Chapter 14 Stealing the Day
"There's nothing wrong with going and seeing." Tang Ji said.
Tang Ji woke up the dreamer with a word, and if he had doubts, he went to take a look, Fu Mingyue had been captured, and there was a master of the Upper Eight Realms like Xiaode in charge, what kind of means could Fu Xingchen play.
So Kong Zhaolin took the key from Xiao De, and Xiao De and Meng Fei guarded Fu Mingyue outside the door, and at the same time guarded Fu Xingchen, Tang Ji, Kong Zhaolin, Dean Changsun and Zhang San and others to enter the third floor together.
Dean Changsun wrapped the candle with a gauze cover to prevent a fire, and after entering the third floor, he could see several calligraphy and paintings hanging on the surrounding walls by candlelight, all of which were authentic works of famous masters of the past dynasties.
Zhang San walked to a square low cabinet with a candle in his left hand, "In the lower right hand, I also asked Tang Daxia to help me palm the lamp, so that I can open the cabinet door." Zhang San handed the candle flame to Tang Ji, then took out a bunch of keys from his waist, opened the square low cabinet, and took out a red brocade box with the length of an arm.
Then put the brocade box on top of the low cabinet, and then took out the key with the red rope before, just as the brocade box was about to be opened, Tang Ji suddenly sneezed and blew out the candle, and suddenly the entire third floor was pitch black, and he couldn't see his five fingers.
"Is Brother Tang creating an opportunity for Fu Xingchen?" Kong Zhaolin said teasingly when he saw this.
"The smell of this brocade box is too strong, and the inferior ones are a little allergic." Tang Ji explained.
Kong Zhaolin took the candle flame from Tang Ji's hand, walked downstairs to relight the candle, and walked into the third floor again.
Zhang San inserted the key into the lock hole, but did not rush to open the brocade box, but looked at Dean Changsun, who took out a key tied with a yellow rope from his body and handed it to Zhang San.
It turned out that there were two lock holes on the brocade box, one red and one yellow, Zhang San inserted the red key into the yellow hole, inserted the yellow key into the red hole, and the two keys were turned at the same time, and the brocade box was opened.
"Oh, no...... It's gone...... "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is gone. After opening the brocade box, Zhang San exclaimed in surprise.
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"Miss Fu, do you know the consequences of your and Brother Ling's crime this time?" Kong Zhaolin looked at Fu Mingyue, who was full of pride, and asked with a serious face.
"What's the consequences?" Fu Mingyue asked rhetorically after a smile.
"I can understand your motive for committing this crime as a demonstration to the Haoran Palace, and you want to dedicate the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" to the Quanxing Hall as a letter of submission." Kong Zhaolin said with a threatening voice.
"What's wrong with the temple of the whole nature, it's free, it's not like you, like you who have caught me now, but you can't do anything to me." Fu Mingyue was not afraid of Kong Zhaolin's threat at all.
"Miss Fu, the brothers and sisters who fought for justice and squandered money that the inferior saw in Hanyang Village back then are you and Brother Ling." Tang Ji suddenly asked.
"That's right, who are you, and why my brother and I don't have any impression of you." Fu Mingyue looked at Tang Ji and asked curiously.
"The inferior didn't walk the martial arts at that time, but he was melancholy because of the landing of the imperial examination, wandering around, and the inferior happened to see your brother and sister under the sunset, and that beautiful scene soothed the melancholy mood of the inferior." Tang Ji recalled.
"Then I'm still your benefactor, why don't you let me go as a reward." Fu Mingyue said playfully.
"Miss Fu can leave at any time."
"Hmph, this girl suddenly doesn't want to leave, I want to stay and see how you hate me in your hearts, but you want me to be helpless." Fu Mingyue knew in her heart that it was impossible for her to escape from Xiaode's hands, so she said.
"Miss Fu and Brother Ling are both bodhisattvas, why do they want to join the evil way?"
"It is because of the Bodhisattva's heart that he hates you so-called righteous people, when there was a great drought in Longyou Dao, more than half of the disaster relief food funds issued by the imperial court were embezzled by Li Si, the governor of Longyou Dao, causing countless victims to starve to death. What were you righteous people doing at that time? Fu Mingyue said indignantly.
"After the drought that year, Haoran Hall issued chivalrous stickers, raised more than 100,000 taels of silver, and sent it to the disaster area by the Shangguan family in the four major families, and the details of the use of the money are still stored in Haoran Palace, which can be consulted at any time." Kong Zhaolin upholds the image of the righteous path.
"Do you know that the governor Li Si embezzled 500,000 taels of silver?" Fu Mingyue said angrily and loudly
"Li Si was finally brought to justice by Lord Di Renjie." Kong Zhaolin argued
"How can a cheap life of that dog official be worth the tens of thousands of lives who were starved to death in the disaster area."
Everyone is speechless for a while, and what is the meaning of belated justice to the victims?
"The life of a corrupt official is indeed not enough to comfort the dead, but it has great significance for future generations, he is like a wake-up call, warning future generations of officials that they should be honest and fair, and let the living believe that although justice will be late, it will never be absent." Tang Ji said.
"Alarm bells, if the alarm bells are really useful, how can there be so many corrupt officials in the world."
"This just proves that justice is not enough, so the strength of the girl and Brother Ling is needed even more."
"Our strength, you Zhengdao knows that you are corrupt officials, but you have no evidence, and you can't do anything, but it is the whole sex hall, you don't need to look forward to it so much, just kill it directly."
"For the relatives of corrupt officials, what difference does it make between you killing corrupt officials and corrupt officials killing others."
"There is no difference, so as the relatives of corrupt officials, since they can't persuade those dog officials, they must accept such a result."
"If Brother Ling is killed, and then the murderer tells you that your brother is a heinous Jiangyang thief, can you accept this fact?"
"This ......"
"No one has the right to deprive another of his life for any reason, because that would only lead to hatred."
"According to what you say, let those corrupt officials harm the people."
"We don't have the right, but the law can, because the law is not made by personal preference, but the embodiment of the will of the people, you have a corrupt official, his relatives will never accept such a fact, but the corrupt officials who die because of the law, even their relatives think that they deserve it, so they take it as a warning, just because we believe in the power of the law, we will not act in the right way, we will sadly accept some sins that should not be, because we believe that justice will come eventually."
"Tang Shaoxia's realm is so high, Xiaowen is as good as that." The eldest grandson Xiaowen looked at the person in front of him seriously, and there was a little more curiosity in his heart, curious about where Tang Ji was sacred, and why he had never heard of it before.
"I don't really like your sour look, but what you say makes a lot of sense." Meng Fei couldn't help but clap his hands and praise.
"Brother Tang's high-minded remarks made Zaimao suddenly open." Kong Zhaolin savored Tang Ji's words.
"Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years, Tang Shaoxia is really a strange person."
Zhang San couldn't help but praise, and then walked towards Tang Ji, suddenly slipped under his feet, and was about to fall, Xiao De saw this, and tried to stabilize Zhang San, just at the moment of grabbing Zhang San's right arm, Xiao De suddenly shot to restrain Zhang San.