The Golden Hairpin

Today, Wang Ruo is dressed in a light biluo dress, and the entangled flower branches are blooming on her cuffs, her black hair is loosely rolled up, and only two or three pink silk begonias are inserted on the sideburns, which is indescribably charming. .

She saw Huang Zixia coming, her face suddenly showed an unstoppable smile, lifted the skirt corner and walked to the door to greet her, smiling like a flower, even Huang Zixia was infected, and the two became familiar with each other like friends for many years.

"In the morning, Aunt Su Qi has already told me about the imperial concubines, princesses, princesses, and other imperial relatives. There are so many people, I can’t remember! As a result, Aunt Su Qi said that you have to tell me more rules. Oh, what should I do, I'm a little bit worried."

Huang Zixia smiled and comforted her: "Don't worry, Wang Hao is smart and Ying Wu, and she can remember it very quickly."

"It's not. When I was a kid, I learned the piano. It was the simplest piece of willow...Oh, Flowing Water. As a result, others learn faster than me. The aunt always said that I was stupid and anxious to death me!" She said, it seemed a little bit With a guilty conscience, I hurriedly asked: "Are the rules in the palace difficult to learn?"

"It should be okay. The princess was born in a big family for hundreds of years. Maybe there are more rules in the family." Huang Zixia said, handing the booklet she brought to her, watching her face embarrassed, and then added. The last sentence, "This is only a part of the decree in the palace. When the princess finishes reading it, I will bring others over next time."

Huang Zixian ate snacks in the afternoon and watched Wang Ruo seriously study the rules of the palace, and also looked at the rules of the palace in his guilty conscience. It would be embarrassing if I was not familiar with the lecturer than the princess.

But looking at the law today, after all, it’s not as nervous as last night. She watched, she didn't know where she flew, her eyes floated around the room, and she found that Wang Ruo had been holding the book in a daze.

Seeing that she was still still, Huang Zixia closed the law and asked, "What is the princess thinking?"

"I'm thinking... some of the things Aunt Su Qi taught me before." She said hesitantly.

Huang Zixia smiled and asked, "What did Aunt Su Qi say?"

"Aunt Su Qi told me the "Female Commandment". In the article'Concentrate', she said:'If a virgin does not marry a second husband, the husband can remarry, but the wife can never remarry. Nowadays, I have many reasons for women It’s perverse to be dissatisfied with your husband’s house and begging to go down there. A woman who is still chastity, from the end, the royal family pays more attention to this matter.'"

Huang Zixian nodded and said, "The female commandment is enlightened in the boudoir, and Aunt Su Qi is just talking about it, why does the princess feel it?"

"I... I've naturally read it before." Wang Ruo said quickly, "I just thought of one or two things suddenly, and felt puzzled."

"I don't know what's the matter? Can the princess tell me about it?"

"That's... I heard that Empress Wu was a talented person of Taizong, and Concubine Yang was Princess Shou..." she said hesitantly.

Huang Zixia didn't expect it to be such an age-old problem, and even thousands of historians would not be able to write about it. What could she do? So I had to smile wryly: "In this dynasty... there are indeed some things that are hard to assert."

"Then, in the Han Dynasty, there was also Emperor Wu's mother Wang Lao of the Han Dynasty. After becoming a biological daughter outside the palace, she abandoned her husband and abandon her daughter, pretending that she was first married and entered the palace. In the end, she gave birth to the world... isn't it?"

Huang Zixian was dumbfounded for a long time, and finally could only say: "I am the land of the nine states of China, and there will always be one or two people who are different from the others, but they are also a few."

Wang Ruo looked down at the books on the desk and asked hesitantly: "So, Chonggu, do you think that a woman who hid her marriage history into the palace like the Queen, if she was discovered by Emperor Han Jing, she... how would she end up?"

Huang Zixian laughed unconsciously and said, "Why did the princess worry about the ancients? The queen finally became the queen mother, and the family was full of wealth. His son Han Wudi later learned that his mother had a daughter with a commoner, and he personally visited her and called her an older sister. I think the royal family also has feelings, and everything can be estimated with common sense."

"Well... I think so." She held the scroll in her arms, but her face was still in a trance. Huang Zixian secretly went over what she had just said in her heart, but couldn't grasp the point, so she followed Wang Ruo's gaze and looked forward and found a peony on the table.

This peony is exactly that beautiful colored glaze, and it is now offered in a large crystal basin with shallow water underneath, just dipped in a flower branch, holding that flower. But the flowers looked haggard after all, and the petals were slightly rolled up, and one or two petals drifted away.

Seeing her staring at the flower, Wang Ruo's face flushed with a sudden rise, and he lowered his head to roll up the booklet, with an uncomfortable shy look on his face.

It's really strange. Looking at this, it seems that she really cares about King Kui. Huang Zixia thought silently in her heart. She deeply felt that Wang Ruo's longing and yearning for Li Shubai, like a young girl who had just started her love, was a little confused for a while, as if she had been infected by her mood.

Wang Ruo lowered his head and stroked the Qiliuli that was raised in the water, and said in a low voice timidly: "Chonggu, you must be laughing at me in your heart."

"What am I laughing at you." Huang Zixia smiled.

She shyly raised her hand to cover her face, and whispered: "I don't know if you can feel my mood... I, I have been thinking about what my future husband will be like, and what will I have in the future. In such a day, what kind of person would it be to make me Siloy Qiaomu... But, the moment I was taken into the apse and looked up and saw King Kui, I understood all of it, and for a moment, it seemed that I could clearly see what was in front of me. The journey of my life, I don’t seem to be afraid of the future at all... I saw him standing in the light, holding this peony in his hands, his whole body as transparent as jade... I knew in an instant that he was the person of my life... "

Huang Zixia thought about the situation when Wang Ruo first saw Li Shubai, and felt that it was not the case, but still smiled and said, "Look at what you looked like at that time, you will know."

"You can't mention it to others."

"Okay." Huang Zixian sat next to her, looking at her blushing cheeks, with ardent longing in her eyes. Suddenly, she was dreaming, flashing through a pond in early summer when dragonflies were flying, and she was holding a lotus flower full of flowers. Looking back, I saw the young man looking at her from a distance.

Before she knew it, she fell into a vague mood for an instant. After I recovered, I felt a slight pain in my heart. She turned her head to look at the red sun, then slowly stood up and said, "I should go back. The princess can keep these laws and decrees for a while. It's fine to use them to fall asleep."

"Okay." Wang Ruo's hand still caressed the peony petals unconsciously, but it only made the flowers look more and more detrimental.

Huang Zixia walked to the door and saw the wisteria blooming in the small courtyard, enchanting purple lingering on the shelf like mist. The setting sun in spring is dazzling golden, shining on the wisteria, the whole garden is full of colorful gold and purple. She suddenly touched her chest and felt Wang Ruo's shy and timid joy.

So she looked back at Wang Ruo, smiled and said: "Wang Hao, please don't worry, I won't talk about it to others, I will only tell the prince that the princess still treasures the beautiful colored glaze that the prince gave her."

Wang Ruo was ashamed and annoyed, and stood up and stomped at her: "Oh, you are..."

Huang Zixia smiled and went out early.

The carriage from the Prince Kui's mansion to pick her up had stopped at the door of Wang's house. She got on the carriage and passed the streets of Chang'an along the way. When she was near the East City, the carriage suddenly stopped. She also wanted to see who dared to stop the carriage of the King's Mansion so boldly. When she lifted the curtain, she found that the car was parked by a restaurant, and a man was standing there looking down in front of the window on the second floor above her head. Under the setting sun, he was dressed in purple, and the setting sun shone on him, as dazzling as the purple drunk and golden vines and flowers in Wang Ruo's small courtyard. He was looking at her in the car below with the usual inattentive gaze, but there was no expression that could reveal his emotions on the facial features that appeared deeper in the sunset.

The boss Li Shubai was looking at her upstairs, and she naturally did not dare to neglect. Jumped out of the car, entered the wine shop, went upstairs to the private room and knocked on the door. Someone came to open the door immediately. It was the **** Jing You who was with Li Shubai every day. He hadn't gotten better from the cold, so he told Huang Zixia to take care of the prince and take the door to go out.

In Yajian, not only she and Li Shubai, but also Zhao Wang Li Shu and E Wang Li Run who also wore micro clothes, as well as a woman sitting in front of the Qin Ji and fiddled with each other slowly. The woman was in her forties, her facial features were very beautiful, but her face was rather haggard. She saw Huang Zixian coming in and didn't speak. She only slightly nodded at her, and flicked her hands on the piano. The sound of the piano was clear and moving.

Seeing her looking at the woman, Li Shubai said, "She is Dong Tinglan's re-disciple Chen Nianniang. The day before yesterday, I heard King Zhao said that she was here in Chang'an. King E and I met to listen to her skills."

Since the beginning of the dynasty, the instruments and music of the Huhua of the Western Regions have flourished for a while, and the lyre is often less appreciated because of "the ancient sound is dull and unpopular," Praise, Gao Shi also wrote a poem for him: Mo Chou has no confidant, no one in the world knows the emperor.

Huang Zixian nodded eagerly to the woman.

Zhao Wang Li Yan beside him smiled and said, "Four brother, this young **** is so reusable for you now, what are you busy with today?"

"He has a good memory, and I asked him to go to the Wang's house to teach the rules of the royal palace."

"Oh, in addition to solving the case, he also has the ability to remember the fourth brother?" Li Xi asked with a smile.

Li Shubai only hummed slightly, and didn't talk any more. Seeing the setting sun shining diagonally on Chen Nianniang's eyes, Huang Zixian frowned slightly between her eyebrows, and walked over to gently lower the bamboo curtain in front of her.

Li She smiled again: "This little **** is really a meticulous person."

Chen Nian-niang's song "Mo Yu" is at the end, the golden sound is jade and the sound is empty and long, it is forgotten, and no one answered Li Xi's words. Only the remaining sound was curled, gentle and kind, and Chen Nianniang put her hand on the piano and calmed down a little before she got up to salute everyone.

Li Run admired: "It's really wonderful, you can imagine the style of Dong Da."

Li Yan also said: "You are really good at playing, are you interested in joining the Jiaofang? Maybe we can introduce you."

Chen Nianniang slowly shook her head: "I have grown old, and now I work as a piano teacher in Yunshaoyuan, Jiangnan, and have a worry-free life. I am afraid I can no longer adapt to the workshop."

Li Xi asked: "Then why did you come to Beijing this time?"

Chen Nianniang said, "I studied art with my senior sister Feng Yiniang under the teacher's school. The two have a very good relationship. After many years, the two have supported each other and depended on each other as companions. A few months ago, Yiniang suddenly said goodbye to me and said that she was going to **** the daughter of the deceased. When I arrived in Chang'an, it took three or four months at most, and at least one or two months. But now it has been more than five months. Not only has there been no news from the whole person, but also, I asked everyone and found that no one knew she had arrived. What happened to Chang'an and who was the escort, so I had to come to Beijing alone to find out the news. Who knew that not only was there nowhere to find people, but the entanglement around him was exhausted. Fortunately, I met several senior brothers and introduced me here. , Was able to see the nobles."

Li Run smiled and said, "I know what you mean, I hope I can help you find the whereabouts of Senior Sister, right?"

"Exactly, if I can get the whereabouts of Senior Sister, I am really grateful!"

Li Run said, "But Chang'an said it's big and small, so let me write you a letter. You can go to the household office and ask them to draw a picture for you and look for it."

Chen Nianniang was overjoyed, bowed deeply to him, and said: "You don't have to bother to draw pictures. There are small portraits that I painted with my senior sister in the past few years. The ones I have always brought with me are very similar to us. , Just take it over and show them."

"That couldn't be better, you give us the little image, I'll write a letter first."

With a look from Li Shubai, Huang Zixia obediently went to the door again and asked the store for pen and ink. Li Run wrote a letter next to him, and Chen Nianniang sat in front of the piano, adjusting the strings one by one. Huang Zixia sat opposite her, helped her open the rosin powder box and wiped the strings finely.

Chen Nianniang liked her very much because of her carefulness just now. She looked at her hand and asked, "Can the little father-in-law play the piano?"

"I learned Pipa and Huanghou before, but I didn't have patience, so I only learned a little bit, and then they were abandoned."

"It's a pity, your hands are very suitable for playing the piano."

Huang Zixia was a little surprised, and said, "No one said that my palm looks good before."

"However, your palm looks stronger, and if you play the piano or pipa, your palm is a little bigger, so you can span a little bit when you press the strings."

Huang Zixia smiled and said, "I think I liked playing polo before, so that's what happened."

When it comes to polo, Li Xi leaned over: "Hey, you little **** likes to play polo too? We will play polo another day and call you."

Huang Zixia quickly said: "It's just that I have played one or two games before."

"I really can't see it, your thin body actually dare to play polo, but that's a matter of missing arms and legs." Li Yan said, reaching out to pinch his shoulders, Huang Zixia leaned back slightly. , Glanced at Li Shubai, but he turned a blind eye, only coughing slightly.

Li Shesun smiled, turned around and walked back to sit next to Li Shubai. Huang Zixian continued to lower her head to sort out the rosin powder. Once she raised her head, she saw Chen Nianniang's drooping face, high nose and small chin, and she thought to herself that she and her own mother had a similar outline.