Chapter 206: Accomplishment (Part 2)
Not long after, the boy servant was brought in by the guards. After seeing Sun Wei, he saluted with a smile.
"My humble name is Aqing, and I am honored to meet the princess."
Sun Wei asked, "Why do you want to see me?"
"I'm here to deliver a letter for my master," Ah Qing said, "my master wants to arrange a meeting with the princess."
Sun Wei and Sima Jun looked at each other.
"Oh?" Sun Wei asked, "Why should I see him?"
"The young master said," Ah Qing said, "he has a request for the princess, and he also asked the princess to meet with the young master for the sake of his help at Wuxiang Temple."
Sun Wei thought about it. Although Li Mo was in charge of the Wang family, he seemed to be able to act independently and was difficult to predict. His appearance here was intriguing.
"Sir, can you please tell me when and where we will meet?" Sun Wei asked.
"Two miles upstream, there's a river-viewing pavilion," Ah Qing said. "Today at 3 p.m., the young master will be waiting for the princess there."
"I may not go." Sun Wei said,
Ah Qing smiled and said, "Young Master said that he is willing to help others. In fact, he can help the princess with many things. It depends on whether the princess can think of it."
After he said that, he bowed and said goodbye.
Watching Ah Qing's departing figure, Sun Wei pondered for a moment and said, "This Li Mo is truly unexpected. I can't imagine what he would do to see me."
Sima Jun said, "Why don't you go and take a look and find out?"
Sun Wei glanced at him: "The prince wants me to see him?"
"It's not the princess who's going," Sima Jun said, "it's you and I who're going together."
After saying that, he suddenly looked towards the village and asked, "Is Aruko still here?"
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When Sun Wei and Sima Jun arrived at Wangjiang Pavilion, Li Mo had already arrived.
He was alone, with Aqing, the boy servant who could row a boat, standing beside him.
Li Mo was still wearing a cloth shirt with a faint smile on his face. After meeting them, he bowed respectfully to the two of them.
"I didn't expect to meet Mr. Li again so soon." Sun Wei said, "I thought I would never have the chance to thank you."
"It was just a small favor back then, so why are you being so polite, Princess?" Li Mo's expression was quite nonchalant. "I often think that everything is just a coincidence, the cycle of cause and effect. If I hadn't accidentally helped last time, how could I have troubled the Princess and the Prince to come out and see them now?"
Sun Wei smiled slightly. "Now that we've finally met, I'd like to ask for your advice, Mr. Li. Last time, Supervisor Wang wanted to kill me. Mr. Li, as Wang's aide, why did you help me? Was it just to save my face?"
"I am half a monk, and I cannot bear to see the killing of people. I believe that although the princess is an enemy of the Wang family, her crime does not deserve the death penalty."
"Oh?" Sun Wei found it interesting. "Is that really the case?"
Li Mo smiled calmly and said, "There are some truths that the princess will understand in the future."
After he said that, he asked the two of them to sit down in the pavilion.
"I wonder why you asked me to come and see you, sir?" Sun Wei asked straight to the point.
Li Mo looked at Sima Jun, who had remained silent, and said, "I want someone from the prince."
Sima Jun looked at him: "Who?"
"Liang Wen."
Sun Wei understood.
"Liang Wen was captured by the Crown Prince, and has nothing to do with me. Mr. Li said he wanted to see me, but it turns out he wanted to see the Crown Prince?"
"Your Highness is intelligent." Li Mo smiled. "I haven't had the good fortune to meet the Crown Prince, so I have no choice but to resort to this last resort and borrow Your Highness's favor. I hope Your Highness will forgive me."
After he finished speaking, he turned to Sima Jun and said, "Liang Wen is useless to the Crown Prince, but he is very useful to me. Please, the Crown Prince, hand Liang Wen over to me."
Sima Jun remained silent, saying, "I heard that Qu Kang received word from the north that I was on this trip to thoroughly investigate Ning Xiu's injustice and seek justice for him. This made Qu Kang wary, and he sent people to intercept me on the way. I've always wondered who was the one who passed on this news. Now that I've heard you plead for Liang Wen, I think you passed this news to Liang Wen, who then passed it on to Qu Kang."
Li Mo did not deny: "The prince is wise."
Sima Jun sneered: "Is Liang Wen one of Qu Kang's men, or is he one of you, sir?"
"Liang Wen is mine, and also Wang's. I always cherish my own people."
"In that case, sir, do you think I will agree?"
"Agreeing to my conditions will benefit the prince and not harm him."
"What do you mean?"
Li Mo asked, "Sir, don't you want to vindicate General Ning?"
"Why should I vindicate General Ning?"
Li Mo's gaze suddenly turned to A'ru beside Sun Wei.
"I believe that the Crown Prince took in General Ning's orphan daughter, which at least shows that he has sympathy for General Ning."
Aju's gaze froze.
Although Sun Wei remained calm, he was shocked in his heart.
As for A'ru's true identity, only she, Sima Jun and Deng Lian knew about it.
How did Li Mo know this?
Li Mo said calmly: "Don't be surprised, everyone. I just learned about this news recently. Lady Ning recently went to Panyu to look for Xian Rong, and Liang Wen knew Xian Rong's identity early on and had his eyes on him. Xian Rong was very happy on the day he reunited with Lady Ning, but he was not happy to see Sima Deng. He thought that Lady Ning and Sima Deng had an unusual relationship. So that night, he and his friends drank to relieve their sorrow and inadvertently revealed Lady Ning's identity." Li Mo said.
Aju's face turned ugly.
Sun Wei asked, "Why did General Liang target Xian Rong?"
"I instructed Liang Wen to gather evidence of General Ning's wrongful conviction. The reason I asked the Crown Prince to return Liang Wen is because the evidence is in Liang Wen's hands. Liang Wen is indispensable if General Ning is to be exonerated."
"That sounds quite reasonable," Sima Jun said. "But Mr. Li didn't explain why you want to clear General Ning's name."
"I'm not just out to clear General Ning's name, I'm also out to get rid of the local tyrants and Guangzhou Governor Liu Ke. Guangzhou has been tainted by corruption for so many years, and now that the Crown Prince and Supervisor Wang have finally arrived, it's time to cleanse it all up."
Sima Jun sneered, "Sir, what you say is all very high-sounding. But to put it bluntly, you just want to replace the Governor of Guangzhou with one of your own."
Li Mo smiled and said, "I'm ashamed. I still can't fool the prince."
"I remember that it was Wang Pushe who ordered Ning Xiu's unjust murder. Now that you want to change your confession, wouldn't that be a slap in his face?"
"Why don't you think about it this way, Prince? If the confession is to be retracted, it will definitely be a blow to Wang Pushe's face. Who should be the best person to do it? If one person attacks another, there will always be a way to make up for it. It all depends on how you say it. But if this stick is given to someone else, it will hurt a lot."
Sima Jun asked, "Who do you want to take this board?"
"Liang Wen. If we can bring down the Qu family and Liu Ke, Liang Wen will have made a great contribution. He will be the governor of Guangzhou."
Having said that, Li Mo has become an open conspiracy.
Sun Wei knew that Li Mo's original intention in coming to negotiate with them was to turn Guangzhou into the Wang family's territory.
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