Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2117 Picture within the Picture 119.0

"Two months?" Shen Jiu thought for a while, "That's pretty good, it's not a long time."

"General Shen, you are wrong. It was not two months, but two whole years." Seeing Shen Jiu's eyes widening in surprise, Liang Jieque smiled bitterly, "Did you not expect that?"

"Indeed, two years is really unexpected." Shen Jiu found it very unbelievable. He looked at Liang Jieque and said, "This Lu Yicheng is so patient. In two years, he has been like this." Are you unwilling to let go? You have been rejected many times. Why don't you stay away from Mr. Shen? Is it really interesting to be so entangled?" He turned his face to look at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, and saw them. With a thoughtful expression on his face, he frowned slightly and said, "Then again, there must be monsters when things go wrong. This road to Yicheng... is not easy."

"Isn't it easy for Lu Yicheng?" Shen Cha glanced at Shen Jiu, smiled at him, and said, "Think about it more carefully."

"Think about it..." Shen Jiu looked at Chen Cha, then at Liang Jieque and Xue Ruitian, who were looking at him with encouragement, and then at Shen Zhonghe, who was also looking at him expectantly. After thinking for a long time, he said, "At that time, Lu Yicheng and Mr. Shen were both children, not too old. In fact, they couldn't make the decision on anything. That is..." He thought for a while and said, "There are people behind the scenes. , this person has arranged a way to get close to Mr. Shen in Bailu Academy, and it should be profitable to spend so much effort to get close to him. "

"Think about it now, combined with what happened later, it is indeed possible. If there was really nothing to gain, they would not have been able to persist for so long, but no one cared about this at the time."

"No one cares?" Jin Jing, who was sitting aside, raised her eyebrows, "Aunt Liang, it's fine if Master Shen is insensitive to this kind of thing. After all, he doesn't know about Hu Shang, nor does he know What happened in your family, but Mr. Shen knows it and is not wary of anyone approaching him? "

"I can explain this." Shen Zhonghe looked at Jin Jing, "Actually, even if we know about Hu Shang, we probably won't take it to heart. After all, such a mark has not appeared, and we still have to live a normal life. In our daily life, we can't always be wary of strangers." He sighed softly, "Our family is also a businessman, and most of the people we come into contact with are strangers. If we are always suspicious of this and wary of that, our Business hasn’t happened for a long time.”

"That's true." Jin Jing smiled sheepishly, "I really don't know much about this, so I'm a bit judgmental."

"It's understandable." Liang Jieque smiled and said, "Actually, the eldest brother is still very wary, especially when it comes to people approaching the second brother. He is even more cautious. It's not that he is worried about someone trying to harm him, the main thing is Fucheng was unfamiliar with the place, so they didn't know what the other party was thinking. Therefore, when Lu Yicheng approached, the eldest brother also investigated it and observed it for a few days. Later, he felt that this child might be him. Because I liked the second brother and was happy to play with him, I didn't stop him. I even advised the second brother that he had to live in Fucheng for several years and make some friends in the academy, so he couldn't always do it. Reject people thousands of miles away.”

"Father is right." Shen Zhonghe nodded, "But my second uncle doesn't agree?"

"Your second uncle also agrees. It's just that at the beginning, he didn't really like Lu Yicheng. In other words, he didn't have feelings for this kid who was close to him."

"It's not disgust, it's not disgust, but it's just a lack of feeling?"

"That's what he said. When he first studied in the academy, he could go home once every two months. After he came home for the first time, he grabbed me and complained to me, saying that there was a kid in the academy who always pestered him. I follow him every day and can't get rid of him. I asked him if he didn't like him, and he said no. He had never seen such a person before and didn't know how to deal with it. "

"Have you never seen such a person?"

"Yes, when he was at home, few people pestered him like this." Liang Jieque sighed, "Second brother, it's difficult to clearly show that he hates a person, or hates a person, or He doesn't show much love for anyone. Except for people at home, he always greets people outside with a smile. He is a very well-behaved person like Lu Yicheng who is always pestering others. I really haven’t seen it, and I don’t know how to deal with it, so if I get annoyed, I might just say a few harsh words and then walk away.”

"What does heavy talk look like?"

"Just stop pestering me. I don't like this." Liang Jieque spread his hands, "However, Lu Yicheng doesn't seem to like this trick very much. Anyway, the second brother uses this trick every time. He I'm already used to it. At worst, I'll just try to coax him a little bit more next time. He didn't think much of it if Lu Yicheng was a little older than my second brother. When I came back from the academy, I found that when he talked about Lu Yicheng, he had changed from being impatient with being pestered to seeming to accept the existence of this person, as if he was worried about his appearance and the two of them making trouble every few days. He suddenly accepted this thing and even became accustomed to it. After almost a year passed, he had unknowingly accepted this person and even started to take people home. "

"Bringing someone home?" Shen Zhonghe was stunned, "Bringing Lu Yicheng home?"

"Yeah!" Liang Jieque nodded, "It was almost the first vacation in the second year after your second uncle went to Bailu Academy. He took Lu Yicheng back home because it was the Ghost Festival and the academy could have a holiday for the fifteenth year. It was a long holiday, but Lu Yicheng couldn't go home and had to stay in Fucheng to celebrate the festival. Your second uncle felt that he was really pitiful, so he wrote back in advance and asked if he could take someone home for the festival. Your grandfather agreed and asked your father. I personally went to Fucheng to pick up the two children."

"Yes!" Shen Zhonghe nodded, "What is father's reaction to this Lu Yicheng?"

"The eldest brother thinks it's a good thing to have such a difficult kid hanging around the second brother. He thinks Hai is pretty good."

"Pretty good?" Shen Zhonghe was puzzled, "Why? Isn't it annoying to have such a person around you every day?"

"Children are naturally more lively. They spend all day either reading or reading, like a young master. What's the point?" Liang Jieque chuckled, "When my second brother was studying in Fucheng, he was People joked that he was a young master. Although he had already started to learn martial arts, archery, and horse riding, in the eyes of outsiders, he lacked some of the liveliness that a child should have. Although the students in the academy were very caring. The second brother, but after all, they are a little older, and the pressure of schoolwork will be greater, and they cannot take the second brother to play everywhere. Therefore, with such a Lu Yichen around, the second brother is indeed active. Quite a few, either today I have to go to the teahouse, or I have to go to the temple fair tomorrow, always with the attitude of not leaving until I agree, forcing the second brother to agree to play with him a few times. My health gradually improved and I completely integrated into the life in Fucheng. My eldest brother felt relieved and then returned home. "

"I said before that my father checked Lu Yicheng, right? Where did he come from?" "There's not much of a background. He just came from an ordinary businessman's family. In fact, there is no need to check at all. You have to fill in these before entering the academy."

"What about it?"

"To be specific..." Liang Jieque thought for a while, "It is said that he is from Huaizhou. His family has opened several large drug stores, but he mainly deals in bulk medicinal materials. He has many precious medicinal materials in his hands. Our family also bought a nearly century-old wild ginseng from them. The quality is very good, but the price is very reasonable. ”

"A century-old wild ginseng?" Shen Zhonghe was stunned, "Why does the family need this?"

"If there are old people in the family, it is natural to prepare them. After your second uncle had an accident at sea, your grandfather became seriously ill when he came back. If it weren't for the old wild ginseng hanging, he would have died a long time ago." Liang Jieque sighed. He took a breath and said, "All in all, within our limited capabilities, we can only find out that Lu Yicheng's family background is relatively innocent and does not have any messy relationships. Therefore, the eldest brother is relieved that he is playing with the second brother. "

"Indeed, we are ordinary people. We don't have many channels to check a person. The most we can do is ask the academy. Others are completely impossible to check."

"Yes!" Liang Jieque smiled bitterly, "After the two became friends, they also did a few outrageous things."

"Something out of the ordinary?" Shen Zhonghe looked at Liang Jieque, "Did my second uncle tell you?"

"Yeah, he thought it was very interesting, so when he went home, he told me secretly and told me to keep it a secret and not to tell anyone at home." Liang Jieque paused and sighed softly. ," However, I didn't know at the time that these things were deliberately guided. On the surface, they seemed harmless, but in fact, would these things be used by the people behind Hu Shang to take advantage of the second brother? Then Not necessarily." She looked at Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and then Xue Ruitian, "I'll tell you a few things, why don't we all go over them together."

"No need." Xue Ruitian shook his head gently, "Except for Lu Yicheng and his family, who are real, I'm afraid none of the information is true. Even their names are probably all fake. ." He looked at Shen Zhonghe, "As far as I know, there is no Lu family in Huaizhou, right?"

"Huaizhou..." Shen Zhonghe thought for a while, "There is indeed no Lu family, but..." He frowned slightly, "Does the Marquis mean... shouldn't it? There should be other people named Lu. Bar?"

"Maybe there is, but there is certainly none in Huaizhou. If he said he was from other places, there might be no clue, but he said he was from Huaizhou..." Xue Ruitian looked at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, and saw two The man nodded slightly and continued, "Master Shen, you should also know whose territory Huaizhou belongs to, right?"

"Ah! That's right!" Shen Zhonghe suddenly realized, "Huaizhou is the fiefdom of the Duke. Although the Duke and the general are not in Huaizhou and are stationed in the north, the affairs of Huaizhou still have to go through the hands of the two. Really?" Seeing Shen Haolin and Shen Cha nodding, he sighed softly, "So, there is no so-called Lu family in Huaizhou. When I first heard the name, I thought they were a branch of the Lu family. "

"I thought so too." Xue Ruitian smiled, "But I just heard Aunt Liang say that they are from Huaizhou, so I know that they are fake from head to toe."

"But why do they pretend to be the Lu family? Isn't this easy to expose? Although the Lu family is not as good as those wealthy families, in recent years a noble concubine has been born, and she is considered a hot newcomer. Where did they come from? Aren't they afraid that they would be so bold as to pretend to be the imperial concubine's family members? If the nobles were angered, they would lose their lives. Aren't they afraid?

"Of course I'm not afraid of that." Xue Ruitian looked helpless, "Although the Lu family is not a big family, it is prosperous and has many branches."

"In other words, the population is extremely large and the composition of the clan is very complicated." Jin Jing also sighed and said, "There are so many people that even the head of the Lu family doesn't know how many people there are, nor does he know who is outside. Is the person named Lu really from the Lu family?”

"Ah? How is this possible?" Shen Zhonghe was stunned, "Doesn't their family have a genealogy?"

"Yes, there are genealogies and genealogies, but they only record the branches that are relatively close to the main family. Those more distant branches basically have no connection with the main family. The main family does not know their existence, and they do not know the origins of the main family. Which way does the door open? Therefore, even if Lu Yicheng's identity is different, the head of the Lu family is not sure whether he is a member of their Lu family. If Lu Yicheng can prove that he is. The Lu family and the head of the Lu family cannot deny it, let alone deny that the family tree is forged. "

"Ah?" Not only Shen Zhonghe, but also Liang Jieque was very surprised, "In other words, I forged a Lu family genealogy and brought it to the head of the Lu family, saying that I was a branch of the Lu family. , no one in the Lu family can tell whether I am or not, right?"

"That's what I mean." Xue Ruitian snapped his fingers. Seeing Shen Zhonghe's look of disbelief, he shrugged helplessly, "Don't make such a fuss. Think about the liars that Jingzhao Mansion Yamen has caught in the past few years. , many people once claimed to be from the Lu family, right?"

"It seems..." Shen Zhonghe recalled it carefully, "That's true. The Lu family is quite confused. It's not easy for them to survive like this for a hundred years." He sighed softly. He took a breath and said, "However, when my second uncle was a child, even if someone pretended to be the Lu family and deceived us, we couldn't tell them apart. We didn't have the ability to identify them. So, every deception is accurate."