Three hundred and ninetieth chapters changing situation
Chapter 396: Changing circumstances
In front of the dim door, the fire suddenly lit up.
Amidst the respectful salutes and greetings from the jailer, a scholar in a light blue gown and the chubby Minister of Justice Hong Quan appeared at the door.
Glancing at the surprised Lu Zhi in the cell, Lu Heng smiled, bent down and walked into the cell. He cupped his fists and said to him: "Master Lu, long time no see!"
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When Lu Zhi saw this person coming, he came to his senses, shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"I didn't expect anyone to come see me. I thought my time had come!"
Dragging the heavy shackles, Nuo stepped aside and let the door open. He pointed at the only futon on the withered grass behind him and said, "The room is simple. Mr. Lu, if you don't mind, just sit down!"
Lu Heng looked at him calmly, wearing a death row uniform, with gray beard and hair, and a messy look. Feeling slightly sad, he nodded.
Behind him, Hong Quan saw Lu Zhi shackled, as if preparing for execution. He sighed in his heart and walked to the cell.
After the three of them sat down, Lu Heng glanced at the withered and haggard Lu Zhi in front of him. He turned his head and said to the jailer outside the door: "Can you please buy some food and drinks?"
"Sir, please wait a moment!" Upon hearing this, the jailer nodded respectfully, clasped his fists and left.
Not long after, the jailer brought some delicious food and a jug of wine.
The three of them sat down in this damp and cold cell, sitting on the floor under the dim light.
After the jailer filled the three drinks with wine, he stood aside respectfully without saying a word.
Lu Heng picked up the wine glass, glanced at Lu Yushi, smiled and persuaded: "Come on, you two, please drink up!"
"Your Majesty, please!" Hong Quan and Lu Yushi raised their wine cups and said something. The three of them raised their heads and drank the wine in one gulp.
Lu Yushi picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks. After looking at it, he laughed at himself: "I haven't eaten meat for a long time! Oh, today is thanks to the young master!"
While chewing, he picked up the wine cup and took a sip.
"Why did the young master come back to see me?" Lu Yushi drank a full drink and took a deep breath. He looked a little depressed and was stunned for a moment. He raised his head, looked at the calm-eyed scholar in front of him, and asked.
Lu Heng took the wine cup, shook it, put it down, looked at Lu Yushi and said, "Oh, I think you should have something to say to me!"
"Why did the young master say that?" Lu Zhi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and asked with a smile.
Lu Heng stretched out his fingers, brushed off a cockroach that crawled on his body, and shook his clothes. He turned his head and looked at Lu Zhi with a burning gaze, then smiled slightly and pointed at his head: "Feel it!"
After Lu Zhi heard this, he was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Back in Jiangning, when he was talking to Wei Fuyin, Lu Zhi, who was also present at the time, experienced the scholar's strange thoughts.
At that time, Wei Fuyin asked the scholar why he did not cooperate with Mr. An. The scholar thought for a long time, and then seriously stated a reason: that is, Mr. An was too ugly.
The reason turned out to be that during the flower viewing party, the scholar had just suffered an emotional setback. As a result, Mr. An was very unfortunate and happened to be in the crosshairs of the gun. After some coercion and temptation, not only did he fail to draw the scholar into his banner.
.On the contrary, it angered him.
The reason why the scholar made up his mind in the end was also very simple: he blamed Mr. An for Miss Qingqing's rejection of him. The reason was that Mr. An's appearance frightened Liu Qingqing, causing Liu Qingqing to feel frightened and uneasy.
, so refuse.
However, everyone knows that the reason mentioned by the scholar casually is just an excuse.
The conflict between him and Mr. An had already started when the Liu family forced Liu Qingqing and Su Guangyi coerced her.
Now, seeing the scholar do this trick again. Lu Yushi shook his head and smiled bitterly, knowing that he was just perfunctory. He sighed deeply, looked at Lu Heng with a dumbfounded look and said: "Okay, just, um, just treat it as a feeling.
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Picking up the wine bottle, Lu Zhi poured the wine while looking at Lu Heng and praised: "I have to say, your feeling is very accurate!"
After saying that, Yushi Lu glanced calmly at the jailer standing behind Lu Heng.
Lu Heng understood and waved his hand to let the jailer go down.
When the corridor was cleared and there were only three people in the room, Lu Zhi stood up and walked to a corner. Then he pulled away the dead grass. He opened the wooden board underneath and took out a cloth bag with many pieces of paper from the bottom.
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Holding it in his hand, after careful consideration, Lu Yushi took a deep breath, made up his mind, turned around and walked to Lu Heng.
"This is evidence of the collusion between the King of Jin and the King of Pingxi. It also contains the contents of their settlement with the northwest and the correspondence between them and the Turks." Lu Yushi solemnly placed the cloth bag behind Lu Heng's hand.
, raised his head and asked in a deep voice: "I hope you can pass this thing on to your majesty, sir!"
Lu Heng glanced at the package in his hand, and after being silent for a while, he raised his head, looked at Lu Yushi and said, "Why don't you just hand it over to the emperor?"
"Your Majesty refuses to see me!" Lu Yushi smiled bitterly and sighed, with a very desolate look on his face.
When Lu Heng heard this, he shook his head slightly and gave the package to Lu Yushi again.
"My lord, my lord, aren't you willing to help me?" Lu Yushi looked frightened and looked at Lu Heng in panic and said.
"Last night, His Majesty had made up his mind to eradicate the rebellious officials and traitors!" Lu Heng stretched out his hand, pressed his shoulder. He smiled and said lightly: "So, this evidence is no longer needed!"
Hearing the news, Lu Yushi was shocked at first, and suddenly burst into tears. With a smile of relief on his face, he knelt down with a plop and cried: "Oh, Your Majesty, I can die in peace!"
The experience of the group in the disaster area is something Lu Yushi cannot forget even now.
On the way to the disaster area, he saw the victims, who were naked and had yellow faces and muscles. The cold-hearted Lu Yushi could not help but feel sour in his eyes.
When he arrived at the disaster area, he saw the vast ocean and the starving people everywhere. Lu Yushi squatted on the edge of the Yellow River, looking at the body of a child half-covered under the loess, and his heart went cold.
When those nobles and nobles ignored the people's livelihood for the sake of the fertile land they illegally occupied, Lu Yushi could no longer suppress the anger in his heart and used the Emperor's Sword with murderous intent.
Now, even though he is behind bars, Lu Heng and Hong Quan can see that he still cares about the disaster area and the people on that land.
"Master Lu, you are a good man and a good official!" Lu Heng knelt down and reached out to help Lu Yushi, who was kneeling on the ground, up. He looked at the man with respect and said in a deep voice.
Lu Yushi shook his head in tears. After sighing, he raised his head and looked at the young court official in front of him, the emperor's imperial master with a bright future. He smiled and said: "A capable emperor's master can say a good official, and I will die without success."
What a pity!"
Lu Heng shook his head and smiled. After giving him a steady look, he reached out and patted his shoulder, turned around and walked out of the cell.
Behind him, Hong Quan raised his hands respectfully and bowed to Lu Zhi. Then, he followed Lu Heng and walked out of the room.
In the cell, the bright lights added a touch of warmth to the cold and damp cell.
Lu Yushi sat in front of the table, holding a letter in his hand about the connection between King Jin and King Pingxi. He stared blankly at the swaying oil lamp on the table. In front of him, the letter containing the sins of King Jin and King Pingxi was
The package of letters was left alone on the table.
The room was completely silent, except for the occasional crackling sound from the beating oil lamp.
In the flickering flames, the light in the room flickered.
After a long time, Censor Lu came to his senses and smiled sadly. He lit the envelope in his hand on the flame of the oil lamp.
Seeing the letter in his hand turned into ashes, Lu Yushi raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and sighed with a pleased smile: "Your Majesty, you are a saint!"
On the second day of June in the fifth year of the Qingyuan Period of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was cloudy and the wind was blowing hard.
Lu Zhi, the imperial censor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was executed at the Tokyo execution ground together with his family members, a total of more than fifty people, for many crimes such as disobedience and contempt for imperial power.
Corpses littered the fields and rivers of blood flowed.
For a time, the news about Lu Yushi's incident seemed to have died down. However, the next morning, the people of Luoyang City suddenly discovered that the soldiers of the North and South Battalions who had been stationed outside Tokyo suddenly disappeared overnight.
, appeared on the streets of Tokyo.
Thousands of elite soldiers poured into the city from the four gates of Luoyang City.
Then came the various orders issued by the emperor. The Thousand Niu Guards in the palace were rotated, and the city defense troops in the city were replaced by soldiers from the North Camp. The entire confidential departments of Tokyo were completely replaced.
The atmosphere that had just eased suddenly became tense again.
Hiding at home, listening to the news from the servants. The faces of the courtiers all changed.
Great Zhou, things are going to change!
A month later, the emperor held a court meeting.
He declared King Pingxi guilty of rebellion, expelled him from the royal list, and sent troops to attack him.
Once the imperial edict was announced, the courtiers were all shocked. King Jin was panicked and Anjia looked gloomy.
Three days later, the emperor declared the case of Lu Yushi to be an unjust, false and wrong case. The wronged Lu Yushi was vindicated. His posthumous title was Wenzheng and he was posthumously awarded the title of Duke of Lu.
A week later, the emperor personally visited the mansion where Lu Yushi lived, and courtiers gathered.
In the trembling eulogy of the Minister of Rites, the funeral of Lu Yushi was officially carried out.
The courtiers, who looked sad, came forward to pay their respects to the coffin that had been left there for a month.
And the family members of Lu Yushi who appeared out of nowhere stood aside, crying until the sky was dark and the earth was dark, and their hearts were broken.
"Master, the sky has opened my eyes!" Lu Yushi's wife knelt in front of the coffin, looking at the memorial arch, tears streaming down her face, her heart broken, and she almost fainted.
All the children in the family were reduced to tears.
This scene made me cry when I heard it.
Sitting on the chair on the left, the gray-haired emperor, with his eyes slightly closed, looked at the Lu family members kneeling in front of the coffin, weeping in pain. His heart also felt cramped.
"Lu Aiqing, I'm sorry for you!"
The emperor raised his head, and hot tears fell down his cheeks.
The funeral has reached the middle, after the guests have saluted.
The emperor glanced at him and suggested that the courtiers should write an elegiac couplet for Lu Yushi.
Therefore, officials who wanted to take this opportunity to please the emperor came forward to offer gifts. Various elegiac couplets emerged one after another.
However, most of them were praising the emperor for his keen eyesight and perceptiveness. Occasionally, Lu Censor's contribution was mentioned, but not much.
After the emperor took a look, his expression became even more gloomy.
Finally, with the recommendation of the courtiers, the imperial master walked out from the crowd, stepped forward, picked up the brush, and without any hesitation, wrote the elegiac couplet in one go:
Live for the country, die for the country, have a chivalrous style throughout your life, and your merits and crimes are still undecided;
Fame spreads all over the world, slander spreads all over the world, things are done in the Spring and Autumn Period in troubled times, right and wrong are left for future generations to judge.