Wife Kim An

Chapter 122

Ke Lixin squeezed out of the crowd in a trance, and was supported by Song Xiao when he almost fell.He lowered his head, afraid that his crying and tears would be noticed by others.

"What's wrong? Did you miss?" Song Xiao asked anxiously.

"No. [-] scholar..." Ke Lixin choked up and said, he found that the tears couldn't stop following these words, he hurriedly wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve.

Song Xiao smiled and said, "Congratulations, Ke Zhuangyuan."

She asked cautiously: "Actually, I've always wanted to ask you one thing... Did you take the imperial examination, or even the top score in high school, to fulfill your mother's last wish? After that, what are your plans?"

"No, I took the imperial examination and studied hard for it because I wanted to be an official in the court. Men have no virtue and men have no talent. Because I am in the world of women, because I am a man, I was ruthlessly deprived of the exam. Qualifications for imperial examinations. This system is incomplete." Ke Lixin raised his head, his ink hair was flying, the corners of his eyes were shining beautifully in the sun, and he said to himself, "I want to overthrow all of this! I want to change Dongmu ! I want to prove myself!"

Song Xiao was stunned by these words. She suddenly thought of her original thoughts. She would support Ke Lixin to take the imperial examination because she thought Ke Lixin was very talented. It was a pity that most men in Dongmu Country were illiterate. A businessman like Shen Junyi has already been criticized, but Ke Lixin has gone one step further. He wants to be named on the gold list. Before he succeeds, he must put in thousands of times of effort and go through ten thousand times of hardships.

But, he did it!
His high school may be as he said, he wants to change this Dongmu, improve the status of men in Dongmu country, change this decadent system, even if it only has one ten-thousandth effect, he will do it for it. working hard.

Ke Lixin is such a serious and persistent man.

"Papa papa." There was a burst of applause from behind Ke Lixin. He turned his head and saw a woman in Tsing Yi coming down from the carriage. The woman was wearing a bamboo hat and concealed her face lowly.

The woman spoke slowly, her voice was as deep and elegant as a violin: "Young Master Ke really won the first prize. At that time, when Ms. Song asked me to recommend a man to take the imperial examination, I didn't think Mr. Ke would be able to go to high school. I drafted a letter of recommendation because of my request. Now everyone thinks that I have a good eye for gold, and they praise me greatly. The Queen Mother is no exception. She even asked me why I recommended you in the first place... But in fact, the biggest contributor is Song Xiaocai yes."

"The Second Highness is absurd. If it weren't for the recommendation letter from the Second Highness, it would be impossible for Mr. Ke to take the exam, let alone pass the high school."

"Song Xiao, you are too modest." Feng Lingyu chuckled and said, "In short, congratulations to Mr. Ke, and I look forward to your contribution to Dongmu in the future. At noon tomorrow, the Queen Mother will invite you."

After Feng Lingyu left, Ke Lixin bowed deeply to Song Xiao: "Miss Song, thank you for taking care of me for the past six months, providing for my basic necessities, food, housing, transportation, everything... Li Xin can't repay you! Li Xin is willing to help Miss Song On the knife..."

"Do you want to say that you can go up the mountain of swords or go down into the sea of ​​fire?" Song Xiao said with a smile: "I just made a gamble, betting on a treasure. You also know that being a businessman has the highest profit. You once Although poor and poor, after becoming the number one scholar, you will get the rewards you deserve. There is also a special number one mansion, and maybe you can get extra rewards when you face the saint. Just pay the previous accommodation fee..."

Ke Lixin smiled and said, "Naturally. Thank you Miss Song."

Song Xiao smiled ambiguously: "I'm afraid some people won't accept the money and won't let you go..."

Li Xiangran squeezed to the front row of the list with her recently exercised body. She squinted her eyes and painfully searched for her name among the densely packed names.

"Without me...and without me..."

The more she looked down, the more desperate she became.Although she knew that the essay written in the palace examination was written in a hurry, but she still wrote it very carefully.Because of the corruption in the imperial court, she occasionally heard her mother mention something and angrily denounced such behavior.What she was thinking about at the time was the words her mother had said, and then she made up a few more random sentences.

When he saw the end, Li Xiangran, who was originally desperate, suddenly saw a familiar name, which seemed to be his own.After confirming again and again, she yelled loudly, scaring people around to make way for her.She returned home with joy on her face.

"Mom! I've won the top three!" Li Xiangran cheered happily, "I'm a fellow Jinshi now!"

The Minister of Rites said coldly: "Are you only top three?"

My mother is a minister of the Ministry of Rites, so I'm afraid she already knew the result...

Li Xiangran seemed to have been splashed with cold water, his originally joyful face collapsed, and his voice cowardly said: "Yes, only the top three..."

I thought my mother would scold her for not studying hard as before, she is a waste.However, the mother stretched out her hand and gently touched her head. Her face, which had always been tense, relaxed slightly. She smiled and said, "Xiangran, you did a good job this time. In the past few months, my mother has seen Your hard work... you are studying very hard, and you don't stay out at night like before, go to brothels, spend money randomly... and you have made a lot of good friends..."

Li Xiangran sniffed and said softly: "Yes. My daughter will continue to work hard in the future..."

"That boy named Ziyan holds a lot of weight in your heart..." Mother Li changed the subject.

"Well, he once saved me..." Li Xiangran slowly recounted the first meeting between the two. At that time, her mother would frown and tell her to shut up when she heard Ziyan, but now, she is silent. Listen carefully to what she has to say.

"Do you like him very much?"

"Yes."

"Wouldn't you marry if it wasn't him?"

"Yes." Li Xiangran said firmly.

"He has been in the mansion for many months, and he has no status and is easy to be criticized. After so many months, in fact, I not only want to investigate your attachment to Ziyan, but also want to understand Ziyan's personality. I let you He lives in the corner of Li's residence, which can be called a cold courtyard, but he is neither arrogant nor impatient, all his food and clothing are paid by servants, and he has never had high demands, let alone lost his temper with others."

"One day, I sent someone to ask him if he had any complaints. He replied that he was lucky to have a place to live, and he didn't dare to ask for anything extravagant." Li's mother smiled softly, "The fifth day of May is an auspicious day. Then, marry Ziyan."

"Mother, mother! What did you just say?" Li Xiangran said with trembling lips.

"Mother asked you to marry Ziyan quickly!" Mother Li rubbed her head with a smile, and said, "Give mother a grandson early, so that mother can be happy!"

"Yes!"

Song Xiao put the recipe in front of Su Ye's eyes, and said with a bitter face: "Susu, I recently cooked vegetables according to this recipe, but the dishes I cooked were too salty to eat at all, please help me to see what I cooked. Where did the process go wrong?"

Song Xiao cooked the dishes several times according to the steps of the recipe, but the cooked dishes were really hard to eat.Su Ye was watching carefully, and suddenly suppressed his smile, and said, "Xiaoxiao, it's not your problem, it's the recipe that has a problem!"

He spread out the menu and pointed to one of the dishes: "Look, this is spicy tofu. There are [-] grams of tofu, but there are [-] grams of salt. There is also this boiled fish, one grass carp, and [-] grams of soybean sprouts." , the salt is another [-] grams! Can this be eaten after burning it!"

Song Xiaodao: "Could it be a typo, I wanted to write 10 grams, but I accidentally added a 0."

"Xiaoxiao, one mistake may be a mistake, but the amount of salt on these pages has obviously increased by more than a hundred times, which is too abnormal! And not only the salt, but also other data are all kinds of weird...Look, this... ..."

Song Xiao took a breath and asked blankly, "Then why did the mother-in-law give mother such a weird recipe?"

Su Ye said solemnly, "Xiaoxiao, how much have you found out about Shen Junyi's identity?"

Song Xiao smiled and said, "Susu, I don't understand what you're talking about?"

"Let Bai Zhi look it up." Su Ye casually flipped through the menu in his hand, "Shen Junyi's surname is Shen, and the original owner of Qingmo Villa five years ago was also surnamed Shen, Shen Ruoqing, the former incorruptible prime minister, the former The county magistrate of Yizhou... was finally executed for corruption."

He raised his eyelids, and his voice was flat but powerful, hitting Song Xiao's heart: "Xiaoxiao, don't you think everything is too coincidental? Are many of Shen Junyi's actions too weird?"

"Everyone knows that Shen Ruoqing has no son, and mother said that Shen Junyi's maiden name is Ziyue..."

Su Ye sighed softly: "I asked Feng Qingge, Shen Ruoqing's character was given by the empress back then, and it is Ziyue."

Song Xiao was stunned for a moment, then said again: "Then Shen Junyi is Shen Ruoqing's son... so what..."

"Do you still remember that he once assassinated the county magistrate of Nianchuan? Why did he want to kill him?" Su Ye tapped the table lightly, one by one, with his gradually low and depressed voice, "It is precisely because he wants revenge!"

"Shen Ruoqing was relegated to the county magistrate of Yizhou back then, and his whole family was exiled because of corruption. However, on the way to exile, they were all killed by horse thieves." Su Ye's eyelashes drooped slightly, and he said softly, "I suspect that all this It wasn't the horse thief who killed it, but someone who wanted to kill the Shen family. It may be because Shen Ruoqing had a piece of evidence, a piece of evidence that made the enemy panic. I'm afraid Shen Ruoqing didn't tell them about this piece of evidence before him, so they couldn't wait. The earth must cut the weeds and eradicate the roots, and let all those who may know the truth disappear from the world!"

Su Ye raised the recipe in his hand, his usual smile has long been restrained, and his voice is low: "There may be a secret code in it! It was more than five years ago when Shen Ruoqing handed this recipe to Song Xin. , Wasn’t it just before she was killed?! He committed a crime of embezzlement, this recipe may be the list she recorded, and the number on it may be the amount of money embezzled!”

"Shen Junyi wants to take revenge and reverse the case, he must have this vital evidence!" Su Ye said in a cold voice, and slapped the recipe on the table, "This explains why Shen Junyi would Entering the Song family, why did he marry you? He was just using you, what he was looking for was this recipe! Everything he did before was to get close to you, as long as he deciphered the code above, maybe he would be a Dangerous list!"

Seeing that Su Ye was eloquent and seemed to be possessed by a detective, Song Xiao couldn't help laughing and said, "All of this is just your guess, not to mention whether Jun Yi is Shen Ruoqing's child, Jun Yi..."

"Song Xiao, didn't you ask Bai Zhi to investigate something not long ago?" Su Ye said lightly, "Just count the time, Bai Zhi will be back soon..."

Yes, she asked Bai Zhi to investigate one thing.

At the beginning of April, Song Xiao was surprised to find that the Song family, which seemed to be thriving on the surface, secretly had very abnormal money flow.Of course, it’s not that the money disappeared out of thin air, but that Song Xiao found that the things he bought were short of weight or of poor quality and pretended to be the things he should have bought. To check the quality of the purchased goods.

It was all by chance.Su Ye discovered by accident that the quality of Su Su Ge's ingredients seems to have dropped to a higher level.For example, what used to be delicate pork is now loose and loose.He occasionally complained to Song Xiao that the Song family was stingy, but for the same price, the quality of the dishes was lowered several times, which insulted his reputation!
Song Xiao went back to check, but found that the pork registered in the account was still high-quality pork, but the pork he bought was low-quality.For example, the top-quality pork costs only one liang per catty, while the low-quality pork only costs one liang per catty, and the extra one liang just disappears in the account.No matter how she reconciles the accounts, the accounts are all flat.

Song Xiao raised her concerns because of this. She sampled many Song family stores in Phoenix City, and found that all the stores had this situation, and the amount of money involved was getting bigger and bigger.

Although the Song family did not directly lose a large amount of money, some people took advantage of this loophole to embezzle a lot of money and pocket tens of thousands of taels of silver secretly.

Who moved the hands and feet? !How on earth did that person manage to hide the truth!

Because, all orders that require large quantities of purchases exceeding 5000 taels of silver can only be approved by her and Shen Junyi. In the past month or so, this large amount of silver has escaped her attention!
Song Xiao's mind was in a mess, and his breathing was difficult as if his chest was blocked.She knew that she should trust Shen Junyi.However, in the past few months, Shen Junyi's whereabouts have been very erratic.He left early and returned late, did he really embezzle the Song family's money for revenge?Did he see his senior sister behind her back and plot revenge?Did he really approach her for revenge, marry her, cheat her...

When night fell, Bai Zhi came late, and his brow was sweating slightly, it could be seen that he hurried back too.However, as soon as Bai Zhi entered the door, seeing Song Xiaoyi's red eyes and wishing to pounce on him, she was scared back half a step.

He wiped the thin sweat from his forehead, took out a few pieces of paper in his arms and put them in front of Song Xiao, and said calmly: "I have retrieved all the original copies of the problematic forms, all of which were approved by Shen Junyi... "

Bai Zhi said lightly: "I also checked the bank, and found that there was a lot of money in Shen Junyi's account."

Song Xiao's mind went blank, and an uncontrollable chill surged up in his heart strangely.

She asked, "What do you mean?" Her lips were pale and trembling unconsciously.

Seeing Song Xiao's strange expression, Bai Zhi's heart tightened.He frowned a little, thought for a long time, and said, "All the evidence now points to Shen Junyi."

Song Xiao smiled softly: "It may be that Jun Yi was short of money a while ago... He is really, if he has no money, he should let me know, the Song family treasury will be opened to him at any time..."

"Xiaoxiao, he may be using you..."

Song Xiao took a breath, met Su Ye's worried gaze, and said with a sneer, "You mean that Shen Junyi needed money for revenge, so he approached me, and when he got enough money, he kicked me away? How is this possible?" Woolen cloth?"

"Xiaoxiao! The fact is very likely to be like this!" Seeing Song Xiaoming's stubborn appearance, Su Ye couldn't help but want to pry her head open to see what she was thinking.

"Let me... be quiet... think about it..." Her voice was a little weak, and even the figure leaving the room was shaky.

Song Xiao stood outside the door for a long time, and it started to rain, and the rain poured down, accompanied by lightning one after another.She hesitated in her steps, and even the courage to push the door of the room seemed to have lost the previous second.

The lights in the room were off, and Shen Junyi should have finished reading the book and fell asleep.

Song Xiao waited in the rain for a while, then dragged his exhausted body into the room in embarrassment.

"Tick tock, tick tock—" water dripped down her sleeves all over the floor, and after she took off her clothes, she foolishly realized that she had neither new clothes nor towels!
Are you going to go out naked?

The night wind was a bit cold, and her body was already a little chilly. When she was shivering and about to put on her original clothes, she put a big bath towel on her body.

Song Xiao wrapped the towel around her body, and clearly felt that Shen Junyi was standing behind her, wiping her hair with the towel.

With her eyes closed, she could clearly feel the other party's fingers gently moving through her black hair.

His fingers are very warm, his breath is hot, and his shoulders are very broad. As long as she takes a step back, she can smoothly shrink into his arms, yearning for the temperature in his arms.

As she had done many times before, she leaned against his chest, listening to his slightly rapid heartbeat, secretly looking at his shy and reddish ear tips hidden in the black hair.

If it's just for show?

What about feelings?

Can feelings be acted out if you want to?

Shen Junyi, are you willing to tell me the truth?
"Junyi, the cookbook written by my mother-in-law is not the real cookbook." Looking into Shen Junyi's slightly smiling eyes, she said word by word, "There is something else hidden in it!"

She saw that his smile was restrained, his eyes were tightly closed, but it clearly reflected her serious expression.

(End of this chapter)