The Golden Hairpin

Zhou Ziqin asked hurriedly: "At that time, Jinnu had been sitting with us for dinner, and did not leave. He ate the same things as us. How come we are safe and she is poisoned?"

"Because she is a pipa artist." Huang Zixia sighed, "I don't know if you remember, she tried a few notes before playing the pipa, and then complained that it was rainy in late spring and the pipa was damp, and the sound was heard. It's not clear. So she took out a box of rosin powder, pinched two of them and slowly applied the strings and shafts, didn't she?"

Zhou Ziqin nodded.

"So, as long as the murderer mixes a bit of poison-soaked bamboo shavings or harder wood shavings into the rosin powder, Jinnu will naturally be pierced by the bamboo shavings on the finger skin or nail joints when applying and twisting. Those tiny wounds add It is very poisonous. She doesn't feel any pain at all, only a little numbness and itching. But the poisonous arrow tree is known to see blood in the throat. Although it is only a little poison, it takes a long time and waits for her to return to her own residence in Foreign Education Workshop. , The poison on her hand will spread slowly throughout the body. She will fall into a coma, and eventually die without realizing it, her body swelled, and she can no longer see her face—it just so happens that she can be used to fake Miss Wang’s body , So that the real girl Wang can escape and disappear completely from the eyes of the world."

There was a lot of discussion in the hall, and the emperor was also full of surprise, and asked: "Why did the murderer take such pains to get a fake corpse to pretend to be Wang Ruo? How did Wang Ruo disappear in the palace? For what purpose?"

Huang Zixia replied, "The first mystery that the servant girl has just solved is the corpse of Miss Wang, who is it. Now all signs have been revealed that this corpse is Jin Slave and not Miss Wang. Please allow me to uncover the corpse. The second mystery is how Miss Wang disappeared and how she was replaced by Jin Nu."

Li Shubai suddenly spoke and said to Zhou Ziqin: "Ziqin, it was hard for you to get fake hands and testify before. You should be tired too. Go and rest."

Zhou Ziqin looked puzzled: "However, Yang Chonggu hasn't solved the mystery yet..."

Li Shubai didn't speak any more, only narrowed his eyes and glanced at him slightly.

Although Zhou Ziqin was innocent, he was not stupid. As soon as he saw Li Shubai's eyes, he immediately realized that he packed up his things and said, "Caomin quit!"

After Zhou Ziqin left and Huang Zixian closed the door, the emperor nodded slightly and said, "I have also heard the queen talk about this. This is really strange. It is strange that a big living person suddenly disappeared under heavy defenses out of thin air. ."

Queen Wang frowned and said bitterly: "It must be the remnant of Pang Xun, no doubt!"

Huang Zixian shook his head and said, "This case has been going on for many days. The so-called rumors of Pang Xun's haunting are just a tool used by the murderer as a deception tool. In fact, in the final analysis, he has nothing to do with this case! It seems that it should be in this hall."

Her remarks were clear and utterly loud, making everyone who heard them horrified. She straightened up like a thorn on her back.

Queen Wang sneered: "Presumptuously, do you mean that the murderer is not in our royal family?"

"The slave and maid dare not. The slave is only relying on her many days of investigation to make the only inference that can explain everything. As for the murderer, the slave only tells the facts and never considers others."

"If it wasn't Pang Xun who did it, but one of us was the murderer, then who do you want to say?" Wang Lin looked around the few people in the hall and questioned anxiously, "A Ruo disappeared, but that was Under the noses of the Department of Defense of the Capital and the guards of the Royal Palace of Kui. You may not trust the people in the palace or the soldiers and horses brought by my son, but you are also a member of the Royal Palace of Kui. You can trust those guards?"

Li Shubai frowned slightly and said, "Wang Shangshu, don't worry, Yang Chonggu must not mean that."

Huang Zixia said neither overbearing nor overbearing: "When Miss Wang disappeared, Lord Kui and I were also on the spot. I saw it with my own eyes, heard it with my ears, and felt it with my own eyes. I believe in Lord Kui and everyone from the Beijing Defense Department as if I believed in myself."

"Okay, please stay calm, everyone." The emperor raised his hand to appease everyone. "Listen to Yang Chonggu's inference first. After he finishes speaking, if you have any questions, please ask at that time. Not too late."

"Thank you, the emperor!" With the emperor's approval, Huang Zixian ignored the others, and only bowed to the emperor, and then said, "Wang Ruo's disappearance is of course confusing, but before his disappearance, there was something even more confusing. Something that people find difficult to explain-when she was resting in the Penglai Temple, why did the palacemen venture to assassinate her in such a dangerous situation? And when I heard the sound of the inner room, I immediately ran in to check, the assassin I have already lost a trace. There is no shelter outside the Penglai Temple, and the terrain is all flat, but the older female officials who are one step earlier than me can still see the dark shadows and escape through the window. I only have a step behind and there is no trace. Can it be said that the world is true Is there any way to make a person disappear instantly?

"However, after thinking about it again and again, I discovered that this assassin who had only appeared for a moment, the only effect was to make Her Royal Highness take a move, that is, to move the girl to the Yongchun Palace."

Queen Wang sneered: "So, I cherish A Ruo, and I intend to protect Princess Kui for the court and King Kui. Did I do something wrong?"

"Don't dare, the slave servant did not say that this matter was the Queen’s fault. The slave servant meant that it was precisely because the girl Wang was surrounded by a lot of siege at that time, it contributed to the occurrence of this mystery. Because the Yongchun Temple was arranged in advance. Okay, the most suitable stage for Wang Ruo to disappear out of thin air is in the entire palace, which looks the tightest, but is actually the most suitable place for the disappearance trick—"

She took out a folded piece of thin paper from her sleeve and unfolded it in front of everyone. It was the map of Yongchun Temple she had prepared in advance.

She held the silver hairpin in her hair, pulled out the host hairpin in the middle, drew it on the paper, and said to everyone in the hall: "Yongchun Hall was originally used as the inner library, and the four high walls were unbreakable, and the queen asked the emperor to mobilize it. Two hundred soldiers and horses gathered here, under the full view of the public, it also caused a mixture of fish and water, and the situation was chaotic. Wang Ruo clearly and intentionally walked out of the pavilion to thank the prince before disappearing, let us watch her walk back into the pavilion, and then disappear In the tightest and safest place that is impossible to disappear."

Her hairpin drew a circle in the east pavilion of the innermost hall, showing that it was the most guarded center: "After she disappeared, I have been puzzled. Why did she watch Wang Ruo walk into the pavilion? But disappeared in a blink of an eye. How did she avoid everyone's gaze and disappear without knowing it?"

There was silence in the hall, even Li Shubai, who already knew the inside story, couldn't help but concentrate on listening to her crack the core trick of the case.

"However, we have been misled all the time. Even if we imagine 10,000 possibilities, there is no way to know how she disappeared in Yongchun Hall. It was not until I was inspired by a juggler on the streets of West City that I discovered the truth of this disappearance case—— It is not that Wang Ruo mysteriously disappeared in the East Pavilion of the Yongchun Temple, but from the beginning, Wang Ruo never entered the East Pavilion at all!"

Wang Lin said coldly: "But the old man heard that, including Wang Kui and you, as well as dozens of guards guarding the hall at that time, all watched Wang Ruo enter the east pavilion of the inner hall. She was clearly present with many people. Walked into the cabinet under the gaze of Wang. Now you say that she did not enter. Could it be that everyone had hallucinations at that time?"

"It's not an illusion. Because Wang Shangshu, you don't know if you noticed that after the Yongchun Palace was changed from the inner library to the residence, in order to change the old-fashioned square shape, the interval between the inner and outer halls, that is, the atrium near the inner hall, was furnished. rockery?"

"But this rockery is very small, only one or two places where the stones are higher than the human head. Could it be possible to do anything with this?"

"As long as one place can cover the head," Huang Zixia said calmly, "Actually, this trick only takes a moment to succeed-because Lord Wang Yun assigned the guards on the scene, so the back of the rockery is not No one. The only two guards standing outside the window of the East Pavilion who could see the rockery were also ordered to face the window and stare at the entrance and exit. In this case, the so-called people watched Wang Ruo return to the East Pavilion. , In fact, just watching her walk all the way from behind."

"Isn't it enough for everyone to see her back?"

"Of course not enough. Because the so-called disappearance completed in that moment only takes a moment." Huang Zixia's hairpin pointed to the rockery. Here is the highest point, which can cover Wang Ruo, who is five feet seven inches tall. Therefore, only a woman wearing the same clothes, wearing the same hair bun and wearing the same jewelry as Wang Ruo hides behind the rockery in advance. At the moment when Wang Ruo reached the highest rockery, Wang Ruo bent down and squatted down, and she straightened up and walked out of the rockery. In an instant, Wang Ruo walked towards the east pavilion of the inner hall under our gaze. He has already become another person!"

Huang Zixian turned her head, looked at Xian Yun and Ran Yun trembling on the ground, and said slowly, "It was Ran Yun who accompanied Wang Ruo to see Prince Kui at the time. So the person who pretended to be Wang Ruo behind the rockery, naturally It's Xianyun."

"Absurd!" Wang Lin sneered, "Duke Yang is so guessing that he can be passed on to the case by you when he sees a trick on the street. Moreover, the difference between the heights of Wang Ruo and Xianyun is not even half a head. Care? Wang Ruo is much slenderer than ordinary people. Could it be that Wang Ruo, who came out from behind the rockery, was half his head short, and no one would notice?"

"It's not difficult to change height, especially for women. Dengyun shoes sold in the market have five or six inches of wooden bottom. It is not difficult to make Xianyun up half of his head. And Xianyun is moving in. When I was in the temple, I noticed that her feet hung on the threshold. Naturally, this was because I was not used to wearing that kind of shoes. Another more powerful evidence was that Xian Yun came out soon after entering the temple with food. Box went to the small dining room in the corner of the back of the palace. I guess there she should have burned her disguised clothes and shoes. Unfortunately, she was inexperienced and was too panicked, so we searched in the stove and found a piece of it. The half-burned wood like horseshoes, that is exactly the remnant heel of the sole of Dengyun shoes, leaving evidence!"

Seeing that Wang Lin was speechless for a while, Li Shubai asked, "So, afterwards, everyone started searching the entire Yongchun Temple. Where did Wang Ruo go?"

"It's very simple. She put on the clothes of the palace maid or **** who was stuffed in the rockery cave behind the rockery. When everyone went to the rockery to look for her veined hairpin, she pretended to be the palace for help. People, left the rockery."

"Absurd, doesn't anyone suspect that someone who looks exactly like Wang Ruo appears in the temple?" Wang Lin shouted again.

"No one would pay attention to her. Because the female officer Changling next to the queen appeared soon, she also brought a group of court ladies and eunuchs. She left a few people in the temple to help find her, and took a few people to inform the queen. ——Wang Ruo was among the people who followed her to leave. After leaving the chaotic Yongchun Temple, Wang Ruo naturally fell into the forest like a bird, swimming in the sea, and could no longer find a trace. Then, the defense of the Yongchun Temple Withdrawing, now there are only a few old eunuchs and maids guarding them. As long as there is a person in the palace who has ears, eyes and helpers, the corpse will enter the palace unknowingly and appear in the East Pavilion. There is no problem."

Everyone was silent, and Yanjitang fell silent for a while.

The emperor thought about Huang Zixian’s words, and seemed to look towards the queen, while the queen’s eyes drooped, looking at the silver ornamentation on her white skirt, and slowly asked: “Listening to the meaning of Grandpa Yang seems to have already directed the messenger behind the scenes. Understand?"

"The slave maid is brave, the slave maid... I didn't want to think so. But the various methods of this case, no one else can do it except that person." Huang Zixia looked up at her, his eyes were clear and fearless," Even if I will offend a powerful force that I can't imagine, I have to tell the truth that I have discovered from beginning to end."

Everyone in the hall looked unchanging, but the emperor was still gentle and nodded and said, "In that case, you can talk about the mystery of Wang Ruo's disappearance. Who is the messenger behind the scenes?"

"Actually, from the various signs, it is not difficult for us to know. First, this person can move Wang Ruo to the Yongchun Palace before determining the location of the crime; second, this person can instruct Changling, Changqing and other palaces in advance Third, after the incident, Yanling can take Wang Ruo away; fourth, after Jinnu’s death, she can easily move her body into the Yongchun Hall."

When she said, she looked down at the ground, and didn't look at anyone. But the answer is ready to come out: "As for the messenger behind the scenes, I will say one thing first, and that is the beginning of the incident. On the day Wang Ruo prayed for Xianyou Temple, a mysterious man appeared in front of us with a bird in his hand. Cage staged a blinding trick in front of us. He warned Wang Ruo that the past life could not be hidden in any way, and finally disappeared mysteriously in the tightly guarded Xianyou Temple-precisely because of the appearance of this mysterious man. A series of things were triggered."

The emperor nodded and said: "I have heard about this, and it is also a strange thing. In your opinion, the man in Xianyou Temple, where did he come from, and how he went? He did all this for the purpose of what?"

"From the point of view of slaves, the high walls and deep courtyard of Xianyou Temple, that day the temple was already empty of pilgrims, and there were soldiers guarding them from Prince Kui's Mansion. At that time, I was full of horns, thinking about where the mysterious man came from. But I never thought about it. In fact, the mysterious man originally came with us and is always by our side. When we leave the crowd, he only needs to wear a disguise to appear in front of us, and to disappear. It's very simple, just take off the camouflage outside in the apse, throw it into the incense burner and burn it, then walk down the bushes next to the steps of the mountain path, and then appear in front of us again in front of others... And at that time, The first person to appear before us is you-Lieutenant Wang Yun Wang Du."