The matter started from the day when Xue Mu bumped into Liu Qinghuan taking a bath.
He grabbed her arm, and his eyes were full of surging emotions: "You still say you are not Liu Qinghuan?"
Liu Qinghuan was stunned, and swallowed the scream that was already brewing in her throat: "I don't understand what Master Hou is talking about."
"You don't understand?" Xue Mu sneered, and raised her right hand in front of her, "I bitten on this tooth mark when I was nine years old."
Liu Qinghuan followed her gaze, and there was indeed a row of shallow teeth marks on her right arm.
That year, Liu Qinghuan complained to Xue Mu with a small face in tears: "Amu, second and second sister bullied me again..."
Xue Mu wiped her tears while comforting her softly: "Why did she bully you?"
"She bit my hand and said that in the evening, a kid who steals children will take me away and marry me as a wife." Liu Qinghuan cried so hard that she still didn't forget to roll up her sleeves to show him. "I don't want to be his daughter-in-law, wah-"
Xue Mu frowned slightly looking at the tooth marks on her arm, Liu Qingli bit so hard that there was some blood oozing out, no wonder Xiaotuanzi cried so miserably.
"Qingqing, don't cry." Xue Mu wiped her tears distressedly, but the more gentle Xue Mu was, the harder Liu Qinghuan cried. In the end, Xue Mu finally became cruel and bit her tender arm hard.
This time the whole little dumpling exploded: "Wow-A-Niang-Amu bit me, I-I don't want to talk to him anymore-"
Seeing Liu Qinghuan yelling about going to sue A Niang, Xue Mu quickly stopped her: "I bit Qingqing, Qingqing will be my daughter-in-law, and the brat will not take you away when he sees this tooth mark. "
Liu Qinghuan looked at him tearfully, and asked suspiciously: "Really, really?"
"I won't lie to Qingqing."
Xue Mu's smile fooled Liu Qinghuan, and the matter of telling Aniang was forgotten.
It has been so long since this incident, the tooth marks that Liu Qingli bit had disappeared long ago, but for some reason, there are still faint traces of Xue Mu's tooth marks to this day.
"Liu Qinghuan is Dujuan, and Dujuan is Liu Qinghuan. Let everyone think you are a fake Liu Qinghuan. This is the real golden cicada that escapes its shell."
Xue Mu's voice brought back Liu Qinghuan's mind, she looked at the person on the opposite side and remained silent for a long time. She felt that Xue Mu seemed to know her identity before, so she wanted to leave the Hou Mansion as soon as possible. Now it seems that it is a blessing or a disaster, and the disaster cannot be avoided.
She was silent for a while, and finally admitted with the corners of her lips pursed: "Have you ever heard of a serial scam? It is to make the real fake, and then make the fake real, and finally leave a loophole for you."
That flaw was Hong'er.
Xue Mu's brows were tightly furrowed, and the hand holding her arm slowly loosened, feeling a sense of loss of strength: "Why?"
Why did she have to take advantage of Du Juan's identity? Why does she just refuse to admit that she is Liu Qinghuan
He knew her identity from the very beginning, but she didn't want to admit it, and he didn't expose it. Only recently, he has become more and more unable to suppress his feelings.
Liu Qinghuan did not answer his question, but asked, "When did you know my identity?"
Xue Mudao: "Two years ago. When I secretly went to the Minister's Mansion, I bumped into it by accident."
Liu Qinghuan's brows twitched: "Sneakily go to the Minister's Mansion?"
Xue Mu smiled: "Yeah, I thought you knew, because every time I went there, I saw you and Tang Zibo together."
Liu Qinghuan: "..."
Tang Zibo was obviously not a very good topic, as soon as his name came out, neither of them spoke.
Xue Mu let out a breath from his chest, and decided to skip Tang Zibo: "Does Du Juan have two people?" Du Juan has been famous in Chang'an for a long time, but he discovered that Liu Qinghuan had a relationship with Du Juan in the past two years.
Liu Qinghuan was silent for a while, but still nodded: "The real Du Juan is my master."
"Master?"
"Well, I also met her by chance and got her help."
"Help?" Xue Mu stood up slightly, he faintly felt that he had touched the core of the problem, "What can you do for you?"
"revenge."
Xue Mu's pupils narrowed slightly, and he looked at her silently, the atmosphere in the room was terribly gloomy.
Liu Qinghuan lowered her eyes, and said in a low voice: "Actually, I am not the daughter of Liu Shilang and Mrs. Liu at all."
Xue Mu's heart tightened again. He wanted to say something, but found that he couldn't speak at all.
Liu Qinghuan continued: "My father is Liu Zhengqing."
Liu Zhengqing, the censor who was slaughtered by King Yong back then.
"How is it possible?" Xue Mu looked at her in disbelief. He was only three years old when the massacre happened, and many things were told later by others, but he never dreamed that Liu Qinghuan was actually Liu Yushi. daughter.
Liu Qinghuan looked up at him, and asked softly: "Do you know that the wives of Liu Yushi and Liu Shilang are both named Su?"
Xue Mu was taken aback for a moment, after she said this, he remembered that there were three famous talented women in Chang'an back then, one was his mother Ning, and the other two were the two sisters of the Su family.
"Seventeen years ago, the King of Yong sent someone to destroy the whole family of the Liu family. When Liu Shilang arrived after hearing the news, he found only one survivor. It was a newborn baby girl who was hidden in a cabinet and did not cry. No fuss, if it wasn't for the breathing, he thought it was just a dead baby. He secretly carried the baby girl back to the servant's mansion. It just so happened that Mrs. Liu gave birth that night, so he pretended that Mrs. Liu gave birth to two babies, and one of them took the baby. Her name is Liu Qingli, and one person is named Liu Qinghuan."
Xue Mu listened to her quietly. If he only regarded her life experience as a story in the Lotus Pavilion, then this time, he couldn't just regard it as a story.
Because he will feel heartache.
He was silent for a while, and then asked with some difficulty: "How do you know?"
Liu Qinghuan pursed her lips, and replied: "That day you made an appointment with me to take me to the West Market. I got up early and planned to sneak to the back door to wait for you. When I passed by Aniang and their room, I deliberately I paid attention to their movements, who knows... I heard them mention my life experience." At that time, the news of Xue Cheng's death in battle had already been reported to Chang'an, and Liu Shilang was worried that King Yong would take this opportunity to do something, so he talked to Mrs. Liu And this matter, but Liu Qinghuan who was outside the door heard about it.
Xue Mu's eyes flashed, as if the sun had penetrated the fog in his heart, and his whole heart became clear: "So... since then did you approach Tang Zibo?"
"That's right." Liu Qinghuan nodded. She was only ten years old that year, and when she accidentally heard such a big secret, she fell into confusion. Unexpectedly, three days later, King Yong brought Tang Zibo to the Minister's Mansion. It felt like God was guiding her on the road of revenge.
Xue Mu took a deep breath to relieve the chaotic emotions and pain in his heart: "Do you know how dangerous it is for you to do this?" Who is King Yong? Emperor Xian and Emperor Yan have been playing games with him for so many years to no avail. She is a ten-year-old girl who single-handedly wants revenge? I'm afraid that even before the gate of the palace was found, he was eaten to the point where there were not even bones left!
Liu Qinghuan lowered his head and did not speak, Xue Mu clenched the hand by his side, and finally held back the anger and fear pouring into his chest, and asked as calmly as possible: "Why didn't you tell me?"
No matter what she has to do, he can help her.
Liu Qinghuan's hands on her knees were also clenched. Although she was only ten years old at the time, she also understood that revenge was the only way to go. She didn't want to bring Xue Mu and Shi Lang's house into trouble.
Seeing that she didn't answer, Xue Mu changed the question again: "Pretend to be Du Juan and marry into the Marquis Mansion, what exactly are you going to do?"
Liu Qinghuan watched a drop of water slipping down her fingers, and replied in a low voice: "Tang Zibo has been trying to kill you for the past few years, I haven't collected much useful things from him, but he wants to use me to assassinate you I have had a cold relationship with you these years. I thought you would never marry me again, but I didn’t expect you to come to propose marriage. Although Tang Zibo seemed to have affection for me on the surface, he only regarded me as a pawn. Proposing marriage, I want me to find a chance to kill you after marrying into the Hou's mansion. In desperation, I can only think of this golden cicada's way to escape, firstly, Du Juan's identity is no longer subject to others, and secondly... it is justified for me to leave the Hou's mansion from now on .”
Xue Mu looked at her with a cold face, "Why do you have to leave the Hou Mansion?"
The corners of Liu Qinghuan's mouth were tense, and his voice sounded astringent: "You know it well, I don't want to trouble you."
Xue Mu's voice was harsher than hers: "Do you think that if you don't want to hurt me, I will watch you die?"
When the word "death" was mentioned, it felt like something had pricked my chest, and it hurt so badly.
Liu Qinghuan was taken aback for a moment, and buried her head not to look at Xue Mu, her heart ached. After a while, she took a breath and said, "Tang Zibo wrote me a letter before, saying that he wanted to cooperate with me."
Xue Mu's eyes moved, and he asked, "A letter? That girl in purple gave it to you?"
Liu Qinghuan couldn't help smiling: "You really know."
"Hmph, only a fool like Tang Zibo thinks I won't find out about such a small trick in front of me." After Xue Mu despised Tang Zibo, he asked, "How is he going to cooperate with you?"
Liu Qinghuan said: "I gave Aes a map before, and he should find someone to test the authenticity of that map."
Xue Mudao: "He just contacted Tang Zibo a few days ago."
Liu Qing laughed happily: "Tang Zibo asked me to give him the map in my hand, on condition that I get out of your hands."
"He dreams."
Liu Qinghuan choked, and said, "I have to go."
Xue Mu's face darkened: "You try."
Liu Qinghuan pursed her lips, and said to him, "I know the King of Lingnan is here in Chang'an." She used a fake map to finally lure the old fox out, and she must not miss this opportunity, "I must get it from him that map."
Xue Mu's jaw was tense, he knew that now was the best opportunity, and she was the best candidate, but... "No, it's too dangerous." He couldn't send her to such a dangerous place.
"Or do you have a better way?"
Xue Mu was silent.
"I'll be fine until I see the King of Lingnan dying."
Xue Mu frowned.
The two confronted each other like this for quite a while, Xue Mu's eyes suddenly flickered: "Someone is here."
He took a step forward and grabbed Liu Qinghuan's wrist, the scream that Liu Qinghuan swallowed into his stomach came back to life at this moment: "Ah!"
After a flurry of footsteps, the door was suddenly pushed open.
Chi Tao and Qing Zhi froze at the door.