Chapter 324: The Sword of Mercy
As soon as Che Qian's long knife touched the Xuanyang Sword, it was cut in two.
Under the scorching breath, Che Qian was also wiped on the neck by a sword before he could let out a scream.
The Xuanyang Sword did not return to its sheath, but attacked again and killed several people.
Looking at Yin Tongyi's side, there were also a few soldiers in armor lying on the ground, but unlike Zhang Lu's side, a few soldiers here were not killed, but only lost their combat effectiveness.
The battle started as quickly as it ended.
Seeing that there was no sound, the shopkeeper quietly opened his eyes, and what caught his eyes was not a bright steel knife, but a blood-stained corpse.
The shopkeeper had never seen such a scene, he didn't come up in one breath, and he fainted in fright.
Yin Tongyi coaxed Tongyi, caught a glimpse of Che Qian's corpse, and couldn't help frowning.
Feng Jin had already given up struggling, but who knew that things had turned around, he looked happy, bowed respectfully to Zhang Zhen and Yin Tongyi, and said, "Feng Jin, thank you for the grace of several Taoist masters for saving your life."
Yin Tongyi took two steps forward, pointed to the armor soldier on the ground who had lost his combat effectiveness, and asked, "What should you do with these people?"
He asked Zhang Zhen when he said this, not Feng Jin.
When it was about his own life and death, some soldiers immediately begged for mercy.
Zhang Zhen didn't overstep his bounds, but asked Feng Jin, "What do you mean?"
Feng Jin is not a bad person, but he is not a bad person who repays grievances with virtue, he sighed and said slowly: "When the Feng family is in the same scenery, these people can be rich and noble, but the Feng family suffered, but these people can't share the hardships, these people are more favored by my Feng family, who knows that they have done something to repay virtue with grievances, this kind of person will let them go, it will also become a disaster, it is better to kill them directly."
Zhang Zhen nodded, agreeing with Feng Jin's opinion.
In the past, Zhang Lu attached great importance to anyone's life, even if a person was heinous, he would not kill him, even if he was a Jinyi guard, he also felt that he had the right to arrest prisoners, but he did not have the right to execute prisoners.
But as time goes by, Zhang Lu has experienced a lot of things, and his concept is gradually changing, the law of the Ming Dynasty is not sound, and although these armorers have the idea of killing people just now, they were killed in the end, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, they can't do anything about these armorers.
There is no need for others to do this kind of thing, and in the pleading voice of the soldiers, Feng Jin raised his knife and killed them one by one.
Xu is number of killings is not much, and Feng Jin's chest is also rising and falling violently with his breathing.
He slowed down for a long time, and then bowed his hand to Zhang Zhen and said, "If you dare to ask the name of the elder venerable, I will definitely remember it."
Zhang Lu said directly: "My name is Zhang Lu."
Feng Jin felt that this name was somewhat familiar, and after thinking for a while, he widened his eyes and asked, "But is it known as 'Xiao Zhuge Zhang Lu?'
Zhang Zhen nodded, and then asked, "Have you heard my name?"
Feng Jin said: "Although I have lived in Taiyuan for a long time, I have many contacts with many noble children in Jinling, so naturally I have heard of him."
Feng Jin has changed his title from "Dao Chief" to "Brother Brother", and his closeness is undoubtedly revealed.
But Zhang Lu didn't show too closeness, and the noble children of Jinling City either went incognito to follow Zhu Yunxi to Ruchang, or they had already died under the butcher's knife.
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He also plans to say goodbye to the past, no longer be a noble son, and concentrate on being a chivalrous hero.
Zhang Zhen just nodded to Feng Jin, and then said: "There is no more brother in this world, I am just a Taoist priest in Wudang now, there are still things on the mountain, so I won't stay longer, so I will leave, oh, by the way, don't forget to dispose of the corpse here." In addition, if you really have nowhere to go, you can go to Ruchang, where Fu Rang and Cao Bing are."
Hearing this, Feng Jin also hurriedly asked, "Third Brother Fu and Cao Bing are still alive?"
Zhang Lu didn't say anything more, just nodded slightly.
The inn was littered with corpses,
Whether it was Tongyi or Yin Tongyi, they naturally lost interest in eating anymore, so they began to pack it with oil paper.
Feng Jin naturally saw the meaning of Zhang Ran's rejection of people thousands of miles away, he didn't force anything, but he felt that Zhang Ran saved him, and pointed out a way out for himself.
"I wonder what I can do for you?" Feng Jin asked.
Zhang Lu pointed to Tongyi and Yin Tongyi, who were packing, and said, "This table of dishes hasn't been settled yet, if you really want to thank me, just pay the bill."
Even if there are a lot of dishes on this table, it is only a matter of a few taels of silver to support death, which is probably not even a dime a dozen for Feng Jin.
He arched his hand again towards Zhang Yuan, and he agreed.
packed all the food, and Zhang Zhen and the other three went out of the inn.
Yin Tongyi frowned and asked, "You killed someone."
Zhang Lu was noncommittal and nodded slightly.
Yin Tongyi said again: "When you kill people, your hands are very steady, and there are almost no waves in your heart, so this should not be the first time you have killed someone, and you still use the Xuanyang Sword, do you know, even if the master used to fight with the sword, but never killed anyone with the Xuanyang Sword, the master said that the Xuanyang Sword is a benevolent sword, although the blade is sharp, it should not be used to take people's lives."
It can be seen that Yin Tongyi has a lot of complaints about Zhang Ran's murder, and he is even more concerned about Zhang Ran's killing with the Xuanyang Sword. Zhang Lu sighed and said, "Countering violence with violence is never a good choice, but in many cases, it is also a helpless move, with the ruthlessness that these armorers have just shown, let them leave, either for disaster or for the grass."
Yin Tongyi frowned, but he never listened to Zhang Lu's explanation, and he said, "Then you shouldn't kill people, let alone use the Xuanyang Sword to kill people."
Zhang Yi smiled slightly, he Yin Tongyi was too idealistic, he said: "The rivers and lakes are like this, the court is like this, this world is like this, even if Xuanyang is a sword of mercy, but it is still sharp, so I think the so-called benevolence does not mean not killing, but should refer to the protection, guarding those who do not deserve to die, is benevolence, has the fourth senior brother heard a word?"
Yin Tongyi hurriedly asked, "What are you talking about?"
Tongyi on the side also pricked up his ears, wanting to listen to Zhang Lu's "high theory".
Zhang Lu said: "Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself, if we are just ordinary people, Fourth Senior Brother thinks, do we still have a life now?"
This time, before Yin Tongyi could say anything, Tongyi had already replied, "Then you still need to ask? We're going to die."
Zhang Zhen nodded and said, "We are irrelevant people, they can kill us and let them go, and I don't know how many innocent people will die under their swords in the future."
Yin Tongyi said in a calm voice: "This is just your speculation, it is unwarranted, it is not right to take people's lives with such thoughts."
Night rivers and lakes.
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