The Great Wei Music Bureau

Last time we talked about how Fang Zhuo used cunning tactics to come up with three strategies: best, middle and worst. Everyone understood that Xiao Ye would not agree to the best strategy, and Ruyun would disagree with the middle strategy, so the only strategy left was the worst, so they split up and began to prepare.

Li Yi found the official, relieved himself, and came to the prison with a pungent smell. The jailer took him to the prison where Xiao Ye was imprisoned and said, "If you have anything to say, please tell me quickly. You can't stay too long!" The implication was that if you want to stay longer, you have to pay more! Li Yi relieved himself again, and the jailer left with a smile.

Little Leaf didn't expect someone to visit her, so she was still lying in the thatched straw. Li Yi saw this and sighed, "Miss Ye'er, I'm here to see you." Little Leaf opened her eyes, saw who was coming, and slowly stood up. Her pretty face was no longer as pretty as before, her hair was disheveled, and her body was dirty. Li Yi asked, "Why, Miss Ye'er, you gave in after just one day in this prison?"

Little Leaf snorted coldly: "Are you here to make fun of me? Or to laugh at me?" Li Yi said: "I'm here to save you." He snorted again: "Save me? Just you? Come on, you should thank me if you can live until now, and you still save me." After that, Little Leaf lay down in the thatch again.

Li Yi said, "Yes, I have to thank you, so I came here today to repay you." "Forget it, I don't need you to repay me." Li Yi smiled and said, "You don't need me to repay you, Miss Ye'er. If you die or are exiled thousands of miles away, what will happen to your mother?"

This hit Xiao Ye's soft spot. Her cold and sharp voice came over, "Mr. Li, if you want to repay me, please help me take care of my mother for a few years. She is not young anymore and may die someday. If you can help her with her funeral, I will definitely be grateful. Even if I am exiled thousands of miles away, I will pray for you every day. May God bless you."

Li Yi laughed and said, "Miss Ye'er, you are joking. You know it is useless to pray to any god or Buddha at this time. Besides, you don't believe in gods or Buddhas, so there is no need to pray." "Then can you help me take care of my mother?"

Li Yi said: "You take care of your mother by yourself. Of course, there will be someone to help take care of her before you go out. Bailing has already sent someone to take care of your mother." Hearing this, Xiao Ye's heart softened all of a sudden. She curled up in the corner, crying silently.

Li Yi's words and actions today were different from his previous conversations with Xiao Ye. His attitude was surprisingly tough. He asked, "Do you want to die?" Xiao Ye ignored him. "Then do you want to live?" Xiao Ye also ignored him. "It's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. You should understand this principle better than anyone else. Otherwise, you wouldn't have survived until today."

"Li Yi, what do you want?" "I told you I want to rescue you." "I have committed murder and wounding, the evidence is solid, I have also admitted the crime, how can you save me? What can you use to save me?" "There are two ways to save you, but both require you to suffer some injustice, but one is physical suffering, and the other is mental suffering, do you want to listen to it?"

Little Leaf raised his head, looked at Li Yi and asked, "It's already this time, and you still have the mind to make such a joke. What are you thinking?"

Li Yi said, "Xiao Ye, I can tell you very clearly that if you don't survive this disaster, your mother will have only one fate, and that is death. She will either be heartbroken because of you and die in grief and anger; or she will be killed by Wang Hu's men or someone hired by Xu Yuanwai. In any case, her death is related to you. As a daughter, are you willing to watch your mother die because of you?"

Little Leaf lowered her head, wiped her tears and asked, "What do you have in mind? Tell me what you want to say. It doesn't matter what kind of pain you're in. Just tell me what you want to say."

Li Yi waved to her, motioning her to come closer. Xiao Ye Zi pulled the shackles and moved to the prison door. Li Yi said, "Tell me the details of what happened last night first. I want to know first if someone has plotted against you this time." Xiao Ye Zi told what happened last night.

Last night, Xiao Ye was walking home after selling things, and on the way she met the steward of Mr. Xu, who was in charge of purchasing for the weaving bureau, and a businessman. Xiao Ye has always been very vigilant. The biggest impact of her painful experiences over the years is that she will never let down her guard, except for the day when she cried in front of Li Yi. That was the first time in such a long time that she used crying to release pressure without restraint.

Xiao Ye Zi was able to hold on until now thanks to her alertness. She recognized the purchasing agent and Mr. Xu's housekeeper from a distance, so she avoided the three of them in advance. Unexpectedly, the three of them also discovered her and were actually waiting on the way she had to take to go home. Xiao Ye Zi waited for a long time, but the three of them did not leave. Just then, she saw a night watchman patrolling the streets passing by, so she followed him. Thinking that someone was there, the three of them did not dare to act rashly.

As a result, the night watchman turned to another place at an intersection some distance away from Xiaoye's home. Xiaoye ran as fast as he could, wanting to get home as quickly as possible, but this gave the three men an opportunity and he was caught up by them. Xiaoye did not hesitate to pull out the scissors he carried with him to protect himself.

The steward of Mr. Xu knew that Xiao Ye was a young and ignorant girl, so he did not touch her, but just spoke rudely. However, the purchasing agent thought that he was in the government's house, and did not believe that Xiao Ye would really dare to do anything. He spoke bluntly, saying that as long as Xiao Ye was willing to bow her head, Yuwen Ye would forgive her bygone days and treat her as well as before. He also said that Yuwen Ye had told him about Xiao Ye's figure.

This completely annoyed Xiao Ye, and the girl was not ambiguous. When the patrol officer heard the shouts of the three people and rushed over, Xiao Ye was still stabbing the purchaser with scissors, so Xiao Ye was arrested and thrown into prison. The Qing'an County Magistrate can be said to be a reliable and good official. When he knew about this, he put on his official uniform and tried the case overnight. After listening to the confessions of both parties and analyzing the cause and effect, the prefect closed the case that night.

After listening to Xiao Ye's experience, Li Yi was sure that Fang Zhuo was right. The purchaser did come to Yu Wenye to explore the way and bring a message, but he made a mistake and got himself into trouble. Li Yi said, "You were tricked again this time. Yu Wenye has not given up on you." Xiao Ye was furious and said fiercely, "Don't let me run into him again. If I really run into him, I would rather be an unfilial daughter and die with him!"

Li Yi shook his head and said, "One of the two ways I mentioned to save you can really allow you to meet him." "Really? Can you really give me the chance to kill him?" "Kill him? Is it worth it to exchange your life with your mother's?" Xiao Ye's eyes were red, and hatred burst out like flames. He gritted his teeth and said, "It's worth it! I can't repay my mother for giving birth to me in this life, but I will repay her in the next life! My mother and I's two worthless lives in exchange for his life as a child of a noble family, it's a win no matter how you look at it!"

Li Yi was stunned. What was going on? This girl was so angry that she didn't even care about her mother's life. She was determined to die together with Yuwen Ye. Seeing Xiao Ye in this state, Li Yi knew that no matter what plan he had, it would be useless. She was only thinking about revenge and how to kill Yuwen Ye.

Li Yi sighed and said, "Alright, I know what you mean, I won't say much, I will find a way to get you out, just be patient, stay in jail for two days, it's a good time to calm down, don't let the desire for revenge blind you and make you lose sight of your mother who is looking forward to your return home."

Little Leaf looked at Li Yi blankly and asked, "Didn't you tell me that there was a way for me to meet Yuwen Ye? What method? Tell me? Li Yi, tell me!" Li Yi stood up and ignored the shouting Little Leaf. He saluted the jailer and left. After Li Yi left, the jailer shouted at Little Leaf, "Shut up! If you shout again, I'll let you taste the beating of the stick!" Then he knocked on the prison door with a stick. Little Leaf silently retreated to the corner, his eyes full of anger.

Li Yi saw this scene out of the corner of his eye, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. At this time, someone should discipline Xiao Ye. Back in the courtyard, Fang Zhuo asked directly: "How is the persuasion? Is Miss Ye willing to use the best strategy?" Li Yi sighed: "As long as she can see Yuwen Ye, she is willing to do anything! She is even willing to sacrifice her mother's life and death!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Li Yi continued, "We need to change the plan. Ye'er is bent on revenge. If we use the best strategy, she will definitely choose to die together with Yuwen Ye when she sees him!" Ruyun sighed, "It's good this way. If this poor girl gets her revenge, she will die with a smile on her face."

Li Yi stared at Ruyun with his eyes wide open. His aura was so strong that even Ruyun, a fourth-rank warrior, took a half step back. "Li Yi, why are you glaring at me? Wasn't what I said right?" Ruyun regained his composure and glared back.

Li Yi did not give in at all. He walked towards Ruyun step by step and said in a serious tone: "Let me ask you, for revenge, you can ignore even your own mother? Let me ask you, for your own momentary pleasure, can you ignore the feelings of others? Let me ask you, even if she meets Yuwen Ye, will she be able to kill him? Let me ask you again, are we planning here so that she can get revenge and then die?"

Li Yi pressed forward step by step, and Ruyun was forced back step by step by him. Li Yi continued, "Even if we rescue her now, as a person blinded by hatred, what kind of stupid things will she do? Now there is no hope of life in her eyes! Only hatred of death! She hates the evil of this world, she hates the injustice of heaven! You didn't go to the prison to see her, the anger in her eyes, the hatred in her heart, the determination engraved in her bones, in her opinion, it is very worthwhile to exchange her and her mother's two worthless lives for Yuwen Ye's life, do you think so too?"

Ruyun, who had been forced to retreat to the stone bench, sat down. She looked up at Li Yi and said, "Isn't it worth it? If I can really exchange it, it won't be a loss at all!"

Li Yi slapped the stone table, he looked down at Ruyun and said: "I don't want to save Xiao Ye who is bent on revenge. I want to save Xiao Ye who is unwilling to bow to the powerful, unwilling to bow to the world, and unwilling to bow to fate. Her stubbornness and tenacity are what I admire about her. I don't want to save her and let her live in hatred all her life."

Ruyun slammed the table and shouted, "If you don't want her to live in hatred, then why don't you help her get revenge? If you don't get revenge, will she continue to live in fear every day like now? It's better to die gloriously than to live like this! Even if she doesn't succeed in revenge, at least she tried! There will be no regrets!" "You are not her, how do you know she has no regrets!"...

There was silence everywhere. The quarrel between the two shocked everyone present, including Chen Liang, Fang Zhuo, Bailing, Huayu, Ruolan and several maids. It was the first time for them to see someone confront Ruyun and not lose. All eyes were focused on the two of them. No one dared to break the silence under the gaze of everyone.

Li Yi took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Miss Ye'er and I have no private relationship. I just don't want to see a girl like her who dares to fight against fate live in hatred. I can't help her get revenge now. Even if I want revenge, it shouldn't be to kill Yuwen Ye. People like him should pay the price for his own actions, and this price cannot be death. It's easy to kill, but it's hard to destroy the heart. I firmly believe that there is cause and effect in this world. It's not that there is no revenge, it's just that the time has not come yet."

Ruyun said in a cold voice, "Humph, this is just an excuse a coward makes for his own incompetence. Karma, if there really is karma, there are so many people in this world who should be struck to death by lightning, even God would be too busy to handle it!"

Li Yi looked up at the sky and said, "Everything is suffering, save yourself and seek peace of mind. God is unpredictable, we should follow nature." But just as he finished speaking, a golden light flashed in the sky and shone directly on Li Yi, as if he was covered with a golden coat, and the golden light gradually penetrated into Li Yi's body. Fang Zhuo exclaimed, "Is this Buddha's light? Why is there Buddha's light shining on Li Yi? Is he predestined with Buddhism?"

Li Yi shook his head and sighed, "My fate with Buddhism is nothing more than the agreement of some concepts. Buddhism emphasizes the equality of all living beings, and Li Yi deeply agrees with this. So just now, Sister Ruyun thought that two lives for one life was worthwhile. In my opinion, this is not right at all. How can human life be described as worthwhile or not.

Everyone has to die, some are heavier than Mount Tai, some are as light as a feather. Li Yi does not want to see Miss Ye'er die in vain, so Li Yi would like to ask you to help me rescue Miss Ye'er and enlighten her to eliminate the hatred in her heart. It is not to stop her from taking revenge, but to stop her from living in hatred.