I see the snow

"The teacher has no shame in his life, and he has not been partial to selfishness... I am sorry for my conscience."

The old man's voice had already faded away, and his eyes could only stare straight at the top of the bed, and he couldn't even move his eyes.

The charcoal fire in the brazier was crackling, Lin Kun knelt beside the teacher, his lips were tightly pressed, and he firmly held the hand of the dying old man.

"When I was a teacher, the teacher told me that if I want to save people, I have to go down into the muddy water..."

Han Yushi's lungs were panting like a broken bellows, and the words in his throat were completely muffled.He struggled to make a sound: "Pillowwind... The teacher knows you are a good boy... The teacher does not force you to be a bad person. Do things that make you unhappy. You... As long as you don't let yourself live too hard, the teacher will rest assured gone."

For the first time, Lin Kun's face, which was as cold as cold white jade, showed an indescribable crack. His expression was terrified and sad, like extremely fragile ice.His body was trembling very slightly, and he whispered over and over again:

"I'm sorry... Teacher, I'm sorry..."

If I hadn't chosen the woman and the old laborer, if I had asked my brother...

Will you still leave so early because of the heart-wrenching pain of losing your wife and children?

"……Do not blame you."

Han Yushi closed his eyes very slightly, and shook his head: "My good boy, the teacher never blamed you. But you have to walk this road by yourself..."

His pupils were like candles that were about to go out, struggling precariously.Doctor Yu Shi tried his best to raise his hand for the last time, gently brushed Lin Kun's cheek and black hair, and murmured:

"The teacher is useless... Sheng Yang's clarity and conscience are entrusted to you."

"..."

"Don't make yourself too sad."

A dry and warm hand brushed across his head, hanging Lin Kun's hair for a while, and then it fell straight down like a kite that lost its strength, passing through the air, and then fell lifelessly on the brocade quilt.

Lin Kun exclaimed: "Teacher——!"

The doctor envoy closed his eyes forever.

This is the 21st year of Yunhua, the middle of winter.

The new year is coming soon, but Lin Kun's teacher didn't wait for the day of spring.

He left Lin Kun alone in the world... and also in the court.

After that, Yushitai, the last place in the imperial court that was not in darkness, also fell completely with Han Shang's death.

With the support of Prince An, Mo Bihuan stepped up to the position of Chief Censor, and the entire temple became the hall of speech for Prince An. Before Shen Yan ascended the throne, it was no surprise that Sheng Yang had no king for half a year.

This country is in a mess.

Two years later, Suzaku Avenue.

"Hurry up, hand over the money!"

"And you want to run away!—Hey, don't you know whose money it's for?"

"Old woman, why are you crying, don't annoy the military master!—"

A group of city guards equipped with weapons and armor knocked on the door from house to house. Someone glanced out the window and shrank under the table.The door was knocked "bang bang" and did not dare to make a sound.

The defender kicked and kicked the door, removed all the door panels, and went straight in to rob them.

If you see something valuable, take it away.

"This is the end of your dishonesty!!"

There are also those whose homes are really empty, the guards picked up the terrified girl on the collapsed face, and shouted:

"Then you all give Lord River God a bride!!—"

"Ninny... No, nannie!!"

All of a sudden, the noise and chaos on the street reached the extreme - the officers shouted violently, the common people cried, and the exclamation of poultry and livestock all mingled together.

It was as if a rebellious army from another country had entered the city, burning, killing, and looting the people of Shengyang.

"What are you doing!!"

As soon as Lin Kun came into his eyes, it was like this. He was stunned for a moment, and then he scolded from a distance: "In broad daylight, are you robbing people by force?!"

The assailant soldiers were taken aback for a moment, but then they saw Lin Kun's scholar uniform——

Presumably, he came out of Linlang Academy, so he just likes to show off.

They walked up to Lin Kun with their pipes in their mouths, and pushed him provocatively: "Do you know who we are?"

The guard asked: "We are working for the adults of Qin Tianjian!!"

Lin Kun's face was as cold as ice, and his dark and cold pupils slowly swept across the soldier in front of him:

"Oh, so what."

he asked softly.

If it was in the past, when Han Shang was still there, the faint-hearted officers and soldiers saw that the scholar Wan of Linlang Academy was not so arrogant.

They are afraid that the Yushitai, which is still crumbling, supports a piece of Qingming.But all of this has changed since Mo Bihuan took over.

There were even several cases where scholars who spoke out in Linlang Academy were beaten to death in the street because they "didn't know what was good and what was bad".

"I think you're itchy!—"

A soldier said, but at the same time, a leader standing at the back saw Lin Kun, he was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly pushed aside the crowd and came to the front: "Hey... isn't this... isn't this the son of the Lin family? !"

Lin Kun looked at him coldly.

His eyes were black and white, and there was a kind of coldness that was not angry and pretentious, which made anyone slightly surprised when they saw it.

"Misunderstanding, hehe, it's all a misunderstanding!"

The leader hurriedly introduced him: "This is the eldest son of Taifu Lin's family, you must not offend him!"

He bit the word "eldest son" very hard, and then signaled to the gang of soldiers behind him with his eyes.

"Mr. Lin is out for a stroll?"

The leader said: "Then I will send someone to send you back? This world, hey, is very unstable!——"

"Let them go."

However, Lin Kun said. "Return all the things you robbed..."

The leader froze.With a cold smile on his lips, he stood up straight and changed his posture:

"What are you joking about?"

Lin Kun shook his head: "This is not a joke."

"..."

The eyes of the two faced each other in the air, one was cold and decisive; the other was slippery and sticky.

After a long time, the leader smiled and nodded: "Okay, let's go back."

He stretched out his hand to his subordinates, but the soldier hesitated for a moment before handing over the child in his hand: "Boss..."

However, what I didn't expect was that the soldier who looked like the leader didn't look sideways. After Yao Yao took the child, he suddenly raised it high and ruthlessly threw the child to the ground! ——

The child uttered a terrified and painful scream, and then stopped, silently without breathing.

The soldiers behind burst into cheers, and then they said "learned and well behaved", smashing the things they just snatched in front of Lin Kun, and then throwing them on the ground like throwing rags.

The girl's grandmother cried bitterly and grabbed the ground with her head. Her hoarse sound scared the crows from the branches into the air.

Lin Kun stood where he was, his whole body was cold and his face was pale.

When the group of guards passed in front of him, they snorted and sneered at Lin Kun who was completely frozen, and walked away.

"Give me back my child...give me back my child!!——"

The old man cried and trembled, his grief and wailing pierced Lin Kun's ears like needles.

"Why...why is this."

The man held the child's unconscious cheek, kissed, held, and cried bitterly.

Lin Kun raised his head slowly, facing the eyes full of tears, he moved his body, as if he wanted to walk over, but was smashed right away.

It was a lump of stinky mud.

"You... so it's you!"

The ragged beggar on the street yelled, "You are Lin Kun, you were the one who harmed us back then!!—"

Lin Kun looked at him anxiously.

"That year, if you hadn't forced Han Yushi's only son to death, we wouldn't have been neglected, the dam wouldn't have fallen into disrepair, and we wouldn't have ended up like this now!!"

Following his words, more and more refugees approached and surrounded Lin Kun.

"We begged you back then, please think about it for us."

The refugee said: "But what about you? You don't care about the life and death of our 10 people!! Han Yushi died, and no one looked at the dam... In the flood season of the second year, there was a flood, and the entire Shennv River The people in the upper reaches, the people in the upper reaches of the Goddess River!! They have all become homeless refugees!!!”

"..."

Lin Kun was stunned, speechless.

The man's face was full of tears, washing away some of the stains on his face.

"My two sons and daughters, who were less than four years old, died in that flood... But what about you? Ha! Then old man Chen's daughter is a daughter, but our daughter is not!!?"

"..."

"What face do you have to save people?"

The man shouted: "What face do you have to save people!! You are just a cowardly official who can't tell the difference between life and death!!!——"

Shouting like thunder, it struck Lin Kun's ear.

He wanted to say no, I have been following the dike file.

But... But if you want to save someone, you have to make a deal with His Majesty.

He wants to change history, he wants to erase thousands of lives from the history books...

He wants the heroes to bear their names, the eunuchs will be left in history, and the countless lives that died due to his fault will be buried in the dust and no one will ever know.

I want to find other ways to ask His Majesty to investigate the dam...but.

But everything was too late.

The refugees stared at Lin Kun with hatred on their dirty faces.

Lin Kun looked back at them, reading blood and loss from their faces.

Behind the trivial and angry scolding, there is actually mourning and despair.

The refugees grabbed the mud on the ground, cursed, and threw it at Lin Kun one after another.

Lin Kun stood in the center, staring at them blankly.

"Lin Kun...Lin Kun!!——"

In a trance, it seemed that someone was calling him.

But he couldn't hear it, what lingered in his ears was the seemingly endless complaints and hatred of the refugees.

"Do you know how many people you killed - how many people you killed!!!"

"My parents and children are dead, you pay for their lives!!"

"I told you earlier, Zhenfeng, as long as this decision is made, one day you won't regret it."

"Good boy... the teacher never blamed you."

……

Countless words about the present, the past, and if there were nothing, all got into his mind. He raised his head, but he couldn't see anything.I only saw those villagers who died because there were no dams during the flood season.

They surrounded Lin Kun, struggled in the water, and cursed at him when he was dying.

Lin Kun raised his head blankly, looked at his hands, and murmured:

am I wrong?

"Lin Kun!!!"

Before Li Sinian dismissed the crowd and hugged Lin Kun into his arms.He touched his nose and mouth in confusion, but saw blood on his hand.

Then his vision began to become blurred, and his deep red blood color gradually faltered.

The light image suddenly disappeared, leaving only endless darkness.

Lin Kun shook and passed out in Li Sinian's arms.