Li Wenkang frowned tightly, and kept pacing in the pavilion with his hands behind his back.

He suddenly looked at Qi Qingxi: "Could it be the money?"

Li Wenkang immediately denied it: "Impossible, impossible, how could I accept bribes from Wang Minzhong without anyone noticing?"

Qi Qingxi pursed her lips. Not only did she accept the bribe without anyone noticing it, but she was also recorded as evidence.

Qi Qingxi asked him: "Uncle, if you really accepted Wang Minzhong's bribe, and when his affairs are found to be yours, what will you do?"

Li Wenkang said seriously: "Although I did not intend to accept it, I did accept it. I will report it to the emperor, and the emperor will deal with it."

"Eh? That's not right." Li Wenkang looked sideways at Qi Qingxi, "You suddenly mentioned the chime bell..."

Li Wenkang suddenly figured out what was going on, he laughed and scolded: "You little girl, you still think about uncle, I said why you want to buy a chime clock all of a sudden, it turns out that you are waiting for me here."

Qi Qingxi stood up and gave a flattering "hehe" smile: "Uncle, don't be angry, I have no choice but to do this."

She walked out of the pavilion in two steps, and said to a big tree not far from the pavilion, "Come out."

Li Wenkang was still wondering why this girl was still talking to a tree, and the next second a person came out from behind the tree.

He rushed forward and stretched out his hand to pull Qi Qingxi behind him, looking at the man sharply: "Who are you?"

Wang Lang stepped forward and knelt down in front of Li Wenkang: "It was my fault that I suspected the general indiscriminately before. I apologize to the general and ask the general to make decisions for the grassroots."

The more he talked, the more excited he became, and he kowtowed three times on the ground.

Li Wenkang didn't know why.

Qi Qingxi poked her head out from behind him: "Uncle, this is what I mentioned to you before, the Wang Lang in the northwest."

She stepped forward to help Wang Lang up from the ground, and explained to Li Wenkang: "The shopkeeper Wang has..."

"Wait." Li Wenkang interrupted Qi Qingxi and looked around, "This is not a place to talk, go to my study."

Li Wenkang led the way, while Qi Qingxi and Wang Lang followed behind.

Since Li Wenkang was promoted to be the commander of the Jingwei, most of the scrolls on the table have become confidential documents such as the defense map of the capital.

In order to prevent someone with bad intentions from stealing secrets, he specially arranged for someone to guard in front of the study door for twelve hours, without his consent, ordinary people could not enter.

Therefore, his study is most suitable for discussing secret matters.

Li Wenkang closed the door of the study, strode to the desk and sat down: "Okay, now we can talk about things."

Qi Qingxi took two steps forward and said: "It's this kind of uncle. Didn't I enter the palace to meet the emperor yesterday? I happened to meet Mr. Pei Ming from the Metropolitan Procuratorate who wrote to the emperor to investigate the military payment case. The emperor was forced by Mr. Pei to have no choice but to... "

"Nonsense." Li Wenkang interrupted Qi Qingxi again, "The emperor is the son of heaven above ten thousand people, how could he be forced to do nothing by his courtiers."

If these words are heard by someone with a heart, it will cause disaster. His niece is not sensible, so he has to play around.

Qi Qingxi nodded: "Yes, yes...you are right."

In this era, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism are really engraved in the bones, and nothing can be slandered, and half a sentence can't be wrong.

She stopped mentioning Pei Ming's matter and continued: "Anyway, the emperor said that after the spring break, he would send the third division to investigate the matter thoroughly. I am afraid that things will become serious at that time. If Wang Lang really has any evidence of involvement in this matter, he will There will be danger, so I thought about sending someone to bring him to our house as soon as possible. Who knows..."

Qi Qingxi suddenly didn't dare to bring up the matter of her trying to test Li Wenkang, and dared not speak again.

Wang Lang followed the trend and said, "It's because I didn't dare to believe Miss Qi after I knew you were her uncle, because your name is in the list of officials who received benefits from Wang Minzhong in my hand."

"I don't believe you, but Miss Qi absolutely believes that you will not do such a thing, so she came up with this way to prove your innocence and justice to me." Wang Lang bowed to Li Wenkang respectfully, "Yes The grass people are wrong."

Li Wenkang was startled when he heard the words, then reached out and smiled and nodded at Qi Qingxi: "You, you."

Knowing from others that his niece had absolute trust in him, Li Wenkang was greatly moved.

After being moved, he looked at Wang Lang seriously again: "Tell me, what is going on with Wang Minzhong."

"Yes." Wang Lang began to talk about the secret he had kept in his heart for many years.

The ancestral home of Wang Lang's family was in Fengxiang Mansion, and his family was the home of a well-known local gentry.

Wang Lang, as the grandson of the eldest son of the family, was placed with high hopes since he was a child. No matter the wind, frost, rain or snow, 360 days a year, he would sit in front of the desk and study hard every day.

Fortunately, Huangtian paid off, and made him a scholar at the age of 13.

There is no unhappy person in the whole family, and the happiest among them is his younger sister Yuniang.

Yuniang has been gentle and beautiful since she was a child, and she is extremely friendly to people and things, especially to his brother.

Knowing that he is studying hard, he will deliberately save his monthly money to buy food for him.

Although Wang Lang's family is rich, and he is the eldest grandson of a very promising elder, the family will never short him for food and clothing.

But what Yuniang gave was different.

Yu Niang is a concubine in the mansion. Her mother was originally a girl from Goulan, and after having an affair with Wang Lang's father overnight, she had Yu Niang and was raised in a house outside.

It wasn't until Yu Niang's mother died of dystocia during childbirth, and his father took Yu Niang back to the mansion that everyone knew about Yu Niang's mother.

In the beginning, his father would visit Yu Niang every now and then because he missed Yu Niang and her mother.

However, his father soon had a new love, not only leaving Yu Niang and her mother behind, but also ignoring Yu Niang.

Because Yu Niang's mother's family background is not good, and she is a girl, she has not been treated well in the mansion since she was a child, from the grandmother to the servant, no one thinks highly of her.

But even growing up in such a situation where people looked down on her every day, Yu Niang still grew up to be an extremely kind and beautiful girl.

Especially to him, better than anyone else in the house, even though he hated and insulted Yu Niang because of her background when he was a child.

Wang Lang also asked Yuniang later, why she was so kind to him when he bullied her when he was a child.

He clearly remembered that Yuniang answered him like this: "Because once they beat me and scolded me, and tried to push me into the pool to drown me, it was my brother who saved me."

Wang Lang was extremely ashamed at the time: "But, I let them do this."

At that time, Yu Niang bent her crescent-like eyes and smiled at him very gently: "I know, but brother still saved me."

He didn't remember what mood he was in at that time, he just remembered that he swore that such a good sister, he would do his best to take good care of her for the rest of his life.

But such a good sister was killed by him in the end.

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