Li Xia weighed a piece of snack and put it in Li Dong's mouth, "Sister, eat it. My sister loves me the most, and I love my sister the most."

"Jiu Niangzi fell into the water and she seemed to be a different person. She has never been so well-behaved!" Su Ye said with a smile while pouring the soup.

"And me! Your fifth brother! Fifth brother also loves you the most!" Li Wenshan stretched his head over and opened his mouth exaggeratedly at Li Xia.

"You just said you love me the most!" Li Wenlan pouted. Li Wenshan bit the snack that Li Xia stuffed into his mouth and mumbled: "You are the most loved among my brothers, and A-Xia is the most loved among my sisters."

Li Xia nestled in her sister's arms, holding snacks and nibbling them little by little. She looked at Su Ye smiling and talking as she picked up the snack crumbs that the sixth brother had dropped while eating. He watched the fifth brother rubbing the sixth brother's head, and looked at Xiang.

The emperor's sixth brother was eating snacks and pushing the fifth brother's hand out. He felt as warm and sad as he felt in his heart.

Want to watch the tragedy of the past again? How could she endure it this time?

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In the middle of the night, Li Xia slept next to her sister, listening to the sound of water flowing outside, her eyes wide open and lost in thought.

Their family's tragedy stemmed from the life lawsuit that their father decided in vain.

After she became the Queen Mother, she sent people to carefully check the lawsuit.

It was a case of wife-murder: the stepmother reported the case, saying that the stepson had killed his wife. There were witnesses but no physical evidence. The stepson was sentenced to exile. On the night when the case was settled, the stepson hanged himself in prison.

The stepson had a sister who had the same mother. He rushed to the Kensi Yamen with a bag of physical evidence to complain. Kensi took the case and found out that the stepmother tortured his daughter-in-law to death. He framed the stepson and put the stepmother on trial. As soon as she was sentenced, the stepmother confessed and confessed.

The county government gave him five hundred taels of cash, and my father was sent to jail.

Li Xia recalled those files carefully.

Dad indeed made the wrong case, but not only did the five hundred taels of silver not appear on the house search list, but the entire house search list together was not worth five hundred taels of silver.

Fifth brother firmly believed that his father would not do such a thing. Even if he was greedy, he would never do anything like risking lives for money. She did not remember her father, but she believed in fifth brother.

The stepmother's confession stated that on the night she handed in the complaint, a man named Lian Gui came to her and revealed the truth of the case in a few words. He also said that he and Magistrate Li's confidant Wutong were brothers and could help.

She made the case that her stepson killed his wife and asked her to take 500 taels of cash. She said she was afraid of being cheated. She saw with her own eyes the man named Wutong pointing at her and talking to her father. Her father nodded and she paid the silver.

It was cash, a large box of frost-threaded silver cakes, which was handed over to Lian Gui personally...

Wutong disappeared around the time her father was imprisoned, and there was no news. She searched for it for many years but could not find it. Who was Lian Gui? Even if she tried to search after many years, she would have been unable to find out.

My father's then-famous criminal master, Bu Huaiyi, and his Qianliang master, Lu Youde, were uncles and had criminal records. They were inseparable from this case. However, after my father was imprisoned, these two masters came back one after another.

Township, one after another capsized and drowned...

She checked all the files and account books that her father had been in office for more than a year, and had people check them several times. She also read them many times. Except for this case, everything else, including money, food, taxes, and labor cases, were all clean.

As if washed with water...

After my father was imprisoned, he was the county magistrate who replaced him. Wu Youguang took the first step from being an official to an official. Two years later, Wu Youguang was transferred to Dinghai County. After this appointment, he was promoted to the prefect.

, and then... Concubine Su died, Wu Youguang was found guilty of corruption and died in prison.

She failed to find out the truth that her father took bribes and took lives in vain.

Now, what should she do?

Li Xia looked at her little hands. She was only five years old now. If she went to tell her father that Wutong and his two masters would kill him in the future, his father would definitely think that she was possessed...

She is too small, too small!

The Empress Dowager once said: When you are not strong enough, you should find alliances with people who share common interests.

She needs an ally, and Fifth Brother is the perfect choice!

Fifth brother loves to read chivalrous stories, and loves those gods and ghosts even more. He has almost torn through the Classic of Mountains and Seas. He may be able to accept the resurrection of the soul, and he is naturally generous-hearted...

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After breakfast the next day, Li Xia pulled Li Wenshan and looked up at him, "Fifth brother, I have something to tell you."

"Okay! Do you have anything to say? Say it!" Li Wenshan sat down in front of Li Xia with a bright smile.

Li Xia turned around and looked around. The boat was very small. The four brothers and sisters were crowded in the front cabin. They used it as a living area during the day and drew a curtain in the middle at night. She and her sister were on one side, and the fifth and sixth brothers were on the other side. If they were here and

The fifth brother said that no matter how quiet he was, his sister, sixth brother, and Su Ye could all hear him clearly. The elder sister had already tilted her head and looked at them.

"It's a very important matter!" Li Xia looked solemn, "Let's go to the deck and talk about it."

Li Wenshan scratched his head in embarrassment. The last time she fell into the water, he took her to play on the deck. Without a glance, she fell into the river.

"I promise not to run around, or you can just hold me." Li Xia suggested, "Very, very important things must be said on the deck!"

"Then...okay!" Li Wenshan reluctantly agreed. My little sister has always loved playing and moving, and she must have been bored after being cooped up in this small cabin for three or four days. She was trying to get him to take her out for some fun.

He couldn't bear to say no, so he held her in his arms and stood in the middle of the deck, watching her closely and not going to the side of the ship.

"Put on the cloak." Li Dong stood up, took the cotton cloak and wrapped it around Li Xia, and then warned: "Just stand in the middle of the deck and let Fifth Brother hold you. Don't be naughty."

When Li Dong confessed something, Li Xia nodded and said "yes", acting very well-behaved.

"Since she fell into the backwater, Ninth Lady seems to have grown up all of a sudden and is extremely sensible!" Su Ye looked at Li Xia in Li Wenshan's arms and admired.

Arriving on the bow deck, Li Xia patted his brother's face and said, "Fifth brother, put me down and talk."

"no!"

"Then squat down. I'm afraid that you will be shocked after listening to my words and throw me into the river." Li Xia put his arms around Fifth Brother's neck and said extremely seriously.

Li Wenshan choked at her words, "Cough cough... cough! Okay! I squat down, squat down, let's talk!" Li Wenshan squatted down, held Li Xia in his arms, and looked at him helplessly.

Hold her.

"Fifth Brother, I have lived my life once." Li Xia put his short, fat arms around Fifth Brother's neck, and whispered into his ear.

"Huh! Huh? What? What do you mean..." Before Li Wenshan could finish his words, Li Xia's fat hand stuffed into his mouth, "Don't scream! Don't let others hear you!"

"Fifth brother didn't understand." Li Wenshan took out Li Xia's hand and admitted sincerely.

"I mean: I lived once, died, and came back again." Li Xia grabbed Fifth Brother's ear with one hand, put his mouth on it, and spoke every word.
Chapter completed!