"Those who serve as officials do not want to serve the court, and those who do not know how to care for the people will die. This is the instruction of the King of Wu and will be my behavior in the future," Dakui took a sip of the burning knife. The strong drink was spicy and strong in his mouth. Dakui couldn't help but frown. Pan Lei just kept silent. Da Kui swallowed the strong drink and took a deep breath. After a long time, he continued: "I have beheaded your cousin Pan Ke and Jiangxi salt envoy Fu Tailai. You have committed a crime of embezzlement and perverting the law." , I always only punish the first culprits, but your family is innocent but suffers the consequences. As long as you tell the person behind Xiangquanfang, I can save your family,"
Seeing that Pan Lei was still silent, Dakui continued: "You have been captured by me. Outsiders know this and are worried about you leaking the secret. Do you think your family can save their lives?
Hearing this, Pan Lei simply closed his eyes and sighed: "If I didn't tell him, you wouldn't go and check on him, so my family would be safe. If I tell him, my family will be ruined in vain."
Da Kui smiled slightly, stretched out his chopsticks to take a mouthful of beef tongue, chewed it slowly in his mouth, and nodded with dissatisfaction. Pan Lei didn't hear Da Kui's words for a while, but couldn't help opening his eyes and saw Da Kui's face full of satisfaction, looking down. Looking at the dishes on the floor: a plate of pig ears, a plate of beef tongue, a plate of peanuts, and a smoked chicken. Da Kui actually ate such ordinary dishes with gusto. Pan Lei really didn't understand how Dakui, a second-class official, could be a high official. have to.
It is said that Dakui's grade is not a problem, and every meal of delicacies is not a problem. Of course, the premise is that Dakui must be an official. How to be an official? If he is able to make money and deal with his superiors properly, then he is an official. Being on good terms with his superiors is to avoid being an official. Wearing small shoes and making friends with subordinates is to avoid being stabbed in the back. As the saying goes: The king of hell is aggressive and the devil is difficult to deal with. This is the truth.
It's a pity that my cousin didn't know how to keep a low profile, and finally showed his flaws and got himself in trouble. They say that things must be reversed when they are extreme, and you need to be moderate in making money as an official. But I am obviously not a big greedy person, but I still ended up in jail. Besides, I can't protect my family's safety. , to say this is not a big failure in the officialdom of life. Thinking of this, Pan Lei sighed deeply.
Da Kui swallowed the meat in his mouth and then said frankly: "If you are beheaded, the person who kidnapped your family will definitely think that your family has no use value. In this case, do you think he will let your family go or kill them?"
Pan Lei was irritated, but luckily he reached out to hold the wine jar and started drinking. For a moment, the strong wine went into his throat and tears flowed down his face. After a long time, Pan Lei put down the wine jar, his eyes were stained with red wine and his front was covered with red wine. Dakui's question made him sad. It was difficult for him to answer, and he had no way of answering, so he could only drink away his sorrows to relieve his worries.
Dakui turned his head and looked at the sky through the transom, which was more than a foot square, and then said: "It's almost nine o'clock now. In three hours, your head will be in a different place, and you will be separated from your family from now on. But soon after, your family will be gone." I will meet you. If you really want your family to be safe, you might as well tell them their whereabouts as soon as possible. I will rescue them before the news spreads far."
When Pan Lei heard this, he couldn't help looking at Dakui and asked in a trembling voice: "Is this true?"
Dakui also had piercing eyes. He looked at Pan Lei for a while and then said: "I keep my word, how can I lie and deceive?"
Pan Lei looked at Dakui and said: "I will make a bet. My family is in Luzhou, Jiangbei. Now Luzhou is still under the control of the Yuan Dynasty. If you can rescue my family safely, Pan will tell Xiangquanfang The inside story,”
Dakui was not only a little surprised when he heard this, but immediately asked: "Xiangquanfang is a masterpiece made by Yuanting."
Pan Lei smiled slightly and pondered for a moment before saying: "Although King Wu took all the land south of the Yangtze River, the Yuan Dynasty has been running the world for nearly a hundred years. It is not unusual for the land south of the Yangtze River to have some Yuan Dynasty masterpieces."
Although Dakui understood what he said, he couldn't help but shudder. The Art of War says: Know yourself and the enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger. King Wu spreads spies in the north of the Yangtze River, and the Yuan Dynasty has many eyes and ears in the south of the Yangtze River. As a result, they are evenly matched. The top priority is to investigate as soon as possible. The best strategy is to find out where the trouble is and eliminate them one by one.
However, it is not difficult to see from this incident that there are also people who collaborate with the enemy among the officials of the Ming Dynasty. It is just that the enemy is in the dark and I am in the open, but the best way to deal with it is.
Seeing Da Kui's frown, Pan Lei couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Since you are not sure of rescuing my family, why bother bothering me again? Pan just sat and waited for his body to be dead at three quarters in the afternoon."
After hearing this, Dakui became alarmed and couldn't help but ask: "For the sake of the people's livelihood, even if you have to die, I don't know how many secret things you know in your heart. Is it worth my troubles?"
Pan Lei laughed loudly after hearing this and said: "Whether you can save Pan's family or not, Pan would like to thank you first. Don't worry, Mr. Zhang. As long as I can see my family for the last time, I will treat him as a delivery person." A generous gift,”
Dakui asked curiously: "Can you tell me what it is?"
Pan Lei said mysteriously: "A list. This list is in your hands. Can you let Pan have a way out?"
Dakui chuckled and said, "If you give me a menu, how can I let you go?"
Pan Lei laughed again, and after a long time he said: "I didn't expect Mr. Zhang to be so selfless and so funny," Pan Lei said with a serious look on his face: "A list of Yuanting's forces in Jiangnan, including more than ten people from Jianghu organizations and Ming Dynasty officials. ,"
Dakui's heart trembled when he heard this, and he nodded immediately and said: "Tell me where your family is and how to find it."
Pan Lei looked at Dakui for a long time, and then said in a deep voice: "Pan was originally from Luzhou. When Luzhou changed hands repeatedly between the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the Yuan Dynasty used my family as a threat to force me to go south. Later, an insider recommended him I became the prefect of Quanzhou, and my wife Feng and her two children are now missing, but as far as I know they should still be in Luzhou."
Dakui couldn't help frowning when he heard this. He had never seen Pan Lei's family members, but how could he find them? Pan Lei seemed to know what Dakui was thinking, and then said: "There is a portrait of my wife on the wall of the study room at home. Your Excellency, please ask someone to fetch it and examine it carefully. There is a token of my wife in the cabinet above the desk in the study. Its appearance..."
Dakui was a little confused when he heard that. He quickly stretched out his hand to stop Pan Lei's words and said: "Go and get whatever you need. I will be waiting here. Go and come back as soon as possible." After Dakui said that, he started to pour himself a drink again. , it was a great pleasure to eat.
Pan Lei couldn't help asking: "Aren't you afraid that I will escape halfway?"
Da Kui chewed a piece of pig ear in his mouth and said vaguely: "If you wanted to run away, you would have run away a long time ago, and you will wait until now. I know that you are a person of your word, so you can just go."
Pan Lei smiled, stood up and actually walked out of the cell door. Unexpectedly, as soon as Pan Lei left, Gou Sheng and Shitou entered the cell and came to Dakui. Gou Sheng couldn't help but asked: "Sir, don't worry Pan Lei Zi goes,"
There was a sneer on Dakui's lips, and he said after a while: "Pan Lei's martial arts is not weak, and you are no match for it, but in the eyes of this officer, it is not enough. Pan Lei knows my reputation, so he doesn't resist or escape. His original intention is to trust me."
I rescued his family. Although he spends his days living and drinking, he is just covering it up deliberately. This person is very affectionate and does not look like a treacherous and dirty person. Don't worry, he will be back here in less than half an hour," Dakui said.
Then he took another sip of wine.
Shitou couldn't help asking: "Sir, what should we do if he escapes?"
Dakui chuckled: "Although I am not familiar with the world, I can still judge people quite accurately. You can tell whether a person is good or bad at a glance. Good people have a righteous look on their faces, and bad people have an evil look on their faces. The so-called appearance comes from the heart.
This principle,"
Hearing this, Shitou couldn't help but asked: "Sir, do you think the villain is a good person or a bad person?"
Dakui held back a glance at Shitou and shook his head: "You are neither a bad person nor a good person."
Shitou hurriedly asked: "Then why, people are always divided into good and bad."
Dakui joked: "How can a fool distinguish good from bad?" After saying this, Dakui looked up to the sky and laughed.
Shitou blushed and stopped talking, but Gou Sheng leaned forward and asked, "Sir, do you think I am a good guy or a bad guy?"
Dakui looked at the dog for a while before saying: "It's hard to tell from your appearance. You are very smart, but you are afraid that your smartness will be mistaken for you. If a person does evil all his life, but does good deeds before he dies, then he is a good person, because
This person knows his mistakes and can correct them, so he can be considered a good person. If a person does good things throughout his life, but does bad things when he is dying, then he is a bad person. Good people and bad people are often just one thought away. It is easy for a person to do evil in his life, but it is difficult to do good in his life.
Therefore, the sages have long said: The right path in the world is not a smooth road."
Gou Sheng thought for a moment after hearing the words, and then asked: "In that case, what if you do evil all your life, and deliberately do good deeds before your death in order to be known as a good person? A person who has been doing good all his life, but accidentally did something wrong before his death."
And how to make a conclusion?"
Dakui said slowly, drunkenly, "Heaven and earth are divided into yin and yang, people are divided into men and women, and human temperament is divided into good and evil. Therefore, it is said that good and evil are only in a single thought. If you use utilitarianism to control it, it will violate the way of heaven.
Good causes lead to good results, and everything is determined by heaven.”
Gou Sheng couldn't help but stammered: "People say that good people don't live long and bring harm to the country for thousands of years. Why did Yue Wumu of the Northern Song Dynasty die when he was loyal to the country? Why did Qin Hui, a treacherous and cunning person, die of his old age?"
Shitou couldn't help but corrected: "Qin Hui died of illness, so it can't be considered the end of his life."
Gou Shengyu argued to himself: "That's better than being looked down upon by others."
Dakui chuckled and said: "Don't argue. Although Yue Wumu suffered a bloody disaster, he was admired by future generations. Although Qin Hui gained power for a while, he was cast aside by future generations. A lifetime of loyalty will naturally lead to the name of loyalty. A lifetime of treachery
The result is nothing more than endless infamy. It can be seen that the righteous are praised by others, and the evil are criticized by others. Think about it, who are the people who have enjoyed the incense and worship from ancient times to the present. There are two civil and military saints, Confucius and Guan Gong, one is the originator of Confucianism, and the other is Guan Gong.
As a model of loyalty, the Buddha and Bodhisattvas enshrined in the temple protect all living beings. Even the ancestor Zhang Sanye (Zhang Fei) enshrined by the pig-killing butcher is also the embodiment of bravery. In this way, you can know who will be admired by all people, and what
He will be despised by the world,"
Gou Sheng Shitou and the others couldn't help but nodded and said: "Yes, people naturally worship good people."
Dakui chuckled and said: "If you wait here and disturb me to drink, if you don't go out, I will take you two to worship,"
Yes, only dead people will be enshrined. It is really rare for living people to be enshrined.