Chapter 217: Portrait
The few pieces of information that Han Li had came out of Fang Qiao's mouth. But from this simple information, it can be seen that this person is not simple.
The family is backward, with the gifts of Princess Pingyang and the Lu family, after changing his name and surname, he can become a hero alone on the dangerous Northwest Trade Road, if he does not have the courage and scheming, how can he succeed.
For Fang Qiao, the enemy is clear and I am secret, at the beginning, even if he was an embankment, he would not have expected that a person who had been missing for many years would stand quietly behind King An, and use King An's hand to calculate him.
If Han Li's goal was to help King An seize the throne, then Yu Yu could only say that he was insidious, but he took great pains to calculate Fang Qiao, and concealed Fang Qiao's identity from King An, obviously not to help King An ascend the throne, his purpose was on the Lu family! No wonder Fang Qiao would say that he was "extreme" about Lu's thoughts.
Han Li first borrowed his second daughter to let the Lu family and Fang Qiao centrifuge, and then abducted King An to be dissatisfied with the Lu family. watched Fang Qiao snub his wife coldly from the sidelines, and even the back road that Fang Qiao arranged for Lu's mother and son was so skillfully intervened.
However, why did he let the Lu family and son fall into a foreign land after he was so obviously going to the Lu family, and he didn't look for it for so many years... No, Lu Zhi told her that before the mother and son crossed the river, they once met a man surnamed Yang, a man who was said to be good at escaping, and took them to Shuzhong with twists and turns.
Is it because of this that Han Li lost the trace of the Lu family, in this way, it is over, after all, looking for people in the vast land of the Tang Dynasty is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, Lu Zhongzhi spent a lot of manpower and financial resources, and he has not found them for more than ten years.
It is said that if he loses the trace of the Lu family, it is normal for Han Li to be angry at Fang Qiao, but Fang Qiao finally succeeded in helping the emperor overturn the ship of the An Wang Party, I am afraid that in the end, King An will know the identity of Fang Qiao's undercover agent, in those years. What is Han Li doing again! Did you experience some accident, otherwise why would you suddenly lose your movements?
After this speculation, while lamenting the mistakes, Yu Yu had no good feelings for Fang Qiao and Han Li in his heart, both of whom seemed to be too confident and self-conscious, and never thought about how the Lu family, who was in the whirlpool of conspiracy and calculation, would be harmed.
Besides, Li Niang, Fang Qiao wanted to bring her over with a simple stroke in front of their family in the morning, but such a key person, how could he make Yi Yu ignore it with an understatement.
If it is said that in the dark, there is Han Li's shadow everywhere, then in the light, there is the figure of this beautiful girl everywhere, from the beginning Han Li calculated to have a relationship with Fang Qiao, and later was used by Fang Qiao as a shield to replace the Lu family, and then they left Beijing - I don't know what kind of things this woman experienced with Fang Qiao, so that Fang Qiao could protect their mother and daughter like that when she was in the silk shop that day.
The night when the house took the wind for King An. Yun Niang framed Lu Zhi, she took advantage of the time when no one was paying attention, grabbed the young Lu Zhi's hands, and made a gesture of being "pushed" into the water by him, at that time, many guests only saw the second half, and there was no doubt that they misunderstood Lu Zhi.
Yi Yu did not forget that Lu said that the first person to scream was Li Niang.
Fang Qiao said that King An forced Yun Niang when he was not in the other courtyard, and Li Niang, who lived in the same courtyard and was a colleague, must also know that the child in Yun Niang's womb was King An's, this amazing secret, very few people knew it, at least the Lu family and Fang's mother didn't know.
Knowing that Yun Niang's flesh and blood in the womb belonged to King An, when she saw her fall into the water, Li Niang's reaction was bigger than others, it seems normal, but it's strange, she identified Lu Zhi!
Although the guests in the courtyard saw a lot, because of Liniang's initial identification, those who didn't see it clearly also hooked Lu Zhi with the murderer, knowing that if Lu Zhi killed Yun Niang, who was pregnant with King An's flesh and blood, what would happen to him, but Liniang identified Lu Zhi after Fang Qiao arrived.
Say she's panicked? She's clearly not stupid. Even if she couldn't calm down for a while, she knew that it would be harmful to Lu Zhi to do that, but she did it, even if Fang Qiao was chaotic at the time, he should have seen clearly what she was wrong at that time, however, he still stayed in Liniang Courtyard that night.
Fang Qiao only said that Han Li later showed him the letters and witnesses that proved Lu Zhi's innocence, but did not mention Li Niang's actions at that time, did not mention the secret that Li Niang and he jointly kept the flesh and blood of King An, and did not mention his "favoring" Li Niang.
However, Liniang, who seems to have been victimized and used, has been suffering and being used for more than ten years, not to mention that she has been so moisturized, and she has recently been promoted to a flat wife, although it is not a matter of nothing to raise a concubine as a flat wife, but she is a dignified three-grade member, and there is no main room at home, but a concubine is raised to manage the inner house.
Regarding the relationship between Li Niang and Fang Qiao, these seemingly strange places made Yi Yu's thinking gradually clear, these two people definitely experienced a period of things together, and the most fierce battle between the prince and King An was in the years. There are definitely things that she doesn't know about happening, perhaps, it is because of those things that Fang Qiao has a friendship with Na Liniang, and maybe.
Lying on the bed, Yiyu's brows furrowed slightly, in this way, Fang Qiao's attitude towards Li Niang did have an explanation, but when he saw her mother that day, why did he act so emotionally. Even burst into tears on the spot, she could see that his tears did not seem to be fake, although he had been explaining and refuting, but when he saw Lu's first glance, that kind of look could not deceive people, he did still have feelings for Lu, although after so many years, I don't know how much that feeling is left.
"Heh..."Yu Yu covered his eyes with his hands, and snorted meaninglessly, human feelings are always the most complicated thing in the world, seemingly simple things, as long as they are mixed with feelings, it will be a mess.
Maybe in a few years, when she reaches the age of marriage and becomes another woman, she will also have to face the relationship between her husband and other women.
After the newlywed, there may be a sweet time, just like the Lu family and Fang Qiao, and then gave birth to an heir, and the children surrounded the knees, during this period, how to ensure that the husband does not mess with flowers and grass, when the time comes, she will either become those ordinary women, competing for favor and fighting, or become like the Lu family, watching coldly, one day, or by the affectionate husband, and the scheming concubine, hurt her. Hurt her children—
With a chill in her heart, Yu Yu sat up suddenly, her long hair was buried in her knees, and her indistinct whisper came out of the silk quilt, "... I don't want to... Don't live like that. ”
After muttering for a while, I don't know how long it took, she raised her head slightly, and the hand covering her eyes slowly lowered, her dark eyes shining in the night.
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Chang'an City House
Since Fang Qiao returned home in the afternoon, he stayed alone in the study, and his study has never allowed outsiders to enter, even Li Niang, no exception. So, it wasn't until the evening that he took the carriage out of the house, and after he left, Liniang, who had been sitting in the main hall and listening to the housekeeper's report, put the tea cup and led the two maids towards the bedroom.
Li Niang's residence is not in the main house, she has another courtyard, although it is much more magnificent than the two concubines, but it is not the main residence in the end.
Entered the second door, sat down in a room that had been warmed in advance, and immediately had someone enter the house to serve tea and water, and put six kinds of melons and fruits and snacks, Li Niang had drunk a lot of tea in the main room hall, so she made a handkerchief pinch a piece of delicate dim sum and took a bite, and heard someone outside the door to report, two neatly dressed, clever maids walked to the door and opened the curtain, and saw a miscellaneous servant bow and walked in, so he went to the door to guard.
"Ma'am." The servant whispered, glanced left and right in the room, and then carefully took out a piece of paper that had been folded in several layers from his bosom, supported it with both hands, and took a few steps forward, and handed it far away.
Li Niang wrapped her hand in a handkerchief, took the paper, and gently shook it off, the folds on the paper were very fine, and she had to stretch out her well-maintained fingers, spread it on the table next to her, and spread it out a little.
On this white paper, the painting is a bust portrait, because of the folds and a little dirty looks blurred, at first Li Niang did not see anything, but after staring carefully, her eyes suddenly widened, and the fingers pressed on the paper tightly.
"This—This was obtained from the master's study?" She tried her best to calm her tone as calmly as possible.
The miscellaneous servant said in fear: "Wronged! How dare the little one go to the old man's study to look for something, this, this is the miscellaneous items that were packed up, ready to be discarded, just picked up by the small one, saw the woman painted on it, and felt that it was the woman of which family the old man had hit, so he came to show the lady. ”
"When?"
"Well, it's been a while, and it's been a while since the master's study rarely asks people to clean it up."
"Go down, go to Lubo to get five taels of silver, remember not to talk too much, otherwise according to the last time you stole the equipment in the house to sell, you will be beaten to death with a stick."
"Small, small don't dare, thank you Madame for the reward." The servant shuddered, and walked backwards out of the room.
The door curtain was opened, and the two maids wanted to walk in, but they were told by Liniang to stay outside the house.
It was only when she was alone in the room that she let her face look shocked and disbelieving, picked up the portrait with both hands, and squinted her eyes by the candlelight to look at it carefully for a full quarter of an hour.
The woman in the painting, in her early thirties, has soft eyebrows and eyes, dignified and beautiful facial features, especially the eyes, which are the most expressive, and there are still a few drops of wax marks under the corners of the eyes. There are clearly six points like Li Niang's vague memory, Lu's appearance!
But she wasn't sure, after all, so many years had passed. But now this painting is popping up, in her opinion, it is very wrong, there are very few portraits of the Lu family at home, and they are all tightly collected, thirteen years, she has not seen half of the painting, and what she has in her hand is obviously a new work, this style of painting is not Fang Qiao's, and anyone who has seen the appearance of the Lu family in the house, how can it be so expressive after so many years, just by memories!
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