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"That young master has been waiting for you in the front hall for a long time, look..." The two gatekeepers of the procurator's office stood in the courtyard outside the east wing, and said hesitantly.

The weather is hot right now, they have been waiting here since [-]:[-] a.m., but the master inside has no intention of coming out.

It dawned early in summer, and there was a heavy rain yesterday, and the sunshine after the rain was especially venomous and scorching.Although it was early morning and not noon, the bright sunlight still burned their cheeks with burning pain.

Stretching out his hand to hold his sleeve to wipe off the sweat that had gathered on his chin, the older doorman hesitantly urged him again, this time, there was finally a response from inside——

"I'll go after I wash up."

The adult living inside had a cold voice, but because of his hoarse voice in the morning, he sounded a little lazy. The two of them looked at each other, not daring to say more, saying "yes" and then lowered their heads.

In the wing room, Li Yinshang was putting on his robes one by one: he didn't sleep well last night, and Meng Yuzhou's sad and tired eyes were in his nightmares all night, like a chord that couldn't be adjusted no matter what , with a slight movement, there are endless chaotic sounds.

Meng Yuzhou liked him, but Meng Yuzhou actually liked him?

Taking a deep breath, Li Yinshang squinted his head and looked at Gao Yang outside the window: the sun in the north is brighter than in the capital, and the sky is higher and open. There is no cloud in the blue sky, only a flock of wild geese in the shape of a "human" fly over.

As the saying goes: "Looking at the sky far away", "The geese point the blue sky and a line of words".

Shaking his head helplessly, what's the use of "envying wild geese", Li Yinshang lowered his head and gave a wry smile, fetched a towel and handkerchief with Tangwo noodles, through the steaming white mist, he asked lightly: " When did you come?"

The concierge didn't react for a while, and subconsciously let out an "ah", and then the door in front of him, which had been closed for a long time, was opened from the inside. Li Yinshang stepped out from inside, raised his chin slightly to remind: " People waiting for me outside."

"Oh! Oh! You said those two masters!" The concierge patted his forehead, "Sunrise! They will come at sunrise."

"……So early?"

"Yes, the young master said..." The porter hesitated for a moment, looked up at Li Yinshang cautiously, and then continued: "The young master said that it must be so early."

Li Yinshang frowned, and only asked the concierge to lead the way, and walked to the front hall.

In fact, Jiang Jun didn't expect to come so early, but last night he and Wei Wu went boating on the Yang River and ate a lot of fresh and plump fish.Although Wei Wu is a knight-errant, he can kill fish neatly and cook skillfully, which made Jiang Jun eat so much that his belly burst, and he barely fell asleep until midnight.

Jiang Jun never wants to experience the state of blood concentrated in the stomach, heart beating like a drum, and brain in a state of high excitement because of overeating.

It's not a big deal to hurt the spleen and stomach, the key is that it's too embarrassing, now Jiang Jun can't face Wei Wu's expression like he looks like a fool.

Anyway, he couldn't sleep after eating too much, so Jiang Jun came early today.Hearing that he was looking for Li Yinshang, the people from the Prosecutor's Department did not dare to neglect, and served him and Wei Wu two cups of fragrant and sweet tea.

Served in a white porcelain cup, when the lid is opened, there is a strong tea aroma.

This tea has both the fragrance of green tea and the sweetness of black tea. It tastes mellow, smooth and sweet after a light sip.And after brewing for six or seven times, it still has a strong tea aroma, which is unique to only one tea in the world.

Jiang Jun held the tea bowl and sipped it, with a half-smile on his face: It seems that Tong Xing is not the only corrupt official in the Procuratorate.

Wei Wu had no interest in tea, he just stood in the hall expressionlessly with his sword in his arms, looking around at the landscape paintings.When the tea in Jiang Jun's hand was about to drain, Li Yinshang finally appeared with two sweaty porters.

"Master Jiang?! Hero Wei?" Li Yinshang was a little surprised, "It's you? Why are you here?"

Jiang Jun smiled, and slowly put down the teacup in his hand, and was interrupted by Li Yinshang again:

"If Mr. Jiang, you came here because of yesterday's incident, then please go back, Mr. Jiang. There are many involved in this matter, and the result will not be seen in a day or two. I will consider what Mr. Jiang said yesterday, and I will also handle the case." We will discuss with Brother Meng and try our best to persuade him, so—Young Master Jiang can rest assured, right?"

"..." Jiang Jun opened his mouth, finally shook his head and smiled, picked up the tea bowl next to him and wanted to take another sip, but then remembered that the tea bowl was empty just now, he coughed slightly in embarrassment: "Mr. Li, you Misunderstood……"

"Misunderstand?"

"We came today not to tell you what happened yesterday, Mr. Li, but because I want to invite you to a place, Mr. Li."

"Place?" Li Yinshang gave Jiang Jun a suspicious look, and instinctively refused: "Young Master Jiang, I'm so busy with trivial matters, I'm afraid I don't have time to go sightseeing with you."

Jiang Jun nodded knowingly, and gave Wei Wu a look of "Look, it's true".

Wei Wu curled his lips and said nothing.

"Mr. Li, of course we are not here to invite you to visit the mountains and rivers. And this place, you - you will definitely go, and you must go."

Jiang Jun stood up while talking, but his hands were placed on the teacup on the table, and his wide sleeves blocked him, not knowing what he did.Li Yinshang raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, and stood up with great interest, "Oh?"

"That's strange, where is it?"

Jiang Jun blinked: "You will find out when you come with me."

Li Yinshang: "..."

The place Jiang Jun took Li Yinshang to was a suburb of Lanyang.The journey is not far, at most two or three miles.

Most of the nearby villages are populated by farmers, and there are tens of thousands of acres of green farmland. Now is the time for farmers to go to the fields. Jiang Jun and Wei Wu dismounted, and led Li Yinshang across the ridge of the field, bypassing the low cottages , to a small courtyard with white walls and blue tiles.

As soon as I approached the courtyard, I heard the sound of books coming from inside. The cicada singing in summer was very forgiving, but the phrase "the way of great learning lies in Ming Mingde, in being close to the people, and in ending in perfection" made Li Yinshang listen to it. very clear:

"This is……?"

Jiang Jun pursed his lips and shook his head, signaling Li Yinshang to continue looking inside.

There are two tall locust trees planted in the small courtyard. Under the trees are neatly arranged desks. Behind the desks sit a group of children who are holding books and reading carefully. Near the door, there is a group of desks. A teacher, with a smile on his face, watched these children study.

The clothes on these children were made of coarse linen, some of which were patched. Although their small faces were dirty, they looked at the books with bright eyes, as if they were holding some treasures that they couldn't put it down.

"The children here have to get up every now and then to help adults do some simple farm work. Some may go up the mountain to gather some pigweed for the pigs at home, some may help chop firewood, and some carry water. After finishing the work, I will come here at Maoshi, and the master will give them lectures."

Hearing the sound of the children reading, Jiang Jun continued: "Young Master Li asked me why I invited you so early, because at noon, the children would have to go back home to help. Right now it is busy farming, half of them are indispensable. "

"these are……"

"They are all children from poor families nearby," Jiang Jun said, taking two steps back, allowing Li Yinshang to see the words "Liu Rongyi School" on an inconspicuous stone tablet at the gate of the yard.

Li Yinshang's pupils shrank tightly - he had seen the name Liu Rong before, but it was in the list of Luo Fei and Tong Xing's accomplices who had signed and pleaded guilty.

However, before Li Yinshang could figure out what was going on here, he heard cheers from the children next to his ears, and the little figures came out one by one, cheering and running towards the green wheat field in the distance.

These children were of different ages, unlike the school Li Yinshang was familiar with, the children in his class were all of the same age, and their families were well off, and some even brought book boys to school.

And now among the group of children who appeared before Li Yinshang's eyes, the older ones were about ten years old, and the younger ones were only four or five years old. Let alone book boys, they didn't even have decent brushes, ink, paper and inkstones, even a writing brush. They were all written with several forks on the tip of the pen.

"Two...oh, it's three." Suddenly, the teacher came to the door, smiled and cupped his hands at them, and said, "Are the three here to ask for directions?"

"Ask for directions?" Li Yinshang was stunned for a while, unable to react for a while—everything here was too unfamiliar to him, as if a floodgate he shouldn't have opened suddenly, and everything released inside It is a scourge.

"Sir, you're being polite. We were just passing by. We just happened to come over here to have a look when we heard the sound of books." Jiang Jun smiled slightly, but glanced at Li Yinshang quietly from the corner of his eyes:

How do you ungrounded feudal princes know the suffering of the proletariat, heh.

Of course, the teacher made this guess because he saw that they were wearing good materials and new faces. Hearing what Jiang Jun said, the middle-aged teacher happily stroked his beard and took the initiative. Talk to them and say:

"Is this academy not bad? You don't know, when I passed by here like you, there were only these two big locust trees and a table made of stone slabs here."

"At the beginning?" Li Yinshang looked at the old man suspiciously, "You are not from the local—?"

In Tongxiang and his hometown, there were indeed such old Confucian scholars. After resigning from office and returning to their hometown, they opened private schools in the countryside and taught nearby children to read.But the old man in front of him said that he was not a local, so why did he stay and teach.

Looking at Li Yinshang's confused eyes, the teacher smiled and invited them into the small courtyard, shaking his head while walking and said, "Young man, at first glance, you are the son of a good family. My place is not a private school, but a private school. The private school of Mr. Liu's family."

The teacher said, pointing to the small desk in the yard and the books, pens, inks, papers and inkstones on it, and continued: "These things were all bought by Mr. Liu. This small yard was also built by him. Originally, we were supposed to read it indoors, but it was hot in summer, so I——caused the children to move out to cool off under the locust tree.”

Li Yinshang's face changed slightly, and he subconsciously stretched out his hand to touch the pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

The teacher is still talking, he said, he has another woman who cooks, all of which come from Liu Rong's Zhuangzi, and the children are not charged a penny here, and sometimes the children are even allowed to stay overnight; He said that in the past, the children here did not study, even if they wanted to study, they gave up because the family had no money to send them to a private school, until there was this private school of Liu Rong.

"Liu Rong..." Li Yinshang's throat moved, the blood on his face faded, he couldn't open his mouth, how could he open his mouth.

"Uncle Liu treated us very well," said a little boy who appeared next to him suddenly. My mother was very ill and couldn't pay the rent in the field, so Uncle Liu brought the doctor to the house. At first, my father thought he was coming to collect the rent. Who knew that Uncle Liu said that there was no rent. No matter what, human life is the most important thing."

The teacher nodded beside him: "Yes, Mr. Liu really cares about these children, and he is very kind to the villagers. He hasn't read a few books himself, but he likes to see the children happily studying, oh... ..."

As if thinking of something, the teacher gave a long sigh, shook his head and did not continue talking.

Jiang Jun saw that the scene to leave here was almost over, and also watched Li Yinshang's face getting darker and paler, so he dragged Li Yinshang to the next place.His face remained calm, but his heart was already filled with joy:

As a small sample, newly recruited civil servants must go to the countryside to train for three years to accumulate grassroots work experience. This wise decision is for you, a group of highly educated talents who are full of utopian ideas that are not connected with reality and divorced from the masses.

Afterwards, Jiang Jun took Li Yinshang to two or three places, including Yizhuang and Yizhuang.

Children with pure hearts and farmers who don't know how to fight for power are the most simple and innocent. They speak from the heart and will not lie.And the boundless greenery here, as well as those sweaty faces baked under the scorching sun, the smile is so sweet, so people can't take their eyes off.

The further he walked, the heavier Li Yinshang's footsteps became. The more people he saw and listened to, the more panicked his heart became.

The names that he and Meng Yuzhou had written in the memorials that were about to be submitted also became enormous one by one, as if Mount Tai was overwhelming him, making him breathless.

When Jiang Jun stopped again, Li Yinshang found that they did not arrive at a new place that made him contradictory and confused, but passed through the overlapping fields and came to a mountain pass plain where two mountains meet.

The Yanghe River goes south from here and directly flows into the Yanbo River and into the Yinghai. The mountains surrounding Lanyang County meet here and then separate from here.

Here is the sound of the water, the sound of oars, the roar of apes, the birds, and the mullet in the cold spring. This place seems to be the edge of the noisy world. If you take a step forward, you can leave the ten-foot soft red and return home riding a green bull.

"Mr. Li," Jiang Jun opened his mouth slowly, looking at the endless stream of boats and boats in front of him, "I said the other day that Mr. Meng's handling of this case would lead to big troubles, it was not my assumptions and nonsense, please forgive me... Although you and Master Meng are both talented and wealthy people who serve the country and the people, they still lack a little understanding of the sufferings of the people."

Li Yinshang did not refute his words, and he really had no way to refute.

If Jiang Jun is arguing with him, he can find 1 reasons to repel Jiang Jun by citing scriptures; if Jiang Jun lures money, beautiful women or even high-ranking officials, he can remain unmoved and even bring Jiang Jun to justice in law.

However, Jiang Jun took him to a place that he had never been to, seen, or even imagined before, and saw some things he had never known before, and he was speechless, wanting to make up his mind.

Children don't lie, farmers and women don't need to lie, and teachers who read sage books don't need to lie.

Li Yinshang's hands were clenched tightly, his back was almost soaked in sweat, and when he was blown by the strong wind here, his back felt cold and his heart was pierced.

Jiang Jun knew that Li Yinshang was struggling, and he was not in a hurry. After all, it was really difficult for a man who had never suffered from being cautious to bow his head and admit his mistakes.

What's more, Li Yinshang and Meng Yuzhou both held high positions at a young age, like unpolished swords, although they were sharp, they would cut their hands if they were not careful.

There seemed to be more boats going back and forth on the Yang River, and the slapping of the river water made a crisp knocking sound on both sides.Li Yinshang suddenly bowed deeply to Jiang Jun, cupped his hands and said, "Young Master Jiang, what can we do now to save Brother Meng? I hope Young Master Jiang will show you!"

Unexpectedly, Li Yinshang would have such a big reaction. After all, in the original book, Li Yinshang was the protagonist. Jiang Jun was stunned for a moment, thinking: Is it too much to pretend that this is finished...

Wei Wu, who didn't speak until now, seemed to be non-existent, but suddenly asked Jiang Jun: "I also want to hear Mr. Jiang's advice, how to break this dead game?"

Seeing him squinting his eyes as if he was examining himself, Jiang Jun had actually thought of a countermeasure in his heart, but this plan was not his idea, but something he realized as a successor of socialism and a great propagandist of core values:

You old feudal forces will never know what agrarian revolution is: relying on poor peasants and laborers, protecting industrialists and merchants, uniting middle peasants, restricting rich peasants, and eliminating the landlord class.The key is to unite with the middle peasants, comrades.

Tsk tsk, really unreasonable.

The author has something to say: I will give you... ten chances to guess what kind of job I am, but I can write such an ending sentence_(:зゝ∠)_

What can I do? I am also desperate! ! !