Gong Wan came to Cai Kuo's mansion, and before he entered the house, he heard a noise from inside.

Cai Kuozheng angrily smashed the housekeeping in the house, scolding non-stop, "Bo Yao! Bastard! Adulterer! Sooner or later, the state of Wu will be defeated at your hands! ”

The housekeeper grabbed Cai Kuan's sleeve in a panic and pleaded: "My lord! Hush! Stop it! Don't say it! It's going to be heard so loudly! ”

"I'm going to say it! Bo Ya! Bastard! Adulterer! ”

The housekeeper was helpless, looked at Gong Wan Ran bitterly, and begged: "Lord Gong Hui! Tell Lord Cai to stop talking nonsense! How can this be done? The wind was tight outside, and he was so open-mouthed, if Dazai-sama knew that he said this, it would be over. ”

Gong Wanran nodded yes, and was just about to step forward to comfort Cai Kuo, but who knew that Cai Kuo actually grabbed Gong Wanran and shouted: "Brother Gonghui!" I'm! I'm! What a bastard that boy! ”

"Shhhh

Although Cai Kuo was angry, he still listened to Gong Wanran's words, he breathed hard, and Gong Wanran entered the hall, and after the two sat down, Gong Wanran asked, "What's the matter?" Has there been any feedback on the new evidence? ”

"Humph! Isn't it? Brother Gonghui, the new evidence we found can definitely prove that Wu Xiangguo was framed! But Bo Ya didn't accept it at all, but just forcibly pressed down the evidence I submitted! ”

Gong Wanran shook his head and sighed: "Hey, this is also to be expected, have you seen Bo Yao?" ”

"Hmmm! I ran to see him early this morning and submitted this new evidence, I thought that such obvious evidence would be taken seriously! Who knew that he didn't take it seriously at all, but just ordered me to hurry up and convict! This...... It's lawless! There is no royal law in his eyes at all! ”

"Hey, forget it."

"What's the matter?!"

"The matter of evidence."

"Brother Gongchen is going to give up?!"

"It's not to give up, in fact, I guessed this possibility from the beginning, the reason why I went to find evidence was just to test the king's attitude, it seems that the king has made up his mind to kill."

"But! Brother Gonghui...... We just gave up? Wu Xiangguo is obviously innocent! ”

"Hey." Gong Wanran shook his head, patted Cai Kuo's shoulder and said, "There is nothing innocent or innocent, only whether the king wants to kill or not." ”

"But! Wu Xiangguo, a minister who has made great contributions to Wu Guoguo, did he die so inexplicably? ! Just wronged? ”

"There's nothing we can do about it, I think, Wu Xiangguo probably guessed the result a long time ago. We can't save him......"

"No way!" Cai Kuo got up indignantly and said loudly: "I can't just give up!" I want to meet the King! I must publish this evidence! ”

"Brother!" Gong Wanran also stood up, forcibly pressed Cai Kuo, pressed him back to his seat, and then said calmly: "I don't want to watch you suffer for no reason, listen to my brother's persuasion." ”

"Brother...... But I'm not reconciled...... Unwilling to ...... I have lived for more than 30 years, I have never been so heartwarming, I am not smart, I don't know how to be flexible, the only thing I believe in is justice, and I will do my best to maintain the justice of the law. I have been sentenced to more than ten years of cases, and the people and the king have praised me for being iron-faced and selfless, but now I know that Wu Xiangguo is innocent, but I want to convict him and become the culprit who killed Zhongliang! I can't settle such a case, I can't do such a thing! If I really convict Wu Xiangguo of this inexplicable crime, I will definitely be stinking for 10,000 years! ”

"No, it won't." With a slightly helpless look on his face, his eyes seemed to imply self-denial and questioning, and he shook his head and said, "Future generations will give you a true judgment." ”

Cai Kuo smiled and said with some despair: "What do future generations know?" They just read a few words from the records of the historians, and who will know the buried truth? Who would understand my sincerity at this time!? Who cares if I pay the price!? ”

Gong Wanran didn't know what to say for a while, and was silent for a moment before saying, "The day after tomorrow will be convicted, and then it will come according to Bo Yao's wishes." ”

"What if I don't come according to him?"

"That's meaningless, if you convict or not, he will convict him."

"Hmph, then let him decide."

Gong Wanran frowned, looked at Cai Kuo, and said embarrassedly: "What are you going to do?" Don't you know the power of Bo Ya? Will he let you go? You have to remember that staying in the green mountains is not afraid of running out of firewood. ”

Cai Kuo pondered for a while, lowered his head and said, "Brother...... Could it be that it is because of us who have never thought of standing up against Bo Ya that Bo Ya's power has become as powerful as it is now? ”

This sentence was like a sharp sword, piercing the heart of Gong Wanran, the concept he had always insisted on seemed to be under unprecedented torture, and after a long silence, he whispered: "Our strength is too small to compete with Bo Ya, we can only live first in order to fulfill our ambitions." ”

"But if all the tiniest forces think so, who will dispel this darkness? Is this all we have to do to live in darkness? ”

"We are indeed living in darkness, but we are powerless to change this world, we can only strengthen our faith and guard a piece of light."

"No...... No, ......" Cai Kuo shook his head with a smile, "We will only become a part of the darkness, or die completely when the darkness invades the entire world!" ”

Silent.

Deathly silence.

After a long time, Gong Wanran stood up and prepared to leave, and when he was leaving, he looked at Cai Kuo, and stopped talking several times, and finally could only say: "Brother, don't do stupid things, okay?" ”

Cai Kuo showed a relieved smile on his face, "Brother, thank you." ”

Two days later, the faint morning light illuminated every corner of Gusu City, and in the courtyard of the public sky, there was a bird's nest on the peach tree at some point, and the chicks poked their heads out, opened their confused eyes, and looked at this old and new world.

Maybe it hasn't learned to fly yet, maybe it's not awake yet, it's just standing on the edge of the nest, shaking its head in a daze.

Looking up at the blue sky day after day, it didn't seem to have the slightest interest.

Suddenly, its eyes lit up, focusing on a small flower blooming in the corner, and it stared intently at the small flower, fluttering its wings and eager to try.

Finally, it mustered up the courage to leap down from the branch, it tried to flap its wings, but the wings did not seem to obey, it was like a stone, smashed straight to the ground, and at the moment when it was about to land, it suddenly spread its wings, glided close to the ground, and then suddenly flew high into the air, it flew around the peach tree three times, and when it looked into the distance, it realized that the original nest was so small, and the world was so vast.

It seemed to forget the little flower in the corner, and just flew and flew and flew and got carried away and immersed in the free sky.

And at that moment a gust of wind blew, and its young wings could not compete with the wind, and it struggled and flapped its wings with all its might, but in vain, until at last the wind ruffled its feathers and threw it the rotten tiles of the roof.

It seemed to have broken its claws, staggered two steps in pain, and stood on the edge of the roof again, and it gathered its wings to fly high again, but the wind swept again, and it clung to the rubble with its claws, and it struggled to stabilize itself.

When the wind had passed, and the sky was calm again, it looked at the blue sky, and seemed to have lost its previous courage, and only flew down from the roof, slid into the corner, and stopped beside the little flower.

It tilted its head to look at the little flower, and then it lowered its head and grabbed a worm from the side of the flower.

Gong Wan looked up at the little bird, which had already flown back to the nest with the worm in its mouth. Gong Wanran put away the scrolls, briefly tidied up the yard, and then prepared to go to the mansion to work.

At this moment, there was a sharp knock on the door outside the hospital.

Gong Wanran opened the courtyard door and found that the person who came was still the housekeeper of Cai Kuo's mansion.

The housekeeper was so anxious that he said in a panic: "Lord Gonghui! Princess! Oh no! Something may have happened to my Lord Cai! ”

Seeing that the housekeeper was even more panicked than last time, Gong Wanran couldn't help but tremble, and hurriedly asked, "What's the situation!?" What's wrong? ”

The housekeeper hurriedly took out a scroll of letters, stuffed them into the public, and said, "I went to deliver food to the adults in the morning, and found that the adults' rooms were empty, and there was only this volume of letters on the desk!" The letter was written to Lord Gonghui, and the villain didn't dare to open it, and he didn't know what was written in it, but in the past few days, Lord Cai has behaved very strangely, always crying and laughing, and there are words in his mouth, and he suddenly disappeared today, and left a letter, I always feel that my heart is not very steady, so I immediately came to find Lord Gonghui. Please take a look at what's written in it! ”

When I looked at it, I saw that the words "Brother Gonghui personally opened" were written on the outside of the letter.

All possible situations quickly flashed in Gongwan's mind, and he didn't have time to prepare mentally, so he could only secretly pray that Cai Kuo wouldn't do anything stupid, but when he opened the letter and took a quick look, he realized that things might be more serious than he imagined.

It turned out that Cai Kuo said in the letter that he would bring evidence to meet the king, and if the king could not face his evidence, he would make his will clear, and he asked Gong Wanran to take care of his family after his death, and he was very resolute between the lines. Obviously, Cai Kuo is ready to die.

"Lord Gonghui! How's that? What is written in Lord Cai's letter? You don't want to do anything stupid?! The butler asked anxiously.

Gong Wanran didn't answer, his expression was solemn, and after thinking for a while, he ordered the housekeeper: "Quickly take Lord Cai's family out of Gusu City!" Fast! ”

Although the housekeeper didn't know why, he could fully understand the seriousness of the situation from Gong Wanran's expression, he didn't dare to ask more, and quickly nodded and left, and did what Gong Wanran wanted.

Then, Gong Wanran quickly whipped his horse and rushed towards the direction of the palace, just when he was about to reach the gate of the palace wall, he saw a large number of people gathered on the platform outside the palace wall, these people laughed, discussed, exchanged ears, pointed at the heart, and the crowd surrounded in the center was none other than Cai Kuo.

Cai Kuo stood on the edge of Odaiba and bowed deeply three times in the direction of the palace, and he shouted loudly: "Great King! I am neither a fellow party of Wu Xiangguo, nor have I ever had a heart of disobedience, what I believe in and adhere to in my heart is only justice! I found evidence to prove Wu Xiangguo's innocence, but Bo Yao simply ignored the existence of the evidence. Now, the king also ignores my evidence, I know that Wu Xiangguo is innocent, how can I convict him?! ”

Hearing Cai Kuo's shout, there was a lot of discussion in the crowd.

"It seems that Wu Xiangguo was really wronged, let me say, how could such a good person as Wu Xiangguo rebel?"

"Yes, Lord Cai is upright and has always been iron-faced and selfless, since he said that there is evidence, it can't be faked."

"Shhhh Don't talk nonsense, talking nonsense is going to lose your head. ”

"Hmph, who knows the truth, one of the officials is counted as one, and they are not good people, let's just watch the fun, is it possible for this official to commit suicide?"

In the end, Cai Kuo kowtowed in the direction of the palace again and shouted loudly: "King! The minister has no choice but to repay the country with death! ”

With that, Cai Kuo stood up, grabbed a white silk hanging from the trunk above his head with both hands, and then put the white silk around his neck, and when everything was ready, he gasped rapidly, and the air entered his nose, passing through the ring formed by the white silk, and churning out a hot breath in his chest.

He was very nervous, but he did not have the slightest fear, after all, life was nothing compared to the justice he insisted on!

He no longer hesitated and jumped off the stage.

Immediately afterwards, the trachea was instantly shut, and he desperately wanted to breathe, but he was tightly choked by Bai Aya, and the breath in his chest had nowhere to escape, expanding into a blood mist that turned into a river and sea in his lungs, rampage, and seemed to burst his chest at any time.

His eyes were bloodshot, and in his field of vision, the originally colorful world gradually turned into a bloody ink stain smeared on the white paper.

His ears began to beep, the beeping almost drowned out the noise of people around him, and he tried his best to distinguish them, and he heard someone mocking, someone regretting, and some gloating.

Suddenly he regretted a little, how could these ignorant masses know that what he sacrificed his life to defend was not the life and death of Wu Zixu alone, but the justice of the entire country, and it was the only law that could defend the dignity of these civilians.

His body began to spasm, convulsing constantly, the whole person was like thatch swaying in the gale, swaying unnaturally, every pore on his body seemed to be deeply pierced with an embroidery needle, and the severe pain around his body continued to stimulate every inch of his skin.

I don't know how long he struggled, his breath calmed down, he seemed to smell the freshness of the deep forest after the snow, the sea of blood in front of him flooded his vision, the whole world became dark, like the deep sky of the night, his ears were quiet, there was no sound, as if he was in a secluded valley, his body no longer felt the slightest pain, instead of a comfortable touch, just like the tenderness of a baby when it was caressed.

Finally, he seemed to hear a voice.

Do you regret doing this?

He didn't know how to answer, because everything was already meaningless.