Wishful Things

Thinking how much he had been neglected these days, the boy couldn't help but sighed and said, "When will the second brother marry me a sister-in-law? It is said that after a man gets married, his heart will be settled, and he can take care of his family and be gentler."

Ah Yuan touched her nose.

The third son is indeed still young and naive.

It's true that many men will have these changes after they get married, but those gentlemen who care about the family are reserved for their daughter-in-law. What does it have to do with being a younger brother?

Oh, there is—maybe there is no time to talk to my brother at all.

Wu Ran was completely unaware of the cruel thoughts in Ah Yuan's mind, and just sat in the chair with a cup of tea, obediently waiting for her second brother to come out.

After waiting like this for about two quarters of an hour, I finally got my second brother out of the study.

However, at this moment, a young servant came over and said: "My lord sent someone to invite the grandson to go to the outer study to talk."

Grandpa looking for him?

Wu Chao heard the words and went there without delay.

Wu Ran sighed, and looked at the back of his second brother leaving with resentment.

Sure enough, I couldn't play chess with my second brother today.

Wu Chao soon came to the front yard.

After the boy reported, the door of the study was opened, Wu Chao walked in, and saluted the thin-cheeked but solemn old man sitting behind the desk.

"grandfather--"

Then turned around slightly, raised his hand and saluted again: "Second Uncle."

The man he called Second Uncle wore a wide, light lotus-coloured long gown, and was handsome and coquettish. He was nearly forty without a beard, and he didn't look old. The bun was neatly combed and shiny, but what was used to bind the hair was not gold and jade, but a beautifully pruned plum branch, and a few yellow plums on the branch were still in bloom.

The Wu family was born with a good skin, and among the brothers and sisters of Wu Jingming's generation, the best-looking one is the second master Wu Jingling.

This person is beautiful and self-aware, and likes to show her beauty to others. She has always paid great attention to the word of dressing up. Even though she has lived to this age, she is still unwilling to give up the opportunity to show off her beauty to young people.

It's just that at this moment, he no longer had the relaxed and leisurely smile on his face. He raised his head to look at his nephew, and barely revealed a complicated yet guilty smile.

Seeing it, Wu Chao felt a little puzzled.

What disgusting thing did the second uncle do?

"Sit down and talk." King Dingnan said.

"yes."

After Wu Chao sat down according to his words, he asked just now, "I don't know why my grandfather called my grandson here?"

"On your way to Beijing, the person who took advantage of the chaos and stabbed you in the back has been found out—" King Dingnan looked coldly at his second son who was sitting there, "Tell me."

Seeing this scene, Wu Chao couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

Could it be that... is the second uncle the one who wanted to kill him behind the scenes?

Although the second uncle is considered the closest elder in the mansion, the young man's imagination is still somewhat uncontrollable after being stimulated before.

After all, as far as he is concerned, he is in a state of "everything is possible" in his mind.

But it was only for a moment, and reason overwhelmed this unrestrained association.

Father has been in Beijing all year round, and he has only taken over the affairs of the family for a few years, and part of the management power has always been in the hands of the second uncle——

It was naturally impossible for grandfather to explain the fake death matter through him. Under such circumstances, most of the people who handled the arrangement could only be the second uncle.

And the man in black who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to attack him obviously leaked the news. Where did the news leak--now it seems that it should fall on the second uncle's head.

Sure enough, my second uncle sighed, looked at him and said, "Earlier, my second uncle didn't know that something like this happened in the middle of the journey. After your grandfather mentioned it, he didn't dare to be careless at all. He immediately investigated the person who was responsible for this matter carefully... At the end of the investigation, he found out that someone accidentally leaked the plan..."

"Inadvertently?" Wu Chao keenly grasped the key point.

Such an important top-secret plan, how can there be any reason to accidentally leak it?

"That's right... It's also my fault that I'm not strict in employing people, so I made such a mistake." Wu Jingling said with a complex expression, "This person is my personal follower, and he often goes in and out of Yingyue Tower with me..."

Yingyue Tower is a famous brothel in the city, and it is the only place Wu Chao would "visit" - the real owner behind this brothel is Wu Jingling.

On the bright side, this brothel is a place of romance, but its more function is to secretly collect information and various news.

King Dingnan and Wu Chao knew this very well.

Although Wu Chao once thought that this was the method that his second uncle came up with after being scolded for visiting brothels too often - using the name of running an intelligence building to visit brothels openly.

Under the watchful eyes of his own father and nephew, Wu Jingling continued to say: "...But who knows that he came and went again and again, and he secretly had a relationship with a prostitute named Lan Xiang... When the matter was found out on him, he didn't dare to hide it anymore, so he confessed that he had mentioned this matter to Lan Xiang after he was drunk once."

Wu Chao thought for a while, subconsciously frowning slightly.

According to this, the problematic...is this Lan Xiang in Yingyue Building?

And the second uncle's personal entourage said that it was accidentally said, but it is very likely that someone deliberately got drunk and tricked it out——

"Hearing about this, I asked someone to secretly torture Lan Xiang, and it turned out that there was indeed a problem with this person." Wu Jingling was vaguely indignant when he said this: "After this woman confessed, she was the daughter of the governor of Lizhou in the previous dynasty.

The governor of Lizhou City resisted desperately and refused to admit surrender. After the Wu family army invaded the city, the governor committed suicide on the city tower.

Wu Chao had heard of this past.

And he understood what his second uncle said.

The one who leaked the secret was the entourage of the second uncle, and the person who had ulterior motives was Lan Xiang from the Yingyue Tower of the second uncle—that is, the descendant of the former governor of Lizhou.

All in all, these two things happened under the nose of the second uncle.

"After she learned about the general plan on the way to Beijing, she ordered an old servant left behind by her father to follow along, intending to take advantage of the chaos to hurt your life—this old servant has also been caught and has confessed to everything she did."

Wu Jingling looked at his nephew, feeling a little embarrassed, but more guilty, "Generally speaking, this is the case. In the final analysis, this matter is the second uncle's fault, A Yuan, or you beat the second uncle to suppress the shock?"

The young man said earnestly: "If I really beat Second Uncle, I'm afraid Second Uncle won't be able to bear it."

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