When Mingyue walked into the firewood room and saw the assassin again with the flickering candle, he had completely lost the arrogance of wearing a face on his head and holding a sharp blade, his feet were as soft as a puddle of mud, the flesh and blood on his hands were blurred, and his mouth was dripping with blood, which was the trace of Gong Zhongyin and others tortured him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Mingyue paced in front of him, sat down on a wooden pier calmly, and asked slowly, "Are you a disciple of Teng Geng?" ”

The assassin raised his head when he heard Mingyue's voice, and when he saw the target to be assassinated tonight, his pupils immediately contracted, and he struggled, but the black-clothed guard immediately picked up the leather whip and slammed it at his bare back, making him honest, and the assassin reluctantly nodded and admitted.

"What's your name?" Mingyue asked lightly.

The assassin didn't answer, Mingyue nodded at Fei Ping, Fei Ping understood, walked over with a cruel smile, pinched the assassin's wrist, and after two crisp sounds, he let out a miserable scream again, and two fingers were broken......

"Come on, your accomplice is next door, he has already confessed, I don't believe you, the screams have stopped, and at this moment I am asking the healer to heal his wounds." In fact, the person next door didn't confess, but fainted, Mingyue was just deceiving this person.

Hearing that his accomplices had completely revealed themselves, the leader of the assassins lost his mind for a moment, and Mingyue took the opportunity to induce: "If you say it, I will stop the torture, otherwise, your fingers will be broken one after another, and ten fingers will be connected to the heart, and it hurts to the heart, why bother?" ”

Although the assassin had some courage, his willpower was not as strong as he imagined, and he suddenly looked like a deflated ball, in order not to be tortured again, in order not to be painful, he lowered his head and trembled and said, "Ram...... Late. ”

"Ram?" Mingyue raised her eyebrows: "What is your relationship with the Ram family." ”

The Ram School is a branch of Qilu Confucianism, and its founder is Ram Gao, a disciple of Confucius's disciple Zi Xia, who wrote a book to interpret Confucius's "Spring and Autumn", called "The Legend of the Ram in the Spring and Autumn Period". Its interpretation of history is very brief, and it focuses on the so-called "subtle words and great meanings" of the Spring and Autumn Period, and interprets the scriptures in the form of questions and answers, which has a great influence within Confucianism.

After the death of Ram Gao, his children and grandchildren passed on "Ram Spring and Autumn" as a peerless generation in the family, and also accepted some disciples with foreign surnames, and gradually formed the Ram faction. Now it has been passed to the great-grandson Ram Dare, according to Mingyue, after this ram faction is passed on for another hundred years, there will be a successor named Dong Zhongshu, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, the Ram faction almost unified the academic and ideological circles......

Nowadays, the ram faction is still a bird with wings that do not grow hard, far less prosperous than the Han Dynasty, but it should not be underestimated in the Qi country, after Teng Geng's death and the decline of Meng's Confucianism, the ram faction is the largest Confucian faction in Qi country......

However, this ram Chi didn't seem to be the core figure, and sure enough, he lowered his head and said, "I'm just a disciple of the small sect...... This matter, this matter has nothing to do with the clan. ”

"That's why I didn't learn from the Ram family, but worshiped Teng Gengshi? So, you came to kill me to avenge your teacher? Is it worth paying for a life like Teng Geng? ”

The corners of Mingyue's mouth showed a hint of ridicule, which seemed to stimulate the assassin, causing him to raise his head again and say loudly: "Childe Hugh should laugh!" When Xia Zi asked Confucius, what should be done if he has the enmity of his parents? Confucius replied: 'As a son, if his parents are unjustly killed, he must sleep on a straw mat and use a shield as a pillow, and he cannot become an official, and he will not forget this revenge day and night, and if he encounters an enemy in the street, he must take out the weapon he carries with him and kill the enemy immediately!' In this way, it is not in vain to be the son of man! ”

"The ancestor of my Ram clan, when he was annotating "Spring and Autumn", also said that the ninth generation can still take revenge? Although it is a hundred generations! ”

"Zhao Guang, if you kill my teacher, the king can forgive him, but my generation can't, if you have a master like a father, how can you not repay your master's revenge? You and I don't share the day! After speaking, he spit out a mouthful of bloody saliva and landed at Mingyue's feet.

Several black-clothed guards were furious, so they whipped the ram again, but Mingyue did not stop it.

The ram is only in his twenties, and he is not a professional assassin after all, and he will still scream and give in in to the torture. Soon, after being knocked out with a mouth full of good teeth, the causes and consequences of this assassination were revealed one by one.

It turned out that after Teng Geng was angry with Mingyue to death, Teng Geng's disciples were upset and kowtowed in front of the Yongmen Gate of Qi State, begging the King of Qi to severely punish Chang'anjun, but they were dispersed by the sticks. They mourned for Teng Geng, and there was a disagreement at the funeral, and most of them swallowed their anger, but Ram Chi decided to use the sword in his hand to find the "justice" that Teng Geng could not find in the court.

So he gathered a few people, and used the "righteousness" of revenge for the teacher to persuade some bloody Linzi rangers to help, more than ten people secretly plotted to assassinate Chang'anjun, and finally caught the opportunity on the Sheri, who expected that in the end it would be a failure......

The ram was slow to become soft, but in the end he took all the blame: "This matter is all done by me, and it has nothing to do with the brothers and sisters, and it has nothing to do with the ram clan......"

After listening, Mingyue's anger almost dissipated, and her face couldn't help but be moved.

He had the impression that the Confucian who was soft and could only talk about the cannon would actually take the sword up and kill the enemy in person for the sake of revenge? Looks like I'm underestimating them. Some Confucian scholars in the Warring States Period, like the rangers, fought with swords, but they had a bit of "a husband is angry, and blood is splashed in five steps", plus the Ram clan is originally advocating revenge, it is not surprising that the Ram will do this later.

For three generations, blood revenge was a ritual that regulated the lives of the world, and it was also a moral law that guided people's choices at that time. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, although the official began to restrict this behavior, but after all, it is not far from ancient times, the people are fierce, in the vast folk, this ancient custom has been preserved, no matter which country, it is very praised for revenge, especially the son for the father's revenge, the disciple for the teacher's revenge, but also the whole people unanimously agreed.

Later, in the Han Dynasty, with the prosperity of the Confucian Ram School, revenge was advocated to the extreme, revenge will not only not be punished, but will be praised, the famous one-eyed dragon Xiahoudun during the Three Kingdoms is famous for avenging the teacher.

Mingyue couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, if he died in tonight's assassination, maybe in the public opinion of Qi and even the world, he would be more sympathetic to the ram later, and it was hard to say that it would fulfill his reputation for eternity......

But being moved doesn't mean that he will let the ram go.

"Do you know that if you fail on this trip, you will die?"

"If you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent."

With blood in his mouth and a few fingers intact, the ram Chi knew that there was no hope of life this time, and his nose and face were swollen and he said his last words.

"Although my revenge failed, my sword was at least three feet away from my son, and I didn't live up to my teacher's kindness, and I killed if I wanted to. But if the son is really a virtuous son as the world says, I hope you don't implicate the teacher, don't implicate my clan......"

"Okay, I'll fulfill you." Mingyue had no intention of teasing the assassin, but instead bowed to him, and then said to the black-clothed people, "Give him a good time." Then he went out and looked up at the moon in the sky.

After a while, after a muffled snort, the black-clothed people came out after finishing their work, and the four of them stood quietly behind Mingyue, waiting for his orders.

The blood on their hands had not dried, Mingyue knew the result without asking, he sighed, and ordered: "Kill Ram Chi's accomplices as well, and then use the sword to destroy the appearance of the rest of the corpses to make them unrecognizable!" ”

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"Chang'an-jun, is Chang'an-jun okay?"

In a hurry, Hou Sheng, the confessor of the Qi Palace, pushed aside the guards at the door, squeezed into the courtyard, and saw Chang'an Jun sitting in the small courtyard of this Zhuangyue City, drinking alone to the moon, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, pounced in front of him, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, Chang'an Jun is fine!" ”

"Is this called nothing?"

Mingyue was full of anger, didn't buy his account, pointed to his shoulder, and Zhao Kuo, who was still asleep in the house, and said loudly to Hou Sheng: "This son was opened a hole in the shoulder by the assassin, and Zhao Kuo, the son of Ma Fujun, was hit by an arrow from the assassin, and his life and death are still uncertain, but the confessor calls this nothing?" It's too light! ”

As soon as he lifted the small case, he became angry, and grabbed Hou Sheng's shirt to ask for an explanation.

"Chang'an Jun is angry, Chang'an Jun is angry...... "Hou Sheng is also dumb and can't say that he has suffered from eating Coptis chinensis, after the banquet and sacrifice in the palace, he also sent King Qi and Queen Jun back to the palace, you can relax for a while, enjoy Xinna's concubine, who expected that just took off his clothes, someone came to report, saying that Chang'an Jun was assassinated in the downtown area!

Hou Sheng was almost frightened to the point that he was half paralyzed, what kind of person is Chang'an Jun, the darling of the Empress Dowager Zhao, and the proton who maintains the peace of Qi and Zhao! Although the King of Qi has now decided to fall to the Qin State, but he does not want to make enemies with the Zhao State, it is the most basic to send Chang'an Jun back safely, who expected that on the eve of returning to the country, Chang'an Jun was suddenly assassinated, which can make the Qi State shocked.

When the king of Qi learned that someone was going to make it difficult for him, he almost died of anger, and urgently ordered the soldiers of the five capitals to take the whole city and restore the curfew, and Hou Sheng was also ordered to visit the rumored "seriously injured" Chang'an Jun......

Chang'anjun was fine, but after being assassinated, he became a frightened bird, and asked Hou Sheng to strengthen the forces to protect him, and also asked the palace to send a doctor to see Zhao Kuo.

"Ma Fujun has twice defeated the Qi State, and has conquered countless cities, if his son dies in the Qi State, the confessor thinks, will Ma Fujun ask the Queen Mother and the King again to raise troops to attack Qi and avenge his son?"

Chang Anjun even moved out of the threat of war, and Hou Sheng even shouted wronged: "Chang Anjun, I must quickly notify the palace medicine practitioner to take care of Ma Fuzi, this is a misunderstanding, and the matter is far from the point where Qi Zhao's swords and soldiers are facing each other...... If you want me to say, you still have to find out the identity of the assassin first! It is said that the assassins were all captured by Chang'anjun, I don't know if there is a way to live? ”

Mingyue let go of Hou Sheng and said regretfully: "The assassins are all dead soldiers, and when they saw that the assassination could not be achieved, they followed Nie Zheng's example and used a sword to disfigure their faces and die." Of the two people who were arrested, one would rather die than commit suicide by looking for an opportunity, and the other also died of blood loss under torture, but ......"

"But what?"

Since Chang'an Jun is not dead, what King Qi and he are most concerned about now is whether they sent these assassins? If it was done by the people inside the Qi State, then they would be speechless!

Mingyue showed a hint of a smile: "Before he swallowed his breath, he finally couldn't bear the severe pain and told their identities." ”

Hou Sheng hurriedly came over: "Who did it?" ”

"Let's take a look at what I've found from them." Mingyue didn't answer, first took out an object in her arms and handed it to Hou Sheng.

Hou Sheng fixed his eyes and saw that it was actually a blood-stained knife coin, different from the Qi country knife coin, it was dull in color, with a narrow knife body, a square folded back, and a vague "Ming" word was cast on it.

He couldn't help but gasp......

"Swallow...... Yan Ming Knife!? ”

"Not bad!" Mingyue's face was solemn: "According to the assassin's confession, they were bribed by the Yan Kingdom and came to assassinate me!" ”