"Young master, someone is here."

Hearing this, Lu Zhi stretched out his hand and patted the top of Yi Yu's head, pointed to the side of the wall next to the soft couch, the two windows separated from the living room outside, and said, "You are watching here." ”

Realizing that this was to ask her to listen to the corner, Yu Yu did not have time to express any objection, so he went to the table and blew out two candles, and the room instantly darkened, leaving only some light from a side-lit stove on the side of the soft couch, and it was not unusual to look in the living room with six gauze lamps lit to the inside.

Lu Zhi closed the door, lowered the curtain, and after explaining to Dongbo, he sat down on the only recliner in the room, poured a cup of steaming tea in his hand, and looked out of the hall door with a calm face.

Yi Yu pushed away the quilt, knelt on the soft couch, turned around and lay on the window, poked a hole in the oiled paper of the pasted window with her finger, and had a panoramic view of the bright living room at a glance, which made her who had only "peeped" at Han Li and Lu Shi talk yesterday, and felt a little awkward in her heart.

Who Lu Zhi wants to meet, in fact, it is not difficult to guess, right now in the capital, it is related to their brother and sister at the same time, and they need to meet secretly like this, but the two, Li Tai and Fang Qiao.

Li Tai's five senses are keen, there is a person hidden in the next room, how can he not notice it, Lu Zhi will not do such a stupid thing, it is almost certain that the person he wants to see is Fang Qiao, but it is this speculation that makes her very puzzled.

It's not her delusion, from the very beginning, Lu Zhi has been avoiding private contact with Fang Qiao, whether it was in Longquan Town or visiting the house in Fangfu, it was only in the "passive" situation that he met Fang Qiao in private. However, at this time, Lu Zhi suddenly made a private appointment with Fang Qiao, what did he want to do?

Just when Yi Yu was analyzing the possibility of Lu Zhi making an appointment to meet Fang Qiao, there was a mixed sound of footsteps outside the door, she hurriedly approached the window, her eyes rolled, and when she saw the people who walked into the house one after the other, she was slightly stunned, and then frowned tightly.

Why are there two more!?

Just when Yi Yu was worried about Lu Zhi's move, from behind the screen in this bedroom, a figure flashed out, and walked gently towards the window where she was, her light-colored clothes were very conspicuous against the faint light of the stove.

Yi Yu was observing Lu Zhi's expression, and suddenly felt that the hairs on the side of her neck stood up, and she turned her head to face a delicate black and white mask, startled, she couldn't scream, and the other party reached out to cover her mouth, and a low and light voice came from her ears:

"Shhhh

Fang Qiao took Li Niang into the house, and saw Lu Zhi sitting on a chair drinking tea at a glance, his expression was solemn, and Dongbo closed the door of the living room behind him.

"It's really punctual, Lord Fang." Lu Zhi raised his eyes, there was no hostility on his smiling face, and it looked like he was catching up with ordinary friends.

"Come to me, do you have something to say?" After eating a trench and growing wise, Fang Qiao now has no idea of blindly wanting to get close to a few children at the beginning, but is a little guarded. The fire paint letterhead he received in the evening, he opened it at night to see, although it only invited him to Guiyi Fang with unfamiliar handwriting, from the words in the letter, he still guessed the identity of the other party, so when he entered the house and saw Lu Zhi, he was not too surprised.

Li Niang's reaction was even more straightforward, Xu knew that she didn't invite Lu Zhi to see her, from the moment she entered the house, she stood next to Fang Qiao with her head down, Rao is room light, and she couldn't see her face clearly.

"Of course there is something," Lu Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly, rested his left hand holding the teacup on his stilted knee, and said, "Don't you think that after so many things, it is necessary for our father and son to sit down and have a good talk?" ”

Hearing the words "father and son" in his words, Fang Qiao was a little surprised, swept around the living room without any extra seats, pulled the corners of his mouth, and pretended to be relaxed: "But there is no other place to sit in this room." ”

Lu Zhiyi smiled, "Then you will be standing up." ”

Only entered the door and made a note of Ma Wei, while letting Fang Qiao, who still had a trace of extravagant hope in his heart, put aside that extravagant hope while being depressed, and calmed down a lot, so that the two finally had a chance to communicate privately, which was better than when he tried his best not to see him alone, and it was better to come.

Thinking so, Fang Qiao took a few steps forward, stopping when he was away from Lu Zhizhang, and Li Niang did not follow after hesitating.

"Very well, I was just about to talk to you," he tried to make his demeanor look sincere, "between you and me, there are too many misunderstandings, which will lead to the current situation, you are willing to listen to my explanation." ”

"Misunderstanding..."Lu Zhi repeated in a low voice, suddenly smiled, looked at him lightly, and said, "Then I will give you a chance to explain what misunderstanding is between you and me." ”

Seeing that he looked deaf and listening, he didn't expect Fang Qiao, who was so easy to turn against the guest, was a little surprised, but he still took over the conversation, looked at him and said:

"What I did back then was indeed hurting your mother and son, even if there are thousands of reasons, it is in vain, you should hate me," said a few words, and his face hung bitter, "But the situation back then, it was indeed a last resort, the new dynasty was just established, if you let King An rise, no one mediates it, according to his temperament, when he ascends, it is the day of the suffering of the people of the world, Zhi'er, you have studied hard for many years, and you are also preparing to enter the court as an official, for the people and the country, how can you not understand?" ”

The righteousness of the family and the country has been suppressed, who can say that what Fang Qiao did back then did not save more people while being sorry for the Lu family's mother and son? For this point, Fang Qiao has always had a clear conscience, over the years, whenever he remorsefully remorseled what he had done to his wife and children, he relied on this to persevere, even if his wife was separated, the belief in his heart never collapsed.

"So," Lu Zhi concluded, "our mother and son have become the victims of your righteousness. ”

The room was quiet, and the atmosphere that was lifted by Fang Qiao's remarks just now instantly cooled down because of Lu Zhi's words.

"You are not a victim," Fang Qiao twisted his eyebrows, "I never thought of sacrificing you, at that dinner thirteen years ago, no one expected Yun Niang to suddenly do such a thing, I imprisoned you in the ancestral hall to protect you." On the same day in Longquan Town, I said that on the morning of your departure, I had arranged that someone would pretend to be a bandit in the suburbs of Beijing to take you to a safe place, but unfortunately Han Li made trouble from it, and I lost your news and didn't say anything, and then I was misled by him, and you would have died a long time ago. ”

As soon as he mentioned Han Li, his face became not very good-looking, and his voice fell, but he heard Lu Zhidao:

"These are the misunderstandings you said, but you've finished explaining?"

Fang Qiao thought that he had made it clear what he could explain clearly, and after a little hesitation, he raised three fingers in front of Lu Zhi and said, "Someone in my room swears to heaven, if what he said is a little false, he will be willing to go to hell after his death." ”

"Sir!" Liniang, who has been silent, always speaks, she whispered, and when she came up, she grabbed Fang Qiao's sleeve, and said urgently: "Why do you bother to practice yourself like this, how can you open your mouth casually?" ”

Fang Qiao patted her hand lightly, and after soothing her with his eyes, he turned his head to Lu Zhi and said, "You are a sensible child, I hope you can understand if you think about it." ”

"Don't think about it, I already understand," Lu Zhi lowered his head and began to drink tea when Li Niang walked up, and after drinking half a cup to moisten his throat, he sighed lightly and said without raising his head:

"Thirteen years ago, the reason why you were cold and alienated from my mother was because of King An's suspicions, and you wanted to take care of us like that. That dinner party, it was the concubine named Yun Niang who deliberately harmed me, so that you drew your sword against me regardless of the relationship between father and son. After our mother and son left Beijing, they were displaced because Han Li was in the way. Thirteen years of separation, you have not looked for it, and it is also because of Han Li's deception - am I right? ”

Although Fang Qiao sensed that there was something wrong with his words, he still nodded and said, "That's the case. ”

"Hehe," Lu Zhi suddenly laughed, as if he had heard something interesting, and the whole person trembled lightly due to laughter, but the teacup in his hand was squeezed steadily.

Just when Fang Qiao and Li Niang were abnormal because of his laughter, and they both frowned to varying degrees, the laughter finally fell, and it was replaced by a clear tone unique to young people, although he half-hung his head, the two of them could also hear the faint coldness of his words.

"When you're done, I'll say it. It's been 13 years since I left home when I was five years old, and my memory is much better than that of other children. In the first year after leaving Beijing, we settled in Shuzhong, my mother was not familiar with the land, and most of the money she brought was used to change her name and surname, buy a thatched house, and put a few acres of land to make a female household. In a remote mountain village, there are no people, no fine clothes and food, drinking the flowing water by the river, eating dry porridge, and her mother has a big belly and has to work every day to take care of the family, every time I think of these, I will hate. ”

didn't look at Fang Qiao, whose face began to turn white, Lu Zhi's first word "hate" fell, and the coldness on the corner of his mouth increased, and he continued:

"Xiaoyu was born prematurely, she has always been thin and small, other children's children can walk when they are one year old, but she is four years old, she can't speak, she has to be watched by people when she eats and drinks, you hit her, she won't hurt, you scold her, she won't cry, every time I hear someone call her a fool, I will hate."

"In order to treat my sister's illness, my mother spent all her savings, but I didn't see her get better, at that time the family was the poorest, my mother went to others to borrow food with white eyes, and said all the good things to drag the wages of those hired farmers for a few days, a widowed woman, naturally she was teased and said some meaty words, every time I saw my mother crying in the middle of the night, I would hate." (！ )