Red makeup Chitose

Chapter 73 Doubt
None of them raised any objections, so at nightfall, the soldiers of Dahui Camp led the way to do good deeds, Jin Mingwei and Donglin, and the two walked into the suburban woods of Jingui County.

It was midnight, the moon was shining, and the dark forest seemed to be the gate to hell. The chirping of crickets and the rubbing of leaves on the soles of the feet stimulated human eardrums very sensitively.

The soldiers of the Dahui Camp held up fire folders, illuminating a radius of half a zhang. Jin Mingwei and the other two also held lanterns, watching the strange silhouettes of people in the light circle, like ghosts crawling up from hell.

The two pedestrians arrived at the edge of the ravine, with forests on one side and cliffs on the other. The lantern shone down into the bottomless depths, and there were vague roars of awakened beasts.

"I'll leave it to you. We'll keep watch nearby. When you're done, call us. We just need to confirm that it's me who was thrown into the valley." The soldier chose the location, handed Lu Xingshan to Jin Mingwei, and called his companions to the side Playing cards.

After a while, that room remembered the applause of the five leaders on the bar, and the orange light of the two lanterns on the spot flickered, reflecting Lu Xingshan who was in shackles, and the burns all over his face looked extremely hideous.

Where is the memory of the official who burned 43 children to death, but despised the fly ash that dirty his boots.

"Miss Jin, it's finally this day." Lu Xingshan opened his eyelids weakly, and looked at Jin Mingwei calmly.

"Lynching?" Jin Mingwei glanced at the scars all over his body and raised his eyebrows. She didn't sympathize with Lu Xingshan, but simply wanted to mock Wu's punishment system.

Lu Xingshan took off his shoes with a wry smile, and asked Jin Ming to look at his soles slightly. Pus had formed on the soles of his soles, and the black and red rotten flesh seemed to be the scars left by being forced to walk on the iron railway.

Not to mention that this kind of injury is on the sole of the foot, and walking every day is the torture of walking on the tip of a knife.

"Anyone in the officialdom who falls from the horse is likely to avenge his own private revenge, and to add insult to injury."

Lu Xingshan said meaningfully: "Oh, so the more powerful an official is, the more he fears losing his power. It's like a group of people climbing a cliff. If you are unlucky at any step and step on a dangerous rock, you will be counted as yourself. If you don’t fall, the people around you will also try to push you down, because only if you go down, can your food and water be shared by them.”

Jin Mingwei's thoughts flickered, and he felt that Lu Xingshan was teaching her this sentence again.

And one day in the future, it will be a later story to become her sharp weapon to bring down another official.

"I think you taught me some officialdom principles when I was in prison...you did it on purpose." Jin Mingwei stared at Lu Xingshan with burning eyes, "Why?"

"I used to be a teacher and educator." Lu Xingshan couldn't bear the severe pain in his feet, so he simply lay down on the woodland, looked up at the hazy moon in the sky, and his tone became bewildered.

"You?" Jin Ming raised his tone slightly, full of sarcasm.

Lu Xingshan smiled: "Yes, I am the only scholar in the village. After I passed the provincial examination, I opened a private school in the village and taught some neighbors' children to subsidize the family. At first, I accepted more than [-] people, and then there were fewer and fewer people. , even if the children wanted to read, they were beaten back by their parents with a cane, because the parents said that I don’t know how to teach, what kind of collection of classics and history should I teach, how to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country? The examiner gave gifts, how to donate to the official at a cheaper price, and said that whoever learned these things was adopted as a foster son by a certain adult, and my students are still learning how to write well."

Jin Ming was silent for a while, and listened.

"Later, there was only one student left in the private school, and he was still a beggar. I didn't want to take his bundle, but he insisted on giving it to me. It was all he saved by begging." Lu Xingshan's smile became gentle, "I remember that every time before he entered the school, he would go to the nearby ditch to wash his body clean. He couldn't afford a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, so he wrote on the yellow mud with a branch dipped in water. His clothes were more torn than anyone else, and his knees But tougher than anyone."

"What happened next?" Dong Lin next to him interjected, seeming very interested.

Jin Ming gave him a strange look. If he asked this question, it was impossible for him to know this student.

"I'm going to take part in the imperial examination." Lu Xingshan's eyes became dim, "...Since then, there has been no news. I remember that day, I borrowed the best clothes from the neighbor's house, and stood at the entrance of the village to see him off. Like brocade. At that time, I was also looking forward to and proud of it. If the only student succeeds, as a husband, I will have no regrets in this life."

After a pause, Lu Xingshan twitched the corners of his mouth mockingly: "When I meet him again, it will be Ma Xizhong marrying his wife... Cough, I went to Ma's house to give gifts for the wedding banquet of the opposite food, and I accidentally saw him coming out of Ma Xizhong's bedroom, full of A sheet of recipes was clutched in the hand of the cyan trace, which could be vaguely identified as Ba He. He was only concerned with fleeing in a hurry and didn't dare to raise his face, so he didn't see me, but I recognized him... and later, He became a rookie in the officialdom."

"Bahe? It's gold and jade." Donglin sneered inexplicably.

Jin Mingwei thought that Donglin was trying to clear up his doubts, so he didn't think much about it.

The gold and jade carp are extremely rare, ordinary people and officials probably have never seen them, but in her previous life, after marrying Huo Ruyuan, as the wife of the Commander of the Habayashi Guard, she had eaten it.

Lu Xingshan's tone gradually became hoarse, and a sad relief appeared on his face: "At that time, I finally understood that the parents in the village were right. It was me who couldn't teach."

Ma Xizhong?
Jin Mingwei thought the name sounded familiar, he seemed to be an eunuch. On the day Xu Qi was executed, he heard from the prison that he was sent to Biandu by the superiors as the execution officer.

"So, back to my original question: why do you want to teach me the principles of officialdom?" Jin Mingwei was unmoved, and took out the knife he brought, ready to kill.

Maybe he was a good person who did good deeds in the past, but sin is sin, 43 lives, everyone is raised by mother, who deserves to die?

Lu Xingshan stared deeply at Jin Mingwei, and laughed tremblingly, out of breath, his eyes slowly turned red——

"In this life, I have been a failed gentleman, but in the end, I have taught the most qualified opponent for Wu Guo's officialdom."

Jin Ming frowned slightly, remembering what Xiuxiu had said, and his expression became more indifferent: "Why, just because I killed you, do you expect me to be a chivalrous woman who slays demons and slays demons, to govern the country and the world?"

She doesn't have that much patience.

How big the bowl is, how much food she eats, and some things she bumps into, taking care of them doesn't mean that anyone can impose some kind of "responsibility" on her.

Lu Xingshan shook his head, and the dimly lit images suddenly flashed across his mind, frame by frame, like a Lantern Festival Lantern, with little figures on the lantern dangling in the candlelight, making noise.

It was a boy, the same him back then.

……

On the day he walked out of the imperial examination hall, he saw an examinee in the corner stuffing "filial piety" for the examiner, and threw the ink cartridge in his hand over. Bang, the ink spilled out, splashing the person's face black.

"Dirty white, how can you talk about being a parent official!" He proudly brushed his white clothes, which were worn by students who have not entered the officialdom, and he washed them clean every day.

Just like his original intention.

Later, he won the exam, opened a school, and became a teacher. He looked at the immature faces who were also all white, and taught them how to hold a pen, learn how to write their own names, and ask the truth of the world.

He prepared lesson plans until late at night, and personally wrote notes for each student, even though the number of students became less and less, and his parents scolded him for teaching useless things.

He would also wash his white clothes every day. Facing the last remaining student, his voice was gentle but firm: "It's too far away to talk about the family and the country, and the burden of the people's livelihood is too heavy. Sir, I only wish that your white clothes will not be stained."

Later, in order to seek justice for Ah Jin, he frantically stepped into the officialdom.

……

Since then, never came back.

That boy in white, that teacher who teaches and educates people.

……

Lu Xingshan smiled suddenly: "Miss Jin, who didn't enter the officialdom with the ideal of governing the country and the world? What I hope is that you will always keep this question in your heart."

Jin Mingwei suddenly felt irritable and didn't want to listen any longer. She took out the cloth strip she had prepared and stuffed Lu Xingshan's mouth. At the same time, the dagger was unsheathed, and murderous intent lit up in her eyes.

"$43, pay it back today."

……

　Here comes the question: who didn't enter the officialdom with the ideal of governing the country and the world?The question of Jin Mingwei's life is also the question of the soul of this book.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)