The Golden Hairpin

Huang Zixia was stunned for such an undisguised reason, and said for a long time: "Perhaps... the prince should be more cautious?"

"You are wrong. This is the most prudent choice. Anyway, someone has chosen my family background, character and morality, so I only need to choose the one that looks the most pleasing to the eye, what do you think?"

She can only say: "Congratulations to the prince for finding a beautiful couple."

He reached out to her and said nothing.

Huang Zixia didn't know what he wanted for a while, turned around and saw that Wang Ruo had come to the back hall under the guidance of the female officials, and she suddenly realized.

There was a small noise in the front hall. It turned out that Princess Qi Le saw Wang Ruo get up and go with the maid to the back hall. He clearly understood Li Shubai's choice. The cup in her hand trembled, and a cup of warm soup was poured onto it. The body of Taifu Liu's daughter next to her.

She hurriedly grabbed her veil and wiped it with Ms. Liu, and said: "Oh, accidentally..." Before she finished speaking, her eyes suddenly became red and she couldn't speak anymore. She saw tears overflowing. Biting his lower lip, he turned his head, grabbed the jade basin in the hands of the maid behind him, pretended to rinse his mouth, and forcibly endured the tears.

Huang Zixia didn't have time to control her, and hurriedly opened the brocade box in his hand, took out the sprig of beautiful colored glaze and handed it to Li Shubai.

Wang Ruo's cheeks were drooping, his cheeks flushed slightly, and he walked in front of Li Shubai.

It seems that she is only sixteen or seventeen years old, her dress is embroidered with plump begonia flowers, and she is covered with silk and moiré. On her head, she has six rows of golden hairpins, hanging down with swaying steps, and shining brightly. But such gorgeous clothes and decorations, on the contrary, seemed to be a little immature, and there was a kind of incomprehensible rottenness.

She walked step by step, bowing her head shyly, not daring to look at people.

Li Shubai waited for her to walk up to him and handed her the peony flower in his hand. His voice finally revealed the gentleness he deserved: "Your name is Wang Ruo?"

Her body trembled suddenly, as if struck by lightning. Huang Zixia saw her squeeze her hand, then raised her head in shock and excitement, looking up at Li Shubai. In her eyes, a thin layer of water vapor quickly condensed, and the whole person seemed to be in a trance, her body trembled slightly, her hands tightly grasped her neckline, and she couldn't say a word.

Huang Zixia glanced at Li Shubai. The Penglai Temple is located on a high platform. He is standing by the window of the apse, and sunlight shining in from the outside, illuminating him thoroughly, like a god-child of heaven and man made of glass beads and jade. The scarlet peony in his hand was scorching and blooming, but he couldn't take away the slightest brilliance from him. On the contrary, he became more and more handsome and handsome.

Huang Zixian thought in her heart, it seemed that even if she didn't make people fall in love at first sight, she would at least not scare girls.

Li Shubai obviously also noticed Wang Ruo's obviously strange reaction, and frowned slightly.

Only then did Wang Ruo feel her strange emotions. She raised her hands and covered her lips, stammering in panic: "Prince Kui...really...really it is you."

Li Shubai raised his eyebrows slightly, and did not speak.

"I...I didn't expect that I would be so lucky, so, so I was so gaffe today, please forgive me..." she said incoherently, and she was at a loss. Seeing Li Shubai's unresponsiveness when she looked up, tears sparkled in her eyes and tears in her eyes. It's about to come out.

Li Shubai didn't speak, but the expression on his face was obviously more relaxed. He handed her the Qiliuli in his hand and said, "It's okay. I think you usually stay quiet and peaceful at home. You must not adapt to such an environment. It's me. I have alarmed you without authorization."

Wang Ruo nodded and smiled with tears, bowed deeply to him, and then stretched out his hands to hold the sprig of beautiful colored glaze, and hugged the flower tightly in his arms, his face flushed like a first blooming crabapple.

"Wang Ruo, what do you think?"

On the carriage on the return journey, Li Shubai asked Huang Zixia.

Huang Zixian hesitated for a while, then said, "I'm just a young **** in the palace, and I dare not arbitrarily discuss the quasi-prince."

Li Shubai turned a deaf ear, picked up the small glass bottle in the car, and stared at the red fish swimming slowly inside, not even bother to refute her.

Huang Zixia had no choice but to say: "There seems to be a problem."

"It seems?" He flicked the glass bottle wall with his fingers, his tone was flat, "When she didn't see me, the ease and calmness was absolutely sincere-she didn't care if she would be selected by me. Become a princess."

"However, after she was invited in by the female officer and saw your face, she completely changed. The shock and joy were too strong, but it didn't seem real."

"Yeah." Li Shubai nodded, his eyes finally shifted from that fish to her, "Also, when I left the Penglai Temple, I exchanged Geng Tie with her. On that, I found something that made people care about. The place."

He took a red note from the drawer of Xiaoji in the car, pressed it on Xiaoji, and pushed it in front of her.

Huang Zixian took it and looked at the words on it.

Wang Ruo, the fourth room of the branch of the Langya King's family, was born at a quarter of o'clock on October 30th in the fourteenth year of Dazhong. Father Wang Zhong, mother Jiang, brother Wang Jia, Wang Xu, younger brother Wang Fu.

But few figures. She read it, calculated in her heart, and returned the red note to him, saying, "This Geng note is fake."

He nodded slightly: "You can see it too?"

"Yeah. In the fourteenth year of Dazhong, there are only twenty-nine days, not thirty."

Li Shubai finally raised the corner of his lips and said, "Yes."

"This day can be calculated, and it can be seen that the fraud is a bit crude." She said, and then read the Geng Tie, and said, "Rap is slightly smaller. According to the general Geng Tie writing, there should be spaces between the year and month, but there is no such thing here. Obviously the word'run' was added afterwards. I don't know why."

"Because October 30 is my mother's death day, ominous." He said lightly.

She nodded: "So, in order to avoid this, I modified it temporarily, with the intention of passing it by chance."

"It makes sense in reason, but according to the procedure, there are more doubts." He pressed his finger on the red paper, and his expression was cold. "Birthday Geng Tie is to be calculated by Tai Shiling first, if he sees it. It was October 30, and it would definitely be proposed that it was my mother's concubine’s death, and she could not be selected, so even if someone helped her to make a fake, it would definitely not be so hastily amended, so that it made a big mistake. If it was submitted at that time, it would be Leap October 30 , Then when Tai Shiling presumed the bad luck of each candidate girl’s birthday, he would immediately find that that day did not exist, and it was even more unlikely that this Geng Tie would appear in front of me."

"Therefore, this Wang Ruo may have not been among the candidates at all, and has not been reviewed, but finally stood in front of me." Huang Zixia guessed, "Maybe it is because she is the queen's clan sister, so the queen specially asked her to Bypass all cumbersome procedures and act conveniently."

"Perhaps. But this Wang Ruo himself, I am not worried, but just a pawn. What I care about is who sent her to me and what is hidden behind him." Li Shubai pondered for a long time, and finally said slowly. , "Perhaps, the grass snake gray thread, this time the selection of the concubine is greatly related to the charm I got back then."

Huang Zixian nodded, thinking of Wang Ruo's shocked look when he saw Li Shubai, and the tearful smile on his shy face. As a woman, she always feels that emotion is far from what a chess piece can possess. But what exactly it is, now she can't say for sure.

Seeing her silently thinking, Li Shubai said, "It seems that the situation you have to face with regard to my concubine is much more complicated."

"The more complicated the inside story, the more loopholes will be leaked, allowing us to grab more threads. Therefore, complexity is not a bad thing." Huang Zixia said.

Li Shubai stared at her. There was no hesitation on her face. Her face was silent and calm. This is a kind of self-confidence that fully understands her own abilities without consciously exuding it. No matter what others do, she can't question it. He felt that a little place in his heart was beating slightly, which made him involuntarily not daring to face her, so he could only turn to cover up the car curtain and look back.

The concubine election is over, the ladies went back to their homes, and a crowd of carts and horses left the Daming Palace and was walking into the city of Chang'an.

Last year’s weeds were still on the roadside. This year’s new grasses were only two or three inches long. The withered and yellow hills were mixed with mottled green. When the wind blew, a layer of gray and yellow and a layer of green, slowly changing.

Following them, it was the carriage of the Langya King's family, and an old servant drove two sturdy variegated horses in a hurry.

He lowered the curtain and said, "Wang's carriage is right behind."

Huang Zixia thought for a while, stood up and opened the car door, and said, "When I get to the intersection ahead, I will go down first."

"What's the hurry, I don't have a time limit."

"Of course I am in a hurry. It would be nice to be able to return to Shu land one day earlier!" She said, seeing that she had reached the intersection, slowed down when the carriage was turning, and jumped down.

Li Shubai looked across the curtain, and when she saw her staggered, he stopped and looked down at the little red fish in his hand.

Huang Zixia watched the carriage of the Kui Palace head towards Yongjiafang, while she turned towards Anxingfang.

Sure enough, the Wang’s carriage stopped slowly beside her, and a middle-aged woman in the carriage lifted the curtain and asked, “Aren’t you the little **** who is waiting next to Lord Kui? Where is this going?”

She raised her head and smiled at her: "Thank you aunty for caring. I'm going to the West Market to buy something."

The woman turned around and said a few words to the person in the car, and then smiled: "We are in Guangdefang, next to the West Market. If the little father-in-law doesn't dislike it, he can take you on a journey. I wonder how you feel?"

Huang Zixia declined and said, "Oh, how can you share a car with a nobleman..."

"Oh, you will be a family in the future. You will be waiting by the prince's side. There are many opportunities for us to meet." The woman opened the door and smiled crookedly, with a amiable appearance, she opened the door and let her get in the car. Come.

After Huang Zixian got in the car and saw Wang Ruo in the car, she quickly met the princess and thanked the woman. The woman is more than 40 years old, but there is another kind of tactful charm. Even if the corners of her eyes are slightly wrinkled, it only adds a kind of charm to her. It can be imagined that she must be a beauty when she is young.

Huang Zixian sat on the seat next to the car door and glanced at Wang Ruo from the corner of his eye. Her sitting posture is very graceful, with her hands folded and gently pressed on her left leg. Under the wide sleeves of the lotus-colored silk dress, her pair of soft, slender palms are exposed. The snow-white fingertips are pink nails, which are trimmed into a perfect circle. type.

Huang Zixia looked at those hands and thought to herself, when she was in Shu County before, although she was a lady of the ambassador's family, she thought about going out on horseback riding with her brother and Yu Xuan every day, even playing polo and Cuju. Crazy than a man, how can you ever take care of your hands like this?

When she was wandering, she suddenly heard the old woman ask her: "Is the little father-in-law always serving by the prince?"

She shook her head quickly and said, "It's only been a few days. Other father-in-laws were serving before. Unfortunately, this time he became ill and several father-in-laws who were close to the prince were all infected, so I was temporarily transferred for a few days. "

"That's also the little father-in-law who is prudent in doing things, so he wins the prince's trust." The woman smiled, and then inquired and asked, "the little father-in-law should understand the prince's daily life?"

"Daily...I don't know much about it." She said honestly, "I am clumsy, and I don't know how to serve people. I only go out with the prince occasionally."

"That is also the person around the prince, who must be well aware." The woman smiled, "Little father-in-law, tell us, what color does prince Kui like, what flavors he likes, and what kind of temperament is the maid around him? ?"

Huang Zixia suddenly found himself in a scene that was difficult to deal with before: "Master Kui... he doesn't like others to follow, so he actually likes being alone, maid or something..."

"Mother." Wang Ruo finally couldn't help but whispered to her.

Huang Zixian realized that she was about to bury her head in her clothes, her blushing cheeks were as if she was drunk, and she was indescribably moving.

"Oh, my girl is really true. Anyway, she is already a princess. It is reasonable to understand the prince as soon as possible, right?" The woman hurriedly hugged Wang Ruo's shoulder and smiled.

Huang Zixia was free now, and said, "The girl doesn’t have to worry. King Kui is a very good person, and the girl is a daughter of the Langya King’s family, and she is born with such a beautiful appearance. Since the prince saw you at a glance among so many people, she must Love is more than precious, and the white head will not leave."

Wang Ruo raised his eyes to look at her and said in a low voice, "Thank you, little father-in-law, I hope to be... as your auspicious words." As she said, a stiff smile appeared on the corners of her lips, and a layer of panic appeared on her face, "I... As soon as I saw the prince, I didn’t know what to do at all, even walking was stiff...you saw it too, I think my appearance fell in the eyes of King Kui, he would definitely think I was stupid, and I came more and more. The more nervous I am, I am afraid that he will not be satisfied with me, but I don’t know what to do, even the back is sweating..."

Huang Zixia heard her talk more and more nervously, and hurriedly comforted her: "Don't worry, the prince won't mind, he must know you."

The woman immediately agreed and said, "Yes, it is the dream of many women in Beijing to be able to marry Prince Kui. My girl has also admired the prince since she was a child. This kind of heart of gains and losses will surely be known to the prince."

Huang Zixia nodded and said, "Yes, anyone with eyes can see it."

Wang Ruo took a deep breath and said softly, "Thank you."

Otherwise, she never said a word.