The Golden Hairpin

But the beef soup cake in this shop is really delicious, and both of them ate a big bowl. There are no other customers in the shop today. The boss and the proprietress are sitting in the shop and looking at these two guests. A little **** and a little brother. The little **** has a light eyebrow. There is a kind of beauty that is indistinguishable from the male and female. ,Poker face. The boy's elder brother's clothes are crimson red and azurite, with a flashy contrasting color. There are seventeen or eight ornaments on the whole body. A scented bag, flint, knife and jade pendant with gold medals and living silver pendants look like a shopkeeper from a distance.

What a strange pair of companions.

After eating, Huang Zixia walked out of the shop. There is a crowd of people outside. She saw a person walking hurriedly in the crowd, and she called out in a low voice: "Zhang Xingying?"

Zhou Ziqin asked curiously: "Who is he, do you know him?"

"Well... he used to help me, he was dragged down by me." She said, sighing, and then unconsciously followed him all the way.

Zhou Ziqin stayed here without knowing it. Seeing her quietly following all the way, he didn't say much, only the two slowly followed Zhang Xingying in the bustling crowd.

Holding a sack full of soil, Zhang Xingying walked slowly into Puning Fang. Huang Zixian was very familiar with the capital when he was young. He remembered that there was a big locust tree in Puning Square, and Zhang Xingying's home seemed to be near the big locust tree.

Sure enough, the big locust tree is still luxuriant, and Zhang Xingying's home is next to the big locust tree. It was early summer. On the stone bench under the tree, a few women were chatting while sewing and watching their children frolicking under the tree.

Huang Zixian slowly approached Zhang Xingying's home. Although his courtyard wall was only half a person high, there was still a one-person-high hedge on it, just covering her. She looked inside through the gaps in the branches and saw Zhang Xingying pouring out the contents of the bag. It turned out to be some herbs that had just been picked and placed them on the bluestone in the yard to dry.

An old woman next to her saw her and asked, "This lord, who are you looking for?" She couldn't recognize the eunuch's clothes. She thought Huang Zixia was an official servant, and asked with a smile, but she only dared to glance at Zhou Ziqin, as if Afraid of being blinded by the gleam of gold, silver and jade all over his body.

Huang Zixia said quickly: "I am a friend of Brother Zhang, come here to see what's going on with him."

"Oh, Zhang's second child? Didn’t he get kicked out of Prince Kui’s mansion? He is now following his father in Duanruitang. He is said to be an apprentice, but in fact, it’s said to be a handyman. Sometimes when he encounters a shortage of medicinal materials, he has to follow him to gather herbs. People are coming into the mountains.” After all, the old man talked a lot, and all of a sudden he shook his arms out. “I didn’t mean that he did something wrong in the palace and was beaten back with three hundred army sticks? Why did the two of you come back? he……"

"Twenty army clubs." She was a little helpless, the rumors were really outrageous, can anyone still live after hitting three hundred army clubs?

"Oh, in short, it was sent back. It must be a mistake. Some people say..." the old woman asked with excitement and mysteriously. "It is said that it is related to the death of the princess Kui?"

Huang Zixia was even more speechless: "What happened? When he left, Princess Kui hadn't settled it yet."

The old woman shook her head and sighed, "Hey, such a good young man, with good looks and tall stature, how else can he enter the guard of honor of King Kui? You can only be selected by the top people! When we first went there, everyone was there. I was very envious, but I was beaten back after only a few months before I realized it."

Huang Zixian stood in a daze for a while, and said in a low voice: "It's nothing serious, and Prince Kui may still find him back."

"There is still such a thing? But they all said that Prince Kui is the strictest, how could he let people who have made mistakes go back?" The old lady looked around, and immediately put on an eight-pond expression on her face and whispered. "Oh, you don’t know. In the past, more than a dozen households in our neighbourhood asked people to talk about matchmaking. They wanted to marry his daughter. Now it’s fine. Even the marriage that was originally being talked about is gone now-you see, It's not as good as my son, who has learned from Liu Carpenter a long time ago, and now he is about to start a teacher!"

Huang Zixia was silent for a long time before turning around and walking out. The mother-in-law asked her at the back: "Are you not going in? He is at home today."

"No, thank you mother-in-law." Huang Zixia said, turning around and walking out. I heard the old woman muttering to herself behind her: "This is a good young man, just a bit feminine, but like a little father-in-law in the palace."

Zhou Ziqin couldn't help but laugh, but Huang Zixia didn't care about him. Except for Puning Fang, they walked all the way through the streets and alleys. She didn't come back to her senses until she came to the wide Suzaku Street, and said to Zhou Ziqin, "Thank you for helping me to check with the staff today. When I have any clues, we will meet again."

Seeing her look downcast, Zhou Ziqin raised his hand and patted her shoulder and said, "Well, what is your friend's name... Zhang Xingying, right? Don't worry, I'll help you solve it."

Huang Zixia looked up at him in surprise.

"I have been in the capital for many years, and I know a few people in the sixth department. My buddy told me recently that the horse team of the Beijing Defense Department has just recently expanded its manpower. You know, among the various yamen, the horse team is the most beautiful. I rode around on the street twice a day, wearing uniforms and knives, and a lot of girls and daughters-in-law leaned on the door to peek. There is absolutely no need to worry about finding a wife. Besides, there is a lot of money and food every month, which is a fat difference. Ah, a lot of people squeezed their heads and walked through the back door. If it weren't for your friend who is tall and handsome and upright, I wouldn't dare to recommend it!"

"Really?" Huang Zixia asked in surprise.

"Of course, the leader of the Beijing Defence Sima Team is my iron buddy. It's wrapped up on me!" Zhou Ziqin assured him, "When the case is over, we will take you to see the captain Xu Congyun."

"Then thank you very much!" Huang Zixia was very moved, raised her head and said to him, "If it really can be done, how can you thank you for speaking casually!"

"Haha, let me just talk when I eat." He said, seeing Huang Zixia look embarrassed, and then raised his hand to pat Huang Zixia's back and smiled, "Just kidding, in fact, a little thing is not enough, after all, you It's the person I admire the most except Huang Zixia. Just tell me what you want!"

Huang Zixia was almost vomiting blood when he was photographed, and the corners of her mouth twitched and smiled at him, saying: "In that case, when this case is over, I will host a banquet for you in Zhuijinlou, and I will listen to whatever you say at that time!"

"That also requires you to have money. I heard that you only worked as a errand in the Royal Palace of Kui. Did you give out monthly silver?" He said, and compared himself with his thumb, "But I happen to have two bad money in my family, my lord. , Do not hesitate to come to me, delicious and delicious for you..."

"When did the people of the Kui Palace need your confession?" someone next to them asked. The invisible coercion in that indifferent tone made Huang Zixian's scalp numb. Looking back, it turned out to be Li Shubai.

Li Shubai’s carriage was parked at the entrance of the street. He raised the curtain to look at them, with a faint expression and no clues, but Huang Zixia still felt that there were faint signs of discomfort in his eyes, so he could only choose to stand with his head bowed. There, silently moved closer to the unpredictable King Kui.

The heartless Zhou Ziqin didn't realize it, smiled and nodded at Li Shubai: "What a coincidence, the prince also passed here?"

"Send the Turkic envoy back to the inn, and I just met you." Li Shubai said casually.

The station in the capital was looking far away. Zhou Ziqin didn't care, pointing to Huang Zixian and said to Li Shubai: "Look, Lord Chonggu is like this. He always keeps his face straight. When he laughs, he looks really good, the spring breeze is blowing, and the peach and plum blossoms are blooming. In the future, the prince can order him to laugh more."

Huang Zixia felt that her face was about to twitch--it was obviously the kind of cramping smile. After Wang Mingkui saw it, his face was like a dark cloud, but Zhou Ziqin couldn't even feel it. What kind of eyesight.

"Really?" Li Shubai glanced sideways at Huang Zixian, and asked, "What's the good thing that makes Yang Chonggu's slate face even look good?"

"It's nothing, just... he did me a favor." Huang Zixia said quickly.

Seeing Zhou Ziqin nodded, Li Shubai stopped pursuing it, but still looked at Huang Zixia with a calm face, and asked, "What can I gain from going to the staff today?"

"Today is a great discovery!" Zhou Ziqin said excitedly, pulling Li Shubai's sleeve to discuss the case on the street. Huang Zixia was really speechless and coughed slightly. Zhou Ziqin looked at her suddenly.

Li Shubai pointed to a tavern behind, and Zhou Ziqin came over with a shock: "No way, no way, we can't stand on the street and talk about this!"

Li Shubai got out of the car, and the three moved to the tavern and into the secluded private room on the second floor.

A pot of tea, four kinds of snacks. After the others had retreated, Zhou Ziqin lowered his voice and said, "He is still clever and ancient. He concluded that the silver ingot was related to Pang Xun, so he went straight to the pseudo-officials awarded by Pang Xun from the beginning. On hit, this silver ingot is indeed the silver coin Pang Xun privately cast in Xuzhou."

Li Shubai looked at the transcribed note that Huang Zixia handed over, thoughtfully.

Zhou Ziqin looked at Huang Zixia with admiration: "Chonggu, how do you infer that this silver is related to Pang Xun?"

Huang Zixian said casually: "From the blackened appearance of the silver, I think it should have been cast in recent years. Since the possibility of private silver casting and fake silver ingots has been ruled out, and the word "Neiku" is written, then it is also possible that it is deliberately conspiring. People cast it. In recent years, only one Pang Xun can develop to the point of casting Neiku silver."

"That's right! Why didn't I expect it!" Zhou Ziqin shook his palm, sighing that he had missed an opportunity to solve the question.

Huang Zixian added: "Now I don't know how much the silver ingot was cast at the time, and how much it has flowed out. If there are too many, it is impossible to find out."

"Not many, and they are all counted." Li Shubai said lightly: "When Pang Xun raised his troops to rebel, because of rush, he did not start to set up the inner treasury and enlist the pseudo-officials. Until I united the six major Jeddah envoys to besiege Xuzhou, Only then did he wantonly appoint officials and give nobility, trying to buy people's hearts, and tie them with himself, so as not to lose their hearts. Therefore, the time for the establishment of the inner library is extremely short, and because of the repeated defeats of the war, there is not much ingot forged. Pang. After Xun's death, I settled in Xuzhou and checked the accounts, but I only cast a total of 5,600 ingots of silver. Among them, twenty taels of silver ingots totaled 800 ingots, almost all of which remained in the mansion. I ordered people to melt it on the spot. Only five ingots were left as evidence of crime. The silver fan has been destroyed, and there can be no other silver ingots left."

Huang Zixian keenly grasped one of the questions and asked, "Where is the last twenty taels of silver ingots left?"

"If all the evidence of the five ingots retained by the Criminal Ministry are still there, it seems that the last ingot should be this." He put the half of the silver ingot found after Wang Ruo disappeared from the Yongchun Palace on the table, and said slowly, "This It was the only twenty taels of silver ingots that were missing when Pang Xun's evidence was counted."

Zhou Ziqin grabbed his head and fell into a more confused situation: "When Xuzhou was investigated, how could the only piece of silver ingot that was missed appeared in the Yongchun Hall of the Daming Palace? And, what happened to the remaining half? It seems, After unraveling the origin of this ingot, we fell into a deeper mystery.

"Well, the deeper the case, the more it seems to be related to Pang Xun-perhaps someone tried to make us feel related to Pang Xun." Huang Zixia said.

Li Shubai was noncommittal, covering the saucer in front of him, and then stood up and said, "That’s it for today, let’s go back first. Zi Qin, go to the Criminal Department to see if the five criminal evidence silver is still there, Yang Chonggu will sort out and look at the others. You can track down the clues."

"Okay!" Zhou Ziqin is an activist. Regardless of the fact that it is already past noon, the offices of the various yamen have been scattered, he is still ready to open the door of the torture department to check things out-anyway, he mixes well in the torture department and is a buddy with everyone. .