Chapter 89: Affection and Righteousness
It was Li Xiuning who forced Chai Qian to kneel in front of Chen Yingliang, seeing the miserable image of the wolf bèi slumped on the ground by his father and brother, Chai Qian, who was crying bitterly, couldn't stand such a psychological blow, and had already turned her feet and ran, but Li Xiuning, who had a strong personality and always kept a cool head, quickly made up her mind, grabbed her sister-in-law, and dragged Chai Qian in front of Chen Yingliang, but then she was calm and strong, and when she knelt down to her former future brother-in-law Chen Yingliang, Li Xiuning finally shed tears, and then cried silently.
The scene quieted down again, everyone's eyes focused on Chen Yingliang, Chai Qian, and Li Xiuning, Chen Yingliang was silent, Li Xiuning couldn't cry, Chai Qian, who had been crying bitterly before, regained some calm, no longer howling, just looked at Chen Yingliang silently with tears rolling in her eyes, and looked at her former fiancΓ© pitifully, her eyes were full of pleading, but she never said a word.
Seeing from a distance that Fan Zigai, Wei Xuan and the others had already saluted in front of Yang Yu, Chen Yingliangcai asked Li Xiuning in a calm tone, "What's the use of begging me now?" It's all come to this, what else can I do? β
"Brother Yingliang, if you have a way, you will definitely be able to save us." Li Xiuning cried and said: "You have saved Wei Liushou, and you are the person who was personally promoted and appointed by Fan Liushou, as long as you speak, there is still hope for our Chai family." β
Chen Yingliang was silent for a moment and asked, "Why?" Because you broke my third uncle's leg? Fabricated charges to frame me? Or is it because you poisoned my wine and food and wanted to poison me and Uncle Sanbo to death? β
"Brother Yingliang, I know that our Chai family is sorry for you, even if you kill our entire family and kill Ling Chi, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in your heart." Li Xiuning cried: "I also know that if I say 10,000 words of compensation, you won't forgive us." But I still say a shameless word, please save our Chai family. For the sake of the friendship of the previous generations, please save our Chai family! β
"Marrying a chicken follows a chicken, if Lang Jun dies, a concubine can't be alone! Brother Yingliang, please be merciful and spare our Chai family this time, the Chai family will be tied up and down, and you will be rewarded for your great kindness. With tears streaming down his face, Li Xiuning nodded to Chen Yingliang again and again, pleading with remorse and sincerity.
Seeing Li Xiuning's pitiful appearance, Chen Yingliang was silent again, all kinds of tastes came to his heart, and scenes of the past also surfaced in front of him, remembering Chai Shao's arrogance at the beginning, remembering Chai Shao's kick against him, remembering the tattered courtyard where he was burned to ashes, Chen Laosan's broken leg, and the notices that wanted him all over the street, as well as those arsenic, as well as the hideous faces of the Chai family father and son before Wei Xuan's arrival.
Replaced by other excellent public servants, as long as they think of these past events casually, the father and son of the Chai family must be dead and can't die anymore, but as an unqualified civil servant who has sacrificed himself twice for the country and the people, Chen Yingliang can't help but think of Chai Qian's crying in the wind and rain, Chu Chu who snuggled in his arms when he had a high fever, and obstructed Chai Shen from poisoning himself several times, Chen Yingliang's conscience that has not been eaten by the dog is inevitably faintly painful.
Under hesitation, Chen Yingliang slowly raised his head, and looked at the tearful Chai Qian, seeing Chen Yingliang looking at him, Chai Qian cried again, crying pear blossoms with rain, cuckoo crying blood, but still couldn't pull down his face and was even more shameless to say the words of pleading, just silently looked at Chen Yingliang and wept, relatively speechless.
Biting his lower lip, Chen Yingliang turned his gaze to the surrounding crowd again, and first saw Li Jiancheng and Li two brothers in the crowd, the Li brothers were also in their hearts at the moment, and they had the heart to help Li Xiuning beg Chen Yingliang, but they didn't know how to open their mouths and plead, so they could only look at Chen Yingliang with a pleading face, Li Jiancheng also hugged Chen Yingliang and begged Chen Yingliang to let his sister and brother-in-law go.
Chen Yingliang wanted to find Yang Yuer's figure, but there were too many soldiers and civilians watching around, and there was a vast sea of people, where could he find it? The pair of young brothers and sisters, who were fifteen or sixteen years old, looked at Chen Yingliang's lips slightly, and they didn't know what they were whispering, but the twelve or thirteen-year-old sister was tearful, and she didn't know who she was crying for, and she looked at Chen Yingliang pitifully with big tearful eyes, as if she was pleading for the Chai family's father and son and Li Xiuning.
Chen Yingliang's gaze inadvertently slid over Xiao Li, and continued to look for Yang Yuer's whereabouts, but he didn't want that Xiao Lili to suddenly muster up the courage to take a few steps forward, choked up and said to Chen Yingliang: "Big brother, my uncle often teaches me to be forgiving and forgiving, you spare the Cheshire Duke and Chai Gongzi." β
"Be forgiving and forgiving." Chen Yingliang was stunned for a moment, and Yang Zhiji's previous advice to Chen Yingliang also echoed in Chen Yingliang's ears, "Be forgiving and forgiving, you are still young, you have to plan for your own future." β
Xiao Luoli was quickly pulled back by her brother, but Chen Yingliang was even more hesitant, Chen Yingliang knew that the Chai family father and son were now dead, and he also wanted to let the Chai family father and son fall to the ground and let out a bad breath for themselves, but after killing the Chai family father and son, what else could he get in addition to getting a momentary pleasure? All you can get is the notoriety of being narrow-minded and retribution, as well as the hatred of the future victor Li Yuan's family, and Chai Qian's tears. And if he lets go of the Chai family, what he will get is a reputation for generosity, as well as the gratitude of Li Yuan's family, and a more brilliant and flat future.
"His Royal Highness King Cai, I think you have expected this a long time ago, so you reminded me to be forgiving and forgiving, right?"
Quietly smiling bitterly, Chen Yingliang turned his gaze to Li Xiuning and Chai Qian again, seeing Chen Yingliang's hesitant gaze, Chai Qian hesitated for a moment, and finally learned from Li Xiuning to kneel down on his knees, looking up at Chen Yingliang with tears streaming down his face, and his pleading meaning was overflowing.
Gritting his teeth, Chen Yingliang twisted his face away and said in a low voice: "I tried my best, but I'm not sure, if you can't save it, don't blame me." β
Hearing Chen Yingliang's words, Chai Qian suddenly cried again, and Li Xiuning also cried bitterly. At the same time, the guards of the imperial city of the brigade had already rushed over, quickly expelled the onlookers, sorted out the order to make room for a wide space, Chai Qian and Li Xiuning were also unceremoniously driven away by the guards, leaving only Chen Yingliang and Chai father and son and other parties at the scene. Immediately afterwards, Yang Yu, the eight-year-old acting king, came to the scene surrounded by Wei Xuan, Fan Zigai and other important ministers of the Great Sui.
Chen Yingliang hurriedly bowed, Chai Shen and Chai Shao, who finally came back to their senses, also hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, and Yang Yu, who was only eight years old, said in a parroted tone under the stubborn guidance of Wei Lao: "Chai Shen, Chai Shao, your father and son are court officials, but they broke their promises and broke the marriage contract, which greatly damaged the face of the court, and afterwards tried to kill people and violate the national law, and then fabricated charges to frame the innocent, slandering Chen Yingliang, the hero of my Great Sui Rebellion, as a traitor and a fellow party, which is a big joke in the world!" How can this king be compatible with such reckless and perverse acts? Come on, take down Chai Shen, Chai Shao and his son, behead them in public, and correct the law of the country! β
Hearing Yang Yu's words, Chai Shao's handsome face turned dead gray, Chai Shen's soul was scattered, and he hurriedly kowtowed desperately to beg for mercy, and cried on the spot regardless of his identity and age, but unfortunately the imperial city guards around Yang Yu ignored it at all, and Sima Teng, who had some friendship with Chai Shen, hid away early, for fear of being involved in this matter, and Pei Xin, who had already peeped at the main position, couldn't wait to bring people to rush up, and put the Chai family father and son up and left. Provoke Wei Xuan, the Great Emperor of the Great Rebellion of the Chai family's father and son, and Fan Zigai, the Emperor of the Eastern Capital, who joined forces to clean up the father and son of the Chai family-these two old stubborn and casual ones are extremely difficult to provoke, let alone join forces?
Seeing this scene, and seeing the crowd's pleading eyes of Li Xiuning and Chai Qian, Chen Yingliang had no choice, and after a wry smile, Chen Yingliang, who was still tied up by the five flowers, hurriedly took two steps forward, saluted Yang Yu and the others, and said loudly: "Xiaomin Chen Yingliang, dare to beg His Royal Highness the Acting King to be extrajudicial and merciful, spare the lives of Chai Shen's father and son!" β
There was a lot of uproar, Chai Shen and his son, who had been in a semi-fainting state before, almost fell to the ground with their jaws, and turned their heads to look at Chen Yingliang with a shocked face, Yang Yu, who was only eight years old, opened his mouth wide, Fan Zigai next to him raised his snow-white eyebrows, and Wei Xuan roared, "Chen Yingliang, are you crazy?" What nonsense?! β
"The guard stays behind to forgive the sin, and the younger generation is not crazy." Chen Yingliang replied loudly: "Don't hide the guards and stay behind, the younger generation still hates the cruel and ruthless Chai family father and son, they want to put the younger generation to death several times, not to mention, but also burned the younger generation's home, the only family member of the younger generation, Chen Sanbo was seriously injured, so that the sixtie-year-old third uncle lay on the hospital bed for more than two months, suffered from the pain, and has not yet recovered, the younger generation is eager to eat their skin and meat, and the corpse is broken into thousands of pieces!" However, the younger generations must still intercede for them and beg His Royal Highness the Acting King to spare their lives! β
"Why?" Wei Xuan asked angrily.
"For the sake of Wei to stay behind you, and for Fan to stay behind!" Chen Yingliang said in an astonishing voice: "The younger generation has been lonely since childhood, the parents died early, and they have never seen the appearance of their grandfathers and grandmothers, and after the younger generations met Wei Liushou and Fan Liushou, you are like the grandfathers of the younger generations, and they are both strict and loving to the younger generations, and have repeatedly tolerated the misdeeds of the younger generations, and loved the younger generations as their own grandchildren, and the younger generations have already respected and loved you as their own grandfathers in their hearts. β
Thousands of clothes, sycophants don't wear, listening to Chen Yingliang's touching words, Wei Lao's stubborn face suddenly slowed down, Chen Yingliang observed his words, and took the opportunity to continue: "The reason why the younger generation said this is because the father and son of the Chai family did not deserve to die, yes, they wanted the life of the younger generation several times, but they did not succeed, at most it can only be regarded as an attempted murder, and the crime is not death." They beat the third uncle of the younger generation, but they only beat the third uncle of the younger generation to serious injury, which was not fatal, and the crime was not death. β
"As for their slander and framing of juniors as traitors." Chen Yingliang sighed and said, "Such a criminal purpose also failed to succeed. In addition, the time experienced between the juniors leaving Daxing and returning to Daxing did coincide with the time of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, and they unknowingly suspected that the juniors were traitors and comrades, and instructed Daxing County Cheng to post a notice to arrest the juniors, although they were arbitrarily guilty, but according to national law, they also deserved to die. β
"Wei stays behind, Fan stays behind, the younger generation knows that you love the younger generation and want to uphold justice for the younger generation, but the father and son of the Chai family really deserve to die." Chen Yingliang bowed and said sincerely: "In view of this situation, the younger generation stands in the position of the grandson, and I really can't bear to let the two grandfathers punish the father and son of the Chai family too heavily for the sake of the younger generation, leaving a handle for the world, and even affecting the reputation of the two grandfathers. Therefore, the younger generation dared to plead, please ask His Royal Highness the Acting King and the two grandfathers to be extrajudicial and merciful, exempt the father and son of the Chai family from the death penalty, and give them a deserved punishment. β
Wei Lao was stubbornly silent, and only after a while did he stomp his feet and said angrily: "You little thing, rotten good person!" β
After speaking angrily, Wei Lao stubbornly stabbed Fan Zigai again and asked, "Huazong, what do you think?" β
"What else can you see?" Fan Zigai smiled bitterly and said: "Just now this little guy opened his mouth to intercede, the old man knew that things were going to be bad, during this counterinsurgency war, even Huangfu Wuyi rarely changed the old man's mind, it was this little bastard, every time he could persuade the old man to change his ways, and in the end, he had to praise him with a clear conscience for his reasonable words and righteous intentions." This little bastard, the old man can't do anything about him. β
Wei Xuan sighed, first gritted his teeth and looked at Chen Yingliang with a sincere face, and then turned his head to look at the father and son of the Chai family who were full of pleading, and wanted to open his mouth and roar several times, but finally sighed helplessly, bent down and attached himself to Yang Yu's ear, and muttered in a low voice. Then it didn't take long for Yang Yu to nod his head and change his words: "Okay, for the sake of Chen Yingliang's intercession in the Henan Zanzhi Mansion Secretariat, I will spare Chai Shen and Chai Shao's father and son." But the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped, Chai Shen Chai Shao and his son immediately removed from their official positions, stripped of their titles, and demoted to commoners. In addition, a fine of 1,000 yuan was given to Chen Yingliang's family as compensation for the cost of the soup and medicine. β
"His Royal Highness Xie is not killing, Xie Wei stays behind, Xie Fan stays behind!" Chai Shen was overjoyed, and quickly kowtowed again and again to thank him.
"Don't thank the old man!" Fan Zigai said coldly: "In Luoyang, the eastern capital, with the old man's temper, the heads of your whole family would have fallen to the ground long ago!" Who to thank, you know in your own heart! β
Chai Shen hurriedly kowtowed and agreed, and then turned back to thank Chen Yingliang, and his voice was also trembling, "Chen Ji's room, great kindness, the old man remembers." If you have the opportunity, the old man will definitely make a grass ring to repay your great kindness. β
Chen Yingliang didn't bother to pay attention to his former future father-in-law, only looked at Chai Shao, who didn't say anything, Chai Shao also turned back to look at Chen Yingliang, his eyes collided, Chai Shao's eyes were not grateful, and they were still full of hatred and anger, Chen Yingliang sneered with disdain, and said in his heart: "I know that you still hate me, but it's a pity that you will never have a chance to surpass me again in your life." β
After stripping off the official uniform on the spot, Chai Shen and his son were dragged away by the guards, and the rope on Chen Yingliang's body was finally untied - the rope was not wasted, and it was directly tied to the unlucky Daxing County Cheng Wang Feng, who was unlucky enough to lie on the gun, poor Wang Xian Cheng desperately kowtowed and begged for mercy, but no one paid attention to him. Then in front of everyone's eyes, Wei Lao stubbornly came over and kicked Chen Yingliang, shouting: "Go, return to the team and change clothes, and follow the old man into the city with the army!" β
"Wait." Chen Yingliang arched his hand and said: "Wei stays behind, the juniors still have a request." β
"What other tricks are you going to play?" Elder Wei asked stubbornly angrily.
"Please stay behind and calm your anger." Chen Yingliang hurriedly explained: "That's the case, the younger generation lost his father at the age of ten, and then his mother was seriously ill, and he also died when the younger generation was fifteen years old. β
No one doesn't like filial piety, especially Wei Lao stubbornly already regarded Chen Yingliang as his own grandson, so Wei Lao stubbornly immediately turned his anger into joy and scolded: "As far as you kid has a lot of tricks, for the sake of your conscience, the old man gave you this face and agreed." β
Chen Yingliang was overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked Wei Xuan repeatedly, and then personally carried Chen Laosan, who was already in tears, and took him south to meet with the team of the Baoguo Army, change the military uniforms and armor, and then really put Chen Laosan on the war horse, and personally led the horse and whip for Chen Laosan, and led the Baoguo Army to join other friendly teams to return to the city in triumph.
"The wolf smoke rises, the rivers and mountains look north, the dragon rises, the horse neighses, the sword qi is like frost, the heart is like the Yellow River, twenty years, between vertical and horizontal, who can resist?"
The military song is loud, the military flag is fluttering, the iconic military song echoes in front of the Daxing Mingde Gate, the flag of loyalty to the country with arrow holes flutters in the wind in the newspaper **** team, Chen Yingliang's clothes and armor are bright, the white robe is fluttering, one hand is holding a knife, and the other hand is holding a snow-white war horse carrying Chen Laosan, walking with his head held high between the Daxing soldiers and civilians who greet each other, Chen Laosan is in tears on the war horse, and he is excited, but Chen Yingliang is full of emotion in his heart, "Daxing, this time I am officially back." β
The bright silver bright light armor sparkled in the sun, and the snow-white cloak fluttered gently, setting off Chen Yingliang, who was already a dog, to be more handsome and heroic, and seeing the true appearance of her former fiancΓ© in the crowd, Chai Qian looked like a dumb person, and her heart was at a loss, I don't know whether to regret and hate, or to cry out loud? Li Xiuning also looked indifferent, with all the ups and downs in her heart, and she regretted it.
Chai Shen, who had been stripped of his official uniform, also looked at the appearance of his future son-in-law from afar, and couldn't help but slap himself hard, scolding himself for having eyes without beads, eyes and not knowing gold and jade, and losing such a good son-in-law who was enough to make the owners of the house blushing. Chai Shao stared at his former brother-in-law from afar, his body was motionless, chewing his lips and bleeding.
"Brother, this big brother is so handsome, and his heart is so good, it's amazing." The little Basket sighed to her brother before.
"It's amazing, I heard that this military song was written and composed by him, both civil and military, and even more amazing." Xiao Luoli's brother nodded, then turned to his friend Li Er beside him and asked, "Erlang, what do you think?" β
"From now on, he's my goal to transcend." Li Er replied solemnly: "One day, I must surpass him!" β
At this time, Chen Yingliang had already led the Baoguo Army to the location where Li Er and the others were, and his eyes also glanced at Xiao Luoli's body, and Xiao Luoli, who had been watching Chen Yingliang, hurriedly smiled politely, but unfortunately Chen Yingliang's gaze quickly swept past her, looking at the crowd behind Xiao Luoli, Xiao Xiaoli couldn't help but be disappointed, and said secretly: "He, why don't you take a closer look at me?" β
Chen Yingliang, whose character is not rotten to the extreme, is of course not a villain, but Chen Yingliang has been secretly looking for someone, so he didn't notice the cute Luo Li's smile on him. After the search for people has been fruitless, Chen Yingliang once fell into a deep disappointment, but when he was about to step into the Mingde Gate, Chen Yingliang was pleasantly surprised to see that Yang Yuer, who was in green clothes and green skirts, was standing in a conspicuous position next to the city gate surrounded by several men and women, silently watching himself, Chen Yingliang hurriedly sent a cordial smile to Yang Yuer, but Yang Yuer was still expressionless, silently looking at the handsome and extraordinary Chen Yingliang, and no one knew what he thought in his heart.