If you take other people's money, you must abide by other people's rules. This principle is natural and consistent with common sense, but there are always people who try to break this common sense. If there are rules, there are people who violate the rules. What is rules? Rules are to punish those who violate the rules, something that is invisible and intangible, but is always around you.
The habit of these people in Yinluo Town is deeply rooted in their habit of being lazy and idle. At the beginning, everyone abides by the rules because they want to be fresh. Over time, their nature is exposed again.
Xu Lei had already expected this, so the exquisite sword technique he played in front of everyone that day was not a performance.
The one who took the lead in violating the rules was a bully who had drunk wine with Xu Lei in the tavern that day and had a good relationship with him. The first thing he did when he received a gold coin was to go to Yas City to have fun and clean the gold coin. After he came back, he found an honest family to pay for a meal. When he left, he "borrowed" the gold coin from this family and beat someone else.
This kind of thing was so normal in Yinluo Town in the past. However, the jungle rule of the strong prey on the weak was exposed naked in this place where refugees gathered. In the eyes of this bully, it was just a trivial matter, and it was normal to want to eat and drink water. So the next day he still slept calmly until the sun was sunny as usual. After a lazy time, he went to Yas City to squander the gold coin completely.
After returning to Yinluo Town, he was familiar with the road and was ready to "borrow" a gold coin from another household. He calculated the general household in Yinluo Town, happily planning for such a beautiful thing to last three or two months.
While he was thinking happily, he thought about who would go to "borrow" money for a while. He was lazy and had a good mind. He actually analyzed the personality habits of everyone in Yinluozhen and sorted out who would save the gold coins to the end, and who would spend the gold coins quickly. These families, like him, who would quickly squander money with a little money, became his first choice for "borrowing" money, because if he started late, he might not be able to borrow it.
At this moment, he suddenly saw a face, a smiling face. He was stunned and couldn't help but smile, smiling sincerely, because it was the owner of this smiling face who gave him all this, and he liked this person.
"Brother!" The bully greeted him enthusiastically. Although the other party was nearly twenty years younger than him, his big brother shouted very casually.
This young man who gave him all this dreamy life convinced him, and seemed to have the ability to go to heaven and earth, and was easy-going and had no airs at all. Every time he saw him, he would greet him warmly, just like now, showing a bright sunny smile.
He has always been proud of calling his brother and brother to this young man. He feels that he has drunk wine with this young man, and he calls him eldest brother. The relationship between the two is very strong.
"Brother, I specially brought you a jar of good wine from Yas today. Where can I go to me later, let's have two bowls of wine!" The bully had been happy for two consecutive days and was in a very comfortable mood. While writing, he shook the jar of wine in his hand, not knowing that what was waiting for him would be a disaster.
Xu Lei looked at the bully with an excited face with a smile. After he knew that he had finished speaking, he smiled faintly and said, "Tell me what the difference is between borrowing and robbing?"
The bully was stunned. He didn't know what the other party suddenly asked what this sentence meant. He thought for a while, and then said with a puzzled look: "Borrow it means someone else voluntarily to give it to you, and rob it means someone else doesn't want to, you insist on taking it away."
It seems that he is really not stupid, and his understanding of the concepts of grabbing and borrowing is quite incisive.
Xu Lei nodded, "I heard that you went to Lao Wang's house yesterday to take a gold coin. Do you tell me if you borrowed it or robbed it?"
The bully blurted out without hesitation: "Of course I borrowed it?"
Xu Lei still said with a smile, "The old Wang family must be a fool. If you borrow gold coins, you have to ask for a fight from them. Haha, do you think he is stupid?"
"Haha... it's really stupid..." The bully was stunned suddenly, then scratched his head awkwardly, and laughed at Xu Lei: "Brother, you know everything. It's not my fault. I borrowed it from him with kind words, but he still refused to give it to him, so...hehe..."
Xu Lei also laughed and said, "This old man is really ignorant. He told him that he didn't lend it. This is ridiculous, haha..."
"Haha..." The bully also laughed.
It was not until he saw Xu Lei's face slowly solidifying, and then he stopped, and a feeling of hairiness in his heart inexplicably.
Xu Lei leaned his head slightly into his ear and said softly: "I am also kind enough to borrow something from you."
"Brother, what are you saying, just take whatever you want, and what other words are saying..." The bully slapped his chest and started talking nonstop as he spoke.
Xu Lei listened patiently to him, then smiled, and said casually: "This kind of thing is the head on your neck!"
"No problem..." The bully was about to blurt out, but suddenly his face changed drastically. Before he could react, he was punched heavily in his stomach, causing him to arch his body and he couldn't say a word.
"Tie me, and notify the whole town of the old and young. Everyone will gather in the square at noon tomorrow!" Xu Lei said sternly, and several middle-aged men rushed out of the side immediately tied the bully who was curled up in pain and tied up the pained bully.
These young and middle-aged men were carefully selected by Xu Lei among the locals. Although these people are honest and dull on weekdays and always accept the bullies in the town, they are also the easiest to control. Some favors will make them cry. Now with Xu Lei's support, these people are braver immediately. The long-accumulated hatred gushed out like a volcano. While binding the bully, they took a lot of heavy moves.
This bully is not the only one who violates the rules. These refugees have become full of bad habits. They regard the weak assaults as commonplace. They regard the common practice of fighting against the weak and robbing the family. It was only three days after Xu Lei issued the law, dozens of people violated the rules to varying degrees.
On the second day, all the residents of the town gathered on the open space that Xu Lei tentatively designated as the entrance of the square, looking at the center of the square with different expressions, some confusing, some curious, and some fearful.
There were more than a dozen people kneeling in the middle of the square, each of them tied up in various shapes, with rags stuffed in their mouths that could not speak, and could only make whimpers that made people feel shuddered when they heard them. Each of them looked as if they were ashamed and their eyes were full of fear.
Behind each of them was a shirtless middle-aged man. These middle-aged men all had a machete with a cold face, but their slightly trembling bodies meant that they were extremely nervous at the moment. They knew what to do next. They never thought that one day they would kill these bullies who always bully them on weekdays. What could not be concealed was an inexplicable excitement.
It was already the time set before, and it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, but Xu Lei was still missing. No one knew where he was going. The forehead of these young men who were the first to act as a tycoon began to seep their sweat. It was the clear and refreshing autumn season, and it was definitely not because of the heat.
They certainly wouldn't know that the young man who seemed to be omnipotent in their minds was sitting on the small bed in the guest room on the second floor of the tavern, buried his head deep in his knees, his body trembling, his fists tightly clenched, his face pale as paper.
No one knew that he had been in this position since last night and now, his dry lips were pursed tightly, and there was a giggle of gritting his teeth from time to time.
Ling Qingyi has been quietly guarding him since last night, without saying a word from beginning to end, just sitting quietly aside, looking at the man who disrupted her already set life.
Only she knew why this man was like this at this moment.
A few years ago, in the square of the Yas Empire, he sat high on the slaughter platform, expressionless and as if he was like a rock. At that time, he was willing to revenge. With a light throw of the token, he let his enemy's family rent hundreds of heads to the ground.
This story was applauded by others, killing the enemy with his hands to avenge him. Xu Lei also felt unprecedented pleasure at that time. Seeing hundreds of heads rolling on the ground one after another, his heart was extremely excited, filled with the rich bloody smell of the air that stimulated every cell on his body.
But no one knows that what others clapped and praised, but left a knot in Xu Lei's heart that he would never be able to untie his life.
Ye Yong deserves to die, but the elderly, women, and innocent and cute children in his family? Should they deserve to die?
Xu Lei still clearly remembers that when the children were tied to kneel on the ground, they thought it was the adults who were joking with them, until their heads rolled to the ground, they still had that innocent and confused expression.
Xu Lei has never told anyone about this over the years. He wants to forget it, but he has always been firmly nailed to his heart like a steel nail.
Now, he is going to repeat the scene from that year. Although there are no elderly or children this time, the crimes committed by these people are not killed, but they have to be killed. If this time, they will spread rapidly like a cancer in the future, and his rules will no longer work.
Xu Lei silently recited the Capricorn Tantra Sutra, which is a Buddhist scripture. Every time Xu Lei was upset, he would return to peace as long as he recited the scriptures silently. But this time, these scriptures were like dense thorns. Every time he recited a word silently, he would prick his heart.
Buddhist scriptures and killing are the absolute opposites, how can the two be matched?
With a thought of kindness, Xu Lei's hegemony and ideals will stop, and with a thought of killing, he will continue to move forward.
"Do you know why the two Buddha statues holding vajra tin pestles on both sides of the entrance to the Buddhist temple were listed as Arhats?" Ling Qingyi seemed to be able to see through Xu Lei's thoughts anytime and anywhere. She knew very well about the Ye family extermination of Yas City a few years ago. At that time, she had the only doubts about this man.
Xu Lei raised his head gently and looked at Ling Qingyi without turning his eyes.
Seeing this man who was as pale as paper and had to face her heart, she felt inexplicably painful, but she continued calmly: "That's because the killing of these two arhats was to reduce more killings and stop killing, which is also a kind of great compassion. Because of a kindness, it makes more people fall into the sea of suffering, which is also another kind of cruelty."
Xu Lei closed his eyes and pondered. After a while, he slowly stood up. Without saying a word, he tidied up his clothes slightly, and then walked out of the door.
Looking at Xu Lei's departure back, Ling Qingyi smiled, with a hint of bitterness in her smile, not for Xu Lei, not for herself, but for the helplessness of this world. She knew that it must be a mistake for her to instigate Xu Lei to kill, but she was willing to do this, and she was willing to do the wrong thing for this man that she had never done before.
But from the beginning, it was a very wrong arrangement for her fate to meet this man. Isn’t it? Ling Qingyi smiled bitterly, and a trace of tears flashed in her eyes, tears without regrets.