The Golden Hairpin

After searching the hall for a while, Huang Zixia focused on checking the twelve characters engraved on the dressing table of Princess Chen that she found at the time. However, they had been cut off, except for the traces of Xinmu, and no handwriting was left.

After leaving the apse, they said to the palace people who were standing outside: "Sorry, I accidentally knocked over the censer when I was looking for something."

"Yeah, then you go in and clean up immediately." An elderly palace servant hurriedly ordered the maids.

Huang Zixia bowed her hand to her and asked, "Is the auntie the female officer here?"

The palace man bowed to her and said: "The slave maidservant was a month old, and she served the concubine more than ten years ago. After the concubine moved to the Royal Mansion of E due to illness, the slave maid also followed."

Huang Zixia hurriedly said: "It turned out to be aunt Moon-age. I saw two aunts Changling and Yanling in the palace before, and I heard them mention you, Aunt Moon-age."

"Well, several of us entered the palace at the same time. We were in a good relationship at the time." She nodded.

Huang Zixia asked again: "Auntie followed Mrs. Chen as soon as she entered the palace?"

"The servant maid originally belonged to Princess Zhao's palace. At that time, Madam Chen was short of manpower, so she was transferred to her palace. Madam Chen had a good temperament and a good temper with the servant girl. Later the servant girl became her side."

Huang Zixia nodded and said, "I want to ask aunt about the concubine, is my aunt free?"

Moon Age nodded, led them to sit down in the small hall next to them, and offered them tea with their own hands, before asking, "I wonder what two of you would like to know? The slaves and maidservants must know everything they can talk about."

"Ten years ago, Princess Chen became ill suddenly. Was her aunt by her side at that time?"

Moon Age nodded and sighed: "Back then, Emperor Taizong’s concubine Xu, after Emperor Taizong’s death, was seriously ill and did not need medicine stones, and finally followed Emperor Taizong. The servants and maids often thought they were idiots. But who knows, the concubine Chen, who was followed by the servants, actually Even more obsessive and infatuated than Concubine Xu, after the death of the first emperor, in extreme grief, he was so...so crazy, it is really sigh and admiration."

"So, Princess Chen really started to get sick when the first emperor passed away?"

"Yes, the slave and maid had seen it with his own eyes, and many old people in the palace knew about it. That morning, they were fine, and they boiled the medicine and sent them as usual. The slave and maid still remembered that day when she followed the concubine into the palace and saw the palace. Many unfamiliar faces. Seeing the prince and grandfather at the time, the toffee asked him if he had anything important today."

Huang Zixian suddenly heard the words "Duke Wang", and asked, "Is it Duke Wang Zongshi, Lieutenant Lieutenant of the Guardian of the Shence Army?"

"Exactly. He was fashionable and young, in his early twenties. After the first emperor eradicated Ma Yuanzhi, a group of people were replaced in the palace. For the emperor who was on guard by the eunuch, it was really rare."

Huang Zixian nodded and asked, "How does the prince answer?"

"The prince said that the sage cannot afford to suffer from the disease. The internal bureau summoned monks from all over the world to come to Beijing to pray for blessings. Among them was Master Mu Shan, who is actually a great monk, and is now praying for the sage. I don't know if I should go in and interrupt the ceremony..." The situation on that day, the age of the month is clearly stated, vivid, without thinking about it," the prince said, he was about to enter, I am afraid that the concubine does not know the blessing ceremony, but it is not good to be alarmed. As he said, he looked at the soup bowl in the hands of the concubine again, and said that another famous doctor had gone to see the saint for diagnosis and treatment.

Huang Zixian thoughtfully asked: "So...that bowl of soup, didn't the emperor drink it first?"

"No, the concubine shook her head and said, Her Majesty’s illness has always been taken care of by her, and she has been drinking this medicine. Even if you find a new doctor, you should finish drinking this bowl of medicine first. , Then the slave and maidservant will not say much."

Huang Zixian frowned slightly and asked, "So, the concubine still goes inside, and feeds the first emperor to drink the bowl of medicine?"

"Yes, the slave servant followed into the front hall, but the inner hall failed to enter. It is a pity that the first emperor is already seriously ill and cannot be saved by medicinal stones... and the concubine is still too obsessive after all, so that she loses her mind... "She said, her voice choked, she just wiped her tears, but she couldn't speak anymore.

Huang Zixia poured her a cup of hot tea and advised her to drink it, not to be too sad.

Moon-age drank tea and sat for a long time to wait for her breath to calm down. Then she asked, "I wonder if the two of you have found out? Is there any clue to our prince's case?"

Zhou Ziqin served tea with one hand and touched his head with the other, and said mysteriously: "Of course we have, we have already made a major discovery!"

Moon Age quickly asked: "But is it related to King Kui?"

"Uh...this matter is confidential, we have to report back to Dali Temple first." Zhou Ziqin changed Huang Zixia's wink very cleverly.

The moon age was still hesitating, Huang Zixian asked again: "Auntie, I heard the maids and eunuchs say that after King Kui visited and returned the bracelet, did Prince E ever go out before the winter solstice?"

"Yes, I did not go out, and the slave and maid persuaded him, but the prince was very worried and depressed, and no one could listen..." Yueling said, sighed and gently lifted his sleeve to wipe the corner of his eye. tears.

"Since the prince did not go out, are there any visitors in the mansion?"

"No. There were a few idlers who came to invite each other before, but the prince never saw him."

Huang Zixian nodded intently, thought for a moment, and then asked, "Can anyone deliver something to the door?"

Moon-age frowned slightly, before she had time to speak, an **** behind her said: "Speaking of this, there are some. Just a few days before the winter solstice, someone came to the door."

"This is Ganan in the palace of the prince." Yue Ling introduced, "because the slaves and maids have always been in the back hall, and the prince's side these things, maybe you ask him better."

Ganan was a very clever little eunuch. His mouth was like pour beans from a bamboo tube, smooth and articulate. He said: "About three or four days before the winter solstice, I was chatting with everyone at the porter's house, but a face-to-face **** came over and gave us this box with a famous post saying it was on the palace of Kui. People, please send it to the prince for viewing. Because it is raw, we dare not send it directly, so we opened the box and looked at it. It was a concentric knot made of red silk thread. The color was bright and the top was still Decorated with tassels, it's very beautiful."

Zhou Ziqin secretly touched the burnt silk threads in his arms, and asked thoughtfully: "What does it mean for King Kui to give King E a concentric knot?"

Ganan scratched his head and said in confusion: "Of course the servants and servants don't know about the affairs between the princes, so we checked the box to see that there was nothing else, so we put the box and the concentric knot as they were. The servants held the box and presented them to the prince. After he saw the Tongxin knot, he was also very puzzled. He heard that it was sent by the Prince Kui, so he put it away without saying anything."

Huang Zixia nodded and asked, "Is it only this time?"

"One more time, it was the day before the winter solstice. The prince was in a bad mood, sat in the hall all day, and drove us out. The servants and maidservants should have been in the hall, so that day they could only sit on the corridor and blow the cold wind. , It was freezing cold enough. At this moment, the porter sent another box and said that it was the same person who sent it the day before yesterday. The servant said that it would not be a concentric knot again. He shook his head and said it was a dagger." Here, Ganan raised his chin and turned to another young **** next to him. "Shen Tan likes dancing knives and sticks, so when I heard that it was a dagger, I quickly opened it. Our prince has a good temper, when? I have never trained us before, and again it is a dagger, a murder weapon, we must take a look first..."

Shen Tan turned pale with fright. He even stared at Ganan for several times, but Ganan only talked about the situation excitedly, without even noticing his expression: "Then we opened the box under the corridor and took a look. There is a dagger on the purple velvet. It is really powerful. It is so cold that it makes the eyes hard to open! I was so scared that I took two steps back, and my calf was bent..."

Shen Tan could only say next to him: "Yes, that dagger is indeed a rare treasure. I was still thinking that King Kui and our prince really have a deep brotherhood, and even such a peerless soldier gave us. The prince."

Zhou Ziqin scratched his head and said, "Send a peerless dagger, that's okay. But what does it mean to give a concentric knot?"

"Yes, we are also puzzled."

Huang Zixia saluted everyone goodbye, saying: "Zi Qin, let's go first."

Zhou Ziqin hurriedly bid farewell to everyone with her, and the two got on their horses and left. Walk all the way back along the streets of Chang'an.

Walking to a secluded place, Huang Zixian said to Zhou Ziqin: "Let's do it, I'll go back to Yongchangfang first."

Zhou Ziqin was stunned and asked, "What? Are you going back alone? Now that we have made a big discovery, we should go to see Lord Kui as soon as possible!"

Huang Zixian's heart jumped suddenly, and she turned her face away and said in a low voice, "I...I won't go."

"Hey..." Zhou Ziqin looked at her expression, suddenly suspicious, and asked, "What's the matter with you? Why are you blushing?"

"...No, no." She raised her hand in a panic to cover her face, but felt the heat on her cheeks burning. Under Zhou Ziqin's gaze, she had to say embarrassedly, "Maybe it was blown by the wind..."

"Why don't you put on more facial fat? By the way, is the facial fat I made for you last time useful?" Zhou Ziqin asked her.

She breathed a sigh of relief and quickly turned the topic over: "It's good, it's really much better than the ones bought outside."

"Next time I will make you an orchid fragrance, Wang Yun likes orchids. Hey... I don't know if the second girl likes the sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance, I will leave without asking her..." Zhou Ziqin said , Seeing the blush on her cheeks still glowing in the sun, she couldn't help but said, "Chonggu, if you were a woman...oh oh, you were a woman..."

He seemed to feel that the fact that she was a woman made him very disappointed, so he flattened his mouth and said, "Okay, let's go."

Huang Zixian didn't react yet, and asked, "Where to go?"

Zhou Ziqin had leaned over from the horse, and grabbed her horse rein: "Kui Palace!"

Huang Zixia bit her lower lip and pulled her rein back: "I'm not going..."

"Why didn't you go? Didn't you say that you are committed to solving the mystery of the world? Why did you check it out today, and finally you didn't go and discuss with King Kui? We have important discoveries today, right?"

Huang Zixian looked at him helplessly, with a hint of pleading in his eyes: "Zi Qin, don't ask, I...I can't go to see King Kui..."

After quarreling, breaking up, and having that sudden kiss again, she really doesn't know how to face Li Shubai now. She has cracked countless strange cases, and everyone says she is incomparably intelligent, but now, she has no idea what kind of look she should face Li Shubai with, what is the first thing she should say, and the first thing she should do. What is the action...

She was in a state of confusion, clutching the horse's rein with both hands, not knowing what to do.

"Oh, everyone is so familiar. Why can't you meet? Let's go quickly." Zhou Ziqin said involuntarily, pulling her horse over, and by the way, gave her a whip on the horse's butt: "Let's go, let's go!"

After the horse was in pain, it ran forward immediately. Huang Zixian leaned tightly on the horse's back and shouted angrily: "Zhou Ziqin, what are you doing?!"

"Don't worry, I won't fall off." He said, laughing, "Look at you, isn't this here?"

Huang Zixian looked up, and she had arrived at the Kui Palace. She got off her horse, turned around and was about to run away, but someone next to her called her: "Huang Zixia."

When she heard the clear and sparse voice, her body suddenly shook, and her feet could no longer step out.