Chef's Knife

The tree fell and the hozen scattered, the wall fell and everyone pushed.

After Chu Yuanzhong was confiscated and imprisoned, countless troubles were left behind.

His crimes are too numerous to record, but each and every one of them is impossible to start with.He is like a speculator who specializes in loopholes, so cunning that people can't catch him.

You can't even find any evidence of his corruption/corruption. Everyone thinks that Chu Yuanzhong is sitting on half of the country with his own pockets.

He encouraged business, promoted paper currency, and opened up overseas trade; with his support, the status of merchants in the dynasty increased day by day.And Chu Yuanzhong, who controls the largest business gang in the north and south behind the scenes, should be the biggest beneficiary.

However, after the imperial court seized all his family wealth, he found that the rumored prime minister of Chu, who was so rich as a country, was actually poor and useless after throwing away the empty shell of the prime minister's mansion.Where did the money go?

Chu Yuanzhong spent the last four winters of his life in a cold and damp dungeon.

Because he also has an embarrassing identity - he is Jiang Qian's son.

"That's the last descendant of the Jiang family in the world," said the vicious dog Li Si hoarsely before hitting the pillar and killing himself, "If he dies, there will be no descendants of the Jiang family!"

From the day his identity was revealed, this person named 'Chuning' character Yuan Zhong seemed to be dead.

There is no commoner in the world who does not know Jiang Qian's name, no scholar who has not heard the story of Jiang Qian's murder and martyrdom, and there is no one who does not know the tragic murder of the Jiang family nearly 20 years ago.

No one can imagine, a treacherous man who flatters his superiors and bullies his inferiors, a villain who plays tricks.How could he be of the blood of the Jiang family known for his uprightness and innocence, and be the only son of Jiang Qian, who was always jealous and upright.

There is no more ironic story than this.

During Chu Yuanzhong's fifth year in prison, he finally completed the "Shenzhou Records", which he had continued since he was 20; Death is for the last wish.

Some people said that it was probably one of the few good deeds that this villain full of evil has done for the world in his life.

He is proficient in five classics and six arts, and he is proficient in operations, gossip and nine domains, but he was only 16 years old when he showed his sharpness.

"Chuning is a rare person in a hundred years." An old academic from the Imperial Academy once sighed, "It's a pity that he has a wicked mind, is greedy and arrogant, and is a crooked talent..."

On the day Chu Yuanzhong was escorted to the execution ground, firecrackers were set off in the street.The prison cart traveled all over Chang'an, and there was a long queue of spectators from the east to the west of the city, all wanting to know what this traitor who once dominated the world looked like.

Chu Yuanzhong, with disheveled hair, was wearing a wooden shackle, with his long hair hanging down and covering most of his face.People spit on the prison cart and threw vegetable leaves and eggs. The excited people wanted to drag him out of the cage and beat him.

However, Chu Yuanzhong lost his perception of everything around him, nearly five years of prison life had made his five senses dull to almost numb.He didn't know how embarrassed he was, and he didn't know where he was and what he would do.

The sun shone on him, making Chu Yuanzhong, who had lived in the dark environment for a long time, feel very uncomfortable.He raised his face and narrowed his eyes, as if he couldn't bear the stimulation of the strong light.Turning his head slowly and moving his neck, which was strangled by the chain, Chu Yuanzhong looked around the crowd with blank eyes.In a trance, he saw a six or seven-year-old girl whose almond eyes looked like someone he knew, so he unconsciously smiled at the girl.That smile, which was disastrous to the country and the people, raised the corners of her phoenix eyes slightly, there was no conspiracy or intrigue, it was as clean and pure as if the time of her life had been frozen in this moment.

"Brother, that uncle looks really good-looking." The little girl tugged at her brother's sleeve, and pointed innocently at the criminal on the prison van, "You don't look like a bad guy at all?"

"Hmph, all bad guys are like this!" My brother looked contemptuous, "Especially this kind of little boy, I don't know how to make a living - when you grow up in the future, don't be fooled by that utterly devoid of conscience." The thing was cheated."

"That's right." Someone agreed, "He looks like a dog, who knows what it is. I heard that he is an official who is deceived by flattery—hey, I don't know what kind of flattery he is like this What! I heard that even the crotch of the barbarian is drilled, it is really cheap."

"Damn it! My son was fascinated by ghosts back then, and he was bewitched by the killing of thousands of swords. He didn't take the number one exam at home and didn't have anything to learn the chirping bird language! It is said that he went to England to study abroad to learn something called science. Son. He ran out of the house with his mother behind his back and went out to sea with those barbarians—six years! No one is alive, no one is dead! I am just such a son! I was cheated away like this!"

"This man surnamed Chu has done things that are inferior to those beasts, and killing him with a thousand knives is not a small amount!"

But... the little girl who was holding her brother's sleeve bit her lip, staring blankly at the prison car going away.

She remembered that her grandmother told about the flood in her hometown 16 years ago. An uncle from Chang'an saved the entire village and kept tens of thousands of refugees from being homeless.

Why is the benefactor of grandpa and grandma a big villain whom everyone shouts and beats?

Chu Yuanzhong was roughly dragged out of the prison van by the guards, and an old woman even rushed forward regardless of obstruction, grabbed his hair and raised her hand to slap him across the face.Chu Yuanzhong was beaten so that his face turned to the side, and the buzzing sound in his ears made him feel a splitting headache, and someone spat on his face.

"Go to hell—the evil spirit who has suffered a thousand knives!"

……

"Master Luo entered the palace in such a hurry, I thought you came here to ask for an audience in order to prepare for my [-]th birthday banquet. I really didn't expect... to absolve a sinner? It really puzzles me. .”

In the main hall, Emperor Yong Le, who was wearing a yellow robe, dismissed the maids and servants, and he sat on the dragon chair and picked up the teacup.

"I don't understand, you have lived for more than 200 years, what is there to be dissatisfied with? The wealth of the 'No. 30 Building in the World', the glory of the 'God of Cooking', the power of the royal chef and the gold medal for avoiding death—oh , By the way, in fact, you don't need gold medals at all, right? After all, as long as you are [-] years old and your life is about to fail, you can take medicine to 'rebirth' back to your fifteen or sixteen-year-old appearance. This endless cycle of rejuvenation , is really too cunning. Sometimes I also want to change with Master Luo."

"..." Luo Sheng raised his eyes, "The Liu family has not fallen to this point. Liu Yisheng is the only direct descendant of the Liu family. I sent him overseas by boat two years ago. Now I am the only one who knows the formula. If Your Majesty wants to want……"

"No." Emperor Yong Le looked at it with great interest, and shook his head, "The temptation to rejuvenate is very great, if it was my father, who is obsessed with seeking immortality and asking questions, he would probably be hungry for it. But I am different, I have ambitions, but I am not that greedy. The greatest achievement in my life is to be the emperor and enjoy the blessings of the country. After my death, the act of "killing the Chu thieves and clearing the king's side" can also be recorded in history and praised by all ages. Well, there is no need to pursue something that seems to be illusory and eternal life... I was really careless. Saying the word "Chu thief" in front of Master Luo seems a bit hurtful, but dare you deny that Chuning is not because of his endless greed. It’s why I’m here today. I don’t want to follow in his footsteps.”

"You agreed..." Luo Sheng looked away, his expression was a little gloomy, "The Caomin solved His Majesty's troubles, but kept his mouth shut. Does His Majesty want to go back on what he said?"

"Then, is Master Luo threatening me?" Emperor Yong Le took a sip of his tea, as if he didn't remember, "How did you use the food to cause the sudden death of the father, I don't want to hear it again. As for the conditions at the beginning, Master Luo should also be clear about this moment and that moment. Now it is not that I will not let Chu Ning go, but that the world will not let him go. It is not that I did not keep my promise, but that ..."

Emperor Yong Le got up, and slowly walked towards Luo Sheng.

"Do you know how many Zhongliang he has framed me for eliminating dissidents in the court in the early years? Do you know how many loopholes in the law he has exploited by flattering superiors and inferiors for personal gain? Do you know how he got rich overnight by selling private salt and digging coal? Do you know how many dirty smuggling transactions he has made with overseas barbarians? Do you know that nearly [-]% of the gambling houses, brothels and restaurants in the south of the Yangtze River are his behind-the-scenes businesses? You can’t save him, no one can save him.”

"So, Master Luo. I can help you find what kind of man you like, as many as you want. Why bother to cling to that sinner?"

"Your Majesty seems to have misunderstood something." Luo Sheng said slowly, "Caomin is definitely not trying to excuse that sinner."

His face sank, and he continued with a weird smile.

"How can I like that scumbag? It's disgusting."

"I just want to erase the stains of my life."

……

Chu Yuanzhong was forced to kneel on the ground, and the guards unloaded the wooden shackles and began to read an extremely long crime book.He was forced to listen for a while, but he felt extremely sleepy. He vaguely heard the word 'Ling Chi', which was probably his final fate.

He thought of the father whom he called 'pig-killer', who was almost as miserable as him in his whole life.But he was born great and died with honor, and he probably only deserves to be stepped on and scolded.

If Mr. Jiang, who had lived a life of innocence, saw this scene under the Nine Springs, he would be so angry that he would come back to life.

"The straight minister should use the pen as the knife and the sword, and punish the world's traitors and sycophants to help the country. This is the purpose of my generation's ten-year cold window!"

That slightly old voice has penetrated more than twenty years, and finally stayed in my ears.The person he loves once took people's lives with a piece of straight remonstrance; that person's life is black and white, he hates evil like hatred, and the blood-stained pen knife has killed countless demons and evil spirits, and there is no room for sand in his eyes.

So what's the big deal... He thought pitifully and sarcastically, he was just a butcher with a butcher's knife in his hand.