I see the snow

"My lord, this Mingjiaoshi has arrived, and the dam will be built soon."

On the upper reaches of the Goddess River, Lin Kun personally went to the place where the dam was built.

The surrounding villagers gathered around Lin Kun and smiled, "Thank you—without you, the dam has not been built for so many years, and when the flood season comes, we will have nothing to harvest again!"

But in fact, it is Han Yushi who can really play a key role in front of the Holy One.

Lin Kun also said truthfully: "No...it's all thanks to the teacher."

"Then... is Han Yushi okay?"

The villagers also seemed to know it well. Hearing what Lin Kun said, they also showed an unnatural and indescribable look on their faces, as if they were asking tentatively: "Is there anything unhappy about it? ... Hey, In fact, we have all heard about Mr. Han..."

The case of Han Liangyu is well known in the capital of stars and fields, not to mention that the woman who was victimized was also the daughter of a laborer who built the embankment.

The villagers have always been well-informed about this kind of thing, and in less than half a day, it spread throughout the villages in the upper reaches of the Goddess River.

"Won't Han Yushi feel chilled by this?..."

The villagers said cautiously, they looked a little nervous: "I heard that he is the only son of Han Yushi... If he dies, he will have no children and grandchildren! Hey... We also persuaded old man Chen that Han Yushi is a good official , he lost a daughter... It's nothing. But this old man Chen doesn't listen! He is very stubborn... My lord, please give us a good word in front of Han Yushi and tell him that we are with that Chen The old man is not on the same side, we are on his side!... He must not let us leave the dike behind because of this..."

"The teacher won't."

However, all of a sudden, Lin Kun seemed to hear something extremely harsh and humiliating, and said sharply, "Teacher is not that kind of person!"

The villagers were taken aback.

Lin Kun's face was cold. He stared closely at the people in front of him. After a long silence, his stern expression slowly eased.He took a deep breath, as if trying to endure something, and said with restraint: "He... my teacher is a really good official. Don't think of him like that..."

The villagers smirked and said in a dazed voice, "Oh... no, it's fine if you don't."

"We're not...then what, I'm afraid. Hey."

"Also, it's nothing to lose a daughter."

Lin Kun said: "The reason why you say that is because that is not your daughter.... You should stand on the side of your conscience, at any time. Instead of just choosing the side that is beneficial to you."

Because of that, when you die, you will also be abandoned by everyone.

The heat is so hot and the sun is so hot that even the ants live in their nests and don't come out very often.

However, many of the villagers were barefoot, touching the hot ground without any separation.There are also many laborers among them, all dressed in rags, with sallow and thin faces, looking at Lin Kun dully and flatteringly with grinning mouths.

Lin Kun couldn't bear to see such a scene, which made him feel sad, angry and powerless.

He was silent and turned around:

"The teacher is already trying to find a way for everyone...you don't have to worry. He won't abandon his principles of being an official just because of irrelevant things."

The villagers were dumb and said some words of thanks one after another, and Lin Kun let them disperse.

"Excuse me, is this Chen Erping's home?"

After that, Lin Kun turned around again upstream and found a shack.

There was a stench of damp in the shack, which I could smell when I walked to the door.

Sitting at the door were two foolish figures, a man and a woman. The woman was about fifty years old, and she was still wearing a cotton padded jacket in the scorching heat.

Drooling body fluid, only smirking towards the outside.

"coming--"

Hearing the noise, a very old and wizened old man walked out of the shack. As soon as he got out of the shack, he raised his eyes and saw Lin Kun, but was suddenly stunned.

"Big... my lord."

He said in a low voice, very humble and powerless, rubbed his hands, lowered his eyes, as if he didn't want to face it but couldn't escape: "You...you."

"I am a scholar of Linlang Academy."

Lin Kun said: "My teacher...is Han Shang."

"Please have some tea."

The shack behind it seemed too narrow, and there was no place to stay after laying out the two beds. Naturally, it was impossible to invite Lin Kun to sit in it.

The old man took out a rusty teapot from inside, found out a crumpled iron porcelain cup, and poured tea into it with trembling hands:

"You...you come here..."

"It's not what the teacher meant for me to come here."

Lin Kun said in a low voice, looking into the cloudy eyes of the old man: "You don't have to worry. I didn't force you to do anything about your daughter."

——This old man is the father of the boat girl Xiaoxian.

"Her mother was a lunatic when she was born, and above her, her brother is also a lunatic..."

Old man Chen said dully: "It's my fault, our family has dragged down Ah Xian..."

The old man used to work on the embankment field, and his rough palms were covered with deep and shallow calluses.

As he spoke, he lowered his head and brushed the calluses on his head. Lin Kun asked:

"Why didn't you go to work today?"

"Well."

The old man was silent, and said: "They won't let me go, saying that I am too old to do the work of transporting stones... rest at home."

——But if you mind this, why didn't you mention it before, but now is the time to rush to work?

Lin Kunmo didn't make a sound, and he had already guessed seven or eight points in his heart: probably because of an accident in the old man's house, the villagers thought he had "offended" Han Shang and refused to call him here.

This world is so strange. When everyone is sad, people's hearts will get worse.

They were trapped in the deepening flood, but instead of thinking about how to unite and break through the cage, they looked around maliciously: to see which unlucky guy is easier to attack, push him down and step on his feet, and let himself stand up Some.

And when an egg hits a stone, other eggs see it, and they will follow suit and think that this ignorant egg "offended" the stone——

But he didn't know that even if he "supported" Shitou spiritually, Shitou would not accept their flattery, and regarded them as a slightly higher "person of his own".

"What do you want?"

Lin Kun asked hoarsely.

He recalled what his cousin said before he came. Lin Xu said, "Before the sentence is issued, why don't you go to the home of the victim."

"——How do you know what is the best compensation for their injuries? Maybe...they didn't want to ask Han Liangyu to pay for his life, but just wanted to pay some money."

"..."

Staring into the eyes of the old man, Lin Kun hesitated a little, but still said the question: "My brother is presiding over Han Liangyu's case. He said that he would like to hear your opinion before finalizing the case..."

The old man's figure is a bit rickety, because of his long-term humbleness and obedience, his back is very bent.

Almost decades older than his original age.

Old man Chen was taken aback for a moment, as if reflecting what Lin Kun meant:

"Opinion... I, I want to ask the young master to pay for my life..."

he murmured.Yuxi Reader

This seems to be a huge extravagant request, even the tone of the words is trembling, and killing people pays for their lives-this was originally a matter of course.

"If you let him go, can you get dozens of times the compensation?"

Lin Kun seemed to be having a hard time saying it, this was not his intention, but Lin Xu said that this book was also one of the options available to Chen Erping.

"Dozens of times the compensation, that's enough for you to buy a decent house in Hoshino Capital and move in with your family..."

Lin Kun said in a low voice: "You can also find someone to take care of your child and wife's illness. Please ask a doctor to see you. Your life will be much better than now..."

Lin Kun's eyes drifted to the dirty and smelly shack.

However, old man Chen didn't make a sound after hearing his words. He was stunned for two seconds, and suddenly burst into tears.

"You all miss me so much..."

The old laborer kept wiping the hot tears from his eyes with the back of his hand, as if he had suffered too much humiliation and misunderstanding, he said: "We are poor, but we are not inhuman—"

Lin Kun was stunned.

"Ah Xian is my daughter," he said, "my flesh and blood, how can I live in that big house and yard with the money that her bones are still alive?"

The old man was sobbing and choking, all the bitter tears of his life flowed out at this moment. He looked at Lin Kun and pushed him for the first time:

"You go, my lord, you go... If you can't sentence that son to death, don't use money to buy my old man Chen's conscience. I won't sell it, I won't sell it..."

Lin Kun was pushed farther and farther away from the shack in astonishment, but he looked at the two silly figures at the door who were still smiling at him, and the old figure who was panting, hunched over, and turned back, wiping tears, Suddenly there was an indescribable sour feeling in my heart.

Yes, there are always many unsatisfactory times in this world.

There are always times when you are disappointed in the world and in people's hearts.But there is also a lot of gold, buried in the dust of mortal beings.

Lin Kun brought the old man's words to his cousin. Lin Xu looked at Lin Kun with a complicated expression. After a long time, he said with a wry smile:

"Zifeng, I hope this decision will not disappoint you one day."

"..."

"On the horse training field, there are five children playing on one side, and a toddler making mud alone on the other. It is forbidden for five children to occupy the track; the toddler has been allowed to make mud long ago, and there is nothing wrong with it. If At this point, you have to choose a side to gallop through, and one side must be killed or injured because of your decision, how do you choose?" [*Note 1]

Lin Xu patted the pale-faced scholar on the shoulder, let out a long breath, and walked away.

Han Liangyu was sentenced to execution half a month later.

This seems to be what Lin Kun wants, and it is also ethically appropriate.

But in the autumn of the same year, when the first autumn wind blew, Lin Kun's wife died of illness.

She broke her heart for her son, mourned excessively, and had no intention of staying in this world.

Han Yushi didn't say anything, facing Lin Kun, he even showed guilt in his eyes, and said in a low voice:

"I'm sorry, Zhenfeng... your master and mistress have no way to teach their children. But sometimes, no matter how incompetent a child is, it will inevitably cause parents heartache."

"..."

Lin Kun stared blankly at the old censor. All this happened too fast for him, but it was too late for him to understand and see through the world.

A few months later, the old censor, who was suffering from the loss of his wife and son, sent a servant to Lin Kun's mansion overnight to invite Lin Kun to come over.

——The winter wind is too cold to warm the world.

His teacher is also bedridden and seriously ill, and he fears he will die.

The author has something to say:

[*Note 1]: Derived from the classic train selection problem. "A train is running normally, and there are five children playing on the track ahead (fault side), and there is only one child on the other abandoned track (no fault side). Would you change the track?"

This is also the core point of the argument in this episode, the choice Lin Kun faces: what do you choose life for?Quantity is still moral.