It was very cloudy outside, and the maids lit the gauze lamp on the side of the dressing table. Only then did he carefully groom the woman in front of the mirror as carefully as he was instructed.

Since yesterday I heard that today will be interrogated in Dali Temple, Li Niang almost didn't close her eyes last night, and Fang Qiao didn't go to her yard to rest.

Half an hour later, standing in front of the bronze mirror and examining the woman inside, Li Niang frowned, pointed to the golden hairpin above her head, and said to the maids on both sides:

"This, this, and these are all replaced with jade ornaments or flower hairpins."

I will be able to see that woman today, for the first time in thirteen years, how can she not have a long and short meaning in her heart, but she is no longer a beautiful woman, and then she relies on her head full of gold ornaments to oppress people, she is extravagant, but she is also very cheesy, it is better to be gentle, than the woman's fierceness, it can show her warmth.

has been following Fang Qiao for more than ten years, and she thinks that although she still doesn't know what he is thinking. can guess every day, thousands of days and nights, let her know how to meet men's preferences. I can't see or touch it, I always think about it, I think about it even more, a man like Fang Qiao, in her opinion, how can a woman like Lu who lacks heart and muscles understand.

borrowed a few wires to get the paranoid man involved, so as to prevent Fang Qiao and Lu's mother and son from recognizing each other, but it made things more and more unfavorable to her, and also made her understand that if Fang Qiao really wanted to let them come back, she couldn't stop it, since she couldn't stop it, it was better to help him achieve what he wanted, and then ......

In this way, after changing a set of elegant jewelry, and adding two layers of hoarfrost to the mirror, and covering the flow lines of the years, she chose a half-new dress, and tied a new snow-white fur on her shoulders, which seemed to be two or three years younger.

When she arrived in the main hall, Fang Qiao had already finished breakfast, his eyes swept over her, stayed for a moment longer than a few days ago, and said softly:

"This fur fits you well."

Li Niang smiled implicitly and said, "It's cold today, so I'll put on my gloves." ”

Although he was praised. But seeing that he was obviously much better than yesterday, with his new clothes, his straightened face, and his behavior of looking at the leak from time to time, he still made her hands under her sleeves twist together, held back the sourness, and asked him if he had prepared everything properly, then poured tea and waited with him for someone from Dali Temple.

***

Dali Temple, located in the south of the Imperial City's Suzaku Gate, is composed of three parts, the place where officials handle official business, the reason for the trial of cases, and the Dali Temple Prison where many felons are imprisoned and impregnable.

Yiyu's family drove directly into the workshop in a carriage, stopped in front of a trial court, and when they got out of the carriage, the first thing that caught their eyes was the solid wood gate with four beaded hairpins embedded on both sides.

In front of the door, there was a young guard in black clothes with a knife in his hand, and when he saw that there was suddenly such a large group of people at the door, he just glanced at it with a straight face, and then turned his head without squinting.

One of the two officials who went to the Guogong Mansion to deliver the message, one went to send horses, and the other led them into the hospital. The layout of the courtroom. Compared with the courtyard of the same house, it is wide and spacious, boxy, and the end is clear at a glance, only there is a hole in the northeast corner leading to the backyard, and there are four or five trees in the corner of the courtyard that are high and above the eaves, because they are bare, they are more straight.

There were halls on three sides of the courtyard, and outside the door of the three largest trial halls directly north, with wide open doors, there were six guards dressed as outside. Yi Yu looked around this serious and deserted place, and he didn't know if it was a special order from the emperor, or if the incidence rate of the traitor department had dropped in recent days, but he had allocated such a large area to try their civil dispute.

In the north hall, the trial officials were still in the back hall, and Fang Qiao and Li Niang, who were also sent for questioning, arrived for a quarter of an hour first, but it was the effort to wait for such a short time that made Fang Qiao a little unbearable. Yesterday, he thought about going to the Guogong Mansion to have a look, after all, if he didn't get it right today, the two sides would tear his face, but he knew that it was impossible to solve this matter calmly, so he still dispelled the idea that it might backfire.

Regarding the trial of Dali Temple, he has enough things to prove the identity of the Lu family, but he is not full of confidence, and always feels that there will be something wrong with the son who has a deep prejudice against him - but no matter what, the matter has come to this point, not only did the old mother show her face in front of the civil and military officials, but also made trouble with the emperor, and recognized the Lu family, and he was bound to win.

Special treatment for special cases. The official was informed in advance, so he led the people directly towards the north hall. There was a little man in a dark shirt standing in the door of the hall, and when he saw them coming in from outside the door from a distance, he raised his voice inside, Fang Qiao turned to look, Li Niang reached out and helped the hairpin on the bun, and stood closer to him without a trace.

The group walked in slowly, looking at the faint figure walking behind the two brothers-in-law, Fang Qiao, who was clenched with his fists, did not expect that he would be a little more nervous than he imagined, this is the second time he has faced the Lu family in thirteen years, and it is still in this situation, it is inevitable that he wants to see her, but he is a little afraid to face her.

But when he thought of the tearful appearance of the Lu family in the small courtyard of Longquan Town that day, Fang Qiao's heart felt a little more confident, if he didn't care about him, how could he have such a big reaction to him. To be honest, he was even more glad that his mother went to the Lu family to make trouble, if she hadn't made a big fuss, he wouldn't have made up his mind to use such tough means.

Although Longquan Town saw it after a while. He was once ready to be a lonely old man for a lifetime, but deep down, how could he not have a trace of extravagant hope and want to return to the beautiful and warm family thirteen years ago.

Just looked out of the door a little distractedly, the person had already walked in from the side door of the courtyard two feet away from him, and when he could see the woman who kept him awake at night, Fang Qiao still couldn't help but call softly:

"Lan Niang."

Not surprisingly, Lu continued to twist his head without any reaction, Lu Jingshan on the same side whispered, and Lu Rongyuan, who was tall and tall, blocked Fang Qiao's vision just by turning sideways.

Compared with the angry eyes of the two uncles, Yu Yu looked at the past calmly. Fang Qiao's face is much better today than when she asked them to visit the house that day, I don't know if it's because she is wearing autumn clothes, in fact, putting aside all grievances, her dead ghost father still has a lot of capital.

is still elegant and handsome over forty years old, not to mention the high-ranking officials, just the "melancholy" literati temperament that is highly sought after by women from fourteen to forty in Chang'an City, and it is also full of bees and butterflies. Thinking of this, and then looking at Liniang who was standing beside him with low eyebrows, Yu Yu had a little more "admiration", guarding such a man, who has only laid one egg for more than ten years, is still a thin yellow, just like that, it is not easy to keep him from being abducted by any beauty and Xiuniang.

This hall is extremely spacious, about to go to the ground floor of the gentleman's building of the five courtyards of the art competition, two groups of people one to the left, one to the right, Fang Qiao only glanced at it, the Lu family was blocked, he retracted his gaze, to the eldest brother-in-law and the second brother-in-law salute, sideways notice that the jade wandered back and forth on him and Li Niang's strange gaze, wanted to say hello, but because he remembered that in the silk shop, how sharp and difficult this little girl was, he opened his mouth, or gave up.

turned to ask Lu Rongyuan: "Big brother, I don't know why my father-in-law and Zhi'er didn't come?" ”

Lu Rongyuan said angrily: "Don't be so close, our two families are now rivals." ”

As a military attaché, the eldest lord of the Lu family has a bad temper, so he choked him when he opened his mouth, Fang Qiao was not angry, and turned to ask the official who led the way, how could a deserter dare to hide from him, but he didn't know much, only said that the grandfather and grandson were invited to discuss matters by the criminal department, and they were afraid that they would be late.

That's a nice thing to say. But the delicate Fang Qiao knew that things must not be so simple, and was about to ask cheekily again, when he heard a bell ringing in the courtyard, and a room of people consciously stood facing the north judge and stopped talking.

The bell rings six times, it is for the re-ringing, the emperor personally ordered it down, of course, it is different, when the aftersound echoes, in the door leading to the back hall in the northwest corner of the hall, several figures have walked out one after another, and walked to the north to warp the head of the long case to stand is the chief judge of the case, destined to be bad at both ends, unlucky Dali Temple Secretary Liu Dewei, there is another Shaoqing on the left, two Dali Cheng to hear the trial, the right side is putting the volume in the hand on the table is a Dali master book, and there are six Dali judges of the eight grades of small officials present.

Seeing this style, not only the jade, but even Fang Qiao's face stiffened, where is this the appearance of a small civil case, even if it is a trial of corruption and murder, it is nothing more than that.

They didn't know that Liu Dewei shouted so many people to help, in addition to expressing his attention, he was still a little selfish, thinking that when the case fell, he didn't have to bear all the complaints alone.

According to the routine, after the main book called the volume one by one, he crossed out the hook that came and did not come, and the bell rang again, Liu Dewei said some words, and the officials of Dali Temple sat down, which was to open the court to try the case.

The main bookkeeper picked up the lawsuit that was sorted out last night, and read it aloud: "Zhongshu Ling Fang Qiao's family, three wives and children who were separated thirteen years ago, one belly, now Huaiguo Gong Lu Zhongzhi newly recognized his relatives, Lu Pinglan, Lu Zhi, Lu Jun, Lu Yiyu four people, suspected to be the wife of the Fang family back then, Dali Temple Chengsheng edict, especially from today to file a case for trial, thoroughly investigate the identity of Lu's mother and son, and decide where to go. ”

When Yi Yu heard him talk about "a belly fetus", there was a slight strangeness in her heart, but soon she noticed the tightness of Lu's body, ignored the past, and took Lu's hand through the cover of her long sleeves, and when she turned her head, she threw out her tongue at her and made a grimace, in exchange for her a light smile. (！ )