I see the snow

When Lin Kun heard the news, all ministries and yamen in the capital of stars and wilds basically also knew about it.

Han Shang has been loyal for many years. Although he has never actively provoked anyone in the court, he has already made many enemies.

——Sometimes, when you decide to be a good person, you are already a hindrance to others.

Hearing that his only son had an accident, people from all walks of life applauded the case, gloating over his misfortune, and pushed the case to Lin Kun's elder brother—Lin Xu for trial.

——Aren’t you self-proclaimed innocent and aloof? Then, let’s see which one you would choose between being the child of your brother’s mentor and “pretending to be selfless”.

Those young people probably think so.

Lin Kun heard the news from his elder brother.

"Go see your teacher."

Lin Xu told him that there was a kind of embarrassment in his words: "Han Liangyu...he has an extremely bad attitude. According to the indictment, he was not allowed to commit adultery, so he accidentally smothered the woman to death...but he found out that he was dead. Later, instead of going to the yamen to confess, he sank his body into the bottom of the Goddess River in an attempt to get away with it. After being arrested and imprisoned, he kept clamoring to see his father, saying that his father was a royal envoy..."

Lin Kun looked at his cousin, who had similar eyebrows and eyes but was more resolute, and felt unspeakable shame and embarrassment for the first time.

Lin Xu seemed hesitant to speak. He stared at Lin Kun for a while, then patted Lin Kun on the shoulder and said:

"Although your elder brother is still only the young minister of Dali Temple, if he is really your teacher's only son... I... maybe we can think of some way to see if we can make a difference..."

Although his words were euphemistic, the meaning was self-evident.

Ke Linkun knew better in his heart:

As a child of the Lin family, it is a great humiliation to judge the case favoritically.Not only was he ashamed of the surname "Lin", it also made him blush in admiration.

"No, there is no need to—" There is no need to think about anything other than the case.

Lin Kun wanted to say.

But the elder brother interrupted him with a gesture, and said with a wry smile:

"Don't talk so early... You should go and see your teacher first, Zhenfeng. See how they are... Maybe you will change your mind."

At that time, Lin Kun was 16 years old, still at the age of knowing the world and the embarrassment.

He seems to think that the choices in this world are very simple, and the distinction between black and white is so clear. As long as he resists his inner evil thoughts and external temptations, he can be a person who stays behind and understands.

Save the world and save yourself.

But they don't know that in this world, sometimes it's so difficult to be a good person...so difficult.

Outside Linlang Academy, the Junzilin remains the same.

Probably because he heard about the accident in the teacher's house in the academy, when he stepped in, Lin Kun felt that the forest seemed to be quieter than usual.The students were all wandering in the front yard, not coming to the back very much.

There is a statue at the entrance of the academy, but unlike other academies that put stone statues of sages and saints, Linlang Academy puts a Rakshasa with an angry face——

On the first day they entered the academy, the teacher told them that this "angry-eyed Rakshasa" frightened those treacherous little people.

If you have a guilty conscience, and you have done something immoral and confused black and white, you will not be admitted to Linlang Academy, and you are not worthy of picking up this Spring and Autumn Imperial History Brush.

At this time, Lin Kun stared at the horrific Rakshasa statue, silent for a long time, thinking in his heart:

Will he one day dare not meet the eyes of this piercing Rakshasa because of his guilty conscience?

"teacher."

Walking to the academy, Lin Kun greeted him respectfully in front of the door as usual.

However, in the room, the originally faint, whimpering and choking sound suddenly stopped.

Lin Kun glanced into the room for a while, then paused, and realized later: "Oh... Mistress. Mistress is also here today."

Han Shang's voice was still old and tired, and he said hoarsely:

"Pillowwind. Come in."

Inside the house, the arrangement of tables and chairs remained unchanged.There are extremely simple bookshelves and pen holders, and there are three or two open books on the table.

Only two porcelain vases that were originally placed on the small carved wooden table were broken for unknown reasons.

Lin Kun glanced around the study lightly. Han Shang didn't speak again, but the teacher's wife was lying on the table, still crying "woo woo".

"Pillow wind."

After a long while, Doctor Yushi still opened his mouth. He forced a smile and asked as usual: "I came here today, but is there anything I don't understand about learning?"

Lin Kun pursed his lips tightly, and he silently stared at the teacher's temples——

It was only overnight, but the teacher seemed to have aged many years.

He was already an octogenarian, and apart from worrying about the affairs of the court, he also had the youngest son at home, which did not make him worry...

Lin Kun hesitated for a long time before hesitatingly said:

"I heard..."

"—Pillow Wind!!"

However, before he finished speaking, he saw his wife rushing over.She was also an elder who was several rounds older than Lin Kun, her voice became hoarse from crying, and with tears all over her face, she begged:

"Please save Liangyu... Please, save Liangyu!! Your teacher and I only have this one child... What's more, your teacher has taken care of you for so many years, right?... How do you do it? Have the heart to let him suffer the pain of losing a child in old age...!!"

"—Wanqin!"

The old censor was angry.

Lin Kun was surprised for a moment, but when he subconsciously wanted to back away, his mistress grabbed his hem and legs.

He looked at the teacher who was holding hands silently, and then at the once bright and charming teacher--

Because of crying and worrying all night, those bright eyes that used to be tender and tender like autumn water have become red and swollen like nuclei, and her slender fingers are also unbearably rough.

He still remembered that when he first joined the teacher's school a long time ago, his wife would cook them refreshing plum soup every summer; when mosquitoes and flies disturbed people at night, it was his wife who fanned them herself.

Especially when Lin Kun was weak when he was young, he often fell ill and had a fever. His wife wiped his palms and forehead with a cold towel.

Guarded him overnight until his fever subsided by dawn.

In fact, to him, his wife...was no different from his biological mother.

Frozen in this situation, not knowing what to do, after a long time, the old censor said hoarsely:

"Pillow wind." He smiled reluctantly, but his voice was full of sorrow and sorrow, and he said in a low voice: "The evil son is useless... It has added a lot of trouble to you and your brother."

"... Teacher, no."

Lin Kun said hurriedly.

But Lin Kun, who had always read all the poems and books, found that he couldn't say a word for the first time.

The old censor still forced a smile, but Lin Kun hoped that he might as well not smile.

"...Don't feel embarrassed about him and your brother."

Staring at Lin Kun's pupils, the imperial envoy doctor said: "I have been an official for fifty years, and I have never done anything for my own personal gain. When I become an official, I will not do such things that are not guaranteed at the end of the day." ... I have no way to teach my son, and to get to where I am today, it is only Liang Yu and I who are to blame...!"

"..."

Before Lin Kun could answer, the old censor covered his face and said in shame, "What's more, I heard that the girl who was killed was only 14 years old."

"Such a cardamom age will be ruined in the hands of that evil son... Doing such a thing that is inferior to a beast really makes me feel ashamed to face my ancestors and the people of Shengyang!!"

"..."

Lin Kun tightly clenched the sleeves beside him, pursed his lips slightly and looked at the teacher.

The old censor sat down slowly, leaning on the chair, the dim yellow sunset outside the window shone in and fell on his full head of gorgeous hair, showing an indescribable sadness.

At this moment, Lin Kun suddenly realized—it turns out that he, the teacher who has supported half of the court, is indeed an old man who is dying.

"Pillow wind... Mistress just wants to know—"

The woman who hadn't made a sound for a while choked up and opened her mouth, but she mumbled her lips several times, but she couldn't make a sound.After struggling for a long time, he asked in a low voice with tears in his eyes: "Liangyu... If the law is followed, how should the sentence be pronounced? Will it be..."

"It will be decisive."

Lin Kun said lightly.

Sheng Yang's laws are strict, especially for raping unmarried women. Usually, those who commit crimes and do not commit themselves to the yamen are counted as one life for one life.

The woman who hadn't closed her eyes since getting the news went limp and almost fainted.

"Wanqin—!!"

The imperial envoy hurriedly stood up to support his wife, but she couldn't help crying in his arms.With tears in his eyes, he said: "Han Shang, Han Shang, we only have this one child... only this one child!!"

"But which child is not the love of parents and relatives, the jewel in the palm...?"

The old censor said sadly, "He is, and so is the poor girl!... How can he be favored by the law just because he is my son, do you know that the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people? Good censor him It's time for us to be punished for those bastard things..."

The woman was still crying in his arms. Lin Kun had never seen her so sad since she joined the teacher's school for ten years.

"Pillowwind, you don't have to worry."

Doctor Yushi gritted his teeth, and said in a harsh voice: "I will never make your brother feel awkward because of this matter, and I will never complain to you for the judgment of that wicked son!"

"...No matter what, you are the teacher's most proud disciple, and our master-student friendship will never be affected by this matter!"

"..."

Lin Kun looked at the teacher helplessly, and met his sad and speechless eyes. The old censor said:

"But if it's convenient for you, please take a word to that Nizi for me:"

"—Love him for your father, but you can't save him for your father. If there is an afterlife, let him be a good man and pay for the sins of this world!"

"Yes."

Lin Kun clenched his fists, but there was a slight tremor at the end of the tone: "Teacher, I will bring the conversation with my brother."

……

But, in fact, when Lin Kun stepped into prison, he realized that there are a large number of children in this world, as the old saying goes:

"It's not as good as your parents love yourself, love your parents."

"You have treated me badly at this time, when I go out, you must kill your dogs!!"

As soon as he entered the cell, Lin Kun heard Han Liangyu's scolding voice in the distance:

It has been three or four days since he was arrested and imprisoned, but Mr. Han is obviously still in the limelight in the cell, and he is very angry and puts on airs.

"This is something that pigs and dogs don't eat, and you dare to feed it to the young master, the young master is going to peel your skin!!"

Lin Kun walked to the single room and looked at the distressed rich man inside, his eyes were so peaceful.

"Lin Kun?"

The dandy, who was lying on the straw couch with his legs crossed, noticed the movement and sat up abruptly.

In a panic, he crawled to Lin Kun, his face was full of joy:

"Is it you? Did my father ask you to rescue me? I knew it! I heard that the person who presides over this case is your elder brother. Isn't this 'my family'! How can something happen to me? Hurry up, call They unlocked it for me, the past few days have really suffocated the young master..."

However, Lin Kun stood there without saying a word.

Facing Han Liangyu, Xi Zizi stretched out his shackled hands in front of him, but only lowered his eyes slightly, and did not move anything.

"Hey……"

Han Liangyu watched his reaction, his eyes gradually became confused: "You—"

"Teacher says--"

Lin Kun took a deep breath and tried not to make any waves in his voice and said: "He can't save you...he loves you in his heart. But, 'If there is an afterlife, be a good person and repay the debt of this life'."

"..."

Han Liangyu was stunned.

He seemed unbelievable, and then there was horror in his eyes: "No... no..."

The dandy who has been lawless for decades seemed to know fear for the first time, and tremblingly said: "My father...how can he ignore me? I...I committed murder...I will be beheaded ...I will be beheaded!!"

Lin Kun looked at him sadly:

"When you do such a wrong thing, don't you know what the result will be?"

"I didn't mean it, I didn't mean it!!"

The rich young man screamed loudly: "She... she was the one who said first that she was going to tell my father, and to tell you... I accidentally smothered her to death!!"

Lin Kun was shocked suddenly.

She turned to look at him in disbelief.

Dandy has been driven to a dead end, as if grasping at the last straw to save his life, he said frantically:

"You have to believe me, Zhenfeng, you know me, I'm not a big evil person!! It's true, if she didn't threaten me to go to Yushitai to file a lawsuit that day, and also said my father's name , how could I accidentally kill her?..."

The prisoner in the wooden fence has already started to cry, and it only takes half a quarter of an hour to go from being arrogant just now to doing all the ugly things for his life:

"I love Xiaoxian...I really love her!! I can't die, pillow...I beg you to save me, I'm only 30 years old, I don't want to die yet..."

The hand stretched out from the partition couldn't catch Lin Kun's dark blue sleeve, so it slid down softly.Han Liangyu squatted on the ground, tears streaming down his face, tears flowing like a pool of rotten meat:

"Since I came in, they have all bullied me, given me such crude food to eat, and such cold and hard bed boards to sleep on... They have all abused me!! Pillow wind——"

However, compared to the collapsed Han Liangyu, it was Lin Kun who was in a state of shock and found it difficult to calm down.

It never occurred to him that the reason for Han Liangyu's murder was that Xiaoxian told the name and location of the envoy doctor.

So……

Then tell Xiaoxian himself, don't you agree with the accomplice? ...

The fingers hidden in the navy blue official robe trembled slightly, and Lin Kun's face turned pale.

As if unable to stand still, Lin Kun slowly staggered back a step, leaning on the fence.

"If I die, my Han family will be unparalleled—"

Han Liangyu was still crying: "What's more, he died for a poor and lowly ship girl. If my grandparents and grandfathers knew about it, they would love me to the death, and feel that I was wronged to die—!!"

"You are wronged..."

Lin Kun slowly came back to his senses, and asked in a hoarse voice, "But who thinks that boat girl was wronged?... She was just 14 years old, and meeting you was a disaster for no reason!!"

"no no……"

However, Han Liangyu sat up in surprise, as if he had already thought of a solution, he said: "I can make up for her, I can make up for her!!"

Seeing Han Liangyu trembling like a dying pig, Lin Kun slowly frowned and asked:

"How can you make it up to her?"

"I let her enter our ancestral grave!!"

Han Liangyu said.

Because of too much force, the eyes of the man in Tsing Yi protruded slightly.It looks scary and crazy.

"I will marry her, and I will give her a title!!... Dark marriage is also acceptable, within three years, I will never marry a concubine!!"

As Han Liangyu said, he thought he was extremely clever and put a smile on Bai Fei's face:

"I said earlier that I like her, I really can marry her!! Zhenfeng, please save me, I promise to let that untouchable into my Han family's ancestral grave!!—"

"..."

Lin Kun looked at the only son of his mentor who seemed to have made a huge sacrifice in front of him, silently unable to speak a word.

"Hey, Lin Kun, Lin Kun!!"

For some reason, Han Liangyu watched Lin Kun turn and leave, and hurriedly shouted anxiously behind him.

However, no matter how hoarsely he yelled, Lin Kun never looked back.

He doesn't know why he was wrong, and never will.

When the door of the dungeon was finally closed, Lin Kun saw the bright white sunlight pouring down from outside.

on his eyelashes.

He raised his hand to cover it, then closed his eyes——

The last thing that came to my mind was that night by the embankment, the sparkling water.

The immature Qingli boat girl smiled at him with her back.