The Golden Hairpin

There are two foreign teaching workshops in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty. Artists such as Pipa Qinse and others are located in Guangzhaifang, not far from Yongjiafang where the Kui Palace is located.

Huang Zixia ran to the Jiaofang. There was a woman sitting at the door eating melon seeds because it was the gathering place of the music and dance dancers. When she saw her coming, she raised her hand and stopped her: "This little father-in-law, who are you looking for? ?"

Huang Zixia hurriedly saluted her and said, "Excuse me, mother-in-law, I want to go in and find Jinnu."

"Oh, it's a coincidence today, one is looking for Jinnu, and the other is looking for Jinnu." The woman said, patted the shells on her clothes and stood up and asked, "You won't be lending something to Jinnu too. , Now I heard that she ran away with someone, so came and retrieved it, right?"

Huang Zixian gave a surprised "Huh" and asked, "Is anyone else here before me?"

"Isn't it, a girl like a fairy. My old woman has never seen a second one in her life." The old woman was obviously older, and she kept chattering. Compared with her, the ladies who came out are less brilliant and agile."

"Is the mother-in-law who knows her name?" Huang Zixia asked quickly.

"I don't know, anyway, it's different from you, a little **** who speaks nothing but the vernacular. They came with the letter Jin Nu wrote to her back then. My old lady can read!"

Seeing that this woman didn't mean to let her in, Huang Zixia had to laugh with her and drew part of her funds from her purse to the woman: "Mother-in-law, look... I gave the things to Jinnu girl. Now that I know she is running away, I'm upright. If I can't get the things back this time, the prince won't call me out of the house?"

"Oh, that's not going to happen, my old lady is kind-hearted in my life, and I don't see anyone suffer the most." The old lady fell into her arms with a small silver ingot and smiled suddenly, "Come on, I will show you the room where Jinnu was seen-it is in Nijo East. In the first third room, our door will be closed and locked before one hour, so you can quickly find it."

Huang Zi Xia accompanies with a smile, and quickly finds the third room in the east end of Ertiao. When I got there, I saw that the door of Jinnu's room was wide open, and two little girls were talking at the door.

Huang Zixia hurried up and asked, "Two, what about the fairy-like girl just now?"

The two girls looked back at her, looked at her in an eunuch's dress, and then smiled and asked, "Oh, where are you from? From Neijiaofang? Or the father-in-law of the mansion of kings?"

"Isn't it because my prince has something left with the girl Jinnu, and now she is gone, the prince asked me to find something he gave to the girl Jinnu, although the thing is not rare, but the prince cherished it in the past... Huang Zixia said sincerely, "I heard that a very beautiful girl came first?"

"No, Jinnu is pretty good-looking, who knows that there is such a beautiful sister." The little **** the left said, looked inside again, and said with a pouting mouth, "I didn't mean to buy some pocket money nearby." Is it? Why haven't you come back yet?"

"Yeah, I'm still anxious to see her painting." The other girl frowned.

Huang Zixia asked in surprise, "What painting?"

"That's it. There are six women in the legend. It is said that there are several musicians in Yangzhou who have realized the principles of music and dance from them, and finally became a generation of legends."

Huang Zixian laughed blankly: "Yun Shao six women?"

"Yes, yes, you know? But you are a little eunuch, do you want to see that painting to enlighten you? You don't learn music and dance."

"..." Huang Zixian was speechless, wondering where this strange rumor came from. She thought that the beauty who came with the painting must be Cheng Xuese, and she was secretly surprised why Chen Nianniang didn't come with her to find herself in the first time.

The two girls waited for a while, and when they saw that they hadn't come back, they yelled to leave. Huang Zixia asked them: "Can Jinnu's room go in?"

"Yes, when she left, the valuable and important things should have been taken away, and the things that were not taken away were also divided by the people in the shop. All of them are nice to say, and help Jinnu to keep them first, but in fact they are not. I took it by myself? I see it inside, 80% of it has nothing left."

"That said, Quan Dang had luck." Huang Zi Xia said, bidding farewell to them, walked in the door, and looked around.

Jinnu's room is very elegant, with rose-red tulle pasted on the flower windows, and a bead curtain separates the inner and outer rooms. The front entrance is a small hall, with lights coming in behind the stained windows. It turns out that the lights are already in the hall.

There are a few couches under the window, and a few gadgets on them. There are two pomegranates in a white porcelain vase, which are now withered, and a table of petals and leaves have fallen.

She sat down on the small chair next to her, and while thinking about the case, she waited for Cheng Xuese.

The sky is getting darker, and the lights outside the window appear brighter. Cheng Xuese never came back.

Huang Zixia finally couldn't wait anymore, so she decided to check it out first. She stood up, walked to the cabinet first, turned on the light outside the window, and took a look.

Sure enough, as the two little girls said, the good things inside seemed to have been taken away, and only a few clothes were left in a mess. I checked the tables, chairs, beds, etc., but nothing was gained. The girl who just said that she walked in seems to have left with her things.

She walked around the room with groaning, her eyes swept across the corners, and finally saw a small light in the corner, reflecting a bright reflection under the light coming through the window.

She lay on the ground and reached out from under the corner flower stand to get the reflective object.

Half a silver ingot.

It was about the same size as the half obtained in the Yongchun Hall, and the cut and luster showed that this half of the silver ingot should be able to make a complete silver ingot with the half of the silver ingot.

She carried the silver ingot in her arms, and then carefully searched the house again, making sure that there were no more omissions, and then brought it to the door.

Hurrying out of the Jiaofang before closing the door, Huang Zixia stood alone in front of the Guangzhaifang and looked around. The city of Chang'an is about to be curfew, and now it is silent, and there is no carriage that can be hired.

She sighed helplessly, raised her foot and walked back towards the palace of Kui.

Ten thousand households in Chang'an were silent, and only the closed-door drum from Chang'an came from the Drum Tower, resounding through the early night. She speeded up her pace and ran across the streets of the capital. Guangzhaifang was in the north of the city, close to the Daming Palace and Taiji Palace, but it was not lively. She could almost hear the echo of her footsteps echoing in the streets.

Then came a shout and asked: "Who is it? Why is it still here so late?"

Huang Zixian turned around and saw the patrol in the capital that was overtaking him, and explained: "I am the **** of the Prince Kui's Mansion. I hurried back because of delays."

I heard that it belonged to the Royal Palace of Kui, and the other party's attitude was obviously better. He asked, "Are there any codes for handling affairs?"

"Don't use handwriting, I know him, he is Yang Chonggu of the Kui Palace." Someone said later.

Huang Zixia heard this voice, she couldn't help but sighed inwardly, turned around and bowed to him: "Wei Wang."

Wang Yun, the capital's chief defense officer, is patrolling here dedicatedly today.

Wang Yun rode on a horse and looked at her condescendingly, but he didn't appear arrogant. On the contrary, he had a gentle face and a soft voice: "Duke Yang, I saw you bored at the gate of the palace this afternoon. Why have you been so busy at night? "

"Well... I miscalculated my own pace, and thought I could rush back before the curfew." It seems that I stayed in Jinnu's room for too long.

Wang Yun nodded and signaled the other patrol guards to patrol other streets and alleys according to the pre-planned route. Then he raised his hand and patted his horse's **** and said, "Come on, I'll take you back to the palace."

"Ha...I don't need this anymore. Yours is busy with official duties, so how dare you send me so much trouble?" She smiled stiffly, and hurried forward after a salute.

The horse's hoof hummed softly behind him, and Wang Yun's horse followed up again.

She turned her head to look at him. He looked ahead and said gently: "The capital is not very peaceful recently. Let me walk with you."

"Thank you... Lord Wang." She squeezed out these words with difficulty, and stopped talking.

The long street is silent, and the lights on the corners of the streets are quietly lit in the night. Occasionally when the wind comes, the candlelight trembles slightly, and the lights in Chang'an seem to be flowing in the wind, bright and dark, undulating like water waves in the direction of the wind, covering the entire Chang'an city.

They walked towards the palace of King Kui. Wang Yun rode a horse while Huang Zixian walked on the street. His horse was well-trained and had a gentle temper. He took steps without hurries, keeping a parallel rhythm with Huang Zixian all the time.

They stepped through the waves of lights and crossed the straight and wide streets of Chang'an. In this most prosperous city in the world, thousands of buildings are illuminated by lights.

Yongjiafang is a gathering place for princes and nobles. Occasionally, there are a few stringed songs made by music, which are gently brought to their ears along the wind. The singer's voice is soft and charming, and a sentence or two comes from the night, seemingly nonexistent.

Outside the pearl curtain, the phoenix shadow, Qiu Shuang wants to start with the Prophet.

Huang Zixia was walking in a daze, when Wang Yun suddenly heard a smile and said, "Summer hasn't arrived yet, why is autumn frost first?"

Huang Zixia was dumbfounded before she came back to her senses. It turned out that he was talking about the song that the woman sang.

She said: "It's okay to agree, foreign objects are not important."

He looked at her sideways and said, "Well, I am too confined to foreign objects."

Since Huang Zixian opened his mouth, he asked again: "Miss Wang's coffin will be sent back to Langya in a few days. Du Wei should be very busy these days, why are you still here today?"

"There are so many people in the house. As long as the arrangements are made, there will be people who do things and don’t have to stare at them all the time." It looks calm and deep, and the buildings are set off as if the palace of Qionglou, but what kind of scenery is hidden inside, it is difficult to see the whole picture anyway."

"If you are in it, you will naturally get lost in it, just get out of it."

He looked at her and smiled slightly: "Daddy Yang is right, and the onlookers know it naturally."

The lights near and far were vague, reflecting on his smile, as if there were other meanings she didn't know.

Huang Zixia felt a soreness in her teeth. This Wang Yun, doing this to her a little **** is absolutely wrong.

But, has he recognized himself, or is he skeptical? If you want to beware in the future, where should you start?

She lowered her head, not daring to look at his expression anymore, and only said: "I'm almost there, Lord Wang, please come back."

"Well, don't forget the time like this next time. It's too much to stay outside."

He stopped in the middle of the street and watched her leave.

Huang Zixian walked quickly to the side door at the northwest corner of King Kui's mansion and knocked on the door to enter. When the door closed, she looked back at Wang Yun.

He was still looking at her, under the night and lights, the expression on his face was as gentle as the spring breeze.

I don't know how long he stayed with his horse, but another person came slowly on horseback behind him and asked, "Yun'er, when will you go back? There are a lot of things at home."

"Go back now." Wang Yun turned his horse's head, followed him home, and asked, "Father, why did you come out in person today?"

Wang Lin sighed and said, "The queen is calling, can I not go?"

Wang Yun nodded silently, and the two of them took two horses and went home slowly.

"Did you finish what you were told?"

"It's solved." He said calmly. "The medicine has wiped out some flesh and blood, and no one should be able to recognize it anymore."

"Do it yourself?"

"Of course not, I found a reliable person."

"Reliable?" Wang Lin said coldly, "In this world, only the dead are the most reliable."

"Yes, I will find a chance in the future."