Miss Cheng is gone.

Huang Xianling seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

The truth and sharp words that Miss Cheng revealed just now really made him feel disgraced and embarrassed.

Especially in front of his boss and mentor, he has always been proud of his technique of checking and breaking out of prison, but he was refuted by Miss Cheng so incomplete, which is really embarrassing.

When he turned around, he saw that his mentor Zhou Xin was looking at him thoughtfully with a strange eye.

His heart trembled unconsciously, and he hurriedly lowered his head and asked respectfully, "Master, what's wrong?"

Could it be that Master Fei also felt that Miss Cheng's words just now were too sharp, so that her face was a little unbearable?

Huang Xianling hurriedly apologized: "It's all because the students are incompetent, they are shallow in their studies, and they were almost misled by the traitors to misjudge the case, which led to unjust imprisonment, shamed the teacher, and the student was guilty of death!"

Zhou Xin ignored him, turned his eyes away, meditated for a moment, and suddenly asked, "How many years have you been under my door?"

Huang Xianling was stunned for a moment, and said while recalling: "The student studied under the teacher for five years, and later after taking the high school examination, he was released as an official, and he has always taken the teacher as an example and learned the teacher's character, and it has been ten years since he knew it. ”

Zhou Xin nodded and sighed with emotion: "Yes, it's been ten years, and the county order has not been promoted for ten years, because the teacher has not done well, and he has never taken care of you!"

Huang Xianling couldn't help but wonder in his heart, listening to the meaning of this, does the teacher want to take care of himself?

Zhou Xin continued, his voice suddenly turned stern: "What else do you say to learn my style, I learned really well, I haven't been promoted for ten years, so you took refuge in Jinyiwei!"

When Huang Xian Ling heard this, his whole body trembled with fright, and he felt that his soul was not possessed by his body, and he said in a deep voice: "Where did the teacher start with this?

Zhou Xin turned his head and stared coldly at Huang Xianling, and his words were as cold as a blade: "Don't dare? Let me ask you, when I was attacked on the street before, you should have been far away in the county office, why did you know so much about the situation of my attack, as if you had already noticed it?"

"I'm a scholar, and I'm only accompanied by a weak woman, and I'm powerless, how can I repel the assassins and be safe and sound, aren't you curious at all?"

Huang Xian Ling listened to his question, and unconsciously felt the beads of sweat like soybeans rolling down his head, recalling his own greeting in front of the county yamen, he didn't expect that this simple sentence of many mouths would make the teacher notice.

He was speechless.

Zhou Xin looked at him and sneered: "All this can only show that before this, you actually knew about the assassination! This official is careful everywhere, and there are always people around him, but this time he walked with Miss Cheng without any entourage, which is the best opportunity for assassination." ”

"It's you! You must have secretly notified the assassin to assassinate on the way to the county office, and the time and place were chosen so well, but you didn't expect that this Cheng Lao Langzhong was actually a strange person in the rivers and lakes, and he naturally would not lack the guards of martial arts masters around him, so that you were defeated. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Xin suddenly shouted and asked, "Say, what benefits did Jin Yiwei promise you? How much gold and silver, so that you can sell your teacher and sell your soul?"

In the face of Zhou Xin's sharp accusations, Huang Xianling's whole body trembled, and he fell to the ground with a puff, speechless

Barge.

Finally, he said slowly in a trembling voice: "The teacher's expectation is good, everything is the student's fault. A few days ago, three Jinyi guards dressed in official uniforms suddenly came to the county office, entered the hall without passing the rumor, and directly faced the students and handed them a letter. ”

The letter was written by Ji Gang, the commander of Jinyiwei, saying that the teacher had committed a serious crime, but for various reasons could not be made public to the world. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Xin snorted coldly from his nostrils and said: "What kind of secret decree or something, you want to correct the law of the country but dare not show it to the world, do you believe such nonsense?"

Huang Xianling hung his head and said: "The student naturally doesn't believe it, and naturally understands in his heart that it must be the teacher who offended the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Master Ji, oh no, Ji Gang, that's why he wants to get rid of the teacher." ”

Zhou Xin stared at Huang Xianling and asked coldly, "What else did the letter say?"

Huang Xian Ling said: "The letter said that the teacher is patrolling all over the country, and he will come to this county in the near future, I am your student, you will definitely relax your vigilance, it is an excellent opportunity to get off, and I must cooperate with these three Jinyi guards to complete the assassination plan." ”

"In the letter, he also promised that after the matter is completed, he can be promoted several levels in a row and recommend me to be an official position in a state and a government. Teacher, there really wasn't a penny of gold and silver promised in the letter, and the student is by no means the villain who forgets his righteousness when he sees money!"

"However, the official position of this state and government can allow me to show my ambitions, do my best, and benefit the people, I can live up to the emperor's grace, and I can glorify my ancestors, teachers, and students are really not greedy for money!"

Zhou Xin coldly listened to the ridiculous defense of the student in front of him, and sighed deeply in his heart.

He knew this student, and he understood the pain of all self-proclaimed scholars like Huang Xianling, who had been denied promotion for ten years, and who were struggling at the bottom but had political ambitions.

In fact, there is no so-called talent in the world, and there is no talent that must be encountered, everyone will have their own talent in a certain aspect, but don't forget that this "encounter" itself is also a talent.

Not being able to show your talent, not being able to let others see and reuse you, this shows that you lack talent in this area.

But often many people can't see this, they just hold their little talent, feel sorry for themselves, lament clichés like "Feng Tang is easy to be old, Li Guang is difficult to seal", and complain about the injustice in the world, which is really ridiculous!

Zhou Xin looked at Huang Xian Ling and said in a deep voice: "So, you agreed to them?"

Huang Xianling lowered his head, not daring to look up at his teacher's eyes, and said tremblingly: "Are the students afraid! Jinyiwei is rampant, even the teacher dares to assassinate, isn't it like stepping on a bedbug to get rid of the students?"

"Besides, since the students already know about this, if they don't agree, how can they keep me alive for fear that the matter will leak out? Because they are afraid of death, the students have to rush to obey the authority and agree to them, the students are guilty of capital crimes, and the teacher forgives them, and the teachers forgive the sins!"

After speaking, Huang Xian Ling lay on the ground and kowtowed to Zhou Xin like pounding garlic, banging.

Zhou Xin looked at the student in front of him, and a look of regret appeared on his face, and he sighed: "You have been under my door for five years and the county commander for ten years, how do you know that I don't pay attention to you from time to time? You are my disciple, how can I not hope that you will be good and can work with me to do your part for the Ming Dynasty and the world?"

Huang Xianling heard this

, stopped kowtowing unexpectedly and listened carefully.

Zhou Xin sighed: "It's a pity that I know you too well, you are a person who is above the top, ambitious and talented, and like many people in the world, you value reputation and despise reality, you can familiarize yourself with the "Collection of Grievances" but you can't examine the body scars well is enough to show this, in the past ten years, you have not made any progress at all!"

"In the past ten years, you have been governing this county, and you have also paid attention to superficial efforts, but you have not focused on the actual livelihood of the people, although you have no major faults, but you have not made much political achievements, but you often boast of being a clean official and a capable official.

After saying a few words, Huang Xianling burst into tears, and said with tears in his eyes: "Teacher, the student knows that he is wrong, and the student really knows that he is wrong!"

Zhou Xin looked at him, his face gradually turned cold, and said, "In the future, you don't have to call yourself a student to me, and I won't admit that there is a disciple like you again." ”

Huang Xianling's face changed greatly, and he said in a trembling voice: "Teacher, you are ......"

Zhou Xin said mercilessly: "For the sake of the future, for the sake of survival, you take refuge in Jinyiwei, betray your teacher, sell your conscience, people like you, I Zhou Xin really can't afford to climb, you and I will have no teacher-student relationship in the future, and there will be no more personal friendships, the past friendship between you and me will have such a cup!"

With that, he suddenly reached out and picked up the teacup on the table and threw it on the ground, and with a bang, the teacup shattered.

The splash of hot tea splashed Huang Xianling's face, and he didn't seem to realize it, but just looked at the fragments of the teacup on the ground blankly, and muttered: "Teacher, are you going to drive me out of the wall?"

Zhou Xin sighed, didn't say anything more, and strode out with his hands behind his back.

After taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and said in a deep voice: "Who is Ji Gang, the commander of the Jinyi Guard? Do you really believe that he can keep his promise and let you sit in a high position in a state and a government after the deed? The Ming Dynasty has not yet fallen to the point where he can dictate and manipulate the political situation with his martial arts!"

"Do you think that you will have a great future by taking refuge in Jinyiwei? I advise you to think twice about everything in the future, so that you can do it yourself! Don't take the wrong path and ruin your life!"

When he said this, Zhou Xin turned his back to Huang Xianling and did not look back, and after saying that, he immediately strode out and ordered his entourage to go to the post house to rest.

He didn't have to look back to imagine that Huang Xianling's expression of sadness and remorse, and he really didn't want to see such an expression of his former students.

But he didn't look back, and he didn't see the heavy resentment in Huang Xianling's eyes when he looked at his departing back.

That touch of resentment is enough to make people feel chills in their hearts.

(A few months later, Zhou Xin entered Beijing on official business, and on the way, he designed to capture the escaped Jinyi Wei Qianhu and escorted him into Beijing, but was commanded by Jinyi Wei Ji Gang In order to cover up the crime, the wicked person sued first, fabricated the facts, and falsely accused Zhou Xin in front of the emperor Zhu Di.)

Zhu Di was furious and ordered Zhou Xin to be arrested and taken to prison for interrogation, and Ji Gang bribed the top and bottom to fabricate evidence, resulting in Zhou Xin being unjustly killed in the end.

According to historical records, three years after Zhou Xin's death, Ji Gang was beheaded by Zhu Di because of other crimes.

So far, the prototypes of the gods enshrined in the Chenghuang Temple in Zhejiang are all the Zhejiang envoy Zhou Xin. ）