strayed into fairy mountain

Chapter 23 [All Guilty]

Since ancient times, people in the Gongmen have been a great deterrent to the common people.

The so-called rascals come out of poor mountains and rivers, but rascals only dare to behave in their dens. Once they face people from the public family, they will be as obedient as they really are.

Honesty is outrageous, and the level of obedience is scary. Even if they are bullied, most of them just swallow their anger.

On the contrary, when you are in the nest, you are simply preoccupied with retribution, and sometimes you dare to pick up a stick and beat people to death for a little profit.

But when they faced the people in the Gongmen, the beating became a matter of course. Not only did they not dare to resist, they didn't even dare to beg for mercy. .

This is the face of most common people in ancient times.

It is not an exaggeration to comment on bullying and fearing hard.

……

The people of Tofu Sunjiazhuang seem to be bullies.

Obviously they have worked all day, and they have to get up early to make tofu in the early morning, so every person in Sunjiazhuang cherishes sleep and rest.If someone disturbs their sleep, they will definitely be angry and unrelenting...

However, this reluctance absolutely does not include people in the public family.

So when the yamen servants called people from house to house, none of the people in Sunjiazhuang dared not listen. Almost all of them got up in a hurry, with smiles all over their faces in a panic, and called hello, sir, before they dared to be cautious. To please, I asked timidly: Master, do you want to come in and sit down?

Then I dared to report my grievances a little bit: poor man, no one in my family did anything wrong!

Very well-behaved, very restrained.

The tone is very disturbed!

On the contrary, the yamen servants who smashed the door in the middle of the night seemed ferocious and unreasonable at this moment.

Not only did he stare directly, but he also cursed and sternly yelled: "What are you talking about, go with me immediately, my family's head arrester will come to investigate the case tonight, and all of you people in the village will go to the trial...Hurry up, hurry up, dare you!" Slow down, I will chop you up with a knife."

The people who were scolded immediately trembled, their faces turned pale even though they did not make a mistake, and said tremblingly: "My God, the arrester came to investigate the case in person?"

For ordinary people, the head arrest of a county government is already a day.Its deterrent power will make any common people tremble with fear.

Therefore, the errand of the yamen servants calling people went smoothly.

It can't even be called calling people, but it should be called driving away. Only a dozen or so yamen servants took only a moment to gather all the people in the whole village and drove them to the well with ease.

The whole village, men, women, children, and dozens of families, when they saw Zhang Jingxu who was quietly and independent, almost all of them knelt down subconsciously.

They didn't even know why they were being called!

They don't even know if they did something wrong!
Just because of what the yamen servant said, the head catcher of the county yamen came to investigate the case in person, so when they got to the well, they would kneel involuntarily.

And this scene of the whole village kneeling together made Zhang Jingxu feel inexplicably blocked.

He really didn't want to believe that these honest sheep in front of him actually beat a young boy from the same village to death in order to grab a little bit of soaked beans.

Obviously they acted as cowardly as sheep.

Why was he so ruthless when he beat the little scholar to death...

Zhang Jingxu can actually understand the reason behind this, but it is precisely because he can understand that he feels blocked in his heart.

Anger is vicious.

I also pity his cowardice.

But regardless of anger or pity, at this moment Zhang Jingxu's face sank like water, suddenly he let out a soft drink coldly, speaking his heart without any concealment:

"All of you are guilty!"

Boom.

Like a thunderbolt.

Just this one sentence seemed to explode in the hearts of all the people, making their bodies tremble subconsciously and making them panic involuntarily.

The head of the county government said they were guilty...

Almost in an instant, there were cries and cries from the whole well, everyone was pleading, and everyone wiped their tears: "My lord, we are wronged."

They don't even know if they are really guilty, and they have already started to cry out for grievances full of fear.

Not knowing the crime, but calling for injustice, the humbleness represented by it is the epitome of the ancient people.

It is supposed to be sympathetic, it is supposed to be pity.

However, Zhang Jingxu let out a deep breath, his eyes were full of coldness and determination.

He wasn't going to be perfunctory with these people, and he wasn't going to use some insinuating means, he just let out a sneer, and suddenly raised his finger to the well...

"Answer me, who were the people who beat the little scholar to death?"

Before the villagers could open their mouths, they suddenly stopped drinking again: "Answer me again, why didn't you salvage his body?"

"Obviously you are from the same village, and many of you are even his elders. Are you unwilling to bury his body even after you killed him?"

"Since ancient times, it has been said that it is safe to enter the soil. You should all understand this tradition..."

For the second question, before the villagers could answer, Zhang Jingxu stopped drinking again, and said in a more stern voice: "You still have to answer me, why don't you use another well?"

"People died in this well, and their bodies rotted in the water. But you know it and ignore it, and you still soak beans in the well."

"Your ancestors have made tofu for generations and sold it throughout the county. This made me want to ask you, can you have a conscience when you sell tofu for others to eat?"

Ask three times in a row, asking people's hearts.

And after these three questions were sent out, Zhang Jingxu really hoped that someone would answer them.

As long as someone is willing to answer, then he at least believes that this person is still repentant.But unfortunately, he couldn't hear the sound from beginning to end.

All men, women and children in the village shrank and lowered their heads, only the timid women could be heard crying, and the strong laborers could only be seen shaking.

However, even if he couldn't hear or see, whoever stood up to answer Zhang Jingxu, no matter which of the three questions, no one from the common people answered aloud.

……

"If you don't answer, then I will answer for you."

At this moment, Zhang Jingxu lost the last bit of pity in his heart, his tone became cold, and he looked at the well.

"First question, who were the ones who beat the little scholar to death?"

"What this head catcher answered for you is that the death of the little scholar involves all of you."

"Don't cry out for injustice, don't cry out for injustice, even though most of you didn't participate in this matter, but the head arrester still wants to say that you are all guilty."

"People in the same village should help each other."

"And some of you beat a young boy to death just to grab some soaked beans. Tell yourself, are you a heinous crime?"

"Guilty, you are guilty!"

"But those who beat people to death are guilty, but are those who stand by and watch are not guilty?"

"If someone could stand up at that time, even if it was to say a word for the young scholar, then the matter may have a different ending, and the person who beat him might stop."

"But none of you did this. Even if you didn't participate, you watched with cold eyes. And it is precisely because of your cold eyes that you all have to bear the blame for the death of the little scholar."

"This crime is called the crime of indifference!"

When Zhang Jingxu said this, his eyes seemed to be breathing fire.

He took a deep breath and continued speaking in a cold voice.

"Second question, why didn't you salvage the little scholar's body?"

"The head catcher's answer for you is that your indifference has turned into ruthlessness."

"Anyway, it's not my own child, so why should I go to salvage him. The well water is so cold, and it's so tiring to fish people. I've been working so hard making tofu all day long, so I don't have the energy to fish an irrelevant person."

"So under this kind of selfishness, all of you in the village are indifferent. One person's selfishness is like this, and the whole village's selfishness is like this..."

"If all the people in the world are like you, then what face do we have to call ourselves human?"

"It's not as good as a wild beast. The beast is not willing to eat its own kind."

When Zhang Jingxu said this, his eyes had turned cold, but he continued to forcefully suppress his anger, and slowly asked the third question...

"The third question, why don't you change the well?"

"The answer to this question is the simplest, and it is actually the same as the second question. It takes manpower and material resources to dig a new well, and it even requires the labor of the whole village to dig a well enough for the whole village."

"So, you don't want to!"

"You are busy making tofu, and everyone in your family is very tired. If you use your family's labor to dig a well, who will do the work at home?"

"Perhaps some of you have also thought about changing a well. But when you think about the effort, you immediately choose to back down."

"Maybe you are thinking that there will be other people in the village who can't hold back, and these people who can't hold back will dig wells, and you can use the new wells without paying."

"But you have overlooked one point. The people in your village are really selfish. Since you don't want to give, are others willing to give?"

"Every family's selfishness is equally important."

Having said this, Zhang Jingxu finally let out a long breath, and for some reason, he felt the blockage in his chest loosen.

His blockage was evacuated.

The villagers' chests were blocked.

But this kind of blockage is not because of regret, but a fear of being punished. The whole village, men, women and children, all began to cry...

They started crying again!
And in addition to crying out for injustice, he also began to beg for mercy.

seem……

The whole village is very poor!
but……

Zhang Jingxu's eyes are very cold!

The trial by the well tonight has been completed on the human side.

Conclusion, all guilty!

……

As if it was a coincidence in the dark, or God was also helping to coincidence, when Zhang Jingxu had just finished the trial of the case, there were hurried footsteps not far away.

But seeing Li San's face full of caution, he carefully led the two people, one of them was the spirit demon Yunniang, and the other was the little scholar.

Go up to the court tonight for interrogation, regardless of human beings and ghosts.

Now that the people have been interrogated, the ghosts have finally come.

Zhang Jingxu took a deep breath.

He looked at the little scholar with soft eyes...

(End of this chapter)