Chapter 109 Repainting the Portrait, Telling Everything
Jiang Ning walked on the moonlight back to her and Liu Mingan's new home in the capital.
As soon as she stepped into the yard, she saw the bright yellow candlelight in the house. Liu Mingan's figure was projected on the window paper by the candlelight, and it looked like he was bending over to write something.
Jiang Ning's heart warmed up, and she pushed the door open and walked in, just bumping into Liu Mingan's sight who looked up at the sound.
"A Ning."
Liu Mingan put down his pen and walked over, pulling Jiang Ning up and down to look at her, and found that she was fine as when she went out, so he was relieved.
"The water is hot in the kitchen, go wash up quickly, it's getting late." Liu Mingan didn't ask much, just said this.
Jiang Ning smiled, replied "OK", and turned to go into the kitchen.
After washing up, Jiang Ning saw Liu Mingan still concentrating on drawing something. She couldn't help but feel curious, so she walked over to take a look. It was a portrait of her.
On the snow-white rice paper, "Jiang Ning" was leaning against the door, facing the sky full of rosy clouds, looking quietly ahead. It
was similar to the painting that was burned by fire, but this time the expression on the face of the person in Liu Mingan's painting was not as distant and indifferent as in the previous painting.
This "Jiang Ning" had a faint smile on her lips, a faint pear-shaped vortex on the right cheek, and her eyes were slightly curved, as if she was looking forward to something.
It reminds people of the sentence "Leaning against the door waiting for my lover to return."
Liu Mingan also wrote the poem next to it: The water is like the waves of the eyes, and the mountains are like the peaks of the eyebrows.
Jiang Ning's mouth corners unconsciously lifted up, showing the same expression as the person in the painting, and she was still unaware: "Why did you draw it again?"
Liu Ming'an was outlining the hem of Jiang Ning's clothes in the painting, and was stunned when he heard it: "A Ning, how do you know I drew it?"
Didn't he never show it to Jiang Ning?
"What do you think?" Jiang Ning asked back.
"I can't think of it." Liu Ming'an thought about it carefully and confirmed again that he had never shown it to Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning looked at Liu Ming'an's stunned look, and felt inexplicably good. She explained: "Your sneaky actions of hiding things couldn't be hidden from me. Later, I found that you were not quite right and kept peeking at me. I thought something happened to you, and wondered if it was an IOU or something, so I opened it and looked at it."
"So... you knew it so early." Liu Ming'an said a little embarrassedly.
Recalling his actions and words in front of Jiang Ning during that period, Liu Mingan thought he had kept it a secret, but he didn't expect that his thoughts were seen through.
It's really...
embarrassing.
But on second thought, Jiang Ning knew his feelings a long time ago, but she never rejected his approach. Does it mean that she has been attracted to him for a long time?
When he thought of this, Liu Mingan's heart was filled with an indescribable joy, and his eyes were full of warmth: "A Ning, it's really great that you like me."
Jiang Ning's smile deepened, and he glanced at the painting that was basically finished, and urged: "Draw quickly, I have something to tell you when you finish."
Liu Mingan guessed that Jiang Ning should tell him about her life experience, and quickly responded with a "OK", and finished the last bit of the painting in no time.
Jiang Ning watched Liu Ming'an put down his pen, sorted out his thoughts, and tried to be concise.
"I am the third daughter of Prime Minister Nangong, Nangong Ling."
The first sentence shocked Liu Ming'an. The daughter of the Prime Minister? Is his daughter An Ning so noble? Then can he marry her smoothly?
But soon Liu Ming'an didn't have the heart to think about it.
"In July this year, the housekeeper of the Prime Minister's Mansion handed over the disfigured Nangong Ling... well, me, to the Beijing trafficker Wei Fangxiong, and then sold me to you after several rounds of transfers..." "
After I was sold, rumors spread in Beijing that I eloped with a man, and it was said that my father was so angry that he didn't go to court for two days..." "
This is the information I have so far." After
Jiang Ning finished speaking, she looked at Liu Ming'an and found that his eyes were full of pity.
"Aning, how could it be? How could you, a noble lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, have such an experience?"
Liu Ming'an gently stroked Jiang Ning's face, his eyes full of pity.
Although she said this calmly and with a calm expression, Liu Ming'an felt so distressed when he thought of the sufferings she had endured.
Jiang Ning felt Liu Ming'an's intentions and smiled at him soothingly.
She had only suffered for two days after crossing over, and the one who really suffered was Nangong Ling.
"Don't worry, I will seek justice for myself." Jiang Ning held Liu Ming'an's hand and said firmly.
"I believe you!"
Liu Ming'an now knew why Jiang Ning had hidden it from him before. She was the daughter of the prime minister, and even if she had a grudge with someone, that enemy must be a prominent figure, not someone a poor student like him could afford to offend. Jiang
Ning hid it from him because she didn't want to drag him into it and wanted to solve the matter by herself.
However, because the drugging was discovered today, she told him everything after she realized that he would not hinder her, so as to avoid any rift between the two of them.
Liu Ming'an sighed and hugged him in his arms, earnestly instructing him: "Do whatever you want to do, don't worry about me. I just hope that you will remember to protect yourself at all times. If anything happens to you, I don't know what to do..."
Jiang Ning hugged Liu Ming'an's waist tightly, and said, "I already have a plan. If everything goes well, we should be able to solve the problem soon. Don't worry about me."
How could I not worry?
Liu Mingan touched Jiang Ning's head gently, and he didn't know what he was thinking about, and said: "A Ning, sometimes I think, if you had the skills you have now, you would definitely not be bullied. And your wounds healed so quickly, you wouldn't have to endure the torture all the way from the capital to Lingshan Town..."
Jiang Ning's body suddenly stiffened.
Yes, in Liu Mingan's view, all this was too unreasonable!
How could she be so disfigured and broken with such amazing skills? How could she be in a dying state from the capital to Lingshan Town when she recovered her body overnight? Did she have to wait until she was bought home by Liu Mingan to recover?
"But I also have some mean thoughts. If you had always been so amazing, you would be a noble lady in the capital, and I would be a country bumpkin. We would never have any intersection in our lives... So I am shamelessly celebrating the fact that I met you."
Liu Mingan didn't seem to have any desire to find out more. He didn't ask anything after saying all this. He just lowered his head and kissed Jiang Ning lightly on the forehead.
Jiang Ning felt his careful cherishment and her heart trembled. She had the idea of telling him everything about time travel, space, past lives, etc. After hesitating for a moment, she chose to keep silent and just hugged him tighter.
"Don't think about these. Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival. This is the first Lantern Festival we have spent together. Go to bed early, get enough rest, and take a good walk tomorrow to see the prosperity of the capital."
In the end, Jiang Ning just said this.
Liu Mingan knew that Jiang Ning didn't want to talk more, so he obediently said "OK".
The moon outside the house was as cool as water, shining on the ground.