Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Old Man in the Castle Town
"Seleuc, do you think there is absolute justice in this world?" Gu Xuan squinted his eyes and asked slowly.
"Of course... Yes. Seleuc subconsciously said righteously.
"Then Seleuc, which side do you think is the one of absolute justice, these four dead evil men or this girl named Hill?" Gu Xuan's questioning made Sai Lu bow his head in difficulty.
"My argument is that there is no such thing as absolute justice in this world." Gu Xuan casually took out an example as material, empires and foreign peoples.
The living environment of other ethnic groups is poor, and it is difficult to produce food on the land. Therefore, the alien peoples uphold their own justice and wage war to seize supplies from the hands of the Empire.
In the same way, the empire has a good living environment and does not worry about food problems. However, the foreign nation also has things and lands that the empire covets, so the empire also upholds its own justice and wags war against the foreign nation.
So, which side is right in terms of justice?
"Therefore, the justice that each upholds is actually relative justice, a kind of justice that conforms to its own values." Returning to the case, after Gu Xuan outlined his views on relative justice, he turned the conversation to absolute justice: "Absolute justice means justice that conforms to the spiritual and even material interests of all people in a certain period of time. β
Gu Xuan spread out all the motives of several people in the report on the table, and said to the greatest extent to the impact of Sai Liu's concept of justice: "So absolute justice is subjectively impossible to achieve, and the four strong men feel that it is justice for Hill to kill their leader, so it is justice to take revenge." And Hill killed four strong men to protect her friends, plus she killed four strong men to protect herself, and it was also a righteous party for her to eliminate the villains herself. β
"So in my opinion, there is only relative justice in this world. Therefore, Seleuc, you have to learn to see a case thoroughly. β
This is Gu Xuan's concept of justice, that is, justice is actually not a fart. It's just a high-sounding rhetoric, the essence of justice is what everyone expects in their hearts, so the pursuit of justice is nothing more than the pursuit of what they want to do under their worldview.
Sai Liu pursed his lips and shook his head, lazily reached out and stuck his hand on the table, showing his slender figure and said, "Ah, Vice Captain Gu Xuan, you are about to make me dizzy." So what should I do with this report? β
Gu Xuan laughed lightly, stood up and said, "Let's go, let's go to the castle town." β
Seleuc is just a little paranoid, and if he identifies a distorted thing, he will naturally continue to be strong. Don't care about the truth of the facts, don't think about the truth of things, don't scrutinize the root of everything. Therefore, Gu Xuan just asked her to change her paranoid views and cultivate her to become a discerning concept.
And he also wants to meet Hill, the big sister character of the hot and stupid character in the original book.
Sai Leu responded with a cheerful "yes", her concept of justice had been impacted, and she felt that Gu Xuan was very good at what she said, but she was confused about what to do. Now that I have the opportunity to investigate first-hand, I am naturally full of enthusiasm.
"By the way, change your clothes."
"Huh?" In Seleuc's unexplained doubts, he changed out of the uniform of the imperial capital garrison.
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The castle town of the imperial capitalββ
Gu Xuan and Sai Leuc came to the vicinity of the room where Hill lived, because his parents were killed, Hill fled, and the surrounding civilians seemed much deserted in order to avoid the limelight.
Knock, knock!
After waiting for a while, an old man who lived at a nearby gateway opened the door. He was on crutches, his frost-white eyebrows looked a little gloomy, and his lonely back looked a little miserable.
"I don't know what you have to do with the old man?"
"The two of us are colleagues at Hill's office, and Hill hasn't come to work for no reason recently, so we came to ask what's going on, but no one answered when she knocked on her door for a long time."
Gu Xuan stopped Sai Liu's subconscious answer, and did not say the identity of the imperial capital garrison, but amiably asked the only old man who still lived in the door near Hill's house in the tone of a junior asking an elder.
"It's... Well, the poor child of Hill, the whole family except her was killed by the damned noble lackey. But fortunately, God has eyes and let Hill kill those enemies. β
"How so! I can't see it at all......" Gu Xuan pretended not to know about this matter at all, and said to the old man just right.
"yes, but it's good to kill." The old man angrily tapped the floor tiles with his cane a few times, is there still some hidden secret?
Afterwards, Gu Xuan chatted with the old man about family life and things about Hill. Hill is also famous in this area, because she always does not do well at work, such as breaking a plate and serving the wrong dish to a customer, and she is easily fired.
Although some people would say bad things about Hill behind his back, they were all very fond of this clumsy girl. Because she always greets them cordially, and helps remove the weeds in the yard from time to time, she is a very kind child.
Immediately, the topic changed. Probably alone and without someone to talk to, the old man angrily reprimanded the four dead strong men: "They died well!" These wicked people deserve evil retribution, and my only daughter was captured by them and sent to the nobles' house. β
"Yet haven't heard from my daughter since, damned nobles." Pouring out the old man's grief and indignation, he left shocking tears, old tears, hanging from each other, making this tragic old man cry like a child.
All this confiding made Saileu, who was standing next to her, clench her fists in shame, and she didn't know how to comfort the old man.
"Don't worry, old man, I will punish these villains, and I will kill them." Gu Xuan's gaze was blazing, like a flame burning quietly. This flame is like the will of his decision, but if you underestimate this flame, it will burst into a heat that burns everything.
"But... You..."
"We are members of the Imperial Capital Garrison." Seleuc finally couldn't help it and reported the identities of the two.
Unexpectedly, the old man began to take two steps back vigilantly, just like the eyes he had seen when he denounced the villain before, and looked at Seleuc, so that the passionate words in her mouth were choked by the neck, and she couldn't pop out a word.
"Please believe us again, my name is Gu Xuan, and I am the new deputy captain of the Imperial Capital Garrison. As for why, because I'm here. Gu Xuan solemnly bowed to the old man, without explaining too much, took the wrist of the still sluggish Sai Leu, and left here.
Back at the office of the imperial capital garrison, the atmosphere was very solemn, and finally the old man's gaze severely shattered the beliefs and concepts in Sailu's heart! She had always been proud of being a member of the Imperial Capital Garrison, and was determined to help civilians in need, but she was stared at by the old man's distrust, and the blow was far more complete than Gu Xuan's theory.
"Seleuc, do you know why that old man doesn't trust us?" Gu Xuan knew that Sai Lu couldn't answer, after all, pampering her eyes was too superficial, and continued: "Because our imperial capital garrison is actually similar to a damn nobleman in the eyes of the common people!" β
Sai Leu raised his head and was just about to refute, when Gu Xuan found another stack of processed reports and put them in front of her.
These reports were all cases of disputes between the aristocracy and the poor. Among them, none of the nobles were punished, or the guards were biased towards the nobles, and even helped the nobles to forcibly torture them, so that the poor had to bend into tricks to cover up the truth of the facts.
It is impossible for these ordinary members to understand it, but Gu Xuan, the deputy captain, naturally has the qualifications to read it. He just wants to expose the truth of the case in front of Seleuc, so that she can learn to use a correct view of justice to look at the truth and essence of the incident.