After returning to the yamen, Lu Ming did not rush to drop Yan Wu, but waited anxiously outside the old beggar's room.

"I don't know if the doctor I invited can rejuvenate me...... Hey......"

Lu Ming kept sighing, and he didn't know what useful things to do now, so he could only be helpless on the sidelines.

Han Xiao was silent on the side, in fact, he knew that since the doctor said that the old beggar would not survive tonight, no matter how hard he tried, it would be in vain.

However, he still had hope and luck in his heart.

With a "squeak", the door opened, and an elderly doctor came out, and said to Han Xiao: "Lord Qiqi County, although the patient has recovered a little sane, he is still unable to return to the sky, and the grass people have done their best." ”

"Hey......"

Han Xiao sighed, waved his hand, and continued, "That's it, let's go!"

"The grass people are retired!"

The old doctor bowed ashamedly and left the yamen with the medicine box on his back.

Lu Ming walked into the room, saw the old beggar slumped on the bed, walked up to him and called softly: "Old man, wake up, can you hear me?"

"Ah......h

The old beggar closed his eyes and moved his lips as if he were about to say something.

"Old gentleman, the yamen has arrested the scholar, and the yamen will severely punish that guy and give you justice!"

"Ahem......"

The old beggar coughed twice, and then said slowly in a very small voice, "I...... I don't...... Blame him...... It's me...... Careless...... Hit him...... Ahem......"

"What do you say...... You ......", Lu Ming was stunned for a moment.

"Please...... Don't embarrass him...... He...... It's a reader...... should serve the country...... Please...... Grant the old man's request......"

Lu Ming nodded hurriedly after hearing this: "Okay, I promise you not to embarrass him." ”

"The old gentleman still has any wishes, but it doesn't matter, the younger generation will do his best. ”

The old beggar was silent for a moment, then said slowly, "I want to ...... Listen to it one last time...... The sound of reading a book...... Thank you ......."

"Reading ......"

Lu Ming felt that his nose was a little sour, so he took out a copy of "The Analects" from his arms, opened the book and read it slowly.

"Zi said, learn and learn it, not happy, there are friends from afar, not happy, people don't know and are not ashamed, not gentlemen......"

Reading and reading, two tears fell from the corners of his eyes, and it seemed to be so hot at the moment.

Han Xiao walked in, heard the sound of Lu Ming reading, and didn't dare to disturb, and made a gesture to the people behind him, asking everyone to be quiet and not to speak.

After a long time, Lu Ming finished reading the Analects, looked back at the old beggar, and saw that he was still with his eyes closed, but the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and there was a faint smile.

"Sir, you ......"

Lu Ming stretched out his finger to test his breathing in front of the old beggar's nose, and the next moment his face changed, he put the "Analects" back in his arms, let out a sigh, and said slowly: "The old gentleman has left." ”

The corners of Han Xiao's mouth twitched when he heard this, and then he shouted angrily: "Come on, bring Yan Wu to me!"

"Order!"

As soon as the words fell, the official escorted Yan Wu up.

Yan Wu forcibly squeezed out a smile and said, "Lord Han, I know it's wrong, can you let me go?" I will definitely correct my mistake and never make it again." ”

"Now I know that it's too late to make corrections!

"What...... What?"

Yan Wu said in disbelief: "I just hit him a few times before he died?

"Yan Wu!"

Han Xiao took out his long sword, pointed at Yan Wu and shouted, "You are still a scholar, now I will kill you and avenge him!"

"Lord Han, spare your life, spare your life!"

Yan Wu's face turned blue with fright, and he kept breaking free from the shackles of the officials, but he had been tied up by the five flowers, and he was held down by the officials, and he couldn't move even if he was a showman.

"Stop!"

Lu Ming said, "Lord Han, please don't kill him. ”

"What did you say?"

Han Xiao was stunned, almost thinking that he had heard it wrong, and the others couldn't believe their ears.

"Why? Don't you want to seek justice for the old gentleman? Now that Yan Wu is here, why don't you kill him!", Han Xiao was puzzled.

Lu Ming sighed and said, "The old gentleman said to me before leaving, telling us not to embarrass Yan Wu. ”

"This ......", Han Xiao was stunned.

Yan Wu was also incredulous when he heard this, the expression on his face kept changing, and his mouth opened slightly.

The old gentleman said that Yan Wu is a scholar and should serve the country, he does not blame Yan Wu, he has no hatred for Yan Wu, and ...... The old gentleman ended up smiling, he had died without regrets, so ...... You can't kill him. Lu Ming explained.

"Okay, then follow the old gentleman's last words. ”

Han Xiao withdrew his long sword, but his gaze at Yan Wu was even colder.

Although the old gentleman is a beggar, but in order for the poor students to have more books to read, he sleeps in the open every day, saves money, suffers humiliation and illness, and uses the begging money to build a school and a private school, Mr. Qi's school is built by the elderly students. ”

After finishing speaking, Lu Ming knelt on the ground with a "plop" at the old beggar, bowed slightly, and mourned in deep silence.

Han Xiao was greatly moved when he saw this, and he knelt down together, and said firmly: "I am willing to follow Lu Wenhou to guard the old man's spirit." ”

"I'm the same!"

The officials behind him knelt on the ground one after another, and even more had secretly wiped their tears, and the air was filled with a sad atmosphere.

"Old sir, I'm sorry for you......"

Yan Wu's knees weakened, he knelt on the ground with his head bowed, his face was flushed, and his heart was full of endless remorse and self-blame.

On this night, the Jiangxian Yamen hung up the white silk.

"Boom!"

The sky sounded the sound of thunder, and then it rained heavily.

Late at night, Qi family.

"Old man!"

Mr. Qi suddenly woke up in his sleep, and the whole person sat on the bed and looked out the window blankly, but a heavy rain outside made Mr. Qi seem to understand something, and tears unconsciously flowed from the corners of his eyes.

After a while, Mr. Qi was crying and very sad.

The next day, heavy rain turned to light rain.

Mr. Qi came to the yamen and saw that the yamen had set up a mourning hall, and there were many people kneeling on the left and right, Lu Ming, Han Xiao, Xiancheng, Zhukuai, etc., and there was a pitch-black coffin in the middle.

"Sir, I'm late!"

Mr. Qi lay on the coffin and cried bitterly, beat his chest and said, "You shouldn't go! You shouldn't go! Didn't you say that you want to see Xiao Ah Niu who was admitted to the middle school? Didn't you say that you would wait for me to come to ask for money on the day I got married?"

"Woo ......"

After crying for a while, Mr. Qi wiped away his tears and choked up: "You gave me a dream last night, I remember everything you said to me, you can rest assured, I will teach the children of Jiang County well, even if the children of poor families can't afford to pay tuition, I will let them study and let them take the children's exam." ”

Subsequently, Mr. Qi put incense on the old beggar, and then knelt down on the side, silently keeping vigil.