat back in front of the case without saying a word. And Huang Zixia looked at him puzzled, not knowing why this King Kui, who had always been calm and calm, suddenly acted abnormally. She leaned against it for a while, and felt that the dizziness had passed, so she quickly sat up and said to Li Shubai: "Don't dare to disturb the prince anymore, this servant will leave." He looked at her slightly vain footsteps, hesitated to speak, but when she walked to the door, he finally said: "Don't go looking for Zhang Xingying tonight." She looked back at him in surprise. “就你这飘忽的样子，怕明天要在街头把你捡回来。” 黄梓瑕不由得笑了笑，然后又说：“那么，我明日早起过去。” “嗯。”他站起来，与她一起走出枕流榭。 黄梓瑕不知他要去哪里，跟在他的身后慢慢走着。 岸边的垂杨一枝枝拂过他们的肩膀与手臂，远远近近的荷花在月光下绽放，他始终在她身前半步之遥，保持着随时可以伸手拉住她的距离。 黄梓瑕忽然明白了，他是要陪着自己走回去。 在这样寂静的黑暗中，刚刚入夜便迫不及待高升的月亮即将圆满，光华明亮。 那明亮的银光，流泻在她的身上，也流泻在他的身上。 她看着面前半步之遥的人，在触手可及的他身后，心中脑中却一遍一遍地想着那一句诗—— 不知不觉，因为对自己的深深厌弃，心口痛得不能自已。 她只能握紧双拳，深深呼吸着，强迫自己把那些记忆，一点一点挤出思绪。 她对自己说，黄梓瑕，把那些过往全都摒弃吧。父母亲人全都已经死去，若自己连最后能为他们做的事情都不能做好，只能落得，天诛地灭！