I asked you to save the villain, not to take him as your wife!

Wen Qi's first reaction was that Wei Ji was crazy.

If he wasn't crazy, why would he reveal such information that could cost him his life?

But on second thought, Wen Qi believed that Wei Ji was sure that he would not kill him.

Or in other words, Wei Ji used his identity as a spy as a bargaining chip.

"What is your purpose in telling me such fatal information?" With all kinds of thoughts churning in his mind, Wen Qi asked directly.

At this moment he seemed to have forgotten that he was seasick.

Wei Ji did not immediately state his purpose, but instead changed the subject: "Let me tell you a story."

Wen Qi didn't know what he was going to keep in suspense, but he nodded anyway.

He didn't believe that Wei Ji wanted to tell the story for no reason. Perhaps there was key information hidden in the story.

Wei Ji did not start speaking immediately.

He seemed to have carefully rehearsed his speech before he began to speak.

"Once upon a time there was a wealthy businessman who was extremely rich, so he had many wives and concubines.

The more wives and concubines one has, the more children one will have.

The rich businessman's business is huge. Except for his daughters who cannot inherit the family property, his sons are all trying to inherit the property by various means.

Among them, the rich businessman's favorite was the son born to one of his concubines.

That’s right, this rich businessman is a man who favors his concubine over his wife…”

Wei Ji was telling the story seriously, and Wen Qi was listening attentively.

But as he listened, he felt something was wrong.

He found that what Wei Ji said was very familiar.

During this period of time, based on the simple idea that knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure victory in every battle, Wen Qi deliberately and carefully learned about the situations of the royal families of the five countries.

If the story told by Wei Ji is replaced by the emperor, his wives and concubines by imperial concubines, and his children by princes and princesses, then it is basically talking about the royal family of Chu.

However, there were some differences between what Wei Ji said and what he knew.

For example, in the Chu royal family information he read, the former queen died of illness.

However, according to Wei Ji's account, the late queen was poisoned to death by the late emperor's favorite concubine with the tacit consent of the late emperor.

The process of them poisoning the late queen was witnessed by her son, the new emperor of Chu.

The seeds of hatred have been planted in my heart since then.

As an unfavored son, if the previous emperor died of natural causes and abdicated, the new emperor of Chu would have no chance at all.

But he happened to be the legitimate son, and there were some people in the court who secretly supported him.

But it was of no use.

Because the late emperor's favorite concubine was already preparing to take action against him.

The saddest thing is that this was also tacitly approved by the late emperor.

It is said that there is no family affection in heaven, and this is absolutely true.

In order to pave the way for his favorite woman and his son, his own father actually wanted him to die.

He clearly had countless ways to prevent him from taking that position.

For example, disfigure him or make him disabled.

If you have physical and facial defects, you will naturally have no chance of getting that position.

But the late emperor and his favorite concubine were too ruthless in what they did.

The new emperor of Chu was naturally unwilling to sit and wait for death.

So, he chose to become the sword of the late emperor.

The choice of the new emperor of Chu puzzled the previous emperor.

But the new emperor of Chu did save his life.

The late emperor persuaded his favorite concubine to stay because he felt that this legitimate son still had some value.

For example, let him assassinate some ministers who need to be eliminated...

This would not only solve the late emperor's biggest worry, but also completely cut off his path to the throne.

Which minister would support a person who could kill them at any time as emperor?

But in the end, the new emperor of Chu did it.

His approach is also simple.

That is to send all the princes of the royal family except him away.

When he was the only prince left in the State of Chu, the court officials had to recognize him even if they wanted to.

Anyone who disagrees with his ascension to the throne is considered a traitor who wants to rebel against his authority.

After all, he was the only one left of the royal bloodline in the State of Chu.

If we don't let him take the throne, wouldn't that be tantamount to rebellion?

Hearing this, Wen Qi nodded in sudden realization.

He was not interested in the history of the new emperor of Chu.

He just thought of the plot.

In the plot, Wei Ji used various means to cripple and kill the prince of the Yuan Dynasty.

Wen Qi was also a prince who had no chance of becoming emperor. The reason Wei Ji did that was probably because he had seen successful cases before!

Wen Qi sighed inwardly.

In fact, the focus of the story told by Wei Ji is actually the people who were killed by the new emperor of Chu when he was serving as a knife for the previous emperor.

There are indeed treacherous officials among those people.

However, there are also heroes whose contributions are so great that no reward can be given.

In the eyes of the former emperor of Chu, such a meritorious official was naturally more meritorious than his own.

He ordered the new emperor of Chu, who was his accomplice at the time, to eliminate this hidden danger.

The new emperor of Chu had no right to refuse.

At the same time, he really wanted to get rid of these ministers who were more powerful than his master.

After all, he is going to be the emperor in the future, and these people will have to be dealt with sooner or later.

He doesn't have so much time to slowly lay out the plan and plot.

He chose assassination.

He disguised his subordinates as villains and directly carried out a massacre to wipe out the entire family.

Originally, Wei Ji shouldn't have known these.

But he happened to meet a familiar face.

Of course, it was only Wei Ji who was a familiar face.

He has an excellent memory, so good that he can remember everything he sees.

So he recognized the person who contacted him and passed the information to him at a glance, and on that night when the fire was blazing, he stabbed his mother's heart with a knife.

It took a lot of effort for him to resist killing the other person on the spot.

He knew that the other party was just a small fry, and the culprit behind the annihilation of the Wei family was someone else.

So during this month, Wen Qi was busy recruiting talents, while Wei Ji was busy investigating the master behind the contact person.

When the truth was laid out before him, Wei Ji's hatred was so intense that it almost burst the roof!

At that time, he wished he could rush back to Chu and make that man pay for his blood debt with blood!

But after calming down, Wei Ji did not do that.

How could he not know that the new emperor of Chu destroyed his own family?

There is a natural sense of defense towards Wei Ji and Wei Ying.

If he returned to Chu without permission, he might not even be able to see that person.

He needs allies.

"I've heard the story, but I don't quite understand what you mean." Wen Qi pinched his chin and pretended to be confused.

In fact, after listening to the story once, he understood Wei Ji's request.

But this information came from the plot and was not something he should know.

At this time, smart people should pretend to be stupid.

"What if you were the one who escaped from a family that was wiped out? What would you do?" Wei Ji asked.

Wen Qi pinched his chin and thought carefully for a while, then said seriously: "Of course it's revenge. The son of a wealthy businessman wiped out the entire family of the steward, so it would be fair to wipe out the wealthy businessman's family as well."

Wei Ji looked at Wen Qi with some surprise.

In his eyes, Wen Qi is a good person.

What he didn't expect was that he just wanted that person to pay with blood.

And Wen Qi, a good man in his eyes, actually wanted to kill that man's entire family.

However, this sounds quite pleasant.