I am born with insufficiency

Chapter 24

County Magistrate Lu sighed, but raised his head stubbornly.

"But I don't regret it! Zhu Gui deserved to die, he deserved to go to hell, and he deserved to be hacked into pieces. My only regret is that he didn't die by my hands!"

"I am going to kill you!"

Zhu Yuanbao, who had been guarding Master Taichang's body in the hall all this time, suddenly held a dagger in his hand, roaring and came straight towards the county magistrate Lu.

Ling An stretched out his foot and hooked it a little, Zhu Yuanbao fell straight to the ground, and the dagger slid out along the ground with a clatter. He lay on the ground angrily and anxiously thumped and yelled at the county magistrate Lu: "I want to kill you!" Kill you."

There was a sneer on the corner of Lu County Magistrate's mouth.

"Based on my original plan, I set fire to Zhu's mansion and burned you all to death! Now I only want Zhu Gui's life, leaving many lives in your Zhu mansion, but you want to kill me? You're as cheap as a man, I shouldn't have kept you."

Ling An coldly swished two words: "Why?"

Gu Buquan also asked: "The magistrate seems to have a deep hatred?"

Magistrate Lu sat in his chair, glanced at Ling An and Gu Buquan majestically, and nodded.

"Deep hatred and great hatred, we can't share God."

Both of Lu Ning’s parents died when he was young, and he relied on his elder sister Lu Shuang’er to weave brocades every day to support her studies. Later, Shuang’er married a silversmith from her hometown. The family is not rich, but the husband and wife love each other, the siblings love each other deeply, and their lives are very happy. .

Ten years ago, when Zhu Gui returned to his hometown to celebrate his mother's birthday, it happened that Lu Shuang'er came to Zhu's mansion with a brocade.

Zhu Gui fell in love with Lu Shuang'er at a glance and wanted to take her as a concubine. First, he paid the silversmith to marry him, but the silversmith refused.

Later he said that the old lady wanted to order a new brocade, tricked Shuang'er to come to deliver the pattern, put medicine in the tea, and defiled Shuang'er when she was asleep, but later accused her of seducing the master.

Shuang'er has nowhere to complain, and throws herself into a well with hatred and dies.

The silversmith brought Lu Ning to his door to reason, but was beaten half to death by Zhu Guijiao.

The silversmith crawled to the front of the house and died, leaving only two words from Lu Ning: Revenge!

"I'm in vain if I don't take revenge for this revenge. For ten years, what I've thought about day and night and never dared to forget are these two words, revenge."

The past is a thorn in my heart, Magistrate Lu narrated slowly, unable to hide the pain and hatred in his eyes.

"It's just that I can't achieve it after several attempts. Today is an eye opener. I only hate Zhu Gui's old life. How can I take the lives of my sister and brother-in-law? I don't want to kill his whole family! But,"

County magistrate Lu looked at the group of young ladies behind Mrs. Zhu and shook his head.

"I don't know, is there anyone among them who, like my sister, was defiled and had no choice but to marry into the Zhu family? My hatred cannot be placed on a woman who is as miserable as my sister, otherwise, my conscience will be disturbed. They will also blame me when I see my sister and brother-in-law in the future."

Gu Buquan vaguely remembered the scene ten years ago when Zhu Gui returned to Maple Leaf Town to hold a birthday banquet for Zhu's mother.

At that time, she was still young, watching the flowers ringing the bells and they were running to the Zhu Mansion to join in the fun and beg for birthday sugar and birthday cakes, but she could only sit in the coffin shop and watch the master plan the coffin boards, listening to the sound of happy cannons in her ears , I was angry and envious at the same time.

Who would have imagined that behind the bustle and festivities, there was such an unbearable deed hidden.

Behind Master Taichang's benevolent and pleasant smile is so dirty and despicable.

County magistrate Lu straightened his clothes and sat upright. Although there were old men and women on the left and right, and Ling An on the opposite side, he had no way to escape, but he still maintained his official authority, which made people shudder.

His resentment filled people with lingering fears. It was really fortunate for the Zhu family that he did not kill Zhu Yuanbao and did not destroy the Zhu family.

It is also because he has not yet been dazzled by hatred, and there is still a trace of kindness in his heart.

At this time, the Zhu Mansion compound was unusually quiet. After about a day of torment, everyone was no longer able to continue to toss, and even the Tang family father and son drooped their heads.

"No matter what, Zhu Gui is dead, I have to avenge my vengeance, I have to avenge my vengeance!"

County magistrate Lu looked up to the sky and laughed so hard that everyone's hair was shaking. The timid ladies covered their ears.

However, the laughter stopped abruptly.

Zhu Ding didn't know when he secretly picked up Zhu Yuanbao's dagger, and at this moment, it was deeply pierced into Lu County Magistrate's chest, blood spurted out, spattered Zhu Ding's face, and his vision was blurred.

"Hahahahaha..."

This time it was Zhu Ding's turn to laugh wildly, "Damn it, if it weren't for you, I would still enjoy the glory with the master, and our master would still marry ten concubines and twenty concubines, do you care about it? You..."

County magistrate Lu lowered his head slowly, watching the blood on his chest fall drop by drop to the ground.

He staggered and supported the wine table behind him, and suddenly let out an angry shout with all his strength, and a pair of bamboo chopsticks plunged into Zhu Ding's throat.

Neither of them let go of their hands, they stared at each other until they both fell to the ground.

All of this was too sudden and tragic, there was no time to be astonished, to exclaim, let alone stop, even the old man and woman were stunned.

Ling An clumsily covered Gu Buquan's eyes with a big palm.

I don't know how long the silence lasted, but the cold voice of Hua rattling the bell rang out: "Gu Buquan, now you can sell two more coffins."

"Shut up!" Qi Liuhai came to his senses, stopped drinking the bell, and then asked cautiously: "I said, do you want to dance the Great God's Requiem? Who will pay the bill?"

That's right, two new corpses were added to the Zhu Mansion in an instant. For Qi Liuhai, there are business opportunities everywhere.

After a long time, Mrs. Taichang replied: "Let's dance, let's dance, there is nothing else left and right, we have to wait till dawn."

Gu Buquan pushed Ling An's hand away, and raised his eyes to look at the sky, it was pitch black without a trace of light.

"Stupid, do you believe it?"

Hearing the words, the old man and woman stared at Ling An, only to see him nodding and shaking his head.

Gu Buquan looked at Ling An, and murmured: "I don't believe it either."

"Why?" The old man and the old woman stared at him closely.

"Half true and half false." Gu Buquan's answer made the old man puzzled.

Ling An muttered, "Fourth grade, seventh grade."

The old man and the old woman suddenly realized.

I remember Zhu Ding's initial confession, the masked man said that Zhu Gui blocked the way of others.

Zhu Gui returned to his hometown from the official position of fourth-rank Taichang Temple Minister Ding You. This time, he was called back to Beijing to preside over the Queen Mother's birthday ceremony. He has great hopes of promotion. To worry about.

Judging from the expression of Lu Ning's narration, the hatred in his heart should be real, but the matter is not only that simple, someone must have taken advantage of his hatred.

That is, when he used Zhu Ding to borrow a knife to kill people, he himself became the knife used by others.

"It's boring."

The old man and the old woman looked a little frustrated. Such an ending was not satisfactory to them. The masked man who robbed them of business was found, but it seemed that they had not been found.

"Your Majesty has said that the water must be very deep for those who dare to obey the orders of officials."

"This Qipin county magistrate doesn't seem to be that capable."

Old men and women feel the same way.

"Old man, you haven't talked about the man in the cloak yet." Gu Buquan suddenly remembered that the old man and woman had jumped up and swept out of the courtyard wall when he wanted to ask.

At the same time, Ling An chased after them, and there was no trace of the two of them. Only the black and white impermanence's joking laughter echoed in the sky above Maple Leaf Town, which was soon drowned out by the loud gongs and drums of the Maple Leaf Dancers.

(End of this chapter)