At the end of September, the first snowfall of the year fell in Beihai Town.
Under the pattering snow and rain, eight-year-old Li Wang stood outside the door of the Police Headquarters, hesitating whether to go in or not.
"Li Wang, come with your grandma quickly." An accompanying security policeman came up and was about to pull him away. Li Wang stubbornly turned aside, allowing the security policeman to take advantage of him.
"Hey, you kid. Be obedient! Don't make mistakes."
Li Wang looked up at the white-haired grandma in front of the police station, still hesitating. The old lady sighed, turned around, opened the door and walked in.
In mid-September, the sensational wife-killing case finally came to a verdict:
The murderer Li Youcai drowned his daughter and strangled his wife Li He to death. He was sentenced to death and awaited execution. Li Wang's grandfather, Old Man Li, who was also an accomplice in this case, was sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Although Li Wang's grandmother knew about it and did not report it, she believed that Li Wang was young and needed someone to take care of her, so she was exempted from prosecution. The head of the security police of the residents' bureau who knew the law and broke the law was fired from the security police and transferred to the Oha camp on Bitterleaf Island.
Not long after the verdict, Old Man Li died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage one night due to anger. Li Wang's grandmother was caught off guard by a sudden change, and her head turned gray overnight.
For the purpose of protecting Li Wang, Katayama and Zhou Weiguo did not disclose the information that Li Wang was the informant during the investigation of the case. Therefore, Li Wang's family did not know until their death that all this ended because of this eight-year-old child. a letter of report.
My younger sister who just landed is dead, my mother is dead, my grandfather is dead, and now my father is also dying. All this left eight-year-old Li Wang at a loss. He didn't see when the two previous sisters died, but he saw his grandma's eyes red as she told him that her sister didn't survive.
But the mother who loved him the most suddenly disappeared, which an eight-year-old child could not accept in any case, especially after he overheard what his grandfather and grandmother said.
Children from poor families have long been in charge. Although Li Wang is only eight years old, he has almost understood that the changes in his family are all related to his letter.
And this made him unable to face his father.
The cotton-padded clothes on his body were already wet. His mother had modified them for Li Wang stitch by stitch. While he was hesitating, Li Wang suddenly felt a darkness above his head. He looked up again and saw an umbrella on it. When he turned around and looked again, he saw a green cotton robe in front of him and a pair of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles on his feet.
Now in the entire Beihai Town, there is only one person who still walks around wearing a green cloth robe every day, and that is Wang Zhong, the current vice principal of Beihai Town Primary School.
"Sir." Li Wang looked at the middle-aged man with a tearful voice and asked, "Did I do something wrong?"
Wang Zhong knelt down, looked straight at Li Wang, and asked in a deep voice, "What do you think?"
"Father killed someone...I don't know."
Wang Zhongdao: "The sage said that if a father fights for his son, he will not fall into unrighteousness. Therefore, if it is unjust, the son cannot but fight with the father, and the minister cannot help but fight with the king; therefore if the father is unjust, then fight with him."
Li Wang's tears had already flowed down. What Wang Zhong said was from the "Book of Filial Piety". Teaching introductory Confucianism was also one of the conditions for Wang Zhong to be appointed as the vice principal of a primary school. There are dross in Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, but there are also many good things in Confucianism. Since Beihai Town wants everyone to be literate and become a scholar, how can they be ignorant of etiquette, justice and integrity?
Wang Zhong put his hand on Li Wang's shoulder and explained patiently: "If a father has a son who dares to speak out and fight hard, his father will not be involved in injustice. Your father did something wrong, but you did not Wrong. If you see your elders making mistakes and don't stop them, that's not true filial piety. But Li Wang, even if he makes all kinds of mistakes, he is still your biological father."
Li Wang finally couldn't bear it anymore, lay on Wang Zhong's body and started crying. All the fears, doubts, worries, and longings of these days were intertwined together, and they were all released at once.
Wang Zhong comforted Li Wang for a while, and when the child gradually stopped crying, he said with a serious face: "Let's go see your father for the last time and kowtow to him." After that, he stood up and held out his hand. Holding the umbrella and holding Li Wang with one hand, he slowly walked into the gate of the Police Headquarters.
Li Wang's father, Li Youcai, was sitting in a small room wearing shackles, with two security police behind him. The furnishings of this room are extremely simple, with a bare wooden table and two chairs. At present, Li Youcai's mother and son were sitting at the table, with tears in their eyes.
The door opened again, and Li Wang walked in with red and swollen eyes. He immediately saw the shackles spread out on the ground.
His father showed a hint of surprise at first, then became very weak and sad, and whispered in a hoarse voice: "Wang'er, let dad take a good look at you."
Li Wang walked up to his father. The two security policemen hesitated for a moment, but finally made no move.
The old lady wiped her tears and said to Li Wang, "Kowtow to your father a few times."
Li Wang knelt down in front of his father obediently and kowtowed three times. Li Youcai then helped his son up and held him in his arms.
"Mom, if your son is unfilial, Wang'er will have to work hard for you in the future."
"Don't worry, I will work hard to raise this child. When he gets married and has children, he will continue the family lineage of the Li family."
When the visit ended, Li Wang's grandmother changed from sobbing to crying, and Li Wang also left his father's arms under the pull of the security police. At this time, he suddenly understood what it meant to lose his father.
"Let me go! Let me go! Dad!"
In the corridor, Wang Zhongtie had a livid face and closed his eyes in silence. He thought of his father who died young and his mother who worked hard to raise him. When he heard about what Li Wang's father had done, he and Lao You and the others denounced those bad habits in the countryside. But there are too many such things among the people. I was not even an official, so what can I do?
The reason why Wang Zhong is willing to be the vice principal of a primary school is actually because he wants to join the officialdom of Beihai Town. Scholars always have ambitions. A few years ago, he wrote an article "Diao Huang Zu Wen", which was intended to overturn the case of Huang Zu Zhaoxue, who had long been notorious for killing Mi Heng.
It is said that people in later generations deplored the talent of Zheng Heng and condemned Huang Zu for being narrow-minded. However, Wang Zhong believed that Ni Heng could be appreciated by Huang Zu in this life and that he would die without regrets if he gained such a confidant. Wang Zhong believes that things like Huang Zu's instant confrontation over a glass of wine are common in the world. This is not the only case. It is understandable that it is a misunderstanding caused by a moment of anger in a hazy consciousness. However, it is more valuable for Huang Zu to be far-sighted, sincerely appreciate Ni Heng's talent and treat the virtuous corporal.
"The remaining strands of hair depend on others, and the learning and staggering are self-effective. When they grow up, they watch the masters several times. Why don't they give parrots to the wide banquet, and recognize the monuments on the left side of the road? But when they are drunk and full, they are as narrow as they are. Flying and arguing. I haven't heard of the words and appreciated them. From Huang Zu, I still got the evil and left the good."
This is a true portrayal of Wang Zhong's heart. His character, talent, and experiences are all similar to Cheng Heng, but the people he met are not as good as Huang Zu. They only have Huang Zu's shortcomings but none of Huang Zu's strengths in appreciating talents. He would hate to meet him. Huang Zu’s intention.
This shows Wang Zhong's desire for Bole's confidant, and one can imagine his inner loneliness and depression. When Zhao Xin asked Shen Jingdan to invite him, the reason why Wang Zhong dared to come was because he wanted to see if Zhao Xin was the bole he had been begging for. Even if he was a rebel, he would admit it!
But everything he saw and heard after coming to Beihai Town was incompatible with the talent he had in him, which made Wang Zhong feel helpless that there was no place for a hero; he even wanted to say goodbye and return home for a time.
Zhao Xin's original explanation of the "Hua-Yi Debate" was refreshing to him. Later, after visiting the military parade, Wang Zhong was even more surprised by the powerful force of the North Navy. He felt that Zhao Xin's current hegemonic foundation was established and that it would be easy to conquer the world. He hoped that like Zhuge Liang, he could devote his life's talents to helping the world and saving the people.
Now, he finally understood what people like Zhao Xin were doing. This was definitely not to find a group of peasants who were about to starve to death to help them rebel against the Qing Dynasty, and then continue to be emperor himself, and then invite a group of Confucian scholars to help them. king.
It is easy to break the thief in the mountain, but it is difficult to break the thief in the heart. If you want to achieve great things, you must first break the thief in the heart. They want to create rebellion in the hearts of the world first!
With the verdict in the Li He case, the draft reform plan for civil affairs was finally released. A notice jointly signed by the Civil Affairs and Public Security Police Administration was posted in communities in both places in Beihai Town.
In this notice, Beihai Town made it clear that it would gradually open medical stations in various residential areas, requiring all families of pregnant women to be registered, and medical station personnel to check on the condition of pregnant women on a regular basis. If the child is confirmed to have congenital deficiencies after examination by two-level medical personnel, treatment can be carried out with the consent of the family.
In addition, all acts of killing female infants by drowning will be regarded as murder. The family will be deprived of land rights, the principal culprit will be shot, and the accomplice will be sent to Ezo Island for ten years of hard labor. The leader of the resident group where the household belongs is guilty of the same crime as the accomplice.
This announcement once again shocked all residents. They didn't expect that Beihai Town was in charge of heaven and earth, and now it even had to take care of the birth of children.
"Let me tell you, even the officials turned a blind eye to this matter before. Why should the gentlemen here have such leisurely thoughts? Sons or daughters, they all belong to my family. Whoever can support me is willing to do that? Immoral thing!"
"What a fart! If you want a son instead of a daughter, will your son be a bachelor for the rest of his life when he grows up?"
"How about that? There will always be someone who gives birth to a daughter."
"Oh, if I put her in your family, I'll lose money, but if I put her in someone else's house, I'll have to raise her to be your son's wife? How can there be such a truth in the world?"
"Stop arguing. Didn't you see it written on the notice? If my wife gets pregnant in the future, she has to report to the team leader and register at the medical station. Tens of thousands of kilograms of grain on fifty acres of land is enough to feed ten or eight If it’s still too little, I’ll go to Ezo and give you a hundred acres!”
With the sound of a gunshot, the murderer Li Youcai disappeared and soon turned into a jar of ashes. The old lady of the Li family, Li Wang's grandmother, returned home with her son's ashes in her hands, and when she was thinking of finding a cemetery to bury them, two people knocked on her door one after another.
Mrs. Li was immediately startled by the first one. This is a guy with red hair and blue eyes, wearing a black robe and a cross hanging on his chest. This person is the deputy director of the Radiology Department of Beihai Town Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Father Macarius.
“Lord Jesus Christ our God, remember your eternal mercy and mercy, by which you became human and willingly died on the cross in order to save those who have true faith in you, rising from the dead and ascending to heaven, Sit at the right hand of God the Father, and look upon the humble supplications of those who call on you with all their hearts..."
"Bang!" The door slammed shut again.
Macarius took his time and knocked lightly on the door again.
"This lady, as a servant of God, I want to help your poor son and husband pray so that they can enter heaven as soon as possible and see the holy light of our Lord."
Old Mrs. Li, whose face turned pale with fright, felt moved after hearing this. Then she opened the door again and saluted Father Ma and Director Ma with their hands together.
"Master, are you here to recite sutras for my son to be saved? But my family has no money."
Macarius said with a smile: "As a servant of God, how can I collect money? Please don't worry. Madam, don't you recognize me? I have examined your body before."
When Father Ma said this, Mrs. Li finally had some impression. When the Li family first came to Beihai Town, a group of people wearing "filial piety clothes" checked their whole family. One of them was a foreigner with red hair and blue eyes.
"Oh. Then please come in."
Macarius entered the house with a smile, drank a glass of water, and was about to start reciting prayers when he heard someone knocking on the door.
Mrs. Li went over to open the door and was stunned again. Standing outside the door were two monks, an old one and a young one. They were Master Chengcheng and his disciple from Wuya Temple.
"Amitabha, the female Tan Yue, the monks, masters and disciples came here to pray and recite sutras for the Li family, father and son, and the Li He family."
When Macarius turned his head and looked at it, he was immediately furious. They were really enemies on a narrow road. Ever since this old monk came to Beihai Town, he has been sabotaging his missionary cause all the time. As long as someone in a family dies, the old monk and his apprentice will grab their business. He had almost prepared to believe in God based on what several old people said, but as soon as he became clear, he cut off a few words.
Chengcheng smiled and clasped his hands and said, "Amitabha, it turns out that the priest is here too. What a coincidence."
Macarius said to himself, what a coincidence, I'm sure your apprentice saw me when I came out of the hospital. That kid hangs around outside the hospital every day, handing out pamphlets to patients such as "The Treasured Confessions of the Emperor Liang" to encourage people to do good. He quickly drew a cross on his chest, forced a smile on his face and said, "Praise God, you are here too, monk."
In fact, Markarius also wanted to publish some pamphlets, but the problem was that Ferapontov was so focused on steelmaking and had recently started to help the Northern Navy build cannons that he had no time to help him.
At this time, several nearby neighbors also noticed the movement at the door of Li's house. Although they did not dare to come out, they all stood in front of the window to watch the excitement.
A man from the family said to his wife: "Come on, come on, those two are starting to fight again."
The woman was busy cleaning the house and asked without raising her head: "Who is it?"
"Who else could it be? The Rakshasa priest and the old monk."
At this time, the old lady Li quickly ran to Chengche, knelt down on the ground, and kowtowed: "Please have mercy on the Master and help my family look at Feng Shui. What kind of gods have our family offended? Such a catastrophe!"
Yes, as soon as the old monk came, Father Ma immediately lost half the game.
It has been more than half a year since Chengche and his apprentice came to Beihai Town. At the beginning, a shed was built on the edge of the town. Later, several elderly islanders helped build a small yard, and the master and apprentice finally had a place to stay.
Compared with Orthodoxy, the residents of Beihai Town are always tolerant and respectful of Buddhist monks, no matter where they come from; especially those residents from island countries, they respect Chengcheng even more. Therefore, although Chengcheng's missionary work has not yet begun, there are actually many believers in private. Although Beihai Town does not openly promote religion, it still has no objection to some elderly people going to Chengcheng to kowtow and burn incense.
In fact, Zhao Xin's secret agent team has been paying attention to the situation of Chengche and Macarius and reported to Li Ji at any time.
In fact, Zhao Xin is also very interested in Buddhism. When he met Jade Pendant, he went to Nara to visit a temple. But Zhao Xin knew that he could not take the initiative to see Qingcheng. What was good at the top would not be good at the bottom. He did not want Beihai Town to become a place where people eat fast and chant Buddha.
So even though Master Chengche and his apprentice were fighting with Markarius all day long, the old monk was actually very awkward. He received no support at all from the Beihai Town officials. Zhao Xin did not see him at all, and Chen Qingsong only met him once. Since he and his apprentice lived together, security police often wandered around the area to dissuade some young people from coming.
With his clear cultivation, he has been in Beihai Town for half a year. Although he still doesn't understand many things, he already knows that neither Qinggui in Jilin nor the emperor in the capital is a match for Beihai Town. Instead of doing this, why bother getting involved in this muddy water.
The old monk has now begun to think about leaving and is preparing to return to Wuya Temple.
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