Li Rong couldn't stop laughing when she heard Pei Wenxuan say it was a pity. She pursed her lips and lowered her head, raising her hand and said, "I don't want to talk to you about this anymore. I still have things to do."

"What else does your highness want to do?"

"Of course, I'm going to meet Luo Feibai."

Li Rong said, turning to look at Pei Wenxuan: "Now that Xie Lanqing is gone, your cousin is in the Ministry of Justice, so he has some say, right?"

Pei Wenxuan raised his hand and saluted: "I will follow your orders, Your Highness."

The two of them left the palace together. Pei Wenxuan first asked someone to find Pei Liming. When they arrived at the Ministry of Justice, Pei Liming was already standing at the door. Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan got off the carriage together. Pei Wenxuan happily stepped forward and said respectfully, "Uncle."

Pei Liming saluted Li Rong first: "Your Highness."

Then he turned around and nodded to Pei Wenxuan: "You came pretty quickly?"

"Your Highness is in a hurry." Pei Wenxuan lowered his voice, "Has the person arrived now?"

"I'm already waiting at the Ministry of Justice, and Miss Shangguan is here too."

"Shangguan Ya is here too?"

Pei Wenxuan was quite surprised, and Pei Liming nodded: "I put it in."

As he spoke, Pei Liming raised his hand and looked at Li Rong, bowing respectfully: "Your Highness, please."

Li Rong nodded: "Minister Pei, you are too polite."

“As you should.”

Pei Liming said this and led Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan inside. When they arrived at the door, they saw Shangguan Ya sitting at the prison door. She had a handful of peanuts in her hand, crossed her legs, and looked at Lu Feibai leisurely inside.

Feibai sat on the bed in the cell with his back to Shangguan Ya. As soon as Li Rong came in, Shangguan Ya stood up and said, "Your Highness."

When Feibai heard this, his ears twitched. After Li Rong walked in, Pei Liming said tactfully, "Your Highness, I will lead the way here. You can stay here for half an hour, but it is better to finish the questions as soon as possible to avoid too many people talking."

"I understand." Li Rong bowed to Pei Liming, "Thank you, Minister Pei."

"I'm sending my uncle off."

Pei Wenxuan said as he escorted Pei Liming out. Only Li Rong, Shangguan Ya, and Lu Feibai were left in the prison. Shangguan Ya quickly moved a stool for Li Rong and said, "Your Highness, please sit down."

"Why are you here?"

Li Rong was a little curious, Shangguan Ya smiled and said, "I guessed that Your Highness would come to interrogate Fei Bai, so I came here in advance. I was already very curious, so I was waiting for Your Highness to explain."

"What confusion do you want to solve?" Li Rong took the tea from Shangguan Ya and looked at Lu Feibai. "What confusion is it? Can't Master Lu tell you everything?"

"I asked him before," Shangguan Ya sighed, "but he was stubborn and hasn't said a word so far."

Li Rong smiled, put the tea aside, leaned on the stool, and said gently: "Master Lu, don't you have anything to ask me?"

Luo Feibai turned his back to Li Rong. He said nothing. Li Rong waited patiently. After a long time, Luo Feibai finally said, "My mother never told me about him."

Feibai's voice was a little hoarse: "She only said that my father was dead, that my father had let her down and abandoned her in Qinqu Mountain. I hated my father with her since I was a child. I always thought that he was not a good man and that he abandoned my mother."

"What don't you understand?" Li Rong tapped her palms lightly with the fan.

"She died two years ago."

"The Seven Stars Hall Master died two years ago?" Shangguan Ya was a little surprised. Lu Feibai ignored her and continued in a low voice, "Two years ago, she was still holding this necklace at the last moment. She said she wanted to meet the owner of this necklace. She had someone notify that person and she wanted to wait for him."

"She told me to wait at the mountain gate. From the gate I could see people on the mountain road. I could see the person coming at the first sight. He would be dressed in black. If he came, she told me to tell her."

"I stood at the mountain gate and waited. It snowed heavily that day and I waited for a long time."

"I waited until the snow fell all over me, and waited until the next morning when the ice and snow melted, but no one came. When I went back, she had already fallen asleep."

"She held onto this necklace until she died."

Lu Feibai raised his hand and held the necklace: "I thought this was the most important thing to her, so I kept it. Before she died, she left me many requests, one of which was that she owed Xie Lanqing three things, and the last one was that she couldn't complete it, so she asked me to help her."

"So Xie Lanqing went to Qinqu Mountain to ask for help from the Seven Stars Hall. I knew that getting involved in this matter would bring disaster to the Seven Stars Hall, but I still came."

"But I don't understand."

Feibai clenched his fists: "This man bullied her, let her down, and never gave her a legitimate status in his life. She obviously hates him so much, why does she still want me to help him?!"

"You say one thing and mean another."

Shangguan Ya spoke directly, but Lu Feibai ignored her. He turned his head and stared at Li Rong: "You know why, right?"

"I don't know." Li Rong answered calmly, "All I know is that she hopes you live well."

"And I am not here today to answer your question, but to give you a chance."

"What chance?"

"A chance to survive." Li Rong straightened up and spoke slowly, "It's also a chance for revenge."

While Li Rong and Lu Feibai were talking, Pei Wenxuan escorted Pei Liming to the door. The guards around were dismissed by them. Pei Liming sighed and said, "You are too rash. You should have told me about this earlier."

"I didn't know this would happen today," Pei Wenxuan smiled bitterly, "Your Highness didn't tell me and came too hastily. Your Majesty asked for help at the last minute, so I could only ask my uncle to help."

It was said that Pei Liming helped, but Pei Wenxuan and Pei Liming knew in their hearts that Xie Lanqing would definitely step down from the position of Minister of the Ministry of Justice. Whoever took over Xie Lanqing's case in the Ministry of Justice would indicate who would take over the position of Minister.

Pei Liming had been in the position of Right Vice Minister for nearly ten years, and finally got promoted. The person who gave him this chance was not Pei Lixian, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, who was highly praised by the Pei family, but Pei Wenxuan. Pei Liming did not say it on the surface, but he gradually had a plan in his mind.

Although Pei Lixian held a high position, he had not brought much benefit to the family over the years. Although Pei Wenxuan was young, he was very resourceful, with Li Rong standing behind him, and he was generous. Now he was given the opportunity to be promoted to Shangshu. How could Pei Liming not be happy?

He suppressed his thoughts, waved his hands, and said, "We are all from the same clan, why should we be so formal?"

"Uncle is right," Pei Wenxuan said politely, "We are all clan members. I hope you will be comfortable and take good care of us in the future."

Pei Lixian smiled. Now that he had accepted Pei Wenxuan's favor, Pei Wenxuan not only did not say a word about it, but also gave him steps everywhere so as not to offend him. However, within a few words, Pei Lixian liked Pei Wenxuan very much and regretted not paying more attention to this nephew.

After the two exchanged greetings, Pei Wenxuan took his leave and returned to the prison. He heard Li Rong and Lu Feibai say, "You just need to tell the truth and don't hide anything. Xie Lanqing should be punished accordingly. That's enough. Although you assassinated me, I will still report to my father and say that you have made up for your mistakes and ask him to cancel your punishment."

Pei Wenxuan listened to Li Rong's voice and stood behind her. Fei Bai's expression remained unchanged. He only said, "Your Highness will not use me again, will you?"

"Don't worry about that," Li Rong laughed, "I used you before because you wanted to use me. Now that you don't use me anymore, I naturally won't take the initiative to use you either."

"I don't believe a word you Huajing people say." Feibai said coldly. Shangguan Ya sneered: "Then who do you believe?"

"But I am willing to identify Xie Lanqing."

After receiving this response, Li Rong felt relieved. This time, she had real evidence against Minister Xie and could kick him down from his perch.

Li Rong stood up and nodded, "That's good of you. I'll be leaving now. I wish Mr. Lu will be released from prison soon."

Li Rong said as she walked out. Pei Wenxuan followed her. Shangguan Ya also followed Li Rong out. Halfway through the walk, Shangguan Ya suddenly remembered something. She turned around, took out a deck of cards from her sleeve, put it in the cell, raised her chin, and said soothingly, "Don't be too sad. Play cards and the days will pass quickly. There are many happy things in this world. You don't have to ruin yourself for the sake of a few unrelated people."

Luo Feibai ignored her, and Shangguan Ya said, "You don't know how to be kind."

After saying that, Shangguan Ya turned around and followed Li Rong: "Hey, Your Highness, please wait for me. Don't walk so fast."

Shangguan Ya's voice faded away. Lu Feibai hesitated for a moment before he reached the edge of the prison. He reached deep inside and grabbed the leaf cards.

The leaf cards were painted by Shangguan Ya herself. She inherited the painting skills from a famous teacher. She painted several leaf cards with not only exquisite skills but also many innovations.

For example, putting a wreath on the warrior's head, or adding a bird cage in the hand of the scholar. Feibai looked at it quietly for a moment, sneered disdainfully, then put away the leaf card and put it in his arms.

Shangguan Ya ran out after Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan. Li Rong turned to look at her and asked, "What did you leave for him?"

"A deck of leaf cards," Shangguan Ya waved her hands, "so he won't get bored."

"You are very considerate." Li Rong laughed. Shangguan Ya felt a little embarrassed. "He is also very pitiful."

"Okay, where are you going now?"

"I'm going home, where's Your Highness?"

"I'm going back to the princess's mansion. I'll give you a ride."

As Li Rong spoke, she led Pei Wenxuan and Shangguan Ya into the carriage.

After getting on the carriage, Pei Wenxuan poured tea for the two girls. Shangguan Ya sat aside, thought for a while, and finally said: "Your Highness, guess why Lu Feibai's mother is so contradictory? She taught Lu Feibai to hate Xie Lanqing for the rest of his life, and in the end, she let Lu Feibai help Xie Lanqing. What is her purpose?"

Li Rong smiled and looked up at Shangguan Ya: "Have you ever died?"

"How could I have died?" Shangguan Ya was surprised. "Your Highness, no one in this world has ever died."

Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan smiled at each other, and Li Rong said slowly, "I guess it's true that Lu Feibai's mother hated Xie Lanqing all her life, but it was also because of love that she hated him. So before she died, she kept waiting for him. She waited and waited until the last moment, and it didn't matter whether he came or not."

“When people die, what they feel most is not hatred, but the last beauty in their life.”

Li Rong smiled slowly: "Look, Lu Feibai's mother said that she owed Xie Lanqing three requests. In fact, I have heard this story. Back then, Xie Lanqing and the Jianghu heroine Lu Xia met by chance and they fell in love at first sight. At that time, Xie Lanqing saved Lu Xia, and Lu Xia promised Xie Lanqing that she could fulfill his three requests."

"Xie Lanqing's first request was that Lu Xia stay with him."

Shangguan Ya was a little surprised: "Then Minister Xie was quite romantic back then."

"Xie Lanqing's second request was that Luo Xia leave him. In fact, Luo Xia did not marry Xie Lanqing. She and her junior sister founded the Seven Star Hall in Qinqu Mountain. Xie Lanqing knew about it, but he never went to see her in his life."

"Maybe I heard that she had a child." Shangguan Ya thought for a moment, "I thought she had a new life?"

"These three requests were the beginning of their relationship. I think before Lu Xia died, she was thinking of Xie Lanqing's good side. She no longer hated him, and she hoped that this relationship would end in the best possible way. After she stopped hating him, she realized that Lu Feibai was Xie Lanqing's son after all, and she hoped that Lu Feibai and Xie Lanqing could have a good relationship."

"If you put it this way, I can probably understand a little bit." Shangguan Ya nodded, "Lu Feibai is really a pitiful person."

"Poor people are pitiful." Pei Wenxuan said at the right time, "He is already doing pretty well."

Shangguan Ya nodded: "Indeed, the greatest sorrow in this world is poverty. Birth, aging, sickness and death are given by God, but poverty always makes us doubt ourselves."

“It’s like being stuck in a spider web, but I keep wondering if I’m not working hard enough and can’t get out of it.”

As they were talking, the carriage arrived at Shangguan Mansion. Shangguan Ya saluted the two and said with a smile, "See you tomorrow."

Shangguan Ya jumped down from the carriage. When there were only two people in the carriage, Pei Wenxuan turned around and looked at Li Rong: "Actually, I'm curious, what did you see before you died?"

"What about you?"

Li Rong raised her eyebrows. Pei Wenxuan thought about it for a moment and said slowly, "It was the New Year of that year. I celebrated the New Year with you. When the fireworks were set off, we stood on the corridor together. You called my name and asked me to turn around."

Pei Wenxuan laughed as he spoke: "As soon as I turned around, you stood on tiptoe and kissed me on the face."

"Then you asked me if I could watch the fireworks with you every year."

"I agreed." Pei Wenxuan lowered his head and took a cup of bitter tea. "It's a pity that you broke the promise."

“Let’s watch it again this year.”

Li Rong suddenly spoke, Pei Wenxuan raised his head, a little surprised, Li Rong turned around and looked at him with a smile: "I will watch the fireworks with you this year. Pei Wenxuan, you have to promise me one thing," Li Rong said, and stepped forward. Pei Wenxuan lowered his eyes and looked at her: "What?"

"In this life, we either keep our promises to each other or we keep them to the end, okay?"

"Okay." Pei Wenxuan laughed and said hoarsely, "No one should break the contract."

"Hook?" Li Rong raised her little finger. Pei Wenxuan looked at Li Rong and thought she was childish. But because she was Li Rong, this childishness became cute.

He raised his hand and hooked Li Rong's little finger.

"For a hundred years, no changes are allowed."