Chapter 488: At the very least, they're willing to pretend to care about us
"Huzi, Huzi, are you okay?"
When the father saw this, he panicked, and hurriedly held the child tightly in his arms and kept calling.
Perhaps due to the previous vomiting of blood, at this moment, the child's face was unusually pale, and his breath became extremely weak.
Perhaps he heard the call from his father, but the child opened his eyes with great difficulty, stretched out his dirty little hand, wiped the tears from the father's face, and said softly.
"Dad, don't cry, Huzi is no longer uncomfortable, cough, cough, cough......"
Before the kid finished speaking, he vomited out a mouthful of red blood, if Lang Zhong was on the scene, it could be seen at a glance that he was dying!
Seeing this, the sight in the father's eyes was completely blurred by tears, and he choked up and looked at his son, who was about to die, and wept bitterly.
"Huzi, you will get better soon, but Dad promised you to buy you a sugar gourd!"
"Sugar ...... Sugar gourd? ”
Perhaps he heard something he was interested in, and saw that the child, with the last strength of his body, seemed to want to grasp something from the darkness, but soon his hand hung weakly, his head tilted, and he was completely out of breath.
"No, Huzi!"
Seeing his son die in front of him like this, the man seemed to have suffered a great blow, only to see him on the child's corpse, and after crying for a while, he saw him tremble and straighten up, looking at the people of the White Lotus Sect with an extremely resentful gaze.
"I have sold everything I can sell at home, just to cure my son's illness, and now, after drinking your talisman water, he is dead!"
"You...... You are all liars, fake, all fake! ”
After the man finished speaking, he was about to rush towards the White Lotus Sect disciple who was in charge of presiding over the ceremony, but before he could rush out two steps, he was stopped by the previous believers who had come to the stage to receive the talisman water together.
"Hmph, I think you are to blame, it is precisely because of your insincerity that you have not been able to impress the lifeless mother and make her perform miracles!"
"Well, that's right, it must be that you are not sincere, so you failed to impress the childless mother, I also drank the talisman water with your child, why did my illness be cured?"
"Yes, my illness has also been cured, it's not that you are insincere!"
Voices like these kept echoing in the man's ears, and he couldn't help but doubt himself.
"Could it be that it's really because I'm not sincere?"
Just as the man was in a state of self-doubt, the White Lotus Sect member who had been standing on the steps and was in charge of presiding over the ceremony walked up.
With a smile on his face, he came to the corpse of the dead child, leaned down, and after pretending to chant a mantra, he came to the man's side and said slowly.
"I have already communicated with the motherless mother who is compassionate and compassionate, and she said, your son has arrived at the hometown of the vacuum, and will live an unimaginably happy life in it!"
"There are endless delicacies to eat every day, not only that, but there are also endless silk satins, your son has been accepted as a child by his motherless mother, and the future is limitless!"
"If you are reincarnated in the future, you will definitely be able to be reincarnated in the home of princes and generals, enjoy all the glory and wealth, and see the beauty of the world!"
After hearing this, the man's heart couldn't help but start to waver, and he hesitated for a long time before he asked cautiously.
"You...... Is what you just said true? ”
"My son, was really chosen to be the boy under the throne of the childless old mother?"
The White Lotus Sect disciple who was in charge of presiding over the ceremony smiled when he heard this, and replied categorically.
"Of course it's true, your son is now a child under the throne of the childless old mother!"
Seeing this, the White Lotus Sect disciple who was in charge of presiding over the ceremony immediately looked at the believers in the audience and said loudly.
"As long as you concentrate on believing in the childless mother, you can also reach the vacuum hometown and live a life of fine clothes and food!"
As the words fell, the expressions on the faces of those believers became even more fanatical, and then they fell to the ground in unison.
"The silt comes from the Chaos Qi, and the White Lotus is in full bloom!"
Seeing this, the White Lotus Sect disciple who was in charge of presiding over the ceremony couldn't help but turn around, and a mocking smile appeared on his face where no one was looking.
"Haha, these fools are really easy to deceive, when all your money is squeezed out, I will be able to live the life I want, when the time comes, buy a big house in the city, and then take a dozen or twenty concubines!"
"By that time, I'll be a master too!"
The White Lotus Cultist, who was in charge of presiding over the ceremony, thought so, and was already caught in a beautiful vision for the future.
At this moment, Hai Rui was already surprisingly angry, only to see him raise his head from the ground, look at those White Lotus Sectists quite angrily, clench his fists, and muttered to himself silently.
"You brutes who bewitch the common people, you really damn it, I'll see how the official cleans you up later!"
Immediately, I saw Hai Rui come back to his senses, turned his gaze to Xiao Er on the side, nodded, and said in a low voice.
"Tell the officials who are ambushed around that it's time to get moving."
"Yes, sir!"
When Xiao Er heard this, he immediately took out the fireworks used to send the message from his arms without a trace, and after a while, he only heard the sound of 'Xiu', and the fireworks exploded in the sky above the abandoned temple, which was extremely gorgeous.
Seeing this, the White Lotus Sect disciple who was in charge of presiding over the ceremony suddenly came back to his senses from the beautiful vision he had before, and spoke in great panic.
"It's not good, it's from the government, run!"
As the words fell, I saw countless officials holding torches, surrounding the many White Lotus Sect disciples at the scene, as well as those believers kneeling on the ground.
After this, I saw Hai Rui get up from the ground unhurriedly, point his finger at the White Lotus Sect disciple who was in charge of presiding over the ceremony, and command in a deep voice.
"Take him down to the official!"
"Yes, sir!"
As soon as Hai Rui's words fell, those officials immediately stepped forward, and anyone who dared to stop them in the middle became unjust ghosts under the knife!
Looking at the swaying blades in the hands of those officials, the White Lotus Sect disciple who was in charge of presiding over the ceremony couldn't afford to resist anything, and in addition, the dozen or so White Lotus Sect disciples wearing white robes were also all controlled.
Seeing that the White Lotus Sect disciples at the scene had been fully controlled, Hai Rui couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and at this moment, a rather concerned voice sounded in his ears: "My lord, are you okay?" ”
When Hai Rui heard this, he followed the prestige, only to see that the person who came was wearing the official uniform of the county order, and at this moment, he was looking at himself with a worried face.
The person who came was Xue Jing, the county commander of Licheng County, and this time he was ordered by Hai Rui to assist in the arrest of the White Lotus Sect disciples.
I saw Hai Rui come back to his senses and waved his hand to Xue Jing quite casually, indicating that he was fine.
After a while, I saw Hai Rui withdraw his gaze from Xue Jing's body and instead commanded.
"It's okay, let your subordinates bring those White Lotus Sect disciples on the scene down as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night!"
"Yes, sir!"
After listening to Hai Rui's instructions, Xue Jing's expression immediately turned grim and he responded respectfully.
Before this, Xue Jing, who was the county magistrate of Licheng County, knew a lot about Hai Rui's deeds, after all, he also started from a small Chun'an Zhi County, and then rose all the way, and finally served in the Beijing Inspectorate, serving as the important position of the left deputy capital imperial history.
This is a dignified third-grade member of the imperial court, no matter where it is, it is a role that cannot be ignored, not to mention, Hai Rui's promotion speed is also extremely rare in the entire Ming Dynasty, after all, before this, there are very few precedents for being directly promoted from the county to the capital!
With the example of Hai Rui in the past, those county officials have been more active in handling the affairs at hand, after all, who doesn't want to be the second Hai Rui?
And Xue Jing regards Hai Rui as his idol, in Xue Jing's opinion, the experience between him and Hai Rui is very different, for example, they have both served in the county, and they have both had times when they were depressed, but Hai Rui waited for Zhao Zhenji, the Bole, and his Xue Jing's Bole has not appeared for the time being.
Because of this, when Hai Rui sent someone to the government office to ask Xue Jing to send an official messenger to help arrest the White Lotus Sect disciples, Xue Jing not only did not shirk it at all, but also went into battle in person, for fear that something would go wrong in the middle.
Just as Xue Jing listened to Hai Rui's instructions and planned to implement them, as if he had suddenly thought of something, he paused suddenly, withdrew his gaze from the cowering people, turned around, and asked.
"By the way, my lord, what should we do with these ordinary people who have been coaxed by the White Lotus Sect?"
When Hai Rui heard this, he immediately came back to his senses, and after thinking for a while, he immediately commanded.
"In this way, let's take them down with those White Lotus Sect disciples, and when we understand what happened, it's not too late to release them!"
After receiving Hai Rui's specific instructions, Xue Jing nodded, and immediately beckoned his subordinates to take those people away.
"Yes, sir!"
At this moment, looking at the surrounding White Lotus Sect disciples who had been controlled by officials and were embarrassed, the man from before suddenly woke up, only to see him kneeling on the ground with a 'plop', his face full of self-blame.
"Huzi, it was my father who hurt you, what White Lotus Sect, what lifeless mother, they are all lies!"
"If they are really so powerful, why can a few officials be able to subdue them, what charms, qigong, all fake!"
Just when the man was extremely self-blaming, from behind him, there was a sound of footsteps, and he subconsciously followed the voice, only to see Hai Rui with his hands behind his back, appeared in front of him, and asked.
"Since you have already woken up to the fact that all this is just a trick played by the White Lotus Sect, why do you still listen to their demagoguery and unswervingly continue to believe?"
The words fell, and the man was stunned for a long time before he subconsciously replied.
"Big ...... My lord, in order to cure Huzi's illness, I have sold everything I can sell at home! ”
"They said that as long as you drink that bowl of runic water, any disease can be cured, this ...... This is the last hope, if only ...... If I can't cure him, I'll just watch him die......"
"Big ...... My lord, don't you understand, there are so many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the government, and those officials often set up clever names and toss us ordinary people in different ways, can I not know that those people in the White Lotus Sect are all liars? ”
"To ...... At least those White Lotus Sect disciples are still willing to pretend to care about us......"
When Hai Rui heard this, he sighed helplessly, and immediately looked up at the sky, but at some point, a full moon had risen in the sky, and the bright moonlight fell to the ground, and nothing else.
"Take him down with you!"
"Yes, sir!"
……
The night passed in the blink of an eye, and early the next morning, when Zhao Zhenji came to the inspectorate as usual, he saw such a picture.
I saw that in the duty room of the Inspectorate, there were mountains of impeachment notes, and not only that, but those officials were still constantly moving inside.
Zhao Zhenji was shocked by the situation in front of him, and at this moment, he saw a hurried official passing by.
Seeing this, Zhao Zhenji hurriedly stopped him and asked in a deep voice.
"What the hell is going on?"
The official was originally a little impatient, but after he saw that it was Zhao Zhenji, he immediately changed his face and responded cautiously.
"Big ...... My lord, these impeachment notes were all sent by those officials! ”
"Moreover, they impeached the same person, the second assistant of the cabinet, Xu Jie!"
After Zhao Zhenji got the exact answer from the mouth of the official, he nodded imperceptibly, waved his hand, and commanded.
"Well, the official knows, you go down and get busy!"
"Yes, sir!"
When the official heard this, after bowing to Zhao Zhenji, he immediately turned around and left.
Zhao Zhenji looked at the back of the official leaving, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Those officials are really crazy!" ”
In fact, Zhao Zhenji has heard of the incident that happened in Huangjimen yesterday, in his opinion, those officials are just to blame, and everything that His Majesty has decided to do, there is never room for negotiation!
Whether it was the earlier reduction of the clan's expenses, the lifting of the sea ban, or the integration of the gentry to pay food, it was the result of His Majesty's arbitrary decision!
Now, His Majesty just wants to add the subject of arithmetic to the imperial examination in the coming year, which has attracted such serious opposition, which is very abnormal!
Zhao Zhenji felt that this was a group of insects playing on the topic, not to mention anything else, just the integrated payment of grain by the officials and gentry that was implemented not long ago was cut on the arteries of those gentry, how could they swallow this breath?
And this matter, in the final analysis, is just a fuse!
"Hmph, can you beat Your Majesty with just you?"
"But that's fine, you guys fight, the harder the fight, the better, the task of the Inspectorate this year is almost completed!"
Zhao Zhenji thought so, and then walked to the room where he usually was on duty without hurrying with his hands behind his back.
(End of chapter)