Seeing Qi Yuning breaking in, Wen Yalan trembled in fear and said, "Princess, he was the one who forced himself to do violence to me. I only killed him to protect myself. I don't want to marry him!"
Wen Ban and Mrs. Wen were entertaining guests for a wedding banquet outside. When they saw Qi Yuning entering with the palace troops, Lian Lian followed them into Wen Yalan's room.
Seeing Wu Xiong lying on the ground in Wen Yalan's room, Wen Ban's face turned pale.
Qi Yuan arrived with Wu Xiong’s mother, “Aunt Wu, is this your son?”
Wu Xiong's mother walked in and saw Wu Xiong lying on the ground with a pool of blood. She stepped forward and shouted: "My son! My Xiong'er!"
Mother Wu Xiong was in grief, "Who killed my hero! My hero!"
Qi Yuning looked at Wen Ban and said, "Wen Ban, this princess will give you a chance. If you tell the truth, I can protect the bodies of your whole family. Otherwise, the whole family will be punished by Ling Chi."
Wen Ban trembled repeatedly and said, "Princess Princess, I don't know what you are talking about."
Qi Yuning said: "Fourteen years ago, there was a shortage of military rations, medicine, and uniforms in Shazhen, but at the same time, a large amount of military rations, medicine, and elite weapons emerged in the Northern Desert.
It was initially discovered that Yue Tao had colluded with Bei Mo in corruption, collecting 10 taels of silver from Bei Mo, and found 10 taels of silver engraved with Bei Mo's mark behind his house. "
Wen Ban said: "Princess, as you said, it was found out that Yue Tao colluded with Bei Mo for money, and the evidence is conclusive!"
Qi Yuning said: "But not long after that, the village where Yue Tao was located suddenly contracted an epidemic and killed 23 young men, including Wu Xiong. At that time, you ordered the village to be sealed off and these people who had the epidemic died. The man who died violently was burned with fire."
Wen Ban said: "Those gentlemen were seriously ill. If we didn't set them on fire, I'm afraid the plague would spread. I had no choice but to burn these gentlemen who were suffering from the epidemic! I felt guilty knowing that Wu Xiong was still alive. So much so that I betrothed all my daughters to him!"
Qi Yuning frowned and said, "You still don't admit it? 10 taels of silver is not a small amount. To bury it in Yue Tao's yard overnight, it would take more than twenty people to transfer 10 taels of silver from your house to Yue Tao's house. In the backyard of Tao’s house!”
Wen Ban said repeatedly: "Princess, you are slandering me. You can't slander me without any basis. How could I collude with Bei Mo!"
Qi Yuning said: "I'm also thinking, Uncle Wen, how could you collude with Bei Mo? You are obviously my grandfather's most proud disciple, and you were also killed by people from Bei Mo and became an orphan. , but Wu Xiong is here!
If you feel guilty just because of the epidemic, how can you be willing to marry your daughter to him? Isn't it enough to promote him to deputy general? "
Lu Ze stepped forward and held Qi Yuning's hand, only to feel that her hand was extremely cold.
Wen Banlian looked at Qi Yu'an and said: "Your Majesty, I really haven't done anything to feel sorry for the Qi family, I really haven't! How could I collude with Bei Mo?"
Wu Xiong's mother hugged Wu Xiong in the house and said, "Thirteen years ago, my Xiong'er said he was going to get rich, and he even stole a silver ingot and gave it to me..."
Mother Wu Xiong took out the silver ingot from her arms, "After he came back this time, he said that he might be silenced again. If he died, he would ask me to give the unspent silver ingot to King Qi. Yes. You killed my hero, didn’t you?”
Mother Wu Xiong stood up tremblingly and pointed at Wen Ban in front of her.
Qi Yuning saw the silver ingot in Wu Xiongniang's hand and said to Wen Ban, "Wen Ban, you won't shed tears until you see the coffin, right?"
Qi Yu'an also looked at Wen Ban coldly and said: "Uncle Wen, I have always respected you over the years, but I didn't expect you to be so shameless!"
Wen Ban denied it flatly: "No, Wu Xiong is already dead, there is no such thing!"
Wen Yalan also came back to her senses and said repeatedly: "Your Majesty, Princess, our Wen family is loyal to the Qi family army. My grandparents and grandparents were all killed by the swords of the Bei Mo people. How could my father be so stupid as to collude with the Bei Mo army?"
"I won't be stupid and collude with Bei Mo, but I can have the merit of following the dragon!"
Qin Feng got the letter that his subordinates found from the secret room of the study and gave it to Lu Ze, "This is the letter that my subordinates found from Wen Ban's study and communicated with the King of Shu."
Qi Yuning stepped forward to get it. She opened the letter and read it. The more she read, the more frightened she became. How dangerous the war situation was 14 years ago.
But her father's good brother, General Wen in the Qi family's army, helped the King of Shu collude with Bei Mo. Because of the Qi family's trust in him, he actually helped the King of Shu and Bei Mo secretly infiltrate Chencang.
Qi Yuning was so angry that his hands were shaking violently. Lu Ze held Qi Yuning's hand tightly and said to Wen Ban: "Wen Ban, what else do you have to explain!" Wen Ban's face turned pale, just as Wu Xiong kept him He was also afraid that the King of Shu would one day feel that he was no longer needed and would kill him to silence him, so he kept the evidence of the letters between the King of Shu and Bei Mo more than ten years ago.
Unexpectedly, it became the evidence that killed him.
Lu Ze checked the letter from three years ago and handed it to Qi Yuning, "No wonder General Wen would indulge his daughter so much that Wen Yalan would not marry Prince Qi."
Qi Yuning read the letter. The content of the letter was that King Shu asked Wen Ban to find a way to marry his daughter into King Qi's palace. When the time comes, after Wen Yalan is favored by King Qi and has a child, she can inherit King Qi's military power and be used by King Shu.
After Qi Yuning showed the letter to Qi Yu'an, he opened another letter. In it, the King of Shu learned that Qi Yuan's concubine was pregnant, and asked Wen Ban to find a way to cause the concubine to have an abortion. The eldest son who inherited the Qi family's military power would have to follow Shu. Those whom the king approves of are born in his womb.
Seeing this letter, Qi Yuning held her hands tightly and looked at Wen Ban and said, "So the reason why Miss Ping gave birth to her first child is not because of her poor health, but because of your tricks?"
Qi Yu'an glanced at Wen Ban with sharp eyes and said, "So you are still working for the King of Shu! My grandfather treats you as if he were his own son, why do you do this? Wen Ban, you are really unfaithful, unjust, kind and unfilial!"
Wen Ban said: "I do all this for the benefit of the Qi family!"
Qi Yuning sneered: "For the good of the Qi family? You helped Bei Mo kill my parents. Do you think it was for the good of the Qi family?"
Wen Ban said: "Your Majesty, Princess, all I have done is really for the Qi family! At that time, your Majesty had already been wary of the Qi family. Your Majesty gradually delegated power to the Qin uncle's house and married the eldest princess to his uncle's house. The Lu family was wary of the Qi family.
If the Qi family defeated the Beimo 14 years ago and their achievements were so great that they shocked the lord, would Your Majesty be able to let the Qi family go? Will not.
If Prince Qi and Prince Qi hadn't died one after another, leaving only you two orphans, your majesty would have taken away the military power of the Qi family, and the Qi family army would have had a hard time.
At that time, if we helped the King of Shu defeat the prince and his uncle's house in Qin so that the King of Shu could successfully ascend the throne, the King of Shu could only rely on our Qi family army to help him secure the throne, so that the Qi family could maintain its wealth forever!
But Prince Qi and the old prince were unwilling to help the King of Shu, so I had no choice but to help the King of Shu cooperate with Bei Mo, causing the Qi family's army to retreat steadily, and His Majesty had to find soldiers from the Lu family and the Qin family to come to the north. Desert, so that the King of Shu can force the palace in the capital to seize the throne.
At that time, I helped the King of Shu collude with Bei Mo, in order to defeat the Qi family army, to allow the King of Shu to ascend the throne, and for the future of the Qi family army, but I really didn't want to kill Prince Qi and General Liu.
If you want to blame him, you have to blame Prince Qi for being stupid and not wanting the Qi family to help the King of Shu ascend the throne and maintain wealth forever. "
"You are the fool!" Qi Yuning scolded, "For the sake of the throne, the King of Shu wasted no time on the lives of the people on the frontier, wasted on the territory conquered by Dasheng, and colluded with the traitors in the Northern Desert. If the Qi family helped him, how could he be willing to get the throne? Will he be under the control of the Qi family later? Traitors like the King of Shu might as well get rid of the Qi family as soon as they ascend the throne!
When my grandfather conquered the country and surrendered it to Emperor Shi Yuan, the Qi family was very loyal to the Zhao family. How could your majesty not know about it? How could your majesty be afraid of our Qi family?
You are not for the Qi family army, you are just greedy for the merit of following the dragon and the benefits that the King of Shu can give you after he ascends the throne! "
Qi Yu'an said coldly: "The evidence of Wen Ban's collusion with the Northern Desert King of Shu is conclusive. Someone has come to tie up everyone in the Wen family and escort them to Shengjing to be punished by Your Majesty!"
Qi Yuning saw that everyone in the Wen family was tied up, and she felt very uncomfortable in her heart. Her parents died unjustly, at the hands of the traitor King Shu and the idiot Wen Ban.
It was freezing cold at night in the North City. When I left the house, the cold wind outside was indeed like a sharp blade, as if it could scratch a person's face.
Lu Ze held Qi Yuning in his arms with murderous eyes and said, "When I return to Beijing, I can avenge your parents."
Qi Yuning was in Lu Ze's arms and said in a hoarse voice: "Well, after returning to Beijing, if Your Majesty wants to protect the King of Shu, I will violate my grandfather's last wish and be willing to bear the charge of disloyalty. Even if I don't become the princess, I still have to do it." King of Shu!"
Lu Ze held Qi Yuning's hand and said, "Your hands are clean. Just let me do it for you when it comes to killing enemies with your hands."
"But, he is your uncle after all."
Lu Ze said: "He is also my father-killing enemy."
Qi Yuning said in confusion: "Huh? Isn't Lu's consort living a good life?"
Lu Ze looked down at Qi Yuning and said, "Father-in-law is also a father." (End of Chapter)