"If someone leaks something to you. Why the best is someone else. ”

Yiyu's index finger pressed against the lid of the wine jug in his arms and rubbed it gently, hung his head, and said:

"The competition is to listen to the music, and I knew in advance, it is the last section of the Youlan tune, I have found the piano score, I won't tell you, at first I wanted to memorize it in advance, but I hesitated for a long time, and finally didn't dare to take a look."

"Why don't you dare to look at it?" Li Tai asked a question cooperatively, so that she could continue.

"If I memorize them all, then the best is me, and the best will be because I can't get the woodcut, and if I memorize it and write some more and no less during the competition, I can safely avoid the worst, so that the person who may not have the worst will suffer for me—neither of which is what I want to see, so I will not dare to look at it."

This is a statement for most people in this world. It's ridiculous and fake. But it is indeed what she really thinks in her heart, she knows how rare woodcarving is, and she does not dare to agree with Guozijian's attitude towards the worst students in the art competition, if she cheats in the art competition, it is to overturn all her previous insistence and step on her bottom line as a person.

"I have a clear conscience in the art competition, but I have an apology for the person who leaked the problem to me." She finally got the most important sentence out of her mouth.

Li Tai held the wine glass and turned sideways, but on the side of the carved case, a pair of eyes that were half-covered under the fine forehead hair flashed with a subtle light as she blinked gently, and at the same time, an inexplicable look appeared on his face.

The jade who spoke his thoughts in such a slow voice, like the straight girl standing in the gentleman's tower that day, made him see a little vague but indeed existing light, and reminded him once again that this little girl who was not yet thirteen years old was different from anyone else.

After Yi Yu finished speaking, she sat quietly on her knees, she could sense the gaze cast on her, and after a while, she didn't see him make a sound, she raised her head and looked over, and at a glance she looked into the clear blue and blue color. Her gaze froze for a moment, then looked away.

After looking at each other, I still couldn't see his thoughts, but I could explain to him clearly, that is, she was in a much better mood, and she was already two people separated by clouds and fog, and she could say things clearly, she didn't want the other party to misunderstand.

"Why are you telling me this?"

Yi Yu flattened his mouth and analyzed it to him, "Some things are very uncomfortable in my heart, and I always have to find someone to tell me to be comfortable, but I don't want to implicate the person who helped me anonymously, tell my eldest brother, he will definitely ask to the end, Your Highness, you are different, you can listen to me quietly, so I am willing to tell you." ”

Li Tai is indeed an excellent listener, he doesn't talk much, he never interjects, and occasionally a sentence or two can help people continue the topic. She told him this, of course, to explain it in a different direction. It's not like you're looking for someone to talk to.

"You say, the person who kindly gave me the question, will he think that I don't know what to do?"

“...... No. ”

With a joy in his heart, Yi Yu looked at his facial lines that seemed to have softened a little, and from his inconspicuous expression, he should not have suspected that he had guessed that it was him, and the nervousness just now disappeared.

The room was quiet for a while, and Li Tai suddenly said: "According to your shallowness in piano skills, there are even worse than you, which is really beyond my expectations." ”

After saying this, he saw that the rosiness on her cheeks showed a little more, puffed out his cheeks, put the wine jug in his arms on the table, stretched out a pair of small hands in front of him, and said dissatisfied:

"I plucked the strings all night last night to make out the syllables, and you see, there are still marks on my fingers."

He looked down and saw ten white and tender fingers, four or five of which were red at the tips of the fingertips, which were the traces left by the kind of people who do not play the piano often if they "overworked", and his brows furrowed slightly, and as soon as he raised his arm on the bent left knee, he pinched several fingers of her in one place.

Yi Yu was "showing" her exploits last night to Li Tai, and was unsuspectingly pinched by his big hand, and subconsciously pulled back, but was easily clamped by his slender big hand, and not a single hand ran away.

Li Tai held the wine glass in his right hand. Leaning back on the cushion, her left hand squeezed her two small slender hands, her thumb brushing lightly over the soft red silk on her fingertips.

Because of this intimate action, the red color at the base of the ear spread to the cheeks and turned into a shallow pink.

"Your Highness." She didn't move too aggressively, and she couldn't break free after two struggles, so she could only call him in a low voice.

"Hmm." In response, Li Tai looked at the fingers of the two touching each other, thought flashed in his eyes, he pinched her lightly, and then let go.

Yi Yu hurriedly retracted his hands and secretly scolded himself for showing off what he was doing just now.

"Go back and rub the medicine." Li Tai commanded.

"Oh." Yu Yu answered, stood up, and walked to the carpet to put on his shoes.

After watching her walk out, he drank the rest of the wine from the cup, placed the empty glass lightly on the table, leaned back against the edge of the soft couch, and rested his left hand on the swaying eyes.

***

Chang'an City House

In a corner of the house, in a small hall with simple and elegant furnishings, Li Niang wore a silver-red Ruyi moire shirt, sat alone on the side with tea, and her makeup was exquisite. But with a hint of fatigue, if you look closely, you can see that she is holding a tea cup, and her well-maintained hands are shaking gently.

At her feet, a maid knelt on her stomach, talking with a crying voice.

"Madame, forgive your sins... Madam... The slave didn't mean to chew the root of her tongue, but she just heard someone say it outside... I think, I think it's ridiculous, and I only told others about it when I came back..."

"Ridiculous?" Li Niang's voice was slightly raised.

"No, no, don't laugh... The slave and maid know that they are wrong, and no one in this house knows it. The eldest lady and the young master have been taken captive for many years, how can they still be alive, it is outsiders who talk nonsense, and the slaves and maids should not come back and talk nonsense... Don't send your slaves away, women... Don't..."

Li Niang squeezed the tea cup in her hand and said softly: "In addition to talking to the maid in my room, who else have you said this?" ”

"No, no."

"Tell the truth." Li Niang endured her anger, and the expression on her face was still calm.

"And, and Sister Lianxiang who is waiting in the old lady's room."

"Bang!" With a bang, the tea cup that was still in Liniang's hand just now fell the hand of the maid supporting the ground, and after she screamed in pain, she clenched her teeth and trembled, trembling and not daring to make a sound.

The two maids guarding outside the house hesitated to lift the curtain and walked in, and when they saw the scene in the house, the maid Luliu walked quickly to Liniang's side and wiped her soaked skirt with a handkerchief.

"Madam, this is a mistake, expelled from the house, you don't want to be angry because of this."

As soon as Li Niang's eyes closed, she waved her hand to silence, and only the maid on the ground whose hand was cut by the fragment of the teacup gasped slightly.

I don't know how long it took, Li Niang opened her eyes, her face returned to her usual softness, and her voice said sternly to the maid on the ground:

"Do you know what you are doing wrong, the eldest lady and other noble people, you can criticize this cheap maid, if you don't punish you today, do you want the rules of the house, you go down, go to the south room, and get five boards."

Hearing that there was no need to be kicked out, the maid knocked on the ground, hurriedly responded, got up, and just walked to the door, but was stopped again.

"Blame me for being angry and hurting you, but I didn't teach you a lesson first. This matter reached the ears of the old man, and the consequence was that after receiving the fine, he went to the account office to pay five taels of silver for medicine. ”

If the maid was both afraid and resentful just now, at this time the slightest resentment was gone, and after turning her head and bowing deeply to Liniang, she retreated.

Lu Bo frowned, "Madam, you are too good, if you make a mistake like this, you can beat it up and throw it out, how can you give her back the silver." ”

After Li Niang sighed, she stood up and said, "I won't talk about this matter anymore, go back to the room to change clothes, I want to see the old lady." ”

Lu Liu followed her back to the courtyard, and after changing her clothes, she walked towards an open courtyard on the landlord's side, but halfway down the road, she met the maid Lianxiang beside Mrs. Lu.

"Mrs. Li, it's a coincidence, the old lady is asking me to invite you."

Liniang's eyelids jumped, and she said with a smile on her face: "It's a coincidence, I'm about to go to see my mother, her old man can say, what's the matter with me?" ”

Lian Xiang is a thoughtful person, how could she explain this to her on the road, so she shook her head and said, "The old lady didn't say it, you will know when you go." ”

But even if she didn't say it, Li Niang had already guessed seven or eight, and she wanted to find the past first, but now she became passive, she frowned secretly, thinking of countermeasures, and was taken by Lianxiang into the courtyard of Mrs. Fang.

Mrs. Fang believes in Buddhism, there is a Buddhist hall in the courtyard, Li Niang entered the house alone, and saw the figure kneeling under the Buddha shrine and chanting towards the enshrined Jade Buddha.

She didn't dare to disturb, she bowed and stood far away, and after half an hour, the figure slowly got up, and she hurriedly went up to help.

Mrs. Fang is sixty this year, perhaps because of eating fast and believing in Buddhism, just looking at the appearance of youth, with an unconcealable joy on her face, and a plain but valuable brocade skirt, which makes her originally slightly rich figure thinner than she actually is.

She let Liniang help her to another room in the courtyard, but she didn't look at her from beginning to end, didn't answer her a word, until she sat down firmly in the chair, took the tea cup from the maid, and waved her hand to let everyone in the room withdraw.

"You've heard?" Old Madam Fang looked sideways at Li Niang, who was standing three steps away.

"What are you talking about?"

"Humph!" After changing the soft eyebrows and eyes in the Buddha Hall, Mrs. Fang snorted coldly, her voice was a little sharp, and said:

"Don't pretend to be confused in front of me, this thing has reached my ears, will you not know? Qiao Zhi will talk more with you, you are honest, he mentioned to you recently, my two precious grandsons have not! ”

Li Niang hesitated on her face, and said, "Master, he, he won't let me tell you." ”

"Can he tell you, and won't let him tell me? This is where to put me as a mother, you kneel down for me! Make it clear! ”

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