Wen Yalan saw Qi Yuning barging in and trembled with fear, "Princess, he was the one who tried to use force on me. I killed him just to protect myself. I don't want to marry him!"
Wen Ban and Madam Wen were entertaining guests at a wedding banquet outside. When they saw the soldiers from the palace entering, they followed them into Wen Yalan's room.
When Wen Ban saw Wu Xiong lying on the ground in Wen Yalan's room, his face turned pale.
Qi Yu'an and Wu Xiong's mother arrived shortly afterwards, "Aunt Wu, could this be your son?"
When Wu Xiong's mother entered, she saw Wu Xiong lying on the ground with a pool of blood. She stepped forward and shouted, "My son! My son Xiong!"
Wu Xiong's mother was heartbroken, "Who killed my Xiong'er! My Xiong'er!"
Qi Yuning looked at Wen Ban and said, "Wen Ban, this princess is giving you a chance. If you tell the truth, this princess can keep your entire family intact. Otherwise, you will be sentenced to death by slicing."
Wen Ban shivered and said, "Princess, I don't know what you are talking about."
Qi Yuning was extremely angry and said, "Fourteen years ago, there was a shortage of military rations, military medicine, and military uniforms in Sha Town, while at the same time, a large amount of military rations, military medicine, and elite weapons appeared in Beimo. It was discovered that Yue Tao was corrupt and colluded with Beimo, accepting 100,000 taels of silver. And 100,000 taels of silver with the Beimo seal were found behind his house!"
Wen Ban said, "Princess, we already investigated this matter back then. It was Yue Tao who colluded with Bei Mo for money. The evidence is irrefutable!"
Qi Yuning said, "But not long after that, an epidemic suddenly broke out in Yue Tao's village, killing 23 young men. Wu Xiong was among them. You then ordered the village sealed off and burned down the bodies of those who had died of the epidemic."
Wen Ban said, "Those young men were seriously ill. If they hadn't been burned, the plague would have spread. I had no choice but to burn those sick men! When I learned that Wu Xiong was still alive, I felt extremely guilty, so I betrothed my daughters to him!"
Qi Yuning frowned and said, "You still don't admit it? One hundred thousand 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 the one hundred thousand taels of silver from your house to Yue Tao's backyard!"
Wen Ban repeatedly said, "Princess, you are slandering me. You can't just smear me without any evidence. How could I be in collusion with Bei Mo?"
Qi Yuning said, "I was wondering too, Uncle Wen, how could you be in collusion with Beimo? You are clearly my grandfather's most proud disciple, and you were also orphaned by the people of Beimo, your family was destroyed, and yet Wu Xiong is here!
If you were simply feeling guilty about the epidemic, how could you be willing to marry your daughter to him? Isn't promoting him to deputy general enough?"
Lu Ze walked forward and held Qi Yuning's hand, only to find that her hand was extremely cold.
Wen Banlian looked at Qi Yu'an and said, "Your Highness, I really haven't done anything to offend 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 son Xiong said he was going to get rich, and he even stole a silver ingot for me..."
Wu Xiong's mother pulled out the silver ingot from her bosom. "After he came back this time, he said he might be silenced again. He said that if he died, he wanted me to give the remaining unspent silver ingot to Prince Qi. You killed my Xiong'er, didn't you?"
Wu Xiong's mother stood up tremblingly and pointed at Wen Ban in front of her.
Qi Yuning saw the silver ingot in Wu Xiong's mother's hand and said to Wen Ban, "Wen Ban, you won't cry until you see the coffin, right?"
Qi Yu'an also said coldly to Wen Ban: "Uncle Wen, I have always respected you over the years, but I didn't expect you to be so shameless!"
Wen Ban flatly denied it, "No, Wu Xiong is dead, that's not true!"
Wen Yalan also came back to her senses and said repeatedly: "Prince, Princess, our Wen family is loyal to the Qi family army. My grandfather and grandmother both died at the hands of the Beimo people. How could my father be so foolish as to collude with the Beimo people?"
"I won't be stupid enough to collude with Beimo, but I can do the same as the dragon!"
Qin Feng took the letter his subordinates found in the secret room of the study and gave it to Lu Ze. "This is the letter between Wen Ban and the King of Shu that my subordinates found in Wen Ban's study."
Qi Yuning stepped forward to take it. She opened the letter and read it. The more she read, the more frightened she became. She remembered how dangerous the war was fourteen years ago.
But her father's good brother, General Wen in the Qi family army, helped the King of Shu to collude with Beimo. Because of the Qi family's trust in him, he actually helped the King of Shu and Beimo to secretly pass through Chencang.
Qi Yuning's hands were shaking with anger. Lu Ze held Qi Yuning's hand tightly and said to Wen Ban, "Wen Ban, do you have anything else to explain?"
Wen Ban's face turned pale. Just as Wu Xiong kept his evidence, he was also afraid that the King of Shu would feel that he was no longer needed and would come to kill him to silence him, so he kept the evidence of the correspondence between the King of Shu and Bei Mo more than ten years ago.
Unexpectedly, it became the evidence that killed him.
Lu Ze looked through the letter from three years ago and handed it to Qi Yuning. "No wonder General Wen indulged his daughter so much and insisted that Wen Yalan marry only Prince Qi."
Qi Yuning read the letter, which said that the King of Shu asked Wen Ban to find a way to marry his daughter into the Prince Qi's mansion. By then, after Wen Yalan was favored by the King Qi and had a child, she could inherit the King Qi's military power and be used by the King of Shu.
After Qi Yuning showed the letter to Qi Yu'an, he opened another letter. In the letter, the King of Shu learned that Qi Yu'an's concubine was pregnant, so he asked Wen Ban to find a way to make the concubine have an abortion. The eldest son who would inherit the military power of the Qi family would have to be born from the womb of someone approved by the King of Shu.
Qi Yuning saw the letter, clasped her hands tightly, looked at Wen Ban, and said, "So Miss Ping's first child wasn't due to her poor health, but rather because of your methods?"
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