Standing by the car, the maid's tears were about to fall, and she was aggrieved, ashamed and anxious.

"Master, I've gone to the academy." She sniffed.

"Then let's go to the academy." Cheng Jianniang said, lifted the curtain, looked at the aggrieved maid and smiled, "It's not the duty of others to help, it's kindness to help, it's common sense not to help, you have to bow your head if you ask for someone, what are you wronged." ”

The carriage turned around and headed out of the city.

"That's it, sir."

The maid in the carriage said aggrieved and indignant.

"It's very stubborn, if you don't agree with you, you don't give face, and you are obviously a good person with a gentle and humble manner, but sometimes you act... At the beginning, he lectured and taught in Lianzhou, and he didn't know how much Lu Dao said and did too much, and the local Confucians sent people to assassinate him. ”

"Wrong, if it weren't for that, it would be difficult to reach the Son of Heaven now." Cheng Jianniang said.

Saying bad things about the original owner behind her back is not good, the maid said a few words angrily, naturally she won't say it again, and after listening to Cheng Jianniang's words, she smiled.

"It's all like this, the lady still praises the master." She said.

"He deserves to be boasted." Cheng Jianniang said.

I didn't say anything all the way and soon arrived at the academy outside the city, but fortunately, after asking here, I didn't hear Zhang Chun's words.

The one who came to lead the way was a young man in Tsing Yi, who seemed to be very familiar with the maidservant, and called her sister with a smile, which made the maid who was blocked out of Zhang's house get some face.

"Yesterday I suddenly had something to write an important scripture, so I came to the academy to be clean." The little guy said with a seemingly casual smile.

The handmaiden's face finally smiled.

At this time, the academy dismissed classes. Students are scattered all over the place. Or hone the Six Arts. Or exchange what you've learned.

A student chanted a poem, and the surroundings applauded, during which Cheng Shilang was suddenly stunned, his raised hand stopped, and the person also stood up, and sighed.

"Brother Mingde?" Someone next to him called, "What's wrong?" ”

"I seem to see my sister." Cheng Shilang said, while he couldn't help but raise his feet and take a few steps to this side.

Younger sister?

Nowadays, women are also very literate. But they are all gentlemen invited at home, and there are no ones in the college, and as for visiting family members, it is even more impossible.

Hearing this, everyone looked over, and sure enough, they saw a child on the bamboo forest path leading two women to walk, far away, and from the side, they couldn't see the description clearly, but just looking at it like this, everyone couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

Bamboo forest. Plain clothes, step by step. What a picture of a beautiful woman's mountain trip.

The man soon walked into the depths of the bamboo forest and disappeared.

"Brother Mingde, that's Mr. Jiangzhou's child, and it's Mr.'s courtyard where he went, your sister, did you go to see Mr.?" Everyone came back to their senses and asked, looking surprised, and couldn't help but look at Cheng Shiro again.

Where are the classmates from, everyone has asked more or less clearly in their hearts, personal background and family origin, this Cheng Shilang's family background is not surprising, and his qualifications are mediocre, and he can come here just because of his friendship with Mr. Jiangzhou.

In the past few days, except for the daily classes, I can't see Mr. Jiangzhou at all.

He can't even see it, but his sister can?

"Am I mistaken?" Cheng Shilang laughed again.

This is reliable, and everyone is relieved.

"Isn't your sister in Jiangzhou? How did you come so far? ”

"It's the first time Matilda has been so far from home, right? Homesick..."

"It seems that your sister is close to you."

Everyone joked, sat down again, and continued to chant poems against each other, but Cheng Shilang was obviously absent-minded.

His sister is in the capital, and his sister is indeed related to the Zhang family.

My sister's maid is the maid of the Zhang family.

Could it really be that she is here?

Cheng Shilang turned his head to look at the bamboo forest, unable to hide the surprise in his eyes.

What did she come to do? Visiting yourself? There's no need to go to see Mr. Jiangzhou first?

The maid of the academy had been here a few times, although she was not very familiar with it, but when she saw the little boy in Tsing Yi leading them straight into the study room in Zhangjiangzhou, instead of waiting in the side hall, the maid breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sir, the lady of the Cheng family is here." The little guy said under the porch.

In the autumn, the door of the hall was opened, and a tall middle-aged scribe wearing a long robe was looking up.

His countenance was as solemn as his figure.

Cheng Jianniang bent down to salute.

"Please come in." Zhang Chun put down the pen in his hand and said.

Cheng Jianniang thanked her, and then she stepped into the hall and knelt down on the first cushion under Zhang Chun.

After the child held the tea, he bowed down and retreated.

"Zhang Chun thanked the lady for her kindness to the family." Zhang Chun said straight to the point, with a big gift.

"It's just a gesture, just a pill of candied fruit, and I don't dare to take it as a big gift." Cheng Jianniang said politely.

"Before leaving, Jia Yan instructed me that if the lady encounters difficulties, let me be sure to help." Zhang Chun said.

Before Cheng Jianniang could say anything, he continued, "Even so, if the difficulty made by the lady is contrary to the law of etiquette and righteousness, please forgive Zhang for being difficult to obey. ”

The maidservant who knelt down on the porch bit her lower lip and turned her head to look inside.

The lord already knows why they came, the fact of desertion, according to the law, the lord is clear that he will not help.

I know that he will be like this!

After Zhang Chun said this, there was silence in the room.

"The little girl won't embarrass Mr., the little girl just wants Mr. Zhang to listen to me." Cheng Jianniang asked.

"Please feel free to speak, listen to someone." Zhang Chun said.

Cheng Jianniang bowed her head and thanked her,

"Since the gentleman is open and honest, the little girl should also tell her bluntly." She said, "I'm not here to ask my husband to help my brothers get rid of their crimes. ”

Not exoneration?

The maid was slightly puzzled, Zhang Chun's expression was still the same, and she looked like she would not move if you said the flowers.

"Although my brothers and others ran away because they were framed and wronged, the crime of escaping is true, and no one can deny it." Cheng Jianniang said,

Zhang Chun hummed.

"That's a good point." He said, "You said they had to do it. So what? ”

"Not how." Cheng Jianniang said. "Necessity is not a reason to get away with it."

Zhang Chun did not speak again.

"I just want to think. Man will die as he deserves. Cheng Jianniang said, "I don't know how they used to be, since I have been with me, whether it is in Taipingju or Immortal Residence, no matter how hard they work for a day, several of them have to dance sticks and stick every day, pull strong bows and stone locks." Practice martial arts diligently to boil your muscles and bones, rain or shine.

"Taipingju and Shenxian Ju, they are half masters, and the dividends they get are enough for them to have no worries about food and clothing in the second half of their lives, and to be rich and noble in the capital."

"Liu Kui came to arrest them, and with their skills, they could have escaped with their whole body, and I also told them that no matter what, they could not be caught in prison. As long as you're outside, even if you kill someone. I can do it all. ”

"But they didn't, just because of Liu Kui's few words, they gave up resistance."

"Afraid of death? They are deserters, and they know very well what the punishment for deserters is. If you are afraid of death, how can you be caught? ”

"Because they know what is right."

"A husband and a gentleman need to know right and wrong, know good and evil, and do not seek to be heard in the world, but to die where he wants. These brothers of mine are determined to kill the enemy and serve the country, and the battlefield is stained with blood, although they have no regrets in death. They may not be considered gentlemen, but they also understand that loyalty is right, flight is wrong, killing enemies is good, and killing comrades is evil. They were willingly arrested for the crime of fleeing, but they were killed because they fled, but they had no place to die.

"That's a good point." Zhang Chun nodded, "But what?" ”

"No, I just want to talk to someone." Cheng Jianniang said again, "Now, only Mr. is willing to listen to me, and other people are no longer willing and will not listen to me." For them, it doesn't matter if it's a soldier or a dog who escapes, it's the same, they want the word escape, not the word soldier. ”

"It is not an exaggeration for them to be sentenced to death, and the law is very strict."

"It's just that there is no place to die."

"Killing deserters is nothing more than a deterrent warning. But the execution of the capital, and then the notification of Zhubian Town, for those soldiers thousands of miles away, who can be deterred by that document? ”

"Speaking of fugitives, how many fugitives are there in the world, can adults know the way? If they are all captured and killed, how many people in the Celestial Empire will be able to defend the border? The younger girl's brothers are nothing more than guilty in the capital, in the party struggle, and in the way of the nobles' affairs. A small stumbling block, kicked away, kicked away, just a few cheap lives. Deter? Admonish? That's a nice thing to say. If you really die like this, you will be wronged at all, let alone die well. ”

"There are a lot of dead people in this world." Zhang Chun said.

"That's why there is a dispute over Taoism and a debate on righteousness and reason, not to let the world know the reason, and to know what to do and what not to do." Cheng Jianniang said.

"So, you don't want to exonerate these people."

"The purpose of killing deserters is to strengthen the army, relieve the crisis of the country, and help the border army in distress, not to quarrel for personal interests."

"Are they arguing for personal gain? Why aren't you doing it for your own selfish gain? That's right. ”

Zhang Chun's voice is just like his name, pure and harmonious, compared to Cheng Jianniang's hoarse voice, which is even more unpleasant.

But the same thing is that the speed of speech of the two is slow and steady, but for the maid sitting outside the door, when they hear it in their ears, they only feel like plucking the strings, noisy and earnest, and the sound is tight.

"Those who are humanized into things, those who destroy the principles of heaven and the desires of the poor, and my desires are harmless to state affairs, but their desires are not to kill or not to kill these few deserters at all, but the purpose behind the killing is ......" [Note 1]

"Ignorant child!"

Zhang Chun's voice in the hall suddenly increased, interrupting Cheng Jianniang's words, and the maidservant who was already tense trembled in fright.

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Note 1: The Book of Rites. "Those who are humanized into things are also those who destroy the principles of heaven and the poor want." So there is rebellion and deceit, and there are sexual immorality. It means that man's heart is tempted by external things and changes, and man becomes a thing, and he will destroy the good essence of man granted by God to pursue the satisfaction of infinite personal desires.

Xie Lu thanks Yu Zixuan, the head of the cat and Shibi, Xie Lu thanks everyone for rewarding, Xie Lu thanks everyone for the pink smash, thank you! April is over! See you again in May! (To be continued......)