Chapter 443: Is There Justice?
readx;?? Yan Zheng, the king of the Holy West, was imprisoned in prison last night to meditate on his own mistakes, but instead of repenting, he also designed to kill the jailer in an attempt to escape, and then was unfortunately injured in the fight with the city army who came to block, although he was treated by the best doctor in the imperial city, but because Yan Zheng was old and frail, his injuries aggravated sharply in the early hours of this morning, and finally died violently. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
This news came out of the golden palace of the imperial city in the early morning, although the emperor Yanchong meant a low-key funeral, but there is no impermeable wall in the world, such shocking news was spread all over the streets and alleys of Jinling City in just one hour, the people were already worried all day long in the panic of the rebels outside the city, and now when they heard such an unexpected news, they naturally couldn't help but have a lot of speculation, so all kinds of rumors were also spread in the market.
As soon as Yan Zheng died, the gate of the Shengxi Palace's palace was closed and heavily guarded, and passers-by didn't even dare to take a second look, for fear of being arrested as accomplices by those menacing city troops. And there seemed to be a lot of patrolling sergeants in the city all of a sudden, and the restaurants, tea shops, gambling houses, inns and the like in the city were all searched by the city soldiers one by one, no one explained anything, and no one admitted anything, but the atmosphere in Jinling City reached unprecedented tension for a while. So much so that although most people did not believe that the death of King Saint West would be so simple, they were afraid of the current situation in the city and the order issued by the court to prohibit rumors, so people naturally did not dare to gather together to talk too much about this matter, and they all held an attitude that it was not their business. And Emperor Yan Chong has done so many things, in fact, there is only one purpose, that is, he doesn't want to make any unnecessary chaos at this juncture because of Yan Zheng's death. After all, the most urgent thing at the moment is to go all out to deal with the rebels outside the city.
Since Han Ling'er and Tang Ruoxi lived in the Han Mansion, they were also the most well-informed, and they ran to the city army camp early in the morning to hurriedly find Lu Yifan, wanting to ask what happened last night, and blocked Lu Yifan, who was about to put on armor and kick the city.
And when Lu Yifan learned the news from Han Ling'er's mouth, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised in his heart, although he had already expected that Yan Zheng would never have any good results, but he never expected that he would die so quickly. Although Yan Zheng came here yesterday and personally said his intention to rebel, in the final analysis, it was just a few words, and he did not come up with any real evidence, and the emperor actually convicted Yan Zheng of the death penalty without any verification, and such a decisive speed shocked Lu Yifan. You must know the news sent by the court, Lu Yifan will not believe it at all.
"Yifan, we're ready, when are we leaving?"
Liu Sandao, who was full of energy, put the long knife on his shoulder casually with his right hand, and was stuffing a meat bun with his left hand that had not yet been eaten into his bulging mouth. And Lu Jun, Xie Yun and others also gathered from all directions one after another, and they were already gearing up at the moment, ready to have a bloody battle with the rebels besieging the city at any time.
Ji Yuan was not among these people, because Lu Yifan specially instructed him to stay with Ji Yi'er more, so as to take the opportunity to enhance the relationship between their brothers and sisters, although the effect was very small, Ji Yuan was always happy to follow Ji Yi'er's side and take care of him meticulously. The two of them were together all day long, and almost Ji Yuan was talking and laughing, and he kept nagging, but Ji Yi'er cherished words like gold, and sometimes he didn't even give him a straight look. If it weren't for the fact that everyone around them knew that they were brother and sister, I am afraid that some people would have misunderstood that Ji Yuan was a gentleman who relied on other girls.
"The King of Saint-West is dead......
Somehow, Lu Yifan was not as calm as he imagined about Yan Zheng's death, but there was always an inexplicable sense of heaviness in his heart. The relationship between Yan Zheng and him is actually extremely complicated, both the kindness of the sky and the earth and the blood feud that are not shared, although Yan Zheng's various favors are based on his own purposes, but this cannot erase the fact that Lu Yifan has indeed received Yan Zheng's kindness. And the most important thing is that the reason why Yan Zheng, who has always been shrewd, capsized in the gutter, in fact, the most direct reason is because of him Lu Yifan, although last night's situation was not Lu Yifan's original intention, but he is the key to the key, just by virtue of this, although Lu Yifan found a bunch of excuses to comfort himself, but he always had a sense of guilt about Yan Zheng in his faint heart.
Lu Yifan had to admit that when he learned that Yan Zheng sent someone to attack the Lu family at night, he really wanted to kill Yan Zheng to take revenge, but there were many ways to take revenge, and last night's method of taking advantage of Yan Zheng's trust in him to set up a trap was the last thing Lu Yifan was unwilling to accept. At this moment, in Lu Yifan's heart, a thought that came out of nowhere always lingered in his ears. That is: Yan Zheng's revenge against himself has now been avenged. But what about Yan Zheng's kindness to him? How should he repay it? Where should the grievances that he has always boasted of be placed now?
"Yifan?" Seeing Lu Yifan's absent-minded appearance, Liu Sandao couldn't help but throw the meat bun in his hand casually, frowned slightly and shouted softly, "What are you thinking?"
"King Saint Xi is dead!" Lu Yifan turned his head faintly, and said with a rather tangled expression, "It is said that he tried to escape from prison yesterday and died in a fight with the jailer!"
"Oh!" Liu Sandao heard the news as if he had heard a bland homely sentence, he just nodded casually, and then asked again, "What does it matter to us if he dies or not, I just asked what you were thinking?"
"What he's thinking about is about Yan Zheng's death!" Without waiting for Lu Yifan to open his mouth again, Yulou slowly walked out of the room, looking straight at Lu Yifan with a pair of clear eyes, and said with a smile, "Yifan, am I right?"
"Yes!" Lu Yifan nodded heavily, and then he turned around and walked towards the room, saying quickly as he walked, "I won't go to the city wall today, when I change my clothes, I have to go to the imperial city first!"
"This ......" As soon as Lu Yifan's words came out, everyone showed a hint of surprise on their faces, and none of them understood what was going on.
"Yifan, what are you doing in the Imperial City?" Han Ling'er hurriedly caught up and asked urgently, "Could it be that you want to seek justice for Yan Zheng?"
"I'm not trying to seek justice for him, I just want to know what happened in the night death row!" Lu Yifan said in a condensed voice without looking back, "Whether we admit it or not, after all, the King of the Saint West has been kind to you and me, and now that he is dead, I don't want to fight for anything about him, but I must know how the King of the Saint West died." At least let him die clearly, this is the last thing I did for him to repay his kindness!"
"Yifan, you have always blamed Yan Zheng's death on yourself, and Yan Zheng has always misunderstood that you hurt him, but in fact, he will kill himself if he commits many injustices, the so-called justice is in the hearts of the people, why are you so obsessed?" Yulou stood at the door of the room, staring at Lu Yifan's back solemnly, "Actually, you know very well in your heart how Yan Zheng died, after all, he is the dignified King of Shengxi, if there is no order from His Majesty the Emperor today, what jailer would dare to touch him at all?"
"You mean that the Emperor killed the King of Saint West?" Lu Yifan turned his head suddenly, the look in his eyes was extremely complicated, "Doesn't it mean that people from the royal family are not guilty of capital crimes? Not to mention that they are still brothers of the same clan." At the beginning, the Shengdong King Yanyi also committed a heinous capital crime, and in the end, he only ended up being dismissed and repatriated, why ......"
"Because the capital crime committed by Yan Zheng at that time was against your Lu family, but the capital crime committed by Yan Zheng today is against him to lead the emperor!" Yu Lou didn't care about the good deeds that gathered more and more around him, and said aloud without humility or arrogance, "Is it the same?"
"Isn't it different? Isn't it all human life......
"Some people's lives are as precious as heaven and earth, and some people's lives are as cheap as grass mustard, is it?" Before Lu Yifan could refute, Yulou quickly asked, "If the Holy East King had dealt with not your Lu family, but ordinary people in the Holy Land, then he might not have been convicted even the slightest crime." Yifan, in fact, you know this truth very well in your heart, it's just that you don't want to admit it!"
"If someone is born more noble than others, and is naturally superior, then the royal family is the most noble in the Holy Domain, right?
"It's true that the royal family is noble, but then it has to be compared with someone!" Yulou sighed bitterly, "Compared with us, Yan Zheng's life is of course more expensive than gold, but if it is compared with the emperor, then his Yan Zheng's life is worthless!"
"What about justice? Since the world is so unfair, then why talk about the distinction between grievances and grievances? Even if it is clear, what is the use? If you meet someone who is higher than yourself, wouldn't you have to be slaughtered by others?" Lu Yifan asked again and again with a tangled face, and somehow his eyes were full of sadness when he said this, "My father is like this, Lan Shixun is like this, Yan Zheng is like this, and you and I are like this......"
"Whether it is the Holy Domain Emperor or the Holy Domain Sect Master, if they are placed in the Five Domains, there will still be people who are not worthy of them, because compared with some really powerful people in the Five Domains, the life of the Holy Domain Emperor will also become very cheap!" Yulou seemed to understand the crux of Lu Yifan's problem, so he said it quite bluntly, "Yifan, have you ever been bullied?"
"Bully?" Hearing this, Mo said that it was Lu Yifan, and even Liu Sandao and the others who were standing outside couldn't help but be stunned, Lu Yifan scratched his head in confusion, and asked softly, "Why do you say this?"
"I mean your sins that you can't afford to provoke, or are you not wrong, but you are deliberately riding on your head and bullying you by some extremely powerful people?" Yulou asked with a smile, "You may just want to live your life in peace, but some people who claim to be strong don't want you to live a stable life, and instead of forcing you to get involved in a life-and-death battle." ”
"Is there still such a person in the world?" Lu Yifan smiled bitterly in surprise, "If I don't want to fight him to the death, what should I do?"
"It's very simple, either endure or hide!" Yulou replied bluntly.
"Why should you swallow your anger, and why should you hide?"
"Haven't you heard a saying that you can't afford to hide?" Yulou suddenly laughed, "No wonder, you were born as the son of the dignified Sacred Domain Wending Gong, with your identity and status in Jinling, you can be regarded as rampant, even the people of the royal family are afraid to give Wen Ding Gong a little face, so from childhood to adulthood, no matter where you go, you are always hugging and shouting, whoever meets you must greet you with a smile, and who dares to bully your head?" You will naturally take it for granted that this world is very fair, but in fact, it is only because you have stepped on justice under your feet, and you must know that not everyone in the Sacred Realm is the son of Duke Wending, and many things are fair to you, but it does not mean that they will be fair to everyone!"
"That's good!" Xie Yun suddenly accosted, "If you can live freely and freely, you can be frank and do things casually, that's because your identity and status have been superior to others since you were a child, but in fact, ten out of ten people in the world are in the infinite wandering of 'forbearance' and 'hiding' and struggle to survive." Anyone who is unwilling to be reconciled to these two and fights up, the result is a dead end! Just like today's Lan Shixun and Yan Zheng...... Of course, there are also my father and those innocent people in Wenyang City......" Xie Yun's words couldn't help but sigh at this point, "How can there be any righteous way in heaven and earth? whether it is justice or fairness, it is just the rules formulated by the superior that are beneficial to their own benefit, and if you want to make a difference, you can only try your best to cater to such rules, and only those who understand the rules can become new magnates and begin to enjoy the so-called 'justice'!"
"Actually, everyone is like this!" Han Ling'er pursed her lips, walked slowly to Lu Yifan's side, stretched out her hand and gently grabbed his arm, and said softly, "The best one to cater to is the emperor, and the one who is almost the king is the king, followed by the duke, the marquis, the ministers, the government, and the officials, this is the official rank of the holy domain, and it is also the level of justice that they can enjoy, the higher the status, the more they feel that the world is fair to themselves, on the contrary, the lower the status, the more miserable they live." As Yulou said just now, even if the Holy Domain Emperor is still not worth it in the eyes of some people in the Five Domains, this shows that each of us is bullying others intentionally or unintentionally, and we are also being oppressed by others. How can we define justice as good as it should be, and the slightest injustice as unjust?"
"Miss Han Bingxue is smart, and she is better than Yulou's tirade in just a few words, I admire it!" Yulou smiled lightly and arched her hand slightly at Han Ling'er to show her appreciation.
Listening to the explanations of Yulou, Xie Yun and Han Ling'er, Lu Yifan's eyes couldn't help flashing a touch of sadness, he turned his puzzled gaze to Xie Yun, and slowly asked: "Just now you said that anyone who is unwilling to fight is a dead end, so what should I do if there are still 12 out of 10?"
Hearing Lu Yifan's question, Xie Yun couldn't help but look dazed for a while, just now he just wanted to explain what he meant, but he never expected Lu Yifan to ask himself such a rhetorical question.
"This ......"
"It's actually very simple!" As if seeing Xie Yun's embarrassment, Yulou smiled lightly and stretched out his hand to point directly at Liu Sandao, and opened his mouth to ask, "Dare to ask Brother Liu, if you encounter some powerful people who want to bully you, what should you do?"
"Me?" Liu Sandao didn't expect Yulou to lead the topic to himself, so he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then shook the long knife in his hand playfully, and said with a smile, "Lao Tzu is looking forward to some great character who can bully me all day long......!
"Huh!" Yulou nodded with a wry smile at Lu Yifan after hearing this, "This is the remaining eleven! Brother Liu has no prominent background, nor does he have a huge backing behind him, so he can also ignore the rules set by the emperor with a knife in his hand, even if he arrives in the Golden Palace of the Imperial City, he still dares to walk sideways!"
"Why?" Lu Yifan asked puzzled.
"Because he is strong enough and ruthless enough!" Yu Lou replied with a smile, "The most important thing is that he can give up his life at any time! In fact, what is the purpose of most martial arts cultivation? Isn't it just to keep getting stronger and stronger, and finally be able to stand on top of everyone's heads?"
"What about you?" Lu Yifan suddenly changed his words, and the two fine lights in his eyes shot directly at Yulou, "Yulou, listening to what you just said seems to be very mediocre, but it seems to be very noble, since you regard me as a friend worth making, then why don't you tell me frankly, you ...... Who the hell is it?"
"I ......"
"Sect Master Lu!"
Before Yulou could open his mouth, he saw a person who looked like an official in the imperial city was trotting all the way, hurrying in the direction of Lu Yifan, and he shouted out of breath as he ran: "Sect Master Lu, something happened...... Something went wrong......"
"What's so alarming?" Just when the internal official was about to rush to Lu Yifan, Lu Jun had already taken a step in front of him, stretched out his iron arm and blocked his way forward, "Just stand here and say!"
"Just ...... The sergeants caught several suspicious-looking people outside the city gates, suspected of being spies sent by the rebels......"
"Let's get to the point!" Lu Jun's tone sank, and he shouted loudly, "The spy is killed, why are you running here and shouting?"
"It's going to be killed, but one of them has a woman who keeps saying that she wants to see Lu Yifan, and she also says that she is Lu Yifan's old friend, and she has something to tell you......" The internal official was so frightened that he hurriedly explained, "The sergeants learned that she knew Sect Master Lu, so they naturally didn't dare to make a mistake, so they took them to the Golden Palace and handed them over to Your Majesty to dispose of, and Your Majesty sent a villain to find Sect Master Lu to identify them in the hall to see if they recognized them......" The internal official was frightened by Lu Junyi, and he didn't dare to gasp, so he finished his words quickly in one breath, and in the end, he was suffocated with a red face and a thick neck.
"Haha...... If something really happened, it's just not a big bad thing, it's a big thing!"
Without waiting for Lu Jun to ask again, Yulou, who had always looked strange, suddenly laughed out loud, and then before Lu Yifan could react, he grabbed Lu Yifan's arm and walked quickly in the direction of the imperial city.
"Yifan, hurry up and follow me to the Golden Palace!"
"Yulou, why are you ......?"
"The matter of Yanzheng is not enough to worry about, what is in the Golden Palace at this moment is the real gift I give you!haha......"
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