Li Ling’s words are not questions, but statements!

While he turned around and said this, Li Tong was already at the scene. A trace of panic flashed in his eyes. Naturally, he was accurately caught by Li Ling, who was prepared, and then the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

If he was 70% or 80% sure before saying this, then now, he has reached 100%. He really has no real father-son relationship with Li Tong!

This made Li Ling feel relieved, and the troubles that had been coiled around him for a long time finally disappeared at this moment.

Although he is a time traveler, he has no father-son affection for Li Tong, and has been deceived by him many times, and has many complaints about his nominal father. But to be honest, this body was born and nurtured by the other party after all, and it cannot be given up by a saying of taking over the body.

So even though I know this is a big problem, I'm sorry, Li Ling had thought about whether he could save Li Tong's life, so he couldn't really do the act of killing his father, right?

Now, with the biggest secret being revealed, Li Ling no longer has to take such risks. His eyes were directly on the other party: "Tell me, what's going on?"

"Ha... You are really smart enough, I still underestimated you..." Li Tong smiled bitterly. At this point, he knew that it was useless to tell lies, so he simply told some of the past that had been buried for many years. "Yes, you and Yue'er are not my biological children. You and Le'er are half-brothers and three people who have nothing to do with you. Your mother and me actually have nothing to do with me. My flesh and blood are only Le'er."

Li Ling's eyebrows twitched slightly, and then he realized that this absurd thing was actually quite bloody. If my sister or Yue'er were listening, she would be very irritated and would be unacceptable.

"Now I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. In fact, the Li family in Jiangcheng is indeed not a descendant of Song Chen Li Gang, but I am! In fact, as early as your grandfather's generation, the Li family had already lost their descendants because of their poor population. At that time, in order to have an identity that could be placed on the surface, I would join the Li family as the son of Moeh at the age of 20.

"On the surface, I am a distant relative of the Li family and the adoptive son, but in fact, even that identity is fake. Your grandfather and the others don't know that it was all faked by me.

"After that, I lived in Jiangcheng as an ordinary Li family, but I still had to deal with many affairs in the sect. It was also during this period that I was able to continuously improve my status in the sect until I became the elder of the Holy Church. It was also during that period that I met the woman I loved most in my life and had Le'er with her... but God had no eyes, and when Le'er was born, she left because of a difficult childbirth...

"Fortunately, my nominal parents were all gone, so I simply brought Le'er back and raised her by my side. However, it was a bit too eye-catching for me to raise a girl like this, so I thought of getting married. Only half a year later, I got married to your mother.

"But once the sea was in trouble, my heart had long died with my true lover, so even if I married my new wife, I never thought about the reality of having a husband and wife with her. As for you and Yue'er, they were just an abandoned baby that I and she adopted from other places in those years..."

Li Ling exhaled a breath of turbidity, and felt a little relieved. He was really worried that Li Tong would tell more bloody stories, such as making some green ingredients. After all, judging from the age of three siblings, once he and Yue'er were not born to him, the subsequent content would be a bit exciting.

Even if I am a time traveler, my body is this one after all, and I can’t accept the saying that I am getting it through mercy. So this is also good. Abandoned babies are always better than wild breeds.

He didn't doubt the other party's statement too much, because it was already this time, and Li Tong really didn't need to deceive himself in the first thing. After eliminating the relationship between the two biological father and son, Li Ling could let go of the next thing.

But he still wanted to ask more about something: "So do anyone other than you know about these things?"

"There is a Tianbaotang in Jiangcheng County. There is a woman named Chen Shuzhen there. She is the most kind-hearted, but she always adopts some abandoned babies. At that time, I adopted you brother and sister from there. But after so many years, I don't know if she is still there..."

Li Ling nodded. No matter whether the person is there or not, at least it is evidenced. As long as this matter is true, he will have the idea of ​​protecting himself when he arrives in the court. Thinking of this, his eyes that looked at Li Tong were softer: "I really want to thank you for helping me solve the puzzles for many years this time."

"Haha, you and I are a father and son after all. I have hurt you many times before, so I will regard it as a small compensation I made." After another bitter smile, Li Tong stared at Li Ling again, "In addition, I hope you can agree to me."

"You said that as long as it is something I can do and does not violate the righteous path and conscience of heaven and earth, I will definitely help you do it."

"Your sister...she and Tangtang are innocent. Over the years, they have not known what I am, so I hope you can continue to think that she is your sister, just treat them kindly as you said just now."

Li Ling looked back at the other party and nodded seriously: "You don't need to say this. Although the three of us are not related by blood, the family affection between us is real, that's enough. Whether it's sister or Yue'er, they are my relatives. I will treat them well without anyone asking me."

"That's thank you." After saying that, Li Tong closed his eyes gently and stopped saying anything. Obviously, he had made up his wish and could make peace with his peace of mind and die. For a high-level believer of the Luotian Sect like him, at this point, death is liberation.

Li Ling didn't say anything more, but just bowed to him and turned around and left.

At this moment, he no longer had any resentment and blame. Thinking about the other party's raising the original owner of this body for more than ten years, he still thought about the other party's goodness. After all, no matter how he cheated people, he really supported himself and Le'er for more than ten years. He did not even treat himself as a slow person because of his identities. He also allowed himself to study and give advice, and had a solid foundation.

"Then, it's time to return to the capital!" After walking out of the courtyard and looking at the night sky covered with stars on its head, Li Ling said in his heart.

When I return to the capital this time, I might really have to fight with the prince head-on. After all, this time I broke one of the prince's arms, causing immeasurable losses to the other party. In addition, Sun Bi in the capital has also begun to emerge, which will inevitably pose a greater threat to the prince. With the lessons of King Yong's past, how could the prince allow their power to continue to grow?

So, the next one is the most dangerous and critical game.

If you win, you will take everything; and once you lose, you may not even want to save your life.

However, at this time Li Ling's eyes were not afraid at all, but were full of expectations!

...

In the next few days, we will do the final work.

For example, Xiangfan and other state prefectures that have experienced rebellion and reconciliation, the soldiers in the army who may have a different intention must be removed first, and then the damage in the city must be repaired as soon as possible, and the livelihood of the people is even more important.

Li Ling had already done some of these things when he was in Xiangfan. Now Wuchang has not relaxed anymore and still ordered the local officials to complete the matter as soon as possible.

Then it was to liquidate some businessmen's previous robbery. Especially after the Cai family made such a bold move, the Fan family, Hu family and other big businesses in Huguang, and the wealthy families would naturally be implicated.

Whether it is Li Ling or the governments in various places, how could they let them go easily? Not only did they have to bleed heavily and use silver to atone for their sins, they also had to cede a lot of benefits to protect themselves.

This time, Li Ling was no longer as selfless as he had before, so he naturally had to take advantage of it. You should know that in the Suizhou food war before, he had his own money to support the price of grain. At this time, he had to get back all the money with capital and interests. He had to take the money, and he was not polite to take the trade routes he had given up and accepted them all with a smile.

For these huge commercial roads, he naturally wanted to use them for further expansion of Zongheng Commercial Bank. Just like every time he went to a certain place to work, in the past half year in Huguang, he also hit a situation, enough to allow Zongheng's shopkeepers to enter and then become a shopping mall force that cannot be ignored in the local area.

Of course, these things cannot be fully effective now, so we have to wait until he returns to the capital before making further arrangements.

Not everything can be as Li Ling wants, at least there are some loopholes in the matter of the Shen family.

Although Shen Tian and Shen Yuan were arrested, the Shen family's industries in Wuchang and the money industries in Wuchang and other places were also swallowed by Li Ling, but the biggest part of the assets they hid in Suizhou was like the Shen family. When Li Ling sent someone to capture them again, they had already disappeared completely.

This is obviously the work of the prince. Li Ling even suspected that this was done by the Liu brothers before they came to see him. After all, that money is what the prince attaches most importance to.

Li Ling was not too upset about this. After all, he had already received enough benefits this time, and it was impossible for him to completely swallow up all the prince's money. Moreover, with this, the prince naturally couldn't attack him with the Shen family's property or something.

In this way, Li Ling's trip to Huguang finally ended perfectly.

Whether it was the various errands given to him by the court, disaster relief and people, the investigation of corruption among Huguang officials and profiteers, or the fact that he had made up his mind to pull down many Huguang officials, so that the people of the British King's party could fill the gap; or the major problems that have always troubled him, his own life experience, the follow-up of the Ma Bangwen case, and the prince's important arm to help the "God of Wealth"... these problems were all solved one by one.

Li Ling even had unexpected gains, and actually took back his sister and Tangtang. So, this trip to Huguang was naturally quite perfect for Li Ling at the end.

On the tenth day of September, Li Ling finally left Wuchang and officially embarked on the road to return to the capital. A greater challenge is also waiting for him ahead!
Chapter completed!