The Golden Hairpin

Li Run remembered something, and said: "I just don't know how the case of the former Shu county governor Huang Min is going."

Li Xi was the best informed, and immediately said: "That Huang Zixia was afraid that he had escaped incognito. The world is so big that if a person spends a lifetime in a poor country, it may not be easy to catch."

"I didn't expect that Master Huang, such a calm and cautious person, would end up like this in the end. It's really embarrassing."

Huang Zixia stood beside them, listening to them talking about the murders in her and her family, her expression was calm and almost cold, only a suffocating pain appeared in her chest unknowingly, and there was a string that was strangling her heart. It is tightening slowly and slowly.

Li Shubai didn't even look at what Huang Zixia was standing behind him, but said lightly: "Perhaps Huang Zixia is bold enough, but it may not necessarily be the case that Huang Zixia came to the capital by the other way."

"That's just throwing yourself into the net, and you will definitely die." Li Yan said.

Li Run sighed in a low voice: "I remember Huang Zixia was hailed as a goddess boy in the capital back then. I didn't expect it to be like this now. It's sad and hateful."

Among those present, King Kang Li Wen was young and didn't know the story of the year. He curiously asked: "What is so strange about Huang Min's daughter? Why does it seem that everyone knows her?"

Li Xi smiled and said: "She helped Huang Min, the father of the criminal ministry at the time, to solve several cases. It was quite interesting. Now this case is still talked about by storytellers in the public."

Li Wen curiously said: "I have never heard of it, Brother Nine, please tell me, and it depends on which one of you and the storyteller speaks better."

Amid the laughter of everyone, Li Yan really sat upright, coughing a clear cough, and said: "Okay, then I'll just start from the beginning. I remember five or six years ago, the Xing Department suddenly received news in the evening. It is said that a woman in Xingdefang committed suicide by hanging a beam. Hao Zuo rushed to the scene to see that she was a newlywed woman. It is said that because of a disagreement with her husband yesterday, she ran outside and was sulking for a long time. After returning in the evening, she found a short sight. ."

Jin Nu concealed her mouth and opened her eyes wide, and sighed: "Women in this world are so narrow-minded, it's really breathtaking."

"Yeah, at that time, Hao did an autopsy and he was indeed hanged to death. So the Criminal Ministry prepared to close the case like this. Huang Min, who was then the minister of the Criminal Ministry, went to review the case. At that time, Huang Zixia, who was eleven or twelve years old, was also outside the house where the accident occurred and followed her. The brothers waited for Huang Min to go home together. Chang'an people love to be lively. Seeing that there has been a murder case here, outsiders come and go, all are to watch the fun. Some cloth merchants said that this lady did not buy the clothes and materials from his family when she got married, and got married. The color of the wedding dress that I wore at the time was not correct, which led to this tragedy; a jeweller asked her if she had ordered a pair of silver hairpins in her shop in the afternoon, and if the male owner wanted it; a fortune teller said that she had already calculated his home this year. There should be a happy event, but unfortunately I didn't come to myself early...it was a bit of noisy. Just when Huang Min was about to finalize his case, Huang Zixia suddenly called him through the door: "Daddy"!"

When Li Xi said this, he coughed slightly and looked at everyone in front of him like a storyteller in the market: "Everyone, at this point, does anyone know what Huang Zixiahuang calls her dad?"

Li Run smiled and said, "You just said the beginning, and there is no hint. How do we know what Huang Zixia calls her father?"

Li Xi smiled and said: "It is true that only the beginning is said, but at that time Huang Zixia already knew the cause of death and the real culprit of the newlyweds, and I had just reminded them."

Everyone looked at each other, and Li Wen said first: "From my point of view, the fortune teller is very suspicious. Is it because he wants to get the title of a living god, so he doesn't hesitate to hurt others?"

Li Xi laughed, and then asked Li Run, "What do you think of Brother Seven?"

Li Run pondered for a moment, and said, "I don't know about this. Could it be that the cloth merchant and the bride had a dispute over the wedding gown, so they held a grudge? Or maybe it was what happened to the jewelry merchant when the woman went to buy jewelry. Discord, the hand below?"

Li Xi smiled, without comment, and then asked Li Shubai: "What do you think?"

"It was the hand of the husband." Li Shubai said casually.

Li Xi was shocked immediately, showing an expression of "Brother, please accept my respect": "Fourth brother, how can you guess it!"

"I have read the files in the Criminal Ministry before, so I know the truth roughly." He said flatly.

Li Xi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Exactly. At that time, Huang Min was about to write on the dossier, but he heard Huang Zixian yelling'Daddy'. He looked up and asked, "You are a little girl's house, why are you here at the murder scene?" Go back quickly! Huang Zixia pointed at the jeweller standing next to him and said, "Daddy, did you hear him talking? So that lady was definitely not suicide, but was pretended to be suicide. She actually It was killed by someone!'"

Li Wen looked unbelievable and said, "Brother Nine, you said she was eleven or twelve years old and younger than me. This little girl, who would believe what she said!"

"That's right. At that time, Huang Min also felt that it was really unreasonable for a little girl of her to say such a thing, so she whispered, "Go and play with me," and didn't intend to pay attention to her. Who knew she put her hand on her father. "Daddy, when you chatted with your colleagues at home, when you talked about the death of a person, your heart is ashamed, then, have you ever seen a person whose heart is ashamed and will go to the jewelry store before committing suicide?" Customized silver hairpin? Besides, I just selected the style and didn't get it!'"

The words of Li Xun were silent in the hall, and even the Jin slave who had been holding the pipa was in a trance. He unconsciously swiped his hand on the pipa with a soft sound, but no one paid attention to her. Everyone just realized each other, and then hit the festival. commend.

Li Shubai raised his hand and tapped the table, motioning to Huang Zixia behind him. She understood, and slowly knelt down, lifted the jug on the table, and filled his wine glass.

He turned his eyes slightly and saw her profile. The long eyelashes were thick and curled, covering her deep and deep eyes. The sunlight passed through the window lattices, gliding over her eyelashes, brilliance. faint.

Li Shu's narration continued: "Huang Min was surprised that his daughter was justified, so he immediately called for a second examination of the body. After careful examination, it was finally found that the rope strangulation was slightly displaced. The traces that can be superimposed only by strangling on the original imprint-therefore, it is inferred that the deceased was first strangled to death, and then hung from the beam to pretend to commit suicide, and the person who can do this is naturally the first to discover her body. The newspaper official said that his wife committed suicide and that her husband had committed suicide."

Li Wen opened his eyes wide and asked, "Did her husband confess?"

Li Shu nodded and said: "Her husband saw that Hao Zuo found out the flaws in the body, and his face was already scared, so he knelt down and begged for mercy and confessed his crime. It turned out that he suspected that his wife had an affair before marriage with someone on the street. He saw her. After quarreling with herself, she went to the street, thinking that she was looking for an adulterer, so she was so irritated that she was irritated. When his wife turned home and closed the door, he grabbed the rope next to her and strangled her. When she woke up, she was strangled. Hurry up and hang her on the beam, disguising the illusion of her wife committing suicide, trying to get through."

Li Runzan said: "He almost concealed it and crossed the ocean, but a twelve-year-old girl broke it all at once. Maybe God wouldn't let him go."

"Exactly, Huang Zixian was twelve years old, and a homicide case was concluded in one sentence. Since then, everyone in the capital has praised Huang Zixian as a genius girl. Sometimes there are difficult unsolved cases in the Criminal Ministry, Huang Zixian can often help Huang Min to sort out the clues, so Huang Minzeng To others, my daughter is better than ten other sons—but I didn’t expect that it was this daughter who poisoned the whole family and caused a horrific murder."

Li Shubai saw Huang Zixian's sun-drenched eyelashes trembling slightly. But it was only a slight tremor. She lowered her eyelids and stood up silently, as light as a flower branch trembling in the wind. Li Shubai thought in his heart, who could have imagined that such a slender and smart girl could stand in the crowd talking about her with such composure, listening to others telling her about her past and sins, calmly and calmly.

After Li Xie finished talking about the case, everyone sighed for a while, and Li Run suddenly remembered something and said: "If Huang Zixia is in the capital, I wonder if this strange case in the capital can be solved?"

Li Shu asked: "You are talking about the'four plans' that make everyone in the capital at risk now?"

Li Run nodded. Li Wen hurriedly asked: "What are the four plans? Why don't I know?"

"It's a recent case in Beijing. It's bloody, weird and cruel. Everyone is thinking of your young age, so they haven't mentioned it in front of you." Li Xi smiled, "If you don't ask, you should go and listen to the scholars of the Hanlin Academy. Give lectures."

"No, no, what you said is much better than what the Hanlin scholars said. I must know what the four plans are!" Li Wen stood up, ran to Li Xi and sat next to him, and kept going. The child looked at him, his eyes were like a baby bird looking forward to the mother bird.

Li Run smiled and said: "You can talk about it. Although I have heard about it, I only know the outline. I know that your favorite restaurant and tea shop every day hears about books and stories. What do the shops say now?"

Li Xi looked at Li Shubai: "Four brothers, you are familiar with Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice. I wonder if you have any new clues?"

Li Shubai shook his head slowly: "No, both of them are trying their best to interrogate, but there is no progress."

"Then I'll just follow what I heard and tell me about it." Li Yan motioned Jin Nu to come over to add wine to himself, and then with a mysterious expression on his face, he asked Li Wen: "You know the city of Chang'an. People in the east are now panicking. Although they are not counted as empty, but most of them have been invested in other parts of the capital or the homes of relatives and friends in the suburbs of Beijing. Don't you dare to live in Jingdong anymore?"

"Really? No wonder it seems that even the business in Dongshi has been cold recently. When I visited last time, many businesses closed their accounts for rest." Li Wen was even more curious, "What's going on? What happened to JD.com? ?"

"The matter, I have to talk about it three months ago. In the early morning of the 17th day of the first lunar month, the guards of the Taiji Palace in the north of the city got up early and routinely patrolled, and found that under the palace wall, a more than 60-year-old guard was killed and the wall was killed. People write down the word'Jing' in blood." Li Yan was full of emotions and expressions, and he had an expression of joy and excitement. If you didn't listen to what he said, and thought he was telling a story about a gifted man and a beautiful lady, who would have thought it would be a murder.

"One month later, on February 21st, a 30-year-old blacksmith was killed outside the medicine hall in Anyifang, south of the city. The word'Le' was written on the wall. On March 19, Changanfangshan in the southwest of the city In the murder case, a four-year-old child was killed, and there was also a message saying "I". The Ministry of Criminal Affairs confirmed the handwriting and homicide method, and determined that these three cases should be committed by one person, so it was tentatively designated as the "four plans". "Nirvana Sutra" said that the four representative meanings of the Bodhi tree are "constant, happy, me, and pure." The east represents chang, the south represents music, the west represents me, and the north represents clean. Therefore, the people in Beijing were panicked at that time and suddenly became popular among the people. There has been a rumor that these people were killed by evil spirits, because on the first day of the first month of this year, Master Zhuang Zhen read this sentence incorrectly at the Fa conference, causing evil spirits to stay in the mortal world and cause chaos. They must be killed in the capital. Four talents in four directions will leave."

"Master Zhuang Zhen, I remember! He seems to be an eminent monk from Jianfu Temple? When Princess Suining was born, because Chen Zhaorong had a dystocia, the palace invited him over to do the ritual." Li Wen asked curiously, "I only heard about him. He died a few days ago, is it related to this matter?"

Li Shu nodded: "Master Zhuang Zhen heard the rumors in the capital that all the dead were caused by him. And he remembered that he gave a lecture on the "Great Nirvana Sutra" that day, and he really missed the passage of the Dharma. The word should be read as "Le", but he did not notice it for a while and became "Yue". It was a big fault. So he sat down in a few days under anxiety and anger. But after his death, there were even more rumors in the capital, saying blessings. The temple is in the middle of the capital. The death of Master Zhuang Zhen should be a hidden Bodhi tree, facing in all directions. Now that the North, South, and West have been murdered, only the life of Chengdong is left to take away. Chengdong’s After hearing the rumors, people were panicked for a while, and many families fled to their relatives to take refuge, and the east of the city was almost empty."

Li Run sighed slightly and asked Li Shubai: "Fourth brother, this is such a big mess. Three people have already died. Is it true that Dali Temple and the Criminal Department really have nothing to do?"

Li Shubai said: "This murderer is ruthless and accurate, and is good at hiding. The population of Chang'an city is close to one million. It is almost clueless to interrogate such a person. Although Dali Temple and the Criminal Department have deployed all their forces, they still have nothing to do. Nothing. Now in April, according to the murderer's method of killing one person in January, it is estimated that the murderer will start soon. Therefore, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and Dali Temple can only be staffed in Beijing. Other than that, there is no way for the time being."

Li Run sighed: "Chang Le I Jing, but the Buddhist verses were used as a message on the murder. This case is really weird and cruel, and it is difficult to speculate... I am afraid that even if Huang Zixia is in Beijing, it will be difficult to solve this case."

Li Xi smiled and said: "She is just a woman, and occasionally solves a few cases with her cleverness. It's just that the woman's thinking is easy to be intolerant and can't be thought of by ordinary people. At the moment, she can only be helpless and impossible to solve this case. of."

Li Wen opened a pair of big eyes and said, "But Zhou Ziqin kept saying in front of me that Huang Zixian was so beautiful that she was shocked, and there is no such thing as a rare case in the world."

"Unfortunately, Huang Zixia, the daughter of Huang Shilang's family who was amazing and talented, is now a murderer, wandering around the world, and everyone is punishable." Li Shubai said, Huang Zixia, who stood behind him, remained silent and motionless.

Amidst the sighs of the people, only Li Run said, "I think there must be inside information about the murder of the Huang family, at least...not as simple as the surface."

"But the evidence in this case is conclusive, and there are all human and material evidences. Huang Zixian's crime is already a solid matter, and it is absolutely impossible to reverse the case." Li Yan shook his head and asked, "Seven brothers said that, do you know the inside of the case?"

"No, it's just that Wang Yun is a good friend of mine, and I can't believe this."

Li Wen curiously asked: "Which Wang Yun?"

Li Run said: "Naturally, he is the queen's clan brother, Wang Yun, the only son of Langya's parents."

"Exactly. Wang Yun is Huang Zixian's fiancé." Li Yan looked mysterious, "It is said that Huang Zixian is unwilling to marry Wang Yun, and there is someone in his mind, so he poisoned the whole family and wanted to run away with his lover. ."

Behind Li Shubai, Huang Zixian stood with her hands hanging down, silent. For some reason, Li Shubai chuckled lightly.

Li Xi quickly looked at him and asked, "Fourth brother, in your opinion?"

Li Shubai smiled and said: "It's nothing, I'm just thinking, the seventh brother has a deep relationship with Wang Yun, then, have you ever seen Huang Zixia?"

"It can be regarded as having met once." Li Run nodded. "Three years ago, Huang Zixia was summoned to be commended by the queen for helping his father solve strange cases. That day Wang Yun came to me and talked about Huang Zixia as his fiancée. , I saw what he meant, so I accompanied him into the palace, clearly saying that I was asking his queen cousin for peace, in fact, to take a peek at his fiancée."

Li Wen quickly asked: "Then you must have seen it? What does that Huang Zixia look like?"

"I saw it. We were too late when we entered the palace. She retreated first. We only saw her on the far veranda. She was following the maids. She was dressed in silver-red gauze, very black hair, and very dark. White skin. Her steps are light and slender, like a flower letter from the beginning. Only when she turned around at the turn of the corridor, we took a look at her side."

Li Xi asked, "Is it a beauty?"

Li Run nodded: "Same as the image on the maritime capture document, it is indeed a beauty."

"Wang Yun is really a pity." Li Wen smiled.