The Golden Hairpin

The one that entangled Zhou Ziqin's feet was indeed wrapped. There is a pipa, two clothes, a jewelry box, and a big stone.

At the same time, there was a headless female corpse dragged out of the water, tied to another stone. Zhou Ziqin cut the rope on the stone and dragged her ashore.

"I'm exhausted." Zhou Ziqin climbed up and collapsed on the grass by the bank, gasping for breath.

"How can things sink without such a heavy stone?" The other two people who didn't feel guilty at all, had already squatted beside the corpse and studied.

The headless female corpse was obviously not immersed in water for a long time. Although the skin turned white from the soaking, it was not too swollen. She was wearing an extremely gorgeous and soft Luo skirt. Judging from the delicate waist and slender limbs, she was obviously a young and slender woman.

"Zi Qin, you are more familiar with corpses, so talk about this corpse." Li Shubai turned his head and said to Zhou Ziqin.

Zhou Ziqin lay on the ground and said with a little regret: "I knew there was a corpse. You should have told me earlier. I didn't bring any tools."

Huang Zixia explained: "I didn't know there would be corpses, I thought there were only packages."

Zhou Ziqin got up, panted to the side of the corpse, and inspected it roughly.

"The deceased was a young woman. She was about five feet three inches tall before she was alive, and she was in good shape. Among so many corpses I have examined, she can definitely rank first. As the so-called richness, a one-point increase is too much. Long, minus a fraction is too short..."

"Talk about business." Li Shubai had to interrupt him.

"Well, she threw the corpse into the ditch after her head was cut off by the murderer. The crime scene should be not far from here. The murderer is a very experienced veteran. You see, the cut on the neck is very neat. It’s clean and tidy. I think it’s difficult to find such a crime scene. Such an experienced veteran should be able to deal with all traces perfectly, especially where there are weeds and weeds."

"Um... Headless female corpse, it is more difficult to confirm the identity." Huang Zixian said as she picked up the pipa in the package and looked at it. The string of the pipa has been broken, but the peony inlaid on it is still intact, and the color is vivid in the sun.

It was the pipa that Jin Nu couldn't leave her hand, the "Autumn Dew Xingshuang" that her master Mei Wanzhi gave her.

There are many jewellery in the jewelry box, all of which are very delicately made. "It's Jin Nu's stuff, no doubt." Huang Zi Xia deliberately looked at the pile of gauze begonia that Jin Nu had worn by her temple when she first met, then closed the jewelry box and turned over the two wet clothes.

"Is it Jinnu? It's very possible to say that." Zhou Ziqin asked thoughtfully, "Is it possible that someone was tricked into elopement and was killed when he walked here. The body and the package were tied to stones and thrown away. In the river?"

"I can't see it. Jin Nu should not clean up these things." Huang Zixia picked up the clothes and said, "Although I chose the most beautiful dresses, I only have outerwear and no underwear. One. If the woman is going out, can she just change the clothes outside?"

"It makes sense..."

"So the murderer just took a few pieces of clothes in his hand, with the intention of disguising as the illusion of Jin Nu running away."

"Then this corpse?"

"Jin Nu is about five feet and five inches long. You said this body is only five feet three inches, so of course it is not Jin Nu."

Zhou Ziqin is still confused: "But how could it be so coincidental that he just appeared here?"

Huang Zixia looked at him: "What do you think?"

Zhou Ziqin looked at her, then at Li Shubai, and said, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

"Well, the real Jinnu——" Huang Zixia said calmly, "I should lie in Wang Ruo's coffin now."

Zhou Ziqin jumped up suddenly: "Wh, what? You mean..."

"Yes, someone disguised Jin Nu's corpse as Wang Ruo, trying to use this corpse to settle the mystery of the disappearance of the princess."

"It's horrible!" Zhou Ziqin couldn't help but his eyes widened. "But why did the murderer choose Jin Nu and even hurt her so badly?"

"Because there are similarities in figure, after all, Wang Ruo is quite tall, and most women are half a head shorter than her. For example, the body of this woman has no head, but we can still judge that she is basically tall and short. It's just that the corpse of a pipa girl doesn't have any after all. The importance of the princess, the government will not pay much attention to this, and if the body is in the water for a long time, it will be soaked in the water. As long as it is discovered a few days later, the height will be more difficult to judge." She said, wrapping Pipa and the like again. Okay, sign Zhou Ziqin to take it away, "Store the exhibits with you first. There are so many people on my side that are inconvenient."

"Oh, good." Regardless of the muddy water still flowing, Zhou Ziqin hugged the package, and then asked, "Where is this corpse?"

Huang Zixia gave a dry cough and said, "Or...see if you can take it back to your house?"

"...Do you think it's possible?" Zhou Ziqin asked.

Li Shubai said: "Notify Cui Chunzhan directly, saying that you found the headless female body and a package here. As for how Dali Temple judges the identity of the deceased, you do not interfere. Also, remember to pack all the exhibits, tomorrow If we call you, you can take it quickly."

"Okay." He said, begging Huang Zixia to go and notify Cui Chunzhan with a bitter face, and he waited there with the package and the corpse.

Huang Zixia and Li Shubai drilled out of the bushes next to the canal and walked along the barren road to the side of the neighborhood. They saw a few idlers sitting in the shade of the roadside chatting.

Huang Zixian pointed to the canal and shouted: "The body has been taken out of the water over there!"

Suddenly, a few idle men rushed to their feet, some went to watch the excitement, some shouted, and some shouted at the newspaper official, all of a sudden.

Li Shubai and Huang Zixia walked into the empty alley, Di E and Na Fusha were still chewing the grass on the ground leisurely. In fact, it was very pitiful to wear a horse bit, and I couldn't eat a few grasses at all, but the two horses still rubbed boringly on the weeds in the corner.

The two of them got on their horses and found that even Li Shubai, who had been standing idly by, had his clothes rubbed with mud and water marks, mottled and mixed. But the two didn't care anymore. They rode on the horse and walked slowly, talking without a moment.

Huang Zixia asked: "Jing Yi returned from Xuzhou?"

"Come back, when the arrow cluster disappeared, it was when Pang Xun's remnants were rampant near Xuzhou."

"It is said that when the arrowhead disappeared, the lock pattern of the crystal box did not move, and the things in it were missing. Is it true?"

"It's true. After Jing Yi arrived in Xuzhou, he thoroughly investigated the whole matter and interrogated all the soldiers who guarded the tower at the time, and found that it was because Pang Xun's remnants bought the guards, the guards stole themselves, and deceived ghosts and gods."

Huang Zixia thoughtfully said: "But what happened in Xuzhou was spread in the capital in an instant, and it was accompanied by the theory of ghosts and gods. It seems that someone must be manipulating this thing behind it, and He deliberately pulled Pang Xun's matter over, with the intention of concealing his true intentions."

Li Shubai said indifferently: "But I don't know that this is just trying to cover up, and it's self-defeating."

"Well, it seems that another conjecture can be matched."

They talked casually and walked past Chang'an.

Under the azure blue sky, Chang'an Seventy-two Square was neat and strict, standing solemnly in the thin dust of the long wind. The sun in the early summer was warm, and Huang Zixia, who was wearing a jacket, felt a little sweat on her neck. She lifted her sleeves and wiped it, walking slowly along the shadow of the locust tree on the street, thinking about the mystery before her.

Li Shubai handed her a square folded white kerchief, she took it and wiped it, then came back to her senses and turned to look at him.

His face was covered with a faint glow under the shade of the locust tree at this time. The sun in May sifted down from the night, like golden filaments, changing and flowing. But when the sun fell on them, it turned into a little bit of brilliant halo. In such a blurred and changing light, she saw his expression, and in her usual indifference, she seemed to carry something different. For a moment, it seemed to make the air between them flow slowly.

Huang Zixian bowed her head and walked silently with him. When she approached Yongjiafang, she suddenly turned her horse's head, urging Na Fusha to go north.

Li Shubai followed her and asked, "Go to Daming Palace, Yongchun Palace?"

"Well, I will confirm the last thing, and the case can be solved."

"Has everything been found out?" He was slightly surprised, looking at Huang Zixian beside him. The locust trees were sparse, the shade receded, and the golden sunlight was shining all over them. He saw Huang Zixian walking side by side with him, covered with a bright and fascinating light, as if it did not come from the sun slanting west at this time. It radiates from the body in general.

He was slightly wrong and kept looking at Huang Zixia. And she went straight in from the gate of the temple, passed through the front hall, and walked over the rockery along the blue brick flat road, then squatted down near the inner hall, pointed to a rockery, and said: "Here, I found Wang Ruo. The leaf vein hairpin in the world."

Li Shubai nodded slowly. Watching her raise her hand to hold the silver hairpin on her head, hold the curling leaf, pull out the hosta inside, and draw a shallow white mark on the blue brick floor——

"The front hall, the back hall, the middle rockery. Here..." Her hairpin drew a circle on the rockery, enclosing a highest point, "It is the place where Wang Ruo's leaf vein gold hairpin was lost."

Li Shubai pointed to the corridor of the outer hall: "This is, where we are standing."

"Yes, on the corridor of the outer hall, one person at ten steps, always staring at the door of the inner hall. Inside the rockery, there are the guards outside the window, and their eyes never leave the window." She took off a leaf next to her and wiped the hairpin clean in her hand. , And then quickly and lightly inserted it back into the silver hairpin, raised his head and raised the corners of his lips towards him, revealing a bright and clean smile, "This case is over."

Li Shubai stood up silently and looked around. Evening has begun to envelope here, and the twilight is about to engulf the bright day.