Chapter 105 Speechless (1)
“Your Highness is seventeen this year, right?” Lin Qing asked. Situ Yuanxiao casted him a glance without saying anything. Lin Qing continued, “Your Highness has admired martial arts since young and was contemptuous to literature. You didn’t like poems and songs, but liked to play with weapons. You have a straightforward personality. How can you be like those obstinate people who talked all day long about Confucius and Mencius? Your Highness knows that things that everyone thinks is right may not always be right and what everyone thinks is wrong might not necessarily be wrong. I am very puzzled, Your Highness is an open-minded person, but why are you not on the matters concerning this subject?”
Lin Qing looked at him. There was an indistinctive emotion in his eyes. Situ Yuanxiao said unconvinced, “How am I not? Could it be untrue that everyone at court scolded you for being a treacherous official? So many officials of my Great Liang had fallen at your feet. They were either dismissed from office or their homes were ransacked. Moreover, there are countless of lewd women in the palace and made emperor father be indulged in drugs and the pleasures of life, and ignored the affairs of the court. Many big affairs had been monopolized by you and disturbed the politics. Could all of these not be done by you?”
“Your Highness, the right and the wrong shouldn’t be decided by us. The descendants will judge after we are no longer here. What about the iron mouths of the officials at court and the brush of the historians? After seven or eight hundred years, it will be nothing. Does Your Highness also want to judge this subject using their standards?” Lin Qing said.
Situ Yuanxiao felt that he was suddenly stuck by something because he always used that standard to measure the person in front of him. If he didn’t use that standard to measure him, how should he measure him then?
“Perhaps, you will think that I’m leading you astray with heresy. However, Your Highness, His Majesty trusts this subject and is willing to entrust me with important tasks. Can it be that you don’t trust your emperor father?”
Situ Yuanxiao suddenly looked at Lin Qing with sharp eyes and said, “Shut up, if you continue, be careful that I kill you!”
Lin Qing stopped speaking as Situ Yuanxiao wished. The soldiers who were close to them didn’t dare to breath loudly because the person who spoke these words had no misgivings. However, the person who listened to these words must have a clear view of things.
Not long after, a few figures slowly appeared on the spacious ground in front of them. Finally, a group of people appeared. When Lin Qing saw the person he wanted to see, he got up from the chair and looked straight ahead. He watched the group of people slowly come into this direction.
Chen Jing’s and Ye Yiqiu’s eyes widened when they saw that so many people were waiting for them at the fortress of the border. Disbelief was in their eyes.
It went without saying for Ling Er. Although, Chen Jing was called young general by others, but he knew that his old father would never put on such a big show to welcome him and would also not cause such a big disposition to punish him.
As for Ye Yiqiu, he looked dumbstruck at the person standing in the front who looked into one direction. Then, he looked at Zhao Zimu. He was really curious now. Could the person who had a close relationship with his master really be his grandmaster? Also, what is the identity of his grandmaster? Should he go and pay his respect to him?
He turned his gaze to Zhao Zimu. A smile flashed through Zhao Zimu’s eyes and she chuckled, “I will let you pay your respect in the future.”
Having said that, she pinched the horse’s belly and rushed forward quickly.
Zhao Zimu stopped and got off the horse. She knelt down on one knee in front of Lin Qing, “Greetings to Qiansui!” After she said that, she quickly turned to Situ Yuanxiao and Chen Jin and saluted them.
Chen Jin laughed and said to Zhao Zimu, “Heroes come from the younger generation. Zhao Zhong, I already know what you did this time. You truly let our Great Liang gets face. You are the pride of our entire northwest and even of Great Liang! I have already submitted your meritorious service to His Majesty. I believe that you will definitely become a brave general of our northwest army in the near future!”
After having said this, Chen Jin looked at Lin Qing on purpose. If one said that he didn’t have the intentions to please Lin Qing, even he himself wouldn’t believe it. There was no other way, who let his pigtail be held in the other’s hand?
Not only Chen Jin, all the soldiers also looked at Zhao Zimu with pride and respect.
Because it was this person who dared to warp and weft on the grassland with only bringing a few thousand people and also exterminated a few tribes of the grassland. He truly vented the anger for Great Liang.
Therefore, Zhao Zimu’s image in front of them was so tall and glorious. So, everyone thought how prideful it would be if they could become the underling of such a person!
Chen Jing and the others quickly rode to the front. He knelt in front of Chen Jin, lowered his head and said nothing.
Zhao Zimu was a hero and was being praised and worshipped by others, but he was just a general who didn’t listen to orders and let his men decrease in number. Only his father’s anger and punishment awaited him.
Situ Yuanxiao also walked up to him and looked at him with complicated eyes. Chen Jing didn’t utter a sound, clenched his fists tightly and waited for Chen Jin’s punishment.
“Unfilial son!” Chen Jin’s attitude towards Chen Jing was completely different from that of Zhao Zimu. It was not an exaggeration to say that towards Zhao Zimu he was very enthusiastic, but towards his son, a kick flew over.
The kicked Chen Jing vomited blood and coughed violently while clutching his chest. Everyone around stared blankly. Too cruel.
They had never seen general so angry and it was towards young general.
After Chen Jin gave Chen Jing a furious look, he ordered the soldiers to take Chen Jing away. Ling Er hurried over, knelt in front of Chen Jin and said, “General, please don’t punish him. All of this is Ling Er’s fault. It was Ling Er who begged him to take me to find Qiansui. Asking general, to please investigate!”
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