"Why?"

"Because what I want to find from Cheng Qiyan, although it has no value, if this thing falls into the hands of bad people, many people will be persecuted. You've seen that not only me, but many celebrity politicians have suffered for that thing. ”

"I already know, you're looking for a glass stopper?"

"Yes, that's it, you've got it twice, and it's me and my friend who stole it from you."

"I know all of that. But every time something arrives, you send it back again, for a worthless glass cork. Is it worth it?"

"It's worth it. Otherwise, if you use it to harm people, how can I stand it?"

"What? Do you think I will use it to damage the reputation of gentlemen and noblewomen, and use it as a lever to blackmail them?" Bai Lang couldn't help but be furious when he heard the woman's words.

"How could I do such a thing? With my personality, I would never do such a thing! Madame, why are you insulting me?"

"Aren't you Shirao?"

"How do you know?" Bai Lang took a few steps back unconsciously. "Who is this woman? How would she know that I was Bai Lang?"

Bai Lang's face was pale, and he was a little flustered. After a while, he remembered something else: "Why did you put back the cork you stole from me twice?"

"Because those two are fake."

"If it's fake, you just throw them away, so why risk putting them back."

"Because Cheng Qiyan has two bottle stoppers in his hand, one real and one false. One of them had a secret document, the other had nothing. He hides the real thing in a place where it is not easy to be found, and puts the fake on the bright side. If he knew we had stolen the fake, he would have hidden the real thing more and protected it more closely, so I couldn't surprise the snake. ”

"Are there really two of them?"

"Not bad at all."

"There's evidence. Before we tell you, though, there's something to ask. ”

"You say."

"You insist you didn't look for that cork to do something bad, so why did you spend so much time and energy looking for it?"

"Because this cork was given to me by a young man named Wu Ji, who is now arrested and imprisoned. When he gets out of prison, I will definitely return the cork to him myself. "And, he's now been framed for murder, and he's sneaking into the house he burned down just to find the cork." For this, such a reliable and gentle young man was sentenced to death, which is really unjust. Now that he has been sentenced to death, I must find the cork as soon as possible and hand it to him myself, or it will be too late. ”

"Oh! Oh!" The woman's face was blank and she asked nervously, "How do you know?"

Bai Lang took out the letter written by Wu Ji and handed it to her.

When the woman saw it, she screamed "oops", shook her body, fell to the ground, and fainted.

Bai Lang picked up the fainting woman, put her on a couch, and let her sleep peacefully.

When he picked her up, he found that the woman had a thin gold necklace around her snow-white neck, and a necklace pendant on which she could put a photograph.

He opened the lid of the pendant, and inside was a photograph of a gentleman of about 40 years of age and a beautiful man with curly hair.

Bai Lang looked at the man's photo carefully, and compared the woman's face thoughtfully. "No wonder I felt a little familiar when I first saw this woman, it turned out that her face was very similar to this young man."

At this time, the woman slowly opened her eyes and looked around while calling Junjun in a faint voice

"Don't worry, Junjun is sleeping soundly."

After Bai Lang finished speaking, he poured her a small glass of refreshing wine, and a rosy flush immediately appeared on her snow-white face, and she quickly recovered her senses. When she raised her spirit, Bai Lang asked her, "This child is Wu Ji, right?"

Her face was a little flustered. Later, she knew that she couldn't hide it, so she nodded and said dryly: "Yes, it's Wu Ji." ”

"He's your child, isn't he?"

"Yes, he is my eldest son. His real name is Wang Mingzhi, and Wu Ji is his pseudonym. ”

Only then did Bai Lang know that his guess was not wrong, she was Wu Ji's mother. He sighed, "So, this gentleman is your husband?"

"Yes, he's been dead for three years." She threw her face down on the bench and sobbed.

Bai Lang was also very sad, he thought about it, and asked again, "What is your husband's name?"

"Wang Min."

"Oh, it's that Counselor Wang Min. Did he commit suicide?"

"Yes." She said sadly

"I didn't expect it to be him." Bai Lang sighed deeply and didn't speak for a long time.

He did not expect that the counselor was the woman's husband. Thinking of this, his heart felt even more uncomfortable. The counselor suddenly committed suicide with a gun in the corridor of the municipal building three years ago, leaving no suicide note. According to everyone's speculation, he was hunted down to death by a great secret.

"Do you know the cause of your husband's death?"

"This ......"

"Please, I think I can help a little."

"That's it, I'll get straight to the point! Be sure to help, though! ”

"My name is Xiao Li, and twenty years ago, I went to the north coast of Dongzhou with my parents to escape the summer, and at that time, I met three young people. They are Wang Min, Cheng Qiyan and Huang Yubiao. They and I were good friends at the time.

"Later, Wang Min and Cheng Qiyan both proposed to me. I chose Wang Min. Cheng Qiyan said angrily at the time: I have to avenge this revenge, whether it is ten years or twenty years, you two will definitely taste my suffering. He yelled at us for a while, and then left us.

"Wang Min and I got married with the support of our parents. Cheng Qiyan left Dongzhou from then on, and I didn't know where I was, but I always remembered what Cheng Qiyan said, and I was very scared.

"But my husband said that he just said some angry things and would not retaliate, and he couldn't retaliate against us, so I slowly relaxed.

"After getting married, I gave birth to two children, Ming Ming and Junjun, and my husband also became a counselor. Originally, the family lived very well, but who expected that disaster would fall from the sky, I think you may know, it was the case of the 27-person joint secret agreement. ”

Bai Lang was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Is your husband also involved in that case?" He knew that this so-called "27-person joint secret agreement case" was a corruption and bribery case that had a huge impact on Dongzhou's political circles. This is a big case of government officials, municipal counselors, and celebrities jointly demanding a huge amount of money from private manufacturers, and jointly embezzling them.

A total of 27 people were involved in the case. In order to protect this secret, they signed and signed a secret agreement together, vowing not to divulge the secret to the outside world, and this secret agreement is the so-called joint secret agreement of 27 people.