Chapter 26: Virtue

Li Mubai suddenly waved his hand, and the driver of the car was dragged up by a clear wind and landed lightly on the side of the road.

Li Daju tugged on the horse’s reins and drove it himself, saying slowly, “This is a thousand-mile horse, capable of traveling a thousand miles a day.”

An amazing scene happened. The one pulling the cart was originally an unusual brown horse, and at this moment, suddenly exuberantly let out a long neigh.

Beneath the brown skin, a tendon bulged and his body swelled, and in the blink of an eye he was nearly twice as tall as an ordinary horse.

Li Mu Bai’s carriage went away in a cloud of dust.

Zhang Shen snorted coldly, “You go down as well.”

He sent the driver to the curb, took his place, tugged at the horse’s reins, and said in a deep voice, “This horse is big and strong, not only a thousand-mile colt, but also has six legs.”

The same mutation occurred again, and the black horse was just as swollen and muscular as its counterpart.

The difference is that the flesh and blood of its belly parted, its bones grew, and its nerves intertwined …. Two new horse legs grew hard.

The black horse’s six hooves were like flying, raising a cloud of dust and catching up with Li Mubai’s carriage afterward.

“Old thief, you are overly shameless, where is a horse with six hooves.” Li Mubai was furious.

“I say there is.”

“Good, then I have a horse with eight hooves.”

“Hmph, the shameless old thief has to snatch the disciple from me right, this carriage of mine is as light as thin paper and flies with the wind!”

A gust of wind blew, and Zhang Shen’s carriage floated lightly like thin paper, drifting into the distance with the wind.

Li Mu Bai was not willing to show weakness and droned, “My carriage can ride the clouds.”

A white cloud grew flat on the ground and stuck to the wagon wheels, sending the wagon into the sky.

Xu Pingzhi watched the scene dumbfounded until the two carriages disappeared into the sky and swallowed his throat:

“Readers can really brag.”

Xu New Year looked at the sky, his heart yearning, and murmured, “This is not bragging, this is the fifth quality of Confucianism: virtue!”

It has another name, from the drunken taunts of the Lord Supervisor: Confucians use the written word to confuse the law!

……

Ministry of Justice prison.

Xu Qi’an was in shackles, sitting cross-legged on a tattered straw mat, his back against the cold wall.

Sniffing the cold, wet, rotting smell in the air, it was as if I was back in the prison of the Prefecture.

According to the previous information from the case library, the capital Yamen bullying examples are numerous, these things, not even the emperor’s ears, will be suppressed.

Isn’t that why the four words “reaching heaven” can be as heavy as Mount Tai.

But this is the period of the Beijing investigation ah, not afraid of political enemies attacked and annihilated? …. Xu Qi’an heckled, “Finish me off in a quick battle, and then use the lives of the whole family to force Uncle Two to endure the humiliation, and it won’t be set right.”

“I was wrong, the middle class is certainly living it up, but mess with the big boys once and all hell breaks loose.”

“To live as a human being, I have to have power and strength.”

Clang… the iron door at the end of the corridor opened, footsteps sounded from far and near, and not long after, a jailer led two sword-wielding armorers to the fence.

“Took you for a break.” The jailer laughed mockingly.

He opened the door and instead of going in, he took a step back and drank, “Come out dead.”

The two armorers pressed their hands against the hilts of their swords, their eyes on guard.

Despite wearing special shackles and ankle cuffs, the other party was still a peak Refined Essence martial artist, and if they did a trapped fight in desperation, a few of them would also be in danger.

“You’d better be honest and cooperate with us, you don’t want us shooting through your hamstrings and dragging you out.”

Xu Qi’an was silent for a moment and got up.

……

Minister of Justice Sun Shangshu was crouching down to deal with affairs, and the volumes and folders were piling up.

Suddenly, he seemed to feel something and looked up at the window.

In a few moments, two black shadows came speeding by, their outlines becoming clearer and clearer, two carriages, one riding on a clear wind, the other riding in the clouds.

The two carriages drove side by side, competing to be the first, and landed in the compound of the Ministry of Justice’s courthouse in unison.

The majestic horse finally collapsed with exhaustion the moment it hit the ground, seemingly drained of all vitality, and died in convulsions.

The pawns working at the Ministry of Justice office immediately gathered around.

Sun Shangshu, dressed in scarlet robes, ushered in with a frown, he had a square country face, and when he frowned and stared, he exuded a sense of seriousness.

“Brother Pure Jing, Brother Honorable Yan, what brings you two to my Ministry of Justice.”

Sun Shangshu was quite predictable, and although the rivalry between the Guozijian and Yunlu Academy had been going on for a long time, the fact that the two great scholars had joined forces was enough to make him put on a proper attitude.

Zhang Shen arched his hand and said in a deep voice, “The Ministry of Criminal Affairs has arrested one of my disciples today, named Xu Qi’an, I’d like to trouble Minister Sun to release him.”

Arrested a student from Yunlu Academy?

This group of old things in Yunlu Academy is the most protective …. Shangshu Sun said, “The Ministry of Justice manages the power of punishment and prisons and will not arrest people for no reason. Please ask the two of you to speak clearly.”

He didn’t agree immediately, although the State Elementary School had suppressed the Cloud Deer Academy in the official world, that was because the State Elementary School was a government-run academy of the imperial court.

Yunlu Academy naturally can’t compete with the State Scholarship Academy, and the court doesn’t use your people, so what can you do?

But this does not mean that Yunlu Academy is a soft persimmon that can be pinched and rubbed at will, Yunlu Academy masters the Confucian cultivation system, and is the holy land in the hearts of the world’s scholars.

The academy gentlemen were notoriously protective of their shortcomings, so as long as they hadn’t actually committed any crimes, the officials of the Ministry of Justice wouldn’t take the initiative to find fault with them.

Not waiting for the two great Confucian speakers, a few messengers panicked and ran over, shouting, “Lord Shangshu, outside came a group of the white clothes of the Divisional Superintendent, hard to break into the Yamen, we can not stop …. it.”

Shangshu Sun and the officials present at the Ministry of Justice looked around at the sound, and a group of white-robed Sietian Supervisor disciples rushed across the street into the Ministry of Justice’s courthouse.

At the head of the group was a man with a chest embroidered with a Dan furnace, thick eyebrows, a high nose, and dark circles under his eyes that seemed to last for years.

Song Qing, the fourth disciple of the Supervisor of the Heavenly Monastery.

The opponent’s raging aura caused Shangshu Sun to frown and drink, “You have violated the law by trespassing into the Ministry of Justice, so why don’t you quickly retreat.”

Song Qing stopped, made a bow, and said faintly, “Lord Shangshu, we are here to ask the Ministry of Justice for a person.”

Hearing this, Sun Shangshu’s heart jumped with a guess, and he said in a deep voice, “Who is it.”

“Xu Qi’an, was just arrested by the Ministry of Justice today for no reason.”

It was Xu Qi’an again, where the hell was this person from that he had simultaneously attracted the great scholar from the Cloud Deer Academy, as well as the white clothes from the Si Tian Supervisor.

In Dafeng, no one was willing to offend the Supervisor, even the Cloud Deer Academy, which prided itself on its Confucian orthodoxy, was taunted by the booze-loving Supervisor for messing up the law with the written word, but also pinched their noses and admitted to it, without attempting to use reasoning against Lord Supervisor.

“What’s going on? Who is Xu Qi’an, how come I’ve never heard of this character.”

“You’re lonely, aren’t you? Do you know about the tax and silver case? The one who solved the case was Xu Qi’an.”

“But this person is just a martial artist, how did he get involved with Confucianism and the Sithian Supervisor.”

“Strange, why are we arresting him at the Ministry of Justice.”

The officials of the Ministry of Justice who had come over to watch were talking to each other.

Shangshu Sun beckoned and summoned an official from the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and asked, “Did the Ministry of Criminal Affairs apprehend a prisoner named Xu Qi’an today?”

The official whispered back, then hurriedly ran away, and in a few moments, returned with a stack of paperwork.

“Lord Shangshu, there is no such person as Xu Qi’an in the wanted papers.”

No? Sun Shangshu’s face sank.

“Who went and got the guy?”

“This subordinate official does know…” the official’s eyes flicked to a green-robed one in the crowd, “It’s Huang Langzhong.”

Swish… a gaze was cast over.

That returned to the Ministry of Penalty, only had time to take a sip of tea, had not yet invited credit to the Squire’s son, the green-robed Huang Langzhong’s heart was cold.

PS: I sat down in front of the computer after work to code, and as I did so, I fell asleep without knowing what happened. Delayed update.

Sorry, I’m a little tired today.