Chapter 16: Cuckoo (on)

After Xue Mu left the lotus pond, she walked to the small courtyard nestled beside the pool. Nuo Yan kept following him, keeping a close distance.
"Did Honger find it?" Xue Mu asked suddenly, he didn't turn back, and his voice didn't sound ups and downs. Nuo Yan glanced at his back and replied, "It hasn't been found, but she already knows she hasn't left Chang'an City."
Xue Mu seemed to laugh, and said a few moments of silence: "Add some staff."
"Yes."
The short conversation ended, and the lotus bank was in sight. The courtyard was filled with a scent of magnolia flowers. Xue Mu passed through the courtyard and pushed open the concealed door.
There was a man sitting in the room, wearing a dark blue crew neck gown, holding a white-faced folding fan in his hand, a book-like atmosphere. Seeing Xue Mu coming in from the door, he smiled and waved at him.
This person is not someone else, it is the youngest jinshi ever in Dacheng history, Cao Jingren.
"Finishing the housework?" He smiled a bit, and sent two of them at Zhou Jinjin's banquet. Xue Mu went to the bedside and sat down opposite him: "What about painting?"
Cao Jingren slowly took out a rolled scroll from his arms and put it on the case: "He took the sheep from Aes."
Xue Mu glanced at the picture tape wrapped with the brocade, and raised her eyebrows slightly: "Thousand-handed Xiao Miaoshan really deserves its name."
Cao Jingren's face turned black immediately: "I told you 493 times, don't call me this nickname."
Before the Jing'an Cao family came out as a jinshi Cao Jingren, there had been an unknown family who passed on stunts, known as stealing chickens and dogs. Cao Jingren is talented and intelligent. He not only reads the book well, but also masters the unique skills of the Cao family.
However, few people can associate Qianshou Xiaomiaoshan with Changan's famous young talents.
Xue Mu did not tease him any more, but carefully opened the brocade and took the drawing axis out. After unfolding, he stared at the Magnolia branch for a moment, and then frowned, "Fake."
"How is it possible!" As if being provoked, Cao Jingren quickly retorted, "I have personally tested it at the banquet. It is indeed the true trace of Ding Maoxue." He pulled Xue Mu's hand and glanced at it. His face gradually sank, it was really a fake.
Xue Mu looked at him and knew that the painting was indeed strange. He glanced at the white magnolia on the painting and asked, "Where did this painting come from?"
Cao Jingren squinted at the corner of his mouth, looking very unwilling: "I got it from Aers." He couldn't figure out, which part went wrong? Or did Aers keep a hand in his back?
Xue Mu looked down and thought: "You tell me about the situation at the banquet."
Cao Jingren took a deep breath, and his voice dried up: "First, Tang Zibo's maid in Zhoufu changed the real, and then Aers followed her out of the main hall." He stopped here and stared. At the feast that was standing beside Xue Mu. When Nuo Yan saw him come over, he would understand: "I saw that maid gave the painting to Tang Zibo's men, and then Aers changed the painting from him."
"That's right, so I really painted it in Aes's hand." Cao Jingren nodded as if certain something, and continued, "I received a hint that I took the seat while the scene was out of control. That fake painting, then deliberately hit Aes, and dropped the two paintings. "
The whole thing is like this, the real painting goes round and round, in the end it should be in his hands, but why ...
He looked at the fake picture on the case table again, and frowned slightly. The emperor told them to do it by himself. Now, is it necessary to take a fake painting to deal with the emperor?
All three in the room were silent, thinking about each other. Xue Mu bowed her head for a while, and suddenly said, "That maid is fake."
Cao Jingren looked up and gave him a surprised and suspicious look. Xue Mu's eyes moved, and she continued to analyze, "Someone pretended to be Tang Zibo's maid in Zhoufu. After she took the real bag off, Tang Zibo gave another fake picture."
Cao Jingren froze slightly, and then, as if he found the thread, the idea became clear: "She gave Tang Zibo a fake painting, and then Aers replaced the fake painting with another fake painting. In the end, I stole this fake painting from Aers again. "
They had been busy for a long time, and all of them were in vain.
Cao Jing's benevolence was extremely extreme, but he laughed out: "If it really is what Hou Ye said, who has the ability to deceive Hou Ye, Tang Zibo, and Ahs?"
Xue Mu's eyes moved, and then an invisible smile appeared: "Cuckoo."
"A sneeze!" Liu Qinghuan suddenly sneezed, turned his head and glanced at the twister next to him, "Did you say something bad to me?"
Nian Tang glanced at her and laughed dismissively: "I want to say bad things about you, and I must say it in front of you, why should I be so wronged in my heart?"
Liu Qinghuan nodded and said: "It makes sense, if you want to praise me later, I must praise in front of me, don't hold back."
Kuan Tang twitched her lips, how could this woman's skin be so thick. She glanced at Liu Qinghuan's clothes and snorted coldly: "As the hostess of Hou House, you should also pay attention to your words and behaviors, and don't always trouble Hou Ye."
Liu Qinghuan glanced at her sidely: "Wu Tang, even if you want to be a mother, I am not your daughter."
Kuan Tang: "..."
She didn't want to say a word to this woman.
When Liu Qinghuan returned to the room, he didn't see the two girls, Chitao and Qingying. It seemed that they were both involved. After they return, they will definitely increase their monthly money.
When Nian Tang saw Liu Qinghuan enter the house, she dutifully guarded it in the yard. Liu Qinghuan closed the door and pulled out a scroll wrapped in a brocade from the wide cuff. She smiled and unrolled the scroll in her hand, exactly the one on Zhou Jinjin's house.
truly.
Whether it is Xue Mu, Tang Zibo or Aers, they are all crowded, but who stipulates that her cuckoo can only be single-handed? They used pomegranates as the contact secret and successfully performed a stealing day at the banquet.
I just do n’t know if my last kick will be too heavy. If I hurt her, I might not have the opportunity to cooperate next time.
Liu Qinghuan hid his paintings in a good mood, and as soon as he sat down and poured himself a glass of wine, the door was knocked twice, and he followed the red peach and the green cymbal and walked in.
"lady."
The two girls gave Liu Qinghuan a gift. Liu Qinghuan saw them coming back, and quickly stepped forward and asked, "Houye, haven't you embarrassed you?" Seeing that they were not injured, shouldn't Xue Mu treat them rough?
The two maidservants shook their heads with red eyes, and then stopped for a while before kneeling directly on the ground: "Madam, Lord Hou said, if this happens again next time, we can only apologize for death. "
Liu Qinghuan lifted them up from the ground, soothing: "Relax, there won't be another time." Next time she will never let Xue Mu find out again.
With her assurance, the two girls were at ease. Qing Yan wiped the tears around her eyes and asked Liu Qinghuan, "Mrs. hasn't used dinner yet?"
She didn't say that Liu Qinghuan didn't think so, but it was a bit hungry to say: "Yeah, I only ate a few pomegranates."
After Qingyan heard the words and hurriedly prepared dinner, Chi Tao stayed to help her dress and comb her hair.
After a short while, Qingye not only brought a hot dinner, but also a small bowl of crystal clear pomegranate seeds. Liu Qinghuan ate one, which was sweeter than Zhou Jinjin's. She blinked and looked at Qing Ye in wonder: "This is ...?"
Qing Yan smiled and said, "Hou Ye specially ordered the slave to bring it."
Liu Qinghuan thought of his casual comment on the Lotus Pavilion, and couldn't help but smile.
Waiting for Liu Qinghuan to have dinner, Qing Qing cleaned up the empty dishes, but saw Xue Mu standing in the yard. She froze and hurried forward to say "Hou Ye."
Xue Mu nodded slightly, and said to her, "Can Qingqing have a good meal?"
Qing Ye's eyes rolled around. Hou Ye was worried that his wife's confinement had been shut down. Was she in a mood to not eat? The corners of her mouth were tilted, and she respectfully replied, "Return to Lord Hou, Madam has just eaten dinner and there is nothing left."
Xue Mu laughed lowly after listening to Qing Ye's words. When he remembered eating with her before, he also saw that she had eaten all the food cleanly, and there was no grain of rice left. She also honestly told herself that wasting food would go to hell.
If this is heard by the emperor, I'm afraid it will die alive.
Qing Ye didn't know what Xue Mu thought, but he thought Hou Ye laughed really well. She thought for a moment, and asked boldly, "Don't Hou Ye go in to see his wife?"
Xue Mudun took a moment and said, "No, you take good care of her."
"Yes." Qing Yan bowed and saw Xue Mu go out.
However, Kuan Tang remained in the yard.
Qing Ye glanced at her, and felt that Hou Ye was in confinement, for fear it wouldn't be long.
When Xue Mu returned to the lotus, He was still counting lotus flowers in the lotus pond. Seeing Xue Mu coming over the pontoon, Xu quickly shouted in excitement: "Houye! I'm done counting!"
"Oh?" Xue Mu stopped and looked at him leisurely. "How much?"
"51 red lotuses, 27 blue lotuses, 33 white lotuses, and 18 yellow lotuses!"
Xue Mu said: "The number is wrong, the number is heavy."
Bian: "..."
His mouth opened and closed several times, and finally he could only say, "Houye, it's late now, can you count again tomorrow?"
Xue Mu nodded and said, "Yes, but you can only spend a night here tonight."
Bian: "..."
Hou Ye, can we change the game? There were two lines of tears on his face. 2k novel reading network