The Golden Hairpin

It suddenly occurred to me that four years ago, it seemed that this was the same time, she was picking 菡葉 by the lotus pond with bare feet, and heard the voice of her father calling her. When she turned her head, she saw Yu Xuan quietly looking at him in the golden and purple color of the setting sun behind her father.

His smiling eyes changed her life.

Suddenly she felt a little weak, so she let herself sit on the edge of the water, silently staring at the water surface for a while.

At that time, my father took Yu Xuan home and told her that he was an orphan, his parents had died, and he was living in a ruined temple. My father’s classmate friend opened a library and found that a beggar was always coming to the window to listen to classes. He asked a few questions, and Yu Xuan’s answers were amazing. He also asked him how he could read. He said that he had picked up a few pages of paper before. Some people said it was a thousand-character essay. It happened that the teacher in the academy began to speak a thousand-character essay. On the paper, when he finished learning the thousand-character essay, he asked for the old books that others had thrown away. Based on the words he knew, he learned the four books and five classics on and off. When the gentleman heard this, he was shocked as a genius, and brought up the matter in front of Father Huang. Father Huang found Yu Xuan and had a feeling of cherishing his talent, so he took him home.

Yes, Yu Xuan, who would not pity such a young man in the dust?

Huang Zixian sat on the steps, buried her face in her knees, silently staring at the lotus cover that turned over in the night breeze.

The evening breeze is cool, and the night has come. Where the wind passes, the lotus blades turn over, like waves.

Her heart also seemed to be undulating on the waves, restless.

Yu Xuan said, I am waiting for you in Yizhou.

However, the person who agreed to take her to Yizhou, now, should be, angry.

And it was very angry.

She involuntarily let out a low sigh.

Although she knew that Li Shubai would definitely not give up her promise because of this, she did not want to make him unhappy because of herself.

Because……

She thought of what he had said to her. He said that Xiaoyu's memory only has seven snaps. Whether you treat it well or not, after seven snaps, it will forget what you did to it.

However, she didn't forget other people's fish with just a few clicks.

She thought that she should have told Li Shubai at that time that she was not a fish, and even seven months, seven years, and seventy years would not be able to forget those unforgettable people.

She thought, put her finger into her mouth and bit down hard.

"Agashne, the most gratifying blood. I heard that King Kui also raised such a small fish, and Duke Yang can tell King Kui this trick."

In the Taiji Palace, that man, Wang Zongshi, once said to her.

Her fingers broke, and a drop of red blood gushed out immediately, dripping into the water under her feet.

The sky was already dark, and the horizon was a deep purple. In the last glimmer of light, she tried in vain to lure the little fish back.

The blood dripped in the water, spread all over, and became invisible.

She waited for a while, seeing no movement on the surface of the water, she pinched the wound she had bitten again, squeezed out two drops of blood, and fell to the surface of the water.

The bright red color melted on the sparkling water surface, and the tiny ripples became invisible.

"What are you doing?" A clear and cold voice came from behind.

She didn't look back at Li Shubai, but looked down at the water surface and whispered: "I want to see if the little fish is still around here."

"Even if it is still underwater, will it come out if it smells your blood?" Li Shubai asked coldly.

She didn't bother to answer, because in the dim sky, she saw the little fish coming out from behind a lotus root, tentatively swimming towards her.

It really is still hiding here.

Huang Zixian gently plunged his hand into the water, and the blood from the wound turned into a thin silk thread, rippling in the water, annihilated as invisible.

The little fish seemed to be hooked by that invisible silk thread and swam towards her hand.

She slowly moved her hand upwards, and then when the water was about to emerge, she suddenly closed her, and put the little fish in her palm again.

She happily held the little fish and turned to look at him, calling him: "Hurry up and get something and catch it."

In the last remnant of the sky, the smile on her face was so dazzling that Li Shubai was temporarily in a trance.

He silently took the bronze lord and asked her to put the little fish in.

She raised her wet hand and looked down at Xiaoyu. In the turquoise quaint belly, it was scurrying up and down at first, but after a while, it began to wander around and become familiar with this unfamiliar environment.

Hanging her finger on the water, she teased Xiaoyu, and said to it, "It's so dangerous, I almost made you escape."

"How do you know that it likes the breath of blood?" Li Shubai stared at her smiling side in a low voice.

Huang Zixia raised her head and said seriously: "Duke Wang told me, Wang Zongshi."

Li Shubai frowned unconsciously and asked, "How do you know him?"

"In Tai Chi Palace, I met him twice. On the day of Princess Tongchang's death, my hand was stained with her blood, and the prince put my hand in his fish tank and was immediately licked by a small fish. It's gone..." She said, still unable to dispel the creepy nausea, feeling that she had goose bumps on her body.

Li Shubai stayed silent for a long time, took the bronze lord, quietly stared at the small fish inside, and said, "I have kept this fish for ten years."

Huang Zixia was slightly taken aback, and asked, "Ten years?"

It's been ten years since it's a little bit old, and it's not dead yet.

"Yes, ten years. On the day when the father died, guess where did I find it?" Li Shubai raised his eyes and looked at her with a meaningful expression, "In the blood coughed up by the father, it was unexpectedly , Was still alive, squirming in the blood. I was holding a bowl of cold water in my hand and dipped a cotton cloth to moisturize my father's lips-but I did not expect that the young King Zhao caught the little fish in the blood. Thrown in my bowl."

As he said, his gaze gradually turned into nothingness, as if he had passed through ten years, looking at himself who had lost his youth at the time.

"I put the bowl of water on the window sill until the emperor ascended the throne after the death of the emperor, and when I was about to leave the Daming Palace, I thought of the fish. I went to look at the window sill in the emperor’s bedroom, but found it was safe and sound. It still swims around in that bowl, vaguely but leisurely. Everything that happens in the world has nothing to do with it. Even if the world collapses, it only needs a shallow bowl of water to survive as usual."

Li Shubai tilted the bronze jue over slightly, the patina reflected a puddle of water and turned into aquamarine green, while the bright red small fish in the water looked very bright and dazzling.

"I took it out of the palace to my own palace. Ten years, I went from King Kui to King Tong to King Kui, from an ignorant boy all the way to the present, but I did not expect that the one who was with me the longest, It turned out to be this little fish." He silently looked at the little fish in the water, a creature that could forget everything with just a few fingers, and lived so easily and happily.

Ignorance, so carefree.

Huang Zixian looked at the small fish in the water with him, and said in a low voice: "I heard...The first emperor took the medicine by mistake and died soon afterwards."

"Yes." Li Shubai, who had been treating everything around him indifferently, finally gave a soft sigh. He looked up at her, his eyes were extremely deep and dark, "Why do you vomit when your father is gone? This fish? This mystery has entangled me for ten years. Just like that impossible spell, it made me spend all my thoughts and no guesses, day and night, and I can’t live in peace day and night. And now... that suddenly appeared again. This is a great painting by the emperor, three groups of inexplicable ink graffiti."

Huang Zixian looked down at the scar on his finger, and said softly, "Wang Zongshi also has Agachene next to him."

"He lives simple and rarely interacts with people, but he likes to raise fish, especially all kinds of rare species. It's not surprising that there is an Agashne."

Li Shubai stood up, placed the bronze magnate on the shelf, and slowly said: "When the first emperor passed away, Wang Zongshi was by his side."

Huang Zixia knew that what he thought in his heart was the same as himself, but she didn't say it. After all, there are some things that cannot be guessed even when no one is around.

Li Shubai looked at the sky outside, changed the subject, and asked, "Dali Temple tomorrow, what are you going to do?"

She looked at him solemnly and said: "I want to ask the prince for advice first."

He didn't ask, he just turned his face and glanced at her.

"If the bailed person in the Royal Palace of Kui runs away, what trouble will it cause?"

Li Shubai looked at her cautious and worried expression and smiled softly.

"If it wasn't for people to run away, why should I release her on bail?"

This understatement made Huang Zixia suddenly widen his eyes, looking at him in shock and excitement.

And on his face, the rare smile on his face was like a clear May clearing after a windscrolling cloud. Although it was only a moment, it made her be in a daze for a moment, and she couldn't help being stunned there.

"However, this kind of trivial matter, can't it be avoided by just doing it? How can I get myself into trouble." He said again.

Huang Zixia couldn't care to ask him what way, only asked: "The prince... already knows who the murderer is?"

"Guessed, but there are some small details that are not correct, so I think it is half cracked. What about you?"

The corners of her lips rose, and she showed a bright smile: "All."

Li Shubai looked at the smile on her face in surprise, and lost his senses for a while: "Three headless cases, the first emperor's pen, how to create the illusion of God's Scourge, everyone's motives... have all been understood?"

"Yeah." She nodded, confident, without any doubts, "This case is over."