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The roof of the main hall in the center of Wang's mansion was burning.

The cracked glazed bricks and tiles made a crackling sound, fell along the slope of the roof, and hit the ground.

Members of the Wang family and servants in pajamas stood in the courtyard and on the street in front of the palace gate, looking at the flames soaring into the sky, with sadness on their faces, and many people hugged each other and cried bitterly.

And those who are incompatible with the members of the Wang family are many figures wearing black gauze masking cone hats.

They are members of the School Supervisor Department,

Just now, these people raided the Wang family's mansion, broke through the large formation around the house with lightning speed, controlled the main members of the Wang family, and forced the rest of the Wang family's monks to give up resistance and put on the seals to block the spirit veins. the shackles.

Squeak——

The beams and pillars of the main hall, which were burned by the flames, made a tooth-piercing sound of wood cracking, slowly collapsed, and fell to the ground.

The raised sparks and dust floated with the wind towards everyone in the Wang family. Make this group of nobles look ashamed.

Standing in the crowd, Wang Anlian grabbed her husband Chu Haoman's arm with a pale face, and murmured: "Aye and the elders have already gone to find Li Ang, why, why did this happen."

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Chu Haoman didn't know how to comfort him.

Everyone in the world knows that the Academy is very powerful. If it is not strong, it is impossible to join hands with the ancestors of Li Yu to conquer the warlords and sects of the Sui Dynasty and establish the Kingdom of Yu in the troubled times.

It is even more impossible to resist the pressure of Taihao Mountain and make Yu State the most powerful country in the world.

But no matter what, it shouldn't break through the palace in a destructive manner.

Unless, the attack was premeditated. The Supervisory Department has already figured out the characteristics and location information of the palace's prohibition.

They even found out where the members of the Wang family lived and knew what to do to make the monks of the Wang family give up their resistance.

"Father, he will be fine. He has listened to your words and has not participated in Wang Bofan's affairs before. Even if the academy wants to investigate to the end, he will not throw the main responsibility on him."

Chu Haoman said softly, but he himself was not sure of what he said.

This is the Wang family. Among the five surnames and Qiwang, the Taiyuan Wang family has the largest number of family members and the widest distribution. There have been more than a dozen prime ministers of the Yu Kingdom, and they have influence on the public opinion of scholars and the direction of the court.

The fact that the Supervisory Department of the Academy was able to risk the disapproval of the world and directly copied the palace proved that they were ready to bear the consequences.

"Whoa whoa whoa—"

There was the sound of a baby crying beside the couple. Chu Haoman turned his head and saw a baby in the arms of a woman from the Wang family, who was probably woken up by the crackling fire and the heat waves. cry.

Chu Haoman couldn't bear it, he stepped up to a monk from the supervisory department wearing a conical hat, cupped his hands and said, "Your Excellency, this is Chu Haoman, a student of the Luli Academy who has been studying for three years.

The fire here is too big, can some women, children, old and young children be allowed to take shelter on the street first? "

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The face of the monk from the supervision department was hidden under the conical hat, and he just looked at Chu Haoman quietly, neither nodding nor shaking his head.

Seeing this, Chu Haoman gritted his teeth and returned to the crowd. Instead of using spiritual power, he moved a stone bench not far from the courtyard with difficulty and asked the woman to sit down.

And together with his wife, he greeted the members of the Wang clan to form a circle,

The old, weak, women and children stood on the side away from the heat wave of the fire, while the young and middle-aged stood in front.

Everyone in the supervisory department standing in the courtyard and other roofs that were not on fire did not respond to this, but just watched quietly, waiting for something.

Tread Tread.

The footsteps gradually approached, and Li Ang, who was walking along the street, stood in front of the palace.

All eyes were on him,

Calm and composed, he stepped over the threshold and came into the courtyard.

Followed by Yan Yundang, Wang Bojian, Wang Bofan and the four elders of the white-haired clan.

Seeing Wang Bojian appear, Wang Anlian subconsciously clenched her husband's palm, and Chu Haoman had no choice but to pat the back of his wife's hand.

Li Ang recognized Chu Haoman in the crowd, but it didn't matter,

He stood where he was, looking at everyone in the Wang family expressionlessly.

The people of the Wang clan were also looking at him.

The eyes are either blank, or fearful, or timid, or hateful.

"You villain! Why are you burning our house down!"

Accompanied by the immature and angry child's voice, a fine gravel flew over and hit Li Ang's chest.

The stone came from a six- or seven-year-old Wang's child. His mother pulled him back into the crowd with a terrified face, and dragged him behind him.

His father knelt down towards Li Ang in fear, and said words of apology.

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Li Ang looked at the stone fragments left on the chest of his clothes, brushed them off casually, raised his head and said to everyone in the Wang family, "You guys, do you think I'm a bad person?"

No one answered this question.

The fire was still raging, another pillar of the main hall collapsed, bricks and tiles collapsed, and countless sparks fluttered and scattered.

"From your point of view, I am indeed."

Li Ang said calmly: "I let people break into your ancestral house, arrested your relatives and friends, and burned your house.

The dignity of a thousand-year-old family was trampled under my feet like mud.

Your fathers, husbands, and brothers have been put in shackles, and have been reduced from high-ranking scholar-bureaucrats to first-order prisoners.

All of this is to be blamed on me. "

The crowd remained silent,

An old man with white hair shook off the support of his descendants, knelt down in front of Li Ang tremblingly, and said with difficulty: "Mr. Li Xiaolang, you have won, whatever you want, Mrs. Wang will give it to you.

I just hope you can, for the sake of my brother Wang Wenlun, leave a little incense for the Wang family, and don't want to be left behind. "

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Li Ang glanced at the white-haired old man expressionlessly, and suddenly laughed, "Old man, even now, do you still think that I am taking revenge?

Retaliation for your slander of my reputation, retaliation for your suppression of me, retaliation for your instigation of the people to besiege the prefect's mansion yesterday, which almost made me flee. "

The white-haired old man raised his head, squinted his eyes, and said with deep eyes: "Could it be, isn't it?"

"Hahahahahaha."

Li Ang couldn't help laughing, "If it's for revenge, I should accept the list of compensations Wang Bojian gave me.

Publish articles in newspapers to let the world know Wang Bofan's crimes, and nail him to the pillar of shame in history forever.

He is the chief culprit, as long as he is killed, all crimes will be borne. I can go back to Chang'an with peace of mind and continue to be my little medicine god, and my Li Xiaolang. Don't have any grudges with anyone.

No, I don't want revenge,

What I want is justice.

To kill, to pay for one's life. "

He turned his head to look at a monk from the Supervisory Department, and calmly said, "Pull Wang Jie over here."