The Golden Hairpin

Zhou Ziqin was sitting on the railing of the small pavilion beside the road, kicked and swayed in boredom, waiting for her to come back. When he saw her, he quickly jumped off the railing and asked: "Chonggu, shall we go back to eat first? Where shall we go in the afternoon?"

Huang Zixia took him to the city: "Qi Teng's house."

Zhou Ziqin said happily, "Great! I like to follow you to find clues. By the way, where is Yu Xuan going? I want to see too."

Huang Zixia grasped the horse's rein's hand slightly, "Look at what he is doing?"

Zhou Ziqin embarrassedly clutched his head and said, "I don't know... I always feel that Huang Zixia likes him, and Princess Tongchang has an inexplicable relationship with him, as well as the description of him in the poetry society... I think I really want to see him and find out."

Huang Zixian lowered her head silently and moved forward in silence. Only when she passed by the trailing vines, she looked up at the entangled green vine that had already fallen out of flowers, her voice was very soft and slow, and she uttered two words: "Once. "

Zhou Ziqin looked at her puzzledly: "Once?"

She nodded and said softly, "Huang Zixian, I used to like Yu Xuan in the dense shade of the scent and the heat of late summer."

During Zhou Ziqin's noisy questioning "How do you know if Huang Zixian still likes Yu Xuan now", Huang Zixian rode his horse as usual, all the way into the city, and returned to the prefecture.

She is very familiar with the Yamen. After entering the door, she walked through the very smoothly polished blue brick floor, over the loquat tree in front of the court, and through the small door with cracked wooden planks. She did not look at the ground, but she kept walking without stopping. Block.

Zhou Ziqin came to the side and brought two bowls of mutton noodle soup, and graciously clothed her with chopsticks, almost wagging her tail: "Chonggu, tell me, do you know Huang Zixia? Yes, why didn't I expect it? Are you all detectives, there must have been exchanges, right?"

Huang Zixia didn't want to talk to him too much, so she could only bury her head and eat: "No, it's just a divine friendship."

"Okay..." he said, holding the chopsticks in a daze, and murmured, "I don't know where Huang Zixia is now? Isn't she still evading chase? Isn't she eating there like us? What are you eating?"

Huang Zixian took a sip of the soup speechlessly and knocked his bowl with the tail: "Hurry up, or I will go to Qi Teng's house to investigate first."

"Oh okay..." Zhou Ziqin hurriedly accelerated.

Huang Zixia looked at him, sighed, and said, "Don't worry... I think Huang Zixia must be with us, eating delicious mutton soup cake."

Zhou Ziqin nodded, his expression firmer than her.

Before they finished eating, the puppy Huang Zixia picked up from the street to test the poison had already got under their stool, smelling the scent of drool.

Zhou Ziqin hurriedly picked up the two largest pieces of mutton and threw it at him, saying: "Rich, you have to grow up quickly. Yamen is still waiting for you to show off your skills in the future. You can hear ten miles down the wind, five miles up against the wind, all the bad guys in Chengdu. The scent of the world is under your control, capture them in one fell swoop!"

Huang Zixia looked at the happily eating puppy, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly: "Rich?"

"Yes, the puppy's name." He said.

Huang Zixian was speechless. She looked at this ugly dog ​​with mixed fur, and suddenly remembered something, and called Zhou Ziqin: "Show me that Pisces jade bracelet."

Zhou Ziqin took it out of her arms and gave it to her, saying, "Be careful, this is Huang Zixia's thing..."

Huang Zixia ignored him, turned the bracelet slowly, and looked at the pattern on it. Two small fish with tails holding each other, two shiny rice beads.

She raised the bracelet and looked at the sunlight outside the window. The white jade was like a piece of arc-shaped ice. After the inside was hollowed out, the light was refracted inside, making it illusory and beautiful.

She returned the bracelet to Zhou Ziqin, dropped her hand again, and touched the wealthy head.

Fugui had eaten two pieces of mutton now, and was in high spirits, so he did not hesitate to lick her hand and wag her tail wildly.

She let Fugui lick three or four times, then stood up and walked to the well, washed her hands in the overflowing ditch, and sat on the table looking at Fugui.

When Zhou Ziqin saw her going to wash her hands, he said: "Yesterday the chef washed the riches and honours so hard that she shouldn't be so dirty."

"Well, I know," she replied casually. Seeing Zhou Ziqin hadn't finished eating, she pulled out the hairpin on her head and drew slowly on the table, taking care of her thoughts by the way, "Right, before Qi Teng Didn’t I say that I’m going to Master Mu Shan to get some clean water to purify your bracelet? Did you have it later?"

"No, there is no time. I never thought that Big Brother Qi would die so suddenly." Zhou Ziqin said, with a sad look on his face, "Pity my sister, I thought I could get married this time, and she was pretty good in all aspects. Nice man... I didn't expect it to be lost now."

Huang Zixia nodded and continued to draw slowly on the table. Zhou Ziqin finished the soup and saw that she was still drawing, and didn't bother her. He just lay on the table and looked at her motionlessly.

Huang Zixia was embarrassed by him, so she inserted the hairpin back on her head and asked, "Shall we go?"

Zhou Ziqin nodded, stood up and asked, "Chonggu, you used to... I mean, what was it like when you were not an eunuch? Are there many women who like you?"

Huang Zixia said lightly: "No, no woman likes me."

Zhou Ziqin couldn't help taking a deep breath: "So... are there many men who like it?"

Huang Zixia gave him a look of "don't think about it" and just got up and left.

Qi Teng’s parents have passed away. Although there are clansmen in the family, they are all by-laws and have little influence. Therefore, when Huang Zixian and Zhou Ziqin passed by, they only saw a few distant relatives fighting for things, and the righteous posture was almost all of them. The things in his house are considered in the bag.

Zhou Ziqin was stunned and shouted at everyone on the court: "Which one of you is in charge? Come out quickly, and the government will ask questions!"

Those few people froze for a moment, then turned around without an appointment, and continued to pack their things quickly.

Huang Zixian walked to the middle of the courtyard and shouted loudly: "You all listen! Qi Teng's case is not trivial. The current government has sealed all the belongings in the house. If any of you take away one, you will embezzle the official property without authorization and hinder the government from handling the case! The light is the responsibility, and the heavy is the detention. Who of you dare to act rashly?"

Several people were immediately frightened. They quickly dropped what they were holding and retreated to the corridor obediently, spreading their hands, indicating that they did not take anything.

Huang Zixia asked again: "Where is the housekeeper? Who is in charge here?"

An old man standing at the side door hurried over, nodding his head and bowing his waist, saying: "Little man Qi Fu, he is in charge of internal and external affairs here on weekdays. I have seen two officials!"

"Old man, let's talk over here." Huang Zixia said, motioning him and himself to the small hall next to him.

The small hall here is quite unique, with a small rockery in the front, clear water under the rockery, green moss on the rocks, and a beautiful sweet-scented osmanthus tree.

After Qi Fu poured tea for them, he lamented: "I and Judge Qi are also distant relatives. He saw me in his hometown last year. He knew that I had a good relationship with me. After he became a judge, he needed a capable person around him. I came here to help him take care of his affairs. When I came over, there weren’t any people in the mansion, just the people from the clan who followed. It turned out that the previous housekeeper had dirty hands and feet, and several servants had been He drove away. Here, the first few were all I found later in the Hui clan."

Zhou Ziqin asked, "All of them belong to the same race. I just died yesterday, so we will divide things today?"

Qi Fu sneered: "This...Anyway, Judge Qi has no close relatives. When other members of the clan come, isn't it divided up... We usually serve him, without credit and hard work, so we should take more. Yeah, hehe..."

Zhou Ziqin was speechless at his arrogant appearance.

Huang Zixia asked again: "Judge Qi is here, so I don't know who he usually associates with?"

"He is busy every day, mostly in the Jiedu Mansion, and when he comes home, he will leave early and come back late. He is a judge of the Jiedu Mansion at a young age. Is such a big official enough? Our Qi clan has only had such a high official for so many years. what……"

Huang Zixian unrelentingly turned the topic back: "Old man, please think about it carefully. Who else except the people of Jiedu Mansion that he has been with on a daily basis? This is about whether the case of Qi Judge can be found quickly. The real murderer, please help us remember."

Qi Fu thought about it carefully, and then said: "The judge often goes to Master Mu Shan to talk about Buddhism. Master Mu Shan has also come to our house for dinner. Does this... count?"

Master Mu Shan. Huang Zixia remembers this name. She asked, "So judge Qi likes Buddhism?"

Qi Fu was a little confused and said, "I don't know this. I don't even know which temple Master Mu Shan is in."

Huang Zixia asked again: "Apart from the wizard?"

Qi Fu does not seem to understand Qi Teng's daily communication, and his face is hesitant.

Huang Zixia had to ask again: "There is a man named Yu Xuan, I wonder if the old man has the impression?"

Qi Fu sighed, and quickly said: "There is such a person! He also lived here for a short period of two or three days. It seemed that he committed suicide. He was rescued by judge Qi. Master Mu Shan had also come to see him at that time, but I don't know what happened. What happened? At that time, the three of them were talking in the room. Judge Qi threw down the porcelain cup where he kept fish and asked Master Yu to return his fish to himself!"

fish. Huang Zixian keenly grasped this key point and immediately asked: "I heard that judge Qi likes to raise fish?"

"Do you like it? It's not necessarily true. It's just that judge Qi was particularly proud of the fish he raised, saying that Master Mu Shan occasionally got it from the middle of Beijing and brought it back to him. It was originally a species of the Western Regions, which is very rare in Middle-earth. "

Huang Zixia asked again: "He asked Yu Xuan to return the fish to him. So, he gave the fish to Yu Xuan? Would he be willing to give such a rare fish to others?"

"Yeah, it seems that the relationship between Judge Qi and Yu Xuan has not reached this point. I also think he is unlikely to give away something he likes. The judge once boasted to us that this fish can live for a hundred years and die by himself. When I was in the tomb, I filled a tank of clear water and asked Xiaoyu to go with him... Now that I think about it, this is really unlucky, no wonder he... Alas!" Qi Fu said with a sigh, and there were some wounds on his face. With a sad expression, Gu Lulu's eyes kept looking at the utensils in the hall, especially the gilded, silver, and jade ones, and the saliva flowed down.

Huang Zixia asked about Yu Xuan again, but Qi Fu only remembered some furs, only that he stayed here for a few days, lying motionless like a dead person, and let him stay in his own house after a little awake. The person in took himself back. He was stunned but didn't hear him say a word.

Seeing that he couldn't say anything, Huang Zixia asked, "So, where does the judge Qi usually do things? Have you left any paperwork or something?"

"They are all in the study room, please come with me." Qi Fu turned around and led them to a small pavilion at the back. There are bookshelves, bookshelves, and several hanging paintings, including roses, rhododendrons, daffodils, and a green pine.

Huang Zixian stood in front of the pine tree painting, looking at the three or four Yaojiao pine trees above, sitting alone and playing the piano. The man placed the qin on his lap and flicked his ten fingers lightly. The words beside him were "Wave for me, like listening to ten thousand pine trees."

Zhou Ziqin looked at the painting behind her and said, "It seems...a bit weird."

"It's a little weird. If it's a hydrangea, maybe it's more appropriate." Huang Zixia said.

Qi Fu gave a "Huh" and said, "Exactly, it was a hydrangea flower hanging here before."