The Golden Hairpin

It's not early, after eating breakfast prepared by the station, and taking a little rest, a group of people are ready to set off.

Huang Zixia got on his own sand and followed Li Shubai. Di Ei walked to Na Fusha and rubbed its neck. Immediately, she and Li Shubai couldn't help but wiped their shoulders.

Li Shubai saw the light blue color emerging under her eyes, frowned slightly, strangled her evil spirits, and asked, "Is it disturbed to sleep?"

"Yeah." She nodded silently.

He said: "If we hurry up a little bit faster today, we should be able to reach Chengdu Mansion. You don't have to think about it anymore. When you get there, you will think about the situation after seeing the situation."

She looked up at Li Shubai and saw that he was close at hand, looking down at herself. The distance between the two of them was almost breathing. She didn't dare to look at his bright and clear eyes, so she could only lower her head: "Yes. ."

He stopped looking at her, prancing forward.

Huang Zixia hurriedly urged the horse to catch up, and the two of them stepped onto the flat official road one after another.

From Hanzhou to Chengdu, there is an endless stream of business travelers along the way. Huang Zixian was riding her horse with her head down, and when she reached a place where the crowd was sparse, she suddenly heard Li Shubai say: "Actually, I have been quite restless in my heart in the past few days."

Huang Zixia looked up at him and asked, "Wang Ye is for that charm?"

"Yeah." He strode forward, thoughtfully, "On that spell, there are six words for widow, disabled, lonely, and sick. On the day my mother and concubine passed away, the word'solitary' was delineated. I was assassinated in Xuzhou three years ago and my arm was almost disabled, but after all, the word'can' faded away as I recovered. And this time..."

Before departure, a dripping blood appeared on the charm, delineating the word "waste".

Decay and abandon are called waste.

Li Shubai, the king of the Tang Dynasty, was appointed king at the age of six and went out of the palace at the age of 13.

However, how long can the premature blooming life be domineering?

At the age of twenty-three, his fate was in turmoil, and the ominous words on the spells were circled one by one.

Huang Zixia only felt that the matter was very strange, but she had no clue, so she could only comfort him and said, "There are all kinds of things in the world, after all, there are reasons. I don't know why this spell can foreshadow the king's affairs in advance, but in the final analysis, I don't believe it. What the ghosts and gods in this world say, I think... You must not believe it, Lord."

Li Shubai looked back at her, there was a clear and insightful light in her eyes: "Don't pretend to be stupid, Huang Zixia. What the truth is, in fact, you and I already know the truth, don't you?"

Huang Zixia silently lowered her head, avoiding his gaze, and said, "Don't dare to speculate."

"Anyway, anyway, I will come, I will wait and see." He curled the corner of his lips, licked his horse, and moved forward.

Although the Shu Road is difficult, it is an important traffic road. After many years of operation by Datang, a wide road has been formed. Die evil and Na Fusha are rare horses, but Jing Yu and others' horses can't catch up with them, and they have fallen behind. They were the only ones who followed one another.

On one side of the road is the endless green hills, and on the other side is the endless river. It is now the end of summer. Numerous hollyhocks are blooming brightly, red, white, yellow and purple, one after another in clusters. When they are galloping past, they can't be seen clearly, just like the large bright brocades hanging in the gardens of every household. .

In every small yard, the branches that stick out are full of fruit. Plums, pears, grapefruits, some are mature, some are not. But the prickly ash in the mountain garden has already matured all the way, like countless clusters of red coral beads dotted among the green leaves, and the oncoming wind is filled with a slight spicy fragrance.

Di Evil and Na Fu Sha also slowed down. On this brightly colored and warm-scented road, the two horses marched side by side, rubbing their necks from time to time, causing Li Shubai and Huang Zixia to approach again and again, and to separate again and again.

Fearing that Jing Yu and others would fall too far, Li Shubai stopped the horse and stood on the edge of the cliff. The long wind flies in the distance, the waves of white clouds sweep across thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.

He looked into the sky from afar, took a long breath, and turned his head to look at Huang Zixia.

Her face was slightly pale, and her breath was a little short. Following him for a long-distance ride, even Jing Yu often couldn't support them, but she actually persisted all the time. These thousands of miles of rivers and thousands of miles of mountains, she is the first person who can always accompany him.

He looked back at her for an instant and suddenly smiled. The curvature of the corners of the lips fluctuates slightly like wind on the water, and the rise quickly subsides.

Huang Zixia was taken aback for a moment, and seeing him smiling at him, there seemed to be thousands of magnificent colors in his eyes at that moment. I don't know if it was because the horse was running too fast, and her cheeks burned slightly involuntarily.

However, he moved his gaze over, opened the cage on Di Evil's body, took out a small bag of things from it, and threw it to her.

She reined her horse with one hand and caught it with the other, only to find that it was a small bag of snow flake candy wrapped in white cotton paper.

Unable to guess his intention, she could only look up at him in surprise.

He only stayed on his horse and followed the wind. In the rustling wind, his voice fluctuated erraticly like clothes and hair: "Last time you fainted, I went to the doctor. He said that women tend to lose energy. , Eat more sweets when you are tired, you can slightly relieve one or two."

She did feel a little tired, afraid that she would faint like the last time she ran with him. So she silently took a piece of light yellow snow flake candy and ate it, and handed him the paper bag.

He didn't like sweets, but he took a small piece and held it in his mouth.

The green mountains and clear waters stretching for thousands of miles stretched out to places beyond the eyes. The wild flowers in the late summer are lush and bright, and they bloom near and far by their side.

They looked at the same scenery, felt the same sweetness on the tip of their tongues, and were silent in the same sound of wind at this time.

Huang Zixia lowered his head, squeezed the bag of sugar in his hand, hesitated for a long time, and finally put it in his arms. Then he thought that the hot weather might melt the sugar in his arms, so he took it out and put it in the small cage on Fusha's body.

In the late summer weather, the thin sugar slices really melted slightly, and the white tissue paper was moistened with a small piece of yellowish-just like in her heart, it melted into a sweet and bewildering trace.

Die evil and Na Fusha, stepping on wild flowers, slowly approached each other.

The gurgling river water kept on for a moment, and the rapids ran across the rapids, and finally flowed east to the sea.

Ke Die and Na Fusha just passed by after all, and immediately they passed by. The only thing they touched was the corners of their clothes and their hair.

They slowed down their horses and walked slowly along the mountain road.

It was almost noon, Jing Yu behind them finally caught up. It has been more than sixty miles since the journey, and Datang has set up thirty miles and one station, which is suitable for horses to rest and relay. They crossed a post in the middle of them, and it was fine to cleanse the evil and the sand, but the other horses were already snorting heavy, sweating all over, and they had to rest.

The chief of the post house welcomed them in with fear and trepidation. After Li Shubai and Huang Zixia sat in the hall and drank a cup of tea, they suddenly heard the bell ringing outside, crisp and sweet, and then the figure of a woman walked along the flowers outside. The window came all the way.

Huang Zixia saw that person's figure and immediately stood up, not daring to sit with Li Shubai again.

The woman was wearing a goose-yellow gauze, walked down the corridor to the door with a smile, and looked at Li Shubai with a smile.

In the shadow of the forest, her dress is lightly swinging, like a blooming daylily, bright and moving.

Huang Zixia saluted her: "The princess is well."

The woman who suddenly appeared in the station was Princess Qi Le.

Li Shubai stood up, slightly surprised: "Qile?"

"I heard that Lord Kui went south to Shu County, so I first came here to wait." She walked into the room, bowed to Li Shu, and raised a pair of bright almond eyes to look at him. Her expression was clearly a kind of "surprise" cunning, but she apologized: "Please don't mind the prince, Qi Le is just... because of congenital illnesses for many years, so I am looking forward to the beautiful scenery of the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. And the others in Beijing. I am credible, but King Kui... will definitely not despise me."

Huang Zixian glanced at Li Shubai, but saw that he was gentle and motioned to Princess Qi Le to sit down. She hurriedly retreated to the two of them. As soon as she lifted her foot, Li Shubai's eyes were already on her. She had no choice but to kneel down next to them again and pour tea for Princess Qile.

Princess Qi Le held the tea cup, lowered his head to smell the tea, and smiled lightly at Li Shubai.

People in Beijing know the nostalgia for Li Shubai of Princess Qile. She is the daughter of a prince. If Yi Wang was an emperor back then, she is now a princess. With her noble status, she is waiting for Li Shubai in such a small inn, and said with a smile that Yan Yan asked him to take him there. Li Shubai also It's hard to refuse, and can only helplessly say: "The princess is too sloppy."

"I have always been reckless, willful and stubborn, you don't know!" She pouted, but heard his helplessness, knowing that he would not reject him categorically, so the corners of her lips couldn't help but show a smile to stop her happiness. , "Anyway, I only have a lonely one person. The world is so big, I want to follow you all over the world, who can control me?"

Huang Zixia heard what she meant and wanted to follow Li Shubai all the time, she couldn't help smiling secretly in her heart, and with a little schadenfreude, she glanced at Li Shubai.

King Yi was originally the Yuanzong who entered Beijing, and he has a weak blood relationship with the current emperor. After the death of King Yi, only the blood of Princess Qile remained. The royal family also pointed to a child who wanted to continue this line, but that child died a few years later. Everyone said that this branch was doomed to decline and was unable to return to heaven, so the royal family also deliberately neglected, only Qi Le The princess guards the palace, and the king's Fu, Cheng, etc. can hardly control such a wayward girl from a young age. She naturally does whatever she wants, coming and going as she pleases.

And Li Shubai, thinking about her not much time, has always treated her kindly. Huang Zixia still remembered that he told himself that when he was most sad, she was the only one who held his hand.

Huang Zixia looked at Li Shubai, who was helplessly frowning, and thought, what can you do with Princess Qile now?

Just listen to Li Shubai say to Princess Qile: "Ah Wan, you have this kind of elegance, I should have focused on fulfilling it. However, this time I entered Shu, I have important things in my body, I am afraid that I will not have time to take you on a tour of the mountains and rivers, and overview the scenery. ."

Princess Qi Le pouted, and a pair of beautiful apricot eyes were filled with grievances: "I know that the prince is busy, but I just want the prince to take me into the city because I am not familiar with the place where Chengdu is born. Isn't it any embarrassment? "

Li Shubai frowned and said, "I am on official business, and I was not portable to take others. And my side is not safe now. If it affects you, how can I explain to your master?"

"I also brought dozens of guards out. I can take care of myself. And, maybe when you have something, I and my staff can help you."

Li Shubai can only say: "I am not particularly familiar with Shu, and I can't actually take you around. How about this, I will go to Chengdu with you, and then Chengdu officials will be happy to help you arrange the itinerary."

What else does Princess Qi Le want to say, Li Shubai has already glanced at Huang Zixia. Huang Zixian understood, and had to bite the bullet and say: "Master, you still have hundreds of unreviewed documents accumulated in the past few days. Furthermore, Zhou Junshou came to Shu, and I wonder if Xichuan Jiedu Envoy Fan Yingxi and him I have already met, and the affairs of Shu County are piled up like a mountain, and I am afraid that the prince still needs to intervene..."

Before she finished her words, Princess Qi Le gave her a depressed look, and said grimly: "The little **** next to King Kui, now dare to interrupt the prince talking to me?"

Huang Zixian hurriedly buried her head and pleaded guilty. When she looked up, she looked at Li Shubai pitifully, thinking in her heart, I'm really not good at doing bad things like this!

Li Shubai gave her an expression of "just take it well".