Chapter 14 Fourteen, the long street is silent
After an unknown amount of time, she turned her head and saw Li Shubai looking at her through the window.He didn't know how long he had been standing in front of the window, but when he saw her turn her head, he raised his chin slightly and signaled her to come in.
Huang Zixia quickly put away her fan and entered the Jingyu Hall.
The room is quiet, and the fragrance of tea has dissipated.Jingyang ignited the fragrance of ice chips, which made people feel cold in the small window.
Li Shubai gestured to the chair opposite, and Huang Zixia sat down.
The two saw Jingyang through the window and had already walked out of the courtyard, Huang Zixia said straight to the point: "It seems that the case must be understood within three days, otherwise once the body is taken out of Beijing for burial, there will be a lot of evidence missing."
Li Shubai nodded slowly, and said, "Go ahead and investigate. If it really doesn't work, then leave it to me. Anyway, you can't let the body be buried."
Huang Zixia agreed, and then said: "Chen Nianniang came to see me this morning. I think if there is nothing wrong, we should have no problem solving the case within three days."
Li Shubai let out an "oh", and narrowed her eyes as if looking at her: "Really? What did Niang Chen say today that it's progressing so fast?"
"First point, I suspect that body..." She habitually raised her hand to touch the hairpin on her head. Li Shubai looked across from her, saw her hand pressed to her temple, and slowly put it down again. He looked helpless.
The corners of his lips curved a little invisibly, he took out a slender brocade box from the drawer, put it on the table, and pushed it in front of her with two fingers.
Huang Zixia looked at him suspiciously, and asked, "What?"
"Look," he said.
"Is it related to this case?" She took it over and asked.
Li Shubai turned his head to look at the little red fish swimming quietly in the glass bottle on the table, and said in an impatient and cold tone: "Well, it's for your convenience to solve the case."
Huang Zixia opened the brocade box, and saw a hairpin lying on the backing of the silk brocade.She picked it up suspiciously and saw that the hairpin was about five inches long. The body of the hairpin below was made of silver, and the front was carved with a pattern of curly-leaf macaroni. Apart from the beautiful and delicate patterns, there was nothing unusual about it. It was very suitable for her. It is used by a young eunuch in the palace.
But as soon as she got the hairpin, she felt that the weight was wrong, and after a closer look, she immediately discovered the key.She pressed down on the lowermost curly leaf of the macaroni, and only heard a slight click. The silver hairpin on the outside fell off, and a thinner white jade hairpin was pulled out from the inside.
She looked up at Li Shubai, hesitated for a long time, and then asked: "Is it... for me?"
Li Shubai hummed, but still didn't look at her, with a calm and indifferent tone: "You keep touching the hairpin like this, and you dare not pull it out when you touch it. I feel annoyed. Besides, if your hair is loose, it's easy to be found It’s a woman, so it’s not easy to deal with it in the future.”
Huang Zixia didn't seem to hear his cold words, and didn't care that he said he was bored with her.She put away the box, looked at the person in front of her, and said sincerely and solemnly: "Thank you, my lord, this is what I need most right now."
Seeing that she was about to put the box away, he said, "I don't know if the craftsman understands what I mean. Is it convenient for you to use it every day?"
"Just tried it, it's handy, and the craftsman did a great job."
Seeing her bewildered expression, he could only remind her expressionlessly: "How do you know if you haven't tried it?"
"Oh..." She suddenly realized that anyway, she doesn't like to wear gauze crowns when she goes out every day, and now her hair is tied up in a bun, so she just pressed her hair and inserted the hairpin given by Li Shubai into it. Then pull out the original one inside, and the hairstyle is not messed up at all.
She raised her hand to pinch the head of the hairpin again, slid her fingers down along the macaroni pattern, pinched and pressed the curls, and the jade hairpin inside was pulled out, while the silver hairpin outside was still there, without damaging her hairstyle at all.
"It's very useful, really good." Huang Zixia praised, then raised her hands and groped for the opening of the silver hairpin, inserted the jade hairpin in again, and locked it with a slight click.
Huang Zixia liked it very much, and didn't care that after raising his hands, his sleeves slipped down, revealing a pair of bright wrists. He only stroked the hairpin on his head and smiled at Li Shubai: "Thank you, my lord! From now on, I can calculate the case anytime and anywhere." .”
"Better get rid of this bad habit of yours," he said.
Huang Zixia ignored it, pulled out the jade hairpin in the middle, and said, "According to what Chen Nianniang said, I think there are two crucial points in this case."
"Really?" Li Shubai poured her a cup of tea and pushed it in front of her.
Huang Zixia was thinking about the case in his heart, but he didn't pay attention. He took it and drank it in one gulp. Then he put the hairpin on the table, looked at him fixedly, and said, "The female corpse that appeared in Yongchun Palace is not Wang Ruo."
"Well, you already raised doubts last time."
"But this time I'm sure - the person who died should be Jin Nu, and the prince should have seen it, that is the Jiaofang pipa girl who had a close relationship with King Zhao!"
"Already determined?"
"It's basically confirmed. I didn't quite understand the abnormal shape of the female corpse's right hand before—why there is a thin layer of callus on the edge of the palm under the little finger, and what is it that often wears there?—Now that I think about it, That was when using a pipa plectrum, the plectrum got stuck on the edge of the palm under the little finger, and over the years, the skin there was often rubbed, leaving a thin layer of callus."
"Although it makes sense, there are so many pipa girls in the world, how can you be sure that she is Jin Nu?"
"The time when Jin Nu disappeared was the time when the female corpse appeared in Yongchun Palace."
Li Shubai already knew it, and nodded slightly: "Is there any more indisputable evidence?"
"Yes." Huang Zixia drew an arrow on the paper with the hairpin in his hand, and wrote "Chongrenfang" there: "On the night Jinnu disappeared, the food that Zhou Ziqin packed from Zhuijinlou , poisoned several beggars to death."
Zhou Ziqin came here specially for this matter, and Li Shubai naturally remembered it fresh.He nodded slightly: "At that time, I remember you said that Jin Nu was also there."
"Yes, the meals that Zhou Ziqin and I sent to the beggars that time were all leftovers from our meals. Everyone at the banquet had no accidents, and we also sent them directly to the beggars. I picked it up and ate it. There are only two possibilities. One is that there is something wrong with the lotus leaves we pack our meals with. But Zhou Ziqin said that the sap of poison arrow wood is extremely poisonous, and the leaves will turn black soon after being touched. What we got at that time were all freshly washed lotus leaves, all of which were green and tender, and it was impossible for them to be poisoned."
Li Shubai nodded and said, "Another possibility is that your hands were poisoned at that time."
"Yes, there were three people who dealt with it at that time. Nothing happened to me. Zhou Ziqin was also safe and sound. The only possibility is that the poison at that time came from Jin Nu," Huang Zixia sighed, "She is round and exquisite. , that day, she complained that her hands were pricked by the stalk of the cherry—in fact, it should be that she came into contact with the sap of the poisonous arrow tree, and the poison occurred, and her hands were already itchy. Otherwise, even if her hands No matter how well-maintained, how delicate the skin is, how can it be pricked by cherry stems?"
"Could it be that the poisonous arrow wood will poison and kill people if it touches the skin?"
"It is said that it can't. So there is one more thing I don't understand - when Jinnu was poisoned. There was no wound on her hand, and the poison didn't seem to enter from her mouth. Besides, she was with us that night They were together, but they were poisoned when they were about to leave... According to the toxicity of the poisonous arrow wood, it is absolutely impossible for someone to poison us in front of us. So how and when she was poisoned, I have no idea. I really haven't figured it out yet."
"But at least, the matching body, the matching palm features, the matching method of death, and the matching time should already be confirmed." Li Shubai nodded, directly put aside this question, and asked, "What about the second point you mentioned?"
Huang Zixia drew a second arrow on the paper with a jade hairpin, pointing to the word "Xuzhou": "Just as the prince expected before, this matter may indeed be related to the two girls you rescued in Xuzhou."
"Oh?" Li Shubai really had a slightly surprised expression this time.
"So now Chen Nianniang and I are waiting for someone to come to Beijing. As soon as she arrives, the case should be easily resolved."
"who?"
"Cheng Xuese—that's the girl surnamed Cheng that the prince rescued in Xuzhou back then. I'm waiting for her to come with a painting. I think she will be the most convincing evidence in this case."
Her expression was dignified, her tone was very certain, and she was obviously confident.
Li Shubai sat in the Jingyu Hall, slightly raised his eyes to look at Huang Zixia in front of him.The sunlight came in through the curtain and shone on her body. In an instant, her whole body was transparent and bright. That light seemed to be able to illuminate all the filthy darkness in the world.
He raised his head slowly, leaned back on the back of the chair, let out a long breath, and said, "That's good, I hope the bet I placed on you will satisfy me."
"I will never let the prince down." After all, if the murder case in his own family was to be overturned, he would have to count on the help of the person in front of him, so Huang Zixia immediately expressed his loyalty.
It's a pity that Li Shubai didn't seem to care about her loyalty, and only asked: "Next, where are you going to start?"
"Let's look for a breakthrough from Jin Nu. Before it's still early, I'll go check out Jin Nu's residence in the foreign teacher's workshop to see if there are any clues."
"In what name are you going to search?"
Huang Zixia pondered for a while, and said, "Just say that I am an eunuch from a certain palace, and my prince has important items for Jin Nu, come and search now."
Li Shubai said coldly: "You are not allowed to take out the letter from the Kui Palace."
Huang Zixia stood up, bowed to him and said goodbye: "Don't worry, my lord, as long as I say it's a certain palace, everyone will default to it as King Zhao's."
"Hmph," Li Shubai asked again seeing that she had quit, "You don't need dinner?"
"No, I'll wait a little longer. I think there will be a curfew when I come back," she said, turning around after thinking about it, and said, "In order not to use the letter from the house, I'm applying for ten taels of silver and twenty cents for handling the case."
Li Shubai was surprised: "What are those twenty essays for?"
"I want to hire a car when I go back to the palace at night."
Li Shubai looked at her with a complicated expression: "Why are you so poor?"
"Because the last eunuch Yang Chonggu was penniless and impoverished after he followed you, lord," she said without shame.
"Why don't you ask Jing Yi to go to the cashier to advance the payment?"
"After the approval, it will take about next month. At that time, I will get my salary. I can't quench my thirst!"
Li Shubai raised his eyebrows slightly, his face that never changed in surprise finally showed helplessness and depression.He opened the drawer, took out a purse and threw it to her.
"Thank you, my lord!" Huang Zixia caught it, turned around and ran away.
There are two foreign teaching workshops in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty. Artists such as pipa and qinse teach in the foreign teaching workshop, which is located in Guangzhaifang, not far from Yongjiafang where the Kui Palace is located. Huang Zixia ran to the Jiaofang, where dancers and dancers gathered, so there was a woman sitting at the door eating melon seeds. When she saw her coming, she raised her hand to stop her: "Little father-in-law, who are you looking for?" ?” Huang Zixia hurriedly bowed to her, and said, "I'm sorry, mother-in-law, but I'm going inside to find Jin Nu." "Oh, what a coincidence today, one is looking for Jin Nu, and the other is looking for Jin Nu." The woman said, patted the melon seed shells on her clothes, stood up, and asked, "Could you also lend something to Jin Nu?" , Now I heard that she ran away with someone, so come here to get it back?" Huang Zixia let out a "huh" in surprise, and asked, "Is there anyone else here before me?" "Isn't that right, a girl like a fairy, my wife has never seen a second one in this life," the old lady was obviously old, and she kept talking non-stop, "That eyebrows, that figure, even if you walk out of the painting Compared with her, the ladies who come out are not as bright and agile as she is." "Does the mother-in-law know her name?" Huang Zixia asked quickly. "I don't know. Anyway, it's different from your empty-mouthed eunuch. She came here with the letter that Jin Nu wrote to her back then. My old lady can read!" Seeing that the mother-in-law didn't intend to let her in, Huang Zixia had no choice but to smile apologetically and take out part of her own funds from her purse to the mother-in-law: "Grandma, look... I also came here on orders. Our lord brought a most important thing I gave it to Miss Jinnu, and now I know she has run away, and I am angry, if I can’t get back the things this time, will the lord beat me out of the mansion?” "Oh, that can't be done. My wife, I have a kind heart all my life, and I don't see people suffering the most." With a small silver ingot in her arms, the old woman suddenly smiled, "Come on, let me show you the room of Jinnu—it's in Ertiao East The first third room, our side will be closed and locked in less than an hour, so hurry up and look for it." Huang Zixia agreed, and hurried to find the third room at the east end of Ertiao.When I got there, I saw that the door of Jinnu's room was wide open, and there were two little girls talking at the door. Huang Zixia hurried up and asked, "You two, where is that fairy-like girl just now?" The two maids looked back at her, looked at her eunuch uniform, and asked with a smile: "Hey, where are you from, from Neijiaofang, or from the father-in-law of the princes' residence?" "Could it be that my lord left something with Miss Jinnu, and now she's gone, and the lord asked me to look for something he gave to Miss Jinnu. Although it's not rare, it was cherished by the lord..." Huang Zixia said sincerely, "I heard that a very beautiful girl came first?" "That's not it, Jin Nu is pretty good-looking at first, who knows that there is such a beautiful sister." The little girl on the left said, looked inside again, pouted and said, "Didn't you just say that you are here?" , why haven't you come back?" "Yeah, I'm still anxious to see her painting." Another girl frowned. Huang Zixia asked in surprise, "What painting?" "That's the one. There are six girls in the legend. It is said that several performers in Yangzhou realized the principles of music and dance from them, and finally became a generation of legends." Huang Zixia couldn't help laughing: "The six daughters of Yunshao?" "Yes, yes, you know it too? But you are a little eunuch, do you also want to see that painting to enlighten you? You don't learn music and dance." "..." Huang Zixia was speechless, not knowing where this strange rumor came from.She thought to herself that the beauty who brought the painting must be Cheng Xuese, and secretly wondered why Chen Nianniang didn't bring her here to find herself immediately. The two girls waited for a while, and when they saw that the man hadn't come back, they shouted to leave.Huang Zixia asked them: "Can I enter Jinnu's room?" "That's ok. When she left, all the valuable and important things should have been taken away, and those who didn't take away were also divided by the people in the market. Everyone said it nicely. Help Jinnu put it away first. In fact, it's not a big deal. Did you use it yourself? Let me look inside, there probably isn’t anything left.” "Having said that, it's up to you to try your luck." Huang Zixia said goodbye to them, walked in the door, and looked around. Jinnu's room is very elegant, with lotus-colored tulle pasted on the flower windows, and a beaded curtain separating the inner room and the outer hall.Entering the main entrance is a small hall, and there are lights coming in from behind the flower windows. It turns out that the lights in the square have already been lit. There are one table and one couch under the window, on which there are a few trinkets, and two tea flowers in white porcelain vases, which have now withered, leaving a table of petals and leaves. There was no one in the room, and the girl who everyone said came in just now seemed to have left with something. She sat down on the small chair next to her, thinking about the case while waiting for Cheng Xuese to come back. The sky is getting darker, and the lights outside the window are shining brighter.Cheng Xuese never came back. Huang Zixia finally couldn't wait anymore, and decided to check it first.She stood up, walked to the cabinet first, and opened it to take a look at the light outside the window. Sure enough, as the two little girls said, all the good things inside seemed to have been taken away, and only a few clothes were left in a mess.I checked the tables, chairs, beds, etc., but found nothing. She pondered and walked around the room, her eyes swept over every corner, and finally saw a small light in the corner, under the light coming in from the window, a bright reflection reflected. She lay on the ground, reached out her hand from under the flower stand in the corner, and got the reflective thing, took a look in her hand, and suddenly opened her eyes wide in surprise. Half a silver ingot. It was about the same size as the half of the silver ingot obtained in Yongchun Palace, and the cut and luster showed that this half of the silver ingot should be able to make a complete silver ingot with the other half of the silver ingot. She carried the silver ingot in her bosom, and then carefully searched the house again, making sure that nothing was missing before closing the door. Hurrying to come out before the closed doors of the teaching workshop, Huang Zixia stood alone in front of Guangzhaifang and looked around. Chang'an City was about to have a curfew. She sighed helplessly, raised her foot and walked back towards King Kui's mansion. Tens of thousands of households in Chang'an were silent, only to hear Chang'an's closed-door drum coming from the Drum Tower, and the sound resounded throughout the first night.She quickened her pace and ran through the streets and alleys of the capital. Guangzhaifang is in the north of the city, close to Daming Palace and Taiji Palace, but it is not lively, she can almost hear the echo of her footsteps echoing on the street. A voice came from behind and asked, "Who is it? Why are you still here so late?" Huang Zixia turned her head and saw the patrolling capital that was chasing up, and explained: "I am an eunuch from the Kui Palace, and I was delayed because of something, so I hurried back." Hearing that it belonged to Prince Kui's mansion, the other party's attitude was obviously a little better, and asked, "Do you have any business letters?" "There's no need for letters. I know him. He is Yang Chonggu, Eunuch Yang of King Kui's Mansion." Someone said later. Hearing this voice, Huang Zixia couldn't help but sighed inwardly, turned around and bowed to him, "Captain Wang." Wang Yun, the right captain of the Imperial Forest Army, is patrolling here today with dedication. Wang Yun was riding on a horse and looking down at her, but he didn't appear arrogant, but had a gentle face and a soft voice: "Eunuch Yang, I saw you bored watching the sky at the gate of the palace this afternoon, why are you so busy at night? " "Well... I miscalculated my pace and thought I could make it back before the curfew." It seemed that I had really stayed in Jinnu's room for too long. Wang Yun nodded and signaled the other patrolling guards to patrol other streets and alleys according to the previous route, then raised his hand to pat his horse's buttocks, and said, "Come on, I'll take you back to the palace." "Ha...you don't need this, the captain is busy with work, so how dare I bother you to send your slaves away." She smiled stiffly, and hurried forward after saluting. The horse's hooves sounded softly behind him, and Wang Yun's horse followed up again. She turned to look at him, and he looked forward, and said gently: "The capital city is not very peaceful recently, let me go with you." "Thank you...Captain Wang." She struggled to squeeze out these words, and stopped talking. The long street was silent, and the lamps on the corners of each square were silently lit in the night.Occasionally, when the wind blows, the candlelight trembles slightly, and the lights of the entire Chang'an seem to flow in the wind, bright and dark, undulating like water waves along the direction of the wind, covering the entire Chang'an city. They walked towards King Kui's mansion, Wang Yun was riding a horse, and Huang Zixia was walking on the side of the street. His horse was well-trained and gentle, and he walked at a leisurely pace, keeping a parallel rhythm with Huang Zixia. They stepped through the water-like lights and walked through the straight and wide streets of Chang'an.In the most prosperous city in the world, thousands of towers and towers are illuminated brightly. Yongjiafang is the residence of princes and nobles. Occasionally, there will be stringed songs made by several houses, which will be sent to their ears gently by the wind. The singer's guttural voice is soft and charming, and there seems to be a sentence or two in the night—— Huang Zixia was in a daze while walking, when suddenly Wang Yunhan said with a smile: "Summer hasn't arrived yet, why is it time to go to Autumn Shuang first?" Huang Zixia was stunned, and then he came to his senses. It turned out that he was talking about the song sung by that woman. She said: "It's enough to agree with each other, and foreign objects are not important." He looked at her sideways and said, "Well, it's because I'm too attached to external objects." Since Huang Zixia opened his mouth, he asked again: "Miss Wang's coffin will be sent back to Langya in a few days. The captain should be very busy recently, why are you here on duty today?" "There are so many people in the family, as long as the arrangements are made, someone will naturally do things, and you don't have to keep an eye on them all the time," he said, looking up at the night in front of him, and said, "Besides, I like the night in Chang'an, which is better than the night in the daytime." , appearing quieter and more profound. The buildings are set off like jade palaces, but what kind of scenery is hidden inside, but it is difficult for people to see it anyway, so it is more reverie." "When you are in it, you will naturally not be able to see the whole picture clearly, just get out of it." He looked at her and smiled slightly: "Eunuch Yang is right, everything in the world is always clear to the outsider." The lights near and far were blurry, and his smile seemed to have another meaning that she didn't know. Huang Zixia felt her teeth ache.It's absolutely wrong for this Wang Yun to treat her a little eunuch like this. Did he already recognize himself, or was he just skeptical?If you want to be on guard in the future, where should you start? She lowered her head, not daring to look at his expression anymore, she just said: "I'm almost there, Captain Wang, please go back." "Well, don't forget the time next time, it's too late to stay outside." He reined in his horse and stopped in the middle of the street, watching her go. Huang Zixia walked quickly to the side door in the northwest corner of Kui Wang's mansion, knocked on the door and walked in. When the door was closed, she looked back at Wang Yun. He was still standing on his horse looking at her, under the cover of night and lights, the expression on his face was as gentle as the spring breeze. I don't know how long he stopped his horse, but another man came slowly behind him on horseback and asked, "Yun'er, when are you going back? There are still many things at home." "Go back immediately," Wang Yun turned the horse's head, followed him home, and asked, "Father, why did you come out in person today?" Wang Lin sighed, and said, "The queen called urgently, can I not go?" Wang Yun nodded silently, and the two of them went home slowly all the way. "Have you finished what you have been told?" "It's resolved," he said calmly, "some of the flesh and blood have disappeared with the medicine, no one should be able to recognize it anymore." "Do it yourself?" "Of course not, I found a reliable person." "Reliable?" Wang Lin said coldly, "In this world, only the dead are the most reliable." "Yes, I will find a chance in the future." So the two stopped talking, and the Wang family's mansion was already in sight.They entered the door, and the porter helped them lead the horse away, and the father and son walked along the corridor to the inner courtyard. The lantern with the word "King" written horizontally and vertically casts a blushing light on the ground, making this deserted mansion seem a little warm. Wang Lin walked, stopped slowly in the night, and turned to look at Wang Yun. Without knowing it, Wang Yun went inside, standing under the lamp and looking at his father. Wang Lin looked at Wang Yun, who was half a head taller than him, with a gratified and sad expression on his face: "Yun'er... Actually, I don't want your hands to be stained with blood." Wang Yun pursed her lips, looked at her father for a long time, and said: "I am the Wang family, and I will stand at the front to resist all the wind and rain of the Wang family, and I will die without mercy." Wang Lin raised his hand and patted him heavily on the shoulder, sighing: "Good boy... It's a pity that you are the only one in the Wang family." "Although the clan sister is a woman, she is resolute and courageous, and now she is the queen. She must have worked even harder for our royal family," Wang Yun said. Wang Lin showed a changing expression on his face, frowned for a long time, then nodded and said: "Yes, she is also from the Wang family after all..." Wang Yun added: "If Ah Ruo hadn't had any accidents, she would have been an excellent Princess Kui." "That's right, the other girls in the generation of the Wang family are mediocre, and there is no other woman who is so outstanding that Prince Kui can take a look at her," Wang Lin sighed, "When the emperor was still King Yun, he was invited to Our family also fell in love with your elder sister at a glance when we were having a banquet. It can be seen that in this world, what can attract people is always the eye-catching and outstanding appearance." Wang Yun listened to his father's exclamation, looked at the red lantern hanging under the eaves, and unconsciously thought of Huang Zixia, and remembered that three years ago, when she was fourteen years old, he quietly followed her behind, looking at the silvery red lantern. The slender figure, like a flower letter drawn out at the beginning, is soft and elegant. That kind of pure and distant temperament made him search along the memory. At that time, the young Huang Zixia was in his mind, and he turned his head slowly, and then... The face and that Yang Chonggu merged into one, becoming the same person. Huang Zixia and Yang Chonggu, a girl of 13 or 14 years old, and a eunuch of 17 or 18 years old; one is delicate, the other is delicate; one is fair-skinned, confident and flamboyant in the old palace, and the other is weak and has a disheveled face. Be cautious by King Kui's side. ——Obviously a little eunuch in the palace, why did he think of Huang Zixia again and again, and, when they met for the first time, it made him feel strange.Is it just because he is as good at solving crimes as Huang Zixia, and his facial features seem to resemble the wanted portrait? Even, he once quietly sent someone to inquire about Yang Chonggu's identity, and found that his origin is clear, from Jiucheng Palace to Kuiwang's Mansion, even the bets he painted when he entered Jiucheng Palace are still there—— It's just that Yang Chonggu was still illiterate at that time, so he just drew a circle on the paper. Also, the even more unquestionable proof is that Kui King Li Shubai. Questioning Yang Chonggu who was beside King Kui is tantamount to questioning King Kui. He was in a trance for a moment when he thought of Huang Zixia, who had caused him great shame and humiliation, but then he heard his father's voice: "Yun'er, now that the royal family is in decline, the ancestors may feel ashamed if they are underground... all the people of this generation now Hope, it's all on you. Even if you can't restore the Wang family to its former glory, at least you can't let the Wang family lose its power in the court!" Wang Yun nodded solemnly, and said: "Our family now has a queen in the palace, and you are in the court, so it is not considered weak." "You are wrong. In fact, in the court and the palace, the most influential people in the Wang family are not the queen and us." Wang Lin smiled slightly, not without complacency in his smile, and asked, "You forgot, there is another person Is it enough to overthrow the world and change the dynasty? It’s just that everyone ignores that that person is also surnamed Wang.” Wang Yun lowered his head and remained silent for a long time before saying, "Yes." "After Wang Ruo's coffin is delivered soon, you have to visit him, lest he forget our family," Wang Lin said, thinking for a while, and then said, "He likes to raise fish, remember to bring him some —The little red fish is the best."
"I don't know if there is anything to eat in the dining room." Huang Zixia who returned to King Kui's mansion felt a stomachache.Today, apart from eating a few spring dishes in the morning and drinking a few bowls of tea at noon, she has been running outside. She hasn't eaten a grain of rice, and now she is really hungry and fainted. She clutched her stomach and moved to the dining room to see that the stove was cold and empty. "I can't live through this day..." Huang Zixia hated himself for not asking Mrs. Lu about where to put the things, so now that she left, he couldn't find anything to eat at all. Finally found two dry steamed cakes in the cupboard.Huang Zixia put one in each hand, stuffing it into her mouth as she walked towards the side room where she lived. When I walked to the gate of the courtyard, I saw that the lights in my house were on.She was stunned, and hurried to the door to have a look, she was so shocked that she almost dropped the cake in her hand—— That... the person who sits in it and reads at night leisurely, isn't the Kui King Li Shubai? When she was standing at the door in a daze, Li Shubai had already looked up and saw her, and raised his hand to hook her. She hesitated, and moved in with two steamed cakes with a bite in each hand, and asked, "My lord...what's your business here late at night?" He didn't speak, but raised his chin slightly, motioning for a food box next to him. She lifted it hesitantly to open it, and took out the contents—— A bowl of imperial concubine porridge, a plate of honey-made sanzi, a bowl of Bailongyao, a serving of chopsticks spring, and her favorite fried shrimp and snow baby are still warm. She glanced at Li Shubai, seeing that he ignored her, she immediately threw away the steamed cakes in her hand, picked up the ivory chopsticks in the food box and put a pair on Li Shubai's side first, and immediately picked up the remaining pair, and took the chopsticks first Tie up one in the first spring. Chopsticks spring is a popular dish in central Beijing recently, and the raw material is nothing special, it's just roast quail.But this quail sauce is very authentic, and the fire is perfectly controlled. In addition, she is really hungry now, and she was relieved after tearing and tearing for a moment, and resumed her normal speed, and began to chew. Swallow slowly. Li Shubai also put down the book in his hand and asked, "What's the progress?" She didn't speak, so she took out the half ingot of silver in her arms and put it on the table. Li Shubai raised his hand to take it, turned over the silver ingot, and looked at it carefully. On the back of the silver ingot, there are two lines of characters cast, the first line is "Deng Yunxi, Song Kuo", and the second line is "Ten Liangzheng". Huang Zixia took out the previous half of the silver ingot from the drawer of the bed and handed it to him. The two silver ingots are tightly seamed to form a whole piece.The words on the back are finally complete, which read "Deputy envoy Liang Weidong, Deng Yunxi, Song Kuo, envoy Zhang Junyi of the internal treasury, cast twenty taels of silver". Li Shubai put down the silver ingots that were put together, and looked up at her: "Where did you find it?" "Under the flower trellis in her house." "It shouldn't be." Li Shubai said with certainty. "Yeah, her house has been turned over by many people, and there shouldn't be any missing silver ingots where the flower stand is so obvious," Huang Zixia said, taking another sip of the concubine's porridge, and then said, "So, it should be the one just now. It was left behind by Cheng Xuese who left." "Cheng Xuese?" Li Shubai was finally moved, "Has she entered Beijing?" "Yes, but, I didn't see her. I just heard from the people in Jiaofang that a very beautiful woman brought a painting to Jinnu's room. But by the time I passed, she had already left." "If you missed it, there's nothing you can do about it." Li Shubai frowned slightly, and asked again, "Why didn't Chen Nianniang tell you?" "Perhaps Jinnu and Cheng Xuese have a very good relationship, so she went to find Jinnu first?" Huang Zixia thoughtfully, and then said, "But Chen Nianniang should be most concerned about Yiniang's affairs. He should bring her to my side immediately." Li Shubai nodded, and said: "Chen Nianniang is in Prince E's Mansion after all, we can go directly to her tomorrow." "Well, besides that, I checked the terrain outside the teaching workshop today and found a place. It's getting late today, so it may not be easy to find things. If we go there tomorrow, we will definitely find something." "Looks like tomorrow will be another busy day for you." He said, seeing the dim candlelight, he closed his book, picked up the scissors on the table next to him, cut off the curled wick, and placed the candle on the table. The candles were lit up a little. Under the flickering candlelight, the quiet room was quiet.Huang Zixia was eating, and when she looked up and saw Li Shubai looking at her under the red candlelight, she couldn't help but hesitate for a while. Li Shubai averted his gaze, casually picked up a few bean sprouts from Snow Babies with the ivory chopsticks, and put them in the bowl in front of him. Huang Zixia hesitated for a long time, and finally said with difficulty: "Thank you...the prince saved food for me..." "No need," he interrupted her, looked at her for a long time, and then said slowly, "I always believe that only a fed horse can run fast." The corner of her mouth twitched, and she said, "Your Highness is farsighted." "So, run faster tomorrow, and remember that the Wang family will transport the body soon." "Yes..." When it came to the Wang family, she remembered what happened when she met Wang Yun tonight, holding the chopsticks in her hands, staring at the flickering lights for a moment, then she wisely chose not to mention it, so as not to cause trouble— — Anyway, it seemed to be a chance encounter that had nothing to do with this case.
The second day was fine, and the sky in early summer was blue and high, so bright it was dazzling. According to the agreement, when Huang Zixia went to the stable to meet Li Shubai, he was already riding a strong black horse, trotting and exercising his muscles. Huang Zixia stood under the wall and looked at him wearing a gray-purple silk silk singlet. Occasionally, when the light turned to the side, one could see the densely woven cyan-purple beaded pattern hidden on it. Against the smoky blue sky, it looked lofty and indistinct. . Seeing her coming, he took the rein of the horse, raised the whip and pointed to the stable behind: "Pick one." Huang Zixia took a look, untied a white horse, and jumped onto the saddle.When she went to find Zhou Ziqin last time, she was riding another horse, and she brought this white horse with her.This horse is gentle and obedient, and has a fast pace. It followed her all the way to the Zhou Mansion without any haste, without any slack, which really won her heart. Li Shubai also admired her eyes very much, and when he led her out, he said: "This horse is not bad. I used to ride it often. It's called 'Nafusha'." "Strange name." Huang Zixia said. "It is said that 'Nafusha' in Dawan means noble and gentle. It has always been very obedient, but because of this it is easy to be approached and tamed, so it is easy to forget who its master is," Li Shubai frowned slightly, as if remembering He talked about some long-term past events, but then he raised his hand and patted the handsome and arrogant black horse under his crotch, saying, "Compared with it, this 'Washing Evil' is much better." "Purge evil?" "In Dawan, it means daytime, but it looks like this, so it's not wrong to call it Evil." He was half a horse away from her, and the two of them rode up the steps and left the gate of the house. Huang Zixia didn't ask where they were going, Just follow him west. “涤恶的性子就坏多了，当初我驯服它用了三天四夜，熬到第四夜凌晨，它终于受不了，向我曲下了前蹄。”李舒白云淡风轻地说，“这辈子，再没有另一个人能驾驭它。” 黄梓瑕端详着涤恶，还在盘算自己骑上它的可能性，涤恶长睫毛下的眼睛一横，右后蹄已经向她踹了过去，而且狠准稳，一下子就踢中了那拂沙的腹部，那拂沙痛嘶一声，往前窜了一步，黄梓瑕差点没掉下来，气怒之下，也抬脚狠狠踢向了涤恶。 涤恶脖子被踢，正在暴怒，李舒白一收它的缰绳，它竟也乖乖缓了下来，只是鼻孔中还喷着粗气，显然十分郁闷。 黄梓瑕看着涤恶悻悻的样子，不由得用马鞭指着它，哈哈大笑出来。 她身遭变故，平时总是郁郁寡欢，此时第一次在他面前纵情欢笑，令李舒白微觉诧异，不觉向她凝望许久。 她的笑颜在初夏阳光中绚烂无比，仿佛此时天下的日光都在她清扬的眉宇间闪耀，光华不可直视。 他如同怕被阳光灼伤一般，转过自己的脸，不敢再去看她。 黄梓瑕不明就里，睁着疑惑的眼睛看了他一眼，他轻咳一声，说：“走，去鄂王府。”
There are two foreign teaching workshops in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty. Artists such as pipa and qinse teach in the foreign teaching workshop, which is located in Guangzhaifang, not far from Yongjiafang where the Kui Palace is located. Huang Zixia ran to the Jiaofang, where dancers and dancers gathered, so there was a woman sitting at the door eating melon seeds. When she saw her coming, she raised her hand to stop her: "Little father-in-law, who are you looking for?" ?” Huang Zixia hurriedly bowed to her, and said, "I'm sorry, mother-in-law, but I'm going inside to find Jin Nu." "Oh, what a coincidence today, one is looking for Jin Nu, and the other is looking for Jin Nu." The woman said, patted the melon seed shells on her clothes, stood up, and asked, "Could you also lend something to Jin Nu?" , Now I heard that she ran away with someone, so come here to get it back?" Huang Zixia let out a "huh" in surprise, and asked, "Is there anyone else here before me?" "Isn't that right, a girl like a fairy, my wife has never seen a second one in this life," the old lady was obviously old, and she kept talking non-stop, "That eyebrows, that figure, even if you walk out of the painting Compared with her, the ladies who come out are not as bright and agile as she is." "Does the mother-in-law know her name?" Huang Zixia asked quickly. "I don't know. Anyway, it's different from your empty-mouthed eunuch. She came here with the letter that Jin Nu wrote to her back then. My old lady can read!" Seeing that the mother-in-law didn't intend to let her in, Huang Zixia had no choice but to smile apologetically and take out part of her own funds from her purse to the mother-in-law: "Grandma, look... I also came here on orders. Our lord brought a most important thing I gave it to Miss Jinnu, and now I know she has run away, and I am angry, if I can’t get back the things this time, will the lord beat me out of the mansion?” "Oh, that can't be done. My wife, I have a kind heart all my life, and I don't see people suffering the most." With a small silver ingot in her arms, the old woman suddenly smiled, "Come on, let me show you the room of Jinnu—it's in Ertiao East The first third room, our side will be closed and locked in less than an hour, so hurry up and look for it." Huang Zixia agreed, and hurried to find the third room at the east end of Ertiao.When I got there, I saw that the door of Jinnu's room was wide open, and there were two little girls talking at the door. Huang Zixia hurried up and asked, "You two, where is that fairy-like girl just now?" The two maids looked back at her, looked at her eunuch uniform, and asked with a smile: "Hey, where are you from, from Neijiaofang, or from the father-in-law of the princes' residence?" "Could it be that my lord left something with Miss Jinnu, and now she's gone, and the lord asked me to look for something he gave to Miss Jinnu. Although it's not rare, it was cherished by the lord..." Huang Zixia said sincerely, "I heard that a very beautiful girl came first?" "That's not it, Jin Nu is pretty good-looking at first, who knows that there is such a beautiful sister." The little girl on the left said, looked inside again, pouted and said, "Didn't you just say that you are here?" , why haven't you come back?" "Yeah, I'm still anxious to see her painting." Another girl frowned. Huang Zixia asked in surprise, "What painting?" "That's the one. There are six girls in the legend. It is said that several performers in Yangzhou realized the principles of music and dance from them, and finally became a generation of legends." Huang Zixia couldn't help laughing: "The six daughters of Yunshao?" "Yes, yes, you know it too? But you are a little eunuch, do you also want to see that painting to enlighten you? You don't learn music and dance." "..." Huang Zixia was speechless, not knowing where this strange rumor came from.She thought to herself that the beauty who brought the painting must be Cheng Xuese, and secretly wondered why Chen Nianniang didn't bring her here to find herself immediately. The two girls waited for a while, and when they saw that the man hadn't come back, they shouted to leave.Huang Zixia asked them: "Can I enter Jinnu's room?" "That's ok. When she left, all the valuable and important things should have been taken away, and those who didn't take away were also divided by the people in the market. Everyone said it nicely. Help Jinnu put it away first. In fact, it's not a big deal. Did you use it yourself? Let me look inside, there probably isn’t anything left.” "Having said that, it's up to you to try your luck." Huang Zixia said goodbye to them, walked in the door, and looked around. Jinnu's room is very elegant, with lotus-colored tulle pasted on the flower windows, and a beaded curtain separating the inner room and the outer hall.Entering the main entrance is a small hall, and there are lights coming in from behind the flower windows. It turns out that the lights in the square have already been lit. There are one table and one couch under the window, on which there are a few trinkets, and two tea flowers in white porcelain vases, which have now withered, leaving a table of petals and leaves. There was no one in the room, and the girl who everyone said came in just now seemed to have left with something. She sat down on the small chair next to her, thinking about the case while waiting for Cheng Xuese to come back. The sky is getting darker, and the lights outside the window are shining brighter.Cheng Xuese never came back. Huang Zixia finally couldn't wait anymore, and decided to check it first.She stood up, walked to the cabinet first, and opened it to take a look at the light outside the window. Sure enough, as the two little girls said, all the good things inside seemed to have been taken away, and only a few clothes were left in a mess.I checked the tables, chairs, beds, etc., but found nothing. She pondered and walked around the room, her eyes swept over every corner, and finally saw a small light in the corner, under the light coming in from the window, a bright reflection reflected. She lay on the ground, reached out her hand from under the flower stand in the corner, and got the reflective thing, took a look in her hand, and suddenly opened her eyes wide in surprise. Half a silver ingot. It was about the same size as the half of the silver ingot obtained in Yongchun Palace, and the cut and luster showed that this half of the silver ingot should be able to make a complete silver ingot with the other half of the silver ingot. She carried the silver ingot in her bosom, and then carefully searched the house again, making sure that nothing was missing before closing the door. Hurrying to come out before the closed doors of the teaching workshop, Huang Zixia stood alone in front of Guangzhaifang and looked around. Chang'an City was about to have a curfew. She sighed helplessly, raised her foot and walked back towards King Kui's mansion. Tens of thousands of households in Chang'an were silent, only to hear Chang'an's closed-door drum coming from the Drum Tower, and the sound resounded throughout the first night.She quickened her pace and ran through the streets and alleys of the capital. Guangzhaifang is in the north of the city, close to Daming Palace and Taiji Palace, but it is not lively, she can almost hear the echo of her footsteps echoing on the street. A voice came from behind and asked, "Who is it? Why are you still here so late?" Huang Zixia turned her head and saw the patrolling capital that was chasing up, and explained: "I am an eunuch from the Kui Palace, and I was delayed because of something, so I hurried back." Hearing that it belonged to Prince Kui's mansion, the other party's attitude was obviously a little better, and asked, "Do you have any business letters?" "There's no need for letters. I know him. He is Yang Chonggu, Eunuch Yang of King Kui's Mansion." Someone said later. Hearing this voice, Huang Zixia couldn't help but sighed inwardly, turned around and bowed to him, "Captain Wang." Wang Yun, the right captain of the Imperial Forest Army, is patrolling here today with dedication. Wang Yun was riding on a horse and looking down at her, but he didn't appear arrogant, but had a gentle face and a soft voice: "Eunuch Yang, I saw you bored watching the sky at the gate of the palace this afternoon, why are you so busy at night? " "Well... I miscalculated my pace and thought I could make it back before the curfew." It seemed that I had really stayed in Jinnu's room for too long. Wang Yun nodded and signaled the other patrolling guards to patrol other streets and alleys according to the previous route, then raised his hand to pat his horse's buttocks, and said, "Come on, I'll take you back to the palace." "Ha...you don't need this, the captain is busy with work, so how dare I bother you to send your slaves away." She smiled stiffly, and hurried forward after saluting. The horse's hooves sounded softly behind him, and Wang Yun's horse followed up again. She turned to look at him, and he looked forward, and said gently: "The capital city is not very peaceful recently, let me go with you." "Thank you...Captain Wang." She struggled to squeeze out these words, and stopped talking. The long street was silent, and the lamps on the corners of each square were silently lit in the night.Occasionally, when the wind blows, the candlelight trembles slightly, and the lights of the entire Chang'an seem to flow in the wind, bright and dark, undulating like water waves along the direction of the wind, covering the entire Chang'an city. They walked towards King Kui's mansion, Wang Yun was riding a horse, and Huang Zixia was walking on the side of the street. His horse was well-trained and gentle, and he walked at a leisurely pace, keeping a parallel rhythm with Huang Zixia. They stepped through the water-like lights and walked through the straight and wide streets of Chang'an.In the most prosperous city in the world, thousands of towers and towers are illuminated brightly. Yongjiafang is the residence of princes and nobles. Occasionally, there will be stringed songs made by several houses, which will be sent to their ears gently by the wind. The singer's guttural voice is soft and charming, and there seems to be a sentence or two in the night—— Huang Zixia was in a daze while walking, when suddenly Wang Yunhan said with a smile: "Summer hasn't arrived yet, why is it time to go to Autumn Shuang first?" Huang Zixia was stunned, and then he came to his senses. It turned out that he was talking about the song sung by that woman. She said: "It's enough to agree with each other, and foreign objects are not important." He looked at her sideways and said, "Well, it's because I'm too attached to external objects." Since Huang Zixia opened his mouth, he asked again: "Miss Wang's coffin will be sent back to Langya in a few days. The captain should be very busy recently, why are you here on duty today?" "There are so many people in the family, as long as the arrangements are made, someone will naturally do things, and you don't have to keep an eye on them all the time," he said, looking up at the night in front of him, and said, "Besides, I like the night in Chang'an, which is better than the night in the daytime." , appearing quieter and more profound. The buildings are set off like jade palaces, but what kind of scenery is hidden inside, but it is difficult for people to see it anyway, so it is more reverie." "When you are in it, you will naturally not be able to see the whole picture clearly, just get out of it." He looked at her and smiled slightly: "Eunuch Yang is right, everything in the world is always clear to the outsider." The lights near and far were blurry, and his smile seemed to have another meaning that she didn't know. Huang Zixia felt her teeth ache.It's absolutely wrong for this Wang Yun to treat her a little eunuch like this. Did he already recognize himself, or was he just skeptical?If you want to be on guard in the future, where should you start? She lowered her head, not daring to look at his expression anymore, she just said: "I'm almost there, Captain Wang, please go back." "Well, don't forget the time next time, it's too late to stay outside." He reined in his horse and stopped in the middle of the street, watching her go. Huang Zixia walked quickly to the side door in the northwest corner of Kui Wang's mansion, knocked on the door and walked in. When the door was closed, she looked back at Wang Yun. He was still standing on his horse looking at her, under the cover of night and lights, the expression on his face was as gentle as the spring breeze. I don't know how long he stopped his horse, but another man came slowly behind him on horseback and asked, "Yun'er, when are you going back? There are still many things at home." "Go back immediately," Wang Yun turned the horse's head, followed him home, and asked, "Father, why did you come out in person today?" Wang Lin sighed, and said, "The queen called urgently, can I not go?" Wang Yun nodded silently, and the two of them went home slowly all the way. "Have you finished what you have been told?" "It's resolved," he said calmly, "some of the flesh and blood have disappeared with the medicine, no one should be able to recognize it anymore." "Do it yourself?" "Of course not, I found a reliable person." "Reliable?" Wang Lin said coldly, "In this world, only the dead are the most reliable." "Yes, I will find a chance in the future." So the two stopped talking, and the Wang family's mansion was already in sight.They entered the door, and the porter helped them lead the horse away, and the father and son walked along the corridor to the inner courtyard. The lantern with the word "King" written horizontally and vertically casts a blushing light on the ground, making this deserted mansion seem a little warm. Wang Lin walked, stopped slowly in the night, and turned to look at Wang Yun. Without knowing it, Wang Yun went inside, standing under the lamp and looking at his father. Wang Lin looked at Wang Yun, who was half a head taller than him, with a gratified and sad expression on his face: "Yun'er... Actually, I don't want your hands to be stained with blood." Wang Yun pursed her lips, looked at her father for a long time, and said: "I am the Wang family, and I will stand at the front to resist all the wind and rain of the Wang family, and I will die without mercy." Wang Lin raised his hand and patted him heavily on the shoulder, sighing: "Good boy... It's a pity that you are the only one in the Wang family." "Although the clan sister is a woman, she is resolute and courageous, and now she is the queen. She must have worked even harder for our royal family," Wang Yun said. Wang Lin showed a changing expression on his face, frowned for a long time, then nodded and said: "Yes, she is also from the Wang family after all..." Wang Yun added: "If Ah Ruo hadn't had any accidents, she would have been an excellent Princess Kui." "That's right, the other girls in the generation of the Wang family are mediocre, and there is no other woman who is so outstanding that Prince Kui can take a look at her," Wang Lin sighed, "When the emperor was still King Yun, he was invited to Our family also fell in love with your elder sister at a glance when we were having a banquet. It can be seen that in this world, what can attract people is always the eye-catching and outstanding appearance." Wang Yun listened to his father's exclamation, looked at the red lantern hanging under the eaves, and unconsciously thought of Huang Zixia, and remembered that three years ago, when she was fourteen years old, he quietly followed her behind, looking at the silvery red lantern. The slender figure, like a flower letter drawn out at the beginning, is soft and elegant. That kind of pure and distant temperament made him search along the memory. At that time, the young Huang Zixia was in his mind, and he turned his head slowly, and then... The face and that Yang Chonggu merged into one, becoming the same person. Huang Zixia and Yang Chonggu, a girl of 13 or 14 years old, and a eunuch of 17 or 18 years old; one is delicate, the other is delicate; one is fair-skinned, confident and flamboyant in the old palace, and the other is weak and has a disheveled face. Be cautious by King Kui's side. ——Obviously a little eunuch in the palace, why did he think of Huang Zixia again and again, and, when they met for the first time, it made him feel strange.Is it just because he is as good at solving crimes as Huang Zixia, and his facial features seem to resemble the wanted portrait? Even, he once quietly sent someone to inquire about Yang Chonggu's identity, and found that his origin is clear, from Jiucheng Palace to Kuiwang's Mansion, even the bets he painted when he entered Jiucheng Palace are still there—— It's just that Yang Chonggu was still illiterate at that time, so he just drew a circle on the paper. Also, the even more unquestionable proof is that Kui King Li Shubai. Questioning Yang Chonggu who was beside King Kui is tantamount to questioning King Kui. He was in a trance for a moment when he thought of Huang Zixia, who had caused him great shame and humiliation, but then he heard his father's voice: "Yun'er, now that the royal family is in decline, the ancestors may feel ashamed if they are underground... all the people of this generation now Hope, it's all on you. Even if you can't restore the Wang family to its former glory, at least you can't let the Wang family lose its power in the court!" Wang Yun nodded solemnly, and said: "Our family now has a queen in the palace, and you are in the court, so it is not considered weak." "You are wrong. In fact, in the court and the palace, the most influential people in the Wang family are not the queen and us." Wang Lin smiled slightly, not without complacency in his smile, and asked, "You forgot, there is another person Is it enough to overthrow the world and change the dynasty? It’s just that everyone ignores that that person is also surnamed Wang.” Wang Yun lowered his head and remained silent for a long time before saying, "Yes." "After Wang Ruo's coffin is delivered soon, you have to visit him, lest he forget our family," Wang Lin said, thinking for a while, and then said, "He likes to raise fish, remember to bring him some —The little red fish is the best."
"I don't know if there is anything to eat in the dining room." Huang Zixia who returned to King Kui's mansion felt a stomachache.Today, apart from eating a few spring dishes in the morning and drinking a few bowls of tea at noon, she has been running outside. She hasn't eaten a grain of rice, and now she is really hungry and fainted. She clutched her stomach and moved to the dining room to see that the stove was cold and empty. "I can't live through this day..." Huang Zixia hated himself for not asking Mrs. Lu about where to put the things, so now that she left, he couldn't find anything to eat at all. Finally found two dry steamed cakes in the cupboard.Huang Zixia put one in each hand, stuffing it into her mouth as she walked towards the side room where she lived. When I walked to the gate of the courtyard, I saw that the lights in my house were on.She was stunned, and hurried to the door to have a look, she was so shocked that she almost dropped the cake in her hand—— That... the person who sits in it and reads at night leisurely, isn't the Kui King Li Shubai? When she was standing at the door in a daze, Li Shubai had already looked up and saw her, and raised his hand to hook her. She hesitated, and moved in with two steamed cakes with a bite in each hand, and asked, "My lord...what's your business here late at night?" He didn't speak, but raised his chin slightly, motioning for a food box next to him. She lifted it hesitantly to open it, and took out the contents—— A bowl of imperial concubine porridge, a plate of honey-made sanzi, a bowl of Bailongyao, a serving of chopsticks spring, and her favorite fried shrimp and snow baby are still warm. She glanced at Li Shubai, seeing that he ignored her, she immediately threw away the steamed cakes in her hand, picked up the ivory chopsticks in the food box and put a pair on Li Shubai's side first, and immediately picked up the remaining pair, and took the chopsticks first Tie up one in the first spring. Chopsticks spring is a popular dish in central Beijing recently, and the raw material is nothing special, it's just roast quail.But this quail sauce is very authentic, and the fire is perfectly controlled. In addition, she is really hungry now, and she was relieved after tearing and tearing for a moment, and resumed her normal speed, and began to chew. Swallow slowly. Li Shubai also put down the book in his hand and asked, "What's the progress?" She didn't speak, so she took out the half ingot of silver in her arms and put it on the table. Li Shubai raised his hand to take it, turned over the silver ingot, and looked at it carefully. On the back of the silver ingot, there are two lines of characters cast, the first line is "Deng Yunxi, Song Kuo", and the second line is "Ten Liangzheng". Huang Zixia took out the previous half of the silver ingot from the drawer of the bed and handed it to him. The two silver ingots are tightly seamed to form a whole piece.The words on the back are finally complete, which read "Deputy envoy Liang Weidong, Deng Yunxi, Song Kuo, envoy Zhang Junyi of the internal treasury, cast twenty taels of silver". Li Shubai put down the silver ingots that were put together, and looked up at her: "Where did you find it?" "Under the flower trellis in her house." "It shouldn't be." Li Shubai said with certainty. "Yeah, her house has been turned over by many people, and there shouldn't be any missing silver ingots where the flower stand is so obvious," Huang Zixia said, taking another sip of the concubine's porridge, and then said, "So, it should be the one just now. It was left behind by Cheng Xuese who left." "Cheng Xuese?" Li Shubai was finally moved, "Has she entered Beijing?" "Yes, but, I didn't see her. I just heard from the people in Jiaofang that a very beautiful woman brought a painting to Jinnu's room. But by the time I passed, she had already left." "If you missed it, there's nothing you can do about it." Li Shubai frowned slightly, and asked again, "Why didn't Chen Nianniang tell you?" "Perhaps Jinnu and Cheng Xuese have a very good relationship, so she went to find Jinnu first?" Huang Zixia thoughtfully, and then said, "But Chen Nianniang should be most concerned about Yiniang's affairs. He should bring her to my side immediately." Li Shubai nodded, and said: "Chen Nianniang is in Prince E's Mansion after all, we can go directly to her tomorrow." "Well, besides that, I checked the terrain outside the teaching workshop today and found a place. It's getting late today, so it may not be easy to find things. If we go there tomorrow, we will definitely find something." "Looks like tomorrow will be another busy day for you." He said, seeing the dim candlelight, he closed his book, picked up the scissors on the table next to him, cut off the curled wick, and placed the candle on the table. The candles were lit up a little. Under the flickering candlelight, the quiet room was quiet.Huang Zixia was eating, and when she looked up and saw Li Shubai looking at her under the red candlelight, she couldn't help but hesitate for a while. Li Shubai averted his gaze, casually picked up a few bean sprouts from Snow Babies with the ivory chopsticks, and put them in the bowl in front of him. Huang Zixia hesitated for a long time, and finally said with difficulty: "Thank you...the prince saved food for me..." "No need," he interrupted her, looked at her for a long time, and then said slowly, "I always believe that only a fed horse can run fast." The corner of her mouth twitched, and she said, "Your Highness is farsighted." "So, run faster tomorrow, and remember that the Wang family will transport the body soon." "Yes..." When it came to the Wang family, she remembered what happened when she met Wang Yun tonight, holding the chopsticks in her hands, staring at the flickering lights for a moment, then she wisely chose not to mention it, so as not to cause trouble— — Anyway, it seemed to be a chance encounter that had nothing to do with this case.
The second day was fine, and the sky in early summer was blue and high, so bright it was dazzling. According to the agreement, when Huang Zixia went to the stable to meet Li Shubai, he was already riding a strong black horse, trotting and exercising his muscles. Huang Zixia stood under the wall and looked at him wearing a gray-purple silk silk singlet. Occasionally, when the light turned to the side, one could see the densely woven cyan-purple beaded pattern hidden on it. Against the smoky blue sky, it looked lofty and indistinct. . Seeing her coming, he took the rein of the horse, raised the whip and pointed to the stable behind: "Pick one." Huang Zixia took a look, untied a white horse, and jumped onto the saddle.When she went to find Zhou Ziqin last time, she was riding another horse, and she brought this white horse with her.This horse is gentle and obedient, and has a fast pace. It followed her all the way to the Zhou Mansion without any haste, without any slack, which really won her heart. Li Shubai also admired her eyes very much, and when he led her out, he said: "This horse is not bad. I used to ride it often. It's called 'Nafusha'." "Strange name." Huang Zixia said. "It is said that 'Nafusha' in Dawan means noble and gentle. It has always been very obedient, but because of this it is easy to be approached and tamed, so it is easy to forget who its master is," Li Shubai frowned slightly, as if remembering He talked about some long-term past events, but then he raised his hand and patted the handsome and arrogant black horse under his crotch, saying, "Compared with it, this 'Washing Evil' is much better." "Purge evil?" "In Dawan, it means daytime, but it looks like this, so it's not wrong to call it Evil." He was half a horse away from her, and the two of them rode up the steps and left the gate of the house. Huang Zixia didn't ask where they were going, Just follow him west. “涤恶的性子就坏多了，当初我驯服它用了三天四夜，熬到第四夜凌晨，它终于受不了，向我曲下了前蹄。”李舒白云淡风轻地说，“这辈子，再没有另一个人能驾驭它。” 黄梓瑕端详着涤恶，还在盘算自己骑上它的可能性，涤恶长睫毛下的眼睛一横，右后蹄已经向她踹了过去，而且狠准稳，一下子就踢中了那拂沙的腹部，那拂沙痛嘶一声，往前窜了一步，黄梓瑕差点没掉下来，气怒之下，也抬脚狠狠踢向了涤恶。 涤恶脖子被踢，正在暴怒，李舒白一收它的缰绳，它竟也乖乖缓了下来，只是鼻孔中还喷着粗气，显然十分郁闷。 黄梓瑕看着涤恶悻悻的样子，不由得用马鞭指着它，哈哈大笑出来。 她身遭变故，平时总是郁郁寡欢，此时第一次在他面前纵情欢笑，令李舒白微觉诧异，不觉向她凝望许久。 她的笑颜在初夏阳光中绚烂无比，仿佛此时天下的日光都在她清扬的眉宇间闪耀，光华不可直视。 他如同怕被阳光灼伤一般，转过自己的脸，不敢再去看她。 黄梓瑕不明就里，睁着疑惑的眼睛看了他一眼，他轻咳一声，说：“走，去鄂王府。”