The Golden Hairpin

Huang Zixia nodded and looked at him with bated breath.

He held the tea cup with three slender and white fingers. Between the index finger and the **** of his thumb, the color of secret color porcelain was dripping with green onion, and it was as cool as jade.

"In fact, that half of the silver ingot—when Pang Xun counted the privately cast silver ingots, eight hundred ingots and twenty taels of silver were sufficient. In other words, there was not one missing twenty taels of silver ingots. Later, they were missing. That one of the tablets was actually used by me."

Huang Zixian was stunned, her hand holding the teapot stopped in the air, and she couldn't help but murmured: "No, it turns out that Lord Kui, you are also short of money?"

Li Shubai squinted at her, ignored her, and just continued with what he wanted to say: "It happened when I attacked Pang Xun's mansion, but when I saw the half-dollar silver before, I couldn't think of it. "

Hearing his opening remarks, Huang Zixia knew that he might speak in more detail, so she poured tea for herself, went to the bookcase to fetch a snack, and took one and ate slowly.

It was already three years ago, but Li Shubai had a very good memory. To put it clearly, he didn't miss a single sentence.

In the nine years of Xiantong, after Li Shubai shot and killed Pang Xun, the soldiers who defended the city fell apart, their military spirits collapsed, and one after another abandoned the city and surrendered. Before half an hour arrived, the city of Xuzhou was broken, and the imperial army entered to search for the remnants, because Li Shubai had already ordered that if anyone used the name of street fighting to burn and loot the people, they would all be killed. Therefore, the soldiers in all the streets moved quickly, and within two hours, Li Shubai had entered Pang Xun's residence.

"Perhaps it was because the imperial army came too fast, and there were still a few chaotic parties hidden in the mansion who tried to resist, but they were quickly killed."

He was an understatement. Huang Zixia thought in her heart that if you go straight to the enemy's base camp before the chaos is calmed down, is it better for you to be brave, or whether you are brave or not cautious? Or-at that time, this person didn't care about his life and death at all?

However, of course she did not dare to say such a thing, and just listened quietly to his continued narration—

While chasing a chaotic party that fled, Li Shubai chased into a courtyard with strong walls alone, and heard the sharp cry of the woman.

He only saw a man grabbing a delicate girl with disheveled hair, pulling her messy clothes and hair, and dragging her out, while she dragged and said: "Waiting on the car, I will take you and these boxes of gold. Yin fled to a place far away from Emperor Tiangao, and he would never enjoy it for a lifetime."

Speaking of this, Li Shubai glanced at Huang Zixian who was eating snacks in front of him, and omitted many unbearable words from behind the man, and only said: "The man is unusually burly and full of flesh, and the girl just reached his chest. Even if he struggled desperately, he couldn't get rid of him. He could only cry loudly and was dragged to the door by him."

At that time, Li Shubai saw outside the window, but couldn't find the door to the left and right, and the wall was too high to get in. He was thinking that he should have prepared a carriage and was about to go back and order people to intercept it. A girl with a taller figure. She also had a disheveled hair, her face was covered with dust and she couldn't see her original face, holding an iron brace through the stove in both hands, and piercing the man's back fiercely.

It's a pity that the man has thick skin and thick skin. The tall girl has weak arms and does not know how to attack. Without putting it down, she turned around and yelled at the tall girl who had hurt him and flew over.

The tall girl was kicked in the chest by him, and suddenly the whole body flew out at an angle, leaning against the corner and vomiting a pool of blood.

The fierce man still couldn't understand his hatred, and he would hit the tall girl a few steps to catch up. The petite girl next to him dragged him desperately, but where she could pull the man, he saw him strode towards the tall girl who fell on the ground. Go, grab a big right fist and smash her lower abdomen.

Li Shubai immediately bent his bow and set an arrow, secretly regretting his distraction, and may not be able to save the girl in time—

Huang Zixia had forgotten the tea, she straightened up and stared at Li Shubai for an instant, and asked anxiously, "What then?"

Li Shubai still held the secret-colored porcelain tea cup in his hand, and then slowly took a sip, and said: "The moment I took the arrow, I looked at the courtyard again, but heard the man's scream."

I saw the petite girl squeezed a silver ingot with blood on the edges and corners, shivering and shivering in one corner. It turned out that at the moment of her death, she grabbed a silver ingot from the box nearby and slammed it on the man's head. The evil man covered the back of his head with great anger, slapped her face with a slap, she slammed into the wall hard, and stubbornly held the silver ingot to her chest.

When the man grabbed her by the collar and raised his hand to slap down again, the tall girl curled up in the corner held the iron brace and leaped back. The evil man heard the wind behind his ear and turned his head. The brazier was unbiased and plunged into his right eye. At the same time, the arrow in Li Shubai's hand also instantly hit his left eye.

Amid the screams of the evil man, the petite girl holding the silver ingot was madly slamming him on the head. The evil man kicked her to the ground, but he finally fell to the ground with a flurry of limbs. The tall girl rushed up and stabbed the man desperately with an iron drill, from face to belly, without knowing that there were hundreds of times, the man's body twitched, and finally there was no more movement.

The two blood-stained girls finally put aside the things in their hands, crawled together tremblingly, hugged and looked at the corpse. Only then did they realize that there was an arrow stuck in the man's left eye.

They panted in horror, glanced around, and then saw Li Shubai behind the flower window.

Li Shubai said to them from the window: "Don't worry, we are here to suppress the rebellious party. You will wait a while inside, and I will go in and deal with it."

The girl holding the iron rod pointed at Li Shubai's right hastily. Li Shubai walked about ten steps to the right and saw a corner door, but it was locked, she drew her sword and pried the door lock a few times, and then kicked it a few times. Open the door and walk in.

They were probably too frightened, still hugging each other tightly, shivering.

Li Shubai looked at his clothes. There were only one or two spots of blood on the brocade robe. It should not look like a wicked person, but there was only fear in their eyes when they looked at him.

Knowing that they were frightened, Li Shubai stepped forward and squatted in front of them. He looked at them and asked, "Who are you? How could you be here again by such a villain?"

With a gentle expression, he squatted dignifiedly in front of these two embarrassed girls, but his posture was as gentle and gentle as a spring in the forest, calming them in a low voice.

After being kidnapped, they are met by the most vicious and brutal rebellion army every day. The two young girls who don’t know what kind of bullying they are going to face every day, look at the young man in brocade like a spring sun. , For a moment, I felt that everything in the whole body seemed like a world away, which made them relax their guard a little.

"You... did you save us?" The petite girl holding the silver ingot in her hand was hoarse, her lips trembled like dead leaves in the wind, her color was pale and gray.

Li Shubai drew a feather arrow from his back and compared it with the arrow in the right eye of the corpse. Because Li Shubai’s famous arrows had already been used up, now they were using ordinary soldiers’ arrows. They saw that they were the same, so they knelt on the ground together and thanked Li Shubai. Both of them had tears rolling down, sobbing almost silently.

The tall girl kept staring at him and did not speak, but the petite girl was more courageous. Baixie said, "Thank you for your help. The little girl has the surname Cheng." He pointed to the tall girl next to him and said, "She is my sister with a different surname. His name is Xiao Shi. Because my parents died, we came from Liuzhou and went to Xuzhou to seek refuge with my aunt..."

"How did you fall into the hands of the chaotic party?"

The girl surnamed Cheng choked and said, "Because of Pang Xun's disturbance, our aunt had already escaped from a foreign country when we arrived. Unfortunately, we encountered the chaos and were taken into custody here with a group of women. The day before yesterday, I heard that the imperial army was approaching the city and was about to be wiped out. The party is chaotic, so no one cares about us for a while. Who knows that today they are looting gold and silver, and they are fighting for a group of women who have been looted from us, and they say...what else except that, even if there is no food on the road , The meat of teenage girls is also tender and delicious..."

When Li Shubai said this, he gently put down the tea cup in his hand, thoughtfully.

Huang Zixia was hearing the nervousness and asked quickly: "What happened afterwards? What about the other women who were looted?"

"I was shocked when I heard about the tragic situation. I immediately got up and went out, ready to take people to chase the abducted women."

Following the direction of the girl surnamed Cheng, Li Shubai ran to the door and saw the carriage parked there. He untied a horse and leaped up, turning around to see the tears of the girl surnamed Cheng, and the clear and white complexion underneath where the tears flowed.

Although her eyes were peach-like red and swollen from crying, and full of fear and panic, the outline of her faintly beautiful pair of phoenix eyes. And the little Shi who was snuggling tightly next to her also had a beautiful silhouette. Li Shubai thought in his heart that these two girls must have been beauties, so they were taken abducted here. A pair of girls like them, in such a chaotic Xuzhou, do not know how much trouble they will encounter.

He wanted to help them, but he still remembered the other looted women. He was hesitating. It happened that the soldiers outside had already chased in. They saluted Li Shubai and called Li Shubai: "General."

Huang Zixia asked again: "Huh? Why do you call you general?"

"Because I was named General Pingnan by the court at that time. I was not in the court. Soldiers in the army would naturally be called military posts, and of course they would be called generals outside." Li Shubai explained casually.

Li Shubai asked the soldiers to unload the gold and silver from the carriage and take it to count. He ordered a team of cavalry to chase the fledgling chaos. When the cavalry chased them away, Li Shubai asked the two girls: "What are your plans?"

"We are going to Yangzhou. My aunt left a message saying that she is there." said the girl surnamed Cheng.

Li Shubai asked them if they needed soldiers to **** them back. With fear on their faces, they shook their heads desperately, saying that they did not want to walk with the soldiers.

Li Shubai thought that they were robbed by the rebels, they must be very afraid of the army and soldiers, so he did not force it, only motioned to them to pick up the silver ingots and iron braces from the ground, and said: "This is a murder weapon, you remember to clean the scene. The silver ingots can be exchanged for coiling, so take it."

The silver ingot was full of blood and brain plasma, red, red, white and white. Hearing what Li Shubai said, Xiao Shi hesitated to stretch out his hand to take it, but first fell on the ground and retched. It was the girl surnamed Cheng who tore off a piece of the deceased's clothes, picked up the blood-stained silver ingot through the clothes, wrapped it up and carried it in her hand, still not daring to hold her fingers tightly.

Li Shubai lifted the reins, and the carriage ran out. They were on the bumpy car, clutching the shaft of the car tightly and motionless.

Until outside Xuzhou City, on the grassy plain, there were a lot of pedestrians on an official road. They were all those who escaped from the city and hid in the mountain village when Pang Xun was in trouble, afraid of being arrested as a soldier. Now that he heard that Pang Xun was dead, they all returned happily.

The two girls jolted off their strength all the way, their feet were so soft that they couldn't get out of the car. Li Shubai stretched out his hand to help them get out of the car, and instructed them to walk on the official road and never leave the road to avoid trouble.

"However, since you can travel from Liuzhou to Xuzhou, it shouldn't be difficult for the two of you to go to Yangzhou together now?"

They all just looked at him and nodded silently.

Li Shubai no longer cared about them, turned around and left.

Just as he had just turned the carriage, someone from behind suddenly caught up with Li Shubai's horse rein, and looked up at Li Shubai.

It was the girl surnamed Cheng, she looked up at Li Shubai, her small muddy face, her eyes were clearly visible, and she seemed to be a little bit shy.

Li Shubai leaned down to look at her and asked, "Is there anything else?"

She bit her lower lip, took a long time from her arms, took out a silver hairpin, and desperately stood on tiptoe and raised her hand to Li Shubai.

"My father, this is the token of love that my father gave to my mother. After I was caught, I lost everything. Only this hairpin is the only important thing for me. You can hold it in the future. It went to Yangzhou to find me, my aunt’s name was Lauder."