The Golden Hairpin

Huang Zixian nodded and was about to say something to Uncle A Yuan who was driving, suddenly there was a noise at the intersection ahead, Uncle A Yuan stopped the carriage slowly, and did not move at the intersection for a while.

Huang Zixia quickly opened the small window and asked Uncle Yuan: "Uncle Yuan, what's the matter?"

"Princess Tongchang's carriage blocked the intersection," he said.

Huang Zixia quickly jumped out of the carriage and went to check.

This is near Pingkangfang. The roads of Chang'an City were originally wide. However, because of the canals being cleared on both sides, the locust trees that had grown for many years crooked into the street, so that most of the roads here were occupied.

The traffic situation is already severe. Who knows that the two artists in Pingkangfang are still setting up a small stage at the intersection, relatively show off. For a moment, the sheng xiao jingle, dances and dances, and countless idlers gather under the stage, blocking the road. And in the midst of this noise, Princess Tongchang's carriage with gold and jade lay straight in the middle of the road, making it difficult to move.

Huang Zixian saw Chuzhu, Luopei, Chuiyu, and Qingbi all following the carriage, frowned by the people around him, and back again.

She walked up and greeted them in the crowd: "What a coincidence, the princess is here?"

It's hard for Chuizhu to give a polite in such a crowded crowd, saying: "Yes, father-in-law is with Prince Kui today?"

Huang Zixia was nodding, and Princess Tongchang over there raised the curtain of the car window and glanced at her. Her thin and sharp eyebrows, now frowning because of irritability, seemed to be more aggressive: "Duke Yang, are you here too? Where are the guards of the Royal Palace? Why don't you evacuate the crowd quickly?"

Huang Zixia heard that she was full of anger in her words, and she made it clear that the person who was in charge of the Prince Kui’s Mansion was a little helpless in her heart. She could only say: "I'm afraid that the principal is disappointed. King Kui has just returned from the imperial city and there are no soldiers around him. ."

"Tsk, I don’t come early or late. It happened that the carriages of this palace passed here and they were blocked!" As she said, she turned her head to reprimand the driver, "Even if you enter from the Phoenix Gate, borrow the East Palace. So what, haven't I met the prince yet?"

The coachman was so scolded that he could only bow his head and promise.

Huang Zixian was slightly startled when he heard the Phoenix Gate, and then asked: "The princess has recently become ill, or it is better to rest in peace. Why go to Tai Chi Palace?"

Chuizhu nodded, looked at the crowd in front of him with a worried look, and muttered, "Concubine Shu is still waiting for the princess..."

Tai Chi Palace is now only occupied by the Queen and Queen, and now Concubine Guo Shu is there and asked Princess Tongchang to go there. What's the matter?

She suddenly remembered something and quickly asked: "Is the emperor also there?"

"The slave servant doesn't know... Concubine Shu sent someone to inform the princess." Chuizhu said carefully.

Huang Zixia immediately understood that today must be an important moment for the Queen and Queen, and Concubine Guo Shu asked Princess Tongchang to come here to give the Queen a fatal blow.

She remembered what the Queen said when she summoned her. At that time, she casually mentioned about her return to the palace. At that time, the Queen seemed to have the chance to win. She must have an important bargaining chip in her hand against Concubine Guo Shu, but... Can't it be used?

She was thinking, the louder the music in her ears, it turned out that the duel between the two artists had reached the final moment of victory. The woman in red on the right is dancing a Huxuan, turning left and right, swift as the wind, attracting the people below to applaud; while the woman in green on the left is extremely high-pitched, singing a song of Spring River Flower Moon Night, her singing is In such a noise, it is still clearly distinguishable, showing the skill. Without being partial, what I sang is exactly that line--

"At this time, I look at each other and don't hear each other, and I am willing to Zhaojun every month..."

Huang Zixia's eyes looked at Princess Tongchang involuntarily.

Princess Tongchang's face was full of irritability, and she cursed in a low voice, "These annoying advocates, when will my father be driven out of Chang'an!"

With that, she slammed the car curtain violently. The people outside the carriage were overcrowded, and the two horses pulling the carriage in front were startled in the crowd, pacing restlessly, and the carriage began to sway from side to side.

Chuezhu hurriedly guarded the car door and asked inside, "Princess, is the princess okay?"

Before she finished her words, Princess Tongchang had already opened the door and stepped down a few steps.

Her condition was not healed, and her temper was irritable, she walked in a hurry, her feet swayed, and she almost fell.

Chuizhu hurriedly supported her, surrounded by dozens of eunuchs who accompanied her, and screened the people around.

The street was already crowded. The dozens of people got in and the surroundings became even more chaotic. The people watching singing and dancing next to them were crowded. Several grumpy people had already shouted out: "What are you doing? What a eunuch? You can't even come to the emperor." Don't let the people watch singing and dancing!"

In the chaos, Princess Tongchang's gaze suddenly fell to a certain part of the crowd. Those sharp eyes opened wide, and she called out, "Jiuluanchai!"

Huang Zixia looked in the direction she was looking, but saw a crowd of people. There were a few firework women wearing various floral ornaments on their heads, but they all looked very vulgar, unlike the jade-colored nine-luan chai.

Princess Tongchang’s several maids also looked towards the crowd, and Chuizhu subconsciously asked: "Did the princess see Jiuluanchai? But... the servants did not see..."

"Over there, in the hands of a person!" Princess Tongchang pointed to the southwest, and unconsciously took two steps there.

Chuizhu hurriedly followed behind her and stretched out her hand to pull her: "Princess, be careful..."

Before she finished her words, Princess Tongchang was already grabbed by her arm and fell forward involuntarily. She was petite, and she was suddenly pulled into the crowd at this moment. The separated and closed crowd turned out to be like a beast, opening her blood basin with a big mouth, and immediately swallowing her.

On both sides of the stage, the song of Chunjiang Huayueye is being sung by dozens of showgirls in a chorus of music, the ultimate lingering and tactful, in the end, the voices of other people gradually can't keep up, only the voice of the showgirl who sang at first has overwhelmed everything. It is noisy, and the sound at a very high altitude is like a journey of a thousand mountains, almost tortuous, straight up to the sky.

Hu Xuanwu was at the fastest moment, and the scene was filled with the enchanting and soft figure of the woman on the right stage. She opened her hands and turned her face up to the sky, desperately spinning. The hair braids, woven into hundreds of small braids, are spread out, and they are flying right and left together with the scarf on the head and the skirt on the body, like a colorful vortex.

Chuizhu and the others' exclamation was masked by the noisy music at this time. The princess disappeared into the crowd in front of dozens of people. Everyone around her couldn't believe it and couldn't react for a while.

Huang Zixia was the first to recover, and immediately separated the crowd and squeezed inside.

In the crowded crowd, with all kinds of clothes and all kinds of characters, she also lost her left and right, standing in the middle of the street for a moment not knowing where to go. At this moment, someone grabbed her wrist and dragged her out.

Huang Zixia turned around and saw Li Shubai. He was tall and slender, standing tall among the crowd, and found her all at once.

She was very anxious and asked quickly: "Where is the princess? Did the prince see the princess?"

Li Shubai shook his head, frowned and said: "I have ordered Ji Lejia to withdraw immediately, but for a while, I am afraid that people will not be able to disperse immediately."

Huang Zixia eagerly said: "Before the princess disappeared, she yelled'Nine Luan Chai'. I think someone must have led her away with Nine Luan Chai. I'm afraid... the princess is in a distressing situation now!"

Li Shubai pondered for a moment. His memory is extraordinary. There are four Pingkangfang Avenues, 16 small streets, and 123 small alleys. He has seen a map of Chang'an once, and it is very clear in his mind. Excluding all the streets where the music workshops gather, the streets with numerous wine shops, and the alleys with dead ends in front of them, the most likely more than ten streets immediately surfaced.

With a move, he quickly assigned tasks to the eunuchs of the Princess's Mansion who turned around like a headless fly, and directly named the direction and the way to go, even the first one was clearly stated.

Huang Zixian looked back and found that there were only three maids beside the princess. She glanced around and asked, "Where are weeping beads?"

"Chuizhu just chased the princess, and disappeared in the crowd..." Before Chuanyu's voice fell, she suddenly heard screams coming from a distance. At this time, after the crowd was evacuated, she began to quietly pick up the road. He looked particularly sad: "come...come..."

It's the voice of Weeping Pearl.

Li Shubai and Huang Zixian reacted the fastest, and immediately followed the sound and ran away.

Behind the square wall, there were three or four feet of space left, and the wildly growing Chiluo was climbing up the courtyard wall, and a large swath of red flowers bloomed vigorously, like splattered blood splashing on the green leaves.

At the end of Chi Luo, Princess Tong Chang was leaning against the wall, slowly slipping down. Her eyes were closed, and her body was still twitching.

The red dress with golden butterflies on her body showed a strangely bright and moist trace, and the color was almost dazzling in the sun.

Behind Sutulu, there are clusters of basil vines. At this time, there are only a few small and small red bunches, which are still swaying slowly.

Chuizhu staggered and ran over, Minuo entangled, she tripped to the ground, but she didn't know where to get her strength, even crying and crawling or rolling to Princess Tongchang, hugged her hard, her face pale in fright, and she called again and again. She couldn’t scream anymore, she just pressed her heart to the place where blood was always gushing out, but how could her palms prevent the passing of Princess Tongchang’s life? She could only watch the princess’s lively life and warmth. The blood gushed out of his chest together, seeping into the vibrant earth at this time, and gradually disappeared into invisible.

She pressed against Princess Tongchang's wound, her face was too shocked and she couldn't face it.

Huang Zixia's footsteps were also chaotic. She rushed to them and saw the place where Princess Tongchang's blood dripped. On top of the ruined Culuo who was trampled on the ground, she lay quietly on the mysteriously disappeared Jiuluan. hairpin.

The marvelous jade of nine colors is carved into nine soothing Luan and phoenixes, with blood dripping on them, warm and gorgeous, beyond words.

The crescent-shaped tail of the nine-luan hairpin was now broken, and it was inserted in the princess's heart.

The blood was stained, and the two ancient seals engraved on it were more vividly revealed——

Yuer.