The people of Jing State were originally worried that the appearance of the great scholar Tang Zhengwei would disturb Fang Yun's mind, but they did not expect that Fang Yun would resolve the problem with just a few simple words.
The officials of Qing State were somewhat depressed. Fang Yun was simply engaged in a war of words today, criticizing everyone. As soon as he appeared, he scolded King Qing as a third-rate king, then broke Nie Changju's literary courage, and then ruined Zong Wuyuan's literary reputation. Later, even all the people of Qing State were involved. Now that the great scholar has come forward, he is persuaded to retreat with just a few words. It seems that no one in the world can deal with Fang Yun.
Some officials of the Qing Kingdom secretly sent a message to the King of Qing, asking him to give up those petty tricks. In front of Fang Yun, all those crooked ways would instead become the nourishment for Fang Yun to cultivate his literary reputation. Apart from making other scholars admire Fang Yun more, they were useless.
At this moment, more than ten passenger ships stopped at the Yangtze River wharf outside Yueyang Tower, and one after another people wearing white mourning clothes, linen clothes and black belts around their waists walked down from the passenger ships.
At first only a few people saw the men coming down, but soon many looked over there.
More than two thousand people in mourning got off the boat, and a huge portrait was carried down.
Eight Hanlin scholars were carrying a wooden platform like a sedan chair, on top of which stood a huge portrait of a university scholar.
Many people recognized the person in the painting as the previous head of the Lei family and Grand Secretary Lei Chongmo. This person died in the dragon clan's war realm. Most people currently believe that Fang Yun killed him. As for why the two fought and how Fang Yun killed Lei Chongmo, it is still a mystery. Even the West Sea Dragon Palace cannot produce any evidence. It is said that all the dragons who are looking for evidence are trapped in the war realm and cannot leave.
When the huge painting appeared, even Fang Yun and other people in the first seat began to look there, and the others raised their heads and gazed into the distance.
The scholars at the literary gathering were discussing the matter.
"The Lei family is finally here!"
"I knew the Lei family wouldn't let go of this opportunity."
"Tsk tsk, the painting is really good. This should be the third realm of painting, 'coming alive on paper'. Look, Lei Zhongmo in it actually has flesh and blood. Except for his empty eyes, he is completely a living person."
"What a pity! No matter how Lei Chongmo died, it was a loss for the human race."
"You are wrong. A scum of the human race like Lei Chongmo deserves no pity for his death."
"Huh?"
Among the crowd and seats that had arrived at the literary gathering a long time ago, strange changes occurred. One scholar after another stood up, some took off their coats to reveal mourning clothes, while others took out mourning clothes from the packages they carried with them and put them on in public.
Among them, the audience in Jiaguo did the most.
Soon, among the millions of people, there were more than 10,000 people wearing mourning clothes, and the situation was showing a trend of expanding and spreading.
Then, an even more shocking scene occurred: some Xiangzhou officials wore mourning clothes!
These were all officials from Xiangzhou who supported the Qing Kingdom, commonly known as Qing officials.
This scene not only stunned the people of Jing, but also other neutral countries found it difficult to understand.
The people of Yun, who had an old grudge against Jia, couldn't help but sneer.
"Although death is the greatest thing, Xiangzhou suddenly has so many filial sons and grandchildren. The spirit of Lei Daxueshi in heaven will definitely be very pleased."
"It's Mid-Autumn Festival, but so many people are in mourning. It's really unlucky! Who brought calamus and garlic? Help me ward off evil spirits!"
"Haha, these bastards from Jiaguo look even sadder than if their parents had died."
Not only did people from other countries look at those Qing officials with strange eyes, even the scholars of Qing looked at the Qing officials of Xiangzhou with contempt. If these people cooperated with Qing, it could only be said to be a historical relationship. However, they actually cooperated with the people of Jia to attack Fang Yun, to the extent of wearing mourning for Lei Chongmo. It was simply disgusting.
Those officials standing there in mourning clothes showed no shame at all, but seemed extremely calm.
Fang Yun sighed softly, a look of pity emerged on his face, but that pity slowly dissipated. The reason why these people were calm was because they had already made preparations and were going all out. Once they succeeded, they would be able to control everything in Xiangzhou and make it difficult for Jing State to intervene. If they failed, the worst that could happen was that they would return to Qing State and start over.
From the very beginning, these people were ready to sell their dignity and everything.
Only because of this can you be calm.
All the people in mourning in the crowd walked towards where the portrait of Lei Zhongmo was, and the person carrying the portrait of Lei Zhongmo also slowly walked towards the direction of Yueyang Tower and Fang Yun.
It was midnight, but no one cared about Zhang Longxiang's whereabouts. Everyone was looking at the procession of tens of thousands of people that looked like a funeral procession, watching them walk to the front of Yueyang Tower and slowly move from the last seat at the outermost edge to the first seat.
Neither the soldiers of Jing State nor the officials of Kong City dared to stop the team, because the one walking in front of the team was the great scholar of the Lei family, Lei Tingzhen.
Lei Tingzhen walked to the junction of Seat A and Seat B and stopped. The whole team also stopped. The ten-foot-tall portrait trembled slightly, and Lei Chongmo painted inside seemed to be about to walk out.
Fang Yun looked at Lei Tingzhen quietly, with a very special expression on his face, as if there was some smile, some mockery, and some pity.
Lei Tingzhen bowed to Fang Yun respectfully, bent his waist 90 degrees, stood up, and said with thunderous tongue: "What happened back then started with the murder of the Lei family. We were a little excessive and our behavior towards you was a little inappropriate, but compared with the dead Lei family, what did you endure? Since then, more and more Lei family members have died because of you. After Chongmo became the head of the family, he took the blame and apologized on his own initiative. Can't our Lei family, who once saved the human race, apologize and repent without regard for dignity, be forgiven by you? How much do you hate my Lei family that you joined forces with the East China Sea Dragon Palace, sneaked into the Dragon Clan War Realm, and killed my Lei family head Lei Chongmo? If Chongmo didn't die, he would have been a great scholar of the human race now! Fang Xusheng, you killed a great scholar of the Lei family!"
"What did the death of the Lei family have to do with me? He molested a decent woman and was beaten to death by the Whale King. Instead of seeking revenge from the Whale King, you attacked me, a person who had nothing to do with you. You are a bunch of rubbish who cheat in the name of the Lei family's ancestors all day long. Do you have the right to blame me?"
Fang Yun smiled contemptuously, not hiding his attitude at all.
"Fang Yun, you are a human race virtual saint, why are you so rude? Why are you slandering my Lei family? Fellow human race members, have you seen Fang Yun's attitude? It is because Fang Yun treats my Lei family like this that my Lei family can no longer tolerate it..."
Fang Yun interrupted Lei Tingzhen and said, "That's enough, stop pretending! When can you answer me why the Whale King killed the Lei family but you want to kill me? I will talk to you Lei family properly. That's the origin of everything! Of course, if you think that the Lei family is powerful and that the little scholar deserved to be slandered and attacked by the Lei family, and you should bear it honestly, then what else can we say?"
Lei Tingzhen said angrily: "Fang Xusheng, the grudge between my Lei family and you has been written off after Zhong Mo apologized for his crime, why do you keep pestering me?"
"Who was the first to bring up the past? And who was the one who turned right and wrong and spread the rumor that it was because the Lei family was killed? It was clearly because the women of Jing country were insulted by the Lei family and were about to be captured and raped!"
.(To be continued.)