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The source and whereabouts of each sum of funds are recorded in the books, but the earliest records of these books were ten years ago, that is, after Wang Mengsheng became the secretary of the Zhongshuling, and the earlier records can't be found.

Hua Qianyu flipped through the ledger roughly, and said, "Accordingly, the 'real ledger' would not be placed on the bookshelf blatantly."

An Mingxi, who took out the book from the cabinet and checked it again, did not stop because of Hua Qianyu's words, and replied: "The big hermit is hidden in the city, what better place to collect books than a bookshelf?"

Le Yang and An Mingxi checked the contents of the book together.

Hua Qianyu chuckled, and said, "Your Highness is right." He closed the ledger he was looking at, stacked it with the other four ledgers, and handed all the ledgers to another supervisor sent by Xiao Zheng to assist him with both hands. History - "Inspector Lao Li checked the items found with the ledger."

Li Hongyi bowed slightly, took the ledger and nodded, turned and went out the door.Ever since, only Hua Qianyu, An Mingxi and Le Yang were left in the room.

With Le Yang's help, An Mingxi stacked the flipped books on the ground one after another, and piled up small mountains one after another. After checking the last book on the shelf, he finally couldn't help but ask and jump around. Hua Qianyu: "What are you doing?" Seeing that Hua Qianyu was out of shape like a child, An Mingxi's eyelids couldn't help twitching.

"Mingxi, do you still remember that we deduced that there might be a tunnel in Gufang Villa?" Hua Qianyu was still dancing, jumping from one side to the other, and An Mingxi couldn't help but raise his mouth.

Le Yang, who happened to be fine, jumped up after hearing what Hua Qianyu said, and listened carefully to the sound of his steps, looking for an open space under the ground.

An Mingxi stamped his feet and tested the ground under his feet: "Do you doubt that there is a tunnel here? But is it useful to jump like this?" An Mingxi couldn't tell the difference.

Hua Qianyu stopped, raised his chin solemnly, and lowered his eyes as if he was in deep thought. He said: "If there is a tunnel, it means that there is an empty space under the ground... Maybe it will collapse after jumping."

Although he had doubts about Hua Qianyu's words, Le Yang, who was trying to jump out of the landslide, jumped even harder.

"..." An Mingxi was stunned, and asked seriously after a while, "Are you serious?"

"Yeah," Hua Qianyu nodded, looking at Le Yang who worked hard, "I'm talking nonsense."

An Mingxi was speechless, Le Yang stopped, and the air was quiet for a while.

"Cough," Hua Qianyu coughed, breaking the silence, "The old steward of the palace said that Wang Meng's daughter died at the age of eight, and there is still a tablet in the ancestral hall. I went to see it. It said Wang Qiulu, genealogy It is also written on Wang Qiulu, not Da Furen."

"Do you know the name of the eldest lady?"

"I asked Gu Junze."

"Maybe he made up a name. After all, when he was asked his mother's name all of a sudden, everyone would feel baffled." An Mingxi thought that the memorial tablet might be fake. It was made temporarily to let the eldest lady's family escape punishment, but it was written on the genealogy. There is no reason to fake the name.

"I told him because I heard that Da Furen came from Beijing, so I asked her name to see if she had heard of it, maybe she was a distant relative."

"He believed it?" An Mingxi pushed the bookshelf away.

"Ha," Hua Qianyu approached, "I don't seem to believe it, but he said it."

At that time, Gu Junze waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter, it's just the name, what do you want to do?"

"I've also checked with my servant, it's Wang Yudie."

"Is there any birth and death in the genealogy?"

"I wrote it, she did die at the age of eight—maybe the eldest lady is not Wang Meng's daughter, the old lady is to let us point the finger at the eldest lady and Wang Meng...Mingxi is..." Hua Qianyu saw An After Ming Xi pushed the bookshelf away, he pulled the bookshelf away from the wall, looked at the back of the bookshelf, and roughly understood the purpose of his actions.

"You mean someone deliberately lured Wang Meng?" An Mingxi clapped his hands, "There is no secret passage, no collection of books."

"It's not sure yet. The palace is still big, let's see if we can find some bargaining chips to deal with Wang Meng—ah, it's a pity that the old lady committed suicide, otherwise there would be more than one questioner. There is only one oldest person in the mansion." Old housekeeper, Wang Meng can't find any clues about what happened when he was in Jiangnan."

An Mingxi walked around the pile of books: "Wang Meng only has one wife, and she has no children and has never taken concubines for many years...According to the servants, the old lady has always looked depressed, and Wang Meng has never left her. Don't give up, don't be close to women...why would such a person endanger the people?"

"Maybe it's because I have no children that I can give it a go——Mingxi, I suddenly saw my future."

"Ok?"

Hua Qianyu raised his hand, put it on his mouth and kissed: "Only a wife, no concubines or children, no closeness to women, never leave."

Le Yang was so numb that he shuddered. Following the principle of not disturbing, he squatted down quietly and hid behind the desk.

An Mingxi raised his hand and patted Hua Qianyu's forehead: "It's my husband—isn't it enough to have me?"

Hua Qianyu approached, put his left foot between An Mingxi's feet, and said in An Mingxi's ear: "Enough, it's full." He was already sticking to An Mingxi's right cheek, but now his face To the left, just about to kiss her, An Mingxi pushed her away and fell to the ground.Just wondering, Hua Qianyu heard someone approaching, it turned out to be a guard.The guard knelt on one knee at the door, cupping his fists: "Report, the whole house has been searched again, and no property left behind has been found."

An Mingxi raised his right fist, put it in front of his mouth, and pretended to cough: "Cough, check again. We must ensure that there is no possibility of secret passages—separate the servants, interrogate them one by one, and firmly grasp the clues."

"Yes." The guard nodded heavily, and then left.

Hua Qianyu propped her hands behind her, straightened her legs, raised her head, and looked at An Mingxi with no respect at all.An Mingxi coughed again, blushed, and asked, "Are you okay?"

"Cracked in two."

An Mingxi just opened his mouth, then pursed his mouth, then he bent down, stretched out his hand to Hua Qianyu, waited for Hua Qianyu to hold his hand, pulled him up with all his strength, and said at the same time: "In the future, it is not allowed to Do this kind of thing when people see you." He looked around, but he couldn't see Le Yang, thinking that Le Yang had already left secretly.

"Are you sure you won't be seen?"

There have been similar conversations in the past, but this time, An Mingxi responded: "Okay." He finished speaking without looking away, then turned around and put the books on the floor back into the bookcase. Doing such an unnecessary behavior is obviously to Relieve flustered.

Hua Qianyu approached, facing An Mingxi's back, brushed up a lock of his long hair, and asked, "Then tonight... can you not go back to the palace?"

"No...I..." An Mingxi's first reaction was to refuse, but this time he was no more decisive than before.

"The painting I gave you is still with me, don't you plan to bring it back?" Hua Qianyu lowered his eyes, turned his index finger, and rolled three volumes of soft hair in his hand, "Stay overnight, after all...after this period Time, maybe we won't find a reason to sleep together...maybe it's the last time."

An Mingxi stopped his hands, his palms were still covering the books in the bookshelf, his Adam's apple moved up and down, and after a while, he replied: "Okay."

——Le Yang, who was invisible on the spot, wrapped his arms around his knees, with the corners of his mouth raised bluntly, with cold sweat on his head, he thought to himself: What is going to happen tonight?Sleeping together is to do that kind of thing?Is the son already an adult?

Until Hua Qianyu and An Mingxi left the study, Le Yang's mind was still a mess.

……

The Beijing Central Official Prison is far more comfortable than the prison Hua Qianyu and Le Yang stayed in in Suzhou. Regardless of the smell in the prison, the bare thatch is cleaner than the one in the Governor's Mansion.There is a stone bed in the corner, and there is a stone table next to the stone bed, and there are two small dishes and a bowl of rice on the stone table.In the high prison wall, there is a window as wide as two people shoulder to shoulder in the center of the wall at a height of one and a half people. There are five iron railings erected on the window. At this moment, the first quarter moon hanging high in the night sky can be seen through the iron rails.Wang Meng closed his eyes, letting the moonlight shine on his face.The prison clothes were clean and white, and his hands and feet were shackled.

Wang Meng in the cell didn't say a word, and Hua Qianyu's words outside the cell couldn't pry him open, so Hua Qianyu fell silent with him.As time passed, An Mingxi pushed Hua Qianyu beside him with his elbow. Hua Qianyu smiled and said with his mouth: "Leave it to me first."Suddenly, Hua Qianyu asked, "Does Wang Zhongshu know Wang Yudie from Gu Fang Villa?"

Wang Meng tilted his head and reacted slightly.Hua Qianyu thought that whether Wang Yudie was his daughter or not, it should be someone he knew.

"Wang Zhongshu don't worry, if I want to shake them out, His Majesty would have sent someone to raid the house. Da Furen once entertained me, and I am on good terms with Young Master Gu, so now, I haven't said anything."

Wang Meng turned around and asked, "What do you want?"

"Wang Yudie is your daughter?"

Wang Meng was silent for a while, before answering: "Yes, but how did you know? How did you get involved with the Gu family?"

Even though they were calm on the surface, Hua Qianyu and An Mingxi were both shocked at the same time.

Wang Meng added: "She was adopted by us when she was eight years old and married when she was 12 years old. We have only been father and daughter for four years. The crime is not as good as her." Regarding Wang Yudie, he felt somewhat guilty.At the beginning, he adopted her to heal his wife's heartache, but he didn't want her to get hurt the more he looked at her. Because he couldn't bear to let her go home again, he had to marry her early.

Hua Qianyu first buried his doubts, and then asked: "Wang Zhongshu has fallen to the current situation, don't you suspect that someone else is hindering?"

Perhaps the existence of the "adopted daughter" opened up Wang Meng's chatterbox, and Wang Meng was also willing to answer Hua Qianyu's words. He snorted coldly: "I'm too greedy, who else can I blame?"

"Greedy, if Wang Zhongshu is greedy for money, he naturally has a safer way, why go to extremes?"

Wang Meng was silent.

"Is it not wealth, but power?"

Wang Meng still did not answer.

"Your Majesty treats you well and trusts you. When you were promoted to Zhongshu Ling, he didn't even think about checking your details. Isn't such a benevolent monarch worthy of your allegiance?"

Wang Meng walked to the bed and sat down, still not intending to speak.

Hua Qianyu continued to be moved with emotion and reason: "Wang Zhongshu is loyal to his wife, why is he unwilling to remove the evil for a benevolent king? Is it really only for the small family and disregarding everyone?"

Wang Meng turned his head and looked at the wall: "17 years, I was the governor of Suzhou for 17 years." No matter how well he did, he would always be a governor, and the only ones who could be valued or promoted were the courtiers at the feet of the emperor.

An Mingxi is puzzled, is the governor not good?The grade of Shangzhou governor is no lower than that of Yushi doctor.But Hua Qianyu can empathize.If Wang Meng were replaced by him, he would probably go crazy too—unless he was already at the top.Official positions are fickle, and it is common to be in the same position for 30 years. It is also possible to be promoted to the third rank within one dynasty. Apart from strength, luck is needed.

"The person who asked Zhang Huai to collect the land tax, don't you suspect that he is behind the scenes? - the person you think is a benefactor."

"It's Zhang Huai's greed." Wang Meng lay down, turned around, and faced the wall.

"He misses you dead."

Wang Meng stopped talking.

"Oh, think about it carefully."

The dishes on the stone table had already cooled completely, but Wang Meng didn't intend to eat, nor did he eat oil or salt.

"We'll be back, goodbye."

The two left and walked out of the gate of the official prison side by side. The moment Le Yang at the gate saw them, his eyes lit up, and he called out, "My lord! Your Highness!"

As a servant, he actually lost the two of them, and when he came to his senses, he ran out of the palace. Both his son and his prince had disappeared. Without any credentials and identity, he couldn't enter, so he could only wait at the door.

Hua Qianyu smiled, approached and asked, "Have you eaten?"

Le Yang shook his head honestly, so Hua Qianyu patted him on the shoulder, walked past him, and said, "It's getting late, let's go to the restaurant to eat!"

"it is good!"

An Mingxi asked the person beside him: "Shouldn't you go to the palace first and ask Father about the 'benefactor'?"

Hua Qianyu stretched out his left hand, and Fang touched the back of An Mingxi's hand. Thinking of what An Mingxi said earlier, he took it back again, and instead of doing intimate things outside, he only met An Mingxi's eyes and said: " Myung Hee is always so smart that it makes my heart beat."

"He's probably also hesitating," An Mingxi withdrew his gaze, avoiding endless staring, "otherwise he wouldn't have given this clue." Although it's not clear, not denying it is enough to explain the existence of the "benefactor".

Hua Qianyu returned to An Mingxi's previous question: "Don't go back to the palace, Mingxi don't forget the agreement."

An Mingxi turned his face away: "I still remember."

"If it's not late enough to go back, how can my dear Fourth Prince have a reason to stay overnight in Huafu?"

An Mingxi couldn't answer, and could only spit out three words for a long time: "Not serious."

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