"Alas." Li Wenshan let out a long sigh. "A Xia, you don't know, this person's heart... is too terrifying."

  Li Wenshan looked like he had been greatly stimulated, "That case, General Lu sent over a lot of files, and those few corrupt monks aren't even worth mentioning, they're not human. But those women, they were clearly victims themselves, yet they still went to harm others."

  In the town of Qiao Dong, there was a woman who took her younger sister and brother's wife with her. She alone brought four people with her, harming four people. Her brother's wife jumped into a well and died. The young master said that his brother's wife might not have jumped into the well herself. General Lu is still investigating, but I just can't understand what she was thinking.

  There was also a woman in Xigou Town who went to pray for a child and gave birth to a son. Her older sister came to see her nephew and said, "This nephew of mine is much more handsome than my brother." The woman then deceived her older sister, saying that after one or two months, the two of them would go together every ten days or half a month to pray for another child...

  Li Xia's two hands were propped up on a stone bench, gazing aimlessly into the distance, listening to Li Wenshan's words with an unruffled expression.

  It's nothing that can't be figured out, everyone is the same now, and it's all right... As for other things, there are no other things, nothing is more important than one's own life...

  Li Wenshan kept talking about those people who had deeply stimulated his heart, and by the end, his eyes were red-rimmed.

  Li Xia turned her head to look at him, stood up, and pulled his sleeve to wipe away his tears, muttering in a low voice, "What's the point of Lu Yi showing you these things."

  "It's not for me, it's for the king to see. I followed and took a few glances. Some of it, I heard from the king himself. The king was very distressed, sitting blankly for an entire day before yesterday, and when spoken to, he wouldn't respond."

  Li Wenshan pulled out a handkerchief and first wiped Li Xia's hands and sleeves, then rubbed his own face several times.

  Li Xia was stunned, it's for Qin Wang to see...

  It's settled, using these to experience the evil of human hearts is perfect. Just like in the past, the Empress had herself copy those secret memorials, experiencing the harshness of worldly affairs and the poisonous evil of human hearts...

  The Empress Dowager instructs King Qin in the ways of hunting, and now she also begins to let him understand the ways of the world and human hearts, just as she used to teach herself.

  Li Xia stared straight at the vegetable field in front of her, Li Wenshan looked down at Li Xia and then looked again, stretching out his hand to wave it back and forth in front of Li Xia's eyes. "A Xia, A Xia!"

  "Lost in thought." Li Xia was distracted.

  "What's on your mind?" Li Wenshan looked at his sister with a hint of inquiry.

  Li Xia glanced at him and said, "I'm not telling you."

  Li Wenshan sighed, he increasingly felt that in the past, Ah Xia was very formidable, as for him... whether he was dead or alive, it's hard to say, every time he asked himself how he was doing, Ah Xia would avoid answering.

  "Right, Mr. Qin said that Eldest Uncle sent a message saying that in two days' time, Fourth Brother should come over and bring us some New Year's gifts. He also said that after the New Year, on the second or third day of the new year, Eldest Uncle will send someone to pick up Mother and we'll go live in Jiangning Prefecture for a few days. Mr. Qin is waiting for an answer, so I agreed first."

  Li Wenshan suddenly remembered something important and quickly said it.

  Li Xia nodded, this is a normal brotherly interaction. Logically speaking, her father and mother should have sent someone to deliver the festival gifts first... Forget it, these things can be said next year, this year has been busy with big and small things non-stop...

  Li Wenshan and Li Xia whispered to each other for a long time about the details of this case and that case, as well as how good General Lu's martial arts were and how rich and noble Gu Liu's family was, and so on. They talked until Li Dong came over, and only then did they stand up. Li Wenshan picked up Li Xia and went back to the upper house with Li Dong.

  ………………

  In the afternoon, Guo Sheng returned to his residence from the government office, pulled a chair, sat in the corridor, facing the cold wind, closed his eyes, and thought through what he was about to do. After confirming that everything had been carefully considered, he stood up, went inside to change clothes, came out to put the chair back, shut the door, and left from the back door, rushing straight to the North Gate.

  Near the North Gate, he went to a footman's shop and borrowed a horse. He led it out of the city gate and rushed straight to Hangzhou City.

  ………………

  Hangzhou City Procuratorate.

  Xiang Si Lin Ming Sheng was busy until the clock struck, then returned to the back courtyard, had someone heat up a pot of yellow wine, waved his hand to dismiss several concubines and maids, sat alone in the room, drinking wine and thinking about his troubles.

  It was Old Yao's idea to bring him into Hengshan County, and he thought it was a good one. He didn't expect to be able to take down Li Xuegang, but rather wanted to see the attitude of the Mingtao Mountain Villa - whether they really didn't care about anything and remained unmoved like a mountain. With letters coming from the capital city every other day, he was getting anxious to find out the attitude of the Mingtao Mountain Villa.

  Who would have thought that unexpectedly, in between, there was the unexpected event of Zhao Zheng's death...

  Lin Xiansi raised his head and took a sip of wine, then refilled it and drank again.

  The attitude of Mingtao Mountain Villa, he saw it, but seeing it like this, he would rather not have seen it.

  Luo Shuai covered up for him with a loud gong, and the person behind the Hu family's back was hidden. The confession on that paper was a string of black ink...

  Lin Xianze reached out and grabbed the teapot, pouring himself another cup. He took a sip of half the cup and let out a sigh.

  The case was tried and sentenced, the confession and physical evidence were all handed over to him. However, when he looked at the row of ink marks, he could still clearly see which characters had been altered in those confessions. He didn't have the courage to re-erase those characters, to thoroughly erase them.

  Lin Xiansi let out a sigh, downed the remaining half cup of wine in one gulp, picked up the wine jug, shook it, and loudly called for Yatou to come in. He had her bring in another jug of wine, dismissed her, then poured himself another drink.

  He saw the attitude of Mingtao Mountain Villa, but this attitude made him fearful. He even hesitated whether to write this letter to Beijing, and even... should he beg for his life?

  On the five-headed candle holder standing in a corner of the house, the flames of the five candles suddenly flickered and four of them went out. Lin Xiansi, who was already half drunk, narrowed his eyes, just about to call someone, when he felt a chill on the back of his neck, which pressed tightly against his throbbing jugular vein and throat.

  "Quiet, I'm here. Just a few words, that's all. This is the back of the knife." Compared to the icy knife on his neck, this voice seemed unusually calm and peaceful.

  Lin Xiansheng felt the back of the knife on his neck, pressing and loosening, then rubbing against his skin a few times. It was indeed the back of the knife; if it were the blade, he would have been covered in blood by now.

  "Qikou Town had a case, Zhao's family was ruined and people died, Hu's family was also ruined and people died. You know why Zhao's family was ruined and people died, you also know for whom Hu's family was ruined and people died. Are you drinking alone to mourn for the Zhao and Hu families?"

  The voice behind was flat and seemed to have no emotion, but this lack of emotion made Lin Xiang feel a chill that pierced his bones.

  "What do you want to do?" Lin Xiang's throat was pressed against the back of the knife, his voice a little hoarse.

  "Who came up with this idea? And who is it that has been inciting and tempting the Hu family?"

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