"Wei Kai, what do you think about, as long as you are willing to prove that Li Xiluan is the mastermind behind the smuggling, I guarantee that you can save your life, and I can release you in a year or two, after changing your name and surname, no one will recognize who you are, and you will live freely!" Chang Zhi sat outside the prison door, bowed his head and blew tea slowly, and said to the guards in the prison.

Wei Kai twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled, he is not the kind of fledgling or narrow-minded old fritter, he followed Master Wei to the north and south, and later followed Li Xiluan, it can be said that he is well-informed, Chang Zhi's little trick can hide from others, but he can never deceive him.

Wei Kai sat on the bed in the prison, cross-legged, and said with a smile: "Master Chang promises not to kill people?" ”

Chang Zhi ignored these and said directly: "Yes, as long as you are willing to testify against Li Xiluan, there will be no business for you afterwards, how can this official kill you in one more move." ”

Wei Kai was silent, sitting there cross-legged, smiling silently.

Chang Zhi said again: "As long as you are willing to testify against Li Xiluan, I promise you that when the time comes, the official of the Wei family's industry can be the master and give you one-tenth." ”

Wei Kai said: "Then, my lord will write me a document first, otherwise the grass people will be unbelievable." ”

Chang Zhi looked at Wei Kai and frowned slightly, he naturally couldn't write this kind of document, but if Wei Kai didn't let Wei Kai identify Li Xiluan and not give him some sweetness, Chang Zhi sighed and said: "This official can't write a document for him, but he can assure you that as long as you testify against Li Xiluan, this matter will not have any impact on you." ”

Wei Kai seemed to feel uncomfortable sitting like this, and ordered the guest in disguise: "My lord, can you let the grass people think about it." ”

Chang Zhi naturally didn't expect to let Wei Kai agree once, and immediately smiled and said: "Okay, this official will come back tomorrow, I hope that the shopkeeper Wei can think clearly." Come on, the shopkeeper must entertain well, and he must not be lazy, you know? ”

"Yes, my lord." The jailer on one side hurriedly bowed and replied.

Wei Kai looked at the back of Chang Zhi leaving, sneered and snorted.

Wei Kai is not stupid, how can he not see the mystery in this. If there is another way to rectify the Wei family, this Chang Zhi will definitely not come to him, not to mention that he has received several great favors from the Wei family, even if he really testifies against Li Xiluan, the consequences will not be too wonderful.

But he immediately frowned, Wei Qiao told him not to say anything, not to admit or deny, but now it seems that things are not so simple. The Shangshu of the Criminal Department is involved, so this matter must not be good.

Wei Kai took a deep breath and whispered to himself, "If it really doesn't work, I'll carry it all!" ”

"Treasurer Wei."

Wei Kai was stunned for a moment, looked up, and saw a jailer looking at him with a smile on his face.

Wei Kai looked at the smiling jailer and frowned, "Who are you?" ”

The jailer laughed and said, "Shopkeeper Wei has news to deliver, and the little one can help." ”

Wei Kai stared at him and said, "Who sent you?" ”

The jailer smiled and said, "Hehe, the little one got fifty taels of silver from Master Wei, and Lord Wei said, whatever the shopkeeper Wei needs, the small one can make arrangements." ”

Wei Kai was stunned for a moment, then stared at him, and thought: "Since this is the case, then you go and invite the young master to come here, and I will see him in person." ”

The jailer smiled and said, "Okay, I'll send you a message, little one." ”

Wei Kai looked at the back of the jailer, his brow furrowed.

In the wing room of the Horse Mansion, Wei Qiao hugged Li Xiluan, and the two talked softly.

Li Xiluan put her head on Wei Qiao's shoulder, and her pretty eyes opened, her eyes full of happy smiles.

Wei Qiao hugged her slender waist and said softly: "I have already said hello to the second uncle just now, and he has promised to move to Suzhou in a few days." ”

Li Xiluan nodded lightly and said, "Well, I have prepared the account books of Suzhou, and the second uncle can take over directly." ”

The two Wei and Chu families have reached an agreement and began to carry out asset swaps, that is to say, the Wei and Chu families have merged in disguise, Chu Shan will take over the Wei family's business in Jiangnan, and Li Xiluan will take over the Chu family's Jiangbei business, so that the opposition will be suppressed, and in fact, Li Xiluan has already controlled all the business of the Chu family, and Chu Shan, the business in Jiangnan, will not replace the Wei family's shopkeepers.

Wei Qiao nodded lightly, this method is only to temporarily alleviate the contradiction, the fundamental surname problem of Wei Chu's merger has not been solved, and the future can only depend on Li Xiluan's ability.

Gently rubbing Li Xiluan's hair, Wei Qiao said again, "What are Yunya and Qingyao busy with now?" ”

Wei Qiao's proposal Fu Mingzheng agreed with Fu Li's objection, and naturally, Fu Li and Fu Qingyao had to find a way again.

Li Xiluan smiled softly and said, "In business, I handed over a rice shop to them, and it is said that the two of them quarreled now that they had nothing to do, and even almost fought." ”

Wei Qiao was stunned and said strangely: "Yunya and that little pepper fight? ”

Li Xiluan pursed her lips and smiled lightly, and said, "Well, Yunya looks like a man now, and Qing Yao doesn't listen to a lot of words." ”

Wei Qiao smiled, he could also imagine that the two would not let each other go, Xiao Pepper gritted his teeth and wanted to shake the knife, and Fu Yang was not as obedient as before, so he couldn't say that the two of them would really pinch each other.

Wei Qiao saw Li Xiluan laughing softly, but he also understood that she was worried, and looked at her pretty face and said with a smile: "Don't worry so much, they are coming for me, they won't touch Seventh Brother until I'm fine." ”

Li Xiluan raised his head and was just about to speak, when there was a sudden sound of footsteps at the door, Li Xiluan immediately sat upright, hurriedly tidied up his hair and clothes, and glanced at Wei Qiao with a weak heart.

"Young master, there is news from the prison of the Criminal Department." Xiangling's crisp shout came from the door.

Wei Qiao frowned, walked over, and opened the door, "What's the news?" ”

Xiangling smiled sheepishly, but his eyes kept rolling inside.

Wei Qiao immediately threw a chestnut over and said, "Talk about things." ”

Xiangling said 'oh', holding her head in her hands, staring at her eyes, pouting, and said aggrievedly: "Someone said that the seventh shopkeeper wants to see the young master." ”

Wei Qiao was stunned, his brows moved, and then a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

When Xiangling was stunned, she quietly moved a step, her little head shook back and forth, and she kept glancing inside.

Wei Qiao reached out and pinched the little girl's delicate ears, smiling all over her face.

"Ah, young master, young master, it hurts......" The little girl immediately stood on tiptoe, and shouted "Hmph" Wei Qiao snorted lightly, let go and said: "There will be a next time, tomorrow you will also follow the princess guards to train." ”

"Ah, I won't look at it......" When the little girl heard this, she was suddenly startled, and waved her hand while running.

Li Xiluan walked out from behind the door and pursed her lips and smiled.

Wei Qiao also smiled, and was about to turn around, when suddenly another shout came.

"Young master, Miss Xiu'er is back." A subordinate hurried over.

When Wei Qiao heard this, he immediately turned his head to Li Xiluan and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”

Li Xiluan's pretty face was slightly puzzled, and she hurriedly nodded softly and stepped out.

Wei Qiao and the two soon came to the living room, only to see that the living room table was full of thick account books.

"Uncle." Xiu'er was dressed in tights, standing at the door shrewdly and competently, and said crisply.

Wei Qiao nodded with a smile and said, "Well, it's hard work, go and tell the princess, just say what I said, give you a few days off and have a good rest." Tell the bookkeeper what you want to eat and what you want to buy, as far as I say, if it is less than one thousand taels, you can withdraw it. ”

Xiu'er's pretty face suddenly became happy, and she hurriedly smiled, "Thank you, uncle." After speaking, he wrenched his fingers, and kept confiding all kinds of names, eating, drinking, and wearing, and there were more than a dozen in a blink of an eye, and there were a lot of things that the little girl usually remembered.

Wei Qiao smiled, walked to the table, picked up a book and flipped it over.

Wei Qiao flipped through and said, "These are the account books of the northern Chen family?" ”

Xiu'er immediately put down her finger and quickly responded: "Yes, uncle, it was that Chen Ting who copied it to me, and he said that as long as these account books are detailed, you will be able to know all the Chen family's dealings about going north." ”

Wei Qiao flipped through the account books and said, "In this way, you can know whether the Chen family has fornicated with the Huns." In other words, these account books can completely show whether the Wei family collaborated with the enemy and committed treason. ”

After all, the Wei family took over the Chen family's business for a short time, and if the Chen family did not collaborate with the enemy and commit treason, then the Wei family naturally did not.

Although Xiu'er was a little confused, she still nodded her head.

But after Wei Qiao finished speaking, his face suddenly changed, and slowly, he raised his head, frowned, and his eyes flashed.

It is impossible for the Chen family to collude with the Xiongnu, not only because they have no strength, but also because the Wei family and the Chen family are old rivals, and they basically know the roots. And 'Chuang Bei' is a collective name for a group of people from all over the country who have no organization and no background strength to roam in the north. Although these people have the strength, they don't have the ability to go to the sky, and they can't get through the key checkpoints outside the Saiwai at all, and these places must be taken care of by the people in the court to get through.

If the Chen family did not fornicate with the Huns, who is it? Who has such a great ability to open up so many joints?

Wei Qiao put down the account book, frowned and paced forward a few steps, and suddenly his steps were again, and his eyes flashed again.

Since this person has such great ability, why was it so easily exposed this time, and there was no sign of concealment and suppression?

"Is it because the court was purged, and there was no means to cover it up for a while? Or is it directly aimed at me, or is it deliberately provoking me to fight with the Jin Dynasty? ”

Wei Qiao frowned, his eyes showing thoughtfulness.

"Uncle, do you want me to find someone to sort it out?" Li Xiluan saw that Wei Qiao was silent, and approached and said in a low voice.

Wei Qiao was stunned, turned around and said, "Well, Li, overnight, you let people take care of it, I'll go see Brother Seven." ”

After speaking, Wei Qiao walked towards the door.

Wei Qiao suddenly found that the water in this court was much deeper than he thought.

"My family wants to see Wei Kai." Xu Mao said to the official at the door of the prison of the Criminal Department.

The official glanced at him with his head tilted, and said loudly, "Hurry up, Lord Shangshu has just given an order, and no one will have to go to prison without his handwriting." ”

Xu Mao immediately raised his nose, looked proud, and snorted: "Don't let us in, do you know who our young master is?" ”

The official glanced at Xu Mao up and down, and said with a cold face, "I don't care if you are a young master or an adult, leave quickly, this is not the place where you came." ”

Xu Mao rolled his eyes and glanced at the servant, then turned around and walked towards the sedan chair not far away.

Xu Mao said with an unhappy face, "Young Master, they won't let us in." ”

Wei Qiao looked at the prison of the Criminal Department, nodded slightly, and said, "I expected it a long time ago, Nuo, give some silver and let people send it in." Wei Qiao handed out a lunch box from the sedan chair and handed it to Xu Mao.

Xu Mao took it, a little curious, but didn't ask, turned around and walked towards the guard again.

Soon, the official took the silver in his hand, took the lunch box in Xu Mao's hand, and walked towards the door of the prison.

In the cell, Wei Kai picked up the bun in his hand, frowned slightly, looked around, broke his hands, and sure enough, he saw a small piece of paper, Wei Kai took it out, and saw that it was first an operation formula for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and then a line of words.

After reading it, Wei Kai thought for a while, nodded, swallowed the note, and then picked up the bun and ate it.

Night, Royal Palace.

"Your Majesty." Empress Zheng Tong sat in front of the emperor's couch and called softly.

Zhou Yanzhao was lying on the bed, the corners of his face were thin, his beard was thin, his eyes were closed, and there were still a few traces of blood left at the corners of his mouth, but he did not respond to the queen's call.

The queen sighed, wiped Zhou Yanzhao gently, then covered him with a quilt and slowly withdrew.

"Mother." Grandpa Cui stood at the door, and when he saw the queen coming out with a worried face, he hurriedly followed behind and said in a low voice.

Zheng Tong stopped, looked at the cold moonlight, and said worriedly, "Xiao Cui, you say, what should this palace do?" ”

Gonggong Cui bowed down and stood beside the queen, and said in a low voice: "Niangniang, in fact, you don't have to worry, according to the emperor's surname, you will definitely arrange everything before the big trip." ”

Zheng Tong nodded lightly and said, "I understand this, but there are too many variables, and one carelessness will turn the world upside down, and the foundation of the Great Zhou Dynasty for two hundred years will only take these few months...... Hey, I'm not worried about Fu Li and the martial apprentices......"

Gonggong Cui cautiously continued: "That Niangniang is worried about King Jin?" ”

Zheng Tong shook his head and sighed, "I'm not worried about King Jin, what I'm worried about is the candidate for the crown prince, and there is also the fact that it is Master Yinkong, who has an edict from the first emperor, and no one knows what the first emperor has left." ”

When Gonggong Cui heard this, he also frowned. The current emperor is deeply aware of the emperor's mental skills, and the first emperor is a master of the imperial arts, and everyone has to deal with the back hands he left behind. And these Cui Gonggong couldn't ask, he bowed his head and stood behind Zheng Tong without answering.

Zheng Tong sighed again, looked up at the moon, and suddenly said, "What has that Wei Liyuan been doing lately?" ”

Father-in-law Cui was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Cui Chen and a few people are calculating him, and he is estimated to be in a hurry to deal with it now." ”

Zheng Tong nodded and said, "Well, if you go to spread the word, you will say that the palace wants Princess Qingning, and let Princess Qingning enter the palace tomorrow, by the way, come in early in the morning." ”

Father-in-law Cui didn't ask anything else, immediately nodded and answered in a low voice.

(To be continued)