Book 49 Chapter 9 – Genuine Painting, Counterfeit Painting (1/2)
Book 49 Chapter 9 – Genuine Painting, Counterfeit Painting
Inside the Passionate Nest, in the dark, the three you look atto both sides’ story, they were still frightened and could notspoke dejectedly, “Our trip to Chang’an this ti chips in our hands have been won by shi+ Zhixuan, the Senior, and we still don’t kno to clear up thesaid, “We still can’t say that he achieved total victory; at least at the Taiji Palace Hall, he was helpless to kill you before Li Yuan rushi+ng over”
Knitting his brows in deep thought, Hou Xibai said, “Really strange! If he wanted to deal with you two, it could be said as easy as a hand’s turn; for exa affair to Yin Zuwen, and then you would have to pack your food and leave before you finish eating, so why didn’t he do that? Evenso”
His spirit was aroused, Kou Zhong said, “This is called love the house and its cow [idiorily said, “That being the case, why did he harht? We nearly lost our lives”
Kou Zhong analyzed, “That is precisely the contradiction; it revealed the true contradiction in his heart, which is the struggle between good and evil, which is also his flaw, his only flaw, and shi+ Qingxuan is precisely the crucial key at the core of this contradiction Each time, before he attacked le in his heart; otherwise, ould have been finished early on”
Kou Zhong reached across the shter, he said, “Your future father-in-law is unwilling to tie an unresolvable deep en Shao; in his heart, he has never been able to let go of shi+ Qingxuan That saying ‘love the house and its cow’ is just an iron-clad fact”
Shaken, Xu Ziling said, “Your remark awakened people fro’An Canal, because that was the place where he repented and re involuntarily, Kou Zhong said, “Good kid! You are finally willing to adlowered crossly at him, but he spoke to Hou Xibai, “I wonder if people of holy school only talk about self-interest?”
Hou Xibai nodded and said, “That is the inevitable result of holy school’s not-recognizing-one’s-faives consideration to hiether with others is for the benefit of working together, who could give you the ard hiether is obviously enuine cohesion Therefore, since the decline of the House of Han, holy school repeatedly sit and waste a good opportunity; the real reason is precisely this”
Xu Ziling spoke indifferently, “That h within the holy school shi+ Zhixuan’s prestige cannot be doubted, yet Zhao Deyan, Yin Zuwen, even Yang Xuyan, nobody needs to rely on him The former can rely on the Tujue people to support him to be the Central Earth’s puppet e shi+du’s situation Yin Zuwen and Yang Xuyan can manipulate Li Yuan, while there is internal strife within the Li Clan, he could achieve his aoal is naturally to re Yushan and Zhao Deyan’s relationshi+p, or even Chi Shengchun and Yin Zuwen’s close relationshi+p Based on shi+ Zhixuan’s ability and wisdoh and understand all these things very clearly Therefore, whether it is the condition subht ned-to-eternal-da, hehis own daughter ht make shi+ Zhixuan’s old illness to relapse even more shi+ Zhixuan definitely will not fall into the trap that easily”
Turning to Kou Zhong, he said, “I a to explain myself at all, but to lay out the fact We cannot ’an alive”
Kou Zhong laughed and said, “Ling Shao, no need to be so serious His Niang’s! Why would Old shi+ want the ‘Han Lin Qing Yuan Tu’? Can’t be like Xiao Hou, he only wants it for his collection, for his own enjoy Yuan Tu’ to Chi Shengchun, whatbitterly, Hou Xibai said, “After what happened tonight, I already reconciledYuan Tu’ What is Cao San doing inside Li Yuan’s imperial study room? Since Li Yuan already knew that Cao San wants to steal the ‘Han Lin Qing Yuan Tu’, he will certainly deploy uard the place where he keeps the painting; I no longer have any hope of stealing the painting Ay!”
Xu Ziling nodded and said, “Even if we knehere the painting is hidden, or even if we could grab the painting by force, I am certain on’t be able to leave alive This is my personal experience just now Were it not for the fact that Li Yuan was in the Ning Bi Pavilion to welcozhu, so that most of the martial art masters should be concentrated over there, Xiaodi freely ade my way out of the palace”
“I wonder whether they thought you were shi+ Zhixuan or Cao San?” Kou Zhong pondered aloud
Muttering to hi said, “Very hard to say The most plausible explanation is that Cao San is just a cover, it could be shi+ Zhixuan in disguise, it could be someone else, the purpose was to hide his real identity One ht well ask, did the real Cao San have that kind of ability?”
And then he sighed and said, “By dusk to Yuan Tu’?
Kou Zhong spoke heavily, “We s first One, does shi+ Zhixuan know that the treasured painting is in Li Yuan’s hands? Thy does shi+ Zhixuan want to get the treasured painting? Three, if we don’t have the painting for Old shi+, will he really uncover the shady business of Situ Furong? If we can figure these things out, then we’ll kno to advance and attack, or to retreat and defend”
Hou Xibai said, “I can give you the answer to the first question Since shi+ shi+ has been following us into the imperial study room, I’m sure he eavesdropped our conversation With his ability and wisdo a feords, he can infer the rest Therefore, he is now clear that the one stealing the painting was not Ziling but Li Yuan He wants us to hand the painting over to hiive us trouble, or he wants that e are stealing the painting, Li Yuan would kill us, so that once the main problem is solved, all troubles are solved, while he could push all the blaxuan would not put the blareed; he said, “Just consider hi about it then! But in my opinion, the chance that he wanted to force us to steal the painting to harm us is quite small There are two possibilities on why he wanted us to hand over the painting by dusk tomorrow The first possibility is to force us to leave before dusk tomorrow The other possibility is that he wanted to borrow the painting to har trouble to hi us to leave is reasonable and fair, because on’t be a hindrance to shi+ shi+ anymore; he would then have a free hand to deal with Wanwan, to acquire the ‘Tianchun does not make much sense; would he pick a stone to s appeared to be deep in thought
Kou Zhong spoke to Xu Ziling, “Ling Shao, the first time you heard Yin Zuwen’s voice, as Yin Zuith? It was Zhao Deyan, wasn’t it? Just fro to obey Zhao Deyan to put the ‘Seven Needles to Control the Mind’ to be used to deal with Lei Dage, it is clear that Yin Zuwen and Zhao Deyan have a very close relationshi+p And now Yin Zuwen even submitted Zhao Deyan’s conditions to shi+ Zhixuan Based on these couple of points, it could be inferred that Zhao Deyan and Yin Zuwen have an inseparably close relationshi+p, soa secret alliance Frankly speaking, due to Zhao Deyan has Xieli and Bi Xuan’s support behind his back, compared to shi+ Zhixuan, whose old illness has just been healed, while the people are rebelling and friends deserting, his power is considerably greater Even if Yin Zuwen ed to break down the Li Clan and took their place, once the Tujue lead the coalition army of the tribes beyond the Great Wall to come to the south, his e illusion] Therefore, for his own benefit, Yin Zuwen has no choice but to attach himself to Zhao Deyan Plus Zhao Deyan’s so-called conditions to acknowledge allegiance to shi+ Zhixuan, on one hand, it’s merely a scheme to kill with borrowed knife, on the other hand, he wants shi+ Zhixuan to be caught in a consigned to eternal damnation situation Ha! Old Zhao and Old YinShao andshi+ Zhixuan”
Hou Xibai nodded and said, “Listening to your, LaoGe’s analysis, it certainly ave the painting that we steal back fro unaware of the inner workings, presents the painting as a betrothal gift to the ‘Da Xian’ Hu Fo, ould Li Yuan do to Chi Shengchun? However, shi+ shi+ ought to know that there is no way that we could snatch the painting back fro us to leave is still the greater possibility After all, the Xiang Fa Chi Shengchun does not bringsaid, “Xiaodi thinks it is very hard to say shi+ Zhixuan’s i Family is Zhao Deyan’s important eyes and ears in the Central Earth, their role is too big to estimate Naturally shi+ Zhixuan will not let anybody know that it was he who destroyed Chi Shengchun; he could sichun via other people’s hands This will be theblow to Zhao Deyan Moreover, it will be a warning to Yin Zuwen, to tell him that he, shi+ Zhixuan, is able to destroy hi said, “The ones who don’t want Chi Shengchun to be destroyed the most are us, and not Zhao Deyan and Yin Zuwen at all To us, these several idiots, that will break an i Ye must leave before dusk to the answer to your third question, which is whether shi+ Zhixuan will uncover our secret or not”
Kou Zhong’s pair of eyes flashi+ng brightly, he spoke slowly, “If we give shi+ Zhixuan the convenience of us stepping down the stage, he will definitely not uncover us Because if we die, he would no longer have his value to be useful in Zhao Deyan’s eyes shi+ Zhixuan can’t possibly be unaware of this fact Besides we are now like if you ride a tiger, it’s hard to get off; we can’t simply leave as soon as we say ant to leave Even if we leave, we lory Otherwise, not only Chen Fu will be in trouble, it will also be difficult for Ou Liangcai and his entire fa nodded and said, “Furthermore, we must resolve Shen Luoyan’s crisis before we can leave This is the operation that Yang Xuyan and the Dugu Clan meticulously deploy; I aoal is to implicate Li shi+ji, in order to render a bloard Li shi+reeh the Heavenly Policy Mansion had fierce generals as nu and Li shi+ji, twoIf the latter uilt by association, it would be akin to injuring one of Li shi+min’s arms; moreover, it would have a serious i Xuyan surely worked with a co continued, “Yang WenGan advised and urged Li Mi to personally sub the polo match tomorrow It can clearly be seen that Li Yuan also has the heart to kill Li Mi When that tiive a nod, and afterwards ambush and kill Li Mi on the road After the fact, he could claim that Li Mi have betrayed him Shen Luoyan is summoned into the palace, it is precisely so that she will be unable to contact Li Mi If, at an appropriate tiard everything to rush to stop Li Mi, then she would fall into the enereat treason of escaping together with the rebelling Li Mi”
Kou Zhong laughed and said, “In the end, we still have to reenter the Tang Palace”
Drawing out a mouthful of cold air, Hou Xibai blurted, “What?”
Kou Zhong patted his shoulder and said, “No need to be confused This is a bit like ere in Luoyang in the past, where ent to Jing Nian Chan Yuan to steal the Jade Annulus of He Clan The first tis, the second time as soon as we ! The proble elsewhere Even if there is no guard in the Great Tang Palace and we come to overturn trunks and boxes to search, without ten days, half a et a fake painting? Didn’t Song ErGe say that aht, there were two Zhan Ziqian’s reproductions?”
Hou Xibai said, “If there is any ‘Han Lin Qing Yuan Tu’ reproduction, I’u house, because only people who have seen this painting can reatly aroused, he asked, “How high is that possibility?”
Full of confidence, Hou Xibai said, “I’ll say 90 All those fa craftsures in the Clan, in order to be faenerations to ad Yuan Tu’ or the like as fa it The real painting is in their collection, the i on the wall This is a fashi+onable co Usually, only during specialimportant people, or perhaps deliberately wanted to show off – will the real painting be hung on the wall”
Greatly delighted, Kou Zhong said, “Why didn’t you say so earlier? Stealing the fake painting is naturally a hundred ti, not to[phoenix], these to in the palace, the fake painting should be so that they would casually put anywhere, your shi+ shi+ is not a connoisseur or a renowned expert like Hu Fo or Song ErGe Come, let Xiaodi show the way, Xiaodi isJi Yuan!”