Kong Changhui looked around, stopped the prison car, and ordered them to retreat to the rear and stay where they were. He wanted to say goodbye to the young marquis alone.
The officials and government servants took orders and retreated. An attendant held a lantern in front of him to illuminate the situation. Kong Changhui and Guan Xi followed behind and walked to the prison car.
The black cloth was lifted by Guan Xi, revealing a man who was mostly buried in tattered paper, rotten leaves, and leftover food. The man kept sobbing, but no words came out of his throat.
His hair was disheveled and his appearance was unclear, but his eyes were filled with deathly gray, staring hard at the attendant holding the lantern.
The attendant holding the lantern touched his forehead and felt a little miserable. He clicked his tongue twice and sighed: "The people of Chang'an are so ruthless..."
Kong Changhui nodded in agreement with him: "Fortunately, the young master did not walk this journey by himself."
The attendant holding the lantern raised his head and raised his slightly wide official hat. The candlelight in the lantern reflected on his face, clearly illuminating Xia Chu's beautiful face. He spat at the prisoner. : "Hurry and get it out for him and send it back. The things inside are also scratching and picking apart."
Kong Changhui glanced at Guan Xi. Guan Xi opened the cage and took a lot of effort to pull out the person inside. Then he carried him behind a big tree next to the official road and patted him all over. Dirty, then go clean the carriage.
Taking advantage of Guan Xi's cleaning, Kong Changhui had time to ask Xia Chu: "Master, how did you get him here? Did you alert Master Jing?"
Xia Chu frowned with a solemn face and said, "Such a big thing must have caused alarm."
Kong Changhui gritted his teeth, he thought so too.
But even after being tied up, he risked his life and said to Xia Chu: "Tomorrow I will personally go to Master Jing to confess my crime."
Xia Chu's solemn face was so amused by his generous self-sacrifice that he couldn't stop laughing, and patted him on the shoulder: "No need, even if you admit it, Jing Qibin won't admit it, so don't scare him. "
Kong Changhui was confused when he heard this. Who is scaring whom
"Don't worry, I got him from Jing Qibin. I'll just send him back quietly later. Jing Qibin will send someone to take over. From now on, just pretend that this never happened." Xia Chu smiled with a sly expression.
At first, in the evening, when Kong Changhui and Xie Jiming returned to Dali Temple from the palace, they went to the prison to tell Xia Chu what happened in Qingxin Hall.
After he finished speaking, he was speechless and asked with a blushing face: "Master, why don't you run away..."
Xia Chu scolded him: "What nonsense are you talking about? What will you do if I escape?"
Kong Changhui closed his eyes when he scolded him, and gritted his teeth: "The world is unfair, so it's okay if this official doesn't do it."
"The way of heaven is unfair, the way of the world is ruthless, people are silent, and their standards are not equal. Tolerating injustice is not a sign of cowardice, but for the sake of the greater good. Even if you are so negative, the history books will not describe you as upright. The world's people No one even knows your last name." Xia Chu looked solemn and said in an angry tone: "What you have to do is not to blame others, but to strive for change with great ambition. Changhui, do you still remember that you went to Beijing? The innocent heart before."
Kong Changhui touched his chest involuntarily: "My heart is still there, but I don't know how to change it, and I can't see the overall situation..."
Xia Chu's face became a little brighter and his tone became a little softer: "Between heaven and earth, the officials and the people are on two different levels. If you really take off this official robe, you really can't do anything."
Kong Changhui looked at him with a confused expression, as if asking again, what can he do even if he is wearing this official robe
"One grain of millet is planted in spring, and ten thousand grains are harvested in autumn. There is no idle land in the world, and farmers are starving to death. If you can't take care of my affairs, you can still take care of the people of Liming. The reason why you can't see the overall situation..." Xia Chu paused. After a pause, he glanced at Xie Ji Ming, and then said with emotion: "That's because you are the overall situation and the future of Great Xiao."
Kong Changhui and Ji Ming looked at each other and felt each other's shock. The two of them bowed straightly to Xia Chu and said, "I've been taught a lesson."
Xia Chu lifted the two of them up with both hands and asked Jie Jiming, "You are here today, but you have something to ask me?"
Xie Jiming's face was filled with shyness. It used to be there, but now it's gone...
So, he shook his head.
Xia Chu chuckled: "What Qian Le presented is indeed my handwriting, but it's just a letter of peace to Qian An."
Xie Jiming bowed his head again in shame: "I saved the heart of a gentleman."
Kong Changhui interjected: "Stop talking about these things now, young master, do you really want to go to that prison and be exiled?"
Xia Chu touched his nose, with a sly look on his face: "What goes up has to go up, and the flow has to flow out, but..."
Both of them asked at the same time? ’ I made a sound, wondering what exactly he was selling.
Xia Chu came up to them, pretending to be mysterious and lowering his voice: "You two are here to help me deal with it. I have to go out. If nothing happens, I will be back in half an hour."
Kong Changhui quickly asked: "Is there anything I need to prepare?"
Xia Chu's eyes turned: "Get me a night clothes first, and later prepare a set of clothes for a government servant and a piece of black cloth for a cage."
Kong Changhui led Guan Xi to prepare in person, leaving only Jie Ji Ming and Xia Chu in prison.
"If you have something to say, just say it. You can't figure it out even if you're bored." Xia Chu looked at Xie Jiming and hesitated to speak, teasing him in a relaxed tone.
Jie Jiming lowered his head in embarrassment, coughed, and then said with sincere emotion: "What the young master just said was like an enlightenment. Even though I have lived this long, I am still not as transparent as the young master. I feel ashamed of myself. If you think about it from another person's perspective, I would definitely not be able to bear the crime like the young master and still be happy to do so. How did the young master do it?"
Xia Chu turned the silver bracelet on her left hand: "Put all the misfortunes into your heart, and the fairest flowers will bloom in your heart. Whatever you want or don't want, the petals will bloom one by one..."
While Xie Jiming was still chewing on these words, Kong Changhui came back with Guan Xi. Xia Chu turned to Xie Jiming and said the last sentence with a smile: "I am a poisonous flower, not everyone can touch it."
Kong Changhui came over and handed the night clothes to Xia Chu. Xie Jiming still stood there with a stunned look on his face.
After Xia Chu had changed, he followed them out of the prison. He walked to the window and told them that he would be here to help them for half an hour. After that, he opened the window and jumped lightly, and suddenly he disappeared.
Guan Xi watched Kong Changhui let Xia Chu go just like that. Jie Jiming on the side actually didn't say a word. He couldn't help but stepped forward and said to Kong Changhui: "Sir, what if... you don't come back?"
Before Kong Changhui had time to reprimand him, Xie Jiming on the side suddenly said: "He won't do it."
(End of chapter)