The sound came from behind a low-hanging curtain on the side.

Su Yu came back to his senses in horror.

She actually forgot, and subconsciously thought of this situation as her and Aya in the past. She hurriedly knelt down and bowed deeply to the ground in front of her.

A moment later, someone stepped out from behind the curtain, boots walking past her, and she heard the slight rustling of clothes as people moved.

The Emperor walked to a bed behind the painting. The eunuch gently helped him to sit up, then bowed and retreated, silently hiding behind the curtain to be summoned.

"Raise your head!" A moment later, the voice was heard again.

Su Yu mustered up his courage, slowly raised his head as he said, and looked ahead.

Through the painting, a thin face came into her eyes.

This face was old, dark, sickly, and under the towering eyebrow bones, a pair of eyes as deep as a well, full of coldness and doubt.

The emperor was wearing the clothes of Yanju, and he was frowning slightly at the moment, looking at her coldly.

It's Ayah.

It's her Ayer!

Su Yu recognized it at a glance, however, she almost couldn't believe that the emperor with white hair and decay in front of her was really her former black sideburns and knife cut, loud laughter, vigorous steps, heroic and god-like Aya?

She knew she couldn't. However, she couldn't control it, and when she saw the person in front of her, not only could she not stop it, but she kept falling from her eyes like beads.

What has happened to Aya over the years? How did he become the way he is?

After a brief shock, there was great distress.

As long as he called out to his wife at this moment, as long as he spoke, she would definitely put aside all her doubts and resentment, and threw herself into his arms desperately, crying loudly.

At first, the emperor did not know whether he was bewildered by her weeping actions, or something else, his eyes fell on her face, showing some surprise, and he looked at her for a moment, and soon his expression changed to gloomy again.

"I'm not dead yet."

He said coldly, with a bit of disgust that had seen through everything.

This sound of the sword halberd woke up the rain at once.

The person on the throne is the current emperor of the Holy Dynasty, the king who holds the power of life and death, and the father who she still decided not to recognize rashly after thinking about it twice.

He is no longer the pure Aya of Li Yan'er in the subterfuge of the past.

She tried her best to hold her mind, hurriedly wiped away her tears, and bowed her head deeply.

"Your Majesty forgive your sins! The reason why Xiaochen was crying more than now was because he saw the deep love between mother and daughter in the painting, and thought of Xiaochen's mother who died early. ”

"Your Majesty forgives your sins!"

She kowtowed again, secretly forcing back the last remnants of tears in her eyes.

This picture of a mother and daughter watching cats, how could she forget that it was painted by Ding Baiya, a court painter at that time, for her mother and daughter. A-Niang likes it, but Aya doesn't like it. She vaguely remembered that they seemed to have had an argument about the painting late one night, which scared her into tears. Then the painting disappeared. After so many years, she thought that the painting had long since disappeared and disappeared in an unknown time and place. But I didn't expect it to survive, and I would see it here again at this moment.

After a moment of silence, the emperor spoke again: "Your name is Ye Xuyu?" His voice sounded much softer.

"Yes."

"Who's the painter?"

Su Yu told Zhou He what he had said before.

The emperor glanced at the kneeling man and snorted faintly.

"Ye Zhongli really has a lot of good apprentices! There are still such protégés, but they have not been recruited into the academy to benefit the world's painting students, but it is my negligence. There was a bit of irony in his words, and he seemed to still be disgusted with Ye Zhongli's "good apprentice".

Su Yu didn't know if he believed his response, and he was worried for a while, and he didn't dare to speak. Fortunately, when the emperor spoke again, he had already changed the topic: "What happened on the painting boat of King Ning's Qujiang banquet yesterday, from beginning to end, don't miss a point, tell me again!" ”

The emperor's tone was flat, but the meaning of the strict order was self-evident.

Su Yu didn't dare to hide it, and recounted the whole process as it was, including how King Kang abandoned the second county lord and left.

After she finished speaking, there was silence in the cabinet for a while.

Su Yu waited for a moment, quietly raised his gaze, through his eyelashes, quickly peeked at the silhouette in front of him, and saw that it was like a cast, and it seemed to be a little more awkward than the first time.

The Emperor must have known that it had all passed. At this moment, when she is interrogated again, what hope do you have to hear some different voices?

King Kang may not love the two county lords on weekdays. His choice was probably the only choice he could think of at the time to survive. In order to survive, unscrupulous means, such as the weak and the strong, can also be regarded as a kind of natural righteousness.

She was not in a position to judge whether her half-brother was right or wrong.

But no one in the world who is a father should want to see such a situation as long as he is not a normal person who has completely lost his empathy.

Su Yu looked at the figure of the emperor, felt a little sad in his heart, lowered his eyes, and couldn't bear to look at it again.

Suddenly, the person in front of him moved, and then, a voice that turned cold again rang in his ears.

"What is your relationship with Ashina and Yu Wenzhi? How to get acquainted? ”

The rain raised its eyes.

The Emperor has regained his stern brow.

At this time, she was no longer at a loss when she first met, and her mind was completely stabilized.

"Yuwen Shizi, because the minister passed by Shu with his master in the past to do things for Yuwen Mansion, so he got to know. Prince Ashina started from Pei Erlangjun. ”

She has lived in the Yongning Mansion. Since the emperor even knew that she knew Chengping and Yu Wenzhi, not to mention Pei Xiaoyuan, he couldn't hide it. Without waiting for the emperor to ask again, he simply said it first.

The emperor probably didn't expect her to take the initiative to mention "Pei Erlangjun", and glanced at him deeply, one side of his muscles couldn't be controlled, and he twitched slightly crookedly.

Su Yu naturally did not notice it, and continued: "Xiao Chen used to travel all over the world with his master, looking at the landscape and painting, in addition to Shudi, he also went to Ganliang many years ago. Similarly, it was there that he was able to get acquainted with Pei Erlangjun's uncle, so that he could recognize Pei Erlangjun and Prince Ashina. ”

"What about Li Yan?"

"What is your relationship with him?"

After hearing her response, the emperor's expression was incomprehensible, and suddenly, the name came out of his mouth.

Su Yu's heartbeat was already steady, because he couldn't help but hear this name, he jumped lightly again, and immediately said on his face: "Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know who this is." ”

She must not let the emperor know that she had met Li Yan, and even helped him escape from Pei Xiaoyuan's men.

Once the person in front of her knows, she may be able to use her natural identity to ask for a forgiveness, but what awaits Pei Xiaoyuan will be a catastrophe.

The Emperor's eyes fell on her face like a knife.

"Raise your eyes!"

Su Yu heard the emperor's order.

She greeted it calmly, her eyes did not dodge at all, and there was no weakness in her heart.

The emperor stared at her for a long time, and said coldly: "It's just a little painter, dare to play tricks in front of me, I can ask for your head at any time." The tone was full of intimidation and warning.

Or the unspoken tacit understanding between father and daughter in the past still remains, and Su Yu has a comprehension.

The emperor still did not dispel his doubts about her, but at this point, it should be a sign of reprisal.

Sure enough, the emperor didn't ask Li Yan anymore, but glanced at her, from head to toe, several times.

Su Yu was inexplicable, kneeling on the ground, inevitably worried, just when she thought that the emperor had seen that she was his lost daughter in the past, she heard the emperor ask: "You have lived in the Pei family's Yongning house?" ”

"Yes. Just moved in yesterday. ”

The Emperor paused.

"What is the relationship between you and Pei Jiazi? Why do you live in the same house? ”

"Because when we met in Ganliang in the past, Xiaochen and Pei Erlangjun were both young, so they formed a friendship and were no different from brothers. Now that he has been given back the mansion by His Majesty, he knows that the minister still has no place to settle, so he invited me to live with him. ”

Su Yu lowered his eyes and responded respectfully.

There was silence on the other side, and just when Su Yu thought that he had finished coping, suddenly, the emperor bent a knuckle and knocked several times on the edge of the bed, making a few short and solemn knocks.

"He is a minister of the imperial court, you have such painting skills, and the future is also immeasurable. Remember that you should deal with it today, and don't let me hear anything that I shouldn't have in the future. ”

Su Yu was called by this unforeseen strange sound and raised his eyes again, saw the emperor staring at him, and said meaningfully.

She was stunned, her heart was dazed, she didn't fully react for a while, and she only cared about what she should be.

The emperor frowned slightly and looked at her, then turned his gaze to the remnant painting on the case, and ordered: "Paint on the west wall outside for me, and use this face to paint." ”

The rain should be again.

The emperor called out "Yang Zaien", and the eunuch who was hidden behind the curtain immediately walked out. Hearing the emperor's order to take this painter to prepare for painting, he bowed down.

"Stand down!"

The Emperor seemed to be tired and brushed his hands.

Su Yu looked at the remnant painting, and was reluctant to see it again, so he hesitated and asked, "Can you allow the minister to look at the painting for a while?" Fang Cai did not see the faces of the people in the painting clearly, lest he make a mistake in his writing. ”

The Emperor had already leaned down, closed his eyes, and heard a sound from his nose.

With permission, Su Yu walked to the painting case, and with the infinite emotions that poured out of his heart again, he leaned over the painting case and gazed greedily at the young and beautiful low-eyed face of A-Niang on the painting.

Yang Zaien is a eunuch who serves in the west hall here, and he has some qualifications, and he is one of the few people left after Zhao Zhongfang left. At this moment, he was afraid that the light in the small pavilion would be insufficient, and the little painter would not be able to see the faces of the people in the painting clearly, so he personally took the lamp close to illuminate it, so that he could see more clearly.

Looking at the little painter's appearance of contemplating the painting, Yang Zaien thought about what happened this morning.

His Majesty the Emperor wanted to make this painting in this palace, and the idea has been for a long time.

After the former envoy of the painting academy was killed, the two remaining paintings of His Royal Highness Jixian, Yao Xu's paintings were beautiful, His Majesty did not like it, as for Fang Shan, it was okay in the past, but now the wind is becoming more and more mediocre, without spirituality, the matter has been delayed, and His Majesty has never mentioned it until today.

However, based on his many years of experience in serving the emperor, it seems that His Majesty summoned this little painter not really for the purpose of painting at first, and the change began with the work he had taken this morning, which he had previously taken for the examination of painting.

After looking at the paintings, His Majesty seemed to be quite pleasing to him, and even asked him to take out the remnants of the paintings, which were usually hidden deeply, so that the little painter could look at them.

It seems that this time I really want to redraw the picture of the Queen Mother of the West.

I hope that this matter will go smoothly and be completed as soon as possible, which can be regarded as a wish of His Majesty the Emperor.

Yang Zaien was meditating in his heart, and suddenly at this time, a palace eunuch came from outside, reporting that Jin Wuwei Lu Wusi Si Cheng Pei Xiaoyuan was here and asked to see him outside.

Yang Jae-en was stunned and looked at the emperor on the bed. The emperor lay on his side and turned inward, his figure motionless, as if he had not heard it.

"Your Majesty, it was reported outside that Pei Jiaerlang asked to see him."

Yang Jae-eun spoke softly.

"Nope. Call him back! ”

The emperor replied lightly.