Tai Jia

Jianghuai was very rainy, and it rained continuously for several days. Even the shade-loving plantain behind the yamen was almost drowned.

I don't know when, there were two more lay monks in Anhuai Temple. Apart from chanting scriptures and giving porridge, they wandered around the place where the long-burning lamps were worshipped every day, and wiped two of the long-burning lamps thousands of times.

Of those two lamps, one is older, one is newer, one is larger, and the other is smaller, but the strange thing is that there is exactly the same name written on the base of the ever-bright lamp——Zhou Mingyu.

Sun Xiong gently pushed open the door of the study, and saw He Xihua looking at Xiaoxiao Muyu by the window alone, ridiculing in his heart, but his face was still downcast, "The adults haven't eaten today, and the younger ones have come to deliver meals to the adults."

He Xihua said "um" in a daze, but did not move.

"My lord?" Sun Xiong put the food box on the table and tried to persuade him pretendingly, "My lord hasn't eaten much in the past few days. If things go on like this, how will my body be able to bear it?"

"It's going to be June soon." He Xihua reached out to touch the rain, and felt that his fingertips were cold to the bone. "I don't know if the imperial court has received an invitation to behead Jiao in autumn."

"I heard that the emperor is not in Beijing," Sun Xiong took out the meals from the food box and put them on the table one by one, "I don't know how to deal with the matter of the decision."

He Xihua smiled, "This is just a formality. Whether the emperor is present or not is the same. Every year how many prisoners are executed in Kyushu, if the emperor looks at them one by one, I am afraid that it will be too late to sleep, eat or drink. If your majesty is not here, the Ministry of punishment will decide It's the same if you report it to the Empress Dowager."

These words made people not very happy, Sun Xiong twitched the corners of his lips, "Jiao deserves what he deserves, why should my lord be unable to eat because of her?"

"Are you saying I was wrong?" He Xihua murmured, "But Mrs. Chen killed two children after all. If she is not sentenced to be a grandparent for beating and killing her grandchildren, she will have to kill her directly. What I should have told Zhou Mingyu at the time To be more clear, the government will not let Mrs. Chen do heavy coolies like quarrying. Now that he is relieved, he will not want to atone for his mother and commit suicide. He is obviously a pure filial piety, no matter how innocent But the young man..."

Sun Xiong stood aside with his hands down, and said in a low voice: "But I feel that Zhou Mingyu wanted to die wholeheartedly. Even if the Lord acquits Mrs. Chen, he might still have nothing to love in the end."

"Why is this?"

Sun Xiong said slowly: "Compare your heart to your heart. My parents gave birth to me and raised me. This kindness is greater than heaven and earth. In the end, I found that my biological mother was a heinous poisonous woman, but my adoptive mother did not give up. In order to avenge my hatred, I designed to make her have sex with my biological sister. You said that when Mrs. Chen took revenge, did she never think of the days when her mother was kind and filial? Looking at that deformity, did she not regret it at all, and did she not feel ashamed of Zhou Mingyu at all? If I were him, Even if you don’t die, you have to become a monk.”

"What you said is also reasonable." He Xihua turned around slowly, sat back at the table and began to eat, "When he was alive, no one thought of him, but when he died, everyone thought of him well. Are you saying it's funny? funny?"

Sun Xiong said quietly: "When he died, some people were in agony for him, some escaped into Buddhism for him, and some protected the everlasting lamp for his life. This is also his good fortune."

There are still people in this world who are clearly alive, but everyone is looking forward to his death.

"I know you're trying to comfort me." He Xihua took a few mouthfuls of food, then put down his chopsticks again, and looked down at his hands, "I'm only a county magistrate, and because of my few words, I forced a person to death. Why not Ridiculous, yet terrifying."

Sun Xiong glanced at him. He used to think that all the He family members were snakes, scorpions and beasts, but he didn't expect that there was a sentimental seed that hurt the spring and the autumn.

For a moment, he didn't know how to comfort him, and felt that it was ridiculous for him to blame himself so much, so Sun Xiong just concentrated on eating, and while eating, he saw that there was a lot of meat on the plate.Looking up, he saw He Xihua pushing all the meat and vegetables in front of him, and became a vegetarian himself.

"My lord, you can't do it."

He Xihua said indifferently: "I won't kill Boren, Boren died because of me. After all, he died because of my negligence. I decided to fast three months for him, not only for remembrance, but also for self-reflection."

Sun Xiong saw his solemn and melancholy expression, and for a moment he was not sure whether he was sincere or just pretending, so he couldn't help but smile at his kindness, "It's disrespectful, I thank you sir."

He Xihua smiled, and said to him: "By the way, after I leave the office at night, I will take you to the county school. It's my turn to give a lecture today, so you should go and listen, and get acquainted by the way."

Sun Xiong stuffed another big mouthful of rice with a stiff face, "Yes."

The county school is not far from the county government, so it is quite quiet.Fang Fangzheng is a courtyard with two entrances and two exits, and it is divided into seven or eight small rooms. In each room, there are more than ten boys of different ages, all of whom are studying hard.

Sun Xiong followed him into one of the rooms, and found that the seats were full of teenagers, some of whom were older than He Xihua, and couldn't help laughing secretly.

"These are scholars who have already achieved fame, so they are older." He Xihua seemed to see through what he was thinking, "They will go to the provincial examination in the future, and if they pass, they will be recruited."

When he walked up to the podium, he saw Sun Xiong still standing there in a daze. He couldn't help frowning and pointed to the empty seat behind, "What are you doing in a daze? Why don't you go quickly."

Sun Xiong was dumbfounded, and seeing He Xihua's expression became even more displeased, he hurriedly sat down.

"Last time I talked about the classics with you, and this time I will talk about the legal code." He Xihua lowered his eyebrows slightly, "Our dynasty is different from the previous dynasty. The scientific research of the previous dynasty mainly focused on Confucian classics, supplemented by policy theory, but our dynasty is not the same. .Who knows the origin of my customization for scientific research?"

There was a student under the stage, whose clothes were brighter than others, probably from a gentry family, as if he was eager to try.

"Cao Juren."

Without hesitation, Cao Juren said, "It was decided by Wen Sheng Empress Zhao. Starting from the provincial examination, the classics, policy theory, poetry, codes and official documents each account for [-] percent."

"Then do you know why he made such a decision?"

"This... Maybe it's because of the urgency of the times?"

He Xihua smiled slightly, looked around, nodded and said, "Sun Xiong."

Sun Xiong let out a deep sigh of relief, "I founded the country, and everything was destroyed. At that time, Empress Wensheng and Guangling Marquis Shen Mi implemented the reform of the three provinces. The first thing they did was to reform the government of officials. It is the official selection system. Empress Wensheng practiced legalism, and after she established the Nineteen Laws of the dynasty, she used them as part of the scientific examination."

"Very good." He Xihua took a deep look at him, "Although official documents such as edicts, judgments, forms, and edicts are mediocre, you are good at studying national history. I hope you will pass the provincial examination next year and be able to win the championship in one fell swoop."

Sun Xiong laughed awkwardly, thinking that to be his servant, not only must he have a smooth sleeve, but he also has to endure hardships and stand hard work. He even has to learn from the sea and work hard.

Seeing that he looked taught, He Xihua said with satisfaction, "Today I will be the main lecturer on Tian Lu."

Although he thought he was troublesome, Sun Xiong had to admit that He Xihua was really good at lecturing. He was not only familiar with the laws and regulations of the country, but also knew many cases.

It's a pity that it's the He family.