Chapter 079 - Conscience (Monthly Pass 170+)
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Lu Qingzhi said gloomily: "I'm dying, and I can't be happy when I die." It's not because others are pressing, it's not because of concerns, but because I regret it in my heart, I wanted to be a good official......"
I have been reading hard for years, just because I want to inherit the aspirations of the sages and use what I have learned in my life to be a good official. After a hard swim in the Huan Sea, he has long forgotten his original intention.
He confessed his greed in prison, and even more confessed that he had not been a good official, and he had not been a good official.
To be a good official is to be loyal to one's duties, and to be a good official is to serve the court and the people. He should have done that, he could have done that, and then what?
In his position, he did not seek his position, but took advantage of the position of the young eunuch of the Shaofu to do so many things. When the world evaluates him, they always say that he is too smart and greedy.
Where is he smart, he is obviously stupid. Otherwise, how can you not be happy until death?
"I wanted to be a good official, but I couldn't. Xianyou knew my confession best and always wanted to do something for me. Atonement, or anything else......"
He paused, and actually showed a smile: "The way he wants to atone for my sins is to be a good official, be a good official, and do what I haven't done." Pei Gongzi, did you say yes?"
His voice was full of unspeakable remorse, and he also prayed for the hope of liberation, and he was even more transparent before he died.
Pei Ding didn't know what to say.
Although the Pei family has not been in the family for three generations, there have been too many officials in their ancestors. In addition to the virtuous ministers who are famous in the ten ways, there are also ministers who are scolded.
Meritocracy is used to learn. She Chen used it to ring, and Pei Ding remembered all of this.
He also knows Lu Qingzhi's obsession and remorse......
He sighed. said: "If this is the case, then the Pei family will accept this love." As for the side, let's go with the flow. ”
Since a father can't be a good official, then a son can't be an official well. Such a simple and direct truth is very much in line with Pei Ding's mind.
Doing what he wants is one of the rules of Pei Ding's main hall.
He didn't care about the coinage process left by Lu Qingzhi, he only cared about whether Lu Xianyou would really be a good official. In this case, the Pei family will help.
As for the Ye family...... Pei Ding wanted to know, did Ye Xian really want to get the secret technique of minting money? Does Shang He know about this?
......
Within a few days. Lu Qingzhi died of illness.
After learning that Lu Xianyou had been settled, the spirit that he was holding strongly dispersed. A person who originally seemed to be healthy became ill and died with the force of devastation and decay.
Outside the prison, no one will see the scene of father and son fighting again.
I thought that I occasionally paced to the national prison. encountered such a thing as the father and son of the Lu family. Originally, he just wanted to be nosy. I don't want to take care of Lu Xianyou......
It's a little strange to think about it.
After taking care of Lu Qingzhi's afterlife, Lu Xianyou came to Taishi Tower. At this time, his whole body was thin and out of shape, and his spirit was also sluggish.
He was an orphan and had his adoptive father dead, and it would take some time to recover. -- It all depends on Lu Xianyou himself.
At this time, Lu Xianyou was sitting opposite Pei Ding. I don't know if I thought of Lu Qingzhi, and his expression was quite lonely.
It's just a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, if it weren't for many changes. How can there be such loneliness?
Pei Dingzheng was about to leave, when he suddenly heard Lu Xianyou looking at him. asked, "Pei Gongzi, are you ...... Why not?"
His voice was dark, and he sounded puzzled, and his countenance, though unrevealed, was tinged with grief in his eyes.
There is also a trace of envy and humility that is deeply hidden.
Perhaps what he really wanted to ask was: Pei Gongzi, since you have such a family background and talent, why don't you become a good official? Why don't you be a good official?
No wonder Lu Xianyou asked this.
His father Lu Qingzhi repented in his later years, and this was the one he couldn't let go of when he was dying; because he himself was kicked out by the Guozi Prison, he almost cut off the hope of entering the imperial examination, but he always had this desire, otherwise he would not have come to the Pei family.
What their father and son were thinking about was just something within reach of Pei Gongzi in front of him.
Why didn't he stretch out his hand? Lu Xianyou couldn't figure it out.
Seeing Lu Xianyou's admiration and humility, Pei Ding had a very strange feeling in his heart.
He suddenly remembered the legends he had seen when he was young.
In the legend, the biggest desire of those demons and monsters is to be a human being, whether it is to devote themselves to penance or to do evil in the world, and finally to want to be a human being.
And people, but they don't want to be good people.
Lu Xianyou's questions have the same meaning as what the legend of Zhiwei wants to express.
Yes, Lu Qingzhi and Lu Xianyou have been good officials and good officials all their lives. In their opinion, they have all the talents in the world, and the imperial court has issued an edict to conquer them, and they have all the conditions, and they can be a good official and a good official.
However, he did not come out of office.
What is the reason, he naturally can't say it to Lu Xianyou. However, in the face of such admiration and humility, he really had an indescribable feeling.
Why don't you go out of business?
For most of the day, Lu Xianyou's questions sounded in his heart, making him unable to calm down, and gradually became a little anxious.
Pei Ding's health has not been very good since he was a child, and his mental determination is much better than that of ordinary people. Such agitation is almost impossible.
Pei Ding immediately knew that he was uneasy. Restlessness is actually thinking about nothing.
What was he thinking, and what was he thinking?
Pei Ding himself couldn't even know. So he went out of Taishilou, did not call a carriage, but walked, intending to start a half-day tour of Jingzhao.
Drunk followed him, the master and servant one after the other, obviously walking on the smooth streets of Jingzhao, but it seemed to be climbing some difficult mountain. -- It's all because the expressions of these two people are too solemn.
Pei Ding seemed to be walking aimlessly, but his footsteps were all walking in the most central area of Jingzhao City.
He went to the Meng family, the former Meng family.
After Meng Ruitu's death, the Meng family had already been defeated. Although the Meng family would not have been full of guests, the door would not be closed like this.
The door of the Meng family seems to never open, which can't help but make people feel a little more desolate.
After seeing the Meng family, he stood in front of the Yongning Gate, which was closest to the palace city, and looked at the majestic Minghuang Palace.
Pei Ding had never entered the palace, but he knew that the most majestic one was the Xuanzheng Palace. The emperor listens to the government inside, and the civil and military officials are in it......
In the end, he went to the most prosperous Guanghe Street in Jingzhao. Guanghe Street is much larger and more lively than Liyuan Street in Hedong.
Bustling people, all kinds of words, so many people are so lively, it is a common thing here in Jingzhao, but in Hedong, it will only appear when there is a grand event on Liyuan Street.
He took a closer look, and saw that there were still homeless people in the bustling Guanghe Street, and there were quite a few of them. It's just that this is the imperial capital, and there are not as many displaced people as in Hedong.
Displaced people, Jingzhao also has displaced people.
Seeing these scenes, he remembered what Zheng Heng said in Qianhui Building. At that time, she said so many words, and after a short time, he would remember it in his heart, but he never deliberately remembered it.
Now I found that the words she said, I don't know when they have been deeply rooted in his heart.
He remembered everything, remembered every sentence, and perhaps knew in his heart that he could not forget it.
The avenue is wasted, and there is benevolence and righteousness;
Wisdom comes out, and there is great hypocrisy;
The six relatives do not recognize, and there is filial piety;
The country is in turmoil, and there are loyal ministers.
He remembered all of these, whether it was in Hedong or Jingzhao, although he never said it, he actually remembered it.
Where is benevolence and righteousness? If no one practices it with their own bodies, how can they manifest it? She is very right, entering the turbid world with one's own body, stirring up turbidity and promoting purity, is the right way!
Pei Ding smiled slightly. His face was slightly pale, and his demeanor had an indescribable beauty, and this smile was like the appearance of a god. (To be continued.) )
PS: This chapter, slightly late, has been revised repeatedly. I wanted Pei Ding to come to Jingzhao just to write this chapter. How do you say that? Maybe the writing is still a little condensed, please forgive me. Ahh