The summer rain came quickly and violently, and the pea-sized raindrops splashed small puddles in the lake, reflecting the slim lotus flowers in the lake, and occasionally unknown insects chirping accompanied by the sound of the rain, making the surroundings even more silent.

Lu Tong looked at Lu Chen, who was meditating in the listening rain pavilion in the middle of the lake, and felt that this moment was extremely precious. The heavy rain is pouring, and the third prince rarely doesn't have to care about the intrigues between the court and the middle, and doesn't have to worry about the vitality of those friends in the rivers and lakes, just sitting there quietly, making people feel that the world has stopped at this moment, there is no waterlogging in Jingzhou, no turmoil in the frontier, no bullying and no hiding a knife in a smile, just quietly, everyone is fine, isn't it.

"Third son, the materials you want are ready, I'll serve you." Lu Tong walked through the corridor with an umbrella and led people to the pavilion.

"Put your things down, you all go and rest, I'll do it myself." Lu Chen commanded.

Lu Chen used to meditate before painting, so that he could eliminate the distractions in his heart and temporarily stop his non-stop running mind, and then he could sink into the painting and move his hands as he wished. Painting is a rare leisure for him, and it is also a wholehearted dedication, so each of his paintings is as natural as flowing clouds and water, but you can see the open-mindedness and profound artistic conception in the distance.

However, he is riddled with mundane things, in fact, Lu Chen has not painted for a long time. Today's scenery depends on each other, but I started to pick up the pen, just a few days later is Hu Zhongshu's 60th birthday, I wanted to pick one from the past paintings as a birthday gift, left and right think that it seems that the degree of attention is not enough, by chance to this point, it was decided to give today's rainstorm lotus picture.

Hu Zhongshu is a secretary of the ministry, and he has always been at odds with Jinshan, so he thinks that the birthday banquet will not be of a large scale, but this is a good thing for Lu Chen. The Ministry of Officials is the head of the six departments, directly subordinate to the Shengshang, in charge of the national civil official selection, examinations, knighthoods, successive officials are frequent visitors to the chief examiner of the imperial examination, and Hu Zhongshu as more than ten years of officials and scholars, but also protégés all over the court, it is in this way that Jinshan regarded him as a thorn in the flesh in the eye, and many times wanted to take the opportunity to replace him with his own people, but he was resolved, and he has insisted until today. In this way, this Hu Zhongshu has some ability, but he doesn't know what's going on, and he always feels that something is wrong.

No matter what, Hu Zhongshu was going to be brought in under his command, so Lu Chen didn't dare to be perfunctory, and specially made a new painting as a birthday gift, ready to be given away at the birthday banquet.

"Third son, Bai Tu is here, I've been waiting for a while." As soon as Lu Chen put away his pen, Uncle Zhong came over to report.

"Let her in, wait for me in the study." The Lu family all know that Lu Chen can't be disturbed when he paints, once he picks up the pen, everything has to wait until the painting is finished. "Also, be careful when the ink is dry."

After Lu Chen's order, he stood alone in the rain pavilion, he watched the lotus leaves on the lake sway left and right under the impact of the rainstorm but never fell, watching the pink or white lotus flowers being destroyed by the wind and rain in turn but refusing to fall, suddenly wanted to drink, the wind and rain were shaking, but life was so tenacious. You need to know that the rainstorm is still so windy, and the flowers and plants should be proud after the rain. Respectable, admirable.

After closing his eyes, Lu Chen turned back to Lu Chen, the third son of the Lu family, from the painter Lu Ningzi, and turned around and walked towards the study.

Bai Tu is here to report on Jin Chengting's situation. Lu Chen had seen her once before leaving Beijing, but she begged Lu Chen to enter the Prime Minister's Mansion and go deep into the tiger's den to feed the tiger, Lu Chen thought about her life experience, looked at the woman kneeling on the ground and crying like rain, she didn't want her to get into this quagmire again, but she couldn't say anything to refuse. Perhaps, what can be done can allow her to prove the value of her life, and give her more strength to live for the whole clan.

Jin Chengting is a smart and cautious person, but he doesn't know that Bai Tu changed his name and appearance and stayed in the Guxiang Pavilion in the capital for 3 years, and he didn't do anything, just to confirm his identity. She has nothing left, only time, as long as she has time, no matter how stupid a person is, she can figure out a thing thoroughly, not to mention that Bai Tu is a smart person. Since coming to the Guxiang Pavilion in Beijing 3 years ago, she is no longer Wang Keyan, she is Bai Tu, the head of the Guxiang Pavilion in Beijing, covered with a silk scarf, two eyes with a smile, my fair beauty sits on a Huanghuali wood Taishi chair, welcomes guests from all over the world, and gathers wealth from all over the world. The capital is not a simple place, and there are officials and nobles everywhere. But it is such a woman, in the capital where crises are everywhere, and she has steadily operated Guxiang Pavilion into the first place for nobles in the capital to drink tea and chat.

Lu Chen once said that all kinds of things in the past killed Wang Keyan, but they also created today's white tu.

Lu Chen knew that before he arrived in the capital, Bai Tu and Jin Chengting should be the relationship between ordinary teahouse owners and regular customers. Bai Tu begged him that day, he had no way to refuse, but he didn't give any help, he still hoped that this woman who had experienced a lot of hardships could let go of the past and face the future calmly. But he underestimated this woman who had been struggling in the imperial capital for three years, she had been in hell for so many years, and she was full of experience in fighting with imps. She made Jin Chengting a shareholder of Guxiang Pavilion in the capital by herself, and she visited her during the New Year's Festival and often came and went. It is rumored in the capital that the head of the Guxiang Pavilion who moved the capital with only a pair of phoenix eyes and a slender figure has become the outer room of Jin Chengting, and it is common to go in and out of Jinfu.

Lu Chen didn't want her to ruin his reputation, but he couldn't save a person who wanted to die, and he couldn't erase a smart woman's national hatred. Those hatreds were the thorns in her heart, making her heart ache and bleed, but they also allowed her to live until now. Lu Yiyuan's evidence can be found so quickly, and it is inseparable from Bai Tu's intelligence, which shows that she does have some layout in Jin Chengting.

Bai Tuhui came in the rain today, firstly, to better avoid eyeliner, and secondly, she found that Jin Chengting actually had close contacts with Hu Chun, a nephew of Hu Zhongshu, but on the surface, this nephew was just a nephew of the Hu family's side branch, who was over thirty years old but had never entered the office, so it was not eye-catching, but Bai Tu felt that there was a problem, so he came over to remind Lu Chen in person and wanted to discuss the next countermeasures with him.