On the execution ground of Chang'an City.

Wang Shilin's crime and punishment were announced, and the evil things he did were all exposed, and he was finally beheaded on the street, and various relatives were also directly beheaded for public display, and the ending was very happy.

The onlookers clapped their hands one after another.

There were also many people at the scene who cursed Wang Shilin.

A short and thin man, standing in the crowd, watched Wang Shilin die on the spot, and watched his family being severely executed.

He showed a sad lament of the dead rabbit and the fox, and sighed in a low voice: "Wu Anjun's criminal law is strict, even Wang Shilin has ended up like this, the criminal law is ruthless, I'm afraid I won't have a good result." ”

The short and thin man returned home, chose to say goodbye to his relatives and friends, and finally resolutely went to the Zhao family's mansion.

The Zhao family's mansion is naturally Wu'anjun's mansion.

He stood in front of the door, hesitantly looking at the Wu'an Junfu in front of him, with a self-deprecating and depressed look on his face.

Finally, there was a knock on the courtyard door.

……

Zhao Xuanqi's heart was still immersed in the news of Wang Shilin's death, standing in the courtyard and thinking about it, he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"Knock knock..."

Unexpectedly, someone knocked on the courtyard door.

Don't wait for the house to open the door.

"Who else will come to me at this time?"

He was puzzled, and took the initiative to open the door to see a short, thin man standing in front of the room.

This man is about 40 years old, with a thin body, and his skin is relatively dark, obviously tanned, and the skin on his body looks rough, giving people a feeling of poverty.

Even the clothes he wore were the most ordinary blue robes on the roadside stalls, and the cloth was cheap, and he seemed to be a poor person.

Although he has been poor all his life, he gives people a clean and tidy, refreshing and neat atmosphere, and there is no dirtiness.

Zhao Xuanqi frowned.

He didn't know who the man in front of him was.

I don't know at all.

What would it be like for this person to find him?

The guard beside him answered Zhao Xuanqi's doubts: "This person's name is Ouyang Fugui, he is a high-ranking official in the northern region, and he was promoted to the capital from the northern region a year ago..."

Ouyang Fugui!

Zhao Xuanqi seemed to have a thunderbolt in his mind, and he was stunned in place for a moment.

He looked at the thin man in front of him and said in surprise: "Are you really Ouyang Fugui?" That little fat man in Qingyun Library? ”

The short thin man nodded awkwardly: "Brother Zhao Xuanqi, don't come to harm, in the blink of an eye, we haven't seen each other for more than ten years, and everything seems to be yesterday." ”

Listening to this familiar voice, as well as this familiar tone of speech, including this familiar title, Zhao Xuanqi was completely sure that the person in front of him was Ouyang Fugui.

Ouyang Fugui and Wang Shilin together, they are fat and thin fairies, in Qingyun Library, the three of them have studied together, and they are also high school jinshi at the same time!

In my impression, Ouyang Fugui was short and fat, very obese, dirty, and had a lot of snot.

I like to wipe my nose when I have nothing to do, and I always carry a handkerchief on my body, wipe my nose once, tuck it into my sleeve for a while, and then take it out and wipe it again next time.

When they met for the first time, they made Zhao Xuanqi disgusted.

Later, Ouyang Fugui was in the study, often hiding on the side to look at the Spring Palace map, and all kinds of Spring Palace pictures were turned out by him, and he was obsessed with the Spring Palace map and never returned, and even brought Wang Shilin to the side.

At the beginning, if it wasn't for Zhao Xuanqi scolding them up, maybe the two of them would not be able to enter high school!

Unexpectedly, just after sending Wang Shilin away, Ouyang Fugui took the initiative to find the door!

Zhao Xuanqi patted Ouyang Fugui on the shoulder and immediately invited him into the house.

He also asked:

"You've changed so much, I can't even recognize you anymore, I remember that you are a big fat man, how can you change so much!"

The fat man, who was obviously short, fat, and dirty, was now so thin, spotless, and clean.

What a change!

Time does not leave anyone!

Ouyang Fugui did not answer this question.

Instead, he said with a melancholy look in his eyes: "I am looking for you this time because I have something important to tell you." ”

Zhao Xuanqi took him to the room, and the two sat on the bed, facing each other.

He clapped his hands, and someone brought a small table, which was placed between the two of them, and on top of it were melons, fruits and vegetables.

Then he wondered, "What important thing do you want to come to me?" ”

Ouyang Fugui's face was flat, and he said amazingly:

"I'm here to surrender, I've embezzled too much money over the years, I can't count it, and the death penalty is my final outcome..."

"I'm more secretive, so Jin Yiwei hasn't discovered my crime yet, but I believe in Jin Yiwei's ability, and sooner or later he will arrest me."

"Instead of ending up in embarrassment, it is better to die calmly, and meet your bosom friend before I die, which can be regarded as fulfilling my last wish and dying peacefully."

His tone was flat, as if he were talking about the most ordinary things, and he didn't take his own capital crime into account in the slightest.

It's like death,

If it's dead, it's dead, it's not a big deal.

Ouyang Fugui said, while stretching out his hand, grabbing the melon and fruit in front of him, and eating it generously.

Zhao Xuanqi looked at Ouyang Fugui, who was thin and thin, and looked at him dressed in poverty, and an incredible expression appeared on his face in an instant.

Ouyang Fugui was also corrupt?

He used to be so fat, but now he has become so thin.

And he was dark and thin, and he was poor.

At first glance, he looks like a clean official.

How could it be that he had also committed the crime of embezzlement?

And he claims to be a big corrupt official?

The big fat man has lost weight like this, and you don't look like a corrupt official!

Zhao Xuanqi was a little incredulous.

Open your mouth and want to say something.

But he couldn't say anything.

The taste in my heart is so complicated that I don't know what words to use to describe it.

I didn't expect to meet again, but I stood on the opposite side!

He finally said: "Wang Shilin is like this, so are you, why did you end up like this!" ”

"You are my bosom friends, my original grand ideals, I have always remembered in my head, I really can't bear to see you end up like this..."

When the old people met, they did not talk about wine as they imagined, but they were full of desolation and full of dejected laments.

Ouyang Fugui lowered his head, peeled off an orange in his hand, threw the orange peel at random, and then broke the orange and handed it to Zhao Xuanqi half.

The other half was slowly peeled off and eaten by himself.

Hearing Zhao Xuanqi's words, Ouyang Fugui's face was still flat, but his gaze became dim:

"Over the years, I feel like I'm a rat in a dark ditch, I don't dare to tell any truth, I hide, hide, hide, hide, and I can't see anyone."

"Now, I can only confide in you when I face you, when I face a true friend like you."

Ouyang Fugui slowly spoke, slowly telling Zhao Xuanqi what he had experienced over the years.

"After leaving Chang'an, I became a magistrate, I thought it was the beginning of my new life, but I didn't expect it to be the origin of my depravity."

"You know that I'm a person, my mouth is relatively stupid, and I don't understand any human feelings, plus I come from a humble background, so I am not valued by Shangguan and cannot be reused."

"Even I'm often ostracized, the kind that everyone dislikes, they think I'm dirty, they hate me for having a ...... snot"

"I'm not reconciled."

"I'm also a dignified jinshi, and I'm also famous on the list of jinshi, and I'm relatively high."

"In the end, I was just a petty official in the local area, and I couldn't get promoted for a long time, and I hesitated for many years, and those who were lower than me could already ride on my head and......"

"I want to be an official, I want to be a big official, I want to let everyone who looks down on me die!"

"In order to be reused, I can only change myself, give up my former ideals, give up my former hobbies, improve myself, cater to Shangguan, search for people's fat and people's ointment, and curry favor with Shangguan, and in the end I can only be a corrupt official and corrupt official, and do everything I can to please the high-level."

"I became a big corrupt official......"

When Ouyang Fugui said this, his eyes showed a deep sense of powerlessness, and the orange in his hand was also pinched into a ball by him, and the juice splashed everywhere.

His eyes stared at Zhao Xuanqi deadly, and he said in an almost painful tone:

"I think the reason why I can't be a high-ranking official, the reason why I can't get promoted, is because I don't have enough money!"

"It's all because I'm from a humble background, I'm too poor, I don't have the money to please Shangguan, I'm short of money!"

"So I tried my best to make money."

"But how much money can you make by doing the right thing?"

"In order to make money, I have unconsciously let go of countless sins, opened casinos, specially deceived some gamblers, opened brothels, forced others to sell their wives and daughters, forced customers to make money, secretly established gangs to overcharge taxes, embezzled disaster relief food, demanded all kinds of benefits, shielded major criminals, colluded with landlords to steal and rob the people's farmland..."

"As long as there is a way to make money, then I will do it!"

"As long as you can earn money, as long as you give me money, everything is easy to say!"

"I used my power to desperately loot money, and in just a few years, I earned money that I couldn't earn in my previous 100 lifetimes, and no matter how much I squandered it, future generations couldn't spend it..."

"With this large amount of money, I curryed favor with Shangguan and opened up all the nodes of the high-level of the county, so I became a high-ranking official as I wished."

"I'm constantly getting promoted!"

"In addition, my Jinshi fame is already ranked high and worthy of being cultivated by others, and someone deliberately cultivates me, my official position is constantly getting bigger and higher!"

Speaking of this, Ouyang Fugui's eyes had already flashed with green light, and his originally normal face had become very hideous at this moment.

He said in an almost greedy tone: "I am making more and more money, so much that I can't even store it in my homestead." ”

"I buried the money in the field, hid it under the house, buried it in a coffin and buried it in the ancestral grave, and the money I earned grew at a rapid rate!"

"Finally, a year ago, I got my wish and entered the capital with a high level of pride and became a well-known Beijing official."

"Without a background, I can only rely on money to get promoted!"

Zhao Xuanqi listened to Ouyang Fugui's promotion process, and said in a complicated tone: "What if there is more money? If you don't bring it in life, you don't bring it in death, it's enough. ”

"If you use money to get promoted, you're just pushing yourself to a dead end."

"If you still retain the original innocence and have the emotion of punishing all corruption, how can we stand on the opposite side now?"

Ouyang Fugui shook his head, with bitterness on his face:

"Some money, once you collect it, you can never stop, once you stop, then you will fall into a catastrophe and not pay!"

"I thought that I could change all this when I became a big official, wash my hands and be a good official, and only by standing on a high place can I wipe out this rotten officialdom and return a bright world to the world."

"It's a pity, when I walked into this court, I don't know when I couldn't get out, and I realized that I had become a part of this rotten world."

"A criminal person like me, who has already entered the game, can no longer get out, how can I talk about a bright world in the world? No matter how much I wash my hands, the golden basin can't wash away my sins, it's just my own words that numb myself, only by killing people like me, can the court be considered a good ......"

"No matter what my original ideals were, I can't change the fact that I am now a big corrupt official."

Ouyang Fugui's face was lonely.

No one starts out as a wicked person.

You must know that many wicked people don't want to commit crimes at first, and they just want to do a great career at the beginning.

Zhao Xuanqi listened to these words, and he also knew the difficulty of being an official, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

More than ten years ago, the government was too chaotic, and there were countless wealthy families, almost all of whom had to launch the nine-product Zhongzheng system and completely monopolize everything.

Zhao Xuanqi was born as a champion at the beginning, and he has made many livelihoods that are beneficial to the people, and he has been stumbling in the local area for ten years!

If there was no protection from Emperor Jingming, Zhao Xuanqi would not have been promoted at all, and he might even have died for a long time because he offended the interests of some big clans.

But even if Emperor Jingming favored Zhao Xuanqi so much, Zhao Xuanqi could still only be an official in the local area, and he could not even enter the capital to be an official, and was jointly excluded by the major tycoons.

Zhao Xuanqi is still like this for a character from a champion background, let alone Ouyang Fugui and others?

For promotion.

In order to make a career.

They can only break through their own moral bottom line.

In the end, he fell into this great web of decay and darkness and became a member of it.

No matter how lofty the ideals were before, they could only be crushed to worthlessness in the face of this reality.

Join or destroy.

Those who survived almost always chose to join the darkness and decay, without exception.

The characters at the bottom, any progress has to pay a price comparable to death.

"I'm so lucky!"

Zhao Xuanqi sighed in his heart, he looked at Ouyang Fugui who was so down, and couldn't help but say, "At that time, why didn't you look for me?" You can ask me to help you! ”

Ouyang Fugui showed embarrassment on his face, and slowly explained: "Actually, I also thought about climbing you, but because of my face and the arrogance of my youth, I am embarrassed to ask you for help." ”

"I have a connection with Wang Shilin, and we also want to use our own abilities to break out of the world, become a famous and good official, and make earth-shattering careers, and then stand in front of you and raise your eyebrows, saying that we are not lagging behind you, but I didn't expect to be blinded by the world of flowers and become the corrupt official we hated the most before."

"If you enter the game, you will never be able to get out of the game again, so why are you embarrassed to come to you again?"

"What face do we have to see you compared to you?"

So much to say.

Ouyang Fugui's heart was already like ashes, there was no blood on his face, and he had no idea of speaking.

With a trembling hand, he slowly took out a notebook from his arms.

"In this book, my accomplices are recorded, and there are some big corrupt officials who are deeply hidden, and there are all evidence of their corruption."

"With these evidences, presumably Jinyiwei can quickly bring them to justice, even if they hide deeply, they will definitely be found out, and it can be regarded as my retribution."

"It also records that the gold and silver treasures that I have hidden in various places over the years, all of which I have obtained by embezzling the people, and I can't count them, so you can have them dug up and use them for the people..."

"I came this time mainly to give you this list, and after doing all this, I am ashamed to live in the world!"

As he spoke, Ouyang Fugui suddenly stood up and slammed his head into the wall next to him with his head!

"Boom!"

There was a crunch.

In an instant, blood spurted.

The whole person fell to the ground weakly, trembling his body, becoming limp, and slumped on the ground.

He actually chose to commit suicide!

In shame, choose to commit suicide!

Over the years, Zhao Xuanqi has purged the opposition and punished all corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and everything he did was beneficial to the people's livelihood, and everything he did belonged to the Qingtian lord.

And Ouyang Fugui and Wang Shilin once wanted to punish the corrupt officials in the world one by one, but in the end they became big corrupt officials, so Ouyang Fugui is so ashamed that he chooses to commit suicide now!

Zhao Xuanqi closed his eyes.

I didn't have the courage to look at this friend's body.

"Why bother..."

Zhao Xuanqi knows.

There is another possibility.

Ouyang Fugui probably saw Wang Shilin's fate, saw his iron and ruthlessness, and knew that it was impossible to forgive him, so he chose to surrender.

In addition to the real shame, Ouyang Fugui probably also wants to protect his family.

Ouyang Fugui wanted to use his own death, the evidence of these corrupt officials, and the money he had collected over the years to make up for his previous crimes.

I hope that Zhao Xuanqi can spare his family's life for the sake of his suicide and in the face of his former friendship, and consider taking his family lightly.

It seems to be a desperate suicide, but sometimes it is also planned.

Two old friends, in the same day's time, were going to die in front of themselves like this, and in such a miserable way.

Zhao Xuanqi didn't feel good in his heart.

He tried to open his eyes, stepped forward, and immediately picked up Ouyang Fugui, who was lying on the ground, and hugged him tightly in his arms.

Ouyang Fugui's body was trembling constantly, a big hole had been broken in his head, blood was constantly spraying, and half of his body was stained with red blood.

It seems that there is air in, but no air out.

Ouyang Fugui's eyes widened, his consciousness had begun to dissipate, this young man, who was determined to be famous in the world, for the welfare of the people of the world, and punished all corrupt officials and corrupt officials, when he was dying, he tried hard to say in a hoarse voice:

"I used to think that by enduring hardship, I could become a superior person, and I could create happiness with my own hands."

"Hehe..."

"I found out later..."

"In this world, it's always about eating what you make up for, so you can't become a master by enduring hardship, only eating people..."

In the end, he looked at Zhao Xuanqi with his gradually dimming eyes, and said unconsciously with his last breath:

"Brother Zhao Xuanqi..."

"You know what? I've embezzled a lot of money, and I can't fit in the suitcases at home, or in the closet, or under the bed, it's too much..."

"Do you know why I'm still so thin and poor? Do you know why I stopped having a runny nose and became so clean? ”

"This money is dirty..."

"I don't dare to spend a penny of the money I earn!"

"I'm afraid... I'm afraid... I'm going to be caught and beheaded as soon as I find out, I'm afraid of death, I'm especially afraid of death, so I'm hiding... Very good, very good..."

After speaking, he tilted his head, and the thin man died completely, in Zhao Xuanqi's arms.

In order to cover up the crime of corruption,

He was once obese, but at the moment before he died, he was extremely thin and poor. (In the eyes of the world, the so-called big corrupt official must be a big-bellied, oily, fat, he is too worried about being suspected, and he has become extremely thin under the worry of sleeping at night.)

He was once covered with snot and dirt, but the moment before he died, he was clean and clean, without a trace of dirt. (The money is too dirty, the sins on his body are too heavy, and he tries his best to cover up his dirty sins with a clean body, and wants to cover up his sins with a spotless body.)

It's all because of a greedy word.

Greed disshapes one's appearance, distorts one's body, and pollutes one's soul.

When you are tainted with greed, no matter how much you cover it up, no matter how much you disguise it, you can't hide the sin in your heart.

In the end, it will end up in the end of the dead clan!

(End of chapter)