Wen Yalan saw Qi Yuning barging in and trembled in 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 the wedding banquet outside. When they saw Qi Yuning leading the royal soldiers in, they followed him 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, is this your son?"
When Wu Xiong's mother entered the room, 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 grief-stricken, "Who killed my Xiong'er! My Xiong'er!"
Qi Yuning looked at Wen Ban and said, "Wen Ban, this princess will give you a chance. If you tell the truth, this princess can keep your whole family intact. Otherwise, the whole family will be sentenced to death by slow slicing."
Wen Ban shivered and said, "Princess, I don't know what you are talking about."
Qi Yuning said: "Fourteen years ago, there was a shortage of military rations, military medicines and military clothing in Sha Town, while at the same time, a large amount of military rations, military medicines and elite weapons emerged in Beimo.
At the beginning, it was found that Yue Tao was corrupt and colluded with Beimo, and took 100,000 taels of silver from Beimo, and 100,000 taels of silver engraved with Beimo's seal were found behind his house."
Wen Ban said: "Princess, just as you said, we have already found out that Yue Tao 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 and 23 young men died suddenly, including Wu Xiong. At that time, you ordered the village to be sealed off and burned those men who died of the epidemic."
Wen Ban said: "At that time, those young men were seriously ill. If they were not burned, the plague would have spread. I was helpless to burn those young men with the plague! When I learned that Wu Xiong was still alive, I felt extremely guilty, so I betrothed my daughter to him!"
Qi Yuning frowned and said, "You still don't admit it? One hundred thousand taels of silver is not a small amount. If you want to bury it in Yue Tao's yard overnight, you need more than 20 people to transfer the one hundred thousand taels of silver from your house to Yue Tao's backyard!"
Wen Ban said repeatedly: "Princess, you are slandering me. You can't slander me without any evidence. How could I be in collusion with Beimo?"
Qi Yuning said, "I was also wondering, Uncle Wen, how could you be in collusion with Beimo? You are obviously my grandfather's most proud disciple, and you were also orphaned by the Beimo people, but Wu Xiong is here!
If you were just feeling guilty about the epidemic, how could 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 find that her hand was extremely cold.
Wen Banlian looked at Qi Yu'an and said, "Your Highness, I really didn't do anything to let the Qi family down. I really didn't! How could I collude with Beimo?"
Wu Xiong's mother hugged Wu Xiong in the house and said, "Thirteen years ago, my Xiong said he was going to get rich, and he even stole a silver ingot for me..."
Wu Xiong's mother took out the silver ingot from her bosom and said, "After he came back this time, he said that he might be killed again. He said that if he died, he would let me give the remaining silver ingot to Prince Qi. It was you who killed my Xiong'er, wasn't it?"
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 respected you all these years, but I didn't expect you to be so shameless!"
Wen Ban flatly denied it: "No, Wu Xiong is already 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 stupid as to collude with Beimo?"
"I won't be stupid enough to collude with Beimo, but I can do the same as a follower of the dragon!"
Qin Feng took the letter that his subordinates found in the secret room of the study and gave it to Lu Ze, "This is the letter between my subordinates and the King of Shu that they 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 situation 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 attack Chencang.
Qi Yuning was so angry that her hands were shaking. 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 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 checked the letter from three years ago and handed it to Qi Yuning. "No wonder General Wen indulged his daughter so much and made Wen Yalan marry Prince Qi."
Qi Yuning read the letter. The content of the letter was that the King of Shu asked Wen Ban to find a way to marry his daughter into the King of Qi's mansion. By then, after Wen Yalan was favored by the King of Qi and had a child, she could inherit the King of 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 abort the baby. The eldest son who would inherit the military power of the Qi family would have to be born from the womb of someone recognized by the King of Shu.
When Qi Yuning saw the letter, he clenched his hands tightly and looked at Wen Ban and said, "So Miss Ping's first child was not due to her poor health, but because of your tricks?"
Qi Yu'an glanced at Wen Ban and said, "So you have been working for the King of Shu until now! Grandfather treats you as his own son, why do you do this? Wen Ban, you are really disloyal, unjust, unkind and unfilial!"
Wen Ban said: "I do all this for the good of the Qi family!"
Qi Yuning sneered, "For the good of the Qi family? You helped Bei Mo kill my parents, and you said it was for the good of the Qi family?"
Wen Ban said: "Prince, Princess, I did all this for the Qi family! At that time, His Majesty had long been wary of the Qi family. His Majesty gradually delegated power to Qin Guojiu Mansion and married the eldest princess to the Lu family because he was on guard against the Qi family.
If the Qi family had won the battle against Beimo fourteen years ago and their achievements had shocked the emperor, would His Majesty have let the Qi family go? No.
If it weren’t for the fact that old Prince Qi and Prince Qi and his wife died one after another, leaving only you two orphans, His Majesty would have seized the Qi family’s military power long ago, and the Qi family’s army would have been doomed to fail.
If we had helped the King of Shu defeat the Crown Prince and Qin's uncle's mansion and allowed the King of Shu to ascend the throne smoothly, the King of Shu would have had to rely on our Qi Family Army to help him secure his throne, and only then would the Qi Family be able to 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 Beimo, causing the Qi army to be defeated and forcing His Majesty to ask the Lu and Qin families to send troops to Beimo, so that the King of Shu could force the emperor to abdicate in Beijing and seize the throne.
At that time, I helped the King of Shu to collude with Beimo 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 someone, blame Prince Qi for being stupid and not wanting the Qi family to help the King of Shu ascend the throne and maintain wealth and prosperity forever."
"You are the idiot!" Qi Yuning cursed, "For the throne, the King of Shu disregarded the lives of the people living in the border areas, disregarded the territory conquered by the martyrs of Dasheng, and colluded with the villains of Beimo. If the Qi family helped him, how could he be willing to be controlled by the Qi family after he got the throne? The traitor King of Shu might get rid of the Qi family as soon as he ascended the throne!
My grandfather conquered the country and handed it over to Emperor Shi Yuan. The Qi family is loyal to the Zhao dynasty. How could Your Majesty not know this? Why would Your Majesty be afraid of our Qi family?
You are not doing this for the Qi Family Army, you are just greedy for the merit of following the dragon, and greedy for the benefits that the King of Shu can give you after he ascends the throne!"
Qi Yu'an said in a cold voice: "There is solid evidence that Wen Ban is colluding with the King of Northern Desert Shu. Someone tie up all the people in the Wen family and escort them to Shengjing for your Majesty to decide!"
When Qi Yuning saw that everyone in the Wen family was tied up, she felt very sad. Her parents died so unjustly, at the hands of the traitor King Shu and the idiot Wen Ban.
It was freezing cold in the north city at night. When I went out of the house, the cold wind was like a sharp blade, as if it could scratch my face.
Lu Ze held Qi Yuning, whose eyes were filled with murderous intent, in his arms and said, "When we return to Beijing, I will avenge your parents."
Qi Yuning said in a hoarse voice in Lu Ze's arms: "Well, after returning to the capital, if Your Majesty wants to protect the King of Shu, I will go against my grandfather's wishes and be charged with disloyalty. Even if I don't become a princess, I will kill the King of Shu with my own hands!"
Lu Ze held Qi Yuning's hand and said, "Your hands are clean. Let me do the job of killing your enemies."
"But, he is your uncle after all."
Lu Ze said: "He is also the enemy who killed my father."
Qi Yuning asked in confusion: "Huh? Isn't Prince Consort Lu alive and well?"
Lu Ze lowered his eyes to look at Qi Yuning and said, "Father-in-law is also a father." (End of this chapter)
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