Some time ago, because of a portrait. Li Niang learned from Fang Qiao that Lu's mother and son were still alive, and he told her not to tell Mrs. Fang about it.

Li Niang knew that Fang Qiao was not in a hurry to recognize the Lu family, mostly because of the wrong case of one corpse and two lives.

The Fang family said to the outside world that the Lu family mother and son were abducted by King An, but everyone in the know knows the "facts" that the Lu family was dissatisfied with Fang Qiao's punishment of his son and ran away from home with the child.

Since Li Niang stepped into this house more than ten years ago, she knew that the Lu family and their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were not in harmony, and they had become a lot of things through this, but after the Lu family left, after a few years, she became the thorn in the side of this old woman, but she had more eyes than the Lu family, and she could endure it more than the Lu family, so she had today.

From the time when she interrogated the maid who was learning to speak, to the moment when she stood in front of Mrs. Fang and was angrily reprimanded by her, in less than half an hour, she had already guessed the matter for seven or eight points. It seems that the matter of Lu's mother and son has not caused much noise in Chang'an City, otherwise Fang Qiao would have made a move a long time ago, obviously someone deliberately stabbed the matter to the old lady through the mouth of the maid in the house.

"Poof", Liniang knelt down according to the old lady's words, and looked up worriedly:

"Mother, don't be angry, the master didn't mean to hide it from you, when things are clear, he will definitely tell you, don't worry."

was forced to ask the Lu family about them, but Li Niang lightly took the words away, no matter how many rumors the old lady had heard, but because Fang Qiao had instructed her before, she would not say half a sentence in her mouth.

"Of course you're not in a hurry, you wish my grandchildren wouldn't come back, you, you, like that woman, are not a good thing."

Old Mrs. Fang rarely scolded Liniang so openly, and at this time, it was because Fang Qiao and her were hiding the letter, and she was in a hurry, so she couldn't care about her face.

In other words, the relationship between Mrs. Fang and Lu and Liniang, the two nominal hostesses of the Fang Mansion, is indeed very delicate.

She didn't like the Lu family back then, one of the reasons was that the identity of the princess of the Lu family and the surname of the scholar family, although being tall is a lot of benefits, but the Lu family's straight temper and the strength shown in the matter of concubines. But it has repeatedly stimulated Mrs. Fang, who should have been the highest status in the family, because of the Lu family, the inner house was quite stable, and after the two families fell out, Lu Zhongzhi wrote a letter of severance and left Beijing, she no longer had the previous tolerance for the Lu family, even if she had two sons.

And Li Niang, but it is exactly the opposite type of the Lu family, she is gentle, low background, respect and small intentions for her are on the surface, at that time she left home because of the Lu family with two grandchildren, it is the time of hatred, in contrast, she was used as a tool for her son to inherit the lineage, Li Niang, who suddenly became a caring person.

Unlike the Lu family and Mrs. Fang, who were tense openly and secretly from the beginning, Liniang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have lived in harmony for a long time, until a few years have passed, Liniang has not even given birth to half a son, and the grandchildren can't be found. The two concubines in the house had no stomach, and the estrangement from Fang Qiao's mother-son relationship made the old lady blame Liniang for all the faults, and behind her back, I don't know how many times she complained about Kezi's life!

More than ten years have passed, the elderly Mrs. Fang looked at the old women of other families teasing her grandson, but there was only one granddaughter in her own family, who was born to a concubine, and she felt that her face was dull every time she went out.

At this time, the old lady was resentful of the Lu family, and disgusted with Li Niang.

"Qiao Zhijin interacts with Huaiguo Gong every day, is he looking for someone?"

The words that reached her ears were that Fang Qiao and Lu Zhongzhi, the two Weng sons-in-law who had a bad relationship, had recently become close again, and some people said that they had found the Lu mother and son who were taken away by King An back then.

This sounds like a shadow, but in recent years, Mrs. Fang, who has been looking forward to her grandson more and more, is convinced that she knows a little about Fang Qiao's movements, and she often runs to the Guogong Mansion recently, not for the Lu family's mother and son, what is it.

“......”

"You don't say yes, do you?" She looked at Liniang, who was kneeling on the ground without saying a word, and her heart was quiet when she was fasting and reciting the Buddha, and she suddenly became angry and glared at her. Raised his voice:

"Lianxiang, let someone go and get your master back for me!"

She is old, but her brain is not confused, after listening to the rumors, she first asked Li Niang, that is, she knew that Fang Qiao would definitely hide it from her, so she wanted to ask something from this woman's mouth first, but she didn't want her to be so tight-mouthed.

If it was anything else, she just asked, but this was a major matter related to the Fang family's incense, how could she not care!

Li Niang heard that she sent someone to find Fang Qiao, but she breathed a sigh of relief, this old woman is cold to her on weekdays, and she really lost her temper, what she did wrong.

***

In the evening, Fang Qiao and Li Niang walked out of Mrs. Fang's courtyard, one frowning and the other hanging their heads.

Fang Qiao was urgently found from Zhongshu Province in the name of Mrs. Fang an hour ago, and when she entered the house, she saw the kneeling Liniang and her mother, who was obviously angry.

Youli Niang explained on the side that he learned that his mother had heard the rumors that had entered the house from outside, and he couldn't make the old lady believe that he hadn't found Lu's mother and son for a long time.

Later, the old lady made a killer move. was about to go to the ancestral hall to kneel down on the ancestors of the Fang family, Fang Qiao reluctantly told her that the person already had a letter, but he hadn't seen it yet, and he was looking for it, so she stopped.

The old woman who had been in trouble all afternoon went to sleep with some porridge and rice.

Fang Qiao and Li Niang returned to the main room and sent people out, and when there were only the two of them left in the hall, Li Niang said softly:

"Sir, don't blame me for being too talkative. Since they are looking for their sister and young master, they should be picked up as soon as possible, why do they still let them wander outside, and make their mother worried. ”

Fang Qiao's face was tired, "Han Li hasn't found it yet." ”

Li Niang looked at his face and said, "That one named Han Li has not heard from him for so many years, who knows if he has died a long time ago - in the end, that incident is also due to his reputation, and he doesn't have to bear any crimes, with you, who can say more about the eldest young master..."

"Things are not as simple as you think, someone deliberately passed the news to my mother's ears, there must be a plan, okay, don't talk about this, I will look at it."

Fang Qiao turned his head and looked at Liniang standing aside, she was not standing very steadily, a little shaky, and there were obvious folds on the skirt at her knees.

"Kneeling for a long time?"

Li Niang twisted her hands and shook her head gently, "I didn't kneel for long." ”

"What are you still standing, sit down and rest." Fang Qiao frowned slightly, reached out and pulled her to sit down next to her.

In the past few days, Li Niang has been very keenly aware of his indifference to himself, and he is worried and annoyed, and at this time, in the face of his rare thoughtfulness recently, his uneasy heart immediately calmed down a lot, and he must have feelings for her in the past ten years of getting along.

"My mother is old, and she doesn't speak very well, so you can take care of it more." Although Fang Qiao's face was still sad because of the previous persecution of Old Madam Fang, his voice returned to his usual gentleness.

Li Niang nodded, looking at the people around her with a smile, this is the happiness she has worked so hard to get, and she will definitely keep it.

***

October 16th. It is a chess competition, and on the field in the Junzi Building, there are twenty-two chess tables neatly placed, because a student was removed from the art competition of the five academies, which saved some trouble for the competition.

Before Zhong Ming, Yi Yu was still holding a chess game that Li Tai found for her a few days ago.

After the bell rang, the students sat down in pairs under the arrangement of the main book, and put down the giant axis with the test questions written on it, and wrote the words "a quarter of an hour", a quarter of an hour is the time limit for the game of two pairs, and today is to play rapid chess.

Yi Yu was happy in her heart, Lu Zhi told her in the morning that if she played slow chess, she would be stretched, and if she played fast chess, as long as her brain reacted, there should be no problem.

Sure enough, a quarter of an hour after the start of the competition, she won the first short game with an advantage of eight pieces!

After winning this game, she was out of the worst category, when the master bookkeeper and the scholars were counting the chess pieces, she waved to Lu Zhi from a few seats, and then when the students exchanged places, she quietly raised her head and grinned at a figure on the Lan Tower.

Forty-four people, winning and losing two halves to get back together, who would have thought that in the second game, she won by luck with the risk of three sons!

After two games, the eleven people who won two games in a row, and the eleven people who lost two games in a row, continued separately, and the main book selected a bye according to the previous game, and formed a five-five game.

What made Yi Yu cry and laugh was that the third lady who played against her in the third game turned out to be the third lady of the eldest grandson's family!

Before the main book announced the start of the third game, everyone was sorting out the chessboard, and Yu Yu and Changsun Xi were no exception.

While picking up the white chess pieces, Yi Yu looked at the delicate little face of Changsun Xi opposite, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart, this little girl looks good from afar, how can she be so beautiful when she is so close.

Logically speaking, she should hate Li Tai, the rumored sweetheart, but she just can't give birth to the slightest disgust for such a delicate little face.

"Miss Lu, what's wrong with you?" The eldest grandson Xi was looking down and counting the chess pieces, sensing the gaze of the relict jade, raised his head, the corners of his mouth curled, revealing the cute two pear vortices, and asked in a coquettish voice.

It's over, not only can she not be disgusted, but being stared at by such a pair of clear eyes, she even feels inexplicably empty!

"Well, Miss Eldest Sun must be very good at chess." What is her heart?

Changsun Xi threw the last piece into the chess box, stretched out his small hand with a meat nest, and after tapping his index finger like an onion root on his lips twice, he covered his lips with a palm, and his expression suddenly became mysterious, leaned over, and whispered to her:

"Tell you secretly, my chess skills are not very good, just two games, they were all made of me."

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