Delicate Flower Chapter 33: Doubt

A painting? !

What kind of painting is it?

When Yu Tang heard this, his heart was pounding and his breathing was rapid.

"Are you literate?" she asked in a hoarse voice.

"Illiterate." The boy said with a sad face, as if he had smashed a broken pot. "The steward of the gambling house asked me to steal it. He said that if he stole it, he would give me five taels of silver. It was a picture of two A painting of an old man fishing by a river in a mountain forest..."

Two old men were fishing by the river in the forest!

Yu Tang immediately thought of the painting "Picture of Fishing in Pine River".

She felt flustered and short of breath, and her hands and feet were trembling.

"Is it this painting?" Yu Tang didn't know how she walked back to the room, and how she showed the painting to the boy. She only knew that when she opened the painting, the boy's His eyes lit up, and he kept saying: "This is the painting, this is the painting. The steward told me that there is a seal on the hair of the boy next to the old man. This is the right painting." ”

Things that had been ignored in the past flashed through Yu Tang's mind one by one.

The robbery of the Li family in the previous life, the sudden wealth of the Li family... the two thefts in this life, the "Merlin" seal on the child's hair, and the "Spring Water Hall" next to the "Merlin" seal... She seemed to I understand, but it seems like there are so many things going on that I don’t know anything.

"A'tang, what's wrong with you?" Mrs. Chen, Yu Yuan and Shuangtao all gathered around. Mrs. Chen even supported Yu Tang and said in confusion: "You kid, how can you do this?" Is this painting found again? Is there anything wrong with this painting? Or..." She asked, looking at the boy who saw their family stealing things, and then at Yu Tang.

There are some things that haven't been figured out yet... Moreover, even if they are figured out, her mother knows that there is no other way but to worry and be anxious.

"It's okay." Yu Tang tried his best to suppress the turmoil in his heart, and made his tone sound calm and indifferent, "He said he came to our house to steal paintings, so I asked him."

When the boy heard this, he immediately shouted: "That's it..."

Yu Tang pretended to be unintentional and hit the boy on the mouth with a scroll, making the boy's words unclear and said: "Mom, he is illiterate and said someone else asked him to come to our house. He's a thief. I think this matter needs to be discussed in the long run until my father comes back. Now let's leave him under the care of my eldest cousin, lest we get angry if he talks here and there without telling the truth. Yes." After saying that, she gave the boy a threatening look.

Ms. Chen has blind trust in both her daughter and her husband, so she naturally has no doubts. But Yu Yuan could see it clearly. He looked at Yu Tang carefully and said something for Yu Tang: "Yes! Ah Tang is right. I am here. Auntie should go and rest early. You are always in good health. No, if you feel uncomfortable after all this trouble, it will be troublesome."

Yu Tang glanced at Yu Yuan and knew that Yu Yuan saw something wrong but was still helping her, so she followed Yu Yuan's words and said: "Mom, because of Lu Xin's funeral, our family still owes It’s shopkeeper Tong’s money!”

Ms. Chen did not dare to linger here any longer, but she still wondered: "Could someone regard this painting as an authentic work?"

"It's possible." Yu Tang just wanted to coax his mother to go to sleep, and said with a smile, "Didn't my father also miss it at the beginning?"

Ms. Chen nodded and was accompanied by Shuangtao to the inner room.

The boy's mother came to ask Yu Yuan for help.

Yu Yuan stared at Yu Tang.

Yu Tang winked at him.

Yu Yuan understood and said to the boy's mother: "Don't worry, our family is not that mean. It's just that this matter is my second uncle's family, and I can't make up my mind right now. I see you are tired too, but I'm afraid you won't go back if I ask you to go back. As I see it, you will sleep with Mrs. Chen all night today. As for your boy, I will take care of you for the time being. When my uncle comes back, we can meet again. Let’s discuss what to do.”

The boy's mother thanked him profusely, kowtowed to Yu Yuan while drinking, and scolded him for not knowing how to make progress.

Mr. Chen also saw some clues, interrupted the scolding, and took the boy's mother away.

Yu Yuan called A Tiao, **** the boy and threw him in his room.

The two brothers and sisters were standing by the bamboo bushes in the courtyard talking.

"I just felt something was wrong, so I deceived the boy a few words, and the boy told me about the phone call." Yu Tang told Yu Yuan all the news he had just asked, "I don't know if it is true or not? Brother, please If you don’t ask me, I will ask you to help me find out.”

After she finished speaking, she and Yu Yuan went to the study room, lit the lamp again, and spread the painting on the big desk. While looking at the painting carefully, she said: "But I really can't figure out what this painting is about. The special thing - even if it is an authentic painting, it has to be exchanged for silver. When Lu Xiucai sold this painting, he was not only looking for his father. If that person likes this painting, why not spend a few more I bought it for two taels of silver, so why do all these extraneous things? What's more, this painting is fake and has been authenticated by shopkeeper Tong. If he has always wanted to get this painting, he should have known it."

Yu Yuan has read more books than Yu Tang, and he likes calligraphy and painting very much, and has done more research on it than Yu Tang.

He looked at the painting carefully and couldn't see any difference: "Didn't Shopkeeper Tong make mistakes?"

Yu Tang was stunned.

Why does she think Shopkeeper Tong won’t miss her?

One is that nothing bad happened to Shopkeeper Tong in the previous life, so she preconceived it first; the other thing is that she has seen this painting in her hands countless times in the previous life, and she will never get it wrong!

But Yu Yuan's words were like water dripping into a frying pan, causing oil to splash everywhere.

What if her painting is fake?

Yu Tang felt that his heart suddenly became brighter.

Didn’t she just come up with such a bold idea?

If her father bought this painting in her previous life, and this painting came to the Li family with her as a dowry, and someone had replaced her painting when the Li family was stolen...then all this seems to make sense. pass.

This is an authentic painting!

Shopkeeper Tong looked away.

The one in her hands in the previous life is fake!

But who replaced the original painting in her hand?

Yutang’s mind was spinning rapidly.

At that time, she had already married into the Li family with a memorial tablet. She was the chastity wife of the Li family. The whole Lin'an City was watching her to see when she could earn a chastity memorial tablet for Lin'an City and the Li family. , she doesn’t go out very often, but whenever she goes out, the people she meets who know her are three parts sympathetic to her, three parts sad to her, and three parts respectful.

Who would steal from her without any brains.

Who has the courage to sneak into Li's house?

Moreover, the Li family kept the theft a secret.

She used to think that the Li family was afraid that bad rumors would spread and affect her widowhood.

But what if that’s not the case?

What if it was the Li family who stole her paintings?

The Li family's sudden wealth began not long after she lost her painting.

When Yu Tang thought of this, he felt extremely angry and his head was buzzing.

She moved two lamps to the desk and said to Yu Yuan: "Brother, can you see anything strange about this painting?"

Yu Yuan shook his head, looked at the painting left and right for a long time, and said with a wry smile: "No wonder people say that books are only used when they are used. It would be better if I read more books."

Yu Tang immediately thought of Pei Yan.

She shook her head hastily, as if this could shake the thought away.

Pei Yan is the third master of the Pei family. If she goes to him to help identify a painting that shopkeeper Tong has identified as a fake, Pei Yan may not only kick her out, but maybe also You will think that she is going to cause trouble.

She was so out of her mind that she wanted to ask Pei Yan for help!

No wonder Pei Yan looked down on her before, she was indeed... doing things without thinking!

Yu Tang sighed and asked Yu Yuan: "Brother, do you think we should show this painting to someone more powerful? I always feel that if that kid didn't fool us, we would definitely be fooled. The person who instigated him to steal the painting is watching. If that person doesn't get the painting, he will definitely cause trouble. We don't know who he is. Even if we want to give up money and avoid disaster, there is no way to give this painting to him. !"

Yu Yuan thought for a while and said, "I'll go find my uncle tomorrow and tell him about this. Then I'll ask Li Yamen to help me quietly ask the steward of the Dufang to see if I can find out who wants to I want this painting from our family. If my uncle agrees, we will ask the manager of the Dufang to be the middleman and sell the painting to the other party with great fanfare."

Yu Tang was worried: "What if they think what we sold them is fake?"

Yu Yuan was stunned and said for a long time: "Then, what good idea do you have?"

"I think it's better to find a way to figure out this painting." Yu Tang said, suddenly thinking of Lu Xin, she suddenly condensed and looked towards Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan saw confusion, hesitation, worry, surprise, and even fear in his cousin's eyes.

His heart thumped as he thought of the origin of this painting.

Could it be that Lu Xin’s death is also related to this painting?

Lu Xin is actually a very selfish person. Every time he drinks too much, others pay for it. He almost never buys wine himself. If he is greedy, he will usually find a way to drink from other people's wine. When I can't get enough, I will drink two ounces of wine with great heartache.

"I, I'm going to find my uncle right now." Yu Yuan suddenly jumped up, "We don't know exactly how Lu Xin died, so we can only ask my uncle."

Yu Wen was busy with Lu Xin’s funeral in another temple on the outskirts of the city.

"Everyone is not guilty, but he is guilty of having a jade!" Yu Tang looked at the painting on the desk and wished he could burn it, "This is such an innocent disaster!"

But she didn't dare. ~IndoMTL.com~ She was afraid that even if she did burn the painting, the person who wanted the painting would still come to trouble their family if they didn't believe it. And if they can't hand over the painting by then, the situation may become even more difficult than it is now.

Yu Tang went to look at the clepsydra and said, "The city gate won't open for another two hours at the earliest. You need to sleep for a while. I'll ask Shuangtao to call you then. Then let A Tiao go to Mr. Wu's house. Borrow a mule, early in the morning. If you can't hire a carriage, you can ride a mule, which is faster than walking!"

Yu Yuan knew that Yu Tang’s arrangement was the best.

Although he was in a heavy mood, he still forced himself to sleep according to Yu Tang's arrangement.

Yu Tang stayed up all night.

She kept staring at the painting, hoping to find something different from her previous life. When it was almost dawn, she first called Shuangtao to get up and help Yu Yuan prepare dry food, and then asked A Tiao to wake Yu Yuan up and send him out.

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