26 Sweep away the gloom and moonlit nights
As the saying goes, "mercy is not in charge of soldiers, love is not in charge, righteousness is not financial management, and goodness is not an official", this series of statements is summed up, in fact, it is telling the world that the people who can really control this world must be "evil people", not those so-called "good people". If you are kind, you can't lead good soldiers, if you're affectionate, you can't get things done, if you're righteous, you can't make a windfall, and if you're kind, you can't be a big official; so from ancient times to the present, the true law in this world has always been that "wicked" people govern "good people." From all the emperors and generals of all dynasties and dynasties, which one is not a "wicked person" who has stepped on others to ascend to a high position step by step?
And the things that people in the world have learned, from the "three hundred thousand" in childhood to the "four books and five classics" in adulthood, and then to the three schools of "Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism" that have settled down. All this is just a set of crooked theories deliberately flaunted by those high-ranking "wicked people" in order to better govern the "good people" below. Only by making all the people in the world become the "good people" required in the scriptures, can the "wicked" sit back and relax and be unscrupulous.
And although he doesn't dare to say that he is a thorough "good person", he is definitely not a "wicked person", so in this life, it is impossible to be in a high position and make meritorious contributions. If you really want to do something, the only choice is to take refuge in those "wicked people" and do something for the people under the world while serving the "wicked people".
For Xie Yixiang, being able to figure out this truth at the age of 20 is undoubtedly more important than realizing the second truth of "melting incense". Although compared with some "wicked people", she did not understand this truth until she was twenty years old, which is undoubtedly a little late, but there are many more "good people" in this world, but they have not been able to understand this truth until they die.
As Xie Yixiang understood this reason, the dark clouds in the night sky also dispersed, and a crescent moon and stars were seen again. Xie Yixiang, who was lying flat on the roof, couldn't help but shake her head and smile bitterly, not to mention the future, just to say that the current crisis in Ningyi City, if she wants to resolve this disaster, she will inevitably have to choose between the court and King Heng, and after all, she will have to help one side. And which side should he stand on, in fact, his father had already told himself before he passed away, telling himself to "don't hate the emperor".
Whether it is the foreign race of the former dynasty in Mobei, or the countries in the Western Regions outside Jiayu Pass, or Jiang Wangcai in Dongting Lake in the past, or even the so-called "Four Emperors Rising Together", since all the people who compete for the world are all "wicked people", I have to choose one side from them to stand in line, of course, I should still stand on the side of the court and stand on the side of the current emperor. This is not because of any loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, let alone because of any Fengtian carriage, but because the emperor has already sat on the whole world, helping the imperial court to calm down all forces, so that the Central Plains can return to peace, for the people of the world, it is the choice with the least cost and the least loss.
As for the deep hatred of his father being given to death by the emperor, since Xie Yixiang figured out this truth, he naturally counted this grudge on the head of Yan Sidao. If it weren't for this person to set up a situation and cause the "corpse army" to go south to attack Jinling, my father would not have called the "Piloting Battalion" privately, which would have led to the disaster of death. If he didn't break this person's body into thousands of pieces, how could he be worthy of his father under Jiuquan?
Thinking of this, Xie Yixiang had regained her faith, swept away the haze of the past few months, and stood up straight from the roof, immediately feeling hungry in her stomach. But she only ate one and a half steamed buns all day, and she stayed up until late at night, so she was naturally a little unbearable. She didn't pay attention to it for a while, since the entire Ningyi City had already fallen to such a point, why should she be entangled in a serial murder case again? The most important thing at the moment was to consult with Lord Taishou Fang and see what she could do for Ning Yicheng. With his own skills, he can break out of the siege and ask for help elsewhere, or sneak into the military camp outside the city and kill the rebel commander on the spot.
At that moment, Xie Yixiang started light work on the roof and went in the direction of the yamen in the west of the city. Just when Xie Yixiang had decided to give up the investigation of this "human kitchen case", there was a faint fragrance of osmanthus flowers coming from the wind on a moonlit night, although the fragrance was very light, it was also refreshing, and even a little fluttering. Xie Yixiang was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but secretly say: "There is a saying that 'osmanthus flowers bloom everywhere in August', and now it is only April and May, how can there be osmanthus fragrance in this Ningyi City? Could it be that which female family is using osmanthus fragrance, or is it osmanthus sesame oil for combing hair?"
Intrigued, she continued along the rooftop. After walking a few more steps, Xie Yixiang suddenly stopped, recalling that in the house of the man surnamed Chen who was killed in Zhuji, in the incense burner at the corner of the table, didn't he leave half a section of osmanthus scented incense thread soaked in sweat medicine?
Could it be that this "human chef" really came to Ningyi City, and happened to commit a crime in the vicinity tonight? Although Xie Yixiang had already put down the case, since she had encountered clues, how could she sit idly by and ignore it? She searched for the fragrance of osmanthus flowers all the way, and at the end of the whole street, there was a dilapidated courtyard, and in the courtyard was a lonely hut, reflecting a faint light through the thick window paper. And this smell of osmanthus with the drug comes from this hut.
Xie Yixiang couldn't help but gasp, she had secretly visited Ningyi City in the past two days, but she had never been able to get the clues of this case, could it be that tonight she had broken through the iron shoes and had nowhere to go, and it took no effort to get it? She also didn't know what the situation was in this hut now, whether someone was about to die or had already died at the hands of this "human cook", in a hurry, she hurriedly took out the silk scarf in her arms to cover her mouth and nose, flew to the door of the hut, and raised her foot to kick in the door.
Who knew that she kicked the door hard, but when she heard the loud "creak" of the two wooden doors, she did not kick them open, and it was obvious that the strong door latch was latched from the inside. Xie Yixiang reacted very quickly, immediately pulled out his waist and slashed at the crack between the two wooden doors, and the blade passed, and the door latch inside was disconnected. Pushing the door again, the two wooden doors only opened a gap a foot wide, but there were heavy objects such as tables and chairs behind the door blocking the door.
Xie Yixiang was about to break the door again, but at this moment, he suddenly heard a movement from the back of the house, which was clearly the sound of opening the door, and someone actually opened the back door of this hut. Obviously, the people in the house must have been frightened by their own breaking down the door and planned to escape through the back door. Xie Yixiang didn't expect the other party to react so quickly, and she didn't care about entering the house for a while, so she hurriedly launched the "Luoxia Lonely Bird" method, and in just a snap of her fingers, she had already grabbed the back of this hut.