Chapter 30: The True and False Prefects
After Wang Ke, the prefect of Jining, returned to the back office, he was restless, panicked in his heart, walked around on the ground, and thought in his heart:
"This black ice platform is the eyes and ears of the regent Jiang Chuan, and now that Ma Bond has fallen into their hands, he will definitely confess if he can't stand the torture. That Jiang Chuan is ruthless, he will definitely not spare me easily, I definitely can't sit still. ”
After thinking for a moment, there was a fierce and decisive look in his eyes, obviously he had already made a decision.
He called a confidant, whispered a few words, and then quickly left.
Wang Ke closed the door, came to the study, and touched under the table, there was a clicking sound, but it was the bookshelf against the wall that turned, revealing a portal behind.
Wang Ke walked into the door of the bookshelf, behind the door was a staircase leading diagonally to the low, he went down the stairs, turned a few corners and then walked to the end of the passage, stretched out his hand and twisted on the wall, a stone door in front of him rumbled open, and light came from inside.
Behind the stone gate is a small room, in addition to piling up gold, silver, jewelry, famous books and paintings and other valuable things, there is also a row of weapon shelves, on which there are knives, guns, swords, halberds, meteor hammers and other weapons, and even the tiger barricade, five ten square knives, water thorns, soul chasing claws and other Qimen weapons.
On the other side of the shelf is a set of soft armor and iron boots of extraordinary materials.
Wang Ke walked to the shelf, took off the official robe on his body, replaced it with soft armor and iron boots, and then put the official robe back on the outside.
He walked to the weapon rack again, put two soul-chasing claws made of steel like the claws of a tiger and a wolf on his two wrists, and pressed them on them again, and the sharp blades of the soul-chasing claws were retracted with a swish, and there was nothing unusual to see from the outside.
Then he walked to a nearby stone platform, on which was a long black iron box.
Wang Ke opened the iron box and took out two dark and heavy judge's pens from inside.
This judge's pen is made of fine iron, and the material is extraordinary. The shape of the device is similar to a pen, the tip of the pen is thin, the pen handle is thick and round, and there is a ring in the middle position, which is convenient for the fingers to buckle in, and it is not easy to fall off in the fight.
Looking at the judge's pen, Wang Ke showed a smile of remembrance, and after a moment put the judge's pen into two wide sleeves.
After doing all this, Wang Ke walked to the end of the room again, looked at the wall that did not show anything abnormal on the surface, after looking at it for a while, he reached out and touched it in different three positions, the wall slowly pushed in, and a portal appeared.
Along the door, he passed through a corridor and opened another door, and inside was a stone room, with tables, chairs, benches, beds, and other things, and a man sat on top of it, with gray hair and a haggard face, holding a book and reading it carefully.
The man heard the voice, and did not raise his head, but still looked at the book in his hand.
Wang Ke didn't speak, but stood in front of the man and waited for him.
After a moment, the man finally looked up at Wang Ke.
The appearance of the two is exactly the same, but Wang Ke looks younger, but the person is wrinkled, gray-haired, and there is always a depressed color between his expressions.
"You're in trouble." The man glanced at Wang Ke and smiled coldly.
"I've always felt that you know me best in this world, and it's really good." Wang Ke said.
"That's why you impersonated me and locked me up here for three years?" The man scoffed.
"You are my sworn brother, I can't kill you, I can only lock you up." Wang Ke sat on a chair next to him and looked at the man:
"You are a real gentleman, you don't like money, you despise fame and fortune, I admire you very much, but I can't learn from you, and I can't learn from you. People like you are only suitable for watching from afar, but not for being friends. It can be tiring to be your friend. ”
Wang Ke said very seriously, the man looked at him for a long time, sighed and laughed at himself:
"What kind of bullshit gentleman am I, I have eyes but I don't know the murderers, so I would swear to you back then and let myself end up like this. You have locked me up here, and you have given me food and drink, and you have not killed me, just like a dog, but I am greedy for life, and I have no courage to kill myself. And you are outside, using my identity to call for wind and rain, amassing wealth and bending the law, ruining my reputation and reputation, and the world has already regarded me as a corrupt person, and I am already dead even if I am not dead. ”
Wang Ke said: "When we met back then, you were still a scholar, and I was still a fledgling person. At that time, we were all very young, and what you wanted was to make a name for yourself and benefit the people. And what I want is to crisscross the rivers and lakes, eliminate evil and promote good, and be a hero that everyone admires. ”
"I still remember that after I drove away a group of robbers and rescued you, we hit it off at first sight and talked for three days and three nights. You told me that you want to support the community in the future, how to get rid of maladministration, benefit the people, and make the world a clear and sunny world. I told you that I want to walk the rivers and lakes, and the road will not be parallel to chivalrous righteousness, so that the rivers and lakes will become rivers and lakes where no one does evil. ”
We all thought we had found a lifelong soulmate, so we swore to the Heavenly Alliance to become brothers. After we separated, you continued to go to Beijing to catch the exam, I went to explore my rivers and lakes, and we agreed to join forces to hold up a piece of the sky for the people. ”
"I went out into the rivers and lakes, killed a lot of wicked people, and fulfilled my original oath. But I gradually realized that I was not as happy as I imagined, that many of the evil people I thought were not evil everywhere, and that the good people I thought were not necessarily really good people.
Some good people do evil more than the wicked, but some wicked people can not deceive the dark room and do not dishonor the good. I'm starting to wonder if what I'm doing makes sense. What is the real evil and what is the real good in this world? This wicked person can't seem to be killed at all, can I really make this river and lake the one I want? ”
Wang Ke looked at the man and spoke eloquently, with a look of reminiscence and thinking in his eyes.
The man interrupted him with a sneer: "So, you finally abandoned your beliefs, began to covet money, and regarded collecting wealth as your greatest pursuit?" Do you still have the face to talk about the past? ”
Wang Ke ignored his ridicule and continued to recall: "My thoughts began to change, I began to think that money and power are the most useful things in the world, power and money, whoever I let die can die, why should I work hard to work hard alone?" Later, I learned that you were a jinshi and became a magistrate, so I went to look for you and persuaded you to come with me.
But you are very stubborn, and instead point at my nose and call me vulgar and greedy. I want money, I want to have power, you are my best chance, but I can't kill you, so I can only lock you up here, and I will be the prefect for you and do what I want to do. Thanks to this troubled world, my fake prefect deserves to be quite stable.
Today, I am here to give you back your identity. ”