In Linhua Palace, the emperor said to Liu Xiangzhi: "I was a little curious about what Lu Xun's daughter was like."
Liu Xiangzhi smiled slightly: "How did the emperor feel after seeing him?"
The emperor stood in front of the window with his hands folded, white clouds like smoke floating lightly in the sky, "I don't like her eyes, they are too clean."
"Young students don't have much experience yet, so they have few distractions."
"Do you also think she is different from Lu Xun?"
"Lu Xun..." Liu Xiangzhi looked a little nostalgic, "She was so unbridled back then, but on the contrary, his daughter is much more reserved."
The emperor fiddled with the jade ring, twitched the corner of his mouth, and sneered: "The eyes are exactly the same, and there is arrogance in his bones."
Liu Xiangzhi shook his head and laughed, "The emperor has not forgotten that bet."
The emperor glanced at him, as if blaming him for not opening the pot, "I heard that she has a birthmark on her face, which makes her extremely ugly."
"Half of the face is normal, but the other half is covered with a birthmark that was present at birth and cannot be removed." Liu Xiangzhi sighed, "It's a pity for such a young girl."
If Lu Anran heard this, she would definitely not regret her birthmark, but would be shocked because the father they talked about was completely different from the one she remembered.
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The summer of Sophora japonica is clear and the moon is calm, and the air is calm and peaceful.
The peach blossoms in Yi County are no longer on the branches, replaced by small plush peaches, full of greenness, and emerald green after the rain.
There is a woman under the peach tree, wearing a plain long skirt and a green silk ribbon tied around her waist, hanging down, complementing the peach forest where she is.
She looked at the peaches on the branch seriously, and didn't even know that someone was approaching. She asked someone to tap her shoulder with a jade bone fan, then turned her head, with a pair of calm black eyes, deep black and clear.
"I don't understand, how can a peach with long hair be as good-looking as this prince?" Yunqi was wearing a mercury-silver gown today. It was elegant and light, low-key but not simple, and instead revealed a kind of nobility.
Lu Anran brushed the peach with his fingertips and said in a probing tone: "Plums that are still green can be pickled to make green plums. Logically speaking, peaches can also be used."
Yun Qi raised his eyebrows, "Take a bite, a mouthful of hair?"
Lu Anran thought for a while and gave up this plan.
The two walked through the peach forest, with Mo Yan and Wu Fang following them secretly from a little further away.
"Are you fully injured?" Mo Yan glanced at Wu Fang and said awkwardly, "You look like a dead person."
Wu Fang glanced at him lightly, and Mo Yan stepped away subconsciously, "No problem." After saying what he thought of, he added: "Thank you for your concern."
"Haha——" Mo Yan took a breath, touched his chest and thought, it wasn't Wu Fang's brain that was injured, right?
Wu Fang frowned: "It's blocking the road."
Mo Yan rubbed his head, yes, it still tastes like this.
Wu Fang glanced at Mo Yan's actions from the corner of his eye and was once again sure that this man was probably a fool.
Yun Qi, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, and Lu Anran followed suit. Just when he was about to speak, he heard the sound of a carriage approaching from far away. After waiting for a while, it appeared in his eyes.
The wind blew, and the peach leaves rustled into a pile. One of them fell on Lu Anran's sleeve. She lowered her head to pick it up, but a hand suddenly snatched it away.
"Eh? Have you got a peach?" The next moment, a charming female voice sounded in my ears, and she threw the peach leaf on the ground in disgust, and quickly picked a green peach, "Bah, bah, bah, so astringent. "
Lu Anran raised his head, and saw a young girl standing on the originally empty peach tree. Two round buns were tied with red hairbands, and the little bells on them shone brightly in the sun, contrasting with a baby's fat and round face. Cute, full of innocence and naivety.
The girl wiped her mouth and threw the peach into the sky, "Humph, you guys are talking about love here, and you want me to break my legs. You are so cruel."
Lu Anran's face darkened, Yun Qi played with the jade bone fan and chuckled, "Is the matter done?"
Guanyue jumped down from the carriage, clasped his fists at Yunqi and said, "Your Majesty, we have sent him away. We will return as soon as we leave the boundaries of Yi County."
Yun Qi nodded: "The next road depends on her own destiny."
Lu Taotao chuckled mischievously, "Liu Wu is an important criminal of the imperial court. You two knowingly committed the crime will be prosecuted."
Yunqi raised his eyebrows slightly, with a hint of spring at the end of his peach blossom eyes, and there was a fake surprise on his face, "It was you and Guanyue who did it. The court wants to arrest you two and they are wanted."
"You bad guy Yun!" Lu Taotao said flatly.
One thing defeats another, Lu Anran believes that even a disaster star like Lu Taotao must admit defeat when the clouds rise.
Now that the carriage was free, Yun Qi and Lu Anran simply got on the carriage and Guan Yue drove the carriage. Mo Yan and Wu Fang followed with Qinggong. Lu Taotao sat outside the carriage and bickered with Guan Yue.
In the car, Yun Qi said to Lu Anran: "It's easy to say that the other women are not involved in the counterfeit banknote case. Their names have already been taken out of the household registration book, but Liu Wu cannot be with them."
Liu Zhiquan secretly hid so much Sichuan paper, which had already constituted a serious crime of being executed. This time Yun Qi asked Lu Taotao and Guan Yue to cooperate to confuse the jailer with a sound attack, and then transferred people to the contract, and finally rescued the Liu Wu family.
The main reason why this method works is that Mrs. Liu Wu can only be regarded as a dispensable presence in this case. She happened to be implicated as a family member. No matter how disguised she is with someone of similar stature, when the jailer finds out that the person is dead, she will just be wrapped in straw. Throw the mass graves away and you're done.
"Where did you find this person?" Lu Anran wanted to save the Liu Wu family, but he couldn't hope to exchange other lives for it.
Yun Qi leaned back lazily and said in a normal tone: "There are many people in this world who deserve to die but do not die."
Lu Anran half-cast her eyes, and when Yunqi thought she was going to make some remarks, she surprisingly remained silent.
Instead, Yun Qi couldn't help it anymore and asked, "Don't you say something?"
Lu Anran raised his eyes with a confused look.
"Human life is more important than heaven. Even if you are guilty, the government must judge the case. You cannot decide the fate of others privately."
Lu Anran was even more surprised, "I am a widower, not a doctor, nor a court official." The implication is that she recognizes dead bodies, and what does the living have to do with her.
Yun Qi laughed dumbly, "You are really a wonderful person."
Lu Anran smoothed the hem of her skirt with her backhand, "People's hearts are big, but their hands are short. We can only get a little of what is in front of us. It's useless to think too much."
Yun Qi raised the corner of his mouth, with a smile in his eyes, "The case is over, Liu Wu and her daughter have been saved. This matter should be over now."
Lu Anran's eyes turned slightly, "Can Cheng Jiuwan really plan so many things?"
Yun Qi spread his hands: "Okay, don't make trouble for me. It's very difficult for me as Sicheng, okay?"
Lu Anran pursed her lips, curved them a little, and disappeared behind the brocade mask.
"Speaking of which..." Yun Qi was lazily, as the carriage bumped and bumped as if he could fall asleep at any moment, "The emperor actually asked me and Nangong Zhi to check on the Gu family."
"The emperor doubts the Gu family?"
"Have you forgotten who owns Qiongxian Tower?"
But the Gu family still has a queen, so why should they bring Xiao Conglong out to cause harm to the country?
Yun Qi had no inhibitions and said with a click of his tongue: "Anyone who wants to be an emperor is suspected of being seriously ill."
Lu Anran looked at him sideways, "Your Majesty, be careful what you say."
"When I was away, I spoke to Yunqi one by one, and now I call him the Crown Prince." Yunqi chuckled, "I didn't see that you are still being two-faced."
Lu Anran told him with a slightly shy face, and he covered it up by opening the curtain of the carriage, "The county seat has arrived."
Yun Qi was suddenly surprised when he saw that this usually cold-tempered girl would be embarrassed, and he insisted on not teasing people all at once, so he had to hold back and casually glanced outside, "There are quite a lot of people."
"Well, the Lanting gathering has begun."
After saying this, Yun Qi remembered what the waiter said when he first came to Yi County, "A gathering of scholars to chat and talk?"
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Yi County is the hometown of saints, and the literary style is popular. The Lanting Gathering held in early April every year is also quite famous throughout the Ning Dynasty.
At first, a few scholars happened to meet friends through literature in Lanting. Somehow, one year, a great talent emerged that was unparalleled in the world and refuted all the talents in Yi County.
Usually people say that there is no first in literature and no second in martial arts. It is difficult to distinguish in terms of literary literacy, but that person is one of a kind. No matter astronomy, geography, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, or odd numeracy, even ordinary people are not The astrology and divination involved are also dealt with fluently.
As word spread, unconvinced scholars came one after another, crowding the small Orchid Pavilion into a sea of people. They fought fiercely for three days and three nights, but in the end the man could not fall.
After this incident, the reputation of the Lanting Gathering spread, and famous local scholars and talents were organized every year to form a regular gathering for scholars to talk and exchange.
"Are you asking for his name?" A horse-faced scholar from Lantingji pointed at the stone tablet, "Isn't it written on it - Lu Yuan!"
This was the second time Lu Anran and Yun Qi came to Lantingji. It was probably close to the meal time. There were not many scholars at this time. Three or five students were sitting together. Sometimes they came up with allusions to communicate with each other, sometimes they recited poems and composed poems, but most of the time they were talking. Thinking hard, the surroundings are quiet.
Because of the quietness, everyone heard what this horse-faced scholar said. It turned out that he was introducing a scholar from other places who was not from this county, and he probably gave the leader Lu Yuan the same arrogant praise as the old man did that day.
Suddenly there was a burst of laughter. Lu Anran looked up and saw a man standing outside the pavilion with his back to everyone. He walked forward and said, "What Lu Yuan? His real name is Lu Xun. These young people nowadays really don't know." So-called." After saying the last word, the person had disappeared into the jungle around the corner.
The Mafan students were far away and probably didn't hear clearly, but Lu Anran heard it solidly and was stunned for a moment. She quickly chased after him, but there was no one behind the forest. Where was the man?
Yun Qi raised two fingers and waved forward, signaling Mo Yan to pursue the person secretly. Soon Mo Yan came back without even a trace of the person in sight.
Lu Taotao was lying on the stone table outside the pavilion, with his face on the table and his big eyes blinking, "This person can escape from heaven to earth."
No one knows whether he can escape from heaven to earth, but Lu Anran heard an incredible news - Lu Yuan is actually Lu Xun's alias!
"Is it fake?" Mo Yan scratched his chin, "Can't you come up with the title of Patriarch of the Lu family? You still have to come up with a pseudonym."
Yun Qi held the jade bone fan in his right hand and tapped the palm of his hand, thinking: "Yuan is the leader, the origin of everything in the world, and also has the intention of starting over. If this is true, it makes sense."
Guan Yue nodded: "Yes, and Governor Lu was probably still young at that time." A young man is full of energy and wants to become famous all over the world on his own, rather than relying on the shadow of his ancestors. This is completely appropriate.
"I just remembered that Commander Lu, the current emperor, Prime Minister Liu, and Princess Rongjing of the previous dynasty were all students of Jixia Palace." Yun Qi analyzed: "Judging from the fact that Jixia Palace recruits students once every ten years, they are still the same batch. Enter the Jixia Palace."
In other words, these famous figures were classmates in the past.
Lu Taotao raised his head and changed his face to the table, his mouth pouted, and his whole chin trembled when he spoke, "Isn't the leader of the Mengdu Lu clan Lu Anran's father? This person is known to be a softie, Lu The whole family is about to collapse due to him. Didn’t they say that Lu Yuan is a genius that is rare to see in a hundred years? Can this be a person? "
The others didn't speak, and all looked at Lu Anran, while her eyelids were half lowered to cover her eyes, making it impossible to see the emotions in her eyes.
Several families in Mengzhou including the Daning Dynasty, everyone knows that the head of the Lu family of this generation is mediocre, and the Lu family has become a joke, but now no one mentions that he also studied in Jixia Palace, and even created a place in Yi County What an amazing talent.
Lu Anran thought of Liu Xiangzhi's words about her father. It turned out that her understanding of her father had been wrong all along.
But what changed Lu Xun and made him a different person?
With such doubts, Lu Anran left Yixian.
The third case·End
