The prince is shameless

Wen Xing would not have been too surprised if he had only been involved in a smuggling case.

In fact, many high-ranking officials and dignitaries would do these things secretly for multiple income channels, and sometimes even the emperor would turn a blind eye.

But he suddenly thought of his father's strange whereabouts.

If it was ordinary smuggling, Wen Guang would not have been able to hide his whereabouts so well.Moreover, there is no war now, the famous generals of the three generations of the Wen family are paid a lot of money, and Emperor Anlong has also made it clear that he will not rush over this matter like the first emperor.

What hidden secrets did Wen Guang have that made him insist on taking such risks?

At the same time, Wen Xing inevitably thought of Xu Yunning who had lived with Wen Guang for decades.

Just now he recalled a detail.

Because he hated the bitter taste of herbs, Wen Xing let those minor ailments and pains heal on his own, except that he was too seriously ill.

At the beginning, all the herbs that Xu Yunning gave him were used to cure common wind and cold.

Xu Yunning should know that he would not use these herbs when he was sick, but Xu Yuning still quenched the poison in the herbs.

Plus the sachet thing...

Wen Xing suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

"install!"

He slapped the desk, pressing his right hand tightly on the thin rice paper.

Tang An came forward in response, knelt on one knee and said, "Your subordinate is here, what are your orders?"

With a gloomy face, Wen Xing said in a low voice: "Let's go back to Wen's mansion, tonight... steal Wen's ledger for me."

"……what?"

For a moment, Tang An thought that he had misheard the second half of the sentence, and raised his head to look at Wen Xing suspiciously, "Master, you mean that you want your subordinates to steal the books of the Wen family?"

"Yes." Wen Xing nodded without doubt, his face was quite calm, but his heart was already filled with turbulent waves.

Because of being in a hurry and Xie Yi was not in the East Palace, Wen Xing only left a small note and hurried to General Wen's mansion with Tang An.

Not long after they left, a slender figure quietly entered Wen Xing's room in the East Palace.

He casually picked up the small note on the table, and looked at the small words flying like a dragon and a phoenix on it——

"I have something important to go back to the mansion, and I won't return tonight."

The man's hand tightened suddenly, wrapped the note in it, and let out a few sinister laughs from his throat.

"Xiao Wenxing, I am looking forward to your performance."

Immediately afterwards, the man casually rolled up the note, avoided the guards of the East Palace, and left as quietly as when he came.

On this end, Wen Xing, who hurried back to Wen's mansion, didn't know that the note he had left for Xie Yi had been taken away, and waited anxiously for the night to fall.

He had already told Tang An that once he noticed that Xu Yunning had gone back to his room to rest, he would act immediately and steal the account book.

Let's hope all is not too bad.

Wen Xing secretly prayed in his heart, but God just didn't want to follow his wishes——

The expenditure of the mansion is obviously too large, unlike normal mansion expenses.

Wen Xing's heart felt like falling into an ice cellar, it couldn't be more thoroughly cold.

Holding the ledger in one hand, he was silent for a long time.

"My lord? But what's wrong with this account?" Seeing that Wen Xing's expression was not good, Tang An asked with concern.

Wen Xing put aside the ledger when he heard this, and rubbed his temples irritably.

"There is indeed a problem with the ledger, but I can't tell what the problem is for the time being."

He let out a deep breath, narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice: "It's not late at night, you should put the account book back before your father comes back."

After all, the ledger is still abnormally written, Wen Xing embraced the last sliver of luck, and decided to follow Wen Guang secretly after lunch tomorrow to see where he was going.

However, Tang An answered "Yes" and added: "Young master, your father has not left the house tonight."

"Huh?" Wen Xing was taken aback for a moment, and then he came to his senses.

Going out at noon and returning late at night for a long time, I'm afraid even a fool can see the abnormality.After all, Wen Guang is a strategic general, not so stupid.

Wen Xing pondered for a moment, and said: "I was negligent. Then you should be careful on the way, and pay close attention to father's whereabouts after putting the account book back. If father intends to leave the house, report to me immediately."

Tang An knew that Wen Xing had been forced to investigate the smuggling case in the past few days, so he took orders and left without asking any further questions.

The pale yellow warm light swayed gently, pouring into the coldness of the room that had long been evacuated from the charcoal fire.

Wen Xing waited quietly in the room with the last sliver of luck in his arms.

Tonight is doomed to sleepless.

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When the cock crowed, Wen Xing, who sat in the room without moving for a long time, finally waited for Tang An's report.

He moved the fingers of his right hand lightly, got up slowly and said: "Thank you for your hard work, you should go and rest first."

"Young master, don't you plan to let your subordinates follow you?" Tang An made plans to keep an eye on Wen Guang, but was caught off guard by Wen Xing's persuasion to take a rest, and felt suspicious for a while.

Wen Xing raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and said, "Of course I will follow, but I will do it myself."

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Tang An seemed to see a flash of determination in Wen Xing's eyes when he said this.

As if this trip might never come back.

Tang An opened his mouth, but finally said nothing.

The master's affairs are not something her subordinate can interfere at will.

She said goodbye softly, turned and left the room.

Wen Xing, who had already changed his clothes, did not delay, and when he hurried to the side door of Wen Mansion cautiously, he happened to see Wen Guangxing walking out in a hurry.

Wen Xing held his breath and followed quietly.

Wen Xing's martial arts came from a branch of his own, and Wen Xing happened to follow Wen Yu to learn martial arts for a while when he was young. Later, although he realized that he was really not that kind of material, he changed to practice at will, but he still remembered that Wen Yu had taught him. method of concealment.

Before, Tang An was always lost because he was not familiar with Wen Guang's concealment method, but Wen Xing was different - this was one of the reasons why he planned to follow him personally.

He followed Wen Guang effortlessly, shuttling through the quiet streets and alleys of Zhang'an City.

The cold wind poured into the body along the gap, but Wen Xing didn't seem to notice it, he held his breath and focused, and kept tracking the unclear figure in the dark night.

As the two walked closer and closer to the suburbs, Wen Xing's heart sank deeper and deeper.

I ran to the suburbs without sleeping in the middle of the night, thinking that there would be no small things.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Wen Guang stopped in front of a forest and looked left and right. After confirming that there was no one there, he slid into the dark forest.

Wen Xing didn't follow up, and there was no need to follow up.

The sudden boulder weighed heavily on his shoulders, making him breathless.

His father was simply planning to rebel!

Wen Guang sneaked away at night, just to run to this wild forest area where no shit, and then get in touch with Xu Yunning's actions, there is no other possibility than raising soldiers secretly.

Although the Wen family has the Wen family army, but the Wen family army eats the royal rations, there is no guarantee that there will be righteous and awe-inspiring soldiers, so it is necessary to spend a huge amount of assets to raise a new private army that is completely owned by the Wen family.

When they wanted him to be a companion in the palace, they must have wanted to use his relationship with Xie Yi to murder the royal family.

As for Emperor An Long, he probably had seen through all of this a long time ago, but he let them continue because he couldn't find any evidence.

Why did Emperor Anlong want him to investigate some smuggling case?

If the previous questioning was regarded as a test, then the current so-called investigation is clearly intended to test him and force him to make a choice between life and the country!