a painting? !

What kind of picture?

Yu Tang's heart was pounding and short of breath.

"Are you literate?" She heard her voice hoarsely asking.

"I don't know how to read." The boy was crying, looking like a broken jar, and said, "The steward of the gambling shop let me steal it, saying that if I stole it, I'll give me 50 taels of silver. It's a picture of two old men. A painting of fishing by the river in the mountains and forests..."

Two old men are fishing by the river in the mountains and forests!

Yu Tang immediately thought of the "Songxi Fishing Hidden Picture".

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

"Is it this painting?" Yu Tang didn't know how he walked back to the room, and how he showed the picture to the boy. He only knew that when she opened the picture, the boy's eyes were bright. Then, he continued: "This is the picture, this is the picture. The steward told me that there is a chapter on the hair of the boy next to the old man. This is the picture."

Those things that had been neglected in the past flashed through Yu Tang's mind one by one in a chaotic manner.

The case of the robbery of the Li family in the previous life, the rich wealth of the Li family... the two thefts in this life, the "Mei Lin" seal on a child's hair, and the "Chun Shui Tang" that replaced the "Mei Lin" seal... She seemed to understand, and as if Thousands of clues, know nothing.

"Atang, what's the matter with you?" The Chen family, Yu Yuan, and Shuangtao all surrounded, and the Chen family even supported Yu Tang, and said in a puzzled way: "You kid, how can you paint this picture? I found it again? Is there anything wrong with this painting? Or..." she asked, looking at the kid who was stealing from their house, and then at Yu Tang.

Some things have not been figured out yet... and, even if she has figured it out, her mother knows that there is no other way besides worrying and anxious.

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

When the kid heard this, he immediately shouted: "It's just..."

However, Yu Tang pretended to be unintentional and hit the boy's mouth with a scroll, making the boy's words ambiguous, and said: "Mum, he is illiterate, saying that someone asked him to come to our house to steal something. , I think this matter has to be discussed in the long term, and it will be good when Dad comes back. Now let him be taken care of by Brother Lobby, so that he won’t say a word about it, and if there is no truth, we will get anxious after hearing it." After speaking, she gave the boy a threatening look.

Chen has blind trust in both her daughter and her husband, so naturally there is no doubt. But Yu Yuan could see it clearly. He took a close look at Yu Tang and helped Yu Tang to say something: "Yeah! Atang is right. There is me here, auntie, should go to rest early. Your body has always been bones. It’s not good. After such a toss, if there is something uncomfortable, it will be troublesome."

Yu Tang glanced at Yu Yuan, knowing that Yu Yuan saw that there was a problem but was still helping her, she followed Yu Yuan's words and said: "Mum, because of Lu Xin's funeral, our family still owes Tong the shopkeeper. Where's your money!"

The Chen family did not dare to delay here anymore, but still doubted and said: "Does anyone take this painting as an authentic?"

"It's also possible." Yu Tang just wanted to coax her mother to go to sleep, and smiled, "Daddy didn't look away at the time?"

Chen nodded and was accompanied by Shuang Tao to the inner room.

The kid's mother came to beg Yuyuan.

Yu Yuan stared at Yu Tang.

Yu Tang winked at him.

Yu Yuan understood, and said to the kid's mother: "Don't worry, our family is not that mean person, but this matter is my second uncle's family, I don't want to make a decision right now. I see you I’m tired, but I’m afraid you won’t go back if you ask you to go back. I think you’ll sleep with Granny Chen for a night today. As for your kid, I’ll take care of you temporarily. When my uncle comes back, we will discuss what to do. do."

The kid's mother was grateful for her gratitude, drinking the kid and kowtow to Yu Yuan, cursing that he didn't know how to make progress.

Old Lady Chen also noticed some clues, interrupted the cursing, and took the kid's mother away.

Yu Yuan called A Tiao, tied the kid, and threw it in his room.

The two brothers and sisters stood by the bamboo bushes in the courtyard and talked.

"I just felt something was wrong. I swindled that kid a few words, and that kid told me to call." Yu Tang told Yu Yuan what he had just asked, "I don't know if it's true or not? Brother, don't you look for me. , I will also ask you for help."

After she finished speaking, she went to the study with Yu Yuan, re-lighted the lamp, and spread the painting on the large bookcase. While studying the painting carefully, she said: "But I really can't figure out what is special about this painting. -Even if it is an authentic painting, it has to be exchanged for silver. When Lu Xiu was selling this painting, he was not the only one to find Daddy. If that person likes this painting, why not spend a few more silvers to buy it. , Why do so many things out of bounds? What's more, this painting is fake, and it has been appraised by the shopkeeper Tong. If he has always wanted this painting, he should know that it is."

Yu Yuan reads more books than Yu Tang, and likes calligraphy and painting very much, and he has researched more than Yu Tang.

He watched this painting carefully, and he really couldn't see any difference: "Don't tell me that the shopkeeper Tong hasn't gone away?"

Yu Tang was taken aback.

Why does she feel that the shopkeeper Tong will not lose sight of it?

One is that there is nothing bad about the treasurer Tong in the previous life, she is preconceived; the other is that the painting in the previous life is in her hands and she does not know how many times she has observed it, she will never read it wrong!

But Yu Yuan's words were like water dripping into an oil pan, splashing all over.

What if her painting is fake?

Yu Tang just felt that his heart suddenly opened up.

Didn't she have such a bold idea just now?

If her father bought this painting in the previous life, and this painting was stolen from the Li family after she married her, someone would change her painting... then all this seems to make sense.

This is the real picture!

The shopkeeper Tong glanced away.

The one in her previous life is fake!

But who changed the original one in her hands?

Yu Tang's mind turned quickly.

At that time, she had already married into the Li family with a memorial tablet. She was the virgin woman of the Li family. All Lin'an City stared at her to see when she could earn a chastity archway for Lin'an City and the Li family. She didn’t No matter how to go out, but whenever she went out, people who knew her would sympathize with her, three-point sorrow, and three-point respect.

Who would steal from her without thinking.

Who has the courage to steal to Li's house?

Moreover, the stealing of the Li family remained secretive.

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

But what if this is not the case?

What if the person who stole her painting was the Li family?

There is also the Li family's rich wealth, not long after she lost her painting.

When Yu Tang thinks of this, he feels angry and hard to calm down, and his brain buzzes.

She moved two lamps to the book table and said to Yu Yuan, "Brother, can you see what's so 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 hate less when they use books. If I read more books, it would be fine."

Yu Tang suddenly thought of Pei Yan.

She shook her head hurriedly, as if she could shake the idea away.

Pei Yan is the third master of Pei’s family. If she takes a painting that has been identified as a fake painting by the shopkeeper Tong, and asks him to help identify it, Pei Yan is probably not just trying to drive her out, she might even think of her. Is to make trouble.

She really wanted to ask Pei Yan for help when she got the water in her mind!

No wonder Pei Yan looked down on her before, she really...does nothing with her brain!

Yu Tang sighed and asked Yu Yuan: "Brother, do you want to show this painting to someone more powerful? I always feel that if the kid didn't fool us, we must have been accused of stealing. The painter is staring. If he doesn't get the painting, he will definitely have trouble. We don't know who he is. There is no way to give this painting to him even if we want to save money and avoid disaster!"

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

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

Yu Yuan was stunned, and said for a while: "Then, do you have any good ideas?"

"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 panic in the eyes of her cousin.

There was a thud in his heart, thinking of the source of this picture.

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

Lu Xin is actually very selfish. Every time he drinks too much, other people pay for it. He almost never buys alcohol himself. If he is greedy, he mostly thinks of ways to rub other people’s alcohol and drink. At that time, I will be heartbroken with two taels of wine.

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

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

"The husband is not guilty, and he is guilty of his crime!" Yu Tang looked at the painting on the bookcase, wishing to set it on fire, "This is really a disaster!"

But she dare not.

She is afraid that even if she really burns the painting, the people who want to paint will not believe it, they will still come to their home. And they won't be able to hand over the paintings by then, and the situation will be more difficult than it is now.

Yu Tang went to check the clepsydra and said, "The gate of the city will be opened at the earliest two hours. You will sleep first. I will ask Shuangtao to call you at that time. Then let Atie go to Master Wu's house to borrow a mule. Early in the morning, if you can’t hire a carriage, you can ride a mule, it’s faster than walking!

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

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

Yu Tang didn't sleep all night.

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