Chapter 283: Fallen Beauty
On the twelfth day of the first month, before three o'clock, the sun is slightly off, and the hope is still warm.
A blue-curtained carriage drove leisurely past the city gate, and the guards guarding the city were about to step forward to investigate as usual, when the curtain in front of the carriage opened by itself, revealing a small white face.
"Four girls!" The guards were slightly startled and saluted with fists.
After the champion and the father and daughter of the three armies triumphantly rode together, everyone in the capital knew that Lin Shisheng had a daughter who was regarded as a treasure, and her big and round eyes were also very recognizable, and there were few Praetorian Guards who did not recognize her.
Lin Jiaruo nodded, lowered the front curtain, and the carriage continued to move forward.
"The four girls in our family are so majestic?" Lin Zhizhi leaned against the wall of the carriage and joked with a smile.
Lin Jiaruo was still uneasy: "Cousin Allure is already the crown princess, and she is about to marry into the royal family, if we borrow her car to enter the palace to assassinate, will it affect her?" Would she not want to?
Lin Zhizhi couldn't help but wonder, this girl, yesterday she was not happy that Xia Qingcheng married into the royal family!
"If you want to, you have to ask!" Lin Zhizhi said, habitually raising his hand to stroke the top of her hair.
The car was dim, he smiled and lowered his head, and in an instant, it was like a starry star, so beautiful that she breathed, and unconsciously turned her head to meet his palm.
When he was about to meet, he suddenly withdrew his palm, sat upright, and said, "Tell me about what has happened in the past year or so!" β
Lin Jiaruo was a little lost, as if her eldest brother had been cold to her since last night.
Could it be because she was suspicious of Cousin Allure before, which made him unhappy?
The carriage stopped at the gate of the Xia Mansion, and Lin Jiaruo got out of the car and played a majestic role again.
Even though Xia Chengcheng was deeply favored by the Xiao family and his son, the descendants of the Xia family did not dare to raise their heads in front of Lin Jiaruo, she stood at the door and only said: "I'm looking for Cousin Xia, wait for her here!" The porter ran in without a moment's delay.
Xia Chengcheng came out soon, saw her, smiled slightly, and called softly: "Ah Ruo!" β
Speaking of which, the gap with Xia Chengcheng seems to only exist on Lin Jiaruo's side, except for secretly shooting an arrow at the Xia family's carriage that day, on the surface, Lin Jiaruo has not done anything against Xia Chengcheng.
Of course, since Xia Qingcheng and Gu Zhan walked together, Lin Jiaruo has not interacted with her again.
Now that she is called like this, she still has an amiable attitude, as if nothing has happened between them, which makes Lin Jiaruo a little uncomfortable, and she has a kind of weakness that she is saying bad things about people behind her back.
Glancing at her awkwardly, Lin Jiaruo said bluntly: "I have something to tell you, you come to the car with me!" β
Xia Chengcheng left his maid and got into the car with Lin Jiaruo's hand defenselessly.
By the time Lin Jiaruo got in the car, Xia Chengcheng had already met Lin Zhizhi.
With affection and tears, desire for sorrow and joy; Any expression of a beauty is intoxicatingly beautiful; And the handsome boy opposite her also looked at her with pity and love, probably because of the difference between men and women, so he didn't wipe away the tears of the beauty in person.
Lin Jiaruo hesitated for a moment, the two of them sat opposite each other, they seemed to be a little redundant, and they didn't know where to sit.
Lin Zhi subconsciously pulled her, and Xia Qingcheng on the opposite side also stretched out his hand to her, and he silently retracted it.
"You're still alive...... That's great! Xia Tingcheng's voice was a little choked, "We really think that something happened to you, I sometimes even think, no matter how much you do, you are no longer there, what's the point......"
Lin Jiaruo's eyes shrank, and he turned his head to stare at her, those words contained too much.
Xia Chengcheng still looked at Lin Zhizhi with tears in his eyes, delicate and tactful, and I felt pity.
"You ...... What was done? Lin Zhizhi not only did not show a nervous and loving look, but also frowned, and his fingers tapped his thighs, as if he was a little dignified.
Xia Qingcheng wiped away his tears and said softly: "After the list of the dead was copied back to Beijing, except for Ah Ruo, everyone thought you died in battle; Until the theft of military rations broke out, Gu Ergongzi was imprisoned, and Yuan Yan of the Yue State Mansion found himββ"
Yuan Yan? Lin Jiaruo was stunned.
"In the case of military ration theft, Gu Ergongzi first sued Xiao Yu, and then retracted his confession to identify Xiao Kai, all at the behest of Yuan Yanββ"
The fists gradually clenched, Lin Jiaruo was furious, the Yuan family had taken refuge in her father for too long, she almost forgot what kind of person Yuan Yan was!
At that time, she suspected that she was instructed by Yuan Yan, but she couldn't figure out why, Yuan Yan was clearly Xiao Yu's opponent, why did she instruct Gu Zhan to help Xiao Yu get out of trouble?
"Yuan Yan wants to use this case to pull Xiao Yu and Xiao Kai into the water together; He wanted Gu Ergongzi to retract his confession and let Xiao Yu out of the palace, just to give him a chance to take revenge on the scholars in the prison and make the scene even more uncontrollable. β
Lin Jiaruo recalled that day, it was Yuan Yan who sent the news of the prince's forced palace, and now that he thinks about it, maybe it is not because he is well-informed, but because he guided all of this.
"Why was Gu Zhan used by Yuan Yan?" Lin Zhizhi asked calmly, everything Xia Chengcheng said didn't seem to move him.
Xia Tingcheng said: "Because Yuan Yan said that he knows the real cause of your death!" β
"What did Yuan Yan say?" Lin Jiaruo asked.
She seemed to be angry and excited, and when she thought that such a strong emotion was because of Yuan Yan, Lin Zhizhi felt that there was no comfort in her whole body.
"He said that Xiao Li had inquired with him about the killer organizations in the rivers and lakes, and later sent his henchmen to have contact with some Jianghu people, and the time was shortly before the fall of the Hangzhou armyβ" She bit her lip, "He also said that Xiao Li's study has a small portrait of me hidden in his ......"
So, really killed her husband and wife for the sake of a stunning beauty? confirmed this reason, Lin Jiaruo was even powerless to be angry, and the eldest brother was too wronged.
After Gu Ergongzi learned the clues, he told Gan Mingjue; Gan Mingjue found me and asked me to approach Xiao Li with Gu Er Gongzi and search for evidence-" Xia Qingcheng suddenly stopped, a look of disgust in his eyes.
"Did you find it?" Lin Zhizhi asked lightly.
"Found it!" Xia Chengcheng said, "Not only did I find Xiao Li's incriminating evidence, but I also found Xiao Daocheng!" β
Speaking of this, she suddenly trembled and tears rained down.
Lin Zhizhi sighed and said, "It's hard for you, Allure ......"
Xia Qingcheng shook his head and couldn't cry: "I'm not embarrassed...... Cousin...... I'm just a little, a little scared......"
With her beauty and circumstantiality, between the wolf-like Xiao father and son, when will she not walk on thin ice? If it weren't for the Dustless Mage who approved the phoenix life for her, she would have been torn apart a long time ago.
Lin Jiaruo looked at her in a daze, ashamed and ashamed.
It turned out that the person she thought was unkind and unrighteous was precisely the most affectionate and righteous, and she really didn't look at people with her heart......
Cousin Allure, it turns out that it is good to treat the big brother like this......
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