Don't be clouded

Ji Bieyun had a difficult day, his heart was beating back and forth in worry and throbbing, and he couldn't sleep well at night.

He closed his eyes, recalling the scene of the day over and over again.

For a while, there is a demon monk standing in the snow with a lamp, and for a while, there is a Buddhist temple on Xuanqing Mountain.The uncontrollable thoughts made him extremely tired. At the last moment before he fell asleep, he thought for the first time that he had done so many sins in his previous life that he fell in love with a monk after his family was ruined and his family died in this life.

When he was drowsy, what woke him up was another knock on the door.

The last time he was knocked on the door like this was when the emperor called him into the palace to ask him to be accountable when he was in Chenjing.The memory of that time was so deep that he somehow felt that it was not a good thing this time.

However, as soon as Ji Bieyun opened the door, he saw a kind and beaming face.

Lieutenant Dai went straight to him, grabbed his shoulder and shook, "Here comes the man!"

His sporadic drowsiness was also shaken away, and he hurried downstairs, saying: "Let them go to the government office, and let people beat gongs and drums in the city by the way, so let everyone go to the government office to watch the excitement. Also, Bring Gu Shanyue there too, but don't let her show up."

"Don't worry," Dai Fengmao yelled after him, "There's one good thing I haven't said yet."

Ji Bieyun stopped abruptly, rubbed his face, and asked after getting ready, "What good thing?"

"A lot of people came, three county magistrates plus a few respected elders, followed by [-] to [-] common people, and they brought complaints!" Dai Fengmao finished speaking in one breath, and looked at him expectantly .

The young man let out a long sigh of relief, turned his head and continued downstairs, and kept saying "fortunately".

Dai Fengmao stretched out his hand out of the railing, and waved vigorously at the brothers downstairs, "Let's go, let's go, we are not far from the day we return to Beijing!"

But Ji Bieyun stopped suddenly, turned around with a smile on his face, and Dai Fengmao was taken aback.

To curse or fight with him?Did he say the wrong thing again, even if he really said the wrong thing, he can't beat him, what should we do?

"Go and inform Master Guanchen, and ask him to go too." Ji Bieyun said solemnly.

Dai Fengmao's tense body suddenly relaxed.He has been in the army for many years, but he has not been able to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Instead, he witnesses these terrible things every day.

"You go by yourself, I will arrange the staff."

Ji Bieyun didn't dare to face Guan Chen's face, he was afraid that his emotions would be out of control.

"If you don't go, we'll fight," he threatened coldly, "Go or not?"

"Let's go!" Deputy Captain Dai ran upstairs and muttered back, "I saw you two sticking together yesterday, and the sun came out from the west today?"

When Ji Bieyun heard it, he immediately fell into self-doubt.

Did he cling to Guanchen before?

...isn't that obvious?

As soon as he turned his head, more than ten pairs of eyes were looking at him, Ji Bieyun quickly wanted to get back to business.

He cleared his throat and said, "Go to the government office."

A group of people went to the government office, but they didn't get promoted, they just stopped outside the main entrance.

At the second quarter of the hour, the sun has flourished.

The young general stood at the main entrance of the mansion, with his hands behind his back, but there were very few people who came to watch, only two or three people hid behind the far wall and peeked here secretly.

Not long after, people from outside the city arrived here in mighty force.

The crowd was extremely quiet, and most of them looked deathly. When Ji Bieyun saw it from a distance, he felt a chill in his heart.He was a little nervous, he didn't know what was written in the complaint, and he didn't know whether he could live up to the high expectations of the people.

Ji Bieyun originally thought that the complaint was a few pages of paper, but he saw a thick roll of white cloth in the arms of the person at the front, with dense ink stains on the back.

For the first time, he really understood what it means to be too numerous to write.

The complaint was not only a tool he used to bring down Yushitai, but also a bloody and tearful complaint from the local people.

Ji Bieyun's hand behind his back was clenched unconsciously, and he didn't let go until he reached the gate of the government office.

The leader should be a certain county magistrate, who is old and has a gray beard.He raised his eyes to look at him with scrutiny, heavy and cautious, and after a moment of stalemate, he bowed and said, "Hou Bo, the county magistrate of Pingshui County, Chongzhou, Henan Province, is here with the three counties of Pingshui County, Fuyin County, and Yuannan County. The common people are suing Chongzhou governor and Changshi for hurting and abusing the people, there are 270 six people jointly signed a petition as evidence, and I beg General Ningyuan to investigate clearly."

270 for six people.In one day, so many people were summoned to leave their names on the complaint.

Ji Bieyun felt more and more heavy, and did not speak for a while, Dai Fengmao who was still on the side took over the complaint, and took the lead with the others to slowly unfold Bai Lian.

The densely packed text with different fonts is exposed to the sky. Some fragments are sophisticated in writing, while others are as common as vernacular.

Unknowingly, more and more people gathered outside the government office, and all eyes were on the complaint.

Ji Bieyun whispered: "Read it."

Dai Fengmao immediately ordered a literate person in the army, and read it from beginning to end, while Ji Bieyun listened silently like everyone else.

"Crime one, during the construction of the embankment, the governor Wang An and his subordinates embezzled money, causing the embankment to be completed hastily."

"The second crime is that the Yuan River swelled a year ago and washed away many embankments along the coast. The governor and the government were not well governed, and many places were neglected. The people's livelihood was affected, and the suffering was unspeakable. Moreover, the governor did not report this matter to the court, bullying the superiors and inferiors. "

Ji Bieyun scolded the bastard in his heart.Sure enough, there had been floods here, but it wasn't because of the seriousness of the flooding. The main reason was that the quality of the embankment was too poor, and it was easily washed away.

However, this was the beginning, and the reading from the sidelines continued.

"Crime [-]. The governor and the chief minister have been officials for many years, have embezzled and accepted countless bribes, and directly extorted bribes from the officials under their jurisdiction."

"Crime [-]: Inspector Wang An privately increased rents and taxes, and searched for people's fat and anointing..."

One crime after another was listed, as if there was no end to it, and more and more people gathered around.

The assassin and long history who were pressing on them are dead, but Yu Wei is still there. Perhaps they never dreamed that one day they would hear naked accusations in broad daylight.

But Ji Bieyun quietly looked in the direction of the governor's private house, feeling a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

The culprit is dead, and even the crimes listed cannot be punished.The corpse is still in the Dali Temple in Chenjing. I don't know if it has been buried. Is it necessary to dig people out of the grave and flog the corpse?What's the point?

He noticed a pair of gazes, and raised his eyes to see Guanchen who was half hidden in the crowd.There was imperceptible relief in those eyes, and he understood the meaning of the other party with just one glance.

The governor Wang An is dead, but Chongzhou will eventually usher in the next governor and long history.

As long as the acne is not uncovered for a day, the people will have no peace for a day.At least he can help this land not to repeat the same mistakes, to prevent the acne from continuing to rot into the bones.

When the indictment was read out, it was already two quarters of an hour later.Someone started, and the onlookers no longer played it safe, and rushed to supplement.Ji Bieyun asked someone to take a pen, and wrote everything on the back of Bai Lian.

The mansion was completely surrounded, and when the sun turned directly above the head, the movement of condemnation gradually stopped, but everyone's eyes were still on Ji Bieyun.

He understands that everyone wants a promise from him.

"Please don't worry, this petition will definitely be submitted to the imperial court." Afraid that everyone would not believe it, Ji Bieyun added, "I swear on my life."

**

After the crowd dispersed, Guan Chen came to him.

Ji Bieyun was holding a heavy plain horse, and instead of leaving in a hurry, he turned around and walked into the mansion.

"Gu Shanyue is still inside, she's not that afraid of you, you can go in with me."

The soldiers at the first door of the inverted room were sent away, and the two of them stepped into the door together.

The girl curled up by the window, and couldn't stop crying right now.It was rare for Ji Bieyun to see a child of this age showing such grief, and he didn't speak to urge him, but kept silent and let the girl vent to her heart's content.

After a while, Gu Shanyue tried her best to suppress her crying, and said intermittently: "I also have something to report."

Ji Bieyun sat down on a chair not far away, and Guan Chen stood beside him, seemingly unwilling to speak.

So he said, "Do you want to write it down?"

The girl nodded vigorously, and he went to get a pen and ink, spread out a corner of Bai Lian, and found a blank space.

"Say it."

Gu Shanyue wiped away the tears on her face, and waited for a while before opening her mouth.

"I was sold into Fengyu Building when I was very young. My mother said that I would be listed until I was fourteen, so I have been doing some chores like pouring tea and water... The governor likes to come to Fengyu Building to talk about things, and it is not convenient to stay in the private house on weekdays. People who are interviewed online can meet there. Although there are many people, the place of fireworks is not eye-catching.

"But about a year ago, the governor asked us to go to his house for the first time, and asked me to follow him. He asked me to serve that guest, that night..." Gu Shanyue suddenly stopped, as if she was in pain In the middle, it took a while to summon up the courage to continue, "After the end, the guest slipped his mouth and mentioned that he himself is an official of Yushitai."

"The supervisory censor of Henan Province?" Ji Bieyun deliberately skipped Gu Shanyue's painful experience, and only asked a key piece of information.

The girl nodded ignorantly, recalling, "It seems so."

"It didn't take long before the heavy rain poured down one night, and the embankment on our side suddenly collapsed. At that time, Fengyulou was repainting the beams and columns, and the guests thought the smell was strong, so they didn't want to come for those two days. I was in I was shaken awake by my sister in my sleep, but at that time the water had already flooded the first floor...we had no choice but to hide up."

Gu Shanyue stopped, took a deep breath, and continued: "Mom has already run away with her hands, we don't know how to use water, so we can only watch the river rise little by little, and we can't stay on the second floor, so we moved to the third floor , We couldn’t stay on the third floor, so we climbed up to the roof. It rained all day and all night, and only after the rain stopped did we see people from the government come to rescue us. We thought our lives were saved, but we waited another day, and no one came to rescue us..."

The room was as silent as death, and Gu Shanyue's occasional sobs seemed even more helpless and sad.

"I saw with my own eyes that all the people on the nearby roofs were rescued, only us... only we were left." The girl cried with hatred, "21 people, all huddled on the roof. The food that went up was eaten in small bites, and it was gone as early as the next day. A few sisters were sick and burned hot, but no one came to rescue us, and no one was willing to take risks and work for prostitutes."

The ink from the tip of the pen dripped onto the table, but Ji Bieyun didn't notice it, but was suddenly held by his cuff with a hand, and moved aside.

Only then did he suddenly withdraw from the shock.He clenched the barrel of the pen, opened and closed his lips, the language was too pale, nothing he said would help.

"On the fourth day, the water hadn't receded, but a sister found a small wooden basin floating nearby. That wooden basin is really small, and it may be used by some family to hold vegetable washing water." Gu Shanyue Rubbing my eyes, "All sisters, everyone let me in. I don't want to, and crying is useless. They hugged me into the wooden basin, and I don't know whose hand it was in the end, holding the edge of the wooden basin to hold me I pushed away."

The girl covered her eyes, tears trickled down her fingers, and kept murmuring: "They pushed me away..."

After a long silence, Ji Bieyun was finally able to speak: "You survived."

"Yes... I survived, but no one wanted to go back with me. Then the water receded, but the fourteen sisters were out of breath, and six of them were infected with the epidemic. Mom ran away with the bond and money , we have no money for medical treatment.”

"Dead, all dead."

Gu Shanyue's face turned gray, "They are all dead."

Until he walked out of the room, Ji Bieyun still had the last words in his mind.

Suddenly, Gu Shanyue's voice came from behind him, he turned his head across a threshold, and saw the girl staggeringly chasing after her.

"I'm still going to Chenjing. You only have physical evidence now, and I'm going to be a witness. Even if the governor dies, I want him to die." Gu Shanyue clenched the door frame and gritted her teeth, "I don't want to Stay in this filth."

Ji Bieyun didn't object, just nodded, "I promise you."