Phoenix Shadow Coming From the Sky Chapter 14: 、Zhu Sheng He Gu 1

At the beginning of July in the sixth year of Yuan Ding, a tragedy that shocked the whole country occurred in Sanshi Village, Xincheng, Qingzhou.

Ma Daliang, a villager in Sanshi Village, was robbed of his wife and daughter by the bully Wang Xun, who seized his family property and lodged a complaint against Xincheng Mansion. He didn't want Wang Xing to bribe the governor of the government, Guo Sui. One hundred blows with the staff. Ma Daliang failed to save his wife and daughter, but was poisoned with a stick. In his anger and madness, he raised a knife and slaughtered the schoolchildren in the village school. Ten dead and twelve injured, and then committed suicide.

When Xu Shi reported the matter to Feng Duying, Feng Duying slapped the book case on the spot, "The fool is hateful! How innocent is the child!"

The loud sound of the shattering of the book case made the servants in the hall tremble with fear, and they all lowered their heads, not daring to take a breath.

"The case has been clarified, please let the King of Feng show you how to deal with it." In the main hall, only Xu Shi remained calm.

Feng Duying's breath was uneven, and his anger was abnormal, "This kind of fool... slaughters innocent children! It's simply despicable and weak! If he raises a knife and kills the bully and corrupt officials, this king will reward him with a brave man!"

"Feng Wang, you must not say such words!" Xu Shi raised his voice solemnly.

Being summoned by Xu Shi in this way, Feng Duying woke up, took a deep breath, sat down heavily on the jade seat, and tried to calm down his anger. Injured schoolchildren were treated; Xincheng Governor Guo Sui and Sanshi Village Wang Xiaoxiao were first shown to the public; Ma Daliang's parents, brothers, wife and daughter were all sent to border towns, and within three generations they were all sent to hard labor; Ma Daliang's body was thrown into the wilderness to be fed to wild dogs!"

The first two edicts are reasonable, but after hearing the last two, Xu Shi frowned, and then said: "I think that Ma Daliang's parents and brothers are innocent, and his wife and daughter are also victims. If you have to suffer a series of crimes, you can be sent to the border towns, but these three generations of hard labor are too harsh; and Ma Daliang is dead, and it is too cruel to abandon his body to feed dogs, and it will damage Feng Wang's benevolence."

Feng Duying was unmoved by the words, just got up, stood in front of the jade seat, and looked down at the Prime Minister in the palace, "Prime Minister, don't you know why this king is like this?"

Xu Shi bowed his head in silence.

"If this king treats it lightly, I'm afraid there will be more imitators from now on. Anyone who has resentment in his heart will slaughter the weak to vent his anger." "This king's move is to tell the people in the world that anyone who dares to do this will be punished by their loved ones. There will be no bones left after death, and they will not be reborn as that lonely ghost forever!"

"I understand." Xu Shi bowed, "Of course, King Feng's actions can shock the world, but King Feng will also be called cruel and ruthless. I am the prime minister of the country, and my job is to assist, and I am a minister who speaks out This part."

Feng Duying paused for a moment, and then said after a while: "Guo Xiang, this king and you understand each other, so there is no need to say too much. Go and issue an edict, and choose a parent officer for Xincheng, and take office as soon as possible."

"The minister takes orders." Xu Shi saluted and was about to exit the hall, not wanting Feng Duying's voice to sound again, "And..." Xu Shi stopped and looked up over the jade seat.

Feng Duying pondered for a while, and said: "Those villagers in Sanshi Village who have lost their beloved son must be filled with grief and indignation, and those schoolchildren and their families who were injured must be in panic at this moment. In order to eliminate hidden dangers, this Wang personally went to the village to pay homage to the undead." She came out of troubled times and knew what people would think when they were in grief, anger and despair. After all, she remembered clearly why the eight of them raised their troops back then.

Xu Shi was stunned for a moment, then bowed and said, "Feng Wang Shengming, I will arrange it immediately."

Sending the imperial physician to treat the wounded, the resentment in the hearts of the villagers will definitely subside a lot, and if King Feng goes there in person to take Wang Weijun's kindness, the remaining bit of grief and hatred will also disappear.

The historians remember several edicts of King Feng, but what the common people remember is King Feng's sympathy and benevolence.

A king needs to have a benevolent reputation and win the hearts of the people.

On the third day of the seventh month, Xu Shi promulgated the four royal edicts, including beheading Guo Sui and Wang Yu and severely punishing the Ma family. The whole country was shaken for a while, not only for the removal of corrupt officials and bullies, but also for the wisdom and benevolence of Feng Wang.

On the fourth day of July, Feng Duying drove to Xincheng, and the Prime Minister Xu Shi was regent.

She is used to going her own way. Although she is the king of a state now, she has always hated the ostentation of canopies, ceremonial guards, carriages, attendants, etc. when traveling, so this time she only brought Du Kang and fifty people with her. The guards left, accompanied by Zhang Zhuo, Xincheng's new governor.

During this journey, the galloping horses galloped past the high mountains and city walls, allowing her, who had been trapped in the palace for two years, to find some of the pleasure she had when she was leading the army.

Qingzhou King's Capital is only four hundred miles away from Xincheng, and the horses are galloping fast, so the party arrived in Xincheng early in the morning on the sixth day of the lunar new year.

After a half-day rest and lunch, Feng Duying set off for Sanshi Village. Zhang Zhuo originally wanted to go with him, but Feng Duying said that Guo Sui had already been beheaded, and there were many important things in Xincheng, so he was asked to do his own thing. Before Zhang Zhuo left, Xu Shi reminded him that he knew Feng Wang's style of work and wanted to make a career, so he stopped insisting and only sent two yamen servants to lead the way.

At three o'clock in Shenshi, Feng Duying arrived at Sanshi Village.

Although the previous edict had let everyone in Qingzhou know that Feng Wang, who loved the people like a child, was going to worship the schoolboy who died in vain, but before seeing him, most of the villagers in Sanshi Village were dubious.

On that day, when Feng Duying, with a white horse in white and leading a group of guards, rushed to Sanshi Village heroically, all the people in the village who had been waiting at the entrance of the village looked at the queen who was like a heavenly being, and couldn't respond for a long time .

After a long time, Mrs. Zhu, who was still the oldest in the village, came back to his senses first, and took the lead to bow down with a loud cry. Only then did the men, women and children in the village wake up, and then bowed their heads to the ground.

Feng Duying got off the horse and helped Master Zhu, who was at the front, "everybody flattened." Her voice was neither loud nor soft, neither hot nor cold, as clear and clear as the light rain in early spring, which made everyone present rejoice. can hear.

Master Zhu led the villagers to stand up. They looked up at the queen in front of them, dressed in white like snow, with long eyebrows and phoenix eyes, with a noble bearing, she was a hundred times more beautiful and majestic than they had imagined, for a moment they stared blankly and forgot to speak.

Feng Duying glanced over and saw dozens of people behind Master Zhu wearing plain clothes and sackcloth, describing their mourning, knowing that they must be the relatives of those innocent children who were brutally slaughtered, so he walked up to those people and said: "Everyone Sorry."

As soon as she said this, those people were stunned for a while, and then they all burst into tears, and some even cried out in grief: "Feng Wang, my son died so unjustly! Feng Wang, my son What a miserable death!"

The pain of losing a child cannot be described in words, and only those who have experienced it personally know the pain that cannot be replaced by their own body and the despair of heartbreak. Heartbroken, those who heard it were heartbroken, and many villagers cried with them. For a while, only the mourning was heard at the entrance of the village, and even the gray-haired Mrs. Zhu couldn't help but raise his sleeves and wipe away his tears.

If there were thousands of troops ahead, Feng Duying would be able to deal with it calmly, but this kind of scene in front of her was her worst skill, and she felt helpless for a while. But Du Kang and the guards behind her didn't know how to deal with it, so they had to turn their heads away one by one, unable to bear to see these weeping people.

Fortunately, after crying for a while, Master Zhu came to his senses, turned around and said to the crying villagers: "Feng Wang came to pay homage to our children in order to let them go on the road with peace of mind and have a good birth in the next life. If you only focus on crying and forget about the business, don’t you feel the grace of the King of Wind.”

His words made those villagers stop crying, and thanked Wang En one after another.

Then Master Zhu led Feng Duying to the ancestral hall in the village. The dead bodies of the ten schoolchildren were collected in coffins and placed in the ancestral hall. They were buried together on the chosen day.

When Feng Duying arrived at the ancestral hall, he saw white flowers and white banners hanging inside and outside the old ancestral hall. When he stepped into the ancestral hall, he could see ten small coffins lined up in the hall, and at the same time, a rotten smell came over his face. On such a midsummer day, corpses are perishable, not to mention ten corpses gathered in one room, the smell is so strong that it almost makes people want to vomit.

As soon as Mr. Zhu entered the hall, he could smell the stench. He felt a little uneasy for a while, so he turned his head to look at Feng Wang, but saw that his expression was solemn, and he never frowned, as if he didn't smell it at all. The smell is average. With respect in his heart, he took the incense, lit it, and handed it to Feng Duying respectfully.

Feng Duying took the incense from his hand, held the incense on top of his head, and bowed again.

The villagers in the hall, especially those parents who have lost their children, have been crying day and night for the past few days, and their hearts have long been numb from the pain. move.

They were born in troubled times, and they have all experienced the days when their lives were worthless. Those princes, generals, government servants, and servants trampled on them from above, but the woman in front of them, the king of Qingzhou, was so solemn. Sincere salute to the dead souls of their children!

Throughout the ages, there has never been an emperor saluting to the people. The villagers suddenly had hot eyes and sore chests. Feng Wang worshiped, with this blessing in this life, the road to Huangquan will surely go smoothly, and he will surely have a good pregnancy in the next life. Thinking about it this way can finally relieve the grief.